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2017 CHN ENRICHMENT AWARD: 66 AND 68 EAST 93RD STREET RESTORED, ADJACENT, BUT DIFFERENT By Garrett Glaser his year, Carnegie Hill Neighbors is recognizing two buildings with its annual Enrichment Award. Numbers 66 and 68 East 93rd Street are adjacent T but very different properties united by their owners’ determination to maintain the authenticity of the streetscape. The dual selection reflects the fact that the award is about the quality and appropriateness of the restoration to the architectural fabric, regardless of the scope of the project. Hidden behind its faithfully restored facade of brownstone and brickwork, No. 66 (near left) is a modern, light-filled, five-story single-family home whose interior was rebuilt from scratch at sizeable expense. The home replaces nine rental units in this 1890 Queen Anne rowhouse. No. 68 (far left) is a handsome, self-managed, five-story walk-up cooperative whose shareholders secured a low-interest loan from the Historic Properties Fund of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Thanks to the loan, and the good instincts of the shareholders, the original brownstone facade is now faithfully restored to its 1890 Renaissance Revival appearance, A

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8 On Museum Mile CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST by Cynthia MacGrath ANNUAL SPRING BENEFIT AND AUCTION Fifth Avenue at 90th Street, 212-289-3400 10 StreetScape Wednesday, May 24, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Spring Thrift Sale. Women’s, men’s, children’s East 86th Street, Join a CSA See pages 16-17. clothes, household items, plus a special boutique section with designer clothes at a fraction of their Environmental News 12 THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH original cost. Saturday, May 6, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. NEGAWATTS Park Avenue at 92nd Street by Bonnie Lane Webber 212-289-4400 www.brickchurch.org DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC 14 CH Profile Strawberry Festival 24 East 95th Street 212-369-1484, ext. 10 Bishop John of St. Nicholas Live music, hot dogs, strawberry shortcake with www.diller-quaile.org by Suzanne Wiedel-Pace ice cream and all the fixings, children’s games, Diller-Quaile String Quartet 16 Meet the Benefit Co-chairs fellowship with friends and neighbors. Sunday, Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. Spring Benefit Invitation May 21, 12:15 – 2:15 p.m. JEWISH MUSEUM 18 You Can Go Home Again HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200 Second Generation in CH 7 East 95th Street 212-369-0399, ext. 11 www.thejewishmuseum.org by Jennifer Huntley www.houseoftheredeemer.org Pianist Vicky Chow, Bang on a Can member, 20 Landmark Land Time Travels: Italian Renaissance to Today’s performs Tristan Perich’s solo piano-electronic by Lo van der Valk America with Mannes School of Music. installation Surface Image, echoing Paris’ 19th- 23 Safe Neighborhood In celebration of the centennial of House of the century arcades. Thursday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. by B.A. Conlin Redeemer. Works from Scarlatti to Cole Porter Pianist Daniel Gortler performs Brahms’ Piano 27 Neighborhood News to Paul Schoenfield. Free; reservations Sonata No.3 , Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Brick Church is 250! required. Wednesday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. Op.142 , and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1 . Carnegie Hill Village Update Fabbri Chamber Concert. American String Thursday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. Quartet returns for their 10th season. Program 28 Neighborhood Authors by Lenny Golay followed by reception with the artists. Call to 39TH ANNUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL reserve tickets. Wednesday, May 17, 7:30 p.m. The city’s biggest block party: Free access to 29 CHN Welcome Package Annual Garden Party. Entertainment, live and some of the world's finest art collections—from 30 Shop Talk silent auctions. Wednesday, June 7, 6:30 p.m. the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 82nd Street by Cynthia Kayan to El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street. Plus 31 Merchant Profile: IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH plenty of outdoor festivities — face painting, James Custom Shoe Repair Lexington Avenue at 88th Street chalk drawing, live music. Tuesday, June 13, by Shari Thompson 212-289-8128 www.immanuelnyc.org 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., rain or shine. Baldwin Festival Chorus of New York Tree Care 32 Doug Sheldon, conductor Caring for Sidewalk Trees NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS IN by Susan Gottridge Glorious Evening! Works by Gabrieli, Vivaldi, CENTRAL PARK Dates and programs will be Protect Tree Roots Puccini, Verdi. Friday, May 12, 8:00 p.m. posted in April at www.nyphil.org. by Julia Bradford

34 Timeline: CHN’s New Office CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS 36 CHN Membership Form Suzie Aijala • Irene E. Aldridge • Heather Brandes • Mark Brookes • Barbara Calabrese Barbara Coffey * • Dixie De Luca • Samantha Fremont-Smith* • Mark L. Goldsmith * Editor-in-Chief: Barbara Coffey Susan Gottridge * • Lisa Sharf Green • Anne Haubenstricker • Julie Herzig • Ivan Hrazdira Editors: Samantha Fremont-Smith, Jurate Kazickas • Linda Kurtz • Della Leathers • Cynthia MacGrath • Gina Morehead Lenny Golay, Ann Levin, Virginia B. Pitman • Molly Rand • April Shelton • David J. Stoll* • George Stonbely* Bo Niles, S hari Thompson, Lo van der Valk * • Gregory Warner • Bonnie Lane Webber Suzanne Wiedel-Pace EMERITUS: Ronald Spencer • Margaret M. Ternes * Executive Committee Art Director: Cynthia MacGrath CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD , LANDSCAPING THE MALLS , Ad Production: Alexa Williams ENHANCING STREETSCAPES , CARING FOR TREES , NETWORKING WITH BUILDINGS , AND PROVIDING SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDANCE .

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CHN UPFRONT

SPRINGTIME COMES TO CARNEGIE HILL

o matter how erratic the winter weather, the blooming tulips and Ntrees on the Park Avenue malls are always a comforting sign of spring. This year features Templar Orange blooms, the flower repeated in our Spring Benefit theme. In late spring, look for lush, red Dragon Wing begonias to brighten the malls all summer into fall. As always, we thank the co-ops and condos on Park Avenue, and the many friends of the malls whose contri - butions enable CHN to plant and maintain this vibrant landscape in the center of Carnegie Hill.

PARK AVENUE APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND FRIENDS SUPPORTING THE MALLS 1040 1075 1112 1165 1220 49 East 86th St. The Brick Presbyterian Church 1045 1088 1120 1172 1230 55 East 86th St. Church of St. Thomas More 1049 1095 1125 1175 1235 120 East 87th St. The Spence School

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S “MEET CHN BREAKFAST” A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS Our annual event to introduce Carnegie Hill residents to CHN’s many programs Last fall, CHN volunteers joined The and activities was held April 6 and featured longtime Carnegie Hill neighbor Lynden Daffodil Project by planting over 350 Miller and her colleague, Laura Montross, to discuss The Daffodil Project, a living bulbs in the Park Avenue Pocket Park memorial to 9/11. Ms. Miller, who co-founded The Daffodil Project, was the garden between 96th and 97th streets on Park architect of the Park Avenue Pocket Park and the Conservatory Gardens in Central Avenue. (See 2016 Fall Carnegie Hill Park. Ms. Miller discussed her many public gardening and landscaping projects News, page 14.) Finally in late March, around New York City, and how to care for plants in an urban environment. Ms. golden daffodils made their way through Montross gave a presentation about NY4P (New Yorkers for Parks) and The Daffodil the late blanket of snow to delight all Project. CHN is most grateful to Simon Baron Developers of 12 East 88th Street for who pass through the pocket park. hosting the event in the private room at Via Quadronno.

CHECK OUT THE REVAMPED CHN WEBSITE The CHN website is new and improved with a simpler look, additional payment options, an interactive blog, and increased compatibility with IOS android devices. A direct result of our comprehensive, nonprofit-site-comparative analysis, the website provides more detail on how donor dollars support our advocacy work, as well as our beautification and security programs. Also, we responded to your comments by streamlining office-contact information with shortened email addresses and an additional, fully searchable domain name: CHNeighbors.org.

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CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS STAFF

Lo van der Valk, President Joanna G. Cawley, Executive Director TAKE A WALK WITH Alexa Williams, Member Relations CHN’S SPRING INTERN Stephon Wynn, Operations and Marketing Call: 212-996-5520 iulia Accurso, email: [email protected] a senior at NYU studying Urban CHN ONLINE DO WE HAVE YOUR Design and Join the social network of EMAIL ADDRESS? G Carnegie Hill. Catch the Receive electronic updates Historical Architecture, is latest CHN activities and and the CHN Electronic interning this spring at CHN. events. Check out Carnegie Newsletter with important Drawing from her studies of Hill Neighbors on Facebook, announcements. healthy, sustainable city Instagram and Twitter. (CHN does not share email, Visit www.chneighbors.org . names or addresses.) planning and design, she has developed a series of walking tours designed to educate and inspire Carnegie Hill enthusiasts. Categorized by age, the child’s tour for 3- to 8-year-olds PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS focuses on Fifth Avenue and Central Park and is parent-accompanied; 90th Street Pharmacy Page 13 Holly Hunt, Halstead Page 30 the 9- to 13-year-olds get a scavenger hunt; and high-school Dianne Baasch. Photographer 31 Hotel Wales 25 students are offered a geo-tag quest. Children and teens explore Jeffery Bua, Compass 11 House of the Redeemer 26 Mona Browne, Counseling 25 Integrated Security Systems 26 the outside, learn the neighborhood’s history, and use their creativ - Canterbury Choral Society 30 Kleier Residential 26 ity to complete these task-based excursions. Adult tours will focus Carnegie Hill Yoga 13 Della Leathers, Douglas Elliman 35 on contrasting iconographies and the varied architectural styles Carousel of Languages 22 Joan McLaughlin, Corcoran 13 seen in Carnegie Hill; participants will receive a lesson in the Collina Italiana 26 Mind Your Body Pilates 11 Corcoran Group 2 Moving Mentors 26 eclecticism and majesty of the district. Deco Diamonds 15 Noglu 26 Captivating tales of New York families from the bygone era that E. B. Cohen & Associates 11 Paola’s Restaurant 9 shaped so much of Carnegie Hill will be shared. Tours begin in May Eli Zabar Manhattan 25 S. Feldman Housewares 13 Patricia Ellis, Douglas Elliman 26 Remarkable Life Memoirs 31

and can be booked through the CHN office in groups or individually. M. Epstein, Language Tutor 31 Stribling 7

Walking shoes and a sketch pad and/or camera are suggested. Five Pillars Yoga 29 Town & Country Agency 13 ool Dr. D. Green, Psychotherapist 13 Urban Garden Center 13

SIGN UP FOR A SPECIAL PLEASE SUPPORT OUR MERCHANT MEMBERS CHN WALKING TOUR 90th Street Pharmacy Jaico Hair Salon MEMBERS: $15 92nd Street Y Jerome Florists NON-MEMBERS $20 ACB Retail/Ann Crabtree J.McLaughlin FAMILY, GROUP RATES AVAILABLE Arc-en-Ciel Pre-School Korali Biscuits & Bath Lane Farms Market EMAIL: [email protected] Bloomie Nails & Spa Linda Horn Antiques For more information, check our The Children’s General Store Magical Kids website: chneighbors.org Collina Italiana Mariana Antinori Diller-Quaile School of Music Mister Wright Wines & Spirits Dorothy’s Day Spa Paola’s Restaurant Doyle Galleries Peri Ela CHRISTOPHER GRAY, CHN FRIEND AND RESOURCE Eli’s Essentials S. Feldman Housewares he Carnegie Hill community was saddened by the sudden loss, Food Liberation Zigzag Jewelry Design Ton March 11, of our friend and neighbor, the celebrated archi - Olivia Hutchinson, MD tectural historian Christopher Gray. He was a valued fount of in - CALL CITY OFFICIALS FOR HELP (212) sights and photographic source material for CHN’s publications and advocacy efforts. He wrote the preface to our Carnegie Hill Architectural Carolyn Maloney, U.S.Congress 860-0606 [email protected] Guide and, in the 1990s, penned a “Questions & Answers” column Liz Krueger, State Senate 490-9535 [email protected] Dan Quart, State Assembly 605-0937 [email protected] for Carnegie Hill News, as well as providing historical informa - Rebecca Seawright, State Assembly 288-4607 [email protected] tion to support CHN’s work. For many years, New York Times Dan Garodnick, City Council 818-0580 [email protected] readers of his popular “Streetscape” column were enlightened by Ben Kallos, City Council 860-1950 [email protected] his fascination with and knowledge of New York City buildings Gale Brewer, Borough President 669-8300 [email protected] and architecture. He informed an influential audience that pushed Latha Thompson, Community Bd. 8 758-4340 [email protected] George Sarkissian, Community Bd. 11 831-8929 [email protected] for greater attention to preservation in the City. We extend our Jenny Fernandez, Landmarks (LPC) 669-7923 [email protected] condolences to his wife, Erin, and family. For many years Erin and Police, 19th Precinct 452-0600 fax: 452-0652 Christopher have been our good neighbors in Carnegie Hill. Police (above 96th St.), 23rd Precinct 860-6411 CARNEGIE HILL NEWS • SPRING 2017 I 5 Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 6

CHN MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS

MANY THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS

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CARNEGIE HILL DIDN’T JUST HAPPEN

CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS AND OUR VALUED MEMBERS HAVE HELPED MAKE IT THE SPECIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IT IS TODAY.

CHN THANKS ITS MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS, WHOSE GENEROSITY ALLOWS US TO KEEP MEMBERSHIP DUES LOW AND STILL MAINTAIN A FULL SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES.

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ON MUSEUM MILE by Cynthia MacGrath

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM www.cooperhewitt.org NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. www.neuegalerie.org The first major exhibition to focus on American taste in design and art during Alexei Jawlensky. the creative explosion of the 1920s, The Jazz Age explores avant-garde artistic This is the first full museum retrospective in movements, new social mores, and the role of technology. The exhibition is a the United States devoted to the work of this multi-media experience of more than 400 examples of interior design, decorative Russian-born Expressionist artist (1864-1941). art, jewelry, fashion, architecture, music, and film. Through August 20. Jawlensky moved to Munich in 1896, where Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin he became an integral member of the artistic Aga Khan Collection. View 100 extraordinary cigarette and vanity cases, avant-garde. The exhibition includes compacts, clocks, and other luxury objects, including exquisite works from the approximately 75 paintings from 1900 to 1937, premier jewelry houses of Europe and America, installed in the Teak Room. beginning with early figure paintings, still- Through August 27. lifes, and landscapes, and continuing with a series known as Variations, which evolved from the view from the artist’s window into NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM expressions of pure color. Through May 29. The galleries are closed. Art classes and exhibitions continue at the school at 5-7 East 89th Street.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM www.guggenheim.org Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim. Having collected art since the 1890s, Solomon R. Guggenheim was, in 1929, ready for fresh inspiration. It was then that he encountered the German born artist Hilla Rebay and the inno - vations of the contemporary avant-garde. Together they began assembling art g-rounded in nonobjectivity; this defin - ing focus distinguished the foundation Guggenheim established in New York in June of 1937. Two years later the Museum of Non Objective Painting, the forerunner of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, debuted in New York. More than 170 works f-rom the permanent collection now fill the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, exploring a century of artistic production. Pictured above: works of Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, and Vasily Kandinsky. Through September 6. 8 I SPRING 2017 • CARNEGIE HILL NEWS Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 9

THE JEWISH MUSEUM www.thejewishmuseum.org Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry. Florine Stettheimer was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Rochester. Her New York circle included Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, Georgia O’Keeffe, Elie Nadelman, and Gaston Lachaise. Among her intimate friends was Marcel Duchamp. Through over 50 paintings and drawings, costume and theater designs, photographs and ephemera, as well as critically acclaimed poems, this exhibition offers an important survey of the work by this modernist painter, designer, and poet. May 5 – September 24. Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland. Enter the fantastical world of this visual artist, composer, and performer. The exhibition—replete with mirrors, textiles, and lights—features hundreds of teddy bears and other plush toys. Through August 6.

THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK www.mcny.org Muslim in New York. Muslims have been woven into the fabric of New York since the city’s origins as New Amsterdam. Today New York’s diverse Muslim community—both immigrant and American- born, from multiple racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds—con - stitutes some 270,000 people. The exhibition features 34 images by four photographers who have documented Muslim New York ers from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Through July 30. Posters and Patriotism: Selling WWI in New York. When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. This exhibition examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet-music covers, and other mass-produced images to stir the public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice. Opens April 15 . CARNEGIE HILL NEWS • SPRING 2017 I 9 Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 10

STREETSCAPE COMMUNITY by Susan Gottridge SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) CSA members purchase shares EAST 86TH STREET: PROGRESS REPORT of a farm’s growing season

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NEW BUILDING TO PROCEED ON 86TH STREET AND LEXINGTON AVENUE caffolding is up as preparations are going forward to construct a new building on East 86th Street. The New York City Transit and the developer proposed moving the subway Payments from members enable stairwell on 86th Street from the confines of the building to the middle of the 86th the farm to cover yearly costs, Street sidewalk and putting an elevator to the subway on the same sidewalk. At S almost all of which are incurred Community Board 8 hearings last year, CHN and other community groups opposed before the crops are ready for these intrusions on the crowded sidewalk, but the original design was approved. harvest. Because farmers know The subway entrance on Lexington Avenue will remain inside the building. their crops are sold, they can concentrate on farming rather 86TH STREET BID COMMITTEE SEEKS LOCAL SUPPORT than on marketing, sales, In an effort to bring better sanitation and security to the East 86th Street and accounting. corridor through a Business Improvement District, the East 86th Street BID The CSA season runs from

steering committee is making progress procuring Statements of Support from % June until November. property owners. Once the required 51 percent threshold of support within the STo district is met, the next step will be to start the formal process through City 1 NELEdgE FARM is a certified organic farm Planning and the City Council. That is expected to begin late summer or fall. 5 in South Cairo, NY with two distribution sites in Carnegie Hill: CORNER TRASH CANS . YOU CAN HELP MoNdAYS — CHuRCH oF Is the public trash can near your corner full or overflowing? AdVENT HoPE Your building can help. Staff can be asked to place a 111 East 87th Street, garbage bag in the corner trash can and pull out the bag between Park and Lexington when it is full. Also, when sweeping the sidewalk and the TuESdAYS — CHuRCH oF gutter around your building, they should make sure that THE HEAVENLY REST debris that has fallen next to the trash can is picked up. We 4 East 90th Street at Fifth thank all building personnel who now do this important task. Prices vary slightly by site, but THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT average about $550 for A reminder: There is an easy way to report issues to 311. Download the 24 deliveries of vegetable shares. NYC311 app to your smartphone or tablet. The NYC311 app cuts In addition, fruit, coffee, and other products are included. down on the time it takes to let the city know about an issue. You can Check it out at use the app to report a homeless person in need of assistance, graffiti, damaged www.stoneledge.farm. trees, a broken street or traffic light, potholes, vendor complaints, and parking issues.

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ENVIRONMENT SAVING by Bonnie Lane Webber THE PLANET— ANYONE? With the future of the NEGAWATT IS BETTER THAN MEGAWATT planet a worldwide concern, aving energy is one of the most effective ways to reduce environmental degradation. Even the and support for the best renewable energy sources have some consequences, but reducing the use of electricity protection of the has no bad effects. A megawatt of power saved by increasing efficiency or reducing consump - environment no longer a tion is called a “negawatt,” a term coined by physicist Amory Lovins, of Rocky Mountain national priority, government SInstitute, in 1989. Energy efficiency means using a different technology that requires less cannot be depended energy to achieve the same results. Using a compact fluorescent light (CFL) that requires less on to be the only source energy than an incandescent bulb is an example. Energy conservation is any behavior that of solutions. results in using less energy, as in turning the lights off when leaving a room. Unplug it. Devices in our homes that are plugged into a socket but are inactive may cost Americans $19 billion annually. Idle load, vampire, or baseload electricity consumption occurs when appliances and equipment are in off or standby mode but still drawing power; in sleep mode ready to power up quickly; or turned on but not used. A great deal of idle load energy can be eliminated by identifying home devices that are always on, even when not in use. Unplugging those that are rarely used, plugging others into power strips with automatic shut-off technology, or using timers or smart outlets that draw power only when needed will reduce energy consumption. Power settings on many electronic devices can often be adjusted so they automatically power down when not in use.

Change bulbs to LEDs. It is increasingly clear that we as individuals need to do our part to improve the environment.

Plug multiple units into a power strip that you can flip on and off quickly. For almost 20 years, this column has regularly

Unplug presented suggestions Turn off the appliances “quick start” for individuals to make when not Buy a power meter to option on your a difference in the in use. conserve energy. TV or video- consumption of energy game console. and water and the reduction of waste. A concerned community There are many ways to turn megawatts into negawatts: can set an example n Change bulbs to LEDs. Estimates show that widespread adoption of LED lighting over the next 20 years could result in $265 billion worth of savings in United States energy costs. and help spread the practice of responsible n Unplug appliances like microwaves, toothbrushes, and coffeemakers when not in use. n Refrigerators should be more than two inches from a wall. Items inside should be habits. Recycling was packed loosely so that cold air can circulate but packed tightly in a freezer to use less energy. not the norm when n Buy Energy Star appliances and equipment. introduced decades ago, n Plug speakers, TVs, and other entertainment units into a power strip that can be flipped on or off. but local participation n If you can, turn off the “quick start” option on your TV or video-game console. The energy increased the economic grid pays dearly for this service that saves consumers only seconds. viability of the process. n Buy a power meter. These cheap and simple gadgets indicate how much energy a device Mass letter campaigns is using when sitting idle and can help consumers determine ways to conserve energy. and phone calls can n Turn down heat in unused rooms. Shut doors and partially close warm air vents. and do influence n Do not leave air conditioning on when not at home. government officials. n Showers use half the water of a bath. Less hot water means less energy used. But actions often n Check the Con Ed website: www.coned.com/en/save-money/energy-saving-programs. speak louder than words. Many of these tips are from the National Resource Defense Council. www.NRDC.org.

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CHN PROFILE

by Suzanne Wiedel-Pace

PRESIDING OVER THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE U.S.: BISHOP JOHN & THE 97 TH STREET DOMES E

ver cups of black tea on a winter afternoon, His Orthodox Church in Moscow. For C A P -

Grace John, Bishop of Naro-Fominsk, told his some years the two institutions have L E D

visitor the story of St. Nicholas Cathedral, been building closer canonical rela - E I W

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turquoise onion domes. Shortly after it was built in 1903 on as with other non-Russian Eastern A Z U

undeveloped and inexpensive land between Fifth and Madison Orthodox churches. S avenues, the Cathedral became the seat of all 45 (now 35) After four years at St. Nicholas, Bishop John says that he Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the continues to love the vibrancy of New York and the peace of United States. For the past four years, Bishop John has been its Central Park, even though he spends considerable time traveling administrator. A tall man with laughing eyes, he notes that the around the country tending to his 34 other parishes. Born in first Russian church in this country was established in late 1794 Moscow, he attended secondary school in the golden-domed in Alaska by eight monks who followed Russian fur traders monastery town of Zagorsk, a town that Great Britain’s Prime across the Bering Strait. As the mission grew, many Aleuts Minister Margaret Thatcher called “a diamond in the pouch.” embraced the faith, which spread down the west coast and es - The beauty and sacred spirit of Zagorsk stayed with Bishop tablished itself in San Francisco. At the beginning of the 20th John. When he left law school in Moscow, he re turned to century, the church’s headquarters moved east to its newly Zagorsk for theological studies. Later, he attended Catholic Uni - built headquarters at the Cathedral in Carnegie Hill. Neigh - versity in Washington, D.C., where he polished his English Y L

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O cession that wends around the block on 97th and 98th streets Today, the Cathedral is a lively place, with worship services T S

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Architect John Bergesen designed the Cathedral to follow white and gold before the magnificent golden altar. Congre - the pattern of typical Russian churches, with a dark red brick gants come from all over the city, including Brighton Beach facade trimmed with limestone and glazed blue, green, and in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. On Tuesday nights, yellow tiles. The verdigris-hued seams of the rooftop support some 40 to 50 young members meet at the Cathedral to five copper onion-domed cupolas, each topped with a gold discuss Russian religion, culture, and other topics in Russian cross. Tsar Nicholas II provided some funds for its construction; and English, and on Sundays, 30 to 40 children attend Sunday its earliest congregants and clergy came from lower Manhattan school. One of the priests is involved in social services, and east from the cathedral’s former seat in San Francisco. helping congregants with a variety of legal issues, particularly Since its founding, St. Nicholas has remained an extension immigration. of the mother Orthodox Church in Russia, even when the “My dream,” said Bishop John, “is to have some of our religion was condemned in Russia. This distinguishes it from worship services in English so that we can open our magnificent the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on 93rd Street, Cathedral to a wider community, and also have a museum in which was founded, following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the basement so that we can share our culture, art, and history as separate and independent from the official Russian with more people.”

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2017 SPRING BENEFIT

MEET THE SPRING BENEFIT CO-CHAIRS

he 2017 Spring Benefit is being spearheaded by two leaders who are bringing new ideas and energy to a long CHN tradition. Gabriela Herzberg and Abigale Knapp Govender, new to the Spring Benefit TCommittee, are not new to each other. They grew up in Carnegie Hill and attended the Day School together—along with CHN Spring Benefit Executive Director Joanna Cawley. Though they went separate ways Co-chairs Abigale after eighth grade, the bond formed in grammar school has been Knapp Grovender and reestablished at CHN. Gabriela Herzberg Gabriela continued her education at Riverdale Country School and Denison University, on her way to a career in interior design and her CELEBRATE SPRING WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS own company, GH Interiors. She lived in Brussels for several years, and two years ago, like other second-generation residents (see page 16), she and e are so pleased to co-chair Carnegie Hill Neighbors 2017 her son Alex, 6, returned to the neighborhood. Eager to become part of the W Spring Benefit and invite you to join us on Carnegie Hill community, last fall she co-chaired the Halloween Spooktacular. Wednesday, May 24, in support of this After grammar school in Carnegie Hill, Abigale crossed the Park to wonderful event for Carnegie Hill. Trinity School and then Colby College. But, she notes, “my three closest We have chosen The Fabbri Mansion, friends from Trinity all currently live in Carnegie Hill.” Abigale’s mother still just off Fifth Avenue on 95th Street, for lives in the house where Abigale grew up, and they are undoubtedly the first the venue. The Fabbri walls are no mother and daughter to serve together on the Spring Benefit Committee. stranger to fabulous parties. When Edith Like Gabriela, Abigale and her daughter Lucy, now 8, left New York and Ernesto Fabbri lived there, they for a few years, when Abigale’s husband, Rueben Govender, was transferred played host to New York City’s elite with to Calgary, Canada. Now Abigale’s talents as a public relations and marketing debutante balls, formal cocktail parties, consultant are proving to be a valuable asset as she and Gabriela strive to and dressy dances in the splendid Italian produce a vibrant event for the neighborhood they still cherish. Renaissance-style first floor. The second- floor library, resplendent with 15th-century wood-paneling, was once part of the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Italy. You too can Members of the stroll through these historic rooms, as well 2017 Spring Benefit Committee gathered as enjoy cocktails in the courtyard, while on March 8 in the home the Talisman Jazz trio entertains us with of Lisa and Eric green. its jazz-flamenco beats. In addition to those In addition to our silent auction with pictured, the Committee includes: a dozen tempting offerings and our raffle Lisa Abel, Suzie Aijala, with a fantastic grand prize of a week- Susan Burke-O’Neal, long tour of the Baltics, plus Amex Barbara Calabrese, rewards for airfare, we are featuring a Barbara Coffey, Anne Deane, Samantha selection of Carnegie Hill swag in our Kick-off party hostess Lisa Green and invitation designer Gina Morehead; Fremont-Smith, boutique Pop Up Shop. A portion of the Raffle Co-chair Heather Brandes, Alex Fallon, Julie Gautam Mark Goldsmith, proceeds from the boutique will benefit Susan Gottridge, CHN’s community programs. Anne Haubenstricker, Paula Hornbostel, Benefit tickets are on sale now. Jurate Kazickas, Please use the form on the following page Elizabeth Keegan, or visit our website: chneighbors.org. Sue Knapp, Rosalind CHN members receive an invitation in the Kruse, Linda Kurtz, Cynthia MacGrath, mail. We look forward to seeing you! Warren Miller, Kyle Paseka, Molly Rand, Gabriela Herzberg April Shelton, George Abigale Knapp Govender Stonbely, Lo van der 2017 CHN Spring Benefit Co-chairs Valk, Melissa Vlak, and Suzanne Wiedel-Pace. Holly Hunt and Dixie De Luca Irene Aldridge and Della Leathers 16 I SPRING 2017 • CARNEGIE HILL NEWS Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 17

CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS ANNUAL SPRING BENEFIT Wednesday, May 24, 2017 / 6:30–9:00pm / THE FABBRI MANSION / 7 East 95th Street Open Bar & Hor’sHors d’oeuvres, Live Music, Silent Auction, Raffle Prizes, Pop-up shop

CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS ANNUAL SPRING BENEFIT CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS Please reserve the following tickets to be held at the door: (Unreserved tickets at the door are $200) 2017 ENRICHMENT AWARD

$175 Friend ...... $ $1,500 Patron*...... $ To Marc and Caryn Becker $600 Supporter*...... $ $2,500 Leader * ...... $ of 66 East 93rd Street $1,000 Benefactor * ...... $ $5,000 Carnegie Circle* ...... $ For the sensitive restoration and conversion of this *Admits two and includes listing in Benefit Program and Carnegie Hill Newsletter 19th-century Queen Anne small apartment building $50 Raffle Booklet includes 6 chances . . . . .$ into a townhouse.

We cannot attend, but support CHN with a tax deductible contribution of ...... $ To the Shareholders of (Please list guests’ names on reverse) Number of guests: TOTAL: $ the Cooperative at 68 East 93rd Street Name: Benefit tickets (minus $100 per (as you would like to be listed in the program-must be received by May 22) For the sensitive and authentic guest) and all other restoration of this 19th-century contributions are tax deductible. Renaissance Revival Address: Please make checks payable to brownstone-fronted small Phone: e-mail: Carnegie Hill Neighbors. For more information or apartment building. additional invitations, please Payment: Check enclosed Visa Master Card AMEX These adjacent renovations have call 212-996-5520 further enhanced the streetscape Please print name exactly as it appears on card To purchase online, of this exemplary historic please visit our website: Carnegie Hill block with its four Acct.# Exp.Date: www.carnegiehillneighbors.org individually landmarked mansions.

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KIDS IN THE ‘HOOD

by Jennifer Huntley “YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN” / JUST ASK THESE SECOND .G

he timeless, small-town quality of life in Carnegie Hill is perhaps appreciated most by those who spent their childhood years here and returned as adults to raise Tfamilies of their own, often living close to their parents. “I think my mother sprinkled us with magic dust,” says Paula Hornbostel (on the right in picture at left), explaining how all four siblings married and moved within a two-block radius of their parents, Paula and William Rand. One sister, Alicia R. Moller, lived in Carnegie Hill until 2006; Carley R. Weatherley-White (pictured left), returned to live in the neighborhood of her youth. After college Paula, who has served on the CHN Spring Benefit Committee for many years, lived in Venice, Italy, working in the field of art conservation. When she returned to New York, she set - tled in the West Village, sharing an apartment with Molly Pfohl, who would marry her brother, William Rand (center). He says, “When we met, it was the first time she’d been above 14th Street. She thought Carnegie Hill was the suburbs, a weekend place.” Molly Rand is now a board member of Carnegie Hill Neighbors. Both Paula and William enjoy reliving their happy childhood experiences with their own daughters, sledding in Central Park, biking, and jogging. “One of my favorite things about Carnegie Hill has always been running into people,” says Paula. “From my building, the building next door, the playground, the dog park, from school. I miss some of the old shoemakers and fishmongers. Thank goodness for Lane Farms on Madison Avenue, where I shopped for sugar and flour as a little girl and still go to today.” William agrees the neighborhood hasn’t changed much at all. But he does remember that in the 1960s, when he was at the Buckley School, he was asked to show on a map where he lived, and the map did not go up high enough.

Amanda McGowan Vitale moved back to Carnegie Hill for the same reason her parents moved here in the ’70s—safe, clean streets and the feeling of community. After college in the Midwest, she worked on Wall Street and lived downtown. When she met her husband, Larry Vitale, she was surprised that he, too, had grown up in Carnegie Hill. So when an apart - ment across the hall from her mother, Dr. Madeline Nagle, became available, they bought it. “It’s wonderful living so close to my mother. It reinforces that small-town feeling,” she says. There are more nannies on the streets now, but the architecture of the area and the proximity of Central Park hasn’t changed. “What preserves a place is the people,” she says of the efforts to maintain the architectural fabric. “I can be walking down the street and when the light hits a building in a certain way, it’s 1974 again.”

Scott Swanson had to convince his wife to move to the “old neighborhood.” He remembers gatherings of CHN hosted by his parents; his mother, Teri Swanson, is a former board member. In his apartment, he says, “I can see where I grew up from my window!” After college, Scott clerked for a judge in Iowa, then lived in downtown Manhattan and on the Upper West Side. His parents are no longer full-time residents of Carnegie Hill. “I’m disappointed I don’t see more of them, but I run into people I knew, or my parents knew, all the time.” Scott and his wife, Mona, have a young son and say they wouldn’t live anywhere else.

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D .GENERATION CARNEGIE HILL DWELLERS

Samantha Fremont-Smith was a student at the Lycée Francais on 93rd Street and lived in Paris, but she returned to Carnegie Hill when she met her husband-to-be Matthew Fremont-Smith. “Love brought me back to Carnegie Hill,” she laughs, remembering when she learned he lived in her childhood neighborhood. “A lot has stayed the same, especially the stores. Thank goodness for Feldman’s and the Corner Bookstore.” Sam, as she’s known, is on the board of CHN and says, “I love the neighborhood feel, the openness of the streets and avenues, the safety, the park—a thing of beauty—and Carnegie Hill Neighbors is looking out for all of us.”

Scott Goldsmith has spent most of his life in New York. He attended Fordham Law School and has lived in various areas of the city, but to him Carnegie Hill feels different. “It’s that sense of community,” he says, “like a small town.” He remembers playing stickball at the Hunter playground near his parents’ home. “It’s great for my kids to have the same experiences I did.” And he says it is a joy to live so close to his parents. Scott’s father, Mark Goldsmith, is a member of the CHN board. “We have breakfast together; I can walk over and spend time with them. Sometimes Dad and I meet outside and have a cigar together.”

When Julia Pershan Cohen was 10 years old, she had her own account at the Corner Bookstore. It is that personal connection to many small businesses in the neighborhood that makes living in Carnegie Hill special. Julia returned with her husband, Jonathan Cohen, to be closer to her parents after living in Tribeca and West Chelsea. “I’m lucky to have my own independent life and have family nearby,” she says. “I see people I knew then all the time. Walking our dogs, I saw a woman I babysat for.” She appreciates the continuity, recalling intimate experiences she still enjoys, such as sledding in the East Meadow. For her children, Julia says, “Central Park is their playground.”

Greg Milne’s grandmother took him for walks in Central Park when he was a young boy, and he always expected he would raise his own family in Carnegie Hill. The International Center of Photography on 94th Street, which has since moved downtown, was a favorite place . “Changes I see are a safer neighborhood .” His young daughter, Harper, is helping him appreciate the wealth of different architecture on their walks. She asks, “Why is that building wood? What is that face on this building? There is so much to be discovered.” On their daily route, Greg says they say hello to 10 or 12 doormen everyday. Having his parents so close is a real blessing, he says. “They can pick their granddaughter up from school since they still live in the neighborhood.”

Susan Burke-O’Neal is a third-generation Carnegie Hill dweller. Both her maternal and paternal grandparents lived on Park Avenue, and her parents raised seven children on 89th Street. Susan’s four brothers went to St. David’s School, and she and her two sisters attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, where she now is Director of Alumnae Relations and Associate Director of Development. She left the city from boarding school through college, returned to New York, then left again in 1998 for graduate school in Chicago. She moved back in 2004 and settled in Carnegie Hill, where, she says, “my husband Michael and I are raising our fourth-generation Carnegie Hill daughter.” There is a renewed sense of community with many childhood friends and relatives who still live in the neighborhood. Susan has served as co-chair of the Halloween Spooktacular and twice as co-chair of the CHN Spring Benefit.

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ON LANDMARK LAND by Lo van der Valk

FIGHTS AGAINST HEIGHTS . . . .

50 EAST 96TH STREET PURSUES ROOFTOP ADDITION he two-story rooftop addition to this six-story rental apartment building at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 96th Street was proposed in summer 2016, and a mock-up of the addition was T quickly erected. Since then, both the proposal and the mock-up have been adjusted several times. The developers presented renderings of their revised plans to CHN’s Landmarks Committee in early February. But they have not explained why the recent mock-up, pictured left, differs from their drawings. Later in the month Community Board 8 (CB8) unanimously rejected the plan and so advised the Landmarks Preservation Commission N O

C (LPC). A group of nearby residents, Friends of Woodward Hall, who L A F showed up in force at the CB8 presentation, is gathering letters t o M A I

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W Recently, some further minor modifications appear to have been made Architects and developers of 50 East 96th Street met with CHN in the design, but CHN continues to oppose the addition. The building is an Landmarks Committee members in their new Madison Avenue of fice. intact and essentially unaltered example of a distinct “small apartment building" popular at the turn of the 19th century. Typically they are six or seven stories in height, built around a central court, and accented with prominent cornices. None that we know of were built with rooftop pent - houses. This building was designed by the esteemed and prolific architect George F. Pelham in the neo-Renaissance style in 1905-06—his only building of this type among a total of 10 in the Carnegie Hill Historic District. The addition, in spite of setbacks to make it less visible from directly across the street and avenue, will be quite visible from certain adjacent blocks. Because of the building’s distinctive character, we feel the LPC’s criteria that rooftop additions be only minimally visible, should be strictly applied. H C

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officials, CHN filed a challenge to the plans for a 550-foot-tall tower that resulted in the D Department of Buildings (DOB) issuing a stop-work order. D The site is an L-shaped lot, which wraps around two inner corner lots and fronts on both 88th Street and Third Avenue. The developer DDG Partners created a separate, miniscule, 4-foot deep zoning lot extending the full 22-foot lot width on East 88th Street. This device allowed the developer to claim that the building’s zoning lot did not front on 88th Street and in doing so, bypassed a number of restrictive zoning requirements. In November, the developers filed a new building plan. But this merely expanded the depth of the lot from 4 to 10 feet and did not change the grounds for the underlying objection. CHN promptly filed a new challenge, again with the backing of City Council Member Ben Kallos and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, plus State Senator Liz Krueger. In response to our new challenge, in March the DOB issued an Intent to Revoke the owner’s new permit. While not agreeing with our main point, the DOB action focused on one of our technical objections. The owner has 15 days to provide DOB a cure or their building permit will be revoked. While a victory, we believe that the main issue —that the subdivision of the lot is a legal fiction —must still be pursued. As a result, CHN is making a third challenge (a DOB community appeal), which argues that these two lots must be considered one zoning lot and hence the building as designed is illegal.

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MARYMOUNT SCHOOL’S NEW BUILDING PURSUES VARIANCES The plans for Marymount School's . . . FROM ROOFTOPS TO TOWERS very tall building on a mid-block lot between East 97th and 98th streets and Park and Lexington avenues require substantial variances from the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA). The BSA hearings are still pending. S E N A J

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68- STORY TOWER TO RISE AT 321 EAST 96TH STREET t 725 feet in height, the tallest mixed-use residential tower on the Upper East Side GINA RESTAURANTS IGNORE RULES north of 60th Street is planned as part of a development for the entire block Carnegie Hill Neighbors has received between 96th and 97th streets, from Second to First Avenue. The City’s Education numerous complaints about the Construction Fund (ECF) is coordinating the outdoor enclosure at Gina Mexicana A (on Madison Avenue) and the out - effort to transform the block now occupied by Co-op Tech, a wide-ranging vocational school, and the Marx door lighting at Gina Americana (on 92nd Street). Because the large Brothers playground, into a site that will include them two lit sign in front of Gina Americana is in addition to the tower and two additional public high high schools a violation of the City’s signage schools (Heritage and Park East) that will be relocated vocational regulations, CHN has filed official from nearby. school complaints regarding the harsh glare S

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J enclosure on Gina Mexicana exceeds mately 1,100 rental apartments, which will include af - . M the allowable dimensions. CHN has fordable housing for 25 percent of the residential floor E G H R presented the owner with a summary C area and stores on the first two levels at the base of the O

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D must rely on incessant vigilance, but D changes, special permits, authorizations, and property transfers and lease arrangements there is no substitute for the cooperation facilitated by the City and State. The immediate impact of this tall building will be the of store owners to respect the law. shadows and loss of light for nearby and more distant blocks, especially the blocking of early morning direct sunlight along the south side of 96th Street, stretching to Central Park. DALTON SCHOOL LAWSUIT ENDS CHN suggested at the Community Board 11 (CB11) hearings that the developer For several years, CHN joined with should explore lower height alternatives, such as by shifting a portion of the tower floors to 111 East 88th Street and 1105 Park the top of the schools at First Avenue. CHN also suggested that the tower be significantly Avenue to oppose The Dalton School's set back from East 96th Street to permit more light along the length of 96th Street. proposed two-story addition to 108 The project was recently approved by CB11, but included the condition that the East 89th Street. It was approved by developer explore ways to lower the tower’s height. This project is subject to a lengthy the BSA, adding to the 150-foot review process involving approvals by various City agencies and elected officials. height already twice that allowed for a mid-block building. The coalition appealed and lost in two lower Zoning challenges such as those for the super tall tower at 180 East courts. Last fall, a brief filed with the 88th Street require the hiring of zoning experts and land-use attorneys. NYS Court of Appeals requesting permission to appeal the case further You can help CHN fund these efforts with a contribution. Please go to was turned down, ending the suit. the CHN website, www.chneighbors.org, and select Advocacy.

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SECURITY by B.A. Conlin Thank You PATROL CAR PROGRAM SUPPORTERS FOUR FEET + FOUR WHEELS = LESS CRIME If your building is not listed ith disparate reports about the level of crime throughout the country and the city, on the chart below, please ask your board to consider CHN asked the 19th Precinct Commander Deputy Inspector Clint A. participating. The cost is McPherson about crime in Carnegie Hill. He replied, “We have a slight drop in only $45 per apartment W crime this year; the goal is to drive it down further. The relationship between your unit per year. Call CHN at security program and the 19th Precinct is working very well. We are in constant contact and info 212-996-5520 to arrange sharing, making this one of the safest neighborhoods in NYC.” for our team to tell your Deputy Inspector McPherson’s words offer evidence that the mission of board and managing agent the CHN Security Program to deter crime is working. Vince Bassi of Integrated about our Security Program. Security Systems supervises the patrol-car guards and foot-patrol officers in Carnegie Hill and reports to CHN periodically on patrol activities. FIFTH AVENUE The following is a summary from his most recent report: Our vehicle patrol covers the entire Carnegie Hill area, giving parks and 1056 1107 1133 1150 1060 1115 1136 1158 schools special attention along its routes. The vehicle patrol staff are also 1067 1120 1140 1165 responsible for scanning the MoBoTour tab attached 1080 1125 1148 1170 ...making this to each of the 22 member buildings. The action re- cords the time and date of the scan to demonstrate one of the safest that the CHN Car Patrol actually visited the build - PARK AVENUE n“eighborhoods ing. It is also an opportunity for the guard to check 1040 1088 1133 1192 in NYC. in personally with doormen and learn of any concerns. 1045 1095 1150 1199 The special December holiday foot patrol along Lexington 1049 1100 1155 1220 Avenue between 86th and 96th streets encountered many people looking for assistance and the 1050 1105 1160 1230 officers we”re greeted with smiles and gratitude for their presence and help. The security team’s 1065 1111 1165 presence at the two subway hubs continues during peak evening rush hours when commuters are 1070 1112 1172 traveling from work. Patrol reports are prepared daily by each security shift. 1075 1125 1175 Currently our security staff consists of two foot patrol officers. Dan Cammerata, a retired NYPD 1082 1130 1185 patrol officer, works Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Keith Hockaday, a retired NYPD ser - geant, who has been with us since the start, patrols Thursday and Friday. The focus of the foot LEXINGTON AVENUE patrol now is centered on Madison Avenue. The officers aim to be highly visible on every block. 1349, 1435 The CHN Security EAST 86 th STREET 25, 49, 55 Program is protecting all EAST 87 th STREET 11, 21, 47 115, 120, 153 of Carnegie Hill and is EAST 88 th STREET supported by the buildings 2, 4, 5, 19, 40, 47, 60, 111, listed in the chart to the 121-123 left. If your building is not EAST 89 th STREET 17, 45, 50 participating, please speak EAST 90 th STREET to your board about joining 14, 21, 51, 115 and sharing in this EAST 91 st STREET 15, 108 important neighborhood EAST 92 nd STREET 12, 46 EAST 93 rd STREET program. The annual cost 55, 125, 134, 155 is a nominal $45 per unit. EAST 94 th STREET 40, 64 Please contact CHN with EAST 95 th STREET any questions. 3, 4, 17, 19, 27 EAST 96 th STREET Patrol Car guard Raphael 8, 14, 16, 17, 60, 70 Rivera on 94th Street in EAST 98 th STREET 2 front of the new Carnegie Hill Neighbors office.

CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS SECURITY PATROL, 365 DAYS A YEAR Patrol Car: Weekdays 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Weekends 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Foot Patrol: Weekdays 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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CHN ENRICHMENT AWARD A D N O H

Nos. 66 and 68 East 93rd Street N A T

continued from page 1 S The Landmarks Conservancy’s fund East 93rd Street between Madison and administrators presented the sharehold - Park avenues is a jewel of a block and ers with a list of architects, from which part of the original (1974) Carnegie Hill they selected the architectural firm Historic District. Its three notable Li/Saltzman. It, in turn, presented bids individual landmarks are No. 60, the from several masonry experts, from Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt house which the building selected top-rated (1930), No. 67-75, the George F. Baker Weinman Restoration in New Jersey. Jr. house complex (1917-18), and No. “Like many five-story middle- 56, the William Goadby and Florence class walk-ups, the building, when not Baker Loew house (1932). outright neglected, suffered from a No. 66, reconstructed for minimalist approach to facade repair, Marc and Caryn Becker and family, such as the concrete patch-and-paint was a three-year undertaking. method that actually accelerated the The Beckers considered replacing the decline by trapping moisture behind deteriorated facade with limestone but the original brownstone. In addition to instead, with the guidance the badly deteriorated facade, a mix of ...These of architect Oliver Cope very old rotted windows hid behind 66 East 93rd Street: The brick facade was old storm windows, the fire escape restorations have and SMI Construction repointed and replaced where needed. Management, they restored Restored windows are topped with 1890 was rusted, and the cornice partially transformed the and replaced the brown - segmentally arched stone pediments, detached,” Mr. Runyon told us. “ whimsically carved; and framed with CHN President Lo van der Valk block and serve stone at the basement and carved lintels and pilasters. as an example for street levels. Above, they praises the improvements made to the repointed and, where two buildings. "This is a magnificent other parts of needed, replaced the brick - and intimate block with its many Carnegie Hill. work. They also rebuilt historic building types and its three the cornice and removed landmarked mansions. But the weakest a fire escape, which is thought to have aesthetic links had been these two been ”added in the 1940s. minimally maintained townhouses. “We wanted to stay in Carnegie These restorations have transformed Hill. We’ve been here—before at 1172 the block and serve as an example for Park—for 15 years. This is a real neigh - other parts of Carnegie Hill. They also borhood. There’s the Corner Bookstore illustrate the benefits that historic on our block. Walk the dogs and you’ll districts give to the community." see familiar faces. It’s got real character There is one other important and you don’t see that so much connection the buildings share with anymore,” said Mr. Becker. the history of New York. They were No. 68, next door, is a nine- purchased in 1939 by composer Irving unit cooperative built as a five-unit Berlin ( White Christmas, Easter “bachelor building.” There are spandrel Parade, God Bless America ) and his reliefs between floors, deeply recessed novelist wife, Ellin. Some thought the molded window openings, rusticated Berlins would demolish the structures stonework on the lower level, and a and build a mansion of their own, but modillioned metal cornice. they never did. The Berlins held the Dedicated shareholder Neil properties for 34 years before selling Runyon and building treasurer Karen them in 1973. VanNouhuys volunteered to oversee a painstakingly accurate restoration 68 East 93rd Street: The deteriorated of the original brownstone facade and 1890 brownstone facade was painstakingly to keep other shareholders informed restored. Note the delicately carved Come to the Carnegie Hill Neighbors of the day-to-day inconveniences spandrels between stories and under the Spring Benefit on May 24, when the 2017 recessed molded windows; details include that construction work brings. Enrichment Awards will be presented. shields and sinuous scroll-and-vine motifs. See pages 16-17.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

by Barbara C. Coffey

BRICK CHURCH CELEBRATES 250 YEARS

he Brick Presbyterian Church has been in Carnegie Hill only since 1940, but it has been CHV: PLANNING part of American history for 250 years. The first church was constructed on Beekman FOR ELDERS Street in 1767; the architect and builder was John McComb Sr. His son John McComb TJr, who was a Brick Church member, deacon, and trustee, renovated and expanded TO REMAIN AT HOME the Beekman Street church in 1822. The younger McComb also designed New n December 8, 2016, York City Hall and Alexander Hamilton’s house, “The Grange,” in Harlem. Othe Carnegie Hill King George III is said to have called the American Revolution a “Presbyterian Village steering committee War,” perhaps referring to the number of Livingstons who supported the cause. hosted a morning symposium Besides William Livingston, a member of the Continental Congress, and Robert at Church of the Heavenly Livingston, who signed the Declaration of Independence, Brick Church member Peter Rest. About 50 interested van Brugh (PVB) Livingston was president of the first New York Provincial Congress Carnegie Hill neighbors and the Treasurer of New York, as was his kinsman, Peter R. heard speakers from Livingston. Both PVB and Peter R. were church trustees. A stone Bloomingdale Aging in from the Beekman Street site, carved with PVB’s name and the Place describe the founding date 1767, is near the Park Avenue chapel. Anno Domini of their program on the That engraved stone moved with the church in 1858 to Fifth 1938 Upper West Side eight Avenue at 37th Street and then to the present neo-Georgian-style years ago, the success they have achieved, and the wide building in Carnegie Hill, where the cornerstone was laid in 1938. variety of programs and services they offer their members. The presentation inspired so much enthusiasm that the CHV steering committee followed up with several small gatherings in neigh bors’ apartments to introduce the Village concept to more neighbors and to explore what programs would be of most interest. A list of more than 20 proposed programs, including walking groups, French conversation, and Beekman Street, 1776 37th Street on Fifth Avenue, 1885 92nd Street on Park Avenue, 1938 soup making, has evolved with volunteers ready to In the 20th century, two notable men served as elders and trustees of the church: be leaders. John Foster Dulles, who lived in the charming townhouse across from the church at The steering committee 72 East 91st Street, was a United Nations delegate, Secretary of State under Dwight D. has applied for a certificate Eisenhower, and chair of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace; and Thomas J. Watson, of incorporation, to be who led IBM from 1914 until 1956, and is remembered at Brick mostly for donating followed by a 501(c) 3 tax Watson Hall, under the sanctuary. status from the IRS, and is Andrew and Louise Carnegie, neighbors to the west on 91st Street, were also developing a website. Plans members of the church. In 1946 the Brick Church School, started six years earlier, for the spring include a talk needed to install fire escapes to pass a safety review . Louise Carnegie provided funds to be given by a faculty for a new parish house on 92nd Street. Her largess is recognized with the naming of member from Mount Sinai’s the Louise Carnegie Room, the elegant meeting room on the third floor. Martha Stewart Center on Today, the Brick Presbyterian Church is itself a cornerstone of the neighborhood, Living. CHV can be contacted standing tall on Carnegie Hill, a center of the community and a formidable link to two at [email protected]. and a half centuries of American history. CARNEGIE HILL NEWS • SPRING 2017 I 27 Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 28

CARNEGIE HILL AUTHORS

by Lenny Golay

EXPLORING SECRETS / OF LIFE, SPORTS, ART, NATURE

ith unexpected, riveting twists, The Secrets You knee-height) or rocket (a shot that is struck with immense Keep is an utterly compelling psychological power). Learn about the history of the World Cup, where red Wthriller that once again showcases Kate White’s and yellow cards come from, plus a range of amusing trivia. extraordinary storytelling talent. Bryn Harper, a self-help author, has plenty to deal with. She’s recovering from a devastating car How to Read Medieval Art , by Wendy Stein, introduces accident, and Bryn’s husband, Guy, couldn’t be more supportive. the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable But after moving into a new house, disturbing incidents occur examples from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. and Guy grows evasive and secretive. Then, a woman hired to This handsomely illustrated volume includes multi-panel cater their dinner party is brutally murdered. As Bryn's world altarpieces and stained-glass windows, as well as manuscript il - unravels—and yet another woman in town is slain—she must luminations, and features iconic masterworks such as the summon her old strength to find answers and protect her own Merode Altarpiece, the Unicorn Tapestries, and the Belles

life. Her nightmares may in fact hold the key to unlocking the Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Explorations of indi - truth and unmasking the murderer. vidual works are accompanied by relevant information about the contexts in which they were created, conveying the works’ visual Molly Haskell’s biography Steven Spielberg, A Life in nuances and also their broader symbolic meaning. Superb color Films is a portrait of the movie director whose influence on illustrations further reveal the visual richness of medieval art, American popular culture is unprecedented. “Everything about providing the reader with a deeper understanding of the history me is in my films,” Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a and iconography of this pivotal era. key, Ms. Haskell explores the full range of his works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such hits as Close The Traprock Landscapes of New England: Environment, Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana History, and Culture , by Peter LeTourneau, is a Jones, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the picturesque journey through the traprock highlands from New Sun, and the haunting Schindler’s List, Ms. Haskell shows how Haven, Connecticut to Amherst, Massachusetts, capturing the Spielberg’s evocative filmmaking reveals the many ways in which majesty of wild windswept cliffs, summit vistas, and intimate life, work, and times are intertwined. She offers a brilliant details of the natural world. Photographs of high alpine crags, portrait of the director whose openness, generosity of spirit, and lush forests, thundering waterfalls, splashing cascades, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years. close-up views of rocks, flowers, and birds present the incomparable beauty of the region. Long-time fans, first-time Soccer, the world's most popular sport, has a growing fan base visitors, nature lovers, history buffs, and many others will find with millions of enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer to this plenty to satisfy in the detailed text, crisp photos, historical exciting sport or a longtime fan, How to Speak Soccer: images, and more. Showcasing popular locales and revealing An Illustrated Guide to Pitch-Perfect Jargon , by “secret spots,” this must-have resource will encourage old Sally Cook, offers definitions of over 150 terms, such as friends and newcomers alike to visit the rugged crags once called diving header (when a player dives horizontally to head a ball “the boldest and most beautiful” landscapes in New England.

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WELCOME, NEW NEIGHBORS

oes your building formally welcome new residents? Here is a friendly suggestion: Surprise them with a DCarnegie Hill Neighbors Welcome Package.

The package consists of— n A colorful shopping bag with your building address and a map of Carnegie Hill, with your location highlighted. n A two-pocket folder with a letter of welcome from your board and recent building information on one side, and on the other, a letter of welcome from Carnegie Hill Neighbors. n The latest Carnegie Hill News, a CHN brochure, recent CHN event publications, and a membership form. n A copy of the 400-page Carnegie Hill Architectural Guide . n Whatever extra gift you may decide to include, such as a box of cookies, a bottle of wine, a child’s gift. CHN will create the shopping bag and map image and fill the bag with the folder, the CHN material, and the Architectural Guide for the cost of the book and materials (under $30). You only have to add your personal welcome letter and optional gift. Contact CHN to order a welcome package and surprise your next new neigh bors.

Stop by the Carnegie Hill Neighbors office or go to our website to purchase a Carnegie Hill Architectural Guide and other CHN gift items.

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SHOP TALK

by Cynthia Kayan FRAMES, FITNESS, FOOD . . . AND A FRESH TRIM

ROMA ART GALLERY & CUSTOM FRAMING , CARNEGIE BARBER SHOP, 1364 Lexington 1614 Third Avenue (between 90th and 91st streets). Avenue (at 90th Street), opened its doors in January. This is the fifth location of this family-owned It has the feel of an old-fashioned barber shop, with a business in New York City. Manager Nick R. helps vintage barber pole and chairs from its original store customers among a variety of posters, lithographs, in Chelsea, where it was in business for 80 years. paintings, mirrors, plus appropriate frames, glass But Manager Alex and his team think modern— and backing (the latter he feels is as important as ready to handle any request from a basic haircut the frame itself). The shop has a state of-the-art to the latest wild look. 646-692- 8083. Monday – machine to print large posters and photographs Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 on canvas, paper, and other materials. It also a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. specializes in needlepoint framing and blocking. Email: [email protected]. 212-360-1236. MARINARA PIZZA , 1376 Lexington Avenue Open daily from 11:00 a.m. (between 90th and 91st streets). A classic pizzeria with a modern twist. The local owners brought in LUA DE VERÁO , 1335 Lexington Avenue Chef Maurizio, born and raised in Rome, who offers (between 88th and 89th streets), features Brazilian pizza, pasta, heroes, baked dishes, tossed salads. Pizza resort and fitness clothes. Just opened in December dough and sauce are prepared daily. 646-559-5100. 2016, it is an offshoot of a larger store of the same www.marinarapizza.com. Sunday – Thursday, 11:00 name in Rio de Janeiro. The name means “summer a.m. – midnight, Friday – Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. moon” but the mission is Brazilian fitness fashion— and for the fall semester . . . comfortable fabrics with Brazilian flair. A good sampling of fashions is available on their website: WEATHERBY-PEMBRIDGE SCHOOL , www.luadevera.com. 347-781-6716. Open daily 7 East 96th Street (the landmarked Ogden Codman 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Jr. house), will educate girls and boys aged 2 1/2 to 14. Part of the U.K. Alpha Plus Group, it is now BOBA MOSA , 1300 Madison Avenue (between accepting applications for nursery through grade 1. 92nd and 93rd streets), is a new tea shop, which came Email: [email protected]. 212-328-9529. to the neighborhood in February. It offers a wide variety of natural teas from Taiwan. To enhance PLAYGARDEN PREP , 1366 Madison Avenue at the brew, there are healthy toppings with some 96th Street. A success in TriBeCa, this is a Montessori- fanciful names. Soon to be added to the menu will be based early education program for students 18 months coffee and gelato. The owners are calling this their to 3 1/2 years . Children are exposed to school routines flagship store. 929-302-6161. Monday – Saturday, with art, music, language, and pottery. Tours available 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. this summer on request. www.playgroundprep.com.

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PLEASE JOIN US FOR: SAVE THE DATE: Elijah Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major by Felix Mendelssohn “Symphony of a Thousand” Sunday, May 21, 2017 by Gustav Mahler Church of the Heavenly Rest Saturday, November 18, 2017 Fifth Avenue at 90TH Street Carnegie Hall

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Did I ever tell you how your father proposed? “WE FIX ANYTHING MADE OF LEATHER. IT’S A LOST ART. ” R   memoir by Shari Thompson \ YOU TELL YOUR STORY. WE PRESERVE IT, BEAUTIFULLY.

www.RemarkableLifeMemoirs.com ames Custom Shoe Repair was on East 87th J Street when Nicola 'LDQQH%DDVFK Pecchia, newly arrived in ,QWHUQDWLRQDO3KRWRJUDSKHUDQG(GXFDWRU this country “with $40 in Nick Pecchia my pocket,” was hired as 6NLOOHGLQFDSWXULQJXQIRUJHWWDEOHPHPRULHVIRUVFKRRO an apprentice in 1962. Nick was born in Potenza, Italy, and DQGIDPLO\,QTXLUHIRUDJURXSRULQGLYLGXDOVHVVLRQ learned his craft in Switzerland. When James retired, in 1967, Nick bought the business. “Your English isn’t good,” James told 3KRWRJUDSKVDUHSRVWHGRQZZZGLDQQHEDDVFKFRP him, “but customers like you.” Five years later, there was a fire,  and Nick reopened at 1426 Lexington Avenue; he kept the name GEDDVFK#JPDLOFRP James because “it cost $4,000 to change it.” Two more moves followed, the first across the street to 1415 and the second, seven ¦'LDQQHSURGXFHGLQFUHGLEOHSKRWRVIRURXUVFKRRO years ago, to 1427. 6KHGLGLWLQVXFKDQDWXUDOXQREWUXVLYHZD\§.DPLOD Nick’s son Gennaro grew up watching his father work. Gennaro works in operations at the New York State Council on the Arts (he also has an online food magazine, Men Who Dine) , FRENCH & SPANISH TUTORING but weekends and days off find him in the shop. Also behind the English as a Second Language counter is Luis (“Luigi”) Mayorga, an artisan from Ecuador, who walked into the shop 25 years ago, looking for a job. Nick says, Conversation, Essay Writing Skills, Test Preparation, “We fix anything made of leather,” and Gennaro adds, “It’s a lost Schoolwork, Accent Reduction, Playgroups (ages 3 and up), art. Places like this are very, very rare.” Private and Small Group Lessons, all levels. Indeed, the shop is, in Gennaro’s words, “a throwback in time. It looks like a hodgepodge, but we know where everything Dynamic teachers with extensive experience abroad is.” Shoes and boots nestled in shopping bags line the shelves— and in NYC private schools. some have been sitting for as long as 30 years. If they are never Michele Epstein claimed, “They don’t leave.” 212-722-5793 [email protected] Ten years ago, Nick suffered a stroke and for a year and a half, while he recovered, Gennaro and Luigi ran the shop. Nick is now there six days a week, working in the back or greeting customers from a sofa salvaged from 87th Street. His customers come or send items to be repaired from as close by as next door and as far away as Singapore. On a recent Saturday, Ayumi Sakamoto and SUPPORT her husband, Upper West Siders who used to live on 95th Street, CARNEGIE HIL L brought in two pairs of boots. “We wouldn’t go to anybody else.” neighbors Reflecting on his more than 50 years in Carnegie Hill, Nick says, “My clients are my friends and family. Nothing better than JOIN / DONATE / VOLUNTEER this.” When his daughter got married 12 years ago, he invited chneighbor.org . SELECT: SUPPORT, MEMBERSHIP some of his customers to the wedding and rented a van to take them there. His customers say, “They’re the best!” “My shoes are good as new!” “It’s great to have them in the neighborhood.” CHN now accepts donations of appreciated stock. Whereupon Gennaro looks up from polishing a loafer and says, For more information, call 212-996-5520. “We take care of folks with our hands and with our hearts.”

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TREE CARE

by Susan Gottridge

STREET TREES NEED VERY SPECIAL CARE

DOZENS OF NEW TREES IN CARNEGIE HIL L TREE BED OWNERSHIP argely due to the efforts of CHN Quality of Life Manager Josephine Mazur, 46 While the Parks Department officially owns new street trees were planted in Carnegie Hill in 2016, in addition to the 40 trees the city’s sidewalk trees, responsibility for planted the year before. (Check the tag for date planted; see photo below.) upkeep falls on the buildings they front. There Josephine regularly surveys our neighborhood for opportunities to add new trees are tree beds throughout Carnegie Hill that are L not planted or cared for. We urge owners, or replace damaged, dead, or missing ones through the MillionTreesNYC project. boards, and building managers to care for the tree beds on all sides of their building. While many buildings do so, there are still orphan tree beds that are overlooked because they are not on the entrance side of a corner building. If owners, boards, and building managers would take care of all their tree beds by installing tree guards, planting flowers, and watering, it would make a big difference to the residents and to the neighborhood. Look for date tags. R

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U Install tree guards. Flush out salt. S TREES AND SALT Along with the beauty of the snowy interludes this winter came salt on the streets and sidewalks. In the spring, it is important to let a hose run in tree beds to flush out salt, which damages roots. If this is not done, when the weather warms up, salt in the soil from winter de-icing will divert water from the tree. Note: if your building heeded our strong suggestion that magnesium chloride or sand as a de-icer be used, only street salt will have to be flushed away

TIPS ON PLANTING TREE BEDS MillionTreesNYC offers this advice about planting street tree beds: TREE GUARDS AND BEGONIAS n Remember, tree health comes first. Do not overplant a tree bed. in front of the 96th Street Public n Plant perennials, annuals, or bulbs. Choose plants that require little water. Library were donated by CHN. n Avoid planting bamboo, ivy vines, woody shrubs, or evergreens. Enlarged tree beds, tree guards, These all require a lot of water and can siphon nourishment from the tree. and seasonal plantings sustain trees, enhance the streetscape, and n Do not plant vegetables. Vegetables attract rats! discourage pedestrians and dogs.

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TREE CARE N I E T S

D by Julia Bradford L O G

E N N A Z U S DEFEND YOUR TREE ...BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

woman I met on jury duty recently contacted me, knowing I am a Citizen Pruner, about a large dead gingko tree in A front of her co-op. She described how their well-cared- for tree had died over the course of two years, devastating the resi - dents. After some probing to determine why it had died, she recalled a Verizon fire, which had necessitated major building repairs including plumbing work around the tree. The building’s arborist concluded that the roots had been damaged or cut during the plumbing work. That side of the tree died that year; the rest of the tree died the next. Two trees on my block have survived similar traumas of excavations and root cutting. I count ours lucky that they survived. Last fall I learned from certified arborist Bob Redman that street trees are protected from exactly this kind of damage by NYC Parks Department guidelines. Sam Bishop, Trees New York’s Director of Education, reinforced Mr. Redman’s observations, stating, “The Parks Department has strict requirements about what has to be done to protect the trees. The contractor must have a permit for working near the tree, and cutting or damaging of roots is not permitted.”

Here are some Parks Department guidelines to preserve and protect your tree from root damage: n Make sure your contractor has a Tree Work Permit issued by the NYC Parks Department. Ask to see it. n The contractor must hire a certified arborist to supervise any work within 50 feet of a tree. This includes all construction work, utility work, sidewalk replacement, and pruning. n A temporary wooden tree guard must be in place whenever there is construction or demolition near a tree. n A tree’s root system must be protected to minimize damage to surface and subsurface roots and to avoid soil compaction. n Any work done on utilities cannot damage the root structure. n Roots must be protected from exposure to sun and air and from the risk of drying out.

Carnegie Hill Neighbors urges all residents to become tree defenders to insure that our neighborhood continues to be one of the most verdant in New York City. Next time you see construction or sidewalk work near a street tree, ask to see the Tree bed signs permit and meet the certified arborist. Work on or near a tree are available for without a permit can be reported to 311 or online at $12 at the new www.nycgovparks.org/services/forestry/illegal-tree-work; then CHN office at click “Submit a Request.” 1326 Madison Avenue. Enter on 94th Street.

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TIMELINE

WELCOME TO 1326 MADISON AVENUE

BECAUSE IT’S OUR NEW HOME

The board room area. CHN Executive Director CHN Joanna G. Cawley. merchandise in the CHN President gift shop. Lo van der Valk in his office.

n January 3, 2017, Carnegie Hill Neighbors opened for business in its newly renovated, spacious office at 1326 Madison Avenue at 94th Street. So spacious, it is bigger than

all our previous offices combined (not counting the living E C A

O P rooms of early CHN presidents). It is an inspiring setting as we plan - L E

for CHN’s 50th anniversary in 2020. D E I W

We invite neighbors to drop by and take a look, share a concern, E N

help with a mailing, buy a Carnegie Hill Architectural Guide in our N A Z

“gift shop,” or pick up a membership form or a copy of our newsletter. U S Our new quarters will enable CHN to offer classes and programs, host committee and board meetings —and reach a larger constituency. This winter, CHN welcomed local leaders and members of the preservation community to see the new office and discuss issues.

Andrea Goldwyn of the Landmarks Conservancy; Franny Eberhardt, President of Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Josephine Mazur, CHN Districts; and Jackie Peu-Duvallon, Quality of Life Manager. preservation consultant.

CHN Executive Committee CHN staff: Stephon Wynn, operations and member marketing, and Alexa Williams, member relations. David Stoll.

Keith Powers, who is running for City Council. Lo and James Clynes, Community Board 8 Chair.

Shelby Garner, assistant to U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney; Fr. Kevin Madigan, pastor of St. Thomas More; and Lo. 34 I SPRING 2017 • CARNEGIE HILL NEWS Layout Spring2017- for website.qxp_Layout 1 6/26/17 5:20 PM Page 35

DELLA LEATHERS LICENSED REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

Della Leathers, a long-time active supporter of Carnegie Hill Leading Edge Award Neighbors, is a true Carnegie Hill real estate expert. Della has 2016 been assisting her fellow neighbors with all their real estate needs Presidents Circle Award for over 20 years. Very knowledgeable about neighborhoods, 2008, 2010 schools, and cultural attractions, Della knows where to nd the O: 212.891.7112 myriad things that the city has to offer. C: 917.853.9813 [email protected] Having worked on Wall Street, raised two children in Manhattan and served on the Boards of Parents League of New York as To discuss sales, purchases, investments or rentals, well as Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Della possesses a unique please contact Della. understanding of the needs of busy New Yorkers. Her knowledge of neighborhoods, building requirements and negotiating techniques helps her clients navigate in the New York real estate market. Whether you are looking for a grand family home or a cozy studio, Della is here to help, with her business savvy, creativity and strong work ethic.

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CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS MEMBERSHIP FORM Mail to Carnegie Hill Neighbors, 1326 Madison Avenue, Garden Level, New York, NY 10128 or join online at www.chneighbors.org. All contributions are tax deductible 501(c)3. Please indicate your Name:______preferred membership category: If a couple, how would you like to be listed? John and Mary Smith, John Jones and Mary Smith, etc. c $5,000 or more Carnegie Circle Address:______c $2,250 Leader Telephone:______email:______c $1,250 Patron c $750 Benefactor Payment: c Check enclosed Make your check payable to Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Inc. c $350 Supporter Please charge my: Visa MasterCard Amex c $150 Contributor c c c $75 Basic c ______/______c $______Other Print name ex.a c t l y a s i t a p .pears on card Account number Exp. Date c My gift will be matched by ______VOLUNTEER YOUR SERVICES: Contact for Your Building _____ At Large _____ StreetScape ______Supporter members and higher are listed in the Landmarks _____ Tree Care _____ Public Relations/Marketing ______Membership _____ Fundraising ______Spring Benefit program and Carnegie Hill News Environment _____ Brownstone Initiative _____ Newsletter Design/Writing _____ Grant Applications ______