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Soaring
Building for World Trade Center Site Is Unveiled
A model of the 1776-foot
tall Freedom tower that will bring the world's tallest
structure to the World Trade Center site was unveiled
on Dec. 19 in a ceremony at Federal Hall.
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| Memorial Jury Gets CB 1 Recommendations |
As time draws near for the World Trade Center
Memorial Jury to announce a winner, Community Board 1 sent the
jury a "short list" of its four recommended plans.
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| Memorial Finalists: Public
Speaks Out |
By the end of the year, the 13-member jury for the World
Trade Center memorial design competition is scheduled to choose
a winner from the eight finalists that were named last month.
At workshops organized by the Municipal Art Society, those
eight memorial designs garnered tepid praise and much criticism.
While there was enthusiasm for certain elements—the use of
water and the preservation of the slurry wall—the plans were
judged “sterile,” “cold,” “creepy,” or, as one participant
put it, “like something you’d see at Trump plaza.”
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| Memorial Finalists: Personal Views |
Accompanied by the Trib, six people, including
relatives victim's relatives and Downtown residents, look at
the memorial competition finalists and critique the design through
the prisms of their own lives and losses.
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| Bouley Settles Ground Zero
Food Fight |
Restaurateur David Bouley last
month settled a bitter legal battle with his insurer, Admiral
Indemnity Company, which charged that the celebrity chef had
fraudulently sought more than $2.2 million for business losses
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Bouley had not disclosed
in his claim that he had earned $5.8 million from a Red Cross
contract to prepare meals at Bouley Bakery for Ground Zero workers
during the time that the restaurant was closed.
Posted December 02
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Residents Fear Construction of Two
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Work is under way on two new six-story hotels in Tribeca,
and next-door neighbors say they fear for their buildings.
Residents at 132 Duane Street and the American Thread
Building at 260 West Broadway, adjacent to the hotel
sites, are concerned that excavation and construction
will damage their buildings, which are more than 100
years old, and they worry about shoddy work and the
impact the hotels will have on their blocks. Exacerbating
their fears is their belief that the development team
for the two hotels cannot be trusted.
Posted December 02
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| Off-Site Classrooms
Likely For Overenrolled P.S. 234 |
The enrollment squeeze at
P.S 234 has become so tight that at least one class is
likely to be held in a trailer or another building next
year, according the school’s principal and PTA president
A preliminary search for additional space began last month
and the idea of a trailer or “portable classroom” on an
adjacent development site appeared to be gaining favor
as the best of several unpleasant options.
Posted December 02
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| Regent Wall Street Hotel, With Its Grand
Ballroom, Will Close |
The majestic Regent Wall Street hotel will close
its doors on Jan. 16, its owners announced last month, and will
likely be converted to apartments. It was unclear what will
become of the building’s grand ballroom, a city landmark
that has been the site of scores of star-studded banquets and
weddings as well as community events.
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| 60 Hudson St. Neighbors Press City for
Action on Fuel Storage |
A Tribeca community group last month demanded
that the city force the owners of the telecommunications building
at 60 Hudson Street to remove diesel-fuel tanks from the building’s
upper floors, and said that it will sue the city if no action
is taken soon.
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| Once-Burned Condo Seeks Peace
Plan |
Lan Tran Cao, owner of Gallery
Viet Nam on North Moore Street, is eagerly preparing open a
Vietnamese restaurant at 345 Greenwich St., and to move her
gallery next door. Residents in the building, who had a nightmare
experience a couple of years ago battling a loud, late-night
club—after the owners had promised an upscale restaurant with
soft background music-—dread having a restaurant below their
apartments. But Cao, her partners and the residents are working
together in a bid to head off problems and address concerns
before the restaurant even opens.
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IN BRIEF
Spiffing
Up Financial District Streets
Health Registry Forum
Arts & Crafts Sale at
IPN
Little League Sign-Up
Musicians Wanted
Coat and Toy Drives
Arts lub Launched
Food and Theater
| Seniors See a ‘Star’
as One of Their Own |
There was a movie premiere
of sorts in Battery Park City last month. It didn’t
make the gossip columns. It lacked the usual red carpet
and pack of paparazzi. And there wasn’t one plunging
neckline in the entire crowd. But for the audience that
filled the Stuyvesant High School auditorium, this was
a movie event not to be missed.
Posted December 02
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| Poets Find Voice
in Tribeca Venues |
The biweeky Phoenix
Sunday reading series at the tiny Bengal Curry restaurant
on West Broadway and the Poet to Poet series a the
Organge Bear on Murray Street are bringing poetry
to places in Tribeca that might seem like unlikely
spots for iambic pentameter.
Posted December 02
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| Pirandello’s Search
for Truth is Timeless |
Whether by design or happenstance,
the National Actors Theatre, in residence at Pace University,
has been picking plays that resonate uncannily with issues
in the national zeitgeist. The latest example is Luigi
Pirandello’s “Right You Are,” whose full title, “Right
You Are, If You Think You Are,” neatly encapsulates the
playwright’s philosophical point.
Posted December 02
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| Picturing the ’70s |
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| A man in a Richard Nixon mask tokes
on a joint. A hooker in hot pants waits in a 42nd Street doorway.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform naked in bed. A loft party.
The Mudd Club. “New York in the 70s,” a new book by award-winning
photojournalist and longtime Tribecan Allan Tannenbaum, is an
ode to a legendary decade in the city’s cultural history, capturing
a time when rents were cheap, spaces raw and experimentation
was a 24-hour passion.
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