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Commuters bemoan Spuyten Duyvil accessibility By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
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Getting around New York City isn’t too difficult. That is, as long as you’re not dependent on a cane, walker or wheelchair. Sure, every bus in the five boroughs is accessible to those with mobility issues, but only a quarter of subway stations are equipped with elevators. Not only does that make those stations off-limits for many, it also means people with
certain disabilities need to plan out their travel well in advance, even if it means just heading to the grocery store using the subway. Such lack of accessibility isn’t exclusive to subways, however. Metro-North trains — an important source of transportation for those in Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil — are nearly impossible to board thanks to their tall stairs and lack of elevators. While intended as a commuter rail, it’s used by some as a de facto subway line, carrying riders comfortably and quickly into Midtown, or in other parts of the tri-state area along the Hudson Line. Three stations connect locals with Metro-North trains: the Riverdale station near 255th Street and Palisade Avenue, Spuy-
ten Duyvil near Edsall Avenue and the Henry Hudson Bridge, and Marble Hill beside West 225th Street near the Broadway Bridge. Of the three stations, only one — Riverdale — is equipped with an elevator. At Marble Hill, riders have to take stairs down to the station from the street. And at Spuyten Duyvil, while a ramp does lead from the parking lot up to the northbound platform, the only way to reach southbound trains is to go up stairs to cross a small platform and then back down the other side. That’s not the only complaint frequent rider Diane Ferretti Perillo has about the station. She lived with her husband on Palisade Avenue until about four ACCESSIBILITY, page A4
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Commuters ascend the stairs at the Spuyten Duyvil Metro-North station while others board a Hudson Rail Link bus. Commuters have voiced their frustration about the station’s quality, as well as its supposed lack of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Giving back never stops Seeking
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One political outsider with a rather big climb to challenge an incumbent congressman may find help with a virtual town hall. Page A9 JULIUS CONSTANTINE MOTAL
Norma Collado, left, and Carmen Morel pack food for a neighbor at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center. The organization partnered with celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen to serve as a food distribution center in the neighborhood. KHCC has moved quickly to adapt its services to meet the needs of the community during the coronavirus pandemic.
KHCC enters a strange, new quiet world By JULIUS CONSTANTINE MOTAL
World traveler It’s one thing to journey the globe, and another to change it, as Peter Davies discovered. Page A8
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n a life before the coronavirus pandemic, the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center teems with life from young and old and everything in between. Yet, as the virus that causes COVID-19 tears through the city, it became increasingly clear that things would soon change at the Kingsbridge Terrace center. Soon after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the public school system was closing until at least April 20, KHCC followed suit,
moving quickly to meet the challenge the pandemic posed. On-site staff was reduced to a skeleton crew, as most of the center shifted to a work-from-home model. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stay home edict meant that KHCC’s halls and rooms would be largely empty. “Walking in here, it’s a really creepy and eerie feeling,” said Roz Rodriguez, program coordinator for KHCConnect, the center’s case management system. “If you come here on a regular day, there’s a lot of noise. You hear kids laughing. It’s really, really busy.”
It is unclear when things will return to normal, but in the interim under the direction of executive director Margaret Della, the center works to meet the needs of the community remotely, as well as inperson in a very limited capacity. “All things considered, we are carrying out our mission in the craziest of circumstances,” Della said. Part of that mission involves a collaboration with celebrity chef Jose Andres’ nonprofit World Central Kitchen, turning the organization into a distribution center. On a recent Friday, a table was set up just KHCC, page A4
There’s usually something going on at the Fieldston Road meetinghouse for the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture. It all starts with weekly Sunday services and continues with a plethora of other programs — “Ethics on Tap” at An Beal Bocht Cafe, and a recent folk concert on a Tuesday afternoon. And that doesn’t even include many of the organization’s social programs, like its weekly overnight emergency shelter for the homeless. Yet, because of the coronavirus crisis, all of those programs have been canceled, JOHNSON and various meetLEWIS ings — like so many religious services — have been moved online for now as the society adheres to social distancing measures implemented statewide. Some programs have already been livestreaming online, said Jone Johnson Lewis, the local society leader, so moving online in light of the coronavirus crisis hasn’t been a technical difficulty for the overall group. “People arrive a little bit early and it’s kind of like a social time as they greet each other and say hi,” Lewis said. “Many haven’t seen each other now for several weeks.” She has kept the topics of the services mostly the same. “Why We Need Immigrants” and “Liberation Ethics” were on the calendar for the end of March and the beginning of April, and FORWARD, page A4
Before the virus, a family that runs together, stays together By ROSE BRENNAN Intern
Simon Cane is nearly indistinguishable from most other 8-yearold boys. He’s a third-grader at P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen. He is active, and loves playing outside. And he is an animal enthusiast — He loves his dog, Lola, and wants to be a veterinarian when he grows up. But when it comes to saving the environment, everyone else is running to keep up with him. Just last year, Simon began learning about the environment, climate change and humanity’s impact on it. He felt there was more everyone could do to preserve the
planet, including himself. And so it began. He started intervening in little ways, asking his parents to stop using the dryer in order to conserve energy, and picking up litter he would see on sidewalks in his neighborhood. Then, one day, Simon smelled the pollution in the New York City air and asked his father Jonathan, “Dad, can we run to school?” Since beginning the third grade in August — and up until schools were shut down last month because of the coronavirus pandemic — Simon and his father have run from their Waldo Avenue apartment to Simon’s school every day. The distance between the two lo-
cations is about 1.5 miles, and is plagued by Riverdale’s trademark hilly landscape. Jonathan, a running coach, was on board with the idea from the beginning, but he originally doubted the iron will of his young son. “My thinking was we would do this for a couple of weeks and it would rain one day or whatever, and that would be the end of it,” he said. “But now I’ll say, ‘Hey, buddy, it’s raining out.’ He goes, ‘Bundle up, Daddy.’” This running campaign was not without its challenges. Simon recalled a few days which were more difficult than most of the others. RUNNING, page A4
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Jonathan Cane and son Simon were working to reduce their carbon footprint by running the 1.5 miles from their home to P.S. 81, where Simon is in the third grade, every morning. That is, until the coronavirus pandemic closed schools.
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Jeans shopping goes Forever bad He may have been a little above the targeted age bracket at the Forever 21, but that didn’t stop one man from entering the Broadway Plaza store on West 230th Street and packing up several pairs of men’s jeans, according to police. He made his way out of the store without paying, they added, drawing the attention of the store’s security officer, who chased him down the block but couldn’t catch him before he got on a bus on Bailey Avenue. After two calls with descriptions of the man, police were able to find and stop his bus, where they said they found the suspect’s bag full of the stolen jeans and arrested him.
Some things never change
The more things change, the more they stay the same, like the rampant thefts of rims and tires in the neighborhood. A 71-year-old man parked his white 2018 Honda on Putnam Avenue for just about an hour on the afternoon of March 25 while he ran some errands in the area. When he was ready to head home, he told police he found that all four tires and rims had been stolen and whisked away. That wasn’t all, though. The passenger-side rear window was smashed, and some damage had been done to the front passenger window as well, according to a report, although it was unclear whether anything had been taken from inside the car. All in all, police valued the
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In a period of just about 15 minutes on Sunday, March 22, a car parked at the corner of Sedgwick and Dickinson avenues had its passenger side window broken. Nothing was stolen from inside the car, police said, and a thorough inspection revealed everything else appeared to be in working order — the steering column hadn’t been tampered with, the locks were still in working order, and the damage to the 2017 Saab sedan added up to less than $250. With no video footage or other evidence, no one but the window breaker knows who did it.
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Whereas some are content just breaking a window and causing some confusion, some go for the gold, and that’s just what happened on March 21. Sometime in the early afternoon, a young woman told police she returned to her 2018 Ford, which was parked on the 2800 block of Sedgwick Avenue, finding the back passenger side window broken. That wasn’t all, though. After they broke the window, the sharp-eyed thief made off with $550 in cash, a pair of sunglasses, and several packs of drinks, including Pepsi, Sunkist, and even some milk. All said and done, according to police, about $1,300 worth of cash and goods was taken from the car.
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New ideas for Kappock intersection, but DOT silent By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
Could the traffic problems at Kappock Street and Palisade Avenue finally be solved? Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee chair Dan Padernacht believes he has the perfect way to make the meeting of those two streets safe, while making neighbors who live there happy at the same time. Now all he has to do is get the city’s transportation department to spend some more time on it. DOT’s Bronx borough commissioner Nivardo Lopez dialed into Padernacht’s videoconference meeting March 18 to participate in a number of topics, especially intersection improvements in front of DeWitt Clinton High School. But when conversation shifted over to Kappock and Palisade, Lopez and the rest of his DOT team bailed from the meeting. That left Padernacht virtually “preaching to the choir” on the intersection that has been a battle zone between neighbors and DOT since last fall. DOT had hoped to improve the three-way meeting of the two streets created from where Kappock meets the narrow and winding Palisade Avenue at an angle. DOT narrowed Kappock, using cement curb extensions, and adding what neighbors have called completely unnecessary crosswalks. Some of these same people created the Coalition to Save the Neighborhood in late October, claiming the new extensions made the street too narrow on the south side of Kappock, making it difficult for cars and trucks to pass. Residents at 2727 Palisade Ave., said it’s become far more difficult to pull out of their driveway, because they don’t have the same kind of space and visibility they had before. At last month’s traffic and transportation meeting, Padernacht presented
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Michael Harrington crosses Palisade Avenue toward Kappock Street to rejoin a meeting with DOT’s Bronx borough commissioner Nivardo Lopez about the ongoing changes to the intersection last year. Community Board 8 traffic and transportation chair Dan Padernacht thinks he may have found a solution there. a new proposal from a working group he assembled that would redesign the intersection, primarily by removing most of the curb extensions on either side of Kappock, while restoring three parking spots on the street. “What we’re asking for the DOT to do is to leave their curbs in place along Palisade Avenue, but eliminate the concrete edges out there and replacing it with greenery while keeping the shortened crosswalks,” Padernacht
said. “Essentially all the observations going into this is that there’s no need to have a crosswalk going north-south on Palisade Avenue. Most people are generally walking up the north side of Kappock or the south side of Kappock, and generally don’t cross on that part of the intersection.” Richard Harrington, one of the neighbors who opposed DOT’s original project, praised Padernacht’s plan as one that fulfilled DOT’s original
mission. “What this does is fulfill the pedestrian safety issues which was the main reason DOT was doing this project in the first place,” Harrington said. “Looking at this, some of us are still a little concerned about the green space, but the fact is, DOT was concerned about pedestrian safety, and we feel this is a very, very good response to their concerns.” Another issue created by the
changes, neighbors said, is water running off the south side of the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood intersection. Some feared that water, especially in colder temperatures, could become ice, making it dangerous for both pedestrians and vehicles. “From a drainage standpoint, we’ve observed ice forming there,” said Lewis Wunderlich. “The water would congregate there right on the corner, forcing pedestrians out into the street.” Lopez made efforts initially to help sell the intersection enhancements to neighbors, but waited until after the work was done in October to walk through the area. Many of the neighbors were angry that DOT seemingly bypassed the community board when doing the project, adding that as another strike against it by those opposed. While the community board is not a decisionmaking body when it comes to work like this, DOT typically brings larger projects to the board’s attention before moving forward. CB8 chair Rosemary Ginty said last November she found the fact people didn’t know about the project “distressing.” “This community board office goes beyond what any office does in notifying,” Ginty said at the time. “We have our website, we have a Facebook page, we have Twitter. Over 1,000 people receive our email monthly, with meetings, agendas and all of that.” Still, at the March meeting, Ginty had nothing but praise for the working group’s plans, even if it’s now in DOT’s hands whether to address it or simply ignore it. “The group worked very hard and diligently,” she said. “It was a very, very good community effort. It is a great compromise. It beautifies the neighborhood while still recognizing the pedestrian safety issues. “It’s like the perfect compromise.”
PRESS POINTS Domestic abuse help remains available A lot of attention might be paid to what’s happening with the coronavirus crisis, but state Attorney General Letitia James wants to make it clear that domestic violence victims will not be lost in the shuffle. Help remains available for domestic violence victims around the clock, James said, in a release. Because some 10
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million people are physically abused by an intimate partner across the United States each year, James worries that social isolation required for the coronavirus pandemic may aggravate what she describes as a widespread problem even more. “With the pandemic forcing society to stay primarily in their homes, it is understandable that victims of domestic violence are feeling particularly vulnerable
at this time,” James said. “As we take extraordinary steps to confront the threat to public health posed by this global pandemic, we must not lose sight of the very real potential for an increase in intimate partner abuse. I encourage those who experience domestic violence to reach out to relevant resources for help and guidance during these difficult times.” That help is available by calling (718) 590-2115, according
to Bronx district attorney Darcel Clark. “We know in these times of uncertainty and sensitivity, feelings of isolation give us reasons to be concerned about intimate partner violence,” Clark said, in a release. “While social distancing can make us feel apart, the Bronx DA Office is here for you as a resource.” Anyone who feels their life is in immediate danger, however, should call 911.
Other numbers include the national domestic violence 24hour hotline available at (800) 799-7233.
NYPD buys masks, gloves, sanitizer
The virus that causes COVID-19 is taking its toll on the New York Police Department, with nearly 15 percent of its work force on sick leave as of Tuesday.
But the NYPD is getting a little help from the New York City Police Foundation with the purchase of 150,000 units of masks, gloves and hand sanitizer packets — each. “This equipment will keep our officers physically safe,” NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea said, in a release. “But beyond that, it sends them a clear message — that their unwavering commitment to protecting people is deeply appreciated.”
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No real timetable on station elevators ACCESSIBILITY from page A1 years ago, both using Metro-North fairly regularly before moving to Florida for three years. When Perillo moved back to the same Palisade Avenue apartment she had lived in before her sojourn south, she started using Metro-North about twice a week to head into Manhattan. “During that time before we moved, the station was as bad as it is now,” she said. “This is why I found the whole thing shocking.” Her neighbors have noticed the same issues. “I’ve spoken to many people, I have a very, very excellent co-op that I live in, and everyone acknowledges the same issues,” Perillo said. “How aggressive people have been in trying to get the proper parties involved, I don’t know.” Her biggest gripe is with the stone step street that leads from Palisade to Edsall. It’s a convenient way for commuters to walk down to the Spuyten Duyvil station — or, she said, it should be. “The stairs, now, are atrocious,” Perillo said. “They’re not really safe, they’re not maintained. The railing is so rusted that you don’t even want to touch it.” Even if she did want to use the railing, there’s another issue. Now that there’s construction going on at the former site of the Villa Rosa Bonheur, which borders the side of the step street, Perillo said the scaffolding is making it impossible to grab the railing. She also wished the Rail Link bus that’s supposed to help bring passengers to the station actually stopped closer to the step street. According to the Rail Link schedule, the bus stops at Kappock Street and Knolls Crescent, and at Henry Hudson Parkway and Independence Avenue. But not on Palisade. Some Metro-North stations are scheduled to become accessible under the MTA’s current capital plan. Williams Bridge, Woodlawn and Wakefield stations are all set to get two new elevators each, leading to both the north and south platforms. Some had sued the MTA looking for a specific
timeline on when stations will be made accessible. However, a district court judge dismissed that lawsuit on Tuesday, according to published reports. It isn’t clear whether the step street would be addressed in accessibility improvements implemented by the MTA. The city’s transportation department, not the MTA, maintains those particular streets like the one at Spuyten Duyvil. “A lot of stations were built before the ADA was passed about 30 years ago,” said Jaqi Cohen, the campaign director at the Straphangers Campaign, about the Americans with Disabilities Act. “We’re seeing a very slow rollout of accessibility. I mean, extremely slow. And it’s a huge burden for riders.” Climbing up and down stairs can be difficult for senior citizens and people with physical disabilities, she said. The MTA recently announced a program reducing fares for people using Metro-North for entirely intra-city trips. As the agency eyes “greater equity” in terms of fares, Cohen said, she hopes they also would address accessibility issues on commuter rail systems. “It’s enormously difficult to navigate the transit system as a whole if you can only use stations that are accessible,” Cohen said. “In part because there are so few, and in part because oftentimes elevators break down within the system, and that severely limits access that people have.” Cohen said that MTA construction projects often disregard the needs of disabled riders, and sometimes largescale improvement projects are implemented without taking accessibility into account. MTA officials didn’t respond to requests for comment. Although some lawmakers like Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz have pushed to add elevators to many, if not all, stations inside his district, Perillo was frustrated that calls to other local elected officials had gone unanswered, wondering who would step up to help. “The deterioration and the issues are still here, but worse,” she said. “So, that’s where I’m at.”
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Kingsbridge Heights Community Center executive director Margaret Della gets her 5-year-old dog Lluvia to roll over before giving her a treat. Della live-streamed her walk to several of her colleagues as a way to boost morale after the organization moved to working from home in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
KHCC finds ways to get outside when you really can’t otherwise KHCC from page A1 inside the entrance to the 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace facility, where people could find packaged meals. Between walk-ins, Rodriguez called neighbors on the phone to make sure they were doing all right, given the circumstances, and to let them know the center would be there for them through the uncertainty. Each walk-in was like a joyous reunion, and arrivals were staggered, so as to minimize crowding and contact between people. “It’s a good feeling to be able to assist people even if it is just with a meal,” Rodriguez said. Food distribution is the extent of the center’s in-person offerings. Everything else is remote, including its mental health and early childhood programs, which began March 23. “The main focus is to be ready as soon as the city says it’s time to go back to your buildings,” Della said. With the rapid pace of the pandemic, there was next to no time to adapt to the nearly complete erasure of public life — from restaurants and bars to theaters and libraries. Over
the course of a week, the city barreled toward a total shutdown, under the combined auspices of de Blasio and Cuomo, though it was the latter who sealed the state’s fate with a March 20 executive order that shuttered all “non-essential businesses,” moving many of them to a work-from-home model, among other things. KHCC is considered an essential business, but it still has pared back its on-site staff as a precautionary measure. Each workplace has its own rhythm, and it isn’t often that a cataclysmic event like a pandemic upends life in such a seismic way. The onetwo punch of isolation at home and a global crisis is debilitating, and to that end, Della and members of her staff have collaborated to boost morale. “We’re trying to advise self care,” Della said. “We’re doing something that we call ‘KHCC Together at Home.’” On March 20, the second day of spring, that took the shape of a dog walk through Brust Park. Della walked her own canines, Lluvia and Yankee, livestreaming it to several
of her colleagues. Della narrated the walk, giving her colleagues the opportunity to suggest tricks that would then earn her pups treats. It was a few days before the shutdown, and there was a smattering of people enjoying the balmy weather. With the world in the grip of uncertainty, Della offered a small respite with two dogs eager for treats. At the end of the walk, one of her colleagues suggested “roll over” as the last trick. They’d already had success with “sit” and “paw,” but this was an order of higher magnitude. “We’ve never attempted a trick of this proportion before outside,” Della said as she sat on the edge of a bench in the upper section of Brust Park. Under the light of a warm spring sun, it was almost possible to forget about the pandemic, and for the briefest of moments, the lives of Della and a few of her colleagues hinged on what Lluvia would do. First, Della told Lluvia to sit, which she obliged. Then to lay down, which took a few tries. Lastly, Della told her to roll over. And to the delight of everyone, that’s exactly what Lluvia did.
Technology lends a huge helping hand to groups staying together
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Running is a fundamental part of Simon Cane’s life. The P.S. 81 third grader would join his father to run the 1.5 miles to school every morning right up until the coronavirus closed everything down.
Why drive to school when you can run? RUNNING from page A1 One day, he had a splinter. Another day, his leg hurt. And during the winter, there were a few days that were below freezing during the morning commute. “He’s sort of taking it as a gag, but also as a source of pride,” Jonathan said. “I said, ‘Simon, it’s really cold. People are thinking we’re not running tomorrow.’ And he’s like, ‘Well, people are going to be wrong.’” But Simon was not alone in his efforts. Especially on days when he wasn’t feeling his best, his parents were ready to offer a helping hand. He remembered his mother Nicole carried him some of the way on the day his leg hurt. “She just picked me up for a little, then I could walk for a while,” Simon said. “Then it started hurting again, so I walked with one foot down and straight, and the other on my tippytoe.” Some might think running is an individual and isolating sport. But it actually couldn’t be further from the truth for the Cane family. Jonathan and Simon are the two mainstays of the morning commute, but on occasion, Nicole and the family dog Lola join them. And on special occasions, their ranks grow even larger.
The Canes have made a name for themselves at P.S. 81 as the family that runs to school, and they inspired some others to join them from time to time. Last year on Sept. 20, the day of the Global Climate Strike, a group from the school joined the Canes on their morning run, engaging in a unique form of protest and advocacy for the Earth. But even for the people who don’t run to school with the Canes, Nicole still sees a tight-knit community forming around her son doing just that. “I think that we’ve been able to build community through it, because people see us daily and comment on it,” Nicole said. “A coworker of mine actually said, ‘I love starting my day by seeing your family come through.’ And you think nothing of it because it’s just part of your routine.” Simon hopes to resume running to school once doors reopen following the shutdown. He believes that walking, running or biking instead of driving can have positive impacts on the environment. “If one person can do it, more people should do it,” Simon said. I “try to encourage them so other people can learn from it, and see how it affects and helps the Earth.”
FORWARD from page A1 she wasn’t planning on making any changes to that simply because of the pandemic. But there’s one thing that has been hard to recreate for online audiences. “The music has been the hardest,” Lewis said. “The regular musician has been doing her best to provide music from her home. The quality isn’t the same, and you can’t sing together and hear each other. And that’s a real loss, I think.” Members have shifted another tradition that usually has to be done in person into their weekly video chat. “We have a place in our Sunday meeting where people can share major joys and concerns in their lives,” Lewis said. “When we’ve done that in person, people come forward, put a flower in a vase, and share, and then go back and sit down.” Now, however, Lewis includes a picture of a flower on the screen, asking those participating to raise their hand virtually to be called upon. There have been some more accommodations made to help society members deal with the effects of COVID-19. Staff members and volunteers are making the rounds and calling as many as they can to check in and see if they need anything. “We’re expecting that if this goes on for a while,” Lewis said, “those calls will become more frequent, and more important.” They also have two different online meeting groups — one to air concerns about the virus, and one where virus talk is not allowed. There, people who need a break can share pictures of their grandchildren and pets. “We try to preserve as much of the structure as we can, because this is a time where people need something familiar,” Lewis said. Some things have been pushed squarely into unfamiliar territory. The society’s emergency overnight homeless shelter has been suspended since the safety of staff members, volunteers and those in need of a bed for the night couldn’t be guaranteed. They’re trying to support parents who suddenly find themselves at home with children as New York City public schools are closed until at least April 20. The Ethical Culture Society is a non-theistic organization — while there are elements that are shared
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Jone Johnson Lewis, leader of the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, center, is adapting to taking the organization’s services and activities online as the coronavirus pandemic has caused many people to stay at home. with major religions, a god is not one of them. The Riverdale-Yonkers Ethical Culture Society’s website spells out the core tenets of the group: “We are dedicated to creating a more ethical world where every person’s worth and individuality might flourish. Compassion and reason guide our actions.” A focus on creating a more ethical society has taken on a new meaning in a time where the best thing most people can do right now is stay home and avoid human contact as much as possible. “Our primary purpose is to help people focus on ethics as the center of their actions,” Lewis said. “Part of that is tending to our relationships, which right now means people need to spend time on self-care and care of others in their immediate circle.” Taking care to spend time at home, rather than going out and about for their normal activities, isn’t just a sacrifice. “All these actions we’re taking now are the greatest act of social solidarity I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Lewis said.
“Because people are making these sacrifices so that others may live, largely.” Looking at those actions as an act of service and solidarity can give people a reason to stick with their social distancing, she added. Many society members have continued working on the same issues that have concerned them in the past, but now with new passion as the virus spreads through the city. “We’ve always had a concern for people who are the most marginalized,” Lewis said. “And I think that is something that people have done the best they could from their homes, to continue to be active on. To continue to inform people, to make calls to decision-makers to say we need to protect the most vulnerable in this time.” In a recent email discussing “ethics in the time of coronavirus,” Lewis said she encouraged readers to look toward the future, when life starts to return to some sense of normalcy. “One of the things to focus on is who do we want to be when this is over,” Lewis said, “and to let that guide our actions now.”
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SAR dad at virus epicenter goes home By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
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Lawrence Garbuz, the father of an SAR High School student that became the second confirmed case of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in New York, has been released from the hospital. While his whole family ultimately tested positive for the virus, he was the only one requiring hospitalization. calling the situation “heartbreaking.” “I couldn’t envision any of us getting through it. But he has been brave and we were lucky that we could FaceTime with him, which made an awful thing somewhat easier.” Lewis Garbuz added the only thing that could be blamed at this point was the virus itself. “Hospitals and medical staff are being taxed more than ever, and they are trying their very best to keep their patients, medical personnel and all of us safe,” she said. “So I just thank them for the dedication and commitment, and I particularly thank all of those who are so compassionately caring for him despite the scare around them. Please be kind and understanding of all medical professionals who are suffering the same as us, yet with a greater burden.”
Even two weeks ago, while her husband was still trying to recover enough to get out of the hospital, Lewis Garbuz remained optimistic when sharing an update with her Facebook friends, and the general community. “Sounds like we are all in this together for a while longer, but it will pass — just a little bit later than anticipated,” she said. “Quarantines have worked and everything else will turn around. I remain very positive, and hope you are too. “I feel spring in the air (metaphorically only, as I remain in quarantine a bit longer), but I feel good things coming.” As of Sunday, Westchester County had 8,519 confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, topped only by the nearly 34,000 confirmed cases in New York City.
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The father of an SAR High School student, who was one of New York’s first confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is finally on his way home. Lawrence Garbuz, a founding partner of the Manhattan law firm Lewis and Garbuz, was able to return home, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. Although Cuomo didn’t identify Garbuz by name, his law firm identified him publicly March 23 while thanking the community for supporting him. Garbuz tested positive March 2, according to CNN, which prompted some of the first closures because of the virus that causes COVID-19, including both SAR High School — where his daughter is a student — and SAR Academy. It also prompted the closure of Yeshiva University in Manhattan, where his son attends classes. The entire immediate family ultimately tested positive for the coronavirus, but only Lawrence had been hospitalized. That family’s case was one of the contributing factors in the early isolation of the New Rochelle neighborhood they lived in at the beginning of New York’s battle with the pandemic. His wife, Adina Lewis Garbuz, shared an update on her his recovery through Facebook on March 18, where he had apparently spent a good part of the earliest days unconscious. Before he was hospitalized, the coronavirus was just starting to get more widespread publicity in the United States following an initial outbreak in Asian countries, and many of the social distancing requirements had yet to go into place. “For us, a most torturous part was knowing he was waking up confused and disoriented and with no loved one by his side,” Lewis Garbuz said in the Facebook posting,
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Peter Davies, who gave so much to the world, 92 Peter John Davies — who died March 25, 2020 at 92 — was a man of the world. But through a lifetime of travels, from Bombay to Bangkok to Brazil, he and his wife Phyllis always found their way back to Riverdale. Among foreign leaders and international non-governmental organization heads, he was best known for his efforts to stamp out world hunger with institutions like Meals for Millions — a hunger relief and rural development agency — and InterAction, an umbrella organization for American NGOs. But in Riverdale, he devoted himself to organizations like the local chapter of the United Nations Association, Riverdale Neighborhood House, and the Bronx Arts Ensemble. He was born in London in 1927 to an American mother and a British father. But when his parents’ marriage dissolved in 1939, he and his mother and siblings sailed for New York, taking up residence in Greenwich Village. He attended Elizabeth Irwin High School before enrolling at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. But his time at St. John’s was interrupted by World War II. His moral and political outlook led him to join the Young People’s Socialist League and search for a way to aid the war effort without becoming a combatant, so he took a leave from St. John’s and entered the Merchant Marine Academy. It proved to be a life-defining experience. When his ship docked in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, he sought out like-minded young Indian socialists who offered to introduce him to Mahatma Gandhi. The encounter inspired him to pursue a career in international development.
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Phyllis and Peter Davies were married for 70 years, more than once making their home here in Riverdale. Returning to St. John’s for a bachelor’s degree after the war, he continued his education at Harvard, receiving a master’s in public administration from the Littauer Center in 1951. He began his career in publishing, working at the Council on Foreign Relations with economist Eugene Staley on the book “The Future of Underdeveloped Countries” at a time when nations around the globe were struggling to throw off the yoke of colonialism. Later, at McGraw Hill Publishing, he rose to the rank of assistant edito-
rial director. Next came four years with Business International, a worldwide consulting company. As he would later write in his autobiography, “I focused on providing international business advice to Fortune 500 companies that were exporting to or investing overseas.” During this time, in the early 1950s, his family settled in Riverdale. In 1961, he joined the Kennedy White House as special assistant to the special assistant for trade policy. “The longer the title, the lower the job,” he
liked to quip, “but I did have White House stationery.” This was followed by a stint as director of the private enterprise division of the newly formed U.S. Agency for International Development, more commonly known as USAID. In 1964, he became deputy managing director of Coromandel Fertilizers Ltd., in Andhra Pradesh, India, and subsequently worked for USAID in Bangkok as rural development director, and in Rio de Janeiro as the USAID director for the Office of Health, Nutrition and Food for Development. In 1971, he became vice president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation for the Western Hemisphere, based in New York City, and the family returned to Riverdale. Between 1976 and 1984, he was president and chief executive of the Meals for Millions/Freedom from Hunger Foundation, with offices in California and New York. MFM sought to improve the lives of people in poor communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia, through integrated community development and applied nutrition programs. The family didn’t leave Riverdale again until 2005. Phyllis attended New York University Law School and subsequently worked for Assemblyman Oliver Koppell, as an executive assistant for the city’s finance commissioner, counsel to the city’s tax commission, and as a lawyer in the city’s law department. In 1984, he was requested by his peers to become the first and founding president and chief executive of InterAction, the largest alliance of international development and relief
agencies, whose member organizations “collectively serve the world’s poor and vulnerable, with a shared belief that we can make the world a more peaceful, just and prosperous place.” InterAction works to be a leader in the global quest to eliminate extreme poverty and vulnerability, strengthen human rights and citizen participation, safeguard a sustainable planet, promote peace, and ensure the dignity of all people. Despite his travels, he was deeply involved in a number of Riverdale causes, including the local chapter of the United Nations Association — founded by fellow Riverdale residents and college friends Peter and Cora Weiss — the Bronx Arts Ensemble, and Riverdale Neighborhood House, where he served as president of the board. He spearheaded the successful fundraising drive to construct the Dodge Center building for early childhood education at the neighborhood house’s Mosholu Avenue campus, as well as local drives to clear a minefield in Cambodia in 2002, and to aid victims of Indonesia’s tsunami in 2004. An avid sailor and tennis player, he was fond of inviting his neighbors to join him for day sails on Long Island Sound. His tennis attire evoked memories of Wimbledon in days gone by — a white V-neck sweater with navy and crimson stripes on the V. He spent his last 15 years at Kendal-on-Hudson in Sleepy Hollow, and his survived by his wife of 70 years Phyllis (nee Botner) and sons Kenneth and Christopher, along with their spouses, Margrethe Juncker and Carina Borsch, and six grandchildren.
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NYC parks reveal new opportunities
The Urban Park Rangers have joined with various New York City parks to provide a series of virtual tours, meditation, fitness and art classes, and children’s activities. Classes and activities include: • Mondays: Motivational fitness • Tuesdays: Live tour with the rangers • Wednesdays: Live walks in a park
• Thursdays: Public arts and culture programs • Fridays: Meditation For more information, visit NYC.gov/parks.
Art grants still possible
Urban Studio Unbound of Yonkers hosts a webinar for Arts Westchester, a culture organization dedicated to providing local artists the funds they need in trying times. Applications are due by the end of Friday, April 10.
For more information, visit ArtsWestchester.org.
Gallery turns interactive
The Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., continues its family fun day online, expanding its list of programs, which now include the following: • Interactive tours and art workshops focusing on work currently on display at the gallery. • Online classes about the
use and experimentation of color with a focus on the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. • 2-D animation courses for students 18 and younger. • Cityscape and portraiture collage classes. For more information or to book a class, email lcageeducation@gmail.com.
Defining dignity in times of struggle
The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture has shut its Fieldston Road doors. How-
ever, its virtual doors remain open. The society hosts Jone Johnson Lewis for a reflection of the complexities of liberation, with a focus on those who hold a more privileged position in society. The discussion is available Sunday, April 5 at 11 a.m. To find out how to connect, visit RYSEC.org.
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hood House is now providing remote programs and classes to keep what has become a quarantined community engaged and prepared. Classes at Riverdale Neighborhood House that are continuing for the duration of the coronavirus crisis include: • An after-school program for families with children 10 and younger • Remote support for families transitioning to online courses and activities For more information, visit RiverdaleOnline.org.
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Ghebreghiorgis takes to internet to educate, campaign “The other thing is securing economic justice for all Americans,” Ghebreghiorgis added. That would include single-payer Medicare for All, better education, and a federal jobs guarantee. “Which means that the government serves as an employer of last resort,” he said. That “last resort” and the jobs guarantee would be a way to make sure people in need of in-home aides would be taken care of, that universal child care could be achieved, and to ensure Bronx public housing buildings were not “laced with mold.” “All of these things are intersectional,” Ghebreghiorgis said. “They’re all interdependent on one another. Those are the ways in which we can achieve economic justice in this country.” The coronavirus pandemic is shining a new light on existing problems. “It exposes a lot of fissures that already existed in our society, and the gaps that we already had in our society,” he said. “You know, the fact that our country is not in a position to be able to deal with this crisis, I think should be really eye-opening for a lot of people.” Ghebreghiorgis supported completely suspending rent payments, a common request from New Yorkers over the past week. But he also supported freezing debt payments and loans. “It’s the only way that we’re going to have some semblance of life coming out of this,” he said. Following his first virtual town hall, Ghebreghiorgis and his campaign announced they would launch a series of online programming, including a question-and-answer segment and “story time” for children home from school. Ghebreghiorgis said he knew it might be easy to overlook his campaign, especially with Engel and Bowman grabbing most of the spotlight. “We’re sort of seen as this, like, extra candidate,” Ghebreghiorgis said. “Almost like a third wheel type race. But we do have a lot of strength.”
By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
As political leaders fight to ensure New Yorkers can get out to the primary polls this summer, would-be political leaders hoping to succeed them are still working to get out their names and message. All of that despite the fact campaigns have seemingly grinded to a halt in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Andom Ghebreghiorgis is one of five Democratic candidates running to unseat 30-year incumbent Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District. And although he was one of the first people to challenge Engel this cycle, it’s been difficult for the educator to become part of a political conversation that instead has centered more on another challenger, Jamaal Bowman. Ghebreghiorgis hasn’t given up, however, and doesn’t plan to. Even with the current crisis. Instead, he followed the examples of schools, community centers and colleges by taking his operations online, kicking off with a virtual town hall March 17. There, in the glare of his computer monitor, Ghebreghiorgis answered questions about how the government should assist families and businesses who have lost work as a result of the pandemic, and also how to deal with NIMBYism, the set attitude against new construction and development that has people saying “not in my backyard.” His background in education is the backbone of Ghebreghiorgis’ platforms, from public education to housing and immigration equality, he said. “It became something for me that, over the years of being in education, seeing that this was the reality that people in communities in community that are less than two miles away from where I grew up — we have some people living very luxurious lives,” Ghebreghiorgis said. “We have other people that are being really put on the school-to-prison pipeline.” Ghebreghiorgis grew up in Mount Vernon and attended Ethical Culture
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In his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, Andom Ghebreghiorgis has taken his operation online as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. He hosts weekly virtual town halls every Wednesday night at 7:30. Fieldston School, returning to the east Bronx after college to teach special education. His entire life has been lived in the district, he said, and both attending and teaching at schools in the area has given him a look at the range of issues his classmates and students deal with. Ghebreghiorgis isn’t the only educator in the race. Jamaal Bowman is a former public school teacher and current principal best known for pushing for the opt-out movement, which allows students and parents to choose not to partake in standardized testing. Educators are on the “front lines” Ghebreghiorgis said, and see everything that plays out in their communities.
“We see both government intervention and government neglect,” he said. “It not only impacts our ability to teach, but also impacts young (people) and their families. And we see this over a longer time horizon than most people can, unless they’re doing, like, a longitudinal study on what’s going on in a community.” Some students had chronic absences, missing up to 80 days of school. Often, those students had unstable housing or were moving through the shelter system, he said. That was a stark contrast to his own middle school years at Fieldston, where Ghebreghiorgis said students rarely missed more than a few days of school a year.
Housing and food instability, along with discrepancies in the quality of public schools, are all tied to larger issues, he said. “In parts like Williamsbridge or Baychester, up to 80 percent of lowincome people are severely or moderately rent-burdened,” Ghebreghiorgis said. “This happens in Westchester, too. You have high rates of student homelessness in Westchester.” There are two big ideas he wants to focus on, he said. The first: Securing a global Green New Deal, breaking with the military industrial complex, and working to solve global issues including climate change, the refugee crisis, and, in recent weeks, global pandemics.
POLITICAL ARENA Bowman challenges D.C. on coronavirus Although tens of thousands of people in New York have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, one political challenger wants to know why the federal government isn’t doing more.
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And Jamaal Bowman isn’t just pointing fingers at President Donald Trump, but he’s also challenging Congress, including the incumbent for the House seat he’s seeking, U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel. “We need to respect and protect the people who we are asking to put their lives at risk
to protect and serve the rest of us,” Bowman said, in a release. “Those in the food industry, care industry, the health care industry need to be tested and cleared first. They’re on the front lines of this crisis, making it possible for the rest of us to stay at home.” The federal government has
decentralized most of the coronavirus testing so far, which is why some states seem to have progressed much further than others in terms of getting people tested. New York continues to lead not only in current confirmed coronavirus cases, but also in tests. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has boasted New York has
tested more people per capita than any other state, and even most other countries that have been hit hard by the pandemic. Still, Bowman believes more can be done. “New York is the epicenter of the pandemic, and we need to dramatically increase access to testing, and the rate in which
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Opinion Editorial
Cuomo, Main Street need a helping hand from Albany
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OVID-19 has completely changed the way we all live. But along with worrying about keeping themselves and their families healthy, thousands of small business owners across New York are losing sleep over how to keep this virus from killing the businesses they have worked so hard to build. At the same time, lawmakers in Albany are trying to craft a budget in the face of plunging revenues. Sales taxes — much of them generated by small business — brought in a whopping $73.6 billion last year. Our schools, as well as other vital government services, rely on these funds. When a business fails — and too many are on the precipice of failure right now — that sales tax revenue goes, too. We believe a simple proposal could help restart local business and bolster sales tax revenues, but swift action is required by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature. Small businesses are the backbone of our communities. Everyone wants a thriving downtown where they can shop, eat or go to a movie. The good news is that small businesses have always been engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, and we are seeing that again today as they adapt to the new reality. Local gyms are streaming personal training sessions. Restaurants offer free delivery and online happy hours. Medical practices are expanding their telemedicine capabilities. Car mechanics are making house calls that require no personal contact at all. Of course, it’s vital that these businesses let potential customers know about their services. That’s the role of advertising in all its myriad forms. But advertising costs money, and the sad truth is that advertising is one of the first things small businesses cut when times are tough. Put yourself in the shoes of a local restaurateur with a stack of bills
and very little money coming in. By the time she finishes paying the most urgent bills — rent, food suppliers, payroll — there’s not much left for advertising. Whatever stimulus money she gets from Washington or Albany will most likely be needed to keep the doors open and the lights on. Yet studies show that how well businesses survive a downturn is in large part determined by whether they continue to market and advertise during those hard times. Fortunately, there is a way for Albany to prime the sales tax pump to keep revenue flowing to both small businesses and state coffers. Let businesses use some of the money they would have sent to Albany, as sales taxes, to market their new offerings. The formula would be simple: Every dollar a small business spends on advertising (up to a reasonable limit) would be a dollar saved off that business’ sales tax bill. It would be a win-win-win. Local businesses would be healthier because the increased advertising would jumpstart sales. The state would get more sales tax revenue because local businesses would be selling more. And media companies (like ours) would benefit from the additional ad revenue. We’d like to think that we, too, are vital to the character and strength of our communities, not to mention our democracy. Think for a moment of the critical role journalists have played in getting vital local information out to our community during this unprecedented crisis. The legislature has a lot on its plate right now, and the temptation will be to bury this idea, or to take the shortsighted view that we can’t afford to do it right now. But right now is when it’s needed. We’ve been impressed with Gov. Cuomo’s levelheaded leadership in this crisis, and we call on him to back this innovative, yet simple, policy.
From other pens
Tuition freeze worth considering
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tate Sen. Kevin Thomas, a Democrat from the Long Island community of Levittown, recently proposed a bill to cap tuition at all SUNY and CUNY schools at $5,000 per year for in-state students. We believe the measure deserves serious consideration in the legislature, and by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Thomas’s bill does not say how the state would offset the roughly $140 million shortfall the cap would create. That’s a fatal flaw in the legislation. But at least Thomas is considering how to make higher education affordable for young people, many of whom are drowning in student loan debt. Right now, high school seniors are starting to receive their financial aid packages from the colleges that have accepted them, and that process will continue through April 1. For many, the sticker shock of having to pay tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of dollars is starting to set in. Tuition freezes have gained ground over the past half-dozen years. Purdue University became one of the first large public colleges to adopt a freeze for state residents in 2013. Public universities in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin have followed suit. Some private colleges and universities have done the same. New York had capped SUNY and CUNY tuition increases at $300 per year from 2011 to 2016, but the state legislature failed to renew the cap for the 2016-17 academic year, and has not done so since. The state has provided the Excelsior scholarship to students admitted to SUNY and CUNY schools since 2017, but their families have to
make less than $125,000 a year. That might sound like a great deal of money in most parts of the state, but with a cost-of-living index 1.5 times higher here than in the rest of New York, many don’t qualify for the scholarship. The average American 2019 graduate has more than $32,000 in student loans. Federally, guaranteed student loans must be repaid within 10 years, and carry interest rates as high as 6 to 7 percent. Private loans often trap students in the debt cycle for decades. No wonder Americans owe more than $1.5 trillion in student loans. Many colleges offer scholarships and grants, but often only to the very top students, with perfect or near-perfect grades and SAT scores in the top 3 to 5 percent. Even an excellent “profile” does not ensure a scholarship or grant. Many schools offer them only to the neediest students with spotless transcripts. What about everyone else? The average U.S. college or university now depends on tuition for at least 50 percent of its revenue. Meanwhile, many of the world’s leading universities charge students little or nothing. Zurich’s technical university — No. 3 on the CareerAddict list of the world’s best engineering schools — charges Swiss citizens $1,300 a year in tuition. Harvard University — No. 4 on the same list — charges more than $51,000. The three Chinese universities in the top 10 charge nothing. So it is possible to charge less and still maintain great universities — if there is a will. What we need is the will. — LIHerald.com
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China finds new way to invade To the editor: In the Tuscan city of Prato, Italy, there are nearly 5,000 workshops run by Chinese entrepreneurs turning out cheap clothing for the fastfashion companies of Italy and Europe. Many of these workers sleep in their factories and work more than 14 hours a day under sweatshop conditions. Prato, considered the historical capital of Italy’s textile business, has attracted the largest concentration of Chinese-owned industries in Europe within less than 20 years. It is estimated that as many as 50,000 Chinese live and work in the area, making clothes bearing the prized “made in Italy” label, which sets them apart from garments produced in China itself, even at the lower end of the fashion business. Prato is only about 16 miles from the beautiful Renaissance jewel of Florence, which has also become a hub of illegal activity committed by both Italian and Chinese nationals. This scenario, yet another extreme example of lax immigration policy, border control and of “globalization gone wrong.” Local authorities estimate that two-thirds of the Chinese immigrants living in Prato are illegal aliens. They work and live under horrible conditions in Chinese-owned factories, which are rented out by Italian businessmen who own the buildings, are breaking various laws, and bribing local government officials. This illegality includes smuggling fabrics from China, tax evasion, and gross violations of Italian health and labor laws. Most of Prato’s hardworking Chinese came from the coastal city of Wenzhou province in the mid-1990s, working or Italian-owned textile factories who were trained and quickly learned the entire production process. Despite human rights violations, President Clinton allowed China entry into the World Trade
Organization in 2001, which erased most of the sensible EU trade barriers that protected its manufactures from slave labor competition. As Italian-owned companies specializing in high-quality fabric lost ground and cut jobs to compete with cheaper imports, Chinese entrepreneurs started renting their abandoned factories and warehouses. They now dominate most of the industry, exporting millions of dollars of low-cost garments across the continent worth more than 2 billion euros a year. These Chinese workshops have labor, cost and time advantages over their rivals in both Europe and even China itself, which takes more than 40 days to manufacture and shop their garments to Europe. Part of the Italian law enforcement problem is that more than 60 percent of Chinese sweatshops last only about two years, close, and then reopen under a different company name and address to evade both health, worker inspections, and taxes. The small percentage of illegal immigrants caught by the police are ordered to leave Italy within five days, but there is no way of making sure they actually do so. Most arrive on threemonth tourist visas, but usually stay in Italy for many years until they have enough money to return home. So once again, we have another example of economic and social upheaval caused by the sickly combination of incompetent big government policies and disgusting individual criminal and corporate greed. All of which makes independent moderate conservative voters like myself wonder if we all (Americans and Italians) are just gullible fools believing that someday the system will actually work for us. Lou DehoLczer
Point of view
What to do after crisis passes
By JUDITH ESTERQUEST & BARBARA ESTRIN
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OVID-19 is getting worse. More of us are under quarantine, in “containment zones,” self-quarantined, observing “social distances,” using handshake alternatives — and washing our hands more than Lady Macbeth. Each of us, with these individual actions, can “flatten the curve” of virus transmission. But contrast our results with Taiwan. In Taiwan (which has a slightly larger population than New York state), there have been only 47 cases of COVID-19 as of this writing, despite its proximity to China. An observer of the system there explained that “the most important thing about crisis management is to prepare for the next crisis.” And so Taiwan, with a singlepayer plan similar to the New York Health Act, prepared its response in 2004 after the SARS epidemic. We need all our legislators — those who support the New York Health Act and those who do not yet support it — to recognize the mortal dangers of our current multi-payer system, decreasing our public health and our financial resilience, putting our most vulnerable neighbors into constant crises, crises that prevent the rest of us from ever being properly prepared for a crisis like COVID-19. Currently: • Many of our neighbors never take sick days because sick days get them fired, making it impossible to buy food and pay rent. Others delay health care — getting sicker — because health care is unaffordable. • Two-thirds of bankruptcies happen to people who were sure they had good health insurance. • Some of us — the 50 percent of our neighbors who are on Medicaid — have access only to separate and unequal care, because America rations health care based on income. • Some 90 percent of our front-line physicians are suffering burnout because they spend half their time on paperwork and have too many patients refusing needed treatment because of cost. • Hospital costs are the highest in the world because getting reimbursed by for-profit insurers requires more hospital administrators than beds or physicians. Our legislators should focus our health care dollars on all improving everybody’s physical health, rather than improving the fiscal wealth of for-profit insurers.
COVID-19 proves that none of us are safe unless all of us have better health care. Our legislators need to use their newsletters to rebut fear-mongering propaganda from for-profit insurers and corporate titans who perpetuate scary myths about the New York Health Act. Inform your constituents that the New York Health Act is: • Not a government takeover. Like original Medicare, the health act collects funds and pays for health care, as a non-profit. For-profit insurance is one reason Americans pay an average of $2,500 per year just on health care administration. Canadians pay about $500. That’s a lot of additional health care. • No-hassle, comprehensive health care. Almost all of us will save money when we no longer pay for premiums, deductibles, co-pays, out-of-network, and out-of-pocket charges. Health care will be affordable for all of us. Free for those who make less than $25,000 per year, its cost only increases as we earn more, with only the truly wealthy paying more than we do now. But all of us will benefit from having chronic illnesses better managed so that we are less at risk for pandemics, or even the common cold. • Better than any current health care policy in the state. Vetted by rigorously objective economic studies, the health act is designed to ensure our public health gets the greatest possible bang for our bucks. No public or private policy offers benefits as good. Benefits designed to increase both the length and quality of our lives. Benefits that emphasize prevention, patient wellness and patient education, so we can afford health care when we need it, not just when New York declares a state of emergency. It’s not enough for our legislators to salve this crisis with short-term balms. They must explain that the New York Health Act so many sponsor will give us prescriptions, vision, dental, hearing, reproductive and long-term care so that we will be prepared to avoid the next health care crisis before it takes hold. The late Uwe Reinhardt, a renowned health care economist who advised the Taiwanese government before they adopted their singlepayer plan in 1995, argued that “universal health care is not a matter of economics, it’s a matter of soul.” COVID-19 clinches that argument. It’s a matter of lives. Health care is a common good. We need it for ourselves and our neighbors. And we need it yesterday.
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Green roofs? Sounds great! Sub-metering? No of more electricity. It includes those living in hotter top-floor apartments that don’t have the green roofs the board rejected to cool them. At the Feb. 26 board meeting, we were assured that adjustments would be worked out. Just as they assured us we would not encounter problems with the sub-metering company they chose. The April 2018 Enertiv report, “How to Avoid Tenant Sub-metering Death Trap,” explains that sub-metering could cost more money if there’s a problem with the company the co-op uses, and it becomes necessary to switch to a new company. If the old company’s meters are not compatible with the new company, new meters must be installed. The Sept. 18 board meeting minutes cite penalties from Local Law 97 if electric costs aren’t reduced enough. Actually, that 38-page piece of verbose legalese refers strictly to water issues. Zsebedics denies that he makes any decisions or has any influence on the board, stating he just makes them
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any of us are scared for our families and friends right now because of COVID-19. Every day we learn new information about the virus that causes it. Today, we know that all of us — even the young and healthy — are at risk of this disease and serious complications from it. We cope and try to make ourselves safer, whether by social distancing, washing our hands more, or eating nutrition-packed meals. But people in government custody — including the 37,000 immigrants held in immigration jails and prisons throughout the country, and thousands more held near the border — don’t have these options. They are being held in deadly conditions. That is why, in addition to calling on public officials to downsize prisons and jails in the criminal legal system, the American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the government to utilize all available options to reduce the number of people in immigration detention. The ACLU and our affiliates have already filed lawsuits against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in five states: Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and California, pushing for the release of people who are most vulnerable to COVID-19 due to age or underlying medical conditions. Ultimately no one — whether they are a citizen or an immigrant — should be forced to live in conditions that imperil their lives during this public health crisis. Immigrants in government custody are forced to live, sleep and eat together. Some spend nearly all day in large rooms filled with closely packed bunk beds, or just long concrete benches. Others live in dank, two-person cells, sometimes with minimal ventilation. Dozens of people share toilets and showers, sometimes with no divider and without disinfection between uses. Social distancing is not an option. With everything we’ve learned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we know these conditions are dangerous, even deadly. For immigrants in detention, the tools for basic hygiene aren’t available either. Many people don’t have access to soap, let alone hand sanitizer. In border patrol stations, many immigrants are detained in overcrowded cells without ready access to sinks and showers. Detained people have described feeling like “sitting ducks, waiting to be infected.” One detained man in New Jersey said he and others were on a hunger strike to obtain soap and toilet paper, and that guards reportedly said, “Well, you’re going to have to die of something.” It can be hard, if not impossible, to get medical attention, including access to previously prescribed medications. For example, it is not uncommon for detained immigrants to be given Tylenol for serious illnesses, including HIV and
pneumonia. It’s no wonder that since October, 10 people have died in ICE custody. And over the past two years, at least seven children have died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, or shortly after being released, many after receiving delayed medical care or being denied care altogether. The ACLU has long said that the vast majority of people in immigration jails are being detained unnecessarily. They are being held for processing at the border, or are awaiting their immigration hearings, or another administrative action — yet they have completely lost their liberty. COVID-19 lays bare the injustice, and the often life-or-death stakes, of their detention. As public health experts have already stated, “social distancing through release is necessary to slow the transmission of infection.” ICE and CBP must immediately start reducing the number of people in detention, starting with the most vulnerable, to prevent the continued spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 to both people in immigration jails, and the staff who work in them. We don’t know how serious the government is about utilizing alternatives. But we do know that options for reducing detention are already on the table. As we pointed out in our lawsuit Dawson v. Asher, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could use its parole authority to release people on medical grounds, including people whom the CDC and other medical experts have identified are particularly at risk: Those older than 50, and those who have an underlying medical condition, such as lung or heart disease. DHS has a range of options to release people from detention: On bond, humanitarian parole, or an alternative-to-detention program. Even a former ICE chief, John Sandweg, called on ICE to utilize its options, warning that an outbreak will “spread like wildfire.” Many people in ICE jails and prisons have family or sponsors in the United States, with whom they could live, and if necessary, quarantine safely. Likewise, people in CBP custody could be released to family, community sponsors, or shelters with proper precautions in place. Our nation’s collective health depends on the Trump administration following the advice of doctors, scientists and public health experts. These experts are telling us that social distancing is necessary to curb COVID-19. They are also telling us that access to adequate health care is critical. None of these are options for people trapped in immigration detention, and for the officers and staff who have to report to work. We know this is wrong. ICE and CBP must do the responsible thing: Reduce the number of people in detention, starting with the most vulnerable, to keep them safe from COVID-19 before it is too late. Shah is a senior advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, while Flores is the deputy policy director for the organization.
Letters to the editor
Not all of Trump’s ideas are bad To the editor: This might surprise you, but in 1999, Donald Trump proposed the passage of a national wealth tax of 14.25 percent on all individuals with a net worth and net wealth of $10 million or higher. You can look it up online. Wealth differs from income. He wanted the money generated from it to pay off the entire national debt, with the remainder being placed into the Social Security Trust Fund to make it more solvent for additional
years. That is not something that conservative Republicans believe in. USA Today opinion editor Darrell West loves the idea. So do I. So should all liberal/progressive Democrats, as well as many moderates, centrists and independents. Right? Take from the super-rich, and give to help everyone else. It is like Robin Hood. It is part of my own platform and agenda. So why are Elizabeth War-
ren, Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer the only national Democrats who support any version of it? It is the only way to raise enough money to help people. Why is a political nobody like me seemingly the only person pointing this out to the American people? Why are so-called “compassionate,” “caring,” “loving” and justice-seeking liberal/ progressive Democrats so silent and mute about this possibility? Is it because it was Trump’s idea? STewarT epSTein
might be unpleasant but necessary, but who did not give any specifics — received 338 votes. Considering that we received two carrying charge increases in three years, and much has been spent on cosmetic changes, is one of these changes privatization? Since there’s plenty of housing for people with money, and not enough for everyone else, that’s the last thing we need. I’ve been told that the board’s officers would go into executive session after a meeting to make decisions without the other board members, with no minutes of these sessions made available. This is unacceptable and anti-democratic. Even if the business conducted in secret has been totally honest, such lack of transparency is an invitation for future corruption. We need more than one faction on the board. The old saying goes, “power corrupts.” But even if it doesn’t, it creates the problem of nobody being able to stop a bad idea. Sub-metering is a bad idea that needs to be stopped.
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aware of what the laws are. Then how come he got this law so blatantly wrong? Building 7 at 80 Van Cortlandt Park S., recently had its gas shut off to repair leaks. I’ve been told there are plans to replace the gas stoves with electric ones. With sub-metering, that would give co-operators in Building 7 much higher electric bills. Now I’m not going to undervalue those who take time out of their lives to serve on the board. But I’m not going to blindly accept their proposals and policies without question. What I have noticed in my nearly 36 years in the Amalgamated is that most of my fellow co-operators have always been reluctant to vote for anyone who opposes those in power. The most extreme example was in last year’s election. The only candidate who opposed the current board’s policies, Brandon Calvo, received only 190 votes. Meanwhile, James Lastarrio — who in six paragraphs in a pre-election bulletin gave much rhetoric about changes that
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eather J. Smith’s superb front-page story on green roofs is very informative. Hopefully the members of the Amalgamated Housing board of directors read it. Years ago, a then-board member suggested green roofs, and the clique that controls the board ignored that person. From what I’ve been told, they tend to ignore any suggestions that don’t come from themselves. This prevented the solving of two problems. You would have the benefits described by Smith of a cooler roof that results in cooler apartments as well as the absorbing of rainwater to put less stress on wastewater treatment plants. In addition, the board could have solved a problem that predates when I moved into my first Amalgamated apartment in 1984 at the age of 27. That is, leaky roofs. There’s something wrong when this problem still exists when I’m an old man of 63. Also, as Smith reported,
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south riverdale Web #871 Spacious 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath house with living room with WBFP, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,800,000
NeW exclusive West oF the parKWay Web #856 Classic 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house features a center hall, living rm with WBF, formal dining rm and eat-in kitch. $1,200,000
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exclusive ceNtral riverdale Web #859 4-bdrm, 3-bath detached brick house with high ceilings, and lovely rear deck perfect for entertaining. Living room with brick WBFP, formal dining room, updated eat-in kitchen, finished walk-out basement, laundry area and storage room. $925,000
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FieldstoN Web #874 Contemporary 4-bdrm, 4-bath house on a leafy cul-de-sac. Living room with WBFP, dining room with bay windows, eat-in kitchen, study/playroom, storage attic, rear porch and finished basement with recreation room. 1-car garage. $1,600,000
North riverdale Web #875 Bright 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house on quiet cul-de-sac w/ rear deck and fenced yard. WBFP & formal dining rm. $695,000
NeW co-exclusive vaN cortlaNdt crest Web #869 Spacious 7-bdrm, 3-full and 2 half bath Tudor-Style house with grassy yard on double lot along tree lined st. $825,000
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KiNgsbridge Web #879 Fully renovated 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath house with entry foyer, dining rm, front porch, patio, garden & 3-car garage. $895,000
NeW exclusive south riverdale Web #872 Three vacant lots with R2 Zoning and Single-family 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath, stucco, Tudor-style house. $3,000,000
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FieldstoN Web #804 4-bdrm, 3-bath stucco & stone home. Living room with WBF, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,499,000
estate area Web #855 7-bdrm, 5.5-bath newly built house with open-plan living rm, dining rm, centerisland kitchen and patios. $2,295,000
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West oF parKWay Web #867 This property consists of 2 dwellings on a nearly one-acre double lot (2 separate lots). There is a 4-bdrm main house (built in the 1950’s) plus a 2-bdrm guest house (built in the 1920’s) with an impressive backyard that is level and grassy. $3,495,000
south riverdale Web #858 Stone and Stucco house with 4-bdrms, 3 full & 2 half baths, WBFP in LR, FDR and renovated kitchen. $1,195,000
KiNgsbridge Web #854 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath semi-attached house. FDR w/ French door out to the rear deck & yard and renov kitch. $719,000
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exclusive south riverdale Web #805 4-bdrm, 3.5-baths, Tudor-style house with living room with WBF, FDR, updated kitchen & study. $1,395,000
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FieldstoN Web #848 Rare opportunity vacant land of over a third of an acre with R1-2 Zoning to build exactly the house you need. $1,200,000
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West oF parKWay Web #846 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house features a living room with bay windows and marble WBF, dining room with sliding glass doors to large level backyard, eat-in kitchen, MBR suite & den with a wet bar. 2-car garage plus plenty of off street parking. $1,599,000
ceNtral riverdale Web #865 New Construction: 2-Family Townhouse w/ 4-bdrm duplex over 1-bdrm w/ deck & level, grassy backyard. $1,275,000
FieldstoN Web #632 5-bdrm, 5.5-bath house with spacoius living room, dining room, den and center island kitchen. $2,495,000
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West oF parKWay Web #rr876 Spacious and bright 5-bdrm, 4-bath house with patios and garden. Modern updates and 2-car garage. $9,000
3875 Waldo aveNue Web #cc639 Spacious & charming corner unit Jr-4 features a large dining foyer, windowed dining area and hardwood flrs. $249K
5715 mosholu aveNue Web #cc635 Bright L-shaped 2-bdrm postwar co-op. Hrdwd flrs, South & West expos. Top flr corner unit. $229,000
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3515 heNry hudsoN prKWy #cc638 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bath corner unit w/ large entry foyer, renovated kitchen, parquet floors and balcony. $695,000
445 West 240th st Web #cc637 Postwar 2-bdrm condo with large entry foyer, living room, windowed kitchen, dining area and hrdwd flrs. $415,000
south riverdale Web #rr872 3-bdrm, 2-bath brick house with entry hallway, living room w/ wood burning fireplace and eat-in kitch. $4,200/mo
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. $515K West oF parKWay - 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $420K sold - North riverdale - Renov Jr-4 with entry foyer NeW exclusive living rm, dining rm and windowed eat-in kitchen. $299K 3636 FieldstoN rd cc641 iN coNtract - ceNtral riverdale - Newly renov studio Updated studio on second with hrdwd flrs, seperate kitchen and sleeping area. $185K floor with separate kitchen and sleeping area. $175K
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FieldstoN vic. rr641 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+ sq. ft. Multiple porches, swimming pool. 4-car garage. $21,000/mo
FieldstoN vic. rr655 Grand 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+ sq. ft. Private swimming pool. 3-car garage. $17,500/mo
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FieldstoN vic. rr642 6-bdrm, 3.5-bath, 7,500 sq. ft. house w/ Expansive wraparound porch & pool. $22,500/mo
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exclusive 3530 hh parKWay cc628 Huge 3-bdrm conv 4, 2-bath at Parkway House. Low floor, high ceilings. $649K
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West oF parKWay rr704 Charming 4-bdrm, 3-bth. Living room w/ fireplace, eat-in kitch & finished basement. $6,900/mo
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cc605 West oF parKWay rr873 555 KappocK st Pet friendly 3-bdrm, 2-bath. Bright 1-bdrm with dining balcony, DM and fitness rm. area, C/A/C, Hudson River Partial fee paid. $2,995/mo view and 24-hr DM. $179K
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4455-65 douglas cc622 3755 hh pKWay - the imperial - Walk-in level doctor’s Spacious Townhouse with $360K 3-bdrms, 3.5bths, sunken office with reception area and 2 exam rooms. North riverdale - Office Space Available. $1,500/mo LR, WBFP & patio. $1.699K
exclusive 3601 JohNsoN ave. cc587 Walk-in level doctor’s office with seperate entrance and reception area. $295K
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NeW exclusive 290 West 232Nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, kitchen, dining area and balcony. $329K
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exclusive 5355 hh parKWay Updated Jr-4 with balcony, living rm, rm and eat-in kitch.
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pet-FrieNdly reNtals West oF parKWay - 3-bdrm, 2-bath, sunset balcony, DM & fitness room. Dogs OK. Owner pays partial fee $2,995/mo JohNsoN aveNue - 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath with dining area and yard in multi-family house. $2,700/mo
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5715 mosholu ave cc640 Charming and updated Jr4 w/ lrg dining foyer, sunken living rm & windowed dining rm. $249K
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West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, $3,595/mo doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. West oF parKWay - Luxury renovated 2-bdrm, 2-bath $3,395/mo with doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. West oF parKWay - Luxury spacious Jr4, balcony, 24-hr doorman, health club w/ pool. 1 month free rent $2,925/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath, 24-hr doorman, pool & tennis courts. 1 month free rent $2,795/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury large 1-bdrm with river views. 24-hr doorman, gym w/ pool. 1 month free rent $2,725/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 1-bdrm with balcony, doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. $2,295/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury studio in 24-hr doorman building with pool and tennis courts. 1 month free rent $1,850/mo
NeW exclusive 290 West 232Nd st cc631 Spacious 3-bdrm, 1.5-bth corner unit with open views, living rm & kitchen. $425K
NeW exclusive 3875 Waldo ave. cc636 Charming 1-bdrm with entry foyer, sunken living rm & windowed kitchen. $295K
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3755 hh parKWay cc623 Spacious 1-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, renov kitch & dining area. $199K
3205 arliNgtoN ave cc633 Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bth w/ southern balcony, lndry in unit & indr prkg. $725K
5355 hh parKWay cc629 Renovated Jr-4, living room, dining room & eat-in kitch. No board approval. $299K
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