Tribeca Trib Covering Lower Manhattan: October 2007

9/11 Cleaning Workers Battle Illness

After September 11, thousands of cleaning workers removed the dust from offices, apartments, schools, churches, stores and restaurants in Lower Manhattan. Now, six years after they helped the city get back on its feet, many are sick and struggling.

Bouley to Replace Tribeca's Delphi
		Delphi, Tribeca's oldest eatery, will likely end its 37-year run on Oct. 31.

African Burial Monument Opens
		Hundreds gathered to celebrate the opening of the African Burial Ground monument on Duane Street.

Volunteer MDs Aid Asylum Seekers
		Based in the heart of the Financial District, a group helps torture victims remain in the United States.

Last Days of the Lost Station
		After remaining virtually untouched since its destruction on Sept. 11, the Cortlandt Street subway station, one of the last remaining pieces of the original World Trade Center site, is about to be demolished.

Sinkhole Closes Warren Street
		Police closed Warren Street to traffic between Broadway and Church Street Oct. 17 after a broken water main caused a section of the street to collapse.

Titanic Park Gets a Makeover
		New designs are proposed for the South Street Seaport Park as part of an effort to bring new life to the "Fulton Corridor."

WTC Health "Czar" Reports on Treatment and Study Initiatives Jeffery Hon, New York City's new World Trade Center Health Coordinator, briefed Community Board 1 on new studies, treatment programs, and legislative initiatives to help those whose health was affected by September 11.

A Run For Knowledge—and For Fun Nearly 50 students from P.S. and I.S. 89 raced along the Battery Park City waterfront Oct. 5 to raise money for their school’s library in the eighth annual “Run 4 Knowledge.”

“Starchitect” Gets Battery Park Playground Advice from Parents Frank Gehry is donating a design for a one-acre playground in Battery Park. At a recent meeting, parents got their chance to offer suggestions for the site.

Library Designs Designs for a new public library branch in Battery Park City were unveiled at a Community Board Meeting Sept. 4.

Aftermath of the Deutsche Bank Fire After remaining unsealed for more than a month after the Aug. 18 fire, progress is finally being made on the Deutsche Bank Building.

Annual Battery Park City Block Party Ushers In Fall A cool wind out of the north lent an autumn air and just the slightest chill to the sixth annual Battery Park City block party Sept. 16, where hundreds gathered on car-free Vesey Street, outside the World Financial Center, to eat, play, and happily reconnect with neighbors.

Dangerous Intersection Despite requests from Downtown residents, the city has refused to take steps to slow traffic at the intersection of Greenwich and Duane Streets.

Survivors Rooted In Common Ground 9/11 and Oklahoma City bombing survivors unite in a kinship of memory and support.

Street Theater A former Park Row porn shop is turned into a jewelbox theater, and the sidewalk a vaudeville stage.

Goodnight Moon Bunny's bedtime demands are every parent's nightmare, but fortunately Bunny can only be found in the Manhattan Childrens Theatre's captivating production of the kids classic, "Goodnight Moon."

Jumpstart Tribeca kids joined others across the nation last month to read "Ferdinand the Bull"

The Whole of Jewish History and Philosophy in an Hour
A two-part adult education series with renowned lecturer David Solomon. Part One, The Whole of Jewish History in an Hour,Tuesday, Oct. 16 7:30 p.m. Part Two, The Whole of Jewish Philosophy in an Hour, Thursday Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. Both sessions at Tribeca Hebrew, 67 Hudson and 1 Jay St. $40 single session, $75 for the series. Pre-registration is required. For more information, call 212-608-7120

Walk Against Pancreatic Cancer The first Annual Mitchell Berke Memorial will be held Oct. 20 in Battery Park City.

Police Beat The month in crime, straight from the pages of the NYPD 1st Precinct's police log.