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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Monday, July 11, 2016 | A17
Governor looks to help
defeat de Blasio in 2017
but is wary of the risks;
no serious challengers
Mr. Cuomo has dissected
Mr. de Blasio’s poll numbers
with political allies, weighing
whether the mayor can be defeated, according to people familiar with the matter.
The governor has attended
fundraisers for potential challengers to Mr. de Blasio. And
he has told Democratic officeholders that Mr. de Blasio is
politically vulnerable, people
familiar with the conversations said.
“The governor would be
happy to see someone other
than de Blasio running the
city,” said Johnnie Green, a
Harlem pastor and ally of Mr.
Cuomo who is holding a forum
BY JOSH DAWSEY
AND MIKE VILENSKY
As New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio’s 2017 re-election
bid draws closer, Gov. Andrew
Cuomo is strategizing whether
and how to work against his
fellow Democrat, a move that
would pose a threat to the
mayor’s campaign but carry
its own political risks for the
governor.
next month with pastors to
field an opponent to Mr. de
Blasio. “Whether the governor
will go as far as trying to identify a candidate who will run
against de Blasio, I don’t
know. A lot of people aren’t
revealing their hands just yet.”
Asked if Mr. Cuomo would
support Mr. de Blasio’s reelection, a spokesman for the
governor said “the only election the governor is focused
on is the 2016 race and ensuring Hillary Clinton becomes
the next president.”
Dan Levitan, a spokesman
for the mayor’s re-election
campaign, said it would be
“pretty shocking to a lot of
progressives and struggling
New Yorkers if the governor
was trying to undermine the
progress the mayor has made
on crime, pre-K for everyone
[and] affordable housing.”
Mr. Cuomo’s deliberations
have the mayor’s allies on
edge. People close to Mr. de
Blasio said they don’t believe
there is currently a serious
Democratic challenger, but
that the dynamic could change
if the governor threw his fundraising and political apparatus
behind a candidate.
The primary is to be held in
September 2017.
Interviews with a dozen
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Cardinal Asks for Peace, Justice
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Developers Find
Materials of Old
Give Towers Buzz
Cardinal Timothy Dolan sought prayers for African-Americans and for police officers on Sunday.
took turns condemning police
brutality.
One man grabbed a microphone and began singing Sam
Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna
Come,” eliciting loud applause.
Lily Gantt, 24 years old, of
Brooklyn, said the recent
shootings made her afraid to
attend a protest. But after talking with her friends, she said
she decided to participate.
“Other people are together
with you, and that feeing of
togetherness can be really
comforting right now,” said
Ms. Gantt, whose shirt quoted
civil-rights activist Rosa Parks
saying simply, “Nah.”
Brandon Schreck, 46 years
old, of Brooklyn, said he attended the protest because the
recent violence made him sick.
He said he hoped the demonstrations would continue in
the weeks to come.
“It’s too painful,” Mr. Schreck
said of the recent shootings.
“I’ve been crying every morning
and I don’t know what to do.”
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Developer Scott Shnay
wanted his new condominium
building to pay homage to the
industrial roots of its NoHo
neighborhood in Manhattan
while also standing out among
the city’s forest of glasssheathed towers.
He found his
PROPERTY solution when
his architect,
Annabelle Selldorf, showed him a small piece
of pumpkin-colored terra cotta
that had been lying around her
office. That was five years ago,
and Mr. Shnay eventually used
the terra cotta for the facade
of his new building, known as
10 Bond Street, which sold out
earlier this year.
“It’s not a glass sort of
ethereal building, it has a
gravitas to it,” said Mr. Shnay,
a SK Development principal. “I
think a lot of that comes back
to the materials.”
Throughout the city, some
developers are increasingly relying on terra cotta and other
materials used extensively in
the construction of buildings
in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. For apartment buyers and developers, the old
materials can evoke a certain
authenticity and appeal to sustainability, especially in an era
of shimmering contemporary
towers made of aluminum and
glass.
The old materials can already be seen in historic
buildings across the city. The
decorative exterior of the
Woolworth building is fashioned in terra cotta, and the
material outlines the brick facade of the De Vinne Press
Building in Manhattan. The
Puck Building in the Nolita
neighborhood of Manhattan
was constructed in 1885 with
terra cotta—along with granite, brick and sandstone.
New projects under way us-
ing old materials include SK
Development’s 301 East 50th
Street, a 30-story tower with a
limestone facade. JDS Development’s American Copper
Buildings on the Upper East
Side opens its doors later this
year. Its founder, Michael
Stern, said the firm was developing the 10-story Fitzroy in
Chelsea, with a terra-cotta facade and copper-framed windows, because customers appreciate materials that look
better—and change color—as
they age.
Christine Jetten, whose studio specializes in natural materials, said she was conscious
of the future when she designed 1 Great Jones Alley in
NoHo with a facade of terracotta pilasters.
‘It’s not a glass sort
of ethereal building,
it has a gravitas to
it,’ said a developer.
“We consider the lifespan
of a building again with more
and more close attention,” Ms.
Jetten said in a phone call
from the Netherlands. “Clay,
ceramics, is really an environmental-friendly material that
lasts for centuries and ages
beautiful. So now we’re thinking about what footprint we
make on the Earth.”
Ms. Jetten has gotten busier over the past decade. In
2011, she said, her studio had
six projects at most. She now
has 19 developments or restorations planned around the
world.
A similar rise in demand
has been seen at Boston Valley
Terra Cotta in Orchard Park,
N.Y., near Buffalo, according to
international sales manager
Bill Pottle. Mr. Pottle said before 2000 the company only
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How the Art World Reacted
To the Plague Years of AIDS
BY SUSAN DELSON
It looks like something you might
pick up in any well-stocked toy store.
But the teddy bear in Charles LeDray’s
untitled 1991 sculpture is no toddler’s
companion.
Dressed in a white funeral suit, it
lies in a tiny, silk-lined coffin—another
victim of the AIDS crisis that was then
tearing through the art world, and the
world at large.
How artists grappled—and continue
to grapple—with the epidemic is the
focus of “Art AIDS America,” opening
Wednesday at the Bronx Museum of
the Arts. In some 120 works by close
to 100 artists, the show captures the
rage, anguish and overwhelming sense
of loss that accompanied the epidemic
at its height, along with the activism
it sparked and its continuing reverberation through the culture.
“At first it was, ‘What the hell is
happening and why isn’t anyone doing
anything about it?’ ” recalled Hunter
Reynolds, one of the artists included
in the show. “It was like a war. You’re
in your 20s and everyone around you
is dying.”
There is anger, among other things,
in “Love, AIDS, Riot,” Marlene
McCarty’s unprintable riff on Robert
Indiana’s tilted-O “Love” icon. A profound sense of mourning suffuses
Keith Haring’s bronze-and-white, goldleafed “Altar Piece,” its silhouette
echoing medieval religious art. A
dreamlike unreality haunts “Babies
with AIDS (Bebés con SIDA),” Luis
Cruz Azaceta’s vision of the epidemic’s youngest victims.
And Mr. Reynolds’s “Survival AIDS
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo at an event in June.
BY ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
PETER J. SMITH FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Cardinal Timothy Dolan
urged the congregation inside
St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday to pray for both the African-American and law-enforcement
communities
following the fatal shootings
of two black men and five police officers last week.
“From Minnesota to Louisiana to Texas this one nation
under God examines its soul
and asks God for healing,
peace, justice, reconciliation,”
said Cardinal Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of
New York.
The cardinal’s comments
came on the first Sunday after
five officers were killed by a
lone gunman Thursday in Dallas during a protest sparked
by the fatal police shootings of
black men in Louisiana and
Minnesota.
“God is our creator and we
are his creatures and we’re
broken. So we listen to his instructions to repair,” Cardinal
Dolan said to parishioners, including New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio, who sat in the
front row.
Mr. de Blasio, who also attended an earlier church service in Harlem, praised the
New York Police Department
but also said the nation continued to suffer from racism.
“We have a problem in this
country, in this city, and a
problem we have inherited no
doubt, stained upon our nation,” Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, told parishioners at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown. “It is the norm and it
still inflicts us to this day. But
we must make a choice to
overcome that.”
The shootings by police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana prompted protests in New
York City and elsewhere in the
nation. On Saturday, 23 protesters were arrested in Manhattan for alleged disorderly
conduct.
On Sunday, a crowd of
about 200 people gathered in
Union Square to protest the
police shootings. Seven people
held one large sign displaying
“Black Lives Matter,” as others
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Cuomo Weighs Next Move
Luis Cruz Azaceta’s ‘Babies With Aids (Bebés con SiDA),’ (1989) in ‘Art AIDS America.’