OTTYS BRAVEST AND FINEST: Nabe’s Top Cop Works With Community
Precinct commander battling high crimes, misdemeanors and reckless bikers
By Patrick Wall
Inspector Matthew Whelan oversees an Upper East Side police precinct that serves more than 217,000 residents, including dozens of foreign ambassadors and the mayor of New York City. Still, one of his greatest concerns has two wheels and red reflectors.
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OTTYS EAST SIDER OF THE YEAR: Keeping Elaine’s Memory Alive
Like many, new owner and longtime manager of famed spot misses Elaine
When Elaine Kaufman died last December, only one woman was ready to take the reins of the famous 48-year-old restaurant Elaine’s—Diane Becker. Becker had been working and managing the restaurant for 25 years, but she didn’t just watch the celebrities and politicians come and go. No, Becker’s main job (and it still is) is more behind the scenes: organizing the parties, buying the food, paying the bills and taking care of the physical maintenance of the restaurant.
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All of Life is a Play
Actors perform ‘Messed Up Here Tonight’ out of UES apartment
By Laura Shin
Empty beer bottles and crushed potato chips lay strewn across 26-year-old Zac Kline’s living room. The loud chatter of twenty-somethings and the smell of a college dorm room waft through the Upper East Side apartment.
No, this isn’t a party. Kline, a playwright, has just wrapped up another rehearsal of his latest work, Messed Up Here Tonight.
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Oscar-Worthy Life
Actress makes comeback in ‘The Fighter’
Watching Bianca Hunter sip champagne in her leopard-print faux-fur coat and laughing with the music promoter friends she’s just made during Sunday brunch at a chic Upper West Side café, you would probably guess “movie star” before you’d guess “working mother of three.” The truth is, she’s both.
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Gourmet Food Vendors Shot Down by CB8
Community Board 8’s taste buds aren’t tingling over the prospect of gourmet foodstuffs in Central Park. The board voted Feb. 16 against a Parks Department proposal to install specialty food carts at two locations in Central Park—one proposed for 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, and another for 80th Street and Central Park West.
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CBC Hosts Talk with Holocaust Survivor Artist
—Staff Report
The Carter Burden Center for the Aging hosted a Feb. 10 artist talk with artist Eva Deutsch Costabel about her exhibit Paintings: 1950-2010, at its gallery and studio space, Gallery 307, 307 7th Ave.
The Center’s 800-square-foot gallery and studio exhibits work by older professional artists and others who are often under-represented by the art community.
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Ways to a Better Back
Tips to prevent a common ailment for seniors
By Fred Cicetti
(This is Part 2 of a three-part series on back pain. The first column was about causes. This one is about prevention.)
Back pain is very common. It affects about 8 out of 10 people. But there are many steps you can take to avoid it. One of the best things you can do to prevent back pain is to exercise regularly and keep your back and abdominal muscles strong.
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The Temporary Return of a Fashionista
Stepping up style (at least for a while) after fashion week
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I do, however, make them shortly after the close of Fashion Week.
Yes, there’s nothing like seven days of willowy models, runway shows that rival the theatrics of Broadway productions and fabulous designer outfits to serve as a wake-up (dress-up?) call to just how fashionably lazy I can become.
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Walmart Bad for NYC
To The Editor:
Shame on your newspaper for its specious editorial on Walmart (“Let the Free Market Work in City,” Feb. 17). You accuse the City Council of specious arguments, but your arguments are the specious ones.
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Use Elle’s Law To Make Streets Safer
Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians must come together to curb reckless behavior
By Liz Krueger
When you’re on a small island with millions of people living, literally, on top of one another, problems with sharing space are bound to occur. Add to that the fact that New Yorkers are often racing to get from one destination to another, and you are faced with the reality that the streets of New York can be dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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