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| IPN Tenants In Face Off with
Landlord They Fear |
Independence Plaza North tenants
finally got to meet Larry Gluck, the landlord whose name has
stirred fear among them for more than a year.
Posted October 19
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| Manhattan Youth Catches $250,000 Pass
from NFL |
The National Football League awarded $250,000
to Manhattan Youth, which runs a wide range of programs for
Downtown kids, as part of $5.5 million in grants given by the
league to nine Lower Manhattan organizations and projects.
Posted October 9 |
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| Changes Announced to
Plans for WTC Site |
| CB1 Voices Fears of Bus
Onslaught |
Officials of the Lower Manhattan
Development Corp. (LMDC) and the Port Authority were peppered
with questions about bus parking when they presented the
“refined” master plan for the World Trade Center site
to the community board’s WTC Redevelopment Committee on
Sept. 29.
Posted October 3 |
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| Architect Libeskind
Describes Master Plan Changes |
Architect Daniel Libeskind,
along with officials of the LMDC and Port Authority,
presented a "refined" version of his master
plan for the World Trade Center site that removes
truck access and transportation infrastructure from
the footprints, moves more than 1 million square
feet of office space to a new building south of
Liberty Street and creates a new park.
Posted October 3
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Plans Shown for 7 WTC and New Park |
Community Board 1’s redevelopment
committee last month got a look at an updated design for
the new 7 World Trade Center and the landscape scheme
for an adjacent park. Architect David Childs unveiled
a proposed facade for the windowless lower portion of
the building, which will contain Con Edison transformers,
and landscape architect Ken Smith presented his vision
of the park that will be built at the junction of West
Broadway and Greenwich Street.
Posted October 3
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| Residents
Scrutinize Proposed Tower for Site 5C |
Officials of the Lower Manhattan
Development Corp. (LMDC) and the Port Authority were peppered
with questions about bus parking when they presented the
“refined” master plan for the World Trade Center
site to the community board’s WTC Redevelopment Committee
on Sept. 29.
Posted October 3
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| Preservation
Debate on Greenwich Street |
| Effort to Landmark 19th-Century
Houses |
Worried that historic architecture
Downtown will be destroyed to make way for new development,
preservationists want the city to landmark four houses on lower
Greenwich Street—numbers 67, 94, 94 1/2 and 96— that have survived
for almost 200 years, providing glimpses of lost streetscapes
and bygone eras.
Posted October 3
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| Owner resists landmarking
for her building |
While preservationists want
to save 67 Greenwich Street along with three other Federal-era
buildings nearby, its owners are eager to tear it down
and build a 22-story apartment building.
Posted October 3
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| Owners Seek Redemption for
Sports Bar |
The new owners of 99 Hudson Street
aka the Sporting Club, which has been the object of numerous
complaints about late-night noise and rowdy behavior, are eager
to demonstrate that the place has reformed and that their controversial
partner is no longer involved in managing the joint.
Posted October 5
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| Man of a Thousand Turtles |
The turtles, more than 1,000 of
them, that Richard Ogust saved from Chinese soup pots have taken
over his Tribeca loft and their collective demands are running
him ragged. Soon, it will be time for them to go.
Posted October 5
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| Seaport Museum’s 'Moment’
Arrives |
The opening of the South Street
Seaport Museum's new $22 million galleries in a restored Schermerhorn
Row fulfills a 36-year-old dream and may be a transforming moment
for the institution. But the museum is also struggling to raise
the money to operate the new galleries.
Posted October 5
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| Community Seeks School in New Building
Plan |
Seventeen days after the first high school for
Lower Manhattan kids opened its doors at 75 Broad Street, a
Community Board 1 committee voted to push for another new school
Downtown, this time a combined elementary and middle school
on Beekman Street, next to NYU Downtown Hospital.
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| Shoe Store Replacing Movie Screens |
Out with the reels, in with the heels.
A national shoe store chain is ready to step into the space
formerly occupied by five screens of Battery Park City’s
Regal Cinemas.
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| Firefighters Take the Heat…in the
Kitchen |
At the Tribeca Organization’s
second annual Tribeca Cook-Off, pitting neighborhood chefs against
local firefighters, New York’s Bravest one again showed
that they can do more with a flame than aim a hose at it.
Posted October 5
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| Park Board Elections |
A board of elected volunteers oversees Washington
Market Park, organizing family programming, supervising maintenance
and planning changes, like the redesign of the children's playground.
The annual election for new board members is on Oct. 16 and
17 from 9-11 a.m. and 3-5 p.m., and on Oct. 18 from 10 a.m.-1
p.m. Vote at the park entrance at Greenwich and Reade streets.
Six of 11 seats are open and the board is seeking more candidates
to run for the two-year post. Those interested should send letters
with brief biographies and their views on park issues to WMCP
Election Committee, 295 Greenwich St. #227, N.Y., N.Y. 10007.
Candidate letters that have been received so far can be read
here and all letters will be available at the park during voting
hours.
Posted October 5
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| Lower Manhattan: 9/11/03 |
An infinite jumble of memories
and emotions resurfaced in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2003.
While there is no way to measure the hurt and anger that are
yet to be soothed or the recovery, in human terms, that has
been made, the anniversary served as a time to take stock of
where we are, two years away from that terrible day.
Posted October 3
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IN BRIEF
Apartment
Building for Broadway
CB1 Fundraiser on Oct. 29
Tribeca Loft Tour
Culture for WTC
WTC Health Forum
Free Swim Programs
Washington Market Park Halloween
Parade
McNally Play
New Theater Program
Doggie Costume Party
Greenmarket Apple Day
| Carnival
Time |
Families enjoyed games, cotton
candy and a concert at Washington Market Park’s second
annual carnival, an event to raise funds for park programs like
the Halloween parade, the spring Puppet and Popcorn Festival
and Lady Bug Day.
Posted October
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| Gibberish with Humor and Passion at the
Flea |
“Tango bogo irreversible cheese
slop.” If that makes sense to you, then you’re gonna love “Cellophane,”
Mac Wellman’s giddy Rorschach blot of a play currently enchanting
happily puzzled audiences in the Flea Theater’s miniscule downstairs
space. Much of the piece is a meandering tone poem of language
fragments, some poetic, some gibberish, none with any perceptible
meaning. But whatever Wellman’s lush language-collage may or
may not be about, it is undeniably fascinating.
Posted October 3
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