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COVID-19 field hospital coming to Vannie Feds expect temp facility to open by the end of April By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
Helping hands Not everyone is finding the help they need during the pandemic. But these neighbors are making it all right. Page A3
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Van Cortlandt Park is one of the largest parks in New York City, a center for sports and recreation in the Bronx. But now, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the park is about to become something entirely new: A field hospital. Councilman Andrew Cohen broke the news Sunday afternoon, announcing the field hospital would house 200 beds across 12 acres in the park, a joint operation between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Army Corps and FEMA began work on the field
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A park-goer jogs along the perimeter of a fenced-off portion of the Van Cortlandt Park Parade Grounds, which will be the site of a 200-bed COVID-19 field hospital. hospital Saturday, and Cohen expects it will open within the next three weeks. Unlike original plans at some of the other field hospitals opened by the two federal agencies in the
city over the past week, a FEMA representative confirmed to The Riverdale Press this field hospital will indeed accept patients who have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
The Vannie field hospital will join the Javits Center in Hell’s Kitchen, a temporary 2,500-bed hospital initially meant only for non-COVID patients, but is now only accepting those who have tested positive for the SARSCoV-2 virus. Also expected to accept COVID-19 patients is the USNS Comfort, the military ship docked at Pier 90, offering 1,000 beds. Mount Sinai Hospital partnered with controversial Christian organization Samaritan’s Purse to open a 68-bed field hospital in Central Park to treat overflow patients, but is not expected to treat coronavirus patients. Stephanie Ehrlich, executive director for the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, said the organization and the park were “happy to do our part” to alleviate the coronavirus pandemic in the area. Cohen told The Press he was not aware of any hospitals working with FEMA and the Army
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A woman stands near the bus stop at West 231st Street and Kingsbridge Avenue, captured by photographer Frida Sterenberg, who has been documenting her neighborhood in the midst of the state’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Corps on the Van Cortlandt field hospital. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, however, speculated on social media the hospital was being opened in conjunction with Montefiore Medical Center in Norwood. Montefiore officials did not return a request for comment. “I think it’s a sign of how serious and widespread this is going to be,” Cohen said, “and how difficult the upcoming weeks are going to be. Van Cortlandt Park is a tremendous resource to this community, and if it can be a resource in helping to turn the tide on this, that’s an admirable use.” Dinowitz agreed the park was an invaluable resource in the crisis. “We are facing the worst crisis in our lifetimes, and we need more hospital beds,” the Assemblyman said. “Van Cortlandt Park is ideally suited because it’s a wide-open space. And as a person HOSPITAL, page A4
City may be closed, but hearts are open By JULIUS CONSTANTINE MOTAL jmotal@riverdalepress.com
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he northwest Bronx was never supposed to be this quiet. With barren thoroughfares and shuttered storefronts, this neck of the woods is not its usual self. It’s a sobering reality reflected citywide as a result of cityand state-level decisions in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The mood is strange,” said Frida Sterenberg, a photographer and Riverdale
resident for the last two years. On the occasions she has gone outside — whether to get supplies or a much-needed breath of fresh air — Sterenberg has seen a significant shift in the fabric of life around her, and to that end, she’s taken her camera with her. A graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a former photo intern for The Riverdale Press, Sterenberg has focused her eye on her immediate surroundings. “I’m trying to pay attention to take this
opportunity to do my own documentary of our experience,” she said. Despite everything, Sterenberg feels beauty can still be found both in the lush natural landscapes and the socially distanced interactions between people. “There is some wave of willingness to be kind,” Sterenberg said, “even if it’s just saying hi or waving at a distance.” The city’s shutdown has also created a looser sense of time. The days blur together. Sterenberg remembers going out HEARTS, page A4
Richner Communications Inc., publisher of The Riverdale Press and Herald Community Newspapers, announces this week a $500,000 grant program designed to support local businesses. The Riverdale Press Small Business Grant Program makes every business in our general circulation area eligible to receive up to $15,000 of matching grant funds, which can be used toward marketing services to promote products and services. Through the end of April — as long as grant funds are available — businesses can apply for grants at RiverdalePress.com/ grant. “Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities,” said Stuart Richner, president of RCI and publisher of The Riverdale Press. “With New York quickly becoming the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, we knew that we had to do whatever possible to support our small business community. “We are a small business ourselves, so we understand the pain that small business owners are going through right now. But all GRANT, page A4
Where has all the mail gone? Blame it on the coronavirus By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
When Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down New York last month to essential businesses only, he didn’t close off U.S. Postal Service deliveries. Nor could he, likely, since it’s a federal agency. Yet, in recent days, many living within both the 10463 and 10471 ZIP codes — among others — haven’t been getting mail, or having outgoing parcels picked up. The culprit is probably no surprise: the coronavirus. Some people waiting for delivery of bills, letters and medications were left in limbo for days
in late March and early April, some discovering they couldn’t even drop off or pick up their mail right at the source, since some of the satellite post offices — 444 W. 238th St., for example — were closed without notice. Marcia Yerman headed to West 238th’s on March 30, only to find the doors locked. She snapped a photo of the door — locked and gated. Signs warned customers coming in it was only accepting payment by card — no cash — but had nothing about the fact the location was closed. Many of those missing their mail have taken to social media to share their concerns, as
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well as what they say is a lack of response from the post office. Most of the mail delivery problems include buildings within the Spuyten Duyvil and Kingsbridge neighborhoods, as well as parts of Fieldston. A March 31 email from property managers to tenants at Century at 2600 Netherland Ave., said the building had not received mail since the previous Saturday. According to the email, management from the Century had been in touch with the post office, and told they “do not have the personnel to deliver at this time.” “It didn’t say, ‘We’ll be back,’” MISSING MAIL, page A4
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The post office on West 238th Street was closed for several days last week, but was back in business on Monday.
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Neighbors reach out to help, and find help themselves By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
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People are stuck at home, many not able to leave, disconnected from things we take for granted, like groceries and medication. It’s the “new normal” as politicians have called it, life during a pandemic. But Rachel Ngu couldn’t sit idly by. “Once I knew that New York City was going to be hit really hard (by the coronavirus), I was just trying to find local ways of helping,” she said. And not just with different charities or non-governmental organizations, because she knew far too many people “fall through the cracks in that way.” Luckily, a little Google searching led Ngu to a rather simplistic spreadsheet on a website organized by the Freedom Arts Movement. The spreadsheet was simple: One tab offers a place for would-be volunteers to share their contact information, what neighborhoods they’re helping, and what they’re willing to do. Another tab allowed people to sign up who were seeking help, allowing FAM to possibly connect volunteers with those who need them the most. The mutual aid network is quite a departure from FAM’s regular offerings, which focuses on providing a platform to artists regardless of their education, funding or privilege. The group typically works to organize community events, like free classes hosted in Brooklyn, or collecting school and art supplies for kids who need them during holiday donation drives. When the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 arrived in earnest in New York, it laid off thousands as businesses shuttered. Those that did remain open, for the most part, cut hours or pay, leaving many struggling to make ends meet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned people with some chronic conditions — including some as common as asthma — and senior citizens were at an increased risk of succumbing to this disease. That meant that suddenly people were stuck in their apartments, with even a trip to the pharmacy or grocery store out of reach — either because they couldn’t afford it, or simply because it wasn’t safe for them to go out.
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That’s where mutual aid comes in. It’s nothing more than a casual organization of neighbors helping neighbors, rather than relying on a nonprofit or other organization to step in. In the face of COVID-19, mutual aid has
Many mutual aid networks are accessible through the internet. A few local groups to note includes: • NYC United Against Coronavirus tinyurl.com/NYCUnited • Bronx Freedom Arts Movement tinyurl.com/BronxFAM
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A sign posted on a produce stand on Broadway just south of West 231st Street informs people that help is available for those experiencing money trouble as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. taken many forms, some of the most popular including making grocery runs for people who can’t make it out. The FAM spreadsheet is a place for volunteers to post their resources and how they’re willing to help, and also where those in need of assistance to post what will help make them whole. When she isn’t working her fulltime job in the public health sector, Jenna Schmitz is active in her Kingsbridge community, attending rallies and volunteering at a Washington Heights school. In light of the pandemic, Schmitz wanted to help, but felt unsure what she could do. That is until she came across the mutual aid network spreadsheet through social media. “I felt like reading through some of what other people had put on the spreadsheet made it feel less daunting,” Schmitz said. “I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I have a car, and I have time.’ I don’t have a chronic illness, and my work schedule is pretty flexible from home. It felt like a great way to plug into the community.” Schmitz wasn’t alone. Another FAM volunteer, Nancy Schwartz, signed up to deliver food and run errands in her Kingsbridge neighborhood.
“I haven’t actually been called on to do anything yet,” Schwartz said. “I signed up because in this frightening, devastating time, I’d like to focus on being generous and follow the example of all the health care workers in offering help to my neighbors, rather than cowering in a corner.” Ngu had signed up to run errands around Riverdale on foot, taking on simple errands that might not be so simple for a neighbor. Schmitz said getting a phone call or text message from an unknown number of a neighbor in need has quickly become routine. “Someone needed help picking up a prescription, who has a chronic illness and wasn’t able to leave the house because of the risk, their health risk,” Schmitz said. “Someone needed errands, someone needed assistance with groceries.”
Expanding the network
While many posts are written by those in need, a few are different. One, for example, comes from Louise Barry, who works with the Ridgewood Mutual Aid Network in Queens. She found the Bronx FAM spreadsheet after a Kingsbridge Heights family
reached out to her network. Ridgewood Mutual Aid was born out of the Ridgewood Tenants Union, organized to support renters facing evictions, displacement, and other difficulties within their apartment buildings. The aid network was built quickly once they realized the scale of the pandemic in the city, Barry said. “Part of the reason we exist is that we recognize in a crisis like this, often, the government doesn’t step in quickly enough,” Barry said. “Or, if they do, there’s always people who are left out.” Some of those people could indeed be ineligible for the $1,200 stimulus check Washington is ready to hand out to nearly every adult in the country, or may not have unemployment benefits available to them. Still, they have needs — like food, shelter, and keeping the electricity on. For the Kingsbridge Heights family that found Barry, their father had abruptly lost his two part-time jobs, and money for the family had run out. The Ridgewood network was able to provide some help, Barry said, but they wanted to find someone local to make sure this family was well taken care of. Nicolás Vargas, a co-founder of
FAM, said that it’s been difficult to spread the word about what help is available, especially in an environment dominated by social distancing. The organization has been active online, however, and has made dozens of calls to families, especially in complexes run by the New York City Housing Authority, letting them know that help is available. Even for someone outside of an aid network, Vargas says helping often starts out with a phone call. “If you are in an apartment building, which a lot of New Yorkers are, text a neighbor, someone you know,” Vargas said. “Come up with a plan. Say, ‘We’re trying to keep each other safe in this time of precarity and crisis. We want to know if you have any needs, or if you have any resources.’” Then, he said, neighbors can keep calling people they know, seeking out others in their extended network in need as well as those who can give. They keep doing that until they’ve built up a good network of those in need and the resources to help them, even if it all exists within the walls of a single apartment building. For those looking to reach beyond their neighborhoods, Vargas recommends an online spreadsheet put together by the new organization NYC United Against Coronavirus. That document lists resources for all kinds of needs, along with lists of organizations — many of whom are in need of more volunteers. “My advice is to find organizations that are trusted by the community, and have a history of doing good work in the community, and that plan on sticking around and sustaining themselves after this crisis,” Vargas said. These groups also need to be “working to build community solidarity and selfdetermination. Not just people who are giving out charity.”
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Sterenberg captures a neighborhood on ‘pause’ HEARTS from page A1 on a recent Thursday at lunchtime, but it could have been any day. “It felt like Sunday at 7 a.m.,” she said. “It’s empty. It’s quiet. Few people walking around.” The rapid deceleration of the pace of city life has engendered a renewed appreciation for the quotidian that wasn’t always present before this crisis. “It seems that you rarely have the time to appreciate so much,” Sterenberg said of life before the pandemic. What she also has found is a willingness in people to be photographed. Taking pictures in a public space can evoke a range of reactions, from complete indifference to rage. In her perambulations around the neighborhood, Sterenberg saw a surprising openness. “There is a certain sense that people are understanding this is a special circumstance,” Sterenberg said. “I think perhaps because the situation is so drastic, so worrisome, so radically tragic, that people are less concerned.” Her photographs paint a portrait of a community struggling under the weight of social distancing and other necessary public health measures. Before the
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A commuter with a face mask disembarks from a Bx10 bus while another commuter waits on the street. It was a sign of life continuing for Frida Sterenberg, who has photographed how her neighborhood has changed as a result of the state’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus that causes COVID-19 took hold here, there was a steady rhythm to life — the afternoon school pickup rush, the hustle and bustle on West 231st Street and Broadway, sunny afternoons in Van Cortlandt Park and elsewhere. Now, much of what makes this part of the borough thrive are now closed, and while there is a gloomy and eerie aspect to that, Sterenberg’s
pictures tell a slightly different story. A woman sits on a park bench. Another waits for the bus. Flowers bloom. Life moves on. “The beauty of springtime and the birds, that’s what’s giving me hope at the moment,” Sterenberg said. “It’s good to remember that the planet is still moving.”
Signs inform passersby that the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Broadway is open for togo orders, a familiar sight in the weeks since the state’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Flowers, below, soak in the sun’s rays, with few people able to look at them.
Frida Sterenberg photographed an MTA worker sitting on a stoop outside the Episcopal Church of the Mediator during a walk around the neighborhood, which is part of an ongoing project about how the area has changed as a result of the state’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
HOSPITAL from page A1 who has always been extraordinarily protective of Van Cortlandt Park, I support this.” New York remains the leader in terms of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which reached just over 122,000 cases as of Tuesday. Beginning this past week, however, the number of new hospitalizations began to drop, although the number of people succumbing to the disease has been up and down over Monday and Tuesday. Jim Malatras, president of SUNY Empire State College, said during a recent briefing that New York may be entering its peak of infections, although Cuomo said that the peak could look more like a plateau, with a long period of infections not increasing or decreasing. “What is the significance of that?” Cuomo asked during a recent daily briefing. “It’s too early to tell. The interesting blip, maybe, in the data, or hopeful beginning of a shift in the data, and the number of cases.” Total intensive care unit admissions also were down Saturday, although Cuomo said it’s too early to know what the numbers will mean long-term. “The operational challenge for the health care system is impossible,” Cuomo said, “because the system is over capacity, all over the board.” It is possible the city wouldn’t need as many beds as were being prepared, Dinowitz said, but that “every indication” showed that every extra bed would be necessary. The northwest Bronx is already home to a drive-through testing site at Lehman College. The site is by appointment only and reserved only for symptomatic people who have had close contact with an infected person, or health care workers and first responders. Even if the city is approaching a statistical peak or plateau in terms of new infections, there’s still no way to know which way the pandemic will go, Cuomo said during his April 6 briefing. And even with the possibility of cases evening out, the situation is unsustainable as hospitals across the city are already at capacity. “Getting 200 additional beds in the park will save lives,” Dinowitz said. “And the lives that are saved could be someone that we know and love.”
Coronavirus to blame for slow mail delivery MISSING MAIL from page A1 Yerman said of the post office. “It didn’t say ‘we’re closed.’” Yerman and some other neighbors trying to send or pick up mail gathered on the sidewalk that day — and yes, they said they held a mandated a six-foot distance from each other in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — trying to figure out what was going on.
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Coronavirus infecting mail delivery They weren’t alone. There also was a serious delivery lag from the post office on Broadway, the main hub for the area. “They had a serious problem,” Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz said. “A week ago, Thursday or Friday, an individual who works at the post office tested positive” for the coronavirus. The office had to close for cleaning, the lawmaker said, but that was only part of the problem as postal workers have also called out sick. The lag has attracted attention from elected officials. A joint letter from Dinowitz, Councilman Andrew Cohen, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel to Postmaster General Megan Brennan asked if the West 238th branch had been closed due to health reasons. If the postal service had any protocol in place to let people know that mail delivery wasn’t happening. And how it planned to protect not just employees, but those needing to use postal services, from the spread of the coronavirus. In a statement, postal service officials said they have had to update their leave policies to ensure sick employees could “stay home whenever they feel sick,” when they “must provide dependent care,” or any other reason that would require leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The act provides additional flexibility with leave when it’s associated with the pandemic, effective through the end of the year. Officials also directed anyone missing mail to its USPS service alerts website to find information on facility
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A sign informs people that due to social distancing guidelines caused by the coronavirus pandemic, only four people at a time are allowed inside the post office at 444 W. 238th St. disruptions. As of April 2, the website listed no disruptions in the northwest Bronx. “We want to thank the postal service for the critical work they are doing during this crisis, and how important it is to protect postal service employees from adverse harm,” according to the letter from lawmakers. “At the same time, our constituents depend on consistent mail service in order to receive their correspondence, bills and package(s), which may contain lifesaving prescriptions.” By April 6, the post office at West 238th was open for business — and the backlog at the Kingsbridge office was expected to clear as the postal service started shuffling employees around, Dinowitz told The Riverdale Press. “What we’ve done is we’ve asked them to reassign people,” he said. “If you’re shorthanded in one place, you have to deal with it.” Those issues seem to have continued into the 10471 ZIP code, with
some residents there reporting there has been no mail since April 2. One person told The Press that when he called the post office to ask what was going on, he was told “people are dying,” and that “no mail is coming from downtown.”
Please be patient
Dinowitz asked those not getting their mail in a timely manner to have some understanding for what’s happening with postal workers, similar to what’s happening with many work forces as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hit New York hard. “We want our mail back, but I think people have to understand we are in this unprecedented situation,” Dinowitz said. “We also have to keep in mind that we should be concerned about the health and safety of the postal workers.” The Assemblyman himself has waited for his government paycheck to be delivered.
Postal officials said they were prioritizing “small packages” as they started working on the backlog at the Kingsbridge office. The postal service hasn’t provided a long-term plan for keeping up regular mail delivery for the long haul of the pandemic, Dinowitz said, but he and other elected officials intend to “stay on their backs” to make sure there isn’t another long lapse in services. “If people can be assured of regular mail delivery — even if they don’t get it every single day — I think people would be happy,” Dinowitz said. “As long as they know their mail is actually going to be delivered.” He had a word of advice for the post offices as they try to ensure essential deliveries — like paychecks and medications — get shipped out. “This might be a good time for the post office to consider doing what we do, which is throw those catalogs into recycling,” Dinowitz said. “That could save some work.”
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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 9, 2020 - A5
Cuomo closes down city’s playgrounds to curb spread Says families were not giving enough space to avoid virus
Montefiore tests drug
By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
Keeping social distance is vital to bring the coronavirus crisis under some sort of control. But what Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeing in New York City playgrounds, however, is not what he feels will “flatten the curve” when it comes to infections. And with a stroke of his pen, Cuomo has closed the city’s playgrounds to the public. “We’re going to take more dramatic actions,” Cuomo said during his April 1 news briefing. “We are going to close the New York City playgrounds. I’ve talked about this for weeks. I warned people that if they didn’t stop the density and the games in the playgrounds ... that we would close the playgrounds.” Cuomo closed down much of New York state to “non-essential” workers effective March 22. Public schools, restaurants and bars had already been closed for days, leaving a small number of “essential” businesses open, including grocery stores and pharmacies. But Cuomo left the parks and playgrounds open, but only as long as those using the parks and playgrounds observed social distancing measures. That meant staying six feet away from people who were not part of their immediate household. Although children could play on the equipment, they had to keep apart. At the time, Mayor Bill de Blasio used his own daily briefing to try and explain how social distancing in playgrounds would work. “If a mom goes to the playground
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Playground and basketball courts, like the one seen here at Henry Hudson Park, are now closed through a new executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. with her child, she’s already in constant contact with her child,” de Blasio said at the time. “But if that child comes into contact with another child from a different family, or that mom came into contact with another mom from a different family,” then that’s where there will be issues. “We’re going to say to parents, ‘Here is the reality. If you’re going to go on a playground, you have to take full responsibility for the situation,” de Blasio said. “If there are already some people on the playground, and you
can’t keep six feet away from people, don’t go on the playground.” Social media posts, however, showed families were doing the exact opposite in many parts of the city, with playgrounds and ballfields crowded with friends and family — many standing in close proximity of each other. de Blasio decided last week to remove basketball hoops in some city parks, where players were still gathering for games. de Blasio also urged people to call 311 if they spotted large gatherings in
violation of social distancing rules. He warned the New York Police Department would enforce social distancing on public transport, and throughout the city, issuing fines of up to $1,000. Open spaces and lawns in parks will remain open for those in need of some fresh air and exercise, however, Cuomo said. “Use the open space in a park,” the governor said. “Walk around. Get some sun. Great. No density. No basketball games. No close contacts. No violation of social distancing. Period.”
A drug originally developed in an effort to stave off an Ebola pandemic that never materialized is making its way to the Bronx to hopefully help in a much different pandemic: The one featuring the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have both joined a clinical trial designed to evaluate the experimental drug remdesivir, according to a release, among those who are hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Developed by California-based Gilead Sciences in 2015, remdesivir never underwent clinical trials because the Ebola outbreak fizzled out. Yet scientists believe it could be effective against other viruses, including coronaviruses. And once SARS-CoV-2 started spreading around the world, Gilead ramped up production of remdesivir as a potential emergency treatment for those suffering from COVID-19. The Bronx trial is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, designed for those who have serious lung complications as a result of COVID-19, according to a release. The borough is one of 46 testing sites nationwide, and is the first in New York to open. The trial is randomized, doubleblind and placebo-controlled —all led by Dr. Barry Zingman, a professor of medicine at Einstein. The trial is “adaptive,” meaning it can be modified to include other therapies to treat the coronavirus.
POLITICAL ARENA Dinowitz wants to extend moratorium Renters can’t be evicted until the end of May because of the coronavirus pandemic. But Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz would like to extend that window — all the way to the end of the year. “I am very concerned about the ticking time bomb that is the expiration of this moratorium,” Dinowitz told constitu-
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ents in a recent newsletter. “For many tenants who have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all the moratorium has bought them is time. While that is a good start, it is not enough.” Dinowitz says his bill would not only extend the moratorium by six months, but also would prohibit landlords from evicting tenants based on nonpayment of rent if those tenants lost income due to the pandemic.
Landlords could still take delinquent tenants to court for unpaid rent, but they would only be able to see a money judgment, otherwise allowing people to stay in their homes until they get back on their feet. The bill does not suspend rent for those affected by the pandemic. “While I do still support waiving rents for tenants who have lost income, I believe that this legislation is well-po-
sitioned to be acted on quickly and to survive potential legal challenges from landlords,” Dinowitz said. “This is not a silver bullet, but anything that keeps people in their homes is a win in my book.”
Cabrera wants e-bikes returned
E-bikes — the bicycles equipped with a motorized assist — are now legal in New
York thanks to the most recent budget process in Albany. And now Councilman Fernando Cabrera wants to make sure every bike that had been confiscated from delivery workers in the past is returned. “Our state lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo have done a world of good by legalizing e-bikes,” Cabrera said, in a release. “This is good, sensible and practical policy that has been a long time coming.”
Buying and selling e-bikes had been legal in New York in the past. Riding one, however, was illegal, subjecting riders to fines of up to $500, and having their bikes confiscated. Opponents of e-bikes have expressed concern over their safety, especially since some can travel over the speed limit on city streets. The bikes are popular with delivery drivers, many spending up to $1,500 for them.
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A6 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Writing groups help all ages express themselves
what’s in
Ready to put your thoughts into words? There might be a circle perfect for you
Zoom to the club
The Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale hosts its monthly meeting via the online video conferencing app Zoom on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit BronxToastMastersClub.org.
By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE
the museum at your fingertips
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The prompt for the day was “when I turned the corner.” Miriam Helbok looked around with a smile, asked each member of her Kingsbridge Library writing circle to jot down whatever came to mind. For a half hour, only the sound of pen scribbling frantically on paper could be heard. At the end, pens dropped, and stories were told. Of course, this particular gathering was before the coronavirus pandemic shut down anything that would bring any group of people together. But at the time, many of the longtime writers who populate the circle found courage through the group not only to put their thoughts to paper, but to share it with others as well. Ron Marc Thomson, who moderates the Bronx Art and Fun Hub — and a more recent addition to the group — looks to Helbok as a moderator. “We have no teachers,” Thomson said. “We’re a group, and it’s thanks to Miriam. She keeps us focused. If it wasn’t for her and this group, I wouldn’t be writing.” As each writer shared their words focused on turning corners, Helbok responded with a smile and a question, always ensuring to dig deeper into the ideas the individual writers were trying to express. “It’s so wonderful to hear everyone’s work,” Helbok said. “Listening to one another is a gift.” As expected, every writer has his or her own take on when they “turn the corner.” Things that seem mundane and everyday were described by carefully chosen words. The regular turned into dreamlike, into memorial, and into the confessional. Afterward, there were discussions of city issues, with many concerns farreaching as each members of the circle had arrived from various parts of the city. The East Bronx. The Upper West Side. The Upper East Side. And, of course, Riverdale and the surrounding neighborhoods, all coming to express their stories in words. Judy Veder makes the short trip from Inwood every Thursday to participate. “We’re such an intimate group,” she
By RapHael lassauze
The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers launches a new digital resource designed for all ages, providing virtual visitor videos, arts and science activities, and live-streamed programs including story time, astronomy and art projects. For more information, visit HRM.org.
wave hill brings birds, comics home
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A sign for the writing prompt ‘when I turned the corner’ stands on the table during a weekly meeting of the Kingsbridge Library’s writers circle, a group of local creative writers who share poems and stories, and create free-written pieces based on ‘prompts’ during meetings. said. “I don’t understand how anyone would miss this.” Several members were included in three books published by the Bronx Memoir Project, an anthology created by a series of workshops intent on publishing writers in the borough. Some already were published authors, like Anneros Valensi, a highly respected member of the group. Thomson held her in especially high regard. “I got so out of my shell with this. Anneros and Ted were great examples. I want to publish my books now thanks to them.” Ted is actually Ted Mieszczanski, author of “Star Crossed,” a 2017 historical drama he followed up a short time later with “Growing Up BX, Tevye’s Story.” And then there’s Pauline Binder, author of “Doin’ Hair,” who like Mieszczanski, has been writing her whole life, but only found the energy and care to compile and publish her story after being part of the writing circle. Rabecca McDonald is the group’s organizer. As the senior librarian at the Kingsbridge branch, she realized there was a lack of artistic engagement within the community. “We used to do memoir and poetry
classes,” McDonald said. “It was attached with the Bronx Memoir Project as one of their workshops. But when that ended, there were still people that wanted a group meeting to write. It runs itself.” Helbok’s writing circle isn’t the only such group at the library. The other, however, is geared toward teenagers in the community who otherwise lack an outlet for their creativity. “This is a monthly club for anyone aged 12 to 18,” said Andrea Lipinski, the senior young adult librarian at the Kingsbridge branch, who oversees this particular group. “It doesn’t matter where they come from. There was a girl who came all the way from Brooklyn just for one club meeting because there wasn’t anything like this where she was.” Outlets for youth, especially writing, seem to take place mostly in a classroom setting, Lipinski said. But a space of their own outside of a school structure is really what teenagers want. “We offer this to a niche that needs it,” Lipinski said. “We have it. It’s right here. But we don’t currently have enough resources to make it weekly.” Lipinski finds other ways to bring
Wave Hill has brought its garden activities to the virtual world including biomimicry comic strip workshops and community science bird counts, along with other family activities. For more information, visit WaveHill.org.
an egg hunt and a colloquy
‘If it wasn’t for (Miriam Helbok) and this group, I wouldn’t be writing.’
— Ron Marc Thomson
in young people as well, like with her teen advisory group, a weekly meeting of community-minded youths exploring the library’s inner workings, including what books are ordered and what programs are considered for the next year. Members also contribute to the library’s social media, like Tumblr, where they write reviews and find a wealth of other book recommendations. With both programs, the library has opened itself up to a wide variety of writers, old and new. The years of interaction at the library has fostered a weekly tradition for local writers to expand their creative output and help keep people like Mieszczanski focused. “It’s not like I’m getting any younger, Might as well put out as many stories as I can, the author said. “I really feel everyone’s love of writing in this group. It’s very nice.”
The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture has shut its Fieldston Road doors. However, its virtual doors remain open. The society hosts a virtual egg hunt on Easter Sunday, April 12, beginning at 11 a.m., through the online video conferencing app Zoom. It’s followed by a colloquy on “desert spring,” or the experience of liberation achieved in hard times. To find out how to connect, visit RYSEC.org.
the garden beyond the screen
The New York Botanical Garden opens its virtual gates with “The Garden at Home,” a project where the entire garden — from its programs to tours of the spring landscape are available to the public online. Visit them now at NYBG. org.
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Opinion Editorial
Tale of two pandemic leaders
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ohn F. Kennedy strolled up to the podium inside the State Department auditorium, peering out to reporters, ready to take their questions. It was Jan. 25, 1961 — less than a week since he was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States — and already he was making history. Right there, nearly 60 years ago, Kennedy did something none of his predecessors had ever done: He conducted a news conference live and unedited for all three major television networks. “The fact of the matter is that the time when President Kennedy started televised press conferences, there were only three or four newspapers in the entire United States that carried a full transcript of a presidential press conference,” Kennedy’s press secretary, Pierre Salinger, would later recall. “Therefore, what people read was a distillation. We thought they should have the opportunity to see it in full.” Getting a chance to watch history unfold in front of our eyes is what attracts us to the major cable news channels each day, or whenever networks cut into regular programming to bring us something live. It’s almost to the point where one might even start to scratch her chin and wonder if we even need reporters anymore with all this raw information at her fingertips. The answer is “yes,” followed by “now more than ever before.” And all we need to point to are the daily press briefings President Donald Trump has provided during the coronavirus crisis. Trump is carried live each day, similar to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But there’s a big difference between the two: One you can safely trust without minimal question. The other? There are more actual facts in an edition of The Onion satirical newspaper. Trump has lied so many times, many news outlets that were trying to keep track practically lost count. He has made dangerous claims, including the promotion of untested treatment for the virus that causes COVID-19. And he’s spent more time insulting reporters who dare ask him questions than actually reassuring Americans we will get through this crisis. Some have even called for Trump’s briefings to no longer be carried live.
Why? Because reporters can then properly challenge claims that aren’t true, and provide context for others. Usually, when a president gets up to speak to reporters, he has thoroughly researched the topic he’s presenting. But even then, he is human, and can make mistakes. Having reporters “distill” that information, and strive to ensure only accurate details filter through is exactly why the media is so important in crises like this in the first place. Trump appears to do no preparation at all, except maybe from his Twitter feed filled with ideas we’d think even Trump might find crazy. And because Americans turn to the president for leadership, they are not coming up empty-handed, which is bad enough. They are provided guidance that just isn’t true, for the most part, and it’s the kind of rhetoric that could lead to more and more people suffering and even dying from this pandemic. Cuomo — not usually at the top of any “nice guys” lists — has come off as just that. A nice guy. Someone who cares. Someone who will tell it like it is. Someone who doesn’t pull punches. The governor knows it’s not just a smattering of reporters in Albany listening to him each day. It’s millions of New Yorkers, not only looking for information directly from a leader, but also for reassurance and maybe even some comfort. Here’s the thing: They’re getting it. Cuomo has been a calming presence, a knowledgeable presence. People can go to sleep at night worried about many things, but not whether they made the right choice re-electing Cuomo to a third term in 2018. We might dismiss any notion of a President Cuomo, but there have been many days over the past month or so where many of us have to wonder how much different this pandemic would be if there was anyone other than Trump occupying the Oval Office. Andrew Cuomo is far from perfect. But he has indeed showed not only New York, but America, how a leader should lead during a crisis like this. And if we’re going to continue to watch Trump live every day, maybe the president should take note.
Point of view
We reformed bail for a reason — now let’s just give it a chance
By ERIC SEIFF (re: “Sometimes you just have to be profane to be profound — not,” March 19)
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he recent Point of View piece disparaging the brand new, path-breaking bail reform resolution fails to take into account the enduring damage created by prior practices. While there will, unfortunately, always occur tragic abuses committed by those benefitting from the new release program, so long as humans have frailties, those occasional abuses will continue to occur, as they previously did under the prior strictures. The absolute antidote would be never to release an arrestee until final disposition of a case, and even then recidivism would be a given. What the critics ignore is the sweeping damage arbitrarily imposed bail causes impecunious men and women. Consider the following scenario: A complaint is made either by or to a police officer. That complaint is then relayed to an assistant district attorney, who drafts a complaint almost invariably based solely on the perspective of one person reporting the incident. That complaint then goes to the arraignment part with a hopefully accurate account of what is now a second- or third-stage hearsay. Meanwhile, the accused is in a crowded, noisy, smelly holding pen — usually for many hours — and often over a sleepless night. Next, because the overwhelming number of these accused are represented by public defenders, the accused is introduced to a hitherto unknown lawyer, who speaks to the brand-new client through metal bars, or other barrier. To be sure, these defense attorneys in the metropolitan area are well trained and do their best to explain the limits of their function while simultaneously offering whatever assurances they are able to provide. Simultaneously, they attempt to ascertain the defendant’s explanation. Sometimes there are significant language barriers, oftentimes racial differences, and almost always little ability for the client to understand fully what is about to happen. With equal frequency, counsel has no opportunity to conduct her or his own immediate investigation. Then to the courtroom. No district attorney will publicly criticize an assistant in his or her office for seeking too much bail. Bad press comes only from the harm committed by someone released on what is headlined as an irresponsibly low or no bail. Similarly, and unfortunately, all
too often, the judge setting bail can take comfort in going along with the prosecutor’s bail request, or an unnecessarily high portion of that request. Completely lost in that process is the ability of the prosecution to prove its case. In response, an often all-too-busy defense attorney, with information limited to the brief interview she or he has been able to obtain in the holding pen, is left with a judicial “compromise reduction,” still mandating immediate incarceration. The result of this instant jailing often leads to a loss of employment, a family left without its wage earner, and children with the unexplained absence of their father or mother. As the days stretch into weeks, and even to months without being able to raise the necessary funds, the defendants opt to plead to “time served” for crimes which cannot be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. And with that criminal record, opportunities for housing, employment and other vital necessities are severely damaged. So when the Point of View writers note that “all hell broke loose” after Jan. 1, they built their complaint on serious, but very few setbacks. In so doing, they totally ignore the proven abuse of a system of justice that places access to financial resources on its scales, thereby wantonly harming the lives of tens of thousands of men and women held solely because the prosecutor asked for, and the judge did set, an unreachable bail. Finally, this systemic abuse of bail setting costs doubly. According to a thorough analysis by New York City controller Scott Stringer, we taxpayers now spend some $337,000 to detain a presumably innocent defendant in jail for a year. An even greater stain is caused in the disabling of each jailed defendant to prepare effectively for his or her defense. If released on bail, an accused is able to take defense counsel to the site of the alleged crime, introduce prospective witnesses, quickly gauge critical sightlines, take meaningful photographs, and maybe even gather physical evidence. An incarcerated client is disabled from providing that assistance. It is why those who are not released on bail suffer so much a higher conviction rate. The author is a former New York County prosecutor, special district attorney in Bronx County, and more recently, a member of the defense team that obtained the reversal and dismissal of all charges against the so-called “Central Park Five.”
Letters to the editor
It’s time to scratch our backs EDITOR’S NOTE: The following was sent to Community Board 8 ahead of its April 14 board meeting. When I set out a few months ago to petition for the street co-namings of Bradley Terrace with that of Villa Rosa Bonheur and John J. McKelvey Sr., I knew about 75 percent less about the history and culture of Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale. I have come to realize that the vast majority of our residents have a similar lack of perspective about the place they call home. Two of the goals of our 197-a zoning plan are to “preserve the scale and character of area neighborhoods” and to “preserve and educate the public about historical references.” It calls for “increased efforts … to prevent the loss of local historical resources, either by decay, displacement or alteration of historical context of surrounding resources.” We need to ask ourselves: Has Riverdale truly been successful in meeting these goals? With the demise of Villa Rosa Bonheur, I can definitively say “no.” Perhaps Villa Rosa Bonheur’s greatest contribution was waking us up to the existential crisis we now face for the survival of the character of our community. We need to actively protect our historical and ecological treasures. And for what’s already lost, we need to educate the public as to
the tragic results of losing focus on preservation. We need to recognize the urgency of historical and environmental preservation, and afford them primary roles in Riverdale development priorities. We have to stop apologizing, and instead fight harder and with urgency. COVID-19 has shown us that the green space, lack of density and historical character of Riverdale are not amenities. They are unqualified necessities for the physical and mental health of our community, as well as for the off-setting of the ravages of climate change for the entire city. Indeed, our lack of density may have actually saved lives, in contrast to the more densely populated neighborhoods in the city where residents have no ability to safely social distance and exercise. We need to prioritize historical and ecological preservation throughout the whole of Riverdale, both inside and outside of the historic and Special Natural Area districts. The residents of Spuyten Duyvil came out in droves to support the protection of SNAD, and now they need reciprocal support in the form of these street co-namings. I thank you for the opportunity to address you as to this initiative, and to the vital issues addressed here. sTephanie Coggins
Trump is nothing like Obama To the editor: I feel like I should express my opinion, which I am sure also is the opinion of millions of Americans. If Obama was president now, his wife Michelle would be our incredible First Lady. She would be out there, trying to give the American people and the world encouragement and some hope during these unspeakable times — not unseen and unheard of like Melania
Trump. Recently, President Trump had the nerve to say at one of his briefings that The New York Times is all the news that is “unfit” to print, and also commented that CNN has the lowest ratings ever. CNN announced that evening that its ratings are higher than ever. I am a born-and-bred New Yorker, and 73 years of age. I love my city and my country, and I am tired of Trump putting
blame on everyone else and getting away with it. He has had three years in office to correct what he is constantly blaming Obama for. He doesn’t take responsibility for anything, and he is the consummate bully! He is certainly not a leader like our dear Gov. Cuomo is. I do hope you print this as a very concerned American, Riverdalian, and subscriber my whole life. diane BursTin gerBer
Thanks to those on the front lines To the editor: We and other residents of the Algiers, located at 3616 Henry Hudson Parkway, are writing to express our gratitude for essential workers during this unprecedented time. In particular, we appreciate the many public servants who have been asked to place themselves and their families in potential danger as they serve the greater good. Our building, along with many others in the 10463 ZIP code, has not been receiving mail recently. And while this is an inconvenience for us, it has reminded us of how many hard-working New Yorkers contribute to the everyday functioning of our lives. All of these individuals deserve safe working environments and the protective equipment that is vital to their well-being. We send our best wishes for health and safety to our postal workers and to all others — medical professionals, first responders, delivery and repair workers, grocery and pharmacy employ-
ees, and our own excellent building staff — who continue to work through this crisis. Their efforts allow the rest of us to shelter in place and, we hope, bring the pandemic to an end with minimal loss of life. Thank you. Fran Freedman, ChrisTina harCar The authors write on behalf of their neighbors at the Algiers including Carl and Ann Aylman, Joseph and Michele Ben-Meir, Steven Exler and Shira Billet, Gary Pretsfelder and Nina Bruder, Michelle Cass, Toby Director, Teresa Cavanaugh, Berel Lang and Barbara Estrin, Helen Feit, Alan and Thelma Gulnick, Robert and Avi Killip, Judith Kramer, the Lerea family, Rabbi Bob Kaplan and Wendy Levinson, Elaine Lipton, Barbara Mann, Andrew and Claudia Marks, Mark and Niva Marmer, Dominic Meiman, Rafe and Erica Noy, Avi Mermelstein and Gaby Schoenfeld, Alan and Polly Flonder Schoenfeld, Rachel Schneider, and Mark Davis and Gillian Steinberg.
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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 9, 2020 - A9
Op-Ed Point of view
Discovering pretty quickly how much coronavirus hits home
By MICHAEL HINMAN
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ll of our mothers are very special women. I’ve been lucky to have had two in my life: My mom, Rose Brendel, who still lives in the small Pennsylvania town I grew up in, and whom I love and adore. And my stepmother, Helen, who is in her 90s and fighting dementia in Florida, but is still cherished by all of us in her extended family. Gary Axelbank and his siblings had an amazing mother as well. Muriel “Mickey” Axelbank, who left us over the weekend following complications from the virus that causes COVID-19. I couldn’t even begin to describe how much Mickey’s family loved her, and how her influence has been felt for multiple generations. You can read everything about her straight from the family on Page A11. Mickey is one of more than 10,000 people SARS-CoV-2 has claimed. And it’s 10,000 too many. It’s hard to imagine the direct impact a disease like this has until it hits close to home.
I worry about my mom every day. I worry about my stepmom. I worry about my dad who can only visit Helen through a fence at the hospice she’s living in. Every day he rides his trike there, hoping the weather is nice enough for her to be in the courtyard. On March 22, COVID-19 became especially real to me, even though I hadn’t realized it yet. I woke up that day with a very stuffy head, and a low-grade fever that got progressively worse through the day. I wasn’t too shocked — spring had started, trees were budding, and of course my allergies were going to act up. By the time our production deadline ended that Tuesday evening, my head had cleared up, but my fever had worsened. I blamed it on the Sudafed, which took care of my stuffiness, but for whatever reasons ignored my fever. And I kept blaming the meds until Thursday, when my fever still hadn’t dissipated, and my head cold was now a distant memory. I talked to a doctor over the phone.
I had symptoms consistent with COVID-19, but as long as my fever stayed under control and I didn’t develop pneumonia, it was better for me to ride it out at home. It wasn’t even worth giving me the test, saving them for those who were in worse shape and may need immediate medical attention. My fever finally broke a week later, just in time for another production deadline. And I felt that I was in the clear. Except I wasn’t. I lost my senses, replaced with a mouth that tasted like I was licking lead poles, and a constant smell I can only describe as “old celery.” My energy was completely gone, forcing me to sleep more than I was awake. Thanks to our great editorial and sales teams, we were still able to get a newspaper out that week, but even as I write these words a week after my fever broke, I am still waiting for my energy to return. Many of us dismissed this virus when it first started to poke its way into the United States, including me.
We’ve been through this before — SARS, MERS, even Ebola sounded all these alarms, but fizzled out into a bunch of nothing. Surely, this new coronavirus was going to do the same thing, right? Wrong. Very wrong. Sadly, we haven’t even seen the worst of this yet, even here in New York. Yet, there are still many who won’t take this seriously. Sure, many of us will end up contracting it — that’s a given. But what Gov. Andrew Cuomo and public health officials in both the city and state are trying to achieve is “flattening the curve.” That means that, yes, many of us will get sick, but hopefully not all at the same time, in a way that completely overwhelms our hospitals. Hopefully by the time you read these words, I’m fully back in the saddle, leading our team to get news in your hands. But journalists are just a few of the people on the front lines — and we’re not even the most important ones. That’s, without question,
our doctors, nurses, technicians — everyone working in the medical field. Then there are the police, paramedics, firefighters. Those who continue selling vital goods in their stores. Those who deliver those very goods to our doors. The men and women driving our buses, engineering our trains, keeping their cab or Uber on the road, ready to pick us up. The applause and cheering I hear outside my Kingsbridge Heights window each night for all these people is special in its own way. But if we really want to thank each and every one of these people, then it’s quite simple what we must do: Stay away from other people, especially vulnerable people. Play the most important role of all in fighting this pandemic — just stay home. My advice to you is the same now as it was a few weeks ago the last time I spoke to you directly: Be safe. Be a good neighbor. And be well. The author is editor of The Riverdale Press.
The coronavirus infects far more around us than just our health By GAGE DELGADO
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t is a fact. As all America can see, the coronavirus outbreak is causing an economic downturn and mass hysteria, similar to the panic mindset of the Great Depression. If this economic trend continues and the gross domestic product worsens, we can expect for a depression on a large scale even worse than that of what happened in 1929. Here’s why. Unlike the last depression, with this crash will come the plummeting of online businesses. Many startups have been created in this time, and these as well will experience a significant loss as a result of this crash. This also will cause a reduction in the amount of medical services available to treat the virus leading to a spiral with the virus. This also will mean as the virus spreads more, it will cause more quarantining — and like before, more spiraling.
With all the required quarantining and sheltering orders, Americans are staying inside more and more. As people stay in and conserve money more, they only purchase the necessities. This will be a trying time with unemployment and pain for all. The solution is a simple thing to say, but will require an execution that may seem counterintuitive: The American public needs to stop being conservative as we are currently. People need to continue to buy consumer goods from stores and continue the exchange of stock. If we conserve, then it will stop the flow of money. If money doesn’t flow, it will cause an economic struggle. This economic downturn will lead to people having a need to conserve more money. This will put us into a vicious cycle of economic downturn and unemployment. We need to encourage the American public to continue being safe and quarantining, but we need to do it in a way that promotes spending
and a way to keep an income. On a large scale, this depression will cause the world to have a crash of the stock market, create intense political pressure, and — most dangerously — encourage war. On a small scale for the individual, it will cause a loss of financial stability and a lack of basic necessities. We need the public to act in a way that is both sensitive to the outbreak and to safety, but we need life to be as close to normal as possible. With this comes an important notion. There is a dire need for more infrastructure to be put into place to encourage this and replace the loss of money. The government needs to subsidize relief programs and make budget cuts to non-essential departments in favor of re-allocating these resources to aid this country and others. If we do not act by thinking critically, educating the public, and keeping a clear mindset on what is necessary to be done, we will, without a doubt, be
looking at a financial collapse that will skew progression for many years, and kill millions of people. The second pressing matter here is dealing with the coronavirus to limit the need for change in people’s lives. The quarantine is a step in the right direction, but it alone is very clearly not doing enough to stagger this virus. We need to look at other countries for what to do here. Hong Kong has given out medical masks to many of its citizens, and has created easy access to testing for the virus. China has pushed for the construction of more medical facilities. We need more government action than what we have. We need to have money invested in research for long-term relief, and medical care for short-term relief. We need to find a way to make the coronavirus curable and preventable. A vaccine is direly needed, and once developed, should be required for employment with companies that interact with the public
on a daily basis, and in schools. We need to start converting non-medical facilities into temporary relief areas. One facility that could be converted is parts of schools. Many schools have been vacated due to the outbreak. We could use some of the school to continue any processes running in them currently, and take the rest of the space as a temporary hospital. All of this may not be a perfect solution to the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s a start. In theory, these are the most logical steps to take to help our world. In practice, we have no idea, and there’s only one way to find out. Whether you agree with my opinions on how to solve this issue or not, I think we can all agree that we need to make changes fast before the world changes and leaves us behind. The author is a 14-year-old resident of Riverdale.
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Celebs make Hebrew Home residents smile rlassauze@riverdalepress.com
March began with trepidation, then transformed into mass confusion, and finally fear. The world outside looked bleak because of the coronavirus pandemic, and it wasn’t much different inside at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, especially with visitors barred from the 5901 Palisade Ave., campus since March 16. Enter Billy Crystal. Well, through a little bit of YouTube technology. “Hi, staff and residents at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale,” Crystal said, sitting at the dining room table of his California home. “We’ve been in isolation for over two weeks. My wife Janice has been teaching me mahjong, which is a game I’m sure you’re all familiar with — and probably great at. I’m not.” In front of Crystal, in the video shot by his wife, the comedian — who starred in the
ABC comedy “Soap” as well as critically acclaimed movies like “When Harry Met Sally” — revealed a mahjong setup in front of him, complete with three other players. One of them was Janice, who doesn’t appear on camera, one was for Crystal himself, but the other two spots next to him were empty chairs. “It’s just the two of us, and it’s too hard to play with just two, as you can see,” Crystal told the Hebrew Home residents in the video. “So I thought it would be really good to play with two of my favorite relatives who are very good mahjong players in their heyday — my Uncle Harry will be on my right, and my Aunt Sheila will be on my left.” But as the game gets going, viewers realize something very peculiar about Uncle Harry and Aunt Sheila — they happen to look a lot like Billy Crystal, but in disguise. The video was part of Hebrew Home’s social media hashtag campaign, “Senior Smile.” The institution invites
anyone — famous or not — to submit videos that can be played for the hundreds of residents there, who aren’t able to receive visits from their loved ones in the middle of the pandemic. “Billy Crystal did a tremendous mitzvah, right when our residents and staff need it,” Daniel Reingold, Hebrew Home’s president and chief executive said, in a release. “Laughter is the best medicine, and that’s what Dr. Billy Crystal has prescribed.” But Crystal didn’t just call it a day with his three-minute video. Instead, he dialed up some of his other Hollywood friends to record videos for Hebrew Home residents — like Robert De Niro. “I want to send my love and support to all of the residents and staff of the Hebrew Home in Riverdale,” said De Niro, the director of 1993’s “A Bronx Tale” who last year filmed scenes for his Oscar-nominated film “The Irishman” just down
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Beloved grandmother, community icon Muriel ‘Mickey’ Axelbank, 91 Muriel “Mickey” Axelbank, 91, who was beloved by her devoted family and the broader community, and well respected as an early childhood educator, died early Saturday, April 4, 2020. She led a stellar life of more than nine decades and was widely revered as an exceptional woman with a big heart that touched everyone around her. Her mother immigrated to America alone on a boat at 16. Her father died when she was just 2, and she was raised in a building across the street from the George Washington Bridge mickey by her mother and two aunts. axelbank They made sure she pursued her education, and she graduated from Brooklyn College — something not a lot of women did in the 1940s. She married Eli Axelbank in 1950. They lived for a short time in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, and ultimately settled and raised three sons — Arthur, Gary and Jeffrey as among the first shareholders in Park Reservoir Housing, the first state Mitchell-Lama housing project. She earned a master’s degree in early childhood education and became a teacher in her community at the Amalgamated Workman Circle Nursery School, and ultimately director of the Marble Hill Nursery School. Widowed when Eli died of cancer after 32 years of marriage, she continued her profession in education and spent the rest of her long life devoted to her Bronx community, and mostly to her six grandchildren and nieces and nephews, with whom she shared close personal relationships.
She was active in the Kingsbridge Riverdale Van Cortlandt Development Corp., in leading events at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, and with the Amalgamated’s Joint Community Activities Council, where she helped serve holiday meals and was the leader of a games program for senior citizens. Well known for caring for sick family, friends and neighbors, it was not unusual to see her grocery shopping for them, and even helping around their homes. After her passing, social media was enthusiastic with comments about her warmth, compassion, kindness, and even her infectious, engaging smile. She lived out her final years in assisted living in the Bronx, where she managed to charm both staff members and fellow residents with the same magnetism that earned her the title of “Miss Personality” at George Washington High School many years before. At both her 80th birthday party, and seven years later when her synagogue honored her, she brought the house down with her tap dancing. Her given name was Muriel, but she was born the same year as Mickey Mouse, and the name stuck. She is survived by her three sons, their wives — Susi Lieff, Suzanne Axelbank and Lori Freedman — grandchildren Evan and Haley Axelbank, Shawn Axelbank, Rachel Axelbank, Jacob Axelbank, Ariella Axelbank, and Elan Axelbank, as well as numerous nieces and nephews, and great nieces and nephews. Donations in memory of Mickey Axelbank can be sent to the Amalgamated Nursery School Scholarship Fund at tinyurl.com/AmalgamatedFund, or the Marble Hill Nursery School Scholarship Fund at MarbleHillNurserySchool.org/support.
Gerda Israelski-Rose Wasserman, a survivor of the Riga Ghetto, 99 Gerda Israelski-Rose Wasserman, 99, died in her sleep in her Riverdale home on Sunday, April 5, 2020. She was a 65-year resident of Riverdale. She was raised in Sehnde, Germany. She and her family were forced by German troops to leave their home in 1941 with transport to a labor camp in Riga, Latvia. Her mother Gerda Thea, father Wasserman Siegfried and younger brother Hans Georg died in 1942 at the Riga Ghetto,
but she survived through the liberation in 1945. She emigrated to New York City in 1947, met Henry Wasserman, and they married in 1949. Their son Steven was born in 1950, but he died in a plane crash in 1985. Henry passed away in 1997. She enjoyed the local community of Riverdale, and also loved winter stays in Florida, as well as many trips with her husband to Mexico and Europe. She enjoyed fashion, art, current events, celebrity news and politics. In 2018, author Hans-Hermann Seiffert completed his research on the life of Gerda Israelski-Rose Wasserman, and
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published his book, “A Jewish Woman from Sehnde Comes Back.” She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Barbara Wasserman; her grandchildren Karin Wegner (husband Dan Wegner) and Peter Wasserman (wife Raquel Katzan Wasserman); and her beloved greatgrandchildren, Eve Jordan, David Harris and George Aitken Wegner, and Noa Rose and Esta Helene Wasserman. Private funeral services were held April 8, 2020, conducted by Rabbi Avi Weiss. In lieu of flowers, please donate to young Jewish learning by way of PJ Library at PJLibrary.org/donate.
in the background. “I’m on a couch right now, but usually I’m on television,” Kimmel said. “I’m sure there is no argument going on — there’s a lot going on here in my house, but I hope none in yours. Sending love from California, we hope you guys are OK. And we hope we all get through this very soon.” One other celebrity Crystal recruited might not be well known among younger movie watchers. But many who got to experience cinema in the 1980s would know Steve Guttenberg, not only from the Police Academy film series, but later “Three Men and a Baby” as well as the Wilford Brimley science-fiction drama “Cocoon.” “Remember, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, be safe, because you are our most precious asset,” Guttenberg said, alongside wife Emily. “Please be safe, we love you. We’re both New Yorkers, and we miss you and love you.” As the Hebrew Home care-
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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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NeW exclusive 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
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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
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
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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 estate 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. $399,000
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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3875 Waldo 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
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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