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CITY COUNCIL

MINO LORA

ERIC DINOWITZ

DISTRICT 11

BOROUGH PRESIDENT Vanessa Gibson

39%

Fernando Cabrera

34%

27%

Nathalia Fernandez 14%

ABIGAIL MARTIN

Early results have Eric Dinowitz poised to win re-election to the seat he just won two months ago. However, he didn’t break the 50% threshold in preliminary voting to claim victory outright. Now he’ll have to hold his lead through the ranked-choice counting process that provides a window for Mino Lora to come back and win the seat, but it’s a small one. Voters, however, likely won’t know the final results for at least a week, possibly two.

DAN PADERNACHT

MARCOS SIERRA

CARLTON BERKLEY

Luis Sepulveda 10% Sammy Ravelo

MAYOR Eric Adams

31%

Maya Wiley

21%

Kathryn Garcia

21%

Andrew Yang

12%

Scott Stringer

Dianne Morales

COMPTROLLER Brad Lander

31%

Corey Johnson

23%

Michelle Caruso14% Cabrera Brian Benjamin

David Weprin

MUNICIPAL JUDGE Jessica Flores

35%

Verena Powell

20%

Yadhira GonzalezTaylor 18%

Angel Cruz

14%

John Rodriguez 13%

PUBLIC ADVOCATE Jumaane Williams

70%

Anthony Herbert

21%

Theo Bruce Chino 8% Tavarez

42%

14%

Dinowitz poised to keep council seat n District 11 seems decided, but borough president race is still way too close to call By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepess.com

It might be a different kind of election on a totally different date, but that hasn’t seemed to change the outcome at all as Eric Dinowitz is expected to retain his city council seat for the next two years. The councilman faced a host of chal-

lengers — many of them the same as who faced him in a March special election to replace Andrew Cohen — but despite improved numbers by Spuyten Duyvil theatre non-profit executive Mino Lora, there seems to be little standing in the way of Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz’s son. “For the second time in just a few months, I am encouraged by the support and enthusiasm of the North Bronx,” Dinowitz said in a statement. “While we await absentees and the ranked-choice process, we feel good about the in-person results, and eagerly wait every vote to be counted.” Still, the younger Dinowitz will have to

wait a bit longer for official word from city election officials as he once again failed to capture 50 percent of the vote in the first round — not unexpected with so many candidates in the race. That means ballots will be counted and counted again, eliminating low-ranked candidates and redistributing votes to those who remain. So far — at least through last spring’s special elections — any candidate leading the vote heading into the ranked-choice count has ultimately claimed victory. That means Lora’s chances of overcoming Dinowitz in the vote redistribution are slim at best.

“Running for office has been exhilirating,” Lora said, in a statement. “I am extremely proud of the race we ran to provide representation in the city council or all the people of District 11. Like all of you, I look forward to seeing the final results.” With 96 percent of scanners reported, Dinowitz captured 5,787 first-choice votes — enough for 42 percent overall. Lora had 3,746 votes, or 27 percent. That is a difference of 2,000 votes, which makes a Lora comeback unlikely. But not impossible. There are still more than 4,100 potential votes on the table from a list of runners-up ELECTIONS, page A4

Businesses navigate a post-pandemic reality n Governor says everything is open, but some insisting on a wait-and-see approach By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t spare any part of the Bronx. Beyond those who actually fought COVID-19 itself, the pandemic dealt tremendous economic blows to the borough’s small-business community. Between the three-month state-mandated shutdown most faced last year and the lingering virus-related restrictions since then, mom and pop businesses were “hit pretty hard,” said Nick Fazio, Community Board 8’s economic development chair. “Based on most of the reports, primarily in the hospitality industry, which was really hit hard,” he added. “As well as retail.” State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released a report revealing employment in the leisure and hospitality sector dropped by 45 percent between Spring 2020 and the same time this year. Fortunately, the Bronx’s road to economic recovery became much clearer last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he was immediately ending most pandemic-related restrictions after 70 percent of the state’s adults received at least

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An Beal Bocht Cafe fell on hard times during the coronavirus pandemic, especially when the popular West 238th Street hangout shut down for three months. Bronagh Harmon, one of the café’s bartenders, said she’s happy Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted most pandemic restrictions on businesses last week — bringing some relief after a very stressful year. one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. So, it’s now up to individual businesses to decide if they want to keep capacity restrictions and other virus safety protocols. Still, Cuomo’s announcement is really

good news for the area’s small businesses, Fazio said. “I think opening up is definitely moving in the right direction, and it’s going to help with the recovery.” While hesitation before fully reopening

is natural, Clarence Stanley — regional director of SUNY’s Small Business Development Center — echoed the importance of getting back to normal in order to fuel the Bronx’s economic recovery. “Lifting the restrictions, I think is, critical,” Stanley said. “But I think right now we’re almost in a testing stage. Hopefully, (the virus) won’t come back.” The Bronx had actually seen significant economic growth before the pandemic hit. According to DiNapoli’s report, the number of businesses in the borough increased by 15 percent between 2009 and 2019 — faster than Manhattan and Staten Island. In fact, the sectors most impacted by the pandemic — hospitality and retail — were among those that saw the most growth during this 10-year period. The report also revealed the majority of Bronx businesses are small businesses. In 2019, for example, 80 percent of them had fewer than 10 employees. That’s great for creating a home-grown economy, but those same businesses were especially vulnerable once the pandemic hit. An Beal Bocht Café — a bar and restaurant at 445 W. 238th St. — was one of those struggling businesses. But Bronagh Harmon, one of An Beal’s bartenders, said the governor’s move may finally bring some relief after a very hard year. “I’m actually happy that the restrictions are being lifted right now,” Harmon said. POST-PANDEMIC, page A4

Who really rules the roost over at Ploughmans Bush? n Noisy — and illegal — farm animal draws the ire of many of those neighbors living nearby By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com

The sound of a rooster crowing might evoke a certain range of feelings. Perhaps the desire to wake up and start a new day. Maybe even the image of a pastoral scene of a farm upstate. But for Judith Veder, it’s a sound that summons dread. Especially when she hears it before 5 a.m. It’s been part of her reality for quite a while now, as one of her Ploughmans Bush neighbors off of Independence Avenue apparently has been keeping a rooster as a pet. The bird lives in what Veder describes as a “residence” outside. And it’s from that

residence — much to her chagrin — the rooster heralds the beginning of each new day. Veder can’t exactly remember when she first became aware of her cocky new neighbor. But it must have been recently, because she recalls opening her windows to get some fresh air into her home as the weather warmed. She got fresh air, of course. But she also got much more than she bargained for when she first heard the rooster’s crowing — something one doesn’t quite expect living in a city where nowhere is more urban than here. And ever since, it’s been a nuisance for her and for some of her neighbors — although some are a bit more sympathetic to their new crowing resident than Veder is. “Someone said he’s very happy to hear it,” Veder said. “He feels it’s bucolic or something. But I’m up every morning at 4 or 5 o’clock hearing it.” It’s not that Veder is anti-rooster, however. She ROOSTER, page A4

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A rooster recently took up residence at a home on Ploughmans Bush. But its noisy demeanor led a few to question its place there — especially since it’s illegal to own a rooster in New York City.

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Vandal is caught in the playground Playgrounds are usually a place for fun and games. But sometimes they can be home to more serious affairs: like an arrest. That’s exactly what happened at the Marble Hill Playground across West 230th Street on June 16. It was there neighborhood coordination officers from the 50th Precinct found a vandal they’d been searching for, according to a report. He was arrested and charged with 11 different cases of vandalism that had been caught on camera — much of which had plagued parts of the Broadway business district, according to police. The 5-0’s vandalism team later thanked the Kingsbridge Business Improvement District on social media for its help in catching the alleged spray paint tagger.

Watch out, he has a gun!

Who wears wristwatches anymore? Stylish time pieces almost feel pointless in an age of smartphones — and smartwatches — where the time is displayed right on the screen. Well, one victim learned the hard way maybe it’s time to move away from primitive wrist technology when a thief tried to steal his watch on May 25. It occurred near the 2800 block of Sedgwick Avenue around 11 p.m. Someone reportedly came up to them, demanding, “Give me your watch,” before trying to remove it from their wrist. Apparently not finding suc-

cess in forcing the watch off, the attacker instead shot the victim in the left knee and took his bag — fleeing in a black Acura. The victim was unable to supply police with a license plate number. The victim was taken to the hospital with a non-lifethreatening injury, but without the Gucci wallet, state ID card, health insurance card, and Balenciaga fanny pack the robber took off with. Police valued the stolen items at $1,800. Investigators have some leads on this robbery, describing the attacker as a Black man standing 5-foot-5 and weighing 145 pounds. Police say he has a dark skin tone.

These sidewalks are made for walking

While it may seem cool to ride your motorcycle on the sidewalk, pretending you’re in a “Mission: Impossible” movie, it’s probably best to stay on the street. Unfortunately, one Tom Cruise copycat didn’t get that encrypted transmission on June 17. Cops say they saw him driving his black motorcycle on the sidewalk near the corner of West 230th Street and Heath Avenue around 7 p.m. To make matters worse, police said, there was a 2-year-old in his path. Police pulled him over and tried issuing a summons, only to ultimately arrest the 23-yearold after he pulled his arms away. It turned out he had an expired license, according to a report.

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City officials aren’t afraid to pass the buck, but could they go as far as passing the wall? It seems so, at least according to a Fieldston doctor who says the city’s buildings department has harassed him about a crumbling wall along the Henry Hudson Parkway East service road. The problem? Alan Rosenthal says the wall is not his, and he’s already spent thousands of dollars trying to convince the city he’s right. But it hasn’t been an easy battle, Rosenthal recently told Community Board 8’s land use committee. The buildings department already fined him several times over the past eight months, and there seems to be no end in sight to this battle. “It’s completely irrational what I’m being subjected to,” Rosenthal said. “I mean, it’s really becoming an emotional, physical issue with me. I had to go to the hospital. I don’t know what else to do.” The retaining wall lines the sidewalk along the parkway service road, but Rosenthal’s property is on the land above it, along Delafield Avenue. Because of that, the wall doesn’t belong to him, but rather the City of New York. Rosenthal received his first violation from the buildings department in October after a turbulent storm caused a rockslide from the outcropping, knocking over several trees on the sidewalk. DOB claimed Rosenthal failed to maintain four sections of rock above the retaining wall, which “sheared from (the) bedrock” and fell onto the street, and issued him a $6,250 fine. Rosenthal was hit with another $1,250 fine last March for not fixing

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A retaining wall along the Henry Hudson Parkway East service road between West 246th and West 250th streets appears to still be crumbling after a storm last October, and just overall age. But who should fix it seems to be a point of controversy between city officials and a neighbor who lives on top of the small cliff — Alan Rosenthal. the wall as the buildings department demanded he do. And more fines followed, Rosenthal said, for violations such as removing a tree he said was dead, and was told to remove a border wall he had constructed on his property that attempted to address the outcropping. Through all of it, however, Rosenthal — who bought his home in 1998 — maintains this property is not his. In an email to The Riverdale Press, the doctor says he’s now spent more than $40,000 “defending claims, violations, and numerous summonses,” as well as hiring “lawyers, surveyors, engineers, consultants and expeditors.” He even hired Mueser Rutledge

Consulting Engineers, a national structural and geological engineering firm, to help him determine once and for all if this rock outcropping and wall is indeed his, or if it actually belongs to the city. MRCE officials visited the site twice, Rosenthal said, determining his home was “safe, stable, not hazardous or a threat to public safety.” They also found — although they don’t get the final word — that Rosenthal was not responsible for the rocks found in October, and that the subsequent violations and summonses don’t belong to him, In addition, he had also reached out to CB8 about the matter.

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Alan Rosenthal shows some pictures of the cliff behind his house bordering the Henry Hudson Parkway East service road the city claims is his responsibility. Rosenthal has spent thousands of dollars trying to prove otherwise.

CB8 land use chair Charles Moerdler says he sympathizes with Rosenthal, and gave him advice on exactly how he could fight the buildings department in these violations. “We said ‘Listen, the first thing you ought to find out is who owns this,’” Moerdler said. “Did it come from your property as the department maintains? Or did it come from your neighbor’s property?” CB8 has received complaints about rocks falling in that area for several years, Moerdler said. “People who own those homes up there are immediately tagged for problems with bricks falling down, trees falling down, dirty sidewalk, and broken sidewalk,” the chair said. Figuring out who’s actually responsible isn’t easy, however, Moerdler warns. The Fieldston Property Owners Association maintains this rock outcropping is outside its historic neighborhood’s perimeter, and thus belongs to the city. Still, Moerdler says, the FPOA has paid in the past to fix any repairs needed alongside the sidewalk where the wall stands. But even Moerdler believes a series of surveys conducted in the area years ago declared the city to be responsible for this particular

area. In fact, when the rocks came down, CB8 reported it to the buildings department, and not any individual household. “The City of New York owns, under the survey, everything five feet east of the sidewalk. And that was in order to build the Henry Hudson Parkway,” Moerdler told The Press. The city “has never recognized that, has never done anything about it.” And that was confirmed by Michael Horodniceanu, a civil and urban engineering department professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Moerdler said. Horodniceanu concluded the area belonged to the city, not Rosenthal. “I called and wrote to the Department of Buildings and said this is wrong,” Moerdler said. “You guys keep peppering him with summonses — one after the other — and instead of paying any attention to it, they gave him more summonses.” “And for the record, in our view, the board’s view and my personal view, it is pure, unacceptable harassment by the city of New York and the department of investigations ought to investigate the building department fully and thoroughly for it,” he said. “It’s a clear act of misconduct by the department.” Moerdler said he plans to file a formal complaint with the city’s investigations department. The buildings department did not return a request for comment. “From (West) 246th to 252nd, there are serious, serious issues going on right now with this property that’s affecting our community,” Rosenthal told the land use committee. “I feel — and I hate to use the word — hunted by the DOB inspectors that are knocking on my door at 8 o’clock at night claiming that this is my property, which it’s not my property.”

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Council race seems decided, but others too close

ELECTION from page A1 that begins with nearly 2,000 votes from Abigail Martin. None of the candidates linked their campaigns with each other as some did in the special election in March, but Lora would need about 75 percent of Martin’s secondary choices to go her away instead of Dinowitz’s. “While the preliminary results are not what we were hoping to see tonight, I look forward to working with and supporting whoever is representing us at City Hall, and helping build a Bronx that is just and equitable for all,” Martin said in a statement. “ Padernacht, who was the first in the race back in 2018, picked up 6 percent of the vote, but it’s likely many of his secondary choices could end up with Dinowitz rather than Lora, since Padernacht seemed to target Lora more than anyone else in the primary race. But also finishing strong was Jessica Haller with 6 percent of the vote herself despite dropping out of the race soon after qualifying. Some of her secondary

votes could end up with Dinowitz, but it’s possible many could end up with Lora through Martin. Marcos Sierra and Carlton Berkley — who hailed from the eastern side of the Jerome Park Reservoir — collectively pulled in 600 votes. But where they could end up is not clear, especially since Sierra took aim at Lora in the closing weeks of the race. Even if Lora were to secure many of those votes, it’s still a tall mountain to overcome, as she would have to finish ahead of Dinowitz on three-of-four ballots left over. And these numbers don’t even include absentee, which could either provide Lora with some help, or give Dinowitz more than enoughs. While turnout was more than the March special election, it wasn’t by much. In the end, Democrats will have pulled out close to the same number of voters they did for the last time there was a contested primary for this council seat in 2013.

Gibson has slim lead in boro prez race

ranked-choice voting — Jessica Flores is certainly getting a spot on the bench. And it’s likely she will be joined by Verena Powell, who has a small but likely adequate lead over Yadhira GonzalezTaylor with 87 percent of scanners reported.

While the city council district appears to be mostly locked up, the race for who will become the next borough president is far closer with Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson holding a 5-point lead over Councilman Fernando Cabrera. Gibson has more than 31,700 firstchoice votes with 90 percent of scanners reported, while Cabrera has 27,200. The key to a Gibson victory could very well be Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez, who is out of the running with 14 percent of the vote, but has nearly 12,000 votes that could end up either way. Yet, the likely candidate those secondary votes might stick with is Gibson, since Fernandez campaigned heavily against Cabrera, primarily on his personal LGBTQ stance. In the municipal court judges race — which is not decided through

Mayor’s race is way too close to call

Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams proved to be a favorite among first-choice voters, capturing 31 percent of that vote. But he can’t sit comfortably at all, because Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia are not far behind. With 90 percent of the scanners reported citywide, Wiley and Garcia have nearly 275,000 votes combined compared to the 203,000 from Adams. That means if voters primarily took the route of giving Wiley and Garcia their first and second choices, there’s a very good chance New York City could swear in its first woman as may-

or in January. Finishing a distant fourth was former presidential candidate Andrew Yang who picked up more than 75,000 first-choice ballots, but that was only good enough for 12 percent. Outgoing city comptroller Scott Stringer — who some at one time believed he was the frontrunner in this race before allegations of sexual misconduct derailed his campaign — picked up just 35,000 votes, good for 5 percent. Final tallies in many of these races — except for public advocate, which Jumaane Williams won outright — will take between one and two weeks to finally decide through the rankedchoice process. Councilman Dinowitz says maintaining this aspect of democracy is worth the wait. “We learned from the special election that this process requires patience,” Dinowitz said, in a statement. “I look forward to seeing our support grow during the RCV process.”

Some businesses are cautious when it comes to reopening POST-PANDEMIC from page A1 “It’s not easy. It’s very stressful for me, and I mean I think for the rest of the bartenders. Because nobody knows what’s going to happen, you know? So, I’m happy that we’re trying to get back to normal, But that anxiety is still with us.” Getting through the initial shutdown last spring — and especially the second one last winter — was very hard on the business, Harmon said. “In the winter, we had tried to serve people outside and people didn’t want to sit outside,” Harmon said. “It was tough. We had a tough February and March. So, in that sense, I’m happy that things are coming back to normal here.” An Beal already started relaxing its mask requirement, Harmon added, asking only those who aren’t vaccinated to wear a mask inside. They’ll rely on the honor system for this, however, instead of asking customers to provide proof of vaccination. But the café isn’t getting rid of all of its pandemic changes just yet, Harmon said. It’ll continue to reduce indoor capacity and rely on outdoor seating, at least until September when most Manhattan College students flood back into the area. Additionally, live performances will remain outside — for the next month or so. “We still have to be cautious,” Harmon said. “We’d be very stupid if we weren’t cautious.” For Wave Hill — the garden attraction at 4900 Independence Ave. — the governor’s order also means having to decide which restrictions to keep and which to do away with going forward. Martha Gellens, a spokeswoman for Wave Hill, said the garden did resume allowing 100 percent capacity because of the governor’s decision.

‘People didn’t want to sit outside. It was tough. We had a tough February and March. So, in that sense, I’m happy that things are coming back to normal here.’ BRONAGH HARMON bartender, An Beal Bocht Café

mal at this point, Gellens said. It’s open six days a week, allow visitors inside the buildings, and no longer requiring people to pre-register before showing up. Wave Hill may be moving away from adaptations it made for the pandemic, others are keeping them. Like outdoor dining areas, for example. Many of these accommodations cost money, Fazio said, and many of these businesses need to ensure these investments weren’t a waste of dollars — especially if they can help these businesses do better in the long-term. “Now they’ve advanced their operations, scaled some of their businesses to reach new markets,” Fazio said. “And at the same time, they’re going to be able to welcome back a customer base that was focused on in-person congregations. Whether that’s indoor dining, or retail shopping, or things like that, that were limited because of the restrictions.”

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Martha Gellens says Wave Hill suspended its shuttle service to local public transit stops during the pandemic. Now that the governor has lifted most pandemic restrictions, the garden spokeswoman shares that Wave Hill’s reopening committee is considering whether to bring back the shuttle. Although the institution has been reopening in phases since last summer, there are still some restrictions remaining that must be considered by Wave Hill’s reopening committee. These include a mask requirement inside buildings, and

whether to resume a shuttle service from the 1 train stop at West 242nd Street and nearby MetroNorth stations that had been suspended during the pandemic. However, the garden is mostly back to nor-

Roosters are great for farms, but don’t make good neighbors

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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, June 24, 2021 - A5

Toastmasters live on to speak up another day n COVID-19 pandemic almost shuttered club, but it’s already roaring back

Want to join? The Bronx Toastmasters of Riverdale Club meets every other Wednesday through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Meetings typically start at 7:30 p.m., although members and visitors are encouraged to start signing on about 15 minutes earlier. For more information on membership and meetings, email the club at bronxtoastmastersclub@ gmail.com. — Ethan Stark-Miller

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It wouldn’t be a stretch to say public speaking is an intimidating task. The prospect of getting up in front of a crowd and giving an eloquent speech has reduced many confident people to a pile of nerves. But luckily there’s an organization helping people develop this exact skill. It’s called the Toastmasters Club. And it’s helped many overcome their public speaking fears. “The system is a wonderful system to help people who have problems speaking,” said Anne Connolly, the vice president of alex public relations and cole membership at the Bronx Toastmasters of Riverdale Club. “I’ve only been in the club for a few years, but I have grown considerably. Because I suffered most of my life (with) public speaking, I can talk to a person one-on-one — but when it comes to interviews and actually getting on a podium, I’ve been a nervous wreck.” Meeting at the Riverdale Neighborhood House, this local chapter has helped people with public speaking issues for the past 21 years, club president Adam Cole said. In fact, it even led the way as the borough’s first Toastmasters group. “There were other clubs in Westchester County, and there were certainly clubs in Manhattan. But there was no club in the Bronx,” Cole said. Although the club now boasts a couple-dozen members, it lost a significant number when the coronavirus pandemic first shut everything down last year. But the virus can’t take all the blame: The club struggled with membership even before that, Connolly said, made even worse once in-person meetings ended and the Zoom videoconferencing app took over. At one point last summer, in fact, the chapter’s membership went down to eight. That’s significant because rules enforced by the broader Toastmasters Club organization don’t recognize chapters with fewer than eight members, putting the Riverdale group’s existence in jeopardy.

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The Bronx Toastmasters club of Riverdale has helped members like Zenobia Kelly, left, and anne connolly grow as public speakers. Their chapter was in danger of shuttering this past year after losing several members in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. luckily, connolly and others were able to rebuild the club’s ranks with an aggressive outreach campaign. “We were almost going to be closed,” Connolly said. “We were so close. We had lost that many members.” Connolly and Cole first tried boosting numbers by inviting back old members. “We sent out so many emails and (made) phone calls to former members, and didn’t hear anything,” Connolly said. “Nothing. It was unbelievable how much COVID affected people as far as communication.” But through a mix of advertisements, local press coverage and wordof-mouth, the chapter turned things around, driving membership back up to more than 20 by December. Frankie Graham-Bell was one of those new members. The Yonkers resident said she had wanted to join Toastmasters for years, but never felt she had the time to go in-person because of her family and work responsibilities. So, the pandemic and its aversion to in-person events provided the perfect opportunity. “It was difficult to go physically to the meetings on Wednesdays because my husband had other things to do,” Graham-Bell said. “And then the pandemic hit, and I was like, ‘I have nothing else to do, so I might as well work on this craft.’” Graham-Bell already is moving up. She’ll take over one of Connolly’s roles

as membership vice president for the next year, starting in July. Connolly’s public relations role will go to Anne Leighton. And Brenda Aiken-Thomson will take over as president. Currently, the chapter is still meeting over Zoom, Cole said, although they have plans to start gathering inperson sooner rather than later. When that happens, those attending a Toastmasters gathering will typically find activities like making prepared speeches, working on impromptu speaking, and practicing leadership skills. “There’s a lot that happens in a Toastmasters meeting that helps de-

velop people’s overall communication and leadership skills,” Cole said. “And that’s the intent of the organization.” Each meeting is broken into two parts. In the first half — called the “Toastmaster Section” — three members deliver prepared speeches as if they were in front of an audience. That’s followed by an impromptu speaking activity called “Table Topics.” Here, an assigned person asks other participants off-the-cuff questions about assorted subjects. For example, Cole said, they might ask someone to recount their favorite July 4th memory.

It’s this particular activity that drew Graham-Bell into the club when she attended her first meeting as a guest. She was asked what she wanted to do when the pandemic ends. “And I just gave a really relaxed response that I can’t wait to go to the movies,” Graham-Bell said. “That’s my thing. And eat real movie theater popcorn, and pay overpriced money for drinks.” In the meeting’s second half, speeches are evaluated — run by the aptly named “general evaluate” who oversees several positions that act as quality control for speeches from the first section. “Those two or three speakers will have someone looking at their speech,” Cole said. “The way they deliver it. The way it’s structured. The way they’ve spoken. The use of body language. All that sort of good stuff.” Other evaluators keep track of important structural elements, like the use of grammar, filler words like “um,” and the overall time of the speech. “And we do that because we’re trying to get people into the discipline and the habit of being efficient with the words that they use and the time that they have to get the message they want to get across to their audience,” Cole said. Graham-Bell takes these speaking lessons from Toastmasters to her job as a professor at Mercy College — teaching her students how to speak more clearly in their presentations. However, Graham-Bell’s favorite thing about Toastmasters, she said, is how the club feels like a family. “We’ve never met face-to-face, which is the weirdest thing because I know that we have so much camaraderie,” she said. “And we literally get excited when we see the people that we know or we see our members in the meeting.”

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Graduated senior forges friendships with senior (citizens) n Rebecca Altholz stayed connected despite pandemic By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com

There are a fair share of challenges many might anticipate as they age. They slow down a bit, for example, and may even need some more assistance with day-to-day activities. One thing impossible to anticipate? A pandemic. But unfortunately the coronavirus moved to the top of just about everyone’s list when the world quite literally shut down in March 2020. The virus that causes COVID-19 shuttered the doors of many — if not all — senior living facilities and nursing homes, creating a sense of isolation no one could have prepared for. The Hebrew Home at Riverdale was no exception, but they did have a little help from the most unlikely of sources: Teenage girls who would have normally been taking classes on a campus just a few minutes away.

SAR High School was one of the first schools in New York — and perhaps the country — to close its doors and shift to fully remote learning after some of the state’s earliest reported cases affected the institution. And it stopped a would-be community outreach effort in its tracks. Or, it might rebecca have, if Realtholz becca Altholz wasn’t standing at its head. The recent SAR graduate committed at the beginning of her junior year to become more involved with charity and community outreach. That connected her with Ora Meier, a teacher who oversees outreach efforts at the school, who knew of just the perfect project Altholz could take on. The GlamourGals Foundation is a Manhattan-based organization focused on combatting elder isolation by pairing high school-based chapters of teenage girls with senior residential facilities in their area. The teen

volunteers provide beauty services like manicures and makeovers for the women they’re paired with, all while forging intergenerational friendships along the way. Yet, Altholz was a little hesitant to tackle such a project at first. But when she finally did, it not only made her realize it was the right decision — but it helped her realize how important her bond was with her senior relatives as well. “I wasn’t as close with my grandparents as I wanted to be when I started GlamourGals,” Altholz said. “But I felt like there were times that I related more to these women than I did with my own grandparents. And it made me realize that I have to put in so much more effort and take advantage of the time I have with my grandparents.” Unfortunately, partnering with a foundation whose mission isn’t exactly compatible with social distancing proved difficult during the coronavirus pandemic. But Altholz and Meier didn’t see it as a deterrent. Rather, it was an opportunity. One of those opportunities was the foundation’s nationwide “My Dear Friend” campaign.

The teens wrote and decorated cards, and the read them on video for the seniors. That was enough to get Altholz through the rest of her junior year. But when classes returned last fall to SAR, makeovers at places like the Hebrew Home remained out of the question. So what could they do? Gift baskets and seasonal holiday parties over the Zoom online videoconferencing app. And even though it was difficult to work in aspects of GlamourGals’ original mission and activities, Altholz found a way. “We were able to send them cards, send them Chapstick … or makeup-related things, so still kind of incorporating the GlamourGals model,” Altholz said. “We made it so that they open the gift baskets during the holiday party, and that it was another activity during the Zoom.” Meier not only partnered with Altholz to bring GlamourGals to fruition at SAR, but also was her teacher for two classes over the past year. And through

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the combination of both, Meier was able to see her grow and devote herself to GlamourGals’ mission. “She’s such a creative person,” Meier said. “She has a really strong foundation in terms of creativity, but she also now has leadership. And I can definitely say as her teacher, over the course of the year, it was an amazing thing to watch her increase her confidence and see her really shine.” Altholz’s continued leadership and perseverance with SAR’s GlamourGals chapter made her eligible for the foundation’s Glammy Scholarship. Awarded to five graduating seniors each year, the scholarship provides each winner $1,000 to use toward college in thanks for their dedication to GlamourGals. Altholz will use her scholarship at Tufts University in Massachusetts this fall. That’s great news for her, but it also means the leadership reins of SAR’s GlamourGals chapter must be

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ith the past year filled with so much many of us would rather forget — you know, like the coronavirus pandemic, a change of pace, if not an outright rebirth — couldn’t be more welcome. And if the Riverdale Art Association has anything to say about it, it’s just what the doctor ordered. Although we have now officially entered the summer, the local artists have released a springthemed virtual gallery — “Renewal and Rebirth” — featuring the work of 15 artists from a spectrum of skill levels. From digital compositions to acrylics on canvas, Renewal and diana Rebirth pays homage catz to the fresh beginnings brought by spring. Myra Joyce channels her affinity for computers into fractal art, or mathematical equations that generate a picture. Originally, Joyce — who sits on the art association’s board — saw herself as a myra researcher, focusjoyce ing on neuroscience and psychiatry. But little did she know her scientific career path would have artistic aspects to it as well — and could hone her affinity for photography as well as digital art. “A lot of it was working at neurons that had been dyed and making pictures from that for scientific articles,” Joyce said. “I can appreciate the visual arts, but I never considered myself an artist. Because for me, prior to digital art, art was painting or drawing, which I don’t have the gene for.” During her time examining neurotransmitter interactions in rat brains, Joyce also developed a love for computers, which she says she loves “more than anything.” Before long, she was teaching herself web design and quitting research to work at Columbia University’s School of Nursing as its web and database master. But when she’s not using comput-

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the flowers in ‘Serenity,’ left, are made of non-biodegradable plastic produce nets, created by diana catz with materials found around her home. ‘Woman in the Sun, right is a collage by Sharon Krinsky. Both pieces included in the latest virtual exhibition hosted by the riverdale art association, ‘renewal and rebirth.’ ers to collect a paycheck, Joyce can be found using them to make her art. And two of her more recent pieces are featured in this latest exhibition. One of her pieces, “Splash,” features many overlapping lines, which mimic the ripples of still water disrupted by a small object. The disruption of monotony, she says, is a perfect parallel for how the exhibition stirs its viewers from the sleepy slump of the pandemic. That might be the end result, but Joyce creates from a blank slate and makes the moves up as she goes. “I just take the picture, and I play around with the colors, the way the light affects the picture,” Joyce said. “It affects the three-dimensionality. And I can also play around with, then, how much of each of the different parameters that I put in will be emphasized or de-emphasized. And so at some point in my manipulation of all these parameters, I finally have to reach a point where I say, ‘OK, got it.’” Diana Catz, the art association’s executive director, makes sustainability a key point in her work, “Serenity.” It features flowers — a common sign of spring, albeit in a different way than one might expect. These particular flowers are made with non-biodegradable plastic produce nets. “I am trying to reduce my carbon

footprint,” Catz said. “So I am using everything I have at home that I cannot recycle.” It’s been a very difficult year amidst the coronavirus pandemic, including for Catz. But she hopes her piece inspires a calmer feeling than the initial panic and eventual dread felt by many over the past year. “The artwork was inspired also by the fact that we were in the pandemic,” Catz said, “and you find moments of tranquility in the middle of chaos.” As the art association’s executive chair, it’s up to Catz to organize its exhibitions. But the pandemic presented a challenge for that as well, and the only space the art association could use for the foreseeable future was the Internet. But a digital platform also allows for more creativity — although it’s not without challenges. For instance, rather than hanging 26 pieces on a wall of a gallery, Catz has to make a video displaying all 26 of “Renewal and Rebirth’s” pieces. And she has to decide in which order they should appear. To top it all off, Catz choose a soundtrack — in this case, it was aptly “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi. None of these many decisions are without consequence. “What we are doing with the exhibits is just organizing the artwork in a way

Want to ‘visit’? Go to tinyurl.com/RenewalAndRebirth that flows with the music or that flows with a certain story,” Catz said. While Joyce’s art technique reflects her love for computers and science, Catz’s reflects a lifelong love of education. Originally from Argentina, Catz came to the United States to do postdoctoral work, but she soon grew bored of science. She then pivoted to studying public health and nursing. But even before all of those degrees, Catz was trained in drawing and composition. And now she combines her love for both in her artistic approach. “I am always trying different techniques,” she said, “and working with different materials.” Whether it’s through a collage, an image of fresh fruit circling a pitcher stuffed with colorful flowers, or a single bluebird perched on a leafy branch, “Renewal and Rebirth” is centered on the concept of new life. And after the past year or so, Joyce thinks a new life — or outlook on it — might be just what everyone needs. “We have an opportunity to reinvent ourselves,” Joyce said, “to look at life with a different perspective.”

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With the state now seemingly on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s still taking a while for the economy to catch up — especially in New York City, where improvement in the unemployment rate continues to lag the rest of New York, and the country. Unemployment in the city was 9.8 percent in May, compared to 7 percent in the rest of New York’s metro areas. It is — by far — the highest of these urban areas, but then again this is still coming down a long way from the 20.2 percent unemployment reported a year ago, when the pandemic was still near its height. The Bronx is a primary factor in New York City’s struggle to get back to work, with unemployment rates standing at 13.5 percent. It’s the only county with double-digit unemployment besides Brooklyn’s Kings County, which has 10 percent unemployment. Queens isn’t far behind with 9.7 percent unemployment, while Staten Island reports 8.5 percent, and Manhattan 7.5 percent, according to the state’s labor department. Still, people are getting back to work. Last year at this time, more than 136,000 people were out of work in the Bronx, racking up the state’s worst unemployment rate at 24.6 percent. Today, that number has dropped significantly to just under 81,000 jobless.

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Who got the biggest tax refunds this past year? It looks like the fine taxpayers in New York City where, according to SmartAsset, the average refund topped $4,400. Westchester County was ranked second in the statewide list at $3,680, while Rockland refunds averaged just under $3,500. There were more than 540,000 refunds issued in the city, meaning those returns alone provided a $2.4 billion boost to the local economy.

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Dixon leads virtual display in Harlem This year’s Harlem Fine Arts Show features work by Bronx native David K. Dixon. The show itself is completely virtual, with more information available at HFAS.org. A military retiree, Dixon concentrates on oil and acrylics creating both figurative and abstract pieces, and showcases his love for music.

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Opinion

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EDITORIAL

City’s new Robert Moses

nnovator. Urban prophet. Villain. There are many words to describe New York City’s late “master builder” Robert Moses, and likely all of them are deserved. Moses has become synonymous with unchecked power — someone making unilateral decisions with little to no oversight. Some say Moses was exactly what New York City needed to bridge 19th century urbanism to the very metropolis we have today. There were bad things he did, of course, but also good. And we hope that no matter how his ideas and projects were received, Moses walked into all of this with nothing but the best intentions. It’s those same best intentions that were behind the creation of the city’s campaign finance board seven years after Moses died. Tammany Hall may have been long gone, but corruption was alive and well in New York City politics. And by 1988, voters had enough. They passed a city charter revision creating an “independent, non-partisan agency ... charged with limiting the role and influence of private money in the political process.” It also was tasked, among other things, to provide public disclosure of campaign finances. In the past three decades, the campaign finance board has served that role well, finding even more ways to build transparency using evolving technology, like the internet. Yet, for all the great things we can say about the campaign finance board, there is still one big issue it seems no

one wants to touch: it’s a Robert Moses agency. Unchecked power. Unilateral decisions. No oversight. Sure, the city council is free to add or change laws affecting the campaign finance board anytime they like — and they have done it. But seemingly never in an effort to curb this power, or to provide better oversight. We can summarize that in one recent, very local example. The board approved Councilman Eric Dinowitz to send out a mailer on the first day of early voting, despite the fact there are specific laws about incumbents using taxpayer money to gain an advantage over challengers in an election. The board simply interprets the laws as they see fit — despite contradictory past advisory opinions — and no one has the power to stop them. Sure, some of the aggrieved candidates in this race could take the board to court. But that is hardly an automatic response, because these same candidates are at the mercy of the board, who can easily decide what they deem to be campaign finance violations, and then heavily fine them. The council — and even the mayor — are in the same boat. Challenge the same organization that has the ability to cost you lots of money without any check or balance? It’s not happening. We depend on the campaign finance board to do great things and to protect our elections. But it can’t do so as Robert Moses. It must do so as a true tool representing the people of New York City.

POINT OF VIEW

Call it a sin, or consider it a virtue: Pride has history

By MIRIAM LEVINE HELBOK

hen asked about the word “pride,” few people will picture lions — “Pride” is the collective term for a group of lions that live together. Rather, many will remember the biblical warning, “Pride goeth before a fall.” Those words are a condensation of an admonition from Proverbs 16:18, which translated in their entirety, read “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” I suspect that many of us will also remember hearing that pride is one of the seven deadly sins, a septet that has been traced to a fourthcentury monk and the sixth-century pope, Gregory I. The 13th-century theologian Thomas Aquinas offered his ideas about those deadly sins in his book, “Summa Theologica,” and like Gregory, asserted that pride underlies all the other sins. In condemning pride, they ignored Aristotle’s view, recorded more than 2,000 years ago, that pride is a virtue to be distinguished from unjustified or excessive pride, which the ancient Greeks called “hubris.” Today we recognize pride as being both a virtue and a vice — that is, as having both positive and negative aspects. We recognize that pride is an essential element in feelings of self-worth. In celebrating their pride in public, members of the LGBTQ community proclaim their worth as human beings, and reject feelings of shame about who they are — shame heaped upon people like themselves for centuries and, though to a lesser extent, on themselves. Even today. Pride is not among the emotions that humans are born with. According to the 20th-century psychologist Paul Ekman — to whom Time magazine in 2009 named among the world’s 100 most influential people — we enter the world able to experience only anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. In order to feel pride, a child must have developed a sense of itself as separate from others, which requires the understanding that others differ from oneself. The American Psychological Association’s “Dictionary of Psychology” defines pride as “a self-conscious emotion that occurs when a goal has been attained, and one’s achievement has been recognized and approved by others. It differs from joy and happiness in that these emotions do not require the approval of others to be experienced. False pride can become grandiosity if the sense of accomplishment is not deserved, or the reaction is excessive.”

Since none of us can feel precisely what another person is feeling, what you feel when you feel pride may differ from what I feel when I feel pride. However, each of us can identify that feeling when we feel it. I distinctly remember seeing my son’s expression when, a day or so before he turned a year old, he took a half-dozen steps on his own for the first time. His immense smile radiated delight, and what at that time I probably would have described as pride. But could he have been feeling pride? Had he already developed a sense of self? Virtually all experts would say “no,” but who knows? Since he spoke only a few words then, I have no way of knowing what he was feeling in addition to happiness. One could write a whole book about pride, and needless to say, people have. I’m sure that by reading them, I’d reach a new understanding of my own feelings of pride — and shame. Perhaps I’d learn why my pride prevents me from having even people who I know respect me and care about me from seeing my messy apartment, or why I fear how people who have not seen me for many months might react when they see how obviously I’ve physically aged — a fear I know is inextricably linked with pride and shame. In any event, I’m happy for all the LGBTQ people who are celebrating during Pride Month. At the invitation of The Washington Post, readers shared their reasons for doing so. In a June 11 article, one man said, “I celebrate Pride because so many people before me couldn’t. I celebrate Pride because it means being able to live authentically.” Another said, “I celebrate Pride to honor the courageous people who helped make my path easier (and) my load a little lighter.” A third man, who had been married to a woman for 34 years, recently came out as gay to family members. Now 55, he acknowledged that, for him, “it’s been a very, very long fight. And finally, I just got tired of fighting and hiding and feeling shame about myself, and having that shame just spill over into so many different aspects of my life.” All humans struggle, experience sorrow, face setbacks and obstacles, wrestle with problems, and grapple with pain. Thankfully, the struggles, sorrows, problems, setbacks, obstacles and pain of many of those in the LGBTQ community have significantly lessened, thanks to their increasing acceptance by society.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

No one is riding Mosholu To the editor:

(re: “DOT takes the ‘fast lane’ on Mosholu Ave,” June 10)

Kudos to Laura Spalter and the members of our local community board for all of the research and hard work they do in the interests of our community. How unfortunate it is that their role is advisory only. Our board and we who live here know our neighborhoods better than do any New York City officials who often disregard the board’s advice and fail to follow the strongly expressed will of our local community as communicated to them by our community board. A current case-in-point is the strongly opposed and ill-advised creation of bicycle lanes on Mosholu Avenue between Broadway and Riverdale Avenue. As The Riverdale Press reported, many valid objections were raised by the community board and local residents who enumerated the drawbacks of turning this avenue into a designated bicycle lane. These objections included fears for the safety of both pedestrians (including schoolchildren) and bicyclists, and the negative economic impact upon the many small businesses on Mosholu. Therefore, here is my eyewitness report of the current Mosholu Avenue situation. Today, my dog and I walked the entire length of the avenue twice on our daily walk, which we do every day, weather permitting. As was the situation prior to the painting of

Pass For the People To the editor: I’ve never had any trouble voting in New York City, and know that the city’s campaign finance program ensures that candidates for city office don’t have to spend lots of their time fundraising. But that’s not the case in other parts of the country. At least 14 states have passed laws that greatly restrict voting. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the For the People Act — a bold, comprehensive package of democracy reforms that would better our country. U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has stated that he will block it, and other Senate Republicans have refused to commit to voting for it. Thank you, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, for committing yourself to calling for a vote in the Senate by the end of June. Today, the Senate majority leader must hear from all of us so that nothing will stand in the way of adopting

the lines, there was not a single cyclist on the roadbed of Mosholu which, in the almost 40 years during which I have been walking dogs there, had had few — if any — cyclists. Private cars and delivery trucks were double-parked where they have always been — parking in and ignoring the newly painted bike lanes in front of local businesses. Thus, a cyclist would have had to ride around them, weaving into and out of the car and truck lanes — a safety hazard for all concerned. I also observed vehicular traffic riding in the bike lanes, completely ignoring the markings. I did observe some pre-teens and younger children riding their bikes on the sidewalk — not the bike lanes — near Riverdale Neighborhood House. In other words, there is no need for the lane markings because cyclists are not using them, and even if they were so inclined, the lanes are already blocked by cars and trucks. It’s safer to ride on the sidewalks. However, there was plenty of bike traffic on Broadway — and why not? Broadway is not a steep hill like Mosholu Avenue, and the cyclists do not have to dodge parked cars, pedestrians and trucks. Why ride up and down a steep hill, blocked with parked cars, pedestrians and trucks, when there is a safer and more comfortable alternative on Broadway? ViVian Oleen

the sweeping protections for voting, elections and campaign finance contained in the For the People Act. Call him at (212) 486-4430, and tell him not to let the antiquated filibuster stand in the way of adoption of a bill that will end partisan gerrymandering, match small-dollar contributions for citizen-funded elections, and adopt ethics reforms that will close the revolving door between government and the private sector. Our future of our democracy literally hangs in the balance. sue DODell

Some don’t deserve it To the editor:

(re: “Change for the better: Seeking second chances,” June 10)

In her recent Point of View, Stacy Kinlock Sewell talked about two “prison reform” bills currently in the state legislature, but only presents one side of the issue. This issue is an extremely personal one for me and my

immediate and extended families. My ex-brother-in-law is currently serving a 25-year sentence for strangling his wife — my beautiful sister-inlaw — to death in 2009. We worked for 10 hard years to get justice served because this dangerous sociopath covered his tracks to make it look like an accident. If enacted into law, he would be eligible for parole only 10 years into his sentence. He brutally murdered an exceptional mother, friend, business executive and daughter, and ruined the lives of his children. Ms. Kinlock Sewell fails to mention that many other hardened criminals would be let free with this dangerous proposed piece of legislation. My family and I are certain that, once let free, this lunatic will come to find us. It is appalling that people seem to be so concerned with prisoner rights at the cost of victims of the crime. If you had something like this happen in your family, you would want the rights of the victims and families to come first. MargareT Danishefsky

Martin distorts Lora pledge To the editor:

(re: “Final endorsements wave come through,” June 17)

Rather than take on Mino Lora’s actual position on public safety, Abigail Martin is spreading inaccuracies. In the Political Arena column published in The Riverdale Press, Martin claims that to receive the endorsement of Courage to Change — the political action committee for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — candidates had to “support a cut of at least $3 billion to the New York Police Department each year.” This is a complete fabrication. This is the exact language of the pledge: “In order to provide real public safety and undo our unjust system of mass incarceration and over-policing, New York City must invest in education, housing, jobs, health care, and community-based programs. “Will you support a plan to bring down the annual NYPD budget, and shift those funds toward community resources and programs — including community accountability services, victim support and compensation funds, community schools, and prisoner rehabilitation and re-entry programs?” Martin also claims, “The candidate in this race who did receive AOC’s endorsement has,

on multiple occasions, said the NYPD should be abolished.” As reported accurately by The Press in a Feb. 25 story, last summer — at the height of the George Floyd demonstrations — Lora expressed her anger at the police. It was one of the things that pushed her to run for office. As a candidate, Mino has consistently used the term “defund,” and has made clear in every debate that she wants the NYPD to be able to focus on preventing and solving violent and hate crime. Mino and many others believe the NYPD is given too much to do that takes away from their ability to focus on safety — including handling traffic accidents, school safety, and responding to mental health and homelessness. Abigail has heard her say this, and has no excuse for distorting Mino’s position. It seems Abigail can’t disagree on substance, and instead can only make false accusations. This also was part of the Courage to Change pledge, which Abigail apparently could not agree to: “It is OK for two or more candidates to distinguish themselves by drawing upon facts. It is not OK to direct nasty claims and misleading allegations toward one another.” DaViD neusTaDT The author is press secretary for the Mino Lora city council campaign.

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Our democracy depends on the For the People Act By HELEN KRIM

he political cartoon that appeared in the April 8 edition of The Riverdale Press notifying readers that Jim Crow is back ready to again crush voting rights is timely and frightening. Georgia’s state legislature just gave itself the right to remove duly elected election officials. Numerous states are passing laws to make it more difficult for voters to vote. Mail-in voting — which was normal procedure in 16 states — is being made cumbersome and expensive with notarization and witnessed signature requirements. The number of drop boxes is being reduced, particularly in districts where Black and brown people reside. Early voting is being truncated, forcing long lines to discourage people from waiting to vote. Voter rolls are being purged. Jim Crow is back — our democracy is in peril. The For the People Act — if passed — prevents the most egregious aspects of the state laws, at least in federal elections. The Constitution affirms Congress’ power to protect the right to vote in the 14th Amendment, and to regulate federal elections, including congressional elections. The For the People Act uses those powers to expand voting rights and prohibit actions designed to suppress voting. The need to pass the Act is urgent, so it is worth celebrating the contents of the bill. Protections for the individual voter are the best-known aspects of the bill. It provides for automatic voter registration, and allows registration via the internet with electronic copies of handwritten signatures. It prohibits the requirements for notarized or witnessed signatures used to disqualify votes in 2020. States must allow vote-by-mail, and voters must be notified of signature discrepancies and afforded the opportunity to “cure” the ballot. To protect the homeless, purging a voter on the basis of returned mail is prohibited. The bill bars purges of voter rolls. The For the People Act prohibits the deception and voter intimidation seen in a few cases in the 2020 election. Spreading false information about day and time of elections, endorsements, and rules governing eligibility is a crime with federal penalties, and states must develop procedures for correcting false information. For the People significantly expands the voting population. The bill restores voting rights to those with criminal convictions who completed their sentences. Election information must be provided to Native Americans in their own languages. These Americans are allowed to vote without providing a residential address — often impossible on reservation lands. Provisions of the act are extended to all U.S. territories. The bill restores the Voting Rights Act of 1965, requiring pre-clearance of changes to state laws. And the bill declares Election Day a national holiday.

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To the editor: When voting at IN-Tech Academy on June 20, it was bad enough running into the gauntlet of eager candidates and their stand-ins. However, just as it’s the right of these people to solicit votes, so is my right to be treated with courtesy and respect. After all, it is my vote — my purchase — which is being solicited. The arrogance of a relative of Eric Dinowitz — not his father, whose office has been quite responsive — in aggressive arguing, was tawdry and unnecessary. I simply stated, after a number of attempts by earlier stand-ins to push a Dinowitz flyer in my face, “No, thank you,” and “No Dinowitz: I don’t want a political dynasty here in Riverdale.” This was the last of the aggressive — but mainly polite — political pushers. He was not polite. He was argumentative, nasty, surly, snide and rude. The best response he could give would have been, “Thank you,” and move on. For the record, Eric, it was an older gentleman — perhaps your uncle or grandfather? It was not your father, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, whose sechel wouldn’t allow such poor public performance. I will do anything I can to work against your

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extremely thin understanding of the concerns we might want the social studies to address. I’d support a focus on examining with students how one can or ought to act as citizens, and on the recurring social issues which will impact the lives of students, and which they will have to respond to. One suspects that a key motivation for flooding the curriculum with too much content is that it allows those in authority to avoid difficult conversations about what students need to learn and how students can be taught effectively to become engaged citizens. Recent political events suggest to me that nationwide social studies has failed miserably. For anyone who cares to look at all closely at the curriculum, it should come as no surprise that a recurrent finding of educational researchers is that stu-

dents rate social studies as their least-favorite subject in secondary school. To clean up an observation made in the movie “History Boys,” for students, social studies becomes “one damn thing after another.” In this context, I applaud the effort to make the study of the Holocaust meaningful and effective. I also believe that to do so will require a rethinking of the curriculum so that the values which we want to guide selection of content are straightforward, and that in light of these values, teachers, researchers and administrators can deliberate about effective ways to achieve agreed upon ends. In my experience, this required dialogue has not been allowed to happen, and it seems we as a society suffer for it. John Gunn

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4 1. Private Riverdale Estate Riverdale. 6BR. 5.5 Bath. $3.150M. Web# 21056745. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485 Scott Kriger 718-878-1715 2. Always Marvel at the View! Riverdale. 3BR. 2.5 Bath. $925K. Web# 20339891. Deena Spindler 718-878-1925 Lee Moskof 718-878-1921 3. Home is Where the Heart Is Riverdale. 3BR. 3 Bath. $895K. Web# 20901378. Lee Moskof 718-878-1921

4. Amazing Space, Spectacular Sunset Views Riverdale. 4BR. 2 Bath. $759,500. Web# 20370800. Robin Tragni 718-878-1708 Vicki Green 718-878-1919 5. Private Cul-de-Sac European-Style Townhouse Riverdale. 5BR. 3.5 Bath. $1.595M. Web# 20879446. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485 Amela Kadric 718-878-1719 6. Jaw-Dropping, Show-Stopping Riverdale. 2BR. 2 Bath. $754K. Web# 20391662. RoseAnn Hermann 718-878-1924 Maria-Stella Fountoulakis 718-878-1725 7. Loft Like Space With a Floating Staircase Riverdale. 2BR. 2 Bath. $739K. Web# 21061175. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485

8. Elegant 1930’s Medieval Revival Home Riverdale. 5BR. 3 Bath. $1.5M. Web# 20946740. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485 9. Huge, Sunny, Quiet, Convertible 4BR Riverdale. 3BR. 2 Bath. $699K. Web# 20788049. Rachel Vannucci 212-381-2306 Joseph Truglio 212-381-2225 10. Gracious Home in Pastoral Setting Riverdale. 4BR. 3 Bath. $695K. Web# 20779806. Marilyn B. Wegh 718-878-1926

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See Riverdale's Best Properties 11. Spacious, Bright, Sunny Apartment Riverdale. 5BR. 4 Bath. $1.295M. Web# 20804847. Tobias B. Schapiro 212-317-7746 Ann B. Schapiro 212-317-7787 12. Sponsor 3 Bedroom 2 Bath High Floor Riverdale. 3BR. 2 Bath. $595K. Web# 21073133. Lee Moskof 718-878-1921 13. Riverfront Luxury Riverdale. 2BR. 2 Bath. $590K. Web# 21023319. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485

14. Impeccable and Rare Four Bedroom Condo Riverdale. 4BR. 2 Bath. $1.195M. Web# 20926438. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485 Amela Kadric 718-878-1719 15. Serenity in the Idyllic Enclave of Riverdale Riverdale. 3BR. 3 Bath. $565K. Web# 20652758. Fran Kaback 212-381-2366 Elizabeth Alicea 212-381-2671

16. Exquisitely Renovated Riverdale. 2BR. 2 Bath. $549K. Web# 20853754. Nanette Gran 718-878-1703 Julia Gran 718-878-1716 17. Recently renovated with Unique Architectural Details Riverdale. 5BR. 4 Bath. $1.75M. Web# 21035714. Deena Spindler 718-878-1925

18. Live, Work, Play! Riverdale. 4BR. 3 Bath. $549K. Web# 20625226. Francisco Menendez 212-381-2565 Kelly Deadmon 212-381-2347 19. Turn-Key Convertible Three With Terrace Riverdale. 3BR. 2 Bath. $425K. Web# 20914022. Andrew J. Kramer 212-317-3634

20. Perfectly Proportioned 3BR + Balcony Riverdale. 3BR. 2 Bath. $419K. Web# 20756896. Fran Kaback 212-381-2366 Elizabeth Alicea 212-381-2671

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spuyten duyVil Web #917 3-bdrm, 3.5-bath house on cul-de-sac. Center hall, sunken living rm w/ WBFP & finished walk-out basement. $1,475,000

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exclusiVe fieldston Web #900 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath, stucco Tudor with gracious historic interior, fireplace, rear decks and level backyard. $2,245,000

neW exclusiVe centrAl riVerdAle Web #909 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath ranch-style house. Split-level design features, entry foyer, living rm & dining area. $1,790,000

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neW exclusiVe nortH riVerdAle Web #908 Renovated and cozy 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath brick house with private patio & garden space. Renovated kitchen. $695,000

spuyten duyVil Web #922 4-bdrm, 3.5-bath house with center hall, spacious living room, windowed kitchen and finished bsmnt. $1,149,000

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2727 pAlisAde AVe #cc656 Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, 24-hr DM & parking avail. Master BR suite & remodeled kitchen. $525,000

640 West 237tH street #cc671 Contemporary luxury 4-bdrm, 4.5bath w/ Balcony, 24-hr doormen and Dramatic River Views. $1,675,000

750 KAppocK street #cc659 Spacious and bright top-floor 2-bdrm, 2-bath with enclosed sunrise balcony, parking, & 24-hr doormen. $530,000

3530 Henry Hudson prKWy #cc674 Spacious top floor 2-bdrm (Conv 3), 2-bath w/ great closet space, windowed kitchen, balcony& 24-hr DM. $565,000

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3536 cAmbridge AVe cc660 Contemporary 3-bdrm, 2-bath condo w/bright open views & in unit lndry. $639K

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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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