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STAYING SAFE IN PHASE TWO
REOPENING
How to keep the virus at bay as New Yorkers start to return to offices, restaurants and shops BY MICHAEL ORESKES
Tom Valenti, New York City chef and restaurateur. His most recent restaurant, the Oxbow Tavern, closed due to the pandemic. Photo: Peter Bond, via flickr
New York City embarks this week on Phase Two of its great experiment to see how much of our previous life we can resume without the protection of a vaccine against the coronavirus. Instead of the “moon shot” science of a safe vaccine, whose arrival, effectiveness and acceptance are all still a matter of speculation, the
safe reopening of New York rests for now on following simple science, some of which has been in practice for a century or more. To succeed at this, New Yorkers need to shed distracting myths about themselves and their city. Last week, the New York Times wrote: “The very factors that made the city an epicenter of the pandemic — its density, tourism and dependence on mass transit — complicated efforts to return to a state of normalcy.” Not really. Density and mass transit have been largely debunked as sources of the pandemic (indeed, infection rates are higher in rural areas and other
mass transit dependent cities have not had New York’s viral spread). It is true that someone brought the virus here from Europe. But we have no idea if it was a tourist, a returning New Yorker or a business traveler. In any case, we should be so lucky as to have tourism as a challenge. Right now there isn’t any. Shedding these myths will help New Yorkers to see that a “return to a state of normalcy” is largely in their own hands, which they should wash frequently.
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TOM VALENTI PLANS TO REOPEN OXBOW TAVERN RESTAURANTS
Tired of cooking for himself, the owner and executive chef aims to find a new location BY SAMI ROBERTS
“I am so sick of my own cooking,” said Tom Valenti, owner and Executive Chef of the Oxbow Tavern on the Upper West Side. Since March, Valenti has been quarantining in his home in
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AN INCLUSIVE PRIDE MARCH The Reclaim Pride Coalition will put a focus on Black LGBTQ issues at their upcoming demonstration. p. 20
IN THE WHIRL OF ZOOMTOWN BreakALeg Production company’s play competition, no kids in the park, plus new foods and entertainment in our lives. p. 6
“Amy Schumer Learns to Cook” on the Food Network with husband chef Chris Fischer. p. 6
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North New Jersey and is immersed in a rural life very different from the City. His newest tenant, as he referred to it, is a small black bear who has been rummaging through his property, eating his bird feeders, and bending the poles that supported them like “overcooked pieces of linguini.” In quarantine, one would think a chef at Valenti’s level would enjoy indulging in his
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LPC APPROVES CMOM’S NEW DESIGN LANDMARKS
Revisions to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s plans for a historic church BY JASON COHEN
UWS residents were initially thrilled with the idea that the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) had a found a new home across from Central Park at a historic church. But earlier this year, many were dismayed that CMOM planned to make major changes to the interior and exterior of the former First Church of Christ, Scientist, a 120-year-old landmark building at 361 Central Park West. People were concerned about rooftop construction, the removal of signature stainedglass and the yanking out of walnut doors and granite steps.
A rendering of the future home of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in the former Christian Science church on Central Park West on 96th Street. Rendering: Courtesy of CMOM / FXCollaborative)
However, on June 9, the Landmark Preservation Commission approved the plans. Some of the modifications include: ■ The proposed rooftop addition will sit within the footprint of the historic copper clad monitor, and while taller
than the monitor, will be clad with profiled and perforated copper to recall its historic profile and character in a modern way. ■ Removing steps from the three Central Park West entries and the entry at the 96th
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Community Concerns A spokesman for CMOM said the museum praised LPC’s decision and is ready to move forward with the project. “We are grateful to have received unanimous approval from Landmarks Preservation
Commission on our plans to restore and revitalize CMOM’s new home,” the spokesman said. “The commission’s support of the project recognizes the critical need for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s mission and program, as well as the sensitivity and strength of the design approach developed by FXCollaborative working closely with CMOM, which will bring a historic building back to life for the community.” In December, the Preservation Committee of Community Board 7 passed a resolution rejecting the project and in January, the full board voted against it. CB7 Chairman Mark Diller told the West Side Spirit the board has not yet had an opportunity to review the changes to the application that CMOM presented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 9.
He noted that since the board only speaks through resolutions, he could not comment. Landmark West, one of the groups opposing the initial plan, said these the revisions are somewhat of a compromise. Executive Director Sean Khorsandi is glad CMOM adapted and heard the concerns of the community. “It is a fine line to walk because we want to support CMOM and their efforts to stay in the community and bring back this individual landmark to public use, but one must respect a building of this stature,” Khorsandi said. “When the architects presented their recent changes they noted that they removed so much from the roof but ‘did not change the program’ which meant they are still getting everything they need. Many feel this could have been presented in this form earlier on but it took more cajoling to get there.” No work may occur until the LPC has issued a Certificate of Appropriateness, which requires review and approval of Department of Buildings.
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TOM VALENTI CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 own talent every night, but he doesn’t. “If I embark on a dish, I already know what it’s going to taste like when it’s done, because I’ve cooked it for 40 years.” Valenti is well known to New Yorkers for his many restaurant endeavors. He opened Ouest in 2001, ‘Cesca in 2003, West in 2008, and most recently the Oxbow Tavern in 2018. When Ouest closed in 2015, locals in the neighborhood were devastated. Then he coowned the Oxbow Tavern, a more casual dining atmosphere, and brought over his signature dishes from Ouest, salmon gravlax and braised lamb shanks. When the pandemic swept through the city, it shuttered almost every restaurant, leaving only take-out options available to keep some afloat. Oxbow Tavern was not immune. “I was not the lease holder,” Valenti said. “My partner, quote-unquote, held the lease and he has surrendered the lease. Because he was then
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Available Spaces Though some have been concerned that it might not reopen at all, Valenti says his intention is to resuscitate the Oxbow Tavern. The question will be regarding the location. He explained that many restaurants in the city are not built to accommodate social distancing, particularly for the staff, whom he is most concerned for. He hopes to find a new space in the Upper West Side that will allow room for his staff to work without fearing for their safety and health. Reopening, Valenti says, has “everything to do with numbers going down, and has everything to do with vaccination, or at least treatment.” He noted sadly that after the city reopens, there will be a lot of spaces available from restaurants that will not reopen. Formal dining restaurants, in his opinion, might be the ones that fare the best.
“They’re designed for this social distancing, that’s all about, you know, big tables spread far apart,” said Valenti. “I think the people that had the money before it, are still going to have the money.” Valenti has opened and operated restaurants through almost every major disaster in New York City since 2000. After 9/11, he started the Windows of Hope nonprofit to raise money for restaurants to get back on their feet. He said the virus is different. “The focus was about bringing people together, out, back into the community,” he said. “And this is like the antithesis of that obviously.”
subway to their family.” Nothing could have prepared Valenti for running a restaurant before COVID-19 happened. “This is a brandnew cluster f*&k,” he said. Yet, having been in New York during 9/11, the 2008 reces-
sion, and now a pandemic, he has learned something about the people who live here. “New Yorkers are always the first to rally, and I don’t think that this is going to be any different,” he said. The Oxbow Tavern is down
“First to Rally” He is not in a hurry to get back into the city or the restaurant business until he’s sure he and his staff are safe to do so. “I would, frankly, rather not have my staff getting back on the subway now to come to work,” Valenti said. “To work in close proximity with their other workers, and then possibly bring something back home by the
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for now, but Valenti aims to be back. “Whether it’s Oxbow Tavern, or another name, I intend on reopening somewhere,” Valenti said. “Where I reopen remains to be seen.”
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SLAM dunk - Play time is what’s needed more than ever these days - from sitting down in a restaurant indoors to seeing a live performance - and it’s coming sooner than later when NYC gets the goahead. So look for BreakALeg Production company’s 2nd Annual One-Act Play Competition scheduled for Oct 5th. Venue TBD. Last year’s SLAM winner, “A Much Better Deal,” a comedy by Stephan Feldman, was selected by audience ballot from four comedies and one drama entry and there was a cash prize for the winning playwright. Good news, the prize has been upped for the 2020 SLAM which will consist of 7 plays - 5 comedies, 2 dramas - all directed by Valerie Adami Juhlin - and the winner again will be chosen by the audience. Sponsoring the SLAM for a second year is Manhattan’s Country Bank.
Like everyone everywhere the BAL company has been Zooming their readings. In April and May they Zoomed through submissions of comedies, dramas, historical, and science-related plays. Check out their website for play Submissions, calendar dates for events, performances, company bios at www.breakalegproductions.com. And congratulations to BAL and its founder and Artistic Director Teri Black as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. Silver bells. No kids in the park - What a lead that is! But it’s true when you think of NYC’s mayor, who prides himself on doing everything for kids based on his pre-K accomplishment. Well, those pre-K’s are now getting older and have to spend their summer days with activities and adult supervision. Many, if not all, of the children who go to summer day camps like Kids of Summer Sports in conjunction with The Riverside Park Conservancy, Riverside Clay Tennis Association and the
Zoom meeting of BreakALeg Productions theater company. Photo courtesy of Susan Richard.
Carlos Oliveira Soccer Academy are the children of COVID first-responders and summer day camp gives them safe, supervised care and activity. With remote school over this month, where will many of these kids, who are on financial scholarships. go for safe and supervised activity while their parents are serving and saving the city? In your final year, Mr. Mayor, don’t exacerbate your mantra of a tale of two cities. Do the right thing. Va va Zoom - COVID may be keeping people at home or limiting their time outdoors or keeping them from going to their favorite entertainment venues, but its brought some new things, for better or worse, into our lives. On the food front ... Peter Luger’s creamed spinach in the fridges at Morton Williams and Food Emporium. If you’re willing to forgo a Luger’s steak and surly service, it’s worth it. Deelish. No Door Dash, no GrubHub to pay to bring it. Price is right, $8.99 at Morton Williams; $9.99 at Food Emporium. For steak, I found myself at Dining Downtown with Rocco DiSpirito who moderated as Delmonico’s chef did the cooking ... For entertainment, District Leader Ben Wetzler turned me onto Sarah Cooper’s Trump-a-thon. She literally mouths DJT’s words and ad libs her very own facial expressions. Priceless. Thanks, Ben ... and NYC pets haven’t been overlooked. In riding the M101, 102, or 103 along Third Ave., you couldn’t help but notice Bond Vet’s canopy set up in front of their quarter-block long space with socially-distanced seats for “Pet Parents” to sit while their pet was inside. As Cindy Adams would say, Only in NY, kids, only in NY, to which I’ll add, only in a COVID-rattled NY.
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“Don’t do it, Amy,” was all I could think as I began watching “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook” on the Food Network, where the Upper West Side actress/comedian and her husband Chef Chris Fischer prepare meals while quarantining on Martha’s Vineyard. Well, he prepares; she prepares to get schooled. Yes, it’s funny, with their baby son Gene sometimes waking from his nap to join the party, the purposely lowquality production values via their caregiver-cum-cinematographer Jane trying to follow the action with a digital camera, and the IRL banter between the celebrity couple. The new parents agreed to do the show with the proviso the channel donate money to charities they support. If all this measuring, chopping and stirring is a fundraising tool, then go for it, girl. But if the “I Feel Pretty” star really wants to undertake how to slice, dice and julienne fry, well Amy, take it from one who knows, if your husband is willing to sweat over a hot stove — let him; or else why marry a man with kitchen skills? Rather than boil a pan of water, I’d prefer to clean every pot, dish, and utensil we own, and often do as my better half Neil cooks with gusto. When we got together 40 years ago, I made no pretense that, like every other single girl living in an NYC studio, my idea of whipping up dinner was bringing home a plastic container from a
neighborhood salad bar. During our courtship we dined out all the time because that’s what young Manhattanites did and still would do if it were not for #stayhome. In the early years of our marriage, Neil was on the partner track at his law firm and usually didn’t get home until 11 o’clock at night on weekdays, so I reverted to my single life ways and brought mixed greens with fixin’s home from the deli. On weekends, we still frequented restaurants, but every now and then I felt I needed to prove I was a good wife and made dinner. Neil always thanked me for my efforts and ate what was in front of him, but after a while I noticed when I said I’d cook, like a magician he’d pull a takeout menu out of the air and tell me there was a new neighborhood joint we really should try. It never occurred to me that he was passive-aggressively steering me away from the kitchen, and I never balked at his suggestion because I actually considered making food a chore right up there with vacuuming and doing laundry. I didn’t realize though how much exactly I hated using the stove until I became a stay-athome mother and had to put diner on the table each evening. As Neil did not arrive home until 7 or 8 p.m., I cooked for myself and my now-adult children, Luke and Meg. They enjoyed the basics: pasta with jarred sauce, broiled lamb or pork chops, and my favorite dish to prepare - a golden ready-to-eat
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rotisserie chicken from the supermarket. Our vegetable dishes were courtesy of the Jolly Green Giant or Birdseye. Uncle Ben and his 90-second rice selections were my best friends, with microwavable mashed potatoes coming in at a close second. Although Neil approved of my entrée choices, I could tell from the look on his face he believed I should raise the bar on vegetables. It was around this time that Neil chose to really step up his amateur chef game creating two, sometimes three course creations on the weekends, which has continued for the past 20 years, until lockdown struck. I’ve gained 5 pounds since sheltering in place as Neil cooks not only dinner every night but breakfast each morning as well. (“Who wants pancakes?”) Yes, the downside to a man who cooks is that you eat — a lot. But that is, dare I say, outweighed by the fact that if he’s doing it, I don’t have to. Learn to cook? Oh no Amy, learn to clean up, although you already have when your man knows his way around a Cuisinart. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick“ and “Back to Work She Goes” and the upcoming “The Last Single Woman in New York City.”
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Elizabeth Murray of Health Advocates for Older People partners with C-Town to deliver groceries to UES elderly residents BY ALICE TECOTZKY
Few people know the CTown on 89th Street and First Avenue better than Elizabeth Murray. Every week, she visits the store and fills approximately 24 grocery orders, routinely spending between 1,200 and 1,500 dollars per trip. But Murray is not shopping for herself or 24 of her closest friends; she is shopping for older residents of the
Upper East Side, many of whom are already fragile and all of whose frailty has been heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. Since 2011, Murray has been involved with Health Advocates for Older People (HAFOP) — an organization that offers services to seniors in order to facilitate healthy aging processes — and is a current board member. Before COVID-19 struck New York City, Murray had the idea to partner with C-Town in order to eliminate delivery fees for ailing seniors. “I noticed a lot of elderly people dragging groceries and having a terrible time hobbling home, so my idea was to find a supermarket that would expedite deliver-
ies to the elderly,” Murray said. A New-York-based charitable foundation that has previously been involved with HAFOP funded the initial project, which hadn’t yet begun when Covid-19 became severe. In light of the emerging health crisis, though, Murray amended her idea: pay not only for the delivery fee, but for the groceries themselves. Inspired by the initiative, the charitable foundation increased their donation, with the final grant in the five-figures. Murray began the program approximately two months ago by calling members of HAFOP to ask whether or not they were struggling to get groceries. Many said yes, often because they were having trouble setting up deliver-
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Strawberry Ice Cream Such attention to detail does not go unnoticed. Mary, who is originally from South Carolina, reveled in the opportunity to once again eat sweet potatoes with an abundance of butter. Victoria, a 65year-old member of the program who is battling severe arthritis, was “very happy” when Murray fulfilled her order for strawberry ice cream, and laughed through describing the experience of hiding the pint in her freezer. “I can tell [Elizabeth] makes a special effort when shops ... and I can tell she watches the dates on things,” said Mary. “Sometimes, there are things I didn’t order, like chocolate chip cookies. One time, she even included a container of Clorox wipes.” Beyond the joy and sense of control that such thoughtful groceries bring, the program acts as a type of lifeline for its participants, both physically and financially. “It’s hard for me to walk any distance carrying anything or pulling anything, so [getting groceries] was becoming more of a problem,” said one 87-year-old Korean War veteran who wishes to remain anonymous. “Things are very expensive,” explained Victoria, who is unable to work. “That little bit of money that they’re spending — I really appreciate it because I don’t get much from social security.” Though
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We have no idea how/where people are getting infected in vast majority of cases.” Mark Levine, chair of the City Council Health Committee. mandates and increasing social pressure, the attitudes will change.” He cites Hong Kong as a good example of high proportion mask use, at 95%. New York City Transit reports 92% mask use in the subways. Aerial transmission is also why outdoors is safer than indoors (fresh air dilutes the virus) and why better ventilation indoors reduces risk. Wiping surfaces, washing your hands frequently and maintaining a distance all also remain valuable protections.
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As protesters have flooded the streets to demand an end to police brutality toward Black Americans, activism has simultaneously flooded social media. The conversation on how to be an ally to the Black Lives Matter movement has accordingly broadened to how to be an ally on social media. At a recent protest, the influencer Serena Kerrigan held up a sign saying, “Dump your racist boyfriend!” and posted the image to her Instagram story. Funny? Provocative? Yes. Frivolous? Absolutely not. In a few simple words, Kerrigan told her followers that being an ally to the black community demands prioritizing anti-racism, even if it means severing ties in your closest relationships.
Since influencers’ “workplace” is on social media, they have direct and immediate access to young audiences in a way the news media doesn’t. Kerrigan’s nearly 60K following on Instagram is 78% female, and of those women, the majority are 18-34, millennials and Generation Z. Most are from New York, followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Philadelphia. Kerrigan didn’t set out to be an activist. During quarantine, the 26-year-old launched a live, unedited dating show on Instagram called “Let’s Fucking Date” from her New York City apartment every Wednesday and Friday night. The show empowers women to be themselves on dates and is a subset of her brand, “Serena Fucking Kerrigan” or “SFK,” a persona Kerrigan created while at Duke University to project confidence she yet didn’t have. When the Black Lives Matter movement heated up, Kerrigan pivoted and hosted “Let’s Fucking Talk” on June 4, to give young
black people a stage to share their experiences. Kerrigan’s show titles are provocative and unsanitized. They capture the energy, urgency and honesty with which she delivers her message. Kerrigan said, “I’ve never had the platform that I have until quarantine. It felt completely tone deaf and insensitive to talk about anything other than Black Lives Matter.” During the show, Kerrigan dimmed her comedic persona to listen rather than direct the conversation. Careful never to claim expert status, Kerrigan created “Talk” to educate herself as much as her followers. She said, “If I’m giving my platform, that means I’m handing it off,” but rather than leave the show all together, she added “I wanted to be there, because it’s not on the Black community to teach us. We have to show up and listen.” After the first episode, she reflected on the history of her brand SFK in a blunt and public way. “Claire [Abbadi]
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talked about how in college, she went to Middlebury, she couldn’t take up room, because her race took up so much space,” Kerrigan said. “I was thinking about me at Duke. SFK, loud, unapologetic. I took up a lot of space. And to realize that was white privilege shocked me.”
Expanding Her Brand Although Kerrigan is Latinx, Argentinian, she believes she benefits from white privilege due to her light skin tone. After reflecting on how her brand benefits as a result, Kerrigan has been expanding it to address how race intersects with confidence and self-image. “My brand is all about empowerment so that people can take control of their lives and be unapologetically themselves. Because of systemic racism, that doesn’t apply to Black people,” she said. “I can’t say I want to empower all women if a big part of our country is not empowered at all.” When the show aired, viewership was wavering at around 900 people, whereas her dating show typically draws over three times that amount. Her guest speakers and followers expressed their disappointment, but Kerrigan was not surprised. “I think people don’t want to talk about it and that they’re uncomfortable or they’re racist.” She also noted, “It came at the end of a week of compressed social media activism, which has never really happened before. I knew that once we posted the video [on Instagram] and it was shared it would get more views.” She was right. As of June 10th, four days after Kerrigan posted the video, she had over 47K views compared to the 13K on her last dating show posted the week before. Just like her fans, Kerrigan is navigating allyship while the movement is taking place. When the right thing to do
I can’t say I want to empower all women if a big part of our country is not empowered at all.” Influencer Serena Kerrigan
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Screenshots from Serena Kerrigan’s show. Kerrigan (top) with Jasmine Paris DeGroat.
gets confusing Kerrigan shows her non-Black fans that, although the fast pace of social media can breed a herd mentality, everyone must commit to consuming viral content critically. On June 2, two Black women in the music industry, Jamila Thomas & Brianna Agyemang, started the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused to ask music companies to halt operations for the day and reflect on how the industry has long profited from black musicians. However, the hashtag morphed into #BlackoutTuesday and resulted in people posting black squares rather than helpful information. “Everyone posted the black box, so I thought ok I’m gonna post the black box now,” Kerrigan said. She later questioned her choice, explaining, “It blacked out feeds, which went against the point of amplifying black voices.” Kerrigan created a poll and asked her followers to reflect on whether they thought the post was productive. She then responded to the messages she received in response. “I was a little embarrassed at first,” she said about her public back and forth on whether
or not to delete the post, but “no one said how dare you change your mind. People said thank you for sharing.” Rather than quietly delete the post to save face, Kerrigan’s goal was to start a conversation and learn, and her followers respect her for that. Even though running her social media is her full-time job, Kerrigan wants her brand to succeed while upholding her values. “Yeah, I’ve lost followers,” she said “It’s a shame, because losing a follower means they won’t see my content and I will continuously be posting about Black Lives Matter.” When Kerrigan came home from a protest and saw someone messaged her asking about the dating show, she thought “Who fucking cares? When you immerse yourself in Black Lives Matter, things are put into perspective. This show, this article of clothing a brand sent me to post, it doesn’t matter. And that’s difficult for me too, because this is my job, and I want to entertain.” Kerrigan hosted a second episode of “Talk” on June 11 in a continued effort to demonstrate and learn what it means to be an ally.
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Panelists clockwise from top right: Sam Roberts, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., John Avlon, Michael Waldman and John Barry. Photo courtesy of Federal Hall.
‘CLICKING THROUGH HISTORY’ IDEAS
At Federal Hall, a panel evokes earlier times of upheaval to understand the current problems with our democracy
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In a virtual panel from Federal Hall, CNN senior political analyst John Avlon stated, “I was talking to someone in the environs of the White House who described this moment as being a combination of 1918, 1929 and 1968. There is the weight of history upon us.” That statement represents the state of the United States at this very moment. As the country continues to deal with the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the economy is struggling to recover all that it has lost over the past few months. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people all over the country are in
a state of unrest over the recent spate of racially-triggered deaths and are protesting and voicing out their sentiments against the establishment. Like Avlon’s statement, it’s difficult to comprehend the state the nation is in when it’s dealing with three eras of historical upheaval in just one 2020. That is the subject of “Debate Defends Democracy,” a three-part series of discussions presented by Wall Street’s Federal Hall, the site of the enactment of the Bill of Rights, regarding Constitutional rights and issues during this time of unrest and uncertainty. The first panel was titled “Democracy in a Time of Crisis” on June 16 and was moderated by Avlon. Tuning in from Federal Hall, Sam Roberts, frequent New York Times writer, introduced the discussion. The panelists drew several parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, and one of the leading experts on the comparisons was John Barry, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Great Influenza.” Barry said that the biggest lesson of the 1918
epidemic was the need to maintain transparency. “We both learned and failed to learn the same lesson,” he said. As someone who’s been one of the consultants on pandemic preparedness and response plans, Barry said that “In some states we’ve had that. At the national level, we have not had that, obviously, from the White House.” Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of Princeton’s department of AfricanAmerican Studies, drew further comparisons between 1918 and 2020. He explained how the 1918 influenza spread was bookended by the Red Summer of 1919, which saw largely anti-black and white supremacist riots break out all across the country. “There is an echo, not only in terms of the pandemic, but it’s also an echo in terms of the racial violence that has, in some ways, haunted the country since its founding,” he said. As the panel opened up to questions, Michael Waldman, president of NYU School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, spoke about the
trend of countries backsliding instead of advancing towards more democracy, with the examples of India, Brazil, Hungary, and Turkey. “And it has frequently been a product,” he explained, “of the unaddressed or even unacknowledged economic toll, of the great recession, of population flows in some places, and a general decades-long economic and social stagnation that you’ve seen in a lot of places.”
Mixed Messaging The panel continued to delve into deeper discussions of civil rights and freedoms offered by our current government and even briefly waded into the ongoing debate surrounding the monuments and statues of Confederates and historical figures now tainted by our history. Glaude argued that changing the context of these histories and looking at them from different perspectives would make more of a difference than simply taking them down. “Princeton decided not to take down all the signage, all the recognition of Woodrow Wilson,” he added. “What they decided to do was to tell a complex story about Woodrow Wilson in our built environment.” Barry also commented on the mixed messaging that was being delivered to the country, with the
President constantly trying to minimize the threat level of the virus, as opposed to public health officials and state leaders trying to say the right thing. “The result of this mixed messaging is that people are dying, to put it bluntly,” he added. “If more people did stand six feet away from everybody else, if more people wore masks, if more people washed their hands, we would have a lot fewer people dying. The impact of mixed messaging is fatal.” Avlon then closed the discussion with what he termed as “30 seconds of hope.” “Give folks who are watching this a reason to hope that democracies do weather crises and that we shouldn’t feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the present,” he said. While the other panelists ended on notes of optimism, Waldman brought out the larger scope of things. “If you look at the science of evolution, a lot of times change comes slowly and then all of a sudden it comes too fast,” he said. “And you don’t always know if you’re living through one of those times. You don’t always know if you’re living through history. I have a feeling we’re going to know that we’re clicking through history right now.” You can tune in to the remaining two panel discussions by going to federalhall.org.
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CINEMA IN A TIME OF COVID FILM
Co-founder of the Lower East Side Film Festival on the importance of supporting indie filmmakers BY ANGELA BARBUTI
With humble beginnings in a popup space with 30 folding chairs and a pull-down projector screen, the Lower East Side Film Festival grew to be hosted in iconic venues like the Crosby Street Hotel, Soho House and Sunshine Cinema. Although the COVID pandemic halted in-person festivities, which have included pool parties, drive-in theaters, stilt walkers and firebreathers, audiences can still stream all 37 films from home until June 29. “We have a lot of great filmmakers and a lot of great films that were part of our program that we’d already worked on and we didn’t want to let them down,” said festival director and co-founder Roxy Hart. The 33-year-old East Village resident explained that the LESFF was born out of a need to give up-andcoming independent filmmakers
working with modest budgets a chance to showcase their work. Throughout its 10-year history, they’ve celebrated hundreds of new short and features films, with help from a star-studded lineup of judges like Ethan Hawke, Susan Sarandon, Rami Malek and Rosario Dawson. This year’s focus is on recognizing first and second-generation American filmmakers, and features judges like Indya Moore, from FX’s “Pose,” and Samantha Bee from “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” Hart’s husband, Tony Castle, also serves as co-founder and festival director. Both Colorado natives, the couple moved to New York in 2009 and launched a film production company out of Williamsburg, BFD Productions.
Tell us how the festival first came about. The idea came from my fellow festival directors, Sharon Walker and Damon Cardasis, who had made a feature mockumentary for less than $10,000. They were not seeing many places for films like that to be exhibited, because there weren’t many festivals that would take on such low-budget films. It was created out of the need for micro low budget
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Festival directors (left to right) Shannon Walker, Tony Castle and Roxy Hunt. Photo: Cory Goldberg, courtesy of Lower East Side Film Festival films to have a festival to call their own. It was in a pop-up space on Norfolk Street. It was just a little store front and had 30 folding chairs and a pull-down projector screen. We had a popcorn machine in the back. It was BYOB. We did it for almost an entire month; every single night it sold out. It created a really intimate environment. Our audience was forced to sit right next to each other and the filmmakers were right there too. It created an interesting vibe that we didn’t see at other film festivals before.
You’ve hosted a drive-in movie theater and a rooftop pool party. Tell us how you put those together. For the drive-in movie theater, we took over a parking lot on the Lower East Side. New Yorkers don’t generally have cars very often, so we partnered with Zipcar, and they provided a bunch of Mini Cooper convertibles. We had the parking lot lined with those and folks could rent out the car as their seats for the theater, essentially. We projected on a building and had some food trucks and some performers and some DJs in the back of a pickup truck. It was really fun. We held the pool party at a hotel, Sixty LES, in their pool. Again, we projected on a wall that’s adjacent to the pool. People were floating in the pool while watching the films.
Give us a glimpse into this year’s film collection. Roxy Hunt of the Lower East Side Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Lower East Side Film Festival
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generation, so we have a number of different folks who identified themselves that way. Those films are across the whole festival, but there’s one night that features a little bit more specifically, which is our “This is America” short showcase, which is just a number of great short films, different slices of American culture. We have an “I Love New York” shorts; that’s always very popular with our audience. “Mindf**k” shorts is one of the things we’re known for; people come back for that year after year, just very crazy, experimental-type, messed-up films, but in a good way. We have a showcase called, “Me, Myself and I,” which is films about self-reflection, growth and coming of age. We try to make sure there’s something for everybody. And if you’re not a huge cinephile, it’s still approachable and you can figure out from the schedule what you might be interested in.
One of the industry panels is with Ramy Youssef, who just won the Golden Globe for his Hulu show. We partnered with the Writers Guild of America East; we partner with them every year to host some industry talks. This year, it’s “Inside the Writer’s Room” of “Ramy” for the second season, so it’s him and a number of different writers from his writer’s room. It’s moderated by Rowaida Abdelaziz from Huffington Post, who’s a great journalist who focuses a lot on covering Islamophobia and social justice issues. We talked a lot about different
representations of Muslims on TV and in the media and the role that Ramy plays in all of that.
You just established an Emerging Filmmakers Program with an emphasis on BIPOC filmmakers. With the current movement and sweeping calls for systemic changes in cultural structures and institutions, especially in New York City, we felt like we needed to take a look at ourselves and our programming and really acknowledge that a lot of times people of color have more financial barriers to get into the festival circuit than anyone else. We are hoping we can help films that are already basically made, sometimes it’s the end of the line and you run out of funds, and you can’t get that final sound mix or color or pay submission fees for festivals. And we’ve seen so many filmmakers face those problems and ask us for fee waivers and we help out when we can, but we really want to try to focus on getting those films to the finish line and removing some of those barriers, specifically for BIPOC filmmakers. www.lesfilmfestival.com
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USING AI LEARNING FOR COVID CARE SCIENCE
How Project Florence helped Mount Sinai “upskill” health care workers to treat coronavirus patients BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Back in March, when the coronavirus outbreak started to touch New York, Ellis Rubinstein, who serves as the president of the New York Academy of Sciences, began to worry about the city’s ability to meet the moment. “It was at the time when most of the conversation was about the need for masks and garments and all of the PPE,” said Rubinstein. “They hadn’t really focused yet on the disaster of not having enough people trained for ICU units and critical care.” Around this time, Rubinstein’s daughter sent him an article about a company in Stockholm, Sweden, called Sana Labs. Since 2016, Sana Labs has been operating in the artificial intelligence sphere, creating personalized, adaptive learning programs for a variety of industries in the corporate sector. The program works by asking a user question to
It’s been an inspiring past few months seeing how the technology can empower nurses that are sacrificing so much to save others.” Joel Hellermark, CEO at Sana Labs identify the gaps in one’s knowledge and adapts to center the curricula around those gaps. This adaptive aspect of the program shortens the time it takes to achieve a level of mastery in a given subject — condensing what was once months of schooling into a several hour course. As the pandemic put the world on lockdown and overwhelmed its hospitals, Sana Labs struck a partnership with the Karolinska Institute — a premiere medical university in Sweden — and Scandinavian Airlines to create a program called Project Florence, after Florence Nightingale. The program uses Sana Labs’ technology to “upskill” furloughed flight attendants, who are trained to deal with health emergencies, so that
Project Florence program. Photo courtesy of Sana Labs
Mount Sinai Morningside ICU staff. Photo courtesy of The Mount Sinai Health System
they could assist health care workers in Swedish hospitals. “I thought, maybe we should try in New York what they’re doing in Sweden,” said Rubinstein, who then reached out to Mount Sinai to find out if the hospital might be able to use this AI-learning program. The answer was yes. To date, Mount Sinai has trained 726 non-critical care nurses to be able to care for coronavirus patients in a 16hour course. The Project Florence course focused on staff safety and minimization of transmission, oxygenation and ventilation, airway management, oxygen supply systems acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation and the management of shock. “The need to address, respond, and care for the surge of critically ill patients coming through our doors was imperative,” said Natalie Callis, the senior director of Nursing Professional Development Strategy and Implementation at the Mount Sinai Health System. “Project Florence’s ability to utilize AIpowered adaptive
assessment to address individual skills gaps gave us the ability to upskill our clinical nurses in [an] efficient and efficacious manner.” Globally, the impact of Project Florence has been immense, as the program has been deployed in over 70 countries to upskill more than 50,000 nurses. “It’s been an inspiring past few months seeing how the technology can empower nurses that are sacrificing so much to save others,” said Joel Hellermark, the Chief Executive Officer at Sana Labs. “These are exactly the reasons we founded Sana for from the beginning.” Hellermark said when a number of health systems, including the New York Academy of Sciences, reached out to Sana Labs, he decided to commit the company’s design, engineering and research team to support in any capacity that they could. “What we have been quite particularly struck by is the impact that nurses are reporting where they are feeling that the system can very efficiently focus on the knowl-
edge gaps and serve them the exact resources that they need,” said Hellermark.
Other Crises As the demand on the city’s hospitals has lessened, Rubinstein and others at New York Academy of Sciences are thinking about how the adaptive learning technology could be applied to other crises. One such application would be through NYAS’s alliance with UNICEF and the United Nations: to train community health care workers in African countries where they do not have enough professional medical personnel for their respective populations. In a number of developing countries, and especially in Sub Saharan Africa, a majority of the population is between the ages of 10 and 20 years old, explained Paul Mikov, the senior vice president of global partnerships at NYAS. The problem that follows from this fact, Mikov said, is that no more than 25 percent of these young people will attend high school — let alone university. Therefore, the need for a high quality,
low cost program that results in the development of skills and prepares young people for the workforce is abundant, said Mikov. “But this issue of skilling and upskilling is not limited to the developing world,” said Mikov. “It’s really a universal issue and in the United States as well.” In the United States, the need for AI-learning is growing, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic. A reported 40 million Americans have been laid off, and many of those jobs not are expected to return. “Economies are being changed, forced to change,” said Mikov. “That will force many to consider being reskilled, maybe changing careers from one industry sector into another. I think there’s an enormous need in the area of reskilling and upskilling, as Project Florence has been upskilling nurses.” The technology that helped stem the pandemic’s damage to public health could also be the program that helps repair the financial damage inflicted by the pandemic.
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AN INCLUSIVE PRIDE MARCH
Queer Liberation March 2019. Photo courtesy of Reclaim Pride Coalition.
ACTIVISM The Reclaim Pride Coalition will put a focus on Black LGBTQ issues at their upcoming demonstration BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Last year, a group of organizers came together to reimagine what a Pride celebration could be, feeling that New York City’s parade had become an overly corporate, and overly policed, event over time. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, they created their own march without a police presence and without corporate sponsors that would match their values. “The march was supposed to be inclusive of everyone make people feel comfortable,” said Francesca Barjon,
one of Reclaim Pride’s organizers. “A lot of Black people don’t feel comfortable around police and a lot of LGBT people don’t either because we’ve all had issues of being harassed for our identity.” About 45,000 people showed up to make the march from Stonewall to Central Park. Organizers want to duplicate that success with this year’s march on Sunday, June 28, with Black LGBTQ folks as the focal point of their demonstration. “We’re marching against the mistreatment of people, and so we center the people who are mistreated the most like Black people, [transgender] people,” said Barjon. “We’re horrified by the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Layleen Polanco, Rayshard Brooks and untold numbers of others, and we’re
mourning the endless violent deaths of Black trans women and men like Dominique ‘Rem’mie’ Fells and Riah Milton.” Barjon and the rest of the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) has a long list of goals that they will be pushing at the march that center on ending police brutality. In step with Black Lives Matter activists, RPC is demanding the city to reduce the NYPD’s $6 billion budget by 50 percent, and to reduce the department’s number of officers by half, as well. The group wants these funds redirected to Black-led organizations and community services. “Housing and homeless services has nowhere near that much,” said Barjon.
The Most Vulnerable RPC in solidarity with BLM
demands the city to reimagine community safety by incorporating the tenets of transformative and restorative justice. “Those are the things we’re marching for,” said Barjon. “These are the things we hope to be able to accomplish with the help of people getting out in the streets and making their voices heard, and making sure that they’re supporting people who have done the work of educating themselves and coming up with alternatives to what we currently have.” Barjon and RPC say they recognize that among the most vulnerable of the queer community are Black trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary people, especially Black trans women. Often, these people are not fully represented in stories of police brutality. “It’s interesting to think
about how this all erupted years ago with Trayvon Martin and the aquittal of George Zimmerman and today this moment started with George Floyd and I think a lot of people saw the inhumanity that Black men experience,” said Barjon, noting how Black men have been center of the BLM movement. “We need to find ways to uplift all Black people and help ensure that our lives matter.” Those interested in joining the march should arrive at Foley Square by 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 28. The march will depart by 1 p.m. The coalition will be livestreaming the march for immunocompromised people who are unable to attend. The livesteam will be available at @queermarch on Facebook, Twitter/Periscope, YouTube and on reclaimpridenyc.org. A variety of virtual content about the coalition’s goals
We’re marching against the mistreatment of people, and so we center the people who are mistreated the most like Black people, [transgender] people.” Francesca Barjon, Reclaim Pride organizer and values will also be available on their website. The group is asking for attendees to wear face masks to prevent the spread of COVID19 and to maintain social distance from others during the march. Members of RPC will be handing out a limited number of masks, hand sanitizer and water to those who need it.
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