Turtle Bay News A Publication of the Turtle Bay Association November 2017 Vol. 60, No. 4 TBA Celebrates 60th Anniversary lected officials, members and friends joined the TBA, on September 7, as it Emarked 60 years serving the Turtle Bay community. Local government representatives, who have worked with the TBA, turned out to congratulate the association with commemoration plaques, at this continued on page 2 17th Precinct Commanding Officer Deputy Inspector Nicole Papamichael. NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and TBA President Bill Curtis.

TBA Director Dolores Borough President Marsh (r.), with Detective Gale Brewer and TBA Jeffrey Arlotta (l.). President Bill Curtis.

N.Y. State Senator Liz Krueger and TBA President Bill Curtis.

Event Calendar

TBA Annual Meeting Honoring Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick Dan Garodnick is Leaving Office. What Next? Monday, November, 13, 6:30 pm Report to Membership. As term limits decree, including health, safety and ethics. He Light food and wine. Councilman Daniel R. recently introduced or helped enact laws ______promoting safety at construction sites, Garodnick will soon leave TBA Holiday Toy Drive & Party disclosure by landlords of a building’s office. Having had his Sunday, December 3 energy efficiency to potential buyers support over the course of 3-5:30 pm and renters, and reporting and oversight three terms, the Turtle Bay Parnell's Bar and Restaurant Association’s board and of NYPD surveillance technologies. and the residents of Turtle Bay The large, green trash cans, with the Admission New Toy or Gift. are sorry to see him go and wonder about TBA logo, that now sit at corners in the Light refreshments. Paying bar. his future plans. neighborhood, embody his commitment Info: 212-751-5465 to our community; a grant from Dan made Dan’s leadership has helped steer actions them possible. and decisions affecting many core issues, continued on page 6

Turtle Bay Association • 224 East , , NY 10017 • (p) 212-751-5465 • (f) 212-751-4941 • [email protected] • turtlebay-nyc.org 60th Anniversary continued from page 1 The party took place at Japan Society’s TBA Who’s Who special occasion that celebrated and landmarked building. The structure, Turtle Bay Association renewed the TBA’s commitment to the completed in 1971, translates traditional 224 East 47th Street care and preservation of the Turtle Bay Japanese architectural forms into a New York, NY 10017 neighborhood, as it continues to grow and modernist idiom, and is a cultural highlight Phone: 212-751-5465 change. of the Turtle Bay neighborhood. Fax: 212-751-4941 Email: [email protected] Website: www.turtlebay-nyc.org

Check our Bulletin Board: East side of Second Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets, outside wall of supermarket.

Board of Directors Officers President: William E. Curtis Secretary: Mary Marangi NYC Public Advocate Trish James Treasurer: Dick Irwin and TBA President Bill Curtis. Vice Presidents: Millie Margiotta Dolores Marsh, Bruce Silberblatt Directors Ethel Bendove, Bunny Blei, Meryl Brodsky, Orin Buck, Paul Crawford, William E. Curtis, Lee Frankel, Phyllis Gitomer, Vivian Gordon, Denise Hamilton, Marie-Louise Handal, Bill Huxley, Dick Irwin, Florence Kelly, Mary F. Marangi, Millie Margiotta, Mark P. Markowski, Dolores Marsh, Pat McDougald, Michael Resnick, Carol Rinzler, Bruce Silberblatt Honorary Emeriti Jonathan Bing, Barbara Connolly

Community Calendar 17th Precinct Community Council Open Meeting Last Tuesday every month, 6 pm Sutton Place Synagogue 225 East 212-826-3228 (No meetings July, August, December) Shelby Garner of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s staff. Community Board 6 Full Board Meeting Second Wednesday every month, 7 pm NYU Medical Center 550 First Avenue 212-319-3750 Now live online at http://wp.cbsix.org/live

2 Turtle Bay News www.turtlebay-nyc.org How to Protect loans and social security benefits, rent messages that request you to confirm apartments, and establish accounts with credit card numbers, passwords, and Your Identity utility and telephone service providers. other such information. The recent data breach Your credit can quickly be damaged, Shred Personal Papers at Equifax affected and your efforts to correct the resulting Shred all bills, credit card charge receipts 143 million people and problems can become a nightmare. and statements, credit applications, serves as a reminder of Protect Your Credit Cards insurance forms, bank statements, expired how important it is to protect your personal • Don’t carry extra credit cards in your charge cards, and pre-approved credit information. This seems to be more wallet or purse, and cancel the ones you offers before recycling with other paper or difficult than ever: If a major financial no longer use. discarding in the garbage. institution like Equifax can’t secure private • Be wary of unsolicited emails and data, what are individuals supposed to do? continued on page 6 The NYPD has provided tips and steps you can take to prevent identity theft. Garodnick continued from page 1 City Council Passes Thieves Don’t Need to Know Much Perhaps his most far-reaching achievement Midtown East Rezoning Identity theft requires only a few pieces has been his role as prime sponsor of the On August 8, the City Council passed of valid personal information: name, East Midtown Rezoning, recently passed the Midtown East Rezoning intended to address, birth date, social security number by the City Council. It is the result of promote commercial development in the and mother's maiden name. Armed with complex negotiations and compromises 78-block area stretching north-south from these, thieves can take over your financial among politicians, developers, religious 57th to 39th streets and east-west from accounts, open new bank accounts, apply institutions and civic groups, on a tangle of Third to Madison avenues. Councilman for credit and debit cards in your name issues, such as landmarks, the price of air Dan Garodnick was the main sponsor of and make expensive purchases, apply for rights and improvement of the Lexington the bill. Avenue subway’s aging infrastructure. 17th Precinct Crime Statistics Midtown East is critical to the city’s Report Covering The TBA itself was among the many economy. It produces 10 percent of its real 2017 through September 24 interested parties. We protested part of estate taxes and hosts a weekday workforce Year to Date the rezoning, which allowed development continued on page 6 2017 2016 % Chg. of tall commercial buildings along the Murder 0 0 ***.**. east side of . This would Rape 1 0 ***.**. enable office towers to encroach farther Welcome New Robbery 1 2 -50.00 on residential areas, and block sunlight Business Members from the streets. Dan heard us and ensured Felony Assault 1 2 -50.00 Art Framing that the section between 46th and 51st Burglary 1 0 ***.**. ♦ City Gallery Framing streets would have rules preventing such Grand Larceny 7 19 -63.20 315 East encroachment. His willingness to work 212-688-5035 Grand Larceny Auto 1 0 ***.**. extra-hard for his constituents has been [email protected] Total 12 23 -47.83 a hallmark of his term in office, and will 20% Discount – Free Delivery Transit 1 1 ***.**. make a lasting difference to Turtle Bay.. Banking & Finance Housing 0 0 ***.**. Anthony Louca Petit Larceny 10 7 -42.90 As for what’s next, Dan says, "As a life- HSBC Bank Misd. Assault 5 4 25.00 long New Yorker, it has been an honor to 777 Third Avenue Misd. Sex Crimes 2 0 ***.**. represent Turtle Bay in the City Council 212-838-9551 Shooting Vic. 0 0 ***.**. over the past 12 years. But I'm not going Crafting/Activity Shooting Inc. 0 0 ***.**. far – I plan to stay involved and engaged, ♦ Painting Hangout and stand ready to support my neighbors 315 East 57th Street From 17th Precinct Website 212-605-0983 All figures are subject to further analysis and revision. All now and in the future." degrees of rape are included in the rape category. paintinghangout.com On November 7, citizens of District 4 will [email protected] Editorial Committee vote on Dan Garodnick’s successor. We 10% Discount look forward to building a relationship Editor: Lee Frankel Legal Services with our new council member, and also The Law Office of Layout: Hilary Black to watching Dan as he continues his Ivan M. Diamond Contributors: Bill Huxley, extraordinary leadership in whatever Sam Maher Milllie Margiotta 224 East 47th Street Photographs: Vivian Gordon he chooses to do next. The Turtle Bay 212-207-1278 Association wishes him all the best of luck. www.turtlebay-nyc.org Turtle Bay News 3 National Night Out Against Crime

4 Turtle Bay News www.turtlebay-nyc.org Arts & Culture Turtle Bay Music School Japan Society Friday, December 15, 6 pm 244 East 333 East 47th Street Architecture of Time: Enoura 212-753-8811 tbms.org 212-832-1155 japansociety.org Observatory, Where Consciousness & Memory Originate. Join exhibition Free Artist Series Concerts Call or visit website for Box Office and Gallery hours. Gallery Admission: artist Hiroshi Sugimoto for this introduction Fridays, 7 - 8 pm $12; students and seniors $10; members to Enoura Observatory, the headquarters Em Lee Concert Hall and children under 16 free. Free to all of his Odawara Art Foundation, which November 3 on Friday nights, 6 pm - 9 pm. received Japan Society grants in 2011 and Victor Dizon, piano. TBMS faculty 2014 and opened to the public this October. member Victor Dizon will be joined Business & Policy Sugimoto will also discuss his other recent by pianist Racquel Wednesday, November 8, 9 am architectural projects and their connection Borromeo. Dizon 2018 Global Economic Outlook: to his photographic practice and exhibitions, Gaining Momentum or Slowing Down? performs an eclectic including Gates of Paradise. Tickets $39/$33 This program features renowned economics mix of Latin American Japan Society members, seniors and students. Dances, capped by an experts Nouriel Roubini, Atsushi Nakajima American Jazz Ballet and Emiliya Mychasuk discussing the Theater Suite written and entangled geopolitical tensions, economic Noh-Now Series arranged for two pianos. and monetary policy factors that threaten the global recovery and financial markets. How Thursday, December 7, 7:30 pm November 17 should we deal with these challenges and Friday, December 8, 7:30 pm Renee Heitmann, analyze the global economic trends going Saturday, December 9, 7:30 pm soprano. Heitmann will into 2018? In this program, speakers discuss Hanjo. Based on a 14th-century noh play delve beyond the song the forces shaping the global economy, their with the same title, Hanjo, by provocative in this in-depth program impact on economic growth, and prospects Japanese of Broadway musical for the U.S., Japan and Asia. Moderator: author Yukio scenes. Emiliya Mychasuk, US Online News Editor, Mishima December 8 Financial Times. (1925-1970), Diane Taublieb, flute. Taublieb and friends 9 - 9:30 am: Registration & Buffet Breakfast is a timeless will present an evening 9:30 - 11:30 am: Panel Discussion and Q&A tale of love, of flute-focused chamber 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Networking Reception loneliness and music featuring duets, This is a free event. However, you must betrayal performed in English and Japanese. trios and quartets from register in advance to confirm your seat Tickets: $35/$30 Japan Society members. both well-known and for the lecture. Seating is available on a lesser-known composers. first come, first served basis. For more Thursday, January 11, 7:30 pm Friday, January 12, 7:30 pm Wednesday, information, please contact the Business & Saturday, January 13, 7:30 pm December 13, 7 - 9 pm Policy Program at 212-715-1208 or email Sunday, January 14, 4 pm Handel’s Messiah Sing-Along. No [email protected]. experience is required to attend and sing Mugen Noh Othello. Satoshi Miyagi and Lectures along at this annual his company SPAC return to New York with Friday, December 1, 6 pm festive event. All are another literary masterpiece, Othello. Miyagi The Southern Barbarians Arrive: welcome. Please RSVP re-tells Shakespeare’s tragedy through noh Navigating the Nanban Screens. to participate. Free and theater’s most distinct storytelling structure, open to the public, with Screen paintings depicting Europeans in mugen noh, a festive reception to Japan (nanban byōbu) have long been or a play that admired for their vivid portrayals of the follow. features a brief encounter between Japan and Europe spirit. Told Saturday, in the Age of Exploration. Learn about these from the December 16, 1 - 3 pm images from Japan's “Christian Century” Saturday Music with Prof. Matthew McKelway (Columbia perspective Project Holiday University), who will address questions of of Othello’s Concerts. Come and artistic competition and collaboration, and wife Desdemona, who returns as a ghost after enjoy performances by the thematic adjustments that underlie what her death, Miyagi’s production is replete students of the Saturday these works of art say about their time and with stunning masks and costumes as well Music Project. Free. Call audience. Second in a three-part lecture as powerful live music and chanting. It will the school to learn more series. Single lecture ticket: $15/$12 Japan be performed in Japanese with English titles. about the program. Society members, seniors and students. Tickets: $35/$30 Japan Society members. www.turtlebay-nyc.org Turtle Bay News 5 Project C.A.R.T. Provides Free Transportation for Seniors The C.A.R.T. (Community five vans take seniors to and gencies as well as for medical, social ser- Arranged Resident Trans- from medical appointments vice, and entitlement appointments. It is portation Program Project) and hospitals, planned ac- also available for visits to relatives and van service for seniors pro- tivities at senior centers, friends in hospitals or nursing homes. vides free specialized trans- and entitlement programs The project is funded by the New York portation for the frail elder- on which they depend. City Department for the Aging. Services ly. Each year, hundreds of New York Foundation for C.A.R.T. also delivers meals Senior Citizens are provided by the New York Founda- passengers – including those to homebound seniors living tion for Senior Citizens, 490 Second Av- with wheelchairs – are served five days a in mid-Manhattan. enue, New York, NY 10016. Telephone: week. In addition, Project C.A.R.T. provides 212-956-0855. Email address: nyfscinc@ Operating in Manhattan, from the Bat- private car service for seniors who need aol.com. Website: http://www.nyfsc.org/ tery to 96th Street on the East Side and to special transportation within Manhattan. support-services/free-transportation. Fol- 110th Street on the West Side, C.A.R.T.’s Private car service is approved for emer- low on Facebook and Twitter.

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