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D’town statue
gets defaced
New York Community
Trust Leadership Fellows
Next Generation of Non-Profiteers Get Ready to Take the Helm
New York’s more than 40,000 nonprofit organizations
are facing a massive challenge.
As a generation of baby boomers and postbaby
boomers move into retirement, the city’s
nonprofits are scrambling to identify the next
wave of trained leaders to help them as they address
some of New York’s most pressing issues.
The New York Community Trust Leadership
Fellows Program offers an important model for
helping fill the nonprofit community’s leadership
pipeline.
Each year, the program – the result of a partnership
between The Trust and the Austin W.
Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
at Baruch College of The City University
of New York — brings together a fresh cohort of
mid-career nonprofit professionals to help them
prepare to take on more challenging leadership
roles in their organizations and beyond.
In turn, it increases the quality and diversity
of the individuals who will be leading the next
generation of New York City nonprofits, preparing
them to tackle the challenges of the jobs.
“It provides a safe space to discuss issues,
learn skills, and share lessons,” says Pat Swann,
The New York Community Trust’s senior program
officer, who has led The New York Community
Trust’s work on the program since its
inception in 2015.
Since then, The Trust has invested more
than $2.3 million in the program, which has
now trained more than 200 mid-career leaders.
The latest cohort of more than two dozen fellows
took part in a graduation ceremony on Oct. 4th
at God’s Love We Deliver on Spring Street in
Greenwich Village.
Participants have said that developing their
own personal and professionals networks is a
huge benefit of the program. They have also
said the curriculum is a well-developed one
that meets their needs, allowing them to become
more involved in strategic decision-making
within their organizations. Nearly one half
have earned promotions the year after completing
the program.
Diversity is one of the program’s hallmarks.
More than half of its graduates to date — 55 percent
– are people of color and more than threequarters
were women.
This 12-week professional certificate program
features:
-
ulty including Baruch College professors and
experienced practitioners
real-world issues and trends.
challenge or opportunity.
David Birdsell of the School of Public Affairs,
connecting fellows with leaders of the nonprofit
sector and government.
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ence in the field.
Upon completion of the program, fellows
receive a certificate from the Austin W. Marxe
School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch
College.
With today’s growing economic inequality,
the work of the city’s robust nonprofit sector has
never been more important.
New York Community Trust Leadership Fellows
909 Third Ave. in Manhattan, www.Trust-
Fellows.org. Applications for the spring cycle
begin in January. For more information, contact
Mike Bawa: Gaurav.bawa@baruch.cuny.edu.
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age speed of 7.7 mph, according
Photos by Colin Mixson
to the agency.
The deteriorating situation,
coupled with recent cuts made
to the B38 , B54 , and the B46
— the busiest bus route in
the borough — have led to
numerous demonstrations
for angry straphangers , including
one disgruntled commuter,
who was so mad that
he baked protest cookies at
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Ursula Agosta (left) and Rosalie Graziano (right)
are furious that First Lady Chirlane McCray ignored
the winner of the She Built NYC initiative,
Gov leaps into
statue fracas
By Rose Adams
Brooklyn Paper
Governor Andrew Cuomo
got one over on New York City
First Lady Chirlane McCray
and husband Bill de Blasio in
announcing his plans to help
fund a statue for the Italian
icon Mother Cabrini, after the
mayor’s wife snubbed the beloved
saint during a vaunted
statue-building contest to
honor women.
“We are also pleased to
announce that we are going
to build a statue to Mother
Cabrini,” Cuomo said at a
press conference during Monday’s
Columbus Day Parade.
“She is certainly deserving of
a statue and we will be working
with Bishop DiMarzio and
the Diocese of Brooklyn and
Queens, and the Columbus Citizens
Foundation, Angelo Vivolo
is here with us today.”
The governor claimed that
he would pitch in taxpayer
money for the statue, which
would supplement contributions
from the Italian-American
organization, Columbus
Citizens Foundation, and the
Diocese and Brooklyn, which
have already raised funds for
the monument.
The controversy surrounding
the 20th-century saint and
Italian icon erupted in late August,
when Catholic members
of St. Frances Cabrini Church
in Bensonhurst pooled their
votes to nab a top spot for the
holy lady in a public statue
building competition organized
by McCray.
But despite winning more
votes than any other nominee
during the First Lady’s
“She Built NYC” initiative,
McCray snubbed Cabrini by
choosing seven other women
to be memorialized, sparking
outrage among New York City’s
Catholics.
And what began as a relatively
small movement to
honor Cabrini has since ballooned
into a major issue for
Catholics throughout the borough.
Two weeks ago, more
than 1,000 Brooklynites
marched around Carroll
Gardens in protest of the decision,
and the Brooklyn Diocese
mounted their own statue
of the saint on a float during
the Columbus Day Parade in
Manhattan.
The debate came to a head
when actor Chazz Palminteri
called into the Brian Lehrer
Show last Friday, where he
and Mayor Bill de Blasio dueled
over Paliminteri’s accusations
that McCray’s snub was
racist against Italians.
Cuomo joined the fight
the following day, likening
the mayor’s wife’s decision
to exclude the patron
saint of immigrants as an attack
on the borough’s Italian
community.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
A vandal defaced a statue
of controversial Italian icon
and 15th century explorer
Christopher Columbus outside
a Downtown Brooklyn
courthouse in the early
hours Monday.
The scoff law spraypainted
the letters “FC”
in blue, along with some
squiggly lines across the
plaque at the base of the
statue outside Kings County
Supreme Court near Court
Street at around 3:30 am,
according to a spokesman
for police.
The vandalism coincided
with a federal holiday
dedicated to the European
explorer, which was
renamed “Indigenous People’s
Day” to appease critics
who denounced Columbus
for his enslavement of
the natives he encountered
during his travels.
Cops have not made
any arrests and the investigation
for felony criminal
mischief remains ongoing,
according to the
spokesman.
The city together with
the Italian Historical Society
of America erected the
statue in 1971 under thenmayor
John Lindsay, according
to the plaque.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
Someone spray-painted
the Christopher Columbus
statue outside Kings
County Supreme Court
early Monday.
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
A group of painters unveiled
the latest chapter in a
recurring series of mural enhancements
to a gnarly, old
ruins of a former laundromat
in Prospect Heights.
The new mural project
saw artists take on famous
book covers, such as “Moby
Dick,” “Water for Elephants,”
and “Tales of the City,” along
with many famed literary tales.
One mural features a spin on
“Where The Wild Things
Are” featuring the original
children’s book characters
dressed as Brooklyn hip–hop
trio The Beastie Boys.
The art graces the dilapidated
laundromat at St. Johns
Place and Underhill Avenue,
which was gutted by a
fire some 16 years ago. The
owner was never able to renovate
his ramshackle edifice,
but the building received an un-
(Left) Artist Ralph Surrano
with his “Don Quixote”
inspired mural.
(Above) Majo Barajas
with her “Like Water for
Chocolate” mural.
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On October 30, 2019 at 10:00
a.m., a public hearing will
be held in the City Council
Committee Room, 2 nd Floor,
City Hall, Manhattan, for the
purpose of considering a
local law which authorizes
an increase in the annual
amount to be expended in
the Fulton Mall Improvement
Association District not to
exceed $3,006,750.00.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING
On October 30, 2019 at 10:00
a.m., a public hearing will
be held in the City Council
Committee Room, 2 nd Floor,
City Hall, Manhattan, for the
purpose of considering a
local law which authorizes
an increase in the annual
amount to be expended in
the Metrotech Area District
Management Business
Improvement District not to
exceed $4,911,738.00.
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SURROGATE'S COURT,
KINGS COUNTY THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, By the Grace of
God Free and Independent
TO: Shomrei Hachomos
Orthodox Chapels Attorney
General of the State of
New York New York State
Department of Taxation and
Finance New York City Human
Resources Administration
The spouse, if any, and any
and all unknown distributees
and creditors of RITA
WEISSBERG, deceased,
whose whereabouts are
unknown and if any of
the aforesaid persons be
dead, to their heirs at law,
next of kin and distributees
whose names and places of
residence are unknown and if
the persons died subsequent
to the decedent herein, to their
executors, administrators,
legatees, devisees, assignees
and successors in interest
whose name and places of
residence are unknown and
to all other heirs at law, next
of kin and distributees of RITA
WEISSBERG, the decedent
herein, whose names and
or places of residence are
unknown and cannot after
due diligence be ascertained.
A Amended Petition and
Amended Account having
been duly filed by the Public
Administrator of Kings County,
who has offices at 360 Adams
Street, Room 144A, Brooklyn,
New York 11201, United
States. YOU ARE HEREBY
CITED TO SHOW CAUSE
before the Surrogate's Court,
Kings County, at 2 Johnson
Street, Room 319, Brooklyn,
New York on December 3,
2019, at 9:30 o'clock in the
forenoon of that day, why:
(a) The Amended Account
of proceedings of the Public
Administrator of Kings County
as Administrator of the estate
of RITA WEISSBERG, a
summary of which has been
served herewith, should not
be judicially settled; (b) The
Public Administrator of Kings
County should not be paid
his commissions pursuant to
SCPA §2307 in the amount
of $9,184.90, as set forth in
Schedules C-1 and I of the
Amended Account; (c) The
Public Administrator of Kings
County should not be paid
his administrative expenses
pursuant to SCPA §1106(3)
in the amount of $2,046.22,
as set forth in Schedules
C-1 and J of the Amended
Account; (d) The Court
should not fix, determine
and approve the legal fees
of Cullen and Dykman LLP,
counsel to Petitioner, in the
amount of $12,277.34 as set
forth in Schedules C-1 and
J of the Amended Account;
(e) The Court should not
fix, determine and approve
the disbursements of Cullen
and Dykman LLP in the
amount of $462.00 as set
forth in Schedules C-1 and
J of the Amended Account;
(f) The claim of Shomrei
Hachomos Orthodox Chapels
in the amount of $4,349.00
for funeral expenses, as
set forth in Schedule D
of the Amended Account,
should not be allowed; (g)
The claims of the New York
State Department of Taxation
and Finance and the New
York City Human Resources
Administration, if any, should
not be fixed and determined;
(h) The Petitioner should not
be permitted to distribute the
net estate to the decedent's
distributees, as now known
or hereafter determined, as
their interests may appear,
and to deposit any amount
not so distributed with the
Commissioner of Finance of
the City of New York to be held
for the benefit of decedent's
unknown distributees or for
the benefit of any distributees
of the decent who are
under disability for whom
no guardian of the property
has been appointed; (I) The
Public Administrator should
not reserve, subject to court
approval, such amount, if
any, as he determines may be
necessary for the preparation
of fiduciary income tax returns
and the payment of any tax
that may be due thereon; and
(j) The Petitioner, upon fully
complying with the Decree to
be made in this proceeding,
should not be released and
discharged of and from any
and all liability, responsibility
and accountability with
respect to the Petitioner's
acts and proceedings as
Administrator as set forth and
embraced in said Amended
Account and the Court
grant such other and further
relief as it deems just and
proper. Dated, Attested, and
Sealed, September 30, 2019
HON. MARGARITA LOPEZ
TORRES Surrogate, Doreen
A. Quinn Chief Clerk, Joseph
J. Borges, Esq., Cullen and
Dykman LLP, 44 Wall Street,
New York, NY 10005-2407
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that you do not object to the
relief requested. You have
a right to have an attorney
appear for you, and you or
your attorney may request a
copy of the full account from
the petitioner or petitioner's
attorney.
a rally in August.
Under the makeover
scheme — which is part of
New York City Transit President
Andy Byford’s Fast Forward
plan — the agency will
collaborate with the city’s Department
of Transportation
to build new bus lanes, expand
service along busy corridors,
and reroute under-utilized
buses.
The agency plans to use
data from MetroCard swipes
and satellite-tracking systems,
along with information
on residential and commercial
development, and other
transportation methods — including
taxis and ride-sharing
vehicles — to help facilitate
their improvements.
Officials also want to hear
from commuters — as the agency’s
outreach staff have begun
compiling rider feedback at bus
stops and subway stations, and
will begin inviting commuters
to open house meetings by the
end of the month.
In speaking with this
paper, straphangers were
chiefly concerned with improving
reliability and reducing
overcrowding on borough
buses.
“At the end of the day, if the
buses would just come consistently
I’d have a lot less issues
with the bus system in
general — they should focus
on that first,” said Bedford
Stuyvesant resident Hosneara
Begum. “Most people
are just trying to get to places
on time.”
— Additional reporting by
Elissa Esher and Joe Hiti
Mother Cabrini.
Photo by Marcus Stevens
expected facelift in 2015, when
artist and longtime Prospect
Heights resident Jeff Beler contacted
the building’s owner and
convinced him to donate the
construction fence surrounding
his burnt-out husk for use
as a canvas.
Since then, Beler and his
band of professional and amateur
painters have repainted
the barricade every six months
or so. Past themes have included
“Urban Jungle” and
zodiac signs, and the recurring
makeover has become a
cause for celebration among
community members.
“It’s changed the community,”
Beler said. “Every time
we do an installation it just
brings the children and everybody
out.”
Paulie Nassar, a Brooklynbased
artist who has been involved
with the murals since
it was last updated and contributed
a “Charlottes Web”
mural last weekend, said he
loved being a part of a project
of local renown.
“I love the reaction,” said
Nassar, who runs Off the Wall
Graffiti, a Brooklyn based nonprofit
for kids who have gotten
in trouble for doing graffiti.
“People coming up all day
and saying thank you, and that
they love coming by on their
way home.”
And while Nassar’s mural
may only live for half a
year, that just means he gets
to go back and paint something
new.
“So many times you get
these things where people put
in a mural project and they
want the mural to be there for
20 years,” he said. “To know
when I do my piece, that it
has a six-month shelf life, I
kind of enjoy that as a street
artist. I feel like we fight to
make everything permanent
now, no one wants anyone to
go over their thing, that was
never the point, the point was
to paint on stuff, let’s just get
back to that.”
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