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Discuss plan to clean up toxic Broadway site

By HAYDEE CAMACHO The remediation plan for 6469 Broadway, the site of a stalled mixed housing development, was discussed at the Environment and Sanitation Committee meeting of Community Board 8 last Wednesday, October 30th.

The property is owned by Self-Help, the primary developer of the former proposed mixed use 11 story housing development. The organization Communilife, which was to have overseen the placement and on-site monitoring of the mentally challenged residents withdrew from the development, prompted by community opposition.

Jane O’Connell, Environmental Remediation Specialist with the New York State Department of Energy Conservation outlined the plan which is expected to begin late November upon demolition of the building on site. The

structure has undergone asbestos removal.

The site will follow the requirements for New York State Department of Conservation Level 1 brownfield cleanup, the highest level of cleanup and allows for unrestricted building on the site.

Contaminated soil and ground water was found on the site in December 2001 after the discovery of petroleum-contaminated soil during an upgrade of the underground storage tanks. According to O’Connor, well monitoring on the west side of Broadway has found no contamination.

All soils down to the bedrock level will be removed and taken to a containment facility. Contaminated ground water will be pumped out and put into tanker trucks which will be taken off site as well.

Concerns were raised at the meeting about dust exposure during excavation and transport of the soil.

O’Connell elaborated on the procedure which calls for the site to be continuously watered during removal and placement onto containerized trucks.

The developer is required to have an on-site engineer who will monitor the remediation and air quality levels and must file daily reports to the DEC. DEC will also be conducting its own checks.

Trucks will come three times a day and must follow established New York City Department of Transportation routes for the area which is Broadway to Van Cortlandt Park South and onto the Major Deegan. O’Connell urged resident to call 311 if they see trucks on side streets.

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Route for greenway link still a work in progress

By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER In a quest for community input, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council met last Sunday with a group of Spuyten Duyvil locals for a noontime walking tour along the proposed Hudson River Valley Greenway

route through Riverdale.

Long-range plans are for the entire greenway to stretch from Manhattan’s Battery Park to Troy, New York.

The Riverdale section will link two existing nature thoroughfares—the Manhattan Water-

Longshot Lhota visits Hebrew Institute

By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota, sporting a black yarmulke, quietly blended in with worshippers at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale last Friday night.

After Sabbath services, the Bronx-born-and-raised candidate got a warm introduction from Rabbi Steven Exler and was allowed to address the congregation.

Lhota summed up what he would have hoped to achieve as New York City’s mayor. Safety was among his key issues, but he strongly condemned racial profiling and said police should take precautionary measures based on genuine concerns—not on personal reactions to the way potential suspects wear their pants.

He noted that Election Day is in the Hebrew month of Kislev, the month of Chanukah and miracles. So he wasn’t ahead in the polls—but with everyone’s support, a miracle was possible.

Rabbi Exler pointed out that the civic responsibility of getting out to vote is very much in keeping with Jewish values.

Lhota’s wife, Tamra, and daughter, Kathryn, remained in the shul lobby to schmooze with congregants.

A News 12 cameraman had

spotted Lhota in the men’s section and was about to start filming when he was discreetly ushered out of the sanctuary.

front Greenway trail at Dykman Street in Inwood and the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail in northern Yonkers.

A sizable group assembled at one precarious section of the proposed route—cars and all manner of buses follow a downhill curve into a six-way intersection and vie with traffic from all directions as they negotiate a hairpin turn where the Henry Hudson Parkway service road converges with three prongs of Independence Avenue and two of Kappock Street.

Within eyeshot was another dicey area where a narrow pedestrian path leads on or off the Henry Hudson Bridge via a narrow stairway to the street.

“This is actually the only location along our entire route, including Yonkers and Manhattan, where we still have a walk-yourbike condition,” said Jackson Wandres, director of landscape architecture and urban planning for RBA Group, consultants for the project.

The plan is to widen the path and replace the stairs with a

ramp—and to add a cantilevered lane for the greenway along the southbound length of the bridge, a multimillion-dollar dream.

The bike lane on Kappock Street would flank a widened parking lane in a “shared lane design implemented by the DOT throughout the city,” Wandres explained.

Gerry Bogacz, NYMTC’s director of planning, teamed with Wandres in presenting the options.

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Good clean fun. In a tradition that dates back to the Class of 1987, eighth-graders at St. Gabriel School celebrated Halloween night with a lively costume party. Some of the teens have been students at the school since kindergarten.

Veterans Day Ceremony at Memorial Grove

By HERB BARRETT During World War II we as a nation built up great pride in our country and the flag.

This pride remained with us following the end of WWII; the American flag flew proudly, President Truman paraded from city to city with his troops, soldiers came home, and veteran groups grew in number and became a large part of the veteran’s life. One of these groups. H. Lehman Post 8646, VFW, Bronx, NY, came up with an idea to place a WWII Memorial in Van Cortlandt Park. By 1949 this memorial on Broadway at West 246th Street was started on a two-acre site. Multiple oak trees were planted and monuments honoring over 30 soldiers were placed at the base of each tree. Over time the Memorial was comprised of 37 monuments honoring thirty-five WWII and two Korean War veterans, and as such was renamed to Memorial Grove. Two of the thirty-seven memorials are (Congressional) Medal of Honor recipients. In addition, a memorial for FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Sons of Gold Star Mothers was also placed

in the Memorial Grove, totaling 39 trees and monuments.

Over the decades, Memorial Grove gradually fell into disrepair and was forgotten by the public and the NYC Parks Department. I cannot recall how many times in my 49 years in this area that I passed this Memorial without knowing it was there or even observing the neglected condition it had become.

In 2006, fifty-seven yeas after the Memorial had originally opened, I came across the site which at that time was in complete disarray and, together with the Parks Department, was only able to locate 18 of the original 39 monuments.

I repeat, only 18 of the original monuments were to be found, more than half of the original monuments gone. This great loss of monuments hit me very hard in 2006 and I began to take action.

The disgrace of a war memorial was not to be tolerated.

Shortly thereafter, I rallied together a small group of local veterans to work on a restoration effort; we called ourselves

Giant neighborhood festival on Sunday

This Sunday, November 10, the Kingsbridge Riverdale Van Cortlandt Development Association is sponsoring the Johnson Avenue Block Festival from noon to 4 p.m. on Johnson Avenue from West 235th Street to West 236th Street.

Musicians performing will include Rockin’ Railroad from Kidville at noon, Seeing Voices at 1 p.m., The Cynthia Soriano Quartet at 2 p.m., Riverdale Children’s Theatre members performing songs from “Les Miserables” at 3 p.m., and Moakland at 3:15 p.m.

Art on display will include the work of Riverdale Art Association members Bob Robinson, Carol Frank, Brian Allan

Skinner, Lorraine Cantori-Trovato, Joan Brown Levine, Olga Kitt, Laraine Pearson, Joyce Dutka, Beverly Joachim Barker, Aija Sears and Esther Wallach.

Artists from Elisa Contemporary Art gallery will include John Conn, Elaine Galen and Sharon Gordon.

The work of local photographer Kristina Thorstenson, on display at An Beal Bocht, will be featured as well.

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the “Memorial Grove Restoration Group.”

We informed the NYC Parks Department, local politicians, community boards, and veterans groups of the disheartening situation, and to our surprise most of these parties also did not know of the memorial’s existence. After a couple of years of working with these groups, Councilman Oliver Koppell graciously supported an allocation of funds to the Parks Department for restoration of this once beautiful two-acre memorial.

In May 2012, over six years after I stumbled across this long forgotten memorial, the Memorial Grove has been restored and in June there was an official ribbon cutting. In attendance along with local officials were the NYC and Bronx Borough Parks Commissioners.

Memorial Grove is open to the public.

All are urged to visit and read the names on the monuments. The calm and quiet

area is a great place to relax and pass some ti me. The Memorial Grove Restoration Group will be holding its seventh annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the 64-year old “Grove” on Sunday, November 10, beginning at noon (12 p.m.). The ceremony will consist of Honor Guards from local colleges, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and speeches by local politicians, religious and veteran group members.

The ceremony will be held on the east side of the Memorial Grove; West 246th Street off of Broadway (diagonally across from Burger King) would be the best entrance, or park your car in the public parking area near the golf house and take a five-minute walk through the park past the Van Cortlandt House. Everyone in the community near and far is invited to attend the ceremony and honor these soldiers that died defending what you and I have today, tomorrow and in the future. Come, honor our veterans and the fallen, and remember them for a day, Veterans Day.

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Jewish Culture series 2013-2014 at riverdale temple

From Bucharest to Brooklyn: east european Jewish music yesterday and today sunday, november 10, 2013 | 2:00pm at Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Ave (at 246th St), Riverdale, NY 10471 Join lorin sklamberg (Sound Archivist of the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of YIVO Sound Recordings, and a founding member of Yiddish-American roots band The Klezmatics) for an audio tour and discussion of East European Jewish music and its impact on the contemporary klezmer renaissance. From the legendary Belf’s Romanian Orchestra to New York’s own Klezmatics, this lecture/demonstration will feature historic commercial and one-of-a-kind non-commercial recordings of Yiddish folk, theater and art songs, klezmer music, cantorials and spoken word. The talk will be illustrated by an exhibit of artifacts from the YIVO Sound Archives (including a vintage mini-gramophone) and live performances by the presenter.

General admission: $10 at the door teens & Pre-teens: Free!

The YIVO Jewish Culture Series is an educational outreach program designed to introduce various aspects of Eastern Ashkenazic culture and history to the public. The faculty for the series draws on the extensive network of scholars affiliated with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. For more information, visit yivo.org.

By HAYDEE CAMACHO The proliferation of charter schools in the Bronx within the last 10 years has had a positive impact on real estate development and overall property values in the borough.

That was the consensus of real estate development professionals who attended a summit held at Hostos Community College last Wednesday, October 23rd to discuss how schools impact real estate in the Bronx.

The South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) organized the summit which brought together 120 professionals involved in real estate development including brokers, developers, property owners, architects and design professionals.

“Our goal is to get people talking about

Best reminiscence story Riverdale Review and Bronx Press Review reporter Haydee Camacho has been awarded the Carl M. and Nettie M. Halpern Memorial Award for best reminiscence article published in the Spring/Falll 2012 The Bronx County Historical Society Journal. The article is entitled, My Father and Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry Regiment.

Ms. Camacho’s father served in Korea with the 65th Infantry Regiment in 1950.

The article combines her childhood memories of her father in their South Bronx home, his reminiscences of his service with the regiment, as well as the proud history of this little known Army unit.

The soldiers of the 65th faced language and cultural barriers as the majority of the officers in the unit were not Spanish-speaking. In spite of these obstacles, the soldiers of the 65th fought heroically during the Korean War, receiving the United States Presidential Unit Citation, among several commendations and medals for bravery.

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the positive things in the borough,” said Lourdes Zapata, Senior Vice President of SoBRO. “We want to get people talking and thinking about creative partnerships.”

Topics discussed included expansion plans of some schools, acquiring land for additional building as well as ways to finance new development projects. Adaptive reuse of recently closed Catholic elementary schools and redeveloping them was a strong interest among developers.

“Whenever you’re losing these types of anchor institutions like smaller elementary schools it’s always a terrible loss,” said Zapata. “You need to look at other possibilities for adaptive reuse of those buildings so they don’t fall into disrepair and become blight in the community.”

For developers, an important consideration when thinking about potential sites is where the schools are in relation to the new development. “Folks want to be near schools,” said Zapata. “Families want to have an educational institution within their neighborhood and community. It just enhances people’s living experiences.”

According to David Simone, First Vice President of Sales with Massey Knakal Realty Services who specializes in selling properties in the Bronx, the advantage to having strong schools is the increased demand to live in that area. “People shy away from areas that have terrible schools,” he said. “The better the school, the more demand there is for housing in that area. From a landlord’s perspective it means higher rent.”

Simone attributed charter schools as having a big impact on the increase in the pricing for retail development space. He noted that in 2003 the price for buildable space in the South Bronx was at $10 to $15 per square foot. At the height of the market it reached $45 per square foot. The price has leveled to its current rate of $33 to $35

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per square foot. “We are seeing strength in the development market due to supportive and affordable housing groups and charter school groups. It’s strengthening by the week,” he said. “I hope that continues so we see the continued strengthening of the South Bronx area. In my opinion, the more charter schools there are, the better the neighborhood becomes.”

Andrea Kretchmer, Managing Director of POKO Partners, LLC which specializes in community mixed-use development in urban and suburban areas said public education has the potential to positively impact real estate development and community stability. “Quality public schools are crucial to the neighborhood at all levels,” she said.

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“Obviously good schools are a key component of short term and long term property values especially with the sustainability of the community in the city being dependent on an educated student population that turns into an educated work force with the ability to rent and buy properties,” he said.

Zapata noted that real estate development in the borough is not only strong, but it’s also evolving. “Borough President Diaz has done a really fantastic job of not only encouraging development but challenging development to do better, to be more responsive, more engaged with the local community. That can only help the borough overall.”

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This Friday, November 8, is the deadline for parents of children in kindergarten through third grade to file the request for testing form required for gifted and talented programs in the 2014-2015 school year.

The form and other G&T information are available at schools.nyc.gov/Academics/ GiftedandTalented/default.htm.

Riverdale-Kingsbridge Academy

Middle school tours for parents of fifth-graders are scheduled for November 14 and 21 and December 5 and 12. All tours start promptly at 8:30 a.m. RKA accepts only middle school students who reside within its zone. High school open house events are scheduled for November 18 and 19 at 9 a.m. Parents may register for all tours online at RKA141.org. For more information, call parent coordinator Julie Prince at 718-796-8516, extension 1045.

Saint Margaret of Cortona School

The school has launched a Parent Outreach program designed to increase parent inclusion and involvement. Studies have shown that such involvement improves student performance. As many Catholic schools are faced with threats of closure, it is especially important to have a group of parents that form a vibrant, active community. This year’s events began with a breakfast on the first day of school. More than 30 parents were able to send their children off to class and then gather for coffee and pastries. In a Breakfast Buddies program before the start of the school day, parents can get to know their child’s friends in the school setting and then start their own daily schedules. Parent Outreach activities include helping out teachers during classroom projects and reading aloud to a child’s class during library time.

Parents have said that reading for kids in the library was the highlight of their day. “Students at SMS are already lucky in that they receive one of the best educations in the city, but our principal, Mr. Hugh Keenan, knew we could do better,” parent outreach and marketing representative Shelley Rice said. “These Parent Outreach events are small pebbles in our day that create ripples that spread wide a feeling of involvement and good will that vastly increase the sense of pride and community our families feel toward their school.” Rice said the program will be expanded in response to very positive results.

Horace Mann School

Riverdalian Micheal Dale, a French teacher at the school for the past 27 years, will perform his original songs on dulcimer and guitar at the Spuyten Duyvil branch library this Saturday, November 9, at 2 p.m. Dale will also present works by novelist and French naval officer Pierre Loti (1850–1923), French India governor Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763) and missionary Guillaume de Rubruquis (1215-1295). He will discuss how these adventurers traveled far from their native France and returned with the results of their quests. The library is located at 650 West 235th Street on Independence Avenue.

Deborah Roffman, the nationally acclaimed educator and author of “Sex and Sensibility,” will meet this week with students, faculty and HM parents, sharing her insights and experience to “help young people have a sexual life that is intimate, satisfying and responsible.” The

event is sponsored by the school’s physical education and guidance departments.

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Manhattan College

On Veterans Day, next Monday, the college will recognize alumnus and Korean War veteran Dr. Paul Loong with a screening of the documentary “Every Day Is a Holiday.” The film tells the story of how Loong survived as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II and then struggled to obtain U.S. citizenship. The event begins at 6 p.m. in Hayden Hall, room 100, and is free and open to the community. A discussion with Dr. Loong and with the filmmaker, his daughter Theresa Loong, will follow the screening. The documentary, first aired on public television in May 2012, captures Paul Loong’s story through his personal diary, archival war footage and conversations between father and daughter. After moving to the United States, Paul Loong became a merchant seaman and then served in the Korean War. He officially became a U.S. citizen in 1956, completed his bachelor’s degree at Manhattan College in 1958 and went on to medical school in Italy. Theresa Loong, founder of the interactive production company FORM360, has worked with AMC Networks, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Intellitoys, Architecture for Humanity, Milestone Films and Time Warner.

College of Mount Saint Vincent

The college has entered a collaboration with IPSL—formerly the International Partnership for Service Learning—to work on a proposed graduate program in international development and service. The venture will include a fully staffed office on campus to create a resource hub of activity for advising, information sharing and ongoing program development.

IPSL’s core mission is to provide an undergraduate study-abroad experience that combines classroom knowledge with service placements. The organization will provide professional development training in areas including intercultural conflict resolution, mediation and emergency response. It will also work with academic advisors to provide expertise on international service learning and study abroad opportunities. Mount students will find paid internship opportunities in the IPSL office on campus, which will introduce them to international and intercultural careers. The office will also connect students with IPSL alumni.

The college’s first Month of Service has concluded, celebrating 568 students who provided 1,505 hours of service. Building on last years Day of Service initiative, student volunteers during the 2012-2013 academic year increased to 820 students performing 9,430 hours or service. Last month, volunteers collaborated with agencies including POTS, local elementary schools, the American Cancer Society and the Sisters of Charity of New York.

They participated in events including the Midnight Run, the Yonkers Marathon, the New York City Wheelchair Basketball Tournament and the Tour de Bronx as well as campus projects and student-led initiatives. “We are creating a culture of community and service campus wide,” said Kathryn O’Loughlin, assistant director of campus ministry. “Every service project that we engage in is important because every student is a link in the chain, remembering that every small act we do—if it is done with love—can make a difference.”

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Riverdale greets its veterans, 1919 The nation rejoiced on November 11, 1918 when the Armistice ending the fighting in World War I was declared. It was the bloodiest conflict in history to that time. Too many families lost a son on the battlefield. Others waited anxiously for their uniformed sons to return home and restart their civilian lives. Since American troops had provided the margin of victory that ended years of stalemate on the Western Front, those returning deserved a welcome for heroes. The residents of the wealthy Bronx enclave of Riverdale were determined to be the first and to provide the veterans with the best.

Some months before the 623 veterans from Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, Fieldston, Riverdale and the area near Mount Saint Vincent returned, plans were being discussed. A few weeks before their arrival, a committee headed by George W. Perkins, a partner of JP Morgan and the owner of the Wave Hill estate, enlisted the aid of every resident and conferred with police Captain Matthew McKeown to make the arrangements.

On June 8, 1919, at 2:00 PM. a grand parade began at 225th Street and Broadway. Flanked by an enthusiastic and cheering crowd, the marchers went on through Kingsbridge and Riverdale, down streets shaded by trees, and past

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the wide green lawns of the estates of the Perkins, Morosini and Dodge families.

They paused in front of the Fieldston Club where Brigadier General Brice P. Disque pinned a gold star to the waist of each of 23 mothers who had lost their sons. A military band played the Star Spangled Banner (not yet the National Anthem) and the Kingsbridge Fife and Drum Corps followed with some martial tunes. The parade ended at the Horace Mann School, passing a reviewing stand by the tennis courts where stood several locally prominent people, including committee members who arranged the event and local clergymen.

While the crowd watched at the athletic field, world champion hammer thrower Matt McGrath began this part of the festivities by throwing the hammer a long distance. The Van Cortlandt Chapter of the Red Cross served cake and ice cream at a table that often diverted the attention of those entered in the planned athletic contests. Forty winners received prizes donated by local residents.

That evening, a dinner was served to the famished marchers and athletes, followed by a nighttime dance in the school’s gymnasium. The veterans gratefully danced all night with the prettiest local girls.

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Documentary film on the Jews of Iraq

Attorney and documentary filmmaker Carole Basri, an expert on international relations and Jewish history in the Middle East, will discuss twentieth century persecution and dispersion of Iraq’s Jews at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale (CSAIR) on Saturday, November 9, 2013. Basri will speak at a Kiddush luncheon featuring authentic Iraqi food, following services (around 12:15 PM).

At 6:00 PM, (following evening services and at the conclusion of Shabbat), Basri will screen and discuss her film, Searching for Baghdad: A Daughter’s Journey.

These two programs are free and open to all. Childcare will be provided during the luncheon. For more information, please call the Synagogue office, at 718-543-8400 or visit the CSAIR website at www.csair.org.

CSAIR is located at 475 West 250th Street at the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Marble Hill Senior Center announces activities

The Marble Hill Senior Center is celebrating its 40th anniversary during the month of November. The following special programs have been scheduled: On Friday, Nov. 8, an exhibit of the work of the Arts and Crafts class will take place from 10 a.m. until noon. Refreshments will be served.

On Monday, Nov. 11, the members of the Belly Dance class will give a dance performance at 11:30 a.m.

On Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 12:45 p.m., Ernece Kelly, Ph.D., will present a program on Rosa Parks.

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, there will be

an exhibition of new works by members of the Painting Class from 10 a.m. until noon and refreshments will be served.

On Friday, Nov. 15, the Center’s 40th Anniversary Program will take place beginning at 10:30 a.m. Gregory Press will provide live music at 1:15 p.m. that afternoon.

On Nov. 18, Leslie Hurdle of the New York Historical Society will present a program about ‘Life in New Amsterdam.’

On Nov. 19, members of the Creative Writing class will read some of their most recent work beginning at 12:45 p.m. and refreshments will again be served.

All of these programs are free and open to those aged 60 and older. Come and see what you have been missing.

The Marble Hill Senior Center is located at 5365 Broadway, between West 228th and West 230th Streets. A hot lunch is offered at noon Monday through Friday for adults aged 60 and older. For more information, call 718-562-8551.

Annual Kristallnacht commemoration at HIR

Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, is a time for us to reflect on the terrible consequences of remaining passive in the face of persecution. The Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration program at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (HIR serves to educate us about the past, so that we may respond vigorously in the future.

This year the program will feature a lecture with Professor Berel Lang titled ‘Unsung Hero: Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide.’ Berel Lang, is a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, SUNY, Albany. Professor Lang will speak about Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the term ‘genocide’ after the Holocaust and the

individual that is largely responsible for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The program will be held on Saturday night, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. HIR is located at 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway. All are welcome.

Kristallnacht, refers to a pogrom in Nazi Germany that took place on the night of Nov. 9- 10, 1938. On that night 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews were killed, and an estimated 25,000 Jewish men were rounded up and brutalized. For more information call 718-796-4730, ext 108.

Riverdalian Micheal Dale on dulcimer and guitar

‘The French Traveler: The Road Taken.’

Riverdalian Micheal Dale, a French teacher at the Horace Mann School for the past 27 years, will perform his original songs on dulcimer and guitar at the Spuyten Duyvil branch library this Saturday, November 9, at 2 p.m. Dale will also present works by novelist and French naval officer Pierre Loti (1850-1923), French India governor Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763) and missionary Guillaume de Rubruquis (12151295). He will discuss how these adventurers traveled far from their native France and returned with the results of their quests.

The library is located at 650 West 235th Street on Independence Avenue.

Flea market at St. John’s Church

St. John’s Church will host a flea market on Saturday, November 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The sale will be held at the Old St. John’s School located at 3030 Godwin Terrace in the Bronx.

Clothes, jewelry, accessories and bric-abrac will be sold at bargain prices.

Free parking will also be available so get there early and snare yourself a great find.

For more information, please call 718543-3003.

Veterans Day Ceremony at Memorial Grove

The Memorial Grove Restoration Group invites the community to attend its seventh annual Veterans Day Ceremony, the 64th anniversary of the Memorial Grove.

The ceremony will take place at the restored Memorial Grove in Van Cortlandt Park, located on Broadway at West 246th Street, on Sunday, November 10, at 12 noon. The ceremony should last approximately one hour. For more information, visit the group’s Facebook page at www. facebook.com/memorialgrove.

Early bird holiday bazaar at Christ Church

Get an early start to your holiday shopping at the Christ Church Holiday Bazaar Saturday November 16 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall at 5030 Henry Hudson Parkway at 252nd Street.

This year the Bazaar will have a special Preview Reception Friday, November 15 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Hand crafted items from local artisans, toys, games, jewelry, original artwork, handbags, African baskets and handcrafts, books, clothing and many more gift items will be available. This is a wonderful opportunity for that special hostess gift for Thanksgiving and the upcoming holidays. There will also be Alternative Gifts to benefit the needy locally and globally.

Refreshments and baked goods will be available. Street parking is readily available.

Everyone is welcome. Christ Church Riverdale is an Episcopal Church serving the community since 1866 and is a registered national landmark.

Church office: 718-543-1011 www. christchurchriverdale.org.

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Photo courtesy of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music

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By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Bronx resident Chana Mlotek, a world-renowned scholar and collector of Eastern European Jewish music, died on Monday at the age of 91.

Mlotek was the music archivist for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where she worked for 65 years.

“Chana had every single piece of music from the YIVO Archives at her fingertips: every arrangement, every title, from the 19th century to the present,” wrote Fruma Mohrer, YIVO’s senior archivist.

“She was a woman of vast knowledge, and yet was unfailingly unassuming and unpretentious.”

Each day, musicologists, folklorists, composers, conductors and performers use the catalogs and guides that she created at YIVO. Eleanor “Chana” Gordon was born in New York in 1922 to a Yiddish-speaking family. She graduated from Hunter College after attending the Yiddish High School of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute and Walton High School.

Her excellent Yiddish enabled her to serve as secretary to Max Weinreich, the co-founder of YIVO, and then to become assistant to the organization’s research director. In 1948, she was awarded a scholarship to attend UCLA’s inaugural Yiddish linguistics and folklore courses, taught by Weinreich.

Joseph Mlotek, also a student there, would eventually become her husband.

She had already met Josl Mlotek, a Holocaust survivor, as he played Yiddish songs on the mandolin in Rockaway Beach during the summer.

After the course, the couple returned to New York and married in 1949. They raised two sons in their Amalgamated Houses apartment—Zalmen, now executive director of the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, and Mark (Moish), a former Workmen’s Circle president and current Folksbiene board member.

Chana and Yosl Mlotek published three books, “Mir Trogn a Gezang,” “Perl fun Yidishn Lid” and “Lider fun Dor tsu Dor,” classic collections that have contributed to the expansion of the Yiddish song repertoire.

The Mloteks also wrote a column, “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry,” in the Yiddish edition of the Jewish Daily Forward. Through the widely read column, they asked readers to submit songs remembered from their youth. In this way, they discovered the writers of many songs previously thought to be traditional folk material.

Yosl Mlotek died in 2000.

“When I worked with Mlotek at YIVO, people would come to the archives and say, ‘I only remember one Yiddish song from my mother, and of that song I only remember one line. And, unfortunately, from that one line I only remember two or three words,’ Forward editor Itzik Gottesman recalled.

“When visitors told her the two or three words, you couldn’t even be sure they were speaking Yiddish. But Mlotek, who was once dubbed the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,’ always took the matter seriously, and almost always found what the person was looking for.”

The work of Chana Mlotek spurred the revival of klezmer, according to Forward publisher Sam Norich.

“Her work will live on,” YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent said. “Hundreds of thousands of people have benefited from her scholarship. But YIVO is orphaned without her and the rich heritage she shared with all.”

Chana Mlotek is survived by her two sons, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

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Thursday, November 7 Riverdale

OPEN COMPUTER LAB 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Attention new computer users: Come to the Riverdale Library and get assistance on using the computers. Do you need to learn how to open a free e-mail account or practice going online and exploring the Internet? How about learning how to save a document or copy and paste text? Come to this open lab and ask questions and learn from doing. First come, first served.

For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Kingsbridge

WRITER’S CIRCLE 1 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Are you an aspiring writer? Join our writer’s group to share your work and get feedback from other members.

All types of writing are welcome, whether it’s fiction, memoir, poetry, or other! For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Kingsbridge

CRAZY CHEMISTRY 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street This workshop is designed to introduce and excite children about the nature of the world around them. Children make predictions, perform experiments and draw conclusions as they explore different types of solids, liquids and gases.

Presented by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. For ages 7 and older. Limited to 25 participants. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Friday, November 8 Spuyten Duyvil

CHAIR YOGA 11 a.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Joan Kaufman, an exercise & wellness expert & certified nutritionist will give four classes of chair yoga which is low-impact but strengthens as well as develops this skill. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

Kingsbridge

TEEN ADVISORY GROUP 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Let your voice be heard in the Kingsbridge Library’s Teen Advisory Group! TAG meetings will be held on Friday afternoons from 4-5 pm. If you are a 7th -12th grade student, you are eligible to join. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Saturday, November 9 Kingsbridge

FLEA MARKET 9 a.m. Old St. John’s School 3030 Godwin Terrace Clothes, jewelry, accessories and bric-a-brac will be sold at bargain prices. Free parking will also be available so get there early and snare yourself a great find. For more information, please call 718-543-3003.

Riverdale

DOCUMENTARY FILM 12:15:00 Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel 475 West 250th Street Attorney and documentary filmmaker Carole Basri will discuss twentieth century persecution and dispersion of Iraq’s Jews.

At 6 p.m., (following evening services and at the conclusion of Shabbat), Basri will screen and discuss her film, Searching for Baghdad: A Daughter’s Journey. For more information, call 718-543-8400 or visit www.csair.org.

Riverdale

MUSIC@NYPL 2 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Musician Koh Kazama introduces the audience to the world of classical guitar and its unlimited possibilities. Explore music from various time periods and cultures, including Baroque, Romantic Spanish, and modern American and Latin music.

For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Spuyten Duyvil

THE FRENCH TRAVELER 2 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Through powerpoint imagery & performance of original songs on Dulcimer & Guitar, Micheal Dale will speak about three very different travelers who lived in different centuries as well as his own experience as a traveler in the 20th century.

These traverls-a missionary, a novelist & French naval officer, and a governor of French India, & Dale, all went out. What did they see, what did they bring back? For more information, call 718-796-1202.

Riverdale

KRISTALLANACHT COMMEMORATION 7:30 p.m. Hebrew Institute of Riverdale 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway This year’s Kristallnacht commemoration will feature a lecture with Professor Berel Lang titled “Unsung Hero: Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide. All are welcome. For more information call 718-796-4730, ext 108.

Sunday, November 10 Riverdale

BOUTIQUE & TAG SALE 10 a.m. Hebrew Institute of Riverdale 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway HIR’s Green Chanukah Boutique and Giant Tag Sale, offering new and gently used books, Judaica, artwork, housewares, toys, antiques, collectibles and more at good prices. For more information call 718-796-4730.

Riverdale

KRISTALLANACHT COMMEMORATION 10:30 a.m. Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel 475 West 250th Street CSAIR members will share their personal memories of the Holocaust followed by small discussion groups. For more information, call 718-543-8400 or visit www.csair.org.

Van Cortlandt

VETERANS DAY CEREMONY 12 p.m. Van Cortlandt Park Broadway and West 246th Street The Memorial Grove Restoration Group invites the community to attend its seventh annual Veterans Day Ceremony, the 64th anniversary of the Memorial Grove. For more information, visit the group’s Facebook page at www.facebook. com/memorialgrove.

Riverdale

LECTURE ON JEWISH MUSIC 2 p.m. Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Avenue The YIVO Institute For Jewish Research and Riverdale Temple presents From Bucharest to Brooklyn: East European Jewish Music Yesterday and Today, a lecture/demonstration with Grammy-winning musician, Lorin Sklamberg. For more information, call 718.548.3800 ext. 1.

Monday, November 11 Riverdale

VACATION DAY PROGRAM 9 a.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue Specialty classes at the Y will be offered. Children from ages kindergarten through 6th grade can participate and any child can attend (you do not have to be a member of the Y to participate). The Y provides a safe and entertaining day for your child. Extended mornings and evening hours are available for a small fee. For info, call Roxanne Parets at 718-548-8200, ext 229.

Tuesday, November 12 Riverdale

e-READER HELP 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Learn how to download free e-books from the New York Public Library. Get help on using your iPad, Kindle or other tablet or e-reader. First come, first served. Tuesdays @ 11:00 a.m. (some exceptions, please check the online calendar or branch calendar). Wednesdays between 2 and 4 p.m. by appointment only. Please call 718-549-1212 to make an appointment.

Wednesday, November 13 Kingsbridge

BOOK DISCUSSION 6 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Get the neighborhood read. Check out what the librarian has recommended, and hear what others think about it. We’ve got the books, now we need you to talk! This month’s discussion will be of the book, The Round House by Louise Erdrich. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Spuyten Duyvil

FREE eBOOKS 6 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Isn’t it time you put your reading in Overdrive? Learn how to download Library eBooks to your Android or Apple device.

All tablets welcome. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

Riverdale

TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETING 7:30 p.m. Riverdale Neighborhod House 5521 Mosholu Avenue Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale invites new members to join in at their free meeting. For further information, visit their website www.bronxtoastmastersclub.org or call 917-583-2679.

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Young, Jewish and living in Riverdale?

This Sunday, November 10, the newly named Riverdale Jewish Project is meeting for a local nature walk in Riverdale Park, followed by drinks at the Bronx Alehouse.

Meet us at noon at West 232nd Street and Palisade Avenue. Snacks will be provided.

Those in their 20s and 30s are welcome to make some new friends and enjoy being outside before winter closes in.

For more information about the walk and about Friday night meals or other social events, contact Roni Tabick at roni. tabick@gmail.com.

Koppell helps improve Little League field

When the new Little League season commences, the Kingsbridge Little League ‘s Cooney Grauer ball field at 234th Street & Bailey Avenue will see significant improvements, funded with $305,000 that Council Member Oliver Koppell allocated from his discretionary Council funds.

The existing fence is 20 ft. high in limited areas but is only 16 ft. behind the dugouts and from the scoreboard on. Towards the end of November, construction will begin on replacing the 20 ft. portion of the fence, which has deteriorated, and heightening the 16 ft. portion in order to have a continuous new 20 ft. chain link fence.

In addition, the lawn will be reconstructed, a new electrical conduit built and new concrete pavement will replace the asphalt.

‘The upkeep of Little League ball fields has been a priority of mine because of their importance to young people. I am pleased

to add Cooney Grauer Field to those other baseball fields in my district that have been refurbished with Council funds that I allocated for these projects,’ Koppell said.

CSAIR presents commemoration of Kristallnacht

A program to commemorate Kristallnacht will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2013, 10:30 AM at The Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale (CSAIR). CSAIR members will share their personal memories of the Holocaust followed by small discussion groups. Kristallnacht commemorates the ‘night of broken glass,’ a massive anti-Jewish program which took place in Germany and Austria on November 9 and 10, 1939, and is viewed by many as the starting point of Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’

This program is free and open to all.

For more information, call the synagogue office at 718-543-8400 or visit the CSAIR website at www.csair.org.

CSAIR is located at 475 West 250th Street at the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Boutique & Giant Tag Sale

Planning on doing some shopping for Chanukah gifts? Why drive to the mall when you can walk to the Bayit’s Social Hall? We are offering new and gently used books, Judaica, artwork, housewares, toys, antiques, collectibles and more at good prices. All proceeds will go towards sponsoring our programs.

HIR’s Green Chanukah Boutique and Giant Tag Sale will take place this Sunday, November 10th from 10:00am - 3:00pm at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale’s Social Hall, 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway East.

For more information call 718-796-4730.

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Jane O’Connell discusses the environmental remediation plan for the site on Broadway.

Continued from Page 1 “You are the eyes and ears in the field,” she said. “If you have a question call us.

If it’s not right, we’re going to fix it.”

Once the soil excavation is completed, an oxygen release chemical compound will be applied to the site which, with the addition of water, will break down any residual contaminants. Quarry stone or sand will be applied to re fill the area.

The DEC Brownfield Cleanup Program offers a range of tax credit incentives for developers who properly complete site

remediation. O’Connell noted developers may qualify for tax credits up to three times the remediation costs with a maximum of $35 million.

Committee member Robert Spalter is hopeful that Self-Help will come back to the community board with a new development plan for well elderly housing and felt their decision to go forward with the site remediation was practical. “If they end up having to flip the property, it’s better to flip it as a non-toxic site than a toxic site,” he said.

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Free Thanksgiving dinner and service at HIR

The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, the Bayit (located at 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway) will host its annual Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, November 28.

The day will begin at 1:00pm with a spiritually uplifting Thanksgiving Service followed by our free turkey dinner at 2:00pm.

The afternoon will feature a live performance with soprano Sigal Chen and pianist Yumi Suehiro performing popular songs from Broadway, patriotic Americana and Chanukah songs in honor of the 1st day of Chanukah.

This Dinner brings together approx. 160 people from in and around the Riverdale community for a delicious and festive meal. There will be plenty of food and an opportunity to offer up prayers of thanks.

While the meal is free, advance reservations are required. To RSVP please contact the Synagogue office at 718-796-4730.

Volunteers are needed for setup, serving, and clean up. If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact our Volunteer Coordinators Hal and Ellie Weinstein at halellieweinstein@yahoo.com.

City school kids. I am looking forward to strongly supporting his proposal for a modest increase in the city income tax for high-income earners when we return to Albany after the new year.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo endorsed de Blasio and has said that he favors a pre-K expansion. But Cuomo reportedly may attempt to fund the plan somehow without the tax increase.

Universal pre-kindergarten programs— both full-day and half-day—are offered for free at the city’s public schools and at community-based organizations. Children are eligible during the year they turn four.

While there is no low-income requirement for universal pre-K, which is state funded, the federally funded Head Start preschool program is open only to children from economically disadvantaged households.

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“Unsung Hero: Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide” Berel Lang, is a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, SUNY, Albany. Professor Lang will speak about Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the term ‘genocide' after the Holocaust and the individual that is largely responsible for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has backed Bill de Blasio’s plan to expand the city’s pre-kindergarten program by increasing city taxes on those who earn more than $500,000 per year.

“The election of our new mayor, Bill de Blasio, presents a unique opportunity to finally make real improvements in the educational achievement of young people in our city,” Dinowitz said in a statement.

“While I know that there will undoubtedly be some specific proposals that may be put forth in the future with which I disagree, I am particularly delighted that Bill de Blasio has made, as a centerpiece of his campaign, the funding of a true universal Pre-K program for all New York

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Engel: Bad air causes cancer, asthma, heart problems Congressman Eliot Engel said that polluted air has been officially classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer which reported that it is laced with cancer-causing substances.

Rep. Engel said, ‘This is an alarming report because while we can stop smoking and make other healthful life style changes, we cannot stop breathing. Now not only do we have to be concerned about dirty air causing

Cardozo Letter Continued from Page 19 reasoned out the case, and overruled the lower court in a matter of days. It was a breath-taking display of the alacrity with which a court can move when it recognizes the urgency of a situation.

All we can add is that however urgent Mr. Lhota’s situation was, the policing case is twice — or thrice — as urgent, given the early signs that crime is escalating by the day as officers of the NYPD wonder how aggressive the courts are going to permit them to be.

We have already noted that when Mr. de Blasio’s lawyer urged the court last week to take a forward-looking view of the case, given that the appeals will run well into 2014, Judge Cabranes cut in. “Unless,” the judge said, “the court changes the schedule.” Mr. de Blasio’s lawyer acknowledged the point gracefully enough, and we’ll see in due course how he reacts to Mr. Cardozo’s letter to the court.

Our own view is that an early resolution of this case is in everyone’s interest — not only the city’s but also the plaintiffs, David Floyd and others, as well as the likely next mayor, Mr. de Blasio. The last thing Mr. de Blasio needs is a court-appointed monitor and a gaggle of left-wing professors running his police department. He needs to be able to set his own policing procedures, as he sees fit.

It’s conceivable, moreover, that even if the case does get carried over into next year, Mr. de Blasio’s hopes of being able to just drop the appeal may themselves be chimerical. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the Detectives Endowment Association, the Lieutenant’s Benevolent Association, and the Captains Endowment Association asked some weeks ago to be admitted as parties. If the court really wanted the issues to be thoroughly reviewed, it could admit them to carry on the case even if the city drops out.

The court, one can imagine, could do something else, too. The case has become a class action of New Yorkers who feel they are aggrieved by stop-question-andfrisk policing. But there are — as the New York Post in particular has so well reported — other New Yorkers, including in the minority communities, who ardently appreciate the aggressive policing to protect them against crime. It’s not unimaginable that the court could admit such a class as a party in place of the city. On what basis could the court do that? Well, as we’ve just seen, the court could act nostra sponte.

asthma, an inherent problem in the Bronx, but the worse danger of cancer.’

The IARC is the World Health Organization’s cancer agency and based its conclusion on a review of thousands of studies on air pollution that tracked populations over decades, plus other research in which mice exposed to polluted air had increased numbers of lung tumors. The organization attributed 223,000 annual deaths worldwide to cancer caused by polluted air. Bad air

also increased the risk of bladder cancer, it said.

Rep. Engel said that the Bronx has some of the highest rates of asthma in the United States with rates of death from asthma about three times higher than the national average and hospitalization rates about five times higher.

‘For this reason I have consistently opposed Republican efforts to cut the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to clean our air. Crippling enforcement of the Clean Air Act

cancer-causing substances, including asbestos, plutonium, silica dust, ultraviolet radiation and tobacco smoke.

The pollution is mostly caused by transportation, power generation, industrial or agricultural emissions and residential heating and cooking. It is already known to increase the risk of a wide range of illnesses including respiratory and heart diseases.

The report noted that exposure pollution levels have risen in Asia, particularly in India and China, while the air is measurably cleaner in the United States over the past decades.

would only make it more difficult for localities to monitor their air quality.’ He cited the number of highways throughout the area spewing exhaust including the New York State Thruway, the Major Deegan Expressway, and the Henry Hudson Parkway among other highway corridors.

The IARC said it was now classifying air pollution and particulate matter, a major component of pollution, in its Group 1 human carcinogens. They join more than 100 other known

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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council met with locals to discuss its planned route for the Hudson River Valley Greenway Link. The first stop on a walking tour last Sunday was the six-way intersection at Independence Avenue and Kappock Street. worthwhile project to come to fruition, it is important for there to be a consensus in the community as to the specific details. I look forward to working with all interested parties to achieve this consensus.”

An update on the greenway plan will be presented at the Community Board 8 parks and recreation committee meeting on Wednesday, November 13, at 7 p.m. in the teen lounge at the Riverdale Y.

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Continued from Page 1 fears—increased volume by cycling groups and the potential for hazardous speeding, collisions with cyclists as drivers and passengers open their car doors after parking, delays and uncertainty for cars waiting to pull out of driveways and for pedestrians simply trying to cross the street.

Concern shifted to anger when the tour proceeded to Palisade Avenue, where the planned route would head north.

The preferred proposal indicates that a sidewalk would be added to the west side of Palisade between Kappock Street and West 232nd Street.

That would entail some “impact on the vegetation” on either side of the road, possibly eliminate some parking spaces, and, most significantly, take some property—including driveway area—from homeowners.

Wandres admitted that this part of the plan was presented prematurely, considering that detailed measurements had not been taken and the homeowners involved had not be contacted.

“There’s no way this community is going to support taking people’s property away. That’s not going to happen,” said Paul Elston, head of Friends of the Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx, whose involvement with the greenway plan spans two decades.

“You can engineer it to death—it’s not going to happen. We need to know what the community needs here and what the community will support.”

“The idea of taking away people’s front lawns or pieces of property for the purpose of a bicycle lane, to me, is absurd, outrageous and indefensible,” said Charles Moerdler, chair of Community Board 8’s land use committee. “Don’t scare people with a proposal without having thoroughly thought it through.”

Moerdler, a member of the MTA board, also said that the planned path from the Henry Hudson Bridge would never be approved.

He joins Elston and RiverdaleSafeStreets. org, including members of the Spuyten Duyvil Homeowners Association, in advocating a route that would utilize the Amtrak-owned Spuyten Duyvil swing bridge.

As proponents of this route suggest, Amtrak is planning to upgrade the swing bridge to accommodate a federally funded high-speed rail line, and incorporating a greenway path into that project would be far simpler, far less costly and far more direct.

No one disagrees that this more elegant plan—already on the shoreline—would eliminate the need for an addition to the Henry Hudson Bridge, would avoid the complications involved in adapting the streets of Riverdale and would remove the threat of unwelcome two-wheeled traffic for bicycle-fearing residents.

But thus far, Bogacz said, Amtrak has been uninterested in discussing the possibilities, and swing bridge upgrade plans are not quite on the table.

He did agree that if there’s a plan to upgrade the swing bridge, using that route for the greenway would be more desirable than the current preferred plan.

“If it comes to a point of being upgraded, that should be part of the discussion,” he said. “If you could come from Manhattan along that way and stay down near the river the whole way, that would be preferable.”

Wandres explained that the current proposed route, even with its complications, is the product of input from a technical advisory committee and a steering committee—it was not formulated “behind closed doors.”

Part of the plan involves paving the existing path adjacent to Riverdale Park as an interim route—before the various parties can embark on the long process of deciding how best to cross the park, designated as “forever wild,” to run the path above the Metro-North tracks via a circular ramp.

Bogacz responded to questions about

the status of the plan.

“This is a concept design,” he said. “Federal funding for this effort was obtained for this effort by Senator [Charles] Schumer back in 2005. We are undertaking and completing the work related to that funding” and that there’s no funding to implement any of the proposed plan at this point.

“Much has to be done after this in terms of implementation, which will be up to the agencies who are responsible and frankly, the community groups, who have been involved in this all along.”

“This is not an engineering design,” he stressed. “But you have to start with the concept, and that’s what our charge was.”

He assured the group that he’d be “taking back what we’ve heard today to the steering committee.”

“The Hudson River Greenway is a goal for which many of us have been working for a very long time,” Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz said in a statement. “Of course, the devil is in the details. For this

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Honor of the NYPD

Editorial of The New York Sun, October 31, 2013 Reprinted with Permission One of the things at stake in the appeal of the stop, question, and frisk case is the good name — the honor — of New York’s Finest.

This was certainly in sharp relief last Tuesday, when Commissioner Kelly was prevented from speaking at Brown University by a student mob. At practically the same hour in federal appeals court in Manhattan, a panel of judges who ride the Second Circuit heard a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights attempt to save his case by suggesting that Mr. Kelly had made a racist remark, even though the commissioner had denied it.

It makes us hunger for, among other things, a ruling from the Second Circuit that will, in no uncertain terms, clear the good name of the men in blue. God knows they deserve it, and not just because they risk their own lives and limbs to curb a wave of crime that terrorizes no population so much as the minority communities in the city. We don’t belittle either the 4th Amendment or 14th Amendment principles that are at stake in the case. But someone needs to make clear that whatever the debate on police tactics is about, the NYPD is not led by racists.

That is a fact of which the Second Circuit sages seemed to be aware.

They sat looking down on the lawyers and bronze busts of their own famous forebears, Judges Henry Friendly and Billings Hand* in a courthouse named for Thurgood Marshall. At one point, one of the circuit riders, Judge John Walker Jr., suggested that remedies ordered by the lower court judge, Shira Scheindlin, in the stop, question, and frisk case displayed “total hostility” toward the police.

Such remedies, Judge Walker suggested, would be more appropriate where a police department was being intransigent.

Judge Walker, in a gracious but determined way, seemed to be troubled by any suggestion that the NYPD had been exhibiting “bad faith and deliberate disregard of rights” reminiscent of the Jim Crow-era South. Unless it had been behaving in such a way, he suggested, the better, the more normal course would be first to ask the police to institute reforms, rather than to order a special monitor and other disruptive measures that would result in the NYPD being run by a federal district court.

The whole hearing yesterday had a surreal air, because it was taking place but a week from when New Yorkers are going to elect a new mayor. The candidate the polls suggest will win the race, and handily, is, in Bill de Blasio, an outspoken critic of the stop, question, and frisk program that is at the center of the case. The judges made it clear that they were aware that the pending election was, as Judge Jose Cabranes put it, “a specter haunting this appeal.”

Judge Cabranes had opened the hearing by alerting the city’s lawyers to the fact that he intended to get into the question of why, if the ruling by the trial judge, Shira Scheindlin, against the police, portended such trouble — why, then, have the city lawyers been proceeding in its appeal at such a “snail’s pace,” to use the judge’s phrase. This is a question that has been bothering a number of important figures around town, making some wonder whether Mayor Bloomberg has been paying attention.

It turns out that question was also bothering another of the judges, Barrington Parker, who raised the political context of the case and asked: “Are we going to be faced with a situation in which your marching orders are going to change?” Judge Parker stressed the burden the city has in trying to overturn the finding of the district court.

Judge Cabranes raised the most explosive question in the litigation, whether the stop-question-and-frisk case had been properly assigned to Judge Scheindlin in the first place. He referred to the New York Times by its nickname, “the newspaper of record.” He was apparently referring to a report in May by the paper’s Joseph Goldstein,** who sketched how Scheindlin had taken the case by deeming it related to others she’d heard. The story touched on what the Times called “the possibility of judge shopping.”

The import was not lost on those who were gathered in front of the high bench and between the statues of Judges Friendly and Hand. Daniel Connolly, representing two of the friends of the court — Mayor Giuliani and Attorney General Mukasey — spoke bluntly on the point. He characterized the possibility the Times had uncovered — that Judge Scheindlin had suggested the plaintiffs file the lawsuit as — as something that “should give this court grave pause.”

What the appeals judges can do about that question is unclear to Continued on Page 19

Obama is a stone-cold liar To The Editor: The following quotes made over the past several years came directly from President Obama’s mouth and were repeated constantly by him at political gatherings throughout the United States. He made these comments looking directly at the television cameras with absolutely no caveats — no ifs, ands, or buts. I quote: “Americans must have the freedom to keep whatever doctor and health care plan they have.”

“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.

PERIOD. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. PERIOD. No one will take it away. No matter what.”

“LET ME BE CLEAR: If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too.”

Now that Obamacare is finally in the process of being implemented, we are finding out that everything the president kept repeating over and over again to his gullible public was a load of crap! There are currently many hundreds of thousands of people who have been scammed by the president and regrettably have now been informed by their carriers that they will lose their

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insurance coverage by the end of the year. And unfortunately, there will be many more tens of millions of duped Americans who will also suffer the same fate in the next several years.

To put it bluntly: President Obama is a stone-cold liar! He knowingly, deliberately and callously lied to the American public to promote his political agenda.

His excuses now are unbelievable. Even the Washington Post, which is an extremely liberal, pro-Obama newspaper found his excuses hard to swallow, and upon fact-checking his claims for truthfulness, gave the president its most negative rating of four Pinocchios — which is its way of saying, “The president deserves a Nobel Prize for lying.”

President Clinton, many years ago, looked squarely into the TV

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cameras and in his quivering voice of faked sincerity lied to the American people about his sexual relationship with his young White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but the only harm he caused was to his own reputation.

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Editorial of The New York SunNovember 3, 2013 The most remarkable fact about the decision of the federal appeals court to remove Judge Shira Scheindlin from the stop-question-and-frisk lawsuit is that no one asked for it. The city didn’t ask for it. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association didn’t ask for it. Neither did former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Nor former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The judges did it on their own.

It turns out there’s a name for that kind of action. When it is taken by a court of more than one judge — this one had three — it’s called nostra sponte, which is Latin for, roughly, “of our own accord.” What New York saw from the Second Circuit last week is a reminder that the mythological blind-folded woman who is traditionally used to depict Justice holds not only a set of scales but also a sword.

The court made a point of announcing that it hasn’t yet addressed the merits of the 4th Amendment and 14th Amendment issues in this case. But it also made plain that one doesn’t want to take a United States circuit judge for granted.

It’s a principle that all of us New Yorkers will want to keep in mind as we watch the maneuvering that is going to take place on the stop-question-and-frisk controversy in the weeks and months ahead.

Starting with Bill de Blasio. He’s been promising for weeks that if he is elected mayor, he will drop the appeal of Judge Scheindlin’s decision, which found the stop-question-and-frisk program unconstitutional. But what about the possibility that the court could act before Mr. de Blasio gets a chance to drop the appeal?

Is it possible that the court could dispose of this case on the merits before the end of the year?

That might seem like a stretch. But in the hearing Tuesday, the lead lawyer for the city, Celeste Koeleveld, had barely begun to speak when Judge Jose Cabranes leaned forward from the center chair and alerted her that the court intended to get into the question of why the city had been moving at what he called a “snail’s pace.” The court proceeded to get into the question, at one point suggesting the city had been “dragging its feet.”

From the public gallery it struck us that Ms. Koeleveld reacted a bit defensively for the star lawyer that she certainly is; she complained about the voluminous documents in the case. The court seemed to have little sympathy. It pointed out that the city’s was sending mixed signals — proposing a leisurely schedule that would run the hearings well into 2014 but claiming that Judge Scheindlin’s ruling was having negative impact on policing in the city.

The court’s concerns certainly rang a gong in the corporation counsel’s office.

In a little-noticed move late last week, the city’s top lawyer, Michael Cardozo, wrote a letter to the clerk of the Second Circuit, Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, saying the city would be filing its briefs by November 9, three weeks ahead of when they’d otherwise be due. It suggested — “if the court is so inclined” — that the other side in the case be “directed” to file their responding briefs by December 9.

In that case, Mr. Cardozo added, the city could submit its reply three days later, by the December 12, “so that the cases can be heard and decided by the end of the year.” The city’s lawyers, he added, “recognize that adoption of this briefing schedule would result in curtailment of appellees’ time to file their briefs.” But it noted that the other side in the case has “been aware of the thrust of the City’s merits arguments” since mid-September.

This cut no ice with the the opponents

Board of Trustee Meeting

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 • 5:30 PM NYC Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industries

838 Brook Avenue Bronx, NY 10451

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italy, kristallnacht and after: the memories of a family by shaul bassi Shaul Bassi is associate professor of English language and literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research, teaching and publications are divided among Shakespeare, postcolonial theory and literature, and Jewish studies, and he has lectured and taught at several Italian and international universities.

Bassi is also the founder of the international literary festival Crossings of Civilizations, and co-founder and Italian president of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies.

NYPD honor Continued from Page 18 us. But there was toward the end of the hearing a sharp reminder of their vast powers. It came when a lawyer for Mr. de Blasio stood up asked the court to take a forward-looking view. He suggested the appeal would have to be heard next year, when his client would be mayor. “Unless,” Judge Cabranes cut in to remind him, “the court changes the schedule.”

The implication seemed to be that the riders of the Second Circuit could, if they get their back up, deal with the case before Mr. de Blasio gets a chance to end the appeal. Presumably they could stay Judge Scheindlin’s Rube-Goldberg-contraption of a ruling. Conceivably they could send the whole matter back down to the district but to a different judge — one less inclined to countenance the besmirching of the good name of the NYPD.

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Wednesday, November 6 7:00 p.m.

Smith Auditorium refreshments will be served.

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Stop & Frisk: The Cardozo Letter

of stop-question-and-frisk. The Center for Constitutional Rights fired back a letter to the court the same day, quoting a remark in open court by Judge Barrington Parker, who wondered whether the marching orders for the city’s lawyers may change.

The center called Mr. Cardozo’s letter a “crass political move” designed to prevent the remedy Judge Scheindlin had ordered from “going forward following the election.”

Yet in the hearing last week, the Circuit Court made it clear that it can move fast when it wants to. It noted the example set by another panel of the Second Circuit, which moved with jaw-dropping dispatch to overrule a United States District Judge, Paul Crotty, who’d let stand a law restricting the Republican candidate for mayor, Joseph Lhota, from taking a big campaign donation in the middle of a desperate election fight.

The appeals court in the election case, we noted at the time, had assembled a panel, Continued on Page 12

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