Urban Agenda New York City, Summer 2014

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Summer 2014

Charles James Shines at the Met

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Charles James Shines at the Met BY ellen gi lbert

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Hôtel des Artistes New York’s Original Art District By i lene dube

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The Rising on East 10th Street Jennifer Esposito’s Bakery BY jami e saxon

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Urban Health: Dr. Ron Noy Orthopaedic Surgeon, Athlete, and New Yorker

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Popcorn Al Fresco: Summer Film Festivals in the Five B oroughs

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Destination: Saratoga Springs

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Real Estate: Recently Sold in the Northeast

Urban Shops: A Writer’s Room

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Cover Photo: Nancy James in Charles James Swan Gown, 1955. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s.

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© Glenis Dobe: “Jell yfish” Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 12” The Substance of Form © Joe Abou Jawdeh: “Conflict of Belonging” Acrylic on Canvas 59” x 59” Cadences of Color © Tasos Dimos: “Inner Strength II” Acrylic on Canvas 19.5” x 19.5” Sensorial Sensibilities © Roni Fées “Lisa and Ernesto, A Couple In New York” Oil and Ink on Paper 12” x 19” The French Perspective: Contemporary Art from France © Estrid Maria Eriksen: “Building Works 3” Acrylic on Canvas 23.5” x 23.5” Verve of Abstraction

July 5th - 25th, 2014 Reception Thursday July 10th 6 - 8 PM Cadences of Color Yozo Abe | Joe Abou Jawdeh | J.M. Baker | Nancy Stella Galianos Wolfgang Hock | Carlos Maneiro | Justo Osuna | PAYAMI Eva Quesada | Tom Stella | Gordana Tomic Sensorial Sensibilities Ruggiero Bignardi | Stefano Ceretti | Tasos Dimos | Jesse Ensling Adam Kiger | Tanya Kostina | Charlotte Lisboa | Koki Morimoto Raymie Rushing | Cheli Sanabria The French Perspective: Contemporary Art from France Laurent Bardou | Micheline Belin | Roni Fées | Cathy Garceran Bénédicte Jarosz | Claire Jubault | Young Ran Jung | lecristal Véronique Pagès | Patricia Proust-Labeyrie | Gerard Renvez Véronique Vallet

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July 29 - August 19, 2014 Reception: Thursday July 31, 2014 6-8 PM Verve of Abstraction Mona Askaer | Ben Bonart | Stuart Burton | Camilla Carlsson | Michelli Cockburn Rebecca Coddington | Terry Formyduval | Gilberto Gillo | Aimee Gillen | Blandine Girerd Karen Hochman Brown | Ibañez Torres | Debbie Klein | Carlene Lavender Estrid Maria Eriksen | Lloyd Platt | Sara Rainoldi | Svetlana Romanova | Dora Votin The Substance of Form Lisa Azzano | Marc Cirujeda | Barry Dabb | Siddhartha Dhamankar | Glenis Dobe Malin Forsberg | Olga Grinblat | Julia Kappenman | Sera Kodama | Mel Leach Frank Lorenzo | Carol Brooks Parker | Alix Pierre | Bekir Smolski | Noor Suthar

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Charles James Ball Gowns, 1948. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast

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Charles James Shines at the Met

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new show at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is reintroducing a master of 20th-century fashion whose name (until now, at any rate) may be unfamiliar to many: Charles James.

Cristóbal Balenciaga, the Basque designer and founder of the eponymous couture house in Paris, is reported to have observed, “James is not America’s greatest couturier. He is simply the world’s best.” Christian Dior credited James’s work as the inspiration for his romantic “New Look” designs after World War II. The exhibition, which runs through August10 includes over 70 outfits and is the largest show ever devoted to James.

Many of the pieces came to the Met by way of the Brooklyn Museum, an early repository for examples of the James collection.

Wintour Time Beyond drawing attention to a relatively unacknowledged fashion great, the exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion marks the reopening of the Museum’s Costume Institute. The refurbished department has also been renamed: it is now the Anna Wintour Costume Center, after the Vogue editor-in-chief/fashion icon whose froideur has earned her the nickname “Nuclear Wintour” (see also The Devil Wears Prada). The $40-million renovation includes a new 4,200-squarefoot main gallery named for Lizzie and Jonathan (Loews Corp.) Tisch. It also boasts an updated costume conservation laboratory and expanded study and storage facilities.

Two very separate, very far apart galleries have been used for this exhibition.

The distance between them, which necessitates going up or down a floor and traversing other galleries, seems curious. The lighting in both rooms is minimal, putting the spotlight on the dresses and graphic representations of how they were designed. Viewers may be divided as to which room they prefer: the downstairs Tisch gallery, where jackets and suits take their place along with ball gowns, or the special exhibition gallery on the first floor, where the single focus is gowns. Some may find it hard to resist the urge to grab a coat off a mannequin in the former, and it is interesting to note that James himself said that “my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.”

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I don’t think that my work has ever been out of date, in that it was only ahead of its time.

—Charles James

Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978). “Taxi” Dress, ca. 1932. Black wool ribbed knit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alan W. Kornberg Gift, 2013 (2013.309). Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin Willis

Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978). “Butterfly” Ball Gown, ca. 1955. Brown silk chiffon, cream silk satin, brown silk satin, dark brown nylon tulle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Fund, 2013 (2013.591). Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin Willis

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walked,” she adds. Although his palette was subtle, the ingenious juxtapositions of different fabrics and textures in the pieces on view at the Met are never less than gorgeous. “It was all about shape and how he could use a garment to change the shape of the wearer by simply manipulating material,” writes Colin McDowell in Business of Fashion. A garment did not have to be luxurious to win James’s approval; he loved wearing jeans, believing that “their functionability [sic] pinpoints the sexuality of all human beings engaged in work.”

James’s designs inspire awe with good reason. He used an idiosyncratic combination of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical concepts in creating dresses. In addition to the dresses and outfits themselves, a unique feature of the show is the graphic visual deconstructions of the creations, showing how each came together, piece by painstaking piece. “I long since gave up the use of the word design, thinking that it had no validity; whereas, the word shaped implies an activity which only one’s self could be responsible for,” James, who was not known for his modesty, once observed. Indeed a CT-scan of his 1954 “Tree Dress” revealed 20 layers of material, 146 pattern pieces, hand and machine stitching, and some “very cool” details, like quilting, used to achieve his desired effect. While Charles James was undoubtedly a master of fashion, Henry Jamesloving exhibition-goers may be caught off guard by the curators’ use of the word “Jamesian” in some descriptions.

Unlike other couturiers, who typically come up with new designs each year, James returned again and again to variations on basic themes. “Year after year he reworked original designs, ignoring the sacrosanct schedule of seasons,” writes journalist Georgina O’Hara.

While they may not have been entirely new, those variations were plenty dramatic. Eroticism ruled. Writer Elaine Louie had the good fortune 40 years ago to serve as a “walker” for James and got to wear one his dresses, a “black silk bias cut dress designed 20 years before that, with short kimono sleeves, a deep V-back and two black streamers that fluttered in the back at the waist, as the breeze blew.” She recalls being “in a state of bliss” wearing “the most beautiful erotic dress.” There’s also subtle sexiness in the 1929 “Taxi dress, which wrapped around the body and was “fastened with Bakelite clasps, so that a woman could slip into it while in the back of a taxi,” Louie writes. The 1952 “Clover Leaf” dress “did not touch the floor but undulated while the woman

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No Formal Training James was born in Surrey, England in 1906; his mother was from a prominent Chicago family and his father was in the British military. He attended Harrow and, briefly, the University of Bordeaux. When his family sent him to Chicago in 1924 to work with a utilities magnate, he quickly resigned to open a hat shop, his father’s displeasure notwithstanding. James’s dressdesigning career began about three years later when he moved to New York City. One of his first commissions was to create “sporting togs” for the actress Gertrude Lawrence. His ingenuity was apparent early in his career. “His designs are so timeless that his 1932 culottes (then called ‘wrap-over trousers’) for the New York department store Lord & Taylor were still being sold in the 1950s,” notes one reporter.

An Artiste The disconnect between the acclaim James once received and his relative obscurity today probably has a lot to do with what some would call his “high maintenance” personality. Ironically, perhaps, “James was someone who didn’t care about his clients,” said Costume Institute curator-in-charge Harold Koda recently. “He didn’t care about his partners, he didn’t even care about his family.

He was dedicated completely to the pursuit of his creative expression.”

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Gallery View. First Floor Special Exhibition Gallery. Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906-1978). “Clover Leaf” Ball Gown, 1953. Pink silk faille, copper silk shantung, black silk lace with ivory silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Josephine Abercrombie, 1953 (2009.300.784). Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

There always was something of the boy wonder about him: a puerile sense of entitlement that did him in, a prodigious imagination that never gave out, and a conviction that he was immortal.

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—Judith Thurman

Gallery View. Anna Wintour Costume Center, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery. Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Charles James with Model, 1948. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast

Charles James Butterfly Gown, 1954. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

“Demanding at his best,” observes Judith Thurman in a New Yorker piece “He was a great hater and always ready for a fight,” reportedly observed Sir Hardy Amies, couturier to the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, in 1982. James about the current exhibition, “substance abuse heightened his volatility.” Among was, Amies went on, the “Pythagoras,” “Michelangelo,” and “Einstein of fashion,” his many targets were the designer Halston, (James accused him of plagiarism) and former Vogue editor and Costume Institute consultant Diana Vreeland (whom as well as “a man who made Caligula seem as open and kind as a Sunday school teacher.” James, who was openly gay for most of his life, sprang a surprise when, he believed was ignoring him). James was said to think that the female figure was never perfect, and Thurman suggests his zeal to “correct its flaws with a nip and a later in life, he married a rich American woman and fathered two children.

Shuttling between New York and Europe, James designed fabrics under tuck, an arcing seam, a buckram implant, a cushion of air between skin and cloth the patronage of designer Paul Poiret during the mid-30s. His early circle of diminished his relevance.”

James spent the last fourteen years of his life working from supporters included artists Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali and Pavel Tchelitchew. Back in New York City, James created clothes a bedroom/studio at the Chelsea Hotel. His assistant and pattern maker during those years recalls receiving $500 from James when for the Elizabeth Arden Salon during the 1940s. One of his most something was sold, only to have James almost immediately ask successful collections was shown in Paris, though, in 1947. Brilliant photography and brilliant design come together in some 1948 for half of it back as a loan. Despite what is tactfully referred to as the “reduced circumstances” of James’s final years, he is still Cecil Beaton photographs that include a tableau of a ballroom The Venus de Milo filled with women wearing evening gowns designed by James. regarded with awe; Thurman begins her recent essay by saying would be most “I have never met any of the lucky women who owned a dress by James’s list of patrons included A-listers like Babe Paley, Charles James.”

Millicent Rogers, Dominique de Menil, Marietta Tree, Mrs. William unfashionable unless Randolph Hearst, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. “Although The current Met exhibition ensures that more respect will be she had a good accorded James in the future. Thurman believes that curator Jan his artistic perfectionism and conflicted psychological makeup led Glier Reeder’s catalog essay (“the first reliable chronology of the him to behave erratically and irresponsibly in all areas of his life,” dressmaker. notes the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, “his clients clamored life and the work”) will “astonish” those who know James only to be dressed by him and went to great lengths to support him through the Beaton photographs, and the daily proliferation of —CHARLES JAMES artistically and financially.” newspaper and magazine articles; websites; and YouTube spots in the days before the show’s opening was noteworthy. Describing The ready-to-wear environment of the 1950s, however, was the show as a welcome change from the Costume Institute’s earlier not congenial to a perfectionist with a short temper. Although he created some of his most fabulous gowns during those years, like “pop culture” efforts, writer Ashley Simpson lauded it as “a lesson in the underappreciated, indeed.” the “Abstract” or “Four-Leaf Clover” gown made for Mrs. Hearst to wear to the Eisenhower inaugural ball, his business suffered. An effort to combine wholesale manufacturing with custom work in New York City ultimately failed.

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Apartment at Hôtel des Artistes. K Hartmann Design, interior design.

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eorge Washington may not have slept here, but Noel Coward, Rudolph Valentino, Norman Rockwell and Isadora Duncan once called Hôtel des Artistes home. Despite its name, the Gothicstyle building at 1 West 67th Street was never a hotel. Today a luxury coop, the 18-story building was designed for artists by architect George Mort Pollard in 1917 with studios and doubleheight windows. Gargoyles of painters, sculptors and writers on the façade remind us of Hôtel des Artistes’ original occupants.

Many of its features—double-story ateliers, soaring 19 foot windows, a swimming pool, workout rooms, a squash court as well as a high-walled roof garden—date to its origins on Artists Row, so named for the other ateliers and studios built for artists and musicians on this tree-lined block just off Central Park. In addition to the Hôtel des Artistes, the West 67th Street Artists' Colony Historic District—listed on the National Register of Historic Place—includes seven other buildings erected at the turn of the 20th century and represents the only significant concentration of artists' studio apartments in Manhattan.

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger describes this enclave of early-20thcentury apartment buildings as a place like no other, “a self-contained village” on a single New York block.

Hôtel des Artistes is the most prominent of the eight buildings on the block and remains the largest of the studio/apartment buildings. Residents of today's Artists' Colony Historic District include actors, artists, restaurateurs, art collectors, museum professionals, and hedge fund managers.

BURGEONING ARTISTIC LIFE By the mid-19th century New York was the artistic center of the United States.

Artists flocked to Manhattan to study and work, but as the city grew it became more and more difficult for artists to find suitable studios. Few buildings were designed with space appropriate for painting and the display of art, and the increasing height of new buildings blocked light from established studios.

Soaring real estate values led to rents beyond the means of many artists, who needed tall spaces and northern light. By the early 1900s, it was common for substandard rooms to be placarded with the sign “Studio to Let.” Landscape painter Henry W. Ranger set out to change that. His plan for a studio building evolved as a response to his own living and working conditions.

He had rented an apartment for $2,000 a year, but unable to work in this space,

had to rent a separate studio for another $700 a year. Yet both spaces were inadequate for the exhibition of his paintings and he needed still a third site for display.

Almost two decades before Pollard designed the Hôtel des Artistes, Ranger devised the layout for the studio apartment building known as the Sixty-Seventh Street Studios and interested a group of fellow artists to invest.

These were not the struggling avant-garde painters who flocked to Greenwich Village or the Latin Quarter of Paris. Unlike the artists of Puccini’s La Boheme, they didn’t have to burn the pages of a manuscript to heat a crumbling garret. Rather, the 67th Street artists were successful, if conservative, portrait painters or illustrators whose patrons were New York’s elite. Among the artists Ranger persuaded to build the high-rise studio coop were Childe Hassam, Frank Dumond and Walter Russell.

Under Ranger’s direction, a block of West 67th Street in New York was selected to establish a building with studio apartments with ample space and good natural light. The street was conveniently located near the elevated railroad, close to museums and galleries, and Central Park, where families with small children could play outdoors.

In 1901 West 67th Street was a ragged block of stables, a mill, a warehouse and vacant lots, but it backed up to the row houses of West 68th Street, where tall buildings were prohibited, thus assuring the availability of northern exposure.

Completed in 1905, the Sixty-Seventh Street Studios is distinguished by a Gothic limestone facade, an elegant lobby that showcases high ceilings, ornate wooden architectural details as well as intricate lobby murals created by Robert V.V. Sewell. The legacy of the building’s past is evoked in these murals listed on the National Register—we can hear echoes of composers at the piano, see the ghosts of writers at their desks.

A recent listing advertised “Rare opportunity to possess a true artist’s home. Be the first to transform this sophisticated blank canvas into your own personal work of art. This special one-bedroom apartment exudes pre-war charm throughout the many original architectural details. The residence features a spacious and grand entry foyer, vaulted and beamed ceilings, oversized windows with north and west exposures as well as decorative floor moldings and solid wood doors. The building offers 24-hour doorman service, a live-in super, and a beautifully landscaped and well-maintained roof-top garden with views of Central Park.”

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Contemporary apartments in the Hôtel des Artistes.

Other buildings for artists followed, and in 1915, the artist Penrhyn Stanslaws started a syndicate to build the largest coop on the street, Hôtel des Artistes, with a more ornate interior and exterior spaces than the earlier buildings. The lobby has medieval woodwork, plaster panels, iron decoration and a mural of Dutch ships in Colonial New Amsterdam’s harbor.

Hôtel des Artistes at No. 1, considered the cornerstone of the district attracted James Montgomery Flagg (who designed the World War I “Uncle Sam Wants You” poster), novelist Fannie Hurst and other writers and artists.

They could purchase a four-bedroom unit for $18,000 to $30,000, with maintenance of $150 to $200 a month.

Meals were cooked in a community kitchen and sent to rooms in service elevators, or tenants could prepare food in their rooms and send it to the kitchen to be cooked (rooms were originally built without kitchens). The food service was built into the cost of operations. A ballroom, swimming pool and squash courts, as well as a rooftop playground, were part of the amenities. With 100 suites, some had south-facing windows, unsuitable for artists, but coop units were becoming increasingly desirable for those who wanted to live in an artistic environment, and have space for entertaining and display of art collections.

By 1920, residents included 14 artists, musicians or writers, 11 actors or movie executives, and 22 stockbrokers, engineers, and other business people.

Household servants numbered 26.

Other notable residents over the years have included Alexander

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Woollcott, the New Yorker critic, one of the Algonquin Round Table and inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in The Man Who Came to Dinner, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart); actors William Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Joel Grey; former New York Gov. Hugh Cary; director Mike Nichols; and former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay. George Balanchine and Marsha Mason lived at No. 27.

The block between Central Park and Columbus Avenue became a hub for creative people, and continued to build this way for 30 years. Most of the buildings maintained architectural consistency with Ranger’s original apartments.

FROM DUCHAMP TO VALENTINO One was dubbed the Musician's Building with 60 soundproof apartments large enough to accommodate a grand piano. Made of brick and terracotta, it has the look of an Elizabethan manor house expanded to apartment house scale.

Almost all of the buildings in the historic district have limestone bases with dark brick above, and 33 West 67th Street—officially known as the Atelier—is no different. The Atelier is considered the bastion of gothic building in the Artists’ Historic District, and is faced with brick laid in Flemish bond with random burned headers. The limestone base has a projecting vestibule with extremely ornate Gothic floral ornament that is enlivened by carved human heads, animals and birds. The top level resembles a romantic medieval castle gate and is detailed with Gothic pointed arches, panels, foliate bands and corbels.

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Henry Ward Ranger’s The Woodcutter (top) and The Lone Sentinel (bottom).

Landscape painter Henry W. Ranger (1858-1916) rented an apartment for $2,000 a year, but unable to work in this space, had to rent a separate studio for another $700 a year. Yet both spaces were inadequate for the exhibition of his paintings and he needed still a third site for display.

Howard Chandler Christy at work in his Hotel des Artistes Studio, New York City. At left, In the 1920s, he had the beauty pageant contestant Dorothy Knapp model for a conception of Miss America. Right, applying the finishing touches to a panel in 1933.

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Howard Chandler Christy’s work, newly cleaned, is on display at the Leopard at des Artistes restaurant, the successor to the legendary New York City restaurant Café des Artistes.

Dadaist and Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp lived in the Atelier from 1915 to 1921.

In 1922 Rudolph Valentino, Italian silent cinema heartthrob, a.k.a. “The Latin Lover,” rented a bachelor pad at Hôtel des Artistes. In fact he was no bachelor and was married to both Natacha Rambova and Jean Acker. Awaiting divorce from Acker, a lesbian who regretted the marriage before her wedding night, Valentino was charged with bigamy in California and moved to New York with Rambova, who lived with an aunt on the same block of West 67th Street until they could be married legally.

NAUGHTY MURALS Residents of Hôtel des Artistes today enjoy its many amenities, including dining at Gianfranco and Paula Sorrentino’s restaurant, the Leopard at des Artistes, where the walls display frolicking nudes painted by Howard Chandler Christy.

An illustrator and portrait painter who had a studio in Hôtel des Artistes and taught at Cooper Union, the Chase School, the New York School of Art and Art Students League, Christy completed this work in 1935. There are nine oil-on-canvas murals of subjects such as wood nymphs, Tarzan and his mate, Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth, “The Parrot Girl” and “The Swing Girls.”

Formerly Cafe des Artistes, the restaurant is in the kitchen that once provided meals for the original tenants. In 1975, restaurateur George Lang took

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the helm of Café des Artistes and it became a home away from home for many, including journalists at ABC News, whose studios were across the street.

Lang rose from dishwasher and saucier to one of the most important figures in the restaurant world. A Hungarian refugee and Holocaust survivor who practiced on his violin obsessively, Lang was sent to a forced labor camp in 1944. Upon gaining his freedom and learning that both his parents were killed at Auschwitz, he came to the U.S., ultimately becoming known as the Gastronomic Impresario for having opened 200 restaurants in 18 countries.

According to Molly O’Neill in The New York Times, Lang claimed to have invented the line “Hello my name is Bruce and I’ll be your server tonight.”

He went on to transform Café des Artistes into one of New York’s most legendary restaurants, an enduring hit with performers at nearby Lincoln Center. It was the place to spot actors, politicians and New York high society.

Lang closed the restaurant in 2009 and in 2011 it re-opened as the Leopard at des Artistes.

The new owners have “transformed what was a dark and queasily romantic space,” writes Sam Sifton in The New York Times. “Extensive cleaning has removed the nicotine lingerie that clad the bodies of the cavorting nymphs on the old Howard Chandler Christy murals that surround the room, revealing copious nubile flesh and shining white teeth.” U

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ennifer Esposito has fallen in love with jelly doughnuts—twice.

Growing up in an Italian-American family in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, actor/entrepreneur Esposito was immersed in a childhood defined by food—and her ravenous hunger for it. She ate everything in sight—bagels, cake, spaghetti, zeppolis at the Italian street fair, jam dot cookies she baked with her sister at Christmas. “Food is very tied to emotion and remembering events,” she says. “My dad and I used to go to the corner bakery and get jelly doughnuts on the weekend.”

Her chalk-on-the-sidewalk years were colored in pastel memories of food and family, but also violently streaked with thunderstorm-dark memories of immense pain. She had her first panic attack at age 15, before a high school dance. She was plagued with unexplained symptoms: headaches, earaches, fever, extreme weakness, yellowing of her skin, numbness, debilitating stomach pain, pain that permeated her whole body. Sometimes she stayed home from school with her mother, who also suffered similar symptoms, as did her sister, aunt and grandmother. But no one knew the cause. Despite endless regimes of antibiotics, anti-depressants and anxiety medications, she remained uncannily optimistic.

Watching TV, with its beautiful actresses, helped her forget her pain and illness, and she decided she wanted to become an actress. After high school, she took acting classes at Wagner College on Staten Island, then at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Acting in New York while waiting on producers, directors, and celebrities at The Coffee Shop, Union Square’s all-night eatery.

After launching her career on “Law and Order” and “Spin City,” Esposito got her first big film break in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam, followed by the Oscar-winning Crash and I Know What You Did Last Summer. After three years playing the role of cop Jackie Curatola on the popular TV series “Blue Bloods” with Tom Selleck, she left the show, not without controversy, over contractual issues.

A MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS GETS A NAME In 2009, Esposito finally received a diagnosis: celiac disease, an autoimmune disease in which the body is unable to digest gluten—a combination of two proteins in certain grains and the stuff that makes bread dough sticky and elastic. The body sees gluten as an invader, which triggers an immune response: the villi in the small intestine begin to flatten, making it difficult for

the body to absorb nutrients, compromising the production of vitamin D3, and inhibiting the body’s ability to manufacture the neurotransmitter serotonin.

The body then compensates by overproducing norepinephrine, which can cause severe anxiety—and panic attacks. This disease without a name, which Esposito’s doctors knew nothing about, had been plaguing her since childhood.

Her new book Jennifer’s Way, published in May by Da Capo Lifelong Books, is an utterly candid account of her battle with this illness and a harrowing board game of two steps forward, one step back. There are countless trips to the ER; debilitating, excruciating pain that sometimes lasted weeks; doctors who put her in a psychiatric ward; and directors and producers on the set who didn’t believe her illness was real.

In the book, Esposito writes that she started doing her own cooking in an effort to make sure what she ate was gluten-free and dairy-free. Longing for the baked goods of her childhood, she took a gluten-free baking class at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York, where she learned about alternative, high-fibrous flours such as quinoa and amaranth, and xanthan gum, which helps hold baked goods together without gluten. She writes: “I found a sense of peace in the kitchen. Food was a comfort to me…cooking became more than a hobby. It was pure pleasure.”

A BAKERY FOR ‘CLEAN EATING’ Last year, Esposito opened Jennifer’s Way, a gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, soy-free, peanut-free bakery at 263 East Tenth Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A (jenniferswaybakery.com). Inside, wafts of cinnamon, cardamom and vanilla seduce your nose, and cupcakes, iced to a thickness that can only be done by hand, tug your memory back to the way elementary school bake sales used to be.

On a sunny morning, Esposito and I sit in wooden cane back chairs around an antique wooden community table with a wire basket of pads and crayons for kids to draw with, and she reveals how she fell in love with jelly doughnuts the second time.

Shortly after opening the bakery, she says, “I had a dream of being diagnosed, I had a dream about a doughnut, literally, and I woke up crying.

I woke up because it hit me: you’re never going to have a doughnut again. I wasn’t even a big doughnut person, but it was the fact I would never have a jelly doughnut again. It’s the never again part.”

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It was a weekend, when she usually goes in by herself early in the morning to open up the bakery. “I always look at [new foods to bake] in my head like a map: OK, if I put this with this, and put this with this; if I do it that way, then I’m going to get that kind of shape, and if I make a hole and squeeze the jam and roll it, I’m gonna get a jelly doughnut,” she says. “And I did it. I literally did a happy dance.” She whips out her smartphone, scrolls through dozens of photos of baked goods she has made, and shows me picture-perfect jelly doughnuts.

Those walks Esposito and her father used to take for jelly doughnuts also included another ritual: buying a sleeve of Oreos, which they would eat on the way home. Now Esposito offers all her childhood treats at her bakery.

“I have recreated everything, including the Oreo, Pop Tarts—I used to love Pop Tarts—the Hostess cupcake with the cream inside and the squiggly line. The bagel is something I grew up on, I love it, the chocolate chip cookie, the jam dot, the chocolate chunk cookies, the doughnuts, oh my god.”

She says the bakery is not only for those with celiac disease; it’s also for those with food allergies. There are no allergens in her bakery items, except for tree nuts. “You can come in here and eat something that’s good and healthy and nutritious and clean without having preservatives and GMOs and starches and sugars. On a weekend, it’s insane. Young mothers who want to feed their children better, and people who are just eating and aware of their food.”

The menu features breads, bagels, cupcakes, doughnuts, pies, and the ubiquitous cookies—hazelnut with raspberry jam (a throwback to the jam dots of her childhood), and at least three kinds of chocolate chip—pumpkin, quinoa, and zucchini double chocolate chip with walnuts (Esposito favors Life’s Way dairy-, soy- and gluten-free chocolate chips). Muffins—available in flavors such as cardamom pear and orange poppyseed vanilla that vary with seasonal offerings and Esposito’s imagination—are served with vegan Earth Balance spread. Also for sale: pancake mix, granola, even celiac tea.

Specialty cakes include devil’s food with sea salt or without; carrot; vanilla with chocolate icing; zucchini bundt, lemon poppyseed bundt, apple crumb, and lemon chamomile.

“We made an ice cream cake with vegan dairy-free ice cream for a woman who hadn’t had an ice cream cake in five years,” Esposito says. The bakery also makes custom birthday cakes; a recent order for a child’s first birthday was vanilla cake sweetened with cane juice sugar and topped with coconut icing (Esposito makes her own powdered sugar out of evaporated cane juice and arrowroot starch) and shredded coconut. The bakery also uses maple sugar and maple syrup as sweeteners—but no refined sugars.

Starting a bakery from scratch has taken over Esposito’s life, but she feels she is on a mission and is buoyed by the joy and thanks she gets from her customers.

“It’s been an incredible journey,” Esposito says. “It’s been trying—trying my patience, trying my faith, trying my belief in what’s good and what’s right.

The stories I hear from children, from people from all walks of life who are suffering with this disease, it makes me so upset.” She pauses and repeats, her eyes tearing up: “It makes me so upset.”

FRESH OUT OF THE OVEN GRATITUDE Esposito has become the face of celiac disease. In October 2011, two years after her diagnosis, she announced the news on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Her already robust following on social media—the Jennifer’s Way Facebook page and blog has nearly 16,000 followers; her Twitter account

@JennifersWayJE, 30,000 plus—ballooned following her book tour, which included appearances on “Katie Couric” and a shout-out in Vanity Fair magazine.

People write to her from all over the world—and from right around the corner. One handwritten letter, taped in the bakery window along with customer photos, reads: “Dear Jennifer, I cannot thank you enough for proactively taking a stand and creating your amazing bakery for those of us suffering with celiac.

Not only are your baked goods tasty, but you’re only three blocks away from my apartment…Thanks for making my life safer and sweeter.”

Esposito says she hears stories from customers all the time. “It happens right when I need it. I can tell when people want to talk. They really want to talk because for so long they really probably hadn’t been heard. They don’t want to say much but it’s powerful. They come up, and they just say, ‘Thank you,’ with tears in their eyes.”

Relishing the gratitude from customers, she in turn credits her mother as the real champion of her life, supporting her desire to become an actress and helping her through her darkest moments, hundreds of them.

“My mom tells me, ’There’s nothing you can’t do.’ She’s told me that since I was a kid. She’s not church-every-Sunday religious, but she’s very spiritual, she has a lot of faith,” Esposito says. Although her mother was at first worried about her opening the bakery because of the stress, she now tells her daughter, “This is what you’re supposed to do, you’re supposed to be here.”

FROM THE EAST VILLAGE TO THE WORLD As soon as Esposito stepped into the 400-square-foot space on East Tenth Street, a former salon, she knew she had found a home for her bakery. She and her fiancé and business partner Louis Dowler completely rehabbed the space, tearing down sheetrock and dropped ceilings and scrubbing away graffiti to reveal original brick walls. They put white subway tile across half of one wall and added a big chalkboard. In her book, she writes: “The bakery is about relearning how to live and experience food, and the chalkboard is a reminder of that. We change what’s on there, from specials to facts about celiac disease or gluten.”

They made the counter out of an antique wooden door—even keeping on the locks and hardware. They turned old potato sacks into cushions for the chairs, found a big table at an antique market for the community table and discovered the wood-and-glass bakery cases on Etsy.com.

From the 13,000-square-foot gluten-free facility she recently opened in Queens, Esposito is poised to take her next giant step. “I’d like to change the food industry,” she says. She wants to ship her baked goods to stores across the country and offer them online. Asked if she fancies herself the Paul Newman of celiac, she smiles and says, “That would be wonderful.” She also has a foundation to raise money for celiac education.

“The facility is going to enable us to get the product to everyone who wants it and needs it,” she says. “I definitely have become a name that people associate with the disease. To be able to get a product to them is huge for me.

I want to be able to be in every store anywhere.”

A sign tucked in the bakery case, where bagels and tea-party-sized loaves of quinoa bread nest in calico-lined wooden crates, bears a Robert Tew quote that sums up Esposito’s philosophy: Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. U

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hat initially drew you to the field of sports medicine?

I was a very good athlete growing up, but often injured myself, hampering my career. While at my peak, an ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] injury actually ended any hopes of continuing on professionally, so I decided to dedicate myself to learning how to get athletes back to pre-injury performance. I didn’t want anyone else to have to give up their dreams because of an injury.

What professional New York sports teams have you worked with?

My role with professional athletes in New York began early when I was a resident in the 1990s. My attending physicians were the team doctors for the Knicks and Nets, and I would accompany them to the locker rooms to treat the players. Because I had played with professional players before they went pro, I was very comfortable dealing with athletes, coaches, and agents early on. I quickly gained their respect, and my understanding of not just what the diagnosis and treatments are, but how it may affect play, future health and even contracts resulted in professional players gravitating towards me. Getting them back faster to play has kept them coming.

You covered the 2004 Olympics in Athens. What was that experience like?

Amazing! To treat athletes in the place where the Olympics began was indescribable. As one of the doctors for the Indoor Hall, I covered all of the gymnastic events and all the medal rounds for women’s and men’s basketball. It was my first experience treating athletes from around the globe, which definitely helps me even today as a significant amount of my patients come from Europe and Asia.

What kinds of services have you provided for runners in the ING NYC Marathon?

I was one of the Medical Team Captains for about 10 years. Initially starting on the 59th Street Bridge, which is around the half way point, I did my best to keep the runners going and make it into Manhattan from Queens, doing everything from taping to icing. I eventually moved to the finish line and took care of the celebrity tent one year. The goal at the end of the race is to keep everyone healthy and help them get home to celebrate. The tent often would remind me of a trauma center, as a marathon can really take a lot of someone who is not a professional runner. I’m proud to say everyone who entered our station got home safe and sound.

Do you have any advice for long distance runners who are prone to injury?

Definitely get a running coach to make sure you are running correctly, and training properly. Work with a personal trainer to help make sure you are in proper shape to handle long distance running. They can also help you prevent injuries by teaching you how to stretch properly. Make sure you are eating well. Poor nutrition, smoking, and other bad habits can lead to injuries as well. Make sure you are wearing the proper running shoes for your feet as this can make a big difference, and change them regularly because worn down sneakers are not working properly for you.

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prevent a small problem from becoming a big problem, and help get you back on track more quickly.

How does nutrition aid in sports injury recovery?

Nutrition is extremely important as the body needs the proper building blocks to repair damaged tissue. You wouldn’t repair your flat tire on your car with a cinderblock. You wouldn’t get very far! If you don’t put the elements that are needed to heal your injuries into your body, you won’t recover as quickly or as well.

The 2014 US Open takes place from August 25 through September 8.

What types of injuries are common to these tennis players?

The most common injuries I see in this group are shoulder injuries, primarily labral tears, and less commonly, rotator cuff tears. The labrum is important for stability during the serve and a player will come in complaining of loss of velocity and accuracy as well as pain on impact. It is easy to fix, but we try to avoid surgery unless absolutely necessary as the player will miss six to twelve months of competition. Other common injuries include ankle sprains, back pain (including stress fractures which occur from repetitively arching the back during a serve), tendonitis, strains and blisters. Knee injuries seem to be less common than you would think, but I just fixed a young tennis player’s meniscus last week.

Why are ACL injuries more common in young women than in men?

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their leg bones, more valgus in their alignment and less muscle mass to protect the knee joint. Given an ACL injury event, they are more likely to tear the ligament because of these factors. Additionally, some people also point to the lower quality instruction and training for young girls in the past, but this has been changing in recent years, and may make a difference in the future.

How do you treat these injuries and what can be done to prevent them?

If you tear your ACL, we now fix everyone no matter what your level of sports may be. The ACL is the most important ligament in the knee, and is very important for normal joint mechanics. Without it, your knee will probably become arthritic even if you are not an athlete. The good news is we can now get athletes completely back rather quickly and routinely.

When we do the surgery, we often put in a thicker graft and create more space in the notch, which reduces the chance of recurrent tears. For the past decade or so, we have been advising your female athletes to learn better techniques to help avoid putting the knee in the position where it can tear the ACL. This traditionally has been for landing from a jump, but better mechanics in general are now being taught to young girls by very good coaches as they are treated more equally as athletes and getting better instruction early on. Only time will tell if this decreases the incidence of ACL injuries, but the hope is it will.

What kinds of techniques have you developed to optimize postsurgical outcomes?

Getting the best result you can from surgery has several key components.

The first is to educate the patient extensively prior to surgery as to what their problem is, how we are going to fix it, and what they will need to do after surgery to get back as though they never had an injury. This is key, and my staff and I spend a lot of time with each patient doing this.

The second is I limit myself to only a few surgeries as I feel you can be the best at a few things, but only really good at everything. Take Michael Jordan. Arguably the best basketball player that has played the game, but he couldn’t play baseball very well. However, if he had only played baseball and not basketball growing up, odds are he could have been a great player. I only do ACL and meniscus surgery in the knee, and labrum, rotator cuff and AC [acromioclavicular] joint surgery in the shoulder. This allows me to understand how each and every step can be maximized for repeatedly excellent results. Lastly, part of my training was in Indiana with Methodist Sports Medicine Center where they pioneer post-surgical protocols. I used this experience to create protocols that get athletes back quicker and with less pain. We utilize Aleve and Tylenol ES, cold therapy and elevation to prevent pain before it starts. The majority of our patients no longer take narcotics after surgery which allows them to have a much nicer experience and get back to work much more quickly with a clear head.

What are some of your favorite ways to stay active in NYC? During the summer, I play softball out in Sag Harbor each weekend with the artists and writers that play in the annual Artists & Writers Softball Charity Game. I also try to play golf as much as I can. I really learned a lot from the PGA and LPGA players covering their events, and really enjoy the game now. I work out at a gym near my office as well as in my home in the Hamptons. I’ve had two knee surgeries, leg surgery and hip surgery to keep me going and on the field. I’m never going to stop being active!

Dr. Ron Noy Prestige Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine is located on the Ninth Floor at 424 Madison Avenue in New York, NY. Appointments can be made by calling 646.862.0180.

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Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine The goal of treatment at Prestige Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine is to get you back to sports, work and life, as quickly as possible and to the best of your ability. Many times this can be done without surgery, but sometimes it may require it. If at all possible, non-surgical techniques are always tried first. Dr. Noy incorporates many special nonoperative, operative, and post-operative techniques in his practice that will allow you to get better faster.

These techniques also allow you to recover from surgery with less pain. Most of his patients do not even take narcotics after surgery. Dr. Noy is board certified in both Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He specializes in arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder including injuries of the ACL, meniscus, labrum, and rotator cuff.

We specialize in ACL, meniscus and cartilage injuries, shoulder labrum, rotator cuff, and impingement injuries, and offer comprehensive, old fashioned care.

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Think of those historic images of tenement kids frolicking in the gush of an opened street hydrant, teenagers plunging into the East River (in the middle of which, incidentally, there are now plans to develop a swimming oasis), and hipsters reclaiming the beaches at Far Rockaway. When it comes to cooling off, New Yorkers have always been inventive. In past years, some desperate-to-cool-down residents created dipping pools in the backs of their pick-up trucks by means of tarp and hose. But no need to go that far. Today, there are more places to cool off than ever before—on roof tops, in community centers and schools, hotels that offer public access for a fee, and sophisticated bar pools where “watering hole” takes on a new dimension.

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The saltwater pool at the King & Grove hotel in trendy Williamsburg is spacious and inviting, with lots of space for relaxing and dining. The pool is open till 9 p.m. and those not staying at the hotel are welcome to take a plunge after 11 a.m., with reservations. Fees run $45 and $55 and include towel service, Wi-fi, and a glass of wine. 160 North 12th Street, Brooklyn. 718.218.7500.

Across the East River from Manhattan in Queens, the Astoria Pool (ABOVE) has Olympic-size lanes and a WPA-era Art Deco interior, with plenty of room for poolside lounging. Locatedbetween the Robert F. Kennedy and Hell Gate bridges, the pool also offers a winning view of the Upper East Side. Admission is free. Astoria Park, 19th Street and 23rd Avenue in Queens. 718.274.4925.

Swimmers from all over Manhattan join neighborhood kids at the Olympic-size Hamilton Fish Pool downtown. There is no deck furniture, but there is plenty of space to lounge on a towel. Admission is free. Pitt Street between East Houston and Stanton streets. 212.777.0116.

There is a Keith Haring mural on the back wall of the pool at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center. Though smaller than some of its counterparts, it has a diving board in the deep end, which most other city pools do not. Admission is free. 3 Clarkson Street at Seventh Avenue South. 212.337.0404.

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DRINK, EAT, DIP A TOE La Piscine at Hôtel Americano (TOP LEFT), a boutique hotel in Chelsea, has become a popular spot for chilling out. The pool area is open to the public at 6 p.m. The adjacent bar and grill is open from noon on weekends. There are great views of Manhattan and the Hudson River and the drink list is impressive.

518 West 27th Street. 212.525.0000.

In the Meatpacking District, there is The Beach at Dream Downtown (BOTTOM a hotel with a second floor terrace complete with a glass-bottomed pool and sand shipped in from Montauk. Daytime swimming is only for hotel guests or those who book one of the cabanas. For everyone else, it’s all about the bar, open from 5:30 to 11 p.m. 355 West 16th Street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. 212.229.2559.

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Bar d’Eau (TOP RIGHT) at Trump SoHo is another poolside paradise that opens in the evenings to non-guests, for relaxing, but not for swimming. The bar is situated on a seventh floor patio with deck chairs and lounge seating. A waterfall arches into the mosaic-tiled pool. A bocce court is part of the fun, along with bar snacks and cocktails. 246 Spring Street, at Varick. 212.842.5500.

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HIT THE DECKS Surrounded by water, Manhattan is a sailor's paradise. Refreshing breezes waft from the Hudson and East rivers, which offer vantage points from which to view the city. There are numerous companies providing specialty tours, with themes ranging from architecture and history to wine and jazz. Fully crewed yachts, sailboats, and speedboats are available, for day, sunset, and night sails.

Classic Harbor Line operates from Pier 62 on the West Side Highway at Chelsea Piers. In addition to cruises focused on food—brunch, wine and cheese pairing, champagne and aphrodisiacs—there are those that explore different aspects of architecture. The American Institute of Architects leads river-based tours of Lower Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, and more. The company, which also operates in Key West, Newport, and Boston, has its largest fleet in New York—a 1920s style yacht, an 80-foot schooner and a 105-foot schooner. 888.215.1739.

Fans of Sex and the City reruns probably remember the episode where Carrie runs into Mr. Big at a party on a yacht sailing around Manhattan island. That's the kind of sleek craft operated by Spirit Cruises, from Chelsea Piers. These spacious boats host full meals while cruising, with themes ranging from gospel to Karaoke. 866.483.3866.

When the sails are hoisted, the moon is full and lapping of water is the loudest thing you hear, it's hard to believe you are in Manhattan. But aboard the 85-year-old Shearwater, or the tall ship replica Clipper City, both operated by Manhattan by Sail, the heat of the city seems to melt away. The Clipper City departs from Slip 1 at the south side of Battery Park, while the Shearwater leaves from the downtown North Cove Marina. 212.619.6900. U

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From Moscow, The Bolshoi Ballet performs at Lincoln Center as part of the Lincoln Center Festival (through July 27). www.lincolncenterfestival.org.

Moonlit Walking Tour of the beautiful grounds at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley. www.stormking.org.

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Celebrate Bastille Day and the best of French culture with the French Institute Alliance Française at their annual street fair on 60th Street. Shop for gourmet treats and special gifts pour les enfants. www.bastilledayny.com.

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Summer Poetry Reading with recognized Academy of American Poets at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. www.nypl.org.

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19th Annual Montauk Point Lighthouse Triathlon & Relay in Montauk, NY. This “sprint” distance triathlon includes a half-mile swim, fourteenmile bike ride, and 3.1 mile run. www. montauklighthouse.com/events.htm.

James Taylor performs his greatest hits at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY. The venue is located 90 minutes from New York City on 800 acres of manicured grounds. www.bethelwoodscenter.org.

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Free Shakespeare in the Park presents King Lear at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Running through Sunday, August 17, the production stars Emmy Award winner John Lithgow and Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. All performances begin at 8 p.m. www. publictheater.org.

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Now in its 40th year, Harlem Week seeks to promote Harlem’s rich African American, Hispanic, Caribbean, and European culture, cuisine, and history (through August 3). www.harlemweek. com.

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The New York Yankees vs. the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium (through August 7). www.newyork.yankees.mlb.com.

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Piano balladeer Billy Joel performs at Madison Square Garden. www. thegarden.com.

The 2014 Newark Black Film Festival’s Paul Robeson Award-Winners are honored at an award-ceremony at the Newark Museum. The ceremony will be followed by screenings of the winning films at CityPlex 12 in Newark.

More than 30 films were entered into this year’s competition. www. newarkmuseum.org.

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The Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival. Savor delicious meals and drinks by some of today’s best-known celebrity chefs. This year’s event features a southern music festival and BBQ cookout with Robert Irvine, Martha Stewart, and a clam bake with chef Marcus Samuelsson (through July 27). www.caesars.com/acfoodandwine.

Songstress Sarah McLachlan performs at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. www.spac.org.

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The New York Antique Jewelry & Watch Show held at the Metropolitan Pavilion attracts the industry’s leading dealers with a prestigious collection of diamonds, watches and jewelry from all eras of history (through July 28). http://www. newyorkantiquejewelryandwatchshow. com

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Appetite Festival Main Stage Event at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.

Meet Andrew Zimmern, award-winning host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, and Giada De Laurentiis, author of Everyday Italian, Giada’s Family Kitchen, and Giada’s Kitchen. Over the course of two days, ticketholders will have the opportunity to participate in exclusive seminars, while sampling food, cocktails and craft beers. www.appetitefest.com.

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Putnam County Wine & Food Fest in Patterson, NY, a two-day event showcasing New York’s most renowned wine producers. www. putnamcountywinefest.com.

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2014 Bard Music Festival at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Bard College in AnnandaleOn-Hudson, NY. This summer’s event celebrates “Schubert and His World” over the course of two weekends, from August 8 through 10, and August 15 through 17. www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

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“Family Dinners with Mario Batali’s Chefs,” a family-style menu designed and prepared by chefs from Batali’s EATALY, a gourmet Italian food market, located at 200 Fifth Avenue. The dinner will take place at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. www.nybg.org.

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Tori Amos, eight-time Grammy Awardnominated singer, performs at The Beacon Theatre (also, on August 13). www.beacontheatre.com.

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Discover Italy’s “Hebrew kitchen” at “Jewish Italy: Food, Culture, and Travel” at the 92nd Street Y. Learn the history behind dishes like sour cherry cheesecake and fried artichokes and goose salami. This talk also includes a tasting of Italian Jewish dishes. www.92y.org.

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Experience SoHo’s art scene like never before on the SoHo Arts Walk, from Grand to West Houston Streets, between Broadway and Sullivan. www. sohoartswalk.com.

The New York Mets vs. the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field (also, on August 16, 17, and 18). www.newyork.mets.mlb.com.

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Enjoy a taste of the 1920s at the Jazz Age Lawn Party, a carefully crafted outdoor festival in which guests dress like cast members of Boardwalk Empire while enjoying St. Germain cocktails, burgers and cherry pie.

(August 17 on Governor’s Island). www. jazzagelawnparty.com.

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The world’s greatest tennis players and New York City’s top chefs will showcase their culinary skills at The Taste of Tennis. In addition to impressive food, the event features themed lounges, signature cocktails, and music by popular DJ’s - the perfect way to welcome the US Open! www. tasteoftennis.com.

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The US Open returns to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Flushing, Queens (through September 8). www. usopen.org.

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Do we hold a special place amongst the planets? Want to know more about our relation to the stars in the Milky Way? The Grand Tour at Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History will answer those questions and more. www.amnh.org.

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The New York International Salsa Dance & Museum Festival at The Hilton New York (through September 1). www. nycsalsacongress.com.

The 2nd Annual Mats Wilander Foundation Tennis Pro-Am benefiting debra of America at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, NY. This event raises fund for Debra of America, The Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association. Guests will have the opportunity to play tennis with former and current tennis pros. www.debra.org/tennis.

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“Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection;” The Morgan Library & Museum “Charles James: Beyond Fashion;” The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Carl Andre: Sculpture As Place, 19582010;” Dia:Beacon “In A World of Their Own: Coney Island Photographs by Aaron Rose;” Museum of the City of New York

Theatre Performances:

“NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial;” Museum of Arts and Design

Macbeth; Park Avenue Armory

“Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe;” Guggenheim Museum

King Lear; Delacorte Theater at Central Park

“Jeff Koons: A Retrospective;” Whitney Museum of American Art “Presencia: Works from El Museo’s Permanent Collection;” El Museo del Barrio “The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition;” National Academy Museum and School “Ai Weiwei: According to What?;” Brooklyn Museum “Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988;” MoMA

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Heathers: The Musical; New World Stages Cabaret; Studio 54 Pippin; Music Box Theatre Matilda; Shubert Theatre Kinky Boots; Al Hirschfeld Theatre Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Belasco Theatre The Cripple of Inishmaan; Cort Theatre Of Mice and Men; Longacre Theatre

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Summer Film Festivals in the Five Boroughs by by Linda Arntzenius

Summertime turns New York City into one big Film Screen with free festivals across the Five Boroughs from Central Park to Tompkins Square in the East Village, and from the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island.

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(Top) Bryant Park (below) Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums.

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ummer movies, like summer books, are rarely desired to stimulate deep thinking. And, with a few outstanding exceptions, there’s not much that falls into the profound category in the offerings of the many outdoor summer film festivals in and around Manhattan this year. When the temperatures and humidity soar who needs mind-taxing dramas or thought-provoking documentaries?

Summer is a time for New Yorkers to kick-back and, for those of us without a retreat in the Hamptons, time to enjoy an evening out-of-doors when the air has cooled a tad and summer in the city means picnic and a movie.

Manhattan Movies Light comedies and familiar classics are what you will find during the fivenight Central Park Film Festival from August 18 through August 22. Thanks to the Central Park Conservancy, you can enjoy films, each of which celebrates the city in some way, under the stars on a blanket spread on Sheep Meadow, the 15-acre preserve located at the west side of the park from 66th to 69th Streets in New York City. Arrive at 6:30 p.m. for entertainment provided by a D.J. until the film screens at 8 p.m. All but Tuesday’s film are rated PG, so feel free to bring the kids along.

Tom Hanks is a kid who wishes himself into an adult’s body in Big, Monday, August 18; Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, stars an ensemble cast that includes Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelica Huston, Tuesday, August 19; Sydney Pollack’s 1973 romance The Way We Were, has Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as lovers divided by politics, Wednesday, August 20; Ghostbusters with Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Sigourney Weaver, and the late Harold Ramis is still hilarious, Thursday, August 21; and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Rear Window, stars Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, Friday, August 22.

The HBO Summer Film Festival in Bryant Park at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue offers an eclectic mix. This ten-week festival began late June and epitomizes the outdoor experience with its Monday night screenings from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid and Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff in the Old West, is listed number six on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Funniest Movies of all time. It screens July 7 and is followed by Suddenly Last Summer with Liz Taylor, Kate Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift in Tennessee Williams’ psychodrama (with a Gore Vidal screenplay) on July 14. Comedy returns on July 21, with Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo directed by Harold Ramis in National Lampoon’s Vacation, before it’s back to drama with Bogie and Bacall being terrorized by Edward G. Robinson and his gangsters in John

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(Top) Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters. (left) The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup. (right) Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (below) Forest of the Dancing Spirits.

Huston’s Key Largo on July 28. Ralph Macchio is a Jersey kid who finds himself ostracized when he moves to a California high school in The Karate Kid, August 4. Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall team up for the romantic comedy with a Madison Avenue twist in Lover Come Back, August 11.

The festival wraps up August 18 with The Shining, Stanley Kubrick’s tense drama with Jack Nicholson as an unstable writer working the off-season at an isolated resort.

The favorite movies of staff members from Riverside Park South provide the selection for this year’s Summer on the Hudson: Pier I Picture Show on Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Landscape Architect Margaret Bracken gives us Clueless, July 9. Park Manager Ben Kramer has chosen Back to the Future, July 16. Director of Programming Zhen Heinemann’s pick is Harold and Maude, July 23. Director of Volunteers and Horticulture Lynda Tower presents The Princess Bride, July 30. Park Manager Paul Evans dust off Anchors Aweigh, August 6 and Park Supervisor Marissa Birmingham presents The Outsiders, August 13. This thin sliver of a park runs for four miles from 62nd to 158th Streets along the Hudson River and is Manhattan’s most spectacular waterfront park with landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1875. It’s spectacular. Movies against the backdrop of the river? Wow!

At the Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, Madison Avenue at East 120th Street to East 124th Street, Summerstage Presents award-winning percussionist and activist Bobby Sanabria along with a screening of Chico and Rita on Wednesday, August 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. Summerstage will get you up on your feet for Bellatrix! A Soul Train Tribute to Women in Music on Sunday, August 17, also from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Brooklyn SummerScreen in McCarren Park at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 12th Street in Williamsburg, offers free screenings on Wednesdays in July and August at dusk, around 7 p.m., with performances by live bands from 6 p.m. The films are Zoolander, July 16; Cry-Baby, July 23; Heathers, July 30; The Big Lebowski, August 6. The last title on August 16 is an audience pick.

Brooklyn Bridge Park Screenings begin at sundown, around 8 or 8:30 p.m., on Thursdays for the Brooklyn Bridge Movies with a View on the lawn at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Music begins at 6 p.m. with a D.J. from Brooklyn Radio and each film is accompanied by a selection of shorts. There are several kidfriendly titles among the mix of films, which includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (August 7), Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (August 21) and the R-rated Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Friday, August 15). But the rest of the time, kids can enjoy the Marx Brothers in the 1933 Duck Soup (July 10), to Sharknado (July 17), Fantastic Mr. Fox (July 24), and Beetlejuice (July 31).

Kid-Friendly Queens Kid-friendly titles are included on Tuesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. in Movies at Crocheron Park, 35th Avenue and Cross Island Parkway. Despicable Me 2 is on August 12; Monsters University, August 19; and Europa Report, a family movie in which an international crew of astronauts undertake a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, August 26.

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(Top) Disney’s Frozen (below) Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion.

Disney’s oscar-winning Frozen screens for free at Elton Street and Jamaica Avenue, in Highland Park, Queens, Tuesday, August 26, and again at the George Seuffert Bandshell in Forest Park, Queens, Wednesday, August 27.

Both screenings take place from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

An eight-week International Film Festival celebrating the cultural diversity of Queens offers free movies at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City on Wednesday nights from July 2 through August 20. Prescreening live performances begin at 7 p.m. followed by movies at dusk.

Visitors are invited to sit on the grass and enjoy cinema from a different country or culture each week as the sun sets over the gorgeous Manhattan skyline.

This year, you can also participate for free in a sunset paddle on the East River on film nights when the tide is suitable. Free kayaking and canoeing will depart from the beach at Hallets Cove. To learn more, visit: http:// socratessculpturepark.org/programs/films/.

As for the films, their titles alone will let you know what to expect: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Russia/UK, July 2); La Pirogue (Senegal, July 9); The Deadly Ponies Gang (New Zealand, July 16); Umberto D (Italy, July 23); Viola (Argentina, July 30); Forest of the Dancing Spirits (Central Africa/Sweden, August 6); Assassins (Japan, August 13); and Microcosmos (France, August 20).

Recreation as part of its 7th annual outdoor Films on the Green Festival of classic and contemporary French films.

Made in 1938 and set during the First World War, it stars Jean Gabin, then the heart-throb of French cinema, and Pierre Fresnay, as French POWs from opposite sides of the tracks. Erich von Stroheim, in the role that was much parodied later, is their aristocratic German captor.

The film’s director was the son of the famed Impressionist painter Pierre August Renoir. He won the Croix de Guerre for his service during World War I. It will be screened at Pier I in Riverside Park South in Manhattan on Friday, July 18, from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Like several of the film listings above, Grand Illusion is clearly an exception to the remarks made in the introduction.

Thought provoking it was intended to be. It is also a movingly beautiful. Once seen, never forgotten.

So make for the park and enjoy popcorn al fresco.

Web Sites For more, visit the New York Parks web site: www. nycgovparks.org/events/free_summer_movies; the Central Park web site: www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-todo/family-community/film-festival.html; for more on the Bryant Park Film Festival, call hotline: 212.512.5700.

Urban Picks Don’t miss Jean Renoir’s masterpiece Grand Illusion, presented by the French Embassy and NYC Parks &

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cholar/critic Kwame AnthonyAkroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah recently left Princeton University, where he was a member of both the Department of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, to assume a position as Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. He received both a B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge University. His most recent book is Lines of Descent: W.E.B.du Bois and the Emergence of Identity. His other titles include The Honor Code; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers; The Ethics of Identity; and In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Appiah’s many honors include a National Humanities Medal awarded to him by President Obama in 2012. In 2013, then-recently appointed Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber asked the incoming freshmen class to read The Honor Code.

Describing it as a “splendid” book, drawing on history and philosophy from different areas of the world,” Eisgruber said that he particularly appreciated “the questions it asks about what it means to live a good life, and which ideas about honor can promote a good life.”

The interview with you in the 2008 film Examined Life followed you on the move in an Air Canada terminal. You have described yourself as “a rootless cosmopolitan” who has had “the privilege of growing up in a couple of different places.” Talk about the significance of place and travel in your life.

I was born in London, but grew up in Kumasi, the capital of the Asante kingdom in Ghana. Because of this my first real memories of England are from when I first went to school there when I was eight or so. But our English grandmother came to visit us in Ghana, and I already knew her well, and so I had the family connection, which made the transition from one place to the other much easier. I am conscious, too, of the fact that in these two places we lived lives of great privilege: my Ghanaian grandfather was the Chief Secretary of the Asante king, Prempeh II, whose first wife was my great-aunt and who was succeeded by my uncle; and my mother’s father had been Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of his life, and his father was a member of the British House of Lords. So our families were very much rooted in the elites of these two places I knew. We could point to the graves of English ancestors back to the 17th century and my father told us about his ancestors back to the beginning of the Asante kingdom. All of which is to say that I think my cosmopolitanism was both the natural result of my upbringing and my family—I literally have cousins or in-laws in every inhabited continent (some Christian, some Muslim, some Jewish, some none of the above)—and that it is also based in a sense of being well-rooted in a couple of places … now including New York. Nowadays I travel a fair amount both for my job, giving talks in Auckland or Hong Kong or Edinburgh or Bonn, and to keep up with my family: the eldest of my nephews, whose father is Norwegian, but who lives in Namibia, just got married to a (gorgeous!) Namibian woman, so we’ve just come back from a wedding in a small village in Namibia, up near the Angolan border, where our party included my sisters from Nigeria and England, my Nigerian and Norwegian brothers-in-law and their sons, and English and Ghanaian cousins of mine. Gertrude Stein—that great American Parisian—said once that there was no point in roots if you couldn’t take them with you. I like that formulation.

There is so much strife in the world today, yet you still hope that people will engage in “global conversations” about “what’s right and wrong.” How might the idea of honor be used to appeal to people’s better instincts.

This is a large topic: I’ve just written a book about it, which, appropriately enough, will be published in Hong Kong. But I suppose my key thought is that patriotism—real patriotism—is about caring for the honor of your country, which means caring that it deserves the respect of everyone, both at home and abroad. So when your country does something creditable, you feel

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pride in this thing that we have done, or that has been done in our name; and likewise, when we do something discreditable, we feel shame. Those sentiments can be appealed to in the conversation of people across nations, though this process can backfire—leading to a nationalist backlash against the foreign critics and their local allies—so it needs to carefully be done. I wrote a book about how such appeals played a role in the Chinese abandonment of foot-binding and in 19th-century British anti-slavery, among other places.

And, if we had the right background of relationships with Pakistan, we could mobilize this mechanism in support of the Pakistanis who are working to end honor-murder in their country. Unfortunately, I think we don’t have the right relationships, mostly, since they don’t think of us as people who address them as equals, eye to eye, as it were. They think we condescend to them ... and, with important exceptions, they’re right. So the cosmopolitan in me wants us to repair our relationships with Pakistan and with the Muslim world more generally so that we can help each other deal with our many problems. That will take work from both directions, of course. But I know that I’m not alone in wanting to do that work from the side of what we call “the West,” and I know, too, that the Muslim world is full of people and places open for conversation.

You have been described as “our postmodern Socrates.” How do you feel about that? What are your thoughts on public intellectuals?

One of the problems of the World Wide Web is that you can’t escape epithets like that! I’m not sure that I’m terribly post-modern, and I don’t think the comparison with Socrates is one you could possibly live up to. My father (who loved philosophy, especially Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, for some reason)

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proposed Socrates as one of my names and my mother rightly and presciently responded, “But what if he wants to be a philosopher!” I am often told I’m a public intellectual: but my “public,” if measured by people who could name one idea of mine, is, at most, in the thousands. So the way you can exercise influence isn’t by changing the mind of something called “the public,” but by providing ideas that are useful to people in public life: journalists, public officials (including politicians and judges) and so on. I would like to provide that service at least some of the time as a citizen of my country and as a citizen of the world.

You have described yourself as “a philosopher by trade,” while noting that “philosophers rarely write useful books.” Please explain.

The distinctive impulse of modern professional philosophy is to go slowly where other people want to go, in our view, too fast. We like to break down arguments into their smallest steps, to distinguish different conceptions hiding under a single word or concept; since most people have other things to be doing, they mostly don’t have the patience for this work. But there are many topics where the results of this philosophical care—for example with concepts like race and identity and meaning, on which I have worked—can usefully be shared with others. And if we don’t do this some of the time I don’t see why we should deserve the respect of our society. But those contributions are made possible by all the difficult, less accessible work: so there’s an important division of labor within the profession between the moments (and the people) that address a wider world and the people (and the moments) that are part of our internal conversations.

What prompted your move from Princeton University to NYU? What are you looking forward to in New York City, and what will you miss about Princeton?

I will miss everything about Princeton: the marvelous students and colleagues, the thoughtful administration, the beautiful public spaces, the resources to support research and conferences ... all of it. But there are two important reasons, for me, for thinking this move a good idea. One is personal. My spouse, Henry, and I haven’t had jobs in the same town since he left Boston twenty years ago to work at the New Yorker, when I was teaching at Harvard. Princeton was much nearer to his life in New York; but NYU means we can be together even more of the time and without the regular exposure to New Jersey Transit ... which I will miss rather less. And the second reason is professional: I’m interested, as I said, in doing some service to the conversation of this nation and of the global community, and my new job, both as a professor of law, and as a member of the global faculty of the university, will allow me to do that in new ways. First by talking to young lawyers; and second by making it possible to teach in many of our global sites, starting with Abu Dhabi, but eventually, I hope, including Accra, Buenos Aires and Shanghai, not so much by being there but through the miraculous new technologies that allow you to be virtually present thousands of miles away from your physical location. Part of the excitement of the new job is figuring out how to use these technologies in effective teaching in a genuinely multi-national classroom. Without these technologies I couldn’t both see more of Henry and work with students around the world! It doesn’t hurt, by the way, that NYU’s philosophy department is terrific and the Law School is one of the world’s great legal powerhouses; both are wonderful intellectual communities.

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aratoga Springs was historically a place of healing. Prior to the arrival of wealthy American barons and European aristocrats, the Mohawk Indians bathed in the naturally carbonated mineral springs that dotted the area. By the 1830s, dozens of springs were outfitted so that tourists could “take to the waters,” hoping to heal all sorts of ailments ranging from depression to diabetes. Physicians of this time often recommended that their patients spent time in Saratoga, bathing in the mineral waters, breathing the fresh mountain air, and enjoying leisurely walks around the lake. It was thought to be the ultimate escape from urban life. The advent of the railroad in 1831 and the Saratoga Race Track in 1863, firmly established Saratoga Springs as a yearround tourist destination.

During the Gilded Age, Saratoga Springs was the place “to see and be seen.” The Vanderbilts and the Whitneys were just some of the famous patrons who convened here for exclusive social gatherings. After an afternoon spent at the racetracks, politicians and business magnates conducted businesses meetings over dinner and took carriage rides down North Broadway.

Today, Saratoga Springs is the summer residence of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Ballet.

Visitors will find upscale dining and lodging combined with excellent hiking, fishing, and boating opportunities. The presence of Skidmore College adds to the local energy.

Getting There: Saratoga Springs is easily accessible by Amtrak with daily service to and from Manhattan, Boston, Montreal, and Burlington. The drive is a little over 3 hours from New York City and 45 minutes north of Albany. If you are arriving by air, you will want to fly into Albany Airport. Once you are in Saratoga Springs, most of the sites are within walking distance.

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Lodging: Saratoga Springs is a popular wedding and honeymoon destination and this is reflected in the lodging choices. Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa (www. gideonputnam.com) offers historic charm and sophistication. Here, you can partake in golfing, exclusive dining, and spa packages. Saratoga Arms (www. saratogaarms.com) is an award-winning hotel dating back to 1870 and is run by the local Smith family. The Inn at Saratoga (www.theinnatsaratoga.com) features a blend of Victorian style furnishings and modern conveniences like steam showers and heated bath floors.

If you are looking for a more rustic experience, the community of Lake George (www.lakegeorge.com) may be just what you desire. The Lake George area in the Southern Adirondacks is brimming with outdoor activities and is located just 30 minutes north of downtown Saratoga Springs. Lodging options range from lakeside cottage rentals to camping sites. The summer season brings a great deal of boating, kayaking, swimming, and water skiing to the region.

To Do: The Saratoga Race Track (www.saratogaracetrack.com) and Saratoga Casino and Raceway (www.saratogacasino. com) are major attractions year-round, but especially during thoroughbred season, which falls from July through September. It’s thrilling to spend a sunny day at the racetrack, betting on your favorite horse and jockey. End the day with an exceptional dinner at Fortune’s (www.saratogacasino.com), located trackside in the Raceway Clubhouse.

Serious golfers will relish time spent at the Saratoga Spa Golf Course (www.saratogaspagolf.com) or the Saratoga Lake Golf Club (www. saratogalakegolf.com). Both courses feel rustic, surrounded by towering pines, and cover hundreds of acres of hilly terrain.

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The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) (www.spac.org) regularly hosts world-renowned acts like the Martha Graham Dance Company and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah McLachlan is scheduled to perform this summer on July 16 and James Taylor will perform his greatest hits on July 19.

New York’s premier hot air balloon tour company, Adirondack Balloon Flights (www.adkballoonflights.com), offers first-rate rides over Saratoga Springs, Lake George, and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Try to visit when the fall foliage is on full display, from September through the end of October.

Saratoga Spa State Park (www.nysparks.com) is home to the community’s world-famous mineral baths. Learn all about the history of the springs on the mineral springs tour. Guests will have the opportunity to learn about the unique natural features of the springs and to experience the Geyser waterfall.

In addition, there are numerous hiking trails, biking trails, and fishing areas.

The Yaddo Gardens (www.yaddo.org) are open to the public seven days a week from 8 a.m. until dusk. The gardens were founded in 1900 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina as part of the Yaddo estate, a 400-acre artists retreat and residency program. The park includes a rock garden and a variety of plants, but the roses are a highlight. To see the rose garden in full-bloom, visit from late June through the end of July.

Skidmore College (www.skidmore.edu) is a small, elite liberal arts college that is known for its excellent fine arts and music programs. The campus is laced with attractive walking trails that become pleasantly quiet during the summer months. Skidmore is only a ten-minute walk from downtown Saratoga Springs.

Nearly 9 miles long, Saratoga Lake (www.saratoga.com) is crystal clear and located just a short walk from downtown. During the summer months, the lake is a haven for casual boaters, fisherman, and water-skiers.

Dining: Forno Bistro (www.fornobistro.com) is a rustic Italian bistro that is centered around a large, stone-hearth, wood-burning oven. Try the Popo pizza, a white pizza topped with chicken, tomatoes, and herbs. The bar has an excellent happy hour and serves a full menu of wine and champagne by the glass.

Seven Horse Pub (www.sevenhorsepub.com) is a Saratoga landmark and a favorite with locals. This neighborhood tavern offers a wide selection of American fare including barbeque ribs and pulled pork sandwiches. Wash it all down with a pint of your favorite beer.

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Cantina (www.cantinasaratoga.com) serves delicious, authentic Mexican cuisine in a decorative and upscale atmosphere. Accompany your frozen margarita with food inspired by Mexico and the American Southwest.

Ravenous (www.ravenouscrepes.com) is downtown Saratoga’s only crepe restaurant. They serve breakfast, brunch, and lunch. The menu consists of crepes stuffed with high quality ingredients like fresh asparagus and goat cheese or Nova Scotia salmon and scallions.

One Caroline Street Bistro (www.onecaroline.com) is located in a cozy setting in downtown Saratoga Springs. The Bistro is dedicated to serving seasonally available foods like cheeses from Upstate New York and farm-fresh vegetables.

The Brook Tavern (www.thebrooktavern.com) is just steps away from the Saratoga Race Course and includes an upscale bar and lounge area. Patrons stay for the classic menu, which features dishes like shrimp scampi, steak frites, and Caesar salads.

Wineries: Adirondack Winery (www.adirondackwinery.com) is a family-owned business located in Lake George. All of their locally crafted wines have wine labels that feature photographs of Adirondack landscapes and landmarks. They also sell a wide selection of wine-related gifts and accessories. A wine tasting session in their Tasting Room includes a take-home souvenir wine glass.

Altamont Vineyard and Winery (www.altamontwinery.com/site) is located in Altamont, NY (about 45 minutes from Saratoga Springs). They harvest more than 20 varieties of grapes and offer private tastings and vineyard tours.

Altamont models their vineyards on those of Northern France and Germany, noting that such climates and growing conditions are very similar to those of Upstate New York.

The Saratoga Winery (www.thesaratogawinery.com) in Saratoga Springs is an authentic Adirondack-style tasting bar. They serve a wide-selection of unique wines, all of which are grown in The Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York.

From Dry Rieslings to Merlots, the knowledgeable staff will ensure that you find something you’ll love.

Online Resources: www.saratoga.com www.visitlakegeorge.com

www.visitadirondacks.com www.skidmore.edu

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