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New York is walking a perilous tightrope right now, balancing the restart of the economy – and of social contact – with the risk of plunging back onto the pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo
Tensions are mounting between activists calling for police reform and NYPD unions and advocates after a holiday weekend of particularly harrowing gun violence that saw at least nine people killed and 54 others injured across New York City. The violence has exacerbated an existing sense of anxiety and disorder in the
city amid the coronavirus pandemic, weeks of unending blasts from fireworks, sizzling summer heat, and ongoing protests against police brutality, which have culminated in the Occupy City Hall encampment. At a press conference Monday morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the shootings were the result of “dislocation” caused by the coronavirus. He added that the violence is “very worrisome” and pointed to the court system not being fully open as a reason why there is a delay in dealing with these cases. Police Commissioner Der-
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Very concerned about huge increase in shootings in Upper Manhattan ... Work needed on all fronts; much understandable frustration, tension & fear for life.” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, on Twitter mot Shea told NY1 in an interview that the large number recent releases from Rikers is the source of the increase in shootings. Precision policing and neighborhood police will hold the perpetrators to ac-
COVID REDUX After a March bout with the virus, a second hospitalization came in June – and felt more serious than the initial infection. A cautionary tale by a “returnee”. p. 2
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and Mayor Bill de Blasio were searching for that balance when they allowed the city to proceed to Phase Three of reopening, but without indoor drinking and dining. The governor said continued discipline was crucial because “dark clouds” were gathering. He cited both the way some New Yorkers seemed to be ignoring mandates for masks and distancing even as the case counts surge in other states.
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After a March bout with the virus, a second hospital stay came in June – and felt more serious than the initial infection. A cautionary tale by a “returnee” BY STEPHAN RUSSO
Back in April, I wrote a piece for the West Side Spirit about my bout with COVID-19. I had tested positive and was hospitalized the second to last week of March when the infections were taking off in New York, and right before the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths skyrocketed to the dangerous highs of early April. I had first denied that the virus would get me until I passed out on my kitchen floor and ended up in the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital.
I was diagnosed with a moderate case, kept in a COVID unit with oxygen and sent home on my own two days later. After the required seven-day quarantine without symptoms, I felt home free and went about my business. Like everyone else, I watched with horror as the United States surpassed all other countries in infections and accounted for 25% of the world’s deaths. The dearth of leadership on the federal level, the lies, misrepresentations and utter incompetence has rankled me to no end. They don’t understand the dangers of this virus. So why am I recounting this? Fast forward to the beginning of June. I am over two months in recovery and begin feeling some of the lethargy, lack of appetite, shortness of breath I had previously experienced. It was the time of the George Floyd killing, the re-
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Anger at Vance Two of the NYPD’s commanding officers spoke out in frustration on Twitter Sunday, aiming their anger at Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. “Manhattan DA Cy Vance where are you? No show at any shooting scene!!! Our community is being attacked, there have been 24 people shot in the city in the past 24 hours....Where Are You!!!” read a tweet from the NYPD
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tribute at a crime scene. We do not hold premature minipress conferences which would violate ethical rules and interfere with evidence collection.” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer expressed her concerns about the violence Sunday evening on Twitter. “Very concerned about huge increase in shootings in Upper Manhattan. Have talked & coordinated with elected officials, CBOs, NYPD, City Hall all day,” Brewer said in a tweet. “Meetings scheduled for this week. Work needed on all fronts; much understandable frustration, tension & fear for life.”
The timing of the increased gun violence in the city could complicate efforts by activists to reform and take resources away from the NYPD. Just last week, the City Council voted to shift $1 billion away from the police department. The move has angered police officials and unions, who are now pointing to the weekend’s events, as well as the recent bail reform legislation, as reason why the police budget should not have been touched.
“As we have been saying for months, there is no one change that is causing our criminal justice system to collapse. Instead, it is death by a thousand cuts, just like the pro-criminal lobby intended,” the Police Benevolent Association of NYC wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet from Brooklyn Council Member Chaim Deutsch, who cited bail reform, the plan to close Rikers, defunding the NYPD, antipolice rhetoric and an “atmosphere of anarchy” as
cause for the spike in violence. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson told the Daily News that the violence should not distract from needed police reform. “We all want a safe city, and we believe it can be done while bringing real transformational change,” Johnson said. “Let’s get at the root causes of violence and move away from a model that sees policing as the only answer to every problem we face.”
Complicating Reform Efforts Even before this weekend’s events, shootings in Manhattan had been on the rise. From the start of the year up to June 28, 77 shooting incidents were recorded in Manhattan compared to 58 that took place during the same time period in 2019, according to police statistics.
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COVID REDUX CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Mount Sinai (attendees, residents, cardiologists, pulmonary specialists and infectious disease experts) had different theories. I tested negative for the virus but had troubling inflammatory markers. The pulmonologist suggested that there was additional lung damage causing the shortness of breath, but he didn’t hear any abnormalities when listening to my chest. Dr. Noreen Singh was one of the very many caring, competent doctors who tracked my progress. She explained in detail the range of inflammatory markers from “crps” to “d-dimers” which tracked everything from kidney function to the dangers of blood clotting. She theorized that there were many tiny blood clots that did not show up on the imaging and were causing the shortness of breath. Much to my chagrin, and not by choice, I was learning things about my body as I tried to find answers as to why the effects of COVID had returned.
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I can’t help but think that despite how inundated we are with coronavirus news, there is value in letting others know the ongoing dangers and unknown vicissitudes of this disease. This experience has deepened my respect for the ongoing devastation of the virus. It is powerful and unpredictable. For all the depth and expertise of the Sinai staff, they are figuring out the virus as they go along. I heard several times when looking for an explanation, “We just don’t know.” The relapse – even with a negative test and apparent non-contagion – can be potentially more serious than the initial infection. There has been a lot of speculation about a second wave in the fall. Is any attention being paid to “returnees?” The virus, (and its aftermath) continue to take very funny bounces. It knows how to throw a serious curve ball. Stephan Russo is a West Side Spirit contributor. He served as the Executive Director of Goddard Riverside Community Center from 1998-2017.
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Into the future - It’s good to see that the pandemic hasn’t forever dampened the spirit of some restaurant owners and other entrepreneurs. So it was heartening to see that there’s a new restaurant on the block, make that corner of 88th and Second, right next door to what was formerly Elaine’s and is now The Writing Room. The location was empty for what seems like years and I don’t remember what was there before. It may have had several incarnations. No matter. The newbie’s open and thriving. Tables outside on Second Ave. and around the corner on 88th St. Recently boarded up and on its way to another location is Cafe D’Alsace. Now
open and bustling, too. Hope they stay open as they relocate. Even better, stay open, and move uptown, too. Another local stalwart, as previously reported, is Sable’s. They’re moving from their present location to Third Ave on 77th or 78th in September where they’ll be serving up sturgeon, smoked fish, bagels and a smidgen of lobster salad “to taste” while waiting. All day every day - The UES’s Esther Yang’s days are mostly virtual. Except when she’s out volunteering to aid in the COVID crisis or campaigning in real time for the November election. Think speed dial. Think Energizer Bunny. She helps the rest of us who are stuck at home make it through the day. How? First, I’d say, by boundless energy and know-how. Fully focused and stuck at home herself, she’s unable to go to
museums, movies, Broadway shows, and without a TV forever, she started daily noontime virtual yoga classes for adults and kids. “Being a yoga teacher for 20 years is something,” she says, “but teaching it virtually? Say what!” The parents of the kids she teaches asked her to have an after-school virtual class for the kids where they could meditate, learn about the human body, make masks, and engage in a variety of other activities. One afternoon, it was reading “I am Rosa Parks.” Added value for the grown ups - time out to exhale knowing the kids are learning and engaged in worthwhile activities. Esther’s day doesn’t end there. She’s cooking, creating recipes in the tradition of her “herbalist grandmother,” which are time-saving, less than 20-minute recipes, where she uses the sweet, the
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sour, the bitter, the spicy. And each recipe falls into a descriptive category - like Quarantine Cooking, Meatless Mondays, Wellness Wednesday. Her “eureka moment” came when she made bbq spareribs and a to-die-for bbq sauce. Ingredients, she’s not telling. Don’t be surprised to
find Paul Newman’s Own sauces competing for shelf space with the intrepid Esther Yang’s bbq sauce. Just saying. On/Off the Spectrum - For starters, I’m a Spectrum customer. One, because I’d have had to opt out by using some other cable provider, and two, I’m no go-it-aloner when it
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A college-aged New Yorker reflects on his love for the city in the wake of the coronavirus BY OSCAR KIM BAUMAN
Being from New York City, Manhattan in particular, has always been an integral part of my identity. I was born in the now-gone St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, and grew up going to schools on the Lower and Upper East
Sides. When I thought about my future, I could never picture living anywhere but New York. But like everything else, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned that on its head. While the image of the college student desperate to leave their hometown permeates pop culture, my experience was the opposite. I grew to love my community of friends at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, but never planned on staying there. I maintained my voter registration in New York, relished my chances to return to
comes to things like that. And, truth to tell, I couldn’t live without NY1 and Errol Louis and they are only on NY1. So I stay. And suffer. Spectrum’s a nightmare. Daily, within hours of tuning in or turning on the TV, they post a message advising that, if you don’t hit SEL or some other key on remote, your tv will shut down. And shut down it does. Goes off, until you find the remote to put it back on. Presumably, they are doing some sort of public service. However, TV’s go all day and nobody’s sitting in one spot. If you change channels and want to get back to where you started, good luck. You’ll have to click your way through a series of station names before you find - if you find - what you’re looking for. An exercise in futility. No more Fox, 44, CNN, 78, MSNBC, 14. Don’t bother trying to make sense of the new grid. You’ll find yourself, well, off the Spectrum. Reading this will give you no clarity, I get it, but that’s life on the Spectrum.
the city and would often make day trips to Boston to satisfy my desire for an urban environment. A close friend and former roommate of mine hails from a small Rhode Island town with a population half the size of my Manhattan neighborhood. We would sometimes find comedy in the differences in our attitudes towards urban living, like his heightened caution around crosswalks, compared to my confident jaywalking. But when I woke up in a cold sweat one night while visiting his home over Easter weekend, I realized how deep my preference for city life ran. The author, in a less distant New York one year ago, says “Who would’ve thought I’d miss Times Square!” Photo courtesy of Oscar Kim Bauman.
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SUBURB ENVY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 I could hardly sleep without the ambience of traffic by my window. If I had any say in it, I’d be in New York, or at least a comparable big city all the time, so I thought. Then, as with nearly every aspect of life, the coronavirus changed everything. Clark announced its closure on March 12, and I was back in New York on March 15, as the city groaned to a halt, bracing for impact. Sequestered in the small Manhattan apartment I share with my parents and teenage sister, I watched, through social media, as my friends across the country relaxed in suburban backyards and freely roamed nature. I had previously never dreamed of living like my Rhode Islander roommate, surrounded by forest and country road. But as the pandemic grew, the prospect of getting outdoors while remaining socially distant was enticing. When I would go out, mask on, taking care to stay away from others while navigating the multiple corri-
dors and six flights of stairs it takes to leave my building, I would think of my friends and their backyards with envy.
Antibody Tests To make matters worse, about a week after my return to the new, socially distant New York, my entire family came down with what we soon realized was COVID-19. While we were unable to be tested at the time, our antibody tests later all came back positive, confirming that our suspicions had been correct. As my fever rose, I feared our cases would be lifethreatening, if not for me, perhaps for my parents, both in their 50s. Although our main symptoms subsided in a matter of days, our senses of smell and taste took weeks to return. If I wasn’t in such a jam-packed building in such a jam-packed borough in such a jam-packed city, I thought to myself, my family would’ve been spared all of that. Even as my family has since recovered and life slowly returns to a semblance of normalcy we move towards Phase Three, I find myself
struggling to see the New York I love. The diversity of restaurants, where one can find just about any cuisine anywhere, is suffering as the city’s shutdown shutters smaller establishments. The gathering spots in the city’s parks where I would spend time with my friends now fill me with anxiety. The same applies to the prospect of returning to the subway, with its packing together of strangers in an enclosed space. Most painfully for me, live music, once my favorite pastimes, may not return for another year, a loss not only for fans, but for artists, crew, and venue employees. Of course, I am one of the lucky ones. While I lost some summer internship opportunities, I still am able to work remotely for my formerly oncampus job at Clark. I still have my life and health, which thousands of fellow New Yorkers lost. But it may not be the life I once envisioned for myself. I don’t have a clear plan for my future, but perhaps, for the first time, a life in the suburbs is on the table.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The governor could also have mentioned that even in New York, cited as a success story for curbing the coronavirus, the transmission rate has been creeping up for two months now and has just crossed into that danger red zone where the overall caseload could begin to grow again instead of shrink, according to city and state data crunched by a not-for-profit health group. In other words, the room for error is narrowing, just as the pressure to ease up is growing. “It’s not realistic that we expect everyone to avoid all human contact,” said the chair of the City Council health committee, Mark D. Levine. “We need to help the public understand the spectrum of risk for different social interactions, and help them minimize it. That’s a public health strategy we can sustain for the long haul.” The long haul is exactly the challenge. The coronavirus has been our unwelcome companion now for six months. We still can not inoculate against the virus or cure the disease it inflicts, COVID-19. But we have learned a lot about reducing the risks of contracting it.
“Spectrum of Risk” Chart These lessons were baked into the announcements from Cuomo and de Blasio that the city would proceed on July 6 to Phase Three, but without the indoor drinking or dining that many restaurant owners, and surely some diners, had been hoping for. Fundamentally, virus lofting on stale, indoor air is too risky. “A large group, close together, in an enclosed space, with loud talking,” says Levine. “This checks off all the high risk factors. This high risk can be reduced by moving outside, improving ventilation, and avoiding loud music [to lessen need for loud talking].” Levine distributed a chart scaling the “spectrum of risk” for different in-person interactions. Walking, jogging or biking outside with a friend is low risk (A bright green signal). Dating a new partner is high risk (bright red signal),
The Spirit|Westsider westsidespirit.com and even riskier than that is a crowded indoor house party (two red signals). Taking a date to a crowded bar would likely fall in there someplace, too, judging from the many examples around the country of bars being hothouses for viral spread. “It’s time to update the allor-nothing messaging on COVID-19 risk,” Levine said. None of this is a sudden revelation. Infectious disease experts have long understood that fresh air helps disperse pathogens. Tom Frieden, the former city health commissioner and director of the Centers for Disease Control, recalled that a city pandemic preparedness plan developed years ago suggested opening the windows of subway cars. The current health commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, mentioned opening bus windows. New York City Transit has not mentioned either as part of its extensive plans to keep the system clear of virus.
The R Factor A look at the health data compiled by Covid Act Now, a not-for-profit, shows why this moment is so tricky. The basic metric for infectious disease control, the rate of transmission, bottomed out in the city two months ago, on May 7 and 8, and has been edging up ever since. On May 8, the rate of transmission, the so called R or Rt, was .7 in the five boroughs. At a transmission rate of .7 every ten infected New Yorkers, statistically speaking, passed their infection on to 7 new people. They in turn would infect about 5 people who infect 3 or 4, which is why the crisis has been fading. However, by this weekend the transmission rate in the city had climbed to .91, crossing into a danger zone perilously close to reigniting the epidemic, public health officials say. If the rate climbs as much in the next two months as in the last two, by September it would be well over 1, the line dividing total number of cases shrinking and growing. A lot happened in the past two months that may be increasing transmission. The state began reopening business, first outside the city and then in a first phase in the city. Some 42,000 private sector employees resumed work
It’s time to update the allor-nothing messaging on COVID-19 risk.” Council Member Mark Levine in May in the city even before Phase 1 reopening on June 8, according to the state labor department. June numbers aren’t out yet, but they are no doubt up further, based on increases in transit ridership. In addition, George Floyd’s death triggered a wave of large outdoor protests in late May and June. More generally, as people emerged from home, their willingness to wear masks and distance was, at best, erratic, as the governor noted. Hospital visits for COVID19-like symptoms, steady over all, have been climbing among younger adults the past few weeks, according to health department data. “New York City is not isolated from the national trends,” said Levine. On the other hand, even though many restaurants and bar owners had been preparing to welcome customers inside – some had even spent money on refiguring their spaces to be safer – the overall reaction to the official order was understanding. “The only thing worse than having to delay the reopening of indoor dining would be to have restaurants reopen and then have to shut down a short time thereafter due to a spike in COVID cases,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York Hospitality Alliance. “It’s very scary.” Rigie said his members for now will concentrate on expanding outdoor dining, which the mayor pledged to support, and he will lobby government, property owners and banks for a plan to ease rents. “The restaurant industry has been financially devastated,” he said. “There is so much uncertainty and we desperately need more support from all levels of government to help us sustain our businesses through the long and difficult recovery.”
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Meet a Masterpiece: What Alice Neel’s painting of Andy Warhol says to our time BY MARY GREGORY
What will the soundtrack of 2020 be like? What will its poetry say? How will artists capture all that’s happening? Right now, they’re at their desks, with their instruments, and in their studios, responding, reacting and reaching. At some point, we’ll find out what art thought of this surprising, unprecedented moment and see how artists found ways to make these days more relatable and relevant. More human. Art has touched the human soul for as long as there has been art; that’s why we thrill to see a hand that was painted on a cave wall more than 50,000 years ago. Immediately it connects, telling us others have been here, and we
Like all except selfportraits, this portrait reveals two individuals, both the sitter and the painter. Through Warhol’s poignant fragility, we see the tenderness and kindness of Alice Neel’s gaze.
are not alone. That connection can be elusive, subtle, or come straight at you. One image that seems to speak so well and clearly to this moment was painted a half century ago. It’s Alice Neel’s portrait of Andy Warhol, a masterpiece at the Whitney Museum. Neel (1900-1984) was an acclaimed New York artist who painted her truth – the people around her – for decades, while others were busy upending the cultural landscape with abstraction. She was born to a working class family in Pennsylvania and took a clerical job after high school to help make ends meet, while taking night classes in art. Neel reported that her mother once told her, “I don’t know what you expect to do in the world, you’re only a girl.” She went on to become the 20th century’s greatest American portraitist, compared by art historians to Vincent van Gogh. Forever focused on figures and faces, Neel was largely left behind by an art world that had turned away from realism during the 1940s and 50s, but she was known and admired by other artists. She became widely appreciated in the late 1960s, thanks, in part, to the feminist movement, and galleries and museums began to collect her work. Neel, meanwhile, was busy collecting souls, as she so aptly described her paintings. For her subjects she chose friends, lovers, kids from the neighborhood (she lived in upper Manhattan for five decades, first in Spanish Harlem,
and later on the Upper West Side) and sometimes other artists and celebrities, including Marisol, Robert Smithson, Ed Koch and Bella Abzug.
Scars and Stitches In 1970, she painted Andy Warhol. Two years earlier, Warhol had survived an assassination attempt, when Valerie Solanus, part of his artistic circle, shot him three times. Neel painted Warhol’s scars and stitches, and the girdle he wore to support his damaged muscles. In her painting, Warhol’s flesh is tinged in green. His eyes are closed. His hair is gray. He looks old and tired. His shoulders, outlined in ultramarine blue, are thin. Nowhere is the flamboyant, wig-wearing, Pop icon, star artist. Instead, we see a man, stripped of pretense, baring himself, his eyes closed in a kind of psychic self-protection. He sits on a brown couch, or the suggestion of one. Only its outlines are provided. All the focus is on Warhol’s face and flesh, their tones offset by a heavenly sky blue. It’s monumental, yet at a scale we can approach. There’s nothing else there – no background, no furniture, no window to hint at time of day or year. Neel acknowledged the picture’s intentionally “hypersensitive economy.” Alone and defenseless, Warhol, who thrived in society and embraced artifice, is transformed. He becomes touchingly human. Would it be a stretch to see in the two main elements – a bare, vertical figure against brown horizontal lines – echoes of the countless crucifixion scenes that have been painted? Is the message so different? Both confront mortality, even as they telegraph hope. Both touch on themes of humanity – trials, suffering, survival and transcendence. Or, as Neel put it, picturing
Alice Neel, “Andy Warhol,” 1970, Oil and acrylic on linen, 60 × 40in., Gift of Timothy Collins, Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Adel Gorgy
people in terms of “what the world has done to them and their retaliation.” Like all except self-portraits, this portrait reveals two individuals, both the sitter and the painter. Through Warhol’s poignant fragility, we see the tenderness and kindness of Alice Neel’s gaze.
It was hard-earned. Neel suffered tragedies in her own life, living through periods of abandonment, depression, poverty, and loss. Here, she shows us an imperfect person living in an imperfect world. All affectation has been removed, and what remains is arrestingly, stop-
you-in-your-tracks beautiful. Alice Neel’s “Andy Warhol” is more than a portrait. It’s a vision of vulnerability, humanity and deep, resonant empathy. It’s been a powerful statement for fifty years, but it’s never been more relevant.
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Home in Massachusetts with her family during COVID-19, Sarah Kamya, a guidance counselor at PS 191 on the Upper West Side, has started an initiative called “Little Free Diverse Library,” with a focus on Black authors and Black-owned bookstores. Kamya, 26, has always been an avid reader. While in Arlington, Mass., she recently stopped by a Little Free Library, which is a popup often in front of someone’s home with books that people leave or take, and noticed there were no books by Black authors. So, realizing these are troubling times where Black people are being targeted, Kamya wanted to highlight positive things about people of color. She launched Little Free Diverse Library Project in the hope of amplifying and empowering Black voices through books. “I think it is important because we need to see ourselves represented in positive
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roles,” she stressed. “So often we are told we can’t take on these roles. Students need to see themselves, especially students of color, represented in these characters.”
National Attention Kamya created a wish list on Amazon of books written by Black authors and has been collecting money on Venmo so she could purchase books from black owned bookstores. So far, she has raised more than $10,000, had more than 500 books sent to her house and mailed books to people in 28 states. She has bought books from Frugal Bookstore in Massachusetts, the Lit Bar in the Bronx, Mahogany Books in Washington, D.C. and Semicolon Bookstore in Chicago.
“They’re [bookstore owners] overwhelmed with all the books that are being purchased from them right now,” Kamya said. Kamya’s students on the UWS love what she is doing and she hopes to bring a popup Little Free Diverse Library to PS 191 as well. “I feel like I’m making a small change, but an important change,” she said. She has also garnered national attention and was recently interviewed on the “Kelly and Ryan” show. “It’s exciting for a woman of color to really be making a difference and be recognized for her efforts,” she said. “It felt amazing. I feel very fulfilled from this. I’m really excited to see how this has grown and where it goes.”
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LEARNING TO LIVE AFTER COVID-19
‘THE FUN OF LEARNING’ KIDS
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HEALTH
Rehabilitation is crucial for those recovering from coronavirus BY CAROL ANN RINZLER
When it comes to medical jargon, these past three months have certainly expanded the list, starting with the microbe SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the illness it causes. Here are two entries more for the lexicon: PICS and PICS-F. The first stands for post intensive care syndrome; the second for the effects of PICs on a patient’s family. As every medical professional knows, spending time in an intensive care unit (ICU) can leave a patient with both physical and emotional problems. Add a ventilator and the problems multiply. E if th ti t i
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lem after a relatively long time lying motionless in bed is likely to be weakened muscles. That means patients will have to repeat the childhood experience of learning how to walk without toppling over while having a hard time catching their breath because time on a ventilator can leave a person gasping if he tries to walk quickly. Manhattan Democratic district leader Louise Dankberg
fects on memory and thinking. To which Joshua Morganstein, MD, chair of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters, adds appropriate stress and anxiety which, he says, will likely resolve over time. Back at the walking and breathing stage, reclaiming one’s “normal” requires exercise, physiotherapy, occupational therapy symptom
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THE VITAMIN D QUESTION SCIENCE
New studies report a correlation between COVID19 death rates and D deficiency BY MICHAEL ORESKES
Why has New York City been slammed so hard by COVID-19? There are almost as many theories as lights gone dark on Broadway. But one obvious factor does not seem to draw the same blame as our crowds, our subways, our leadership or our location at the crossroads of the world. Which is odd, since New York doctors all know about it. Vitamin D deficiency is, well, epidemic among New Yorkers. And in just the past few days three separate studies, from the US, the UK and Indonesia, have reported a strong correlation between death rates from COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency. “Our analysis shows that it might be as high as cutting the mortality rate in half,” Professor Vadim Backman of
vent a patient from contracting the virus, but it may reduce complications and prevent death in those who are infected.” The strong correlation does not prove causation, of course, and the researchers recommended further studies. But health professionals say there is no reason to wait to reduce the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, which has been well known for years. “Vitamin D is typically much lower in New Yorkers,” said Dr. Eric Ascher, who has offices in Chelsea and on East 76th Street, around the corner from Lenox Hill Hospital Northwell Health, where he is affiliated. “Buildings are so high, everybody’s working indoors.” Vitamin D deficiency is so prevalent here that Ascher says, “I’m more shocked when a patient has a normal vitamin D level.” Ascher says he regularly prescribes vitamin D supplements and urges patients to consume dairy products and get more sun.
Public Health Actions A vitamin deficiency may seem trivial against the dra
Hopes for an end to the lockdown have rested heavily on a scientific or medical breakthrough. A vaccine or effective treatment will be welcome. But increasingly experts are pointing to the importance of basic public health actions. They say these can both reduce the spread of the coronavirus, through testing, tracing and sanitary measures, and the severity of COVID-19, by reducing conditions that make patients more vulnerable. “We are only as healthy as our most challenged residents,” said Dr. Oxiris Barbot, New York City’s Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene. “It is inevitable that we are going to have a second wave and so we need to not only prepare for that but really look toward seeing this as an opportunity to re-imagine what it means to live in a world where we support people’s total health.” This involves everything from improving overcrowded housing to alleviating concentrations of chronic disease in communities of color, she said. S l h i di i
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THE PASSION OF ST. BERNARD’S Forty Years at the Blackboard
EDUCATION
Parents, alumni and donors at a private Manhattan boys’ school are in an uproar over the planned departure of the beloved longtime headmaster BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
It was a fleeting moment the “Old Boys” will never forget. At least 200 all-male alumni of St. Bernard’s School on the Upper East Side descended on East 98th Street on Jan. 16 for a joyous event known as the Old Boys Dinner. From all over the country and all over the world, they come to Carnegie Hill on the third Thursday of every January to exult in a tradition dating to 1916 – and featuring a healthy dose of wine, liquor and camaraderie. But before the bonding, networking and singing of the “Old Boys’ Song” got underway that evening, the former classmates – as young as 21, as old as 90 – would hear from Stuart H. Johnson III, the headmaster they all seemed to revere. His very first words brought a gasp and nervous laughter, followed by a loud ovation: “It’s a great opportunity to be able to preside at your own funeral,” Johnson said, according to separate accounts from three Old Boys in attendance. “Graceful gallows humor,” is how one witness described the episode in the school’s first-floor auditorium. “Funereal words spoken in funereal times,” another said. “A cri de coeur, a cry from the heart, to everybody in that room,” a third offered. All three requested anonymity. If the Old Boys’ English usage seems particularly eloquent, it’s because St. Bernard’s has taught them very well indeed. And it may sound corny, but as they belted out h i “Si f fi
A sea change is coming to St. Bernard’s, an elite, private school that currently enrolls 365 boys, from kindergarten through ninth grade, who stand out in their navy blue blazers, Oxford shirts and khaki trousers. Founded in 1904, the school boasts an enviable record of placing its graduates in top private day and boarding schools. Since 1985, with Johnson at the helm, the school’s character, prestige, and pedagogical excellence has been enhanced, while its diversity has been boosted – students hail from 52 countries, Armenia to Vietnam, and speak 24
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Among all the things COVID has changed for adults — uprooting the economy, skyrocketing unemployment — kids are losing out, too. Schools closed, many transitioning online, but some requiring parents to fill the roles of teachers, and about 9 million kids not having internet access to continue their education at all. Summer camp was yet another thing that kids look forward to every summer that has been shut down for 2020. Wiz + Kid Tutoring, a company started on the Upper West Side, was founded by Jared Sais, who has been in the business of improving education long before the pandemic. He grew up with dyslexia, and though he credits his mother, who was a special education teacher, and some great teachers, the regular public-school system was a struggle. The system as it stands, Sais said is “never geared towards children with LD’s [Learning Disabilities]. Either you have to go to a private school for $50,000 a year, or do your best in public schools and pray for a teacher that knows what they’re talking about.” When he graduated from University of Buffalo, Sais jumped into his career in education right away, knowing that he had a knack for working with kids and teaching. He knew that not every kid
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learned the same way. “Everything we do these days is basically, you know, a fifties-style of education, right?” he said. “You have to sit for long hours in the office. So, what do the schools do? Make them sit for long hours, get them ready for the workforce. But that doesn’t make sense anymore. Not every child is going to the workforce to sit in the office for, like, a hundred hours a day.” His style of teaching is much more hands-on and experiential. “How many schools say, sit down, open your book? Me, when a kid says, ‘I need to stand up and walk’, let’s do it. We’ll walk and learn.”
“Feeling of Adventure” When the pandemic came, Sais made a surprising statement. “Our tutors and I were very ready for something like this,” he said. “We didn’t falter one little bit.” Already versed in Skype-school, Wiz + Kid continued educating their students so they didn’t fall behind. Then, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in midJune that sleep-away camps were canceled for the summer. Kids, who normally look forward to getting a change of scenery and getting outdoors with other kids, are now staying home. Archery classes and sleeping in tents are not an option unless you have a backyard and your own bowand-arrow — which, in New York City, is unlikely. Wiz + Kid had been preparing to rent out a space to have a in-person summer camp, pre-COVID. But, as Sais says
the education system should do, they adapted. “Our main goal,” he said. “is to have our campers have the same exact feeling of adventure that we expect when going to a summer camp without the fear of catching COVID-19. There’s something special about the freedom of camp and not having to worry about tests or writing papers, and you can freely be yourself.” To do that, Camp Wiz+Kid, operated by camp directors Esther Cohen and Rose Platel, hosts a variety of unusual classes for the kids, from first through sixth grades. One is a gold mining class, held virtually, and afterwards Sais sends each student a little piece of gold from his demonstration. Another is a business class, during which he helps students develop a product and learn how to market it to the public. For other classes like dance and arts, Sais has experts to teach. “It brings that adventure into what summer camp should be,” he said. “You have to do it in a different way.” Going forward, Sais said he isn’t worried about his own students, but for other students who could not continue or didn’t have access to virtual education. “It’s up to the teachers and the schools to evolve so they can help the students,” he said. “These are still kids; thrown into a world they don’t understand right now. How about we don’t focus on grades? How about homework is to help teachers understand if a child learns or understands the material? Why are we having these kids at such a young age, take these tests and build that stress and anxiety with learning? You’re killing the fun of learning.”
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With the COVID-19 emergency prompting people in New York to stay home more than usual, accessing in-person health care services has become more challenging. That has spurred a surge in telehealth appointments, with new state and federal regulations making it easier and more affordable for people to access medical advice related to COVID-19 and other health issues. While this is a positive development, there are other potentially overlooked ways to access medical care re-
motely and use technology to cultivate healthier habits at home. These resources may help encourage whole-person health while reducing the risk of possible exposure to COVID-19 associated with inperson appointments. Here are several strategies to consider:
Physical Health Nearly three-quarters of employers offer health and wellness programs, including some with virtual resources that help prevent or better manage certain chronic conditions (such as diabetes or obesity) that may be risk factors for complications related to COVID-19. People can check with their employer or health plan for virtual programs that provide personalized, interactive online weight loss support aimed at motivating
Eye Health People should also take note of their eye health while spending more time at home, in part because of the link between screen use and eye strain. Research shows the prolonged use of computers and smartphones may cause symptoms such as headache or sore neck, shoulder or back. People should consider
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF ‘LENOX HILL’ VIEWING
The real-life doctors of Netflix’s hit series talk about filming the show, their patients - and adding an extra coronavirus episode BY CHRISTOPHER MOORE
New York City is the fifth character in “Lenox Hill,” the Netflix docuseries that dropped last month. At least that’s the view of Dr. David Langer, the chair of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill, part of Northwell Health. And Langer should know. He’s one of the four main real-life characters in the dramatic look at a big-city hospital system. He credits directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz, who edited deeply-felt portraits of the series protagonists and the patients they serve. “They were creating fiction out of nonfiction,” Langer says. “The relations we had with them and the trust we had with them allowed us to be ourselves. We weren’t faking anything. We weren’t imitating anything.” Variety said the series was “among the best shows released so far this year.” Still, Langer seems surprised by the passionate reactions of his new fans. He says that he and another docuseries subject, Neurosurgery Vice-Chair
In March, Langer called [the directors] and told them that the virus was racing through the city like a forest fire. “What’s going on here is crazy,” he remembers telling them. “You’ve got to get the cameras in here.”
Dr. John Boockvar, were eager to show smart students that medicine is a worthy career. “It should be a consideration of our best and brightest young people,” says Langer. In “Lenox Hill,” he comes across as particularly able to communicate clearly and warmly with his patients. The doctors wore microphones and got used to having cameras around. “You’re aware that they’re there,” Langer says. “It’s not so much the lack of awareness. It’s the lack of caring.” Two of the four newlyminted TV stars were pregnant: Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson, the chief resident of obstetrics and gynecology, who is seen giving birth, and Dr. Mirtha Macri, an emergency medical specialist at the Lenox Hill outpost in Greenwich Village. Macri remembers meeting early on with the filmmakers. “I liked their approach and their personalities,” Macri recalls. She screened the team’s earlier Israeli series, which hit similar themes about the disparities in, and challenges within, health care. The new show is already enough of a hit to inspire talk
of another season. Last week filmmaker Shatz told the Associated Press that there are more stories to tell. “Oh, definitely,” she said. “There is a huge stream of stories and things we can touch.” She explained that there were a lot of things she wanted to touch on in the first season, but she had to hold back other material to contain the storyline and keep it focused. On screen, Macri comes across as a warm truth-teller, an advocate for patients, whether they’re insured or not. “I am myself in the series,” Macri says. “I truly work and I truly act that way with my patients—it’s not acting.”
Stresses of City Life The show chronicles harrowing life-and-death brain surgeries at the Upper East Side hospital, and how the doctors care deeply about their patients. But “Lenox Hill” doesn’t underscore as many of the life-and-death cases that come to an emergency room, Marcri explains, mostly because it’s impossible to get approval from patients or their families for an upcoming TV appearance while being right in the mid-
Dr. Mirtha Macri introduces viewers to the dramatic world of emergency medicine. Photo courtesy of Netflix © 2020
Dr. David Langer displays a connection with patients in the docuseries “Lenox Hill.” Photo courtesy of Netflix © 2020
dle of, say, a heart attack. “I wish I had emphasized a little bit more why I wanted to be in the series,” Macri says, stressing it’s all about her patients. “They wanted to tell their stories. The more important part of the series is some of the patients’ stories.” Macri lives in New Jersey, but she wrestles in the show with themes familiar to many New Yorkers. She talks one frustrating evening about the stresses of city life, and how it can be daunting. Later, during a colorful episode shot during summertime Pride events, she celebrates Manhattan’s excitement and diversity. Post-series, even as she prepares to have a second baby, she says the Covid crisis means she’s not going anywhere. She’s been impressed
with how the community has responded. “That’s why I can’t leave New York City now,” she says. “I think New York City did an unbelievable job of fighting the virus.” The virus itself inspired a ninth episode of the initially eight-episode program. In March, even as the directors were finishing up their show, Langer called Barash and Shatz and told them that the virus was racing through the city like a forest fire. “What’s going on here is crazy,” he remembers telling them. “You’ve got to get the cameras in here.” And they did, adding an extra episode on June 24. That 31-minute episode, called “Pandemic,” features Langer holding an iPhone in a patient’s hospital bed, serving
as a link between family members not allowed to visit and a critically ill patient. He says on screen, “Honestly, I don’t think I’ll ever be the same, in a good way,” and now thinks that turned out to be true. Langer tends to think more these days about medical needs beyond his own hospital’s doors, he says. In “Pandemic,” Macri has an evening shift so grueling that she says she actually can’t talk about it. The cameras follow her home to see her being welcomed by her dogs, but no other family members because of quarantine conditions. She tells the cameras in the virus-themed episode: “I trained my whole life for this.”
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CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOK AT THE CITY’S ARCHITECTURE HISTORY
Acclaimed architectural historian has hosted 70 programs on Zoom since the lockdown BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Francis Morrone has written the book on New York architecture, literally. Having penned 13 titles such as “The Architectural Guidebook to New York City” and “Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes,” he shares his knowledge and passion by teaching classes, giving lectures and conducting walking tours. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has halted in-person meetings, it hasn’t stopped the Chicago nativeturned Park Slope resident from educating New Yorkers on landmarks such as the New York Public Library, which he names his favorite piece of architecture in Manhattan, the Van Cortlandt House in the Bronx, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights. “It means a lot to people to have these programs available right now,” he said. “So I feel like I’m really doing something for them because lockdown’s been hard.” Through videoconferencing on Zoom, he is currently teaching his first class at 92nd Street Y on the ar-
Architectural historian Francis Morrone. Photo: Patricia Rainsford
chitectural history of New York from the Dutch to Hudson Yards, and a summer session called “New York on Film” through NYU’s School of Professional Studies, where he’s taught for 25 years. Named by Travel + Leisure as one of the 13 best tour guides in the world, he is also still hosting virtual tours through the Municipal Art Society of New York on places like Old Chinatown on July 12 and Spring Street on July 26, using “material like historic maps and interior photos, the sort of stuff you can’t use in a walking tour out on the street.”
You’re originally from Chicago. What interested you about studying New York architecture? I always grew up with a dream of
New York, that happens to a lot of Chicagoans. They either have a dream of moving to New York one day or just become these implacable haters of New York. And that’s because Chicago always used to be called “The Second City” for many years. It’s now the third largest city in the country, but it used to be the second, so you have this sort of inferiority complex when you’re number two and New York you see as a step up. So as I grew up, I was always really fascinated by New York. I was always really interested in Chicago architecture and history, so it was easy to transfer that to New York. I grew up in a place called Oak Park, which is a suburb of Chicago that is world famous for its architecture because Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked there and there are more than 20 houses by him in the town.
What would you say is your favorite piece of architecture in Manhattan?
I would have to say that the New York Public Library is an obvious choice. I mean it would probably be on most people’s list. But in my case, I had the opportunity to study it very closely because I co-wrote a book about it and spent a whole summer of my life almost living there and really studying its details, because that’s what the book is about, the architectural details of the building. And it’s just a knockout in every way.
51 Astor Place, Fumihiko Maki, 2013. Photos: Francis Morrone For example, the entry hall to the library, Astor Hall, as it’s called, is an entirely stone room; it’s marble. The floor, walls and ceiling are marble and even the four magnificent candelabra that are in each of the corners of that hall, which are among the most beautiful objects in the country, are made out of marble.
Although you’re not a professional tour guide, you’re known for your walking tours, which you’ve been giving for over 30 years now.
I do walking tours as an adjunct to my other work. But I love to do them and think I’m pretty good at them. I try not to repeat tours. When people say, “What’s your favorite walking tour?” I always say, “The one I haven’t given yet.” I’m a very introverted person, but for some reason, you put me in front of a crowd, and I flip a switch. Here’s a very funny story. I was once with my wife and another couple eating at a restaurant in Chelsea and when we exited, there was a homeless man outside the door asking for money. I gave him a dollar and he looked at me and his eyes lit up and he said, “I know you; you’re the man who gives speeches in the park.” [Laughs]
Tell us about a Zoom tour you’ve conducted during quarantine.
I do tours for an organization called the Municipal Art Society of New York, and just did a two-part tour of the Lower East Side. What was really interesting about it was that I could use a lot of historical maps and trace very carefully the way that the neighborhood has physically changed over time. But also, on my
Morgan Library & Museum rotunda mural.
tours I really like to go beyond architecture and talk about literature and various historical matters. These days, with so much interest in things like the history of race relations in New York and protest demonstrations and riots, any given neighborhood of New York just has a ton of that history which really helps provide perspective and context.
What are some examples of buildings you’re covering in your 92nd Street Y class?
I’m talking about buildings from each of the architectural periods in the history of New York City. Truth to tell, when it comes to colonial architecture and early American architecture, New York is not number one. I also teach courses on American architecture, and when you’re in that period, you’re really talking about Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York doesn’t even register yet, but there are still houses that are notable relics from that period like the Van Cortlandt house in the Bronx, which was built by enslaved Africans. The Morris-Jumel Mansion in Upper Manhattan is a very important house; I love to talk about that. I love to talk about St. Paul’s Chapel downtown, which is one of the city’s and country’s greatest treasures. And then move on from there and talk about the development of row houses in New York, and churches, which are a great love of mine.
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