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Hebrew Home offers scaled-down expansion
By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER A now-familiar dialogue continued at last week’s Community Board 8 land use committee meeting: The Hebrew Home at Riverdale says it wants to construct a new residential complex on its property in order to better serve the elderly, but neighbors say they want to prevent largescale development in order to better protect the special natural area district that encompasses the property. The Hebrew Home has sought community input since announcing its plan to use a recently acquired 14-acre parcel adjoining the south end of its 19-acre main property as the site of a senior residence based on the continuous care retirement community (CCRC) model. Because of the site’s special natural area district status and
its low-density R1-1 zoning designation, any major development would call for some change in regulations. Neighbors, some represented by groups including the Riverdale Community Coalition and the Riverdale Nature Preservancy, have argued against regulatory changes that could—at the very least—overpopulate the area, sully splendid views, clog Palisade Avenue with traffic and set a bad precedent. The home has responded by having developer Perkins Eastman continually modify plans for the $200 million-plus project. They presented CB8 with detailed schematics contrasting the January site plan with a revised April site plan crafted with local requests in mind. The current plan—still for 300 units--shifts northward the
locations of three multi-story structures to create more open space, moves an entire building to the R4-zoned main property to absorb some density, and augments an internal roadway to siphon off some traffic. But Jennifer Klein, representing the Riverdale Community Coalition, said the proposal still presents “extensive and significant concerns for Riverdale” and that the meeting “raised a number of new concerns for the Community Board members and others present.” She stated in an email that the home’s requested amendment to SNAD regulations would “set a terrible precedent,” that the 300-unit plan, including an eight-story building, is still “too much” in terms of population density, and that the planned internal roadway’s entrance
point at the south end of the main campus would become “an active delivery entrance.” Klein acknowledged that the April plan’s building reconfiguration does shift density into the north campus and does allow more open space, but she feels that the change is “too little in each case.” Councilman G. Oliver Koppell called the revised plan “better.” “I don’t think it’s going to be accepted by most of the neighbors who’ve created a coalition against it, but I think that definitely it’s improved, and I’m hoping that we can come to a situation where the housing can be provided and that most of the neighbors’ concerns will be addressed.” He said there’s a “positive value” to the CCRC model that the home wants to develop, but that building in a special natural area district is “problematic” and
must be “carefully monitored.” “They want to get some language changed with the SNAD. That concerns me a great deal, because I don’t think we should modify the SNAD. I want to make sure that if it’s changed at all, it’s changed only for this project. I’m not saying I favor a change for this project. But any change that would be made would not become a precedent.” Koppell is among those concerned about increased traffic on the area’s narrow roads, even with the new internal roadway. “And I still have a concern about bulk and height,” he said. “They’ve moved it to the north, which is good, because that opens up better views for the people who live on the river slope. But still, eight stories is large, and one of the things that’s happened with a lot of projects as they’ve gone through the process Continued on Page 3
Angry protestors flood meeting knocking VC Park trail plans
Above is the proposed site of the Hebrew Home expansion as it appears today from the other side of the Hudson River. Below is the same view as it will appear once the project is completed with the new construction superimposed on to the photo of the site.
By HAYDEE CAMACHO Tempers erupted over the controversial issue of whether to pave the Putnam Trail in Van Cortlandt Park at the Community Board 8 public meeting on Tuesday, April 9th. A large contingent of members of Save the Putnam Trail were present at the meeting and several spoke out against the paving of the trail and frustration over the board’s lack of a vote for or against the current proposal which calls for razing 1.5 acres of trees and brush to create a paved path. The group is also concerned about the potential loss of various bird species from habitat destruction if the proposal is approved. The meeting was punctuated with angry shouts from the group when the issue was introduced by board chairperson Robert Fanuzzi. Fanuzzi called for order on several occasions. “We are here to let the community board know what the wishes of the people are so they can make informed decisions.” said Save the Putnam Trail organizer Will Sanchez. “The community does not want a highway. We want the trail enjoyed by everyone on an equal footing. “ “They have not passed a resolution on the design,” said Sanchez. He added that organizers of Save the Putnam Trail recently
sent a letter to Thomas Lucania, Director of Community Boards Unit and Legislative Affairs of the Bronx Borough President’s Office to complain about a letter of support sent by Bob Bender, the Community Board 8 Parks and Recreation chairperson, supporting the Parks Department plan. “It is shocking to us that the Chair of this Board would allow the usurpation of his responsibilities to the Full Board and to the community by allowing a Committee Chair such an unwarranted prerogative to send out letters of approval for the full board, expressing views that have not been fully considered or approved by the Board and which, in any event, do not reflect the views of the residents whom the Board is to represent,” they wrote. In response to the angry complaints of members of Save the Putnam Trail about his letter, Bender said that the Parks Department design is funded by Federal Highway Administration funds that require the Putnam Trail path be in compliance with the American Disabilities Act which mandates wheelchair accessibility. “The only way the Parks Department can maintain the ADA accessibility is if it’s paved,” he said. He added that Continued on Page 9
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1,000 trees planted in Van Cortlandt Park
BY KIMBERLEY HYATT Thursday, April 11, Van Cortlandt Park wasn’t a target for deforestation, but rather the planting of copious trees. Senator Oliver Koppell’s remark “there’s plenty of trees in Van Cortlandt Park” might have an echo of truth after all. Part of the “Trees for Threes” program”, PcW partnered with the New York Knicks to plant over 1,000 trees in the park shrouded by so much controversy. The group promised to plant a tree for every three pointer the Knicks made in Madison Square Garden during the 20122013 season. With 453 shots made in 39 home games, the Knicks didn’t disappoint. Supporting the MillionTreesNYC Planting program, PcW is doubling that number, and Van Cortlandt Park can look forward to 1,000 more trees and 340 shrubs. The event opened at 9:30 AM for opening remarks and a Photo Op with Knicks Greats John Starks and Larry Johnson. Also in attendance were Liberty legend Kym Hampton, the Knicks City Dancers, Morgan Monaco, Director of MillionTreesNYC, Margot Perron, Van Cortlandt Park Administrator and Executive Director of Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy, and PcW Partners Mitch Roschelle and Ed Heitin. Over 50 PcW
Engel calls for support on ‘COLA’ legislation
Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-16) urged his Congressional colleagues to support his Guaranteed 3% Cost of Living For Seniors Act, which would guarantee a minimum three percent increase annually in COLA for Social Security recipients. This year’s COLA increase was 1.7 percent. In 2012, the COLA adjustment was 3.6 percent and there was no increase in 2010-11. The Social Security Act of 1973 specifies the formula to determine the COLA. (http://www.ssa.gov/oact/ cola/latestCOLA.html) The COLA formula is currently based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which reflects the purchasing patterns of people who earn at least half of their income from wages. President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposed using ‘Chained-CPI-U.’ Rep. Engel’s legislation would mandate using another index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E). This is geared towards capturing inflation among those over 62, and is a better indication of seniors’ spending habits. From 1982 through 2011, CPI-E ran at an average annual rate of 3.1 percent. That compares with a 2.9 percent rate with the CPI-W. “Social Security has been a vital lifeline to America’s seniors for generations, and the COLA has worked quite well over time to help people manage their budgets. Chained CPI-U and CPI-W fail to adequately capture the types of costs regularly incurred by older Americans. CPI-E is a much more accurate formula for calculation. We must protect Social Security for future generations,” said Rep. Engel. “Millions of seniors are reliant upon Social Security for their livelihood, and have counted on sufficient COLA increases for decades. We must change the calculation formula to avoid the mistaken policy of assuming seniors’ expenses haven’t risen.”
employees and Knicks staff attended to plant the abundance of trees, beginning at 10:15. It is understood that MillionTreesNYC is a public-private partnership between the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project. A Press Release sent out April 10th states, “As part of MillionTreesNYC, Parks is reforesting hundreds of acres of parkland into new, ecologically healthy, multi-story forests, while also adding new street trees to neighborhoods in need. Trees cool temperatures, capture storm water runoff, clean the air, and are a vital part of New York City’s ecosystem.” Bette Midler’s Restoration Project also plans to plant and care for 1 million trees throughout all five boroughs by 2017.
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That would be the effect of changing the Social Security cost of living formula to the so-called Chained-CPI method. According to AARP, this method of determining cost of living changes would cut more than $2,000 from Social Security payments to the average senior over the next ten
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Continued from Page 1 is that they downsized some. And that might happen here.” CB8 land use committee chair Charles G. Moerdler agrees that the northward shift and the internal roadway are “plusses” but that the plan still calls for what amounts to “multi-story apartment houses” on riverfront property. “I want the people from the community area to start thinking about constructive solutions and for the Hebrew Home to start thinking about how they can deal with the objections as they were phrased [at the April 10 meeting],” he said. “In the event that both sides try and figure out how they can deal with the other side’s concerns in an accommodating way, maybe we have a shot at getting some useful resolution—bearing in mind the number of senior citizens requiring attention continues to increase, and the methods of dealing with the elderly continue to change. And that’s important. “But it is equally important that we take those steps that are required to preserve the community. And so each of them has a valid argument substantively to put forward. No question about it.” Moerdler is particularly concerned about the elderly. “People of this state and of this city and of this nation have failed to come to grips with the fact that we have an increasingly elderly population at all economic levels and that we have
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a responsibility, in my view, to come up with a plan to help deal with that—or to decide that we feel that there is no obligation and revert back to the eighteenth century and send them to the poorhouse.” However, he said, the character of the neighborhood does change when you have high-rises on the waterfront. Moerdler summed up the competing interests. “It is properly a NIMBY case, or is it properly an issue of ‘this is really the place to take care of the elderly because we have all the services and expertise’?” He also noted that those most concerned about traffic did not remain at the meeting to weigh in on the subsequent agenda item: A new athletic field for the College of Mount Saint Vincent, right next-door to the Hebrew Home.
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Around the schools... P.S 24
From Tuesday April 16 to Thursday the 18th, P.S 24’s third, fourth, and fifth graders take the New York State ELA exam. Best of luck to all the students; don’t forget to eat a healthy breakfast! On Thursday, April 18, Ms. Borak’s third grade class is going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a field trip. Ms. Kim, Ms. Doherty, Ms. Kron, and Ms. Kehayas/Ms. Ruprich’s first graders will be visiting the Modern Museum of Art as well. Ms. Tripeau, Ms. Kourkoumelis, and Ms. Roth’s first graders won’t be missing out on all the fun, though. They will be visiting the Museum of Modern Art on Friday, April 26. That same day, first and second graders will be visiting the Avery Fisher Hall Little Orchestra Society. A big exam coming up for the third to fifth graders: the NYS Math Exam will be from Wednesday, April 24 to Friday, April 26. May 1 and 2nd, Wednesday and Thursday, is LAPS for Learning at P.S 24 Friday, May 3rd is Family Friday from 8 am to 8:50 for Ms. Rossi’s third graders. 5th graders will be having a Mother’s Day Fundraiser during their lunch periods on Monday, May 6. There will be a School Tour on Wednesday, May 8 at 9 AM.
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On Friday, April 12, Horace Mann held the HMSciTech 2013 event that evening in the Cohen Dining Commons. It was created and implemented by Dr. Jeff Weitz. Dr. Amy Litt, a former Horace Mann teacher and Director of Plant Genomics and Cullman Curator at the New York Botanical Gardens, was the keynote speaker. She was primarily interested in the mechanisms that affect the evolution of new plant forms. But Horace Mann Students held the spotlight, with an abundance of presentations created and viewed. They are as follows: Simone Aisiks and Julia Hirschberg: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Other Illnesses Lamia Ateshian: The Optics of the Eye: Refraction Through Lenses in Multiple Mediums Kieran Birch-Desai: Aerodynamics and Lift of Airplane Wings Joanna Cho: Inducement of Overexpression of Mir29a Affects Proliferation of AML Cells Andrew Fabry and Yang Fei: Using a 3D Printer to Create Space Filled Models
of Molecules Zoe Fawer: Reading on Paper Vs. Computer Screens FTCRobotics Team: The robot of the year – come see what the 2013 model can do. Ashley Gerber: The Safety of Protein Powders Vickram Gidwani: Small Molecule Derivatives of Tricyclic Neuroleptics as Novel Cancer Therapeutic Agents Jessica Heller: Exploring the Properties of a Springboard Michael Herschorn: Does gravitational selection induce evolution of a distinct multicellular species from unicellular Saccharomyces cerevisiae? Johanna Holo: Cell Reproduction Following Mitotic Arrest Due to Microtubule Disruption as a Result of Prolonged Exposure to Nocodazole Allyson Kim: The Use of Common Materials, to Remove Radiation and Toxic Heavy Metals from Water Nicholas McCombe: The Flipped Stapler Jack Millman: Frequency of Antibiotic Resistance E. coli in Different Types of Retail Chicken Roya Moussapour: Building an Electric Violin Joon Dong Peak: Triplet–Triplet Annihilation in an Organic Light Emitting Diode David Shapiro: Properties of Non-Newtonian Fluids Alexandra Stein: Genetics in Fingerprints WinstonTrope, Adam Zachar, and David Castellanos: Eiffel 1: Remote Information Gathering Jeffrey Weiner and Lambert Song: HM Tech: Horace Mann’s Online Technology Magazine David Weiner: Polygonal Vortices in Rotating Fluids Daniel Yahalomi: Variations on the Michelson-Morley Experiment Adam Zachar: Investigating the Distribution of Space Debris to Efficiently Remove Space Junk On Tuesday, April 16, former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky stopped by to visit the high school students. Horace Mann will host a UD Acappellooza Festival Friday, April 19 at 6:30 pm in the Cohen dining Commons.
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When Broadway fans lament ‘they don’t make ‘em like that anymore,’ they’re talking about shows like ‘The Pajama Game. And now, talented teens of the award-winning Riverdale Rising Stars are proud to bring this great old-fashioned musical comedy to the stage of the Riverdale Y from May 2 May 12, 2013. Love is in the air at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory. But will workers’ demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise derail the budding relationship between the new superintendent and the labor grievance committee head? To the tune of a joyful score overflowing with rousing songand-dance numbers like ‘Hey There,’ Hernando’s Hideaway,’ and ‘Steam Heat,’ THE PAJAMA GAME is a brassy, sassy, bona fide classic of the golden age of musical theatre. Featuring a cast of 35 talented young thespians ages 12 to 18 from Riverdale, Yonkers, Upper Manhattan, and beyond, performances will be held at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue (just off of Riverdale Avenue and West 256th Street), in Riverdale, Bronx, NY. Performance schedule and prices: Thursday, May 2 at 7:30pm (special $10 preview); Saturday, May 4 at 9pm; Sunday, May 5 at 3pm and 7pm; Thursday, May 9 at 7:30pm; Saturday, May 11 at 9pm; Sunday, May 12 at 3pm and 7pm. Except for the special $10 preview performance on Thursday, May 2, tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for seniors and students if purchased online at www.
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Hebrew Home hosts workshop on healthcare planning
It’s time for spring cleaning... but not your house... your healthcare planning and finances. The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is sponsoring an important, educational, interactive workshop, ‘Get Your House in Order: Take Control of Legal, Financial and Medical Decisions,’ featuring an impressive panel of legal and financial experts. Tuesday, April 23rd from 6:30PM-8:30PM at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale. Gather vital details that will allow you to make informed decisions about care in your later years. Learn how to ‘spring clean’ your medical care and finances, living wills, health care proxies, retirement and more. Featured speakers: Daniel Fish, Esq., Certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation; Karen C. Altfest, Ph.D., CFP(r), EVP of Altfest Personal Wealth Management; Lani Crescenzi, LCSW, MSG, Associate Director of Care Management at the Hebrew Home Space is limited, to RSVP please contact Caremanagement@hebrewhome.org or call (718) 581-1593.
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Dr. Frances Segan to speak at Rotary Club meeting
Show us your talent! Sign up for Bronx Community Board 8's Youth Committee's 1st Annual Youth Poetry Slam Contest, which will be held on Thursday, May 23, 6-8 p.m., at the Kingsbridge Branch Library, 291 West 231st Street. Master of Ceremony will be professional poet Eric 'Advocate of Wordz' Maldonado. Prizes and cash gifts awarded to contestants and raffles. Sign up by May 6. For more information, call Community Board 8 at 718-884-3959.
a large and growing African immigrant community and their children, many of which practice Islam. The Jewish community shrunk to a handful of older residents who were unable to maintain the houses of worship they once had. When the last of these synagogues that the Jewish community had built, worshiped in, and used as a space to perform many life cycle events closed in 2010, this group of older Jewish residents were left without a spiritual home. When the Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of North America (ICCNA) and the Al-Iman Mosque heard of this need, the Center offered a place for these Jewish members of Beis Menachem of Parkchester to hold weekly and holiday services. Since then, the synagogue has been operating at its new home in ICCNA. The space and the facade of the mosque, are in deep need of repair. The subject arose in discussions after the movie 'Arranged' shown at the Y a few months ago - this was the first in a series Riverdale Y and JCRC-NY programs designed to bring the Jewish and Muslim populations together. After the discussion, the project grew. Stepping in to help are a consortium: The Riverdale Y, the Riverdale Jewish Community Relations Council, the RJCRC, the ICCNA, the Bronx Clergy Round Table, and Manhattan College's class of Catholic students studying Interfaith Relations, led by their professor, Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, who is also the director of the college's Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Studies. On April 21 at 2:00pm, phase one of the restoration will begin at Masjid Al-lman (planning and purchase of supplies). On Sunday, May 12, the physical restoration will start of the Mosque which is located at 2006 Westchester Avenue. For further information about this project, please contact Cynthia Galik at 718-548-8200, ext. 261
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Leadership Service Project to help Riverdale Temple
Dr. Frances Segan, President of Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Marble Hill Food & Hunger Project, Inc. will speak on the pervasive problem of hunger in the Riverdale and Kingsbridge areas on Thursday, April 18, at 6:45 pm at the Rotary Club's regular meeting at Greentree Restaurant, 5693 Riverdale Avenue at 259th Street. The public is cordially invited to the meeting. The KRMH Project supports homeless, underemployed and unemployed families in the community, working to answer urgent need in light of soaring food prices. Comprising business and professional persons who provide humanitarian service while encouraging high ethical standards, Rotarians develop friendships as a basis for voluntary humanitarian service projects in such areas as literacy, support of the aged and at-risk youth, maintenance of a clean environment, community improvement and promoting international friendship. Cost of the dinner meeting is $28. To learn more about the Riverdale Club and the work of Rotary International, please call 914 319-0002.
Youth Poetry Slam Contest on May 23
Riverdale Y, JCRC's CAUSE NY, the Islamic Cultural Center of North America and Manhattan College join together to refurbish the Shul-in-the-Mosque. Students from these institutions will join together this spring to fix-up a unique synagogue - located inside a mosque in the Parkchester section of the Bronx. For many years, the Parkchester section of the Bronx was home to tens of thousands of Jews, many of whom were immigrants or children of immigrants, and a number of synagogues. During the last half of the 20th century, the community underwent a dramatic demographic change; the community is now home to
Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project to help Riverdale Temple In conjunction with Mitzvah Day, Sunday, April 21 from 8:30am - 5:00pm. Location: Riverdale Temple, 4545 Riverdale Avenue (corner of 246th St) Matt Osborn chose to volunteer to revitalize the Riverdale Temple grounds as an Eagle Scout Leadership Service project because of his family’s 50 year relationship with the Temple and because it is a community landmark in need of an update. Matt has been organizing a large group of volunteers (nearly 100 people) to participate in this project.. They will be working on a large area of the Temple grounds which have become dated over
the years. Some of the areas they will be working on include new plantings, debris removal, an erosion control project, refurbishing a 9/11 memorial, plus several beautification projects.
Stars of the Russian Ballet at Lehman Center
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts has built a reputation for being a house for international dance and proudly present Stars of the Russian Ballet, a company of dancers performing a program of 'best of' dance pieces from Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire and other fan favorites and highlights from some of the world's greatest ballets. The company performs on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 4pm at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY. Stars of the Russian Ballet brings a greatest hits of solos, pas de deux and ensemble pieces danced to the classical music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Saint-Saens. From the Rose Adagio from The Sleeping Beauty, to the adagio from the third act of Cinderella and a pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet, ballet master Alexander Daev said in the Las Vegas Journal-Review that what makes these works so endearing and enduring is 'because they are human, romantic stories about love, loss and eternal themes. The ballets' themes also are universal and resonate with audiences regardless of language, nationality, culture or, even, the times. It also helps that the pieces' choreography and music are so beautiful, everybody gets it." Tickets cost $40, $35 and $25, and
CSAIR to honor Carolyn Newman Baron
The Sisterhood of the Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale will honor Carolyn Newman Baron on behalf of Torah Fund Campaign of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The Torah Fund is the fundraising arm of the Women's League for Conservative Jduaism. Mrs. Baron is the director of Torah Fund and prides herself in transforming the reading room of the Library into an egalitarian synagogue and for the formation of the Women's League Seminary Synagogue. To honor Mrs. Baron for her lifelong dedication to the seminary and Torah Fund, a brunch will be held on Sunday, April 21, at 10 a.m. at the Conservative Syangogue of Riverdale, 250th Street and Henry Hudson Parkway. For information about this event, contact the synagogue office at 718-543-8400.
BAE presents 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
Bronx Arts Ensemble presents 'Jack and the Beanstalk' at the Whitehall Club Ballroom at 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway (between 232nd and 235th Streets) on Sunday, April 21 at 1 & 3 pm. Appropriate for ages 3-10. All tickets $6. 'Jack and the Beanstalk' is a new twist on the exciting adventures of Jack and the magic beans! A new production by Dante Albertie and the Children's Theatre Company at Lehman, with musical arrangements for oboe, clarinet and bassoon by William Scribner. For info and tickets, visit bronxartsensemble.org or call 718-601-7399.
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SEUSSOLOGY 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Theodore Geisel began as a political cartoonist before he transformed how children learn to read by writing the Cat in the Hat. Explore the creative process behind the whimsical connections Dr. Seuss made between reading skills, visual literacy and moral messages in this interdisciplinary class. Presented by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. For children ages 5 and older. Limited to 25 participants. For more information, call 718-548-5656.
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ROTARY CLUB MEETING 6:45 p.m. Greentree Restaurant 5693 Riverdale Avenue Dr. Frances Segan, President of Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Marble Hill Food & Hunger Project, Inc. will speak on the pervasive problem of hunger in the Riverdale and Kingsbridge areas at the Rotary Club’s regular meeting. For more information, call 914-319-0002.
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CB8 MEETING 7:30 p.m. 50th Police Precinct 3450 Kingsbridge Avenue Meeting of the Public Safety Committee of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884-3959.
Friday, April 19 Riverdale
JEWISH FILM 4 p.m. Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel 475 West 250th Street Featuring the film “Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School,” a story of one student’s courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area. The screening will be followed by a discussion facilitated by child psychologist and CSAIR member, Dr. Russell Hoffman. Admission is free. For more information, call 718-543-8400 or visit www.csair.org.
Monday, April 22 PORTRAIT DRAWING 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue This free drawing workshop taught by Josh Millis, is an introduction and investigation into portrait drawing as a subject in both historical and contemporary art. Through sequential activities that focus on observation and the use of various drawing media including pencil and charcoal, participants will develop a greater understanding of the form and subtleties of the drawn portrait. For more information, call 718-549-1212.
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RMHA GALA 6:30 p.m. Fieldston Upper School Commons 3901 Fieldston Road The Riverdale Mental Health Association will honor City Councilman G. Oliver Koppell at its 54th Annual Gala. For more information, contact Emily Ross, eross@rmha.org, 718-796-5300 ext. 106
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WRITING MEMOIRS 11 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street This project will use creative writing, storytelling, and group sharing to help facilitate reminiscence and art-making. Participants will use creative writing and storytelling skills developed through the project to craft short-story memoirs that will be either read aloud or dramatically performed at the culminating event. For more information, call 718-548-5656.
CLOTHING DRIVE 9:30 a.m. Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Avenue People can bring clean, gently used clothing for men, women, and children for all seasons. Please donate the kind of items you would want to receive. Donors can complete a form to obtain a receipt from Big Brothers/Big Sisters. For more information, call 718-548-3800. TORAH FUND BRUNCH 10 a.m. Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel 250th St. & Henry Hudson Parkway The Sisterhood of the Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale will honor Carolyn Newman Baron on behalf of Torah Fund Campaign of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For information, contact the synagogue office at 718-543-8400.
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ARTS & CRAFTS 10:30 a.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue Congregation Shaarei Shalom will present a Judaica Fine Arts and Arts Show. An opportunity to view and purchase the creative works of today’s finest artists and crafts people in contemporary Judaica and much more. For more information, visit www.shaareishalomriverdale.org.
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 1 p.m. Whitehall Club Ballroom 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway Bronx Arts Ensemble presents ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ a new twist on the exciting adventures of Jack and the magic beans. Appropriate for ages 3-10. All tickets $6. For more information, call 718-601-7399.
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BALLET 4 p.m. Lehman Center for the Performing Arts 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West Stars of the Russian Ballet, a company of dancers performing a program of “best of” dance pieces from Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire. Tickets can be purchased through 24 hour online access at www.LehmanCenter.org or by calling the Lehman Center box office at 718-960-8833.
with MALINDA HASLETT Soprano
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FUN SCIENCE 3:30 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Children are welcome to come to the Riverdale Branch and learn more about the scientific process. They will conduct experiments and have fun while learning how the world around them operates. For ages 5 to 12 years. For more information, call 718-549-1212. TEEN ADVISORY GROUP 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Let your voice be heard in the Kingsbridge Library’s Teen Advisory Group! TAG meetings will be held on Friday afternoons from 4-5 pm. If you are a 7th -12th grade student, you are eligible to join. For more information, call 718-548-5656.
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CB8 MEETING 1:30 p.m. Atria Community Room 3718 Henry Hudson Parkway East Meeting of the Aging Committee of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884-3959.
“(A) rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts” National Public Radio
Program Includes Mozart’s Exultate jubilate and more…
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$20 adults / $15 students & seniors Tickets and information available online at
www.christchurchriverdale.org Christ Church Riverdale 5030 Henry Hudson Parkway Bronx, NY 10471 (718)543-1011 World-Renowned Artists Right Here In Riverdale.
HEALTHCARE PLANNING 6:30 p.m. Hebrew Home 5901 Palisade Avenue An important, educational, interactive workshop, “Get Your House in Order: Take Control of Legal, Financial and Medical Decisions.” Learn how to “spring clean” your medical care and finances, living wills, health care proxies, retirement and more. For more information, call 718-581-1593.
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ARTS & CRAFTS 3:30 p.m. Van Cortlandt Branch Library 3874 Sedgwick Avenue Come join us for some fun Spring Arts & Crafts at the Van Cortlandt Library @ 3:30 pm. For ages 5 to 12 years. For more information, call 718-543-5150.
Spuyten Duyvil
THE GOLEM 4 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever encountered a monster made of mud? Or a monster that will become your guardian angel? A Golem is such a creature from Jewish folklore. Join us for this modern adaptation of a classic folktale as we use music and puppetry to explore how a young immigrant child from Brooklyn finds magic in everyday life. For ages 5 and older. For more information, call 718-796-1202.
Riverdale
CB8 MEETING 7 p.m. St. Gabriel’s Church 3250 Arlington Avenue Meeting of the Parks & Recreation Committee of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884-3959.
Riverdale
TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETING 7 p.m. Riverdale Neighborhood House 5521 Mosholu Avenue Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale invites new members to join at their free meeting. Come as a guest and witness for yourself what they accomplish. For further information, visit their website www.bronxtoastmastersclub.org or call 718-796-6671.
NYC Dept. of Transportation Safety City Program and Methodist Home for Nursing & Rehabilitation
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A Pedestrian Safety Workshop Join us for a Special Workshop for Seniors to learn how to be a safer pedestrian, prevent falls, etc. (limited to 35 participants – gifts and refreshments)
Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 1 PM Location: Methodist Home for Nursing & Rehabilitation 4499 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY 10471 Please RSVP to Marion at 718-732-7112 or email at: mclutchker@mchny.org
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Klein discusses State budget at PS 24 By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Senator Jeffrey D. Klein appeared as a guest speaker at P.S. 24’s parents association general meeting last week to offer his first in-district presentation on this year’s state budget allocations. He broke some good news about how the current “family-friendly” budget, passed earlier in the year than any other “in nearly three decades,” will benefit the borough, the neighborhood and the Spuyten Duyvil School in particular. After a delightful warm-up act—a spirited dance performance by third-graders of Ms. Maldonado’s Spanish club—the senator touted a budget that includes “the lowest middle-class tax rate in 60 years,” a tax relief check of $350 in 2014 for families within a given income range, and a phased increase in the minimum wage, set to reach $9 per hour in 2015. The minimum wage increase, he said, will end a situation where “the hardest workers in our society” earn an hourly rate that’s a just little more than the cost of “a fancy cup of coffee.” New Yorkers can also look forward to the creation of more than 5,000 new jobs, tax cuts for small businesses, and a Jobs for Heroes tax credit for businesses that hire U.S. armed service veterans discharged after September 11, 2001 who have been unemployed for at least six months. Locally, P.S. 24 will get to retain its music instruction programs from the New York Philharmonic and the Little Orchestra Society through Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students), a program that Klein said is designed to “give decision-making back to the teachers” and allow the parents association to “work with nonprofits.” The program will also fund a green sustainability project and other opportunities to “give back to our community.” Non-academic benefits to P.S. 24 will include a capital grant of $100,000 for an air conditioning system and reimbursement for security cameras through a $4.5 million school safety equipment allocation. The senator, himself “a product of the public schools,” said that nearly a billion dollars in additional funding will be invested in the school system. Improvements will include full-day kindergarten, rewards for high-performing teachers in math and science and tougher standards for teacher certification. On a social level, the “community school concept” will make its way to Riverdale as part of a $15 million allotment to enlist the schools as part of a holistic system—a school building should remain open well into the evening as a hub for health services, adult education classes and other neighborhood amenities. Addressing both social and safety issues, the senator was pleased to report that more than 10,000 students responded to an online cyberbullying census. Results indicated that 68 percent of respondents were either personally victimized or had witnessed the phenomenon, that fewer than one in five had reported the abuse to an adult and that 70 percent want cyberbullying to be considered a crime. “When you don’t look someone in the eye, you can do worse things” than what kids used to do “in the schoolyard” to settle disputes.
In the streets, Bronxites can expect a crackdown on guns. Through this year’s $3 million allocation, the borough will get its own SNUG (“guns” spelled backward)—a program shown to have reduced shootings by up to 35 percent in specific areas, according to a Department of Justice study. Another public interest initiative is a proposed check box option on state tax returns for a teen health education fund. Klein said this was the first year he’d played a direct role in forming the budget. He agreed with an audience suggestion that a P.S. 24 school trip to Albany would be a good idea. “We show them around,” he said. “We even pay for pizza.”
State Senator Jeff Klein meets with 3rd graders at PS 24 after completing his presentation of the State’s new budget for the coming fiscal year.
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Continued from Page 1 economic factors also contribute to why the Parks Department favors paving the trail, instead of using stone dust which Save the Putnam Trail advocates. “The maintenance budget has been cut every year since 2008. That is why they are in favor of a paved trail.” In a related issue, members of the group are outraged that Van Cortlandt Parks Administrator Margot Perron, who is also President of Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy, sent an email to the organization, Bike New York asking them to lobby at that evenings community board meeting. A copy of the email was sent to The Riverdale Review and states, “Margot Perron sent this email during work hours and it is a clear conflict of interest that a Parks employee is lobbying with outside organizations to promote the Parks Dept.’s political agenda. Margot Perron who is the Administrator of Van Cortlandt Park and who also acts as the President of Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy should legally be spending their taxpayer funded work time managing the affairs of Van Cortlandt Park not lobbying for a future capital project. “ They are calling for an investigation by New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Members of Save the Putnam Trail were adamant in their demand for a board resolution. ”This is a sensitive issue, an important issue, Fanuzzi responded. “Out of respect for your position, we are re-opening this for further discussion.” He said that an open meeting on May 22nd would focus solely on the proposed design. Sanchez countered by demanding that the board pass a resolution for or against the Parks Department design at the meeting. “Mr. Chairman, I want to make sure it is on record that you will have a resolution on that day.” “Yes,” responded Fanuzzi. After the call for a resolution and an exodus of members of Save the Putnam Trail, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz spoke
about the city education budget for the current fiscal year noting that New York City’s share of the state education budget is almost $8.3 billion, an increase of $364 million from last year. Dinowitz said while he was in favor of the recent Assembly vote to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour over the next 2 years, he was “not 100 percent happy” that it was not indexed for inflation as is Social Security. The recent spate of arrests of State Assemblymen and one City Council member also came up. On April 3rd, state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a democrat of Queens, was accused of paying Republican Councilman Dan Halloran tens of thousands of dollars to arrange meetings with city GOP officials to in order for Smith to run as a Republican in this fall’s mayoral election. Last week, Assemblyman Nelson Castro pleaded not guilty to perjury charges that led to a deal to secretly record his Albany peers for nearly four years. The recordings led to the recent arrest of Assemblyman Eric Stevens, also of the Bronx, on charges of taking cash to do favors for adult day care center owners. Dinowitz was asked, “How do you feel about so many of your colleagues abusing their state office?” “One colleague is too many,” he responded. “If someone is going to take a bribe or give a bribe that’s just plain old criminal activity. No matter how many reforms you pass, if someone is a greedy pig, I don’t know how you stop them.” He expressed outrage that Castro’s indictment in 2009 over voter fraud charges was kept secret from voters during elections in 2010 and 2012. “The federal government decided in at least one case that it was okay for the voters to vote for a person who had been secretly indicted for a felony so he can wear a wire.” “Most people in the state legislature and city council are hard working,” he added. The elected officials who commit crimes and are convicted should go to jail because they embarrass all of and they cause people to question me and other officials. I hope they go to jail for a really long time.”
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Party Editorial of The New York Sun | April 11, 2013 Mayor Bloomberg has been wasting no time in trying to exploit the latest indictments of New York politicians to revive his scheme for what he likes to call “non-partisan” elections. His Honor would have us believe that the problem is not the crooks but the party system. Yet it is the party system that allows people less wealthy than the mayor to aggregate their money to enter the political fray. Parties handed up such New Yorkers as, say, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Fiorello LaGuardia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch. Somehow these individuals, even though they came up through the party system, managed to avoid succumbing to the kind of temptation in to which State Senator Malcolm Smith allegedly gave. Mr. Smith, a Democrat, is charged in federal court with trying to purchase from GOP officials a spot on the Republican line on the next mayoral ballot. The accused in the latest case haven’t even entered a plea, and already Mr. Bloomberg started insisting that “all of this comes out of the fact that we have partisan elections when cities aren’t partisan.” This echoes a line that he’s been banging on since early in his first term. What a combination of unconstitutional malarkey and entitlement chutzpah from a man who spent more than $100 million of his money to muscle aside political parties to win his third term. In the past 12 years, his own election outlays, spent in an effort to overwhelm what the party system could muster against him, have probably approached a quarter of a billion dollars. No one is suggesting that Mr. Bloomberg broke the law with all his own spending. But his spending is the background to his nagging about how candidates should run in a “non-partisan primary,” no matter what their party, with the top two vote getters going into the general election. His Honor took his brainstorm to the voters in 2003, with a proposed charter amendment designed to block political parties from using primary elections to choose their nominees. It resulted in one of the most thorough drubbings ever delivered to a New York mayor. It seems that voters understood that the mayor’s agenda was a thinly disguised effort to attack the Democratic Party through changing the rules of the game, instead of working to make a successful argument on the merits. The mayor lacked credibility on the merits because, while he originally ran as a Republican, he broke his promises and implemented Democratic Party-type policies. The question these columns asked at the time was this: “If the mayor was going to make raising taxes, imposing more regulations on restaurants and other businesses, and boosting spending the thrust of his administration, what was the point of charter reform?” Instead, he put through huge pay raises for union workers. He ladled yet more billions into a failing schools instead of letting the money be allocated by parents through a system of vouchers. He imposed new regulations on everything from French fries to traffic to soda pop. For a spell last year, it looked like he might try one last time for non-partisan elections, but he decided instead to confine himself to grousing. Now Mr. Bloomberg is in his last year, and after he’s gone there’s going to be an accounting of what New Yorkers got for all of their taxes he raised and tax money he doled out, not to mention whether he mixed his charitable donations with his political agenda. How different things might have looked had Mr. Bloomberg used his mayoralty to cut taxes and spending and reduce regulation. Had the Republican Party led such an effort, there is always the possibility — some would say near certainty — that it would have lost. But it is also possible, particularly with the mayor’s skills, that such a campaign would have succeeded. History doesn’t disclose her alternatives. It’s one of our favorite laws of public life. It means that we’ll never really know what Mr. Bloomberg might have accomplished had he run his mayoralty on a line of political and economic principle. But we’re prepared to hazard a guess about one detail. It is that if the Republican Party had made conservative principles of political economy — limited, transparent government, and a free market — its hallmark, neither Malcolm Smith nor any other Democrat would have tried to buy his way onto the Republican Party ballot line.
What is a co-op? Or is it just a fraud? To The Editor: After owing a co-op in Riverdale for about 25 years, I read a shareholder proprietary lease. I was shocked to find out there is an expiration date. On that day, all shareholders have to surrender possession of their apartments to the lessor (usually the previous landlord who became the sponsor and usually owns more than 50% of the shares). My building is one of the luxury-high-rise building in Riverdale, 24 hour doormen, swimming pool, club, etc. Because of the high percentage of shares own by the sponsor, the high underlying mortgage and the expiration date banks are reluctant to lend money for coops; most new buyers are all cash. Why would anybody pay $1,000,000 for a co-op to pay mortgage and maintenance to surrender their property at the expiration date; buyers can rent the same apartment and keep their million dollars in the bank. A co-op is not shares in a corporation since not every shareholder is making a profit. As the expiration date approaches, the value of your shares are
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approaching zero. Who would buy shares in a corporation if one knows the value will be approaching zero. In a corporation, shareholders should get part of the profit every year. As far as I remember when a little money is accumulated, some type of work is started in the building immediately. Resident shareholders never see any money. Only the sponsor sees profit since they are running a rental business in our corporation. A co-op is not a home because a home is protected by law. A co-op home has no protection in housing neither in bankruptcy courts. Management gets away with adding excessive charges to a resident shareholder maintenance bill. A resident shareholder could be evicted from his free-mortgage home in housing court just for a few dollars behind. The co-op and management company get away with this because usually the management company is a company created by the sponsor to manage the co-op where he still owns more than 50%. It seems to me that there is collusion between the management
ANDREW WOLF, Editor and Publisher JOEL PAL Production Manager ROBERT NILVA Marketing Director
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company, the sponsor and the board. A federal investigation needs to be done. A co-op is more like a very expensive membership to live in a neighborhood; in this case Riverdale. One pays a price for the membership. Then one keeps paying monthly fees (maintenance) till the membership ends at the expiration date. Is it a fraud? If co-ops are memberships why were they sold as homes? The proprietary lease was written by the sponsor lawyers to protect sponsor’s interest. The sponsor made money by selling shares. The buyer who sold made money. The real estate who sold made money. The banks financing the sale made money. The only one losing money is the shareholders who stay with the apartment and the new buyers who had to pay cash. I think this is the biggest scam in the US history and it should be part of the US financial fraud. Read your proprietary lease, bylaws and financial statements, create a committee to check the financial at least monthly and most important be aware of board members who want to be members for life; they are like dictators who want you to be blind about the reality. They are not looking for your interest but the interest of the sponsor who placed them there when coops were formed and want to keep them there to protect his rental business and his management company. We can only win fighting together. Feel free to email me. Rosa Nazar
Guest Op Ed: Bloomberg on Weiner We don’t mind saying that we differ with a number of our tabloid heroes. It strikes us as a logical move for Mr. Weiner to test the waters in respect of a mayoral run. But then, we differed with our tabloid and broadsheet heroes in reckoning that it would be a mistake for Mr. Weiner to resign from the Congress in the first place. We would have preferred that he stay in office and let the voters make a judgment on the seriousness of his lies and sexual infidelities. He might have been able to ride it out. President Kennedy did. President Clinton did. The Clintons, as it turned out, were among the first to turn on Mr. Weiner when he got into
Washington because despite his narcissism and goofiness, they liked his policies and earnestness and passion for politics. We did, too, incidentally, save for the policies. On policy, we are several kilo-parsecs* to his right. But which Democrat has a better policy record than Mr. Weiner? How Mr. Weiner would fare were he to try to run the gauntlet of the jeering headlines (and the Sun is not going to suggest that any newspaper back off of anything), this is hard to reckon. But Maurice Carroll of the Quinnipiac Poll predicts that Mr. Weiner would be, as the Bloomberg wire characterized it, a “formidable candidate in a crowded New York mayoral field.” Mr. Carroll notes that were Mr. Weiner to enter a primary against the five Democrats already
declared, the likelihood would be an inconclusive vote on September 10, followed by a run off. That, among other things, could put Speaker Christine Quinn’s campaign against the New York Police Department, which in and of itself would be worth the price of admission. Not that we ourselves are likely to favor Mr. Weiner. We’re looking for the candidate who will make a campaign for tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation, school choice, population growth, immigration, and reform of the Health Department and who comprehends the predicament of our religious communities in a season of expanding government. If, in the meantime — and this is not an endorsement — Mr. Weiner can shake up the race, more power to him.
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Editorial of The New York Sun, April 11, 2013 Mayor Bloomberg might want to call his office. Not the one in City Hall, but the one on Lexington Avenue. His Honor, David Seifman reports in the New York Post, has been chiding the press for focusing on Anthony Weiner’s possible entry into the mayor’s race. But when we punched the former congressman’s name into our favorite search engine, the most to-the-point story that came up was a dispatch that ran under the headline “Weiner’s Return May Shake Up NYC Mayoral Race, Pollster Says.” It ran on the mayor’s own newswire, where the editors spared us the mayoral moralizing.
trouble. We wrote about it in an editorial called “Weiner and the Clintons,” which we issued after the New York Post reported that the Clinton’s were furious at Mr. Weiner, whose wife worked for Secretary of State Clinton. Mrs. Clinton herself was reportedly urging Mr. Weiner to resign. “ “All one can say,” we wrote, “is that for hypocrisy it takes the cake — or at least what is left of the cake after the part that was taken when President Clinton got judgmental about Mr. Weiner.” At the time a NY1-Marist Poll was reporting that in the 9th Congressional District, which had sent Mr. Weiner to Congress, something like 56% of the registered voters were opposed to him resigning. We speculated that they had sent him to
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