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Junk, Costly Play Equipment Lies Untouched |
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In a far corner of Washington Market
Park is the toddler’s equivalent of buried treasure. With all
the shovels, chicken wire, sheets of plastic and other junk
piled around it, you would never know that thousands of dollars
worth of all-wood, custom-made play equipment lies in the heap,
untouched by children’s hands.
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| A Playful Past |
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From
tin soldiers to keystone cops to a collection of firefighters
battling a toy tenement blaze, more than 200 items are featured
in “Child’s Play at the Seaport,” a collection of old-time toys
on view at the museum through December.
Posted March 03
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| High-Tech
Kiosk Is Picked To Show the Way in BPC |
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A
design competion for a kiosk planned for Battery Park City brought
high-concept and even higher-tech proposals.
Posted March 03
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| Buygones: Past Sartorial Elegance
for Sale. |
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A shop at the corner of Greenwich
and Watts Streets is one of the few places in the city where
a man can outfit himself from head to toe (or pork pie hat to
pointy shoes) in vintage style. “I’m not in the game of
the ‘comeback’ or ‘the trend,’” shop owner Jae Jarrell
said. “When it comes to being ‘in,’ this is not the place to
provide that.”
Posted March 03
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| This Tourist Arrived by Water |
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When
Diana dos Santos arrived for work at the River Project on Pier
26 in Tribeca on Feb. 28, she was surprised to find that she
had company. A seal was lounging peacefully on the floating
dock on the pier’s south side.
Posted March 03
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| New North Cove Operators Look Ahead To
First Season |
Michael Fortenbaugh,
whose newly formed company now has the lease on the North Cove
in Battery Park City, said it could take years to rebuild the
Cove’s reputation as a premier stop for well-heeled world travelers.
On May 1 he told Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee
about his plans for running the cove.
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| On-line
Competition for Tribeca Film Fest |
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A short film could mean a big break
for filmmakers seeking an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival.
But first they will have to win over audiences online.
Posted March 06
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| Social Security |
As President Bush made a stop across the river
in New Jersey to tout his controversial plan to privatize Social
Security, Senate democrats, including Hillary Clinton, Charles
Schumer and John Kerry, made their case Downtown on March 4
that the real threat to the social program was that it was in
danger of being dismantled.
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IN BRIEF
P.S.
234 Parents Meet Developer
Small Business Tips
On the Erie Canal
Back to Boating Basics
Film Fest Volunteers
Singer Auditions
Carnival and Concert
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