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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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| A Festive But Chilly BPC Block
Party |
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If there were a moment when Battery Park City
residents could feel with certainty that autumn had arrived
on their well-manicured shore, perhaps it came Oct. 16, around
two in the afternoon. It was then that a strong blast of cool,
wet wind howled through the valley of Vesey Street, closed to
traffic for the afternoon and hosting hundreds of people for
the annual Battery Park City block party.
Posted October 20
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| Visions of East River Waterfront Unveiled |
The city planners and architects who are reinventing
the East River waterfront envision wide platforms of green space
built out onto the water--and residential towers cantilevered
over the FDR Drive to help pay for them.
Posted October 11 |
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| Way
Cleared for Huge Development |
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A deal reached last month between
community representatives and the city will bring the most sweeping
changes to the face of Tribeca since the construction of Independence
Plaza North 30 years ago.
Posted October 3
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| Hopeful News But Questions About New Schools |
With the Downtown school population booming,
the commitment by the city last month to create two new schools
was welcome news.
Here is what is known about the new schools, and some questions
yet to be answered.
Posted October 6 |
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| Park Group Fears City’s New
Control |
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Washington Market Park board worries
about Parks Department role in funds and oversight.
Posted October 3
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| At IPN Building, Danger from
Above |
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Near-tragic incidents involving
falling objects in front of 80 North Moore Street have residents
on the look out.
Posted October 3
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| ‘Gimme Shelter’ Say Bus-Riding
Seniors |
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In Battery Park City, a building
manager has blocked a groups bid to get a bus shelter installed
on the sidewalk.
Posted October 3
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| Building on Hospital Site
to Be 75 Stories |
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Developer Bruce Ratner has plans
to build a 75-story apartment building on the lot next to NYU
Downtown Hospital at Beekman, William, Spruce and Nassau streets.
That is 20 more stories than he first proposed five months ago
and a galling prospect for those who live nearby.
Posted October 3
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| Program Cuts at I.S. 89 in Wake of PTA
Funding Crisis |
Faced with a dwindling of funds that is threatening
school programs, the PTA of I.S. 89 is sending out an S.O.S.
to parents for donations and fundraising volunteers.
Posted October 3 |
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| Falling Glass Is Surprise Hazard at 130
Liberty St. |
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation released
an initial environmental study last month that confirmed high
levels of contaminants in the former Deutsche Bank building
at 130 Liberty Street, whose “deconstruction” is to begin later
this year.
Posted October 3 |
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| Hoopster Farewell |
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It was a perfect day for basketball.
The kind of bright and warm Sunday that Leila Constable knew
would have meant one thing to her late son Damian—a game on
the courts in Rockefeller Park. 
Posted October 3
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A Bridge Escalator Reaches The Top—But Not
the Bottom
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At the foot of the stairs at the
Vesey Street Bridge, which spans West Street, security guard
Lamar Robinson fields questions daily about the recently installed
escalator. “‘What the hell?’” is the most common, Robinson said.
“They say it in all kinds of different ways, but that’s what
they mean when they see this escalator.”
Posted October 3
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| Mouths Find Freedom In Big
Megaphone |
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The 15-foot, candy- red megaphone
in Foley Square is an art installation, of course—a statement
about the expressive power of the individual. It's also an open
invitation to express your First Amendment right to say something
goofy.
Posted October 3
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| Theater Festival to Include Evenings of
9 Short Plays |
The people who brought you the Tribeca Film Festival
are raising the curtain this month on live theater.
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| Battery Dance Company
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When choreographer Jonathan
Hollander sets his sights on a new work, he rarely looks
back. He will commission a new score, call on the talents
of far-flung guest artists, and craft solo pieces for
the newest members of the Battery Dance Company, where
he is artistic director, in an effort to bring out the
unexpected.
But his latest work, which premieres this month at the
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, is decidedly different.
This time, he has drawn on his past.
"It's a real departure for me," Hollander said of the
work, a quartet set to Francis Poulenc's 1953 Sonata for
Two Pianos, a piece of music he is familiar with from
childhood. "It's been an unexpected challenge."
The work features solo performances by company dancers
Sean Scantlebury, Lydia Tetzlaff, John Byrne and Nilaya
Sabnis. It premieres with a 1 p.m. performance Oct. 27,
and 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. performances on Oct. 28.
Tickets are $20, $10 for students, and are available by
calling 212-220-1460 or online at www.tribecapac.org
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| Art in the Heart of Downtown |
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Five famed curators are bringing
their eclectic picks to Wall Street. And organizers hope they
bring crowds with them.
Posted October 3
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IN BRIEF
Opposition
to North Tribeca ‘Wall’
Park Board Elections
Annual Loft Tour
Block Party Raincheck
Talk of the Town
Empty Nester Group
Cyclists at the Seaport
Library Book Sale
Halloween Parade
Flu Shot
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