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CB8’s racial equity committee seeks change Key findings include a need for more training, and focus on racial and gender issues inside some of the board’s committees
By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
Summer marks a well-deserved break for community boards across the city. Monthly committee meetings are typically suspended in July and August, allowing the hundreds of volunteers on the various boards enjoy some sunshine and take advantage of a chance to refresh. Community Board 8 is no different — but for one exception this summer. Sergio Villaverde, who unsuccessfully ran to become CB8’s chair, pushed the commu-
nity board instead to form a special committee on racial equity in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and weeks of protests across the country. Villaverde was successful in getting the committee formed, although not with him on it. Instead, it was RosAliNd led by board secretary RozAVRAs salind Zavras and included CB8 vice chair Bob Bender along with Robert Fanuzzi, Daris Jackson, Ju-
lie Reyes, Jyll Townes and Margaret Della as committee members. The committee met four times over the summer, intending to wrap up by the time CB8 returned for normal business in September. They succeeded, putting together a report clocking in at 50 pages, outlining recommendations giving board members more training in gender and racial bias, asking committees to address racism in their own meetings, and figuring out what skills and resources board members could provide in efforts to identify and solve such issues in the community. RACIAL EQUITY, page A4
Mentoring from a distance Not all
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HomeBuddies Mentoring co-founders Katie Koch, left, and Cecilia Needham cut and color hand tracings during a group activity. HomeBuddies, a personalized mentorship program, was designed to provide children with remote mentoring during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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When Columbia University — and the rest of the city — shut down in midMarch, one of the first things Ernest Robertson thought about was the kids. As a college student, he didn’t think his social development from not being in class would suffer. Robertson navigated distance learning fairly easily, and he kept in touch with his friends virtually. But that wasn’t the case for those children younger than Robertson. They weren’t in classrooms. They couldn’t go on playdates anymore. And like anyone else in the coronavirus pandemic, they weren’t immune to feeling isolated from the people they cared about. To make matters worse, many par-
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HomeBuddies Mentoring ents had to balance their work — some of which had been further complicated by the pandemic — with added child care responsibilities now that their children were learning from home. College students like Robertson weren’t unaffected from disappointment either. Some had internships and summer jobs canceled, clearing out their calendars for the foreseeable future once
the spring semester ended. Although the pandemic created particularly trying times, it was in this climate Robertson found inspiration for a unique program he felt might help ease the burden. Robertson and fellow Riverdale Country School alum Una Darrell put together a group of college-aged peers to develop HomeBuddies Mentoring, a remote mentoring program for children from preschool to seventh grade. In a time when children can’t interact with others as easily as they used to, HomeBuddies focused its attention on connecting children across the country with collegeaged mentors with similar interests. “What we saw was that a lot of kids were now not having the social interacMENTORING, page A4
Just hours before the city’s largest teachers union was ready to call for a strike, Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded a two-week standoff that would push back the physical reopening of school campuses by nearly two weeks. Still, there’s a lot to do between now and Sept. 21 — even if not everyone is keen on the deal United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew struck with de Blasio. In fact, rather than breathe a sigh of relief, many have actually described the decision to delay as “kicking the can further down the road,” rather than addressing obstacles standing in its way now. Alexandra Haridopolis, an English as a New Language teacher at a high school within the local school district, didn’t find the decision to delay reopening reassuring, nor does she think much can be done to improve conditions in less than two weeks. “They literally said, ‘We’re delaying because we want to make sure the health and safety protocols are being met,’ which means that they were going to send us in there without them having been met,” Haridopolos said. UFT released a reopening fact sheet to teachers explaining schools would remain closed to students “while final safety arrangements are completed.” That means a school nurse in every building, checks of campus ventilation systems, and ensuring there are enough protective and cleaning supplies to go around. Those are words of encouragement for Michael Simmon, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at IN-Tech Academy — especially since he’s itching to get back to his classroom. Even though the academic year will present some new challenges, Simmon believes there are adequate resources to meet those challenges. “You want it where everybody is healthy and negative,” Simmon said. “But they are trying to put things in place that will provide for that — from the hand sanitizer to the masks to the random COVID testing.” Even with new protocols in place to protect school communities, it still isn’t enough for many public school parents. REOPEN, page A4
No delay for Kinneret — School is back in session By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
Delays in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic are a problem for public schools, but not at any school run by Rabbi Aaron Frank. The last time the private school administrator saw his students in person was in March, before Kinneret Day School — and the entire city — closed down because of the public health crisis. Now, school is back in session, as Kinneret reopened its Netherland Avenue doors for a new year Sept. 8. For those students walking inside, it will be classes as usual, five days each week, while some of their peers continue to learn many miles away in their own homes. Frank had waited for the first day of school at Kinneret for months, even though the pandemic for him felt like it started a
lifetime ago. He remembered when both SAR High School and SAR Academy shut down March 3 — the first schools in the state — maybe even the country — to do so under the threat of COVID-19. When that happened, Frank knew Kinneret’s own closure wasn’t far behind. The school shifted to a remote education model fairly quickly, becoming even more needed when Kinneret shuttered its physical campus March 11. The very next day, teachers spent a full day training on remote teaching, and just a day after that, the entire school had moved its classes completely online. Shifting to a remote model was a new world for nearly everyone at Kinneret. But it also presented some unique challenges for nursery teacher Ally Glassman. Her class of 3-year-olds led her to get creative, becoming the popular animated television KINNERET, page A4
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Damaged tree finally falls, and park-goers make sound By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
Bob Mahoney noticed something amiss in Vinmont Veteran Park. He was walking through the 3.5acre “pocket park” tucked between Riverdale and Mosholu avenues a couple years ago when he noticed a black cherry tree beginning a slow descent to the ground. It already was leaning into one of its neighbor’s branches. On closer inspection, Mahoney determined the tree was — at least partially — dead. Some of its bark was missing, and rot had set in. Concerned that the tree would crash onto the concrete path below, Mahoney reached out to the parks department. Was the tree concerning? Yes. But to parks officials, it was not a huge one. The tree was relatively small, and Vinmont — despite its proximity to P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen — relatively quiet. But, last week, Mahoney walked into the park only to find that same black cherry tree down across the path. And he was concerned: The tree — deemed not a threat in 2018 — had now fallen in a park traversed regularly by elementary school children, older community residents, and everyone in between. Mahoney was happy no one was under the tree when it fell — a fear he expressed back when he first discovered it. Still, even with what ultimately happened with the tree, Mahoney was satisfied with parks’ response, even if he felt the issue wasn’t that easy to dismiss. “Of course I was concerned that whatever calculus they were using — the tree looked formidable to me — in the event that it was an accident waiting to happen,” Mahoney said. But parks did come out and inspect the tree twice, department spokesman Dan Kastanis said. The first was when Mahoney reported it in September 2018, and then again the next July.
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It took two years and maybe even a hurricane for it to finally fall, but what’s left of the tree that fell at Vinmont Veteran Park last week blocks a path many strollers tend to regularly walk through. Some park users wonder if such trees should be given extra attention before they hurt someone. During both inspections, the tree was rated a “C” on a scale ranging from “A” to “D,” where “A” is the worst condition. “We will complete all work in Category A first,” Kastanis said, and then address other trees when resources are available. The assessments don’t just take into account the tree’s condition, but also where it’s located and what kind of risk it might pose to the public. A tree in a busier area, or a dead tree with hanging limbs, might be addressed first, Kastanis said, since they have a better chance of potentially hurting someone passing by.
Vinmont’s leaning tree would have been addressed at some point, Kastanis added, although Mother Nature had her own schedule. One of the contributing factors that may have ultimately brought the Vinmont tree down might have been the arrival of Tropical Storm Isaias last month, which brought down or damaged more than 1,500 trees in the Bronx alone, and more than 6,000 citywide. At the same time, the parks department isn’t immune to budget cuts that have many city agencies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. More than $7 million was cut from the parks
department’s tree pruning contracts, with another $1.5 million lost for stump removal. Even so, parks plans to finishing 55,000 inspections this year, Kastanis said, like the ones carried out in Vinmont. But, operating on a much-reduced budget after a damaging storm isn’t easy. It had been a few weeks since Mahoney had last been in the park, so he wasn’t exactly sure when the tree fell, but it was likely after the storm. While most of the city has been focused on Con Edison dealing with the largest power outage since Hurricane Sandy, parks was dealing with its third-
most damaging storm in 10 years — behind Sandy and tornadoes that blew through Brooklyn and Queens in 2010. Parks received four months-worth of requests in a matter of just three days, Kastanis said. “I can’t estimate the size of it, but it’s a big heavy tree that came down,” Mahoney said. “If anybody was there if it snapped down, somebody would have been badly hurt. Or worse.” Still, Mahoney considers himself a parks department supporter, going so far as to send notes to managers when he notices their employees are doing particularly good work. And often, those working to maintain Vinmont are, he said. They keep everything in good shape. But then again, Mahoney wonders if the methods parks use to analyze which trees need to be taken care of should be re-evaluated. Just last May, a massive tree branch fell in the Upper West Side’s Riverside Park, injuring four people. “Is there an algorithm? Is there criteria? How do they measure rot that’s going on in a tree like that?” Mahoney asked. “Do they spend more time and resources making the measurement, and then have this happen? Whereas, what is it, half a day, to take a dead tree down?” The parks department uses trained forestry crews to take stock of and trim or cut down damaged trees — not, usually, the regular maintenance crews who move through the city’s small parks, according to Kastanis. Vinmont and other nearby parks, like Henry Hudson and Seton parks, don’t have dedicated staffers like larger Bronx staples, Van Cortlandt Park. “As they go through this costbenefit analysis, a single pedestrian — it could be an adult in a baby carriage” who could be hurt by a falling tree, Mahoney said. “Please don’t put a price on it. That park gets continuous use. There are crowds there all the time.”
PRESS POINTS Durán joins Press as new photo editor Hiram Alejandro Durán’s name should already be familiar to many readers who check out the credit lines for pictures published in The Riverdale Press. But now Durán will likely become even more familiar with more readers as the paper’s new photo editor. Durán is a visual journalist from the
By Michael hinMan El Pas-Ciudad Juarez border region. And although he’s a fourthgeneration Mexican American, he is the first in his family to be raised and educated in the United States. Before moving to New York City in 2018, Durán actually worked as a shoe
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Only a few months ago, city schools shut down due to the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic. But although public schools now won’t physically reopen until Sept. 21, many teachers and parents are still skeptical whether educators will be ready in time.
Schools set to reopen Sept. 21, but not everyone is convinced REOPEN from page A1 Jonathan Cane’s son is set to start fourth grade at P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen, and he’s quite skeptical of the city’s reassurances of a safe reopening. Because Cane can work from home, his son will start the 2020-21 academic year remotely. “I would love for him to be around his peers, but the truth of it is there is at least some additional risk in sending him in,” Cane said. “And we don’t know how much it is.” Many teachers see the reopening delay as the latest example of a poorly planned and executed return to in-person classes. Eric Dinowitz — an educator-turned politician — says teachers are used to planning out nearly every aspect of their jobs, from lesson plans, to individualized education programs, and everything in between. Yet, these teachers say they haven’t seen that same level of planning from the city. “I think the city botched this from the beginning,” Dinowitz said. “We know that this is a highly contagious virus. We know how it spreads. And there was almost no plan to address those specific needs.” Lydia Howrilka, a UFT caucus leader, called Mulgrew’s agreement with de Blasio a “back-door deal,” one which didn’t involve the input of regular union members who are the boots on the ground when it comes to physically reopening the school. And for teachers, returning to school during a pandemic might be a life-and-death situation, as some of them have already fallen victim to the coronavirus. “We’ve lost 75 UFT members,” Howrilka said. “We just clearly felt our lives, the lives of our colleagues, and the health and safety of our kids … mattered more.” One of the major areas of contention within the UFT was compromising on coronavirus testing, which originally asked for every person who
Needed to reopen Teachers were scheduled to report back to physical campuses on Sept. 8, according to the agreement struck by Mayor Bill de Blasio and United Federation of Teachers union leaders. While there, they’d develop school- and class-specific hybrid learning models. School orientations for the learning models would take place remotely between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18. In-person and remote classes would then begin Sept. 21. Mandatory, free coronavirus testing would become a monthly occurrence in all public schools. Each school randomly selects between 10 and 20 percent of its total campus population for testing, with results available within 48 hours. Any students refusing testing would be moved to a fully remote schedule, and entered a public school either possess a positive antibody test or a negative coronavirus test. The new agreement has some mandatory testing requirements, but not nearly to the extent some in UFT originally wanted. Under the new agreement, mandatory testing will occur monthly, but will not encompass the entirety of a school community. Instead, 10 to 20 percent of the school’s population — students, teachers or otherwise — will be randomly selected for testing. Those results will be available within 48 hours. But if the testing occurs monthly, Howrilka thinks the virus will be granted too much time to get its hooks into a school, especially if those getting infected aren’t showing symptoms. “There are high rates of COVID being spread by asymptomatic spreaders,” Howrilka said. “It is quite probable that there are many people in schools — students or staff — who
any school personnel who refuse testing would find themselves on unpaid leave. Anyone testing positive would be isolated for 14 days. If the case or cases are contained to one class, the entire class will shift to remote learning. If there’s more than one case and they’re not contained to one class, the entire school will shift to remote learning until contact tracing finishes and the appropriate parties are isolated and quarantined. Finally, if any city ZIP code’s positive test rate rises above 3 percent on a seven-day rolling average, there will be increased testing and tracing efforts in the ZIP code for at least two weeks, or until the positive test rate drops below 3 percent for a seven-day rolling average — whichever is longer. — Rose Brennan may have (the) coronavirus, and they may not even know it.” The decision to compromise on coronavirus testing also drew ire from the MORE caucus —the Movement of Rank and file Educators — which condemned what it described as the failure to include regular union members in the decision-making process. But Haridopolos believes the issue goes far beyond poor leadership — whether from the union or from the city itself. To her, the issues both sides are facing indicate wider, systemic problems. “The reason schools can’t open safely next week or in 10 days is because they’ve been chronically underfunded,” Haridopolos said. “We can have all the Clorox wipes that the mayor feels great about giving us, but that’s not going to change the fact that there’s not a ventilation system in my school. Or that I can’t open the windows more than four inches.”
Making CB8 more diverse will require work, openness to change RACIAL EQUITY from page A1 It was the first time the board’s executive committee — manned by chairs of various other CB8 committees — had the opportunity to provide feedback, ranging from criticism of the report’s tone to conversations about extending the timeline for the committee’s final report to be released. Ultimately, Zavras said, her committee’s draft is meant to start the conversation, not end it. That means hearing voices from the rest of the board, which hopefully means the equity committee could complete a final report by October. Camelia Tepelus wasn’t part of the special committee, but she still attended a few of its meetings over the online videoconferencing app Zoom. Still, she felt the committee still had a ways to go to finalize a report. And, given the bureaucracy of the board and a need for transparency, it could take longer than a month to get all of that done. “This is just the first phase,” Tepelus said. “There should be a Phase Two where more board members can provide input and comment. So far, I feel like (the special committee is) doing a decent job, but they have to pass it on to the wider body.” The racial equity committee’s impact will likely be felt even before its final report is released. At least two committees — housing, and law, rules and ethics — planed to discuss incorporating the racial equity committee into their September meetings, at least according to their posted agendas. “You’re going to see that in a couple of different spots this month, and next month as well,” Zavras told The Riverdale Press. “I know, for instance, health
and hospitals wants to do a joint meeting, that’s probably going to be in October. There’s a lot of energy.” Putting racial equity on committee agendas was her group’s first recommendation, Zavras said, as it gets the conversation started. Since all the special committee members are also members of other more traditional committees — like housing and land use — they realized it was important to bring their findings back to their colleagues for discussion. “There are some really interesting initiatives that I’m hoping the board will take up,” Zavras said. “There was a lot of really good research done. What I like about the report and what we were able to do is compile a history of the movement, demographics of the neighborhood, detail on what a community board is. I learned so much this summer about the community board structure, and what we are ‘supposed’ to be doing.” Community boards are advisory and don’t hold much real decisionmaking power within New York City’s government. But they do represent neighborhoods and communities on the smallest scale, and can work to coordinate help for those who need it, serving as a connecting element between the community and city resources. Tepelus was frustrated with CB8’s slow development pace — special equity committee or not — and hoped to see a clear focus moving forward. “There are things that need to be said, I’m sorry,” Tepelus said, “but Community Board 8 needs to keep moving forward and keep up with the times.”
Bender, a longtime member of the board, said he looked forward to getting feedback, emphasizing that the first draft was subject to change. “I don’t think anybody on the committee feels that this is the last word on the subject,” CB8’s vice chair said. “This is not our final report. This is our first report. It would be nice to have as many comments as possible so we can consider them and review them when the committee meets again on Sept. 29.” The special committee’s research of the community’s demographics and history has prompted its members to branch out beyond racial equity. Zavras was surprised by the high number of people living within the community board’s jurisdiction who give up at least a third of their income to rent. “To me, it was pretty shocking that this is still a big issue for Community Board 8, and what can we do to support,” she said. “We have that housing guide that was just translated into Spanish. Maybe there are ways that we can get that housing guide out to more individuals, and how we can support job forums. You know, this is an economic development issue too.” The draft report’s initial recommendation for ongoing training — whether it focuses on unconscious biases or gender equity — is something that’s been discussed among board members before, Zavras said. “The dialogue is a little rocky, but I am really heartened by the fact that the community board keeps trying and keeps showing up,” she said. “And that’s part of this work, that it’s not going to be perfect. It’s going to be a little messy.”
MENTORING from page A1 tions that they usually would be able to have in school,” Robertson said. “Through HomeBuddies, we looked to sort of bridge that gap and allow kids to have the social interactions that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to have under these circumstances.” In addition to being a co-founder, Darrell also is a mentor. She recognized early on how children would likely miss talking with their classmates and teachers when they weren’t going to school — at least in the traditional sense. “For me, it was really important to be a mentor because I could see in kids how difficult it is to UNA go through this time dArrELL right now,” Darrell said. “I wanted to be one of those people where a kid who was stuck at home could now have somebody to talk to, or someone to do arts and crafts with.” When signing children up for HomeBuddies, parents fill out an application listing their children’s interests. At the same time, prospective mentors — many of whom have tutoring, camp counseling or other teaching experience — indicate interests on applications of their own. After that, children are paired with a mentor who has similar interests, scheduling weekly or even twice-weekly sessions online through the Zoom videoconferencing app. “We make matches based on mostly interests and scheduling,” Robertson said. “If a kid is very interested in … arts and crafts, we pair them with a mentor who also emphasized their interest in arts and crafts.” HomeBuddies sessions can include academic support or tutoring, or they can be just for fun. Science-inclined mentees might make a baking soda volcano, while artistically inclined ones might do an art project. Darrell is mentoring a 10-year-old girl named Elizabeth, who lives in Texas. Although they’re more than a thousand miles apart physically — and
Want to join? Go online and visit HomeBuddiesMentoring.com years apart age-wise — Darrell and Elizabeth connect twice each week, whether they’re making slime or other arts and crafts, or simply just talking. “It’s been really cool just starting to build this relationship, even though it is virtual,” Darrell said. “She and I have gotten really close now, and I think we both really look forward to our meetings because it’s nice to have someone to talk to when you’re sitting at home alone.” HomeBuddies also offers group sessions three days per week — up until recently. These sessions were less specialized, said Robertson, but still provided structured activities for the kids like science experiments, art projects and even group yoga. While its founders pursue a nonprofit status for the program, for now, HomeBuddies operates on a donation model. While families are free to pay what they can, the suggested donation is $20 per session. The group also accepts donations from people outside the HomeBuddies network, using that money to cover the costs of running the program, including website and Zoom videoconferencing app account fees for the mentors. While the summer might be over, HomeBuddies isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. In fact, Darrell says she plans to adapt its offerings for the fall through its “pod program’ where small groups of children meet with a HomeBuddies mentor online after school. It’s expected to replace the original summer group sessions, providing after-school sessions and extracurricular activities when schools can’t provide them. “While it’s not the same as obviously meeting in-person and going to an after-school program,” Darrell said, “it will give kids the opportunity to still see their friends and meet some new kids if they want to — all supervised by HomeBuddies-trained mentors.”
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After months of preparation, Kinneret day School reopened its doors Sept. 8. New procedures at the school — including ‘caterpillar cameras’ and distancing desks — needed to made for classrooms to be both coronavirus pandemic- and kid-ready.
No delays reopening Kinneret Day School KINNERET from page A1 series character “Dora the Explorer, if she grew up and became a teacher.” “I downloaded and bought some fun clip art and made slideshow presentations,” Glassman said. “But I also did the low-tech version of it, and I had hand puppets to do songs, and I read them stories.” A pandemic isn’t easy to talk about, especially for younger students. But Glassman says talking about the health crisis wasn’t much of an issue for her students, seeing her role mainly as a diversionary one. “I wanted them to feel like even if we have to be in our homes, we’re still going to see bright, colorful pictures and sing songs and have fun,” Glassman said. “If it came up, they’d show me their masks and they told me about it.” To reopen Kinneret, Frank had to ensure nearly every room on campus was being used as a classroom. Most classes were divided in order to prevent overcrowding and to allow for physical distancing. Remote students log onto the online videoconferencing app Zoom when it’s time for class, seeing their classrooms through “caterpillar cameras,” allowing them to raise their hands and participate in real time from home. All students stay in just one classroom at all times, desks pulled at least six feet apart from each other. Kinneret also installed new air filtration systems, and is using UV equipment to kill potential pathogens in the air. And of course, anyone in the school must be masked at all times. Returning to the classroom was always the goal, but Frank said it was difficult tailoring and then re-tailoring plans as the virus ran its course through the city. “This has been very much like a moving target,” the rabbi said. “The state of COVID in New York changed.
So we’ve had to … make changes each time.” But even in wake of these new challenges, teachers like Glassman approach the academic year with a cando attitude. “I keep telling them that we’re going to have fun,” she said of her nursery class. “I think for a lot of these kids, they’re just going to be happy to be back in school, be around different toys (and) be around other kids.” And Glassman’s attitude toward reopening is universal, Frank said, recognizing the onus of reopening is not on himself, but on those standing in front of the classes each and every day. “Our teachers are what’s making this happen,” Frank said. “They all understand the need to reopen. I think, as a whole, they are all very, very focused on teaching and being there for their students.” Ruby Shamir has been a Kinneret parent for more than a decade, putting all three of her children through the school. And it’s Kinneret’s close-knit community that keeps her coming back. “The whole thing about the school that I’ve always loved is that it’s very kid-centered,” Shamir said. “They were always thinking, ‘What’s best for the kid?’ and sort of building out from there.” Shamir is less apprehensive about sending her children back into a school building than most parents, largely because of what she describes as the constant communication and information she’s received from Kinneret’s administration. It’s allowed Shamir to be excited about Kinneret’s reopening. But, of course, that pales in comparison to what she says her children are feeling. “They can’t wait,” Shamir said. “They come up to me randomly and they say, ‘I can’t wait for school to start! I can’t wait for school to start!’”
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 10, 2020 - A5
Little library keeps reading going when big libraries can’t By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
As the country searched to get a handle on the coronavirus pandemic, college towns emptied out as students were sent home in an effort to avoid further outbreak. But as the dorms at Lehman College, Manhattan College, and the College of Mount Saint Vincent were vacated, childhood bedrooms were becoming reacquainted with their nowolder occupants, many wondering if life would ever return to normal. One of those students was Daniella Needleman, a behavioral biology major whose sophomore year at Johns Hopkins University was interrupted by the pandemic. Returning to Riverdale, Needleman found herself without much to do. Sure, there were online classes, but without on-campus meetings, dinners with friends, and extracurriculars, she had a whole lot more time on her hands. That issue was compounded by the city shutdown. About the same time schools shuttered, so did everything else, and guidelines about what was safe were changing every day. But if there was just one thing Needleman wished she could do through all that, it was to simply head out to the library and pick up something new to read. That was out of the question, though. While branches of the New York Public Library dot local neighborhoods like Kingsbridge, Spuyten Duyvil, Van Cortlandt Park and Riverdale, they were all closed. Sure, the Kingsbridge Library has reopened for grab-and-go materials, but others are just now starting to follow suit.
“I used to read a book a week, at least,” said Needleman, who took a liking to book series led by famous literary characters like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. “I would always get it from the library, because if I didn’t like it, I didn’t have to own it. I could just get it and return it.” But it wasn’t simply showing up, grabbing books and leaving for Needleman. “I also just liked sitting in the library and reading.” With that now impossible, Needleman wasn’t sure what to do — until she took a trip to Bristol, Rhode Island, finding the community filled with small newspaper box-like kiosks known as Little Free Libraries. Many were constructed as Boy Scout projects or just by book lovers, but for each the concept was the same — leave a few books for neighbors, and they’ll do the same for you. That allowed many to find their next read, all within walking distance of home and without a library card. It was then Needleman decided: One of those little boxes would be right at home in Riverdale. “I was thinking about having it on a public space,” she said, “but I knew it would take a lot of time to have it approved by the city.” A successful Little Free Library is all about location, and soon Needleman realized she had just the piece of real estate she needed. Needleman’s friend, Eliana Padwa, happened to live just across Mosholu Avenue from the Riverdale Library. Her front lawn would be perfect, providing a public good on private property. With the location secured, Needleman and Padwa then set out in search of a suitable
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Home from college during the coronavirus pandemic, Daniella Needleman and Eliana Padwa came up with an idea: Installing a free library in Riverdale, so their neighbors could find new books even when the New York Public Library remained closed. container to protect books from the elements. Many of them are nothing more than small enclosed wooden boxes on posts anchored into the ground. But that would take more time than they had. Instead, the two settled on a converted newspaper box — bright red with a little plastic window in front. Such a box wasn’t free, however. In fact, it cost nearly $400 — money Needleman raised on Facebook. It was an effort met with comments and posts of support. “It was really positive,” Needleman said. “I think everyone really liked the idea. I got the donations really quickly. A lot of people were saying they wished they had had this, and that they were thinking about it.” Two weeks later, the box was carefully installed on Pad-
wa’s front lawn facing the Riverdale library. It was stocked with some children’s books left over
from Padwa’s childhood along with some her parents had enjoyed but didn’t need anymore.
Within a few days, neighbors filled the rest of the shelves. “It was also pretty fun to organize it, and hear the response from the community,” Needleman said. “But I also ended up raising a lot more money than I needed, so I’m planning to try to get a second one approved for a public space in a different part of Riverdale.” It was nice to have a meaningful project to do while she was home, Needleman said — not just to fill her own time, but to do something nice for her neighbors. As the box fills with some new favorite books, Needleman hopes area children make new memories of walking to the library box during a time when their regular neighborhood library couldn’t open its doors. “It was nice to feel like I was making a little difference and doing something that brought a little more positivity to the community,” Needleman said. “Because I think it’s a really hard time for everyone.”
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UFT caucus takes aim at Carranza The United Federation of Teachers filed for injunctive relief against city schools chancellor Richard Carranza on Sept. 4, following the delay in reopening physical public school campuses. Five members of the union’s Solidarity caucus asked for the injunction claiming the city’s criteria for teachers to file for and receive medical accommodations were “arbitrary.” They argued even if teachers themselves aren’t vulnerable to
the coronavirus, they could unwittingly pass it on to someone who is. Other union members who should qualify for remote teaching accommodations are those who live with family members vulnerable to the virus, according to a release. “The 3,600 UFT members who support us must know now that this is another example of a pattern of leadership that doesn’t make the grade,” said Lydia Howrilka, one of the caucus leaders, in a release.
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City sues Key Food owners for firing union workers Franchise owner claims she had offered old jobs at same pay rate By MICHAEL HINMAN & KIRSTYN BRENDLEN of The Riverdale Press
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The North Riverdale supermart at Skyview Shopping Center officially changed names to Key Food after Kevin Luna and his family took over the space in 2015. The Lunas sold the franchise to NR Shop LLC, which are both subject to an action claiming they unlawfully terminated union employees. NR Shop denies any wrongdoing. about such a change, and their rights. The commission also is accusing the former owners of failing to provide the new owner — NR Shop LLC — with the list of eligible employees and their contact information, as well as failing to provide those workers’ union with required notice about the sale of the franchise. NR Shop is accused of failing to retain eligible employees — those who worked at least six months before the store was sold — for a 90-day transitional period that was supposed to last until Oct. 11. “This is an unconscionable violation of workers’ rights anytime, but especially cruel during a global pandemic,” Councilman Andrew Cohen said, in a release. “These are essential workers who have served our community during a time of need — some of whom have worked at this Key Food location for over 20 years.” Members from Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union have picketed the location since the Key
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Food changed hands in July. Rumors of a sale had floated for more than two years as the previous franchise owners couldn’t negotiate a new lease with the Skyview Shopping Center landlord. Rumors really kicked into high gear in the middle of March — just as the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold — prompting an intervention from Cohen that ultimately delayed the sale. The limited liability corporation that became NR Shop was formed in February, according to state corporation records, which put it in line for a sale that could have closed in March. Local 338 claimed that during the week-long shutdown of the store while ownership changed hands, new employees were brought in to replace the union workers. That meant the new Key Food was no longer a union shop. And that’s a problem, according to the consumer and worker protection department. Under the Grocery Worker
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Kingsbridge commercial properties change hands
The summer has been busy when it comes to larger neighborhood real estate transactions, including the sale of a house that’s served as St. John’s Convent for decades. That home, built in 1931, is at 3029 Godwin Terrace, near P.S. 207, which sold for $1.5 million to a limited liability company located at 3152 Albany Crescent, according to the deed filed with the city. That appears the same address listed for General Galaxy Contracting, although it’s not clear if the two are related. More interesting is that its new owners are located just a few blocks from the property that originally part of the estate of sugar mogul William Moller, according to historians. A history prepared by P.S. 207 students and posted on the school’s website says the building was originally intended as a convent for the Religious of Jesus and Mary, but in 1950 turned it into the new home of the Brothers of Christian Schools, right next to what was originally St. John’s School at the current site of P.S. 207. Also selling in recent weeks was 303 W. 230th St., the current home of Riverdale Auto Clinic, for $2.55 million. The property had been owned by Jean Jacobs since her husband’s death in the early 1980s. It’s not clear if the new ownership will change any of the current tenants on the property, and no permits have been filed to this point intending to
make any changes to the property. Another service station property was sold on 3145 Bailey Ave., to a company located in Great Neck, for $1.2 million. A&F Service Shop is located right near Albany Crescent in Kingsbridge, but it’s unclear how the sale will affect the business there. The new owner is not clear, but it does share an address in Great Neck with a company called Circle Planning & Design. Finally, there could be some new construction in the near future for a vacant lot at 306 W. 232nd St., which was purchased by Panstar Realty, located at 275 W. 231st St. The purchase price was $1.19 million, compared to the $420,000 it last sold for in 2016. No permits have been filed for the property as of yet for the lot near Tibbett Avenue, but it is zoned for high-density residential.
Retention Act, a former owner of a grocery store must notify workers about a change in ownership and their employment rights 15 days prior to a sale, according to a release. Following the sale, the new owner is required to keep all of the existing staff employed at the store for at least 90 days after the date of sale. After 90 days, the new owner can decide whether or not to keep any of the existing workers as employees. “When we first began drafting the Grocery Worker Reten-
local politicians and the media, trying to destroy a small, family-run business. Our focus is to build a better shopping experience for the Riverdale community, but it’s been halted by the assault on our ability to conduct business.” The Luna family, the previous franchise owners, could not be reached for comment. Yet, the NR Shop spokesperson added that they had offered “all employees that were employed with the old store at the time of closing jobs at the same rate of pay.” “We hope his matter will be resolved shortly.” But the union representing some of these former Key Food workers disagrees, and believes those employees were put out on the street when any of them need these jobs the most. “These Local 338 members put their lives on the line to ensure that their community had access to food and the critical supplies they needed during the peak months of the pandemic — only to be cruelly terminated in the midst of this crisis,” according to Nikki Kateman, a Local 338 spokeswoman, in a release. “Local 338 is grateful to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection for its vigilance in enforcing this important law, and supporting the workers at Key Food.”
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Rents climbing a bit in the Bronx, but not Riverdale Rents across the city appear to be dropping — except in the Bronx. MNS Real Estate reports that rents in the borough have ticked up nearly 2 percent in August compared to the month before, primarily in the Mott Haven area. However, the biggest rent drops in the Bronx are actually taking place in Riverdale, where one-bedroom units dipped from $2,087 to $2,060 on average in just a month.
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Not keeping union workers on staff might cost the new franchise owner of a Key Food supermarket in North Riverdale more than $200,000. That’s what the city’s consumer and worker protection department is seeking from both the former and current owners of Key Food, located inside the Skyview Shopping Center just south of West 259th Street, for what they say was an illegal firing of essential grocery workers in the middle of a pandemic. “Not only is it illegal to fire grocery workers when a store changes ownership, it’s disgraceful to toss aside these essential workers who, for many months, braved the frontlines and served their communities as heroes,” said Lorelei Salas, the city’s consumer and worker protection commissioner, in a release. “This law was created to protect grocery store workers from historically volatile employment, and that is more important than ever during these challenging economic times. These workers deserve better than abruptly being left unemployed in the middle of the pandemic, and we will fight for their rights.” The commission is charging the previous franchise owners, Riverdale Grocers LLC, with failure to post a written notice 15 days prior to an ownership change notifying employees
tion Act, unbeknownst to us, the store closures that would be seen over the coming years and now a global pandemic, we wrote this build understanding the value of labor, the health and safety of our communities, and their economic stability,” said Brooklyn councilman I. Daneek Miller, chair of the civil service and labor committee, in a release. “This law today is as relevant in 2020 as it was in 2016, and is a powerful reminder that New York City is a union city. All workers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, especially the workers that showed up each day during a global pandemic to maintain our collective well being.” The city looks to recoup $198,240 in lost wages for the 21 workers who were fired — three times what they would have made if they had been retained — as well as $12,069 in lost benefits. That comes out to a little more than $10,000 per employee. The city also wants to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings to compel the former owner to pay $1,000 in fines, and the new owner $15,750 in fines. In an emailed statement to The Riverdale Press, a spokesperson for the current franchise owners, NR Shop, said that “we’ve been attacked by
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Phyllis Davies, who died Aug. 27, 2020, in Sleepy Hollow, was remembered by family and friends as a gentle, loving soul who always seemed to be the “smartest person in the room.” Yet, after winning academic scholarships to prestigious elementary and high schools in New York City, it was her talent as a harpist that captured the interest of Radcliffe College. The admissions department’s hope that she would join the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra is what induced the school to recruit her. Although she remained a music lover throughout her 91-year life, she made her mark in the world as a pioneer in the field of computer programming, and as an attorney phyllis specializing in city tax matters. davies And she traveled the world with her husband Peter — who preceded her in death by five months — as his career took him to distant climes like India, Thailand and Brazil. Her parents, Benjamin and Frieda Botner, were immigrants from Austria and Russia who raised her Harlem and on the Upper West Side. She shared a bedroom with her maternal grandmother throughout her childhood and teenage years. Benjamin had not been to college, but he studied law at night at New York Law School while selling insurance by day for Metropolitan Life in Long Island City, Queens. Later in life — after retiring at 65 — he found what he called his “true calling” as an attorney representing indigent inmates at Rikers Island for the Vera Institute of Justice. It was Benjamin’s career path that inspired her to pursue a law degree of her own, after returning to Riverdale from Brazil in 1971. As the daughter of parents committed to the education of their only child, she commuted to Greenwich Village for elementary school at the Little Red Schoolhouse, transferring to the Dalton School further uptown for high school. While still at Dalton, she crashed an Upper East Side New Year’s Eve party and met another party crasher, a dashing young man in a Merchant Marine uniform named Peter Davies. They were immediately attracted, but Peter was obligated to sail the seas for the next six months. Family lore has it that Peter wrote to her every day until his return, and the couple was married between her junior and senior years at Radcliffe. After spending Summer 1950 with a group of international socialists on a kibbutz in the new state of Israel, the couple settled first in Boston, and then in Greenwich Village, before ending up in Rego Park, Queens. They moved to Riverdale in 1953 and maintained a residence there for more than 52 years, although they rented out the home they built in 1956 on Ladd Road for nine of those years during Peter’s assignments abroad. At one point, the house became the residence of the Ghanaian ambassador to the United Nations, and was used for frequent receptions and parties that were written up in The New York Times.
Although raising two young boys, Ken and Chris, she made the time to go back to school to study computer programming in the 1950s, becoming one of the first to master machine language and Fortran. Her expertise earned her top secret security clearance and a job creating a database of everything the U.S. Navy owned, “from missiles to Band-Aids.” When Peter was posted to Thailand in 1966, she worked for IBM as a computer programmer for the Asian Games, hosted in Bangkok. But after three years in Brazil — where Peter was working with the U.S. Agency for International Development — she decided she wanted to be closer to her children — who were living in a dormitory at Riverdale Country School — and to her parents in New York. Returning to Riverdale in 1971, she enrolled in New York University Law School. When she graduated, she took up a post as the legislative counsel for a young northwest Bronx Assemblyman, Oliver Koppell. “She was a capable progressive Democrat and a good friend,” Koppell said, last week. “Very intelligent and knowledgeable about New York government.” Eventually, she was hired first by the city’s finance commissioner, and then by a woman she considered a mentor and friend, Betty Mann, the city’s tax commissioner. That independent agency was charged with reviewing the protests of the city’s property taxpayers. Although many had small holdings, sometimes she handled the appeals of celebrities, like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and of course, Donald Trump. She remembered Trump’s organization as “belligerent and difficult.” She finished her career as an attorney in the office of the city’s corporation counsel, retiring at 62 in 1991. In 2005, the couple were among the first to move into Kendal on Hudson, a retirement community in Sleepy Hollow. She regularly volunteered in the Riverdale community, especially as an early and active member of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club. When the management at Skyview-on-the-Hudson attempted to bar a Black family from moving in, she was among the neighbors who successfully picketed to end the discrimination. She was involved in the Riverdale chapter of the United Nations Association, and an avid supporter of the Bronx Arts Ensemble, hosting recitals at her home. She is survived by a far-flung family including Kenneth and his wife Margrethe Juncker, living in Jinja, Uganda, and their children Benjamin Davies in Alexandria, Virginia; Daniel Davies in Bangkok; Lukas Davies in Chicago; Emma Davies in Skokie, Illinois; and Johannes Davies in Cairo. Christopher and his wife Carina Borsch live in Logan, Utah, and they have a son Simon Davies in Albany. Borsch’s daughter by a previous marriage — Britt Pomusch of Olympia, Washington — considered Phyllis to be her “grandma.” She also is survived by two step-great-granddaughters, Maya Titof of Logan, and Svea Titof of Olympia. The family asks that friends wishing to make donations in Phyllis’ name contribute to Friends of Reach Out Africa, for which Phyllis was treasurer. It can be reached at FriendsOfReachOut.org.
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‘Impossible’ Marble Hill plot claims another developer? By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
Frank Lloyd Wright once joked he could just “shake the buildings out of my sleeves.” But even the famed architect who constructed Fallingwater house over a Pennsylvania waterfall might have thrown up his arms in frustration if faced with the empty lot occupying 7-15 Terrace View Ave. The Marble Hill lot is not so much a plot of land, but more a cliff, providing a stellar view of a U-Haul storage lot and the beginnings of Spuyten Duyvil for its neighbors. Yet a developer represented by attorney Jay Goldstein sees this as more than just an impossible lot. In fact, he thinks it’s perfect to build a seven-story residential building complete with 59 units. The problem is that the developer is alone in that belief. The city’s standards and appeals board has essentially rejected a request from the developer to rezone the Terrace View lot from manufacturing to higher-density residential. And for Community Board 8 land use chair Charles Moerdler, that’s very good news. “Mr. Goldstein is a courageous individual who believes that his steep land can be developed in some fashion,” Moerdler said during a land use meeting last spring. The property’s current owners, New Jersey-based 7-15 Terrace View Avenue LLC, bought the property in 2018 for $260,000. It’s a piece of land that has changed hands a number of time, but has apparently been vacant for decades, simply because the lot is nothing more than a steep decline. But engineers are pretty resourceful, Goldstein told the committee, and there’s a lot that can be done with the
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It’s nothing but brambles and patches of grass on the empty lot at 7-15 Terrace View Ave. But if one developer is successful — and that’s a big if — it could become the site of a new seven-story apartment building in the Marble Hill neighborhood. 8,200-square-foot lot despite its challenges with gravity. However, building something that would allow the developers to recoup their investment is something the lawyer says can’t be lost in the discussion. “The desire to build a conforming building would be impossible in terms of the financial aspect,” Goldstein said, about constructing a manufacturing building there instead. “It also would create a situation where you’d have commercial trucks going into and out of a heavily residential area.” Even without those trucks, Terrace
POLITICAL ARENA Stringer officially launches mayoral run Although it should be no surprise to anyone paying any attention to city politics, New York City’s comptroller Scott Stringer is now officially running to succeed Bill de Blasio in the mayor’s office. Stringer announced his bid on Tuesday at Inwood Hill Park, joining some of his upfront supporters, including state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi. “This city is strong. Our people are strong. But they should not have to fight their way back
View isn’t exactly a large street, Moerdler said, that has just one entrance and two exits. It’s part of a one-way street behind the Kennedy Campus that can either dump traffic out onto Adrian Avenue, or eventually lead them to West 225th Street. The street also isn’t known for its higher-density residential buildings, Moerdler added, so what’s been proposed for this site is “out of character” with the rest of the neighborhood. “The height of the building is one that destroys the character of the neighborhood,” Moerdler said during
September’s land use meeting. “It is something that is in a manufacturing zone, not a commercial or residential zone. Therefore, if they want to rezone it, they really ought to go to the City Planning Commission, which doesn’t want to hear from them.” In fact, if the developers are looking to construct something there, they should consider a commercial parking garage, Moerdler suggested. It’s an area that desperately needs more parking, and it could ultimately be big business for the property owners. Still, Goldstein argued in a recent
meeting that converting the property to residential is far more in-line with the neighborhood’s character. Its proximity to both the West 225th Street stop of the 1 train, as well as Metro-North’s Marble Hill station, could make apartments there quite popular. “You have 8,000 square feet of lot area there that is 70-feet deep,” Goldstein said. “And with that, you have an approximately 25-foot drop from the front of the lot to the rear of the lot — which, as you mentioned, makes a very hard way to build.” Goldstein’s clients had hoped to earn the rezoning through hardship. Not only is the cliff-like nature of the lot difficult to build on, the lawyer said, but current city code requires new manufacturing to be set back at least 20 feet from the street, which doesn’t leave very much real estate left to build anything in. Marble Hill also is pretty diverse when it comes to the kinds of buildings found there, Goldstein added. It’s a mixture of single-family homes with apartment buildings ranging from three stories to as high as six. What might ultimately kill the project, however, is parking. Moerdler’s law firm, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, represented the community board in front of standards and appeals, and based on what the board shared with the developer, they likely won’t see any real consideration about rezoning until they address what kind of parking is going to be available on a dense street where they want to add another 59 units. “They asked, ‘How much time will you need?’” Moerdler recalled. “’Three months,’ which told me an awful lot. We haven’t heard from him since, and I’m not sure if we ever will again.”
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on their own,” Stringer told the crowd who gathered for his announcement, according to a release. “The measure of our success in recovering from this pandemic cannot be whether the Dow Jones continues to rise. The measure of our success must be, instead, whether we finally build a city for everyone.” Stringer followed his announcement by traveling across the Broadway Bridge to Riverdale, where he walked Johnson Avenue, talking to shoppers and residents, joined by Biaggi. Stringer joins what many are
describing as a crowded race for 2021 that already includes the city’s veterans services department commissioner Loree Sutton, and former U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan. Also expected to jump into the Democratic primary are Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, council Speaker Corey Johnson, and even former presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., had been an early favorite in the race, but dropped out earlier this year.
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City comptroller Scott Stringer, the latest to throw his hat into the New York City mayoral race, joins state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, center, talking to shoppers along Johnson Avenue on Tuesday.
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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 10, 2020 - A9
WHAT’S IN / WHAT’S ON The Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Ave., will give out free flu shots Tuesday, Sept. 15, beginning at 10 a.m. The event — sponsored by local elected officials — include what organizers describe as a “very limited supply” of vaccines, meaning advanced registration is required. Those who are invited to get a shot will need to wear proper face mask equipment, and maintain social distance. For more information, visit bit.ly/RivYFluShots.
Implicit bias training available online
Northwest Bronx Indivisible hosts an online training event on implicit bias on Sunday, Sept. 13, beginning at 3 p.m. It’s led by Anthony Brown, the chief diversity officer and special assistant to the president of Brooklyn College, and is available through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. To register and to get more information, visit tinyurl.com/ImplicitBiasTrain.
Talk with a comic book artist
The Bronx Council on the Arts kicks off its youth arts engagement program with Ivan Velez — a renowned Bronx native, and a comic book artist with both Marvel and DC — for an online workshop, “Planet Manga.” It’s designed for teens 14 and older, and begins Thursday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. Also, the Bronx Memoir Project returns with “Writing Pandemonium,” a virtual four-part personal story writing workshop series led by Orlando Ferrand. It runs Mondays beginning Sept. 21, at 5 p.m., and is available online. For more information, visit BronxArts.org.
Pelham art knocks on door
The Pelham Art Center hosts art projects and classes via its website. Programs include: • A gallery for “Domestic Brutes,” featuring sculptures and paintings by contemporary women artists, on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 1 p.m. via the Zoom videoconferencing app. For more information, visit PelhamArtCenter. com.
Wave Hill brings back yoga, meditation
Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., has reopened for special restricted hours Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5:30 p.m. Admission requires advance ticket purchase at WaveHill.org. Classes and activities include: • Virtual yoga classes with Susie Caramanica every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. • Meditation in the Garden virtually with outdoor guide Cindy Olsen or “dosha healer” Sara Hart, Sundays through Nov. 8, beginning at 9:30 a.m. For more information, visit WaveHill.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 Visit RiverdaleOnline.org.
NYC parks reveal new opportunities
The Urban Park Rangers have joined with various New York City parks to provide a series of virtual tours, meditation, fitness and art classes, and children’s activities. Classes and activities include: • Mondays: Motivational fitness • Tuesdays: Live tour with the rangers • Wednesdays: Live walks in a park • Thursdays: Public arts and culture programs • Fridays: Meditation For more information, visit NYC.gov/parks.
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CB8 gets September rolling
Community Board 8 continues to meet via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For links or how to access those meetings, visit NYC.org/ CB8. Upcoming meetings include: • The law, ethics and rules committee meets Monday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. • The public safety committee meets Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. • The environment and sanitation committee meets Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. • The traffic and transportation committee meets Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m.
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A garden stroll around the corner
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center hosts a virtual tour through its community garden and park Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m., via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Activities include a stroll with Buddy — the center’s therapy dog — an overview of the community garden volunteering experience, a look at the center’s beehives, and more. To RSVP, tickets are available via donations, which include: • A $25 food box for a family of four. • A $50 month’s supply of cleaning items for a family. • A $100 micro-grant for a family struggling with bill payments. For more information, visit KHCC-NYC.org.
Art created in a pandemic
The Riverdale Art Association presents its new online art gallery in the form of a video, “Art in a Time of Quarantine,” featuring work by Doris Cordero, Maria Formoso, Thomas Maceranka, and others. Visit RiverdaleArtAssociation.org.
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Opinion
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George W. Bush’s address to the nation on Sept. 11, 2001
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ood evening. Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices — secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers. Moms and dads. Friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature. And we responded with the best of America, with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could. Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government’s emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it’s prepared. Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington, D.C., to help with local rescue efforts. Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world
from further attacks. The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington, which had to be evacuated today, are reopening for essential personnel tonight, and will be open for business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business as well. The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance. America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against terrorism. Tonight I ask you for your prayers, for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me.” This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom, and all that is good and just in the world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
Letters to the editor
Want 100%, but won’t give half To the editor: As I write these words, the opportunity to be counted in the census is closing, and you — as a member of the community — should be as upset as I am. I will explain why. The census is a 230-year-old federally mandated initiative that is from the Constitution of the United States in order to determine how to proportion representation. It is not a government initiative to intrude on your privacy, nor is it an attempt by the government on any level to interfere with your privacy. In fact, by law, the census is sealed for 72 years, so whatever concerns you may have, they cannot use any information except for the count for 72 years. Every 10 years, local municipalities and states must be counted in order to proportion representatives. Since then, every level and type of government assistance has been based on the census. When the census numbers come out, those are the numbers the government has to abide by when they appropriate members of congress, Section 8 housing vouchers, Head Start programs, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, Title I, and almost any other program. Everything from affordable housing to welfare is determined by the census. One very important such service is the Child Care Block Grant, which allows so many of our yeshivas to slay afloat. So why should I care? How will it impact me? Even if the impact is not clear and tangible to you at first glance, it truly influences you and your community. If your child requires a Head Start program, or if you require a Section 8 voucher or any type of government assistance,
all of those means of support are predicated on the actual census. Experts say for every person who doesn’t fill out the census, social services for that area are reduced by more than $1,000. That means that every single person in our community that does not fill out the census is responsible for those in our community who need government assistance, but couldn’t receive it. It may not be you or your relatives, but every person in our community knows at least one person — from shul or yeshiva, or even work — who is struggling. Struggling to pay rent. To buy food. To pay tuition. Regardless of how you feel about the state’s responsibility to the needy, these systems exist, and we would be fools not to take part in them. An integral part of that participation is the census. We kvetch so much, but we just don’t get it: When it comes to being proactive, we fall down on the job. Kvetching gets you nowhere, unless it is followed by tangible action. Everyone must internalize this message. I quite literally cannot emphasize this enough: This is a once-in-10-year opportunity. If the last few months of upheaval have not been the wake-up call that we need to do all we can to make our voices heard as much as possible, then we must be deaf, blind and ignorant. I urge everyone to stop what you’re doing and call (800) 923-8282, or go to My2020Census. org, and respond to the census. You have until Sept. 30 to do so. ezra Friedlander The author is the chief executive of The Friedlander Group, a public policy consulting group based in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Attacking Israel? It’s ‘racism’ To the editor:
(re: “DSA question not anti-Semitic,” Aug. 27)
My father was a socialist in what became Hitler’s Germany. However, it became clear — at least in much of Saxony — that in their quest for power, many had adopted the anti-Semitic stance of the extremes of left and right. He became a social democrat, and with his colleague Willy Brandt (later mayor of West Berlin and chancellor of a free Germany), they campaigned against Hitler and bigotry. My father died at Hitler’s hand because of his religion, and his publicly stated beliefs. That pre-war affinity of the extremes of left and right to anti-Semitism extended after World War II. When Austrian Jews were released from displaced persons and concentration camps, it was the socialist minister of the interior who attacked these victims of the most awful persecution, and opposed restitution of their property because they were Jewish. Sadly, Georges Santayana was right: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to relive it.” To our shame, there are again those — including some among those who prostitute the names of both the Democratic and Socialist
parties — who demonstrate their anti-Semitic bent as, under the term “BDS,” they advocate boycotts of Jewish businesses in Israel, or attack Israel and then falsely say they were only attacking certain of its leaders or policies. Few are deceived. What these peddlers of hate and disruption forget — or lack the wisdom to care to know — is that in the interim between those last voyages in the sewers of mankind, federal courts and various international treaties and edicts have aptly termed anti-Semitism as “racism.” And racism it is. It is neither chic nor liberal nor progressive. It is vile. It is cruel. It is hateful. It is crude. And it indelibly brands the utterer. And if we have not learned that after millions of deaths and endless sorrow, then we may well relive it. So, as these racists proclaim the virtue of antiSemitic BDS boycotts and besmirch the only democracy in the Middle East — Israel — let them carry with them the brand “racist,” a term this nation has finally come to recognize with the disdain it has so long richly deserved. Charles Moerdler
Burning questions for candidates To the editor:
(re: “Cohen heads to bench, council race heats up,” Aug. 13)
There’s a wide open race to replace Andrew Cohen, whom I personally believe shares admirable traits with my Assemblyman, Jeffrey Dinowitz, and state senator, Alessandra Biaggi: Politics is local, and responding to constituents’ concerns is at the top of their agenda. In that spirit, I urge all candidates running to pay attention. Above and beyond the needs of our impacted neighbors by COVID-19 — no small matter — there are long-term issues that the advent of the pandemic has thrust upon our city, state and country, not to mention our little corner of the world. Our city council person can be at the forefront of these changes, or just be a useless tagalong. Here are some issues, beyond the appearance of their skin deepness: • Reasonable housing at reasonable cost for all members of our community. Do we want our local uniformed services working in the neighborhood, and wouldn’t they be better off living here? But can they afford it? • Wouldn’t school teachers, nurses, home health aides, and other providers of high-growth service jobs be better off living nearby, in our community? But how can they afford it? • Are we going to NIMBY ourselves to oblivion? There are already group homes for the developmentally challenged scattered throughout our neighborhood — often well integrated. Most of us live near them, and many of us consider the residents to be more than good neighbors. • Don’t the ever-present homeless — especially families with children — deserve a decent place to live? Won’t our community welcome the diversity of their presence, which they so unknowingly contribute? Or will we get a political football response to the loudest screamers?
And aren’t we all sick of that for the past 3.5 years anyway? • Day care — how about making it as official for children as RSS-Riverdale Senior Services is and are for adults? • How about traffic enforcement so as to better enable all of us to adequately share the limited road space, resources available to us? • How about working with or making it clear to local commercial landlords like Friedlander that our community isn’t just about their bottom line: We need a decent quality supermarket, one which employs people at fair wages. One that is clean and responsive, and is a welcome neighbor. Does anyone truly believe we have such a place already? It is long overdue, especially with the closing of Fairway/Harlem. • What are you planning to propose to replace Skyview Shopping Center, and how are you planning to go about it? That piece of property is run down, decrepit, woefully under-utilized, and an eyesore. How do you plan to attract local merchants, and not just chains? Are you planning to work with the residents and owners of the Skyview co-op to possibly coordinate an effort? If not, why not? We have a fabulous slice of the city here in 10463/10471 — diverse, somewhat affordable, with a lot to be thankful for. We can and should aim to do better. Let’s hear it, candidates: What do you each say to these issues? What do you propose that you can actually help to achieve these quality of life concerns? How are you planning to help all of us? Before anyone asks me who I plan to support, I want to hear what the candidates say to address these and other valid issues. I want answers. Then I’ll give you the answer on whom I support. Or do I need to run for this office to wake the local pols up? adaM sToler
Amazon’s unofficial delivery guy To the editor: This is a cautionary tale which should be of interest to many Riverdalians, given the increased number of Amazon deliveries in our neighborhood during the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, while at my vacation home in rural upstate New York, I saw an Amazon delivery truck park in front of a mailbox down the road from my house. The driver looked at the address on the mailbox and walked a few feet up the easement road alongside my property. However, instead of proceeding up the easement to the house, whose address is on the mailbox, he retraced his steps, turned toward my house, and dumped three packages on the road in front of my property. I picked up the packages and saw they did not have my name or my address on the label. I asked the driver why he had dumped the packages on the road in front of my house (he did not even bring them to my door), and he insisted that the packages were addressed to me. “No, they are not mine, and you have the wrong address,” I replied — Do I not know my own name and address? He said that I was lying, but he would pick up the packages, so I left the packages where he had dumped them, walked toward my house, and was astonished to see him run toward his truck and quickly drive away. Taken aback, I called Amazon’s customer
service hotline. The polite and “helpful” Amazon service person informed me that she could not identify the tracking number, nor could she trace the driver who had dumped the packages — although I could call the local fulfillment center (she did not have its location or phone number). “What would you like me to do?” she asked. “Send the driver or someone to pick up the packages and deliver them to the correct address,” I responded. She could not do that until (maybe) tomorrow, she said, so I should leave the packages by the road. “It’s going to rain tonight, plus the packages could be stolen,” I said. She told me that she could not help (“our options are limited”), but that Amazon’s official policy for such situations offered me several choices. I could keep the contents of the packages, donate the contents to a charity of my choice, or throw the packages away. I was dumbfounded by this instruction to steal my neighbors’ packages, and the realization that Amazon had no interest in, or capability of, tracking down the lazy, incompetent, and dishonest driver, and did not really give a damn if the packages reached their legitimate destination. Now I know why my family and I have become unofficial Amazon delivery people, both upstate and in Riverdale. ViVian oleen
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 10, 2020 - A11
Op-Ed
WHERE BEING JEWISH IS AN OPEN TENT
Point of view
Farrakhan’s murderous fiction versus the truth
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elieving conspiracy theories must be comforting. Conspiracy theorists construct a venomous fantasy of an overwhelming threat, and they’re believed because they give the believer certainty about who the enemy is. Believing a conspiracy theory is weakness, a betrayal of your mind’s potential to rationally determine what is truth and what is fantasy. Recently, we witnessed television host Nick Cannon, retired NBA player Stephen Jackson, and other African American celebrities attend a speech by that famous fireballspitting, lying, fantasist demagogue Louis Farrakhan, who fronts the Nation of Islam — defined as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Farrakhan told that audience the Jewish people “are Satan,” “the enemy of God” and “worthy of chastisement.” Over the decades, Farrakhan has said this about the Jewish people: • “The Jews control this great nation.” • “You practice lying, cheating, stealing, and murder and war-mongering.” • “The Jews are the worst enemy of Blacks.” • “If you choose to crucify me, Allah will crucify you.” Earlier this year, in June, the rapper Ice Cube — a follower of Farrakhan — posted on Twitter a drawing of old Jewish men counting money and playing Monopoly on the backs of shirtless Black men who are bending forward with their heads almost between their knees, so the game of making millions by oppressing African Americans can continue until the end of time. Unless, the drawing’s caption implies, the Black man stands up to the Jewish oppressor. All this is a license to hurt or kill Jews. If you’re “Satan,” you don’t have the right to live in decent society. Jackson, the NBA player, said on Instagram that “Jews are the richest people.” This would be news to my late father — a small business owner — and my mother, a hospital dietitian, who exhausted themselves to feed their squabbling boys. Or my grandpa, a Russian immigrant, who had to drop out of school in the eighth grade to go work after his father died. The Nation of Islam claims the Jewish people have controlled the slave trade, Congress, the banks, the media. That’s a lot of work for a
tiny minority of 15 million. And the Jews did all this despite the fact we got murdered by the Nazis, massacred in Russian pogroms, and intermittently slaughtered in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages. Along with his admiration of Farrakhan, Ice Cube is a fan of Martin Luther King. He wrote on Twitter, he “was a non-violent peaceful man who taught non-violence.” Maybe Ice Cube doesn’t know, but Martin Luther King had an important ally in the American Jewish community. Jewish teenagers made up about half the young people who went to Mississippi in 1964 to register African American voters during the Freedom Summer. In June 1964, two young Jewish men — Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman — along with an African American man, James Chaney, were kidnapped and killed, then buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi by the KKK for trying to register voters. Also that June, 16 rabbis helped Dr. King try to integrate a whites-only motel in St. Augustine, Florida. The rabbis marched with King and other protesters, while white citizens in town stood on the sidewalk holding baseball bats, broken bottles and other weapons, screaming that the rabbis were “n-lovers.” After that, the rabbis prayed in the motel parking lot. Local police arrested them. ‘ The 16 rabbis, all held in one hot and humid little cell during a Florida summer, wrote a letter, “Why We Went.” They humbly wrote: “In the battle against racism, we have participated in only a skirmish.” Also, the wrote, “We came because we realized that injustice in St. Augustine — as anywhere else — diminishes the humanity of each of us. We came to stand with our brothers.” In partnership with Booker T. Washington, a Jewish philanthropist named Julius Rosenwald helped finance the establishment of public schools for African Americans in the South in the early 1900s when government wouldn’t provide the funds for minority education. The Jewish community helped found the NAACP. Does this sound like the synagogue of Satan to you? Rabbi Hillel said, “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the entire Torah.” Ice Cube, Nick Cannon, Stephen Jackson and company: take note.
Some thoughts on empathy By MIRIAM HELBOK
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n the book “The Family of Man,” which contains more than 500 photos exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, a two-page spread shows individuals by themselves, along with the text, “I am alone with the beating of my heart.” While all of us are part of the family of humankind, each of us ultimately is a totally separate creature. Other people cannot experience the beating of one’s own heart or anything else occurring within our individual bodies and minds. At the same time, most of us feel connected to other people, and believe we understand to a great degree the sorts of feelings that others experience, because as humans, we share most of those feelings. We often nod in agreement when others express their thoughts as well. That’s why we talk about empathy and the ability to put ourselves in the shoes of others, as Michelle Obama noted in her speech at the virtual Democratic National Convention recently. For all practical purposes, those of us who possess empathy can do that. But I believe that we must recognize the limits of our ability to understand what others are feeling and thinking, and not assume that we truly know how they feel or, sometimes, fully understand what they think. I believe we cannot truly know how other people experience the world, even in terms of their senses — and partly for that reason, completely understanding the way others feel and think, and the conclusions they come to may often be beyond us. Take the sense of taste. In 1931, a DuPont chemist accidentally discovered that the compound phenylthiocarbamide (referred to as PTC) tastes bitter to some people, while others find it tasteless. I don’t know of things we eat that have that property, but there is no doubt that people taste things differently — after all, the same food that delights the taste buds of some people, disgusts others.
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here really is no way for us to know precisely what another person is tasting. That came home to me years ago when I read about two ethnobotanists who were studying the fruits eaten by some tribespeople living in a tropical part of the globe. When each scientist tasted a fruit previously unknown to them, one compared the taste to that of a peach, and the other said it reminded him of a pineapple. (Those are probably not the fruits they mentioned, but I do remember that they cited fruits with distinctly different tastes.) Certainly, people feel physical pain differently. The chart that medical professionals
came up with for ranking pain on a scale of one to 10 demonstrates that fact every day. A cramp I’ve had a couple of times in one of my feet felt more unbearable to me than the pain of my kidney stone or even labor pains, but I imagine many others would rate each of those pains differently. Emotions, too, have physical components, but how can any of us know exactly what another person is feeling when, say, consumed by crushing grief or distracted by raging fury or besotted by love? We can only take empathetic guesses. I’ve been thinking about this partly because of disagreements my sister and I have had via email about the massive protests that were taking place in Thailand — where my sister lives — and in Hong Kong, where one of her daughters lives. My sister professes to believe that benevolent dictatorships are, in all cases, superior to democracies. She admits that her views stem from her personal circumstances and those of her daughter, but she dismisses the protesters as clueless and spoiled.
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understand wanting to avoid societal upheaval for personal — i.e., selfish — reasons, but I truly cannot understand her viewing the Chinese government as benevolent, or the Thai government — ruled by military men who took over in a coup, and ostensibly headed by a hedonist king who spends almost all his time in Germany — as acceptable. I won’t even mention here her views of Vladimir Putin, which horrify me and which, similarly, I simply can’t understand. It’s good, though, that I am reminded how little I can understand the thinking of so many people whose ideas drastically oppose mine. This is especially true now, when so many people get all their news from sources that broadcast not facts, but what the Trump administration’s spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway has labeled “alternative facts.” I cannot imagine how I can understand the thinking of folks whose “facts” bear no resemblance to what I believe to be true. One final thought. I suspect that some of us have met women like the two I used to know, each of whom assured me that she understood her husband so well — and felt so closely connected to him in every way — that she routinely would finish her husband’s sentences. After many years of marriage, each husband told his wife — to her total astonishment and horror — that he had fallen in love with someone else. And each man promptly moved out, never to return. How well did these women really know their husbands?
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