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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
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After the fellowship ended,
Mr. Sanjivan sought asylum in
the U.S. He lived off savings
and teetered on the brink of
homelessness, he said. “It was
a very depressed time.”
He began volunteering with
Heritage of Pride, based in
Greenwich Village. He was the
“heir apparent,” Mr. Studinski
said, for the job of march director, which is elected by a
Heritage of Pride committee.
The position takes vision,
time and an ability to work
with a wide range of constituencies, including volunteers,
public officials and those who,
as Mr. Studinski put it, “don’t
always understand where
you’re coming from.”
Mr. Sanjivan was granted
asylum in the U.S. last year, he
said. For the past year, he has
balanced his responsibilities
for the march with his day job
at BubbleBall, a startup selling
and renting inflatable balls
that can fit a person inside.
Heritage of Pride’s media
director, James Fallarino, said
Mr. Sanjivan has brought to
the march “an eye for identifying folks who represent the
continued fight for equality.”
Mr. Sanjivan had a hand in
recruiting a delegation from
the National Basketball Association as well as one of this
year’s grand marshals: Subhi
Nahas, a gay-rights advocate
and U.S. refugee from Syria.
Barbara Poma, owner of
Pulse, the Orlando nightclub
where the shooting occurred,
and its entertainment manager, Neema Bahrami, will ride
atop the lead float on Sunday.
The parade is expected to draw
its biggest crowds to date.
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Red dragon fruit at a produce stand on Mott Street; economic botanist and author Valerie Imbruce at a green grocer on Grand Street.
The scales
are still analogue,
and good luck
using a credit card.
tinations: the 40-foot sidewalk fruit stand on Mulberry
Street just south of Canal
Street, and the vegetable
stores on Mott between
Grand and Hester streets.
I made a little chart to
be sorrow, and there’s going to
be defiance in the face of what
happened in Orlando,” said
Greenwich Village Councilman
Corey Johnson.
Mr. Sanjivan said the experience has been emotional for
him, but in the last few days
before the parade, he was
more focused on logistics. On
Tuesday, at a meeting with his
co-organizers, they checked
the weekend forecast with
Siri—“sunny and hot”—and
worried the volume of tweets
on Sunday might cause service
outages. “Do we know anyone
at Twitter?” one attendee
asked. “Are they marching?”
They also shared advice for
the big day: Be vigilant around
strangers. Use the two-way radios if needed. Last but not
least: If organizers and volunteers must cut up their official
march T-shirts for stylistic
reasons, please keep the sponsor list visible.
compare prices with my
neighborhood Key Food. In
almost every case, Chinatown’s prices were less than
half what I would pay at the
supermarket. Among the bargains: broccoli for 85 cents a
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Behind the increase this
year was a decline in a price
index designed to track owner
operating costs for only the
second time since 1969. The
drop was due mainly to a 41%
drop in indexed heating costs.
Building owners said that,
in practice, the price for fuel
paid by owners didn’t fall as
much as the index suggested
and that it was offset by rising
outlays for water, insurance
and city taxes.
“If you freeze the rents,
how can you expect landlords
to maintain their buildings,”
said Scott Walsh, a vice president at Forest City Ratner Cos.
and an owner representative
on the rent board.
Under a 2013 law, the board
is required to publish pro-
pound, $1 each for pomegranates, oranges for a quarter.
Some of the best bargains
can be found on day-old produce, at the sidewalk stands
on Forsyth Street in the
shadow of the Manhattan
Bridge. Here, $8 buys a 20pound box of mangos.
For Ms. Imbruce, the fascination isn’t the low prices but
the incredible variety—more
than 200 fruits and vegetables including jack fruit, fuzzy
squash and her favorite, baby
Shanghai Choy.
Where does it come from?
Chinatown’s wholesalers
often buy from small, family
farms specializing in Asian
vegetables, including backposed rent guidelines at least
three days before a vote, excluding Sundays. On Thursday,
the board staff released six
proposals, though it didn’t indicate who submitted each
one.
Four were submitted by the
two tenant members of the
board, one by the two owner
members and one from Ms.
Roberts, according to a person
familiar with the proposals.
Her resolution is likely to
carry the votes of all five designated public members of the
nine-member board, several
board members said, because
the public members often vote
with the chair. Ms. Roberts
didn’t respond to a request for
comment. The board also has
two tenant and two owner
representatives.
Of all the proposals, only
the one from owner representatives called for an increase
in one-year leases, of 3%. In an
yard “home gardens” in south
Florida, and oxen-plowed
plots in central Honduras.
Ms. Imbruce knows shoppers often equate low prices
with exploitation, but that
isn’t what she saw on the
more than 75 farms she visited.
“Some said it was the best
situation they’d had in a long
time,” she said.
That is reassuring, but my
favorite part of shopping in
Chinatown is the adventure. I
bought a single cherry for a
quarter. I got a kick out of the
Asian clerk who told me the
leafy green choy was “Chinese lettuce.” I bought spiky
dragon fruit and woolly rambutan that served as scary
additions to my fruit bowl.
“It’s just a fun, happy
place to go,” said Ms. Imbruce. “And it’s always bustling.”
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unusual move, the owner proposal included a statement
from Mr. Walsh with 11 ideas
on how to promote affordable
housing and soften the impact
of low rents on landlords.
These ideas include a retroactive freeze in city property-tax
rates and assessments going
back to 2014 and a $150 a
month direct city subsidy to
rent-burdened tenants.
The tenant proposals submitted in advance ranged from
a deep roll backs in rents to
one very close to Ms. Roberts’s plan. The latter proposal
appeared designed to potentially sway some public members to support it over Ms.
Roberts’s version. It called for
a freeze in one year leases and
an increase of 1.75% in two
year leases.
The new rent guideline that
is adopted would take effect
for leases in the year beginning Oct. 1.
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servers, the 69-year-old Mr. Nadler is likely to win re-election
and holds significant advantages
as an incumbent. He has locked
up many high-profile endorsements, including Mr. Obama’s,
and is outspending Mr. Rosenberg by more than two to one.
As of June 8, Mr. Nadler had
raised nearly $1.4 million, a
large sum for an incumbent in a
seat generally considered to be
safe. Mr. Rosenberg, 30, had
raised a little more than
$54,000, much of it from donors
in California, where he grew up.
In the past week, Mr. Nadler’s
campaign distributed a flier to
voters describing Mr. Rosenberg
as “dishonest,” “dirty” and “deplorable.” The flier also alleges
Mr. Rosenberg is a Democrat in
name only, showing a screenshot of an email from Mr.
Rosenberg as proof.
“As the district is 82% Democrat, the only chance of winning
is as a Democrat,” Mr. Rosenberg wrote.
Mr. Rosenberg disputed he is
Oliver Rosenberg, left, is challenging U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, shown at a December news conference.
a Democrat in name only, saying
in a statement that Mr. Nadler
“would rather talk about anything than his vote to support
Iran’s ayatollahs who kill gay
people and promise to blow Israel off the map.”
Mr. Rosenberg said he was a
Republican but switched political parties because of his sexual
orientation; he is gay.
“When I was 19, I did what
my family told me. Since then I
have come out and realized
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Two people who were arrested with a cache of weapons as they entered the Holland
Tunnel
are
from
Lehighton, Pa. An article
Wednesday incorrectly said
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mainstream supermarkets.
Most of the city’s fruits
and vegetables come from
wholesalers at Hunts Point
Produce Market, the South
Bronx distribution hub boasting all the color and accessibility of La Guardia Airport.
Chinatown’s green grocers, in
contrast, buy their stock from
a handful of small wholesalers operating right in the
neighborhood.
Because the wholesalers
are in Chinatown, they can
deliver fresh produce several
times a day, eliminating the
need for retailers to maintain
storage space or refrigeration, said Ms. Imbruce.
Indeed, Chinatown’s green
grocers make Costco look like
Dean & DeLuca. Some are
mere sidewalk stands renting
space in front of a nail salon
or a drugstore.
Shelves are typically made
of plywood and lined with
newsprint; prices are hastily
marked on strips of cardboard. Shoeboxes serve as
cash registers. The scales are
still analogue, and good luck
using a credit card.
All this translates into low
overhead for the retailers—
and low prices for shoppers.
The typical produce markup
is just 10% to 12% over wholesale, said Wellington Chen,
executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corp.
The markets, Mr. Chen
said, further reduce prices by
negotiating bulk discounts
from wholesalers. “They chip
in together and split a truckload,” he said.
Ms. Imbruce introduced
me to two of her favorite des-
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Last week, while shopping
at a tiny produce market on
Mott Street, Giselle Isaac
found a crazy bargain: fresh
ginger for 50 cents a pound.
She promptly stuffed a plastic
bag to bursting with the pungent root.
“I’m West Indian and we
make a lot of ginger beer,”
she explained. “This is the
cheapest I’ve seen ginger in
years.”
Ms. Isaac
lives way up
in the Wakefield section
of the Bronx,
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one of the
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Yorkers who
frequent Chinatown for fruits and vegetables. “The food is fresher,”
she said, “and Chinatown is
way cheaper.”
I never gave Chinatown’s
crowded produce markets a
chance; I figured the prices
were cheap because the selection is all C-grade bok choy
and yesterday’s bananas.
Wrong again! I toured the
markets with Valerie Imbruce, an economic botanist
who spent more than a decade researching the community’s produce supply chain.
She even wrote a book on the
topic, “From Farm to Canal
Street: Chinatown’s Alternative Food Network in the
Global Marketplace.”
Her discovery: Chinatown’s 80-plus produce markets are cheap because they
are connected to a web of
small farms and wholesalers
that operate independently of
the network supplying most
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Sculptor David Brooks is
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many things about myself,” Mr.
Rosenberg said. “I am a gay
man and was a Democrat
trapped in a Republican body.”
Mr. Nadler’s campaign has
highlighted his advocacy of gay
issues and his website touts endorsements from the gay community. It has a robocall recorded by Mr. Obama.
Mr. Rosenberg’s campaign
has robocalls featuring Jackie
Mason, a Jewish comedian.
“You know what happens to
the Jews? The Jews are facing
the Hydrogen bomb. No decent
person would vote for Jerry Nadler,” Mr. Mason says in one of
the calls.
In response, Mr. Nadler said
the robocalls represent a new
low and he called Mr. Mason a
“right-wing hack.”
“This is what happens when
you don’t get traction,” he said.
In interviews with about
three dozen people on the Upper West Side this week, fewer
than 10 said they were aware of
Tuesday’s primary. But some
voters cited their anger at Mr.
Nadler, if not outright support
for Rosenberg, as a driving force
pushing them to the polls.
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents parts of Mr. Nadler’s district, said he had decided to
vote for Mr. Rosenberg largely
because of Mr. Nadler’s vote on
the nuclear deal.
“The Iran deal was a defining
moment. Jerry Nadler made it
kosher—he gave the green light
to other members of Congress
from New York to support it,”
said Mr. Hikind, who is Jewish.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of
New York, who is Jewish and
voted against the Iran deal, is
backing Mr. Nadler. In a campaign flier, Mr. Schumer calls
Mr. Nadler an “extraordinary
legislator and leader.”
—Sonja Sharp
contributed to this article.