Sept 11 Memorial & Museum in Progress
Sept 11 Memorial & Museum in Progress
Video slide show of the complex construction of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, where work continues apace for completion on Sept. 11, 2012.
- Sept 11 Memorial & Museum in Progress
- Video slide show of the complex construction of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, where work continues apace for completion on Sept. 11, 2012.
- Testing the Battery Park City Tire Swing
- Officials met on June 14 to decide the fate of a popular piece of play equipment involved in an accident just hours after the opening of West Thames Park.
- ´The Madwoman of Tribeca´
- The Manhattan Youth Players of I.S. 89 perform an adaptation of Jean Giraudoux´s "The Madwoman of Chaillot," with a local, contemporary twist.
- Earth Celebration´s Hudson River Pageant
- A sea of costumed creatures set off from the World Financial Center to raise awareness of the need to restore the Hudson and to address climate change.
- A Spring Crush at City Winery
- Take an up-close look at urban wine making with the staff at City Winery, a hybrid restaurant, winery and music venue just north of Canal Street in Soho.
- Downtown Dance Factory on Stage
- The debut recital for the 17 classes of the Downtown Dance Factory, on the stage of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
- A Record Turnout for ´Taste of Tribeca´
- More than 7,000 people jammed Duane Street on May 15 for the food event, a benefit for two local schools. This was the biggest in Taste´s 16 year history.
- Site Specific: Tracking Progress at the WTC
- What´s happening at the World Trade Center site? Quite a lot, and very little. It depends a great deal on where you look.
- Downtown Little League Kicks Off Its Season
- The Downtown Little League kicked off its 20th season this month with an annual parade from City Hall Park to the Battery Park City ball fields.
- Planning the Future of Governors Island
- The city´s takeover of Governors Island will free up millions of dollars set aside for the 172-acre park´s redevelopment, seen here in artists´ renderings.
- "Give Us A Picture!"
- What´s it like to be a celebrity photographer at the Tribeca Film Festival? For this documentary short the Trib took its own camera to the Red Carpet to find out.
- The Littlest Giants
- The Peanuts are the youngest division of the Downtown Giants football program. The Trib followed the 5- and 6-year-olds as they learned to play tackle football.
- Kindergartners Get Taste of Restaurant Biz
- The kindergarten class at P.S. 150 in Tribeca learned about the restaurant business. At the end of the study they turned their classroom into a working restaurant.
- Pier A: Yesterday and Today
- A historical look at New York´s oldest pier and a tour of its decayed and unrestored interior.
- 2010 ´No Pants Subway Ride´ in New York
- More than 3,000 people citywide braved the elements and shed their pants on Jan. 10, as Improv Everywhere staged its 9th annual ´No Pants Subway Ride.´
- Battery Park City on Ice
- The Ice Theatre of New York and the Skyliners performed for the opening ceremonies of Battery Park City on Ice, a new ice skating rink in Lower Manhattan.
- Fallen Glass at Goldman Sachs Headquarters
- Executives from Goldman Sachs and Tishman Construction meet with Community Board 1 to answer questions about glass that fell from their building.
- Yankees Ticker Tape Parade
- The New York Yankees ticker tape parade in Lower Manhattan celebrating their 2009 World Series victory. An audio slide show.
- In USS New York, WTC Steel Leads the Way
- The USS New York, partly built from steel recovered from the World Trade Center, received a hero´s welcome in the city Nov. 2.
- Did You Hear Something?
- An audio artwork of mysterious tweetings, chirpings and other sounds reverberate from the drainage basins of Battery Park City´s Teardrop Park in New York City.
- 10013: Photos by Donna Ferrato
- A slide show of photographs by Donna Ferrato, who documents her neighborhood, New York City´s Tribeca, in a project she calls
- They Ran for Knowledge
- It was the 10th annual Run for Knowledge in Battery Park City, and this year P.S./I.S. 89 had company.
- Wanna Dance?
- For five days, eight hours a day, Brian Lobel danced non-stop to classic musicals, inviting passersby to join him in his
- New York Remembers September 11, 2001
- Family members gathered in Lower Manhattan to observe the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
- Work begins on East River Park
- The first phase of the city’s massive overhaul of the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan will be complete in 2011.
- Stone by Stone
- Old-world craftsmen pave a newly reconstructed Leonard Street in Tribeca with cobblestones. And they explain how it´s done.
- Bastille Day in Tribeca
- Dancing girls, a Pétanque tournament and even a guillotine were part of the French celebration on West Broadway.
- Poetry and the Brooklyn Bridge
- Poets gathered for their annual walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, in support of the new Poets House home in Battery Park City.
- Rehearsing for Terror Disaster
- Responding to a mock bomb attack on a PATH train, more than 800 emergency personnel converged on the PATH station near the World Trade Center site for a drill.
- Earth Celebration´s Hudson River Pageant
- The Hudson River Pageant set off from Tribeca May 9 for a demonstration of spectacular artistic splendor and ecological warning.
- 3,000 Fans Celebrate Ninja Turtle Anniversary
- Thousands of fans turned out to
- Hundreds in Tribeca Vie for Spider-Man Role
- Hundreds lined up outside the former Knitting Factory on Leonard Street, to audition for roles in a new musical based on the escapades of Spider-Man.
- PS 150 Tots Rake in Dough with Class Bakery
- Students in Becky Swain´s class at P.S. 150 recently got down to business. The bakery business.
- Ferries Now Docking at New BPC Terminal
- Ten times the size of its predecessor, the Port Authority´s new $36 million ferry terminal in Battery Park City is now in service.
- South Ferry Subway Stop Open Downtown
- No more "Please move to the first five cars of the train" as the MTA opens its $530 million South Ferry subway station near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
- Friday Night Fever at P.S. 234
- Teaching artists from the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater visited P.S. 234 in Tribeca for a Friday evening of dance instruction and fun.
- I.S. 89 Students Take On Real World Issues
- The Lower Manhattan-based Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra had a grand setting—the World Financial Centers Winter Garden—for its debut performance.
- I.S. 89 Students Take On Real World Issues
- Eighth graders from I.S. 89 took part in a political
- Lower Manhattan Celebrates Obama´s Oath
- From Trinity Church to City Hall to school auditoriums and cafes, thousands gathered all around Lower Manhattan to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama.
- Crippled Jet´s Stay in Battery Park City
- The Trib´s photo coverage of the cripped jetliner that crash landed in the Hudson river and spent days floating off the Battery Park City esplanade.
- Survivor Stairs Move to WTC Museum Site
- More than three years before the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum is due to open to the public, its first artifact was hoisted into place.
- Ellis Island Hospital Awaits Restoration
- Not far from the meticulously restored Ellis Island Immigration Museum is the island´s former hospital, a piece of its history that visitors never see.
- Tribeca Senior Center Alive with Dance
- For three weeks in December, more than a dozen women in their late 60s, 70s and 80s met for dance classes at Independence Plaza.
- Run for Knowledge benefit for P.S./I.S. 89
- Scampering sneakers and squealing children, by the hundreds, returned to Battery Park City on Sept. 19 for the annual mile-long run to upper Rockefeller Park.
- Seven Years Gone: Remembering 9/11
- The Tribeca Trib´s collection of images and interviews from the 7th Anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York.
- Sad Swinging End to Beloved Café
- Franklin Station Café closed in August 2008 after 15 years, but it did not go gently into that good night.
- Dancing in City Hall Park
- City Hall Parkgoers used to the usual lunch-hour crowd got something different on summer day. Take the guy with fake mustache and breasts for starters.
- Municipal Building is a Stage for Dance
- Choreographer Risa Jaraslow conducts interviews about civic affairs as her dancers leap about at 1 Centre Street.
- Community Rallies Against NYPD Bunker
- A group of Chinatown residents say they´re willing to take the NYPD to court if it doesn´t reconsider plans for a counter-intelligence bunker near its headquarters.
- Macbeth Pays a Visit to Battery Park
- New York Classical Theatre´s production of Macbeth transported Shakespeare´s tragic characters from the castles of a war-torn Scotland to Castle Clinton.
- Winter Garden Is Turned Into Star And Stage
- Forty volunteers, ages 10 to 75, sprinted, crawled, traipsed or marched their way around the Winter Garden in three performances.
- City Hall Park Users Comment on Bike Path
- Neighborhood residents and frequent users of City Hall Park shared their thoughts on the Department of Transportation´s recently installed bike path through the park.
- Collectors Peruse Music Archive´s Sale
- Thousands of discophiles dug through box after box of vinyl albums and singles at the ARChive of Contemporary Music´s nine-day sale.
- Dancers ´Face´ Off in Wagner Park
- Set to Elvis Presely, Monica Bill Barnes and Co. turned Wagner Park into their own personal playground during their original performance, entitled
- FDNY Marks Deutsche Fire Anniversary
- City and Fire Department officials gathered at the former station house of two firefighters killed in the Deutsche Bank blaze in 2007.
- Robert DeNiro defends his hotel
- Even a performance from Robert DeNiro couldn´t convince city officials to give developers a pass on illegal construction at the actor´s $43 million hotel.