Milestone Reached for St. Nicholas Church at WTC
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S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2016 VOL. 20, ISSUE 999 December 3-9 , 2016 c v $1.50 Psaros on Milestone Reached for St. Nicholas Church at WTC Family, Alabama Steel Cross Faith, & Set in Place atop Greece Dome of Shrine By Eleni Sakellis Proud Son of Chios to NEW YORK – The resurrected St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Receive Homeric Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center was Award, Talks with TNH topped with a temporary cross lifted into place on the sun- By Theodore Kalmoukos drenched afternoon of Novem - ber 28. NEW YORK – Michael Psaros is Executive Director of Admin - the emergent prominent leader istration for the Greek Orthodox of our Greek-American commu - Archdiocese Jerry Dimitriou nity. He is a co-Founder and co- opened the proceedings with Managing Partner of KPS Capi - thanks to all those who con - tal Partners, LP, and a member tributed to the effort to rebuild of its Investment Committee. the only religious building de - KPS is the manager of KPS Spe - stroyed on 9/11. Dimitriou wel - cial Situations Funds, a family comed Port Authority Executive of private equity funds with ap - Director Pat Foye, and Port Au - proximately $5.6 billion of as - thority Chief of Capital Projects sets under management, fo - Steve Plate, John Dolan from cused on making controlling Skanska Building and his team, equity investments in companies Frank Lorino, representing ar - across a diverse range of manu - chitect Santiago Calatrava and facturing industries. the Calatrava organization, and Psaros is a faithful Church - the “fellow laborers on this his - man par excellence, a philan - toric mission to rebuild Saint thropist, a true Hellene, and a Nicholas.” proud American. The Chian Fed - Dimitriou thanked the mem - eration will honor him with the bers of the original St. Nicholas Homeric Award because he is Church, Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. also a proud son of Chios. TNH/COSTAS BEJ Pappas chairman of PJ Mechan - In light of the upcoming A construction worker looks out over the crowd gathered to witness the cross installed atop St. Nicholas National Shrine Church honor, Psaros granted the fol - at the WTC marking a milestone in the project. The church is expected to be completed by the spring of 2018. Continued on page 4 lowing interview to The Na - tional Herald which he reads faithfully every week. TNH: How do you feel to be honored by the Chian Associa - Greek-Americans Continue NY Diner Tradition John tion? MP: My uncle Nikos told me that there isn’t a higher honor TNH Staff of home. Books have been writ - on diners and coffee shops. in Gramercy. Owner George Sarbanes than being recognized by your ten about diners and diner cul - As reported in the New York Kalogerakos decided to retire, own people. When I was called New York diners are an ture. On television, where Times, there are about half as the real estate broker told DNA by the Chian Federation and iconic symbol of the American would Seinfeld and company many diners today as there were info. Kalogerakos had briefly Talks to TNH asked to participate in this cere - dining experience. For the last have lunch and discuss “noth - 20 years ago, according to closed Lyric to open the more mony, at first I was hesitant be - half century at least, diners have ing” without the classic New records from the health depart - formal Greek restaurant Tav - cause my grandmother Eugenia been a staple of the Greek im - York diner Monk’s Café? The sit - ment. Among the diners that erna in the same location, but By Theodore Kalmoukos from Chios always told me to migrant experience as well. com itself was thought up in just closed in recent years, Cafe Edi - reopened the diner after about avoid glory. I like to think that I Staffing and owning diners such a coffee shop. The rising son shut down in 2014 after 34 a year. The diner was a favorite BOSTON – Prominent Greek- am a humble person, but as it was a natural extension of the cost of real estate in recent years years in business renting space in the neighborhood, open 24 American Congressman John was explained to me that the world-famous Greek hospitality. has been hard on the often fam - from the Edison Hotel at 228 hours a day, seven days a week, Sarbanes of Maryland was re - funds raised will go to worthy As many diner-goers over the ily-owned diners of New York West 47th Street in Manhattan. and offering a 10% discount to elected in the recent election for causes, I accepted this honor years noted, Greeks took over City. Many have shut down per - In 2015, Market Diner closed its students showing their school his sixth term. In an interview with great humility and with en - the diners and kept the “Ameri - manently due to changing doors after 53 years in Hell’s ID. Also among the closures in with The National Herald he ex - thusiasm. can” menu, adding their own neighborhood demographics Kitchen. The beloved Lyric Diner 2016, was Del Rio after 40 years pressed his gratitude to the con - specialties and expanding the and eating habits. Gentrification closed in 2016 after 31 years at stituents of his District for their Continued on page 3 culinary offerings with the tastes in many areas has been tough Third Avenue and 22nd Street Continued on page 6 confidence to honor him one more time with their vote. He also itemized the issues he will be focusing on including stu - dent loans, veteran issues, job Another Panou training, and certainly the issues of Greece, Cyprus and Ecumeni - Famous cal Patriarchate. Mr. Sarbanes Installed as also spoke about the election of Mr. Donald Trump to the US Galifianakis Presidency. Tsantes Prof. The interview follows: TNH Staff TNH: How do you feel about your reelection? WILMINGTON, NC – Comedian TNH Staff Sarbanes: I am gratified that and actor Zach Galifianakis, the voters in my district felt that best-known for his work in The STONY BROOK, NY – Nikolaos they should send me back for an - Hangover, lives in Wilkesboro, Panou, PhD, was formally in - other term in Congress. We work NC, making him the best-known stalled as the inaugural Peter V. hard to serve our constituents Greek-American Tar Heel. For Tsantes Professor in Greek Lit - well and when they have the op - those unfamiliar with the term, erature and Language at Stony tion and the choice to reelect you “tar heel” is a North Carolina- Brook University. “It is an un - native. derstatement to say that I am Continued on page 5 Years before Zach and his un - delighted that Nikolaos Panou conventional comic talent burst has been named to this distin - onto the scene, however, his un - guished professorship,” said cle Nick Galifianakis made a President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. name for himself as a flamboy - during the ceremony. “And we GOINGS ON... are grateful to Peter V. and De - Continued on page 4 spina Tsantes for endowing this NOTE TO OUR READERS professorship. It will be a lasting tribute to the Tsantes family and To see your events listed enable us to continue to attract in our GOINGS ON section, For subscription: and retain prominent scholars all parishes, organizations 718.784.5255 in the field of Hellenic studies.” and institutions should e- [email protected] As Assistant Professor of mail their information re - AP PHOTO/EvAN vuCCi Comparative Studies in Stony garding the event no later Trump Dines with Possible Cabinet Member Romney Brook University's College of than Monday of the week be - Arts and Sciences, Panou’s cur - fore the event, to english.edi - President-elect Donald Trump, center, at dinner with Mitt Romney, right, and Greek-American [email protected] Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at Jean-Georges Restaurant on Nov. 29 in New York. Continued on page 6 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 3-9, 2016 Tassos Boulmetis on his New Film Notias (or Mythopathy) and Greece By Vasilis Papoutsis young boy has trouble explain - breaks helping his father. Most pseudo identities based on those ing his unconventional spin of of the film's shooting took place myths in order to survive,” Boul - LOS ANGELES, CA – The highly the well-known Greek myths in the Stoa which is located on metis said. Not much has anticipated new film from the and his mother takes him to the Akadimias 98 and where all the changed since then either. The acclaimed director of Politiki doctor for a physical examina - major production companies much-expected change that PA - Kouzina, had its North America tion. Unable to find anything had offices and all the major SOK promised in his campaign premiere at the 10th Los Ange - physically wrong with him, the movie stars could be seen at Bar to power did not materialize. les Greek Film Festival and re - doctor makes the assumption Hollywood having coffee or at “Whatever meritocracy existed ceived rave reviews. that perhaps Notias, the South - the 7th floor bar with views of before they assumed power was Notias, or Mythopathy, ern winds responsible for late Kannigos Square having a drink. pretty much set aside. Labor comes more than 10 years since summer storms, might have had Although the glory days of unions and party affiliations for the groundbreaking Kouzina, an effect in Stavros' psyche. His Greek cinema are long gone as the most part dictated the chain and it was worth the wait as the journey into adulthood is filled are the production companies of human command and medi - new film beautifully blends nos - with erotic fantasies, ideological from the building, the Stoa still ocrity prevailed’‘ Boulmetis said.