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| Push for School in Tower Planned for Site
Next to Hospital |
In a pair of surprising developments, Pace University
pulled out of a deal to occupy part of a towering residential
building planned for the parking lot of NYU Downtown Hospital,
and talks have begun about putting a new K-8th grade school
there.
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| Planning for Retail at the World Trade
Center Site |
Once the World Trade Center memorial is built,
the next highest priority for the site is retail-about 1 million
square feet of it-according to a retail study presented to Community
Board 1 on Nov. 8. The report lays out a broad template, but
few specifics, for planners to consider as they set out to rebuild
the site and the neighborhood around it.
Posted November 9 |
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| Hopefuls Await Word on Arts
Festival |
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If Dale Evans were to fulfill all
that he has promised for his fledgling Tribeca Arts Festival
next month, it would be quite an accomplishment for a man who
calls himself a "broken down actor" and street artist. Now,
dreams and doubts abound among those expecting to be flown to
New York to perform.
Posted November 3
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When it rains, it pours at 137
Duane Street.
Since construction began in May on a penthouse addition to the
loft building, upper-floor residents say that "slipshod"
workmanship, a shattered skylight, poor roof drainage, and a
stairway vestibule left open to the elements has spelled near
disaster for their homes.
Posted November 3
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| Condo Board Votes to Uproot
Gardeners |
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Susan Brady sees Liberty Gardens
as a place where neighbors pitch in to contribute to the beauty
of their neighborhood. But some of her neighbors at Liberty
Court in Battery Park City look out their windows and see only
a decline in their property values. The condo board has sided
with them and barring a last minute reprieve, the community
gardens could be gone by next spring.
Posted November 3
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| Subway Station to Get Lift,
and Face-Lift |
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The cavernous Chambers Street subway
station below West Broadway, Chambers and Hudson Streets, is
set for a complete restoration that will begin next year.
Posted November 3
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| Parents Issue Plea for Return
of Priceless Pix |
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Sometime over the weekend of Oct.
16, a thief slunk into the basement office of a furniture store
at 182 Duane St. and stole a laptop off the store owner's desk.
And just like that, Amy Crain, owner of Room, lost every photograph
she had taken of her three-month-old-son Graydon.
Posted November 3
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| Thousands Try for Role as
an L.A. Actor |
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There was no bit part, no walk-on,
not even a slot as an extra for the thousands of actors who
queued up outside the Tribeca Grand Hotel last month, in a line
that coiled twice around the building, hoping for a 60-second
audition. But thousands auditioned for what they called the
role of a lifetime - a chance to live comfortably as an out-of-work-actor
in Los Angeles.
Posted November 3
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| Porter at Tribeca Tower, Hit
by Car, Is Missed by Many |
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In the early hours of Oct. 14, while
most of the residents of Tribeca Tower were sleeping, a tireless
friend of the building stepped into the night and never returned.
Posted November 3
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| CB1 Priority: Waterfront Over Maritime
Building |
Concerned that the time and money spent on constructing
a pedestrian plaza in front of the Battery Maritime Building
will come at the expense of immediate improvements to the East
River waterfront as a whole, Community Board 1 will consider
a resolution this month that lists the plaza project as the
lowest of its priorities.
Posted November 3 |
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| Freaky
Sunday |
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The ghoulish and the glamorous
paraded down Greenwich Street—no, it was not the opening
night of the Tribeca Film Festival, but the neighborhoods's
annual Halloween Parade.
Posted November 1
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| Washington Market Park's New
Ship Will Be Coming In |
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Responding to complaints by some
parents about the big red boat in Washington Market Park, the
city's Parks Department is planning an airy, minimalist replacement
for the solid metal bow as well as other changes to the play
equipment.
Posted November 3
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| No Strokes of Luck in Pro
Minigolf Tourney |
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There was no hushed gallery to applaud
the great shots or gasp at the ones that just missed. And there
certainly was no huge pot of prize money waiting at the end
of the fourth and final round. But none of that seemed to matter
to the five Swedish minigolfers who showed up on Pier 25 last
month for Tribeca's first official pro tournament.
Posted November 3
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| The High Hopes of Frank Lloyd
Wright |
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For most of us, the great architect
Frank Lloyd Wright is remembered especially for his horizontal
structures, like Fallingwater with its concrete slabs jutting
over a waterfall, or his celebrated prairie houses with their
strong horizontal rooflines. But Wright was also obsessed with
the vertical, as is shown by a fascinating new show on view
through Jan. 9 at The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, in
Battery Park City.
Posted November 3
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IN BRIEF
DNA
Solves Downtown Assault
Taste of Wall Street
Free Legal Advice
Firefighters vs. Chefs
Downtown Art Tour
Stocking Stuffer Benefit
Thanksgiving Volunteers
Rebuilding Web Site
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