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New Downtown Community Center Takes Shape |
Posted May 3
The shell of the space on Warren Street, just west of P.S. 234, is taking shape. The blueprints are drawn, 70 percent of the money has been raised, and construction of the interior is expected to begin in October. Last month, Bob Townley, the center's director, gave the Trib the most detailed picture to date of what the $8.3 million center will look like and what it will offer when the doors open next spring.
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Demolition on Warren Street Sparks Landmarking Effort |
Posted May 3
Sixteen Warren Street will be replaced by a building nearly twice its size, and neighboring structures could share the same fate. A set of similar 19th-century buildings line Warren and Chambers Streets, between Broadway and West Broadway, a stone's throw from the city-protected Tribeca South Historic District. Now neighbors are organizing to try to save those buildings from demolition.
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Days of Darkness and Thunder Inside P.S. 234 |
Posted May 3
The floor shakes, the sunlight is gone and it's pretty stuffy.That's what it's like inside the classrooms at P.S. 234 since a sound-buffering wall was erected last month alongside the school and pile drivers started pounding at a construction site across the street. "It's like there's a giant walking around outside," 1st-grader Aidan Conley said of the steady thumping and vibration.
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| Finally A Plan for Canal Street Park (and a Place to Sit) |
Posted May 3
For all the city's talk of plans to create a park on the triangular lot at Canal, Varick and Laight Streets, the site for years has been nothing more than dusty dead space, marked off by orange construction barrels and wind-whipped police tape. But last month there was finally a sign of life in this tiny corner of Tribeca—"Please keep off the newly sodded lawn," the sign read. It was posted on a new fence and signed by the city's Parks Departmen
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| A Scream for Ice Cream Truck to Move Down the Block |
Posted May 3
"There was no way before, short of putting blinders on your kid, to get out of the park without seeing the ice cream truck," said Nelle Fortenberry, president of the Washington Market Park's board of directors. To the relief of many, the board persuaded the city's Parks Department to deny the ice cream man his permit unless he moved down the block.
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Two Big Demolitions Raise Air Concerns Near Ground Zero |
Posted May 3
In a neighborhood once coated with dust and toxins from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, any threat—real or imagined—of more dust-tainted air is enough to raise alarm. So red flags went up last month at two locations near Ground Zero, 130 Liberty Street and 189 Broadway, where the pending demolition of buildings has environmental regulators and neighbors nervous.
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Tribeca Tower is Target of Housing Advocates |
Posted May 3
A massive residential tower is under construction at Leonard Street and Broadway. When the 21-story building is completed this summer, it will contain 352 apartments, including a sprawling penthouse. There will also be a pool, a gym, a 200-space garage, a 4,200-square-foot community facility, and 7,200 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.
What there will not be at 88 Leonard Street, affordable housing advocates say, are enough units for low- to moderate-income families to justify the nearly $2 million worth of tax breaks that the developer is getting.
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Posted May 3
Eric Benn does not dispute that his bar is on the wrong side of the law—eight feet on the wrong side, to be exact. But the owner of Bubble Lounge on West Broadway, which is in danger of losing its liquor license because it is within 200 feet of a mosque, hopes to persuade the State Liquor Authority that he never intended to step across the line.
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Stanley's World |
Posted May 4
In the playground of Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City, two-and-a-half-year-old Stanley Zolek could not be having more fun. He is in constant motion, running, jumping and climbing, his rosy, cherubic cheeks growing redder, his long, curly locks bobbing with every move. All the while, Dawn and Stan Zolek's eyes never leave their child.
"When he's running around like this it's more stressful to me," says Dawn, her newborn, Skylar-Rose, bundled in a carrier at her chest.
It is not the fear of a bone-breaking fall or some miscreant stranger that haunts the Zoleks. It is infection.
Born with cystic fibrosis, or "CF," a progressive disease of the lungs and pancreas, Stanley can't afford to get the colds and coughs that other children routinely pick up, and most parents take in stride.
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Katrina Dog Gets Whole
Lot of Local Love |
Posted May 4
There is a new dog in the neighborhood. His past is a bit murky, but his caretakers say he is from the South, appears to be a mix of German shepherd and Labrador retriever, and is probably around 10 years old. What they know for certain is that his name is Pancho and that he is one lucky dog.
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Details, Details |
Posted May 4
If you walked by this building you wouldn't even notice the pillar," says Jennifer Kotter as she pointed to a picture of, yes, a pillar, but in its interplay of shadows and shapes, much more than that. Such serene and simple architectural tableaus, discovered amid the visual tumult of the city, are the focus of a photographic project that Kotter began in 2002.
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IN BRIEF
Council Focus: Downtown Needs
Youth Fair
You're Wearing That?
It's My Park Day
Duane Park Party
Help Women in Need
WTC Memorial Update
Single Mingle
Summer Arts for Kids
Skin Cancer Test
Forum on Caring for Aging Parents
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
As a symbol and as real estate, Freedom Tower Makes No Sense
Tribeca Film Festival Must Stay Downtown
Listen to the Call of the Waterfront
Trib Wins Top Awards at Press Convention
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