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| Culture Groups Named for WTC
Site |
Dancing, drawing and drama will all
be part of the rebuilt World Trade Center site.
The Signature Theater Company, the Joyce International
Dance Center and the Drawing Center, won out over
more than 110 applicants. A Freedom Center, to be
created specifically for the site, was also selected.
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| Report Tells What Belongs
in 9/11 Memorial |
The stories of victims, survivors,
responders, residents, and witnesses should be the
centerpiece of a Memorial Center on the trade center
site, according to recommendations issued last week
by the World Trade Center Memorial advisory committee.
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| Race Against Rust in
WTC Preservation |
Nearly everything in Hangar
17 is the color of rust. Massive beams, sheared and twisted,
are stacked under huge sheets of white plastic. Steel
ripped like paper lies piled beside girders bent by unimaginable
forces into the shape of candy canes.
This is what is left of the World Trade Center. Some of
it will one day be encased and displayed to tell its story
for generations. The fate of the rest is yet to be determined.
Posted June 2
More
photos on the artifacts being preserved at JFK Airport
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| Tribeca's Crown Jewel
Comes Down |
On the roof lay the building's
famous Statue of Liberty crown, cut to pieces by a blowtorch.
Posted June 2
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| Community
Gets Sweet Reward for OK of Tower |
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Goldman Sachs came to Community
Board 1 last month bearing gifts: $4.5 million in contributions
for community projects. In return, the board gave its
advisory approval for zoning changes that will allow the
company to build an 800-foot-tall headquarters at the
corner of West and Vesey streets.
Posted June 2
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| CB1 Supports an Off-Site
Plan for P.S. 234 |
As architecture, the Fulton
Street Transit Center is bound to dazzle.
But as a major transportation hub linking 12 subway lines
as well as the PATH system, planners say there's still
work to be done in finding the best way to uncoil the
maze of ramps and tunnels difficult to navigate even for
the most seasoned straphanger.
Posted June 2
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| Design
for Glass-Domed Fulton St. Hub Is Unveiled |
As architecture, the Fulton
Street Transit Center is bound to dazzle. But as a major
transportation hub linking 12 subway lines as well as
the PATH system, planners say there's still work to be
done in finding the best way to uncoil the maze of ramps
and tunnels difficult to navigate even for the most seasoned
straphanger.
Posted June 2
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| Boat in New Playground
May Shove Off |
Washington Market Park's
big red boat might be set to depart.
Dissatisfaction and safety concerns among some parents
over the park's signature piece of play equipment, installed
only last year in the $1.5 million expansion and renovation
of the play area, has led the city's Parks Department
to consider removing the boat's bow-its smokestack and
wheel going with it.
Posted June 2
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| What Goes Around Is
Coming Around for Kids in Battery Park |
A carousel is coming to Battery
Park. But don't expect to hop aboard another bobbing horse-unless,
perhaps, it's a sea horse.
Posted June 2
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| Millennium High School's
Space to Triple |
Downtown's newest high school
will triple in space, from 30,000 to 90,000 square feet,
in September, with the completion of two newly renovated
floors. The school, which currently has only 9th- and
10th-grade classes, will also add an 11th grade.
Posted June 2
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| 60 Hudson St. Plan in
Face-Off with Critics |
In the anteroom outside the
chambers of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission,
architect George Boyle stood for a few moments to compose
himself. He had just shown the commission more than a
dozen renderings for proposed changes to the facade of
60 Hudson Street, a city landmark. Now, as he gathered
up his materials, Boyle could only sigh "Well, that didn't
go as well as I'd hoped."
Posted June 2
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| Plan for Commuter Buses Near Seaport Hits
Roadblock at CB1 |
"I've been on the board longer than anyone in
this room," said Community Board 1 member Ray O'Keefe. "This
is the worst idea I've ever heard." The idea? To convert two
lanes of the FDR Drive adjacent to the South Street Seaport
into a designated parking area for commuter buses.
Posted June 2 |
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| Noisy Neighbors |
From Samba to Sousa, community
bands take their sounds to street and stage.
Posted June 2
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| A Dream Takes Wing |
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Victor Matthews has painted nothing but monarch butterflies.
This month, he brings 3,000 of them to Battery Park.
Posted June 2
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| Improv Troupe and Audience Make Musicals
on the Spot |
Forget for a moment that the year is 2004 and
you're actually on Murray Street. Walk in, take a seat, and
imagine yourself in an Algonquin-like nightspot in post-World
War II Manhattan. You are surrounded by a few dozen theatrical
luminaries like yourself, urbane, witty, musically inventive,
and ready-yes-for Broadway!
This is the fantasy of "Spontaneous (West) Broadway,"
an improvised musical production, in two acts, coming to Tribeca's
Black Watch Stages.
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IN BRIEF
Poll:
BPC Residents Are Happiest
Green Thumbs Wanted
Teen Program Sets Sail
A Rockin' Record Sale
Restaurant Week
Bird Watching by Boat
Ameruso vs. Wils
Asthma Walk June 6
Flea Market at IPN
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