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| Make Downtown Housing Affordable,
Panel Urges |
A dozen civic-group leaders, city
officials, developers and bankers came together
to talk about creating housing Downtown that's not
just for the well-to-do.
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| Drama Heightens
for IPN Tenants |
| Mayor and City Council
Seek Tenant Protections |
Independence Plaza North
tenants and thousands like them got the attention
of both sides of City Hall on Oct. 29. The mayor
proposed state legislation to extend rent stabilization
protection to developments like IPN, and the City
Council held a hearing on a bill that would make
it tougher for owners to withdraw from the Mitchell-Lama
program.
Posted November 5
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Two weeks before
the City Council held its hearing on the Mitchell-Lama
buyout bill, IPN tenants finally met Laurence
Gluck, whose name has stirred fear among them
for more than a year. While some tenants said
that Gluck came across as a nice guy, the
encounter seemed to do little to quell their
fears.
Posted November 5
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| Marketing
Team Set to ‘Brand’ Tribeca |
Can a $350,000
plan boost business? After nearly a year of
convening focus groups, assembling research,
and dreaming up schemes to draw visitors to
Tribeca, a team of marketing and branding
consultants thinks it's got the pitch.
Posted November 3
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Lives Cross as
Yankee Changes Hands
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| Jimmy Gallagher
couldn’t have asked for more. He lived
his dream to restore a magnificent boat,
the Yankee, and make it his home.
He's lived aboard the boat, moored next
to Tribeca's Pier 25, for almost 13
years. But the road calls, he says,
and he’s moving on. Victoria and Richard
MacKenzie-Childs owned—and then lost—an
elegant furniture and home accessories
business. Now, they’re buying the Yankee
and moving in, with dreams of their
own.
Posted November 5
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| Gov and Mayor Add to Downtown
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| Pataki Backs New School For Growing
Population |
Acknowledging that the burgeoning
Downtown residential population is straining Lower Manhattan’s
resources, Gov. George Pataki on Oct. 30 called for the creation
of a new Downtown elementary/middle school, which community
leaders have been urgently seeking.
Posted November 5
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| Bloomberg Wants More Retail on
WTC Site |
The administration said last month
that the master plan for the World Trade Center site must be
changed to promote more street activity, notably by increasing
ground-level retail by two-thirds to help create “a retail
district that will be a regional destination."
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| Parents Seek a Street for
Two Lost Sons |
There are 299 streets in New York
City that have been “co-named” for World Trade Center victims.
Victor and Mary Colaio, who lost lost not one but two sons in
the disaster, would like to see a block of Beach Street in Tribeca
added to the list, but Community Board 1 is resisting.
Posted November 5
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| For Tribeca’s
Screening Room, It’s Now Curtains |
Like a scene out of
“The Last Picture Show.” Tribeca’s Screening Room
has gone dark Late last month, the seven-year-old
Screening Room closed, and the marquee, which had
long announced Sunday screenings of “Breakfast at
Tiffanys,” read, simply, “All Farewells Should Be
Sudden.”
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| Sports Museum
Hopes to Open in Financial District |
Long before any cultural
venue opens at the World Trade Center site, the
planners of a $48 million museum devoted to sports
say they will already be Downtown, drawing visitors
in a big way This month, organizers of the National
Sports Museum expect to pick a site in the Financial
District for the project.
Posted November 5
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| The New
Millennium |
The elevators
on the 13th floor at 75 Broad Street look
like those in any other financial-district
office building. That is, until 8:15 every
morning, when the ninth- and tenth-graders
arrive The youngsters are students of Millennium
High School, which just moved to Broad Street
and is billed as Downtown’s very own.
Inside, it not only doesn’t look like
an office building, it doesn’t look like
a typical high school, either.
Posted November 5
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| CB1 Wants Picnic Tables To Stay
by City Hall Park |
Two oversized picnic tables on the the
sidewalk east of City Hall Park have become quite popular
since they were installed in January, but they are part
of a temporary sculpture exhibition and are scheduled
to be removed this month. Community Board 1 is making
a bid to keep them for a while longer, or even permanently.
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| Parents
Say Park Leaves Out Toddlers |
As construction
of a $1 million playground in Washington
Market Park was nearing completion last
month, some parents were protesting
the lack of appropriate play space for
the park's youngest users.
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| Washington Market
Park to Be Temporary Entrance for BMCC |
Work is expected to begin
late this month on the reconstruction
of a ramp that leads from Chambers Street
to Borough of Manhattan Community College
and also serves as the western wall
of Washington Market Park. BMCC officials
have asked the park’s board of directors
to allow its estimated 6,500 to 8,000
students to walk to and from school
through the park, which would remain
open to students only from dusk to 11
p.m.
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IN BRIEF
Free
Downtown Bus Service
Downtown
Arts Club
Rescue
Mission Help
P.S.
150 Tours
Grant
for Battery Dance
Fine
Dining for $20.03
Cooking
Classes
Eldercare
Group Benefit
| The
Empire That Creepy Creatures
Built |
Five years ago, Washington
Street resident Wendy Gardner
sewed a spooky, wicked-faced
stuffed animal for her friend’s
baby shower. Vicious French
Bulldog, as she dubbed him,
was the hit of the party.
Since then, Vicious French
Bulldog has been joined
by 17 other surreal creatures,
many based on Tribeca pets,
as well as Gardner-designed
posters, stationary, lollipops,
jigsaw puzzles and cell
phone covers. Her nasty-looking
creations sell around the
world and are fetishized
by hipster parents and teen
skateboarders alike.
Posted November 5
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| Jewish G.I. Tales in
New Museum Wing |
“Ours To Fight For: American
Jews in the Second World War,” the inaugural show in the
new wing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, looks at the
role of Jewish men and women who fought overseas or joined
the war effort at home, telling the story through the
eyes of those who were there.
Posted November 5
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| ‘Jammer’
Bill Bennett Is Remembered |
In an outpouring of
sadness, affection and appreciation, Downtowners
mourned the death last month of Bill Bennett, who
ran Off Wall Street Jam, an organization that allows
professionals with day jobs to engage their passion
for music and realize their rock-and-roll dreams.
Posted November 5
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| Artist’s
Fog Transforms Forsaken Alley |
If
Leonardo da Vinci were to walk
down Cortlandt Alley today, he
might add a few pages in his famous
Notebooks “about the effects of
machine-made fog on the perception
of urban grit” and write how a
gust of wind causes the fog to
fill the alley on a cloudy day;
or that a bridge over the alley
vanishes from view; or how figures
become silhouettes when a beam
of light hits the swirling fog.
These visual effects have been
engineered by Mathew Geller as
part of “Foggy Day,” his installation
on Cortlandt Alley, between White
and Franklin streets—a spot that
must appear much as it did 100
years ago.
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| Dance
Steps |
Twelve female
dancers twirl, slide and undulate on
the vertiginous beaux-arts staircase
of the Stanford White building at 308
Broadway in Noémie Lafrance’s breathtakingly
sensual dance “Descent," which celebrates
the beauty of women while linking dance
and architecture.
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