Our Town October 10th, 2013

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Some small Upper East Side shop owners are concerned about recent middle-of-the-night burglaries; police precinct issues warning

By Alissa Fleck

In mid-September, a beloved Upper East Side diner was struck on two separate occasions by burglars. While one of the burglaries involved a disgruntled former business partner, the other was part of a much larger trend.

Th roughout August and September, pizzerias, laundromats and shoe repair stores fell victim to burglars who would pry open gates and jimmie locks to gain access to the store, then smash registers and steal cash.

Following this recent spate of middle-of-the-night burglaries on the Upper East Side, Our Town spoke to several other small businesses in the vicinity to discuss matters of security.

While at least ten shops between East 75th and East 85th Streets — from mom ‘n’ pop pizzerias to laundromats to shoe repair stores — had heard nothing of the

East Side BusinessesWary of Gatecrashers

Charles Shua, East side locksmithContinued on page 8

Building records show plans to move the school picked up steam months before parents were told

By Daniel Fitzsimmons

This summer, parents of children who attend the well-regarded Park Avenue Church Christian Day School on the Upper East Side were blindsided by news that the school was moving, eff ective immediately, to a temporary

location on the Upper West Side. Since then, some parents have complained that the Park Avenue Christian Church, which runs the school, should have given them more advance notice, or at least a chance to look elsewhere for a new school home for their kids.

Now, building department records reviewed by Our Town show that the church had more than enough time to give parents a head’s up. Th e records indicate that the Park Avenue Church was making renovations to its school’s new Upper West Side location as early as March, despite sending out tuition bills to parents in early-August with no indication of the cross-town move.

Parents learned in mid-August of the church’s plan to

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Late-Night AssaultA woman was assaulted and robbed as she entered

her apartment building. At 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, September 28, a 24-year-old woman was followed into her building on East 81st Street by an unknown man, who punched her several times on the face, causing a bruise and a lump on the right side of her face. She then fell down to the ground and bumped her head, causing a lump on the back of her head. Th e man took some items from her and fl ed in an unknown direction. Police searched the area but could not fi nd her assailant. No surveillance video was available. Th e items stolen were an iPhone 4S valued at $450, $40 in cash, and a wallet from J. Crew priced at $18.

Class ActA man stole a woman’s handbag from her car as

her daughter looked on. At 4:35 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2, a 40-year-old woman was picking up her younger daughter from class on Th ird Avenue when she got a phone call from her older daughter, whom she had left unattended in her car in front of the building. Th e older daughter reported that a 35-year-old man wearing a green tank top and a camoufl age hat had reached into the car and removed the mother’s handbag through the open driver’s-side window. Th e man fl ed in an unknown direction. Police searched the area but could not fi nd the thief. Items stolen were a Goyard handbag valued at $1,300, $500 in cash, a Prada wallet costing $400, and Fendi makeup. Th e total taken amounted to $2,400.

Jacket JackA couple stole an expensive jacket from a cloth-

ing boutique on Madison Avenue. Surveillance video showed the couple entering the store at 5:58 p.m. on Tuesday, October 1. Th e woman pretended to shop, while the man removed a $42,000 Helston Belstaff cropped biker jacket from inside a glass display, placed the jacket under his outer garment, and walked out of the store.

Lane InsaneTwo men in a van assaulted a cabbie in a road rage

incident. At 3:55 p.m. on Monday, September 30, a 30-year-old male cab driver was heading southbound on Lexington Avenue. A double-parked truck was block-ing the lane in front of him, and he put his signal on to merge right into the next lane. Two 40-year-old men in a van behind him began cursing at him and got out of their vehicle, a black 2005 GM Savanna 2500 with New York plates NY-94736MA. Th e men from the van then began punching and kicking the cabbie, causing scratches to his neck and both arms. Th e men fi nally fl ed in their van southbound on Lexington Avenue.

GPS MIASomeone broke into a Time Warner Cable truck and

stole a GPS. At 4:02 p.m. on Sunday, September 29, a 39-year-old woman working for Time Warner Cable returned to her company pickup truck parked on East 95th Street. She noticed that her driver’s-side window had been broken and the Garmin GPS removed.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Re: ‘Targeting Muslims on the Up-per East Side’ by Daniel Fitzsim-mons, September 19, 2013

With all due respect for the opinions of Mr. Sayeed Chawd-hury and Sheikh Mostafa, the NYPD’s monitoring of the Muslim “community”, i.e., specifi cally its mosques, is not for the reason that the people practice Islam. It is because, unwittingly, the mosques can serve as breeding grounds for the few radical, potential terrorists and loosely hinged who will, intentionally, due to ignorance and/or misinterpretation oft he Koran, use their faith as justifi cation of their murderous acts around the globe. Admittedly, we have our own home-grown, mentally disturbed terrorists.

Sheikh Mostaf refers to the American government’s “hypoc-risy”; how so? Yes, the American government is concerned with the lack of human rights in other countries, i.e., freedom of religion, gender equality, however, the Muslims living in the U.S. have not been constrained from practicing their religion. Indeed, mosques are continually being built without confrontation un-less designated for an area which may cause great controversy.

Yes, we believe that 90 percent of Muslims here In the U.S. are decent, hard-working people who contribute to their commu-nity. Yet it would be most helpful if these people would be more vocal in denouncing the deplorable acts of terrorism commited by terrorists in the name of Islam.

We need to continue to pray for peace on this earth. B. Brandon, NYC

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move the school to 4 West 76th Street – home of the Fourth Universalist Society - just weeks before school was set to begin. Th e move prompted dozens of parents to withdraw their children from the school, which costs about $20,000 a year to attend. Fewer than half of the 204 students who attended the school before the move have left , most of them on the younger end of the 3-5-year-old age scale the school caters to.

The school was located in a fi ve-story annex next to the church at 1010 Park Avenue for the past 50 years prior to the move in August. Church offi cials struck a deal last year with Extell Development Corporation to build a 16-story residential building on the site, a revelation that shocked parents when they learned of it in August.

When asked why the church didn’t notify parents of the move earlier, church spokesperson George Artz said, “There are many moving parts to this deal, and the church wanted each one in place before they presented it for a congregational vote in August 2013. The church was only days away from revealing the move to parents when it became public.”

However, building department records show that a work permit application was fi led in March of this year for renovations on behalf of the Park Avenue Christian Church. The application called for $265,000 in renovations and was approved in April. The building department confi rmed the renovations were completed, making it unlikely that the church wasn’t fully invested in the Upper West Side location in March.

The application initially called for “renovation of the existing space for a new tenant (Park Ave Christian Church).” An amendment to the application was later fi led that said the work was being done on behalf of an entity called “Little Day School.” A search of state and city records didn’t yield any information on a school called Little Day School, raising the question of whether the church used a pseudonym on building-department documents.

One school parent who asked not to be identifi ed suggested the church delayed making parents aware of the move in order to collect tuition bills for as long as they could before parents withdrew their children. The church sent the third of four tuition bills to parents on Aug. 5, one week before parents learned of the move. According to one parent, the Aug. 5 bill came in an envelope and on letterhead with the 1010 Park Avenue location and gave no indication of the move.

Artz denied that the church delayed telling parents about the move in order to collect tuition payments and said diffi cult decisions had to be made to insure both the church and school’s existence. He previously told Our Town that the deal with Extell to build the residential tower, which has yet to be fi nalized, was made for fi nancial reasons.

“The congregation needs the funds for its very survival,” he

said.A source close to the school said parents were aware it

would have to move eventually, as the church’s only asset is the annex and air rights above it, but learning that the move would occur this year came as a shock.

“We knew it was a possibility but we always thought we’d have a couple of years to fi nd a place,” said the source, who asked not to be identifi ed in this story. “We fi gured they would look after us.”

In response to complaints about the late notice of the move, city councilmembers Dan Garodnick and Gale Brewer sent a letter to the church urging it to the refund the tuition of any parents who wish to pull their children out. “As you might imagine, we heard from angry parents -- on both sides of Central Park,” the letter states.

According to one parent, current and former parents of the school are organizing in an attempt to split off from the church. Artz said in an email the church has been looking for a real estate solution that would allow both to survive separately.

“For the past two years the Ministry Council explored a potential real estate move that would ensure the survival of both the church and the school,” said Artz. “Those discussions included moving the school, which has for 50 years occupied its space in the church rent free, and allowing the school to be independent of the church.”

Although the school did not technically pay rent for the annex space, revenues from tuition are controlled and appropriated by the church. A major source of friction in recent years, according to one parent, has been that parents feel too big a portion of the money made by the school is taken for church use.

The parent said separating from the church will allow the school to develop the Upper West Side location and attract families in that area without the issue of the church managing school funds. Controlling its own fi nancials, the parent said, could possibly lead to an additional Upper East Side location in the future.

Regardless of the church’s intentions, in interviews, those close to the school move expressed frustration, anger, and confusion over the way it was handled.

“It’s really sickening and remarkably un-Christian,” said one parent. “It’s a wonderful community and no group of parents and teachers and administrators, particularly ones as fundamentally good and decent as this group, deserves to be treated this way.”

Two different sources close to the move said the lease agreement between the church and the Fourth Universalist Society can be traced back to Park Avenue Pastor Alvin Jackson and was made last year.

“The facts are that the parents have discovered that the church probably knew in the spring of 2012,” said a source of the move to the Upper West Side. “And they didn’t see fi t to tell us.”

Jackson did not return requests for comment and Artz did not specifi cally address when an agreement was made with the Fourth Universalist Society. Jon Arancio, president of the Fourth Universalist Society, did not respond to the question of when his organization entered into an agreement with the church.

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Steven Tevli, who manages Th e Source, a paper store near E. 80th Street and Th ird Avenue, had not heard about the burglaries, but says he hasn’t been concerned about security at his store for a long time. At the time we spoke, Tevli, the only employee working, was taking a lengthy smoke break outside while perusers meandered through

the store. Tevli had a store less than a block away prior to

Th e Source and notes the ‘80s and ‘90s were much rougher times for the area.

“I had my windows broken all the time so I got gates,” says Tevli. “Now I don’t even have gates.”

Michael Shua, who works at Charles Locksmith and Hardware just around the corner, says they are oft en, perhaps unsurprisingly, the fi rst to hear of break-ins, whether they involve residences or stores.

“Security is always a concern,” says Shua, whose

store has a roll-down security gate. “Th ere have been a lot of break-ins around here for awhile.”

“We hear these stories all the time from our neighbors,” he adds.

Some of the stories they hear require certain measures of elaborate planning, involving glued locks or entering the store from a rooft op and breaking down walls.

An employee, Susan, at Splendid Cleaners at E. 76th Street and Th ird Avenue has heard about the recent break-ins and says they generally happen on the side streets, like First and Second Av-

enues, where there is less foot traffi c and carryover security measures (for instance, from a bigger business nearby.)

“It happened at my friend’s laundromat,” says Susan. Her friend’s laundromat is located on E. 71st Street between First and Second Avenues.

Susan says Splendid has both a roll-down gate and an alarm system, but she’s not sure how much they cost to maintain. For small businesses operating in the area, sophisti-cated security measures could come at too high a price.

Th e 19th precinct, which covers the area in question, released a crime alert to busi-nesses, citing this pattern of burglaries. Th e alert urged shopkeepers not to leave cash in the store at night, to leave cash registers unlocked to prevent burglars from smash-ing and destroying them and to securely lock security gates and doors.

Despite this recent on-slaught of burglaries, overall burglaries are actually down dramatically compared to this time last year. Th e most recent statistics from the NYPD show that burglaries in the 19th precinct are down 12.1 percent from this time last year.

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The neighborhood is least likely to participate in an upcoming health survey

By Dan Garodnick

In 2004, researchers found elevated levels of the chemical cotinine in the blood samples they collected during the fi rst ever New York City Health and Examination Survey, or NYC HANES.

Cotinine is linked to tobacco smoke, and the data suggested that New Yorkers, on average, were breathing more secondhand smoke than other Americans. Th at fi nding helped persuade the City Council to pass legislation that has kept Central Park and all other city parks and beaches smoke-free since 2011. In fact, the results of the survey have led to a variety of changes in local laws, all aimed at making NYC a healthier environment to live in.

Now, aft er almost ten years, it’s time to update that data. In the coming months, 3,000 randomly selected New Yorkers will be invited to participate in the 2013 NYC HANES. But if previous trends hold, Upper East Siders will be the least likely to say yes - in 2004, turnout for the survey in the Upper East Side was among the lowest in the city.

Th at’s a shame, because NYC HANES is a unique opportunity to infl uence municipal health policy. It is modeled aft er a national survey that began in the 1960s, NHANES. Dr. Tom Frieden, who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and served as New York City’s Health Commissioner for seven years, calls NHANES

the “gold standard” in health surveys. New York City is the only jurisdiction that conducts a comparable local survey.

Unlike most other health surveys, which simply ask questions, NYC HANES also includes a physical exam. Th is has the advan-tage of providing scientists with an objective measure of New Yorkers’ health, but it requires a 2-3 hour time commitment, which can dissuade some residents from participating. In addition, Upper East Side residents have higher rates of insurance coverage than many other New Yorkers, so there may be less inter-est in the free lab tests provided by the survey.

Th e Health Department and the CUNY School of Public Health, who are jointly conducting the upcoming NYC HANES with primary support from the de Beaumont Foundation, hope to increase turnout by mak-ing survey participation as easy as possible. Th e most important change is that the survey may now be conducted in respondents’ homes whenever convenient.

Th e mayor frequently boasts that New York-ers live longer than anyone else in the country. It’s true - life expectancy in our city is 80.6 years, more than two years longer than the national average. Th at’s a statistic to be proud of - and in order to maintain the gains we’ve made and improve even further, public health initiatives like NYC HANES are essential. I urge New Yorkers who are selected for the sur-vey to participate, so that all New Yorkers can enjoy the benefi ts it can provide.

Dan Garodnick is the Council Member rep-resenting District 4, which includes the Upper East Side, East Midtown, portions of the West 50’s, and Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

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The city will see some big - and necessary - changes in the upcoming year

By Tom Allon

It’s an interesting quirk in the political world that some elected offi ces are term limited while the vast majority are not.

In New York state politics, you can be a legislator for 40 years or more,

winning your district election every two years, generally with no real opposition. Th e powers of incumbency are so great that more people are indicted or die in offi ce than lose to chal-lengers in contested elections.

Th e same is true of Congress and the Sen-ate, a legislative body which has come under intense criticism in recent years for its inef-fective ways, most recently highlighted by the government shutdown.

Th e maxim these days is that most people like their Congressmember but disrespect Congress, and some of that may be attribut-able to the crippling polarization and long tenures that we are seeing in this large legisla-tive body.

But in New York, as we are seeing this year, city offi cials turn over every eight years (except for the 12-year anomaly due to the overturning of term limits for a brief time in 2009). In 2014, we’ll have a new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and almost half of the city council.

Th e fresh energy and ideas will hopefully infuse the city and build on the successes of the past few decades. Th ere has been an incredibly strong mayor leading New York for most of the past 30 years and the city has gone from being thought of as ungovernable in the Lindsay era to a model of growth and safety and economic vitality to large cities around the world.

It’s worth pausing for a second to think about the breathtaking changes the city has experienced under the steady and innovative guidance of Mike Bloomberg and his talented group of deputy mayors and commissioners.

As NYU Professor Mitchell Moss eloquently wrote in a recent NY Observer article, there may be a yearning for change in some quarters of the city’s democratic party, but history will be very kind to Mike Bloomberg’s legacy.

Th e visionary public health changes -- par-ticularly the once-controversial smoking ban in public places -- have not only extended life spans in New York but also infl uenced other cities around the world to adopt these life-saving measures.

Th e rezoning of large swaths of the city -- particularly the long-underutilized water-front -- has led to the revitalization of many neighborhoods, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens.

Th e increase in park space and large tracts of open space like the High Line in Chelsea has made this a better and more enjoyable city for those who live here and the ever-increasing stream of tourists.

And the list goes on.But now, because we should all believe

that the arc of history is constantly bending towards progress, Bloomberg’s successor gets to pick priorities and ways to make our city a better place for all.

If it’s de Blasio, which seems likely with the huge 50-point recent poll lead, then we can expect more attention paid to the middle class and the poor. De Blasio will champion the rights of middle class workers and those trying to raise themselves up to the middle class.

Th ere is no doubt that while the city has im-proved in many ways in the past few decades, there are still way too many New Yorkers who struggle to make ends meet. Th ose New York-ers will have a champion in de Blasio and it’ll be interesting to see what he can do to help them while also ensuring that sectors like Wall Street and the wealthy want to stay in the city.

Change is generally good, and term limits symbolize the political equivelant of change. It’s probably time to explore term limits for our legislatures, too, whether it’s in Albany or Washington, DC.

When you’re in a job that’s too secure and immune to change, sometimes it leads to bad habits and forgetting the will of the people who elected you in the fi rst place.

So when you vote in November and observe as a whole new team takes over the reigns of the city, remember that in the long term, change is good, even if there may be some initial bumps in the road.

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It’s not just falls in the home that older New Yorkers should know about

By Bette Dewing

So who knew the fi rst week of autumn was designated Fall Prevention Week? Aft er all, falls are the leading cause of serious injury and even

premature death among the rapidly growing 65-plus age group. Falls also cost the health care system very big bucks. So what’s needed are Spring, Summer, Winter as well as Fall Prevention Weeks! And a whole lot of media alerts and coverage.

So who knew? I only knew because two friends did, a retired high school principal, and a retired RN and science teacher, who so importantly, were also devoted caregivers for their ill husbands. Claire and Ruth knew because they were on New York - Presby-terian’s Health Forums list and they shared the Fall Prevention at Home handout with me.

Sure there’s a lot we need to know about home prevention, but we three militant elders are most concerned that nothing is said about what others must do to prevent falling risks, especially outside the home. For government, whose fi rst duty is to pro-tect public safety, safe travel conditions are not a top priority. Yet traffi c law-breaking vehicles are the primary dangers out there for every walker, but especially elder ones.

Th ere are also uneven crosswalk surfaces which can upend those whose balance is not 20/20, and must peer down for street bumps as well as glance left and right for drivers and bicyclists too, who fail to yield when turning into their crosswalks. And two-wheelers are oft en allergic to the laws of the road. Indeed all city vehicles should make a nice little warning sound. Crack-down on Kamikaze walkers, in general. Th ey can also topple a vulnerable pedes-trian.

But what to do about the explosion of small fries heedlessly riding bikes and

scooters on sidewalks and park paths? What to do about the unconcerned parents and nannies, is more like it. Th ere once was a time in Manhattan when youngsters rarely rode bikes. Silent scooters didn’t ex-ist. And yet kids managed quite well with just walking and their running was mostly confi ned to playgrounds and parks. Ah, New York was once such a great walking city - for everyone.

Other outdoor falling risk dangers in-clude city buses, which elders especially rely on. Now some able-bodied riders still don’t give their seat to those who are not, despite signs to remind them and an occasional mention from the MTA Command Center heard over the bus’s loudspeaker.

Rear door exiting is risky for many elder riders, and many desperately need drivers to pull the front entrance door to the curb but are too timid to ask. So the command center must also announce oft en and loud: “Th is bus pulls to the curb whenever pos-sible!”

Sure, there’s much we must do to protect ourselves, not only from falling, but to ensure that those hired or elected to protect the citizenry must at least reduce the fore-mentioned dangers. We also have a dream of a citizenry concerned with heedless everyday actions on these fi nite streets, walkways and in all shared spaces, which especially threaten the vulnerable - oft en elder New Yorkers.

And we dream that their voices will be heard in “senior” faith, health, civic and surely political groups because they’ll be enabled to get there, even aft er dark or in stormy weather.

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A legend of the French New Wave gets a complete retrospective at Film ForumBy Armond White

One of my fondest experiences in the New York Film Critics Circle concerned the late

Jacques Demy, subject of a complete career retrospective at Film Forum (Oct. 4 –17):

When Demy’s fi rst two fi lms Lola and Bay of Angels were re-issued in 2001, I proposed to the Circle that the re-lease amounted to a re-discovery and merited a Special Award. It was gratifying, and an exhilarating surprise, that the membership concurred. Back then, the Circle had not given many special awards so this was, indeed, special. It recognized that the deeply expressive Lola was one of the most accomplished debut features ever made and that the existential romance Bay of Angels was more than a follow-up, but a confi rmation of Demy’s great talent and unique sensibility.

It was right that the New York Film Critics Circle bestow a rare honor on Demy. Lola premiered in 1962, the year the Circle suspended its awards due to a newspaper strike, so Demy’s deserved prize was, in a sense, long overdue. (I had an additional motive in my double-Demy proposal: Th e 1996 reissue of Th e Umbrellas of Cherbourg might also have won a special prize if not for the simultaneous reissue of that infernal Vertigo.)

And at the NYFCC awards ceremony on January 10, 2002, I was honored with the opportunity to present the Circle’s prize—expressing what those fi lms mean in cinema history and for me personally--to Demy’s widow, the fi lmmaker Agnes Varda. It was not my fi rst time meeting Varda but her sweet appreciation and ebullient gratitude were unforgettable. It was the fulfi llment of a connection I had always felt with that great fi lm movement Th e French New Wave in which she and Jacques Demy played important roles. Th at connection was based in esthetics, a new, world-changing approach to fi lm

history and cinema possibility, but those esthetics also came out of the warmth in Varda’s tear-bright eyes.

Th at warmth—and the moral intelligence behind it--is what I recognized in Demy’s fi lms from the fi rst time I saw Lola. It was a panned-and-scanned TV print shown on Canadian television yet nothing could diminish the fi lm’s exuberance. It’s beauty and expansiveness was confi rmed when I fi nally saw it on the big screen years later at the Alliance Francaise.

By the time of that 2001 Film Forum reissue, I understood that Lola’s widescreen tribute to romantic faith—a deep spirituality connected to the joy that Demy found in cinema and paid back in Lola’s tribute to both Max Ophuls and Josef von Sternberg—was actually an arms-open embrace. In dramatic, musical, spatial, visual terms, Lola’s expressed love and desire, through time, as the essence of CinemaScope.

Demy would also pay his debt forward through a career making fi lms that explored the depths of desire. His Nouvelle Vague distinction always expressed desire though a self-conscious appreciation of storytelling styles. Demy was particularly devoted to the movie-musical genre--especially the American ideal represented by Gene Kelly’s maritime myth Anchors Away (signifi cant for Demy, born in the port city Nantes) and Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis (signifi cant for Demy’s modernist equating of nostalgia with consciousness). Lola proved that Demy could make movies with buoyancy and rhythm—fi lms that felt like musicals without necessarily being musicals. (Jonathan Demme is the only American fi lmmaker with musical taste—and a humane perspective--similar to Demy’s.)

It is this unusual sensibility that was the source of Demy’s great vision, which eventually fl owered in his masterpiece Th e Umbrellas of Cherbourg (showing at Film Forum Oct. 18-24). Th e visual feast of Umbrellas was unparalleled until Bertolucci’s Th e Conformist, yet this is an ever greater work; it elaborates on Lola’s philosophical complexity. Demy’s lifelong work constructed an analysis of desire that coheres Lola-Umbrellas-Model Shop as a metaphysical/metacinema trilogy.

Th is vision of man’s struggle with desire continued through mixed-genre fi lms that heightened one’s appreciation of movie narrative possibility as well as the spiritual history of ardor, through nostalgic reverie or innocence-into-adulthood myths (as in Th e Pied Piper, Lady Oscar and Donkey Skin). Demy’s fi lms are romances but complex romances that explicate emotional identity. Such fi lms as Lola, Bay of Angels, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Th e Model Shop, Une Chambre En Ville and Two Seats for the 26th are never so crude—or confused--as to be about gender.

Before the idea of political correctness, Demy’s explication of desire allows a musical understanding about the spiritual identifi cation and recognition that passes between men and women, children and adults. His fi lms are light-hearted but more fool you if you take them lightly.

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A Tchaikovsky masterpiece at the Met and a classic movie

By Jay Nordlinger

In a fall preview last month, I made a point about Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor: He is mercurial. Sometimes he’s up, sometimes he’s down. Sometimes he’s electric, sometimes

he’s blah. On a recent Th ursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, he was alternately electric and blah. He was conducting a Tchaikovsky masterpiece, Eugene Onegin.

He can conduct the chorus and dance in Act I so that you can barely sit in your seat—that’s how exciting it is. But on this occasion, no. It’s as though he decided to withhold the electricity. Other parts of the opera were exciting, mesmerizing or other desirable things. Th e music ran out of gas at the end, which is a bad time to run out of gas.

Gergiev is an interesting and mysterious cat. Sitting there, I thought, “It’s hard enough being a music critic without being a shrink as well.”

Th e Met orchestra played responsively and admirably. Th is was especially true of the woodwinds, to whom Tchaikovsky is so kind. Stefán Höskuldsson, the fl ute; Elaine Douvas, the oboe; Anthony McGill, the clarinetist—they were all fi rst-rate. So was Joseph Anderer, the French horn. In the Letter Scene and elsewhere, he played with extraordinary accuracy. French hornists are born to stumble. Th ey have a right to do so. If Anderer keeps this up, they’ll kick him out of the horn union.

In the leading male roles were two Poles: Mariusz Kwiecien, the baritone, who sang Onegin, and Piotr Beczala, the tenor, who sang Lenski. Kwiecien was sleek and assured, as usual. His insouciance toward Tatiana was just right. But, particularly in the fi nal scene, he lacked a certain heft , both vocally and theatrically. Beczala had a magnifi cent night, a supercharged night. He was booming it out there like Bjoerling. His natural likability made Lenski more likable than ever, and acutely tragic. Also, Beczala took great pleasure in his singing—and it can be quite pleasurable to hear another take pleasure in his own singing.

Th is opera has three mezzo-sopranos, the leading one of whom sings Olga, Tatiana’s younger sister. At the Met, she was Oksana Volkova, who was adequate. Elena Zaremba and Larissa Diadkova are former Olgas, seasoned pros, who at the Met were Madame Larina and the Nurse, respectively. Th ey were wise and glorious, giving lessons in Russian

opera singing. Ferruccio Furlanetto, the Italian bass, once

told me that Prince Gremin in Onegin is just about the best role in opera: You play golf in the aft ernoon; you have a nice dinner; you arrive at the opera house during the second intermission; you sing the best aria in the opera, stealing the show; you get the girl; you go home with a healthy check. Nice work if you can get it. Alexei Tanovitski got it here, and performed serviceably.

Th e Met’s production is a new one, under the care of Deborah Warner. It replaces one of the fi nest productions in the Met cupboard, the 1997 Onegin by Robert Carsen. Th e new one is unobjectionable at worst, satisfying at best. A successful small touch, I think, is the handshake and hug that Onegin gives Lenski before the duel. Less successful, I think, is the long smooch that Tatiana plants on Onegin at the end. It’s a little gimmicky and suspends the opera, marring Tchaikovsky’s pacing.

Speaking of Tatiana, she was Anna Netrebko, possibly the starriest soprano of the last ten years. I have written many thousands of words about her, and will now confi ne myself to a few: She has the gift of knowing—how to phrase, how to apply dynamics, how to put across a character. I have no idea what she would score on an SAT test. But, as an opera performer, she’s an Einstein.

Over at Avery Fisher Hall, the New York Philharmonic did something fun: Th ey played the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the movie unspooled on a big screen overhead. Everyone knows that Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is used in this movie. Actually, people refer to this music as “2001.” But there are also pieces by Johann Strauss the Younger, Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti.

On the night I attended, the Philharmonic, under Alan Gilbert, did not come off as a top orchestra. (Th ere were two screenings, of which I caught the fi rst.) Th ey came off as a perfectly good orchestra. Entrances were okay, sound was okay (mainly), musical spirit was okay (sort of). Th ere was some lovely unison cello playing in the Khachaturian bit from Gayane. But there was not a lot else to commend. Th e Danube waltz was downright uncommendable—having little grace, little beauty, little of Vienna. It was good enough for government work, maybe. But for a top orchestra?

Perhaps these forces were doing their very best on this night. Perhaps not. New Yorkers are loyal to their orchestra, and the Philharmonic will probably win applause and praise no matter what. So it’s all the more incumbent on players to meet high standards, just because.

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Season’s greetings at the Park Avenue Armory

By Valerie Gladstone

No more thrilling space has opened up for unconventional performances and installations in recent

years than the Park Avenue Armory in 2007. Built in 1861 to resemble Grand Central Station and other majestic 19th century railroad stations and designed as a military facility and social club, it became home to the 7th Regiment of the National Guard, a volunteer unit, its towering 55,000 square foot Wade Th ompson Drill Hall ideal for marching maneuvers, its elegant period rooms, created by the likes of Louis Comfort Tiff any and Stanford White, pleasing to the club’s socialite members.

Now a haven for a wide ranging arts projects, it has featured among its many outstanding presentations, the 9,216-square-foot action painting “Greeting Card” by Aaron Young, made of burned out tire marks produced by speeding motorcycles, the Royal Shakespeare Company performing fi ve plays in a duplicate of its home theater, installations by Ernesto Neto, Christian Boltanski and Ann Hamilton, Peter Greenaway’s multimedia Leonardo’s Last Supper, an immersive tribute to Merce Cunningham, and choreographer Elizabeth Streb’s acrobatic “Kiss the Air.”

“Our mission is to present work that otherwise might never be done,” says Rebecca Robertson, the Park Avenue Armory president and executive producer. “Th e space doesn’t dictate. Th erefore, artists can develop their ideas anyway that they want. Every artist surprises us.”

Th e new season began with a compelling production of British playwright, Matt Charman’s Th e Machine, a depiction of the epic 1997 New York chess tournament between chess phenomenon Garry Kasparov and a super computer called Deep Blue, developed by IBM and mastermind Dr. Feng-Hsiung Hsu. It runs through September 18. A co commission by the Park Avenue Armory, Donmar Warehouse and Manchester International Festival in England, where it had its premiere, the play is staged by Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke like a sports event, with seats around a four-sided

chess board, while a giant scoreboard and video cameras record the action on a large screen television.

“Nothing prepares you for the majesty of the Armory,” says scenic and costume designer Lucy Osborne. “Th e challenge was to create the atmosphere of a sports arena.” For research, she visited Madison Square Garden. Returning to the task invigorated, she created a complete 360-degree environment, with raked seating, so that audiences will have an intense sense of focus and feeling like they are almost falling into the chessboard.

Th e match between Kasparov and Deep Blue always fascinated Charman, who thinks of it as a boxing match. He studied the contenders’ backgrounds, more interested in the psychological aspects of the match than in chess itself. “I applied all the basic rules of storytelling,” he says, “trying to fi gure out why people do things, wanting to empathize with their motives.” He did the same kind of research into the characters close to them, including Kasparov’s mother and the members of the Deep Blue team. “Casting was tough,” he adds. “We had to build a family. We wanted an ensemble feel. We wanted the rigor of truthfulness. We got it.”

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Ron Howard eats his own dust in Rush

By Armond White

Aft er his fi rst career several generations ago as Hollywood’s most adorable child star, Ron Howard’s second career might be even

more distinctive, though less loveable: He’s Hollywood’s reigning chameleon director--no appreciable point of view, just morphing through various impersonal styles to fi t any given commercial project: from early Roger Corman yahoo fare like his 1977 race-car rebel debut Grand Th eft Auto, which put him on the charts (thus on the industry’s directorial map); to his period of TV-derived, friendly comedies (Night Shift , Gung Ho, Splash, Howard’s best period); followed by his long stretch of Spielberg imitations (the dreary, gee-whiz spectacles Cocoon, Willow, Apollo 13,); then the star vehicles (Parenthood, Backdraft , Far and Away, Ransom, Th e Paper, How the Grinch Stole Christmas); and back to the vehicular traffi c of celebrity epics (A Beautiful Mind, Th e Missing, Edtv, Cinderella Man, Th e DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, Frost/Nixon, Howard’s worst period).

By subject matter alone, Howard’s new fi lm Rush, about the 1970s rivalry of Formula 1 race car gladiators Tom Hunt and Niki Lauda, belongs to the latter category. It is another impersonal, imitative celebrity epic but more puzzling than the others since the relatively unknown stars (beefy blond Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and anxious-eyed Chris Bruhl as Lauda) are not exactly box-offi ce draws. Howard’s celebrity-worship is literalized through the fi lm’s rather obscure protagonists--more lost to history than Howard’s Opie years but standard material for star-fucker screenwriter Peter Morgan. Morgan is as impersonal as Howard, making a career out of celebrity bio-pics from Th e Last King of Scotland and Th e Queen to Frost/Nixon—all imitations of a kind. Th ese fi lms have nothing to do with politics beyond the spectacle of power which is essentially what most Hollywood fi lms made on Howard’s

expensive level are also, basically, exercises of power: projects that Howard and producer Brian Grazer can make happen even though they’re not worth making.

If Howard was a fi lm artist, Rush might have explored the testosterone urge of drivers who put themselves outside the safety zone of pedestrian sports. Morgan’s celeb-fi xation prefers superfi cial “personal” anecdotes about Hunt/Lauda’s sponsorships, girl-chasing and marriages. Attempting to deepen the shallow personality clash of Frost/Nixon (that disingenuous dialogue between propagandistic political effi gies), Howard and Morgan proff er the secret antagonism/admiration between Hunt and Lauda—which is equally disingenuous. One foul scene has Hunt assault a journalist who embarrasses Lauda at a press conference. Howard’s use of crowd-pleasing brutality proves Opie has turned into a dope.

Th e 1970s period details (including music) are so glib the movie never catches imaginative hold and the shift to racing sequences hustle viewers into visual chaos—especially the climactic race in Japan during inclement weather. Here Howard imitates Michael Mann, going for existential blur through cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle’s confusion of fi lm/video abstraction. Th is is a long way from the pellucid beauty that d.p. Mikael Salomon achieved in Far and Away and Backdraft . Rush coulda/shoulda been a kinetic thrill but if you recall the embarrassing action sequences in Th e DaVinci Code, the inert Apollo 13 which climaxed when white collar NASA workers stood around applauding, you know Howard has no skill for movement or montage. Instead of imitating past race car movies like Grand Prix, Bobby Deerfi eld or Eat My Dust, he takes the Hollywood Oscar-winner route of ersatz style. Th at’s what glorifi ed hacks do.

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ple are attributed so many labels. Th ere are artists, bankers, actors, marketers. How do certain labels in life aff ect the way people perceive you? – Webster Schelbe, New York City, 26 years old

A Labeling is an interesting phenomenon. On the one hand,

labels allow us to see ourselves clearly. We wake up each morning and function through-out the day based on the labels that we assign ourselves. If you perceive yourself to be an independent, hard working person, you might dress and carry yourself in a way that refl ects that belief. If you think of yourself as a funny individual who is the life of the party, you might be sure to crack as many jokes as you can throughout the day even if you’re not in the mood, in order to live up to your self-proclaimed identifi er.

So, we defi nitely use labels that we assign ourselves to help us navigate everyday situa-tions. But what we don’t oft en realize is how other people’s labels infl uence our behavior. Several years ago, two psychologists, Rob-ert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, were especially interested in the impact of labeling on behavior. In a now famous study called “Pgymalion in the Classroom,” the two psy-chologists found that a phenomenon, called a self-fulfi lling prophecy, is elicited when people attribute labels to your personality. A self-fulfi lling prophecy is when a behavior becomes true, just because people expect it to be true.

Rosenthal and Jacobs tested this phenom-enon at a California elementary school where they administered a fake IQ test to students. Th ough they did not divulge actual scores of the exams, they randomly chose half of the students and told teachers that these students

were “bloomers” based on the exam scores. Th ey informed teachers that these “bloomers” would show more intellectual acumen and growth than the other half of the students. In reality, Rosenthal and Jacobs chose the students’ names out of a hat. Th e children never knew their designated labels — only the teachers were informed of the “bloomers” ver-sus “non-bloomer” labels. Remarkably, those students who were expected to perform better actually did when tested a year later. Because the teachers expected those students to get smarter and perform better, students in turn gave into the way they were expected to act. Th ey demonstrated intellectual growth merely because they were expected to.

Expectations of perceived behavior can transform someone’s personality in a fl ash. You could unknowingly be signifi cantly alter-ing someone’s behavior, merely by assigning him or her a certain label. What’s important here is to be cautious of attributing negative labels to individuals. In Rosenthal’s study, the other half of students who were “non-bloom-ers” showed less intellectual growth than the other students. Th is has implications for how we treat people in everyday settings, whether at work, school, or your personal life. If you’re a boss at work and want to encourage your employees to perform better, treat them like they will do so. If you are providing breakup advice for a friend who just broke up with his girlfriend, treat him like he is resilient and will get through it.

Th e biggest take away is how the process of labeling can impact behavior. You should be aware of the labels you assign to others, but also of the labels that others assign to you. If you’re aware that someone is labeling you in a way that doesn’t fi t your perception of your-self, you have the ability to turn the self-ful-fi lling prophecy over on itself. Assign yourself a positive label and watch it come to life. You have the ability to make anything happen.

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To commemorate this milestone, an anni-versary celebration, “50 Years of Transplant Excellence,” was held on October 2, attended by some 200 members of the leadership and staff of NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College, and The Rogosin Institute; transplant recipients, donors, and family members; and partners from the commu-nity. As part of the celebration, a framed Congressional Extension of Remarks was presented from US Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s office congratulating the transplant program.

“We have a very simple strategy when it comes to transplantation – we consistently strive to offer the maximum number of opportunities for patients,” says Dr. Sandip Kapur, surgical director of the transplant program. “We’ve treated patients of all ages. Every available tool that exists, exists in this program. It’s a detail that distinguishes us from 90 percent of the programs in the country and helps position us as a national leader in what we do.”

“This is a special occasion to acknowledge the remarkable accomplishments of the

transplant program over the last five decades and honor the doctors, scientists, nurses, staff, and all members of the transplant team who have made them possible,” says Dr. Steven J. Corwin, CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian. “We congratulate and thank all those, past and present, who have made the program what it is today. At the same time, we celebrate the thousands of adults and children whose lives have been saved through transplantation and look forward to the next 50 years of advances so that we can continue to offer patients and families the most outstanding and compassionate transplant care, and a renewed gift of life.” “The transplant program exemplifies translational medicine at its best,” says Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. “Over five decades of transplanta-tion, our physician-scientists have made

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced in July that New York Downtown Hospital has become its sixth campus, the result of a

merger between the two hospitals. The 180-bed community hospital, now renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, remains the only hospital south of 14th Street in Manhattan, serving a daily population of some 750,000 residents, visitors and profession-als. The merger was made possible with the assistance and approval of the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Steven J. Corwin, chief executive officer of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, highlighted the important role that NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan plays in the health care of the community. “As the only acute care hospital serving lower Manhattan, this campus is vital to meeting the health care needs of many popula-tions,” said Dr. Corwin. “We are working closely with the community, as well as with Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell physi-cians, to create a first class campus that provides the highest quality, most compassionate care and service for patients and their families.”

Recognizing that medicine is not one size fits all, Weill Cornell Medical

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and the Homer T. Hirst III Professor of Oncology at Weill Cornell. “We use advanced technology and the collective wealth of knowledge from our clinicians, basic scientists, pathologists, molecular biologists and computational biologists to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of disease – information that will spur the discovery of novel treatments and therapies.” Dr. Rubin and his team are looking to replace the traditional one-size-fits-all medicine paradigm with one that focuses on targeted, individualized patient care using a patient’s own genetic profile and medical history. Physician-scientists at the Institute plan to precisely identify the genetic influencers of a patient’s specific illness – such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and others – and use this genetic information to design a more effective course of treat-ment that targets those specific contrib-uting factors. Also, genomic analyses of tumor tissue enable researchers to help patients with advanced disease and no current treatment options, as well as to isolate the causes of drug resistance in patients who stop responding to treat-ments, redirecting them to more success-ful therapies.

Preventive precision medicine also is a key initiative at the Institute, allow-ing physician-scientists to help identify a patient’s risk of diseases and take necessary steps to aid in its prevention through medical treatment, lifestyle modification or both. In addition, the Institute will leverage an arsenal of genomic sequencing, biobanking and bioinformatics technology to transform the existing paradigm for diagnosing and treating patients. The Institute will be headquartered in the Belfer Research Building, set to open in January.

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Healthyy ManhattanForty percent do not call 911: Survival rates show every minute matters

A recent New England Journal of Medicine study reviewed the records of about 97,000 patients with severe heart attacks who were admitted

to 5151 hospitals between 2005 and 2009. Although many hospitals improved the time between when patients arrived at the emergency room and underwent intervention, the survival rate did not improve. Researchers then looked at what happens before a heart patient arrives in the emergency room.

Th ey found that 40 percent of patients with severe heart attack don’t call 911, causing signifi cant treatment delays. Th e American Heart Association launched its Lifeline program to teach the public to recognize heart attack symptoms and act quickly. Fast action saves lives.

A heart attack occurs when blood fl ow to the heart is blocked, preventing oxygen-rich

blood from reaching a section of the heart. If the blocked artery is not reopened quickly, the part of the heart normally nourished by that artery begins to die. Michele Hooper, manager in the AHA National CPR/Emergency Cardiovascular Care programs, said the heart muscle will no longer be able to pump effi ciently, a life-threatening event that requires immediate medical care.

What it looks likeSymptoms of a heart attack may be

immediate and may include intense discomfort, pressure or pain in the chest or other areas of the upper body. Th ere is oft en shortness of breath, cold sweats, and/or nausea/vomiting. More oft en, though, symptoms start slowly and persist for hours, days or weeks before a heart attack. Women are somewhat more likely than men to experience shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting, and back, neck or jaw pain.

Th e heart usually does not stop beating during a heart attack. Th e victim is oft en aware and alert but in distress. Th e longer the person goes without treatment, the greater the damage to the heart which can result in death

or permanent damage to the heart’s function (heart failure).

What you can doIf some or all symptoms are present, even

if you’re not sure it’s a heart attack, call 9-1 or your emergency response number. Every minute matters. It’s best to call EMS to get to the emergency room right away. Emergency medical services staff can begin treatment when they arrive — up to an hour sooner than if someone gets to the hospital by car.

“Calling 911 activates the local emergency response system,” Hooper said. “Patients with chest pain who arrive by ambulance usually receive faster treatment at the hospital, too.”

Most heart attacks do not lead to cardiac arrest — when the heart stops beating. But when cardiac arrest occurs, heart attack is a common cause. Th e American Heart Association also encourages everyone to be prepared in a cardiac arrest emergency and learn Hands Only CPR by watching a one-minute video at www.heart.org/handsonlycpr.

Visit www.heart.org/heartattack to learn more about how to recognize heart attacks.

Heart Attack Signs in Women• Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.• Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.• Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.• Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.• As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting and back or jaw pain.• If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than fi ve minutes before calling for help. Call 911 and get to a hospital right away.


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Some fruits are better than others: Blueberries, apples, and grapes especially benefi cial

Eating more whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, was signifi cantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a

new study led by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.

Greater consumption of fruit juices was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Th e study is the fi rst to look at the eff ects of individual fruits on diabetes risk.

“While fruits are recommended as a measure for diabetes prevention, previous studies have found mixed results for total fruit consumption,” said senior author Qi Sun, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and assistant professor at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Our fi ndings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially benefi cial for lowering diabetes risk.”

Th e researchers looked at overall fruit consumption, as well as consumption of individual fruits: grapes or raisins; peaches, plums, or apricots; prunes; bananas; cantaloupe; apples or pears; oranges; grapefruit; strawberries; and blueberries. Th ey also looked at consumption of apple, orange, grapefruit, and “other” fruit juices.

People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits — particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples — reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent in comparison to those who ate less than one serving per month. Conversely, those who consumed one or more servings

of fruit juice each day increased their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 21 percent. Th e researchers found that swapping three servings of juice per week for whole fruits would result in a 7 percent reduction in diabetes risk.

Th e fruits’ glycemic index (a measure of how rapidly carbohydrates in a food boost blood sugar) did not prove to be a signifi cant factor in determining a fruit’s association with type 2 diabetes risk. However, the high glycemic index of fruit juice — which passes through the digestive system more rapidly than fi ber-rich fruit — may explain the positive link between juice consumption and increased diabetes risk.

Th e researchers theorize that the benefi cial eff ects of certain individual fruits could be the result of a particular component. Previous studies have linked anthocyanins found in berries and grapes to lowered heart attack risk, for example. But more research is necessary to determine which components in the more

benefi cial fruits infl uence diabetes risk.“Our data further endorse current

recommendations on increasing whole fruits, but not fruit juice, as a measure for diabetes prevention,” said lead author Isao Muraki, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. “And our novel fi ndings may help refi ne this recommendation to facilitate diabetes prevention.”

Source: Harvard Medical School

Eating whole fruits foundto lower diabetes risk

“Our fi ndings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially benefi cial for lowering diabetes risk.”

Qi Sun, Harvard School of Public Health


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L’Oreal worst offender: Levels up to twice as high as previously reported

A new analysis of lead in lipstick conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reveals that the problem of lead in lipstick is worse and more

widespread than previously reported. Th e new study found lead in 400 lipsticks tested by the agency, at widely varying levels of up to 7.19 parts per million (ppm) — more than twice the levels reported in a previous FDA study.

Th e agency has studied only the levels of lead in lipstick, and has conducted no health studies or safety assessments.

In January, an advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion issued a new report asserting that there is no safe level of lead for children, and stressing the importance of preventing lead exposure for children and pregnant women.

“Lead builds up in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to signifi cant expo-sure levels,” said Mark Mitchell, M.D., MPH, policy advisor of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice and co-chair of the Environmental Health Task Force for the National Medical Association.

“Lead is a proven neurotoxin that can cause learning, language and behavioral problems,” said Sean Palfrey, M.D., a professor of pedi-

atrics and public health at Boston University and the medical director of Boston’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. “Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, because lead easily crosses the pla-centa and enters the fetal brain where it can interfere with normal development.”

Th e FDA study of 400 lipsticks was quietly posted on the agency’s website in December. Th e most contaminated brand in the study, Maybelline Color Sensation by L’Oreal USA, contained more than 275 times the amount of lead found in the least contaminated, and least expensive, brand, Wet and Wild Mega Mixers Lip Balm — demonstrating that price is not an indicator of good manufacturing practices.

“How many millions of women have ap-plied and reapplied lead-containing lipsticks since we fi rst raised concerns about this problem fi ve years ago? How many kids have played with their mom’s lipstick?” said Janet Nudelman, interim director of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and policy director at the Breast Cancer Fund. “It’s time for L’Oreal to get the lead out of its products, and for FDA to set a safety standard for lead in lipstick.”

Th e FDA said it is currently evaluating whether to recommend an upper limit for lead in lipstick. Th e Campaign for Safe Cosmet-ics is urging FDA to set a maximum limit for lead in lipstick based on the lowest lead levels cosmetic manufacturers can feasibly achieve. U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, John Kerry and Dianne Feinstein have also urged FDA to take action to reduce lead in lipstick.

Th e Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is also calling on L’Oreal to make a public commit-ment to reformulate its lipsticks to ensure the lowest possible levels of lead. L’Oreal makes fi ve of the 10 most lead-contaminated brands in the FDA study.

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metics.orgUS Centers for Disease Control: cdc.gov

FDA study: Hundreds of lipsticks contaminated with lead

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Lipsticks with the most lead

More than half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead, with levels ranging from 0.3

to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). One-third of the tested lipsticks exceeded the FDA’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy

— a standard established to protect children from directly ingesting lead.

Among the top brands testing positive for lead were:

L’Oreal Colour Riche “True Red” — 0.65 ppm

L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine” — 0.58 ppm

Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red” — 0.56 ppm

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“Positive Red” — 0.21 ppm


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Lice season is here. Back-to-school typically signals the time parents should start keeping a wary eye on their children for signs of lice infestations.

Th e main symptom of a head lice infesta-tion is an itchy scalp from the bites of the lice. Th e bites can then become infected, and may appear red or crusty, and may lead to your child developing swollen lymph glands in her neck.

“Children with head lice will have gray or reddish brown live head lice scurrying around their scalp,” said Alvaro Alban, MD, of New York Doctors Walk-In Urgent Care. “Lice are small, about the size of a sesame seed, and although they don’t fl y or hop, they can crawl very fast, making them hard to spot.”

Another sign that can help you determine whether your child has lice, is fi nding nits, or lice eggs, attached to your child’s hair. Nits are small, oval shaped and usually a yellowish-white color and are fi rmly attached to the side of hair shaft s.

According to Dr. Alban, the treatment for head lice is typically the use of a lice shampoo.

“Th e main treatments for head lice usually involve using a head lice shampoo, like Rid or Nix, and then patiently and dili-gently removing nits with a lice comb,” he said.

Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions for whatever products you choose to use. Also be sure to wash your child’s clothing and bedding in hot water and vacuum to remove lice and nits from furniture, carpets, stuff ed animals, etc. For light infestations, or if you are uncomfortable using an anti-lice shampoo, you can try to simply remove the live lice and nits manually.

Nits hatch in 7-10 days

and develop into an adult in another 7 to 10 days and can then lay more (up to 100) eggs. It is important to remove all of the nits to break this cycle. Since anti-lice shampoos don’t usually kill nits, you have to usually retreat the child in 7 to 10 days to kill any newly hatched lice.

Children are oft en misdiagnosed with head lice because they have hair casts that resemble nits, or they have dead or empty nits that are far away from the scalp. If you think your child has lice but you don’t actually see any live lice, visit New York Doctors Walk-In Urgent Care to confi rm the diagnosis.

•e careful before trying “alternative” treat-ments, like mayonnaise, Vaseline, olive oil or tea tree oil. Although they are natural treat-ments, they are untested, and products like mayonnaise can be hard to get out of a child’s hair (dishwashing liquid is supposed to make it easier though).

Back to school means lice season is here

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Bistro Le Steak 1309 3 Avenue Grade pending (19) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Papadam 1448 1 Avenue Grade pending (21) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

New Beijing Wok 1324 2 Avenue Grade pending (44) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Domino's Pizza 1396 1 Avenue Grade pending (30) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Shanghai Chinese Restaurant

1388 2 Avenue A

Th e Buckley School 113 East 73 Street ACasimir & Co 1022 Lexington

avenueGrade pending (50) - live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; fi lth fl ies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) fl ies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; insuffi cient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.

Marymount College Nugents Café

221 East 71 street A

10028 Wasabi Lobby Japanese Restaurant

1584 2 Avenue Grade pending (19) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; fi lth fl ies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) fl ies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGSSeptember 21—October 3, 2013

Restaurant GradesTh e following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s

website on October 4, 2013 and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGSNancy Lee's Pig Heaven

1540 2 Avenue Grade pending (4) - non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used.

Asian Station 1444 3 Avenue Grade pending (26) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; evidence of rats or live rats present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; fi lth fl ies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) fl ies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Sistina Restaurant 1555 2 Avenue Grade pending (23) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Uno Chicago Grill 220 East 86 street AMimi's Pizza 1248 Lexington

avenueA

East 86 Cinemas 210 East 86 street AGracie's Café 1530 York avenue Grade pending (23) - evidence of mice

or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Danny & Eddies 1643 1 Avenue Grade pending (43) - fi lth fl ies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) fl ies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Big Daddy's 1596-1598 2 Avenue

Grade pending (24) cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Koff eecake Corner 1269 Lexington avenue

A - 09/25/2013

Ko-sushi Japanese Restaurant

1619 York avenue A

Johnny Foxes 1546 2 Avenue Grade pending (17) - live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Dunkin' Donuts 355 East 86 street AGracie-Mews Restaurant

1550 1 Avenue A

10128 Midnight Express 1715 2 Avenue ATimmy's by the River 1737 York avenue Grade pending (25) - food worker

does not wash hands thoroughly aft er using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands; wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Delizia 92 1762 2 Avenue Grade pending (59) - cold food item held above 41º except during necessary preparation; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized aft er each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Eff y's Café 1638 3 Avenue Grade pending (46) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; insuffi cient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.

Bocado Café 1297 Lexington avenue

A

Glaser's Bakery 1670 1 Avenue AJuice Press 1296 Madison

avenueA

Island 1305 Madison avenue

A

Lex restaurant 1370 Lexington avenue

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NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALESReported September 27 - October 4, 2013

Neighborhood Address Apt. Sale Price BR BA Listing Brokerage

Neighborhood Address Apt. Sale Price BR BA Listing Brokerage

Beekman 444 E 52 St. #8F $889,000 2 2 Brown Harris Stevens414 E 52 St. #8F $655,000 1 1 Classic Marketing425 E 51 St. #1A $1,399,000 3 2 Douglas Elliman431 E 52 St. $8,000,000414 E 52 St. #10F $1,970,000

Carnegie Hill 141 E 88Th St. #7D $2,500,000141 E 88Th St. #4D $4,067,908 3 2 Stribling1120 Park Ave. #10A $540,69911 E 87 St. #10E $570,000 1 1 Stribling1125 Park Ave. #9D $2,900,000 2 3 Halstead Property1060 5 Ave. #2D $5,000,000120 E 87 St. #P12b $1,200,000 1 1 Halstead Property1060 Park Ave. #8D $1,350,000 2 1 Sotheby’s120 E 90 St. $1,703,000153 E 87 St. #3A $1,140,000 1 2 Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill 422 E 72 St. #29B $865,000 1 1 Realty Group 150 E 61 St. #4F $770,000 1 1 Corcoran200 E 61 St. #41F $1,050,000220 E 65 St. #21M $2,060,000220 E 67 St. #22C $370,000200 E 69 St. #15C $2,200,000 3 3 Corcoran1160 3 Ave. #3K $460,000 1 1 Corcoran401 E 65 St. #13J $489,000 1 1 Corcoran315 E 65 St. #8G $630,000 1 1 Owner795 5 Ave. #40811 $5,500,000345 E 69 St. #17C $805,000 1 1 Corcoran205 E 59 St. #17A $2,450,000 2 2 Stribling524 E 72 St. #39F $570,000 1 1 Corcoran17 E 63 St. #1 $3,000,000340 E 72 St. Multi $4,035,00015 E 69 St. #9A $7,850,000 3 3 Brown Harris Stevens530 E 72 St. #7A $750,000 1 1 Halstead Property220 E 67 St. #2C $280,000 0 1 Brown Harris Stevens311 E 71 St. #9D $318,000420 E 64 St. #W8b $478,000440 E 62 St. #3G $465,000301 E 69 St. #18C $950,000 1 1 Real Direct48 E 64 St. $6,350,00044 E 67 St. #3A $2,445,455 2 2 Brown Harris Stevens200 E 69 St. #47A+ $15,000,000 4 3 Brown Harris Stevens320 E 72 St. #8B $2,800,000 3 4 Warburg315 E 69 St. #6C $300,000 0 1 Douglas Elliman360 E 72 St. #B811 $749,000 1 1 Douglas Elliman188 E 64 St. #1005 $730,000 0 1 Peter*Ashe315 E 70 St. #8H $1,200,000 2 2 Next Stop Ny

Midtown 111 E 56 St. #1107 $300,000721 5 Ave. #54C $2,170,000 1 1 Corcoran136 E 56 St. #8C $725,000 1 1 Douglas Elliman

Midtown E 211 E 53 St. #4H $467,500 0 1 Douglas Elliman245 E 54 St. #29M $665,000 1 1 Next Stop Ny

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Fifth-generation owner Jake Dell dishes on what makes his deli so special

By Angela Barbuti

Katz’s Delicatessen can serve anywhere from 400 to 4,000 customers a day. Th at’s a lot of pastrami. But a deli doesn’t survive for 125 years on the

meat alone. At 2 p.m., the lunch rush is in full swing, and I fi nd Jake Dell at a table, eating a knoblewurst sandwich. Although sampling the food is a delicious perk, Dell, 26, whose grand-father Marty bought the deli in 1988, thinks the best part of his job is hearing the stories of cus-tomers’ personal attachment to the restaurant. “Th ere’s this deep emotional connection,” he said. Since there was no cohesive history yet written down, the book Katz’s Autobiography of a Delicatessen was created to commemo-rate their milestone anniversary. Released on October 1st, the photo/history book captures the essence of the customers, staff , and food that make the deli what it was in the late 1800s and still is today. With the landscape of Man-hattan always changing, Katz’s reminds us of

our fl avorful past. Dell acknowledges that by saying, “Change is inevitable in New York. But this doesn’t need to be the place that changes.”Your grandfather wanted you to join the business, because at one time you were applying to medical school.

I thought I wanted to be a doctor; I realized that was stupid. [Laughs] I love this place; I really do. Th is place has fed me for however-many years - it’s sent me to school, it literally saw me become a man at my Bar Mitzvah. Th is place is so integral to my life that, of

course, I was going to give a year back and let my dad take some time to relax. Th at’s how it started. Th ere were these creeping doubts, like I needed to make sure I really didn’t want to be at Katz’s and really did want to be a doctor. At the end of the year, I said, “What am I thinking?” In the book it

says you work 70 hours a week. What’s a typical day like for you?

I work a lot, yeah. Now I work less because I’m going to school. Probably 10 of those hours are spent at school now. I’m getting my MBA from NYU. I go part time, nights and weekends. In the morning, I come in and do what needs to be done in the offi ce. I address issues that may have come up, call people back. I like to be on the fl oor once the lunch rush hits and usually am here till the rush dies down at 3 or 4. Th en go back to emails or calls, or do interviews. If I have class, I leave. Otherwise, I stay through dinner. We do shipping sometimes overnight and I’ve stayed until 6 in the morning.On the weekends, you’re open 24 hours.

Th is neighborhood has changed drastically over the last 10 to 15 years. Now it’s a hotspot and Ludlow and Orchard is a destination. Th ey close off the streets to traffi c. Two sum-mers ago we recognized this. It’s been great. It has its own set of headaches, but it’s a lot of fun. Th ere are a lot of people I run into outside of here who say, “I know that place, I’ve been there at 3 in the morning.” Th ey have this attachment to it, and that’s what I care about.How did this book come about?

Beth Daugherty [of Bauer and Dean Pub-lishers] approached me with the idea. It was a little more general. It was basically saying that we needed a snapshot in time of Katz’s. Th is was last year and we were approaching our 125th anniversary. I thought it was impor-tant, before it’s too late, to get all this in writ-ing. I can talk about what’s happening right now, but why write it when we can show it through the photography?In the book, each employee’s picture is featured from cashiers, to cutters, to security.

Honestly, without them, there’d be no store. Half these guys - their families have worked here before them. Everyone is equally important. My busboys - without them the restaurant looks like a mess. Without the guys in the kitchen, there’s no matzo ball soup or latkes coming out.Adam Richman writes the book’s foreword and says you have “arguably the best pastrami on planet Earth.” How did your exposure on the Food Network change your business?

Th at was one of many factors. My father and my uncle did a wonderful job of adapting with the times, and that meant being on TV. I think this place naturally fi lms well; we’re very lucky. A lot of our regulars included guys like Adam Richman, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali. Daniel Boulud made a bone marrow dish at DBGB’s that had a little piece of Katz’s pastrami on it. I thought it was interesting that your mom came up with the idea to make Katz’s a stop on tours.

Tour groups come in here. A lot of people want to say “only tourists go there,” and I get that. A lot of the times that has to do with the time of the day that you come. Quite frankly, a lot of New Yorkers just take their food to go because they’re on the run. Where’s the farthest you’ve shipped to?

We’ve shipped the meats to every city imaginable in the country. Internationally, we started shipping our salamis during World War II. Our slogan is, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army.” We’ve sent to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, anywhere there are U.S. soldiers. Th at’s only the salami, anything else would go bad. We are going to start a program where if you don’t know the solider, you can donate a

salami. What happened here during Hurricane Sandy last year?

We were open. We had to shut down for a day. I had to buy dry ice to preserve all the meat. We were giving away thousands of pounds to shelters and giving the volunteers food. Th ere was one tourist couple who came in - I’ll never forget this - and said, “So are you guys serving today?” Th ey made the trek from the Upper West Side on Wednesday, when there was no power down here. Th ey were that committed.

To learn more about Katz’s, visit www.katzs-delicatessen.com

On October 22nd, Katz’s is launching Th e Space, a pop-up gallery and apparel shop fi lled with local artists’ deli-themed creations.

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