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City Rejects Residents' Appeal on Fuel Storage |
Posted Oct. 18
Three hearings, a high profile lawyer, and several years down the line, the city's verdict is in on the more than 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel stored at The Western Union building at 60 Hudson Street. It stays.
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Tour Buses Without Parking in WTC Memorial Plans
Posted Oct. 20
When the World Trade Center Memorial opens in September 2009, millions of tourists are expected to visit in the months that follow, and many of them will arrive by bus. But it will take at least two more years before there are any parking spaces for all those buses, say Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials.
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A Clash of Visions in Seaport's Peck Slip |
Posted Oct. 18
A battle is taking shape in the South Street Seaport, over one of the city’s most precious commodities: open space. Peck Slip, a wide-open area paved with 19th century Belgian blocks, is slated for conversion as part of the East River waterfront redevelopment project. Factions are forming as the area, currently a parking lot, heads for rehabilitation.
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Public Market a Possibility in the Seaport |
Posted Oct. 12
Jill Slater and Robert LaValva walked over the rounded paving stones of Front Street, past the newly renovated buildings there, and into the shadowed reaches under the FDR. They peered through gates into the concrete interiors of buildings where fishmongers once plied their trade. But for Slater and LaValva, what they see is eclipsed by a vision of what could be there—a bustling indoor market.
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War Over License Transfer
for Buster’s Garage |
Posted Oct. 2
On one side are the owners, employees and patrons of the sports bar, a two-story space that featured “Bucket O’ Beers” specials, $10 all-you-can-drink happy hours, and private parties with open-bar packages known as “lube jobs.” On the other side are the neighbors, most of whom live next to the garage at 18 Leonard St.
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Residents Fear Resumption of Pile Driving |
Posted Oct. 2
Her apartment shook so, that Marcy Brafman thought she might be experiencing her first earthquake. In Vincent Lacata’s Greenwich Street loft, vases fell from shelves. Around the corner on Watts Street, Arne Svenson watched items slide across a table “like ‘Poltergeist.’" Now the neighbors are bracing themselves for what could be another round of pile driving at 475 Greenwich Street.
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Permit Sought To Convert Office Tower |
Posted Oct. 2
The 29-story tower at 401 Broadway is an anomaly in Tribeca and, increasingly, a scarce commodity in Lower Manhattan. It is an office building.
But not for long. Like so many commercial buildings in Lower Manhattan, 401 Broadway is headed for residential conversion.
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Hunger 'Field Station' Picked For BPC Building
Posted Oct. 2
The international relief organization Mercy Corps has been chosen to open a World Hunger Education Center at the base of a new luxury condominium building in the north end of Battery Park City.
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Paul Goldstein Leaves CB1
Post After 23 Years |
Posted Oct. 2
Last month, Paul Goldstein, 51, announced that he is leaving the district manager post that, to those familiar with Community Board 1, is synonymous with him. On Oct. 9 he goes to work as the director of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s district office in Manhattan.
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A Gathering of ‘Angels’
on Reade Street |
Posted Oct. 2
Sometimes saying “thank you” just isn’t enough. Not, at least, to friends who cooked for you and cared for your child when you couldn’t. Or to someone who lent their apartment when you needed one. And certainly not to the doctor who saved your life. Last month Moira North and her husband Jay Colton, who live on Chambers Street, threw a party for those who did all that and more.
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At WTC Tribute Center, They Come To Learn And Remember
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Posted Oct. 2
The newly opened Tribute WTC Visitor Center at 120 Liberty Street makes no attempt to assign the Sept. 11 attacks a place in the arc of history. Events are instead presented in human terms—through the words of survivors, the crackly, futile transmissions of firefighters, and heartbreaking footage from the “pile.” |
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Sept. 11 Anniversary is Observed in Many Ways
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Posted Oct. 2
Last month, the Trib presented snapshots of daily life along the perimeter of the World Trade Center site. This month’s stories are from Sept. 11, 2006. It was not, of course, a day like any other. |
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500 Lb. Pumpkin Arrives Unannounced
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Posted Oct. 2
The guys at the Engine 7 Ladder 1 firehouse are used to receiving gifts. But nothing rivals their latest acquisition—an elaborately carved, 500-pound pumpkin. |
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Faces On The Bus
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Posted Oct. 3
On a day of endless tributes, Bruce Gorman’s stood out. For the fifth anniversary of 9/11, he brought a converted bus plastered with 2,876 photos of the victims and parked it on Cedar Street near the World Trade Center site. |
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Coming: New ‘Rotary’ Sculpture
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Posted Oct. 3
A new sculpture may soon grace the Holland Tunnel Rotary, empty since the seven-story “Joi de Vivre” was relocated in 2003. |
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Wally's World
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Posted Oct. 3
In recent years, Tribeca artist Barbara Siegel has created installations about unusual people. There’s a piece inspired by bearded ladies, and one about a widow who lives permanently aboard the QE2, and then there is a work recognizing the late Melvin Burkhart, aka “Human Blockhead,” who was famous for hammering nails up his nose. But of all her subjects, it is Hector G. Wallace whom she calls a friend. |
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Beach Beneath The Bridge |
Posted Oct. 5
The stretch of shoreline along the East River Waterfront directly beneath the Brooklyn Bridge is shorter than a city block. Still, enough sand, water, seagulls, driftwood and oyster shells are scattered about to satisfy almost everyone’s definition of a beach. When the tide is out there is room for dozens of umbrellas, even a volleyball net or two.
Yet, the Brooklyn Bridge Beach, as some locals call it, is a lonely place. Even on hot summer “beach” days, few footprints are to be found in the sand.
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RATS! |
LMCC FUNDRAISER |
'IT'S MY PARK!' DAY |
Are rats running around your street? Community Board 1 wants to know about it. The board’s Quality of Life Committee recently sent a list of 14 Lower Manhattan rodent “hot spots” to the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, requesting assistance in dealing with the problem. In its ongoing effort to vanquish the vermin, CB1 would like to hear from the public about rodent-infested areas. To contact the board, e-mail nyccb1@aol.com. Afflicted residents should also call 311.
A PARK HALLOWEEN |
The annual Washington Market Park Halloween parade and party returns Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 3-5 p.m. Toddlers are invited to enjoy activities in the park beginning at 3 p.m. Older children should line up for the costume parade on Greenwich and North Moore at 3:50 p.m. The band "Paprika" will lead the parade down the Greenwich Street sidewalk and into the park. Activities will include music, games, crafts, and pony rides. Festivities are sponsored by Friends of Washington Market Park.
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The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will host their annual fall benefit Nov. 8, from 7-10 p.m. at the new Armani Casa designed residences at 20 Pine Street. Entitled “Games People Play,” the fundraiser will have a Clue theme. There will be cocktails and games, including Pictionary with a famous artist, Trivial pursuit and putt putt. For more information, contact Liz. Gilchrist at 212-219-9401 x121.
SEAPORT SPOOKS |
Celebrate “Halloween at Sea,” South Street Seaport Museum's annual festival, from 12-5 p.m. on Oct. 28 and 29, aboard the sailing ship Peking. Activities will include face painting, crafts, games, spooky stories, a Mad Science laboratory, and a haunted maze. Admission is $5. For more details, call 212-748-8757. |
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Two local parks—Washington Market Park and City Hall Park—will celebrate “It’s My Park Day” on Oct. 21. Kids are invited to bring gardening gloves to Washington Market Park and help Billy, the gardener, plant 10,000 bulbs for the spring. Billy will give a gardening lesson at noon at the gazebo, before beginning the planting.
City Hall Park activities begin at 1 p.m. and will include a “Family Chalk-in” (sidewalk chalk provided) from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and a two-hour historical walking tour with professional guide Paul Rush beginning at 1 p.m. Chess master Aleksandar Rasic will give free chess lessons at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. At 2 p.m. there will be a rally to support more parks in Lower Manhattan.
TORCHLIGHT TOUR |
Tour historic Schermerhorn Row on Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. Get a behind-the-scenes look at areas not yet open to the public, including rooms from the Fulton Ferry Hotel made famous by Joseph Mitchell's "Up in the Old Hotel." Admission is $15, reservations required. Call 212-748-8786. The tour is sponsored by the South Street Seaport Museum. |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FIREWORKS: NOT A PAIN IN THE EAR |
A CITY DEVOURED BY THE HIGHEST BIDDER |
MOVE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THEN
REOPEN THE PARK
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To the Editor,
While I sympathize with the residents whose lives are disturbed by fireworks, (“Fireworks Set Off Sparks of Anger in BPC,” Sept. Trib), I can’t help but be jealous. I would give anything to be able to see a show like those described in your article every single night of my life. Each time I hear that familiar boom in my apartment, I grab my son and race to the roof, hoping to catch just a glimpse.
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To the Editor:
The sign on the southeast corner of Chambers Street and West Broadway, will soon be disappearing behind, it is rumored, a new hotel. When it is gone it will no longer serve to remind those of us who have lived in the neighborhood for most of our adult lives of some establishments that once made this area such a vibrant, if ungentrified, place.
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To the Editor:
I just read the article about the 76-story tower that Forest City Ratner is building in the New York Downtown Hospital parking lot.
As a resident of 140 Nassau Street I am very concerned about how this will change our lives, yes, but also I am mystified how it can be legal.
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AN UNWELCOME AD BLITZ IN TRIBECA |
To the Editor:
Tribeca is transforming before our eyes, and the new construction and scaffolding has brought an unpleasant addition to our neighborhood: a blitz of advertising. Building sites are now screaming products from every square inch of available scaffolding space. |
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To the Editor:
Skip Blumberg’s heart is in the right place but we don’t need to build a new City Hall to re-open City Hall Park. (See Letters, Sept. Trib.) A terrorist with a backpack bomb could not seriously damage City Hall unless he was in it, so the park and the closed-off street in front of City Hall could be re-opened to pedestrian traffic without any loss of security.
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FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH NOT SOJOURNER'S
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To the Editor:
The Tribeca Trib does the most fascinating articles about Downtown’s history. One of the joys of living Downtown is seeing the area in New York’s history.
So thanks for September’s rare article, “Sojourner’s Church: The Nation’s First African-American Church in Tribeca.” This story of one of Tribeca’s colonial residents, Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist born into slavery, shows the varied ancestors who have occupied New York’s neighborhoods.
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