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NEW SCHOOL JOY AT PECK SLIP BY DUSI CA SUE M ALESEVI C trollers lined the building Wednesday, children ran around playing and yelling, parents greeted one another with hugs and kisses — and all were excited about the first day at the newly opened Peck Slip School in the Seaport. “I think it’s absolutely gorgeous — it’s brand new,” said Dana Bullaro, whose son John, 7, is in the second grade. “We look forward to a great year.” The family lives nearby on John St. and Bullaro said they tracked the progress of the school’s construction closely. Kiran Srikant, a second grader, initially shy, promptly told Downtown

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Smiles & selfies @ #9/11Memorial BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC alifornians Joe Vasco — both the second and the third— leaned back, grinned and took a photo with a selfie stick. They were not at the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty, but rather in front of one of the two pools at the 9/11 Memorial. Vasco senior said he hadn’t been

to New York City in 30 years and it was the first visit for his son. “First and foremost thing would be to come here,” he told me on a busy Tuesday afternoon last week. “Every American should come here.” They spent four hours at the 9/11 Museum while wishing they had two days to spend on the exhibits, he said.

When asked about using a selfie stick at the site, Vasco senior said he didn’t see any negative connotations. “I wanted to preserve this memory that we were here,” he said. But it begs the question: Is taking smiling selfies at the 9/11 Memorial Continued on page 6

BY YANNIC RACK n New York City of today, the Royal Barber Shop on Fulton St. stands out from the competition in a lot of ways. For one thing, you won’t find the antique fixtures and expensive hair products here that many newly opened, retro-style barbers seem to use as justification for their often-outlandish prices. But the most obvious difference remains the fact that since the late 1930s, the Royal has been serving customers underground and almost out of sight — inside the Fulton St. subway entrance between Gold and William Sts. “I got used to it,” owner Dominick Abruscato said on a recent weekday

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And while we’re talking about the Hudson River Park Trust, we didn’t get a chance to chat with Connie Fishman, executive director of the Governors Island Alliance, when she came to Community Board 1 last week to talk about volunteering on Manhattan isle’s isle, but her appearance did prompt us to look at what she’s been up to since she left as C.E.O. of the Trust four years ago. Before joining the Alliance, she was also a real estate exec with the YMCA of Greater New York, but psst, don’t tell LinkedIn, which still has her at the Trust. Is it possible that the online networking site is not as crucial to securing new employment as it would have you believe?

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ESCAPED PRISONER IS CAUGHT POLICE NAB SUSPECTED FUGITIVE A car theft near the Civic Center led police to arrest a man reportedly wanted for murder and rape in North Carolina. On Tues., Sept. 1 at around 3:30 p.m., police responded to a call that a car had been stolen near Warren St. and Broadway. The owner, a 55-year-old woman, told police that she had left her 2014 Honda Pilot running with the keys in the ignition and that someone had taken off with it. A police officer downloaded an app on his cell phone to find the SUV on Smith St. between Pacific and Dean Sts. after it went over the Brooklyn Bridge, police say. The officers stopped the car and arrested the driver. Police say they searched the man and found a handgun in his pants pocket. A second handgun was also found beneath the driver’s seat, police say. The man was taken to the First Precinct where the police learned he was wanted for “violent crimes” in Raleigh, which according to news reports, included murder and rape. In New York, Raleigh resident Kendrick Gregory, 21, has been charged with grand larceny in the third degree and

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DOWNTOWN CHAIN SNATCHES Two pricey gold chains were snatched off victim’s necks in the Financial District two weeks ago, police say. In the first incident, at the corner of State and Whitehall Sts. on Sat., Aug. 29 at 4:40 p.m. two men got into a verbal dispute. The fight escalated with one of the men punched the other in the face repeatedly, causing bruising and swelling to the victim’s left check. The aggressor then grabbed the $4,000 14 karat gold chain off the victim’s neck, who is 22 and from Long Island. Police described the suspect as around 25, 5ft. 7” and 140 pounds. The next day, on Sun., Aug. 30, a Brooklyn woman, 57, was on the 2 train at 9 a.m., police say. As the train pulled into the Wall St. station, a man standing next to her ripped the $2,000 gold and diamond chain off her neck. The suspect took off when the doors opened. The woman ran after him, but lost site of him as he fled.

A prisoner who escaped from a Downtown hospital on Sunday night was caught by police on the Upper West Side last week, according to authorities. Tiffany Neumann, 23, had slipped out of her handcuffs and fled from NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital Aug. 30 after she was arrested the previous day for skipping out on her bill on the Upper West Side and snatching clothes from a store down the block, according to the New York Times. Police say she was apprehended Sept. 1 around 8:45 a.m. not far from the original crimes. She has now been charged with escape, four counts of grand larceny and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property. At a press conference last week, police officials expressed their anger over the episode, which was at least the fourth in the city since June, according to the Times. The chief of the department, James P. O’Neill, attributed the escape to “inattentiveness and carelessness” on the part of the officers involved, one of whom has reportedly been suspended.

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Selfie sticks at the 9/11 Memorial Continued from page 1

appropriate considering what the site is supposed to commemorate? Selfies, sticks that facilitate said photos and “duck” faces are not new, but spend several hours at the memorial and you will see a preponderance of all. On the Tuesday Vasco visited with his son, I counted 14 sticks used in just one hour as I walked a loop between the two pools. On that day, I approached each person or group using one, but almost all were visitors from other countries. Even if a stick was not seen in action, there were plenty around. People held them like a baton as if ready to conduct a social media symphony, or in front of them like a leash. If sticks were not available, phones were turned around. Sometimes women struck model poses as if they were about to unveil a “Price is Right” showcase prize while their partner took a photo. The memorial has several rules that govern the site, including no smoking, but nothing about selfies. Their rules state the memorial and museum “are places of solemn reflection dedicated to honoring and remembering the tragic events and the overwhelming loss of innocent life that occurred at this location and others on September 11, 2001 and February 26, A young visitor to the memorial. 1993. Given the unique nature of the site and the tragedy that occurred here, proper decorum, personal behavior, and conduct is required from all visitors at all times in order to provide the entire visiting public with respect, and an equal opportunity to have an enriching and meaningful experience.” Officials with the memorial declined to comment for this article. When the attack happened 14 years ago this Friday, cell phone technology was burgeoning, but one still had to press a number button three times to get a desired letter for a text. In 2004, when a plan for the site was chosen, Facebook had just started and the first iPhone was three years away. Still, there were people who poured over the For many, the compulsion to document every moment is strong. But what do we lose when we names etched in bronze. A man held his coffee cup can’t stop to reflect at the reflecting pools? Does the and just stood a few moments looking at the pool. A meaning of the memorial get lost in the shuffle when father told his son what the names represent. For Michael Burke, who lost his brother, Captain people are focused on taking photos?

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William Burke of Engine 21, on Sept. 11, there is nothing at the site to remind people of the attacks. Physical reminders, such as Koenig‘s “Sphere” that was once at the plaza in front of the World Trade Center, are not at the site. “You’re denied the opportunity to confront the attacks where they happened,” Burke said in a phone interview. “What the memorial has inspired is not somber reflection, remembrance — it’s happy selfies.” Burke said people should be able to have whatever reaction they want. However, he said he has seen wedding pictures being taken, a young group of men flashing gang signs and happy couples canoodling while snapping a shot. “A selfie stick in and of itself I guess is pretty harmless,” he said. “But they might as well as be at Rockefeller Center or Times Square.”

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Hot dogs threatened as N.Y.P.D. cites terror concerns BY D U SI CA SU E M A LE S E V IC The N.Y.P.D. is hoping to push food vendors further away from the World Trade Center in an effort to better protect the area from terrorists. The current restricted zone is bounded north by Vesey St., south by Liberty St., east at Broadway and west at West. St., Leighton A. Myrie, executive officer of the World Trade Center Command, told Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee at their meeting last week. He hopes to move it out a block, although this would require a change in state law. “The problem for us is that two of our major vehicle screening operations…at Liberty and Trinity and also at Barclay and Washington exist outside of this secure perimeter,” he said Sept. 2. Food carts are often on Trinity near the corner of Liberty St. It is this proximity to the vehicle checkpoints that the N.Y.P.D. wants to avoid. “We’re not trying to put the food cart business out of business…we’re just trying to get them away from our operations,” he said. Myrie said the possibility that explosives could be hidden in carts is a concern, as are backpacks. “We don’t need to remind ourselves what happened at the Boston Marathon and now recently in Bangkok,” he said. The proposed expansion would be one block to the north, from Vesey to Barclay St., and one block south from Liberty to Cedar St. and a strip of land at Thames St., he said. Before Myrie could finish, Pat Moore, a community board member who lives in a building that faces Liberty, started clapping. “Expand it more,” she said with a laugh. Assemblymember Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker who

sponsored the 2004 legislaion creating the W.T.C. zone, said in an email statement that he continues to receive complaints from local residents and workers regarding street vending in the vicinity of the site. “Vendors block sidewalk access on those narrow and very busy streets leading to the W.T.C. Memorial and Museum and have an overall negative impact on quality of life,” said Silver. “Expanding that no-vending zone makes sense and I strongly support that effort.” Sergeant George Giga, a community affairs officer at the W.T.C., told reporters after the presentation that “it may be difficult” getting a law passed to expand the zone. At the meeting, it was made clear that because of First Amendment protections, the expanded area would not affect those hawking books such as “WTC Never Forget.” “You can’t get those guys…out of it?” asked Moore, who is also the Quality of Life Committee chairperson. “I walk out my door, I have to deal with them all the time.” Residents on Liberty St. have been unhappy that the booksellers have been trying to sell to tourists on their block. The day before the meeting, one book seller on Church St. between Cortlandt and Vesey Sts. said he hasn’t been told to stay away from Liberty St., but “sometimes they push us out.” Another, who also refused to give his name or say how much the books cost, said, “If you don’t bother them, they don’t bother you.” At the meeting, the committee passed a resolution supporting the proposal. Afterwards, Myrie explained how the current zone was not adequate: “It’s a full-size blanket trying to fit a queen- size mattress.”

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“I thought that was only in Brooklyn, where the hipsters live,” quipped Pat Moore, committee member, before the reps spoke. Moore was partially right — the two locations already serving libations are in Williamsburg and at Macy’s. One rep said that Starbucks tries to emphasize local products, there’s Brooklyn beer at the Williamsburg location, but no word yet on any special Downtown offerings.

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9/11 push to extend the W.T.C. health law BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC “If this bill does not pass, I will pass away.” Nicholas Poliseno uttered this statement calmly to Downtown Express after a press conference last week where elected officials pushed for the permanent reauthorization of the Zadroga Act, the 9/11 health bill which expires for patients in October. Poliseno, a Con Edison worker who helped restore power to Lower Manhattan after the collapse of 7 World Trade Center and its substation, worked by Ground Zero for a year after 9/11. As a result, Poliseno has been diagnosed with several diseases, including multi-organ sarcoidosis, which has spread to eight parts of his body, he said. For just one of his many medications, it costs $1.1 million yearly, he said. Poliseno, who receives treatment under the act and is now the mayor of a New Jersey town, joined U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and Peter King as they pushed for the act’s permanent renewal. “There is no way I would able to afford this,” he told the crowd gathered near 7 W.T.C., which was rebuilt in

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2006. “We need to know that we will be taken care for the service that we gave.” Congress passed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in 2011 and it is comprised of two parts: the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides medical services for over 70,000 responders and survivors, and the reopened September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. In New York, 47,462 responders — fire, police and other emergency personnel — and around 6,810 survivors — area residents, workers and children — receive care from the program, according to Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act. The Victim Compensation Fund was initially created shortly after the attacks. It was reopened as part of the Zadroga Act and the total value of compensation is over $1.3 billion. So far 11,770 claimants are eligible for compensation claims, according to fund administrators. The fund is capped at $2.775 billion and as of March this year $1 billion has been awarded, according to the Congressional Research Service. Nadler, whose district includes Lower Manhattan, said, “We will never stop fighting.”

Over 33,000 first responders and survivors have an injury or illness believed to be related to the attacks or its aftermath and over two thirds of them have more than one disease. King said, “This is beyond debate…I hope we never have to be here again.” The passage of the Zadroga Act was splintered by bipartisanship and some credit Jon Stewart, the former “Daily Show” host, for helping getting it through four years ago. King, a Republican, and Nadler and Maloney, both Democrats, are leading the push this time, introducing the reauthorization act in the House. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has pushed for the renewal in the Senate. According to Gillibrand’s Twitter account, Stewart will join survivors in Congress next week to urge for the act’s renewal. During a

“Daily Show” appearance this summer, Gillibrand said there’s not much resistance to extending the act temporarily, but making it permanent will be a challenge. The World Trade Center Health Program is set to expire this October and the Victim Compensation Fund will expire in October of next year. Joe Zadroga also spoke at the press conference. His son James, a N.Y.P.D. police officer who died from a respiratory disease caused by participating in the recovery effort after Sept. 11, is who the bill is named after. Zadroga, his voice rising, said he would go to Washington if need be to let politicians who might block the effort know “what it is like to watch your son die.”

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Pace students and “Chris the Dancing Bagel” were outside the university’s new Beekman St. dorm last week.

dents make up anywhere between 5-10 percent of his customers. “We love the Pace kids, we love them,” he said. Directly next to the new building, on William St., the Downtown Pharmacy sells a variety of snacks and drinks, and also staffs a prescription counter in the back of the store. Henry Vasquez, the manager there, said the pharmacy started offering discounts to students just in time for the move-in date five days ago. “It’s not something we had in place before, but Continued on page 12

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fifth of the store’s customers. “We carry most of the essentials, like toothbrushes and all that stuff they might need,” he added. Milan Ganatra, an 18-year-old sophomore studying computer science, was just coming back from lunch at a nearby Subway sandwich shop, where he said Pace students pay up to 20 percent less. They can also use their cafeteria cards to pay at some of the surrounding restaurants, which is convenient. And the dorm wasn’t too bad either, Ganatra said.

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for a small portion of what was then termed the “BIG U” — protective measures that would stretch from Midtown West down around the Battery and then back up to E. 42nd St., thus creating a “U” around Manhattan. Zarrilli said the new money would be used to extend the section that already has funding —E. 23rd St. to Montgomery St. — to include the T:8.75” area further south from Montgomery

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Express that she is six and two third quarters old. Her mom, Kirti Srikant, said Kiran was excited about the new school, but also a little nervous as the building is bigger than Peck Slip’s temporary home at Tweed Courthouse. “It is a much better commute,” said Srikant as the family also lives on John St. Lynne Garcia has two girls attending Peck Slip — Ella, 4, in pre-K and Ana, 6, in first grade. “We are a big fan of Maggie and the school,” said Garcia, referring to principal Maggie Siena. Siena came out in front of the yellow awning entrance now emblazoned with “PS 343 M,” the school’s other name, and said “Morning Peck Slip!” to cheers. Siena called out where grades should line up and then rang the bell, saying, “It’s a tradition” with a smile. State Sen. Daniel Squadron, Councilmember Margaret Chin and Community Board 1 Chairperson Catherine McVay Hughes held up a brightly-colored banner that said “Welcome Peck Slip Students!” Hughes said, “Lots of smiling faces — the kids, the parents, the school administration and principal Maggie.” A week before school opened, Siena talked to Downtown Express about the new building, and preparing it for the influx of around 285 students and up to 10 classes of pre-K at a separate center. “We’re just spending time being in awe,” Siena said in a phone interview. “I had one teacher who, when I came into the building, she was just sitting in a room in the dark staring at it — it’s just so beautiful.” It took three years of “incubating” at Tweed, the Dept. of Education’s headquarters, over two years of renovation costing $58 million and several years of the community and Downtown school advocates pushing to make the school at 1 Peck Slip a reality. “The opening of the Peck Slip School is a long-awaited and much welcome milestone for families in the Seaport and Financial Districts,” Hughes, C.B. 1 chairperson, wrote in

an email last week. “What was once a sad post office will now be a bustling elementary school.” Hughes pointed to the work of Assemblymember Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force that “has campaigned constantly to bring in the school seats we need in the wake of our rapid post-9/11 transformation.” Lower Manhattan has experienced its shortage of school seats and waitlists. Chin, the councilmember, said in an email statement Tuesday, with the growing population, “this school is a much needed addition to Lower Manhattan’s educational landscape.” Tricia Joyce, a member of the schools task force and chairperson of C.B. 1’s Youth and Education Committee, said in a phone interview, “I’m thrilled about it. We have been really lucky once again in the timing because as it opens, we filled all of the sections. Another year at Tweed would not have been possible.” Siena said there are still a few minor items that need to be completed. “That’s to be expected in a new school building. In fact, [the] School Construction [Authority] expects that they’ll be working on a building up to a year after it opens,” she said. Some families going to the school cross Beekman St., where safety concerns have been heightened since April, when a hit and run driver slammed a pedestrian near Spruce Street School. Peck Slip has yet to be assigned a crossing guard, but the Dept. of Transportation has closed the cobblestoned street between Pearl and Water Sts. during student drop off and pickup. Metal barricades were set up at both ends on Wednesday and a community affairs officer from the First Precinct was there. Siena, who has been principal since the school started its first year at Tweed in fall 2012, said, “I think that we’re going to be able to keep the tone and the warm community of our incubating school, our small Peck Slip School even though we’re in a big new building with a much bigger staff. That’s very encouraging.”

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Big reading gain at P.S. 150 & NEST still tops BY YAN N I C RA CK If you’re the parent or guardian of a student who is starting middle school in New York City this week, there’s a good chance you spent some time last year worrying about your child’s reading score. Competition for space in the city’s better public middle schools can be fierce, which is why Community Board 1 member Tom Goodkind has spent the last 14 years compiling an annual ranking of the reading scores in schools across the five boroughs. A longtime Battery Park City resident, he said that it is important for parents to know how the local schools are doing on a key factor — the fourth grade English Language Arts or reading test, which is used by middle schools to pick and choose their next crop of students. So, on what he calls the Annual Goodkind Ranking of NYC Public Elementary Schools, he ranks the percentage of fourth graders who score in the “passing” quadrants, 3 or 4. Downtown schools usually do well, and this year was no excep-

Downtown school rankings of reading scores compiled by community leader Tom Goodkind. Scores in the upper quadrants (3 or 4) are considered “passing.” Ranking drops are in parentheses.

tion. “Our kids do amazing on these tests,” Goodkind, whose two grown daughters attended public schools in Lower Manhattan, said. “P.S. 1 and P.S. 126 [in Chinatown] need some work, but the others are all in the top 10 percent of schools citywide. That’s amazing.” The biggest gain this year was recorded at Tribeca’s P.S. 150, which jumped up 49 places to rank 13, out of the 732 schools tested.

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Continuing its march to the top was NEST (New Explorations into Science Technology and Math), taking the second spot citywide. Goodkind noted that P.S. 276 and Spruce Street School both placed in the top 10 percent despite being new – the latter is only in the second year of taking the tests. He also noted that his ranking has become especially useful in the last three years, as the test has been updated to reflect Common Core standards. “You can see in the citywide rankings that, if you look at the actual scores, there is a huge drop between 2012 and 2013. Everybody got lower because the test got harder,” he said. So instead of just listing the test scores, which are still much lower overall than three years ago, the ranking focuses on the schools’ performances compared to each other. But the scores don’t reflect the entire student body at a given school anyway, with more and more students opting out of the test.

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Essex Streeet Market needs marketing, vendors say BY YANNIC RACK Strolling through the Essex Street Market, casual visitors will be mostly oblivious to the troubles its historic halls have seen over the last few years. On closer inspection, they might notice the few shuttered stalls whose spaces have sat empty for almost a year. And sometimes, the corridors displaying fresh produce and exotic fare can feel deserted even without comparing them to bustling days gone by. The market, which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year, has had to cope with a sharp drop in business ever since the Essex Crossing redevelopment was formally announced in 2012. As part of the $1 billion project, which began construction across the street last month, nine blocks in the area will be transformed from what are now mostly parking lots to apartment buildings and a range of shops and cultural spaces. Also part of the plan is a new and larger home for the market, which will be located just across Delancey St. Many local residents and visitors mistakenly believe that the market has closed its doors until the new space opens in three years — much to the

dismay of the old-time grocers, as well as newer artisanal bakers and the like, that still serve the surrounding Lower East Side community. “I think that there was a dramatic drop after the project was announced for a lot of vendors, because there was a lot of public uncertainty about the future of the market — if we’re closed now, if we’re closing later,” said Anne Saxelby, who opened her own market stall, Saxelby Cheesemongers, nine years ago. Saxelby said her shop lost about a third of its customers within one year after the plans were made public. She did note that some of the older vendors, who have been there for decades and rely heavily on the area’s public-housing population, were not hit quite as hard. Nonetheless, the crunch was felt by all the merchants, and as a result three stalls, including one butcher run by Saxelby’s husband, closed down earlier this year. But now there are some efforts underway that have market vendors at least hoping for a return to business as usual. Saxelby heads the Essex Street Market Vendors Association. The

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group was created in 2012 to advocate for vendors’ rights and works with the Lower East Side Business Improvement District and the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which oversees the market. The vendors have long criticized E.D.C. for neglecting the market. But now their tone has changed, albeit only slightly, in the face of new programs that are supposed to reverse the current trend. The market will open for extended hours from Sept. 11 through December, which E.D.C. says will be complemented by “programming” to

help drive foot traffic — things like market tours and screenings as part of the LES Film Festival. It is also providing the business improvement district with $10,000 for advertising in the coming year. “We have been working closely with the vendors association on a variety of marketing and programming initiatives,” Tim Laughlin, the BID’s executive director, said, adding that he couldn’t disclose any details just yet. The BID had also planned to install Street Seats directly outside on Essex Continued on page 23

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morning, while carefully clipping away at the hair of one of the day’s first customers. Abruscato, who had his first day at the shop in 1980, was referring to working underground for the last 35 years. “At the beginning I didn’t like it, but after a while it was okay,” he added after another snip of the scissors. If you don’t mind missing out on the direct sunlight — and the noise — of a street-level barber, a regular haircut at the Royal will set you back a mere $17. As a plus, the shop feels like a throwback to a different era: Apart from two three-seat leather sofas and an imposing air-conditioning unit, the main decorations are a few old pictures of haircuts and New York City landscapes, as well as portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Yankee legend Yogi Berra. On this particular morning, the only customer occupying one of the three barber chairs had a Playboy magazine lying open in his lap. Abruscato came to the country in 1966, looking for a better life

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Barber Dominick Abruscato in his no-frills shop by the Fulton St. subway stop.

than the one he had in Ventimiglia di Sicilia, a small town in northern Sicily that still has barely more than 2,000 inhabitants. “Sicily is kind of poor, no industry, no nothing,” Abruscato says with a shrug and an accent that has obviously stood the test of time. He was just 17 years old when

he left, but had already started honing his craft at the tender age of eight. That’s when his father started sending him to help out at a local barbershop every day. “My father said, ‘teach him how to be a barber.’ So you go there every day after school and, little by little, you start to do little things.

You become a slave of the guy,” Abruscato says. He became a full-fledged barber when he was 14 and has never done anything else in his life. At almost 67, he still commutes to his shop from Maspeth, Queens, almost every day. He says the single biggest advantage to running a subway barbershop is the low rent. “With the overhead being smaller, we don’t have to create a big business to stay in business,” he says. But of course there are challenges, too. The location means his customers are mostly made up of regulars, with few that walk in for a spontaneous trim. Since he started working at the shop in 1980 (he bought it from his boss seven years later), Abruscato says business has declined quite a bit. While he once employed up to three barbers to keep up with appointments, for the last six years it’s just been him and 41-year-old Elvir Otovic from Montenegro, who Continued on page 19

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has worked at the shop for 11 years. “Sometimes we were three, we were four, 10, 15 years ago,” Abruscato says. “But it’s been a long time that we’ve been only two, me and my barber.” Otovic, who Abruscato calls Elvis, says that one of their barbers retired and another moved to another shop. “How are you gonna replace them if you don’t have the business?” he says. These days, an extra chair is set up in one corner of the shop, which Abruscato rents out to an independent barber whose nearby shop closed down. Above the wall-length mirror across from the three barber chairs hangs a small, crooked picture of a U.S. flag with the inscription “United We Stand 9/11.” Abruscato says at least three customers died in the attack on the Twin Towers, but he lost others whose jobs moved from Lower Manhattan. “The area was bad for a few years, a lot of stores were empty,” he says. More recently, his business suf-

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work in the area. Around ten of them have been sitting in his chair every month or so for more than 35 years — his customers from the old barber shop at nearby Southbridge Towers. Patrick Terzano, 84, still lives at the housing complex. He has only been coming to the Royal for two years but originally tried out Abruscato on recommendations from multiple neighbors. “Dominick has been servicing them forever. He’s local and he’s good,” he says. Asked how often he comes in, he only laughs and points at his fading white hair. “Are you kidding?” A few months ago Abruscato put up a small sign in the storefront window, seeking someone to take the shop off his hands. Although he’d like to sell it, he says he wants to keep working there some days of the week, at least for a few more years. “I’m working almost 53 years. Long career,” he says, before turning back to the chair in front of him. “And I don’t know when I’m gonna retire either.”

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Separate & unequal schools in New York City B Y L E N O RE SKE NA Z Y What’s it like to be a substitute in the New York City public schools? That’s not what Elizabeth Rose’s new book, “Yo Miz!,” is about. It’s about what it’s like to be a sub at 25 New York City public schools over the course of one year. The songwriter and playwright had been teaching at the same school for 10 years — Vanguard, on East 68th St. — and loving it. But then came a Dept. of Education edict regarding about 2,500 “excessed” teachers — teachers not fi red, but whose school no longer had a paid position for them. What becomes of a teacher without a school? Rose’s cohort was to be churned through the system: Substituting a week at a time at school, after school, after school. Rumor had it that this was supposed to drive them so crazy, they’d all quit — which is something Rose considered. But then she re-considered. Outsiders aren’t generally allowed into the schools. Here was her chance. “It was,” she decided, “irresistible.” And so began a year that swung from inspiring to infuriating on pretty much a weekly basis. Her fi rst placement, Baruch High School, was fi lled with students eager to study the Code of Hammurabi and what makes for a just punishment. It’s the kind of place most of us wish our kids could go — but only about 450 of the brightest of the bright get in.

This deployment was quickly followed by one at an unscreened school on the Lower East Side where Rose was thrown into chemistry class — she’s an art teacher — and threatened with assault. One student had a gang

pencils. “They all needed sharpening,” says Rose. And naturally, “someone had run off with the sharpener.” Someone had also run off with any kind of leadership. Rose learned that she was there only so the school could claim its students had fulfi lled their art class credit. “It was a scam.” She took a deep breath and decid-

How can a school of 600 young people have no art supplies in the creative capital of America? insignia tattooed on his face. Stints followed at the High School of Fashion Industries, a buzzing hive of creativity with student’s handiwork draped on dress mannequins. Then there was a week she spent guarding an unused door in a fetid hallway at another school. The principal screamed at her when she requested a bathroom key. From the students to faculty, everyone looked beaten down. There was another week at a high-energy graphic design school where students worked on the latest video editing equipment. And then came a week at a school in Washington Heights where she was put in charge of the art class. Here the supplies all fit into one cardboard box: A bunch of colored

ed it would at least be a week worth remembering. “Take out your pens,” she told the class. “We’re doing self portraits. What is your most interesting feature? Exaggerate it.” A table full of boys refused. “They said, ‘No, this is whack.’ ” So Rose went to the white board and started drawing them. This enraged the boys. What right did she have? They retaliated by drawing her — and not kindly. But she had the last laugh. They were drawing. The next day Rose brought in some art supplies from home. The next day, some more. On the last day, however, she brought in Oreos instead, and announced, “Today we’re going to do

an art project.” Her assignment? Write on the white board all the things they thought an art class should have. Paper! Paint! Field trips! “We Deserve a Great Art Class!” Rose scrawled at the top of the board. Then she gathered the students in front of the board, backs to the camera for legal purposes, and told them they could make whatever gesture seemed appropriate. It’s a gesture you’ve seen on the highway when you cut somebody off. The picture summed up Rose’s outrage and what she hopes will be ours, too: How can a school of 600 young people have no art supplies in the creative capital of America? How can some kids never go on a field trip when they live just a few subway stops away from one of the greatest art museums in the world? How can some schools have video editing equipment, or discussions about Hammurabi, and others have dank halls, screaming principals, and just one week of art? “Once you meet these kids, you’ll feel how much you want them to have a chance at success,” says Rose. Feeling it.

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TRANSIT SAM Thursday, September 10 – Wednesday, September 16 ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE SUSPENDED MON DAY AND TUESDAY FOR ROSH HASHANAH Special Alert for Lower Manhattan on Friday! In observance of the 14th remembrance of the Sept. 11th attacks, all streets in the area bounded by Barclay St., Thames/ Albany Sts., Trinity Pl./Church St., and West St. will close 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. While West and Church Sts. will remain open I strongly advise taking alternate routes (F.D.R. Drive) if driving. The San Gennaro Festival starts Thurs., Sept. 10 and continues DowntownExpress.com

through Sun., Sept 20. It will close Mulberry St. between Canal and East Houston Sts., and Grand and Hester Sts. between Mott and Centre Sts. 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day. In their first home game of the season, the Jets take on the Browns 1 p.m. Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Expect extra traffic at the Holland Tunnel as drivers jam the Lincoln. N.Y.C. public schools are now back in session, so expect extra slowdowns during the morning rush hour. In the Lincoln Tunnel, the New York-bound tube will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday. This will send inbound traffic to the Holland Tunnel, where one lane will close in each direction during the same hours.

Avoid a late-night return if you can. The Manhattan-bound Brooklyn Bridge will close 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, midnight Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday, and midnight Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday. Drivers headed into the city will take the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and the Battery Tunnel instead, making for extra traffic on Canal, Delancey, and West Sts., respectively. The Dushahra Festival will close Maiden Ln. between Front and South Sts. noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The Stone Street Pedestrian Mall will close Stone St. between Hanover Sq. and Broad St., and Mill Ln. between

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St. this summer, to increase awareness of the market and encourage customers and passersby alike to linger. But last week Laughlin said that the program, which puts seating on streets, will be delayed until next April. “In concert with the Street Seats, we’ll be requesting a variety of improvements to parking regulations that both support customers and vendors on that block,” he said. Saxelby said that while they were disappointed to have to wait another seven months, the vendors agreed that it made more sense to delay the program so that it can run for the whole season. What could signal a change at the market much sooner, however, is a new management structure: Around three weeks ago, the vendors association was formally incorporated as a nonprofit, something that had been in the works for some time. “It’s basically to do marketing, promotion and advocacy for a group of small merchants,” Saxelby said. “Our goal wasn’t self-management by the vendors association but alternative

management with a new nonprofit structure,” she said, adding that this model has proved itself at other public markets around the country, including Pike Place Market in Seattle and Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. With the incorporation process complete, E.D.C. is now providing funding to hire a part-time vendor services coordinator, who will take over many of the tasks and coordination that are required on a daily basis. “We hope to hire that person in September and have them help us strengthen all those relationships and make the market ever more visible in the public eye,” Saxelby said. That would also benefit the new tenants that are moving in soon. An E.D.C. spokesperson said last week that it is finalizing agreements with four vendors who will once again fill the market to full capacity. She said that one of the new stalls will be occupied by Puebla Mexican Food, the restaurant that this spring had to close its doors after 25 years on First Ave. between E. Second and E. Third Sts., due to a rent hike. Other

vendors could potentially include a craft beer shop and a Japanese food vendor, according to a source at the market. Saxelby said she hopes the mix will also include a butcher. Filling the empty spaces might, at the very least, boost morale among the other vendors. “I feel like a full market is a vibrant market,” Saxelby said. “It’s like the broken windows theory — if there’s a couple of things going wrong, then it makes it look like there is more going wrong. The market is still a vibrant place, so filling it up to capacity is absolutely the way to go.” In general, though, she is still careful not to heap too much praise onto E.D.C. “E.D.C. has managed the market but I wouldn’t say we’ve worked together,” she remarked. “We’ve really had more of a collaboration with the BID in terms of making change.” She specifically mentioned E.D.C.’s long approval processes for simple things like putting up signs outside or allowing a TV crew to come in and film a segment, which would attract press coverage and visitors.

“I feel like there’ve been steps made to sort of turn things around, but we’re just starting to see the first bits of real action and commitment to change,” Saxelby said. The vendors still have three years left in their historic building, which dates from the administration of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, when it was built to house pushcart vendors, who were clogging up the streets. But the lowslung structure itself can sometimes seem like part of the problem. The market’s 15,000 square feet are hidden behind a drab and uninviting facade; the banners out front advertising the market were only installed this spring. “The building that we’re currently in is kind of like a shed, people don’t know what’s going on inside,” Saxelby said, adding that all of the vendors were looking forward to the move across the street to the bigger location. “It’s going to be a lot more visible from the street, it will be all glass, which is great.” The vendors at the old market will get first dibs on the new spaces and moving expenses will be covered by the developers.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to Section 695(2)(b) of the General Municipal Law and Section 1802(6)(j) of the Charter, notice is hereby given that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") of the City of New York ("City") has proposed the sale of the following City-owned property ("Disposition Area") in the Borough of Manhattan: Address 175 Delancey Street

Block/Lot 347/71

Under HPD's Extremely Low and Low Income Affordability Program, sponsors purchase Cityowned land or vacant buildings and construct or rehabilitate multifamily buildings in order to create affordable rental housing. Construction and permanent financing is provided through loans from private institutional lenders and from public sources including HPD, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the State of New York and/or the federal government. Additional funding may also be provided from the syndication of low-income housing tax credits. The newly constructed or rehabilitated buildings provide rental housing to low-income families. Subject to project underwriting, up to 30% of the units may be rented to formerly homeless families. HPD has designated Site 6 DSA Owner LLC ("Sponsor") as qualified and eligible to purchase and redevelop the Disposition Area under the Extremely Low and Low Income Affordability Program. HPD proposes to sell the Disposition Area to Sponsor for the nominal price of one dollar ($1.00) per tax lot. Sponsor will also deliver an enforcement note and mortgage for the remainder of the appraised value (“Land Debt”). Sponsor will then construct one building with approximately 99 rental dwelling units for low income seniors, plus one superintendent unit, a community facility space of approximately 74,539 gross square feet, and approximately 6,068 gross square feet of commercial space. After a minimum of sixty (60) years following completion of construction, any remaining balance of the Land Debt may be forgiven. The appraisal and the proposed Land Disposition Agreement and Project Summary are available for public examination at the office of HPD, 100 Gold Street, Room 5-A4, New York, New York on business days during business hours. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held on September 21, 2015 at Second Floor Conference Room, 22 Reade Street, Manhattan at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be reached on the calendar, at which time and place those wishing to be heard will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed sale of the Disposition Area pursuant to Section 695(2)(b) of the General Municipal Law and Section 1802(6)(j) of the Charter. Individuals requesting sign language interpreters should contact the Mayor's Office of Contract Services, Public Hearings Unit, 253 Broadway, Room 915, New York, New York 10007, (212) 788-7490, no later than five (5) business days prior to the public hearing. TDD users should call Verizon relay services.

Bill de Blasio, Mayor Vicki Been, Commissioner, HPD

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