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Dinowitz votes for largest budget in city history n Money earmarked for parks, schools, and even a boost to the New York cops By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
Green schools? Rep. Jamaal Bowman wants sustainable and inhabitable schools, but is White House listening? Page A5
If you could boil Councilman Eric Dinowitz down to one core issue, it would probably be education. That shouldn’t be too much of a surprise since Dinowitz had plenty of firsthand experience in the classroom. He was a special education teacher in a handful of schools in this corner of the Bronx for the past 14 years. Although Dinowitz loved making a difference in the lives of his students, he also realized there’s only so much he could do in that setting. That’s why he decided to leave the classroom, he said, and run for city council in the first place. “One of the things that I said during the campaign was, ‘Yes, I have an impact on the
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Councilman Eric Dinowitz says he ran for city council so he could have an impact on the lives of students that extended beyond his ‘45 minutes in the classroom’ when he was a public school educator. lives of my students,’” Dinowitz said. “But there’s only so much I can do with 45 minutes in a classroom with them. As a member of the city council, I can impact thou-
sands and thousands of students’ lives.” And Dinowitz says that’s exactly what he did by voting for this year’s $99 billion fiscal year budget, which included $4 bil-
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Home sales head back to normal They performed online through the pandemic, now these musicians are ready to go live — on a lawn. Page A8
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n Co-op Ride hopes to circumvent controversy that surrounds Uber, Lyft, others
A vacant house is remodeled at the intersection of West 261st Street and Fieldston Road. Despite some claims of a mass exodus out of New York City — especially the Bronx — Realtors are instead seeing home transactions at robust levels not seen since before the coronavirus pandemic.
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lion in additional funding for education. It’s the largest in the city’s history, and the final one to be introduced by term-limited Mayor Bill de Blasio and council Speaker Corey Johnson. After just solidifying his seat on the council for the next two years by winning the June Democratic primary, Dinowitz said it was a moving experience to cast his first vote for a city budget in the council chamber. It was especially powerful because this was the first time lawmakers had gathered there since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year. “When people vote for you, they put their faith in you,” Dinowitz said. “They put (their) trust in you to go to City Hall and be their voice and make sure that their needs are met, and that their values are expressed. “So, taking the vote — but also being physically in the chamber — was extremely humbling. But it was also a reminder of so much of the pain a lot of New Yorkers and the world has been through.” CITY BUDGET, page A4
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Pamela Trebach has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the housing market — even during a pandemic. A broker in the local family business Trebach Realty, Pamela says she actually sees no end in sight to the high demand of homes in this part of the Bronx, especially in the greater Riverdale and Kingsbridge area. “Closings are a constant,” Trebach said. “More often than not, when I reach
out to real estate attorneys, they are at closings.” Not that there weren’t struggles — especially during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last year. In fact, there was one point with real estate transactions at historic lows that Trebach feared the market was just not going to make it. “After the lockdown in late June of 2020, we were concerned that buyers had passed us by for Westchester, Connecticut and beyond,” Trebach said. “But much to our surprise, we were incredibly busy. We did not notice a dip in September, which is normally the beginning of a slower real estate season. In fact, the frenzy continued straight through the winter and into the present.” Those initial numbers were discouraging, but some of the chatter around that time also didn’t help — mostly based
‘Houses at the very top of the market — some of which have been sitting around for a while — have all sold now.’ PAMELA TREBACH broker, Trebach Realty
on anecdotal reports of a mass exodus from high-density urban areas like New York City where a dangerous virus could spread like wildfire if left unchecked. HOME SALES, page A4
For better or for worse, ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have become part of the city’s transportation landscape. But their names also have been in the news for other reasons — among them alleged union busting, at-times exorbitant prices, and general mistreatment of drivers. But in areas like the northwest Bronx and other parts of the city, people who want to get from Point A to Point B might not have another option. Locally, the 1 train line ends at West 242nd Street, and bus service is scant in other areas. On top of that, the hilly landscape might make walking and biking difficult. Co-op Ride hopes to bring all of the convenience of ride-hailing to the city without all that other drama. How? By having the app both owned and operated by its drivers. Ken Lewis co-founded The Drivers Cooperative in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, which ultimately became one of several organizations that made Coop Ride possible. Taxi services have been essential for the upward mobility of the working class and immigrants who call the city home, he said, and Co-op Ride aims to have that profession return to those roots — without Uber and Lyft. “The taxi industry traditionally used to be a way … that immigrants and lowerincome New Yorkers to basically move their families firmly into the middle class,” CO-OP RIDE, page A4
After 20 years, Lois Harr finally looks forward to life after college n What’s next? How about a little teaching, migrant outreach, and maybe even some flower arranging By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
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or those of us who choose to go to college, we usually call it quits after eight or so semesters. And maybe some of us voluntarily take on at least a few more for a post-graduate degree. But 46 semesters, for the vast majority of us, is just simply too many. Yet, that’s how many educational cycles Lois
Harr has called Manhattan College home. She’s not a student, of course. In fact, Harr received her undergraduate degree at Manhattan’s crosstown rival, Fordham University. But for more than 20 years, Harr has been instrumental in the development of Manhattan’s campus ministry office. And now, she’s retiring. But then again, this is Lois Harr. And the college can’t get rid of her that easily. In fact, she still plans to teach a class or two as she transitions out of her role as the college’s campus ministry and social action director. “I feel like (leaving) would be really cold turkey otherwise,” Harr said. “But this way, at least for now, I’m kind of weaning myself off of it.” Manhattan College has been her home for LOIS HARR, page A4
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For many years, Lois Harr’s name has been synonymous with Manhattan College. But even prior to working there, she’d experienced a lifetime of Catholic social teaching, including at Manhattan’s bitter crosstown rival, Fordham University.
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Thief finds power tool treasure trove Construction sites are usually an eyesore and an annoyance to the neighbors living around them. But for burglars, they can be a goldmine for premium construction tools. That likely was the thought process of one perp anyway who burglarized a construction site at 5278 Post Road sometime between 4:30 p.m., on July 2 and 7 p.m., on July 6. A worker from the Stagg Group, which operates the site, told police they had closed up for the weekend only to return Monday to find several tools had been stolen. The burglar’s bounty included two Hilti drill batteries, two SDS-Max Bosch drills, two level lasers, one SDS-Plus Bosch drill, two circular saws, and assorted other tools. Police valued the loot at $5,960.
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Many of us have been stuck in traffic before, or faced more than a few bus or train delays on commutes to and from work. But what if what stood between you and getting home from work was chest-high floodwater? That was the case for one unfortunate 1 train rider, captured in a video that went viral earlier this month, who chose to wade through floodwater at the West 157th Street station to get through the subway gates. And, unfortunately, she wasn’t the only person who had to make such a decision that day. Several of the city’s underground subway stations were damaged during flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall July 8. And although this area’s subway stations are largely above ground, the 1 train’s underground stations in Manhattan clearly weren’t immune from flooding. Photographs and videos of the flooding ran rampant over social media. And one of the people who saw them — and found them upsetting — was state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi. “It was honestly devastating to see,” Biaggi said. “What was even more devastating was seeing how low-income and Black and brown communities were disproportionately affected, with areas in upper Manhattan and the Bronx being hit the hardest by this flooding. Which was clearly not a coincidence.” The MTA’s underground stations do have pumps and other infrastructure to help deal with rain water, according to Danny Pearlstein, the
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Flooding has unfortunately become more common in underground subway stations as the years pass. And some activists are calling upon state and federal lawmakers for additional money to make sure that when the rain does fall, New York City’s subway system doesn’t fall along with it. communications officer from the Riders Alliance transportation advocacy group. But there’s not much that can be done during intense rainfall such as the storm earlier this month. “It’s only these really intense rain events that kind of overwhelm those pumps,” Pearlstein said. “The MTA has — to its credit — since (Hurricane) Sandy embarked on a program to fortify the system against intense rain events like the one we just had. But the work is time-consuming. It’s expensive. And they need state and federal resources to do the work.” Hurricane Sandy may have put
some pep in the MTA’s step when it came to managing intense rainfall. But clearly, it wasn’t enough, as several stations were overwhelmed with flooding. Biaggi believes that until the MTA receives more state and federal aid, this flooding will not only continue, but become more frequent. “This instance should serve as a wake-up call,” the senator said. “Such flooding is not normal, and as climate change continues to cause an increase in sea levels, such instances will become more and more common. We need to do more to combat climate change and build greener infrastruc-
ture to mitigate the effects of it — both on a state and federal level.” So what might this state and federal aid look like? No substantial laws addressing climate change were passed during the previous legislative session, Biaggi said. But she’s hopeful the MTA will continue to address issues like intense rainfall and subsequent flooding with the money it received following the devastating storm destruction of nearly a decade ago. “Although the MTA had originally committed $7.7 billion to address the issues raised following Hurricane Sandy, it has only spent $2.6 billion thus
far,” Biaggi said, “The MTA should continue to invest in resilient and green infrastructure, and put climate change at the top of its agenda.” But Pearlstein doesn’t believe the onus should be entirely on the MTA. After all, there’s only so much the organization can do with the money it already has. To him, more state and federal lawmakers need to invest in the MTA’s efforts to combat flooding in the face of climate change. The MTA is currently unfolding its capital program, Pearlstein said, in which the authority plans to take on $10 billion in new debt. But that was at a time the state agency was experiencing higher revenue versus lower debt — something that’s not necessarily the case right now. But Pearlstein doesn’t believe that means all hope is lost for greener infrastructure and better flood control, especially if the feds are willing to take up some of the MTA’s $51 billion capital program cost. “We have asked Sen. (Chuck) Schumer to take the lead and see that they get $20 billion in federal aid to the capital program,” Pearlstein said. “That may not entirely solve the flooding situation, but it’s necessary to keep the MTA on track to fortify the system against floods.” Fortifying the city’s subway system against both flooding and the effects of climate change comes with a hefty price tag, however. But with both as an immediate reality for those who rely on the subway to get to and from place to place, Biaggi believes it’s a financial undertaking that needs to be made. “We shouldn’t have to wait for the next big storm to make these investments in our transit system,” the senator said. “There will always be another storm. And unless we are properly prepared, there will only be more devastation.”
PRESS POINTS Money available for community solar While advances in solar technology has made installing such equipment a little more affordable for many, there are still a large number of communities were access to such energy sources is almost unheard of. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he’s making $52.5 million available through the state’s Energy Research and Development Authority that could help up to 50,000 low- to moderate-income
households harness the power of the sun. Cuomo is calling it his “Inclusive Community Solar Adder” program, and he believes it could help disadvantaged communities save on utility bills by providing access to clean, renewable energy. State officials say utility bill savings could be at least 10 percent, and could make operating affordable communities even more inexpensive. This program is part of Cuomo’s long-running NY-Sun
By Michael hinMan initiative that has committed $30 million for projects directly benefiting environmental justice and disadvantaged communities, according to a release. Many of those projects are expected to come online by 2023.
Man forces way into two apartments Police are looking for a man they say invaded a pair of homes near Van Cortlandt Park and Kingsbridge last week, taking off with everything from
jewelry to a bicycle. An 89-year-old man living near the park said someone knocked on his door just after 10 a.m., on July 16, only to find someone on the other side of the door pushing his way inside. The invader took the jewelry and the bike, and then walked back out the door. A few hours later, police say the same man knocked on an apartment door near West 232nd Street and Tibbett Avenue. When the 42-year-old woman who lives there an-
swered, the man pushed his way inside again, this time brandishing a weapon. He reportedly forced the woman to give him $150 in cash before taking off once again. Investigators from the 50th Precinct didn’t provide a description of the man, but did release a surveillance video of what they believe is him riding an elevator with the bicycle and with what also appears to be a woman’s purse in his hand. Anyone with any information is asked to call the New
York Police Department’s CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-8477, or visit NYPDCrimeStoppers.com.
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Harr will leave a legacy of goodwill in wake of retiring
Looking for a ride? New app supports drivers CO-OP RIDE from page A1 Lewis said. “Immigrants come here, they drive taxis, their children go to school, (and) they do better in the next generation. But since 2011, the tables have particularly turned on immigrants.” It was 2011 when ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft first appeared on the market. Their arrival, Lewis said, made it more difficult for lower-income and immigrant residents to make a decent living, mainly because they’re owned by larger, third-party corporations that aren’t too keen about sharing revenue. “The driver is constantly working, is doing 20 to 30 trips a day,” Lewis said. “The insurance rises. The possibility of getting into accidents rises. So if you drive in New York as a (ride-hail) driver, you will have points on your license. And all of these costs are borne by the driver. And so you have a situation where people are literally having negative returns.” Those working conditions negatively impact the ride-hailing industry, Lewis said — not to mention the drastic decline of people using the services during the peaks of the coronavirus pandemic. And that had consequences for the drivers like rising debt versus declining income, which he claims led to some drivers even committing suicide. Co-op Ride aims to circumvent potential exploitation by having its drivers also serve as company stakeholders and owners. And it seems to be a popular idea, as some 2,500 drivers signed up to be a part of the service when it launched in May. “Driver ownership will give drivers a voice,” Lewis said. “They will be able to elect their own board. They will be able to elect their managers. They will have a certain amount of rights.” Lewis hopes those looking to be picked up will support Co-op Ride because it’s similar to a service like Uber or Lyft, but it treats its drivers right. “What stands between money in drivers’ pockets and things going to Silicon Valley is an app,” Lewis said. “So if drivers could organize this app, they could basically charge themselves lower than the 20
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ride-hailing services like Uber and lyft have become a part of the city’s transportation landscape. But a new service — called Co-op ride — hopes to circumvent these giants’ alleged exploitative business practices by having their company owned and operated by its drivers. to 40 percent overcharges. And, in addition, if there are any profits left over — after administrative expenses — this will go back to drivers.” Co-op Ride appears to mimic the operation of services like Uber and Lyft, in which customers use an app to call a car to their location. Coding an app like that might seem complicated, but one of Lewis’ colleagues in creating Co-op Ride once said “his cat could write this app.” But making Co-op Ride a reality wasn’t just a solo effort for Lewis. The co-op also received assistance from organizations like Shared Capital Cooperative, where loan officer Mark Fick says organizations like Co-op Ride are just the kind of projects the Minnesota group likes to fund. “We really saw that the drivers were truly in control of this co-operative,” Fick said. “The way they were in development — and as they’ve launched the business — it really was the drivers that were helping to create the policies and procedures and priorities of the co-operative. We saw that, and we saw real democracy happening in the planning and execution of this business.”
Having a co-op model for a ride-hailing service might be pretty new, but it’s an interesting idea to Deb Travis. The new chair of Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee believes a service like Co-op Ride could potentially benefit this neighborhood in more ways than one. “Thinking specifically of our community board, there are definitely areas where there is a lack of regular bus service, or it’s difficult due to hills and winding roads to get to a bus,” Travis said. “I think a rideshare is a really good alternative for seniors — instead of owning a car — for doctor’s appointments and things like that.” That being said, Travis still has a few concerns about the new service. While she likes to see worker co-ops, she did plot a potential trip on Co-op Ride and found issues with the price and worries about more cars on the street potentially causing congestion. “I’m hopeful that they’ll continue to try and solve that problem of not having too many people driving around, trying to find rides,” Travis said. “And it was kind of expensive. So I assume that’s just a bump of getting started. I hope. But, we’ll see.”
Homebuyers aren’t fleeing, they’re moving in HOME SALES from page A1 In fact, some — like Community Board 8 land use chair Charles Moerdler — believes there are still some difficult days ahead when it comes to real estate, especially in the Bronx. It’s not just something he bases on volume of sales, but on who exactly is leaving, and what it could mean for revenue to the city government. “My guess is — and this is purely a guess — that there will be a meaningful percentage of the individual tax base — and that means people who are earning true middle-income numbers and above — who will relocate,” Moerdler said. “And if that is so, what’s the impact in that?” And the pandemic isn’t the only villain in all of this, Moerdler says. “Tied into that same issue is the general assumption that there will be significantly increased New York Citybased taxes in one form or another in order to pay for a variety of things,” Moerdler said. Instead, those tax revenues are heading to other neighboring states. According to the National Association of Realtors, more than half the people who left New York at the height of the pandemic moved to New Jersey. About 12 percent of them moved to Connecticut. It’s the kind of mass exit not seen in New York since Sept. 11, 2001, Moerdler said. “A vast proportion of the population in the lower Manhattan area that could afford to do so left the area.” And while many of them may have settled in the greater Riverdale area, many more settled outside of New York City, he added. While some initial reports suggest dips in home valuations east of the Jerome Park Reservoir, Trebach hasn’t experienced much of any of that more locally. In fact, the current buying frenzy that completely reversed what hppened a year ago has benefitted even some of the harder-to-sell properties in many real estate agents’ portfolios. “Any house that hits the market and is priced properly should sell,” Trebach said. “Houses at the very top of the market — some of which have been sitting around for a while — have all sold now.” That includes even some bigger-
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how hot is the housing market? Even investors are looking to step in and flip houses, as evidenced by this sign proclaiming ‘we buy houses’ posted on a pool near the intersection of West 261st street and spencer avenue. ticket homes. Like a condominium unit at 4433 Douglas Ave., that closed for $1.2 million, according to city property records. In fact, there were 145 closed sales in May in the Bronx, according to the New York State Association of Realtors, compared to 120 during the same time in 2019 before the pandemic. Median sales prices are climbing as well from $329,500 to $364,900. New buyers typically have an affinity for properties that are freshly built or recently renovated, Trebach said. However, because demand is so high, buyers are willing to settle for anything good they can move into now. “Because of the pandemic, materials are on back order,” Trebach said. “This is usually a first preference, but we also have buyers who are willing to purchase the right home and renovate later.” While co-ops and condos have made up some of the sales locally, Trebach believes more of her clients prefer freestanding, detached homes with plenty of outdoor space. “It’s all relative so long as the buyers are able to purchase a space that is larger than what they currently have,” Trebach said. But the pandemic has created one new boom: “Everyone is looking for a home office — and in some cases, two home offices.” There is even a term coined for this preference, “Zoom rooms,” Trebach
said, named after the online videoconferencing app many depended on during the pandemic to stay connected to work, family and friends. Those “Zoom rooms” will certainly make a dent on the commercial side of real estate, Moerdler warns, as more and more people opt to continue working from home. But even that could have long-lasting effects on the residential side as well, because if people don’t need to live close to a downtown Manhattan job, they’re not going to feel compelled to live somewhere that is markedly more expensive than suburban or rural areas a little further away. “If I know that I’m going to be spending an extra $20,000 to $50,000 a year on an aggregation of New York City-based taxes and my income does not solely derive on the City of New York,” Moerdler said, “I can save $20,000 to $50,000 by buying a house in Yonkers, or in Poughkeepsie, or in Florida.” If city officials are concerned about a tax base drain in the near future, they aren’t showing it. Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city council recently passed a $99 billion budget — the largest in city history. Paying for that budget might be hard, Moerdler said, because it could ultimately come in the form of higher taxes across the board. “We can’t chase out people who pay
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Portion of $99B budget came from federal relief CITY BUDGET from page A1 The council is trying to alleviate some of that pain through this massive budget. Nearly $16 billion of it was funded directly by federal pandemic aid packages like the American Rescue Plan, according to published reports. All this extra cash allowed the city to finally focus on spending instead of saving — putting money into long-neglected areas like education. “That includes money for a social worker in every school,” Dinowitz said. “And includes money to reduce class sizes. That includes money for an equity curriculum. (A) literacy curriculum to help students read at grade level. Mental health support in our schools. Significant investment in our children, which is very important to me and important to the future of our city.” This large investment in education is meant to offset some of the hardships students and teachers have suf-
fered because of the pandemic, which has kept many at least partially out of the classroom for the past year. However, Dinowitz is most excited about the investment in school mental health programs, like making sure every school has a full-time social worker and that each student has access to a mental health screening upon returning to inperson classes this fall. “Something that I’ve spoken about and advocated for, for a long time — even before the pandemic — was a need for our children to have social, emotional, and mental health support in and out of the classroom,” Dinowitz said. “And this budget not only fills the need brought on by the pandemic, but helps fill a need that existed before the pandemic.” In addition to the $4 billion for schools, Dinowitz said the budget includes large investments in capital projects, parks and the city social services
department. Plus, money for building green infrastructure and funding for senior centers. All of which, he said, will help people in this corner of the Bronx. The New York Police Department also received a $200 million funding increase, standing in stark contrast to the council’s move to cut $1 billion from the NYPD’s roughly $6 billion budget last year in the wake of national racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer. The NYPD funding increase comes amid a rise in shootings and murders this year across the city. Much of the new money allocated to the NYPD is earmarked for overtime and technology upgrades. Dinowitz positioned himself against cutting funding for the NYPD during his consecutive city council campaigns. But when asked about his position on this latest increase in funding, Dinowitz
chose not to answer, instead pointing again to other parts of the budget that he approved of. “You know, when you vote for a budget, you vote for or against the budget,” Dinowitz said. “I voted for a budget that provided significant increases to social services, significant increases to mental health, support to our children, to our parks.” Now that the budget process is over for this year, Dinowitz says he’ll return to advocating for his district, especially when it comes to recovery from the last 18 months or so. “There’s still pain and a lot of work to do to recover from the pandemic,” Dinowitz said. “What I’ve been doing in City Hall, is making sure — whether it’s in committee meetings, whether it’s with city agencies — is making sure that the north Bronx has a voice in that recovery, (and) has an advocate in that recovery.”
LOIS HARR from page A1 more than 20 years, but Harr is also a lifelong Bronxite. And she classifies her childhood growing up in the borough as formative in her desire to promote social justice and fairness for her entire life. “I suppose I believe this stuff they taught me as a kid,” Harr said. “I believe the stuff in catechism class about justice, and equality, and God loves everybody. And I believe the stuff they taught me in civics class … equality, and justice, and fairness under the law.” It was at Fordham Harr was introduced to the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition — which is now one of Manhattan College’s frequent partners for its community-based learning programs. And it was the clergy coalition that gave Harr her first job out of college. lois She spent several harr years as a community organizer with the group before transitioning to a part-time job at her local Catholic parish once she had children. But then Harr met Stephen Kaplan, a longtime religious studies professor at Manhattan College, and the two worked together to secure one floor of the college’s academic buildings to host a middle school. It was around that same time Kaplan informed her there was an opening in the college’s campus ministry and social action office. And while “campus ministry and social action” sounded like the perfect intersection of Harr’s interests, she found the idea of a new role daunting. For one, being considered for the position involved a job interview. And as someone who’d largely done community-based work, Harr had never done any interview like that before. “Coming here was a little more formal,” Harr said. “But (former campus minister) Brother Dennis Lee did say to me … after I got the job, ‘Now, you understand this is not a 9-to-5 job?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s OK. I’ve never had one.’” Harr expected most of the work she encountered in her newfound position. But there were some roles she just lucked into. For example, some students wanted to create the precursor to the college’s current Black Student Union — known as the Association for Black Culture, or simply ABC. And Harr, as an Irish-American, was taken somewhat aback when two students approached her to be its adviser. “I said, ‘Well, sure, but maybe a Black person should be your adviser?’” Harr said. “They said to me, ‘That’s OK. We don’t need anybody to teach us what it means to be Black. We just need somebody to help us get things done.’” But the role gave Harr an opportunity to connect with the college’s students — something she said was both her favorite part of her job and the part she will miss the most in her retirement. After all, Harr is certainly one of the more social people on the college’s campus, and enjoys the connections she makes not only with students, but with her fellow campus ministry staffers — and even people down the hall from her office. “I always tried to do my share, so I bring in K-cups or a little creamer or something in,” Harr said. “I would use the new coffee machine and just have a little chat.” Harr has three items on her retirement to-do list. First, she plans to continue teaching at the college for at least a while longer. She also plans to visit Laredo, Texas, soon to assist with outreach to migrants at the country’s southern border. She also plans to take time for herself while staying busy and finding a creative outlet. And to Harr, the perfect intersection of those desires might be in something as simple as a flower-arranging class. She might have spent most of her recent memory at a Lasallian Catholic college, but one of the principles about finding one’s vocation — or true calling — guiding Harr actually came from the Jesuits. It’s something she has always kept at the forefront of her mind, and won’t change simply because she’s retiring. “They say, ‘What’s your true vocation?’” Harr said. “’Can you do something? Are you good at it? And does the world need you to do it?’”
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Bowman to Biden: Support Green New Deal for schools n The $1.43 trillion plan would retrofit some of the highest-need schools By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
Putting the words “Green New Deal” together doesn’t quite invoke political unity as one might suspect. Even within the Democratic Party. But supporters of the federal measure — led by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — continue to not only push forward on bringing the environmental package to every doorstep in the country, but now it’s expanding as well, with a little help from another member of “The Squad,” U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. The former educator stood in front of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Edenwald last week to unveil his Green New Deal for Public Schools Act. The massive $1.43 trillion proposal already has the support of more than 30 other lawmakers, intended to create more than 1.3 million jobs over the next 10 years while removing an amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere Bowman says is the equivalent of the exhaust from 17 million cars. “Our kids are curious,” Bowman said. “Our kids our collaborative. They are cooperative. They are creative. And they are ready, willing and able to solve the problems in their own community, and solve the problems of the world. So we must invest in them to ensure that they have the resources they need to solve those problems.” Bowman has earmarked a large chunk of his Green New Deal bill — $446 billion — on climate capital facilities grants, intended to fully fund green retrofits for the highest-need schools through a mix of grand funding and no- or low-interest loans.
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U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman introduced what he’s calling the Green New Deal for Public Schools in front of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Edenwald last week, getting in-person support from a range of elected officials from state Sen. Jamaal Bailey to schools chancellor Meisha Porter and even Mayor Bill de Blasio. Bowman Another $250 billion would be dedicated to block grants intended to fund staffing increases, expand social service programming and develop curriculum at high-need schools. Money there also could be used for what Bowman describes as the “whole child” approach to public education by serving all their needs both inside and outside the classroom. “Schools are second homes for
our children, and they need to reflect that,” schools chancellor Meisha Porter said. “So this is a vital investment to protect our schools and recognize the threat of climate culture. This is just building on — like Congressman Bowman said — the initiatives that we already started to build on.” One way New York City schools could use such federal funding is to fulfill Porter’s goal of making its school
bus fleet fully electric by 2035, she said. The biggest expenditure in Bowman’s proposal would quadruple school district funding to help students living in poverty. That would bring such funding to above $66 billion a year, while also boosting money for students with disabilities to $33 billion. Although he backs a number of environmental initiatives, President
Biden has said in the past he doesn’t support the Green New Deal. So even if Bowman gets this package through both the U.S. House and the Senate, it might find significant barriers earning the president’s signature. Bowman, however, isn’t worried. “The president supports green infrastructure, and he realizes we have to invest a lot of money in transformative change with regard to our infrastructure,” Bowman said. “So maybe a while ago he said he can’t support the Green New Deal in and of itself, but he definitely supports green infrastructure, and he supports the equity component of that.” Already a Green New Deal supporter, Mayor Bill de Blasio also found his way to the Bronx last week, declaring Bowman’s plan would “transform the United States of America.” “This is what we have been waiting for,” de Blasio said. “The kind of change on a national level that would reach every child. Remember way back when they said ‘leave no child behind,’ and then they proceeded to leave a lot of kids behind? Jamaal Bowman is talking about actually bringing every child with us to a better future.” No Republicans have signed onto Bowman’s bill, but he is getting support from some of his New York colleagues outside of The Squad including Adriano Espaillat, Carolyn Maloney, Grace Meng, Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velazquez, Yvette Clark and Thomas Suozzi. “We have to be very honest with ourselves,” Bowman said. “Our public schools were designed 100 years ago to respond to the industrial revolution. To prepare kids to work on assembly lines and jobs for the 19th century. “We are in the 21st century, and we have to prepare our kids to solve the problems of the 21st and 22nd centuries — problems that are rooted in environmental justice, economic justice and racial justice.”
POLITICAL ARENA Yet another try for utility advocate Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz dreams of a day when New York might finally have a utility consumer advocate. Yet despite the fact the Assembly has passed the lawmaker’s bill for the sixth time in nearly a decade, Dinowitz is now waiting for the bill to make its way once again to the governor’s desk. “There is no question that
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the playing field is incredibly unbalanced toward corporate utility companies when it comes to the provisions of essential public utilities,” Dinowitz said, in a release. “These multi-billion-dollar corporations are able to access high-powered and expensive resources to advocate on their own behalf, but there is not a countervailing influence that acts on behalf of regular, working people.” The closest Dinowitz has
come to having the consumer advocate bill become law was in 2019. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo rejected it, according to Dinowitz’s office, saying the state’s public service department was already doing exactly what the Assemblyman was looking for. “I understand that Gov. Cuomo has thought this legislation to be redundant in years past, but I am hopeful that he has thought hard about the is-
sue, and has reconsidered his position,” Dinowitz said. “I urge Gov. Cuomo to finally give New Yorkers the voice we deserve in the regulatory process of public utilities.” The senate passed its version of the bill in May before getting the thumbs up from the Assembly about two weeks later. Dinowitz first introduced the idea of a utility consumer advocate in 2013 that was passed by
his colleagues during that session, and again in the 2015-16 session, only to be stalled in the Republican-controlled senate. It didn’t move far in the 201718 session, but did make it to Cuomo in 2019 after Democrats took over both chambers. The idea was to create an independent state agency that would represent utility consumers — something Dinowitz says is available in more than 40 other states as well as the District
of Columbia. Such an advocate would appear on behalf of consumers for all state and federal regulatory proceedings as well as judicial reviews, according to a staff memo attached to the Assembly bill. While New York does have the Public Service Commission and the Utility Intervention Unit within the state department, neither can act solely on behalf of consumers.
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Finding yesterday, today and tomorrow n A popular art magazine, Nueva Luz, features photos from En Foco’s latest exhibit
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Longtime Riverdale resident Marc Attar — father to Michael and Alan Attar — died peacefully in his sleep on July 14, 2021. He was 88. He was born March 5, 1933, in Marrakesh, Morocco. As a young man, he and his entire family emigrated from Morocco to Israel. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he took his bride Nina and two sons and immigrated to New York City. He got a job within days, even though he did not speak English. He received a degree from New York University that allowed him to become an assistant pharmacist, and worked at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx for many years. In 1976, he saw an opportunity and opened a large health food store in Riverdale named Hazelnut Health & Diet Foods. marc The business was very successful, and he retired attar in 1994. He was a tireless provider for his family and loved to garden, read, and dabble in real estate. He knew the God of the Bible, and his family is comforted to know that he is in heaven.
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ill Aguado knows the Bronx needs art — the kind that keeps diversity alive. That’s why he volunteers as the executive director of En Foco. His non-profit produces a biannual magazine, Nueva Luz, with its latest edition featuring photographic work from the recently closed exhibit “In Between Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” But as far as Aguado is concerned, that artwork should be available for viewing for much, much longer. “What’s important is that we have a record of (the photos) so it’s never forgotten,” said Aguado, who hails from Riverdale. “How many cultural organizations have gone out of business, or artists who have passed on, and no one remembers them and has no record of their history?” For this particular exhibit — which spent all of June at the WallWorks gallery in Mott Haven — each artist had his or her photographs arranged in a spot on the wall accompanied by QR codes. Scanning these codes with a smartphone, the exhibit added a podcast-style recording that allowed each particular artist to explain what their pieces were about. It was like having each of the photographers right there by their side. Amarise Carreras, whose photograph “Para la Doña del Cielo y Mar” or “For the Lady of the Sky and the Sea” was used as the magazine’s cover, said in their recording that the image was based on their culture and upbringing. Carreras uses they/them pronouns. “It’s really just me being transparent of what I know of my history and what I’m learning of my history and how that informs who I am now and who I’ll be in the future,” Carreras said. The front cover of Nueva Luz’s 71st edition featured an image that included crushed cans, a watermelon smashed into a sandy landscape, and religious items. In Carreras’ magazine bio, it described this as part of Santeria, “a practice of Boricua womxn who collect objects that symbolize and represent a great physical or metaphysical form.” The exhibit was part of En Foco’s fellowship program which, according to its website, is open to adults of Latino, African or Asian American heritage, as well as the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Pacific. Aguado emphasized the importance of highlighting the work coming from these cultures and how it impacts both the artistic community and the Bronx.
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all of the artists chosen to be featured in Nueva luz magazine and the fellowship exhibition of ‘in Between Yesterday, today and tomorrow’ are of latino, african or asian american heritage, or are indigenous peoples of the americas and the Pacific. While “In Between” has closed in Mott Haven, its future isn’t limited to just Nueva Luz — especially as it becomes more valued in various college classrooms across the area, Aguado said. In fact, the exhibit is expected to tour some SUNY schools. “There was an associate professor at Williams College that was looking for artists of color whose work represented some sort of spiritual aspect of their lives,” Aguado said. “This professor uses Nueva Luz as a resource for students to learn more about the different cultures that are represented” in the magazine. The exhibit’s curator, Elia Alba, wrote in Nueva Luz about the importance of the work the magazine presents to its readers — especially with this exhibition. “The photographs in this exhibition highlight the experiences of artists whose layered identities leave them shifting between worlds, and who critique the power dynamics inherent in racial essentialisms,” Alba wrote. “These artists are taking the knowledge of the past and the current moment to transform perceptions about cultural interpretations, identities and the future.” The exhibit also included photos ranging from self-portraits, to lit-up bodegas, to those crushed watermelons. Yet each photo needs to be thoroughly examined to notice all of its details. Kim Vaquedano-Rose, who volunteers
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as En Foco’s operations director, says the exhibit’s online presence between social media and internet-based viewings help draw attention to the magazine. At the same time, however, she and Aguado were also pleased with the in-person turnout they had at WallWorks. “This is our first exhibition back since the quarantine,” Vaquedano-Rose said. “We were overwhelmed by the amount of people that attended. I would say we had about 60 to 70 for this particular show.” While exhibits like this are from the Black, Indigenous and people of color community, they are not limited to just BIPOC audiences, Aguado said. There’s a chance for many to see some of their own roots embedded into each of the works. Especially from a more local perspective. “We demand the highest quality and provide opportunities for curators and essayists,” he said. “This is a voice that needs to be heard, and I as a longtime resident of Riverdale, I can feel many voices in Riverdale, and appreciate this type of commentary cultural and artistic commentary that we have.”
Georgette Malik, a life from NASA to the Mets On Sept. 10, 1966, Georgette Jeanne Cullen wed Robert Malik. The two were married for 55 years until Georgette’s passing on July 11, 2021. But that does not tell the entire story. Their relationship began 61 years ago while both were teenagers growing up in Inwood. She was a high school cheerleader, who at 16 was famous for her witty quotes. She once told nuns at the Catholic high school of Saint Alphonsus, when questioned why she was late for class, that the New York City electric subway trains had run out of gas. She had a great sense of humor that carried throughout her entire life. Upon graduation from high school, she worked for the Westin Electric Co., on the NASA space project as part of the team overseeing John Glenn’s achievement to orbit the Earth. After leaving the space program, she worked for the law firm of William Shea. This accomplishment led to the New York georgette Mets being created in New York City, and further malik led to the building and naming of Shea Stadium. She had the privilege of traveling to Japan, representing Lincoln National Corp., steering the America’s Cup sailboat in 1996. She also helped arrange the famous three tenors — Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras — in support of the Cleveland Opera, and the honor of having dinner with Pavarotti. Her greatest joy was her two children, Robert and Lisa, and her three grandchildren — Emma, Lexi and Blake — and in support for her best friend: her husband. She was a fierce supporter for those who couldn’t defend themselves. She disliked discrimination, and believed everyone was created the same. She demonstrated her beliefs by helping to support candidates that shared her vision. Throughout her children’s high school years, she always made room in her home for teenagers who were having family conflicts. Her smile, her laugh and her wisdom will forever be missed. While lung cancer took her life, her memory will not be forgotten.
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Virtual music collective goes live at Christ Church n After a year performing online, it’s time to see them in front of an audience By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
The coronavirus pandemic will likely be remembered for how much it isolated people from one another. At the same time, however, it may also be seen as a period that helped many new communities come together. One of those communities is a live music performance collective called Home Remedy, which was started right here in this corner of the Bronx by Jarrett Murphy — the former editor of the online City Limits news outlet. Murphy, who’s played music since he was in high school, launched Home Remedy when the pandemic first hit the city in March 2020. It was a way to keep live music going even when everyone was on lockdown, gathering musicians to play on Facebook Live for an audience stuck in their homes. Murphy filled up his virtual stage with other acts he’d met from organizing the local Make Music New York event — part of a citywide concert series that takes place every summer solstice — in Fort Independence Park a couple years ago. “When the world started shutting down, it seemed kind of scary (and) isolating,” Murphy said. “And I thought that it would be cool to try to play some music together. Despite the fact that we didn’t regularly play together, we did it once a year. And despite the fact that we couldn’t do it in person.” The Home Remedy concerts took
place every Thursday between late March 2020 until June 21. It started with five to six acts before expanding to about a dozen. Performers would play for 20 minutes — mostly by themselves, Jarrett said. But some figured out ways to play together simultaneously from different locations. Mitchel Sobel, a Riverdale resident who participated in Home Remedy, says it really allowed a local music community to flourish online. “Over the last year, it was a way to have all the musicians get out there and put their music out there, and then kind of develop this wider community a little bit more,” Sobel said. But now that the pandemic is dying down and people are emerging from their homes, Sobel and a group of other Home Remedy performers have decided to take the online music community they formed out into the real world. They’ve formed Community Music Social, a group that aims to bring local musicians together to play more live music in the area. The group’s name was inspired by the fact they came together over social media, Sobel said. Their first event will be an afternoon outdoor concert this Saturday on the lawn of Christ Church Riverdale at 5040 Henry Hudson Parkway E. Holding an outdoor concert like this is important, Sobel said, because its more open and accessible to the community than indoor shows at venues like An Beal Bocht Café. “Rather than just having music at a bar, (we’re making) it a little bit more accessible and a little bit more open,” Sobel said. “We have some friends from the church who are open to letting us use the outdoor space, so we avoid the time limitations that you get
Jam out on the lawn Do you want to see some live music this weekend? Stop by the Community Music Social concert Saturday, July 24 at 3 p.m., on the lawn of Christ Church Riverdale, 5040 Henry Hudson Parkway E. The organizers are also keeping the event open for musicians who want to drop by and perform as well. — Ethan Stark-Miller HIRAM ALEJANDRO DURÁN
Melanie Scott, Mitchel Sobel and Maggie Greenfield stand outside Christ Church Riverdale on Henry Hudson Parkway East where their group Community Music Social will host a free outdoor concert this weekend. They’re part of a group of local musicians who came together through Home Remedy, who played music online together during the coronavirus pandemic. from the parks department. I think an outdoor space like that might be a little bit more inviting.” Sobel is a member of Christ Church Riverdale himself. In fact, the church is where he met writing partner Melanie Scott and another musician, Maggie Greenfield. Both helped Sobel put Community Music Social together. The trio first came up with the idea after performing live together at last month’s Make Music New York event, which Greenfield organized. “We just had a great time,” Scott said. “It was really the first time that we’d been able to play in front of a live audience in quite some time. And Maggie said, ‘We should do that at least a couple of more times before the summer’s over.’ “So, we’re kind of rushing to get
artists together to just play. It’s not a fundraiser. It’s not a paid concert. We’re not asking for anything from anybody. Just get together, play some music, have some fun.” Still the organizers wouldn’t dissuade anyone from making a donation to the church, Sobel said, which could likely use the funds after the pandemic. Saturday’s show begins at 3 p.m., and as of right now has a lineup of five to six acts. But Scott says they’re still adding to the roster, even encouraging people who haven’t signed up to just stop by and play. “Because we kind of put this together at the last minute, we’re not going to have a ton of musicians,” Scott said. “And if there are any musicians out there who haven’t ‘signed up,’ they’re
WHAT’S ON Enjoy music in the garden Riverdale Neighborhood House, 5521 Mosholu Ave., hosts a free night of music in the garden Thursday, July 29 beginning at 6 p.m. The event features woodfired pizza from the Kingsbridge Social Club, and music from the Paul Carlon Trio. Admission is free.
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hosts a blood drive with New York Blood Center on Sunday, Aug. 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The center is looking for volunteers to help out with the event. Otherwise, those planning to donate should schedule an appointment by calling (800) 933-2566, sponsor code 70486. Anyone with questions can email Stuart Harris at stuarthar@outlook.com.
at the Art of Aid table at The Riverdale Y Sunday Market, 4545 Independence Ave., on July 25 from 10 a.m. to noon. Woolford has provided fresh produce to families who need it most since the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and looks to share the group’s new initiative this summer providing neighborhood youth with educational summer learning. Find out more at RiverdaleY. org.
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The Bronx Summer Concert Series from borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., continues at
The Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave.,
Orchard Beach with acts that include: • Rey de la Paz & Son Del Monte on July 25 • Mambo Legends Orchestra on Aug. 8 • The Nelson Gonzalez All Stars on Aug. 15 • The Dream Team All Stars on Aug. 22 • El Gran Combo on Sept. 5 Concerts begin at 1 p.m., at the beach, located in Pelham Bay Park just off Park Drive.
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welcome to drop by and join us that day. We’re not tied to a sign-up slate.” The concert will have a mix of genres, Sobel said, including bluegrass, folk and rock. Sobel and Scott will perform some original songs, which he says is “acoustic rock in a 1970s style with a bit of a country tinge to it.” Additionally, the musicians will all come together for an extended jam session in the middle of the concert. The music doesn’t stop there. Community Music Social already has another concert planned for international “Make Music on the Porch Day” on Aug. 24. Sobel hopes these two summer concerts will help turn Community Music Social into a more permanent music scene for artists in the area. “So, being able to kind of anchor (the music community), as long as it’s successful, that’s hard to measure,” he said. “But I guess it would be if people who don’t normally get to see this group of people play come, and they get to enjoy it. Then if we could do it with some more regularity, that’d be great.”
whatson@riverdalepress.com tainly watch some very busy Golf your way ones work at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center’s into history community garden tours. Available by appointment, it’s a chance to get up close and personal with the queens and her worker bees at the 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace facility. You can learn amazing bee facts from the neighborhood beekeeper, and maybe even get a chance to extract some honey from the hives. Cost to RSVP is $25, and tour attendees receive a 5.5-ounce jar of honey. To register, visit tinyurl. com/KHCCBees.
The Bronx County Historical Society hosts its 20th annual golf tournament Thursday, Sept. 23 at the Pelham Split Rock Golf Course, 870 Shore Road. Honorees include Anna Rickman from Jerome Environmental Services and Steve Zervoudis from Galaxy Contracting Corp. To learn more, contact Teresa Brown at (718) 881-8900, or at tbrown@bronxhistoricalsociety.org. WHAT’S ON, page A9
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What’s on? 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 selfcare products. It takes place the last Sunday of each month through October at 1 Fordham Plaza. To learn more, visit TheBronxNightMarket.com/fordhamflea.
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 exhibit features works that are actually best viewed on Bronx Press 5.375 X 5.25
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EDITORIAL
Beginning of end for JCOPE
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t’s called the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, designed to keep elected officials — and those who work for them — focused on serving their constituents, and not themselves. Created a decade ago during a time when corruption plagued huge chunks of our state government, JCOPE was established to be the answer. Instead, we got nothing more than a broken system that has made little difference when it actually comes to upholding integrity standards among those we entrust with leadership. And that’s why it has to go. How ineffective is JCOPE? Just ask Erica Vladimer. If you remember, the former legislative aide accused then-State Sen. Jeff Klein with forcibly kissing her outside of an Albany tavern in 2015. Klein denied it, but his political opponent — Alessandra Biaggi — immediately demanded a JCOPE investigation. Klein did, too. Yet, three years later, Biaggi is serving her second term in the senate, and Klein not only hasn’t had his investigation completed, but he sued earlier this year to try and stop it, claiming because he was out of public office, JCOPE no longer had jurisdiction. “I actually don’t believe that the essence and the spirit of JCOPE in its creation was actually set up in a way to succeed,” Biaggi told reporter Karen DeWitt. “I think that JCOPE was set up in a way to fail.”
The only way to fix JCOPE, however, is to shut it down, and find something new to put in its place. The New York City Bar Association, which conducted an extensive investigation of JCOPE last February, says it wants to see a state government integrity commission. Some lawmakers like Biaggi and Manhattan senator Liz Krueger agree. They introduced a bill last January that would begin the process to amend the state constitution. Doing that required not only passing it this session in both chambers, but next session as well before it would become a state referendum decided by voters. But JCOPE reform already has sputtered out the gate, not making it out of committee in either the senate or the Assembly this year, meaning they must work even harder to get it approved in 2022. If they don’t, it could add years to the process, ensuring any elected leaders or staff members not acting on the up and up won’t lose much sleep about an ethics investigation. Biaggi isn’t giving up, however. She looks to host hearings this summer, with the hopes of having Krueger’s bill and the Assembly companion in the forefront of lawmakers’ minds. The legislature can’t ignore this. JCOPE has been allowed to languish for far too long. People like Vladimer and many others deserve to be heard in a forum they can trust will actually take action when action is needed.
POINT OF VIEW
Supreme Court in name only
By MICHAEL GOLD
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he current U.S. Supreme Court is a partisan political operation which relentlessly advances the goals of the Republican Party to suppress minority votes and boost the biggest corporations’ financial interests over ordinary citizens of our multi-cultural democracy. This needs to be said plainly over and over again: We cannot trust the Supreme Court to be an impartial referee in our nation’s disputes. Three of our current Supreme Court justices — all Republicans — worked on the most successful voter suppression effort in American history. John Roberts — our chief justice — Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh were all attorneys for George W. Bush’s legal team that stopped the recount in Florida in 2000 when just 537 votes separated Bush from Gore’s totals. The effect of their efforts was that the Supreme Court — in a 5-4 decision — told Florida to shut down its recount, giving its Electoral votes to Bush and awarding him a victory in the Electoral College that year. Al Gore had beaten Bush in the popular vote by more than 400,000. Think about that for a minute. Let that sink in. We have three justices who are, in effect, partisan political hacks sitting on the nation’s highest court, making decisions of the highest import in how government regulates our lives. So perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that the court, once again, eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in a late June decision, which helped protect minorities’ right to vote. It’s still gut-wrenching to see the justices plunge their knives in the fragile heart of our democracy. The Republican court, in another 5-4 decision, voted to destroy another section of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. They voted to allow very wealthy anonymous donors and corporations to spend gazillions of dollars to influence elections in 2010 in the Citizens United case. Clarence Thomas, who has sat on the court since 1991 despite credible allegations of sexual harassment of a female colleague — and his own record of mediocre legal accomplishment — is married to a woman who works tirelessly on conservative Republican causes. In 2019, she started a political action committee to “protect” President Trump. On her Facebook page, she celebrated the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol to overturn the election of Joe Biden — an act of violent treason against the government — before she found out the rioters had turned violent. She posted, “Love MAGA people!” and “God bless each of you standing up and praying.” She has helped spread lies the Democrats stole the 2018 midterm elections, and claimed the Parkland students — who survived a massacre at their school in 2018 which killed 17 people — were “dangerous to the survival of our nation” because of their gun control advocacy.
She also claimed the Democrats control the media, corporations and Hollywood — a sustained burst of paranoid thinking suitable to fascists. Also, she has said that Black Lives Matter protesters are radical extremists who hate America. I would like to know what Clarence Thomas talks about with his wife when they come home from work. Justice Thomas supposedly works for the American people as a whole, not a single party. Yet his wife spends her days working to advance extreme Republican positions, fighting against protection from gun violence, as well as against reproductive choice and LGBTQ rights, among other conservative issues. The justice’s wife once stated, “We all have guns and concealed carry to handle what’s coming.” So apparently she’s preparing for an apocalyptic shooting war between conservatives and progressives. This woman is married to an associate justice of the Supreme Court. This represents a conflict of interest as big as the United States itself. Justice Samuel Alito — nominated for the court by George W. Bush — argued in the Citizens United case that corporations should have the same free speech rights as individuals and the media. And, in Alito’s rendering, money is speech. This is a ridiculous argument. The more money you have, the more speech you get. Exxon Mobil has a bullhorn the size of Texas. Alito also has argued that COVID-19 restrictions limited individual liberty, and taken swipes at gay marriage and contraception. Finally, another popular vote loser — Donald Trump — was able to appoint three conservative justices to the court in four years, with the considerable aid of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell prevented Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee to the court in 2016, from ever reaching the Senate floor. We got Neil Gorsuch instead, who’s not exactly a moderate. Then, McConnell got Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the court one week before our last presidential election. McConnell’s blatant and cynical manipulation of the system confirms the partisan nature of the court today. American taxpayers pay the justice’s salaries, health insurance and pensions. We’re paying these so-called unbiased umpires to, in effect, destroy the vision of the Pledge of Allegiance’s phrase, “liberty and justice for all.” The Republican justices dress up their attacks on our democracy with all sorts of legal mumbo jumbo that most people don’t understand. The end result is the same. We’re looking down the barrel of a rigged Supreme Court that I, as an ordinary citizen, do not trust to help the nation survive and thrive.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Election laws must change
To the editor: New York City is the laughingstock of our country because of the elections board’s repeated bungling. Well-publicized examples include the thousands of incorrect absentee ballots sent to Brooklyn voters last year, and the inclusion of test ballots in the preliminary ranked-choice count in the June primary. There is a solution to the problem: Change the state constitution so that the state and city elections are no longer run by bipartisan elections boards. Right now, Democratic and Republican party chairs choose an equal number of state and local commissioners, and virtually all staff jobs are duplicated because these Democratic and Republican party bosses choose an equal number of staffers. According to The New York Times, New York is the only state in the country like this. The current system is all about power and patronage: New York state’s political parties, and the elected officials supported by them, don’t want to give up their power and the patronage jobs they control. We should not have political parties running our elections, and we should not have staffers who owe their jobs to political patronage supervising our elections. New York deserves better! We support having an elected or appointed secretary of state to supervise elections at the state level, and a mayoral agency head appointment for the city. This has worked well in other states, and will provide for the accountability which is sorely lacking with the current elections board. It is important, too, that the staff members supervising elections be civil servants free from any political pressure, and that hiring be based on “what you know,” not on “who you know.”
There are plenty of people in our country with expertise in election administration, and they can be recruited to these non-partisan jobs. Qualifications can be set forth in the legislation enacted by Albany. Some say that agencies headed by appointees of an elected official would be just as problematic as the elections board. But, in fact, we saw from the 2020 federal election that most states — no matter whether the election process was supervised by Republican officials, Democratic officials, or non-partisan boards — conducted fair and timely elections. And in New York City, we have seen mayors appoint excellent commissioners of, for example, health, housing or investigation — agencies which require substantial expertise. Administering elections demands an equal level of expertise and fairness. Amending the state constitution to eliminate the dysfunctional bipartisan elections board will take time. The state legislature needs to pass the amendment in 2022 and 2023, and then have the amendment placed on the ballot. But, as we reflect on our democracy — threatened, as it is, on so many fronts — is there anything more important than fair elections? Please call Gov. Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, senate majority leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and our local representatives in Albany — Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi — and tell them that you want this change. Sue ellen DoDell The author writes on behalf of the Riverdale Huddle, including Elizabeth Cooke-Levy, Helen de Pinho, Annemarie Golden, Sarah Hughes, Julie Marcus, Judith Minkoff-Grey, Ruth Mullen, Madeline Ritter and Dale Wolff.
Where did the virus come from? To the editor: It has been common knowledge for years that all major developing countries have possessed the ability to conduct germ warfare. The Wuhan crisis is no exception. Was a virus created in a lab and deliberately leaked into the local wet markets for experimentation on the people of Wuhan? This is totally consistent with China’s poor record on civil rights and its complete lack of
concern for all of the Chinese people. The virus created in Wuhan is by no means a poor reflection on all Asians — especially Asian-Americans. It is simply a reaffirmation of the communist Chinese government’s inhuman disdain for human life. They are the ones to blame. Now we, the American people, are required by our government to get the vaccine without being told what are the shortand long-term side effects. This
is inherently a violation of our civil rights. The one benefactor from the spread of the virus is the environment. Consider how working from home reduces the amount of carbon emissions caused by the automobile. Joe Bialek EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no evidence at this time to suggest SARS-CoV-2 was man-made, or was intentionally released. The claims here are the author’s opinions.
Transit expert contradicts himself To the editor:
(re: “Still need change for subways,” July 8)
Please bear in mind that I do not claim to be an expert in transit or urban planning. But Larry Penner says “there are still other outstanding issues to be resolved before most of the 5 million-plus pre-COVID-19 ridership will return. Many former riders will continue telecommuting full- or part-time, and may never come back.” How in the name of common sense does the author feel that can be controlled? How can private companies be told not to have workers telecommute? Especially coming from an author who has taken decidedly Libertarian stances on issues? The author states “trade in all the former token booth employees who serve as ‘station ambassadors’ to help pay for increasing police protection in our subways.” He makes it sound like a car transaction: “Here’s a 1971 token booth clerk for a 1975 police officer.” The author seems to ignore the fact that police officers and token booth clerks are not paid by the same employer. What does the author propose to do with the token booth clerks? Does the author also not understand the fact that they serve as more than “station ambassadors”? They can serve as deterrents to crime, call the police, call for help for a medically distressed rider, assist a passenger with a malfunctioning MetroCard. The author goes on to state “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.” Does the author not understand that the conductors are closing the doors upon the orders of the control tower? What in the name of common sense does this have to do with riders boarding the bus above ground? The author goes on to say “here is one way to pay for all of the above, which would benefit most of the 5 million pre-COVID 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.” But at the same time, in an opinion piece published in Mass Transit magazine, the author states “why not extend the New York City Transit No. 6 subway line beyond the Pelham Bay Park station terminal to directly into Co-op City? Thousands of Co-op City residents could benefit by a seamless subway ride versus having a transfer from a bus to subway.” First of all, the author makes a project of this magnitude sound as easy as drawing a glass of water from the sink. But aside from this, what is it? Extend the Pelham Bay line to Co-op City? Or wait until the author’s aforementioned suggestions are implemented? Doesn’t the author pay the slightest bit of attention to his opinion pieces? How is it that for the 10 percent of his opinion pieces that hit the nail on the head, that 90 percent of them contradict each other — sometimes within each other — or are utterly ludicrous? naT Weiner
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We’re not quite out of the COVID woods yet
By MICHAEL HINMAN
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f you struggled to find parking on West 231st Street near Broadway this past weekend, please know it was for a good cause. A really good cause, in fact. The city deployed its mobile vaccination center to Kingsbridge over a large part of Saturday and Sunday, allowing anyone 12 and older to get their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer whether they had an appointment or not. All of this happened about the same time Gov. Andrew Cuomo celebrated nearly 74 percent of adults in New York getting at least one shot, and more than 67 percent fully vaccinated. Hospitalizations are at levels not seen since last summer, but positive infection rates are starting to climb. For the longest time, in fact, new infections were well below 1 percent in the state. But now it’s well above 1 percent, and heading toward 2. Wait, 1 percent? Even 2 percent? Why are we worried about that? It means 99 percent of the tests were negative. True. But there’s a delta variant burning its way across the country, and it’s already here. While the jury is out on whether it makes people sicker, what public health officials do know is that it’s far easier to spread than the original virus that attacked us more than a year ago. And although we might like to celebrate 67 percent of New York state’s adults being fully vaccinated, the same can’t be said here in the Bronx. According to data collected by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, only 56 percent of adults in the Bronx have been fully vaccinated, as of last weekend. The numbers in the 10463 ZIP code aren’t far off from the state numbers — and 10471 is actually quite better at 73 percent — it seems the further you get from these neighborhoods, the worse it gets. Just look at Allerton and Pelham Gardens. Or Tremont and West Farms. Or even Morrisania. Barely half of adults in each of those regions are fully vaccinated. Even a little closer to home, in the 10468 ZIP that includes parts of Kingsbridge and University Heights, adult vaccination rates are just 55 percent. In fact, there are nearly 44,000 adults in our communities right now who have no protection at all against the delta variant or any versions of the virus that causes COVID-19. And it’s a real head-scratcher as to why people are hesitant about getting what has proven to be extraordinary protection
against a deadly virus — protection that costs absolutely nothing to receive. Just a small pinch on your arm. How can any of us forget Spring 2020 in New York City? Those days might seem like forever ago, but how many of us longed for something — anything — that would bring life back to normal? If Mayor de Blasio had showed up at my doorstep with a syringe in his hand, I’d be rolling up my sleeve. But somewhere between that first terrible wave and the beginning of this year, far too many have decided the vaccine is not for them. They’d rather wait it out, and benefit from herd immunity — that is if we actually achieve it, considering it seems reaching levels of the 75 or 80 percent needed is slipping further away. Dr. Scott Gottlieb was on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday with a very dire warning: “Most people will either get vaccinated, or have been previously infected, or they will get this delta variant.” Gottlieb — who, by the way, was the U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Donald Trump — says that if you’re not vaccinated or still protected from antibodies developed during your own battle with COVID-19, you’re getting this variant. Whether you’re young, old, or somewhere in-between — your risk now is greater than it’s ever been. Sure, vaccines are never perfect, and that’s true for the three coronavirus vaccines currently available. But the risks are negligible. The benefits are proven. And even if you did somehow contract the coronavirus, you can expect to recover with minor symptoms, if you get any at all. Remember that non-infection rate above? Of those tested, nearly 2 percent are positive for the coronavirus while 98 percent are negative. If that 98 percent figure is important to you, then here’s one other way of looking at it: About 98 percent of hospitalizations and deaths right now from the coronavirus have happened to those who are not vaccinated. de Blasio’s office actually makes it quite easy to get your shot. Visit NYC.gov/vaccinefinder. Call (877) 829-4692 — even if you can’t get out of your home. Because if you can’t come to the vaccine, the city will find a way to bring the vaccine to you. To your door, actually. It might not be Mayor de Blasio holding a syringe, but it will be someone well-trained to ensure you get the protection you need, so we can all finally enjoy life to the fullest once again. The author is editor of The Riverdale Press.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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21/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Bintou (Last) Magiraga. My present name is (First) Magiraga (Last) Bintou. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are April 2002. 3619 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on July 08, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00002221/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Favorsther (Middle) Esengo (Last) Akoa. My present name is (First) Favorsther (Middle) Esengo (Last) Mpolesha AKA Favorsther E. Akoa (infant). The city and state of my present address are New York, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are November 2017. 3620 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on July 08, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00016621/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Justin (Middle) Steven (Last) Pina Castro. My present name is (First) Justine (Middle) Steven (Last) Pina Castro AKA Justin Steven Pina Castro. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Dominican Republic. The month and year of my birth are January 2001. 3621 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 6/3/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000106-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Annie (Middle) Mariah (Last) Gomez. My present name is (First) Agnieszka (Middle) Maria (Last) Gomez AKA Agnieszka Maria Gomez Salazar, AKA Agnieszka Gomez. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are January 1999. 3622 Legal Notice
Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on June 24, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00013721/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Ananias (Middle) Glenn (Last) Richardson. My present name is (First) Ananias (Middle) Glenn (Last) Smith (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are December 2006. 3623 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on July 15, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00016821/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) King (Middle) Khaleaf (Last) Anderson. My present name is (First) Malik (Middle) Khaleaf (Last) Anderson AKA King Anderson. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 2002. 3624 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 5/27/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000100-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Romelo (Last) Lopez. My present name is (First) Ramelo (Last) Lopez AKA Romelo Lopez. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 1996. 3625 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on July 15, 2021, bearing Index Number NC-00017621/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Alexa (Middle) Juliette (Last) Vargas Cortes. My present name is (First) Alexa (Middle) Juliette (Last) Vargas. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Manhattan, NY. The month and year of my birth are September 1992. 3626
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HOME OF THE WEEK Charles Brophy of Douglas Elliman
Touch of the 1920s to enjoy here in the 2020s H
ere’s a home that likely won’t be on the market for very long, so you’ll have to act fast. This charming solid brick detached townhouse gives you a relaxing taste of history, beautifully maintaining many of its original 1920s details, while still including some amenities from the 21st century like solar panels on the roof. Located at 443 W. 259th St., you’ll find a fenced yard in the back with mature plantings, and a driveway to park your car. Downstairs, enjoy a living room and formal dining room, as well as a eat-in kitchen, powder room and coat closet.
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On the second floor, get some rest in one of three generously sized bedrooms, joined by a pair of bathrooms. There’s also a walkup dormered finished attic, while a couple floors down is a finished walk-out basement with shower, home office, laundry and storage. The entire home is freshly painted with refinished floors. You also can enjoy Wave Hill nearby along with many fine restaurants, cafes, bakery, and even running and walking trails, and much more. This is a home waiting for you right now, listed at $875,000.
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See Riverdale's Best Properties 11. Always Marvel at the View! Riverdale. 3BR. 2.5 Bath. $925K. Web# 20339891. Deena Spindler 718-878-1925 Lee Moskof 718-878-1921 12. Charming 3 Bedroom Move-In Ready Riverdale. 3BR. 2 Bath. $499K. Web# 20388766. Lee Moskof 718-878-1921 13. An Urban Treehouse! Riverdale. 2BR. 2 Bath. $460K. Web# 21091631. Sandhya “Sanjya” Tidke 212-381-2485 11
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WAVe Hill Web #926 Spacious 9-bdrm, 8.5-bath house with backyard entertaining space, swimming pool and sep guest house. $4,100,000
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fieldston Web #928 Classic 4-bdrm, 3.5-bath house with patio, spacious lawns & garden. Living room with WBFP & FDR. $2,200,000
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West of PArKWAy Web #893 Prime reno opportunity: Completely gutted 7,000-SF 5-bdrm, 6-bath house w/ pool & multi level patios. $3,450,000
nortH riVerdAle Web #929 Charming 6-bdrm house on double lot with a formal dining room, lovely side & back yards, patio & garden. $895,000
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fieldston Web #919 Bright and open 5-bdrm, 2.5-bath with wide welcoming porch, formal entry vestibule w/ ample storage. $1,395,000
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3935 blAcKstone AVe #cc648 Spacious, light filled, low floor 3-bdrm w/ balcony & 24-hr D/M. Extra lrg foyer & dining rm with built-ins. $629,000
2727 PAlisAde AVe #cc656 Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, 24-hr DM & parking avail. Master BR suite & remodeled kitchen. $525,000
3530 Henry Hudson PrKWy #cc674 Spacious top floor 2-bdrm (Conv 3), 2-bath w/ great closet space, windowed kitchen, balcony& 24-hr DM. $565,000
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Pet-friendly rentAls West of PArKWAy - Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bath, balcony, partial river views, DM & fitness room. Dogs ok. $3,375/mo West of PArKWAy - 2-bdrm, 2-bath, balcony, partial river views, DM & fitness rm. Dogs ok. rented $2,550/mo West of PArKWAy - Rent stabilized 1-bdrm, parquet floors, balcony, DM & fitness room. Dogs ok. rented $2,075/mo
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