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Downtown is losing out on new crossing guard money

BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC AND YANNIC RACK

Lower Manhattan schools, which desperately need more crossing guards, so far have been shut out of a $1.14 million fund to hire

more guards.“The problem is just out of our

hands, it comes down to money,” Det. Rick Lee, a community affairs officer, said at the First Precinct Community Council Meeting Sept. 24.

“The city gets X amount of dollars for crossing guards a year, so we have our full [number of] crossing guards,” he said. “We need new crossing guards but as far as budgetary reasons go, we have enough crossing guards. Until they allocate more money so that we

can hire more crossing guards, there’s nothing we can do.”

Each N.Y.P.D. precinct manages the guards in its area and the new City Council money allows for 80 more to be hired around the city.

Within the boundaries of the First Precinct, there are four assigned cross-ing guard locations. One of which is on MacDougal and West Houston Sts. Another is at Chambers and Greenwich Sts. near P.S. 234 in Tribeca. The other two are in Battery Park City: Battery Place and First Place near P.S./I.S. 276 and Chambers/Warren Sts. and West St. near P.S. 89/I.S. 289.

The N.Y.P.D. did not respond to questions about whether the First Precinct had reached its budgetary limit

for crossing guards or where the new positions are located.

A police spokesperson said in an email last week, “Crossing guards are assigned citywide based on the trends and needs of the department.”

Both Spruce Street School and the newly opened Peck Slip School, also known as P.S. 343, do not have a cross-ing guard. While P.S./I.S. 276 and P.S. 89/I.S. 289 do have an assigned cross-ing guard each, additional guards are necessary for the dangerous intersec-tions, according to parents, Community Board 1 and the First Precinct.

During Tuesday morning drop-off at P.S. 89, Ankur Dhawan, who has a

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SEAPORT BOOKSTOREIt’s an Amazon world — but some indepen-

dent booksellers continue to survive and thrive. McNally Jackson Books at 52 Prince St. in Soho is one that has bucked the odds. Since 2004, the store has offered a great selection, attracted interesting authors, hosted great readings and has the coolest machine ever — the Espresso Book Machine that can print a book on demand.

So rejoice, book lovers, as Howard Hughes Corporation announced Wednesday that owner Sarah McNally will open an outpost in the Seaport in 2017. Located in historic Schermerhorn Row, often called “the first world trade center,” the new store will be 9,000 square feet with a family-friend-ly reading area for children and a 1,000-square-foot cafe with outdoor seating, according to a Hughes release and the New York Post, which had the size.

“The Seaport is a beautiful neighborhood that

has captivated me for decades,” McNally said in a statement. “I can’t imagine a better setting for a bookstore than the old buildings of Schermerhorn Row. It will be thrilling to sit in the deep sills of those old windows, surrounded by books, looking out over the cobblestone streets to the river and the Brooklyn Bridge.”

HARVEY HOOPLA In case you missed it, Matt Harvey, one of the

Mets’ aces (kind of cool that we can’t say “Met ace” without causing confusion as to who we’re talking about), had a good ol’ Tribeca time — actually more like a new trendy jaunt — Monday night at American Cut restaurant. It caused an overblown kerfuffle Tuesday when he showed up to practice after it was over.

The reason for the tardiness was sketchy but it could have been traffic-related.

It’s always fun to see how the citywide papers play these things. The Times and News, used the exact same David Wright quote, who was “clearly miffed,” if you believe the News, while at the same time he “avoided any direct criticism” of the Dark Knight, the Gray Lady told us.

Let’s step back here. No one with the Mets real-ly seemed upset at Harvey’s admitted “screw up,” and this oh-so-important workout was three days from the first playoff game with the L.A. Dodgers, and six days before Harvey’s scheduled start.

And let’s give him credit for apparently ignoring agent Scott Boras’ desire to end Harvey’s season early, by imposing an artificial innings limit.

We’re not going to jinx anything, but Harvey’s trip Downtown does reminds us of a nearby noisy canyon where — if we’re lucky — he, Wright, Thor, Cespedes and the rest of the team might be visiting in style in a few weeks.

DON’T START PAC-KINGThe PAC, man, gets eaten again. The PAC, as in

the notion of the World Trade Center’s Performing Arts Center, has had so many delays and setbacks over the post-9/11 years, we’re wondering if we can really call it news what the Port Authority’s Glenn Guzi delivered to Community Board 1 this week.

The Port has to move its last temporary PATH station before a little bit of real work can begin on the PAC — more money is also needed.

The Port had hopes of moving the station earlier this year, but “at this point, today, there is no date in terms when the station will close,” Guzi said Oct. 5. “Clearly, we do need to shut that station down and dismantle it and deconstruct that station to make way for...the PAC infrastructure below grade.”

Board 1 has been one of the PAC’s greatest champions for more than a decade, but we heard nary a sigh from the weary members, when Guzi delivered the latest news.


BY JOSH ROGERS “I feel many different emotions

standing here at Ground Zero, where thousands of lives were taken in a senseless act of destruction,” Pope Francis said last Friday during his his-toric trip to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. “Here grief is palpa-ble.”

He greeted family members of some who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. He also led an interfaith ser-vice at the museum Sept. 25.

In a message to God at what he called “the scene of unspeakable vio-lence and pain,” Pope Francis said, “we ask you in your goodness to give eternal light and peace to all who died here: the heroic first responders: our firefighters, police officers, emergency service workers, and Port Authority personnel, along with all the innocent men and women who were victims of this tragedy simply because their work or service brought them here on Sept. 11, 2001.”

It was Pope Francis’ first U.S. visit, which drew massive crowds everywhere he appeared including in Lower Manhattan.

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WOMEN ON 1 TRAIN TARGETED Police are looking for a male suspect who ripped

off two women — hurting one and threatening to stab both — on the 1 train in Lower Manhattan last month.

In the first incident, on Tues., Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m., the man approached a 30-year-old woman on a southbound 1 train and threatened to cut her with some type of object while demanding money and her stuff, police say. She gave him $40 and he fled.

Six hours later, also a southbound 1 train, he went up to a woman, 29, and said he would stab her if she didn’t hand over her cash at about 1:30 a.m., according to police. Police say he then punched her in the face and chest, grabbed her iPhone from her hand and stole $48. He then fled. Police say she refused medical attention at the scene.

Police did not release the precise location of either incident, but they both occurred within the First Precinct, which covers stations from Houston St. to South Ferry on the 1 line.

The suspect is described as a male black in his early 40s, 5’10,” 160 pounds, with a thin build and pock marks under both eyes.

ASSAULT AT THE DOORA 23-year-old man was followed, assaulted and

then had his phone stolen by a fellow member of his youth center, police say.

The man had just left The Door, a Hudson Square center at 555 Broome St., on Wed., Sept. 23 at 5:10 p.m. After he started walking, he realized that three men, also from The Door, were following him. He ducked into Argo Electronics at 391 Canal St. to try to hide, but the three men followed him in.

One of the three, who is 28, brandished a knife, and then punched the victim in the face and kicked him in the leg, police say. He then stole the victim’s $150 LG cellphone, police say, and fled the scene with his friends.

BURBERRY SNATCHTwo women nabbed five scarves worth $2,375

from a Soho shop and the whole theft was captured on film, police say.

After the Burberry store at 131 Spring St. realized the five scarves were gone, footage was viewed. On Mon., Oct. 5 at a little after 2 p.m., the video showed two women — both described as around 20, 5’6” and 135 pounds — working together, police say. One woman grabbed the pricey scarves while the other kept lookout and told her to “hurry up.” A male employee, 43, told police he heard the woman telling her confederate to hurry. Police say the women didn’t touch anything at the store.

VICTORIA’S SECRET WOESFor the Victoria’s Secret at 591 Broadway in Soho,

it has become a familiar refrain: shoplifters go in and steal thousands worth of bras or panties.

The latest incident was on Sun., Oct. 4 at around 6 p.m. when three women and one man grabbed 390 pant-ies and 50 T-shirts valued at $5,490. Earlier this year in March, over $3,000 worth of underwear was stolen. In October last year, the store was hit twice in that month with $6,700 worth of bras and underwear purloined.

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Two Biria bikes, valued at $1,800, were stolen by a thief who unscrewed bars attached to scaffolding to get at them, police say.

A Tribeca woman, 28, thought she had secured the two bikes when she locked them to scaffolding in front of 395 Broadway on Thurs., Sept. 24 at 11 p.m., police say. She underestimated the resourcefulness of the thief, who proceeded to unscrew the metal bars attached to the scaffolding to free the bikes and take off with them. When the woman came back the next day at 8 a.m., the bikes were gone, police say.

DISTRACTION PLOYTwo Soho shoplifters used the “distract the

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Police sketch of the suspect accused of targeting women on the 1 train.

clothing two weekends ago, police say.A female employee, 21, told police that the two

men came into the high-end male and female bou-tique International Playground at 463 Broome St. on Sun., Sept. 27 at 12:20 p.m. The men proceeded to ask her for a different jacket size and when she went upstairs to get it, the thieves swiped two black leath-er jackets and three sweaters, police say. When the employee came back, they were gone.

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sive camera and lens — worth $2,000 — were stolen from his car.

The man, 27, told police that he parked his 2002 black Jeep Wrangler on Sun., Sept. 20 at noon at 247 Water St. When he returned the next day at 8 a.m., his Canon camera and four Nikon lens were gone. He told police he is unsure if he left the car unlocked or if left the pricey equipment on top of the Jeep.

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Many thousands flocked to see Pope Francis

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Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, at the 9/11 Memorial Sept. 25, 2015.

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A few of the thousands who came to Vesey and West Sts. to catch a glimpse of the pope, above. Some admirers of Pope Francis, below.

Downtown Express Photo by Milo Hess

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Hurricane lessons learnedThree years ago, Hurricane Sandy knocked out many Downtown subway stations cutting off Manhattan and the Bronx from Brooklyn, but last Sunday, there were bright flood coverings subway grates on Sixth Ave., near the Canal St. station in preparation for Hurricane Joaquin. The storm, which had a devastating effect in the Bahamas, bypassed New York City.


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child in kindergarten there, said that another crossing guard is needed. Many children have to cross busy West St., also known as the West Side Highway and Route 9A, to get to school.

“The fact is that this place, in terms of traffic, has maybe quadrupled because of the World Trade Center, the [9/11] Memorial, Brookfield Place — it’s the law of averages, as you get more people, you will get more drivers and some of them will be a little less careful than others,” Dhawan said.

Tricia Joyce, chairperson of Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee, was also taking her sixth-grade daughter to school.

“I don’t feel comfortable crossing this street,” said Joyce. “There needs to be two here, so that they can coordi-nate and step into the street when the light turns. The danger here is the left turns, and there have been accidents. The school tells the kids to cross on the [pedestrian] bridge, but for families coming from the south, that’s out of their way. We have more traffic now

coming across this intersection, and therefore they need one on both sides.”

Since Zaida Martinez, the P.S. 89/I.S. 289 crossing guard, can’t be in two places, she splits her time between the two busy streets. She is at West and Warren Sts. for morning drop-off and at West and Chambers Sts. for pickup.

Near Spruce Street School, a K-6 this year, there have been two incidents on Beekman St., which has large con-struction projects — beloved U.P.S. worker Mike Rogalle was fatally struck three years ago, and more recently in April, a mother of two, Heather Hensl, was hit and seriously injured on her way to work when a driver used the sidewalk to bypass traffic. The hit and run happened during the school’s morning drop-off.

“We need crossing guards on Beekman and William,” Sarah Elbatanouny, co-president of Spruce’s P.T.A., said in a phone interview. “There’s heavy traffic….We now have a middle school, the kids are walking by themselves. On Beekman, we have the hospital and we have the fire depart-ment there, a lot of them use the side-walks. So it’s a heavily congested area,

there’s a lot happening there.”Paul Hovitz, co-chairperson of

C.B.1’s Education Committee, said crossing guards for Downtown schools have been a concern for some time now.

Initially, the community was told the problem was a dearth of applicants because of how much the job paid and its part-time nature, Hovitz said. Crossing guards have only recently been bumped up to $11.50 an hour and can work a maximum of 25 hours a week. During the summer, many lose their benefits.

“First, we’re hearing that there are not enough applicants, then we’re hear-ing there are plenty of applicants, but there’s some bureaucratic problem with process,” Hovitz said in a phone inter-view. “All along, since we were con-cerned about having crossing guards, even before Peck Slip [opened], we were told, well, the issue is not that there isn’t money, but that there aren’t applicants for the job.”

Lee, the community affairs detec-tive, said the precinct has found qual-ified people to hire in response to community concern and the opening of Peck Slip School.

“We got numerous applications,” he said. “We submit those applications, and once we submit those applications it goes to police headquarters and it’s up to them to hire them, so again it comes down to the budget.”

Assemblymember Sheldon Silver has applied for a $225,000 grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to pay for six crossing guards — two each at Peck Slip School,

Spruce Street School and P.S. 276. The L.M.D.C. is currently considering applications to divvy up $50 million.

“To get to the Peck Slip School, the Spruce Street School and P.S. 276, you must cross some of the busiest streets in Lower Manhattan,’’ Silver said in a statement to Downtown Express last week.

“There are urgent safety issues facing children and parents who need to get to these schools,” he said. “While the N.Y.P.D. supports the need for addition-al crossing guards for our local schools, they have not been able to allocate the funds needed for these crossing guards. With the safety of local children and parents at stake, I believe that L.M.D.C. funding of this immediate need makes sense and should be provided.”

However, even if the L.M.D.C. chooses Silver’s application, it is not clear when the money would be avail-able. David Emil, L.M.D.C’s president, explained in a phone interview that there are several steps involved in the process. With the caveat that there are no guarantees, he said the money could be available in the first half of next year.

Councilmember Margaret Chin said in an email statement Monday that she “will continue to work with the N.Y.P.D. and my Council colleagues to make sure that there are adequate resources for crossing guards at schools throughout Lower Manhattan — including at the recently opened Peck Slip School.”

Meanwhile, Andrew Fenwick, who has a daughter in fifth grade at Spruce, said, “Lack of crossing guards now could lead to another tragedy.”

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Downtown Express photo by Dusica Sue Malesevic

Beekman St. near Spruce Street School is one of the places the First Precinct hopes to get a crossing guard.

Downtown missing out on crossing guard money

BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC The tide may be turning for the

South Street Seaport Museum — it was awarded over $10 million in August and is now vying for almost $5 million to renovate and upgrade its spaces on Water St.

Struggling since Superstorm Sandy, the museum, which at one point estimated it needed $22 mil-lion to fix all the damage, was awarded a grant of $10.4 million for repairs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

It is now looking to grab a piece of the $50 million pie that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is offering.

Boulware said the $10.4 million is a “very strong start” but the museum needs money to renovate and upgrade its spaces from 207 to 215 Water St. Currently, the Melville Gallery at 213 Water St. is open to the public but the floors above are not.

Citing the museum’s charter to be an educational institution, Boulware said that the roughly 11,000 sq. ft. of new space in the Melville Gallery and above it would allow the museum to have classroom and community space.

Historically, said Boulware, the South Street Seaport Museum had excellent preschool, summer and afterschool programs.

“These are the things we’re focused on,” he said.

Program enrollment is up — it is three times what it was for last year, he said. The museum, he said, is a community anchor, could be a pro-grammatic powerhouse again and is a draw to the district that’s unique.

“People will come to see the ships and walk the piers,” he said.

Catherine McVay Hughes, C.B. 1 chairperson, said, “I think this is the most exciting news that we’ve heard from the South Street Seaport. I think this is something that we total-ly welcome.”

Hughes, an L.M.D.C. board mem-ber, is one of three people evalu-

ating the grant applications on the development corporation’s working group. She pointed out the east side of the district lacks community space.

“This completely fills — in a won-derful way — a void in this part of the district,” she said.

The committee and subsequently the full board passed a resolution in support of the museum’s proposal.

Boulware said one of the key components that the L.M.D.C. has for awarding grants is a demonstra-tion of community support. If the museum gets the money, it would take three years to complete its ren-ovation.

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BY L INCOLN ANDERSON Another local politician is now

urging that an application for federal funding for an affordable housing project proposed for the Elizabeth St. Garden be denied.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron last week wrote Joseph Chan, chairperson of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, calling on the state-city authority to deny the $6 million grant.

Instead, Squadron — whose dis-trict includes the highly popular gar-den — said, the city should work with Community Board 2 to find “an appro-priate location” for the housing — one that won’t destroy the green oasis.

C.B. 2 is on record — twice now — strongly supporting the permanent preservation of the garden in open-space-starved Little Italy.

The board’s latest resolution urged the corporation to “adhere to its own guidelines” and not fund “a project that has not even been presented to the community, much less demon-strated a ‘high level of community interest and support.’ ”

The city’s Department of Housing and Development, however, hopes to use the L.M.D.C. money to help build from 60 to 100 units of senior affordable housing on the garden, at Elizabeth St. between Spring and Prince Sts. The L.M.D.C. funds would finance about one-fourth of the project’s cost.

“Open space and affordable hous-ing are both urgent needs for commu-nities throughout Lower Manhattan,” Squadron wrote Chan. “The city should work with C.B. 2 and ensure

these affordable senior units are built in an appropriate location within C.B. 2.”

Councilmember Margaret Chin — whose district also contains the gar-den — is the housing project’s main sponsor. She and the Bloomberg administration quietly earmarked the garden site for affordable hous-ing in 2012 — yet without first notifying C.B. 2 — as an “add-on” to the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area development. Yet the SPURA project is located in C.B. 3 not C.B. 2, and underwent years of painstaking review by C.B. 3 and local stakeholder groups until, after

tremendous political effort, a con-sensus was finally reached, in sharp contrast to the Elizabeth St. Garden project.

However, three weeks ago, at an L.M.D.C. hearing on the fund-ing application, much to Chin’s cha-grin, yet another Downtown poli-tician, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, forcefully argued against allow-ing housing there, saying the develop-ment should instead be shifted to an alternative city-owned site that C.B. 2 Chairperson Tobi Bergman has identi-fied at Hudson and Clarkson Sts.

Glick added that the Hudson Square site is larger, so could hold even more units of affordable hous-ing.

The garden is just outside Glick’s district by a block but her constitu-ents include garden users.

H.P.D. has shown no signs of reconsidering the plan.

Bergman has been taken aback by the cold shoulder. He said Mayor de Blasio could achieve a democrat-ic win-win solution, by preserving the garden while building even more affordable housing on the expansive West Side site.

A week earlier at a Board 2 meet-

ing, Bergman said, “You can’t run over people in one area and then expect them to lie down on the tracks in another area,” adding later that there are other potential housing sites, but “it will be hard to build sup-port for affordable housing projects when people are angry about another affordable housing project that would be harmful to the community.”

Dan Ballen, one of the few C.B. 2 members who supports the city plan, said “the alternative sites are a red herring,” and trying to shift the housing project’s location would

be impractical in the “morass of city agencies.”

According to Chin, L.M.D.C. will make its decision on the funding application sometime this month. However, David Emil, the agency’s president, said, “The process has a lot of steps. It is our hope that funds will be available [for the selected projects] by first or second quarter of 2016.”

Emil indicated that the L.M.D.C. board may next meet in November. There will also be a 30-day public comment period for the applications that L.M.D.C. approves for funding, he said.

The $50 million is from a legal settlement with the demolition con-tractor on the former Deutsche Bank building, where two firefighters were killed in a 2007 blaze.

Board & Squadron back Elizabeth Garden

Downtown Express photo by Tequila Minsky.

Tobi Bergman, Community Board 2’s chairperson, is pushing for an alternative housing site to save the Elizabeth St. Garden.

‘You can’t run over people in one area and then expect them to lie down on the tracks in another.’


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Rat race continues as residents hope for reliefBY YANNIC RACK

Listening to Lower Manhattan residents talk about the rat problem in their neighborhood, you could easily picture a world overtaken by the rodents — something akin to a reimagined version of “Planet of the Apes.”

“People don’t walk outside at night, they don’t sit in the outdoor cafes, if they live there they know it’s going to happen,” Diane Lapson, a Tribeca resident and Community Board 1 member, recounted at the board’s Quality of Life committee meeting Sept. 17.

“After it gets dark, people just turn around and say, ‘I think it’s time to go,’ because the rats are coming,” she added. “And the rats are huge, they’re like cats. They’re not afraid of anything.”

Although the topic is by now a mainstay at committee meetings, the evening’s discussion was particularly concerned with one part of the prob-lem: commercial garbage, left out on the sidewalks for hours — providing a welcome feast for the neighborhood’s nocturnal rodent population.

A handful of residents came to tell their stories to Salvatore Arrona, the director of policy at the city’s Business Integrity Commission, and Bill Courtney, its director of investigations.

The commission, formerly known as the Organized Crime Control Commission, oversees the commercial waste industry in the city.

Arrona said every commercial establishment has to hire a private carter to pick up the trash,

and it is up to the carter to determine whether the business requires pickups once or multiple times a week.

“That’s insane,” chipped in a disgruntled Mitchell Frohman, another committee member. “The carting company decides that? Then the establishment pays off the carting company and that’s what it comes down to.”

Dan Ackerman, the assistant vice president of operations at the Downtown Alliance, said a “rat academy” had recently been organized for local businesses. But other than issuing advice — like closing garbage container tops, using bleach rags and incessant cleaning — he said there were lim-its to what this could achieve. “It comes down to enforcement,” he said.

The city budget, agreed upon in June, now includes $2.9 million to combat rats. According to the city’s Health Dept., its rat-curbing effort is currently still staffed by nine people and funded with $400,000 across seven neighborhoods. But a new initiative, using the extra funding, would expand this to 50 exterminators, public health sanitarians and a population biologist, which will benefit neighborhoods all over the city, including Lower Manhattan.

The department has been rolling out a novel strat-egy in Manhattan and the Bronx of intense baiting in so-called “rat reservoirs” — around parks, subways and sewers — which the city says gas reduced rat sightings in those areas by 80 to 90 percent.

However, none of the initial focus areas listed in the initiative’s pilot program are located in Lower Manhattan. What’s left for now then is teaching local businesses about best practices and working with the Sanitation Dept. to improve col-lection efforts and provide solar compactors and other rat-proof bins.

Residents seem to think it’s not enough, espe-cially when it comes to garbage bags left out on the street, an easy meal for rats that can chew through most anything.

“On any given night there are mountains of garbage, and there has to be a better way of han-dling this,” said Patricia Moore, the committee’s chairperson who lives in the Financial District. “The rats just feast on the garbage.”

Suggestions to remedy the problem were dis-cussed at the meeting and ranged from mandating prompt pickup times or cold storage facilities to keep the garbage overnight, to increasing fines for construction sites that contribute to the problem.

“We can brainstorm all we want, but we need someone in the city to take ownership of this problem,” Lapson said. “It’s really getting out of hand.”

In the meantime the best advice offered at the committee meeting was to call in complaints, pref-erably in bulk.

“I know 311 can be a pain, but more often than not, when you’re calling 311, you get results,” Moore said.

Howard Hughes Corp. has nixed its plan to build a controver-sial canopy for the new Pier 17’s rooftop in the South Street Seaport.

Last month the Landmarks Preservation Commission ques-tioned the height of the canopy when Hughes went before it with its plan. On Thurs., Sept. 24, Chris Curry, the Hughes executive in charge of the project, told Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee that there would not be a canopy as they were unable to meet the L.P.C.’s specifi-cations.

“We made a number of changes to the canopy proposal per L.P.C.’s request but ultimately could not achieve a viable scenario to gain approval for the canopy,” Curry said in an email statement Friday.

Reps for the company would not answer questions about what specif-ically could not be met, if an alter-native will be proposed or whether this will affect how the space is used. The canopy was to protect the rooftop in inclement weather.

Initially embraced by the commu-nity — the canopy was a suggestion of the Seaport Working Group —

there were concerns over how it be used and how much access the pub-lic would have. C.B. 1 voted against the canopy at its full board meeting in July.

The new Pier 17 design was approved two years ago and

Hughes is applying for revisions under a new land use application known as ULURP. Even though the Pier 17 changes are not proceeding, Hughes will still need a new ULURP since it is also proposing to demol-ish two non-historic buildings and

build a new road way for delivery trucks.

– DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC AND JOSH ROGERS

Howard Hughes Corp. is not proceeding with this plan to build a rooftop canopy on this structure to be built on Pier 17.

Hughes cuts canopy from Pier 17 plan


BY JANEL BLADOW

Once again it’s fall and around our neighborhood that means lots of fun stuff.

YUM! YUM!...The 6th annual Taste of the Seaport is set for Saturday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., so mark your calendars! Last year more than 45 restaurants took part and some 4,500 people enjoyed the eats and fun, including a 40,000-square- foot kid zone and a stage with local bands and lots of dancing.

All proceeds benefit the local schools — both Peck Slip and Spruce Street — arts programs.

Organizers promise even more fun activities this year and a bonus treat.

Lauren Scala of WNBC News will serve as celebrity host of a fun, new feature event: live cooking demos from three local chefs — Ivan Beacco (Acqua, 21 Peck Slip), Dina Rata (Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St.) and Julian Medina (Toloache Taqueria, 83 Maiden Lane).

The Kids Zone is back in full force. Also returning is New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital with its Teddy Bear clinic and an actual ambulance to explore. New to the Zone is the South Street Seaport Museum with its Mini Mates program and other nau-tical-inspired children’s activities. And organizers even added a second stage, just for the kids with their own music and bands.

Again, more than 45 restaurants and businesses will line the cobbled streets along Front Street and Peck Slip. And the adult music stage on Fulton and Front promises some big name acts.

For tickets, visit the Taste of the Seaport pages on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

TOTS’ TRICK OR TREAT…And as any

long time Seaport resident knows, this is a special time in our hood. For 26 years we’ve had the annual Seaport Halloween trick or treat parade with kids from six months to well over 60 dressed in cos-tumes and enjoying the fun.

This year’s parade, hosted by the Old Seaport Alliance, starts in Peck Slip Plaza (between Water & South Sts.) at 6 p.m., Sat., Oct. 31, as part of a full day of events and Halloween celebrations. Prizes for best costumes will be doled out along with a map of restaurants and shops giving out candy and treats.

“Halloween has been a long-running tradition in the Seaport, where kids come from all over Lower Manhattan to walk the cobblestone streets and enjoy the night,” said Whitney Barrat, executive director of Old Seaport Alliance, who expects up to 200 children of all ages.

“It’s always been a great opportunity for the wonderful shops and restaurants down here to demonstrate their dedica-tion to the community as they greet trick-or-treaters and give out great candy,” she said.

THE HOUNDS ARE HOWLING…It’s yip, yip, hooray for Howl-o-ween again as the seventh annual Salty Paw Halloween party promises more canine costumes than ever. Hosted by Grand Master Oliver the Green Lobster (a.k.a. Moose the bulldog), the party kicks off on Friday, Oct. 30 (5:30 – 7:30 p.m.) with a few tricks (beg, play dead) and treats (anyone up for a bone?) in the Peck Slip Plaza outside the pet shop (38 Peck Slip).

Come and see the pet parade and cos-tume show. Best costume judges this year are celebrity dog trainer Travis Brorsen and Terri from the Seaport Animal Hospital. Beware of some way-too-cute bowsers!

WALK THE WILD SIDE OF HISTORY…This month has another added bonus. The South Street Seaport Museum launched “Archtober Tours,” walking tours illuminating the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Seaport’s Fourth Ward. The tours take place Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. with tickets ($10 Adults, $8 Museum Members, $5 Children) available at southstreetseaport-museum.org.

There’s one more tour of the “Hidden History of the Brooklyn Bridge” on Oct. 15. Learn about the secret vaults, under-ground rooms filled with priceless draw-ings, passageways, fortified bomb shelter and more beneath the iconic granite towers.

Then on Oct. 22 and 29, go back in time to the 19th century’s wickedest ward, where sailors in port were looking for a good time in the district known for its vice and crime. The buildings still stand — the Meyer’s Hotel (now the Paris Café), where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hit out, and salty pubs like Kit Burns’ Sportsmen Hall. Walk on the wild Seaport streets with tour director William Roka, Collections & Operations Assistant at the museum.

POOCH PHOTOS…A quick remind-er to all you dog folks, photographer and neighbor Debra Florez — mom to golden retriever Arthur — takes pup portraits at the Fishbridge Dog Park (Pearl & Dover Sts.) on Saturday, start-ing at 11 a.m. R.S.V.P. on his Facebook page: Arthur Dugless McMurray Bach. Suggested donation is $20, to benefit our community-maintained dog run.

OH RATS!...The rats are as big as cats (see P. 9). And not nearly as shy or aloof, as I can attest.

I had visitors in from upstate last

week and we went round the neighbor-hood, them sightseeing, me showing off our great little spot in Manhattan. That was until the rats were sighted.

As we walked all along South St., these huge buggers came out by the dozens and scurried around. During one stop, we were entertained — or maybe more repulsed — by the multitude of speedy gray rodents zipping in and out the canopy covering the construction of the Marketplace building and under cars parked along Beekman St.

The problem has definitely grown worse in recent years, not that we’ve ever been without these pests on the waterfront. Something more does need to be done than just have meetings about all the garbage. Call 311 and complain. And meanwhile, pick up and tie up your garbage folks!

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The annual run honoring a firefighter who gave his life at the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 received positive reviews this year, after the organizers chose to stop serving alcohol at the event.

Members of Community Board 1 praised their will-ingness to listen to residents’ feedback at a meeting of the Battery Park City Committee on Tues., Oct. 6.

“It gets better every year,” said Tom Goodkind, a member of the committee. “I think this is one of the few groups we have that has stuck to successfully commemo-rating 9/11.”

The organizers of the run, which is officially called the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk, agreed to eliminate a small area serving beer after residents complained about drunken spec-tators last year.

The event is named for Stephen Siller, a firefighter who raced through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. The run leads from the tunnel up through Battery Park City and cuts back onto West St. by way of Warren St.

“At their last application we asked them to make some changes, which they seem to have done. From some reports, it seems to have improved,” said Anthony Notaro, the committee’s chairperson.

Despite the positive reception, some proposed changing the route of the run and the accompanying street fair on Vesey St. in the future.

John Hodge, of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, said he was happy the event was well received this year, but resisted the explanation for the change.

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This year’s Tunnel to Towers Run on Sept. 27.

David Marwell, the found-ing chief executive and direc-tor of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, is resigning from the Battery Park City museum and will give up his post at the end of the year.

Marwell, 63, in his resig-nation letter to Bruce Ratner, the museum’s chairperson, said he had many special memories in his 18 years, including the museum’s commencing construction on the mas-sive Morgenthau Wing early in 2002, a few months after 9/11 when Lower Manhattan was still reeling.

“I have had a book project in mind for some time that will detail my involve-ment with the Josef Mengele investiga-tion, and I think that now is the time to sit down and write it,” Marwell wrote, referencing the notorious Nazi war crim-inal he helped catch while at the U.S. Justice Dept.

Ratner, in a memo to staff, said Marwell “has brilliantly guided the museum….To say that David has left his mark on the museum is an understate-ment and he will be greatly missed.”

Marwell has led the muse-um, also known as A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,

since its opening in 1997 at 36 Battery Pl. Ratner has asked Marwell to remain

as president of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, which works closely with the Jewish center at the site of the Polish concentration camp. He has also asked the museum board to give Marwell the title of director emeritus.

Neither museum leader responded to an interview request left through a spokesperson. Ratner did not mention the successor search in his memo.

— JOSH ROGERS

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G. Scott Anderson, born in Hawaii and raised in Brooklyn, has been at Borough of Manhattan Community College for 20 years, the last 15 as vice president of administration and planning. He has seen the college through 9/11, the Northeast blackout of 2003 and Superstorm Sandy, and is one of the leaders of B.M.C.C.’s sustainability efforts. He sat down recently with Downtown Express at its main campus at 199 Chambers St. and talked about how those events, especially 9/11, affected the college’s green projects today.

Interview has been edited and con-densed.

—DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC

What did you study at college? How did you get into college admin-istration?

My undergraduate work, half of it was in the UK. I studied political the-ory and British labor history [in the] 19th century. I got a chance to study the coal miners in northern Wales. I

did a project on the wives, widows and mothers of World War I veterans.

I came back to America and was offered a job at the City University of New York, in higher education administration and I stayed with it. I started at Queensborough Community College so I believe in the community college. I also believe that working in administration, I could probably affect policy. Here I am, still.

How has your job changed?The job that I took is not the job

that it became after 9/11 — the job changed so much. I became much more focused on space management.

I started off being mostly involved in the finance side but less than 12 months later, when we lost Fiterman Hall when the Towers came down, we lost 40 percent of our instruction-al capacity — 70 classrooms disap-peared that day. We had to find out how we could structure the teaching clock, the workweek so that could absorb the same press of people. We had about 16,600 students on 9/11.

On January 15, 2002, we went up to 17,400. It was the opposite of what people thought.

We kept this building open and it serviced about eight different agencies [including the] U.S. Army, N.Y.P.D., F.D.N.Y. and the search dogs.

There were men and women who refused to get off the pile. They would work 12, 16 hours, come to the cam-pus, catch two to three hours sleep and go right back. Some of them slept sitting down.

We were able to reopen our college on Oct. 1, three weeks after the event. We were pressed for space, but we were able to open. The other schools that had their staff leave…were out of commission for the entire semester. Many of them didn’t open until the following February.

Did B.M.C.C.’s sustainability efforts have anything to do with 9/11?

In a very strange way, it did. In November, December the universi-ty…did a request for proposals. There [were] some funding or grant monies available and I put in a proposal for what I call the non-terrestrially based communications — basically…solar panels. A point-to-point laser com-munications system — something like microwave beaming.

We have a four-block long roof, one of the longest roofs in New York. About two and half blocks of it is totally unobstructed with a view toward New Jersey. For about one block, you can actually see the Municipal Building. My idea, at the time, was if we could put up a microwave, or solar panel system, we could act as a conduit or hub for any commu-nication that might fall off the grid. From the Municipal Building to B.M.C.C.’s roof to New Jersey and then sling-

shot Uptown. It is really easy to do in terms of telecommunications. It happens in nanoseconds. That was the first push.

I first made the pitch in 2001 and that’s when the issue of falling off the grid — not having reliable power — is what drove me to argue for a rooftop communication system that depended on free energy, which is solar panels.

In a funny way 9/11 sort of drove us to think about it. Lo and behold, 2003, we fell of the grid, in fact the whole Northeast fell off the grid.

So, I was looking for just enough alternative energy to run our facility where we would have enough power to keep our web service going.

Borough President [Scott] Stringer actually gave us money to put a solar panel on the roof. We didn’t realize how long it was going to take for the engineering side of this to be worked out. Some good things happened even though there has been a hiatus. The panels are a little, little cheaper. They’re far more efficient than they were six, seven years ago and they’re also lighter, which makes a difference.

We want to start installing beginning April 1 of next year. [Once completed] it will be the largest one in Manhattan.

Will that be enough to power this building?

No, but it’ll be enough to power emergency services. We’ve fallen

off the grid several times since I’ve been here.

I’ve been here 20 years so that’s every five years almost. I’m saying, ‘oh, man, what’s going to happen next.’

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The good news is this: even if you’re still required to go to work, the holi-day means traffic will be lighter than usual.

Special alert for the Brooklyn Bridge! All Manhattan-bound lanes will close for 54 consecutive hours, midnight Friday through 6 a.m. Monday. That will send drivers over the Manhattan Bridge and onto Delancey St., as well as down to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and onto West St.

The Hudson River crossings will get hit too, with the Giants taking on the 49ers 8:30 p.m. Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Expect extra traf-fic in the Holland Tunnel as drivers avoiding the Lincoln Tunnel jet down Seventh Ave. onto Varick.

The Concrete Canyon Run 2015 will close South St. between Broad St. and Old Slip 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.

The Bowling Green Association will close Whitehall St. between Stone and Water Sts., Broadway between Morris and Stone Sts., and Broadway between Liberty St. and Battery Pl. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday.

The Stone Street Pedestrian Mall will close Stone St. between Hanover Sq. and Broad St., and Mill Ln. between Stone and South William Sts., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day this week.

On West St./Route 9A, one south-bound lane will close between West

Thames and Vesey Sts. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Late-night homecoming won’t be easy for Lower Manhattanites on Thursday. In the Lincoln Tunnel, the New York-bound south tube will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday, sending inbound traf-fic south to the Holland Tunnel. Meanwhile, one New York-bound and one New Jersey-bound lane of the Holland Tunnel will close during the same period.

The following Lower Manhattan streets will be closed all week: Thames St. between Greenwich St. and Trinity Pl., Fletcher St. between Front and South Sts., and Dutch St. between Fulton and John Sts.

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BY LINCOLN ANDERSONIs that it? Unfortunately, basically

— yes!The fake facade being erected around

an M.T.A. fan plant at Mulry Square looks incomplete, but actually that’s pretty much what it’s going to look like.

The phony facade will conceal emer-gency exhaust fans for the Seventh and Eighth Ave. subway lines that run underneath it.

Jessica Seigel, a lifelong Villager who teaches journalism at N.Y.U., recently was passing by the strange structure, at the intersection of Seventh Ave. South, Greenwich Ave. and W. 11th St., and was shocked at what she saw — and even more shocked at what the con-struction workers there told her about it.

According to Seigel, two hard hats on a break said they were perplexed at the unfinished cement facade, so con-trary to their experience in construction, in which exposed, pocked cement gen-erally goes underneath an exterior finishing layer.

“We can’t believe it either,” one man, who identified himself as a supervisor, told Seigel, declining to give his name for fear of repercussions.

Repeatedly asked if they were sure the design was complete, both men said yes because they had worked erecting the structure — and felt bad they had to execute such an ugly plan.

“It’s really something, isn’t it?” the supervisor asked, both men snickering at the hulking, raw cement shell.

“It is hideous beyond words and outrageous,” Seigel told Downtown Express. “I don’t understand how any licensed architect could design and any agency approve what looks like a cement bunker wearing a brick Mardi Gras mask on one side of its face. It’s bizarre that the Landmarks Preservation Commission is charged with protecting our historic community, down to even the color of the mortar on my own fami-ly’s 1835 brownstone renovation, yet the M.T.A. is allowed to build what looks like an unfinished, three-story fallout shelter in the heart of Greenwich Village with no oversight whatsoever.”

Shirley Secunda, chairperson of the Community Board 2 Traffic and Transportation Committee, sadly con-firmed the workers’ report.

“It pains me to say, this is it,” she said. “Horrendous, right? In 2011 we asked M.T.A. NYC Transit to go to the

Landmarks Preservation Commission to review the latest iteration of the plan at that time. L.P.C. hated it and suggest-

ed, more or less, that a design that reflects what the building’s

doing would be better. “NYC Transit used that

as an excuse to go ahead with the current barebones,

cement-block-like ‘fauxcade’ design,” Secunda said. “Never

mind that in 2010 we had submit-ted a beautiful, industrial-type alterna-tive housing designed by architect and C.B. 2 member Anita Brandt that would be more in keeping with the purpose of the building. Never mind that in 2014 we again implored NYC Transit to withdraw the fauxcade design — to no avail.”

Ironically, the M.T.A., since it’s a state agency, didn’t even need L.P.C. approval.

Basically, the earlier design included brick facing around the whole structure, but this was then later modified, leaving large expanses of exposed concrete. The new design provoked an outcry, but NYC Transit wouldn’t budge.

And it doesn’t end there. Secunda said the transit agency is now even resisting the community board’s efforts to try to “soften” the Brutalist-Federalist mash-up facade, plus determine what will go on with the small amount of open space in front of the fan plant.

“We suggested using Boston ivy vines, which hardly need any main-tenance, or a mural,” Secunda said, adding despairingly, “I don’t think this thing even qualifies as a fauxcade!”

No, say it ain’t faux! M.T.A. plant hits the fan

Photo by Jessica Seigel

Yes, this is what the M.T.A. fan plant really is going to look like, according to Community Board 2. The windows at least will be prettied up a bit.

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BY VICTORIA GRANTHAMIn a post-9/11 world, with active

shooter drills in schools and bag scans at theaters, the question of how much we should share with our kids comes up a lot. We live two blocks from the Twin Towers, turned Ground Zero, turned Freedom Tower/One World Trade Center, and we’ve been here for 15 years — witness to the transformation — so sometimes the question literally seems like it’s looming.

I tend to err on the side of avoidance

because my older son, 5, is quite sensitive. He absorbs what he hears, considers it, and is sometimes scared of it.

I learned this the hard way when, a couple years ago, I let him watch a canine adventure story. The movie was G, but there was a cat in it who kept chasing the dog hissing “kill, kill.” For a while my son avoided cats and images of cats — today he’s wary of them.

He’s older now, but it’s evident that he still pays close attention. At Barnes & Noble recently, he saw a Smithsonian magazine with an image of the Titanic on it. I know it made an impression because he talked about it for weeks and he brings it up whenever we ride the ferry.

He started kindergarten in September. The adjustment seemed minor — no tears! Friday of the first week was 9/11. After school we picked both kids up and dropped them at my sister-in-law’s in New Jersey so we could attend a wedding.

We returned on Sunday in time for family dinner. During the meal, my sister-in-law said, “Do you know about 9/11?” I looked at her quizzically. Before I could

respond, our five-year old said, “bad guys flew planes into the towers, people were trapped. They tried to escape, but the buildings collapsed and a lot of people died.” I was shocked. “The new tower that’s there has a spear that will skewer the bad guys if they try again.”

“What?” I said. “Where did you learn

this?” my husband asked. “In class,” our son replied. “I thought maybe you knew,” my sis-

ter-in-law said. We didn’t. I don’t know what I said after that,

but it was something that betrayed my discomfort about why the school/teacher would broach this subject with kinder-gartners without alerting us. I know this because my sister-in-law, trained as a ther-apist, later coached me about getting my game face on and not inadvertently trans-mitting to my son that he did something wrong. Message received: working on it.

In the meantime, I wrote an email to the teacher conveying dismay. I said I understood the calculation that could’ve occurred — perhaps other children with older siblings or families with a different approach were informed and she thought it best to level the playing field, for exam-ple — but I said we wished we had at least been alerted so we could better support him at the right level. And frankly, so I could’ve been a better actress.

I explained that in addition to living in the neighborhood during 9/11, my hus-

band made a career transition post-attack — from marketing independent films to firefighting. So, needless to say, we were indelibly impacted by it, and perhaps we’re more adamant about shielding our children from it than others.

To her credit, the overworked teacher called and had a long conversation with me about it. She said the administrators told her to address 9/11 in terms of an anniversary, so she talked about happy anniversaries (her wedding) and sad ones and asked if anyone knew what happened on 9/11 years ago. She said she was surprised because some knew a lot. She said that she worked to focus the conversation on the helpers.

The fact that she took time with me made me feel better. I still don’t think she demonstrated the best judgment, but I understand she was directed to discuss it and also that maybe we’re more protec-tive than most.

I now realize that the biggest issue for me is not my son learning about the fact that there’s evil in the world and that sometimes horrible things happen that we can’t control — I believe he knows this on some level already — but rather that he’s growing up so fast. It’s clichéd, but true.

There’s a picture of the four of us together on his first day of school. I see his long legs, collared shirt and half smile— all faint outlines of what’s ahead. I’m proud of the thoughtful, sweet young boy he’s becoming, but I’m also strug-gling with saying goodbye to the baby that my firstborn once was. Say goodbye I must though, and hello to a new phase — as he starts to navigate his own way in this beautiful, awful world of ours.

Victoria Grantham, a writer and communications professional, is raising her family in Tribeca.

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‘The new tower…has a spear that will skewer the bad guys if they try again.’

BY LENORE SKENAZY The upside of cancer? Not sure there is one. But

there does seem to be one side of cancer that is the opposite of terror, loneliness and pain: The unexpected friendships that grow just like those damn cells.

“I was diagnosed pretty young — 31,” says Stacey Gordon, a Bronx native living in Alabama who is now — knock wood — 51.

Gordon had already moved down there with the Air Force when she found herself facing breast cancer.

“I wasn’t married, I was all alone,” recalls the per-sonal trainer, so she decided to gather a group of other breast cancer comrades to exercise with. This, despite the fact that the doctors back then “wanted to wrap you in cotton.”

The group exercised to the point where they were fit enough, a few years later, for a bigger challenge: Mt. Kilimanjaro, which, Gordon hastens to add, “was not a cliché back then.”

As close as she was with the group, it wasn’t until she was climbing with them — and realizing that she couldn’t make it to the top — that she really got to know another member named Jane, who couldn’t go any fur-ther either.

“We probably had almost nothing in common. She was married and had older children and was very Southern. Perfectly coifed, perfect makeup. She’s also very religious and Christian. Me, I was young, I’m gay, I’m Jewish.”

Somehow, they talked about it all — even while touring Tanzania — and went back tight friends. So tight that when Jane grabbed her hand to pray, “I used to be embarrassed about it,” says Gordon, “but that kind of changed.”

And so did Gordon. Something very angry started

melting away. (She also went back and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro a few years later.)

For Stephanie Johnson, a new friendship began even before she knew for sure she had breast cancer.

“I was working part time at a bar,” says the beauty consultant and photographer. She’d just learned she needed a biopsy on her left breast, when into the bar walked a woman “covered in pink everything. She was wearing scarves, and breast cancer-related jewelry. I approached her and said, ‘I’m sorry to bother you but … are you dealing with breast cancer?’ ”

The woman — Robin — answered “Yes” and gave her some friendly tips on how to get through the biopsy. When the results came back positive, Stephanie contact-ed her again and the stranger became a mentor.

It was Robin who gave Stephanie a basket filled with lip balm, a lap blanket to keep her warm during chemo-therapy, and tissues.

Lots of tissues.“I was like, ‘Why am I going to need these?’ ” says

Stephanie. Robin explained that when hair falls out, it all falls out — including nose hair. This leaves people sniffling.

Once again, an odd couple was born: Robin went to bible study. Stephanie was covered with head to toe tattoos.

“I think we would never have interacted if it weren’t for breast cancer,” says Stephanie.

But once the two became friends, Stephanie turned

around and became the “Robin” to other women with the same diagnosis —right down to delivering gift bas-kets of blanket, balm, and Kleenex.

“In some ways, helping someone else deal with their fears makes it easier to face your own,” says Jenn McRobbie, author of “Why Is She Acting So Weird? A Guide to Cultivating Closeness When a Friend is in Crisis.”

Cancer friendships may be based on some powerful mix of empathy, courage and desperation, but at their root is always kindness.

“It happened to me on various levels,” says McRobbie. “When I was walking through the mall and I was bald as a cue ball, I would have women walk up to me and hug me and just say, ‘Solider on, sister,’ and then they’d just keep walking. They didn’t feel the need to tell me why they felt that way.”

But as close as she grew to some of the strangers she met, she was also surprised to see some of her usual circle of friends slip away, simply freaked out by what she was going through.

That’s another reason cancer friends can be so crucial.

“We’re all in the same boat,” says Haralee Weintraub, a breast cancer survivor now selling pajamas that keep women cool during the night sweats that can accompany the disease. She’s been in an exercise and support group for nearly a decade.

“Our conversations go beyond, ‘What do you do for a living?’ ” says Haralee. “They’re about what’s more important in your life.”

And what’s more important than feeling loved and connected?

Lenore Skenazy is a keynote speaker and the author and founder of the book and blog Free-Range Kids.

Friendship, the pink cancer’s rosy side

BY JENNIFER GOODSTEIN NYC Community Media and

Community News Group are honored to join the fight against breast can-cer. October is breast cancer awareness month and we are delighted to present inspiring stories and important informa-tion in our papers covering Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx.

Volunteers in particular, are the unsung heroes whose efforts behind the scenes are instrumental in turn-ing tragedy into triumph for millions of Americans every year. These self-less individuals, families, community groups, schools and corporations toil diligently and mostly without fan-fare — sometimes around the clock — to do their part in helping to conquer a potentially killer disease

that will claim the lives of 40,000 women and 440 men before the year ends, accord-ing to the American Cancer Society.

The good news is:• There are more than

2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States today.

• The five-year rela-tive survival rate for female invasive breast cancer patients has jumped from 75 percent in the mid-1970s to 90 percent today. The strides can be attributed in

no small measure to the ordinary people who rise to the extraordi-

nary occasion, demon-strating time and again the incredible strength and power of unity when affliction strikes. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an opportunity for us at NYC Community Media and Community News Group to praise altruists of all stripes, share some of their

stories, and herald them for comman-deering the spirit needed to aid and support the stricken on their difficult journey to good health.

Like most people, my husband and I have had friends and family who have battled cancer, including a close

friend who has survived three bouts with breast cancer. Anyone who has watched the impact of this terrible disease on sufferers and their loved ones understands the urgent need to find a cure.

We hope our second annual “pink paper” publications and their inspi-rational stories about our common human desire to help others will encourage our readers to volunteer in their communities, in order to give breast cancer patients the hope and support they urgently need and deserve.

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Posted To“Hughes firm cuts canopy from Pier

17 plan at South Street Seaport”(POSTED, SEPT. 28)

Anyone who went to the Landmarks Meeting at which this was discussed can see why the canopy was ultimately nixed. The real reason was the possibility of concerts for up to 4,000 people with noise that would not only carry all over the neighborhood but across to Brooklyn.

Zette

You do realize that the space is still the same and they will still have events which accommodate the same amount of people

or more. They will just use ugly tents if it rains, which will actually block the view, instead of the transparent canopy that was proposed. So what was the reason?

The only people who lose in this are residents like me who envisioned my young daughter playing soccer on that space even in the event of weather like today. 99% of the time, use will be for residents. And we certainly won’t have the funds for giant tents.

You were bamboozled because the concerts are still coming. But my kid’s soccer game was just canceled.

DenB

I completely agree with DenB — it is sad really—that CB1 and Landmarks gang keep trying to keep this project from moving forward. It is really the children and young families who suffer as a result of the board’s stubbornness. I hope HHC keeps trying because the silent majority is really not being well served here. The rooftop canopy is a fantastic idea as well as so many other of the new develop-ment ideas. I simply do not understand what the preservationists are trying to preserve— rat infested buildings and tourist traps, I guess.

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BY SHAVANA ABRUZZO Volunteers have been the heart and

soul of our nation since the early col-onists helped each other plant crops and survive in the New World. The fig-ures show we continue to rely on one another for aid and comfort through tough times, making selflessness a national pastime.

More than 62 million Americans volunteered more than 7 billion hours last year, reports the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Volunteers are twice as likely to donate to charity as nonvolunteers.

More than 138 million Americans are engaged in “informal volunteering” in their communities, including car-pooling, helping neighbors with such tasks as watching each other’s children and helping the elderly with shopping or house sitting.

There are many local vollies who go the extra mile for breast cancer patients.

Brooklyn Development Center worker Annette Thomas was a can-cer warrior long before she became a cancer survivor, putting her best foot forward in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Walk for more than 20 years before learning she had esophageal cancer during a routine endoscopy in 2008.

“I was called back to the doctor’s office to hear the dreaded words — ‘You have cancer,’” said the Canarsie resident, 58, who conquered the dis-ease within a year through surgery and chemotherapy.

The close brush with death gave her a new lease on life, and renewed her desire to keep volunteering.

“It is an exhilarating feeling to know I fought cancer and won,” said Thomas, who plans to walk with family and friends in the Making Strides fund-raiser at Prospect Park on Oct. 18.

She is more than happy to walk the walk.

“I am so blessed in my life on a daily basis, so volunteerism is only a small token of my appreciation for

what I receive,” Thomas said. “We should help out in any area to make the world a better place.”

Clinton Hill resident Diane Greene, 71, enjoys robust health — she bikes, skis, roller blades and goes dancing each week.

“I am thankful that my body works and that I can use it — it’s a gift and I appreciate that,” said the retired aesthetician, who began volunteering three years ago with the American Cancer Society’s Look Good, Feel Better and wig-styling programs.

Greene worked for 30 years at Bloomingdale’s, Elizabeth Arden and other top-tier establishments, count-ing celebrities among her clients. But these days she finds fulfillment in help-ing cancer patients look and feel their best with free makeup and wig-styling lessons at medical facilities.

“Appearance is everything to a woman,” said Greene, who volunteers at Hematology Oncology Associates in Midwood and the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene. “We are all hardwired to appreciate beauty, and

people react to you in a kinder way when you look nice.”

Women who have never worn makeup before become devotees after a brush with Greene’s expertise.

“You do their eyelashes, put some color on them, and they begin to smile again,” she said. “It really transforms them.”

A breast cancer patient in her early 50s was so moved by her stunning new look that she handmade Greene a pair of scarves in appreciation.

“She said I had done something nice for her and she wanted to do the same for me,” she said. “It made me really happy.”

A world in turmoil is all the more reason to help one another, claims Greene, who has participated in breast cancer walks and provided free make-up for opera singers.

“As humans we should be helping, not hurting each other,” she said. “The success of mankind is that man has always reached out to help other humans, that’s how we’ve progressed.”

“Sheryl’s Warriors” are raring to

kick breast cancer to the curb — using 1,400 pairs of steel-nerved feet.

Team leader Sheryl Phillip’s 700-strong squad of foot soldiers has raised $10,000 — and counting — for research through the Making Strides Walk, in a dream come true for the East Flatbush resident, 39, who two years ago was battling a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that tore through her chest like wildfire.

“I went from being in Stage 1 to Stage 3B in six weeks,” said Phillip, who survived grueling chemother-apy, surgery and radiation, after-ward pledging to become a volunteer with the American Cancer Society. “I made a promise to myself that when I got better, I would help someone else as those before me did.”

The youngest of Sheryl’s Warriors is 5 years old and the oldest is 78, but they all stand shoulder to shoulder in their mission to torpedo cancer.

“We have all been touched by this disease, and are walking for someone we love,” said Phillip, who will lead her warriors in the Prospect Park trek.

Volunteers are integral to the healing, she stressed.

“People with cancer don’t like to ask for help,” noted Phillip, who participated in case studies and clin-ical trials during her treatment. “But we need help, preparing meals and taking care of ourselves. And just knowing that someone is there and willingly helping you is such a relief.”

The anti-cancer drug she takes every day was made possible in part through the fundraising efforts of volunteers, she said.

“I would not be here today, if it wasn’t for money raised by others for research,” stated Phillip, whose success story is the best pill of all. “It feels wonderful to be a survivor. Knowing that I have won this battle makes me feel great!”

Helping, healing, volunteers are the difference

Along with her 700-strong squad of “Sheryl’s Warriors” foot soldiers, Sheryl Phillip, far left, has raised $10,000 — and counting — for breast cancer research through the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Walk.

Darlene Lutz is a fine-art dealer and longtime resident of western Soho — which she adamantly refuses to call Hudson Square.

For years, she was Madonna’s per-sonal art adviser. Earlier this year, she protested the loud and disruptive Nike Zoom City temporary venue for the NBA All-Star Game that was built on Trinity Real Estate’s vacant lot at Duarte Square, at Canal St. and Sixth Ave. Back then, she said that the beeping, construction noise and diesel fumes from the site all were not helping her recovery, and was planning to spend some days at the James Hotel a bit farther away.

Lutz declined to have her photo run with this Q&A, noting she values her ano-nymity walking down the street. Plus, she said, “I’m a vain woman!”

Downtown Express: Hi, Darlene. As a breast cancer survivor, what does Breast Cancer Awareness Month mean to you?

Lutz: I don’t identify with the “survivor” label. Having B.C. is an endurance test. I actually loathe the pink wash that accom-panies Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

DE: When were you diagnosed?L: I received my diagnosis three years

ago, in the form of, “The bad news is, it is breast cancer. The good news is, it’s garden variety.”

The pregame was an intense eight weeks. There are many cogs to the diag-nosis wheel. Everyone was a lot nicer and responsive once I had invasive, but nonle-thal, breast cancer.

DE: How are you now?L: I no longer have breast cancer.

There are as many types of breast can-cer as there are breasts. One treatment size doesn’t fit all. Having breast cancer became my full-time job. I focused on obtaining the best course of treatment for my specific case. I just finished the last of my reconstruction surgeries a few months ago.

DE: Are you involved in the breast cancer community?

L: I’m not really a joiner. But I try and keep up on recent medical data, and I participate in an online community forum from time to time. I’m good at aggregating

data, and I have binders full of doctors I consulted with.

DE: Do celebrities with breast cancer who go public help or hurt?

L: In my opinion, it depends on how they present their case. B.C. is really complicated and highly individual. I think Angelina Jolie did a great job articu-lating her case by disclosing personal medical data publicly. On the other end

of the spectrum, our governor’s girlfriend appeared uninformed and hysterical about her B.C. She didn’t disclose the diagnosis, and said her days were numbered, which apparently wasn’t true.

DE: Anything else?L: It’s Breast Cancer Awareness

Month, so feel free to lower your eyes to my breasts. They’re not real and pretty spectacular.

Q&A with Soho’s Darlene Lutz; Doing it her way

The Volunteer Referral Center & Bellevue Hospital Center invites you to learn more about volunteer oppor-tunities in healthcare. Use your career skills or develop new ones to make a difference in a healthcare setting.

Thurs., Oct. 15, 3–6 p.m. at Bellevue Hospital Center (Saul Farber Auditorium, E. 27th St. & First Ave.). RSVP to 212-889-4805, visit volunteer-referral.org or send an email to [email protected].

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“IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D BE HOME”: Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St. at Hudson Street; (212) 274–0986; www.cmany.org; Mondays, Noon to 5 pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, closed, Thursdays and Fridays, Noon to 6 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 am to 5 pm, Now – Sun, Jan. 17, 2016; $12 (Free for members and children under 1). This exhibition takes cartography and mapping as its starting point and includes contemporary artists whose work references maps and mapping.

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BLOCK PARTY: Battery Park City, 6 River Terrace; (212) 417–2000; www.batteryparkcity.org; Mondays, 10 am to 11 am, Now – Mon, Nov. 23; $210 (10 sessions). Young children develop and refine motor skills and lay the founda-tion of math, spatial relations and sequencing with building toys. For children ages 3 years to 4 years old. (No classes on Oct. 12).

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BASKETBALL CLINIC: Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City; www.bpcparks.org/event; Mondays, 3:30–5:30 pm, Now – Mon, Oct. 26; Free. Staffers teach children of all ages the basics of the sport. No class Oct. 12.

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BY LORI KRAVITZSheldon (Shelly) J. Kravitz, a media

advertising businessman who was known as one of the real “Mad Men,” died on Sat., Oct. 3. He was 85.

Kravitz was born in Brooklyn, the son of Dr. Daniel Kravitz and Lillian Kravitz.

Kravitz, who lived on the Upper East Side, leaves behind his wife of 31 years, Lori, and the apple of his eye, 15-year-old son Daniel. He was a truly devoted father. He also leaves behind his only brother, Paul, and his family of friends whom he adored.

His versatility started with his love of football, which began when he started playing the sport at Poly Prep. He went on to medical school, and also earned a law degree. He was an accomplished trumpet player, starting his own swing band. His love of music expanded to his own home recording studio, where he would create voiceover introductions on tapes and CD’s, so he could share his passion with others.

Kravitz’s decades as an advertising man were highlighted by his years spent as TWA’s head of advertising. He spoke

fondly of his years spent at the airline company.

He was best known to his friends by his bigger-than-life personality. He was an engaging conversationalist. In his presence, all felt they were with some-one with a generous spirit and enor-mous heart. He spoke of all the famous people he knew, never realizing just how famous he was himself.

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BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVICNow in its third year, the Chelsea

Film Festival has a fresh theme, and is launching two new programs. This time around, the Oct. 15–18 festival is setting its sight on women in film and media.

“It’s something that we decided to focus on this year,” Ingrid Jean-Baptiste, the festival’s co-found-er, explained in a phone interview. “However, it’s always been an element that was never really named. We tried to make it equal in terms of having work from male and female filmmak-ers.”

The festival, which focuses on glob-al issues, has always had the tagline “Making the World a Better Place,” she said.

That phrase is how the whole festi-val started — making the world a bet-ter place through cinema by screening films that share a specific message.

Much of the work presented in the lineup this year, Jean-Baptiste said, finds women writing, directing and producing. Women directed five films, produced eight of them, and wrote six.

Ruth Berdah-Canet, for instance, directed the documentary “For You Were Once Strangers,” which looks at three South Sudanese families that fled their country for Israel.

“The closing film and opening are really gorgeous as well,” observed Jean-Baptiste.

The festival opens with “Solitary,” directed by Sasha Krane, and starring Katharine Lee McEwan, who also wrote the screenplay. Jean-Baptiste called the thriller, which explores what happens when childhood secrets are revealed, “very powerful.”

“Valley,” directed by Sophie Artus, will close the festival. In Artus’ debut feature, she portrays the lives of three teenagers dealing with violence in an isolated Northern Israel town called Migdal HaEmek.

Films for the festival are carefully chosen. A selection committee reviews all the films that are submitted — this year Jean-Baptiste said there were

1,000 — from Jan. to the end of the July.

The committee also looks at a film’s premiere status, as Jean-Baptiste said it is important for the festival to feature New York premieres.

This year, over 60 works will be shown, including features, documen-taries and short films. Fifteen of them will compete for the festival’s Grand Prix.

The idea for the Chelsea Film

Festival was spurred by wanting to “promote films from emerging direc-tors,” Jean-Baptiste explained. After thinking about how that could be accomplished, it was decided that some type of event would be needed, she said.

“It came about that it would be a film festival,” she said. “And I live in Chelsea...hence the name.”

Jean-Baptiste moved to Chelsea from Paris in 2010.

“I was working as a journalist in Paris and then I came to New York to do something different,” she said. “I enrolled in the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. I graduated from there and decided to go further into this learning of the acting, and the craft of acting.”

After a terrible car accident, Jean-Baptiste focused on creating a festival. She asked her mother, Sonia Jean-Baptiste, to help — and together, they founded the festival.

“My mom and I are really close, and we do a lot of things together. It just seemed logical for her to be involved,” she recalled.

The theme of women in film and media carries over to the festival’s Q&A sessions. Jean-Baptiste noted that it is important not just to screen films, but also to engage in conserva-tion afterwards.

In film, the “magic hour” refers to the period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, frequently used for shots — which is where the Reel Magic Hour derives its name. This new program, to be inaugurated at the festival, is a series of five panels that will feature high-profile industry insiders, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Sat., Oct. 17, said Jean-Baptiste.

The lineup is yet to be released, but it will be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology (227 W. 27th St. at Seventh Ave.).

Another new program established in conjunction with the festival is the Kino & Vino Series at Bow Tie Cinemas Chelsea (260 W. 23rd St. btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.), a monthly event.

The first installment will take place on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., when the festi-val’s 2015 Grand Prix Winner will be screened at the Bow Tie, and followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

The series will take a break in Dec. and Jan., but will resume in Feb., Jean-Baptiste said.

Jean-Baptiste highlighted a number of the festival’s best offerings.

A film called “PTSD: Post-


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1970s Turkey is the backdrop to a teenage girl’s rebellion against her actor father, in “Drawers.”

Women in sharp focus at Chelsea Film Fest


Sasha Krane’s thriller “Solitary” (starring its screenwriter, Katharine Lee McEwan) opens the festival.


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Other films, like “Drawers,” touch on completely different subjects. A Turkish film set in the ’70s, “Drawers” is about

Deniz, a woman who rebels against her father, an eminent actor and writer.

“This year…will be very special because of the quality of work that we’ve received,” Jean-Baptiste said. “It’s really gorgeous work from first-time filmmakers.”

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Enrique Martínez Celaya’s two-part exhibition aims to create a com-plex experience that is simultaneously visceral and elusive. Blending reality, fantasy and memory to create a world that is both semi-autobiographical and universally applicable, the artist’s oeuvre spans a large variety of media.

The two installations (“Sea” and “Land”) reflect as much, featuring new paintings, sculptures, needle-point and poetry. Together, these diverse components inform a dedi-cated search for authenticity and a sense of belonging, while remaining conscious of the fact that self-knowl-edge is limited. In this particular exhi-bition, land serves as a metaphor for

what is known, has been discovered, declared, and generally feels familiar.

In contrast, the sea is employed to address the myste-rious, great unknown at our fin-gertips. Though this ambitious project marks his first solo show with Jack Shainman Gallery, Los Angeles-based Martínez Celaya has shown his work extensively, includ-ing at the Hood Art Museum and The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Through Oct. 24 at Jack Shainman Gallery. “Empires: Sea” is at 513 W. 20th St. “Empires: Land” is at 524 W. 24th St. (both locations, btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Hours: Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Call 212-645-1701. Visit jackshainman.com.

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“The Bloom, for the Wilderness” (2015. Oil and wax on canvas. 74 3/4 x 101; 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches, framed). ©Enrique Martínez Celaya.


Enrique Martínez Celaya: “Empires: Sea” (installation view). At Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 W. 20th St.


Enrique Martínez Celaya: “Empires: Land” (installation view). At Jack Shainman Gallery, 524 W. 20th St.

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BY NORMAN BORDENIt would be hard to make a long story

short out of Jill Freedman’s 40-plus-year career — but that’s exactly what the Stephen Kasher Gallery has accom-plished with “Long Stories Short,” their new exhibit of some of the photogra-pher’s best work.

While it’s her first exhibition at this gallery, the more important first is that 35 of the 44 vintage black-and-white images in the show have never been exhibited before.

This unpublished work, which encompasses the period from 1967 to 1995, may help the photography world rediscover Freedman, and give her the chance to gain the recognition she deserves. (Photography critic A.D. Coleman called Freedman “one of the great unsung documentary photogra-phers of her generation.”)

When asked how the exhibition came about, Anais Feyeux, the gal-lery’s director and the show’s curator, explains, “I did not want to reproduce work that had been in her other New York shows, so when Jill opened her archives for me, I was interested in her series about Holocaust survivors, and her work shot on London and New York streets.”

Freedman says, “It was interesting for me to see my work through the curator’s eyes…I’m sick of seeing the same stuff over and over. I have tons of pictures from New York in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s that have never been seen.”

In fact, Freedman is now trying to get them published in her eighth book, which is tentatively titled “Madhattan.” Illustrating that madness is one picture called “Naked City” on the last page of the book — in 1979, she photographed the back of a completely naked man going through the revolving door of the Hilton on Sixth Avenue.

Quite simply, it’s an in-your-face picture that I’d expect to become rec-ognized as a classic New York street photograph now that it’s out of the archive and in the public eye. Freedman paraphrases a line from the 1960s TV show, “Naked City” — “There are eight million stories in the naked city, and that was one of them.” Exactly.

Back in the day (the ’60s and ’70s), Freedman honed her reputation as a

quintessential New York documenta-ry and street photographer, book by book. She had seven books published as the result of her self-assigned projects, and the exhibition includes one image from each of the seven, plus one from “Madhattan.”

No doubt her feisty, irrepressible, irreverent and fearless personality — combined with her photographic talents — helped her go where few photog-

raphers (particularly female ones) had gone before.

For example, when she covered the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C., she lived among the protestors of Resurrection City. Her pho-tographs opened doors for her and led to her first book, “Old News: Resurrection City,” which was published in 1971.

For “Firehouse,” Freedman spent a year following NYC firemen in Harlem and the Bronx, living in their firehouses for days at a time, and sleeping in the chief’s car. In those days, women weren’t allowed in the firehouse past 10 p.m.

She followed the success of “Firehouse” with her book “Street Cops,” in which the photographer talked her way into being allowed to accompa-ny cops on patrol in the pre-gentrified days of the Lower East Side and Times Square.

Freedman says, “There were already lots of stories about bad cops. I want-ed to do a book about good cops and show what the job was really like.” Her pictures captured the human side of her subjects.

In “Circus Days,” she borrowed a van and traveled with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circus on the East Coast for two months, documenting the strange, hardscrabble life of circus performers

and clowns, and the claustrophobia of the animals. Here, as in much of her work, many of her pictures show a connection between subject and pho-tographer.

“I’m a photographer, but I’m also a storyteller,” Freeman notes. “Some interesting stuff is going on in many of the pictures and each one tells a long story, but it takes place in the fraction of a second.” Thus the title, “Long Stories Short.”

The story is quite evident in her 1979 image, “Surf ’n Turf.” Here, Freedman has captured the irony of an apparently homeless man sleeping on a Manhattan sidewalk next to a vendor’s display of paintings depicting crashing ocean surf and quiet country landscapes. Dream on.

There’s also a story — actually two stories — behind the 1967 image,

“Christ Loved Men Only,” which she took in London. Four middle-aged women are walking past a door with graffiti scrawled on it that reads, “Christ Loved Men Only.”

Huh?One woman is enjoying an ice cream

cone, and another is staring at the cam-era, while the other two seem unaware of anything out of the ordinary.

There’s a lot going on in this picture, with the juxtaposition of the words and women creating a delightful, sub-tle irony. The other story is that John Szarkowski, the legendary photography director at MoMA, bought the picture for the museum’s collection. Freedman says, “I refused to donate it so they bought it, but I didn’t get a fortune for it. I was just starting out.”

The story in the 1973 image “Tivoli Fashion Shop” jumps at the viewer. Freedman captures a man’s dejected look and slump-shouldered body lan-guage, a sharp contrast to the snooty attitude of the mannequin in the win-dow, whose coat doesn’t seem all that fashionable. The dark rich tones of Freedman’s gelatin silver print adds to the strength of this picture.

One of the published images is “Poor People’s Campaign,” which was used for the cover of her first book, “Old News: Resurrection City.” The low angle from which the picture was taken serves to emphasize the woman’s bare, flat feet, and the US Capitol in the background.

Jill Freedman has been back in New York for about 10 years, having left the city she loved in the 1990s for medical and financial reasons. When she returned, she was shocked by all the changes. She missed the sleaziness of Times Square and bemoaned all the gentrification.

Still voicing her opinions at age 75 in her own inimitable way, Freedman’s story is happily getting longer and her photographs, old and new, continue to speak for themselves.

“Jill Freedman: Long Stories Short” is on display through Oct. 24 at the Steven Kasher Gallery (515 W. 26th St. btw. 10th & 11th Aves.), Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Visit stevenkasher.com. Artist info at jillfreedman.com.

‘Long Stories Short’ condenses a career, captures citiesFreedman’s newly released photos revel in vintage New York

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“Surf ’n Turf” (1979) captures the irony of an apparently homeless man sleeping on a Manhattan sidewalk next to paintings of crashing ocean surf and quiet country landscapes.

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