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Landlords still seem to have an upper hand when it comes to one legal challenge many renters don’t know about. Page A3
By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
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What once used to be a storefront across from Van Cortlandt Park is now expected to become a shelter for more than 100 single men beginning in 2023 at 6661 Broadway. Community Board 8 will address the proposal for the first time Oct. 13 at its health, hospitals and social services committee.
CB8 questions shelter proposal n But could new mayor change plans to open a new single-male homeless facility at edge of North Riverdale?
Lehman arts back
After nearly two years of COVID-19 lockdown, it’s time to get back into some venues and watch live performances once again. Page A5 OBITUARY
By JOSEPH DE LA CRUZ jdelacruz@riverdalepress.com
There’s a new neighbor coming to Broadway in 2023 — and it’s not exactly who many in North Riverdale had hoped for. Community Board 8’s health, hospitals and social services committee is set to hear a proposal from the city’s homeless services department on Wednesday that would
open a shelter for 130 single men at 6661 Broadway. And if what happened a few years ago when DHS opened 5731 Broadway is any indicator — this is expected to be a long, hard battle that could fracture a community once again between those wanting to help the less fortunate, and those who want to do it, but just not so close to home. “We have a lot of concerns, and we have a lot of questions,” said Omar Murray, the committee’s chair. The proposed shelter would sit just a block south of the Westchester County line, across from Van Cortlandt Park. When opened, it will serve as an official bookend with the massive green space, complementing another shelter on Norwood’s Jerome Avenue. That shelter also HOMELESS, page A4
Bill de Blasio hasn’t been shy about his desire for the city’s public schools to go entirely back to inperson learning this year, after nearly 18 months of remote and hybrid classes. The mayor took a big step toward ensuring those plans weren’t ultimately derailed, issuing an expansive coronavirus vaccination mandate for nearly anyone receiving a paycheck from the city’s education department. Since then, it’s had to survive court challenges — including a stop at the U.S. Supreme Court — and potential staff shortages. But at least by some local accounts, schools are weathering the mandate well. In fact, de Blasio told reportMICHAEL ers last week he’s convinced his fLANAgAN mandate encouraged thousands of education department workers to get at least the first dose of the vaccine, leaving just a handful who still haven’t done it. Just in case, however, the education department brought in thousands of vaccinated substitute teachers and staff members, ready to fill in for anyone choosing not to take the vaccine. “As of today, all of the employees in our 1,600 schools are vaccinated,” de Blasio said. “And that is unprecedented. And that’s on top of all of the health and safety measures that make up that gold standard VAX MANDATE, page A4
DOT moves quickly to fix fatal intersection n Transit department adds safety measures at Kappock, Johnson after Mullen death
‘We want it to be safe for people to cross the street. I appreciate that (DOT) is moving quickly and coming up with different treatments and ideas to make that intersection safer.’
By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
Favorite dentist Neighborhoods say good-bye to Dr. Albert Thompson, but celebrate a life so well lived. Page A7
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It seems rare city agencies quickly respond to community demands. But so far, changes like what’s happening where Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue intersect in Spuyten Duyvil are the rare exception to that rule. The city’s transportation department began initial upgrades to the perilous crossing earlier this month. Its work comes a few weeks after community activist Ruth Mullen was struck and killed by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority express bus driver while walking across Johnson, police said. She lived at the Winston Churchill, right next to the intersection. Mullen, 68, was known broadly for her decades of work in the publishing and film industries. She was also known more locally for her dedication to community issues — like installing a traffic light at the very intersection that ultimately took her life. Neighbors blame the area’s topography for why the intersection is especially dangerous. Kappock is on a hill, so any cars coming down that street into the intersec-
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The city’s transportation department recently added left-turn ‘calming measures’ resembling mini-speed bumps and repainted the crosswalks at the intersection of Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue. These changes came after a wave of outcry after an express bus driver struck and killed prominent neighborhood resident Ruth Mullen while she traversed the crosswalk. tion must hang a sharp left, virtually blocking any views of pedestrians until almost the last second. While Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz pushed for more stop signs at the intersection some years ago, many
say cars tend to roll right through them. Sadly, it seems more extraordinary action to calm the intersection was going to take a tragedy — one that ultimately claimed Mullen from her family and
friends. But even if it is happening far later than it should have, Deb Travis — chair of Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee — says she’s impressed DOT has already started work. “We want it to be safe for people to cross the street,” Travis said. “So, I really appreciate that they’re moving quickly and coming up with different treatments and ideas to make the intersection safer.” The Assemblyman’s son, Councilman Eric Dinowitz, told the CB8 committee at INTERSECTION, page A4
Kids sell art, lending a helping hand to fight cancer n Proceeds will help purchase art supplies for young cancer patients looking for a pleasant distraction By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
The past 19 months of on-and-off lockdowns and virtual school has made the coronavirus pandemic an especially difficult time for children, limiting their in-person interactions. But Mino Lora is trying to fill that void locally — and help a neighbor along the way — with a community art sale this weekend. “Especially during this time when kids have been so impacted by COVID, or by this year,” Lora said. “And seeing how, both as an educator and as a mother, coming back to social interactions and social places is a lot for kids. So, finding ways for young people to work with each other — even if it’s remote. And also, to know that, as a young person, you can still
make a change.” Besides being a good activity for pandemicfatigued children, the theatre non-profit executive director and former city council candidate says the art sale’s goal is to raise money for a 4-year-old girl in her building battling cancer. The kids will raise money from their art Sunday, Oct. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m., in front of the 3503 Johnson Ave., Starbucks. The girl, whose parents wished to keep anonymous, is good friends with Lora’s 8-year-old daughter, Emma Lucía. Wanting to help her friend through a tough time, Emma Lucía came up with the idea of doMINO ing something that would raise LORA money for Memorial Sloan Kettering Children’s Cancer Center — the hospital where her friend is undergoing treatment. “I decided that I could raise money and give it to her,” Emma Lucía said, “so that they could have CANCER ART, page A4
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Emma Lucía Lora-Braswell has helped organize an art sale to raise money for a friend undergoing cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Children’s Cancer Center. Emma Lucía and some of her other friends have put together collages, paintings, drawings and other artwork to sell this Sunday.
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What’s to stop a landlord from cheating his way to charging higher rent on what are otherwise supposed to be price-stabilized apartments? The answer? Housing advocacy groups and class-action lawsuits. At least that’s how some have gone about dealing with landlords who have been illegally using what are known as J-51 tax abatements in the Bronx over the past several years. J-51 was designed to incentivize landlords to make repairs or conversions of their single-room occupancies to multi-family apartment units in exchange for tax savings from the city each year — abatements that can last for up to two decades. The program dates back to 1955, and has largely been cited as the driving force in the decline of single-room occupancy units. In addition to the abatement benefits, landlords also can raise the rent — so long as the increase is commensurate to the physical improvements made in the apartment. However, tenants often find themselves paying for rent well above what the law allows. It’s an abatement landlords take advantage of far too often, according to some housing advocates, but even taking an offending super to court might not be enough to solve the issue for the rest of an apartment building raising rent under the J-51 program. In fact, housing experts like Aaron Carr believe more can be done. “At the end of the day, there’s only so much we can do to combat this
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Apartment buildings like 500 W. 235th St., welcome tenants who tend to enjoy rent-stabilized units. But a group of tenants took their landlord to court back in 2017, claiming they overcharged rent through a tax abatement program that allows landlords to raise rent based on the amount of renovations they’ve done to a unit. problem.” said Carr, executive director of Housing Rights Initiative. “We need government intervention.” Carr’s group has found success going after landlords who use the abatement as a means to cheat tenants — raising rents far higher than they are legally allowed to. Still, Carr believes his group’s lawsuits have become nothing more than effectively a cost of doing business for these landlords. “We’ve found that a large percentage of landlords who own J-51 buildings have re-stabilized their previously deregulated units in response to the dozens of J-51 class action lawsuits that our organization has generated,” he
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Christopher Ford was one of several tenants at 500 W. 235th St., who took his landlord to court over claims he was being charged too much in rent as part of a tax abatement program in his rent-stabilized unit.
said. “This is a big achievement since our No. 1 priority, above anything else, is to return illegally deregulated apartments back to the rent stabilization rolls. However, despite these gains, the majority of landlords have failed to return the money that they have illegally stolen from their tenants.” Yet, the bigger the offensive, Carr said, the better the results. Still, while there are power in numbers, he stressed it shouldn’t have to be the solution to dealing with landlords who misuse the program. “This is why we do these class actions in high volume,” Carr said. “But at the end of the day, what we really need is proactive government enforcement.” Four years ago, Christopher Ford and dozens of his neighbors took their landlord, Parkoff Operating Corp., to court. They claimed Parkoff forced all of them to overpay rent at 500 W. 235th St. — something many of them didn’t even realize was happening until years later. Ford kept paying that higher rent for nearly, only starting to question it when he found out how low the tenant who lived in his unit before him paid. Ford told The Riverdale Press in 2017 his starting rent was $1,490 — more than double what his predecessor was paying in the weeks before Ford moved in. The landlord reportedly justified the increase through the
J-51 tax abatement, citing $26,000 in repairs to the apartment. The problem? Ford contends he never saw any major repairs. Especially one costing thousands of dollars. And that was from a building that, just weeks before the lawsuit, suffered months with no gas. Parkoff was also targeted by Housing Rights Initiative — a Manhattanbased advocacy group — for failing to meet the thresholds of qualifying for tax abatement it was financially benefitting from with several of its other buildings. According to its legal action, Housing Rights claimed Parkoff was still raising the rent on tenants without properly demonstrating he completed the renovation work he claimed was done to each unit. Yet, Parkoff is hardly the only landlord taken to court over alleged misuse of the J-51 program. Last August, the tenants of six Highbridge buildings called on their landlord, Emerald Equitiy Group, to stop trying to deregulate more than 200 existing rent-stabilized apartment units, according to reports. Even more, many of those same tenants called on the landlord Isaac Kassirer — owner of Emerald Equities — to fix some of the terrible conditions many of the apartments were experiencing. Like the Parkoff case, Emerald’s tenants were organized by an advoca-
cy group known as Community Action for Safe Apartments, but represented by Bronx Legal Services. It’s a practice Carr believes will do every tenant some justice — even for those afraid to speak out against their landlords for fear of retribution. “Our non-profit does these cases as class-action lawsuits to create the biggest deterrent effect,” Carr said. “The benefit of a class-action is that it doesn’t just benefit the class representatives who are leading the lawsuits, it benefits every current tenant and former tenant who has been overcharged in a given building —as long as their claims are within the statute of limitations.” Government agencies are culpable in these practices because of their failure to do their due diligence, Carr said. “By law, landlords are required to register their rents with the housing enforcement agency,” he said. “One of the biggest problems with our system is that the enforcement agency isn’t actually looking at the data that landlords are registering with them. Thus, the vast majority of tenants don’t even know they are being defrauded, and our system places the burden on them to figure it out themselves.” If things are really going to change, Carr stressed government will need to get involved and actually follow up with landlords rather than leave it at the feet of the tenants. “In reality, most tenants don’t have the time to do this because they are busy trying to do things like putting food on the table,” Car said. “This is why we need to overhaul our enforcement system, and put the enforcement burden where it belongs: on the government.”
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Homeless shelter proposal creates new battleground HOMELESS from page A1 caters to homeless men in a facility run by the non-profit social services group BronxWorks. The Broadway facility would be run by the African American Planning Commission, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit founded by Matthew Okebiyi that runs several housing communities already, including its Serenity House Family Residence that caters to homeless victims of domestic violence and their dependent children. Murray isn’t too sure how serious the city is about opening a new facility in North Riverdale, however, because nothing has been filed with the buildings department so far. “I don’t think this is a done deal yet, but I and the community board would like the residents to have a say in what’s going to happen,” Murray said. “We need to know where these single males are from.” At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the city moved thousands of homeless people into vacant hotels as a way to curb COVID-19 spread among the most vulnerable. While that particular program has since come to an end in light of complaints from those who lived and worked near the hotels, Murray is concerned the city is looking to rapidly build more homeless shelters, scattering them randomly across different locations.
Some of the initial complaints coming through social media is fear of mental illness among the homeless men expected to populate this new facility, as well as supposed spikes in crimes and depression of neighboring home values. Murray himself believes the community will come to Wednesday’s meeting with a host of questions, but is optimistic many have yet to make up their mind whether they are for or against the city’s plan. “We’ll want to know what services will be provided, how will this benefit the community, and will this change the trajectory of the community,” Murray said. “I know that the board office and the board chair (have) been getting a lot of calls as to whether or not it’s a done deal.” The board opposed 5731 Broadway four years ago, a transitional facility designed to help families just a step away from independence to regain that with semi-permanent housing in a newly built apartment structure not far from West 238th Street. Yet CB8’s chair, Laura Spalter, has a reputation of opposing homeless services in this part of the Bronx through her Broadway Community Alliance. “There isn’t really a position from the board right now,” Murray said. “We’re just waiting to hear more.
We’re on a fact-finding mission right now.” Spalter’s husband Rob, however, already has posted calls to action about the proposed shelter on the alliance’s social media pages, including the Sept. 24 letter sent to the community board by Erin Drinkwater of the city’s social services department. Murray says his meeting, however, is about education, and ensuring the neighborhood is fully involved in the decision-making process. That could mean not just committee meetings involving health and hospitals, but also Charles Moerdler’s powerful land use committee, which was unsuccessful in derailing 5731 Broadway. “The main thing is, if this is going to be a done deal, then what my committee would probably do as well as the land use committee is that we may try to have a public hearing,” Murray said. “We’d want to allow the residents and business (owners) to come and speak about how it would affect them, and how do they feel about the shelter being there. “The outcome of that public hearing will determine the case we’re going to make. This can’t be something that’s determined over the course of just a meeting or two.” Another key part of the exploratory process is learning more about AAPCI, which is in line to run the facility.
Want to go? Community Board 8’s health, hospitals and social services committee meets online Wednesday, Oct. 13. For the Zoom link, email CB8 at bx08@ cb.nyc.gov. “We don’t know much about this company,” Murray said. “We’re researching what services they provide. We know that they seem to be doing a good job when it comes down to homeless services.” Other questions Murray has include why this particular neighborhood was chosen. He’s also curious if there have been any studies determining the impact the shelter’s placement may have. The property was sold to a Rockland County limited liability corporation in 2016 for $1.47 million. Another LLC with the same Suffern post office box also picked up a property just around the corner at around the same time at 205 W. 262nd St., according to city property records. The address also is used by Black Brown Grey & Co., according to New York’s state department, which lists Joshua West as its chief executive. West appears to be a shareholder of 36
Marble Hill Ave., a four-story apartment building off West 225th Street. City officials told the community board the shelter’s placement is in-line with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boroughby borough initiative, which looks to hold neighborhoods accountable as sites for homeless shelters and transitional homes. But then again, de Blasio is only mayor for a few more months. And Murray believes this initiative could lose its teeth with a new administration, likely under the leadership of Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams. “Now more than ever we need every community to come together to address homelessness,” said Ian Martin, a spokesman for the city’s social services department. “This highquality, borough-based facility will be the first shelter of its kind in this community district, offering 130 New Yorkers experiencing homelessness the opportunity to get back on their feet safely and closer to their anchors of life in these unprecedented times.” Murray has invited both AACPI and city officials to his Oct. 13 meeting, slated to start at 7 p.m., through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Additional reporting by Michael Hinman
How will DOT make a dangerous intersection safe? INTERSECTION from page A1 a recent meeting he, too, was happy to see DOT’s quick response. In fact, when he made the trek down to see the street work in progress, Dinowitz was granted a bird’s eye view. “In a true New York moment, some guy who was on his terrace screamed out at me and said, ‘Hey, come on up,’” Dinowitz said. “So, I went up to some stranger’s apartment, and I was able to see the traffic improvements from his terrace.” Keith Kalb, the borough’s deputy transportation commissioner, described RUtH part of the improveMULLEN ments as “left-turn calming measures” — basically miniature speed bumps intended to guide and slow traffic. While these measures are welcome, Dinowitz believes DOT could make them more effective by adding plastic bollards — brightly lit polls that tell cars which direction to move in. Additionally, DOT repainted the crosswalks and yellow traffic lines as a way to increase visibility, Kalb said. There are still a few enhancements left, however. For instance, DOT will relocate a nearby streetlight with the hope it gives drivers a better view of pedestrians crossing the street. There are also plans to replace the sidewalk head ramps at the intersection to make them compliant with the Americans
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Ruth Mullen was hit and killed by an express bus at the intersection of Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue early last month in Spuyten Duyvil. Since then, the city’s transportation department has installed new safety treatments like left-turn calming measures resembling mini-speed bumps to help make the intersection safer. with Disabilities Act. And DOT says it’s committed to working with the MTA to ensure its bus drivers are better trained. Most importantly, Kalb said, DOT is studying whether the intersection could support a traffic light. Craig Sachs, who lives in Spuyten
Duyvil, told the transportation committee he supports DOT’s efforts, but hoped the agency would consider adding a pedestrian-activated traffic signal. When a pedestrian looks to cross the street, they can press a button that changes the light to red, immediately bringing cars to a stop.
Such a concept wouldn’t work here, however, Kalb said. “We don’t generally have intersections where all vehicles stop and only pedestrians move,” he said. Instead, the city has what are called “leading pedestrian intervals,” which makes all cars stop, giving pedestrians
a head start to move in advance of the cars. Another issue raised was enforcement. Sue Dodell — a member of the newly renamed Ruth Mullen Riverdale Huddle — said the lack of a New York Police Department presence is one of the crossing’s main problems. “My understanding is that people go through the stop signs all the time at that intersection,” Dodell said. “Obviously if we — even for a short amount of time — had some enforcement there, perhaps that would discourage people from going down the hill quickly.” Unfortunately, the manpower from the 50th Precinct to monitor that intersection just isn’t available, said Ed Green, CB8’s public safety committee chair. But what about the bus driver involved in the Mullen incident? Assemblyman Dinowitz admits he’s heard nothing new about the status of that investigation. “I’m not sure why it’s taking so long,” the elder Dinowitz said. “It seems to me that there’s not that many issues here that have to be investigated.” No matter what, Councilman Dinowitz said, he and his father are going to keep pushing for more traffic safety measures throughout the community. “Because whether it’s Johnson and Kappock, or whether it’s anywhere else in CB8, no one needs to be speeding through the neighborhood,” Dinowitz said. “And if we put a speed bump in or a stop sign in to help slow the traffic down, that’s what we want to do.”
So far so good: No COVID shortages in local schools VAX MANDATE from page A1 that we put in place last year that have continued to deepen this year.” Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers labor union, said 97 percent of his members were vaccinated. Mulgrew praised the mayor for delaying the mandate by a week after he and other union leaders said the school system wasn’t yet ready for its impact on staffing levels. But not everything was perfect, the union chief added. The de Blasio administration’s overall handling of the mandate has been chaotic to say the least. “To have this additional challenge of staffing and all of that within the first month of the school year, it’s not the right way to do this,” Mulgrew said. “Thankfully, this didn’t go into effect last Tuesday. I can stand today with confidence in saying there’s a real plan in place. People know what to do. And if there’s a problem, they know how to deal with it and who’s going to help them. That was not the case last Tuesday.” Yet, some 8,000 DOE employees remain un-
vaccinated, according to published reports. That means they’ll be replaced by substitutes while they continue on paid leave until they decide to get at least one dose of the vaccine in their arm. The city has just enough substitutes to fill the void, but it will continue to tax the system. Councilman Mark Treyger, who chairs the city council’s education committee, told its members last week he’s heard about a shortage of paraprofessionals from principals across the city. Councilman Eric Dinowitz, a former teacher who sits on the Brooklyn lawmaker’s committee, says he’s concerned many of the substitute teachers filling in for those who refused to get vaccinated may be teaching subjects and grade levels they shouldn’t be. “There are a lot of classrooms with teachers in them who are not licensed to teach that material and never went to school for it,” Dinowitz said. “And now our children are in classes without teachers certified — not just for that subject, maybe even that age range.” Those staffing problems can be blamed on a lack of adequate planning, Dinowitz said. So if
the city is planning a similar vaccine mandate for students, it should be announced far ahead of its implementation. In fact, the councilman’s father — Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz — is working on a bill at the state level requiring all public school students in the state to get the shot. Fortunately, schools in this corner of the Bronx seem to have avoided staff shortages and substitutes entirely. For instance, Riverdale/ Kingsbridge Academy government and economics teacher Michael Flanagan says nearly every UFT member there is vaccinated. “If any staff members didn’t get vaccinated, I don’t know it,” Flanagan said. “I don’t know about kitchen staff, and stuff like that. I don’t know about the other staff. But as far as teachers and paraprofessionals are concerned, I think we had almost 99 percent compliance.” Flanagan personally supports the vaccine mandate, getting his own shot as soon as it became available to him earlier this year. He believes everyone else clocking in on campus should too. “If you’re working in the schools and you’re
working in the health care industry, you should get vaccinated,” Flanagan said. “You’re not entitled to a job. The city has been able to mandate vaccinations since 1904. (And) this is a pandemic. So, yeah I agree with the city’s mandate.” While RKA is doing well with staff vaccinations, Flanagan said he’s still concerned about the safety of the school’s sixth graders — who are mostly younger than 12 and aren’t yet eligible for the vaccine. At nearby P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil, principal Steven Schwartz says things are going similarly well. Most of his employees are vaccinated, and the announcement of the mandate pushed many of those who were hesitant to finally “get the jab.” Morgan Evers, the school’s newly elected parent association president, says she feels like Schwartz has handled the vaccine mandate and other coronavirus precautions rather well. “Especially at a place like P.S. 24, where none of the students are eligible for the vaccine right now,” Evers said. “I think it’s just one more precaution to put in place to keep the school open, and to keep all the kids safe and healthy.”
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of the things that has been helpful that Memorial Sloan Kettering does is they do art projects with kids who are in treatment. So, arts and crafts is one of her favorite activities that the nurses bring while she’s spending the day there.” And as it happens, Lora’s family also is very artistic. Emma Lucía loves to paint, Lora said, but she’s also made drawings and even a collage with seashells she collected in Lora’s home country, the Dominican Republic. Annabella Sykes and younger sister Maya will bring their own artistic vision to the sale with a series of paintings and drawings featuring hearts. “I think for them, the sentiment was wanting to show that they cared,” said Cynthia Carrion, the young girls’ mother. “And the symbol for that for them was hearts.”
With a goal of raising $300, Emma Lucía put suggested donations for her artwork between $5 and $20. Simpler works like watercolor paintings are on the lower end, while complex pieces that uses more materials are priced higher. “She’s like, ‘This one uses multimedia, so this one’s more expensive,’” Lora said. “She always comes to me and she’s like, ‘What do you think about the price?’ And I’m like, ‘You do know it’s suggested at the end.’ But she has a little dollar sign with a number in the backs of all of them. So, people can have an idea of what they think it’s worth.” One challenge Lora and some of the other families faced was having to teach their kids about a life-threatening disease like cancer at such an early age. When speaking to her kids, Lora made sure to explain how treatments
like chemotherapy, radiation and surgery work, as well as their effects on people, like hair loss and a comprised immune system. “I never thought I’d be having this conversation this young,” Lora said. “But I believe in always speaking the truth to children.” In the era of the coronavirus pandemic, Carrion sauys she’s already had many conversations with her children about sickness. So, cancer became just another illness to explain. “I think that just was this other way that we had to approach what it means to be healthy, and how sometimes our bodies aren’t,” Carrion said. “And all of the doctors and hospitals that are there to help people get better. So, I think we approached it from that lens.” In a time when kids may be overwhelmed by all the issues stemming
Want to go? Support the effort to buy art supplies or young cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Children’s Cancer Center with a kids art show Sunday, Oct. 17, from 2 to 4 p.m., in front of the Starbucks at 3503 Johnson Ave. from the pandemic locally and across the country, Lora believes this event gives them one simple way to make positive change. “It’s just like a nice way to say our kids can do so many things,” Lora said. “And let’s create spaces for them to do that. And to listen. And to use their skills to help others, and help each other.”
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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Tito Nieves and Friends during a performance Saturday, Oct. 16. India Inmensa is up next on Saturday Oct. 23, with Hector Acosta headlining the stage on Saturday, Nov. 20. All shows are at 8 p.m. For a complete schedule and tickets, visit LehmanCenter.org.
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One of the Bronx’s largest cultural institutions, the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, reopened this month after a 19-month hiatus in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The venue’s return signifies not only the return of live performances on the CUNY college campus’s stage, but also a reunion between Lehman Center’s tight-knit group of patrons and staff members. Eva Bornstein fondly refers to Lehman’s audience as family. “My commitment to this center comes from my heart,” the arts center executive director told the crowd on opening night. Her words were followed by the first program of the season, headlined by music legend Andy Montañez with The Mambo Legends Orchestra and Patty evA bORNsTeIN Padilla. While it’s the performances that light up the stage, it was Lehman Center’s faithful audience that helped keep the venue afloat during its long dark period throughout the pandemic. When it shut down on March 9, 2020, Lehman Center still had six shows remaining on its spring schedule. Because of that, 90 percent of its income vanished in almost an instant. Yet few people asked for refunds, Bornstein said. “Those funds sustained us for a very long time, until we got grants and other support. Their money helped us survive.” Eventually, government resources did become available. One big example was through the Small Business
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For the first time in 19 months, the front doors of the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts reopened, welcoming audiences to hear Puerto Rican sensation Andy Montañez. When the venue shut down in March 2020, many longtime patrons chose not to accept refunds — a key factor that allowed the center to reopen this month. Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. Funded through federal COVID-19 relief funds backed by U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat and President Joe Biden, Lehman Center captured more than $760,000 in grant funds out of some $21 million that ultimately ended up in the Bronx. In all, the Lehman Center picked more than a million dollars in funding. “It was the most important grant I ever applied for,” Bornstein said of the shuttered venues grant. “Without that grant, I doubted whether we would be able to reopen.” In fact, Lehman Center was one of the biggest recipients of the shuttered venue grant, behind only the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, which picked up $10 million each. Opening night felt more like a family gathering rather than a stuffy theatre event. Ticket-buyers embraced
and air hugged wearing rhinestone and patriotic masks in the lobby. They clapped and swayed to the music while their toes tapped in the aisle. A few even waved Peruvian and Puerto Rican flags. Montañez — El Godfather de la Salsa who first found fame with El Gran Combo before striking out on his own — playfully bantered with his bandmates and concertgoers. While Lehman Center programs a variety of dance, music and theatre performances from around the globe, it’s one of the few venues in the region that presents several Hispanic acts each season, drawing patrons like Bronx-raised Migdalia Rivera, who now lives in Brooklyn. She described the night feeling uniquely Latina. “We always come back and unite,” she said. To give back to her artistic brood, Bornstein celebrated the reopening
of Lehman Center with a free concert last weekend featuring the Brazilian All Stars. Other performances the rest of the season have tickets ranging between $35 and $100 — but there are discounts for senior citizens, CUNY students, and those who buy tickets for multiple shows at the same time. Funding, albeit critical, was only part of Lehman Center’s reopening puzzle. Located on the campus of Lehman College — but functioning as an independent non-profit — Lehman Center worked with the CUNY school to create a COVID-19 safety plan that jived with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as mandates set by the college. That meant, at least for this season, those attending shows at the Lehman Center must be vaccinated and wearing facial masks. Luis Silva said returning to the
Lehman Center was exciting, but also “a little nerve-racking.” He and wife Carmen, who frequently attended shows prior to the pandemic, welcomed the center’s strict vaccination policy. Patrons aren’t the only ones required to be vaccinated. Staff members and visiting performers must be, too. While travel restrictions and vaccination access abroad may cause a few of this season’s acts to be postponed, Bornstein remains undeterred. She embraces the adage of the show must go on. The director, who has been known to step into the box office when there’s a rush, credits her three-person, fulltime team, along with consultants and a part-time staff of ushers, backstage crew and box office agents for banding together to make whatever needs to happen, well, happen. Bornstein is now working on adding more programs for the spring, including a hip-hop event tentatively scheduled for next April. The show will feature an international lineup — some of whom started here in the Bronx. While the center resumes its prepandemic breakneck pace, Bornstein soaks in the start of the monumental season. “It was an unbelievably moving experience to be back on that stage,” she said.
SCHOOL DESK Pfizer could make schools safer Charter schools in the Bronx have something to be excited about: Pfizer is nearing emergency authorization to make coronavirus vaccine shots available to children between 5 and 11. In fact, such an authoriza-
By Michael hinMan tion could be in place before October is over. “This is an important step for our children,” sad Miriam Raccah, executive director for the Bronx Charter School for the Arts, in a release. “The last 19 months have been incredibly difficult for students, families and schools across the nation. An emer-
The U.S. Food and Drug gency authorized vaccine may be in sight for younger learners Administration has scheduled a in the months ahead is a very hearing for Pfizer’s emergency authorization request for Oct. positive sign.” Right now, vaccines are only 26. available to people 12 and older. That has left pre-adolescents New freshmen at exposed to the virus, which many now say has become a Hamilton College pandemic of the non-vaccinat- T:11" Hamilton College has weled. comed two new students with
roots locally. Hannah Lipskar and Samantha Trombone have just begun their freshman years at the school, located in Oneida County. Lipskar is a graduate of Horace Mann School, while Trombone is a product of Riverdale/ Kingsbridge Academy. The school is named for the
famed U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who originally sat on the school’s board of trustees. And a bit closer to home, spring semester was a good one for Zoe Velasquez and Julia Richards-Benfatti, who were named to the president’s list at the fashion business-focused LIM College in Midtown.
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Albert Thompson, dentist and star athlete, 89 Dr. Albert J. Thompson of Riverdale died peacefully on the morning of Oct. 6, 2021, surrounded by his family. He was 89. A lifelong New Yorker, he was born at Presbyterian Hospital and grew up on West 116th Street, where he was forever formed by the rich cultural history of 20th century Harlem. Always an animated storyteller, he would faithfully recall the tales of his father’s journey fighting with the French in Europe during World War I as a Harlem Hellfighter, and of the hours he and his younger brother Benn Thompson would spend in front of Sugar Ray Robinson’s gym, across the street from their apartment building, waiting to catch a glimpse or a handshake from the champ. He excelled in both academics and sports in his youth. He attended George Washington High School, where he served as senior class president and earned three individual New York City high school titles in track and field. He continued his academic and athletic pursuits at Columbia University, where he would expand his trophy collection. In 1953, during his junior year, he dominated the Ivy League in throwing events, winning titles in the 35-pound weight throw and the shot put at both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal Championships. That season, he was one of the best shot putters in the country, ranked fourth nationally overall for the duration of the season. His title run continued through his senior year, and in all, he graduated with six top-three finishes in the shot
working families and new immigrants to receive high-quality, accessible dental care. As an active member of Columbia’s dental community, he served as an assistant clinical professor at the dental school, was a member of the admissions and minority affairs committees, and was president of the dental school’s alumni association. As a member of the dental school faculty, he mentored and nurtured countless students through his work with the minority affairs office, and established the Science Technology Education Program, the New York state PreCollege Enrichment Program, which offers a rigorous preparatory program for middle and high school students interested in medical and STEM careers. In 2014, he was honored by Columbia with an outstanding community service award for his work in Harlem, Morningside Heights and Washington Heights communities. He was chair of the school’s alumni track advisory committee, and was a member of the Varsity C Club’s executive committee between 1970 and 1974. In 2010, he was inducted into the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame. Also in 2014, Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science created the Thompson-Muñoz Scholarship, an honors designation for talented undergraduates from communities surrounding the university. At the time, Columbia president Lee Bollinger said, “Columbia is defined by the city we call home, and by our historic commitment to providing educational opportunity to a remark-
put, discus and weight throw in the Ivy League and the IC4A championships. He also set the school record for shot put, which has remained unbroken for six decades. Upon graduation in 1954, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserves, serving on the USS Albany touring the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. He continued his throwing career while in the Navy, competing at the 1956 Armed Forces Track & Field championships, finishing in the top three in both shot put and the discus, and qualifying for the 1956 U.S. Olympic Trials in Los Angeles. He also won the 1955 Milrose games in the shot put. Throughout his throwing career, he was a proud member of the New York Pioneer Club, the nation’s first integrated track club dedicated to fighting the entrenched segregation of the time. In all his pursuits, he would embody the club’s stated constitutional objectives, “To encourage and further the ambition of our youth for higher education, that they might become intelligent, civic-minded citizens, and to work toward a better racial understanding through the medium of education and sports. He returned to Columbia after his time with the Navy to enroll in the School of Dental and Oral Surgery. After completing his residency at Harlem Hospital, he opened his dental practice in 1960 at 119 W. 57th St., where he served a diverse community for nearly 60 years. His Midtown office was a place where leading artists, musicians and politicians mixed with
A grand jury has indicted Jordan Burnette, 30, on multiple charges over a vandalism spree last spring that targeted several synagogues in the Riverdale area. Burnette was arraigned last week on a 76-count indictment that includes criminal trespass, criminal mischief, aggravated harassment, burglary and petty larceny — many of them charged as hate crimes. Bronx district attorney Darcel Clark is accusing Burnette of breaking glass and wreaking havoc at four different synagogues over a threeday period last April, primarily by smashing windows with rocks. The affected religious centers included the Riverdale Jewish Center on Independence Avenue, Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale on West 246th Street, and both Young Israel of Riverdale and the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Burnette was arrested in early May soon after he reportedly returned to CSAIR, stealing a bicycle and vandalizing religious books. “Those shameful incidents brought fear and terror to worshippers,” Clark said, in a release. “To our Bronx Jewish community, we support you. We are also horrified about these attacks. We live in a vibrant, diverse community, and we are united against these appalling acts.” Burnette is due back in court in January. — Michael Hinman
Dr. Albert j. thompson able diversity of young people, regardless of their family’s income. We reach out to attract talented students across the nation who are the first member of their family to attend college, but nowhere more so than our New York community.” Indeed, Dr. Thompson’s life story exemplified the fulfillment of that mission, and he leaves behind countless family, friends and mentees who will carry it forward. He is survived by his wife and partner of more than 40 years, Angela. His younger sister, Dolores. His three children, Leslie, Paul and Seif. And his four grandchildren: Dea, Rio, Aster and Stella. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frazier Benn Thompson and Arthur Lee Thompson, as well as his brothers, Arthur Lee Thompson Jr., and Benn Thompson, and his first wife, Marion R. Thompson.
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Those aren’t just any flowers
Woodlawn Conservancy celebrates the art and architecture of its famous cemetery as part of Open House New York Weekend on Saturday, Oct. 16 at noon, and Sunday, Oct. 17 at 12:30 p.m. Explore notable sites at Woodlawn, featuring unique and traditional art forms and architecture. Also visit a few of the open mausoleums. Registration for this event 4199 Webster Ave., must be done through Open House New York, however, by visiting OHNY.org. Also on Oct. 17, take a trolley tour exploring Woodlawn’s legal history from the ground up. Visit the final resting places of people like Charles Evan Hughes, William Nelson Cromwell and Samuel Untermyer. A box lunch is available after the 11 a.m., tour, and before the 2 p.m., tour. Price of the tour — $75 — includes lunch. For more information, visit WoodlawnConservancy.org.
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Let RKA wash your car
Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy’s parent association hosts a fundraising car wash Sunday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 660 W. 237th St. Cost is $10 per car, and the rain date is Saturday, Oct. 23. For more information, email rka141pa@gmail.com.
Learn about constitutional amendments on the ballot
Northwest Bronx Indivisible hosts an online seminar about how the proposed New York state constitutional amendments may change the way people vote on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. Speakers include Susan Lerner from Common Cause New York, and Diane Burrows from the League of Women Voters New York. RSVP at tiny.cc/nwbi-oct.
Caretaking at Brust Park
Get your rakes and gloves, as it’s time to spruce up Brust Park. The Stewards of Brust Park hosts a gardening and cleanup event Saturday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m., in Lower Brust Park near Manhattan College. Those who want to arrive early can learn about park plants with steward Calder Orr beginning at 9 a.m. The work continues with Upper Brust Park on Sunday, Oct. 17, beginning at 10 a.m. Other upcoming events include:
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Meticulously trained kiku — the Japanese word for chrysanthemum — is part of the New York Botanical Garden’s Kusama: Cosmic Nature event, that is now in its final days at the 2900 Southern Blvd., attraction. For more information, visit NYBG.org. • Halloween parade on Sunday, Oct. 31 beginning at 3 p.m., in Lower Brust Park • Leaf crunch weekend, at Upper Brust Park on Saturday, Nov. 20, and Lower Brust Park on Sunday, Nov. 21. Each day begins at 10 a.m. • Craft bird-friendly tree decorations in Lower Brust Park on Saturday, Dec. 11. A holiday lights and decoration takes place the next day, with light seasonal refreshments, at a time to be announced. To learn more, email stewardsofbrustpark@gmail.com.
Visiting Untermyer Gardens in the fall
Untermyer Gardens is open once again seven days a week from 9 a.m., to an hour before sunset at 945 N. Broadway in Yonkers. No reservations are necessary, and admission is free. A lot’s happening on Sunday, Oct. 17, beginning with a 45-minute magic show by Flavors of Magic beginning at 1 p.m., in the outdoor amphitheater.
That’s followed by Rogue — a feature performer from NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” providing a show of small-scale illusions, mind-reading, and fun for all ages. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children younger than 12. Between 2 and 4 p.m., Society of American Magicians members will teach magic tricks using things found around the house for voluntary donations at the Walled Garden. At the same time, kites will be sold for $7, which can be flown up until 4 p.m. Tours are scheduled each Sunday beginning at 11 a.m., with costs ranging between $12 and $25. Select tours are also scheduled on Saturdays, including Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. The costs of these tours range from $20 to $30. Advanced reservations are available through UntermyerGardens. org. Family adventure tours are available Sundays at 10 a.m., for kids between 7 and 12 with an accompanying parent. Cost is $12 for each kid, but
parents and anyone younger than 2 can join for free. Kids between 2 and 5 can enjoy storytime in the garden Sundays at 11 a.m. Cost is free. Classes are also available most weekends, with prices ranging from $20 to $50, covering drawing and tree tours, tai chi, among others. Advanced registration is required. For more information, visit UntermyerGardens.org.
Buzzing around KHCC
You don’t have to be a busy little bee, but you can certainly watch some very busy ones work at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center’s community garden tours. Available by appointment, it’s a chance to get up close and personal with the queens and their worker bees at the 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace facility. You can learn amazing bee facts from the neighborhood beekeeper, and maybe even get a chance to ex-
The Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., in Yonkers, is set to debut its latest exhibition, “African American Art in the 20th Century,” beginning Oct. 15. Set to run through Jan. 16, this collection features more than 30 African American artists popular during the period bracketed by the Harlem Renaissance starting in the 1920s, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Drawn from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibition includes masterworks by iconic artists such as Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence and Loïs Mailou Jones — ranging in style from modern abstraction to stained color to the postmodern assemblage of found objects. Joining that exhibit is “Jamel Robinson: Beauty from Ashes,” from the museum’s teaching artist-in-residence. It consists of five works, including a mixed-media created specifically for the exhibition. The new piece is inspired by sculptures from Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt and Sargent Johnson. Other pieces drew inspiration from Whitfield Lovell and Renée Stout. Other upcoming events include: • Curator tour of “African American Art in the 20th Century” on Sunday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. • Poetry reading and responsive writing with teaching artist-in-residence Jamel Robinson on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., which will include a reading of his poem “Home,” followed by a creative writing workshop. • A fabric collage workshop from jewelry designer and artist Donna Chambers on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. • A drawing and painting workshop from teaching artist-in-residence Jamel Robinson on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. • A paper collage workshop from former teaching artist-in-residence Tijay Mohammed on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. • A musical performance — “Multisensory Music, Movement and Sculpture” from teaching artist-in-residence Jamel Robinson on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. WHAT’S ON, page A9
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What’s on? Make your way back to the library Neighborhood libraries are open again, as are many of their in-person events like at the Spuyten Duyvil Library, 650 W. 235th St. The Spuyten Duyvil Library is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Kingsbridge Library seeks teen ambassadors — young people who are sophomores, juniors or seniors in high school interested in working with children and exploring library-related careers. Those interested can search teen ambassadors at NYPL.org. The Kingsbridge Library, 291 W. 231st St., is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Van Cortlandt Library, 3882 Cannon Place, is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Riverdale Library, 5540 Mosholu Ave., is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bronx flea market wrapping up season
It will require a little bit of traveling, but it might very well be worth it. Fordham Flea brings together a market dedicated to merchandise, arts and crafts, apparel, accessories, and selfcare products. It takes place the last Sunday of each month through October at 1 Fordham Plaza. To learn more, visit TheBronxNightMarket.com/fordhamflea.
Eat healthy this fall
The Riverdale CommunitySupported Agriculture program is accepting members for its fall deliveries of organic and biodynamic vegetables. Deliveries are weekly each Thursday from 3:30 to 7 p.m., running through late November. Full shares (for three to four people) and half shares (for one or two people) are available, and include up to 10 vegetables each week. Fruit shares also are available, which include organic strawberries, blueberries, stone fruits, apples and pears across the season. For more information, visit Facebook.com/RiverdaleCSA, or email riverdalecsa@gmail. com.
Halloween dog contest at brewery
Virtual exhibit made to be virtual Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection is gearing up for its first virtual exhibition “F11: Digital Paintings for Full Screen” with an event through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. The exhibit features works that are actually best viewed on a computer screen rather than in person. It includes 10 artists from different places around the country and world including Adam Blitz, Elaine Chao, Luise Eru, Donald Hargrove, Samhita Kamisetty, Annie Lee, Carlos Torres Machado, Collin Pollard, Polina Protsenko and Stefanie Wolfson. To learn more, or to register for the artist talks, visit DerfnerOnline.org.
Pups on the Runway hosts a Halloween dog contest Saturday, Oct. 23, at Gun Hill Brewery, 3227 Laconia Ave., in the East Bronx. The event is free to attend, but the costume contest has a $5 entry fee. Proceeds benefit a pair of Bronx animal rescue groups. For more information, visit PupsOnTheRunway.com.
Stay busy at the Sunday Market
The Riverdale Y Sunday market is open every Sunday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., in the parking lot of the Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Ave., near West 246th Street. Among the activities, there
is a food scrap collection every week between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. This includes fruit, vegetables, eggshells, coffee, tea, nuts, dried flowers and houseplants. For more information, visit RiverdaleY.org/community/ Sunday-market.
Dixon leads virtual display in Harlem
This year’s Harlem Fine Arts Show features work by Bronx native David K. Dixon. The show itself is completely virtual, with more information available at HFAS.org. A military retiree, Dixon concentrates on oil and acrylics creating both figurative and abstract pieces, and showcases his love for music.
CB8 continues monthly meetings
Community Board 8 continues to meet virtually through October, using the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Upcoming meetings include: • Special committee on racial equity on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. • Youth committee on Monday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. • Public safety committee on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. • Environment and sanitation committee on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. • Housing committee on Monday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. • Education, libraries and cultural affairs committee on Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. • Parks and recreation committee on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. • Economic development committee on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. For more information, visit NYC.gov/bronxcb8.
Neighborhood House comes to your door
The Riverdale Neighborhood House provides remote programs and classes to keep what has become a quarantined community engaged and prepared. Classes include: • An after-school program
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Not too old to dance
The Silver Shoes Dance Club — a health and wellness program for active adults older than 60 — begins regular free events focused on ballroom and Latin dance at both Henry Hudson and Van Cortlandt parks. Henry Hudson events continue every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Van Cortlandt events run every Tuesday and Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. Daniela Del Giorno leads
the program, making it clear that no experience — and no partner — is necessary, although anyone wishing to participate will need to register in advance. The group will host a “Let’s Get Social” community dance party and celebration on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 3 p.m., at Van Cortlandt Park’s classic playground. The family-friendly event includes performances by the Silver Shoes Dancers followed by an open dance party for all. Foxtrot, salsa, hustle and more will be played by a live DJ. For more information, visit SilverShoesDanceClub.com.
Drink beer and hike through Vannie
Tickets are now on sale for Van Cortlandt Park Alliance’s Hike-toberfest, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 23. Skilled guides lead all hikes, starting at 2:30, 3 and 3:30 p.m., that day. The last hikes will finish around 4:30, just in time for an after-party. The hikes begin and end at the Van Cortlandt House Museum. The event also includes yard games, live music, games of chance, German food from Loreley Beer Garden of the Lower East Side, beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co., from just outside Laconia, and cupcakes from Lloyd’s Carrot Cake.
Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., has welcomed some new exhibitions that bring together emerging and established artists working in a range of artistic approaches that reveal how the audience’s relationship to the natural world reflects the current moment. Other upcoming events include: • Family art project: Painting to migratory birds on Saturday, Oct. 16, and Sunday, Oct. 17, at 10 a.m. • Public garden highlights walk on Sunday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. • Public gallery tour on Thursday, Oct. 21, Saturday, Oct. 23, and Thursday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. • Family art project: Symbiosis scenes on Saturday, Oct. 23 from and Sunday, Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. For more information, visit WaveHill.org.
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teve simply wanted what so many of us take for granted every day: A hot dinner. A warm bed. The ability to fend for himself. But for now, he’d settle for $600 just to get his car back. Not because he wants cool wheels, but because it’s at least a place to sleep. Steve never expected to be homeless. He lost his job, and with it came the alltoo-familiar unstoppable domino effect that usually has just one outcome, and it’s not a good one. Luckily, Steve is a fictional character — based on a real person — portrayed by Javier E. Gomez in a film short he wrote with Luciana Faulhaber. Gomez’s face is likely familiar to many as the host of BronxNet’s Spanish-language “Diálogo Abierto.” And while he isn’t homeless himself, Gomez brilliantly portrays just 13 minutes of one man’s life on the streets, and just how difficult it really is to pull yourself out. The film short was produced for Invisible People, a group that works to give a face and voice to the homeless. Its website is filled with testimonials and other creations like Gomez’s short — all with a warning that some content found there might be offensive. “Our hope is you’ll get mad enough to do something,” is its clever follow. Mark Horvath — formerly homeless himself — built Invisible People using nothing more than $45 and some social
media savvy. And the group’s name resonates, because we as a society seem happier when the men, women and children who have no home are invisible. That’s not a luxury we, as a society can afford. And it shouldn’t be a luxury anyway. While it’s difficult to get full counting, nearly 48,000 people seek shelter space in New York City each night. Just under 15,000 of them are children, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. Shelter populations have risen nearly 25 percent in the last decade. Yet, the number of homeless single adults is said to have doubled over that same period of time. Yes, it takes more than a shelter to help get someone back on their feet. And we need the city ready to offer those services to lend that hand. But first, someone simply needs a place to lay their head. Something to fill their belly. Somewhere they can feel safe. And many of us are for that happening, as long as it’s not in “my” neighborhood. Except it’s not “my” neighborhood. It’s our neighborhood. All of ours — whether we have a home to go to or not. If we aren’t there for our fellow human beings during a time of need, who will be there for us? It’s a lot to think about. But thinking is exactly what we should do before we can ever presume to judge.
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We must protect the little green space we have left
By JIM WACKER
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any people in the Bronx like green space in their neighborhoods. But they have no say in the matter. The Coalition to Save Brust Park fought mightily to protect a beautiful little park from a large development bordering it that would shade and kill its trees. This is the same builder that — as reported by The Riverdale Press — when granted a permit to renovate the beautiful old Villa Rosa Bonheur, “accidentally” destroyed it. Rather than ordering it repaired, our buildings department gave this developer a permit to build 55 units on the site. There was a petition that 1,000 neighbors signed asking the city to add the partial-acre lot to the park. It was ignored. The developer did such a great “renovation” that DOB then gave it a permit to build across town, next to beautiful Brust Park — a structure that will block almost all direct sunlight from reaching its forest and lawn. But not a regular R-6 zoned building. There is a 15-foot-wide strip of cliffside that, 150 years ago, someone called a street. It was never even traveled. This “street,” if it met with tiny Dash Place there, supposedly makes it a “corner lot,” which requires no yard area as a regular R-6 building would, and so can be even larger. Of course, there is no plan to build the useless street. Still not big enough? How about we use an arcane formula to put the “base plane” — the level of which anything below it doesn’t count as height — to make a four-story building into an eight? We’ll call the lower stories “basement,” “cellar,” “sub-cellar one,” and “sub-cellar two.” Never mind what it does to the neighborhood. The coalition is still waiting for city leaders to do something about this. They haven’t. We are approaching three years of construction hell so far, with probably at least another three to go. If they finish it, then we get the crowding that so many other areas of the city are famous for. If not, it remains the eyesore the backhoes have made it. The coalition was in frequent contact with these agencies, trying hard to stop or reduce this project to something more reasonable. At DOB, it challenged the imaginary street and where the old map puts it, the high base plane, the traffic that would be added to tiny Dash Place, the “economical” architecture, the old city-built retaining walls that support the road and surrounding buildings, the impact on the park and its wildlife, and many other issues. All of which the de Blasio-appointed city agencies — parks, buildings, transportation and
city planning — that are supposed to protect our environment and quality of life, ignored. DOB barely looked at the 45 challenges. So we sued, claiming dereliction of their duty. A strong Article 78 case is pending, yet these agencies continue to give even more permits for the project, and the environmental destruction continues. Overwhelmingly, the locals oppose this and most of the many new huge buildings being approved by city planning and DOB in the area. Increases in traffic, sewage, crowded school and mass transit, pollution, taxes, noise, and conflicts are generally not welcome. Just ask them. They’re losing green space where rain made trees grow instead of going into overflowing sewers. The old R-6 zoning that covers large areas of the Bronx is encouraging the overbuilding. The time for that kind of zoning is over. Either it should be downzoned, or the zoning system should be scrapped and replaced with a community board with the democratic power to say “no” to bad projects. Real estate now isn’t about finding a place to live and grow old. It’s about profits, some of which become campaign donations for politicians who look the other way. Homelessness has been a serious problem since shortly after the Dutch landed here. Despite 400 years of frantic building, it has not gotten better. In fact, there’s about 520 square feet of living space per person in New York City — 2,080 square feet for a family of four. Apartments have become a commodity, often left vacant. Homelessness could end with a better utilization of them — perhaps a tax on unoccupied space. Or rent control. Limits on how many apartments one can have. Or, perhaps, we could build some buildings in other states that actually want more people. There are many solutions to homelessness that don’t involve killing more of our green space. Overcrowding isn’t needed or wise. It leads to those who live here increasingly wanting to leave. A city of transients isn’t one that people care about, or about each other. They — or you — will soon be gone. We all want a place to call home, with a stable quality of life. One that we can invest our lives and family in. Treating real estate like a product or commodity is the opposite of that. We need agencies that care about the future of the city, not just donors. Clearly it’s time to downzone, but the only ones that can do that are beholden to real estate donors. It’s time for campaign finance reform, or time for those who can afford it to move.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Taking a new look at Vannie To the editor: It is considerably larger than Central Park. It has an array of facilities and fields and trails that host competitors in multiple sporting events from baseball, to soccer, to tennis, to rugby, to cricket, to competitive Frisbee, to cross-country racing, to biking. It has deer and hawks and ducks and geese and swans and more. It has a serene fish-filled lake, which edges the oldest municipal golf course in the United States. But I am writing now not because Van Cortlandt Park continues to be a special gem of a park, but because the park has — for the past couple years — been “polished” to a new level of sparkle and shine. Between the non-profit Van Cortlandt Park
Voting depends on Biden To the editor: Last November, millions of voters like me went to the polls and cast a ballot for Joe Biden. Now, with a relentless GOP attack on our voting rights underway, I’m asking President Biden to return the favor. It’s time for Biden to go further than talking about supporting voting rights legislation. We need him to come out and fully support ending the filibuster so the U.S. Senate can finally pass voting rights legislation like the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. With the filibuster intact, these bills stand little chance of passing. We need the president to use his power of office
Alliance and the city’s parks department, professional parks workers — supplemented and supported by volunteers and seasonal interns guided by the park alliance — trim trees and bushes, regularly mow the fields, repair broken benches, smooth out ditches and divots on the running trails, remove fallen trees and branches, and constantly remove trash from everywhere in the park. In calling out the great work of our park work teams, many more of my fellow neighbors may flock to this special haven in our midst. However, Van Cortlandt — with its newly enhanced work teams — seems more than ready to host these new visitors who have yet to experience this local treasure. Andrew UpTon
to pressure the Senate to end the filibuster, and clear a path for voting rights reform. We can’t out-organize voter suppression. History will remember how President Biden handles these attacks on our right to vote. I’m urging him to do the right thing. williAm henAghAn
Devil in the details To the editor:
(re: “Hidden costs of transit,” Sept. 16)
In a recent letter, Larry Penner states how cost estimates for major transportation projects such as Gateway access, the Port Authority bus terminal and the Second Avenue subway rise year after year for a variety of reasons. Fair enough. However, the author has had opinion pieces circulat-
ing in favor of reopening the Hilton corridor/Gimbels passageway, including one in 2014 where he pegs the cost at $150,000. Yet in another opinion piece six years later, there is magically no increase in the cost estimate. How is it that when the author is against a project, the devil is in the details? Yet, if he is in favor of a project, none of the pesky details matter? nAT weiner
Help with these cars To the editor: There are at least six cars a day on Irwin Avenue and West 238th Street with no license plates or with expired New Jersey paper plates, no registration stickers, and no inspection. What can I do? mArgAreT nolAn
Dinowitz is doing a great job To the editor:
(re: “Dinowitz doesn’t represent this community’s values,” Sept. 23)
For the past six months, I’ve been fortunate to serve alongside Councilman Eric Dinowitz in the city council. In his short time since taking office, Eric has proven to be a thoughtful, hardworking colleague, and a worthy addition to the city council. Eric joined the council in April, as the city council and mayor were midway through negotiations on the city budget. Despite the narrow timeline, Eric was able to secure funding for projects in his district, including funding for the full redevelopment of the stairs at Ewen Park, where I stood with Eric on many mornings during the campaign. He also has allocated funding toward essential services, such as after-school cultural enrichment programs, food pantries, and upgrades for North Central Bronx Hospital. As a parent and educator, Eric’s background
has been valuable as the city discusses remote learning, school reopening, and the array of issues facing the public schools. And I am confident that he will be a strong voice for parents and teachers in the coming years as we navigate challenging issues facing the public education system. Most importantly, Eric brings a rare quality to political life: A willingness to collaborate. A thoughtful approach to governance. And a desire to learn from others. In the age of political polarization, Eric’s approach is a refreshing change of pace to what we normally witness in politics. For all these reasons, Eric doesn’t just represent the values of his district, but he represents the values of so many families throughout the city. keiTh powers The author is a city councilman representing primarily the Upper East Side.
More fears of COVID vaccine To the editor: It has been common knowledge for years that all major developing countries have possessed the ability to conduct germ warfare. The Wuhan crisis is no exception. Was a virus created in the lab and deliberately leaked into the local wet markets for experimentation on the people of Wuhan? This is totally consistent with China’s poor record on civil rights, and its complete lack of concern for all of the Chinese people. The virus created in Wuhan is by no means a poor reflection on all Asians, especially Asian Americans. It is simply a reaffirmation of the communist Chinese government’s unconscionable disdain for human life. They are the ones to blame. Now we, the American people, will soon be required by our government to get the vaccine without being told what are the short-/long-term
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side effects. This is inherently a violation of our civil rights since the vaccine has never been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The one benefactor from the spread of the virus is the environment. Consider how working from home reduces the amount of carbon emissions caused by the automobile. Why isn’t the Biden administration and various environmental groups encouraging this? Joe BiAlek EDITOR’S NOTE: There is little to no evidence currently available to suggest the coronavirus was man-made or deliberately released onto the public. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has regularly provided potential side effects of the vaccine, and the FDA has provided emergency approval for the three vaccines currently available in the United States, with full approval pending.
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West oF duYvil parKWay Web sPuYten Web #931 West oF PARKWAY Web#867 #893 This property consists of 2 colonial dwellingswith on a nearly one-acre lot (2 separate lots). Dutch center-hall 4-bdrm Prime reno double opportunity: Completely There isWBFP a 4-bdrm main house (built in the 1950’ s) plus a 2-bdrm guest house (built in marble in LR, FDR, landscaped gutted 7,000-SF 5-bdrm, 6-bath house the 1920’ s) with an impressive backyard that is level and&grassy. grdn & wraparound patio. $1,450,000 w/ pool multi level patios.$3,950,000 $3,450,000
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south riverdale 872 vAn coRtlAndt cRest Web #914 Three vacant lotshouse with R2 4-bdrm, 3-bath withZoning WBFPand in Single-family 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath, stucco, living room, FDR & eat-in kitchen. New Tudor-style house. furnace & roof renovation. $3,000,000 $859,900
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south riverdale Web Fieldston Web #928 West oF PARKWAY Web##858 932 Stone and Stucco3.5-bath house with 4-bdrms, & 2 half baths, 2-full, stone 2-half wood-burning Classic 4-bdrm, house with 3 full Spacious 4-bdrm, bath brick fireplace in living room, sunroom, formal dining and kitchen patio, spacious lawns & garden. Living houseroom w/ FDR w/renovated WBFP, large eat-inwith kitch marble countertops, private$1,895,000 driveway and attached room with WBFP & FDR. patio &1-car level garage. grassy yard. $1,195,000 $1,250,000
FieldstoN 844 vAn coRtlAndt cRest Web Web##934 sPuYten duYvil Web #922 Classic &3.5-bath Elegant house 4-bdrm,with 3.5-bath French 2.5-bath doors leading outpatio to Classic 4-bdrm, house w/ 4-bdrm, centerwith abundant expansive frontliving terrace, a stone patio, an open, shady sideyard. porch and room a levelw/grassy level, grassy Living frplc, hall, spacious room, windowed yard. Living with WBFP,$998,900 formal dining room FDR and eat-in heatedkitchen. sunroom. $1,895,000 $849,000 kitchen and room finished bsmnt.
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south riverdale Web#933 #871 noRth RiveRdAle Web Spacious 4-bdrm,6-bdrm, 2.5-bath house with Multi-Family 5.5 bath living roomw/with WBFP,lndry formal townhouse common rm,dining yard, room and eat-in& kitchen. $1,800,000 patio, driveway garage. $1,280,000
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estatehill area Web ##926 855 WAve Web 7-bdrm, 5.5-bath builthouse house with Spacious 9-bdrm,newly 8.5-bath open-planentertaining living rm, dining centerbackyard space, rm, swimming islandand kitchen and patios. pool sep guest house. $2,295,000 $4,100,000
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West oF parKWay Web 846 West oF PARKWAY Web##916 noRth RiveRdAle Web #929 Spacious 3-bdrm, house features room built with bay windows andhouse marblew/ Recently 4-bdrm, 5-bath Charming 6-bdrm2.5-bath house on double lot a living WBF,a dining with sliding glass side doors to large level backyard, eat-in double-height center hall,kitchen, living MBR rm w/ with formalroom dining room, lovely den with a wet bar. 2-car garage plus plenty of offdeck street&parking. $1,599,000 fireplace, dining rm. $2,150,000 &suite back&yards, patio & garden. $895,000
NeW exclusive exclusive West oF the parKWay Web #856 Fieldston 900 New construction 8-bdrm, 7.5-bath 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath, stucco Tudor with home with 2-story centerfireplace, hall, double gracious historic interior, rear height greatlevel rm w/ fireplace. $4,495,000 decks and backyard. $2,245,000
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WestcortlaNdt oF PARKWAY vaN crest Web Web #915 #869 New 4-bdrm, 5-bath house Spacious 7-bdrm, 3-full andin2 Delafield half bath Estates. Center hall, living room Tudor-Style house with grassy yardwith on fireplace, dining double lotdeck along&tree linedrm. st. $2,150,000 $849,000
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FieldstoNduYvil Web sPuYten Web##804 925 4-bdrm, 3-bath stucco stone home. Newly built 6-bdrm, 5-full&and 2-half bath Livingwith room with WBF, dining house front porch, rearformal deck, covered room and eat-in kitchen. $1,499,000 patio level grassy yard. $2,400,000
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FieldstoN Web sPuYten duYvil Web #917 West oF PARKWAY Web#821 #924 This property dwellings on a half acre double There is a 3-bdrm, 3.5-bathconsists house of on two cul-de-sac. Classic 4-bdrm, 3.5-bathlot.brick colonial 5- bedroom main living houserm plus 4-bedroom guest with an swimming Center hall, sunken w/aWBFP & househouse with WBFP in indoor living room, formal pool and a hot tub. finished walk-out basement. $1,195,000 dining room and terrace. $3,995,000 $1,695,000
North riverdale Web #839 816 Fieldston 3-bdrm,4-bdrm, 2.5-bath, detached w/ Bright 3-bath solarhouse modern LR w/with bay patio windows & wbfp,Living FDR rm w/ home & garden. sliding glass& doors to deck.$1,599,000 $699,000 with WBFP eat-in kitchen.
NorthoF riverdale West the PARKWAY Web Web #853 #897 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath house picture Renovated 5-bdrm, brick 5.5-bath Tudor-style window in spacious living room, renov house with grounds on kitchen cul-deandLiving unfinished $695,000 sac. roombasement with frplc. $2,495,000
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KiNgsbridge Web Fieldston Web #854 #898 3-bdrm, mansion 1.5-bath semi-attached Elegant overlooking a house. pond. FDR w/ 8-full French& 2-half door out to living the rear 8-bdrms, baths, rm deckmarble & yardWBFP and renov kitch.$4,590,000 $719,000 with & FDR.
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sPuYten Web #910 Wave hillduYvil area Web #827 noRth RiveRdAle Web #911 Newly builtEstate 5-bdrm, 5.5-bath 3,728 sqof ft an acre Sprawling of over three-quarters with plans for a3.5-bath 14,000-Sq. Ft. 7-bdrm, Classic 3-bdrm, house features house w/ main rm atwith full 8-full and 2-halffloor bath guest mansion Independence Avenue. At theWBFP, far endfinished of the property living rm with attic w/ bath open plan living. thereand is a seperate 2-car garage$1,890,000 with a 1-bdrm guest aptand above. asking 2 rms landscaped yard.$3,125,000 $1,200,000
FieldstoN Web #905 #848 Fieldston Rare of over a Brightopportunity 3-bdrm, vacant 2.5-bathlandTudor-Style third acre with R1-2 Zoning build houseofw/ansunken living room withtoceiling exactly the house you&need. beams, WBFP, patios yard. $1,200,000 $1,700,000
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Fieldston Web #904 North riverdale 851 Spacious 4-bdrm, stucco house Renov 4-bdrm, 3.55.5-bath bath brick and stucco with level grassy yard.inCenter housepatio withand custom built-ins living hall, fireplace andkitchen. FDR. $2,350,000 room,gasFDR and open $949,000
FieldstoN Web #919 #632 Fieldston Web 5-bdrm, 5.5-bath house with spacoius Bright and open 5-bdrm, 2.5-bath with living welcoming room, dining room, denentry and wide porch, formal center island kitchen. $2,495,000 vestibule w/ ample storage. $1,395,000
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620 West stReet 5355 heNry239th hudsoN prKWy#cc668 #cc634 Bright & renov 2-bdrm, 2-bathbalcony, corner Updated Jr-4 with sunrise unit w/room, diningdining foyer &room southern living andpicture eat-in window No fromBoard livingApproval. room. $409,000 kitchen. $279K
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4555 henRY hudson PKWY #cc678 620 West 239th stReet #cc673 3530 heNry hudsoN parKWay Web #cc628 Spacious and renovated 3-bdrm, 2-bath Bright 2-bdrm,convertible 1.5-bath with sunrise Huge 3-bdrm 4, 2-bath at the Parkway House. Low floor, enormous with entry foyer with custom built-ins balcony, spacious walk-in closet, living room, high ceilings, windowed dining area, windowed eat-in kitchen with and windowed kitchen. $649,000 $619,000 parking & 24-hr doorman. granite countertops, balcony,$440,000 24-hr doorman.
3333 henRY hudson 5715 mosholu ave PKWY Web #cc679 #cc635 Luxury (Conv. 3), 2-bath with Bright 2-bdrm L-shaped 2-bdrm Postwar balcony, eat-in kitchen, spectacular Co-op with hrdwd flrs, South & West river & 24-hr $619,000 expos.views Top floor cornerDM. unit. $249,000
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3800 Web #cc630 3299blacKstoNe cAMbRidge ave Avenue #cc676 2-bdrm, 2-bath duplex penthouse Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bath w/ lrg entry with private roof terraces,window, bright foyer,3living room w/ picture kitchen, kitchen W/D with and S/S C/A/C. appls. $709,000 $449,000
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4455-65 douglas cc622 3530 hh PARKWAY cc664 Spacious Townhouse with Renov 2-bdrm conv 3, 2-bath 3-bdrms, sunken with dining3.5bths, foyer, large living LR, & patio. rmWBFP and open views.$1.699K $565K
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750 cc659 555 KAPPocK KappocK stReet st cc605 Spacious & bright top flr 2-bdrm, Bright 1-bdrm with dining 2-bath w/ enclosed sunrise River balcoarea, C/A/C, Hudson ny, 24-hr prkgDM. avail. $179K $499K view andDM, 24-hr
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FieldstoN vic. Averr641 3015 RiveRdAle cc681 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+co-op sq. Charming 1-bdrm prewar ft. entry Multiple porches, w/ foyer, dining swimming foyer, winpool. 4-car garage. dowed kitchen & $23,500/mo bath. $260K
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FieldstoN vic. Ave rr655 3475 gReYstone cc667 Grand2-bdrm, 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, Bright 2-bath with entry 10,700+ sq. ft. rm Private swimming foyer, living with picture pool. 3-car window andgarage. dining$17,500/mo “L”. $315K
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609 KAPPocK cc663 FieldstoN vic.st rr642 Bright &3.5-bath, spacious 6-bdrm, 7,5002-bdrm, sq. ft. 1.5-bath corner unit w/ eat-in house w/ Expansive wraparound kitch. Pool & indr$22,500/mo prkg. $350K porch & pool.
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5355 3001 hh hh parKWay PARKWAY cc629 cc853 Renovated Jr-4, living room, Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bth, PT dining roomfoyer, & eat-in DM. Entry large kitch. entral No board approval. foyer & sunken LR. $299K $625K
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West blAcKstone oF parKWay cc652 rr865 3935 4-bdrm (+ 3-bdrm, attic bd), 2-bath 2.5-bth. Spacious Livingsunset rm w/balcony, wbfp, FDR & cenwith majestic ter island $4,200/mo river vus &kitchen. 24-hr DM. $795K
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West oF parKWay 601 KAPPocK st rr704 cc677 Charming 4-bdrm, 3-bth.renov Living Spacious, newly room w/ corner fireplace,unit eat-in & 1-bdrm w/kitch eat-in finished basement. $6,900/mo kitchen and PT DM. $205K
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2727 Ave cc656 2621 PAlisAde palisade ave. cc592 Bright 2-bdrm, w/ remodSpacious Jr-42-bath (conv. 2-BR) eled with kitchen, balcony, balcony, entry hall24-hr and DM & parking avail. $425K $525K windowed kitchen.
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3601Johnson JohNsoNAve. ave.cc587 cc587 3601 Walk-in level level doctor’s doctor’s office office Walk-in with separate seperate entrance entrance and and with reception area. area. $295K reception $295K
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3235West cAMbRidge cc675 290 232Nd st cc626 Bright studiofoyer, with 2-bdrmL-shaped with entry separate updated kitchen, entry living room, kitchen, dining foyer and renovated $149K area and balcony. bth.$329K
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3636 Fieldston 290 West 232Nd Rd st cc680 cc631 Spacious updated 2-bdrm, Spacious& 3-bdrm, 1.5-bth 2-bath updated cornerw/unit with kitch, open dining views, “L” & great space. $299K living rm closet & kitchen. $425K
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2500 Waldo Johnson cc682 3875 ave.Ave cc636 Bright Jr-4 (conv to 2-bdrm), Charming 1-bdrm with open water fromliving everyrm rm entry foyer,views sunken windowed dining area.$295K $299K &&windowed kitchen.
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3103 FairField ave. cc619 2711 hh PARKWAY cc666 Sunny 1-bdrm, drmn, Spacious low floorPT 2-bdrm, entry foyer, living room and 2-bath with windowed kitchen windowed EIK. “L”. $169K and large dining $375K
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3755cAMbRidge hh parKWayAve cc660 cc623 3536 Spacious 1-bdrm with entry Contemporary 3-bdrm, foyer, condo living w/bright room, renov 2-bath open kitch & & in dining area. $199K views unit lndry. $639K
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3103 hh FairField ave cc670 cc621 3205 ave cc633 4555 PARKWAY 3935 arliNgtoN blAcKstone cc646 Spacious 3-bdrm, 3-bth Contemporary 3-bdrm,2-bath 2-bth Bright Jr4 conv. 2-bdrm w/ Spacious 2-bdrm, corner unitkitchen, w/ open24-hr plan with w/ southern balcony, lndry renovated open plan living, dining living dining rm. $325K $539K area in unit & indr prkg. $725K DM and&river views. and balcony. $415K
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