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Dinowitz grabs early lead, but fate up to rankings n Race’s final days filled with claims of campaign financial improprieties By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
It’s now Eric Dinowitz’s race to lose, although he’ll have to wait three weeks or so to find out if he’s going to be the area’s next city councilman. Dinowitz, son of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, captured more than 40 percent of top choices in a race where less than 10 percent of eligible voters participated in. That’s not enough, however, to score an outright win, meaning this race now moves into ranked-choice counting. Once all the absentee votes are re-
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ceived in the coming weeks, the city’s elections board will start the process of elimination, beginning with retired New York Police Department detective Carlton Berkley. Then, one-byone, each of the candidates with the lowest vote total after every round is eliminated until there are just two candidates left. Mino Lora, a non-profit executive director out of Spuyten Duyvil, would need a minor miracle to catch up to Dinowitz. But it could happen — if voters who selected Jessica Haller and Dan Padernacht first ranked Lora higher than they did Dinowitz at a significant rate. Some 1,200 votes separate Dinowitz and Lora — not including absentee ballots — but both Haller and Padernacht have some 2,000 votes between them to offer to Dinowitz and Lora.
The rest of the candidates were ultimately eliminated in reverse order as well, revealing the initial top five would be the final ranking in that race. Whether that will happen in this particular race is still yet to be seen.
‘Claiming we are a slush fund of tens of thousands of dollars is idiotic and ridiculous. This sounds to me like a move of a failing campaign struggling for an issue.’
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Haller had joined Lora to convince voters to make them the top two choices. If that move was successful, Dinowitz could find himself with a much more narrow win at the end — or even possibly in second place behind Lora. If the Queens special election race that ultimately elected Selvena Brooks-Powers to the seat previously held by Donovan Richards is any preview to what might happen in this race,
we may not know a final result until April 15. Yet, even that race hinted the initial count might be a strong indicator ofhow the race will shake out. On election night Feb. 23, Brooks-Powers had just a 200-vote lead over Pesach Osina. But once the additional rounds were over, Brooks-Powers added more than 1,000 votes, while Osina tacked on just under 200.
In the days leading up to Tuesday’s final balloting, Haller hit Dinowitz with her version of a “November surprise.” She filed an official complaint with the New York City Campaign Finance Board charging that both Dinowitz and the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club were not fully disclosing inkind contributions and expenditures related to the race to fill Andrew Cohen’s former seat. “Any political organization in New SPECIAL ELECTION, page A4
Ready for bridge toll rebate? Not quite yet n Assemblyman blames COVID budget crisis for delay in launching program By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
Passover changes COVID wasn’t too kind to those observing the annual holiday, but this year is going to be a little different. Page A3
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Remember way back in 2019 when Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz made crossing the Henry Hudson Bridge free for Bronx motorists with an E-ZPass? It was supposed to kick in a year ago. And those still paying the toll may wonder what happened. The answer, Dinowitz said, is simple: The coronavirus pandemic made the bottom fall on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s budget. “But I think most reasonable people — in fact, all reasonable people — understand that the fisDANNY PEARLSTEIN cal catastrophe that was created by the pandemic changed a lot of things,” Dinowitz said. “Including this.” And there is no current timetable when the rebate might start. “The only things I can tell people when they ask is that it’s my expectation that at some point in the future — without giving the dates, and I know that’s not satisfying to people, but it’s the best I can do — this program will be put into effect,” the Assemblyman said. The rebate was supposed to allow any drivers of cars and E-ZPass accounts registered in the Bronx to have any toll incurred
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Transit advocate Danny Pearlstein says the Henry Hudson Bridge toll rebate, supported by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, might actually help the city buses move more efficiently by lessening traffic on the Broadway Bridge. As with many of the MTA’s projects, this rebate program for Bronx residents was delayed indefinitely because of the budget hole caused by the coronavirus pandemic. while crossing the Henry Hudson Bridge immediately refunded. Money for the rebate would come from the MTA’s Outer Borough Transportation Account — raised from a surcharge on ride-hail vehicles like Uber, Lyft and taxis operating below Manhattan’s 96th Street to fund transit projects in the outer boroughs. But once the pandemic hit, ride-hail
ridership plummeted, Dinowitz said, and there wasn’t enough revenue flowing into the outer borough fund to support the rebate. Even today, with the slow reopening, there’s still only a small fraction of the money coming in compared to before the pandemic. The MTA had to put this and other related transit programs on the shelf in-
definitely, Dinowitz said, until the agency solves its cashflow problems. Until recently, the MTA was on the brink of financial collapse. That is until President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law, which not only delivered assistance checks to many households, but also delivered more than $6 BRIDGE TOLL, page A4
Biden administration ‘testing’ waters at schools on state level n Leaving decision at a local level proves divisive here and D.C. By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
Like it or not, standardized testing has become an integral part of the American school landscape. But when a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic hits the country, some things needed to temporarily take a back seat — and testing wasn’t immune. It wasn’t safe for many state
and federal standardized tests to take place at the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year. New York canceled its Regents exams last June, and did it again this past January. And many colleges made testing optional when it came to admission decisions, meaning any student not able to take tests like the SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement exams wouldn’t be penalized. But the tide may be shifting when it comes to the role of standardized testing during the pandemic. And probably to the chagrin of many students — and teachers — the Biden adminis-
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tration has opened the door for states to bring end-of-year standardized tests back. It’s not a door the Board of Regents is walking through, however, It voted unanimously to cancel the majority of its exams, leaving only English and language arts, math, earth science and living environment subjects on the table. For those tests that do return, they might not look the same as usual. The federal government is allowing some wiggle room for how those tests are administered — including delaying them until summer or fall, administering TESTING, page A4
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Many state and federal standardized tests were canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. This time, those fretting over the tests won’t prove as lucky, as President Biden gave states the go-ahead to move forward with testing.
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A very spooky steal Stealing cars has become so popular in the city, even ghosts may now have taken up the practice. That’s as good a guess as any for a car theft where the victim had the only keys, and there was no broken glass. The spooky incident took place sometime overnight March 11 after the victim parked his 2018 Honda CR-V near the corner of Riverdale Avenue and West 238th Street. He returned the next morning to find his SUV missing. Authorities aren’t quite sure how the CR-V was stolen so cleanly. But they do know they’re now on the hunt for a car they valued at $25,000.
Not the Yeezys and Gucci shoes! A woman must’ve been looking to open her own department store based on the list of designer items stolen from her car — among them a pair of Yeezy sneakers and a golden suitcase. The theft took place around 5:30 in the evening of Feb. 28, after the victim parked her car on Reservoir Street between University Avenue and West 197th Street, according to police. She returned in the late afternoon of March 1 to find the rear window of her 2019 Ford Escape smashed and several of her designer goods stolen. Besides the Yeezys and suitcase, the perp also made off with a pair of Nike Air Force sneakers, a Disney duffel bag, 40 articles of clothing, and a pair of Gucci shoes. All told, police valued the stolen goods at
more than $1,700. The fashionable thief is still at large. But detectives from the 50th Precinct are investigating.
Don’t leave the money behind If you’re going to leave your car unlocked when making a delivery, it’s probably best to take your money pouch with you. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the advice one delivery man chose to follow — and to his own peril. He parked his 2017 Nissan van near the 3600 block of Waldo Avenue, looking to make a midafternoon delivery on March 2. He didn’t lock the door, so when he returned, he realized a pouch holding $1,400 had been stolen. Thanks to some surveillance footage from nearby Goodfellas Pizza, police know the thief is a man. But they’re investigating further to find out more.
Smashed window, and a safe car Perhaps someone has it out for minivans. One perp smashed the rear passenger window of a 2013 Toyota Sienna near the 700 block of Broadway on March 1, but didn’t steal anything from inside. In fact, the driver told police he had only parked there for less than half an hour before finding the mess. Luckily, it wasn’t an expensive mess, with the damage valued at less than $250. Authorities, however, are investigating.
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Another Passover under COVID cloud, but hope abounds n Religious leaders seek ways to observe holiday while keeping faithful safe By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
About this time last year, there were a few moments when Rabbi Barry Dov Katz almost started to worry. The coronavirus was out of control in New York City, spreading rapidly with few treatments available. Many were scared, as just about everything making up normal living in the community completely shut down. But not even a deadly virus can cancel Passover, the Jewish observance of God’s final plague against the Egyptians where the first-born in any home not marked with lamb’s blood on its doorway would die, forcing the pharaoh to finally release the Israelites from bondage. “There’s a story that we read at night during Passover,” Katz said. “Now we are enslaved, next year we will be free. That’s where a lot of people are. Like, ‘Here we are now, but we’re looking forward to that other place.’ Just know it’s going to take us a little longer to get there.” That Haggadah line filled the rabbi’s mind last year when Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale was trying to find some way to ensure every observant Jew could experience their Seder, the ritual feast that begins the Passover season. “We were working on basic needs,” Katz said. “We were calling our congregants and asking, ‘Do you have food in your house? Do you have food for Passover?’ “People were scared last year. We arranged for people to essentially get free meals for Passover because we didn’t want people to go out and shop for the special foods that they needed. This way, they could stay home and have it all delivered to them.” Once Katz saw the congregation
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Passover Seders may be different once again this year, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but kashering remains the same in preparation for that annual ceremony — something overseen by rabbis Joe Dalezman and Noah Aronin at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. come together — not physically, but spiritually and in community — any worry that might have crept to the surface quickly dissipated. “We had this amazing community effort where people donated money, and we were able to deliver,” the rabbi said. “It was really quite remarkable. It was really taking care of people in the most intimate way. But this year — this year feels different.” And it all centers around a single emotion: hope. That’s the feeling shared by many at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center on Sedgwick Avenue. Outside of putting together a minyan — the quorum required for public prayer — on Shabbat, the center spent much of the
pandemic conducting just about everything through online videoconferencing apps like Zoom. Maintaining that level of fellowship many look forward to when attending services in-person can be difficult through a virtual environment. “We’ve just noticed in this past forum that it wasn’t well attended as it has been,” said Stuart Harris, a treasurer on the Jewish center’s board. “These days, people are just wanting to see familiar faces. It’s not easy not seeing someone for a year now.” Many of the congregants at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center are older, Harris said, so any kind of in-person service requires detailed planning. Yet, the doors to the synagogue will
open this weekend to start Passover. There will be social distancing. There will be cordoned-off areas. There will be temperature checks for everyone walking in. “We know in advance who’s coming, except for some little surprises we may get,” Harris said. “But with everybody separated, we can control where they sit, and not spread this virus around. We’re dealing with it, but we’re also not going to turn anybody away.” At facilities like the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, no one can be turned away because most all of them are already there. Last year’s Passover was observed with no community gatherings, and Seder food came from frozen
kosher stock because the pandemic prevented religious leaders at the Palisade Avenue campus to kasher the kitchen — clean it for Passover. “Normally, we would have a Seder plate at each table in the large community Seder we would all have together,” said Noah Aronin, the Hebrew Home’s assistant rabbi. “This is where our residents would be able to invite their family members and their friends. But last year was the first time we weren’t able to do that.” Those big family Seder plates were replaced with individual plates delivered to residents where they were hunkered down for the long haul of the pandemic. “No one was able to have anything in-person,” Aronin said. “For those who I was able to deliver to personally, I tried to do like a three-minute or a five-minute Seder, where I would say some blessings for them. But there just wasn’t much I could do.” But there won’t be frozen food at the Hebrew Home this year. Kashering is well under way for the facility’s kitchen. The gefilte fish, the matzo ball soup and even the tsimmes will all be fresh. And at Hebrew Home’s RiverWalk Senior Apartments facility, where living situations are more independent than the traditional nursing home, some of the Seders will allow for small gatherings. “Although it’s still not up to the level where they could, in past years, invite guests, we’re still going to have these Seders in-person in our beautiful dining room,” the rabbi said. “We’re super-excited about it.” It’s the kind of progress that can’t help but produce hope — something that’s far more in abundance than it was a year ago. “I’m always optimistic,” CSAIR’s Rabbi Katz said. “To be a Jew is to be hopeful and optimistic. Of course, last year I said it would be over by now, and it’s not. I might have to recalibrate my optimism and my hope a bit, but I am always optimistic. And I always have hope.”
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Tests return to school, but parents can still opt out TESTING from page A1 them remotely, and even providing shorter versions, according to a letter from acting assistant education secretary Ian Rosenblum. In the city’s public schools, students can opt out of standardized tests with the permission of their parent or guardian. It’s a decision now-ex schools chancellor Richard Carranza urged parents to think about. “As an educator, I would say to parents there is an opt-out, and if there is ever a time to consider whether that opt-out makes sense for you, now is the time,” Carranza said last month. “We do not want to impose additional trauma on students that have already been traumatized.” But at least for this testing cycle, state standardized tests don’t just serve as a specially developed psychological torture mechanism for students. Paula White, executive director of Educators for Excellence, thinks administering the tests could help identify students who have experienced the highest amount of learning loss through the pandemic, making it faster and easier for schools to discover who will need specialized support. “The Biden administration is acutely aware of how monumental this year has been for students,
and … they are thinking about what we can learn about where this has left our children,” White said. “What we really want to do is have a learning moment about what this year has meant for students, (and) who are the students that were sort of best able to continue their learning at this time.” The data collected from these tests might not be infallible, White said, especially if parents opt their children out. But there’s something even more troubling on her mind. “We have students who have JAMAAL literally fallen off the grid,” bowMAn White said. “We have students who either didn’t have devices or they have just been disengaged. And (for) those students, however, the data will mean nothing, because they won’t be captured in it. So that is extremely worrisome.” Identifying students who might need more learning help is important to White, but she also supports many decisions — like that of the Regents — to set those exams aside for now. To
White, having those high stakes just isn’t appropriate in the midst of a pandemic. But to U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, it isn’t just the high stakes aspects of state standardized tests that are inappropriate, it’s administering standardized tests during a pandemic at all. Bowman has never been in favor of standardized testing — opposing it even as a middle school principal before he took office. Now, of course, Bowman is the vice chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. And he’s committed to fight standardized testing, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. “There’s been studies throughout the country that talk about the mental health toll that’s been taken because of this pandemic,” Bowman said. “There’s just so much going on. And our focus needs to be on opening safely and securely for our kids and reacclimating them to the learning environment, not on creating, administering and scoring a test that we know kids are going to do poorly on.” Bowman doesn’t believe standardized testing is the best way to identify students who have struggled academically during the pandemic. Rather, he thinks he can identify which children
need help and other resources even before the state can put together a pandemic-era standardized test. “We know exactly where the learning loss exists,” Bowman said. “I’ll tell you right now how kids are going to perform: Low-income communities, communities of color, red-lined communities, students with special needs and English language-learners are going to underperform. I can tell you that already because we’ve seen the results for over 20 years.” While he’s pushed for project-based and experiential learning rather than “teaching to the test,” Bowman isn’t pretending students haven’t missed out on learning during the pandemic. But the congressman thinks there’s a better way to identify and help those students rather than subjecting them to a standardized test. “Have we forgotten that teachers give finals and midterms and quizzes, and assess kids every single day as they’re teaching?” Bowman asked. “Our teachers are still assessing kids on a daily basis. Teachers, principals and parents know where kids are. Communicate that data to the district, and to the state if necessary, so that we can identify a ‘learning loss.’”
City council race is now simply Eric Dinowitz’s to lose SPECIAL ELECTION from page A1 York City may endorse and financially support a candidate so long as it follows the campaign finance laws and rules,” Haller wrote in a March 10 letter to the board, which she released on social media a week later. “Unfortunately, the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club has refused to publicly disclose its finances. This lack of transparency creates a real risk that the organization’s bank account — partly financed by the father of its endorsed candidate — is being used illegally as a slush fund to provide tens of thousands of dollars worth of free services in the form of office space, mass mailings, posters, leaflets, phones, etc., to the Eric Dinowitz for Council campaign in the shadows, and without knowledge of regulators, voters, or the media.” Haller is attempting to shine some more light on what has been an ongoing discussion for years on the role of political groups like the Ben Franklin Club plays in elections, and how much it should be disclosing through public campaign finance filings. Dinowitz, who received the Ben Franklin Club’s endorsement earlier this year, had contributed just under $1,400 to the club last month from his campaign funds for “office rent” and “space usage.” The contribution joins a long chorus of campaign contributions made to the Ben Franklin Club over the years. In fact, The Riverdale Press has reviewed these publicly disclosed contributions to the Ben Franklin Club, finding that it has received just under $280,000 from political candidates since 2010. A quarter of that has come from Eric Dinowitz’s father, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who has paid out nearly $65,000 to the club from his campaign coffers over the past decade. Not far behind is former U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, contributing just over $60,000 since 2010. Former state Sen. Jeff Klein has donated nearly $45,000, while Cohen himself has kicked in nearly $20,000 since he first ran for office in 2013. Candidate contributions to the club have fallen in recent years, especially after some of the biggest payers were voted out of office and replaced with lawmakers who aren’t as friendly with the Ben Franklin Club. State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated Klein in
The former city councilman resigned his seat at the end of last year after being elected as a Bronx Supreme Court judge. No matter what happens here, anyone looking to represent this area on the city council — including Tuesday’s ultimate winner — must turn around and compete in the June primaries. The Democratic winner of that race is expected to cruise to an easy victory in November, and then serve on the council until the end of 2023. All of Tuesday’s candidates except Kevin Pazmino are expected to run in the June Democratic primary, joined by social worker Abigail Martin and political organizer Marcos Sierra. Martin already has raised more than $41,000 for the race, giving herself a significant head start not just among those who competed in the special election, but also Sierra, who has raised just $6,300 so far.
Not declaring victory just yet
MICHAEL HInMAn
Jessica Haller and Dan Padernacht talk to an early voter outside of P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen on Tuesday afternoon in an election where fewer than 10 percent of eligible voters showed up. Haller and Padernacht both finished behind Eric Dinowitz and Mino Lora in the first round of tabulation in the ranked-choice special election to see who will fill Andrew Cohen’s final year on the city council. 2018, has publicly withdrawn from the club, while U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman — who upset Engel last year — has never had a formal relationship with the club. Haller claims the Ben Franklin Club has provided far more services to back the younger Dinowitz’s city council campaign than the $1,400 cash payment his campaign has reported. Dinowitz, however, took to social media last week, calling Haller’s complaint “another day and another lie.” “Jessica, the CFB rejected this because it’s not true,” Dinowitz tweeted. A spokesman for the campaign finance board says the agency doesn’t comment on complaints, instead referring a reporter to its procedures on how complaints are handled. The agency “reviews and responds to all complaints,” according to that procedure, and if the campaign finance board “determines that the complaint does not merit investigation or is not
in substantial compliance with complaint filing requirements, the board will notify the party complaining its rejection.” A request for comment to Dinowitz’s campaign on what he was basing his claims the agency rejected the complaint, was not returned last week. Haller later told The Press there were no lies in her complaint. “The letter is an investigation into possible violations,” she said. “That the (Ben Franklin Club) has not disclosed its finances is true. That there is great risk of impropriety is also true. That the relationships are intertwined is well-documented. And true.” Michael Heller, president of the Ben Franklin Club, said he was not aware of the complaint until a reporter shared it with him last week. “Claiming we are a slush fund of tens of thousands of dollars is idiotic and ridiculous,” Heller said. “A rental payment has been made to the club,
for a specific time frame, for campaign purposes, and that’s it. This sounds to me like a move of a failing campaign struggling for an issue.”
Wait and see Whether Haller’s campaign is indeed struggling is yet to be seen. The city must wait for all absentee and overseas ballots to arrive before it can implement the additional rounds of vote counting as part of the rankedchoice system. The process involves eliminating the lowest vote-getter, and then counting their next available choice. This continues until there is just two candidates left, and one achieves a true majority. Election officials said this count should be completed sometime in early April. The winner of this special election will fill the final year of Cohen’s term.
Lora seems to already have her attention redirected to the June primary. “Whatever the final outcome is once ranked-choice analysis is done, it’s clear they will come at us even harder in the June primary,” Lora said in a statement Tuesday night. “It’s also clear that we ran the strongest campaign, and we look forward to having the support of the other candidates as we fight to win the June 22” primary. Dinowitz, however, told The Press Tuesday night that he wasn’t declaring victory just yet. “We have to wait for the absentee ballots to be counted, but I feel very good about the numbers that came in,” the former school teacher said. “We had a broad coalition of support throughout the entire district. We have a plurality of support everywhere.” Dinowitz wouldn’t comment directly on the slim possibility Lora could get enough lower-ranked votes to give him a serious challenge in a few weeks, but said he leaves his fate to the ballots that have been cast. “That’s the work I’ve done as a Democratic district leader, to make sure voting is easy and accessible,” Dinowitz said. “We need to make sure every vote is counted, but until that happens, I am not declaring victory until everybody’s voice is heard.”
Commuters will have to wait longer for bridge toll rebate BRIDGE TOLL from page A1 billion in federal aid to the MTA. The cash infusion allows the MTA to avoid threatened massive service and personnel cuts the agency said it would’ve been forced to make otherwise. But even with that cash, Dinowitz said, the MTA has bigger fish to fry than supporting the outer borough fund right now. “The money that’s coming from the federal government will deal with the much larger issues that the MTA has,” Dinowitz said, like the restoration of 24-hour subway service and repairing it’s decaying signal network. “So, the fact that we were getting this huge influx of money, it’s not going to make us better off than we were prior to a year ago. But hopefully it will at least bring us back to where things can start to function in a reasonable way.” Dinowitz struck the deal for the toll rebate in exchange for his support of a congestion pricing system in lower Manhattan. That system is designed to reduce the number of cars clogging up streets in that part of the city — but Dinowitz feared it would add more costs for drivers inside his Assembly district getting to work or doctor appointments downtown. He believed he could eliminate some of that extra cost by wiping out the Henry Hudson Bridge toll — which is $2.80 with E-ZPass and $7 without. The bridge is operated by the MTA, and money from its tolls indirectly fund the city’s subways and buses. Creating the toll rebate would cost the MTA roughly $6 million a year, Dinowitz said when he first brokered the deal in 2019. Assuming $2.80 per vehicle, that would equate to just under
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Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz won a toll rebate for bronx residents crossing the Henry Hudson bridge in exchange for his support of congestion pricing in lower Manhattan. It was supposed to kick in a year ago, but was delayed indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. 6,000 cars a day — less than 10 percent of pre-pandemic traffic. That just shows the bridge is used more by commuters from Westchester County and Connecticut, Dinowitz said, and that local residents shouldn’t be charged for driving across it.
Those who want to get into Manhattan without paying can use the nearby Broadway Bridge. But that means more congestion on Broadway, Dinowitz said, not to mention surrounding streets. A report at the time from the trans-
portation news and advocacy site Streetsblog argued the rebate was one of many carve-outs undermining congestion pricing by taking money away from the MTA that could be used for improving public transit service. They said eliminating bridge tolls also en-
courages more people to drive, thus reducing public transit ridership. Danny Pearlstein — policy and communications director with the transit advocacy group Riders Alliance — said he had a similar reaction at the time. “I think at first blush, people’s response was, ‘Well, that’s taking money away from transit and giving it to drivers,’” Pearlstein said. “Which seems like the opposite of congestion pricing.” But after taking a more nuanced look at the rebate, Pearlstein realized there are a couple reasons why it’s actually not detrimental to public transit. The first is that Bronx drivers make up a small percentage of those crossing the bridge each year. The revenue lost from drivers getting the rebate is nothing more than a rounding adjustment when compared to the MTA’s overall $17 billion budget. The more important benefit, however, is that the toll rebate could possibly improve MTA bus service in this corner of the Bronx. Theoretically, the free crossing could encourage more drivers to use the Henry Hudson Bridge instead of the Broadway Bridge, alleviating congestion in Marble Hill and Kingsbridge. This would make it easier for the Bx7 and the Bx20 — both of which use the Broadway Bridge — to run more efficiently. “I actually think there’s a strong argument that this discount, although it’s most directly felt by drivers, can indirectly improve a substantial amount of bus service in the Bronx,” Pearlstein said. “So to the extent that we can keep people on the highway and avoid creating that congestion, we can help bus riders.”
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WHAT’S IN / WHAT’S ON Radical Elegance available online The Bronx Council on the Arts presents the online exhibit “Radical Elegance” through May 26 through the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos. Curated by Yelanie Rodriguez, the exhibit features Bronx-affiliated photographers who subvert the traditional aesthetics of fashion photography, challenging its so-called elitist practices in the field as well as the historical, technical and stylistic approaches that characterize the genre. The photographers do this by taking charge of their narratives, documenting their communities, and shedding light on the cultures of Black, Indigenous and people. Participating artists include Elia Alba, Albany Andaluz, Renee Cox, Lelanie Foster, Travis Gumbs, Cynthia Cervantes Gumbs, Ariella Imena, Carlita Lopez, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Wilfredo Suarez and Demi Vera. The exhibit is available at BronxArts.org. A public program begins at 6 p.m., on May 12, while a closing reception starts at 6 on May 26.
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 them online at WaveHill.org.
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Kusama on its way to botanical garden
Woodlawn Conservancy partners with the Bronx County Historical Society for its Beer Barons of the Bronx trolley tour Sunday, March 28 at 1 p.m. Led by historical society education coordinator Roger McCormack, the tour includes monuments and mausoleums of the famous Bronx brewers, while learning about New York’s beer and brewery industry. Tour participants receive a voucher for a free draught beer at the Rambling House on Katonah Avenue in Woodlawn Heights. Cost is $35 for adults, $30 for everyone else. For tickets, visit tinyurl.com/BaronsTrolley. Then, on March 30, the Tuesday Night Club meets online to talk about “Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal” by Erik K. Washington. It’s a story about Williams, the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps — a multitude of Harlem-based Black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station. The panel includes author A’Lelia Bundles and musician Victor Goines. For more information, call (718) 409-5624.
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Just a few months ago, a small crowd gathered in front of 3702 Riverdale Ave., in the hopes of saving North Riverdale’s Buunni Coffee location. Unfortunately, those efforts weren’t successful, and the neighborhood instead picked up yet another empty storefront.
Advance tickets are now on sale for the New York Botanical Garden’s upcoming exhibition, Kusama: Cosmic Nature. It features work by internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and will be on view between April 10 and Oct. 31 across the 2900 Southern Blvd., attraction’s 250-acre landscape, as well as in and around the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library building. To get tickets, visit NYBG.org.
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Get ready to run (for the) wild The Bronx Zoo returns its near-annual 5-K run and 3-K family run/walk on Saturday, April 24, at the zoo, 2300 Southern Blvd. This year’s run is dedicated to lemurs, and will be structured to help ensure participant safety, meeting state-mandated COVID-19 protocols. That includes two starting points, staggered starting times, and limited capacity. Registration fees are $55 for adults, $45 for children and senior citizens. A $10 discount is available for members. There’s also a virtual run available with a $15 registration fee. Each participant 16 and older has a minimum fundraising requirement of $35. To register, visit WCSRunForTheWild.org.
Annual meeting coming up for NWBCCC The Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition hosts its annual meeting Friday, March 26 at 6 p.m. For more information on how to attend, email info@northwestbronx.org.
Planning in advance is more important than ever. These are difficult times and more families are realizing the many advantages of making their cemetery plans in advance. Having to make those arrangements at the time of a loved one’s death is heartbreaking enough. Facing that task while dealing with regulations that are associated with the pandemic can make it seem almost unbearable. Ferncliff Cemetery offers a better way. Please don’t wait any longer. Call us today at 914-693-4700 or visit us at ferncliffcemetery.com/prearrange to get more information on the many quality options that are available to you.
Ballet classes now under way Riverdale Neighborhood House hosts a virtual ballet company workshop for children between 7 and 14 on Saturdays through April 24 beginning at 9 a.m. The cost is $64, and teaches ballet technique with an emphasis on proper anatomical alignment, musicality, artistry, and enjoyment of ballet, culminating in an informal showing and performance of class work for friends and family. For more information, email radelman@riverdaleonline.org.
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.
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Miranda Writes returns books to Riverdale’s shelves n Could be nabe’s first bookstore since closing of Paperbacks Plus in 2008 By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
What seemed once on the edge of extinction may be no more. At least if Kirstie Reynoso-Miranda has anything to say about it. Right now, the borough’s only brickand-mortar bookstore is The Lit Bar, and visiting that requires an expedition deep into the Bronx in Mott Haven. That’s a bit of a trek for Reynoso-Miranda out of her Van Cortlandt Village home. So she’s seriously exploring doubling the number of bookstores, with hopes to open what she intends to call Miranda Writes somewhere in the greater Riverdale area. “I’ve always loved the idea of owning a bookstore,” Reynoso-Miranda said. “And so, it was an idea I’ve been sitting on for a really long time. And now it just felt like the perfect time to go for it.” If she succeeds, Miranda Writes would be the area’s first bookstore since Paperbacks Plus closed its Riverdale Avenue doors in 2008 after 38 years. Not only was it the place to pick up the latest Stephen King bestseller, but it also was a vital part of the neighborhood. That store was the love of Fern Jaffe’s life. But times were changing with the boom of online booksellers like Amazon. Yet it was less that and more other loves waiting for Jaffe’s attention far from Riverdale. “My interests were changing,” she told The Riverdale Press from her much warmer home near Sarasota. “I had established a wonderful relationship with a man in Florida. So, things in life happen, and 38 years is certainly a very long time to stand on your feet all day.” One of the kids who would frequent
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Kirstie Reynoso-Miranda says a community bookstore should be a place where neighbors can bond over common interests as well as buy the newest bestseller from their favorite authors. She plans to make that vision a reality by opening the greater Riverdale area’s first bookstore in more than a decade, called Miranda Writes. that store was Reynoso-Miranda, who loved to browse the bookshelves. From time to time, Jaffe would welcome authors, including one particular visit from then New York Yankees star Derek Jeter. Reynoso-Miranda still owns the book Jeter signed to this day. If she wants to restore the magic she remembers from Paperbacks Plus, Reynoso-Miranda has her work cut out for her. She’s never started a business before, and doesn’t even work inside the world of books. Instead, she’s a project manager at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Yet books are a passion she just can’t ignore. “I’ve always been such an avid reader,” Reynoso-Miranda said. “As a kid, I had so many books, that really, I
can look at the book and it sort of timestamps my life. I just wanted to create a place that I would love to be in, and I didn’t feel like I was the only one.” Her favorite books come from the romance shelf where she reads just about everything from authors like Helen Hoang, Talia Hibbert and Colleen Hoover. Opening a store won’t be easy, and Reynoso-Miranda already is seeking out some training to do it right. She might also consider following Jaffe’s path that started with her original store in 1970. Picking a good location is vitally important, something that served Paperbacks Plus well at 3718 Riverdale Ave., where Corner Café and Bakery is now.
Reynoso-Miranda would love to lease her own space on Riverdale Avenue. However, she’s also open to storefronts on Broadway and anywhere that makes sense from a business and financial standpoint. “Riverdale is such a great community, and people are very passionate about what’s in their neighborhood,” Reynoso-Miranda said. “I think a bookstore is more than just a retail front, it’s a place for the community, and so I wanted to get the community’s input in sort of a structured way to be able to put that information into my business plan.” That’s a fancy way of describing a survey asking participants about their reading habits — like whether they
prefer physical or e-books, as well as some of their favorite genres. Some have been surprising, like the range of subjects readers are interested in, from business books to anime. While the survey might influence how Reynoso-Miranda stocks her shelves, she wants her bookstore to attract a wide audience. That means selling a little bit of everything. Some of that everything should include books that are near impossible to find anywhere else, Jaffe said. Paperbacks Plus sold books that flew just under the radar not generally found in Jaffe’s much-bigger competitors at the time, like Barnes & Noble. “For example, there was a time in the history of bookselling when the mall stores, you could go in there and you couldn’t buy a copy of ‘The Great Gatsby,’” Jaffe said. “They didn’t bother to have that. But you could walk into my independent store and Hemingway and Fitzgerald would always be on the shelf.” Jaffe’s bookstore often held events with local organizations like Riverdale Neighborhood House, of which her husband was a member. Jaffe also served as the first president of the Central Riverdale Avenue Business Association. Reynoso-Miranda envisions Miranda Writes to also serve as a town square, a space where like-minded people can connect. That’s why she wants to pair her bookshelves with an attached café and wine bar. Most importantly, Reynoso-Miranda wants to give her neighborhood — and the Bronx — something they desperately need: more bookstores. “Especially in this neighborhood, there are over 15 schools, from kindergarten through college,” ReynosoMiranda said. “So, how do you provide them the resources that they need? Or make it easier for them to get some of the resources that they want? “I just saw a big need in my own community, and I wanted to help fill it.”
SCHOOL DESK RTNS eyes new playground Few childhood memories are more prominent than those created on the playground. And Riverdale Temple Nursery School hopes to give theirs a facelift in the coming months. The nursery school plans to renovate its playground by removing the sand in favor of rubber flooring and installing new play structures for the children.
By ROSE BRENNAN years to come.” The nursery school’s initial fundraising efforts are under way, and it plans to share updates of the remodeling in the coming months. To donate, visit tinyurl.com/ RTNS-Playground.
“Our nursery school is a warm and loving place, where our children grown and learn through a play-based curriculum, with play and happiness at the center of everything we do,” the fundraising committee wrote in an email. “With our children’s growth and happiness as our focus, it has become a necessity that we update our playground so that it can benefit the current families and many more families for
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Korean War vet Carnig Ajamian Maj. Carnig Ajamian was wellloved by his good friends and family. He was born Feb. 8, 1927, in Washington Heights, and passed away Feb. 12, 2021, in Riverdale, where he lived for more than 60 years. There he maintained his family’s private home that held warm memories of his Armenian parents — Carnig Sr., and Azniv Ajamian — and his brother Armen, who have all preceded him in death. He served in the U.S. Army between 1945 and 1946, performing occupation duties in Germany. When he left the service, he attended the University of Mississippi under the GI Bill, receiving his degree in business administration. He re-entered the service in 1952 as a second lieutenant, serving in the Korean War and receiving his combat infantry badge. He was
then transferred to Japan, where he served another two years. He left active military service in 1955, eventually joining the U.S. Army Reserve. He served there for 20 years, attaining the rank of major. He also was a colonel in the New York CARNIg Guard. AJAmIAN After his retirement from the Reserve, he maintained close ties to the U.S. Army, being a captain in the Old Guard of the City of New York. He enjoyed veterans events immensely, and with pride. He was a true soldier. He loved to entertain his friends,
often generously treating them to dinners, concerts and theatre — even cruises. He liked being out on the water, and was an avid skier. He relished life, loved to laugh and have a good time, and enjoyed a glass of vodka. He loved to travel widely, and did. He had a kind and benevolent heart, and will be much missed by his family. His cousins Florence Ajamian and Alan Nalbandian and his family, and by his many longtime friends like Rose Alyanakian, Peter Anthony, Glenn Encababian, Marvin Goldsmith, Tina Hazarian, Bridget Lynch, Arlette Remy, James and Bernadette Rynne, and many others. Donations may be made in Carnig Ajamian’s memory to Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church, 580 W. 187th St., New York, N.Y., 10033.
JFK English teacher Rita Karig, 84 Rita Karig — beloved mother to Stephen, grandmother to Dylan, sister to David, aunt to Justine, and sincere friend to many — passed away peacefully at 84 on March 16, 2021. She lived a long, healthy and abundant life, and dedicated much of her time and energy to supporting those most in need in her community, as well as toward philanthropic efforts throughout the RItA Bronx. She served as an English teachkARIg er at John F. Kennedy High School for more than 35 years, where her passion and love of
education flourished. Her attitude toward life — from participating in yoga well into her 80s, to her love of literature she shared with many — will continue to inspire for years to come. Friends remember her as a light on the soul, even during moments of darkness. “Rita always had a way of making others feel special, appreciated and loved.” Hers was a perfect example of a life well lived — an example of what it means to love, to hope, and to be true to oneself. The memories she leaves behind with family and friends will provide strength and courage for the days that follow. She will be laid to rest at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley.
NYPD officer Joseph Sheridan, 84 Joseph Sheridan, 84, a longtime resident of Riverdale, passed away Feb. 16, 2021, in Tamarac, Florida. He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Margaret Sheridan, and his siblings, Catherine and Thomas. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Patricia, as well as children Margaret Bravo (Jose), Mary Mohall (Benny), JoJOSEPH seph Sheridan SHERIDAN (Kelly) and William Sheridan (Sonnia). He’s also survived by brothers Vincent (Maryjane) and John (Ann). And he had eight loving grandchildren: Meghan, Caitlin, Kevin, Kerry, Ally, Emily, Ryan and Rory, as well as
many brothers- and sisters-in-law, and nieces and nephews. He grew up on the Upper West Side, enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1954, and becoming a New York Police Department officer in 1961, serving the bulk of his tenure in the 34th Precinct. After retirement from the police force, he embarked on his second career as the security director at Roosevelt Hospital, where he retired in 1998 after 19 years. He settled in Sunrise, Florida, and Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. He was a devoted family man and husband, putting his family’s needs before his own, often working several jobs as his young family was growing. He was a longtime Little League coach with the North Riverdale Baseball League, coaching long after his children were past league age. He enjoyed reading and history, particularly World War II history.
The essential quality he brought wherever he went was the ability to see promise and potential in everyone he met. He encouraged his children, his family, his friends and the security personnel that reported to him to aspire to and pursue their dreams and talents. He was passionate about pursuing education and opportunities. He himself earned his college degree as an adult student from the New York Institute of Technology in 1979. He was actively researching higher education for his grandchildren, even shortly before his death. An out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivor four years prior, he was a study in miracles, grace and courage as he lived his new normal fiercely with his characteristic aplomb. Forever watching over us, encouraging and cheering us on, you will be missed. But never forgotten.
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Need some ‘old’ normal
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n the early days of the pandemic, elected leaders — including our now-embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo — talked a lot about our “new normal.” For him, the clouds of the coronavirus had a silver lining: We, as a society, somehow discovered we could do just about anything at home that we could do in an office, at school, or a store. And yes, many of us found our daily commutes to be not much more than the path from the bedroom to the dining room table. There, a computer and a stable internet connection would provide everything we needed. Video meetings. Virtual classrooms. Restaurants and shops could come to us instead of the other way around. Cuomo wanted to not just reopen after the pandemic, but open differently. He didn’t want to go back to what life was like before the pandemic, and he wasn’t alone. The societal and economic shutdown gave us something different. These were new experiences that helped distract us from how much we worried about where our next meals would come from, or if our jobs would still be there in the morning. But as the pandemic carried on,
this desire for the rebirth of a new and improved society did follow along. In fact, with each passing day, many of us yearned for the days we could sit down and share food with friends at our favorite eatery. Where we could go to the movies, laughing and crying with a dark room full of strangers. Even the more mundane aspects of life, like driving or taking the bus to a job. Saying good morning to coworkers. Getting that disapproving stare from your boss. Sure, some of that might change, and maybe for the better. But we don’t want to lose the very soul of our existence, either. As nice as it would be to stay home all the time, we can’t explore our world, our country, our state, our community through a computer screen. The best part about going to school, or heading into the office? It’s coming home. Where your family is. Where your favorite easy chair resides. Where your computer can be filled with social media and games, and not with work. Where your dining room table is a dining room table. We should never be scared of change, but there’s nothing wrong with yearning to restore what we once had.
POINT OF VIEW
Why I dare to dream big
By MEISHA PORTER
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ecently, I began leading the nation’s largest public school system. A school system that serves more than 1 million students — including, many years ago, me! I am both excited and honored to take on this role. Not only because I am a New Yorker born and bred, but because education is in my blood. Both my mom and auntie were teachers, and between them, have 40 years of changing young people’s lives. I became a New York City public school educator because of them, and the amazing teachers I had as a student myself — like Ms. Pearlman, my first-grade teacher at P.S. 215; Mrs. Hulak, Mr. Garrison and Mr. McCarthy, and my great instructors at Queens Vocational and Technical High School, where I studied plumbing. Over the course of 20 incredible years, I worked as an English teacher, an assistant principal, and then principal. More recently, I served our school communities as a superintendent and Bronx executive superintendent. But I have to admit, never did I imagine that a youth activist from the Highbridge section of the Bronx would rise to become the first Black woman to serve as schools chancellor. This is a milestone, not just for me, but for every child who feels “different,” but dares to dream big. I don’t come into this role wearing rosecolored glasses. I know how challenging the last year has been for all of us. I know just how much our students, families, teachers, school staff members and principals have sacrificed and suffered. But I also see signs of renewal as more vaccines become available, and more sectors of our great city reopen. I have that same sense of optimism about our schools. As I prepared to welcome our high school students back, I wanted to share my top three priorities for this academic year and beyond. First and foremost, I want to give every student the option to go back into school buildings five days a week starting this fall. I want New Yorkers to know that our buildings are safe, and that our schools are ready.
We’ve put all the recommended safety and health measures in place, and our schools are one of the safest places in our city to be. I hope to see everyone back full-time come September. Second, I want to make sure that what we teach reflects students’ lived experiences, including any trauma related to this past year. We are coming back from the hardest year of our lives. We want all our students to see themselves in their curriculum, their classrooms, and their schools. We will have social-emotional supports in place as well, not only for students, but also for our staff members. We are aware that many people will be returning to schools where they’ve lost somebody. They may walk past an office that was once occupied by someone else. They may think about a paraprofessional who supported them, or a kitchen worker who gave them an extra lunch every day. So, we will have a dual-pronged approach, addressing both academics and social-emotional learning. Third, I want to take the lessons we learned during the pandemic into the next academic year. As an example, the pandemic forced us to harness technology to create a 21st century learning experience, and we’ve delivered nearly a half-million devices into students’ hands. At the same time, it showed us that human interaction is critical — nothing replaces the experience between a kid and a teacher in a classroom. So, I want to bring these two worlds together, using technology to address students’ individual needs — both for those learning full-time in classrooms, and those who may wish to continue learning remotely. To our families, I want to assure you that this will be a collaborative effort, with many opportunities for us to meet and talk. I promise to include your voices and expertise as we finish out this academic year and plan for the next. To our students, as your chancellor, I will continue to dream big on your behalf, and I invite you to dream and achieve alongside me. Lean into your education. Dream beyond your wildest imagination. And know that there are no limits, only endless possibilities.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Time for a change at the top To the editor: We know the results of the investigation — by a fellow Democrat, no less. Alas, Attorney General Letitia James omits Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s motive in the nursing home scandal: The governor cavalierly murdered thousands of our elderly because of his ego, his obsessive micromanagement, which would not al-
low him to utilize help from the federal government. Rather than place recovering COVID-19 patients on the USNS Comfort ship, or at the Javits Center — whence they were supposed to go — he sent them to spread illness death in nursing homes. It was about displaying “heroism” by accepting no help. His behavior, his Emmy, his
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Build prison-to-school pipeline To the editor: As a member of Northwest Bronx Indivisible’s steering committee, and as chair of the CUNY Brooklyn College English department, I write to call your readers’ attention to the importance of supporting reinstatement of the New York State Tuition Assistance Program for incarcerated people who wish to begin or complete a two-year associate’s or a four-year bachelor’s degree program. The cost of keeping someone behind bars is $70,000 a year. Tuition at any of the CUNY senior colleges is $6,930 for a full year (12 credits or more each semester), or $305 per credit. The difference is enormous: The cost benefit of getting a college degree is incalculable for the individual behind bars, and for those of us on the outside. Giving inmates the opportunity to study for a degree while in prison increases the likelihood that they will find productive, remunerative work once they leave. Such work dramatically decreases the rate of recidivism by 51 percent, according to a Rand Corp., study. New York misguidedly abandoned TAP for prisoners in 1995. Bringing it back would reduce the strain on our state budget. Equally important, restoring TAP would help to dismantle the structural racism that undergirds our failed “carceralstate” approach to solving social problems. Many good people have decried our de facto school-to-prison pipeline. Reinstating TAP would
go far to create the opposite: A prison-to-school pipeline that would increase the odds for permanent re-entry into the community. All New Yorkers would benefit. Restoring TAP for the incarcerated is now a budget item before the state legislature. Restoring the program is a social justice measure that should be one of a number of items in a package of social justice legislation to be voted on this session. Others may be ending solitary confinement, the possibility of parole for all incarcerated people 55 and older, or ending incarceration for lowlevel marijuana infractions. To find out more about the benefits of TAP for incarcerated people and all New Yorkers, go to TurnOnTheTAPNY.org. At a recent Northwest Bronx Indivisible town hall, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, when questioned, left us with no doubt that she supported the reinstatement of TAP for those who are incarcerated. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, chair of the Assembly’s codes committee, on the other hand turned nostalgically to the far-off days when CUNY was free for all students. I urge your readers to write to Assemblyman Dinowitz to vote for the reinstatement of TAP in the legislative session’s budget negotiations. The April 1 deadline for the budget is fast approaching. EllEn TrEmpEr
Isn’t having a majority enough? To the editor: Congressman Adriano Espaillat told the Podcast from Washington of El Nuevo Dia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that he believes that 52.5 percent who voted for the statehood option during the Nov. 3 status plebiscite in Puerto Rico is not enough to advance a statehood bill. “It must be approved by a very solid majority,” he said. Espaillat is proposing an artificial threshold for an election to be considered legitimate. It is a self-serving and hypocritical argument. Consider the following: Espaillat won the Democratic primary for his congressional seat in 2016 with just 36 percent of the vote, according to the state elections board. Using Espaillat’s thinking, does that mean that his election to Con-
gress was illegitimate and invalid? If so, should we not have another Democratic primary election for his congressional district? A small sample of individuals from the metropolitan area rebutted the congressman’s argument in the following statements: “If independence had gotten 52 percent of the vote, does anyone think these people would still be claiming that it isn’t sufficient?” asked Christopher Fagan, a statehood supporter from Long Island. “Let’s be honest here … most independence supporters would be reacting the same way statehooders are reacting to Espaillat’s statement. And they’d be right to be upset at being marginalized despite winning a majority.” John De Jesus questioned
the fairness of an artificial threshold for claiming an election was valid. “Joe Biden was elected with more than 50 percent of the vote,” he wrote in Spanish. “Anything more than 50 percent is a majority.” Luis Arroyo dared supporters of the independence option and Puerto Rican “separatists” to allow island residents to choose between the only two status options that produce a permanent resolution to the status question — statehood or independence. “If you’re so convinced Puerto Rico will reject statehood, why do you oppose a statehood admissions act?” Arroyo asked. “Puerto Ricans can defeat and kill off statehood forever. Why won’t you let ‘no’ win. Let ‘no’ win.” GEnE roman
Some important insight on judges To the editor:
(re: “Need to learn more on judges,” March 4)
I am writing in response to Ms. Leslie Hogan’s letter to the editor commenting on your Nov. 19 story, “Voters not too excited to choose county court judges.” She indicated that the story left her “wanting to see an in-depth story about judgeships.” In recent weeks, and during the current petitioning period, I have heard similar questions from neighbors in the Bronx. I began collecting signatures from residents on the west side of the Bronx in an attempt to get on the ballot for civil court judge for the primary scheduled for June 22. The Second Municipal Court district covers the entire northwest Bronx, down to the southern tip of the borough in Mott Haven. Some of the comments I’ve received from registered Democrats as I seek their permission to allow me access to the ballot for the June Democratic primary is one that shows similar frustrations and concerns expressed by Ms. Hogan. Some have even expressed surprise at meeting me at their door as I make my case to earn their support and future vote. They have indicated that they did not know judges could be elected, and not knowing how judges even get on the ballot. Ms. Hogan asked how are judges selected. Judges in criminal and family court are appointed by the mayor through the merit-based selection and a multi-layered committee review. The mayor appoints members to a commission on judicial selection, and candidates are thoroughly vetted before the appointment. Those judges serving in the civil court (where
the value of the conflict does not exceed $50,000 within the five boroughs) are elected to 10-year terms. Judges elevated to the supreme court (for a 14-year term) are selected by judicial convention where delegates (voted in by the electorate, and currently being circulated in the green petitions you might see at petitioning time) make the decisions on behalf of the electorate of who gets nominated to those positions. In terms of voter involvement, it is civil court judges that are most affected by a large voter bloc making that choice. These judges are elected in a partisan race, once candidates go through a primary (but only if there are two or more candidates for the party nomination). Because the Bronx is a heavily Democratic county, a win at the Democratic primary is a certain win in November. It is therefore important to find out who the candidates are for the June primary to make an informed selection. I welcome any of your readers or their friends to connect with me via email at yadhira@ygt4bronxjudge.com so we can discuss judges further. I’d be happy to host town halls to meet anyone who wants to learn more about the process. Thanks to the access to information at our fingertips, we can learn so much more about the candidates today than before. I invite you to check me out at my website, YGT4BronxJudge. com, where I have more information on the roles of each court, and the expectations for judges assigned to each. Yadhira GonzalEz-TaYlor The author is a civil court judge candidate for the June 22 primary.
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, March 25, 2021 - A11
Op-Ed POINT OF VIEW
Is there any other way to describe it than racism?
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t’s hard to know what to make of Alvin Gordon’s Point of View. It is a mixture of falsehoods, bizarre distortions, irrational fears and rage — at Black people, Black communities and Black leaders. But when I can’t make rational sense out of someone’s viewpoint, as a psychologist, I look for the psychological sense of it. Mr. Gordon starts with some hypothetical situation of whether you would save an anonymous Black person versus a loved one if both were drowning. Of course you would save the loved one. “That’s the way it actually is in real life,” he says. But you would also save your loved one before a stranger who is white, purple, whatever. And he ignored the situation where the Black person is your loved one, as is the case for me. His hypothetical makes no rational sense to me. To me, it seems Mr. Gordon is conveying the thought, “Come on, you are just as against Blacks as I am. Their lives matter less to you than white lives, don’t they?” Many of us don’t belong to that club. Then he attacks the slogan “Black lives matter” because all lives matter. Having watched and participated in Black Lives Matter protests, I have never heard anyone say other people’s lives don’t matter. The Black Lives Matter movement came about because it seemed that, to some portion of the police, Black lives don’t matter as much as white lives. One of the beautiful things about the movement is that it is interracial. But when a particular group is having a problem, you focus on that problem. If there were a “Jewish Lives Matter” movement in the 1930s, I don’t think Mr. Gordon would condemn it for not dissolving that message into an “all humans” platitude. Next he goes on about how the Black Lives Matter movement is not doing “a damn thing” about Black-on-Black crime. But Black Lives Matter has a different focus: police brutality. Would you attack a Jewish group supporting research on, say, Tay-Sachs disease for not dealing with anti-Semitism? What is not known by many is the work of numerous groups dealing with inner-city violence. The right — especially since the rise of Trump — doesn’t want to talk about it because Black lives don’t matter that much to them. The left, unfortunately, is afraid of acknowledging problems in the Black community for fear of attacks like Mr. Gordon offers. But 400 years of trauma, of being seen as being less than fully human, is going to be traumatizing. To quote James Baldwin back in 1961, “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time.” For an example of one New York City group dealing with inner-city violence, there is Street Corner Resources, led by Iesha Sekou. It offers a variety of services, including violence interruption, working with neighborhood gangs. “If” this Black-on-Black violence concerns you beyond finger-pointing, look it up and make a donation.
Taking everything into account By MIRIAM LEVINE HELBOK
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ight now!” These words, suggested as a prompt for my writers circle, immediately led me to think of two meanings of “now.” The first refers to an open-ended period of time starting immediately (or earlier), as in the assertion, “Now is the time to jettison Mr. Trump from the party,” as the writer of a letter to The New York Times advised on Feb. 7. Or “now is the time to re-establish reality,” as a headline in a column in the February issue of Scientific American puts it. The other meaning of “now” that came to mind refers to an instant of time, the nanoseconds that come and go faster than the blink of an eye, never to return and possible to retain only in the form of photographs, paintings, images produced in electronic scans, or in seismographs or other such recordings, or in memories, or verbal or written descriptions. The second meaning immediately led me to think of dung beetles — yes, dung beetles, of which there are at least 5,000 species and countless individuals, all busily going about their crucial business right now. Were it not for dung beetles, which use the manure of wild animals and cattle on every continent except Antarctica as food or future food for their offspring, vast areas of land would become covered in droppings and eventually be rendered useless. I cannot explain why dung beetles popped into my mind. They are among the trillions of quadrillions (or some such immense number) of individuals of all living species engaged in whatever they need or want to do at any given moment. They are doing so right now, as you read this. With 7.8 billion people populating the Earth, most likely people somewhere are doing virtually anything you can possibly imagine someone doing right now. Most likely, people somewhere are thinking anything you can possibly imagine someone thinking right now. And any number of non-human creatures, right now, are doing everything we know that non-human creatures do, plus things that we as yet have no idea that they do. Each person, each creature, has his or her or its own “right now,” at the same moment that you and I experience our own “right now.” Each cell in the bodies of multi-celled animals is continuously engaged in all the things that cells do to keep themselves — and their hosts
— alive right now. Right now, in your body and mine, an estimated 30 trillion to 40 trillion cells work tirelessly to keep us going, all without any conscious effort on our parts. And within each cell, all their components and the molecules of which those components are made, continue to work at every moment, including right now. Right now, all the cells that make up every plant on our planet — from the simplest algae and plankton, to the grandest redwoods and sequoias, are similarly occupied, as are all the molecules that make them what they are. And right now, all non-living matter — water and soil, pebbles and boulders, mountains and mesas, coastlines, buildings, and roads and bridges — everything that occurs naturally, and everything that was made by humans continues to change, moment by moment, through the action of wind and rain, air pollution, heat and cold. Clouds come into being, expand and spread, and dissipate. Snowflakes form and fall and melt. Stalactites and stalagmites continuously grow in caves. Paint fades, leather dries and cracks. Metals get fatigued. Something is happening to every single thing right now. The planet itself is far from dormant, as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions show. And at every single moment in time — right now — the continents themselves are changing. The tectonic plates that form the continents never stop moving, although so slowly that only the most sensitive instruments can detect their movements. Recently, a team of researchers from Canada, Australia, China and France released an animated recreation of the movement of the Earth’s land masses during the past billion years, using an immense amount of geological data collected over decades, and with the help of special software. And right now, of course, the universe itself is ever changing, as stars are born and die, galaxies are created, black holes form, and everything is moving through space at breathtaking speeds. Right now, it’s all happening — right now. Your “right now,” my “right now,” everybody’s “right now” is different. Some right nows are more interesting than others, but huge numbers of them have something that we would very likely find intriguing or surprising or of value in some way. That’s one reason why the members of my writers circle meet every week. Our motto might very well be: “Right now, write now!”
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(re: “Looking at Black Lives Matter from one Jewish perspective,” March 4)
There are many such groups, operating under the radar. Mr, Gordon goes on to talk about local disputes decades ago. When there are real conflicts between competing groups which rub up against each other, there will be friction — and, sadly, prejudice. On both sides. Back in the day when I worked with innercity kids, the Puerto Rican gangs would do battle with the Dominican gangs. In many parts of the world, this leads to inter-ethnic slaughter. (Remember what happened in the Balkans?) What about today? Where are “the Blacks” attacking Jews? And I don’t mean criticizing Israel, which many Jews also criticize. Of course today in, for example, Borough Park — where there are turf battles — there are Blacks who hate their Jewish neighbors, and Jews who hate their Black neighbors. One of the things that I am most proud of as a Jew is our willingness to fight for the wellbeing of our fellow human beings, as exemplified during the civil rights movement by Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman — who gave their lives. As the people of HIAS, who work with Latin Americans at our southern border (and other refugees), put it, “We used to take refugees because they were Jewish. Now we take them because we’re Jewish.” A poll by the Jewish Electorate Institute last September found 66 percent of Jews had a favorable impression of Black Lives Matter, with 28 percent negative. Mr. Gordon is in the minority. I have noticed that in the anti-Black Lives Matter, anti-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, anti-left diatribes that I had read in these pages — not blaming The Riverdale Press, which also has printed the opposite view, including from me — they get more hysterical as they go on. Mr. Gordon goes on to attack a bunch of Black people. He claims Louis Farrakhan, who actually is anti-Semitic, is a friend of Obama. Really? Yes, they were once in a photo together at a meeting of Black leaders. I’m sure there are pictures of him with devout Zionists. He attacks “Black anti-Semites,” including U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib — who isn’t Black, but is of Palestinian descent. (The same for Mr. Gordon?) How can a rational person (I’m being generous) — especially after the attack on the Capitol by right-wing white supremacist groups with a guy happily wandering around with a Camp Aushwitz shirt — look at Black people and the left as being the source of danger to Jews? And don’t forget the synagogue in Pittsburgh. Or the “Jews will not replace us” march in Charlottesville. And their anti-Black plus anti-Semitic ancestor, the KKK. It makes no rational sense. Never a mention of the actual people who hate and kill Jews, and who — mixed in with armed white supremacist militias — are a genuine threat. There is only one answer, and I don’t use such a word lightly. Racism. To play off Mr. Gordon’s ending (“to the haters, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew’) — To the haters, a Black is a Black is a Black. Why the racism? Why the fear and loathing of Black people? Hey, I’m a psychologist. But I am not Mr. Gordon’s psychologist.
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10472. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. 3437 Legal Notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOS DIMENSIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/12/2020. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 530 W 163RD St.. The principal business address of the LLC is 530 W 163RD St. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. 3439 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 1-2721, bearing Index Number NC-000303-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Karheri (Middle) Patrick (Last) Griffin. My present name is (First) KahariKentaro (Middle) Patarick (Last) Griffin (infant) . The city and state of my present
address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. The month and year of my birth are November 2008. 3462 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 2/22/21, bearing Index Number NC-000333-20/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Sayje (Last) Hewitt. My present name is (First) Jaret (Middle) Howard (Last) Hewitt AKA Jaret H Hewitt. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are November 1989. 3463
Kadija (Last) Camara. My present name is (First) Kadija (Last) Kamara (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are January 2015. Assume the name of (First) Zainab (Last) Camara. My present name is (First) Zeinab (Last) Camara (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are May 2016. Assume the name of (First) Abdoul (Middle) Kader (Last) Camara. My present name is (First) Aboul (Middle) Kader (Last) Camara (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are May 2016. 3464
Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on March 4, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-000338-20/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First)
Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on March 11, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00002921/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First)
Ashley (Middle) Richell (Last) Santiago. My present name is (First) Ashley (Middle) Richell (Last) Febrillet AKA Ashley Richell Santiago, AKA Ashley R. Santiago, AKA Ashley Santiago . The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are February 1989. 3465 Legal Notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DJPHAZE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/5/21. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as the agent upon whom the process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 1116 Jackson ave, Bronx, NY 10456. The principal business address of the LLC is Bronx, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. 3466 Legal Notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AFRO- ED LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY) on (1st of October 2020). Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, (Registered Agents, Inc., 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40 Albany, NY 12207). Purpose: For any lawful purpose. 3467 Legal Notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Robin Williams Real Estate LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on January 8, 2021. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC, served upon him/her is 1026 East 180th St. 3F BX, NY 10460/Robin Williams. The principal business address of the LLC is 1026 East 180th ST. 3F, BX, NY 10460. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. 3468
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, March 25, 2021 - A13
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West of pArKWAy WeB #880 Grand bucolic beauty and open space classic 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath mansion with wraparound porch on over one acre with grassy lawns. Large center hall, living room with WBF, formal dining room with fireplace and eat-in kitchen. $4,325,000
nortH riVerdAle WeB #892 Two-family, semi-attached brick house with wide entry terrace & backyard with a deck & patio on Cul-de-Sac. $899,000
soutH riVerdAle WeB #884 Renov 6-bdrm, 2-full and 2-half bath brick house. Tiled entry foyer, formal dining rm & renov kitchen. $1,395,000
VAn cortlAndt crest WeB #899 Spacious 6-bdrm, 3-full & 2-half baths, WBF in LR, dining rm & mstr bdrm. Eatin kitchen, porches & patio. $1,195,000
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3935 BlAcKstone AVe WeB #cc652 Spacious and Bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath with sunset balcony, majestic river views and 24-hr doorman. $795,000
3536 cAmBridge AVe WeB #cc660 Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bath condo w/ bright open views & laundry in unit. Indoor parking availability. $639,000
2727 pAlisAde AVe WeB #cc656 Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, 24-hr DM & parking avail. Master BR suite & remodeled kitchen. $559,000
3935 BlAcKstone AVe WeB #cc648 Spacious, light filled, low floor 3-bdrm w/ balcony & 24-hr D/M. Extra lrg foyer & dining rm with built-ins. $649,000
750 KAppocK street WeB #cc659 Spacious and bright top-floor 2-bdrm, 2-bath with enclosed sunrise balcony, parking, & 24-hr doormen. $549,000
3800 BlAcKstone AVe WeB #cc651 Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bath condo w/ modern kitchen, balcony, laundry in unit and indoor parking. $678,000
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no BoArd ApproVAl West of pArKWAy - 3-bdrm, 2-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $525K West of pArKWAy - 3-bdrm, 2-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $515K West of pArKWAy - Top floor Junior-4 with stunning river and sunset views, doorman, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. in contrAct $305K West of pArKWAy - 1-bdrm with L-shaped living/dining room area, doorman, fitness room, private playground $290K and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK.
condo excl 3800 BlAcKston AVe cc630 Contemporary 2-bdrm. 2-bath duplex penthouse w/ private roof terraces. $675K
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3614 JoHnson AVe cc646 2-bdrm, 2-bth with open plan living and dining area with glass sliding doors to balcony. $425K
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3600 fieldston rd cc855 2-bdrm, 2-bath conv 3, 2-bath w/ balcony, updated kitchen and DM. Parking avail. $399K
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290 West 232nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, dining area and balcony. Storage area and bicycle rm in bldg. $305K
exclusiVe 3616 HH pArKWAy cc642 Spacious and bright 2-bdrm with balcony, and doorman. Indr parking avail. $398.5K
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fieldston Vic. rr642 6-bdrm, 3.5-bath, 7,500 sq. ft. house w/ Expansive wraparound porch & pool. $19,500/mo
professionAl & office spAce 3755 HH pKWAy - tHe imperiAl - Walk-in level doctor’s office with reception area and 2 exam rooms. $360K nortH riVerdAle - Office Space Available. $1,500/mo
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House for rent fieldston Vic. rr880 Spacious 6-bdrm, 4.5-bth center-hall Colonial w/ patio & yard on cul-de-sac. $7,900
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exclusiVe 4525 HH pArKWAy cc650 Bright & renov Jr-4 convt to 2 with open sunset views and 24-hr doorman. $329K
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exclusiVe 290 W 232nd st cc657 Updated 2-bdrm post war co-op with balcony. Entry foyer & eat-in kitch. $339K
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exclusiVe 5715 mosHolu AVe cc635 Bright L-shaped 2-bdrm postwar co-op. Hrdwd flrs, South & West expos. $208K
exclusiVe 3601 JoHnson AVe. cc587 Walk-in level doctor’s office with seperate entrance and reception area. $295K
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exclusiVe 3001 HH pArKWAy cc853 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bth, PT DM. Entry foyer, large entral foyer & sunken LR. $625K
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pet-friendly rentAls centrAl riVerdAle - Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bath condo with balcony, laundry in unit and indoor parking. $3,950/mo West of pArKWAy - Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bath, sunrise balcony, partial river views, DM & fitness rm. Dogs ok. $3,325/mo West of pArKWAy - 2-bdrm, 2-bath, balcony, partial river views, DM & fitness rm. Dogs ok. rented $2,550/mo West of pArKWAy - Rent stabilized 1-bdrm, parquet floors, balcony, DM & fitness rm. Dogs ok. rented $1,880/mo
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no fee rentAls West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious 2-bdrm conv. 3, 2-bth with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $4,095/mo West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious 2-bdrm convertible to 3, 2-bath with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $3,895/mo West of pArKWAy - Large & bright 2-bdrm w/ balcony. D/M, fitness room, tennis couts & pool . 2 months free rent $3,495/mo West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious Junior-4 with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $2,695/mo
exclusiVe 601 KAppocK st cc649 Mint condition, beautifully renovated 2-bdrm with doorman and pool. $284K
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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