DOORMEN BOOST MALONEY
By Dan Rivoli
Rep. Carolyn Maloney scored the endorsement of 32BJ, the union that represents her East Side constituents’ doormen.
Mike Fishman, the union president, touted Maloney’s vote for health care and funding for capital projects on the East Side. The union also represents other building workers. Read more
SENIORS MAY GET SILVER ALERT
By Megan Izen
For seniors who are reported missing, the City Council may create a “silver” alert, akin to the “Amber” alert that notifies the public when a child is reported missing.
“My grandmother had dementia and my grandfather had Alzheimer’s,” said Council Member Jessica Lappin, the bill’s author and chair of the Aging Committee, in a statement. “So I know all too well how scary it can be to care for someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.” Read more
UPPER EAST SIDE’S NEW HISTORY
By Dan Rivoli and Reid Spagna
Carnegie Hill Neighbors came one step closer to receiving historic status for several blocks on Park Avenue.
At its June 16 meeting, Community Board 8 voted in favor of a resolution to support Carnegie Hill Neighbors’ application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. If granted, buildings on Park Avenue from East 86th to 91st streets would receive this designation, protecting them from architectural changes. Read more
NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
By Megan Izen
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein (pictured below) unveiled a state-of-the-art school June 18, the first new campus to be built on the Upper East Side in nearly 50 years. East Side Middle School has left its temporary home at P.S. 158, on York Avenue, for the 80,000-square-foot facility.
The new middle school will increase its capacity by 190 seats. This fall, P.S. 267 will open in the middle school’s space at P.S. 158. Waitlisted students from P.S. 290 will likely get spots at the new elementary school. Read more
Options for Joint Replacement
When the hip bone’s connected to a resurfaced socket
By Fred Cicetti
Q: I’m considering having a hip replaced. What are the odds that this operation will work?
A: The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says joint replacement surgery is successful in more than 9 out of 10 people. And replacement of a hip or knee lasts at least 20 years in about 80 percent of those who have the surgery. Read more
Letters Reunited
To the Editor:
In the May 6 issue of this paper, the article “Send It Snail Mail” caught my eye, jogging fond memories of my years in camp. My response to the article, “Happy Camper,” appeared as a letter to the editor in the May 29 issue. This response reached the eyes of a woman who had in her possession four loving letters written by a father to his four children at camp, dated Aug. 10, 1929. It was always her dream to reunite these letters to the children or their kin. How to do this? She had tried to interest Reader’s Digest and the Daily News into writing a human-interest story about the letters, but to no avail. She put the letters aside, but never ceased wondering. Read more
My Philip Roth
Laughing till I can’t breathe with the great American novelist
By Susan Braudy
Philip Roth is a street treasure. We see him strolling 57th Street and the Upper West Side. The only place to begin a short rumination about him is with a priceless quote from the greatest American novel of the last century:
“She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise. Read more
Mayoral Attention for Crimes of Traffic
Yield to pedestrians, stop speeding and support mass transit for safer streets
By Bette Dewing
Just before the mayor’s weekly John Gambling WOR radio show, I heard the following public service announcement: “Parking violations violate the rights of disabled persons. Call 311 to report.” But where are the warnings to drivers and cyclists against their moving violations, which take lives and physically injure and emotionally stress even traffic law-observant pedestrians? Read more
The Physician’s Side
Doctor’s response to columnist’s Medicare allegations
By Seymour Herschberg
Susan Braudy’s photo and prior columns suggest that she is not old enough to be enrolled in Medicare. I assume, therefore, that her first-person column “Fired By My Doctor” (June 10) is literary license and that her statements are based on journalistic research. However, she has not been fair. She gives only one perspective.
First, let me state that although I am a retired primary care physician, my entire career was as a salaried employee of a non-profit organization. Thus, I never had to worry about Medicare or insurer fees—or any fee for service—income. Read more
Knight and Day
Tom Cruise isn’t ready for a comeback with Knight and Day
By Armond White
Tom Cruise has gotten such a raw deal in the media that after the best films of his career (Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Lions for Lambs) he deserves to rise back to the top. But Knight and Day—an unabashed action vehicle—won’t take him there. Director James Mangold works with big stars but he doesn’t know how to put action together; he knows nothing about trajectories or vectors. The poorly filmed action and fight scenes are loud and blurry.
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