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Bringing drag racing to a screeching halt Independence Avenue neighbors say they want their speed bumps back By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
Ready, set, wait Schools were expected to reopen this week, but the city isn’t as far past COVID-19 as it thinks. Page A3
The stretch of Independence Avenue is largely green, scenic and residential. But it’s been facing a problem over the past few years that threatens the peace there: It’s become a hotspot for drag racing. Although other nearby roadways — including Fieldston Road, the Henry Hudson Parkway, and the Major Editorial Deegan Expressway — comment are some of the more Page A10 common stretches used for the illegal speeding, the most prominent issues seem to center around Independence Avenue between West 232nd and West 246th streets. Largely straight, currently devoid of speed bumps and traffic cameras, and wider than most of the other streets in the community, Independence has become a drag racer’s paradise — much to the chagrin of those who live on and around it. Independence’s appeal to drag racers is nothing new, but it was something Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz hoped to curb by advocating for the installation of speed bumps on the street. After that was done in 2013, the drag racing seemed to die down, DRAG RACING, page A4
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Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz and Councilman Andrew Cohen were among those taking part in a safe streets rally last week, where concerned neighbors expressed individual grievances bout nightly drag racers along Independence Avenue. While drag racing has been an issue in the community for several years, it’s surged again over the past few months.
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Confused about how to cast your vote? You’re not the only one. And November is coming soon. Page A8
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Ceremonial gesture intended to celebrate Spuyten Duvyil history By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@riverdalepress.com
Not just Riverdale Marcos Sierra says it’s time for this area’s city council seat to look at the broader area in the rest of the borough. Page A6
Stephanie Coggins makes no secret of her love for Spuyten Duyvil. She’s not afraid to stand up for what she believes is the beauty and character of the neighborhood, no matter how big the foe may be. But the self-described “accidental activist” never intended to be so front-and-center. In fact, it wasn’t until developers decided to raze the century-old Villa Rosa Bonheur apartment building at 2395 Palisade Ave., overlooking the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, that she made her voice heard. Unfortunately, no matter how hard one fights, victory may not always be in reach. The last remnants of Villa Rosa Bonheur were carted away as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the city,
Cohen does believe street co-namings are meaningful ways of honoring the community and culture. It’s just this particular co-naming is not a legislative priority for him. — Cohen spokeswoman leaving the apartment building as nothing more than a chapter in the community’s history. And in the same breath, defeat is not always solitary as Councilman Andrew Cohen rejected a plan that would ceremonially co-
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A woman walks toward Bradley Terrace, a step street Spuyten Duyvil activist Stephanie Coggins had hoped to ceremonially co-name after the former Villa Rosa Bonheur apartment building nearby, and its developer, John J. McKelvey Sr. However, Councilman Andrew Cohen ended that push by telling Coggins and other community groups no. name a step street nearby. As she fought for Villa Rosa Bonheur, Coggins learned nearly every detail of its history — a lot of it forgotten, even by those who have called the neighborhood home for decades. What better way to highlight some of that history — including the barrel-tiled roof apartment building itself — than memorializing it wherever
people can see it. Late last year, Coggins dedicated nearly every free moment she had pushing to co-name Bradley Terrace — a step street that leads to the Spuyten Duyvil Metro-North train station after both Villa Rosa Bonheur and its developer, John H. McKelvey Sr. “I really put hundreds of hours of work into this,” Coggins said.
“This time last year, my husband and I went up to the Catskills, and we rented a house for two weeks. I was there, in one of the bedrooms, pounding away on my laptop, trying to do enough research that I could put together a substantial nomination letter.” Coggins presented all this material to Community Board CO-NAMING, page A4
Evictions getting attention — but issue isn’t new By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
It’s been a rallying cry across the city — and across the state — for months. “Cancel rent,” “cancel mortgages,” “stop evictions.” There are more than 5 million renters in New York City, paying a median of $2,700 for a one-bedroom apartment according to Zumper.com. That’s the second highest in the entire country, and rent prices have been falling as the city struggles to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Residential and commercial tenants alike have struggled to pay rent during the health crisis, with the city’s unemployment rate at 16 percent, according to the state’s labor department. It’s an improvement over July, when nearly 20 percent of job-seekers were out of luck, but still much higher than the rest of New York state. Activists warn that thousands of people could face evictions when the statewide moratorium comes to an end — something that’s currently slated to happen Oct. 20, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared on Monday.
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Apartments at 210 W. 262nd St., have seen six evictions over the last two years. While evictions have been in the news as housing activists advocate for extended eviction moratoriums, they’re nothing new for thousands of people in the city. But, while evictions have been in the news and on the minds of renters for the last seven months, it’s not exactly a new issue. For some, being removed from their
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apartment might feel like something that only happens in pop culture, or to that downstairs neighbor who was sort of rude anyway. But thousands of people face evic-
tions each year, sometimes completely out of their control. And many times, they have nowhere else to go. The city has charted more than 66,000 evictions since 2016, with the Bronx leading the way with a third of them. For ZIP code 10463, which includes Kingsbridge and Spuyten Duyvil, there were nearly 640 evictions over a three-year period. For 10471, which includes the wealthier Riverdale and Fieldston neighborhoods, evictions were a tad above 125. Yet it can be difficult to contextualize such numbers, so activist Katelin Penner saw another way to break up the data — by government representative. According to stopevictionsnyc.com, more than 480 tenants were evicted in Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz’s district from the beginning of 2019 to this past March. That includes the greater Riverdale area, Kingsbridge, and parts of Woodlawn Heights, Wakefield and Norwood. The neighboring district represented by Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez, which also includes EVICTIONS, page A4
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A do-it-yourself boiler repair project The typical choices for vehicle burglaries are personal cars and SUVs, with thieves generally making off with purses and wallets. But more recently, however, someone got particularly lucky when they found a parked commercial van. Someone shattered the rear window of a van parked on the 6500 block of Broadway sometime between the evening of Sept. 4 and the early morning of Sept. 8, police said, finding a treasure trove of equipment. The van belonged to Miller Proctor Nickolas, a boiler company based in Tarrytown, and was loaded with drills, a welding kit, heavy-duty batteries, and a boiler replacement — all told worth nearly $2,000. There were no witnesses, but police were able to access camera footage from 6565 Broadway, giving the detective squad some key leads that may just crack this case.
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Remote start was false start for some parents By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
The first day of school looked very different in a world in the midst of a public health crisis. There were few pictures outside by parents, showing off their children’s new clothes or holding lunchboxes and backpacks. There were no tearful goodbyes before getting on the bus or after walking to school. Instead, this year, the city’s public school students began their academic year at home, by switching an electronic device on. As part of the city’s plan to reopen schools for in-person learning, the academic year kicked off Sept. 16 with the first of three “instructional orientation” days. Completely remote, the three-day period was designed to get children accustomed to their hybrid or remote learning models before some in-person classes began Sept. 21. At least, they were supposed to begin Sept. 21. All that changed less than a week before when the city’s education department once again delayed in-person learning due to obstacles like staffing shortages and positive coronavirus tests among school personnel, who had returned to school buildings earlier this month. This time, they opted for a “phased-in” return to in-person classes, meaning not everyone who was supposed to would return to their school buildings Sept. 21. In fact, the only public school students returning Monday were those attending pre-K and the specialized District 75 schools. Others will wait a bit longer — at least until Sept. 29. And that’s if the city doesn’t delay in-person classes again, which Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn’t guarantee wouldn’t happen. Instead, students began their academic year remotely. And the instructional orientation period of the original deal made by the city and the United Federation of Teachers may have served as an indicator for how remote
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Norah Feliciano, 5, a P.S. 81 student, looks out of her balcony window next to the remote learning station her parents made. She’s starting kindergarten remotely this year, as in-person classes have been delayed for elementary schools until at least Sept. 29. learning will fare going forward. Although the education department required a teacher orientation, each school had some say over what it would look like. According to Steven Schwartz, principal of P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil, the education department required each teacher to engage with their students and their families for at least one hour on each instructional orientation day. Schwartz provided a fourhour window, leaving time for teachers to use at their discretion. “Some will take an hour. Some will take the four full hours,” Schwartz said. “But it’s really an opportunity for us to engage with not just the families, but really get children comfortable with seeing the teacher (and) get to know the teacher.” Schwartz’s goal for instructional orientation was to not only familiarize students with hybrid and remote learn-
ing models, but also help those same students feel like they were actually in their classrooms, even if they were really sitting at home. “We wanted to mirror, as closely as possible, the first three days of school,” Schwartz said, “so really trying to build classroom expectations, a warm culture, a warm environment that can make children feel safe.” Laura Skinner’s first day of orientation, however, didn’t go well at all. Skinner’s two stepchildren are public school students — one’s in seventh grade, and the other in second. She opted for completely remote learning for both children, who had varying success during their first day of orientation. Skinner’s stepdaughter goes to Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy, and had an easier time navigating and adjusting to remote learning. But accord-
ing to Skinner, she wasn’t immune to apprehensive feelings about the upcoming academic year, even though it was just for orientation. “They don’t want to be home,” Skinner said. “My daughter today was kind of weird. She didn’t really want to have breakfast, because even though she’s here at home, it’s just not normal.” Her second grader faced more difficulty on his first remote day at P.S. 24. And by extension, so did Skinner. On the first day, Skinner clicked on the log-in links for orientation, but found none of them worked. She had to turn to social media to ask for the correct links, and she entered the remote classroom that way. But the issues did not end there. During the orientation, the teacher began speaking about hybrid learning — which Skinner had not signed up for. Skinner chimed in and said she’d
requested for her stepson to have fully remote classes, and was then informed she was in the wrong orientation session. The teacher provided her with a link to the correct teacher and remote classroom, but it was already too late. She’d missed both the information on remote learning and meeting her stepson’s teacher. “It’s just been a nightmare,” Skinner said. “It’s the first day of remote learning (and) he’s been sitting on the couch reading books.” Nicole Feliciano’s experience with the first day of orientation was a bit different. Her daughter is entering kindergarten at P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen, and while they held a parent orientation on Sept. 16, Feliciano couldn’t attend because she was working. Feliciano supported having a remote start to the academic year, a wish which was ultimately granted. But when schools do return to in-person classes, she’s worried about the impact the virus that causes COVID-19 could cause, especially since, as of Sept. 19, more than 90 school buildings across the city had one or more people test positive — without children in the building yet. “I know that I can control what my child does, but I can’t control what other people do with their children,” Feliciano said. “I can’t control other children wearing their masks and things like that. It really worries me that my daughter is going to pick something up.” The academic year will certainly herald its own challenges with remote learning and last-minute tweaks. But Feliciano thinks while parents’ first instincts might be to get upset with their respective schools’ administrators, that anger might be misdirected. “The principals are getting all of this information last-minute — if at all — and they’re really trying to make those adjustments with the best interest of kids in mind (and) with what they have,” Feliciano said. “The schools are in the dark as well.”
SCHOOL DESK No snow days this year The city’s public school system used to be notorious for keeping its doors open, even during inclement weather. And on the rare occasions public schools did close, it was a cause for celebration, in addition to playing in the snow and sipping hot chocolate on an unexpected
By ROSE BRENNAN day off. But that won’t be the case this year. Last spring, remote learning ushered in an era of innovation when it came to teaching children from their homes, and it plans to continue doing so going forward. On what used to be snow days, public school students will still go to school — remotely. That would normally be the
case for schools’ fully remote groups and whichever hybrid groups were learning from home on a given day. But on days with inclement weather, they’ll be joined by that day’s in-person group.
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ing started much earlier than 1971. First, he was a student at Ethical Culture Fieldston School. It was there he was first exposed to project-based learning, which he carried with him in every teaching job thereafter. “I came to realize as I got older actually teaching (at Kenyon) that the things I liked to do … are interdisciplinary, that you learn from experience, and
you learn by creating things collaboratively and creatively,” Rutkoff told The Kenyon Collegian, the college’s student newspaper. Rutkoff is best known on campus for “his presence in Wiggin Street Coffee, where he can be found most weekday mornings chatting with Gambier residents in a cluster of leather chairs,” the newspaper added.
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Pandemic shines new light on eviction issues EVICTIONS from page A1 Norwood alongside Pelham Gardens and Allerton, saw just under 500 in the same time period. Dinowitz’s Tenant Safe Harbor Act, which was signed into law by Cuomo in June, intends to protect tenants struggling financially as a result of the pandemic from evictions by allowing tenants who haven’t paid rent to use that financial hardship as a defense in court, should their landlords try to evict them. The statewide eviction moratorium, currently set to expire Oct. 1 covers all tenants, and prevents any eviction taking place, even if a tenant wasn’t paying rent in January. The Safe Harbor Act covers tenants who can prove their financial hardship is a result of the pandemic, and doesn’t cover any nonpayment of rent prior to March 7. “I wish we could have gotten a law passed that would prevent all evictions for obvious reasons,” Dinowitz said. “But we did what we were able to do, and I think this is a very far-reaching law that will cover most potential targets of evictions.” While state lawmakers have tried to figure out how to implement stronger eviction protections in the past, Dinowitz said, nothing ironclad has been passed. Julie Colon, an organizer
Where are they happening?
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There have been four evictions at 3110 Kingsbridge Terrace in the last two years, according to city data — four of more than 800 evictions taking place in this part of the Bronx over the last two years. The pandemic is bringing evictions to light, but they’re not new to tenants. at the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, is worried about evictions yearround. She’s one of hundreds of housing activists calling for more complete protections for tenants struggling to pay rent during the pandemic. “Tenants do not have enough protections,” she said “Everything that the state has
given us so far — and the city has given us so far — has left people out. It’s left out workers. It’s left out undocumented folk. It’s excluded public housing residents. The list just goes on and on.” Most people don’t know what rights they have with regard to their housing, even in normal years, Colon said.
They’re entitled to free counsel in housing court — a program that has been successful in keeping people in their homes after eviction proceedings. Even as eviction proceedings are starting, many tenants are afraid of their landlords, some of whom may target them outside the courtroom — especially since they know where
There were more than 800 evictions over a 14-month period in this part of the Bronx, but where did they take place? There were six evictions at 210 W. 262nd St., since 2018, with 10 more in 2017. At 2775 Kingsbridge Terrace, there have been two evictions since 2019 with one more in 2017. Yet, according to Who Owns What in NYC, the owners of the building — Wavecrest — had 312 evictions across more than 362 other apartment buildings in 2019 where they manage more than 22,700 units. They also had more than a dozen evictions in one building in the east Bronx. “It is Wavecrest’s top priority to keep residents safely and affordably in their homes,” said Susan Camrata, the company’s chief financial officer. “We have no financial incentive for eviction, especially as the vast majority of our buildings are income-restricted.” In fact, Camrata added, 2775 Kingsbridge Terrace is a rentstabilized building with “no current evictions pending,” — although that’s not surprising since there is a statewide moratorium on evictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended that moratorium to Oct. 20 on Monday. According to a 2017 study by the Regional Plan Association, the Bronx had both the highest percentage of “very low-income” renter households and the highest number of households spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent. — Kirstyn Brendlen they live. “Sometimes the landlords will start to harass you, so you have that added stress on top of you as well,” Colon said. “You kind of lose sight of what to do, and that fear takes hold of you. I’ve seen tenants just get tricked or get pressured into signing stipulations that end up leading to their eviction later down the road.” While it’s easy for people feeling comfortable in their liv-
ing situation to forget about evictions, it’s something Colon believes should be on everybody’s mind. “You never know when it’s you that’s going to lose your job and not have enough money to pay the rent,” she said. “And the people who have a predatory landlord, one month you’re getting papers, you’re getting a rent statement saying that you owe money, and you’re going to start worrying about it.”
Cohen rejects request to honor community’s history CO-NAMING from page A1 8’s traffic and transportation committee, many of whom were enthusiastic about her idea. It then moved on to a pair of votes from the entire community board, supported by letters from seven different community groups. The only hangup was that naming streets after buildings — even if they have some basis in history — was not ANDREw something the comcOHEN mittee had faced before. Laura Spalter, the current chair of CB8, was part of that process. If anyone had any issues with what Coggins was proposing, she didn’t hear it. “Throughout this process, we were not made aware of any STEPHANIE opposition,” Spalter cOGGINS said. “A concern was raised that the board had not previously considered co-naming after a building, and language was added to our ethical guidance manual to enable the board to include historic buildings.” Cohen, however, remained silent through the process. He told The Riverdale Press in January that he was aware of Coggins’ efforts, but he had hadn’t had a chance to consider it. Instead, he said he would wait to see what CB8 decides. CB8 gave its blessing, submitting the entire proposal to Cohen at the end of April. The community board’s role in such matters is only advisory, and Cohen is not obligated to follow any of
Developer’s son dies at 103 People familiar with Spuyten Duyvil history may know a lot about John J., McKelvey Sr., the developer behind Villa Rosa Bonheur and much of the greenscape this part of the Bronx now enjoys. But not everyone may be familiar with his namesake. John Jay McKelvey Jr., spent his career as an entomologist for the Rockefeller Foundation, including some efforts that ultimately led to Norman Borlaug’s Nobel Peace Prize for his breakthroughs in what production in 1970. McKelvey, who graduated from Horace Mann School, and was one of the family members Stephanie Coggins was
hoping to help honor with a ceremonial street co-naming near one of his father’s former buildings, died Sept. 6. He was 103. He was married for 65 years to Josephine Gibson Faulkner, until her death in 2006. They had four sons together, including John Jay McKelvey III, now living in Tacoma, Washington. He retired to Richfield Springs in Otsego County in the early 1980s, becoming involved with two churches in the community, according to a published obituary: the Federated Church of West Winfield, and the Miller Mills Community Baptist Church. — Michael Hinman JULIUS cONSTANTINE MOTAL / File
its recommendations. The matter lingered for months, and it’s not surprising. By the end of April, the city was locked down because of the coronavirus. Efforts like ceremonial street co-namings were on the backburner as the health and economy of the city virtually collapsed. By September, however, the city has returned to some normalcy, although the COVID-19 threat remains ever-present. There is now room to focus on other things that aren’t related to the pandemic, like drag racing through the streets. But for Cohen, there’s no room for Villa Rosa Bonheur or its designer, McKelvey. “Essentially, he does recognize Ms. Coggins and the advocacy and the community board’s support for this proposal,” said Harmony Guo, Cohen’s spokeswoman. “He has taken a while to think through his proposal and give
it serious thought and consideration. “He does believe street co-namings are meaningful ways of honoring the community and culture, and are not just symbolic. It’s just that this particular co-naming is not a legislative priority for him.” Dan Padernacht, chair of CB8’s traffic and transportation committee who also is running to replace Cohen, said personally he’s “puzzled” by the councilman’s decision to not allow the ceremonial co-naming to move through. In fact, he believes Cohen could have done more to prevent this from being an unwelcome surprise for those who had backed Coggins’ proposal. “Absent a compelling reason, the proper thing to do would have been to let the community know of his disagreement early on to prevent any embarrassment to the family, and save the applicant’s hard-spent time working on this initiative,” Padernacht said.
Bradley Terrace, a step street that runs parallel to what was once the Villa Rosa Bonheur apartment building, was expected to get a nod to history with a ceremonial renaming. community activist Stephanie coggins had hoped to recognize not just Villa Rosa Bonheur, but also its developer, John J. McKelvey Sr. councilman Andrew cohen, however, said no. “The council member had at least four public meetings to express doubts or ask questions over the course of months during which the application went through the community board.” Because so much time had passed, he added, it was generally believed the proposal was heading to the city council for approval — generally as part of a mass piece of legislation handling a number of ceremonial co-namings across the city at once. “John McKelvey Sr. was a preservationist that helped shape the green and open features of Riverdale, being one of the early advocates of principles we see codified in the Special Natural Area District,” Padernacht said. “Villa
Rosa Bonheur was a beautifully designed building by McKelvey. Its honoring was intended to be a symbol of quality construction and a statement about development in our area.” After all her work, Coggins said Cohen wasn’t even the one to break the bad news to her. And the why didn’t make sense to her. “I was offended, but open to better understanding what the substantial reasoning is behind Andy Cohen’s decision, because I want something productive to come out of this,” Coggins said. “I worked very, very hard for the sake of the community, and this is a very important issue to me.”
Community wants drag racing problem solved ... now DRAG RACING from page A1 at least on Independence. But over the summer, the city’s transportation department repaved Independence, removing the speed bumps. While city officials say those bumps will indeed return, that has yet to happen. “They created a racetrack,” Dinowitz told The Riverdale Press last week. “It’s not only as smooth as can be now, there are no speed bumps, there’s no crosswalks, there’s no double yellow lines. There’s nothing.” Samantha Charlip, who lives along Independence, says drag racing certainly isn’t new to the community, but it’s definitely gotten worse over the past few months. “They were decently bad last summer, even though there (were) speed bumps, enough to where people were complaining and I noticed it,” Charlip said. “Nobody was happy about it. But it’s gotten much worse with the absence of the speed bumps.” Jeffrey Schifman, who lives right off of Independence Avenue, says he’s seen a change in the area’s drag racing patterns. In his experience, most of it used to occur at night, which was disruptive because of the noise. But it’s only recently that daylight drag racing has proliferated. “You would see one or two during the day doing donuts or something like that,” Schifman said. “It’s constantly now. You probably can’t go one night without hearing this.” The presence — and noise — of the continued drag racing might be difficult enough for neighbors to deal with.
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Six tenants have been evicted from apartments at 210 w. 262nd St. since 2018, and 10 more were evicted in 2017. Housing activists are standing up for tenants as thousands struggle to pay rent during the pandemic, but the issue is not unique to 2020. But for many of them, it’s gone beyond just a nuisance: They feel unsafe. Many worried about what might happen if drag racing is allowed to continue on Independence. Both P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy are located along the street. There are also two synagogues, two parks and a library — all areas children might frequent. “The worst of it tends to be around
3 or 4 o’clock, when it’s sort of peak time for children and families to be out hanging out at the park or playing at the playground,” Charlip said. “It becomes a safety issue.” The area also is a city-designated “slow zone,” meaning the speed limit through there is actually 20 mph. Tao Moran, a former member of the traffic and transportation committee who also is Schifman’s wife, claimed the drag
racers congregate in parks to smoke marijuana before getting in their cars and racing each other. The combination of drugs and a violation of what is supposed to be slower-than-usual traffic means the issue is elevated beyond a speeding ticket — and it should be treated as such. “We do need police enforcement, because it’s not just a traffic issue, it’s a moving violation,” Moran said.
“When you get moving violation points on your tickets, these consequences become much stiffer.” During the traffic and transportation committee meeting following the rally, chair Dan Padernacht discouraged neighbors from calling 311 with drag racing complaints, instead urging them to report those issues to his CB8 committee. Photographs and videos of what those cars are doing — along with their license plates — is even more help, he added. Padernacht is pushing DOT to return the missing speed bumps on Independence, and consider to install mobile traffic cameras between West 232nd and West 246th, as well as on Riverdale Avenue between West 230th and West 236th streets. The committee also will seek help from the 50th Precinct, pushing for increased police presence in problem areas, parking police cars at intersections throughout CB8 to serve as deterrents, and increased patrol in documented problem areas, especially in the early morning and late evening. But because the problems also extend to the Henry Hudson and the Major Deegan, Padernacht wants state highway patrol to also step in. “Everything that we’re saying tonight — and these requests — are just the beginning,” Padernacht said. “We’re going to have to keep asking for additional support because this will be a continual problem until people who race in the area get the idea that people are getting stopped, people are getting tickets, and people are getting arrested for reckless driving.”
THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - A5
BUSINESS BRIEFS By MICHAEL HINMAN Enforcing plastic bags ban begins Oct. 19 The state’s environmental conservation department believes businesses and customers have had enough time adjusting to the state’s ban on single-use plastic carryout bags. Because of that, the state says it will start enforcing the law beginning Oct. 19. The new date comes months after the state instituted the law, delayed as part of a settlement agreement with Melville-based packaging company Poly-Pak Industries. “The court’s decision is a victory and a vindication of New York state’s efforts to end the scourge of single-use plastic bags, and direct rebuke of the plastic bag manufacturers who tied to stop the law and DEC’s regulations to implement it,” said DEC commissioner Basil Seggos, in a release. “As we have for many months, DEC is encouraging New Yorkers to make the switch to reusable bags whenever and wherever they shop, and to use common-sense precautions to keep reusable bags clean. Fines for violating the law range from $250 to $500.
Unemployed get additional assistance The state’s labor department has begun what it calls its Lost
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Wages Assistance program, which provides up to $300 in additional weekly benefits to those who are unemployed. More than 2 million people already are qualified for the program, with another 400,000 likely to qualify after submitting additional paperwork to the state. New York already has paid out $43.7 billion in unemployment benefits to 3.5 million people since the beginning of the pandemic. That’s equivalent to more than 20 years worth of benefits, state officials said. The latest assistance payments will be funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, at least for the first three weeks. Funding will cut off if the balance of the federal Disaster Relief Fund falls below $25 billion, the $44 billion set aside for the program is depleted, or Congress enacts a replacement unemployment relief program.
NYC’s unemployment rate at 16 percent New York state has lost nearly 1.2 million jobs over the last year, with New York City’s unemployment rate hovering around 16 percent in August. That’s the worst of all the metro areas indexed by the state’s labor department, and compares to a 3.8 percent unemployment rate the year before.
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A group of teens gathered on a pink deck facing the Hudson River on Labor Day. Getting out and seeing nature hasn’t been easy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but with New York doing well in terms of fighting the spread of the virus, these types of days once taken for granted can now be enjoyed again — at least in a limited capacity.
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A6 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 24, 2020
Marcos Sierra ready to expand council district’s reach By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
Like the mythical hydra, when one city council candidate drops out, two more grow in their place. At least, that’s the case for the upcoming special election to replace Councilman Andrew Cohen. Although at least two candidates have been in the race for years, the candidate field has grown quite rapidly since Cohen accepted a nomination to become a Bronx supreme court judge. That means he intends to step down in December with a full year left on his term, opening up a special election expected to take place in March. After museum docent and former Riverdale Press intern Dionel Then dropped out of the race last month, two new candidates have entered the race. One of them is Mino Lora. The other is from a part of the district much different than traditional candidates in the past, like Cohen, Oliver Koppell and June Eisland. Marcos Sierra believes it’s time for Norwood and its surrounding neighborhoods to get better consideration for the seat, moving what he says has been centralized power in Riverdale. Because of that, the focus shifts away from other neighborhoods in the district like Wakefield, Woodlawn and Bedford Park. “Whenever there’s a perceived sense of power, there is an inequitable distribution of resources,” Sierra said. “And that holds true the farther you go out from that center of power.” Riverdale and the surrounding neighborhoods are wealthier than the other areas in the district, he said, and their needs are different from those elsewhere within Cohen’s current reach. “Equal is not equitable,” Sierra said. “Equal means all of the seven neighborhoods have somebody in the council representing them. Equitable means all seven neighborhoods get their issues addressed the same way, equitably.” Sierra is a party male leader for Bronx Democrats, representing an area covered by Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez. He’s also a program
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Marcos Sierra is ready to step up and make his case to voters he’s the best to succeed Councilman Andrew Cohen — a seat which is expected to be vacated by the end of the year. new air conditioner. “We’re here to act as that conduit in real time, and take action immediately,” Sierra said. His mother was his first example of public service. A single parent, she was involved in their tenant’s association, worked with his school’s parent association, and helped out their neighbors at Manhattan’s Fredrick Douglass Houses. “My first, I guess, exposure to community activism was pulling weeds at the Mosholu Library right there on (West) 206th and Bainbridge,” Sierra said. “And it was awesome because seeing the benefit of having that area cleaned out, it gave me a sense of giving back to the community. And I enjoyed it, right? It gave me that little rush.”
coordinator at Bronx-based Regional Aid for Interim Needs. The last few years have seen a huge shift away from long-term incumbents and the political machine, and Sierra says that makes his run a very serious one in changing the face of Bronx politics. Sierra finds himself regularly helping neighbors in his volunteer party role, stepping up to listen and get things done when he says other electeds are busy in city hall or working in Albany. He remembers one woman who was having issues with her apartment building. It was unsanitary, and her air conditioner was broken. He worked with her to get the custodial team from the building in, then helped her get enrolled in a city program that provided a
With his eyes on his fledgling campaign, Sierra has laid out three main tenets of his campaign: “real” affordable housing, increased worker protections and education. “Affordable housing” is too often thrown around by politicians, Sierra said, but it’s not always truly affordable. He pointed to the area median income, calculated each year by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. But such a calculation doesn’t really work. The median income calculated for this region was $102,400 for a threeperson family, Sierra said. The city’s housing department considers housing “affordable” if it costs one-third or less of the AMI. That calculation doesn’t really work, though, Sierra said. The median in-
come in the Bronx is well below that, something he knows well as a father himself. Also, housing costs calculated based on $102,400 are too high for many. “The benefit of using this artificial formula is to say, ‘OK, based on this, we can charge $1,200 for a studio, which is absolutely ridiculous,’” Sierra said. “We need to make an adjustment to the AMI to bring rent in line with income.” Improving worker protections comes from Sierra’s own experience, too. He’s filed complaints against his own employer after being harassed, he said, and still hasn’t received a response from his company months later — which he claims violates their own policy. “Workplace protections are very important, and employers are flouting them to a degree that is vomit-inducing,” Sierra said. “Because the definitions of ‘workplace’ are so narrowly defined because of protected classes, people have to deal with mental abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse on the job, because they need a job.” Finally, himself a product of the city’s controversial gifted and talented program, Sierra says parents shouldn’t have to move to ensure their children have access to school districts with more resources. “Every parent in every community should be proud, and be happy, and feel safe to take their child to the school that they’re going to because they’re going to get just as good an education as someone in Riverdale,” Sierra said. “We need somebody, again, who understands the importance of a public-school education.” He joins a race that includes not only Lora — a leader of a community theatre project in Inwood — but also real estate attorney Dan Padernacht, teacher — and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz’s son — Eric Dinowitz, environmental activist Jessica Haller and Columbia University professor Abigail Martin. “I know what it is to win, lose, and win again,” Sierra said. “My mission is to ensure that we work — even across the aisle — to pass real, substantive legislation that positively impacts the people of the Bronx in a direct way.”
POLITICAL ARENA Yes, women do work here, too The signs are likely as old as parkways themselves — and for state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, that’s all the more reason why it’s time to change. Biaggi has penned a letter to transportation department officials at the state, city and even borough level, asking they consider finally retiring the “men working” sign. “As women continue to work as hard as ever to establish themselves in male-dominated fields, it is this nuanced signaling that can inhibit growth and inclusion in the work place,” Biaggi said. “Verbiage on a construction sign might seem like a small detail, but it speaks to a larger sense of how we view these industries, and those who are welcomed there.” But it’s not just women Biaggi is thinking about. “Gender-specific signs also perform as a means to further marginalize those who identify as non-binary and gender non-
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conforming,” the senator said. “We would like to ask that the Department of Transportation phase out the usage of ‘men working’ signs, and implement gender-neutral signs such as ‘people working.’” A handful of other state senators joined Biaggi on the letter, including Brooklyn’s Andrew Gounardes and Julia Salazar, Manhattan’s Brad Hoylman, Long Island’s Anna Kaplan, and Queensbury Republican Betty Little.
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Mino Lora is the latest candidate in an ever-growing race to succeed Andrew Cohen on the city council. And while Lora could create a lot of firsts for the district if elected next spring, one supporter included one first too many. “Since 2016, activists like you have turned out like never before to hold elected accountable in every election,” wrote Andrew Mutnick and Becca
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It’s hard to find anyone not familiar with the ‘men working’ signs that are displayed at road work sites across the city and state. But why is it limited to just men? State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi has reached out to transportation department officials at all levels, asking them to use a more inclusive ‘people working.’ Lish, in an email to fellow “activist friends.” “We cannot let this one slip by. That’s why we are thrilled to support Mino Lora. By electing Mino, District 11 can send our first woman, first person of
color, and first Latina to city hall to represent, reimagine and rebuild a better Bronx.” Just one problem — District 11 has been represented by a woman in the past. And many say June Eisland was one of
the most powerful city council members of her time. After a Riverdale Press reporter pointed out the factual stumble, Lish quickly sent out a second note to her list apologizing to Eisland, who was first
elected in 1979, and served until 2001. “Oy,” Lish wrote, “a 22-year record of service is remarkable, and I wholeheartedly regret my error.” But there was a silver lining, Lish wrote, just as Rosh Hashana — the Jewish new year — began. “I have the opportunity to add this to the list as I atone over the High Holidays.” Lora, a co-founder and executive director of People’s Theatre Project in Inwood, has jumped into a race that already includes real estate lawyer Dan Padernacht, school teacher and son of a sitting Assemblyman Eric Dinowitz, environmental activist Jessica Haller, Columbia University professor Abigail Martin, and male district leader in Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez’s territory, Marcos Sierra. Cohen has indicated he’ll resign at the end of the year after earning a Democratic nomination to the Bronx supreme court. A special election is expected in March.
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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - A7
Nursery reopening gives tots parking lots — of fun By ROSE BRENNAN
‘I will sing the (handwashing) song every day this year with these children. It’s tops and bottoms, tops and bottoms, in between, in between. All around our hands, all around our hands. Now they’re clean, now they’re clean.’
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Maria Gabriela Bolaños, left, lead teacher of the ‘Orange Room,’ and Anna Dropiewska supervise Riverdale Temple Nursery School prospective students at a meet-and-greet. Between them, they have more than 18 years of academia experience. At right, a preschooler shows off start-of-the-year printouts at a Riverdale Temple Nursery School meet-andgreet. The school reopened earlier this month with the promise of in-person learning five days a week. might be a misplaced anxiety. In fact, she thinks it might be directed at the wrong people altogether. “Kids are resilient, and I think that we don’t give them enough credit,” Abikzer said. “At the meet-and-greet, the kids all came with their cute masks, and they had no problem. It’s the adults that are really fidgeting and having a harder time with it.” Of course, there will be other new safety measures in place. But coronavi-
rus-related procedures will be just another routine for the students to follow. “In order for them to come on the playground, everybody had to have their temperature checked, and then we put some lotion on their hands,”
Cutler said. “And that’s what we will do every morning when they enter the school.” In the classroom, the teachers are focused on maintaining as much social distance as possible. Last year, Cutler
would have six students sitting at a table at a time. But this year, only four are allowed, with a push for just two or three. And Daniels’ classroom now has dividers, names on chairs and individual supply sets for each student so they don’t need to share. The school also uses “pods” to distance from other classes. Each pod will have its own room and bathroom, and its members will only be allowed to play with others in their pod. That way, if someone does test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, only the affected pod would have to go remote, Abikzer said. That’s much better than shutting down the entire school. How teachers will address the pandemic in the classroom might vary depending both on the teacher and the ages of the children they teach. Cutler’s toddlers might not understand words like “pandemic” or “COVID-19,” but they can absolutely sing songs about washing their hands and telling the germs to “go away.” “I will sing the (hand-washing) song every day this year with these children,” Cutler said. Using the melody from the popular nursery rhyme “Frère Jacques.” “It’s, ‘Tops and bottoms, tops and bottoms, in between, in between. All around our hands, all around our hands. Now they’re clean, now they’re clean.” The past six months have been difficult for most everyone. But to Daniels, they might have been longer and harder for the city’s youngest residents, making a return to nursery school all the more important. “I want to give back some of their childhood that they’ve lost,” Daniels said. “I want it to be as normal and as chill as possible. I just want them to come in and be happy here.”
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A8 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, September 24, 2020
Not sure about voting? Find out how, where
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There have been lots of changes to voting in the last few months. Absentee voting, dropboxes, applications — it’s a lot to keep track of, especially with school starting and life starting to feel, at least, a little bit more normal. But the stakes for the election keep getting higher, and both elected officials and political advocates say it’s important to know how you’ll vote. New York has dramatically expanded voting options, making it possible to cast a vote without risking exposure to COVID-19, no matter who you are. Thanks to legislation introduced by local lawmakers Asssemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, any registered voter in New York can apply for an absentee ballot, PERRY GRossMAN citing the coronavirus pandemic as a reason. Early voting in New York starts Saturday, Oct. 24. It runs for nine days, ending Sunday, Nov. 1. Voting early is just like voting on election day, but could help avoid long lines and overcrowding, something especially important during the pandemic. With polls open on weekends, it can create some flexibility for voters with long working hours during the week, or kids to drop off at school — or supervise as they still learn remotely. Voters also can apply for an absentee ballot online or by mail before Oct. 27, or apply in-person by Nov. 2. Ballots must be postmarked by election day, and have to arrive at the elections board office within seven days of the election to be counted. Anyone who doesn’t want to drop their ballot in their own mailbox can head out to an early voting site or the Bronx elections board office on the fifth floor of 1780 Grand Concourse, or any drop-off polling site to drop ballots into one of the new dropboxes sitting outside. With all these options, is there a way to vote that’s better than the others? “If you can vote early, in person, you should do that,” said Perry Grossman, a senior staff attorney with the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “That’s the best way to go. If you want to vote by mail — if you have to vote by mail — it’s going to be fine.” Voting by mail has been criticized by many — namely, President Trump. And with the U.S. Postal Service struggling and some voters still worried about late delivery of ballots during the June primary, there could be some with little
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Poll sites are often crowded, busy places. But this year they might be a little less so as absentee voting is expanded once again to every registered voter in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Perry Grossman, a senior staff attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union, recommends voting early and in-person, and getting your absentee application and ballot mailed as soon as you can if you choose not to vote in-person. confidence in using mail. “The post office handles a billion pieces of mail at Christmas,” Grossman said. “If every single voter in the United States sent in a mail-in ballot, that wouldn’t even approach 150 million.” So, if you’re looking to plan out your vote, where should you start? By checking your registration, Grossman said. You can’t register day-of in New York, so anyone showing up to a poll on election day is out of luck. Even for those who think they’re registered, it’s important to double-check. Registration can be checked online at Vote.nyc, the same place new voters also can register online. Or they can head to the Bronx elections board office in Mount Hope to register in-person. Then the decision comes down to voting absentee or in-person. Absentee ballots can be requested at Vote.nyc, the same place where anyone can find their early voting or normal polling site. Don’t wait until the deadlines to apply to vote absentee. “Do it now,” Grossman said. “I think the state legislature and the city have
made it as easy as possible to apply for an absentee ballot. With all those ways to apply for an absentee ballot, there’s no reason not to do it right now.” Absentee ballots should be filled out as soon as they’re received, Grossman added, and immediately sent back to avoid delays. “Also be diligent about checking over to make sure you’re following the directions correctly,” he said, “that you’re signing the envelope. New tracking systems also will alert voters if their ballot arrives with fixable issues, like a missing signature, Grossman said. That way, those ballots avoid being disqualified. Those planning to vote early need to find their polling place. For many locally, that’s at IN-Tech Academy on Tibbett Avenue, but Grossman warns to check online before heading out. Early voting sites are different from election day sites, and depending on where someone lives, they might be set to vote at P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen, The Hebrew Institute, or a number of other sites scattered across the area. Double-
Where can you learn more? To register online, find your poll site and more, visit Vote.nyc Not sure who’s running? Check out Vote411.org to see a sample ballot and learn more about your candidates.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the KingsbridgeRiverdale-Marble Hill Food & Hunger Project to find temporary headquarters away from the Episcopal Church of the Mediator, but that doesn’t mean the group isn’t still getting food to the plates of those in the community who otherwise are going hungry. But now the group has an added bonus it’s offering for a limited time — $50 grocery gift cards to those who have lost their jobs or been furloughed this year. The cards are available thanks to a grant from Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation at the Community Foundation of Utah. The first round of cards were given out last month, but another round is expected for late October or mid-November — primarily for those who had been furloughed, but have since lost their jobs. The KRMH Food & Hunger Project was started by Mathilda Furman, the Interfaith Clergy Conference and the Society for Ethical Culture four decades ago. For more information, call (718) 796-7166. Anyone wishing to make donations to the group can send them to P.O. Box 251, Riverdale Station, Bronx, N.Y., 10471.
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In an effort to raise money supporting city parks in the wake of massive budget deficits, a number of Parks & Open Space Partners plan to take over Instagram social media accounts of some of the city’s more prominent park groups. That includes the Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy, which will swap accounts with Friends of Governors Island on Sept. 29. Groups were intentionally paired up with partners representing different park sizes in different geographic areas, according to a release. The Conservancy can be found online @vcpalliance.
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WHAT’S IN / WHAT’S ON Espaillat hosts event on the block U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat hosts a socially distanced meetand-greet he calls “Congress on the Block” Friday, Sept. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m., at Marble Hill Houses, 5220 Broadway. The congressman says a slate of elected officials, community leaders, and neighborhood organizations are expected to join him. To register, email rsvp.espaillat@mail.house.gov, or call (646) 740-3632.
Museum celebrates Hispanic Heritage The Hispanic Museum & Library, 613 W. 155th St., Washington Heights, continues its celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of Hispanic Americans whose ancestors come from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. • The outdoor exhibition “Treasures on the Terrace: Highlights from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library” opens Sept. 24 at 11 a.m., and continues through Dec. 6, on the Audubon Terrace. • The museum hosts a live YouTube event, “Special Tertulia: Rice Dishes from the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Cookbooks” with Dickinson College professor Mark Aldrich, Oct. 6 at 5 p.m. • A YouTube channel workshop focused on art making for kids, is scheduled for Oct. 12.
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Blood drive at The Y The Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Ave., hosts a blood drive Monday, Oct. 12 from noon to 6 p.m. To sign up for a specific time, visit tinyurl.com/YBloodDrive.
Collections of the HRM and Art Bridges” brings together landscape art across media at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has restricted travel and redefined the way people think about tourism. Other events include: • Salsa Takes You There on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 1:30 p.m. • A virtual tour of “Landscape Art & Virtual Travel” on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 1:30 p.m. • A virtual tour of “Women to the Fore” on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 1:30 p.m. • American Soundscapes: River to Canyon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 2 p.m. • “The Gilded Age Grand Tours of Feminist Artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex” on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. For details, visit HRM.org.
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New exhibits at river museum Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., in Yonkers, opens two fall exhibitions: “Women to the Fore” through Jan. 3, and “Landscape Art and Virtual Travel” through next August. “Women to the Fore” explores and celebrates the multifaceted and diverse art works by more than 40 female-identifying artists over a span of 150 years. “Landscape Art and Virtual Travel: Highlights from the
Elisa Contemporary Art Riverdale Gallery, 5622 Mosholu Ave., presents “Looking In and Letting Go: Faces and Places” through Dec. 16. The exhibit features portraits by San Francisco minimalist Jeffrey Palladini, and Texas artists Mitch McGee and Ray Donley. It also features landscapes by Canadian artist Marie Danielle Leblanc, Connecticut’s Dale Najarian, and Columbian artist Alexis Duque. The gallery is open Wednesday from noon to 5 p.m., and by
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Art created in 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. For more information, visit RiverdaleArtAssociation.org.
The garden beyond the screen The New York Botanical Garden opens its virtual gates with “The Garden at Home,” a project where the entire garden — from its programs to tours of the spring landscape — is available online. It also celebrates the plants and people of Latin America and the Caribbean with “Fiesta de Flores at Home” through Oct. 15. 5.375 X 5.25 Riverdale
Other events include: • A spring walk among the garden’s recently bloomed daffodils. • A virtual tour of the orchid show: Jeff Leatham’s “Kaleidoscope,” hosted by senior orchid curator Marc Hachadourian. For more information, visit NYBG.org.
Past, present, future of Wave Hill Wave Hill can’t invite large crowds to its West 252nd Street attraction, but when it comes to the virtual world, there are seemingly no limits. Wave Hill celebrates the past, present and future of its gardens with a virtual party Thursday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. It includes a conversation with Marco Polo Stufano, the founding director of horticulture, and a live Q&A moderated by Stephen Orr, the editor-in-chief of Better Homes & Gardens. The party is part of Wave Hill’s annual fundraiser raising money for the gardens and
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Botanical garden is reopened for visitors The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., has begun the second phase of its post-coronavirus pandemic reopening, with limited indoor access to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The new, limited timedentry ticketing system allows the botanical garden to stagger visitor arrivals, promote social distancing, and is designed to mitigate the risk of crowding in high-traffic areas. Advanced purchase of tickets is required, and will be confirmed by email. On top of that, complimentary admission to Bronx health care workers from the borough’s eight public and private hospitals will continue through Feb. 28. For more information, visit NYBG.org.
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Can’t shift blame on this
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ars and pedestrians don’t get along. We all know that — especially when cars are going fast. Yet, when cars go just below the city’s speed limit of 25 mph, a walker’s chance of survival if hit by that vehicle is as high as 90 percent, according to the World Health Organization. But tap the accelerator, even a little bit, and those odds plummet to nothing more than a coin flip. Someone hit by a car at 50 mph? Forget it. A pedestrian is killed on New York City’s streets every three days. But what appears to be a spike in illegal street racing throughout various neighborhoods — including Spuyten Duyvil — have many worried we might sacrifice even more to a bunch of idiots with nothing better to do than treat residential streets like Independence Avenue as if it’s Watkins Glen. As far as the police go, their hands are tied. For them, the rewards of arresting these racers can’t compare to the risk of a high-speed chase through a neighborhood. Officers in Yonkers got creative last May, rounding up many of these amateur racers, writing more than 100 tickets ranging from loud exhausts, speeding, and even window tinting. Traffic enforcement is indeed a city issue. Because of that, at least locally, one might expect Councilman Andrew Cohen to step up and take charge. Instead, it’s Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz with son — and city council candidate — Eric Dinowitz tagging along. That’s left Cohen relegated to the Peggy Schuyler role of this trio. Last week, the elder Dinowitz called on the city to do something about street racing. He’s demanded speed humps be restored to Independence, and pushed for other generic “speed controls” to be
installed throughout the city. Dinowitz is right. This street racing nonsense must stop. But instead of pointing the finger at Cohen and other city officials, maybe the Assemblyman should check out his mirror. Street racing has the potential to maim or kill those we love. Yet crimes associated with street racing are nothing more than low-level misdemeanors. Get caught doing it, and face up to 30 days in jail, and $525 in fines. Some might say it’s nothing more than a cost of doing business. Street racers spit in the face of these neighborhoods because they can. The laws of our state — the very ones Jeffrey Dinowitz is responsible for — simply slaps their wrist. And not much else. Dinowitz has yet to introduce or sign onto any bill that might change these laws. Sure, he’s fought for speed control in school and construction zones — and that’s commendable. But not everyone has the luxury of living in a school zone, and they deserve safe streets, too. Recently, Manhattan Democrat Brad Hoylman introduced a bill in the senate called the FURIOUS Act — Fighting underground racing in our streets. If signed into law, it would expand when speed cameras could operate in school zones — with community board input — and better define exactly what illegal street racing is. It’s nowhere near what’s needed to fight this problem, but at least it’s a start. Yet no one from the Assembly — not even Dinowitz — has offered a companion bill in the lower chamber. Jeffrey Dinowitz wants to protect us from street racing. Thank you. But enough with the meaningless chest pounding. Take the fight to Albany. That’s where you can really make a difference.
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Against Israel? Against Jews To the editor:
(re: “Is it a fair question? Or is it hate?” Sept. 3)
The Democratic Socialists of America asking city council candidates to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is not a fair question, but an exercise in hate. The official BDS website — maintained by the Palestinian National Committee — is very clear as to what its position is regarding the existence of the Jewish state. The BDS movement would have us believe that BDS is a non-violent, limited-goals movement that is opposed to Israel’s occupation of disputed West Bank land that was captured from the Jordanians in 1967 in Jordan, Syria and Egypt’s failed genocidal attempt to “drive the Jews into the sea.” In fact, the BDS platform states in no uncertain terms that for “70 years, Israel has denied the Palestinians their fundamental rights.” BDS, in referencing “70 years,” takes the position that the entire Zionist enterprise is stained, and opposition to Israel has nothing to do with disputed post-1967 territories, but extends its animus to the entire state of Israel, established in 1948. The BDS movement urges “nonviolent pressure” on Israel — non-violent as a boa constrictor is non-violent — until it complies with three demands. One of these demands is for “the right of return” for descendants of the original refugees to return to their former homes in Israel proper. BDS understands full well that this would mean dismantling the single, democratic Jewish state — home to more than 6 million Israeli Jews, and 2 million Arab Israeli citizens with full citizen rights — and replacing it with an Arab-majority 23rd Arab state. This is the essence of why BDS is an antiSemitic movement, regardless of how many Jewish DSA members state or think otherwise. The movement cloaks itself in the language of human rights, with a fair share of outright lies, but it would deny autonomy and sovereignty to the Jews alone. Kashmir is in the news today. It has been disputed territory between Pakistan and India for many years. It is one of more than 150 disputed territories in the world today. There is no BDS movement demonizing India nor Pakistan. Israel, alone in the world, has the distinction of having
its disputed territory referred to as “occupied,” a distinctly charged description. Additionally, Israel alone has the peculiar honor of constantly having to defend its “right to exist.” When Jews are held to a different standard than the rest of the world, that is anti-Semitism — even if it’s called anti-Zionism. Zionism may be a relatively recent political movement, but it is as ancient as the Jewish yearning to return to their ancestral homeland from which they were forcibly and violently exiled 2,000 years ago. Let’s talk about refugees. We hear a lot about the 700,000 Arab refugees who fled the 1948 conflict expecting to return when Israel was vanquished. Less is heard — much less — about the 900,000 Mizrachi Jews living in Arab lands, many of them ancient communities predating Arab conquest. In the 1940s and 1950s, they were forced to flee pogroms and riots, having to leave everything they had built, lucky to escape with their lives. What happened to them? Most were absorbed by the new state of Israel where Mizrachi — Jews of color — now comprise a majority of the Jewish Israeli population. In Kirstyn Brendlen’s story, DSA member Noah Weston states the DSA has hundreds of Jewish members who have taken a very active stand against anti-Semitism. He fails to mention that the DSA position is very selective and against right-wing anti-Semitism only. Left-wing anti-Semitism is philosophically inconvenient — and maybe even, according to Mr. Weston, not-existent. Anti-Semitism from the left is often deceptively shrouded in the garb of antiZionism. It’s not fashionable to be anti-Semitic. Anti-Zionism is very fashionable. Individual state policies can be questioned and are open for discourse, and in fact are debated by Israelis on every point of the political spectrum. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism because Israel is an idea and a reality, and is the collective physical and spiritual manifestation of the Jewish people when slandered and lied about and delegitimized. It is really the Jewish people one is targeting. iSaac Geld
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The headline of a recent editorial is based upon questionable estimates about the cost of a special election. It is difficult to understand a purported cost anywhere close to a million dollars to run a special election in one council district, knowing roughly the staffing levels required for a limited number of election districts to be covered. Such a high number seems sensationalistic. Yes, elections cost money, but that’s democracy at work — even in a time of Trump. Beyond a high cost estimate, the editorial echoes council candidate Jessica Haller in suggesting the Bronx Democrats did something wrong by nominating Councilman Andrew Cohen, as if he wasn’t actively seeking the nomination. The claim is made that he should not have left before the end of his term because Cohen “has a contract with us until the end of the year.” Really? Elected officials run for other offices all the time. In the past century, U.S. Sen. Harry Truman went on to the vice presidency before the end of his term. Is she suggesting that Sen. Kamala Harris shouldn’t be running for vice president because she would have to leave her position early if elected? Or that Sen. Barack Obama should not have run for president? This year, Councilman Ritchie Torres ran for congress in the Bronx. If he wins, he will resign from the council, triggering a special election for his council seat. He shouldn’t have run? How
about when Public Advocate Tish James was nominated for state attorney general two year ago, triggering a special election for her public advocate position — which Councilman Jumaane Williams won, triggering a special election for his council seat? Those are but a few examples of elected officials running for other positions. Unless Ms. Haller believes that Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Ritchie Torres, Tish James and Jumaane Williams all did something wrong by running for another office, there can only be one reason for this line of attack: An effort to turn a non-issue into an issue for her own purposes. As to the suggestion by the editorial Councilman Cohen should resign early so that the special election would be part of the November election, is there any doubt that if he did that, The Riverdale Press and candidates would attack that as being manipulative and timed for the advantage of one particular candidate? In my view, it would be better for all candidates and newspaper editors to stick to facts, and talk about issues that voters really care about. There are plenty of them. Michael heller The author is president of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, although he notes this letter addresses his personal views. EDITOR’S NOTE: Although not specifically mentioned in the Sept. 3 editorial, last January, Politico cited the city’s election board affixing a $1 million price tag for a city council special election. That includes nine days of early voting.
New Bezos, the new Big Apple To the editor: I just got an email from Riverdale’s state senator, Alessandra Biaggi, insisting that it’s time to tax the super rich to solve New York’s COVID-19caused financial crisis. But the governor appears to consider such taxes to be anathema. What to do? Another email gave me an
idea. It mentioned the name of a football stadium had changed. Apparently a sponsor with deeper pockets had outbid the previous one. So I thought, why not sell naming rights to our states? Tax-resistant billionaires would jump at the chance to voluntarily pay for notoriety. With no expense to the state, we could rake in billions of dollars, al-
though admittedly, there would be some personal expense to residents who have to change their stationery. It wouldn’t take that long to get used to living in New Bloomberg or New Bezos, would it? richard STein The author is a publisher emeritus of The Riverdale Press.
Getting your Israel facts straight To the editor:
(re: “Speaking for all the oppressed,” Sept. 17)
Wayne Price certainly has a right to his opinions, but he is factually mistaken when he calls the Jews of Israel “a mostly European population.” According to the most recent survey of Israel’s population, from 2019, only 16 percent of Israel’s Jews have an origin from what we would call the “West,” including Latin America as well as Europe, North America and Oceania. Another 14 percent hail from the former Soviet Union, which includes many people from Central Asia. Some 47 percent of Israeli Jews have been in the country for more than two generations. (My family, by the way, has been there for more than 100 years.) Data about the population of Israel can be found in English at CBS.gov.il/en. Mr. Price also shows ignorance of the facts
when he asserts that Israel being a Jewish state is equivalent to the United States declaring itself a “white Christian” state. Putting aside the fact that Jewishness has nothing to do with race (in fact, the majority of Jews in the world would be considered “people of color,” according to the definition used in this country), it is, in fact, the United States that is unique in not defining itself based on an ethnic or religious identity, while Israel is no different in this respect from any other country. It is because of the unique nature of the United States that immigrants like me love this country so much. Finally, Mr. Price faults Israel for being an ally of the United States. This confirms my observation that often, hostility to Israel is nothing more than a symptom of hatred for America. ron WeGSMan
New York will be back, you’ll see To the editor: My longstanding love affair with New York City has hit a rough patch. Memories of an afternoon at The Museum of Modern Art, accessed via a circuitous journey through the depths of our Byzantine New York City subway system, are not currently a reasonable option. Dim sum and dumplings savored in Chinatown on a rainy Sunday morning are a distant and ever more tenuous memory. Cannoli from the real Little Italy — on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx — are out of reach, but never forgotten. A night spent at a downtown theater, or watching spellbound as Alvin Ailey dancers swirl and spin to the notes uptown, is no longer imaginable. A fragrant mole or arroz con pollo beckons at La Morada in Mott Haven, but is oddly unattainable. My once guilty pleasure — an egg cream at Gem Spa on the Lower East Side — is a thing of the past. Its doors are now shuttered forever.
Where has my city gone? Will it come to embrace me again? Will I reluctantly emerge as a newly minted tree hugger in these dire, desperate days of pandemic? Have my New York passions been replaced by new desires? Today I dream of vast blue sea, wide green meadow, of verdant forest, scented by pine needle. There’s sand between my toes. The scent of lavender draws me in and offers me solace. I have become a fickle and unfaithful lover. The sweet and funky rhythm of my New York seems veiled by invisible threat. I long for breathing space and untainted air. It’s been a long and winding road, dear city of all cities. Tell me, please, that you’ll be returning soon. If not, I may need to find a new love object after all, these long, meandering — but mostly wonderful — years. Our future is unknowable. But with a little luck, we’ll be back. Sylvia BluMenfeld
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n a time of national reckoning over who should be toppled from their pedestal, it is also a time to consider honorable public figures who may have been wronged by a racially biased judicial system. A leading African American official of New York City, Larry Seabrook, was a state senator, a state Assemblyman, and lastly a city councilman. Seabrook’s service for his Bronx constituents spanned more than 30 years. He rose from Bronx poverty to a perch of civic leadership. However, his distinguished record was obliterated by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Prosecution by that office resulted in a fraud conviction for Seabrook. But like so many other African Americans pummeled by a judicial system in which exoneration for the innocent is an almost insurmountable hurdle, his case should be re-examined. Following an initial mistrial with a deadlocked jury, Seabrook was convicted in 2012 of several counts of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud related to city council funding of dubiously managed non-profits. Remarkably, while convicted of “fraud,” there was no judicial finding that he personally profited from the crime. Instead, his guilt was determined to be a kind of altruistic fraud to benefit friends and family who were made leaders of these nonprofits. For this crime, Seabrook was sentenced to federal prison for five years — the government wanted seven to nine — and was released in July 2017. Additionally, he was forced to forfeit from his pension more than $418,000. Seabrook challenged the forfeiture on appeal, as he did not profit from the offense. However, according to the court ruling: “Where a defendant’s crime is the transfer of money to a third party, the transfer itself may be a basis for substituting assets, even if that money is never received by the defendant.”
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mong the allegations contained in the original indictment was that Councilman Seabrook made an effort to recruit a Yankee Stadium boiler contract for a minority business enterprise. The owner of the enterprise contributed to one of Seabrook’s political action funds. However, the criminal counts related to those charges were ultimately rejected. Seabrook’s public service interest in promoting minority business enterprise was a public policy passion for him. Over his long career, he professed a strong belief that minority entrepreneurial endeavors should benefit from government assistance. Thus, such charges could only have the effect of intimidating all political intervention on behalf of supporting minority businesses enterprise. The crime for which Seabrook was convicted entailed hiring friends and relatives to operate a nonprofit receiving city funds. The nonprofit’s purpose was to help recruit minorities into the New York Fire Department. In May 2007, the United States filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging the city was engaged in a pattern or practice
of discrimination in the hiring of entry-level firefighters. Specifically, it was alleged the city’s use of written examinations had an unlawful disparate impact on Black and Hispanic applicants. To remedy this injustice, Seabrook sought to use a community-based nonprofit to promote minority applicants for the FDNY. He successfully dedicated city council funds for those worthy purposes, a common discretionary exercise for city council members. It was this effort that resulted in his conviction.
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eatured in almost every account of the Seabrook federal case was the infamous “bagel invoice.” Seabrook allegedly marked up a bagel to a preposterous amount in an expense report to the city council. However, like the Yankee Stadium boiler contract, the bagel allegation was without merit and dismissed. While petty in nature, the prosecutorial use of a bagel as a prominent crime was fraught with innuendo. One can still Google “$177 bagel” and get a litany of derisive press accounts, some featuring an image of Larry Seabrook (a Black man) juxtaposed with the quintessential New York bagel. When the petty becomes symbolic, the narrative is controlling. With the Seabrook bagel, both prosecutors and complicit tabloids in a calculated — and perhaps implicitly racist — way reduced Seabrook to a Bronx street hustler. Overlooked by the federal attorneys and feral press was Seabrook’s long and distinguished record of public service. During judicial deliberations, there was no consideration of Seabrook’s nationally recognized investigation of discriminatory hiring practices by employment and advertising agencies. His conviction obliterated from the public’s collective consciousness his war on drugs in his community, including his support for Mayor Dinkins’ “Safe Streets, Safe City” program. His fights to preserve low-cost tuition at CUNY. His leadership against hate crimes and hate speech that targeted all races, including whites, that all made him a formidable and unique public figure. For many public figures charged with unlawful conduct who happen to be white and wealthy with powerhouse legal counsels, the appeals process and the judicial system seem to be more lenient, if not forgiving. Was Seabrook fundamentally a felon who deserved five years in federal prison and forfeiture of a pension for a crime with no personal profit? Should his years of dedicated public service been negated by a false allegation over a bagel? Or was there, in hindsight, a manipulated narrative of racism embedded in the press coverage and in the prosecutorial zealotry to add another politician to the conviction roster of the U.S. Attorney’s office — especially another Black man from the Bronx? The author is a former legislative staffer to Seabrook when he was in the Assembly, and now lives outside of Washington.
In-person learning cannot be replaced in our schools By MONET ELZEY & LUDE BONNET
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ome of the days since New York City schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic have felt like weeks, while others have passed with the blink of an eye. But as parents, one thing has remained constant: Our devotion to the health and well-being of our children. The shift to remote learning in March was an incredible feat by teachers, students and families. Countless hours have been poured into keeping our children on track over the past six months, and the resiliency of our communities has been a beautiful thing to witness. We made it through some of the toughest days in our city’s history, during the height of a crisis no one could have ever prepared for. Today, we’ve made it through the worst of that crisis — and we’re uniquely positioned as the only major school district in the country able to safely send our children back to school in the fall. Our children, their education and their futures can’t afford to wait. As parents and educators, we know there is no substitute for the experience of being in a classroom. Our children have so much to gain from being in-person with their teachers, peers and friends during this critical time. One of us has a son whose eyes light up when he talks about going back to high school to start his junior year. He can’t wait to be back with his friends, and a step closer toward graduation. The memories of when he first began his educational journey are still clear as day. It breaks our hearts to think about a world in which he spends his last moments as a New York City student in his apartment, away from his friends, and separated from the teachers who want him to succeed. Being in school is an experience that can’t be replaced. And that’s why we are so hopeful that we can make blended learning work. It’s a chance to get our children back to their classrooms, where they learn best with one another. As of this writing, the majority of students will begin the academic year in a blended learning model, where they will be learning in-person in their own school buildings part of the week, and learning remotely during the remaining days. Our schools play such a critical role in our communities, and hundreds of thousands of New York City parents are ready to safely get
their kids back to their classrooms. Are we nervous? Of course. We’re parents. We lie awake at night thinking about our kids, especially our youngest children. How can we help them understand that they can’t hug their friends? Will they remember to wear their masks all the time? None of it will be easy. Our young ones are dealing with the change, confusion and even trauma the pandemic has brought into their lives. The social and emotional support of educators, friends, parents and loved ones is needed more than ever for all developing young minds. We are so grateful for the wraparound care that is already being planned out in our school communities. Planning for the school year is never easy, but this fall has required far more preparations than ever. We’ve seen firsthand the work our teachers, principals, and even our mayor and chancellor have put in to keep our schools and classrooms safe. A later start to school is allowing educators and families more time to thoroughly prepare for the start of a school year like no other, and mandatory testing will keep our communities safe and healthy. We refuse to put our children in harm’s way. One of us has a daughter who was diagnosed with lupus, and making sure she’s healthy has caused many sleepless nights. So, safety is absolutely non-negotiable. Knowing that day in and day out there are teams disinfecting the hallways, spacing out classrooms, ensuring adequate ventilation, and taking every precaution necessary for our children, provides a little bit of peace during this turbulent time. Health and safety are leading the way as schools prepare a safe and supportive learning environment for our children, and we know school leaders are doing everything they can to start the academic year strong. As parents, we’re reassured. But above all, we’re hopeful. We believe we can make this work, and that we can give our kids the kind of learning experience they can only get in a classroom. During this unprecedented moment, we want nothing but the best for our children, and we know every New York City parent wants the same for their child. That’s what we owe our young people. Let’s do all we can to make that a successful reality this year.
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on September 9, 2020, bearing Index Number NC-000216-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Kimberly (Middle) Lynn (Last) Zegar. My present name is (First) Kimberly (Middle) Lynn (Last) Cook AKA Kim Lynn Cook, AKA Kimberly L Cook, AKA Kim L Cook, AKA Kim Cook, AKA Kimberly Cook, AKA Kimberly Lynn Germek, AKA Kim Lynn Germek, AKA Kimberly L Germek, AKA Kim L Germek, AKA Kim Germek, AKA Kimberly Germek. The city and state of my present address are Bronx,
NY. My place of birth is Somerset County, Somerville NJ. The month and year of my birth are January 1987. 3330
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 9/3/20, bearing Index Number NC-000213-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Omolara (Middle) Omeleye Racheal Konkorio (Last) Olorunda-Tosin. My present name is (First) Omolara (Middle) Omoleve Racheal (Last) Tosin AKA Omolara Tosin, AKA Omolara Racheal Tosin, AKA Omolara Racheal Omoleye Tosin, AKA Lara Tosin. 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 1988. 3331
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 9/17/2020, bearing Index Number NC-000209-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Joshua (Last) Lamberti. My present name is (First) Ramon (Middle) Lamberty (Last) Torres AKA Ramon Lamberty. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Ponce, P.R.. The month and year of my birth are March 1973. 3332
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on Sep 10, 2020, bearing Index Number NC-000217-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Nina (Middle) Arlene (Last) Vazquez. My present name is (First) Arlene (Last) Garcia. The city
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and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY.. The month and year of my birth are March 1971. 3333
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on September 17, 2020, bearing Index Number NC-000221-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Darryl (Middle) Lamont (Last) Neal. My present name is (First) Darryl (Middle) Lamont (Last) Brown. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Norfolk Co. Portsmouth, Virginia. The month and year of my birth are September 1975. 3334
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County
on 9/10/2020, bearing Index Number NC-000112-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Venetria (Last) Moon Ra. My present name is (First) Venetria (Middle) Luri (Last) Benitez AKA VLB, AKA VB, AKA Venetria L. Benitez, AKA Venetria Benitez. 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 December 1968. 3335
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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 9-9-2020, bearing Index Number NC-000126-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Pamela (Middle) Averill (Last) Lewis. My present name is (First) Averill (Middle) Pamela
(Last) Russell AKA Averill Pamela Lewis, AKA Pamela Averill Russell, AKA Pamela Averill Lewis. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is New Rochelle, NY. The month and year of my birth are July 1954. 3336
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