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Dinowitz sworn in, but challengers ready n Lora kicks off primary campaign with some bigtime political heavyweights
‘You still have the boys club supporting Jeff Klein, supporting the IDC, supporting these backroom deals right here in this district. And it’s time to get that gone.’
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Shamed history Van Cortlandt House vows to remember its past — all of it — partnering with a parks group on a new initiative. Page A3
The council chambers at City Hall were mostly empty when Eric Dinowitz and his immediate family were ushered inside on April 14. Standing with him were his wife Tamar, and his parents — Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and Sylvia Gottlieb — as the former school teacher was sworn in to replace Andrew Cohen on the city council, promising to not only uphold the laws of the land, but to “faithfully discharge” the duties to which he had been elected. The ceremony came nearly three years after he jumped into the council race just days behind real estate attorney Dan Padernacht. But Dinowitz can’t breathe easy just yet. For the moment, he’s the placeholder representing this part of the Bronx — a job guaranteed to him only until the end of this year. Whether he remains on the job by the time the ball drops in Times Square depends on what happens on June 22. That’s when the Democrats will choose who will represent them on the November ballot. Dinowitz is a shoo-in, both as the in-
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Eric Dinowitz officially earned the title of councilman after his official swearing in on April 14 at City Hall. But there’s a group of challengers — led by Mino Lora — who want to make the former school teacher’s stay in elected office a brief one. cumbent and with the backing of the Bronx Democratic political machine. But there was one woman who gave him a good run for his money in the March 23 special election. And on Sunday, that woman wanted to make one thing clear: She plans to become Councilwoman Mino Lora on Jan. 1.
Gathering nearly 100 of her closest supporters at Van Cortlandt Park on the chilly spring afternoon, Lora made her primary run official with the help of some political heavyweights like state Sens. Alessandra Biaggi and Gustavo Rivera, Brooklyn councilman and city comptroller candidate Brad
Lander, and political activist and former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout. “The Bronx has a really exciting opportunity — it is an opportunity to bring an extraordinary, creative, loving, big-hearted Mino Lora to replace the old boys club and legacies,” Teachout told the crowd Sunday. “You see Mino taking on a legacy and an effort to get Dinowitz into office without having to directly engage with the voters and win on the merits.” Dinowitz, who chairs Community Board 8’s aging committee, was limited — like everyone else campaigning in the special election — because of the coronavirus pandemic. He championed a number of causes originally supported by his state lawmaker father as well as a few of his own, but couldn’t escape shouts of nepotism, COUNCIL CHALLENGE, page A4
CB8, shops give bike lanes a Bronx cheer Police change Tuesday’s guilty verdict for cop Derek Chauvin is just a start for some reformers who have big plans for law enforcement. Page A10
Winning equation Whoever says math isn’t cool obviously isn’t aware of one middle school competition where Euclid, Pythagoras are truly stars. Page A9
n Traffic committee votes down Mosholu Ave. project, but pedestrians fare better By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
As the warmer months approach, more people are turning to outdoor activities. Among them? Bicyclists. But if any of them are looking for designated space along streets like Mosholu Avenue, they may need to keep looking. Even the mention of bicycle lanes can bring the crowds out to a Community Board 8 traffic and transportation committee meeting, as experienced just recently over Independence Avenue, and just a few years ago along the Van Cortlandt Park stretch of Broadway. This time, the ire was pointed at a DOT proposal to add bike lanes to DAN PADERNACHT Mosholu Avenue. Yet, if the city’s transportation department decides to throw some additional paint on Mosholu to encourage cyclists, it won’t be with the blessing of CB8. The lanes were part and parcel of a DOT proposal to cut down speeding on Mosholu through the heart of North Riverdale. It’s not a new idea — the city first considered it in 2019 — but was shelved thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bronx borough DOT commissioner Nivardo Lopez. But now with hopes that COVID-19 is BIKE LANES, page A4
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Maybe some people thought the bicycle lanes proposed for Independence Avenue might have better luck on Mosholu Avenue? However, they were struck down as well at a recent Community Board 8 traffic and transportation committee meeting. Yet, the city’s transportation department will get the final say, and already has a history of not following CB8’s advisory positions.
Lora nearly tossed from primary ballot n Elections board takes issue with candidate using commonly known name By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
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After a strong second-place showing in the March 23 city council special election to replace Andrew Cohen, non-profit executive director Mino Lora was nearly kicked off the June 22 primary ballot last week. Lora says she never received notice from the elections board over an issue with her nickname — Mino — being used on the ballot.
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April 13 was a hard day for Maria Del Camino Lora Braswell. Or as voters simply know her: Mino Lora. The Spuyten Duyvil non-profit executive director was on the verge of officially finished runner-up to now-Councilman Eric Dinowitz in a March 23 special election to replace Andrew Cohen. She was gearing up to take another crack at the seat for the June 22 primary until she received word the city’s elections board wasn’t going to allow her name on the ballot. “It was surreal. It was extremely emotional,” Lora said. “It was one of the hardest days of my life. To think in that
moment, I was like, ‘What? After everything that’s happened? This cannot be what’s happening.’ So, it was just crazy.” The issue? It was all about the name. Mino Lora’s name, that is. She ran in the special election using a name that spanned just eight letters. But now, trying to ensure her name is included on the Democratic Party ballot for this summer’s primary, Lora was being told the name most everyone knows her by couldn’t work. She’d have to opt for the 26-letter name on her voter registration instead. It certainly was confusing. Votes cast for “Mino Lora” were still being tallied from the special election. But what was good for the special wasn’t good for the primary? After being called “Mino” for the past 20 years, she was going to have to start over and re-introduce herself with a different name? “Literally, I am on the ballot that’s happening right now, being counted,” LORA PRIMARY, page A4
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Jeffrey Lee, music lover, proud Clinton grad, 70
Jeffrey Alan Lee, 70, peacefully passed away April 14, 2021, in Danbury Hospital following liver complications. A resident of Riverdale for more than 40 years, he was a proud attendee of DeWitt Clinton High School. He is survived by his current wife Alba, former wife Rae, children Matthew and Samantha, granddaughter Ariana, and sister Vicki. He was preceded in death by brothers Kevin and Michael. He will be remembered for his good love of music and jovial nature.
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They built this homestead, but didn’t have a choice n Project shines light on slave contributions to area in and around Vannie By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
It’s a common misperception of America’s already shameful history of slavery that it only existed south of the Mason-Dixon Line. But Laura Carpenter Myers knows better, and wants to ensure others do, too. “Most education in the 20th century into the 21st century in let’s say elementary, junior high and high school has focused on this history of slavery in the south, which has caused this myth of understanding that slavery didn’t happen in the north,” Myers said. But, “in fact, slavery was common in all 13 colonies.” Unfortunately, it was all too common on land that is now home to Van Cortlandt Park. The family — one of the first of European descent to settle the land — had as many as two-dozen slaves, according to some historians. While that’s a fraction of what many southern plantations had, people like Myers will say that is still two-dozen too many to ever have. Myers is director of the Van Cortlandt House Museum, the family’s house, considered one of the oldest in the Bronx. The surrounding land was tended to by the Van Cortlandts’ slaves growing and processing wheat for nearly two centuries beginning in 1630. Many of those same enslaved people, Myers said, also built some of the prominent structures in the southwestern part of the park. Learning a lot of that took some extensive research — the Van Cortlandts were quite influential in their day, with a knack for keeping unpleasant records of the past hidden. So Myers got together with the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and the Kingsbridge Historical Society to start what they call the Enslaved People Project. Their goal? Educating visitors about the history of enslaved people in
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The Van Cortlandt House Museum recently opened an exhibit in the attic of its main structure sharing its notso-pleasant history as slave quarters. It’s part of the Enslaved People Project, an effort from several local groups to shine a light on contributions enslaved people made to shape what is now Van Cortlandt Park. this part of the world. It all started in Summer 2018 when Myers realized the museum had always seemed to quietly avoid this aspect of the property’s history. “I started seeing — as director of the museum — that we’ve kind of paid lip service to acknowledging that there was a history of slavery on the plantation in this house,” Myers said. “And what better time than now to really pursue that and be more transparent about it.” The project consists of several initiatives, Myers said. Like opening up a new section of the museum. Designing a tour of slave-built structures around the park. Drafting a curriculum for various school grade levels. And forming a community task force.
The first step was opening a new section of the museum in the house’s attic space. It was there where Myers believes enslaved women lived. By the start of the 21st century, however, the attic had become nothing more than a storage area. That had to change. It was a good starting point for the project, Myers said, because it created an impactful and educational space without a lot of funding or effort. “When you go up into that space in the attic of the house, it’s very poignant,” Myers said. “It’s very difficult to stand in that room and not feel some sort of way about what the lives of the women that lived in that room must have been like.” Outside the museum, Christina Taylor — programs director with the Van
Cortlandt Park Alliance — is updating her tours of the park to highlight the structures built by enslaved people. Besides the house itself, several other sites already have been identified. This includes the red steps leading up to the house itself, Taylor said, and the millstone surrounded by trees nearby. This stone was a part of the Van Cortlandt family’s gristmill, where enslaved people also worked. The context behind these structures was new, even for Taylor. “I worked in the park for 15 years, I think, before I knew what I was walking over,” she said. “We planted trees right there, and I had no idea what this thing in the middle was. Turns out, it was a millstone from the mill.” The enslaved people dammed Tib-
betts Brook, Taylor said, creating Van Cortlandt Lake — used to power the gristmill. Remnants of the mill can still be found on the lake’s south side. “In the southwest corner of the park, when you’re walking around — you can actually see a lot, to this day, of the work that was put in by the enslaved people,” Taylor said. “So, we have this unique opportunity in the park to teach about slavery. But also to show what was actually built by them.” Last year, with a little help from Community Board 8, the alliance picked up funding to develop educational material for fourth-graders and middle schoolers. It focused on the massive farms and how they relate to the surrounding area, Myers said. They also look at the background of wheat — the primary crop grown there — as a food commodity. “The idea is that hopefully they can not only do the curriculum in the school,” Taylor said, “but also come to the park and see a lot of what the enslaved people built.” Stephanie Ehrlich, the alliance’s executive director, is letting local teachers know these tours are available for classes now that the weather is getting warmer. But one of the most important aspects of the project comes by way of a community task force, Ehrlich said. It has weighed in heavily on developing signage in the park to explain the backstory of the structures built by enslaved people — one of the project’s long-term goals. “There’s nothing that talks about what these historical sites are,” Ehrlich said. “So, they’ve been helping us to understand that this needs to be interpreted in the landscape.” The work of the Enslaved People Project is only just beginning, said Myers, who expects it’ll be an ongoing research and education effort. “Because the more you look, the more you find,” she said. “And you just never know when the next really important bit of information and knowledge is going to come down the line. So, we started, but we don’t necessarily have an end in sight.”
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Neighbors say Mosholu already too crowded BIKE LANES from page A1 becoming more of our past than our present, the transportation department returned to the community board, hoping to get its support for its traffic plans. The proposed bike lanes, however, proved to be too controversial, especially among the businesses along Mosholu — many of whom signed a petition opposing bike lanes, according to Broadway Community Alliance spokeswoman Tara McMaster. The concern is that business — already on thin ice because of the pandemic — would further suffer if bike lanes were installed, as it could clog up the streets, making it more difficult for vehicles to double-park. “Our restaurants are all more dependent on takeout and delivery,” McMaster said. “Narrowing the street will cause dangerous congestion, as parking is already very limited. And suppliers, delivery cars and customers picking up food already have difficulty accessing the businesses.” The petition by Mosholu’s business owners proved pivotal to traffic committee chair Dan Padernacht, who joined the majority in voting down the bike lanes. “What I’ve heard are 37 businesses saying no,” Padernacht said. “We’re coming out of a pandemic where all of those businesses have been hurting for a year and a half right now. So based on the businesses’ extreme disapproval of this, I’m not going to go in support of this bike lane.” One of those concerns was the ability for customers and delivery drivers to double-park for quick pick-ups and drop-offs, claiming bike lanes could disrupt that practice. And while doubleparking remains illegal, it doesn’t seem to affect what already is a commonplace practice not only in this part of the Bronx, but the city as a whole. However, that’s not a good enough reason to eliminate bike lanes from the Mosholu proposal, traffic committee vice chair Deb Travis said. She was ultimately one of just two committee members voting in favor of adding bike lanes, joining
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The question addressed to Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee: Should the neighborhood prioritize bicycle lanes or double-parking? And while the committee established double-parking was still illegal, bike riders didn’t fare well, as the committee struck down bike lanes on Mosholu Avenue. cyclist David Gellman. The DOT’s ultimate goal appeared to be traffic calming. Unlike the parking-protected bike lanes along Broadway near the city’s borders, the Mosholu bike lanes would be nothing more than sharrows — paint on the street for an area cars and bicycles already share. But some worried bike lanes would slow traffic too much. “It is already impossible to get up the block as it is,” said Christine Card, whose children attend school in the area. “To put bike lanes in when it’s already an utterly bottlenecked ride almost the en-
tire way to school every morning is just going to make it a bigger nightmare than it already is.” But not everyone was against the proposal. In fact, their complaints were more that these lanes were not built between parked cars and the sidewalk, the kind of “protection” Lopez said was impossible on a stretch like Mosholu. Rebecca Lish told the committee bicycle-specific infrastructure was not only needed along Mosholu, but in the community as a whole. “Our neighborhood is very poorly served in terms of bike access,” Lish said. “We keep making
excuses that we can’t do this (and) we can’t do that because the cars double-park. But the cars should not be double-parked. The rights of people who choose to commute by bicycle should not be inhibited by abuse of the law by people who choose to drive cars.” While Lish, Travis and Gellman may not have been on the winning side of the CB8 vote, they could still get their bike lanes. The community board’s decisions are merely advisory, and DOT is not bound by it in any way. In fact, the Broadway protected bike lanes were built despite opposition from Padernacht and the traffic committee in 2018. But Padernacht’s issues weren’t just limited to bike lanes. He also pointed out the plan’s seeming lack of pedestrian crossings. Patricia Smith, who described herself as a disabled senior citizen, said crossing Mosholu could be treacherous for people like her. Moreover, there wasn’t a place to legally cross anywhere between Fieldston Road and Broadway. “For me to legally cross the street, I have to walk an extra … quarter of a mile up to Fieldston. Uphill,” Smith said. “I find it very, very interesting that in the Department of Transportation’s presentation, in almost every picture that they used to illustrate Mosholu Avenue, there was a pedestrian illegally crossing. If that’s not a tacit acknowledgement that this is a problem, I don’t know what is.” But pedestrians are foremost on DOT’s mind, Lopez said. The agency already is looking into improving that infrastructure along Mosholu, especially where it meets Post Road and Liebig and Huxley avenues. “I understand the community board’s feelings,” Lopez said. “I still want to work especially on helping out with the businesses and finding ways that they can deliver to the curb without obstructing traffic, which I think will be an ongoing discussion. And, of course, an ongoing discussion about finding ways of improving pedestrian crossings on Mosholu.”
Dinowitz can’t rest long as primary fight looms COUNCIL CHALLENGE from page A1 and the benefits he picked up running under the “Dinowitz” brand. Teachout, however, blamed this Dinowitz club of backing the wrong horse too many times. Last year by supporting Eliot Engel over Jamaal Bowman in the congressional race, and nearly three years ago standing firmly behind state Sen. Jeffrey Klein after Biaggi mounted what seemed at first like a suicide run against a firmly entrenched politician who led the Independent Democratic Conference — a group of breakaway Democrats who backed a Republican leadership in Albany. “You still have the boys club supporting Jeff Klein, supporting the IDC, supporting these backroom deals right here in this district,” Teachout said. “And it’s time to get that gone, to finish the job with Mino.” Lora has quite the uphill battle, however. It’s not just the Dinowitz name and running against someone who is now the incumbent, but also to draw out fresh new voters herself. The special election drew fewer than 10 percent of eligible voters. And the last time this council seat was contested during a primary, only 20 percent of Democrats showed up to select Cohen over environmental activist Cliff Stanton in 2013. According to some election maps, Lora fared far better in the Spanishspeaking portions of the council district — which stretches into Norwood and Woodlawn on the other side of Van Cortlandt Park and the Jerome Park Reservoir — and would likely have to work even harder to ensure those voters get to the polls this summer. And Lora isn’t even the only candidate running against Dinowitz in the primary. Padernacht is still running despite his fourth-place finish in the special election, as is retired New York Police Department detective Carlton Berkley, who finished last in a six-candidate field on March 23. Joining them are Riverdale social worker Abigail Martin and a Demo-
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Nearly 100 supporters ventured out to Van Cortlandt Park on Sunday to help Mino Lora kick off her June primary campaign for city council. Lora is aiming to unseat Eric Dinowitz, the former school teacher who beat her and four other candidates in a low-turnout special election March 23. cratic male district leader out of Norwood, Marcos Sierra. Both sat out the special election, which gives Martin a significant head start in fundraising after the special election candidates shelled out nearly $750,000 in the race ultimately won by Dinowitz. Yet, it’s a race Lora is ready to take on at full speed. “One of the things that is essential for me is that when we win — when we win, let’s manifest that — we will work together,” Lora said. “We will co-govern with tenants, with students, with workers, with immigrants, with women, with unions. All of us will work together with seniors deciding what is
the legislation we need? What are the budget priorities that we need, that will make our city a city that is a place for all of us, and our Bronx a place where all of us can live with dignity, with love, with justice, and with all the same opportunities.” Candidates like Lora and Dinowitz are already raising funds for the primary, hoping to get an eight-times matching grant for any money pulled in from New York City-based donors. But Lora already proved in the special election that the most money doesn’t mean the most votes — her nearly $31,000 raised was the lowest among the major candidates, and only Padernacht spent
less than she did. How all of that will translate into the primary race has yet to be seen. But Lora expects a significant boost from sitting lawmakers like Biaggi, who herself comes from a political family. “We are in a moment of transformation,” the senator said. “What is transformation? It’s an opportunity to rebuild something, and to build something new — not something old, or to make something old better. It’s the ability to make something new in a moment of change. “And that is what Mino Lora is going to do when she wins the primary in June.”
The primary race to see if Eric Dinowitz will continue on as city councilman past December is under way, but it’s happening with one fewer candidate. Jessica Haller is out of the June 22 race after finishing behind both Dinowitz and Mino Lora in the March 23 special election. In an email to supporters last Friday, Haller quoted former president Theodore Roosevelt, describing her special election race as her “daring greatly.” “We dared to challenge the machine,” she said of the Bronx Democratic political machine, which favored Dinowitz. “We dared to place the climate crisis at the center of a local campaign. We dared to assert that everything is connected, and that city policy should be viewed through the lens of equity, resilience and sustainability.” Haller jumped into the city council race in late January 2020, just weeks before the entire city — and nation — would be gripped with the coronavirus pandemic. Even in that announcement, she pushed more advocacy than campaign. “I’m not really sure I want to ever call myself a politician,” Haller said at the time. “But I do want to work for the community. And in my mind, all the things I’ve always done is about the process by which we make decisions.” Haller raised more than $85,000 in the special election race, and along with more than $140,000 in public matching funds, spent just under $225,000, according to campaign finance filings. She outraised every other candidate in the field, but slightly outspent by Dinowitz, who ultimately won the campaign. — Michael Hinman
Primary campaign almost ended before it began LORA PRIMARY from page A1 Lora said, recalling that day. “They’re like, ‘Oh yes, the election results should be any minute now.’ And I was like, ‘Exactly! And I’m there as Mino Lora.’” She didn’t have an attorney on hand that dealt with such matters, so she turned to one of her special election opponents she had partnered up with, Jessica Haller, who offered her own attorney: Ali Najmi. He told The Riverdale Press it’s standard practice for the elections board to raise issues about names appearing on a candidate’s petition papers not matching their voter registration. However, the law allows candidates to use nicknames on the ballot so long it’s a name they’re commonly known by in the community. Such an issue is usually a simple fix. Except Lora didn’t even know it was an issue that needed fixing. She was never notified by the elections board — as the law also requires — nor was she even aware about the April 13 hearing to discuss it until it was already practically under way. Lora only found out because a reporter had called her spokesman, David Neustadt — well after hours the night before asking about the hearing. According to Najmi, if the elections
board had sent Lora a notice in a “timely manner,” than she could’ve resolved the issue before the hearing. Lora spent six hours at the elections board office the next day trying to figure out why her name was being removed from the ballot. With her team and the virtual presence of Najmi, Lora learned the board never sent her a notice about the problem due to a technical issue of its own: a clerical error. When reached for comment, a spokeswoman for the elections board simply told The Press “the issue is resolved. She’s on the ballot.” That lack of notice was enough for Najmi to score a new hearing, and a second chance for Lora to get her name back on the ballot. “In that moment, it was just trying to compile everything and trying to understand why we were never given a notice,” Lora said. “And if that clerical error hadn’t been made, we would’ve received it. We would’ve addressed it. We would’ve never been in a hearing.” An elections board document shared by Lora’s campaign shows a notice for the hearing wasn’t generated for her campaign. Lora says she was the only candidate with a hearing that day who hadn’t received a notice, forcing her campaign to spend additional money on Najmi’s services — as well
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Speaking in front of the tortoise and hare statue at Van Cortlandt Park, Mino Lora rallies her supporters Sunday, officially kicking off her primary run to unseat Eric Dinowitz on the city council. She finished a distant second behind Dinowitz in the March 23 primary, but hopes to reverse that in the June 22 primary. as Lora’s time. “I was there for six hours that day in consultation with my lawyer, with my team, advocating for myself,” Lora said. “And I didn’t leave until the Board of Elections was able to confirm that a letter was never issued — a notice was never given — which is why then, the next day, we were able to go.” And that persistence paid off. When Lora showed up to the rescheduled hearing the next day, the two technicalities canceled each other out and Najmi successfully restored her name
— the one everyone knows her by — to the ballot. Najmi shared the news on Twitter. “After conducting a new hearing this morning, the commissioners of the BOE have restored Mino Lora to the ballot in the 11th Council District primary,” he wrote. While this wasn’t the way Lora expected to start her primary campaign, the silver lining is it shows her campaign is ready to respond to any challenges it may face in the run-up to June.
“It just means, ‘Here we go,’” Lora said. “It just brought the fire back from this resting period after the special to say, ‘OK, we just fought for this again, somehow. And now we’re ready.’” Lora will find herself in familiar territory again as one of only two women in the race. Before, it was alongside Haller. But Haller’s not running in the primary, so Lora will face off with social worker Abigail Martin instead. All of them will be joined by Kingsbridge Heights real estate attorney Dan Padernacht, Norwood-based political activist Marcos Sierra, and retired New York Police Department detective Carlton Berkley. And, of course, the area’s new councilman, Eric Dinowitz. Lora knows challenging an incumbent is difficult enough — made even harder when that incumbent shares a name with a longtime Assemblyman with the backing of the Bronx political machine. But while she ultimately finished second in the March 23 special election, she still finished second. And that gives Lora confidence about her chances in the primary. “We are using that momentum to continue moving forward,” Lora said. “This is Chapter One of this story that will continue to be told.”
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Awareness, advocacy essential for autism community n It’s Autism Awareness Month, but being aware might just not be enough By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
“If you are happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. I will make it virtually impossible for your family to easily attend a temple, a birthday party, a public park without a struggle, without embarrassment, without pain. I will fight to take away your hope.” These are the promises made by a disembodied voice in a 2009 commercial produced and released by the organization Autism Speaks. The voice is dark and threatening, while ominous music plays in the background. Thankfully, the way people talk about autism has changed over the past decade. Even when it comes to April — known as Autism Awareness Month — some advocates believe it should be known as “Autism Acceptance Month” instead. Or even “Autism Advocacy Month,” if you ask Susan Silvestri. She is the director of QSAC School for Students with Autism in the Bronx, part of a network of schools across the city and Long Island that exclusively serve autistic students. Silvestri believes when it comes to autism, advocacy — and self-advocacy, when possible — is especially important. “As students get older and are able to communicate better and be more aware of their surroundings, we are working toward having conversations with our students about what it means to have autism,” Silvestri said. “I would really like my students to be able to say to someone, ‘I have autism, and this is hard for me,’ because I think it would be really useful for them to communicate that to the world around them.” QSAC schools provide a space for students whose needs can’t be met
To Susan Silvestri, director of QSAC School for Students with Autism in the Bronx, autism advocacy goes beyond students, needing to represent teachers as well. Access to necessary resources isn’t as easy for QSAC as it might be for public schools. HIRAM ALEJANDRO DURÁN
by their would-be local or specialized District 75 school. As a result, they stand outside the scope of the city’s public school system, meaning QSAC teachers don’t have access to the same benefits as their public school counterparts — like membership in the United Federation of Teachers union and retirement benefits. And it’s not like those teachers don’t deserve those resources, Silvestri said. The jobs for QSAC teachers are more difficult because of the specialized population the school serves. They also get paid less while working all 12 months out of the year, with traditional summer breaks out the window. As a result, QSAC’s turnover rate tends to be higher than city public schools. But Silvestri doesn’t blame teachers who leave QSAC seeking more support and benefits. Yet that turnover does impact students leading for Silvestri’s push for April to not just focus on those with autism, but their support network — like
their teachers — too. “Everyone acknowledges how needed we are, but it’s known that we have teacher shortages, (and) we have a very difficult time hiring and keeping people,” she said. “The idea that the students with the most needs have the fewest resources is something we really struggle with on a year-to-year basis.” A change in routine — like a new teacher — can be very difficult for autistic students. In fact, the two core symptom domains for autism are social deficits and repetitive behaviors, according to Dr. Eric Hollander, an autism specialist at Montefiore Medical Center. But aside from that, autism tends to be a unique diagnosis for each person with the neurodevelopmental disorder. “If you’ve seen one individual with an autism spectrum disorder, you’ve seen one individual with an autism spectrum disorder,” Hollander said. “It’s a pretty broad spectrum. People
present with different symptoms, and they present at different ages.” Much of the language surrounding autism has changed over the past few years, and maybe that has helped lessen the stigma attached to such a diagnosis. For example, those diagnosed with autism shouldn’t be labeled as “high-functioning” or “low-functioning,” nor are they diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Rather, everyone is part of a broader autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, given a level ranging from one through three. The higher the number, the higher that person’s needs are. Nevertheless, an autism diagnosis can be daunting for parents, even if such a diagnosis isn’t all that rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one in every 54 children has an autism spectrum disorder. But there are a number of things parents can do, Hollander said. For starters, get that diagnosis as early as possible.
“That will allow people to access certain kinds of services, and getting specialized services may be associated with a better outcome,” Hollander said. “You want to be able to kind of think about it, refer to a specialist, get an early diagnosis, and early support and early interventions … may improve the long-term developmental trajectory.” But the pressure shouldn’t just be on parents and teachers when it comes to autism. Before he was a city councilman, Eric Dinowitz spent several years as a special education teacher. In his time in the public school system, he met and taught many autistic children. And although much of the language and attitude toward those students may have changed over his teaching career, he thinks there’s still a lot of work to be done. But it’s not impossible. Rather, a lot of it is just meeting an autistic person where they are. “What often happens is we lose sight of the fact that every child is different,” Dinowitz said. “We have to love and appreciate every child for who they are, and provide them with what they need to grow and succeed.” Some autistic people only need a bit of understanding and flexibility to grow and thrive. But some need more support, like students at QSAC — Quality Services for the Autism Community — schools. And in order for them to succeed, their schools need to be better funded. The call is not necessarily just for autism awareness and acceptance, but for advocacy. “I appreciate the concept of autism awareness because I think all of us could do better to go about our daily lives giving other people the benefit of the doubt,” Silvestri said. “We don’t know what challenges other people are facing on a momentto-moment basis, and I think autism awareness is a big part of that. But I think that the most important thing that I can do in my role is advocate for fair funding of our schools.”
SCHOOL DESK Principal union, UFT endorse Stringer In a city where the mayor stands in charge of the public school system, it certainly helps to have the endorsement of teachers and principals alike. And one mayoral hopeful picked up major nods from unions involving both. The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, which represents principals
By ROSE BRENNAN and school heads in the city, backs city comptroller Scott Stringer in the upcoming mayoral primary. The United Federation of Teachers, however, took a little more time to offer its endorsement, initially narrowing down its candidates list to Stringer, businessman Andrew Yang, Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams and attorney Maya Wiley. Stringer ultimately received
UFT’s endorsement this past es this past year due to the severe impact of the pandemic,” Monday. According to CSA’s presi- Cannizzaro said, in a release. dent Mark Cannizzaro, The “We need a leader in City Hall CSA made its decision based with the skills, experience and on Stringer’s city government vision to appropriately address experience, the fact he spent our students’ academic, social his whole life in the city, and and emotional needs. (Stringbecause he’s a parent to two er) has innovative, bold plans city public school students, ac- to transform classrooms for fucording to the union’s president ture generations, and he will be ready on Day One as mayor to Mark Cannizzaro. “Public school communitiesT:11"implement them to bring a rohave faced countless challeng- bust post-COVID recovery.”
Free 3-K comes to local schools this fall Not long after the city announced it would add some 16,000 slots for free services for 3-year-olds looking to get an early start to school, some local educational institutions learned they will host some of those slots beginning this fall. Among them is BedRock Preschool on Arlington Avenue. Managing director Mego
Gojka hoped the school would be selected as it already participates in the city’s Pre-K for All program. Joining them is Riverdale Neighborhood House on Mosholu Avenue. Private institutions like St. Gabriel School on West 235th Street and St. Margaret of Cortona School on West 260th Street also will participate. Registration is available at MySchools.nyc.gov.
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Solving the problem of virtual math competitions n MoMath asks middle schoolers to explore the world through numbers By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
For some middle schoolers, there is nothing more daunting than a math test. But nearly a dozen of them from one Bronx school took one unlike any other last month. And they did so voluntarily. The “test” in question was the 2021 Con Edison MoMathlon, a yearly event hosted by the National Museum of Mathematics. But it’s not the usual deal for a math test, where you have to show your work, memorize equations, and turn in the papers at the end of the period, hoping for the best. Instead, the questions are challenging in a different way: Asking students to use logic to solve complicated, multilayered problems. And if that weren’t enough, the coronavirus through a wrench into an already unorthodox competition. That moved the MoMathlon from the Con Edison building near Gramercy Park — or more locally at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School — to each of the competitors’ homes. One team from Woodlawn’s P.S. 19 Judith K. Weiss, ended up being the sole representation from the Bronx after Riverdale Country School dropped out at the last minute. But that didn’t worry James Frey, a veteran P.S. 19 teacher who coaches the math team each year. In fact, it provided an opportunity for the public school to show what it was made of. “We’re lucky to be in a school like P.S. 19,” Frey said. “We usually do pretty good against the other public schools, but these private schools … have like five kids in a class. It’s hard to compete (with) the Fieldston School and Horace Mann. When you have five kids in a class, they get personal attention every day.” Unfortunately, in the time leading up to the MoMathlon, P.S. 19 had to shift to fully remote learning due to multiple positive coronavirus cases at the school. As a result, Frey’s practices were not in-person as he would normally prefer in the days leading up to the actual competition. But that didn’t stop team members
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from singing his praises. Morea Gjocaj said Frey excelled as a coach, even if he had to teach and give his input and advice over a computer. “If you’re looking for a great eighthgrade teacher in math, come to P.S. 19,” Gjocaj said. “He’s taught me more than I could ever imagine myself learning in a year. One week, we learned something new almost every day. I wouldn’t have imagined being able to learn this much and understanding it
this well.” Such affection aside, complex problems weren’t the only issues students like Gjocaj can face. More often than not, “mathletes” and students who like to do math are ridiculed or bullied in television shows and movies set at high schools. But not at P.S. 19. There, being good at math actually makes you one of the cool kids. “Everybody comes to you for problems they have in their classes,
especially math classes,” said Nicholas Burns, one of those cool kids. “If you’re (on) a math team, then you are more likely to help other people who need help in their math class.” Usually, the MoMathlon invites local competition from the five boroughs, as well as the entire tri-state area. But even though the remote format proved challenging for the competition, it was a blessing in disguise for students who wanted to compete but
WHAT’S IN / WHAT’S ON Mayoral candidates invited to teen interfaith forum Young representatives from the Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities will join the Interfaith Center of New York for a mayoral town hall on Monday, May 3 beginning at 7:30 p.m. The town hall will give participating mayoral candidates a chance to field questions from a diverse group of teens hailing from different parts of New York City, and is organized by SAR High School students Tyler Fischman and Eytan Saenger. To register for the online event, visit tinyurl. com/InterfaithMayor.
Celebrate Earth Day surrounded by trees Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy celebrates Earth Day on April 24 with a series of activities running from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Those activities include a chainsaw artist carving a tree trunk, crafts, tree plantings, and learning from experts about the best way to prune and maintain a tree. Trolley rides around the cemetery will also be available.
would not have otherwise been able to make the trip into the city. “I think we will, of course, go back to having in-person events once we can,” said Cindy Lawrence, the math museum’s executive director. “But after we ran (an) adult math tournament, a lot of people asked us, ‘Will you please run it online next year again?’ So we had participants from all over the country that never would have been able to come to New York.” The competition is typically split into individual and team rounds. But Lawrence likes to mix it up, sometimes asking teams to break apart and form new alliances with students from other schools. And while it might be challenging for students to work with people they’ve never met before, Lawrence hopes it provides a sense of community and teamwork among teens with similar interests. “I really wanted to incorporate more of a social aspect and let kids meet kids from other schools who liked math,” she said. “We really wanted this to be an opportunity for these students to not just have fun with their peers … but also have the opportunity to meet other people and make new friends, maybe outside of your own school.” Unfortunately, the team portion of the competition proved difficult to facilitate remotely. Virtual “breakout” rooms didn’t go as planned for MoMath. But Lawrence said the show had to go on, with the focus more on individual competition. P.S. 19 ultimately fell short of earning any individual medals, but that didn’t affect the “mathletes” enjoying the chance to compete. “It was a bit of a mess,” Frey said. “But I think the kids had a fun day despite all the technical issues.” But to Lawrence, while prizes and medals might be nice to get, they’re not the be-all, end-all of what the MoMathlon is about. Rather, it’s about celebrating the subject these students love, and encouraging them to pursue it further. And what better way to do that than to visit Midtown’s National Museum of Mathematics itself? “I don’t think the prizes (are) necessarily the incentive,” Lawrence said. “What all of the students will get is … free passes to visit the museum. So we hope that, when we reopen, everybody will be encouraged to come and enjoy the museum in-person.”
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There is no entrance fee, and Woodlawn also is offering a complimentary hot dog lunch. Advanced registration is required, however. For more information, visit WoodlawnTours.org.
Enjoy wine and food to help streets The Riverdale Main Streets Alliance hosts its second annual virtual wine tasting through the Zoom online videoconferencing app Thursday, April 22 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Skyview Wines will provide organic and biodynamic wines — delivered to homes — while food will be available from Claudy’s Kitchen. Cost is $50 for wine, and $100 for both wine and food. Proceeds will help fund the alliance’s ongoing maintenance of tree pits, parks and public spaces. For more information and tickets, call RMSABx.org.
Stay busy at the Sunday Market The Riverdale Y Sunday market is open every Sunday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., in the parking lot of the Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence
Ave., near West 246th Street. Among the activities, there is food scrap collection every week between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. This includes fruit, vegetables, eggshells, coffee, tea, nuts, dried flowers and houseplants. For more information, visit RiverdaleY.org/ community/Sunday-market.
SHSAT strategy sessions begin Prep and strategy sessions for eighth- and ninth-graders expecting to take the Specialized High School Admissions Test have begun at Riverdale Neighborhood House. Led by community classes coordinator Rob Adelman, the sessions focus on realistic practice and targeted content review, including a mock exam, time management strategies, and the review of skills and formulas in approaching the test. For more information, email radelman@riverdaleonline.org.
Radical Elegance available online The Bronx Council on the Arts presents the online exhibit “Radical Elegance” through May
26 through the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos. Curated by Yelanie Rodriguez, the exhibit features Bronx-affiliated photographers who subvert the traditional aesthetics of fashion photography, challenging its so-called elitist practices in the field as well as the historical, technical and stylistic approaches that characterize the genre. The photographers do this by taking charge of their narratives, documenting their communities, and shedding light on the cultures of Black, Indigenous and people. The exhibit is available at BronxArts.org. A public program begins at 6 p.m., on May 12, while a closing reception starts at 6 on May 26.
Kusama on way to garden Advance tickets are now on sale for the New York Botanical Garden’s upcoming exhibition, Kusama: Cosmic Nature. It features work by internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and will be on view through Oct. 31 across the 2900 Southern Blvd. attraction’s 250-acre landscape, as well as in and around the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library building. To get tickets, visit NYBG.org.
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Another death renews call for NYPD reform n Chauvin trial, Wright killing maintains attention to evolve law enforcement
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Although it’s dominated the news for the past year, Americans’ reckoning with how Black communities are policed is hardly new — even in the wake of killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. That reckoning continued this month, not just with the trial of the cop charged with Floyd’s murder, but yet another police shooting of a Black man in the same metropolitan area. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer on April 11 after he was pulled over in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb just miles from the courthouse where former police officer Derek Chauvin faced a jury of his peers. Wright’s death — reportedly after a cop mistook her actual gun for her stun gun — is the third publicized fatal shooting of a Black man in this part of the Midwest following not only Floyd, but also Philando Castile in 2016. Wright’s death, however, has a very familiar feeling for U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “For me, as a Black man, every time a Black man or Black person is killed by the police, part of my soul is ripped out,” the congressman said. “And it’s another strike against building trust between police departments, governments and the Black community — trust that historically has been difficult to build.” Floyd’s killing sparked summertime protests across the county — including here in New York City — calling for dramatic changes to how police departments operate. Some pushed for “defunding the police” — significantly cutting law enforcement budgets and moving many non-enforcement responsibilities to other agencies. Lawmakers in Albany passed a package of police reform bills last year that had languished in committee for a long time prior. These included a ban on police use of chokeholds as well as the repeal of 50-a — which had shielded complaints of police misconduct from the public. More recently, the city council moved to make it far easier for people to sue police officers over alleged misconduct, like the use of excessive force and illegal searches. They did it by limiting “qualified immunity” — a legal defense for police officers shielding them from personal lawsuits accusing them of rights violations. While these are crucial reforms, Jennifer Scarlott believes a lot more needs
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Following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last year, protesters took to the streets calling for major police reforms. With the police-involved killing this year of Daunte Wright — also a Black man — advocates are renewing calls for cutting the New York Police Department’s budget and shifting responsibilities away from the department. to be done. “We have years to go on this,” said Scarlott, a leader of the North Bronx Racial Justice advocacy group. “I think the institution needs to be radically transformed, and that should involve shifting funding from traditional and highly militarized police forces to communities who’ve been starved of funding for such a long time.” Cutting “bloated” police budgets is where reform has to start, Bowman said. He cited recent videos revealing the New York Police Department’s latest tool — a robotic police “dog,” equipped with cameras — used in a recent operation at a Manhattan public housing development. “They’re literally building robot police dogs and having them surveilling potential crime scenes and communities,” Bowman said. “You know, if that’s not an indication that we’ve gone too far with this, I don’t know what is.” The city council has debated the extent of NYPD funding, ultimately chopping $1 billion from its $6 billion budget. Council members justified this move by shifting some non-enforcement responsibilities away from the department. Still, many activists — and even members of city council — feel these budget cuts don’t go far enough. Advocates have specifically called for shifting responses to mental health
fundamentally answer the questions that need to be asked,” Dinowitz said. “What does robust and comprehensive training look like? What does accountability look like? Funding doesn’t address that.” Instead, the city should reform the department by empowering the existing Civilian Complaint Review Board — the city’s independent police misconduct watchdog — by giving the board disciplinary authority, Dinowitz said. Right now, the board can only recommend discipline. What ultimately happens to an officer is solely in the hands of the police commissioner. In fact, state Sen. Jamaal Bailey and Queens Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz have introduced a bill in Albany that aims to do exactly that. Dinowitz also thinks the NYPD should extend anti-bias training and make it ongoing, not just something that’s one-and-done in the academy. “I don’t believe that six months is long enough to train someone,” Dinowitz said. “I think we need to take a hard look at what the requirements are, and what ongoing training looks like.” Scarlott said she’s not impressed with Dinowitz’s position on police reform so far. “Frankly, he seems more to be giving lip service to the concept than to be a true advocate of defunding the NYPD or reinvesting in communities.”
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U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman is backing a congressional bill many say already is dead on arrival, intending to restrict American financial aid to Israel. But one outspoken critic of the congressman apparently has had enough, pushing an online petition condemning Bowman’s move. It’s all over legislation introduced last week not by Bowman but instead Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum she’s calling the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act. The title alone has apparently angered Hebrew Institute of Riverdale rabbi Avi Weiss, who said conditioning aid “not only weakens Israel, but also America.” “Rather than support this bill that falsely and outrageously demonizes Israel, we would have expected you to raise a voice of moral conscience against this dangerous legislation,” Weiss and Young Israel of Scarsdale rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern wrote to Bowman. McCollum — known for her past efforts to limit how Israel spends American aid — says her bill is not intended to weaken Israel, but instead prevent the country from using aid to help fund military operations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, especially those that jail Palestinian children or destroy Palestinian property. In a statement to The Riverdale Press, Bowman says he’s both “pro-Israel and pro-Palestine,” adding that “supporting the security of Israel and the rights of Palestinians are not mutually exclusive.” “Given the size and share of foreign aid received by Israel, it’s incredibly important that we ensure taxpayer dollars — whether abroad or at home — comply with U.S. laws and with international humanitarian laws,” Bowman said. “Our taxpayer dollars should not be used as a means to entrench the occupation of Palestine, which is counter-productive to achieving peace and a two-state solution.”
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Celebrate Eid at Home to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 • Keep your gathering small and celebrate Eid al-Fitr with household members only. • If gathering in a group, wear a snug fitting face covering to protect the elderly and vulnerable. • Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines, including which groups are currently eligible to receive one.
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e’ve all been there as young children, after realizing we did something that would surely earn us a scolding from our parents. We close our eyes tight, cover our ears, and hope our efforts to shut out the world will somehow vanquish the trouble we created. Of course, we learn right away that we can’t run away from our problems. That no matter how much we pretend they don’t exist, they do. And at some point, there’s going to be a reckoning. But there’s one man out there who still believes if he runs fast enough, trouble won’t catch up. That if he closes his eyes and covers his ears, he can wipe those concerns out of existence. Sorry, governor, that’s not how it works. For nearly a year, Andrew Cuomo couldn’t get enough of the public and the press, talking to all of us about the coronavirus pandemic, feuding with leaders like Mayor Bill de Blasio out in the open, and not afraid to field any question offered him, even if many times he never actually answered that question in the first place. Cuomo would be the first to tell you that he’s in control, even in the presence of the Fourth Estate. There was nothing a reporter could say or do that would penetrate his “super leader” armor, and it wasn’t even worth trying. But those days are like a distant memory now. Cuomo spends almost no time with the press these days. Suddenly, he
fears the coronavirus spread so much, it’s too dangerous to have reporters around. Of course, never mind that he’s drowning in scandal, whether it be for nursing home deaths or the growing list of former employees accusing him of sexual harassment if not outright sexual assault. After yet another week of events with virtually no reporters in tow, the Journalists Association of New York has said this media-phobia must stop. It’s an affront to the public the governor serves — a public represented by reporters. Should we have expected any less? In the shadow of Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo appeared to very much be the leader many of us sought, especially through the most difficult of times. But then Trump is removed from the equation, and what’s left? A realization that Cuomo was not so much an antidote to Trump, but more that he was simply Trump Lite. Political leaders have a way of attacking the press the moment reporters assert their independence and refuse to view the world with the same rosecolored glasses they do. And when they find themselves in trouble, they simply wait it out, hoping the press — and the public they represent — will get bored and move on to something else. Don’t worry, governor. When you open your eyes and uncover your ears, we can assure you that all of us will be right here waiting for you.
POINT OF VIEW
You can find the check in the twilight zone
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ave you ever had a wonderful friend for scores of years who is extremely reliable, then goes completely off the rails, and you never hear from him again? Or hard whiskey that suddenly stops getting you drunk? That’s the way I feel about the postal service. The postal service used to be one of those things you never had to think about. Remember that old phrase, “The check is in the mail”? That meant you were going to see your letter in a reasonable and predictable amount of time, no matter what. You didn’t need to worry. The post office was as reliable as day coming after night. Not anymore. The postal service is damaged. On March 14, I sent a check in the mail to Stamford, Connecticut, 25 miles away. As of March 25, it had not arrived. That’s not a very long way to go nowhere fast. I now have to think about where the letter is, which I never had to do before. Ever. Is the letter enjoying a martini in the Cayman Islands? Or meeting the British prime minister to discuss the future of NATO? Maybe the letter is hitchhiking to the Arctic Circle to watch the aurora borealis. I may never find out. People in general don’t send letters anymore, and now they have even more reason not to. I still send letters. It feels more human to me than email. But now I have to wonder, is my letter ever going to arrive where I want it to go? People now often receive their pharmaceuticals in the mail. Also, important financial information is delivered by mail — from the IRS, banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses. We need the postal service to work extremely efficiently. But now the post office has become as unreliable as a television wrestler asked to teach kindergarten. The Pony Express worked far better. What to do? We could recruit the world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah, to run with the mail to our needed destinations. Cheetahs can run 70 mph, but only for about 30 seconds a shot. So they’d have to work in a relay system to deliver the mail. Of course, training them could take some time, and you’d need body armor to do it. Our current postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has proposed expanding the amount of time needed to deliver a first-class letter, raising prices, and cutting costs. He also wants to cut the amount of hours the local post offices are open.
Wait a minute. You want me to pay more for worse service? Are you serious, Mr. DeJoy? (Was there ever a man more misnamed? There is no joy in “DeJoy”). If you lengthen delivery times you will make the postal service even more unreliable, and it’s pretty shaky right now. Fewer people will want to mail things. Higher prices also will help cut down your customer base too. People who can afford to will turn to alternative, private methods. The U.S. Postal Service will be forced to cut services and lengthen delivery times and increase prices more and more as its customer base deteriorates. Which may be the postmaster general’s goal. This is the same guy who threw out hundreds of postal sorting machines last autumn, when millions of people were sending in their absentee ballots during the presidential election. He also forbade late or extra trips by U.S. Postal Service carriers to deliver the mail. He removed some mail collection boxes from the streets. This man is a major financial donor to the Republican Party and Donald Trump, who nominated him to the position. DeJoy has given more than $2 million to Trump and the Republican Party since 2016, according to Forbes. DeJoy’s former employer, New Breed Logistics, may have overbilled the postal service $53 million for contracting services, such as delivering the mail, according to Postal Times. DeJoy owns stock in XPO Logistics, which bought New Breed. He has shares worth anywhere from $30 million to $75 million in this company, which has current contracts with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail in the United States. The U.S. Postal Service paid $286 million to XPO since 2013, according to The New York Times. XPO’s revenue from the U.S. Postal Service increased $14 million in just 10 weeks last fall, about three to four months after DeJoy became the postmaster general. XPO pays DeJoy about $2 million a year for office space he owns in North Carolina, through 2025. This all adds up to a T-rex-sized conflict of interest, does it not? DeJoy’s tenure at the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t even begin to pass the smell test. DeJoy has skunk smell all over him. As far as my lost letter, I may wander off in search of the little runaway. I’ll start with Las Vegas. You can always count on a slot machine to take your money without giving anything in return. I don’t need the postal service to do it.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Let safety agents do their job To the editor: As the female 80th District leader, it is my duty to respond on the safety of our children in public schools. The city council is proposing to transfer school safety agents back to the education department. This is a very dangerous and irresponsible act of negligence. In no way should we be going backward. The school safety agents used to belong to the education department, and it’s already been proven disastrous. As a former education department parent coordinator, mother and grandmother of children that attended public schools, I believe this would be detrimental. I can tell you that it’s the wrong choice in times of crisis and uncertainty. Taking this direction is leaving parents without peace of mind when their children are at school. Some 70 percent of school safety agents are Black and Latina women. The vast majority live in the neighborhoods in which they work. They do not carry firearms or chemical agents — only hugs, love and encouragement. They are the front line of action in times of
We can think for ourselves To the editor: Most people are so easily led and to believe, and can therefore be brainwashed or led to believe all the information they are fed on a daily basis. Dictators like Adolf Hitler knew this along with President Trump, and they capitalized on it. Does anyone pay attention to the radio and television news, especially their commercials? Does anyone notice how often, for the past year, we are told to wear a mask, wash your hands, and keep six feet away from others? You’ve also been informed that any person that does not want to don a mask is selfish and does not care about others. Has anyone else noticed how constantly we are bombarded with reminders and text messages to get vaccinated? It should be your right to make that decision. It seems many of our rights are being curtailed, and eventually, if you don’t comply, you will most likely be discriminated
trouble, and they are the first line of defense to give protection and safety to our students, schools and parents. This push of legislation will put 1.1 million children at risk, which is why these plans need to be stopped in their tracks. It’s time for all who believe in the safety for all New York City children to roll up their sleeves and fight for this cause. When my children were in high school with the school safety agents under the old education board, there was no control of guns, drugs, gangs and disobedience. Under the New York Police Department, there is safety for children, parents and staff members — from dealing with a crisis to lockdowns, to strangers coming into school, or children having emergencies. School safety agents under the NYPD are trained, background checked, and carry themselves professionally to respect, serve and protect the children. Removing school safety agents from the NYPD is the wrong choice. I stand with school safety under the NYPD. Irene esTrada
against. There will be no lawyer who can defend you because you’ve lost your freedom and your right to think for yourself. Communist countries have used this tactic for years, called propaganda. They tell you what is best for you and your country, and it seems America is becoming the same. We are constantly told about deaths related to COVID-19, but how many times are we reminded of the 40 million people who have lost their jobs, their family businesses, and livelihoods? Why aren’t people protesting about that? Because the longer we stay silent and turn a blind eye, the dog leash around our necks is getting shorter and shorter. andrea TekIrIan
Maybe he should’ve stayed in jail To the editor: Bigotry has always been a combination of evil and stupidity, as well as an excuse for criminals to target victims. The latest examples have been in the news daily, as thugs have been targeting
Asians. They would have us believe the Chinese government’s poor initial response to the coronavirus is the fault of every Asian on the planet. Since every government has done wrong, there’s an excuse to hate everybody. Is Donald Trump’s neglect at handling the virus after it came to our country a reason to hate all German-Americans? There have been cases of Blacks assaulting Asians. So some people from one group that should know better about the evils of bigotry practices it instead. The April 1 Daily News features an article, “Stomp susp killed his ma.” It turns out the Black man who assaulted a 65-year-old Filipino woman while yelling at her what many bigots have yelled at Blacks, “You don’t belong here,” 38-year-old Brandon Elliot had stabbed his mother to death. He was sentenced only to 15 years to life. This story does not say how many years he served, only that he was released early. This raises a question: Why was he released at all? Why is it that so few people are sentenced to life without parole, regardless of how horrific their crime is? rIchard Warren
You can’t deny the party machine To the editor:
(re: “Stop attacking the party ‘machine,’” April 1)
Ms. Helen Meltzer-Krim might as well be a spokeswoman for the local Democratic Party organization, if she isn’t already. Here are a few salient facts, Ms. Krim, which have made many Riverdale residents sour on the Benjamin Franklin Good Ol’ Boys Network. Ask after the list of financial contributors to the campaigns mentioned in your letter. Jeffrey Klein, for example, was notorious in how much money he took from real estate interests. As he is supposed to represent constituents, it begs the question: What constituents? As for Eric Dinowitz, he has racked up far more contributions from real estate interests than any other source. Are you one of those interests, Ms. Krim? How about, in the name of transparency, you identify yourself? To answer your question, I am a local gadfly with no political affiliations except being a registered Democrat. As far as the “independent” Democrats — i.e., self-interested politicians looking to obtain and maintain centers of personal political power. Therefore aligning themselves with Republicans
went against the interests of their constituents. That’s why they went down to defeat — their selfishness front and center. Remember constituents? That’s we the voters. It might benefit you in your next missive to identify the source of your information. For now, let’s let our community know that the Benjamin Franklin “Reform” Democratic Club actually was a battler against people, who like themselves, morphed into seekers of personal political power, veering far from their original goal of reforming machine politics. They have become the machine. The fact that Mr. Dinowitz has name recognition plays no small part in this launch. It is up to members of the community to make sure that his career is aborted ASAP. Vote, folks. Get out and vote. The Dinowitz/ Ben Franklin machine is not assured victory unless we voters let it happen. It’s time to end the backroom deals, the self-serving sense of entitlement, the nepotism which we last saw — and still see — in the former guy and his family of grifters. Four long years of it is enough. We don’t need that here in Riverdale. adam sToler
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How many Cuomo scandals do we really have to face?
By DEBORAH WALLACE
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tate attorney general Letitia James has two Cuomo investigations on her schedule: Sexual harassment of employees and manipulation of COVID nursing home death numbers. Two scandals. Gov. Andrew Cuomo phoned Assemblyman Ron Kim, a critic, threatening to ruin him — an action of a petty bully. That’s three scandals. A top aide and close friend, Joe Percoco, is doing time for financial skullduggery on the state’s dime for a fourth scandal. A few years back, our dear leader tried to bend environmental laws about permitted density of cows in order to help a buddy, the yogurt king Chobani, have a plentiful and cheap supply of milk. That’s five. Andy Byford, the great and well-loved expert on transportation, was driven out of the New York City Transit Authority by Cuomo’s bullying and micro-managing. We’re up to six. In March 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio spent a week dithering about the newly arrived pandemic and finally acted to close schools and lock down the city. But Cuomo stopped the action for another week while he dithered, and while the case and death numbers began climbing. He wanted to show that he was the boss in this crisis, and ended up allowing the crisis to blossom completely out of control. A seventh scandal. Let’s stop here. There are many more, such as his handing the COVID-19 vaccination program over to for-profit hospital systems that donated to his campaign fund, and that have executives among his circle of friends. A scandal doesn’t have to involve criminal activity. For an elected official, it is any self-serving action that results in disservice to constituents. Andrew Cuomo’s scandals reduce to one huge malpractice, namely unending corrupt cronyism to benefit a small circle of male friends, and to shore up his own alpha-ness. The sexual harassment, manipulations of nursing home deaths, threats to his critics and accusers, placement of untrustworthy buddies into positions requiring trust, attempts to break laws to do a friend a favor — all are part of a single behavioral code that has become unacceptable because of its cost to constituents and its gross injustice. In another scandal, the governor was averse to raising the taxes of the very wealthy, but quite comfortable in slashing Medicaid in the middle of a pandemic. The real reason he didn’t want to tax the very wealthy is that they are his close buddies, whereas those people who need Medicaid are faceless non-humans to our dear leader. Corrupt cronyism skims state money into the pockets of the already wealthy, one way or another. It also endangers ordinary New York state residents, and adds to their difficulties as they try to adjust to such insults as inadequate and antiquated public transportation, unjust school funding, and an irrational COVID-19 vaccination system. All this is familiar to me. I was employed as an environmental and public health impact assessment scientist and study manager at the New York State Power Authority between 1974 and 1982. George Berry presided over the power authority years before and after my
employment there. When I started, all vice presidents but one were white males with Teutonic names (English or German). The one exception was a male of Slavic descent who headed the finance department. Not one Italian, Jew or Irishman. Not one woman. Not one person of color. These vice presidents were the people with whom Berry felt comfortable. Merrill Eisenbud, the politically astute environmental scientist, was also friends with George Berry and golfed with him. Eisenbud founded Ecological Analysts, an environmental contracting company. The power authority wanted to build a thermal power plant on the shores of Arthur Kill in Staten Island. I had the task of scoping out the impact study, reviewing the proposals, and — with a colleague in the finance department — deciding which to accept. The Arthur Kill was a filthy body of water with oily sediment. Any contractor working there would have obstacles to overcome different from and more serious than those encountered with other waterbodies. EA submitted a proposal with an extremely low bid — around $400,000 — whereas the other two proposing firms submitted higher bids, around $600,000. The technical part of the low bid called for methods that would probably not work at Arthur Kill. The accountant and I rejected the low bid proposal in favor of one that would probably get the work done at a reasonably high standard. An order came from Berry’s office: We had to accept the lowest bid. I warned my vice president that the work probably could not be performed fully and competently at that low of a level of resources. He told me that we had to obey the order. About a month after work had begun, a series of change-order requests came from the contractor to increase funding because of environmental difficulties. The accountant and I refused to approve the increases. An order came from Berry’s office to approve the increases. The change-orders brought the price tag well over $600,000. Thus, a buddy of George Berry reaped a higher compensation for his firm than the original higher bids from the competing firms. I firmly believe that this whole minuet was scripted by the buddies. This is how cronyism vacuums up public money under various guises, in this case, acceptance of the lowest bid. Cronyism resulted at the time in someone with mediocre education and training heading the authority’s occupational health and safety office, but that’s a whole other story. I mention it because money may not be cronyism’s only cost: Health, safety and lives may be threatened by it, as we know it from the badly begun Cuomo vaccination program. Weeks passed before a decent rate of vaccination was reached. To look at the sexual harassment issue separately from the other scandals is myopic. They all fit together to form a picture of a bullying frat bro with a coterie of friends who are rewarded with state money just for being his friends — and donors. Let’s ask for an end to his reign on the basis of the whole package, and not on the harassment issue alone. Although it is important.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Don’t call me a racist — I’m not To the editor:
(re: “Is there any other way to describe it than racism?” March 25)
On March 4, The Riverdale Press printed my letter about how I constantly read and heard in the media there needed to be a frank, uninhibited discussion on the topic of race relations. That is exactly what I attempted to do. And what was the (predictable) result? I was attacked as a racist by psychologist Peter Wolf. As is usual with these credentialed people, Mr. Wolf did not have the mental capacity to present any cogent arguments to rebut what I had to say. Instead, he either completely ignored the salient points I made, trivialized them, or brought up extraneous issues that had nothing to do with my letter. For example, I said that “between Aug. 19 and Aug. 21, 1991, the Crown Heights ‘pogrom’ occurred in Brooklyn during which time Orthodox Jews were viciously attacked by mobs of Blacks, and which resulted in the brutal stabbing murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. “Black mayor David Dinkins sat on his behind for three days doing absolutely nothing because he was advised by Al Sharpton to let the community ‘vent its rage’ on the Jews.” What was Mr. Wolf’s response to the above? The elitist Jew, in his letter, referred to this vicious, hateful pogrom on Orthodox Jews as simply “a local dispute.” It was an unbelievably asinine remark. Another example: I devoted much space writing about Al Sharpton. I wrote that Sharpton “is a Jew-hater and has used such slurs as ‘Hymie Town’ and ‘Diamond Merchants’ to refer to Jews, is a very influential person in the Black community and the Democratic Party. He is a buddy of former president Barack Obama, and has spent much time as a house guest at the White House.” I later added, “we Jews have much to fear from politically influential Jew haters like Sharpton and Farrakhan, and other Black anti-Semites such as U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib in the current radical-left Democratic Party.” And what was this supposedly well-educated psychologist Peter Wolf’s response to the above? That I made a mistake in referring to Rashida
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3.) Sharps will be accepted only on Fridays, excluding holidays, between the hours of 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. in the main lobby. 3495 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 1-122021, bearing Index Number NC-000291-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Bakary (Last) Tounkara. My present name is (First) Ahmady (Last) Bukuru. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Kayanza, Republic of Brundi. The month and year of my birth are February 1976. 3496 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on APR 08, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-000037-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Regina (Middle) Mawena (Last) Sanya. My present
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Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Moses (Last) McBride. My present name is (First) Male (Last) McBride AKA Moses McBride. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. The month and year of my birth are July 1977. 3499 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 4-1521, bearing Index Number NC-000048-21/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Muheeb (Middle) Nageeb Abdulla Abdo (Last) Alssaidi. My present name is (First) Muheeb (Middle) Abdo (Last) Alssaidi AKA Muheeb A. Alssaidi, AKA Muheeb Alssaidi. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are December 1998. 3500 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 04/15/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000049-21/
BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to: Assume the name of (First) Nageeb (Middle) Abdulla Abdo (Last) Alssaidi. My present name is (First) Abdo (Middle) Ali Abdorab (Last) Alssaidi AKA Abdo Ali Alssaidi, AKA Abdo Alssaidi . The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Republic of Yemen. The month and year of my birth are January 1971. Assume the name of (First) Layla (Middle) Ahmed Saleh (Last) Alssaidi. My present name is (First) Asmhanm (Last) Ghaleb AKA Asmahan Mohamed Ghaleb, AKA Asmahan Ghaleb. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. The month and year of my birth are May 1975. Assume the name of (First) Lemia (Middle) Nageeb Abdulla Abdo (Last) Alssaidi. My present name is (First) Lemia (Middle) Abdo (Last) Alssaidi AKA Lemia A. Alssaidi, AKA Lemia Alssaidi (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are June 2007.
Assume the name of (First) Jasmine (Middle) Nageeb Abdulla Abdo (Last) Alssaidi. My present name is (First) Jasmine (Middle) Abdo (Last) Alssaidia AKA Jasmine A. Alssaidia, AKA Jasmine Alssaidia, AKA Jasmine Alssaidi (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are April 2010. 3501 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on APR 08, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-000036-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Domingo (Middle) Ramon (Last) Genao. My present name is (First) Dom (Last) Genon. The city and state of my present address are New York, NY. My place of birth is Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The month and year of my birth are November 1961. 3502
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Barbara Field: M 917.797.1079 | O 718.884.5815 Glenn Encababian: M 718.207.6195 | O 718.884.5815
525 West 236th Street, $255,000 | 2 BR, 1 BA | Web# 4499489
5621 Netherland Avenue, 6A | Open House 4/24, 1:00 - 2:30 pm and 4/25, 12:00 - 1:30 pm $252,000 | 2 BR, 1 BA | Web# 4294015
Barbara Field: M 917.797.1079 | O 718.884.5815 Glenn Encababian: M 718.207.6195 | O 718.884.5815
Terhi Edwards: M 646.541.8072 | O 718.884.5815
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A16 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 22, 2021
Home of the Week Tobias B. Schapiro & Ann B. Schapiro of Brown Harris Stevens
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on’t pass up this extraordinary opportunity to own a spacious, bright, sunny and fully renovated five-bedroom, four-bathroom combined apartment in a full-service co-operative building. We’re talking 3,000 square feet of space here at 3725 Henry Hudson Parkway with open spaces producing clear sight lines, elevating your entertaining possibilities. In fact, just relaxing in the library proves equally satisfying. Between the library and a generously sized living room sits a formal dining room. There are also two terraces — one glassenclosed, the other open. The apartment is filled with hardwood floors, accented by a multi-windowed and spacious eat-in kitchen with its substantial peninsula with plenty of storage space.
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There’s also top-of-the-line appliances, including a sub-zero refrigerator — and double everything else — that would please even the most demanding cook. Soft close custom cabinetry fills this kitchen, and the breakfast area offers an altogether pleasing aesthetic. This apartment also features a second kitchen, along with a washer and dryer. It also could come with two indoor parking spots — an optional buy at closing at $175 monthly per spot. With an on-site super overseeing all the staff members, the Blackstone’s outdoor space is ideal for residents of all ages with basketball and pickle-ball on the premises. An elegant home like this is available for a little more than $3,000 a month in maintenance costs, and $1.395 million overall.
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The correct address is 747 West 231st Street. The reduced price is now $1,999,000.
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 22, 2021 - A17
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A18 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, April 22, 2021
TrebachRealty.com
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nortH riVerdAle Web #911 Classic 3-bdrm, 3.5-bath house features living rm with WBFP, finished attic w/ 2 rms and landscaped yard. $1,200,000
soutH riVerdAle Web #910 Newly built 5-bdrm, 5.5-bath house with porch, dining patio & level grassy yard on private cul-de-sac. $1,890,000
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nortH riVerdAle Web #837 Legal 2-family semi-attached townhouse. Spacious side & rear yards. Two 3-bdrms, 2-baths plus 1-bdrm suite. $1,249,000
centrAl riVerdAle Web #909 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath ranch-style house. Split-level design features, entry foyer, living rm & dining area. $1,900,000
fieldston Web #898 Exceptional, elegant mansion overlooking Idyllic Pond. 8-bdrms, 8-full & 2-half bths, living rm with marble wood burning fireplace, formal dining rm with French doors to a side patio, spacious kitchen, breakfast room & expansive family room. $4,590,000
West of tHe pArKWAy Web #897 Renovated 5-bdrm, 5.5-bath Tudor-style house with spacious grounds on cul-desac. Living room with frplc. $2,495,000
neW exclusiVe West of pArKWAy Web #893 Prime renovation opportunity: Completely gutted, sprawling 7,000-Sq. Ft. 5-bdrm, 6-bath stucco and stone house with pool, multi-level patios and spacious yard on double lot. Great room w/ 21-ft high ceilings, fireplace and oversized windows. $3,450,000
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nortH riVerdAle Web #913 3-Family townhouse with driveway, patio and garage. Laundry room in basement with coin-operated W/D. $1,350,000
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West of pArKWAy Web #755 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath center hall colonial. WBFP in living rm, open plan kitchen & dining & finished basement. $1,420,000
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centrAl riVerdAle Web #903 Lovely & spacious 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath brck charmer with porch, patio, backyard and WBFP on private Cul-de-Sac. $985,000
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West of pArKWAy Web #880 Grand bucolic beauty 6-bdrm. 5.5-bath mansion with wraparound porch on over one acre with grassy lawns. $4,325,000
fieldston Web #894 Pristine, light filled 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath house with patios & grassy yard. Huge rm with wood oak flooring. $2,775,000
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soutH riVerdAle Web #871 Spacious 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath with foyer, living rm w/ brick WBFP, formal dining room and lrg eat-in kitchen. $1,595,000
VAn cortlAndt crest Web #899 Spacious 6-bdrm, 3-full & 2-half baths, WBF in LR, dining rm & mstr bdrm. Eatin kitchen, porches & patio. $1,195,000
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3800 blAcKstone AVe #cc630 Contemporary 2-bdrm, 2-bath duplex penthouse with private roof terraces, lndry and indoor parking. $675,000
4601 Henry Hudson pKWy #cc661 Spacious 5-bdrm, 4.5-bath townhouse triplex with 2 fireplaces, huge private roof terrace & lndry room. $699,000
2727 pAlisAde AVe #cc656 Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, 24-hr DM & parking avail. Master BR suite & remodeled kitchen. $539,000
3935 blAcKstone AVe #cc648 Spacious, light filled, low floor 3-bdrm w/ balcony & 24-hr D/M. Extra lrg foyer & dining rm with built-ins. $649,000
750 KAppocK street #cc659 Spacious and bright top-floor 2-bdrm, 2-bath with enclosed sunrise balcony, parking, & 24-hr doormen. $549,000
3850 Hudson mAnor terr #cc662 Low floor 3-bdrm, 2-bath co-op with updated kitchen, dining area, laundry in unit and p/t doorman. $465,000
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3614 JoHnson AVe cc646 2-bdrm, 2-bth with open plan living and dining area with glass sliding doors to balcony. $425K
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3600 fieldston rd cc855 2-bdrm, 2-bath conv 3, 2-bath w/ balcony, updated kitchen and DM. Parking avail. $375K
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290 West 232nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, dining area and balcony. Storage area and bicycle rm in bldg. $305K
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no fee rentAls West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious 2-bdrm conv. 3, 2-bth with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $4,095/mo West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious 2-bdrm convertible to 3, 2-bath with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $3,895/mo centrAl riVerdAle - Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bath condo with balcony, laundry in unit and indoor parking. $3,700/mo West of pArKWAy - Large & bright 2-bdrm w/ balcony. D/M, fitness room, tennis couts & pool . 2 months free rent $3,495/mo West of pArKWAy - Large and luxurious Junior-4 with great closet space, balcony, doorman, healthclub and pool. 3 months free rent $2,695/mo
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3935 blAcKstone cc646 Spacious 2-bdrm, 2-bath with open plan living, dining area and balcony. $415K
3601 JoHnson AVe. cc587 Walk-in level doctor’s office with seperate entrance and reception area. $295K
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290 W 232nd st cc657 Updated 2-bdrm post war co-op with balcony. Entry foyer & eat-in kitch. $339K
4525 HH pArKWAy cc650 Bright & renov Jr-4 convt to 2 with open sunset views and 24-hr doorman. $329K
fieldston Vic. rr880 Spacious 6-bdrm, 4.5-bth center-hall Colonial w/ patio & yard on cul-de-sac. $7,900
professionAl & office spAce 3755 HH pKWAy - tHe imperiAl - Walk-in level doctor’s office with reception area and 2 exam rooms. $360K nortH riVerdAle - Office Space Available. $1,500/mo
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exclusiVe 3001 HH pArKWAy cc853 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bth, PT DM. Entry foyer, large entral foyer & sunken LR. $625K
exclusiVe 601 KAppocK st cc649 Mint condition, beautifully renovated 2-bdrm with doorman and pool. $284K
condo excl 3816 WAldo AVe cc643 Contemporary Condo with balcony, modern kitch, lndry in unit, DM & prkg. $640K
exclusiVe 3616 HH pArKWAy cc642 Spacious and bright 2-bdrm with balcony, and doorman. Indr parking avail. $398.5K
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3515 HH pArKWAy cc638 Spacious & bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath corner unit. Entry foyer, living rm & renov kitch. $618K
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611 West 239tH st cc645 Spacious split-design, 2-bdrm, 2-bath co-op w/ indoor parking, balcony and doorman. $425K