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| LMDC Gives $25 Million to 13 Downtown
Parks |
Upgrades to Washington Market Park, a carousel
at the Battery, a new park at Canal Street and play spaces at
the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge are among 13 park and open-space
projects, most south of Canal Street, that will be funded by
a $25 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
The 13 projects include new green spaces and recreational areas
as well as upgrades to existing parks.
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| Battle Looms After City Approves
IPN Sale |
The city’s approval last month of the sale of
Independence Plaza sets the stage for what will probably be
a protracted struggle between the new owner, Larry Gluck, and
the IPN Tenants Association. The approval by the Department
of Housing Preservation and Development clears the way for Gluck
to move to withdraw IPN from the government’s Mitchell-Lama
housing program, while the tenants hope to stymie that plan.
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| Work on High School's Home Delayed |
More than a month after Gov. George Pataki announced
that $3 million from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. will
assure the opening of a new home for the Millennium High School
at 75 Broad Street in September, construction of the school
space had yet to begin, no architect had been hired and no lease
had even been signed. Education officials and community leaders
publicly maintained late last month that the school would be
ready by September, but privately some doubted whether there
was enough time to design and build the school in the Broad
Street building.
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| Downtown Private School for Grades
6-12 Is Planned |
A longtime educator hopes to open a new independent
private school for grades 6 through 12 in Lower Manhattan in
September 2004. The Downtown School, as it is called, does not
yet have a building, but Robert Golden, its founder and director,
said that a site is being sought south of Canal Street.
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Residents Still Roiling Over New 9/11 Sign
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No sooner had the sign, bright yellow with black flames alongside
the words “CAUTION Low Flying Planes,” gone up on a side wall
of 17 Leonard Street on May 10 than neighbors became enraged.
They said it was a reminder of the terrorist attack, when
the first hijacked plane flew low over their homes on its
collision course with the Trade Center’s north tower. Despite
a warning from the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the
neighbors' anger, the acrylic mural, the work of artist James
Peterson, remained on the wall late last month.
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6,000 New Flowers Take Root in the Battery
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Against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty and New York
Harbor, volunteer gardeners grabbed their trowels, got on
their knees and began planting 6,000 hostas, phlox, asters,
salvia and other perennials for the Gardens of Remembrance
in the Battery.
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Commission
Tells Park to Change Its Stripes
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“I think I’m going bold,” said Roanne Kolvenbach, a Reade
Street resident, as she looked over some color swatches. “I’m
going neutral,” said her friend Susanne Bober, from Church
Street. The two women with opposite tastes could well have
been choosing the rug for a bedroom or the right shirt to
go with a new pair of pants. Instead, they were voting on
a color scheme for the Washington Market Park’s newly expanded
playground. Its temporary blue-and-purple striped surface
has enraged many who look down on the park from apartments
across the street.
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IN BRIEF
Free
Sailing Program for Downtown Teens
Downtown Soccer League Prepares
for Return
Downtown Survey
Preparing for Disaster
P.S. 150 Camp
Greenmarket Reopens
West Street Tunnel
CD and Record Sale
River Project Internships
City Hall Gardening
Batting Cages Open on Tribeca Waterfront
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Batting cages, the latest addition to the Tribeca portion
of the Hudson River Park, went into action on June 5 as Downtown
Little Leaguers took their first cuts at the machine-hurled
balls.
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The Fall of 179 West Street
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One-seventy-nine West Street, the little brick building that
stood alone for so long, stands no more. On May 20 crews arrived
to demolish the four-story, 19th-century structure near the
corner of Warren Street that for many Tribecans had stood
as a symbol of defiance against the incursion of wealth and
change.
Posted June 3
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Puppets and Ladybugs in Washington
Market Park
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At the Spring Popcorn and Puppet Festival and on Ladybug
Day, which took place on consecutive days last month,
creatures of all kinds captivated children in Washington
Market Park.
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Park Views
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The expanded Washington Market Park playground
has gotten mixed reviews from parents. Bill Watson,
president of the park's board of Directors, discusses
the renovation in an interview with the Trib's
Etta Sanders.
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‘Persians,’
a Gift from Antiquity, Is Timeless
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In an era when loose adaptations and “transgressive
deconstructions” of ancient texts have become
all the rage, playwright Ellen McLaughlin
and the National Actors Theatre have had
the good sense to produce a thoughtful and
respectful adaptation of Aeschylus’ “The
Persians” at Pace that hews close to the
original and honors the spirit in which
it was written.
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June 3
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A
Film from Center Ring of a Media Circus
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After the disappearance of the plane carrying
John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn,
and Carolyn’s sister Lauren Bessette in
July 1999, throngs of media people, mourners
and curiosity seekers besieged 20 North
Moore Street, where the Kennedys lived,
turning the front of the building into a
mountainous shrine, and those who lived
there into unwitting captives. Ruth Hardinger,
an artist and real estate agent who lives
on the ground floor, felt the need to produce
a work of some sort from her privileged
position and, with her friend Bill Brand,
a filmmaker and Franklin Street resident,
created a 40-minute documentary that was
shown last month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Tribeca’s
Citizen-Architect
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On May 16, more than 300 people gathered
at St. Andrews Church in Lower Manhattan
to remember John Petrarca, 51, who died
on May 9 after a two-year battle with cancer.
Petrarca was eulogized as an artist whose
palette was Tribeca.
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