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Suzanne and Seeing Voices took the An Beal Bocht stage on June 26 to play their role in the reintegration of live music into the West 238th Street pub’s routine. After the less-than-sing-song height of the coronavirus pandemic, An Beal is once again booking live music.
An Beal’s post-corona comeback n Known for tasty refreshments and homey atmosphere, it’s not just tunes, but writing and live plays, too By SOPHIA ROMANO
A farm upstate So, whatever happened to Rudy the Rooster? Don’t worry, he has a great new home. Page A3
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hen sitting at the bar at An Beal Bocht Café, it’s easy to see why the pub is a neighborhood favorite. “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac plays from the kitchen. Plenty of natural light shines through the doors. The collection of bottles behind the bar and the vintage wooden signs on the surrounding walls provide a feeling of well-worn comfort. The West 238th Street Irish bar and restaurant shares its name with a popular Irish novel. “An Béal
Bocht,” meaning “the poor mouth,” and is regarded as one of the greatest pieces of Irish literature of the 20th century. The book is regarded as remarkably funny with a hint of darkness to complement. And this description could easily be applied to the café itself, with its witty regulars and their brooding jokes. “You’re an enabler,” An Beal regular Steve Kam scolded bartender Caitlin Seword, who smiled deviously while handing him another beer. For as long as Seword can recall, Sundays from 4 to 7 p.m., always have been reserved for sessions of live “trad” music — short for “traditional” — a session whose performances feature instruments like fiddles and accordions. “We’re trying to keep it as Irish as possible,” Seword said. Yet within this cultural parameter that the bar strives to maintain at least on “trad” night, An COMEBACK, page A4
Alexis Lorenzo is scrambling. So far, many have held onto their homes — even if they can’t pay — thanks to foreclosure moratoriums enacted at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. But as COVID-19 slowly disappears, so are the days remaining for these protections to stay in place. It’s almost impossible to tell what will happen when these moratoriums are finally lifted, but Lorenzo — the director of foreclosure prevention at Bronx Legal Services — is standing by ready to help. And that help could be needed as early as this summer. “Usually homeowners get to advocates and legal experts after already being fleeced a couple of times by bad actors,” Lorenzo said. And she’s not referring to the government or even banks — instead those people taking the little that’s left in AlExIS some homeowners’ bank accounts, leadloRENzo ing them to believe they can help. Instead, Lorenzo said, they “do bad things” like “filing documents that sign over the deeds to their house to predators.” Preparing homeowners for the expected wave of foreclosures is no easy task — even for legal experts with experience taking on these very kinds of legal housing issues. Lorenzo and Bronx Legal Services are working with a consortium of advocates, non-profits and city agencies to help many who may be most vulnerable to foreclosures once the moratoriums are lifted. In fact, they’ve created what they call the Anti-Displacement Homeowner Help Desk, a new initiative designed to educate homeowners on FORECLOSURES, page A4
Cuomo’s pen ready to silence loud vehicles n Albany, NYPD may have new weapon to crack down on ATVs, dirt bikes, mufflers
‘I don’t know one person who actually went to a shop and purchased the equipment and had it installed.’
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Backfire that sounds like gunshots and revving engines have become all too familiar sounds over the past year. The barrage of loud vehicular noises has hardly gone unnoticed. In fact, it’s one of the more complained-about quality-oflife issues in this corner of the Bronx. At least according to Community Board 8 public safety committee chair Ed Green. “We have people upset about it all the time,” he said. “I mean, it was very bad last year, and we seem to be getting a similar amount of complaints” this year. The noise comes from several sources, Green said. But the main “one is a lot of these souped-up vehicles making noise with loud muffler systems.” Fortunately for Green, lawmakers in Albany — and the New York Police Department more locally — have taken some steps to try and turn down the volume. One of those lawmakers is Brooklyn state Sen. Andrew Gounardes who sponsored the SLEEP — or Stop Loud and Excessive Exhaust Pollution — Act in the up-
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Car enthusiast Anthony Wilson says owners of souped-up cars often purchase noisy modified exhaust systems online instead of in person. He says the SlEEP Act from state Sen. Andrew Gounardes intended to raise fines on auto body shops that sell and install these parts, won’t be very effective in stopping people from attaching these devices to their cars. per chamber, a bill he says would ban the sale and usage of devices that amplify the sound of a car’s engine. “We’re trying to tackle the problem of these illegally modified cars with exhaust
mufflers that sound like jet engines at the airport, or sound like shotguns or things like that,” Gounardes said. They have “really been terrorizing the streets for the last year.”
Although Gounardes has heard this problem firsthand from his own near the Belt Parkway, he said people from all over the state contacted his office after he introduced the SLEEP Act to tell him about similar issues in their own backyards. These noise-making muffler enhancements are already illegal, Gounardes said, but there aren’t many cars getting ticketed for them because the fine is currently just $150. That means drivers who already spend several thousand dollars modifying their mufflers aren’t going to be deterred by what otherwise could be considered just pocket change for them. To fix this, Gounardes said, his legislation would increase fines for those driving LOUD CARS, page A4
Teachers prepare for switch back to in-person classes n Online learning brought some challenges, but also innovation, providing window to student lives By MAYA MITRASINOVIC Intern
It was an all-new way to teach and learn — and both school administrators and teachers scrambled to figure out how to do it. The coronavirus pandemic created a sudden need for remote learning, and despite its rocky start, became an accepted norm for more than a year. Now that Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered campuses to reopen in the fall, these same school administrators and teachers are trying to figure out what the coming academic year will look like. Yet, while the adjustment to online and hybrid
learning brought on many challenges, with those challenges came opportunities for creative solutions. “Attendance was really low,” said Jake Jacobs, an art teacher at Bronx Park Middle School in Allerton. “I think the real challenge for kids was that some kids were supervised at home, and some kids had no supervision at home. Or some kids were taking care of their younger siblings. And so, it was very low.” Christian Aviles, a Spanish teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School, found there were deeper issues at play. “The hardest part was not necessarily technology,” he said. “It was figuring out how to establish rapport with the students — how to connect, as a human, to students.” Clearly, this lack of connection was caused by technology. But in some cases, Aviles said, technolIN-PERSON SCHOOL, page A4
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like the rest of the city, teachers at Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy had a difficult adjustment to online learning. However, this past year gave educators unique insights into their students’ lives, allowing them to reconsider traditional teaching methods.
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Finding a feathered friend a forever family upstate n Rooster now taking residence on a farm thanks to Sunday Market
‘It was a win-win for the neighbors, the farmer — and the bird.’
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There are many things one might find at the Riverdale Sunday Market. Some fresh fruit and vegetables, perhaps. Or maybe even some artisanal soaps or a food scrap drop-off. But just recently, one feathered neighborhood resident found himself a new upstate home there. It was only a few weeks ago a rooster living in Ploughmans Bush had drawn the ire of his neighbors thanks to his early-morning crowing habit. And, of course, there was the matter of the law — as it’s illegal to own a pet rooster in New York City. But according to Ann Rauch, one of the rooster’s unwilling neighbors, the owners didn’t exactly go out to a rooster store and bring a feathered friend home. In fact, they found themselves with the noisy pet quite unexpectedly. “I spoke to my neighbor who owned the rooster and who felt badly about the noise problem created by the bird’s early-morning crowing,” Rauch wrote in a recent letter to the editor published in The Riverdale Press. “The chickens were one of those ‘homegrown’ pandemic projects where the family hatched the chickens from eggs and cared for them, not expecting to have to deal with a large rooster at the end of the experiment.” Regardless, it was clear the rooster simply couldn’t stay at Ploughmans Bush. And so his owner began researching ways for the rooster to find a new, more suitable home. Rauch also happens to be a friend of Shira Silverman, who organizes the Riverdale Sunday Market. In such a
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Up until recently, a noisy and illegal rooster was living in Ploughmans Bush. But thanks to the efforts of a few involved with the Riverdale Sunday Market, the early-rising bird is now living in a much more suitable home: the Orchards of Concklin in Rockland County. position, Rauch and Silverman meet many farmers who serve as vendors at the market — one of whom could very well become the solution to the feathered problem. “Once I was aware that the neighbor was interested in getting rid of the rooster, I started networking with the people I network with through the Sunday Market,” Rauch said. “And it occurred to me, well, wait a minute. There’s a farmer here. There are several farmers here, or people representing farmers. Maybe they could take a rooster.”
And that’s just what happened with Trevor, one of the market’s vendors from the Orchards of Concklin in Rockland County. Rauch and Silverman soon learned he’d be more than happy to take the rooster under his metaphorical wing. Trevor “fondly remembered the chickens of his childhood home in Jamaica, and was delighted at the idea of being woken at 5 a.m., by a crowing rooster, unlike some of us Riverdale neighbors,” Rauch wrote. “It was a win-win for the neighbors, the farmer — and the bird.”
Finally, the day came for the rooster to meet his new owner. The bird’s Bronx family shared as much as they could with Trevor, according to Rauch — including the bird’s name, Orb — as well as his diet and even photographs of his upbringing. Trevor renamed the rooster Rudy, and Silverman says the crower is quite satisfied with his new upstate living arrangement. And it seems many at the Orchards of Concklin are overjoyed to have him there — not just Trevor. But no one is more overjoyed with
the arrangement than Rudy himself. “He is the king of his domain, which is currently half the size of the parking lot,” Silverman said. “And he’s making lots of noise.” It’s not every day the Riverdale Sunday Market proves instrumental in finding an illegal — and noisy — animal a more suitable home. But Silverman finds the Sunday Market fills many roles in the community — not just providing neighbors with fresh produce. “It’s really evolved to the point where there’s so many things that can happen because of the market,” Silverman said. “I mean, it ranges from being able to rehome a rooster to being able to rehome books and chairs and food scraps in all of these sustainable ways. It’s a real community.” And to Rauch, the market’s multifaceted purpose certainly hasn’t escaped the people who live here. In fact, one of the market’s master composters remarked it was similar to a tradition people might see hundreds of years ago. “She said, ‘You know, Shira has really established a town square,’” Rauch said. “‘People come to do their shopping, they chat, they catch up.’ And she has expanded it to include all these services for the community, and that also help the environment. “So it’s pretty remarkable.”
PRESS POINTS Senior center reopens as New Beginnings The Riverdale Y Senior Center has reopened, and it has a new name — one befitting the very times we now live in. New Beginnings has welcomed back neighbors 60 and older to its 5625 Arlington Ave., facility. It’s just they can’t all come back at once. “We’ve waited anxiously for this day,” said Sharon Asherman, New Beginnings’ director, in a release. We “are thrilled to
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be able to throw our doors open and welcome back our members.” Although a vast majority of senior citizens living in New York are vaccinated against the coronavirus, New Beginnings will still take special precautions to protect its members, Asherman said. That means indoor capacity will be reduced to 25 percent, and six-foot distance requirements will be enforced. There also will be daily temperature checks and screening ques-
tions, and face coverings will be required at all times, except when seated at lunch, or in the swimming pool. Members are also required to register in advance online for all New Beginnings classes and lunch at RiverdaleY.org. Over the past year of the coronavirus, New Beginnings offered virtual classes and more than 116,000 home-delivered meals. Some online activities will continue, typically Monday through Friday.
Subways now eligible for 311 service Getting help on the subway may have become a bit easier. The city has expanded the reach of 311 to include straphangers trying to traverse the tunnels underneath New York City. The 311 system can now report a number of things on trains, including finding assistance for those who have become homeless, or who may be experiencing a mental health
crisis, according to a release. Subway riders can use the 311 app or web portal, as well as call the system, or text for assistance. Prior to the latest upgrade, 311 did not recognize subway stations as part of the city’s geography, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “Transit has been asking for this upgrade for years,” said Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit, in a release. “We are grateful
to the city for giving our riders and our employees the ability to request critical city services and assistance on behalf of those who are in the subway system and are in need.” New York launched its 311 service in 2003, following the lead of other cities like Baltimore in the late 1990s. It handles upward of 44 million calls each year, according to published reports. It’s available at Portal.311. nyc.gov, or by dialing 311, or texting 311-692.
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IN-PERSON SCHOOL from page A1 ogy was also what allowed teachers to reconnect with students. “Remote learning really gave us a window into students’ home lives,” said Alexandra Haridopolos, a social studies and English as a second language teacher at the Grace H. Dodge Career and Technical High School in Belmont. “Their living conditions are largely out of their control. If they have to babysit, if there’s food in the fridge, if there’s a quiet environment, if it’s a loud environment. So all of that has really gotten us much closer to our students in a weird way, even though everybody felt isolated.” Because online learning brought epress.com new insights on what the lives of students are really like, some teachers ven if theyused this newfound connection to acenacted atcommodate issues they just couldn’t COVID-19prior to the pandemic. these pro- Tiffany Riley, a high school Spanish teacher at the Bronx Center for Scipen whenence and Mathematics in Morrisania, was just in her first year of teaching when the pandemic hit. She found it wasn’t difficult to adjust to new teaching methods because the in-person teaching before the coronavirus was new to her, too. “Over time, I’ve created materials using (online platforms) like Edpuzzle — where they can do listening and reading comprehension — and I use tools like Flipgrid, where they can do their speaking practice,” Riley said. “It did not have to be synchronous, ” like “fil-so that they could do it on their own house totime, because I had some students … that started taking on jobs and started ve of fore-having responsibilities that overlapped with expe-with their class time.” Riley also found that online learng issues. ng with aing methods worked well for language gencies tolearning because she could incorpoeclosuresrate anonymous elements into her e createdlesson plans allowing her students wner Helpto share their work without fearing owners onjudgment from their peers. Riley even found she could incorporate more rig, page A4or into her class through non-traditional testing methods. “When it comes to socio-emotional learning, I wanted them to feel as though they had agency over what they were learning and how they felt,”
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At DeWitt Clinton High School, some teachers used technology during remote learning to their benefit. In fact, they’re hoping to pull in some of the strategies they developed for the fall — even if classes are back in person. Riley said. “So I gave them freedom of choice in terms of both assessment and learning styles.” Moving away from traditional textbook-based methods of learning and embracing technology allowed Riley to give her students a feeling of control in the classroom they did not have before. The fact her students could easily look up answers to memorizationbased assessments prompted Riley to find news ways to test their knowledge. As an art teacher, Jacobs used to develop art presentations he showed to his students in lieu of the tactile learning that usually takes place in his classes. “You know, I’ve never been given time to sit down and develop these kinds of lessons before, where I was getting all these examples of art and putting them all in this sequence,” Jacobs said. “I made movies, I made slideshows, and so I have lots of materials that I can use for the rest of my career now that were developed this year because I had to teach online.” Yet, Jacobs still isn’t sure which of these methods he’ll be bring to inperson classes next fall. He wants his students to use their hands to make art, but he might use the presentation he developed as a way to diversify his curriculum. The question of whether these new technologies and learning methods are transferable to in-person learning is an important one. Platforms that allow students to anonymously share work with their peers — like the one that Riley uses — might not be easy to incorporate into a classroom where kids can clearly see each other, the educators say. However, the flexibility with — and accommodations for — students these platforms allowed points to their longevity. “Students are not always ready to showcase what they’ve learned, but
that doesn’t mean that they’re not learning,” Aviles said. “I think that remote learning has taught me that, and I think that’s a really valuable lesson for people to understand. How can I be more patient about what students are able to give me in order to assess them?” Haridopolos also found the pandemic cast light on inequalities amongst her students when it comes tIFFANy to access to technolRILEy ogy. “Digital literacy was a hurdle,” she said. The education department “needs to be providing all students with Wi-Fi in their homes — every New York City public school family should have guaranteed WiFi. I can’t believe we JAkE didn’t (think about JACObS this) before.” The closeness online learning created between students and teachers made those at-home differences blatantly clear. This newfound clarity made it possible for teachers to not only accommodate their own students, but to advocate for better access to technology on a larger scale, as well. “Remote learning has made me realize that students have a voice that needs to be respected more, and also understood,” Aviles said. “And I think that, regardless of the format that we teach, the most important part is that we’re dealing with humans really. If that means that a student needs remote learning, then I somehow find a way to facilitate that.”
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LOUD CARS from page A1 cars with modified mufflers from $150 to $500. Additionally, the bill would make it so any auto body shop caught selling or installing these devices more than three times will have their operating licenses revoked by the state motor vehicle department. “That should help us stop it at the installation point,” Gounardes said. “As well as give us enough tools on the enforcement side … (when) they catch these guys and they pull them over, there’ll actually be some teeth to the law.” eard this The noise could be turned down sooner rather than later, near theas the bill already passed both chambers in the legislature m all overbefore the session ended last month. And Gounardes is conter he in-fident Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sign it into law before the him aboutsummer is out. ards. Yet, Green says he’s skeptical of how effective this bill enhance-actually would be in reducing noise. Its success depends rdes said,on how thoroughly the police enforce the new fines, and ng ticket-how aggressively they go after auto body shops that sell and currentlyinstall these illegal devices. ho already And it’s the fact lawmakers are targeting shop that cremodifyingated doubt for Anthony Wilson. The Spuyten Duyvil perdeterredformance car hobbyist believes ticketing auto body shops onsideredwon’t work because most performance car owners buy their parts online — seemingly out of reach of Gounardes’ bill. is legisla- “I belong to a few car groups, car clubs, go to car meets. se drivingI don’t know one person who actually went to a shop and purchased the equipment and had it installed,” Wilson said. “Most of us choose the appropriate muffler and pipe combination, and we just order it online. Then once we receive it, we take it to a shop and have it welded in.” However, the law does penalize shops in New York that authorities can prove installed the devices, Gounardes said. Those who install the devices themselves, in their own garage, are still subject to the fine simply for driving one of these loud vehicles. Also contributing to the vehicular noise, Green said, is the growing prevalence of unlicensed all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes speeding down city streets. “The ATVs are just really obnoxious,” Green said. “They come in packs, too, for the most part, whenever I see them.
It’s almost like the motorcycle gangs of the old days. You know, when they come down the street in packs and you hear them, and they sound like thunder. “When they come down the block and (they’re) popping wheelies in the street, a lot of times it’s pretty out of control.” More important than noise, Green said, these dirt bikes and ATVs are also dangerous. “They’re unlicensed, they’re unregistered, they speed through the streets and the riders largely don’t wear any protective gear,” Green said. “So, they’re not only dangerous to the public, but they’re dangerous to the riders themselves.” According to Dan Padernacht, Community Board 8’s former traffic and transportation committee chair, these vehicles are also dangerous because they often drive against traffic or on sidewalks. The NYPD recently started a rewards program aimed at getting more of these unlicensed vehicles off the streets. According to a published report, police are offering $100 rewards for information about each illegal dirt bike or ATV they retrieve, and they want anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers. Police will then destroy any confiscated dirt bike or ATV that doesn’t have a rightful owner. While this program can’t hurt, Padernacht said, “that can’t be their primary initiative.” Instead, police need to step up enforcement in other ways, and there also should be new legislation passed that sets clearer rules around the legality of dirt bikes and ATVs. “We need to make sure that any individual driving one of these motorized vehicles are of a minimum age and have a proper license,” Padernacht said. “And that each of these vehicles are properly insured.” The main way to tackle all the problems with loud and illegal vehicles, Green said, is for lawmakers to consider imposing stiffer criminal penalties for these offenses. “I just think that we need to revisit some of these laws,” Green said. “The decriminalization of these quality-of-life crimes has really opened the door to a lot of these problems. And these things need to be revisited.”
FORECLOSURES from page A1 how they can protect their homes from anyone who threatens them, especially predators. The program also provides foreclosure prevention resources while holding workshops to inform homeowners of their rights while connecting them with the experienced legal advocates they need. The initiative not only educates homeowners, but virtually anyone asking housing advocates for help. “What we’re doing is, in some space, try to educate those folks so they could recognize the issues that when there is predatory behavior, they can direct the homeowner to us,” Lorenzo said. One problem some homeowners seem to struggle with is negotiating with forbearance servicers — those who are supposed to help people behind on payments catch up — who are reluctant to cut a deal with them. “They can get in contact with an experienced advocate that will get on the phone with the servicer and things usually change,” Lorenzo said. Homeowners often don’t have a direct path to experts who can assist them. Instead, they turn to someone they trust in their community like a clergy member, Lorenzo said, explaining their problems in the hopes of finding somewhere to go for help. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been projected more than a half-million New York homeowners were delinquent on their mortgages and risk being evicted by the bank, according to census data. Some key neighborhoods in the city projected to being at risk of mass predatory foreclosures, Lorenzo said, include Central Brooklyn, southeast Queens, and the northern Bronx. Her initiative focuses on these specific parts of the city. In fact, during an online class held just last week, experts from Legal Services NYC covered a bevy of topics such as a first-time homebuyer’s education program, credit coaching, foreclosures, scams and deed thefts. One takeaway from the class, however, was the clear warning to be wary of anyone you’re not familiar with offering some help. “Call a housing counselor or legal service provider,” said Alex Knipenberg, a staff attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services. “Scams are very important, because nowadays, home values have been going up a lot. A lot of properties are being targeted by different scammers trying to steal deeds and equity.” The coalition is expanding beyond the classes and even the help desk to partner with the state attorney general’s office and the city’s housing preservation and development department to help homeowners connect with free housing experts specializing in home repairs, financial counseling, mortgage modifications, forbearance servicer requests, and home loan refinancing. Homeowners also can find free legal service providers through the initiative who can lend their assistance on predatory scams that result in equity
Support journalism Joseph De La Cruz is covering housing for The Riverdale Press through Report For America, a national program from The GroundTruth Project that places emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report under-covered issues and communities. If you want to see more stories like this from Joseph, please make your tax-deductible donation today at tinyurl.com/ReportForRiverdale. Thank you for supporting great community journalism! and deed theft among other foreclosure issues. The federal government recently extended the foreclosure moratorium on homes with federally backed mortgages from July 24 to July 31. This would typically protect homeowners with Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans. Another relief measure, set to expire this month, also has been extended — this time through Sept. 30, giving homeowners who missed an opportunity to get a forbearance agreement a second chance to apply for some relief. Some housing and economic experts believe they are in a race against time despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo extending the statewide eviction and foreclosure program through Aug. 31. “As we approach the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, it is critical that we continue to protect both New York’s tenants and business owners who have suffered tremendous hardship throughout this entire pandemic,” Cuomo said last month, in a release. In addition to protecting tenants from evictions, the legislation also protects owners with 10 or fewer residential properties from foreclosure by allowing them to file hardship declarations with their mortgage lender, other foreclosing parties, or even with a court. “I am very pleased that the Assembly passed this critical legislation that will help keep people in their homes and small business owners in their stores,” Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz said last month about the eviction and foreclosure relief bill Cuomo extended. “We are still in the midst of a global pandemic and the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. I believe it would be immoral to allow the current moratorium to lapse. This law will save lives.” Still, there is still one considerable group left out of all of this, Lorenzo said condominium and co-op owners. They can face foreclosure even if they’re paid up on their mortgage, but are behind on common charges. “Those cases are moving forward, so we’re working with the courts to represent them,” Lorenzo said. “We’re appearing as friends of the court, and if they want our assistance, then they could talk to us.”
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they already teach online course designed to help homeowners protect themselves from predatory foreclosures and scams. Now Legal Services NyC gears up for what could be a flood of foreclosures one coronavirus pandemic-era housing protections are lifted.
Live music, theatre and even writing return to An Beal COMEBACK from page A1 Beal makes an effort to mix up their choice of musicians. “We actually love variety,” Seword said. “We’ve had some really odd choices here, and we like to take risks.” Keeping their entertainment eclectic helps attract a crowd of similar diversity. It’s important to An Beal employees that the cafe doesn’t just appeal to a specific kind of person. “It’s really good to be home to everybody,” Seword said. “We don’t want to have this stigma that it’s only for Irish people. We like being a neighborhood spot. So yeah, we try to keep an eclectic roster.” One of An Beal’s most eclectic set-ups was its open-mic night. Seword believes open-mic attracts the pub’s most varied crowd because it consists of people who search the city — and even the tri-state area — looking for such events online. An Beal’s open mic can feature anything
from spoken word to freestyling, from beatboxing to comedy. The pandemic put a lot of things on hold, including An Beal’s ability to host events like open-mic. But live music is indeed making a comeback in the neighborhood hotspot. Tunes resume Saturdays from three to five p.m. One of Seword’s favorite examples of how diverse the music really is at An Beal comes in the form of a band called Bombay Rickey. She describes their music as a blend of opera, Indian and dance. While An Beal is known for its live music, it’s not the only performances found there. Theatre has had its own place since the pub first opened — something Seword believes many customers forget. They think “‘like this place does music and we get hammered here,’” Seword said, “but then we have this serious theatre program that people are also really into.”
An Beal’s theatre program started with somber one-man plays, but evolved into a plethora of fun pantomime showings like “Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan Macmillan and “Little Red Riding Hood”. It’s not just a creative outlet — the theatre program also has served as a way of connecting people. Regulars can come to watch the plays and say, “Hey, I know that drunk!” Seword said. An Beal puts together an annual event called “Putting on Your Shorts” — a series of short plays, of course. Before COVID-19, Seword planned to put on her own play she wrote with friends. The comedy featured an apocalypse bringing together three very unlikely people at the end of life as they know it. As soon as they had a date booked, however, bars closed for more than a year. But not even a pandemic could stop An Beal’s musicians, who turned to live performances online.
An Beal regular Maric Lenahan speaks fondly of another event hosted by his favorite pub called “Rough Draughts.” It’s a monthly flash-fiction contest that delivers both a prompt and a pad of paper whenever you buy a drink — alcoholic or not. From there, you have 30 minutes to write, before you’re required to stand up and read those stories to other patrons. While “Rough Draughts” is in motion, so is the rest of the bar and its commotion, Lenahan explains. He says An Beal is not like a library, where everyone is quiet, during the competition. In fact, the bar distractions add to the fun and challenge of the event. Winner gets a $25 gift card, Seword said, while runners-up get a can of beans and a can of peas. “I think it’s just most important to get the word out that like we’re bringing music back,” Seword said. “We’re certainly returning to normalcy.”
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to the federal guidelines as they pertained to pregnant students, students who had abortions, students who had premarital sex, and LGBTQ students. Elim “believes that God’s design was the creation of two distinct and complementary sexes — male and female — and that a person affirms God’s infinite wisdom by living in alignment with his or her birth sex,” according to the letter. Manhattan College is religiously affiliated and could technically apply for a religious exemption from Title IX if they claimed Catholic Church teachings about LGBTQ issues contradicted the federal law. Since 2015, six other Catholic colleges have indeed made this claim, including the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, as well as Loyola University’s New Orleans campus. However, allowing people to discriminate against LGBTQ students isn’t on the federal government’s agenda. And it’s certainly not on Kale’s either. “We’ve never invoked that exception, so I don’t see us doing that now, especially now that it’s federally mandated,” Kale said. “We didn’t invoke the exception under the Trump administration, so I don’t see us doing it now.” As of yet, it is unclear whether schools seeking a religious exemption from certain parts of Title IX will have to re-apply for those exemptions with the new statute in place. Kale believes specifically making transgender people a protected class in federal discrimination law was a long time coming, and that they’re rightfully included. But even though New York already considered them protected under 129-B, she still believes there’s a significance and power in doing so on the federal level. “It’s recognition of the fact that they are human beings, which shouldn’t be radical,” Kale said. “They should be protected from discrimination. They should be protected from assault. It’s long overdue, but I think a federal recognition by the Biden administration … is a great step forward.”
By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
Title IX has been integral in preserving the rights of people facing sex discrimination since becoming law nearly 50 years ago. But it was only last month a new protected class joined its ranks. The Biden administration announced last month that federal Title IX statutes protecting against discrimination and sexual misconduct also will be extended to LGBTQ students. Under Donald Trump, these protections were rolled back specifically against transgender and non-binary students, meaning they weren’t protected under federal guidelines. Typically, federal law represents a jumping off point for state laws, and that applies to Title IX as well. New York’s state equivalent of Title IX — known as 129-B — does include LGBTQ students as protected classes. Now, of course, they’re protected at the federal level. And education secretary Miguel Cardona believes it’s about time. “The Supreme Court has upheld the right for LGBTQ+ people to live and work without fear of harassment, exclusion and discrimination — and our LGBTQ+ students have the same rights and deserve the same protections,” Cardona said last month. “Today, the department makes clear that all students — including LGBTQ+ students — deserve the opportunity to learn and thrive in schools that are free from discrimination.” While many states — including New York — do recognize LGBTQ people as a protected class, enshrining that in federal non-discrimination law might be especially necessary. Title IX specifically protects students against discrimination and sexual misconduct — both of which transgender
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Under the Trump administration, transgender students weren’t protected classes under federal law, also known as Title IX. However, the Biden administration overturned that decision last month, deciding transgender and non-binary students were indeed protected against discrimination and sexual misconduct. and non-binary people experience at higher levels than their heterosexual or cisgender counterparts, according to a number of reports. For instance, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center estimates nearly half of transgender people have experienced sexual assault at some point in their lives, and that rate only rises for those who are also people of color, are disabled, or have done sex work. The center also found transgender students in elementary, middle and high schools experienced significantly higher rates of harassment, physical assault and sexual violence. And the federal education department found continued exposure to that treatment can also impact mental health. The coronavirus pandemic probably wasn’t a great asset to anyone’s mental health, but the education department’s civil rights office
conducted a survey finding 78 percent of transgender or non-binary youth reported their mental health was “poor,” either most of the time or always during the pandemic. The rate was 61 percent among cisgender students. Sheetal Kale is the Title IX coordinator at Manhattan College, and also its diversity and equity coordinator. She said that while state law protected transgender students when federal law didn’t, Manhattan was still committed to ensuring its LGBTQ students felt safe on campus. “We kept our policy the same, in that it was always protective of transgender individuals — both in terms of discrimination as well as sexual misconduct,” Kale said. “So now, with this new federal law, I think it takes away the choice — and rightly so — of higher ed institutions to have policies that don’t protect their trans members of
their community.” But there is an escape hatch for Title IX in that religiously affiliated schools — including colleges and universities — can apply for an exemption, meaning they aren’t beholden to Title IX’s non-discrimination clauses. Many of the schools that do so claim their religions are against homosexuality as well as gender transitioning. Applying for this religious exemption isn’t exactly common, but it’s also not unheard of. There is currently one school in New York — the Elim Bible Institute and College in Lima — that applied for a religious exemption from the federal education department in 2016. College president Michael Cavanaugh claimed in a letter to the education department the school was protected under the religious exemption, and that church teaching was contrary
SCHOOL DESK MC trio chooses post-grad service Following commencement, there are many paths a newly minted college grad can take. Maybe they’ll go onto grad or professional school. Maybe they’ll enter the workforce. But three graduates from Manhattan College’s Class of
By ROSE BRENNAN 2021 opted instead for a year of volunteering. Meggie Black, an English and art history double major, will work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest at a L’Arche community in Tacoma, Washington. L’Arche is an international organization focused on helping people with intellectual disabilities.
Both Kerianne Costello and Darby Zelaskowski’s years of service will take place with AmeriCorps, although they’ll be doing different jobs in different locations. Costello’s volunteer work will take her to Vicksburg, Mississippi. The sociology major will travel throughout the southern United States,
spearheading several service projects with the organization’s National Civilian Community Corps. Zelaskowski, however, will join AmeriCorps’ City Year program. The peace studies and conflict resolution major’s service will focus on helping students and schools in the program succeed.
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Lehman student wins honors Sadaf Sofia Latif, a social work major at Lehman College, has received both a Boren Award and a Critical Language scholarship. Latif is the second student to receive either award, according to Lehman, but the first to receive both.
The Boren Award is a National Security Education Program initiative, which funds language and cultural studies in areas relevant to American interests. Meanwhile, the Critical Language scholarship is a State Department program that promotes intensive study of select languages.
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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.
Family arts available in trying times
Artist Nina Velazquez presents “Come Draw With Me,” a daily drawing activity via her Facebook page. Families can sit down together and create their own versions of Velazquez’s drawings, and are encouraged to post their new versions when complete. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/CommunityDraws.
Visiting Untermyer Gardens in July
Untermyer Gardens is open once again seven days a week from 9 a.m., to an hour before sunset at 945 N. Broadway in Yonkers. No reservations are necessary, and admission is free. Upcoming concerts include: • Jazz in Paradise on Sunday, July 18 at 5 p.m. Cost is $20. • Westchester Philharmonic String Quartet on Saturday, July 24 at 5 p.m. Cost is $25. • Tom Gold dance on Saturday, July 31 at 5 p.m. Cost is $50. Tours are scheduled each Sunday beginning at 11 a.m., with costs ranging between $10 and $25. Advanced reservations are available through UntermyerGardens.org. Family adventure tours are available Sundays at 10 a.m., for kids between 7 and 12 with an accompanying parent. Cost is $10 for each kid, but parents and anyone younger than 2 can join for free. Kids between 2 and 5 can enjoy storytime in the garden Sundays at 11 a.m. Cost is $9 per child, with accompanying adults and younger kids free.
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Classes are also available most weekends in June, with prices ranging from $20 to $50, covering drawing and tree tours, tai chi, among others. Advanced registration is required. For more information, visit UntermyerGardens.org.
Neighborhood House comes to your door
The Riverdale Neighborhood House is now providing remote programs and classes to keep what has become a quarantined community engaged and prepared. Classes include: • An after-school program for families with children 10 and younger • Remote support for families transitioning to online courses and activities The neighborhood house also is offering academic support to high school students with an emphasis on math (like algebra and geometry). This includes 1-on-1 tutoring with Manhattan College students and test prep support. This service is available Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., virtually. For more information on tutoring, call (718) 549-8100, Ext. 159, or email oacevado@riverdaleonline.org. For more information on other programs, visit RiverdaleOnline.org.
Virtual exhibit made to be virtual
Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection is gearing up for its first virtual exhibition “F11: Digital Paintings for Full Screen” with an event through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. The artist talk is set for Thursday, July 15 at noon with Samhita Kamisetty and Carlos Torres Machado. The exhibit features works that are actually best viewed on a computer screen rather than in person. It includes 10 artists from different places around the country and world including Adam Blitz, Elaine Chao, Luise Eru, Donald Hargrove, Samhita Kamisetty, Annie Lee, Carlos Torres Machado, Collin Pollard, Polina Protsenko and Stefanie Wolfson. To learn more, or to register for the artist talks, visit DerfnerOnline.org.
Speak up with Bronx Toastmasters
The Bronx Toastmasters of Riverdale Club meets Wednesday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m., on the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For more information, or to RSVP, email bronxtoastmastersclub@gmail.com.
Flea market comes to the Bronx
It will require a little bit of traveling, but it might very well be worth it. Fordham Flea brings together a market dedicated to merchandise, arts and crafts, apparel, accessories, and self-care products. It takes place the last Sunday of each month through October at 1 Fordham Plaza. To learn more, visit TheBronxNightMarket. com/fordhamflea.
Eat healthy this summer
The Riverdale Community-Supported Agriculture program is accepting members for its summer deliveries of organic and biodynamic vegetables. Deliveries are weekly each Thursday from 3:30 to 7 p.m., running through late November. Full shares (for three to four people) and half shares (for one or two people) are available, and include up to 10 vegetables each week. Fruit shares also are available, which include organic strawberries, blueberries, stone fruits, apples and pears across the season. For more information, visit Facebook.com/ RiverdaleCSA, or email riverdalecsa@gmail.com.
It’s the season for Wave Hill
Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m., to 5:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at WaveHill.org. For more information, visit WaveHill.org.
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Bowman’s quest for federal election reform continues By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
Around this time last year, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman was middle school principal Jamaal Bowman, running in a Democratic primary against longtime congressman Eliot Engel. With no political background and minimal name recognition, Bowman faced an uphill battle against Engel, a 32-year incumbent. But against tough odds, Bowman was victorious. That lack of name recognition and few political allies also meant Bowman had little to no access to the large fundraising apparatus available to political insiders like Engel. So instead he relied on grassroots support and small-dollar donors to propel his campaign forward. Now Bowman wants to make it easier for more first-time candidates to run for office. That’s part of the reason why he supported the For the People Act — or H.R. 1 — last May. This massive election reform bill intends to institute a national public campaign financing system while rolling back some of the significant voter restrictions put in place by many Republican-led states. “The public financing piece allows regular people like me — who don’t come from means, who aren’t wealthy, who don’t have corporate backers or many wealthy donors — to run for office in my community,” Bowman told a town hall hosted by the New York Working Families Party last month. He was joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, and state Attorney General Letitia James. But late last month, Senate Republicans used the filibuster — a mechanism to vote down legislation that isn’t supported by a 60-vote majority — to block the bill from even making it to the Senate floor. That left Democrats with no clear path forward on For the People without limiting or completely abolishing the filibuster.
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U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman faced an uphill battle when he ran against longtime incumbent Eliot Engel in a primary election last year. Bowman says he backed the For the People Act in the U.S. House last month so he can help more first-time candidates like him get public funding for their grassroots campaigns. That ruling recognized these large entities as individual donors and all but eliminated campaign spending limits. “Big money controls our political arena,” Bowman said. “The reason why we cannot pass any legislation of consequence in the Senate is because too many senators are controlled by big money. And the senators continue to support policy that continues to fatten the pockets of the robber barons, which are large corporations and the wealthy elite.” One of the ways the bill aims to break the influence of these big-dollar donors is by requiring online political advertisements to clearly show who paid for them. Another is by implementing a national matching funds program for Congressional elections. This means if a candidate raises a certain amount in small-dollar donations, it will be multiplied using public funds. New York City already uses a similar system. For example, if a city council candidate can convince 75 donors in their district to give at least $10 to their campaign, then the first $175 of every donation from most New York City residents will be matched eight times over by public funds. The program has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into
While an outright rejection of the bill by Republicans isn’t how Bowman wanted this process to start, he admits it was expected. “Republicans have not negotiated in good faith,” Bowman told The Riverdale Press. “They want to maintain the status quo, which is to keep the filibuster, keep corporate control of Congress, and make voting as difficult as possible for the American people. Because that’s the only way they can maintain power. So, I wasn’t surprised by that.” There’s plenty of reforms in the bill Republicans aren’t too keen on, the congressman said. In addition to changes to how campaigns are financed, the broader bill aims to make voting more accessible and remove partisanship from the congressional redistricting process nationally. Campaign finance reform is essential, Bowman said, to dilute the influence of big corporations and other special interests’ groups in national elections. According to a breakdown of the legislation from the Brennan Center for Justice, For the People would implement several reforms to combat the power given to big-dollar donors through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2011.
local campaigns, including by most of those running for the seat eventually won by Eric Dinowitz, in an effort to keep big money out. Making voting easier and more accessible is also an essential part of the bill, Letitia James said. The state attorney general pointed to the wave of voting restrictions being passed in Republican-controlled states around the country to show why this particular provision is necessary.
Since January, at least 14 states enacted nearly two-dozen new laws making it harder to vote, according to the Brennan Center. That includes laws that shorten the window by which people can request mail-in ballots, or those that impose stricter voter identification rules at poll sites. For the People Act would reverse most of these state-level restrictions and implement reforms, Bowman said, like ensuring all states have at least two weeks of early voting. “This is about ensuring there are more voting machines in certain counties,” the congressman said. “Ensuring that there’s automatic registration. Ensuring that the federal law supersedes what the states are doing across the country.” Helen Meltzer-Krim, who’s on the steering committee of Northwest Bronx Indivisible, said the most critical provision of the bill is its goal to establish non-partisan redistricting commissions. This is intended to fix the problem of partisan gerrymandering — a tactic both major political parties have used to redraw Congressional districts in their favor. Several states have looming redistricting deadlines, Meltzer-Krim said, “and if we don’t have that bill passed, establishing independent commissions, we’re dead. Democracy is dead.”
However, after the vote last month, the likelihood of this bill passing is extremely low. This is because not one Republican has indicated they’d vote for the bill, and Democrats only control the split Senate through the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats can’t pass the bill on their own without eliminating the filibuster, or convincing 10 HElEn Republicans kRim to join them. But two Democrats are also standing in the way — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who have both publicly indicated they want the filibuster to stay. Bowman, however, remains convinced they can be swayed, paving the way to send the legislation to Joe Biden’s desk. “Over the last several weeks, there’s been a lot of conversation around everything from appropriations, to infrastructure, to voting rights, to the filibuster,” Bowman said. “And in those conversations, there has been movement from Manchin and Sinema and others. So, I see it as a possibility. Yes. “But again, it’s going to take both inside and outside organizing and pressure.”
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Opinion
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EDITORIAL
Community comes together
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t all started with a plea from Beth Alice on social media. She found a baby skunk with its head stuck in a sewer grate on Arlington Avenue between West 256th and West 259th streets. Alice had reached out to every city agency she could think of, but none were responding in a way she had hoped. So she turned to Twitter. “It’s really awful that no one is coming to help this animal in distress,” she wrote. “If this was a kitten or puppy, would someone from a NYC agency come to help?” While no city agency ultimately came out, Alice did get something better: Her neighbors. A small group of people showed up to the grate on the hot day — including Councilman Eric Dinowitz — to demonstrate that all life is precious. Even life that will spray you with a foul substance while trying to save its life. This small group lifted the heavy grate up on its side, allowing one of them better access to the troubled young animal. And after some careful work, the baby skunk was freed. It was an accomplishment not just
to help a creature in distress, but also prove how effective this community can be when we all come together for a good cause. That indeed happens time and again here, but it can never be often enough. It seems to be human nature to complain and not lift a finger rather than jump to action and make a difference. Beth Alice could have easily kept walking that day. She could have later taken to social media and complained about the presence of unwelcome wildlife in our community like skunks. She didn’t, however. And instead she made a difference for a skunk who has only known this world for months, if not weeks. Sure, the skunk can’t comprehend fully want happened or even say thank you. But gratitude was not something Alice or her neighbors were looking for that day. They were just following their own instincts, and doing the right thing. The rest of us, however, can say “thank you.” And that’s exactly what we are doing right here. To Beth Alice, Councilman Dinowitz and the rest of the neighbors who helped a creature in need: Thank you.
POINT OF VIEW
Reflections on learning remotely in age of COVID
By DEREK GARRISON-BEDELL
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e start the day with temperature checks and handwashing before signing students in to start online
learning. Schedules and methods of instruction vary, but from morning meetings to posted assignments, difficulties with technology persist. Students need help accessing virtual schoolwork, finding meeting links, and inevitably one or more tablets aren’t charged. Eventually, some semblance of order settles over the classroom, until one student has a morning meeting on a video platform incompatible with their device, and another has left their math textbook at home. So goes the rhythm of supporting remote learning during this pandemic, when emerging adults largely without teaching certificates are tasked with keeping young students on track to meet inflexible academic objectives. Since many schools have gone fully remote, additional support has become critical. This is especially true for those who have opted for blended learning, when students split their time between in-person and remote learning. For working families, this is difficult, as babysitters are expensive, and younger kids can’t stay home by themselves. Thankfully local community centers have opened to accommodate students learning remotely, allowing parents to work and attend to family matters during school hours. With fewer than eight students per group leader, there is more physical space in the classrooms to adhere to proper social distancing standards, and an enhanced ability to provide students with the individualized attention they need to excel during the remote school day. As critical as these services are, challenges arise every day, and there is a need to reshuffle priorities. Our older students are comfortable being online, and often have classmates present so they can collaborate on assignments while socially distanced at a table together. While this is developmentally appropriate, elementary students need to be more present in the physical space of their educators and peers. Our youngest students respond best when we read books with them or demonstrate addition with blocks, but academic curiosity turns to apathy when they have to return to their virtual lessons. Stretch breaks for 30 seconds in front of a screen are no substitute for playtime in the park. The kids enjoy being outside during breaks and after lunch, but they drag their feet to the dreaded cacophony of unmuted voices over a shoddy internet connection. This is not conducive to learning, and it is harmful for their socialemotional and physical well-being. Remote learning is difficult, but less-crowded classrooms reduce the spread of COVID-19. We screen everyone who comes through our front door by checking temperatures and ask-
ing about recent exposures. Students and staff members are required to be masked and socially distanced, and windows are left open to facilitate airflow. Even with these best practices, multiple members of our center have tested positive. Every time this happens, there is another quarantine or classroom closure, and a scramble to coordinate with city departments on how best to handle the evolving situation. There are calls to parents telling them they will be left without childcare for the next 10 days, and disruptions to students’ lives felt most acutely by our youngest students. Even though vaccines are readily available, our programs mainly serve community members who are hesitant to trust a government and a public health system that has systematically neglected and mistreated large swaths of the population. This program has illuminated clear measures we need to take to relieve the burden of this pandemic. One is to make sure every single person has access to the vaccine. This goes beyond supply — we need mass marketing campaigns promoting this safe and effective tool, and vaccines readily available in local health clinics and community centers. At my agency, staff members were initially hesitant to get the shot. However, once a public health expert gave a clear and concise presentation where she fielded questions, opinion started to change, and now many have appointments. People may be distrustful of politicians, but they may be more likely to believe doctors, respected public figures, and celebrities who should be offering a united message to all Americans. Additionally, we need to make sure elementary schools can fully reopen in the fall. Remote learning support programs have been a fantastic resource in the interim between school reopenings, as we have offered free and safe educational and public health resources to community members. However, learning for young kids is best done in person. Group games, collaborative art projects, and lessons involving tactile components cannot be effectively recreated online. Our students with special accommodations have not gotten the support they need, but once back in school, they would have better access to trained guidance counselors and social workers. The data points to the fact that in-person schooling can be safe, with schools in New York City boasting a very low percent test positivity rate. Our students deserve the best educational experiences and resources, and we have the tools and public health capabilities to make it happen. Opening schools and bringing this pandemic to heel is within our reach, if only we demonstrate the vision and courage necessary to make it happen. The author is a program director at a local community center supporting students learning remotely.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We need more ethics here To the editor:
(re: “Outraged? Here’s what you could, and should, do,” June 3)
In his Point of View, Ezra Friedlander indicated that the solution to our problem of prejudicial conduct is to vote. What does voting have to do with right and wrong? The issue in the western world is not a lack of voting, it is a lack of ethics. Ethical societies emanate consideration for their fellow man. Voting has to do with creating laws, which deal with what is wrong, not what is right. Primitive societies have few, if any, laws. They have ethics interwoven into cultural and religious practices that serve to sustain the community. Laws only become necessary in the absence of ethics. Ethical values transcend the letter of the law. They serve as the basis for the spirit of the law. Organizations and societies can endure without laws, but they cannot long endure without ethics. Western thought focuses on the self. It has little desire to propagate and preserve the community. It is selfish, self-centered, self-indulgent, and relatively devoid of ethics. It relies heavily on the establishment of laws to preserve itself. From the earliest European Greeks, there existed a great dependency upon the law. Draco instituted a system of law based on an aristocracy. Solon developed a system of law in which eligibility for political power was based on wealth. From Draco, to Solon, to Justinian, to Napoleon, the Europeans prided themselves on their legal institutions.
After a 2,000-year history based on law, when Europeans arrived in America, the Indians said of them, “white man speaks with forked tongue.” Indeed, he did, for the law is but a poor substitute for the masculine influence. The manly way is to let your “yes” be yes, and your “no” be no. The law is for those who can’t live by that code. The history of American Indian relations is one of fraud, deceit and broken promises at the highest governmental levels. It was devoid of ethics. Ethics come from men and nowhere else. Men have abdicated their responsibility to women, children, the elderly, and the infirmed. “We don’t need men anymore,” is the slogan of our society. We have created wimps, and society is breaking down at every level. Female depression and suicide rates are at an all-time high. Laws are being enacted to deal with the ensuing chaos. These laws are failing. We already have the highest incarceration rate in the world with more than 2 million men in prison. This society will end as described by the prophet Isaiah: “On that day, seven women will approach one man and say to him, ‘We will make our own clothes and provide our own food. Please marry us.’” Most of the people alive will now see that day. The wimp will be gone, and men who realize their responsibility to the family, tribe and race will strive to fulfill those obligations. It will be done with few laws and voting. GeorGe SiloS
Our climate is in danger now To the editor: The recent record temperature on the west coast — 116 degrees in Portland, 121 degrees in Canada — even 118 degrees in Siberia — along with the heat wave here and heavy flooding in Michigan, are episodes of increasing extreme weather that are part of the global impact of climate change. Scientists tell us that we must take drastic action now to cut our dependency on fossil fuels if we are to have a chance to mitigate the worst of these trends. As President Biden and Congress build the infrastructure package, Republicans and some Democrats have pushed to cut out key programs to fight climate change. I urge
U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman to say, “No climate, no deal!” Climate change will not leave any part of our country unscathed. In New York City, the devastation of Hurricane Sandy is a foretaste of more to come, as hurricanes continue to gain in force from a heating ocean. The rise in ocean levels puts the long-term viability of our city and all coastal habitations in peril. This is the existential challenge of our time, and we must do all we can. Now. I want to see Congress include $1 trillion for renewable energy, which we need to meet President Biden’s goal of cut-
ting climate pollution in half by 2030. We also need $500 billion for public transit, and $600 billion for upgrading our public housing and schools with energy efficiency. With bold investment targeted at our most vulnerable communities, we can create millions of good jobs, and meaningfully curb social inequality and justice. Democrats have the power in Congress to do this through budget reconciliation. I’ll be watching our New York state members of Congress to see if they follow through. ellioTT rabin The author is a steering committee member for Bronx Jews for Climate Action.
Still need change for subways To the editor: Resumption of round-the-clock New York City Transit subway service is good news. The Big Apple always has been a 24/7 town. More people work different hours from the old 9-to-5 decades ago. There are still other outstanding issues to be resolved before most of the 5 million-plus preCOVID-19 ridership will return. Many former riders will continue telecommuting full- or parttime, and may never come back. Riders remain concerned about criminal activity, homelessness and periodic vandalism. This needs to be dealt with if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to see a return to preCOVID-19 ridership numbers. Have the police deal with more important issues than immigrant vendors selling churros and other products underground. It is time to return to the days when a transit police officer was assigned to ride each train and others patrolled stations. This, along with installation of security cameras on trains and at stations, might help to reduce the perception of growing crime. Trade in all the former token booth employees who serve as “station ambassadors” to help pay for increasing police protection in our subways. As more riders return, there also will be a potential increase of rats, mice and litter. Place more trashcans in stations. Consider installing separate cans for recycling newspapers, plastic and glass, along with regular garbage. Selling
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advertising on the side of cans could generate revenue to help cover the costs of more frequent off-peak and late-night collection and disposals. Conductors should try and refrain from closing the doors while riders attempt to cross the platform attempting transfers from a local to the express train. If asked, the city’s sanitation department would consider doing the same on the street adjacent to subway station entrances. There is a need to find better solutions to dealing with waiting for or riding the subway and having the “urge to go.” The odds of finding a working restroom may be too late. Until the early 1960s, most subway stations had clean, safe, working restrooms with toilet paper. Revenues generated from a 10-cent fee helped cover the costs. Increase the number of open fully equipped restrooms at more of the 471 subway stations. Working restrooms are better than the current unpleasant alternatives, which contribute to dirty subways. Add to the number of stations that are in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here is one way to pay for all of the above, which would benefit most of the 5 million preCOVID ridership: Do not initiate any new system expansion projects — such as the $6.9 billion Second Avenue subway second phase, or the $1.5 billion Metro-North Bronx east Penn Station access projects — until all of the above is accomplished. larry Penner
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Op-Ed POINT OF VIEW
More than meets the eye on recent Israeli conflict
By MICHAEL WISE
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to other Jerusalem neighborhoods, and Arabs occupied the Jewish homes. My daughter-inlaw’s great-grandparents, Jamus-Shauli and Benattar — helped found Shimon Ha’Tzadik. In 1970, the law on legal and administrative affairs in Israel was enacted, stipulating Jews could reclaim their lost property. Legal battles began over Sheikh Jarrah land ownership. In 1972, the Sephardic and Knesset committees of Israel claimed that in 1885 they purchased the land and built houses in Shimon Ha’Tzadik. In 1976, the court agreed and filed eviction notices. In 1982, the Israel supreme court affirmed the Jewish land ownership. In 1987, a court recognized Jewish ownership on the western side of Nablus Road, and defined the Arabs as protected tenants. In 1991, Jewish ownership was agreed to, and the Arab residents were granted a tenant status, provided rent was paid until Sept. 30, 2009, when homes would revert back to their Jewish owners. In 2001, Israeli Jews moved into a section of Shimon Ha’Tzadik. An Arab using title deeds issued by the Ottoman Empire filed a lawsuit to prove his ownership. In 2005, the court ruled the documents were forged, and an appeal in the following year was rejected. Despite the ruling, the Jewish owners could not take action since the Arabs immediately appealed to the supreme court. Four years later, the court rejected the appeal. In 2009, the Jerusalem district court ruled Arabs should be evicted for rent non-payment in Sheikh Jarrah, and Jewish families moved into two homes. Thereafter, Sheikh Jarrah activists organized protests of the Jewish “takeover.” On Feb. 15, Arab appeals were rejected and eviction orders were issued to be carried out last month. The Israel supreme court affirmed the decision. Arab and Jewish activists have held daily protests that spilled over to other parts of Jerusalem. Activists called on international leaders to pressure Israel to end the “ongoing Nakba” in Sheikh Jarrah. On April 22, at the International Criminal Court, Israel was accused of war crimes, including the forced displacement of Arabs from East Jerusalem. As a result, the High Court of Justice gave Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit until June 8 to submit his opinion on the matter. The pending evictions were one of the sparks that led to the 11-day Gaza war. My family’s history — and that of many Jews with deep ownership roots in the Sheikh APPLIANCE REPAIRS Jarrah neighborhood — undermines Arab claims that Israel is “Judaizing” Jerusalem, lge and exposes Indu yet hanother attempt to eradicate lf witBUYING BASEBALL CARDS e s r r the history a Jewish community. You of o i per $$$ Large & small collections.
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Out to pasture with some returning Vannie residents n Goats are back in action, spending days eating poison ivy, burdock
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Maintaining the grounds at Van Cortlandt Park is not just a job for humans — at least not this summer. That’s because the park’s hardestworking guests — Taffy, Leo and Juliet — have arrived, continuing what has become a seasonal tradition of welcoming goats to gobble up all of Vannie’s invasive plants. Working from their park enclosure nestled behind the Van Cortlandt House Museum, the goat trio probably didn’t think they’d be a big enough deal to have their own ambassadors. Yet, these three have attracted enough attention from passers-by and young children to warrant exactly that. Bette Clark is one of those adding “goat ambassador” to her resume. She takes pride in her work for the Van Cortland Park Alliance — the nonprofit that helps the city manage Vannie — volunteering as part of a special cleanup crew picking up trash around the park on Sunday mornings. “All of this is part of educating the public about the incredible resource that Van Cortlandt is to all of us,” Clark said. She believes the presence of Taffy, Leo and Juliet is an educational opportunity for kids. Many children raised in dense urban areas like the Bronx don’t encounter too many farm animals. The same is true with adults. Clark fondly recalls one woman who said the Vannie goats reminded her of her own farm animals growing up on her Jamaican family farm. “There’s something about the natural beauty of the park that I’ve always wanted to share with other people,” Clark said. The Vannie alliance first introduced the goats a couple years ago as part of its landscaping plan for the museum
But even on her days off, Clark checks in. “If I see something is needed now that I know they need fresh water all the time, I might step in,” she said. As for a day in the life of a goat? With shelter and lots of fresh greens to eat, Taffy, Juliet and Leo seem to be living the dream. They get up in the morning and eat until they’re stuffed. Goats are ruminant animals, so they have to chew their cud. Once they digest, they get up again to eat and repeat the cycle throughout the day. As a therapist, Clark sees the therapeutic benefits of being around animals, and has noticed how different they are both from other people and other animals. She’s been able to use her background in working with children who have some social problems to better understand the goats. “It’ll be an interesting learning experience and a challenge for me to figure out how to relate the best way I can to these goats,” she said. While goats are not too similar to humans, they’re also not that far removed — they have distinct personalities. Leo is the friendliest. He likes to nibble on humans as he does the fresh greens, and along with Juliet is quite social. Taffy is the older of the three, and far more reticent. Taffy also is more fearful and stressed, Clark says, but she writes this stress off as nothing more than a product of moving from their home to a new environment, and eating new food around different people. Getting to know Taffy better is Clark’s goal, hoping to bond with her and help her feel more comfortable. “They’re quirky,” Clark said. “They’re very independent-spirited. And yet, they’re also social.”
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Christina Taylor, the programs and operations director with the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, shows a little love to one of the grass-munching goats, Taffy. She’s 3 years old — twice the age of two other goats visiting Vannie for the summer — and a bit more apprehensive. grounds in the hopes of beautifying the surrounding area. An herb garden was planted and stonework was put down, but there was one area of the property that always irked those who worked at the museum like Christina Taylor, the Alliance’s programs and operations director. It’s located between the restrooms and the museum, on ground so uneven, the parks department is reluctant to send in their lawnmowers because they get damaged. It’s an area chock-full of poison ivy as well as burdock plants reaching up to six feet tall. Originally, Taylor tasked high school interns to spend days removing the pesky plants only for them to grow back the next year. But Taylor realized goats were a better, more efficient way to maintain the area. At first, such a prospect was just a laugh. But what started as a joke soon turned into a solution. The alliance
connected with Green Goats, an organization that puts farm animals to work to naturally eradicate invasive plant life. The coronavirus pandemic created some hiccups in getting the goats up and munching, but Taffy, Juliet and Leo were ready to go once summer started. But it almost ended before it could begin. It rained June 3 when the trio arrived, and it seemed none of them wanted to leave the truck they arrived in. The handlers found a way to lead them under a tent to stay dry. But then Taffy caught sight of the plants beyond the shelter, and strolled out for a snack. Since then, the trio have been no problem at all. In fact, the only issue the alliance has had with goats is that they’re just too friendly. Sometimes the goats will be eating away, but they’ll stop the moment they see peo-
ple, walking over to say hello. Adorable as this is, it’s not the work the goats are there to do. That hasn’t been too much of a problem with this summer’s group, however. Taffy, Juliet and Leo are quite content letting human visitors simply stand and watch them eat. “They’re definitely hard workers,” Taylor said. And ambassadors like Clark, help, too. They answer questions from those watching the goats, and ensure they keep back, since the animals are usually covered with poison ivy oil. “I have a bunch of different hats,” Clark said. “But I have a free enough schedule now where I can make my own hours, which is what gives me the time to be a goat ambassador— which I think is, right now, my favorite job.” She spends two days each week as an ambassador, rotating with three other volunteers.
HEALTH NOTES State sets up $230M opioid abuse fund Johnson & Johnson might be receiving a lot of praise for its single-dose coronavirus vaccine, but the pharmaceutical company has settled a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James linking Johnson & Johnson’s market-
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ing and sales of opioid drugs to addiction problems statewide. The $230 million settlement required an act from the state legislature to start dispersing funds, something state Sen. Gustavo Rivera helped shepherd, which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week. “For years, aggressive mar-
keting and lobbying allowed dangerous pharmaceuticals to claim the lives of too many New Yorkers and devastate families in every corner of New York state,” said Rivera — chair of the senate’s health committee — in a release. “Creating an opioid settlement fund honors those New Yorkers we’ve lost to the opioid crisis, and provides
hope and resources to those still struggling with substance abuse.” The fund is intended to provide direct support to substance use disorder prevention, treatment, recovery and harmreduction services, Rivera said. “While this will not bring back those we have lost to this devastating crisis,” the senator
said, “it will help us heal and recover.” As part of the settlement, Johnson & Johnson also agrees to stop promoting opioids and opioid products, and won’t be allowed to provide financial incentives to its sales and marketing employees for the sale of these products, according to James’ office.
Johnson & Johnson also can’t discipline employees for not hitting opioid sales quotas — one of the keys to fueling the epidemic in the first place, according to the attorney general’s office. The state is expected to receive the first $130 million of the settlement from Johnson & Johnson next February.
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Destroying walls to find the treasure inside n Old standby tradition of student grad speeches takes on new meaning By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
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ften, when a student writes something, very few eyes — or ears — experience the finished product. The student, of course, will. The teacher, too. And maybe another peer or a parent to give it a good read before the final draft is turned in. But toward the end of an academic year, a few lucky members from graduating classes have the opportunity to address their fellow class members. And unlike a run-of-the-mill term paper, this time, those student words will be heard by many, many others. That was the responsibility that, this year, fell both to Charles Eden and Jeremy Capuder. And while delivering remarks at graduation might be a daunting task to begin with, it perhaps seemed all the more challenging to do it this time around. Of course, that’s because the 202021 academic year was the first to take place entirely during the coronavirus pandemic. Both Eden and Capuder were juniors at their schools — SAR High School and Manhattan College, respectively — when COVID-19 hit their communities, not to mention the rest of the country. SAR was among one of the first in the country to close its doors on March 3, 2020. And Manhattan College followed suit about a week later. And before long, both Eden and Capuder were finishing their junior years at home. “During the first few months, we were scared, lonely and anxious,” Eden said in his graduation remarks. “And in this time of vulnerability, we did what we were told to do. But thankfully, SAR paved us a creative path back to some level of normalcy.” The senior years of both Eden and Capuder were a bit different, entailing at least some amount of in-person learning. But it was still not the same as it was before the world changed in 2020. And then, of course, there was the responsibility of addressing their graduating class, members of whom had more or less experienced the same thing as the eventual speakers. And like the aforementioned academic year, both Eden and Capuder were selected to speak in somewhat non-conventional ways. Usually, when student speakers are selected for graduation or other
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Manhattan College hosted several in-person ceremonies for its Class of 2021 graduates. To comply with social distancing guidelines, eight separate ceremonies took place over the course of three days. end-of-year ceremonies, it’s a responsibility that falls upon the first- and second-highest ranking students in the graduating class — the valedictorian and salutatorian. But Eden found himself standing at a podium at SAR’s graduation because of his classmates, rather than his GPA. That’s because at SAR, the outgoing class itself voted for its graduation speakers. And this year, that choice was Eden as well as classmate Ella Osen. Capuder’s selection was a bit different. Unlike Eden, the civil engineering major did actually have the title of valedictorian. But earning it also was quite unique. At Manhattan College, all students with GPAs above a certain threshold are automatically eligible to compete for the college’s valedictory medal. If a student accepts their nomination, they must write a speech and deliver it to a panel of judges, who then select the student whose speech resonates
most with them. And this year, that responsibility fell to Capuder, who says he was honored just to be nominated let alone actually have the opportunity to speak at graduation. “I knew that I wanted to get the position, but at the same time, I also know I was just going to feel content knowing that I wrote something that reflected my experiences and something I truly believed,” Capuder said. Figuring out what exactly to write wasn’t simple, Capuder said, knowing how important this speech was. But as he jotted down notes and consulted with family and friends, Capuder found inspiration in a seemingly unlikely place: His hobby of origami. To Capuder, origami is a representation of life. Every experience, every class, everything a person does throughout their life represents every fold of a piece of paper. “Throughout life, we keep on enhancing ourselves,” Capuder said. “We keep on making ourselves into
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Leonardo D’Attile Daniel Dahlin Ryan Danahy Timothy De Asis Alexandra De Jesus Jose De La Cruz Robertico De Leon Sebastian De Leon Rivera Jeremy Dedel Stephen DeFelice Sebastina Deguisto Adrian DeJesus Mercedes Robert Del Prete Emily Del Villar Daniel Delbene Brianna Deleo Ariella Delgado Giuliana DeLuca Peter DeMaio Sophia Demurjian Nicholas DeNardo Rachel DePante Gabriella DePinho Kaylee Derderian James DeRonda Madison Derrico Daniel Desharnais Danielle DeSimone Raashi Dev Adrian Diaz Jangelis Diaz Jaime DiDonato Megan Digeronimo Matthew Dilorgi Brandon DiLeo Sophia DiMascolo Joseph Dinizio Vivian Doan Liam Doherty Conor Dolan Odette Dominguez Conor Donnelly Joylynn Donnelly Lawrence Donohue Andrew Dookhie Claire Dooley Joseph Doud Kaitlyn Doyle Kevin Doyle Madison Doyle Grace Droege Alessandra Drummond Andre Dunbar Ryan Dunkel Renee Duran Nicholas Dushaj Caitlin Dyckes Aili Edwards Brielle Ehmsen
Emily Elber Chris Emerson Josue Encarnacion Thomas Englert Carl Erickson Samantha Escobedo Fidias Esquea Emanuel Estevez Yanisbeth Estrella Ramos Julia Ettere Gregory Evans Maxwell Everett Ebube Ezeagwula-Ebube Ayten Fahmy Gaia Fakhoury Bridget Falzon Amanda Fanelli Gabryelle Fanning Jack Fanshawe Dylan Fazio Makayla Fee Niamh Fee Ian Fenton Alexis Fernandez Imanol Fernandez Sharron Fernandez Gianni Ferrera Justin Ferraro Amber Figueroa Khaitlyn Figueroa Michaela Finan Lauren Finnegan Juliana Finnerty Isabella Fiore Lia Fiore Laura Flores Chantal Flores Acero Padraig Flynn Rachel Foertch Cristian Forletta Gabrielle Formoso Grace Forrest Johnathaniel Fortys Eric Frank Sean Franklin Deirdre Franks Nicola Frasca Matthew Fusci Nicolas Galioto Gabrielle Gammon Guillermo Garcia Havielith Garcia Luis Garcia Marlyn Garcia Rocco Garcia Yelinet Garciacabrera Ryan Gargiulo Christine Gebhardt Gabriella Genao
Miles Gencarelli Jonathan Generoso Marisa Gentile Richard Gerling Johna Ghirlando Joseph Gibbs Ihthsham Gillani Hayden Ginsberg Peter Giordano Martin Girvan Leonard Gjeloshi Shannon Gleba Michael Glick Nicholas Gomes Alejandra Gomez Vito Gonnella Miranda Gonzalez Jessica Gonzalez-Matute Steven Goolsby John Gorham Aiden Gormley Andrea Gorrin Sepulveda Abdoul Kader Gouem Collin Grady Rory Grady Symantha Graf Marko Grbac Jordan Greene Michael Gridin Edward Grimes Miguel Gritton Angelio Grullon Joseph Grullon Astrid Guerrero Hazel Guillen Emelia Hajdarovic Hunter Hall Peter Halliday Stephen Hamilton Kevin Hanrahan Luke Hanson Terrence Harrington Zarah Harris Samantha Harry Sydney Harwood Aldin Hasangjekaj Mohammed Hassan Kelly Hasty Meya Hayes Mary Head Lindsay Healy Daniel Heavey Deirdre Heavey Kimberly Heller Luz Hernandez Sydney Hestevold Connor Higgins Meaghan Higgins Brendan Hilliard
the Israelites. And when those homes were afflicted by tza’arat — a physical manifestation of a spiritual illness — the Israelites would tear the homes down. It was in the rubble the Israelites found the treasure. And, according to Eden, that’s not unlike what happened to him and his classmates during the pandemic. When SAR’s Class of 2021 first gathered, he said, the invisible walls between them were broken down as everyone got to know each other. But those walls reforged as the classmates were separated in the earliest days of the pandemic, meaning they needed to be torn down anew. “Finding a treasure doesn’t negate the trauma of seeing your home taken apart, but it is most definitely a silver lining in an otherwise dark time,” Eden said. “And following our return to in-person learning, the Class of 2021 once again demolished its walls. “And what did we do? We discovered treasure.”
Undergraduate
Alyssa Hirani Erin Hoener Reyn Hoffman Camryn Holly David Hom Issei Homma Daniel Hong Crystal Hospedales Shaojie Huang Katelyn Huggard Madison Hunt Alexander Hutter Emily Kate Imbarrato Nicholas Impieri Ariana Innabi Cindy Ishak Yuto Ishii Nadia Itani Izzat Izzat Ahmed Jaber Deanna Jacopino Amadou Jallow Andrew Janota Luke Jara Jalah Jarvis Lucas Jett Zorriana Johnson Zachary Jomides Shelby Jones Brandon Joseph-Buadi George Kahwaty Martina Kalaj Annmarie Karmakar Devin Keast Robert Keddrell Patrick Keegan Conrad Keidel Mary Elizabeth Kellerman Christine Kennedy Matthew Keosayian Shania Ketcham Ahsam Khalid Hira Khan Amanda Kheluram Aimen Khurram Camryn Kidney Aaron Kim Emma Kindblom Julianne Kirbos Bridget Kirby Elizabeth Klink Peter Knights Jacob Knop Allison Kocovic Christopher Kocovic Chris Koilparampil Madeline Koski Cort Koss Kelsey Kovacs
Matthew Kowalchuk Leonid Kozlov Elena Kreatsoulas Brendan Krebs Mary Kret William Kulp II Ryan Kuschatka Jennifer La Poff Tsz Pok Lam Juan Lamar Kai Landy Pamela Lantigua Jomari Lanzi Natalie Lanzi Joseph LaPadula Ethan Lasko Crystal Laucer Sean Lauder Meg Lawlor Charles Ledda Derek Lederer Liz-Marie Lee Mark Lenac Elena Leon Oscar Leon Petros Leriadis Brendan Leslie Seraina Lewis Kenneth Li Matthew Limandri Carmella Liscio Matthew Listopad Christina Lizzul Matteo Lo Schiavo Ryan Logan Richard Logatto Michael Lombardi Scott Lomenzo Bianca Lopez Joseph Lopez Andrea Lopez De Victoria Yamilet Lora Jeffrey Loraine Kristian Lucaj Cassidy Lucas Lorenzo Luciano Jehu Lucien Emmanuel Luzincourt Shanice Lyle Vasilis Lymberis Yannis Lymberis Bryce Lyter Roberto Macasaet III Kyle MacDonald Nehemiah Mack Sean MacKinney Theresa Maddalena Alexandra Magnani continues Page A12
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MS 244 Aileen Abreu Frailyn Abreu Andres Abreu-Reyes Shanelly Acosta Saeed Aheto Noor Al Qublani Jeremy Alba Sara Albaouny Emeli Almanzar Madison Almodovar Valerin Almonte Goodness Aluko Jelio Alvarez Wesley Amadis Eliseny Aquino Nathaniel Aracena Melani Arias Grisnel Arizmendi Jennifer Armenta-Candido Cesar Avila Damiani Aybar Sara Baena John Baluyut Bryan Barroso Harmony Bassey Benjamin Bawuah Luz Beltre Miranda Noah Berhe Yelitza Berihuete Franklyn Bernabel Gomez Sianna Bernard Luisanny Bonilla
Kevin Boswell Jr. Anthony Budden Ethan Budden Taironex Cabrera Jr. Nicolas Calderon Michael Cano Ranly Cano Brenda Carpio Christian Carrington Kaitlyn Carulla Ethan Castro Joel Cedeno Angel Cisneros Karlenyz Cisneros Ariana Colon Justin Colon Angel Cordero Nikolas Cruz Aileni Cuevas Devin Cuevas Kion Danso Kein Dokie Carlos DeJesus Christal DeJesus Jensie DeJesus Raymond Delance Chastity Delgado Elizabeth Diaz Nyomi Diaz Sophia Disla Laisha Dolis Suejeidi Enriquez
The New School for Leadership and the Arts
Yuberly Escoto Rayseel Espacia Eleiny Espinosa Jada Esquilin Elianny Evangelista Ahmed Fadika Dismayri Feliz Magdiel Fernandez Nashley Ferreira Gerrard Flores Steven Flores Michelle Flores Vasquez Jorge Franco Victoria Franklin Camilla Garcia Gisela Garcia Cesar Garcia Cruz Kelvin Genao Kisnell Gonzalez Adrik Gonzalez Abreu Gabriel Grado Minerling Grullon Avery Grullon Garcia Paige Grant Cristopher Guaba Justyn GuachichulcaCando Alyssa Guerrido Lisbeth Gutierrez Mejia Annabel Guzman Carlos Guzman Lisa Guzman
Alanna Harmon Albert Hernandez Keiry Hernandez Kenny Hernandez Emily Hernandez Abreu Areli Hernandez Pompa Juan Hiciano William Hidalgo Almonte Miguel Holguin Almanzar Rayniel Imbert Natali Inoa Angel Jackson Kryst Jackson Vladimir Jeremias Aaliyaana Johnson Charlotte Johnson Armin Kreka John Lacombe Ashley Larios Alyza Lastra Lesley Lebron Christian Leger Albiona Leka Leyla Lewis Meagan Liquigan Christopher Lopez Jennifer Lopez Nathalie Lopez Vielkys Lopez Yarumi Lora Jayden Luna Sergio Luna
Manhattan College Andrew Mahoney Sini Makela Husnaat Malik Kevin Maloney Justin Malpica Alexia Manesis Zarifet Maqelara Blake Maquat Joseph Maraia Giulio Marangelli David Markolovic Nicholas Marrale Justin Martin Preston Martin Reid Martin Sabrina Masucci Edwin Matailo Amber Mayo Charles Mazzocchi Mara McBreen Alison McCormack Sydney McDonald Brendan McDonough Cullen McElligot Matthew McFadden Christopher McFarland Erin McGoldrick Natalie McGovern Abby McGrath Ryan McGrath Katie McHugh Bryan McKeon Denis McNamara Liam McSweeney Maura Mead Sebastian Medina Erik Mejia Isabel Melnikov Samantha Melo Nesibe Memedovski Emely Mena Ricardo Mendez Kariney Mendoza Ailin Mendoza-Munoz Xanthi Meneve Alan Menzies Pamela Mercedes Sierra Nathalie Metz Charles Meyers Sara Milano
Matilda Milkowski Giuliana Miller Meagan Miller Richard Minori Jr. Tiahna Mitchell Christian Mollica Keishla Monahan Christopher Monge-Siguenza Arianna Montefusco Yomairis Montes Gabriella Montes Rishi Montesdeoca Judbin Monzon Alexander Moore Ashley Morales Dolores Moran Meaghan Moran John Morato Natalie Moreno Kaitlyn Moreschi Lizahya Morgan Angely Morillo Christopher Mott Ivana Mulcahy William Mulderry Christopher Mulford Austin Mulhern Allen Muncan Christian Munoz Petey Murphy Ahmed Murshed Alan Muschaweck Casey Nacarlo Alexis Naclerio Harikrishnan Nair Sandra Najarian Mousa Naji Aime Nandziga Rocco Napoli Tara Naraghi Nicholas Narvaez Terence Navin Jillian Negro Hanna Nesheiwat Julia Newcity Xavier Newton Steven Ng Jake Nicolosi Brona Nielsen
Rory Nielsen Alexander Nieves Anton Nikprelaj Chinelo Nnakwe Sinead Noonan Christine Noone Michael Notarbartolo Kaltrina Novaj Nora Nugent Nicole Nunez Yailin Nunez Ella O’Brien William O’Connor Sean O’Gara Brendan O’Keefe Matthew O’Meara Brianna O’Rourke Raymond O’Toole Ifeanyi Obiekwe Allyson Oertel Shou Oikawa Emily Oldag Jake Oliver Christopher Onate Ana Ordonez Retamar Jemar Louis Ortega Matthew Ortega Taylor Oslacky Danny Osso Juan Otero Victoria Pacheco Luke Pacher Lasma Padedze Christopher Padilla Gregorio Matthew Padre Nicole Padron Tia Painilainen Steven Palacios Marvel Palatty Arturo Palomino Isaiah Parris Mariano Parubi Steven Passaglia Krish Patel Kristen Paternoster Jeffrey Paulino Alexander Pena Jovanny Pena Alexandria Pendergrass
Anthony Pennella Kimberly Peragine Tatianna Peralta Carrington Percarpio Nicholas Pereira Carolina Perez Edelysa Perez Gemma Perez Amit Persaud Sasha Persaud Ariana Perticaro Raul Pet III Kayla Peterson Harrison Pietrzak Mary Elizabeth Pizzimenti Dani Placencia Kelly Plunkett Timothy Pohlmann Marius Polakoski Artur Polyak Nicholas Portanova Deisy Daniela Portilla Villamarin Allison Powers Alexandra Preckajlo Miles Preiss Michael Priolo Molly Prior Kali Puppolo Madison Puzdrakiewicz Brian Quach Genesis Quezada Diana Quintuna Sarah Rainey Leidiana Ramirez Maverick Ramirez Amanda Rampersad Sacha Ramsaran Nicole Raymond Nicholas Reda John Regan Boukari Regtoumda Thomas Reid Irvin Reyes Samantha Reyes Kelsey Reynolds Matthew Reynolds Tyler Reynolds Dean Riccio Kevin Richard
Alexa Madrid Paola Madrigal Masen Maldonado Mariam Mara Aaron Martinez Christopher Martinez Ethan Martinez Melody Martinez Steeven Martinez Rayvin Martinez-Javier Hannah Martinez Ventura Kenneth McCoy Keon McCoy Mia McKenzie Joerick Mejia Luis Albert Mejia Acosta Daniel Mejia Hernandez Yomarvin Mendez Roselyn Mercedes Lisette Miranda Wesley Molina Arianna Morales David Moran Zayvian Moreno Keanu Munive Thomas Norales Briana Nikci Samir Nolasco Jasleen Nunez Mia Nunez Wendrife Nunez Alexander Ocampo
Yaw Okoampa-Ahoofe Anthony Ortega Denise Ortega Rosaura Pantaleon Amelia Pascual Castro Esmerling Patino Randy Paula Yamila Pena Carlos Peralta Jonathan Peralta Darianny Perez Darlin Pichardo Jorge Pichardo Darwin Pina-Cabrera Rayvon Pleasant Judhitssa Procopio Rene Quezada Jr. Jeremiah Quinones Saima Rahman Jeter Ramirez Shalany Ramirez Julio Ramos Abigail Reyes Damian Reyes Naideline Reyes Ramon Reyes Kilsy Reyes Rodriguez Miguel Reynoso Malachi Rhodes Lizbel Riera Brandon Right Hailey Rivas
Moritz Riegel Santiago Riera Cassidy Riley Jennifer Riner Samantha Rivas Jorge Robles Rachel Roca Emily Rodriguez Maylen Rodriguez Michele Rodriguez Yanitza Rodriguez Claire Roediger Nicholas Rofagha Katherine Rojas Kelly Rojas Aedan Roney Rachel Roometua Kyle Rooney Anni Rubio Marcos Rubio Fiona Ruettimann Krysti Ruiz Rachel Runge Alice Russell Nicole Russell Joshua Ryzyk Lauren Saggese Erin Sagisi Mark Saglimbene Fatoumata Saho Saurabh Saini Sophia Sakellariou Dielleza Salihaj Kevin Salis Fabio Samuel Allegra Sanchez Chaner Sanchez Alexander Sandoval Nicole Sansone Michael Santamaria Matthew Saponaro Andrew Scala Taylor Schendorf Tierney Schletz Alexa Schmidt Mason Schmitt Alexander Schwartz Michael Sclafani Nicholas Sedacca Fiontan Selby
Camryn Serrano Mia Serrano Britney Settembre Sanjay Sewbhajan Diana Shabani Kaitlin Shanahan Tristan Shawley Yosef Shitrit Marko Shmotolocha Preston Shortell Shahzaib Siddiqui Antonios Sideris Genevieve Siller Walter Silva Amanda Silvestri Rachel Ann Silvestri Andrew Siracuse Patrick Skwiot Terrence Slevin James Sloat Courtnie Smith Julian Smith Madison Smith Matthew Smith Joseph Sneyer Ina Sokolov Jessica Solan Tabitha Sorroche Lauren Spagnuolo Laurent Span Scarlet Sperduto Alexander Spinelli Joseph Spinelli Andrew Sprague Cedric St. Louis Jillian St. Onge Grace Stackowitz Isabella Starace Jack Steele Matthew Steele John Stefanou Brandon Steidl Grace Steinthal Kailee Stephens Georgia Stinchfield Kristen Stoecker Marshall Strawbridge Ingrid Suarez Sebastian Sugrimsingh Daniel Sullivan
Choose 1 week to 8 weeks!
Our program emphasizes skill progression and safety through basic skill drills and apparatus training. Boys and girls will make use of all Olympic events, such as floor, uneven bars, balance beams, and vault. All camp groups will make use of our in ground trampoline. TumblTrak®, cargo net, parallel bars, rings and rope.
In the afternoon:
Dodgeball, capture the flag, and other high energy games will be a highlight of our afternoon line-up. Children will also participate in our special theme events, such as: carnival, color wars, and intra-squad competition! to keep the fun and excitement going, random days throughout Summer camp will be designated. Pajama Day, Crazy Hat/Hair Day, Super Hero Day, MiSmAtCh Day, etc.
Precious Rivera Jose Robles Esmerlyn Rodriguez Josseph Rodriguez Joshuark Rodriguez Lizbeth Rodriguez Miguel Rodriguez Nicole Rodriguez Ramon Rodriguez Raymilka Rodriguez Adamaris Roman Lismary Rosa Miguelina Rosa Alisha Rosario Jeser Rosario Paredes Emely Rubio Alex Salas Camil Sanchez Kevin Sanchez Anabelle Santana Christian Santana Raynold Santana Ana Santiago Adelyn Santos Alondra Santos Anabril Santos Jasmine Santos Manuel Santos Tiffany Santos Elizabeth Serrano Jiselle Serrano Maryann Severino
Edric Siri Gabriel Soriano-Fabian Jazella Soto Vianessa Soto Nevaeh Stamoulis Jake Tavarez Mia Taveras Christopher Taylor John Tehuitzil Aryel Tejada Yandiel Then Justice Theophilus Steven Thomas Danielle Tineo Aylani Tobon Aiden Torres Ca Ron Torres Celeste Torres Sean Torres Gema Urena Jayden-Jose Valle-Ortiz Anferny Vasquez Diana Velasquez Madysen Vidal Yandel Vidal Garcia Dylan Villa Adam Volquez Diaz Hayzel Watts Walid Zahran Loammy Zelaya Reymond Zelaya
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June 28th - august 20th half Day: 9:00am-12:00pm full Day: 9:00am-3:00pm ages 4-13 In the mornIng:
Eighth Grade
-low stuDent to teacher ratIo. -all stuDents are groupeD by age. -no experIence necessary In any actIvItIes. -we specIalIze In teachIng begInners!
Matthew Sullivan Robert Sullivan Harriet Swager Matthew Sweeney Alan Swieca Samuel Szabo Lynette Taitt Takahiro Takeda Ndeye Fatou Tall Daniel Tejada Robert Telford Jhojandra Tene-Merino Michael Thelusma Cady Thomas Joel Thomas Joseph Thomas Curtis Thompson Alyssa Tipton Rony Titus John Tobin Matthew Torkelson Alexis Torres Ryan Torres Samuel Torres Miranda Trejos Donohue Jordan Tripodi Pedro Troche William Trochiano Terrence Tunnock Olivia Tureby Cameron Turner Anthony Tutwiler Ireland Twiggs Nataliya Tyshyk Christopher Urena Andy Urgiles Emely Valdez Katherine Valerio Steven Vasquez Ariela Vega Leonardo Vega Alexander Venator Adriana Verdugo Nelson Vicente Jessica Villano Brendan Visoky Olivia Vlad Alban Vneshta Kyle Volpe Nicholas Volpe
Eva Vredenburgh Alessandra Vukovics Christian Vuksanaj Matthew Vuksanaj Jack Wagner Meghan Walker Samantha Walla Joseph Wallace John Walsh Xinru Wang Courtney Warley Vincent Warner Kyle Watkins Claire Watson Matthew Weeks Charles Weimer Athena White William White Casey Whittaker Brian Wholey Clayton Williams Theodore Williams Elena Wilson Connor Winton Jackie Wong Marcus Wong Brian Wright Patricia Wright Parys Wyatt Alexandra Xuan Kwynn Yee John Yevoli Mario Ynfante Diane Yomkil Abdullah Yousef Luis Zacarias Eyad Zaidan Cole Zajack Joseph Zaragoza Joseph Zawol David Zea Darby Zelaskowski Kevin Zheng Thomas Ziegler
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Bronx High School of Science Jaman Abdullah Elana Abrams Rami Abu Hashish Angelica Aday Antara Adhikary Antara Afroz Chidinma Agbasi Hossain Ahad Jasdeep Ahluwalia Alisha Ahmed Fardeen Ahmed Adiba Aishi Alnahian Akbar Ayman Akhter Most Aktar Sarah Aktari Glory Alagor Mir Alam Fahmid Alam Ismail Ali Zyan Alim Mathew Almeida Tahmidul Ambia Aleksei Aminev Tobias Amstutz Samuel Andrello Samuel Ang Amina Anowara Asif Anzum Mehrab Arosh Hannah Asch Samin Azad Labiba Aziz Raymond Babich Esther Baek Ekaterina Balsan Mayukh Banik Noelle Barile Andrew Barreras Clara Barschdorff Arielle Bartoli Saptaborna Barua Shaon Barua Radia Basher Michael Batavia Afia Begum Samira Begum Julian Bekong Lara Belton Antonio Berardi Arian Berisha Alfast Bermudez Daniel Bernstein Jose Betances Fardeen Bhuiyan Saira Billah Simrah Billah Swapnil Biswash Zebulon Bogue Timothy Brett Anna Buhler Tasluba Bushra Desiree Caceres Jenny Cai Grant Caile Nolan Caile Kevin Cao Alex Cardenas Edgar Castillo Samantha Cavusoglu Liam Cawley Ria Cha Gabriel Chalker Alina Chan Benjamin Chan Kaitlyn Chan Kevin Chan Lawrence Chan Nicholas Chan Sarah Chan Zachary Chan Edward Chang Rena Chang Maya Chari Alexander Chasteen Atun Chaudhuri Timothy Chavarria Gratta Antony Chen Becky Chen Dong Cheng Chen Emily Chen Eric Chen Gavin Chen
Jackie Chen Jane Chen Jiazi Chen Jonathan Chen Joyce Chen Justin Chen Justin Chen Justine Chen Ke Hao Chen Kyle Chen Kyle Chen Lin Chen Linda Chen Michael Chen Michelle Chen Nick Chen Shitian Chen Tony Chen Andrew Cheng Caleb Cheng Kevin Cheng Siddharth Chilluvuri Lay Len Ching Hemanth Chitharanjan Joshua Cho Lucia Cho Ha Youn Choi Jennifer Choi Alex Chong Afrid Choudhury Akif Choudhury Anis Choudhury Aymon Choudhury Fardin Chowdhury Pushpa Choudhury Safwan Chowdhury Sumaya Chowdhury Tajriyan Chowdhury Jared Chuah Christine Chung Quinn Cohen Dylan Contreras Deandra Cornelio Miriam Crispe Filip Cristea Tonia Curdas Zachary Cytryn Rhea Dacosta Tenzin Dadak Matthew Dai Ryan Dai Andrew Damaso Juliet Daniel Prianty Das Erwin Dcruze Anindya Debnath Lucy Del Deo Lei Andre DeLos Reyes Gerald Deng Mithila Dey Raiya Dhalwala Ishan Dhar Elias Diab Alessandro Dilorenzo Aidan Domondon Nelson Dong Rachel Dong Wilson Dong Logan Droege Andrew Eastwick Henry Eaton Jeffrey Ejiogu Amalia El Nems Adam Elhachimi Leo Elkins Leo Ellenberg Taylor Elliott Dewirzat Emin Scott Ernsberger Aidan Esbjornson Md Faisal Vanessa Fang Md Sadaf Farsim Ummol Fatema Kenneth Fernandez Edie Fine Jose Flores Juan Flores Sage Freda William Freedman Elisabeth Gadzic Abrar Galib Alexander Gallagher
Elijah Gampel Bornstein Ayanava Ganguly Christina Gao Karen Gao Keiry Gao Shu Jun Gao Zoya Garg Isabel Garzon Brandan Gee Richard Gendron Ethan Genn Noah Getz Temin Ghong Victor Ghosh Sharon Gim Abigail Glezer Maria Glus Hannah Goo Jk Goongoon Thelonious Green Jacob Grimm Pavan Grover Alexander Grueber Hoang Jeff Guan Niles Gunning Ryan Guo Maya Gupta Shelly Gupta Kalsang Gyatso Ariq Habib Farah Haider Frederick Halo Eliana Halpern Charles Hanhurst Nivaj Haque Radeha Haque Sommaya Haque Thuhij Haque Thahiya Hassan Alina Hassan Syed Sharif Hassan Peter Haywood Allison He Matthew He Neil He Archer Heffern Bianca Hiew Rejwan Himel Javon Hinds Samantha Ho Tommy Ho Aoife Hogan Isabella Holmes Claire Hong Clare Hong Kendrick Hong Abir Hossain Ishrat Hossain Mohammed Hossain Nehal Hossain Sajedul Hossain Wimie Hsieh Alexander Hsu Rosie Hsu Scarlett Hu Samuel Hu Andy Huang Jenny Huang Kelly Huang Mikaela Huang Oscar Huang Steven Huang Ayuta Huda Dylan Hughes Thomas Hughes Ridwan Hussain Alison Hwang Joy Hwoang Adam Ichilov Nafis Isfar Ariana Islam Fatima Islam Md Islam Nahiyan Islam Saisha Islam Shaira Jafar Cole Jagdeo Israt Jahan Youshra Jahan Aria Jannat Alannis Jaquez Stefan Jelenkovic Eunbee Jeong
Hallen Ji Joanna Jiang Shuntong Jiang Hong Bo Jiao Luke Jin Raitah Jinnat Enza Jonas Giugni Ashley Jung Ridwan Kabir Ryan Kabir Sadman Kabir Jackson Kahn Adnan Kalam Sonia Kalam Km Kamal Swanand Kanere Jennifer Kang Suborna Kar Firdous Karim Yasin Karim Zachary Karlin Saide Karp Kaden Katwaroo Aidan Keller Jasmine Kelly Dilbag Khalsa Haris Khan Sajjad Khan Shadman Khan Saad Khandakar Sakeef Kibria Andrew Kim Ashley Kim Claire Kim Daniel Kim Dong Ha Kim Jennifer Kim Josiah Kim Junhyeok Ryan Kim Kevin Kim Marcus Kim Minyoung Kim So Yeon Kim Sylvie Klingborg Logan Klinger Kellen Knight Kazue Kobashi Farhan Kobir Jackson Kollmorgen Justin Kong Rachel Koon Teona Kotorova Gregory Kravtchouk Jordan Krevoy Harrison Krieger Victoria Kuo Russell Kwong James Lam Raymond Lam Wayne Lam Marcus Chek Hay Lau Jonayet Lavin Michael Le Aimee Lee Alton Lee Jasmin Lee Jennifer Lee Josephine Lee Katelyn Lee Montana Lee Yujin Lee Valentin Lelchuk John Lema Jason Leong Victoria Lesiczka Cara Leung Daniel Leung Ethan Leung Jemin Lho Bryan Li Catherine Li Emily Li Jessie Li Nathan Li Raymond Li Shuhua Li Vincent Li Wilson Li Aylmer Liang Kevin Liang Michelle Liao Karis Ligh Anthony Lim
Sunzana Lima Josan Limbu Evan Lin Huixiang Lin Julie Lin Rachel Lin Ricky Lin Sean Lin Sonia Lin Yu Zhen Lin Anthony Lino Gabriel Lipschutz Yona Litwin Alice Liu Bojun Liu Jack Liu Joan Liu Kelly Liu Kody Liu Jasmine Lo Anya Lollos Avery Look Carolina Lopez Jonathan Lopez Derrick Lu Rachel Lu Kevin Luu Sarah Lydon Oviin Maddumage Jawad Maksood Hamza Malick Amit Mallik Kristina Man Amadeo Manenti Lavanya Manickam Aerin Mann Phoebe Anne Marbid Dan Markov Syed Mashrifumar Samuel Matlovsky Leo Matthes Sylvia Maxwell Arjun Mazumdar Timothy McCarthy Ulysses McDonald Namira Mehedi Rohan Mehta Jade Melendez Gina Meng Samuel Mercedes Mohammed Miad Shomit Mian Anna Michel Kyle Miller Noah Miller Tawrat Mim Sayed Mohamed Hassib Mohammed Abu Monaf Margaret Monahan Samama Moontaha Carlos Mora Syed Morshed Abeer Moshahid Asif Moshahid Andrew Mui Jessica Muller Zawad Munshi Lola Murti Luca Musk Jamie Mwai Ian Nan Anir Narine Mikhail Nasrallah Cameron Nejat Emily Nelson Harley Ngai Emma Nguyen Jamie Lee Nicolas Shihab Nihan Ricky Ning Akunna Njoku Sylvester Nnadi Aniqa Nuzhat Samuel Odunsi Caleb Oh Matthew Oh Lesley Ojilere Emma O’Leary Morgan Ong Adam Osman Krinsky Kevin Ou Marvelous Owolabi
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Zannatul Oziha Bochao Pan Elisabeth Pan William Pan Jonathan Pang Reid Papafloratos Jaymie Paredes Alexandra Park Darlene Park Dillen Park Jiwon Park Allison Pascual Ethan Pascual Deep Patel Zarif Patwary Ananta Paul Hritwik Paul Zoe Peltzman Diana Perez Adam Perlstein Emma Pernebo Aaron Peters Karen Phua Angela Phuong Roland Pilenyi Isadora Polish Sarah Pollack Ruhika Ponda Sara Poon Sophie Poritzky Airi Portalatin Brianna Portilla Jasmine Posner Arul Prakash Itamar Pres Jason Price Tolstoy Ramisa Promi Sakib Pronoy Jiawen Qi Michael Qin Jr. Areebah Qutub Tasnimul Rafid Fataha Rahman Mohammad Rahman Montaha Rahman Sajidur Rahman Seyam Rahman Tajwar Rahman Towfiq Rahman Luke Rally Sumaiya Rashid Rustom Razzaque John Reardon Mikayla Redmond Leah Reid Felix Reinhart Jen Ni Ren Daniel Rendon Margaux Reyl Kate Reynolds Paul Rivard Marcos Rodriguez Elvys Romero Miss Rothshi Evan Rothstein Martin Roy Austin Rozario Jonathan Rubinov Shamsshad Rupak Aditya Saha Janom Saha Roudro Saha Mohammed Sajjad Byul Sak Javid Saleh-Esa Sihan Sami Adiel Sanchez Matthew Santos Klerti Saraci Miles Sarkozy Tyler Savitz Chloe Schamisso Andrew Schouten Max Schrader David Schramm Aiden Schulman Aviva Schwarz Aparnaa Senthilnathan Daniel Seo Myoungseok Seo Jason Sethiadi Krish Shah Maanya Shah
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Dhiman Shahid Zahin Shahrior Nava Sherman Sadie Sherman Nemil Sheth Elan Shetreat-Klein Megan Shi Tasfia Shikder Haemi Shin Jeffrey Shum Panayiota Siderakis Luke Siegel Yanka Sikder Matthew Silberfein Sophie Silbert Beryl Sin Gurpreet Singh Prama Singha Benjamin Sison Oviya Sivapalan Savitta Sivapalan Isaac So Sadiq Sobur Amelie Song Jacqueline Song Youngbin Song Dylan Soto Md Shamsuzzaman Sourove Julia Sperling Bailey Stephen Marco Stettler Vaughn Stout Noah Strickman George Suarez Mubassera Subah Nickolas Sukhdeo Nadia Sultana Samia Sultana Marcelo Suquitana Yuki Suwabe Xano Sweeting Muhtasim Syed Edgar Sze Sophia Sze Faika Tabia Shahrika Taiyeba Taufiqa Tajnin Hasuno Takei Anneliese Takeshige Maka Takizawa Nazifa Talukder Chizhen Tan Derrick Tan Kevin Tan Winston Ten Farhan Tanvir Vishaal Tecksingani Alex Tembelis Anika Thapar Lio Thomas Dylan Tom Anthony Ton Miles Tong Michael Toscano Andrew Toskas Jackson Trader Kevin Truong Tiffany Tsai Ethan Tsang Tenzing Tsephel Eric Tsiolas Andrew Tu Yu Lin Tung Daniel Turcotti David Ugo-Omenukwa Arsha Uthairungsri Jiada Valenza Cassandra Vallon Hugh Van Deventer Huck Van Schie Justin Veerasami Chancie Velasquez Divya Venkatesh Reese Villazor Chris Vilorio David Vilshansky Amelia Volpe Emanuel Vordonis
Theodore Wai Thomas Walker Alan Wang Alisha Wang Elaine Wang Ivan Wang Jeff Wang Jessica Wang Lucy Wang Sarina Wang Tian Yi Wang Wesley Wang Yu Hui Wang Zhi Xing Wang Jian Fu Wen Jingzhe Weng Sarang West Samuel Whaley James Whitten Ella Wilkinson Lillian Womack Brandon Wong Colin Wong Jeffrey Wong Matthew Wong Rachel Wong Rachel Wong Eric Woo Antony Wu Ashley Wu Carissa Wu Jonathan Wu Jonathan Wu Kenneth Wu Edison Wu Ellen Wu Eric Wu Shengxing Wu Yaxuan Xiao Sally Xie Yong Jun Xie Evangelina Yakushev Caleb Yam Jason Yamaguchi Miles Yamner Devin Yan Samantha Yan Daniel Yang Ivan Yang Joyce Yang Tiffany Yang Rehan Yazdani Anna Ye Jodi Yee Megan Yee Ethan Yen Dennis Yi Timothy Yi Jae Heen Yim Yasmmine Yoon Eric You Wilson You Stanley Yu Michael Yuen Mohammed Zaid Anne Zakharov Benjamin Zakharov Ethan Zakharov Fahim Zaman Nafisa Zaman Rafid Zaman Rayhan Zaman Tasneem Zaman Nicholas Zayfman Lars Zeana Schliep Tyler Zen Andrew Zhang Ethan Zhang Kevin Zhang Amanda Zheng Gong Zhuo Zheng Jaydon Zheng Tiffany Zheng Vicki Zheng Vicky Zheng Xi Yuan Zheng Justin Zhong Kevin Zhong Tiffany Zhong John Zhou Jolin Zhou Jason Zhu Kevin Zhu
Atmosphere Academy Eighth Grade
Matthew Acevedo Emmanuella Adai Rosemary Adams Brady Adorno Dylan Adorno River Ajanku Winifer Alberto Jayden Albuez Bryanna Alvarez Jerry Alvarez Sonnie Alvarez Christodiah Ampadu Jaisen Andrade Ashelyne Aquino Kenny Aquino Joel Asare Keyli Atilano-Gonzalez Michelle Avila Jaslene Beau Dereck Bencosme-Castillo Morah Bloxson Bronson Branch Alexander Cabrera Gabriel Cabrera Yaeliel Candelaria Beverly Carmona Lauren Chicas Uriah Chuck Marcos Claudio Trinity Coke Gabriel Collado Jaliyah Collier Mya Cooper Christopher Cordero Adrianna Cortes Zenel-Darius Crawford Gioarmani De La Cruz Miguel De La Cruz Franchesca De La Rosa Hilary De La Rosa Chloe Diaz Paul Diaz-Reyes
Briana Dominguez-Lopez Matthew Fabian Destiny Febles Adonis Fernandez Samara Fernandez Anthony Ferreira Ramon Flores Lyla Flores-Orozco Tiana Fortune Deon Frisbie Brenda Fuentes Jocelyn Galindo-Valencia Audrey Garcia Ian Garcia Kimberly Garcia Maltin Garcia Fernandez Kevin German Nibelis Gomez Gavin Gonzalez Jonah Gonzalez Juliana Gonzalez-Lopez Samia Green Amaya Guerra Alaysha Guzman John Guzman Brandon Guzman-Lora Dorian Guzman-Lora Lamya Hand Ana Haywood Samya Henry Aaron Hernandez Shaellys Hernandez Myles Hibbert Chanell Izquierdo Juan Jaquez-Santana Antonio Jimenez Lasana Jobarteh Quashawn Kennedy Kelvin Lachapel Blessing Lee Jahmani Lewis
Vidahlia Lopez Roel Lucero Jacier Luciano Luis Lugo Devan Marcelino Abraham Martinez Josiah Martinez Laura Martinez Mariela Martinez Kol Mazreku Seyan Mcintosh Jorge Melendez Valeria Mendez Colon Nahom Mengistu Zara Minaya Tyaire Moore Carlos Mora Robert Mowatt Alejandro Munoz Rebecca Negroni Caleb Nortey Jose Olivos Salas Alondra Ortiz Ayden Ortiz Julio Ortiz Jada Osei Wilmer Paredes Rihana Payano Briana Pepin Aileen Perez Jeremiah Perez Joselyn Perez Levan Perez Victoria Perez Matthew Pointer Michelle Ramirez Sean Ramos Nashla Reina Eannah Reyes Iven Reyes Kaysie Reyes Leah Rivera
Abner Rodriguez Angel Rodriguez Arnaldo Rodriguez Gilberto Rodriguez Giliana Rodriguez Olivia Rodriguez Ruben Rodriguez Luz Rodriguez-Brito Aiden Roseau Fermin Rosso Jossue Rosso Khaled Saleh Ellean Santana Jaliah Santana Charlie Santiago Marcus Santiago Andy Santos Delina Severe Mickel Severe Ethan Shillingford Leilani Silfa Athena Soto Elijah Soto Chang Sung Kailyann Tejeda Kenneth Then Karis Thomas Loida Thompson Zayvin Thompson Moore Jeremyah Torres Anthia Urena Keanny Urena Ambar Valdez-Lopez Kimberly Valencia Onell Valerio Alani Valle Isabella Vargas Jelianny Vargas Heidi Vazquez Christian Vidal Alicia Weatherspoon Laneille Willis
SAR High School Rebecca Altholz Gideon Askowitz Galia Atik Alex Augenbraun Kayla Bellin Daniel Berger Yael Berkowitz Isaac Black Judah Bloom Nathan Blum Laura Brandwein Gabriel Butler Ariella Bulman Jacob Burstein Zahava Butler Gabriela Ceasar Tamir Charytan Daniella Chernow David Chorna Avi Cohen Ezra Cohen Jake Cohen Arthur Cooperman Julia David Ethan Davidson Isaac Deutsch Daniel Dinkevich Charles Eden Mia Fand Emily Feit Yonah Fenster Aderet Fishbane Adin Fogel
Ian Fuller Isaac Gazal Bentzion Gitig Mia Greenbaum Tiferet Grossman Shalom Hazan Lucy Hecht Mara Hochheiser Dafna Horowitz Shira Huebner Noa Isaacson Maya Jamil Mikayla Jason Odelia Jesselson Boaz Kahn Lindsey Kalish Esme’ Kamlet Tobi Shira Katz Bella Kish Zachary Klestzick Akiva Kroll Avner Kronisch Amaliah Labinsky-Fleischer Deva Laifer Gavri Lapin Ethan Lapp Aviva Laskin Alexander Lebowitz Maya Lebowitz Lizzy Lehon Ella Leifer Michal Levine
Etan Levy Jacob Libin Zander Lustig Sam Mandel Henry Mann Ethan Marom Liat Marom Zevi Mehl Rachel Meiliken Ariella Mero Benjamin Meyers Eden Migdal Aron (Ari) Milgram Gabi Mogilner Emma Nahari Ezra Neugroschl Ely Neuwirth Joseph Niyazov Daniel North Laetitia Ohayon Isaac Ohrenstein Tobias Olson Ella Osen Adin Pepper Fox Jack Pershin Liora Picker Zev Pinker Lili Pitkowsky Yonah Pretsfelder Rosie Prince Batia Rabin Gavriel Rader Emma Rebarber
Seniors
Matar Rocker Benjamin Roitman Tal Ronen Joey Rosenfeld Shirel Rouemy Emmanuel Sasson Miranda Schnall Simone Schnall Gabriel Schneider Hillel Schwab Joshua Shain Benjamin Shalumov Pearl Shapira-Stern Amanda Silberstein Haley Solomon Merav Gorsetman Spira Rachel Stadtmauer Leah Stern Samuel Sternberg Amalia Stulbach Orly Stulbach Sydney Teigman Daniel Tsesarsky Avi Turok Rachel Vidomlanski Lyla Waitman Yair Wall Ranan Waxman Ryan Weiss Tziona Weiss
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Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy Seniors Akang Sai Agborenow Edgar Aguilar Adel Alkotini Tyler Allen Roman Alvaradfo Dangelo Antigua West Argaluza Fernando Argote Peter Artoglou Asliddin Aslov Amy Babou Erild Bala Bryan Barie Julia Baron Abigail Baum Bryce Bautista Mia Bautista Anthony Benitez Renee Berson Kimberly Biascochea Esha Bishop Maxwell Bowden Hannah Leah Branche Karla Brooks Thomas Bucaj Dorjana Bujaj Sarah Caban Ileanna Calle Melanie Campusano Christian Carlos Genesis Cedeno Jade Cedeno Leyba Asif Chowdhury Salma Chowdhury James Corey Besnik Cosovic
Lisandro Cruz Santiago Jadon Damiano Marvin De Leon Mory Diakite Christian Diaz Herrera Brian Diaz Ramirez Taylor Dilullo Kol Djonovic Anna Dolgopolova Emily Dominguez Duval Drummond Shane Dubois Perla Encarnacion Branden Estevez Justin Estevez Michael Felipe Julianne Fenandez Natanael Figuereo Isaiah Figueroa Ismael Flores Al Furman Cassey Garces Sean Gaughan Josendy Gomez Angie Gonzalez Ronaldo Gonzalez Justin Goodman Isabella Grullon Gabriella Gutierrez Luis Guzman Cruz Nahome Hagos Nora Haxhija Angelis Hennessey Jean Hernandez Allen Herrera Erika Hoti
Issac Hoyos Ivan Huang Giana Huttinot Frieda Hynes Jaden Irby Anisa Han Branden Jimenez Shade Jimenez Jueun Jin Kyla Jordan Merrick Mia Kauffman Noah Kazansky Keishon Keane, Jr. Thomas Kelly Jesse Koblin Kaitlyn Kwon Javonna Lawrence Kevin Li Denise Mirielle Lim Gabriella Lima Tammy Lin Justin Liu Melanie Luciano Genessis Lugo Kaylee Lugo Anastasia Malakhova Alexa Maloney Mohammed Mansrah Emily Martin Giovanni Martinez Jose Mateo Caroline Mcdonagh Mariam Mdzinarashvili Francisco Medina Oscary Medina Anabelle Milander
Princesa Miranda Gabriela Mixcoatl Kelly Monge Bryan Montagner Noah Montanez Madison Montero Fabian Monzon Arminda Msallam Hannah Nahmias Isaac Nahmias Giada Ndoj Sahit Nikqi Lizbeth Nunez Roxanne Nunez Alan Ordonez Brendan Ortiz Jan Padilla Richard Pardo, Jr. Steward Patino Allanah Pejcinovic Simon Pemberton Adrian Perez Carlos Perez Kalliopi Perseli Selma Pina Espaillat Katelyn Polanco Esmir Radoncic Jennifer Rahneva Shiloh Rambharose Devin Ranallo Riana Richards Cierra Ringling Jaylen Rivera Samanthale Rodriguez-Pazmino Pharez Rogers
PS 24 Spuyten Duyvil Henry Rafael Acosta Muhammad Ali Amanda Alonso Faith Alvarez Vladimir Amparo Dashly Pamela Batista Julian Antonio Batista Kayla Benfatti-Feinman Lucas Bobko Maria Boicenco Jordyn Brace Lara Brown Maddox Burrowes Ja Ron Andre Bynoe Serenity Cartright Daphne Castro Jayden Jonathan Castro Liana Cervantes Sophie Chaifetz Matthew Chame Macy Chervitz Kyle Chi Kutemba Madison Chilufya Brandon Chirinos Annabelle Cho Jared Clarke Aaven Correa
Devin Cuddy Eli Matthew Daniels Arrow Prentice Youn Davis Rice Leila Derosa Yash Dewan Ilia Milen Dimitrov Eli Dinnal Rima Rukaya Diwany Christopher Dominguez Ely Domond York Douglas Osaze Ehigie Aaron Falzon Gabriella Rose Ferguson Charlie Ethan Fermin Daniel Joseph Gallent Gign Garcia Jewel Garcia Lorelei Goodman Liam Gordon Wyatt Rose Gray Dario Valentino Guerrero Marvin Hanyang Guo Henry Zhao-Yang Hawkins Sebastian Heenan Jayden Alexander Heras
Justin Anthony Hernandez Jayden Hidalgo Addison Ireland Niomi Mariann Johns Alexandra Johnson Stephen Johnson Bryanna Jones Ava Cardoz Joseph Ethan Kane Christian Laguer Justin Laguer Valentina Lampon Maylin Kaori Lara Bryana Liranzo Madison Lopez Marcos Lozano Elizabeth Maiden Victoria Mailutha Joseph Mantilla Jake Oliver Marasigan Hannah Margolin Jalen Martinez Brendan McCarthy Mateo McGlinchey Julien Mehmeti Jameson Mercado Sava Micic
Benjamin Muchnik Caleb Axel Muhlstein Arnesa Mulosmani Mairenie Nahabedian Joseph Nasser Allen Nunez Avery Oliva Luis Rene Ortega-Suarez Aubree Ortiz Hudson Osborn Jeein Park Sophia Ana Pelliciari Hudson Penn Emil Perez Lucas Perez Ortiz Milo Jan Pietarinen Rodriguez Fabiana Maria Pinto Edin Prelvukaj Eli Rashkovich Neel Rikhy Veer Rikhy Adolfi Rivera Leo Rivera Norseen Rogers Victor Javier Roman Xavier Romero
Michael Rubano Albina Rugova Marcos Ruiz Sally Sakande Carolyn Salazar Ashley Santana Laura Santiago Olivia Santo Alexander Savvinov Jacob Schmieder Saaber Segni Kate Serrano Jackson Shortell Zacoy Simmons-James Jackson Spence Dream Springsteen Samuel Stricks Andrew Taveras Nuha Thaha Alejandro Torres Nelson Samantha Trombone Arabelle Tubello Anna Tzanetatos Nathalie Ulerio Omoregie Uwague Jackson Van Horn Yandelson Vargas Jose Vasquez Mia Vasquez Marco Victorio Jahshua Wilson Luimer Yumbla Kassiani Zacharis Arturo Zapata
Fifth Grade
Lily Rustin Arbel Sagi Jeannah Lynn Samson Celina Shang Elizaveta Sharavara Sophie Sherman Maggie Shulman Nathaniel Singletary Zia Marcel Spear Madison Suli Bilal Taoufik Luke Tappan Julian Texeira Aliyah Thomas Maximus Tiewul Michelle Tuku Nnamdi Lamine Umelo-James Chrisovalantis Vailas Casey Van Horn Gabriella Savannah Velasquez Olivia Velasquez Saraliz Villanueva Nicholas Wilhelm Tammy Yong Rafael Zapata
SAR Academy Maytal Abehsera Avigayil Aharon Gertie Angel Casey Bader Max Baker Yonathan Bar Ari Blechner Leora Blechner Zachary Brem Rachel Buller Noa Cohen Julia Croog Nathanael Ehrenhaus Samuel Eis Lev Fagelson
Charlotte Filer Lev Fish Lilah Fishman Jacob Gissinger Samuel Glass Jonah Glassberg Lia Goldberger Hailey Goldstein Zeva Gorodischer Spencer Gotel Rebecca Haberman Nathaniel Hain Joseph Hershkowitz Julia Hershman Aryeh Hirshaut
David Hochstadt Zachary Hyman Coby Jason Moses Jetter Azriel Jonas Lily Kanovsky Emma Karesh Talia Katz Allegra Kerstein Livia Kobrin Kayla Kolb Merav Kramer Richard Rinat Kramer-Richard Eliezer Kroll Naomi Laskin
Ari Levine Liviah Lewis Ezra Love Maayan Lwowski Joseph Maayan Jacob Madof Nave Shalom Mali Samuel Mandel Nili Mann
Andrew Maryles Lielle Maudi Zoe Meller Rachel Moerdler-Green David Muss Rena Newton Menachem Ney Ayla Palefski Batsheva Perelis
Courtesy of SAR High School/Marco Cantini
After their school was one of the first in the state to shutter due to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, SAR High School celebrated an in-person graduation.
ELLIS Prep Academy Seniors Tareq Abdo Abdoul Adam Mah Saima Akter Mohsin Alborati Waheeb Alghmi Wahseem Alghmi Arwa Rafiq Alhaj Asmaa Mossleh Alkhadashi Christian Amador Oumou Ba Mouctar Balde Astrid Banegas Claudio Barboza Amadou Barry Moussa Barry Jose Betances Michael Calderon Limbert Cepeda Cabral Irvin Checo Nassira Cisse Debora Coreas Anihouvi Dah-Allode Melani De La Rosa Yorquiri De La Rosa
Malkel De Los Santos Ulises Del Orbe Aliou Dia Khadim Dione Babacar Diop Crismeiry Flete Valerio Armando Flores Gary Galeas Delcid Yailyn Guareno Dieron Guzman Ramos Lizy Guzman Ramos Ehteshamul Haque Yaira Hernandez Isha Jangana Ismael Kabore Mohamed Kebe Habibatou Kone Ashmel Martinez Ambiorix Martinez Starlyn Martinez Velasquez Rosaina Mejia Medina Hani Sharaf Mohamed Darian Moises Sebastian Munoz Camilo Pham Thuy Nguyen
Jarvies Nunez Samsia Ouro Bodi Angelly Padilla Emily Padilla Jency Paulino Tineo Bianka Pena Waldy Pena Josue Perez Gloribel Perez Veras Andy Quijada-Jenovez Ambar Ramos Disla Grissel Rijo Royer Rodriguez Yerlin Rodriguez Heaven Smith Diorobo Soumare Karla Tavarez Reyes Awa Traore Khadidia Traore Fatoumata Tunkara Reimi Cesar Veras Garcia Julio Villar Martinez Fiona Yougang Noumbi Anas Zindani
International Leadership Charter High School
Chanell Alba Yolit I. Alejandro Cedeno Marlene Alonso Perez Gideon Appenteng Joel Emilio Beltre Baboucarr Bittaye Edelyn Brito Milan Imani Kristina Brown Stephanie Melissa Bruno Leah Raquel Castillo De la Cruz Elian Contreras Altagracia Cruz Irisbel M. Delleguas Nahomy M. Diaz Burgos Kimberly Diaz Salazar Lesly Diaz Alejandra Espaillat Jaiden A. Feliz Yasmin Alexandra Feliz Juan Fernando Lobo Quiroz
Dignorah Garcia Quezada Ankara Sankare Gimbala Joel Gomez Jr. Jerine Ariadnee Gonzalez Rojas Gregobert Hernandez Messiah Jean Abigail O. Jegede Laura López Cruz Christian J. Lora Naomi S. Luciano Jhoan R. Martinez Frias Jr. Moises M. Medina Maraluna Medina Omar A. Mejia Amberly Mercado Bryanna Molina Malaika Munir Kevin Muñoz Christopher Navarro Alyssa Nicole Ortiz Harry Pacheco Luis Paez Reyes
Gabriel Pollack Jacob Prager Maya Puterman Madeline Rose Charlie Rosen Noa Rosen Lily Rosenblatt Beriah Ross Mordechai Ross Jacob Sadres Naomi Saltzman Eric Sarasohn Barbara Sasson Shua Satz Zachary Scheiner
Meirav Schwab Yonatan Schwartz Ayelet Shames Charles Shapiro Yoni Shapiro Zev Shapiro Hila Shiller Ayumi Silver Aliza Smith Dahlia Sopher-Harelick Batya Sperling-Milner Ayelet Spevack Liron Spira Daniel Stadtmauer Lea Stern
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2600 Netherland Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10463 718-548-0900 www.kinneretdayschool.org
Seniors
Jose Paulino Ventura Sanett P. Pecci Keila A. Quito Derek Alexander Ramirez Leslie Ramirez Daniel Ramos Darleni Remigio Aldo Richiez Andrew Rivas Luisanna Rodríguez Hernández Robert Sandro Romero Gianmarcos Rosario Jokairis E. Silfa Tajrian Monjur Tareq Julianny Tavarez Ashly Tejada Cerda Jaylen S. Terrero Stasy Ureña Lopez Penelope Urena Brian Utate Elizabeth Valerio
Eighth Grade Ezra Sturm Daniel Turok Elie Twersky Ella Vanderhoek Ethan Vorchheimer Jack Wald Amielle Walker Lela Weisberger Sam Weiss Asher White Cooper Wilk-Lifshutz Tali Zeitchik Tali Zelkowitz Judah Zmood
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Eimy Abreu Zabala Laiba Alam Maya Alexandar Alea Alexis Mohamed Alkotayni Jason Almonte Osahenrumwen Arasomwan Krissmayolie Arias Eilleen Belliard Lesly Belmontcarino Jayden Bennett George Bisono Francesca Brito Nickcalos Bryan Moses Burgos Edward Burgos Ramos Aidanni Castillo Anais Cespedes Diaz Kevin Consuegra Yvonne Corniel Rosani Corporan Zanera de Guzman Gabriela Desimone Moises Donovan Amia Dumbuya Noelia Espinal Diaz
Milton Fein School Kendra Familia Roseanna Flores Vanessa Flores Kaylie Flores Osorio Jeremias Francisco Sareily Genao Paddy Greenan James Guillen Caleb Gutierrez Cyrus Guzman Rachel Guzman Tony Hernandez Carolina Herrera Stephan Huang Aryan Ibrahim Anisa Islam Emily Jara Gesabell Jerez Moya Lucas Jimenez Sophia Jimenez Ensar Juka Roniel Lantigua Acosta Kaylee Lazaro Camila Ledesma Dayanara Macias Farias Arman Mamun Artemis Manzanillo
Nathaniel Marrero Dorian Martinez Maya Martinez Mason Matias Emily Mena Jannely Mojica Daniel Mora King Omar Nasif Sergio Obregon Dana Ocana Martinez Matthew Oflynn Chikamso Okafor Carlos Ortega Ozziel Ortiz Randiel Paula Ceballo Blake Pena
Fifth Grade
Nicholas Perez Kayleen Pinales Silva Pllumbaj Jancarlo Polanco Catalina Ramirez Sameer Richards Analia Rivera Liam Rivera Xaylen Rodriguez Amely Rosario Arianna Ruiz Jaeline Salas Natasha Sanchez Nathaniel Santiago Mila Suarez Skyyler Suarez Wendy Subervi Abigail Torres Jacob Torres Lizbeth Torres-Toxqui Sol Uncini Amber Urena Jazceli Veras Adalis Vidal Andrea Vidal Briana Vivar Rafan Yaseen
Kinneret Day School Eighth Grade Lee Adler Lior Babila Noy Benyamin Daniel Budnyatsky Gavri Davis Aidan Forman Yardena Franklin
Emily Friedlander Elisha Gordon-Cahan Lilly Halperin David Katzman Aviv Kotok Adira Kress Benjamin Liberman
Daniel Lopez Molly Mandl Raphael Nordenberg Yotam Sabo Eden Schachner Manuela Sinayuk Orli Sugerman
Ilan Trumper Arye Unger Raphael Unger Madeleine Wisse
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St. Gabriel Eighth Grade
Nyla Anderson Katherine Barrio Adrian Betances Manuel Boya Liani Bueso Clevisa Bujaj Maya Cartwright Jaidaly Cruz Ethan Diaz Brianna eugenio Avery Garcia Courtesy of SAR High School/Marco Cantini Ian Gatmaitan Of the near-130 graduates at SAR High School, Daniela Hernandez 85 percent of them will spend a year in Israel. Vincent Humphreys
Bronx Akosua Abankwa Steven Aguilar Ahsem Alkaifi Breonah Anderson Queenly Arthur Elianna Balbuena Melo Allyn Barragan Guzman Sydney Brooks Taliyah Brown Nydia Burgos Starlena Burley Bryan Cabrera Fabian Camacho Sandra Castillo Suarez Jedriel Castro Melanie Cepeda Jerry Cruz Garcia Shandel Daniel Mena Hamilton Deschamps Tanaija Dixon
Jacqueline Husk Alier Jimenez Ducan Le Tylan Mercado Heralamby Mila-Rus Elisavet Mitskaris Francis O’Rourke Liam Rausch Kiera Reddington Matthew Reyes Alana Rivera Mia Sanchez Spencer Synek DiLuzio
High School of Law and Finance Alexander Dwyer Chasity Feliciano Malik Ferguson Bryan Fernandez Zallil Fernandez Jefferson Ferreira Madeline Flores Yair Flores Gonzalez Shane Grant Gloribi Guzman Aleasha Harrison Kesiah Hercules Victor Hernandez Ricardo Hurtado Elijah Lajara Tiffani Leon Rocelyn Mancera Honey Martinez Diaz Elinxon Martinez Herrera Giselle Mejia
Lakeia Melvin D Kevin Mendez Verdin Ashly Mendoza Melany Meran John Mercedes Laisha Mercedes Andres Merlano Florisbel Molina Carlos Mora Melo Collins Mwago Cassandra Nivar Hailey Ortiz Shaziya Patterson Perla Pena Daniel Pena Puente Joshua Peter Crismely Quero Hernandez Daysha Quinones Rosse Reyes
Seniors
Christopher Roa Santiago Carlos Rodriguez Darlenes Rodriguez Genys Rodriguez Matos Danelsy Rosa Ludwin Rosa Yeremy Rosa Jimenez Sergio Samboy Christopher Sanchez Naimah Santiago Perez Davonte Schuyler Atiya Shabazz Nathalia Shaw Yania Spiller Kayleen Tarafa Christian Valle Madeline Vargas Xavier Vargas Faith Voumadi Derrick Williams
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2021
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