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s THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN JUNE 19 - 25, 2009

First and goal for school


space in Sports Museum
BY JULIE SHAPIRO office. He said it was pret-
The Sports Museum of ty much a done deal. It is
America’s loss is Lower unclear when the seats will
Manhattan families’ gain. be ready.
After the museum at 26 The D.O.E. is already
Broadway went bankrupt building school seats in
and closed earlier this year, the lower Broadway office
the Dept. of Education is building for the Urban
stepping in to convert the Assembly School of Business
space into school seats. for Young Women, a high
The city has not signed the school that is moving in this
lease yet, but “We’re very fall. As part of that project,
close to an agreement,” the D.O.E. had long said
D.O.E. spokesperson Will that an additional 250 seats
Havemann said Wednesday. in 26 Broadway would be
Havemann would not con- available to the community.
firm any details about the Now, with the city’s impend-
space or the lease terms, ing acquisition of the Sports
citing the negotiations. Museum space, the 250
The Sports Museum extra seats will rise to 1,000
occupied at least 45,000 seats, Goldstein said.
square feet in 26 Broadway. The new Sports Museum
That space will open up seats space could become a home
for a total of 1,000 students, for the Greenwich Village
said Paul Goldstein, direc- Middle School, which needs
tor of Assembly Speaker to move from its current
Sheldon Silver’s district elementary school building

Continued on page 3

Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess

Children’s Day ended with a crescendo Saturday night as fireworks lit the sky over the South Street Seaport.
The colorful fireworks launched from barges in the East River followed a performance by the Brooklyn
Philharmonic Orchestra and capped a day of free children’s music and theater. Gordon, a familiar face from
“Sesame Street,” hosted the festivities.

The girls of summer


BY JULIE SHAPIRO Alex is one of three girls this year on game…. They’re probably the top play-
It only took one softball game to the Downtown Little League Pirates, ers on the team.”
convince Alex Townes-West to stick to a Minors baseball team in a division Alex, a third-grader at NEST, is one
baseball. dominated by boys. Of about 130 play- of the youngest on the team, but she has
“First of all, they pitched underhand, ers in the division, only six are girls. a strong throw that serves her well when
which I don’t really like,” said Alex, 9, Coaches say this is the first time in she plays third base, parents said. Ava
Downtown Express photos by J.B. Nicholas
her brown ponytail bobbing beneath her recent memory that three girls have Villalba, 9, is the team’s best hitter and
Pirates baseball cap. “The ball doesn’t
come very fast, and sometimes it drops.”
been drafted by a single Minors team.
“All three are excellent athletes,”
she plays shortstop because she thinks
quickly and makes good catches. And
A look at Fiterman
Ducking her head sheepishly, she said of
the other softball players: “I just didn’t
said Paul Kussie, manager of the
Pirates. “They know the game, and
the Pirates’ first draft pick this year was
before the fall
think they were very good.” they seem very passionate about the Continued on page 21 PAGE 5
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NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17

Mixed Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
c over
Seaport Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
It is unusual, but not unprecedented, to have three
SEALING THE ENVELOPE? people vying for the unpaid position, which is intended to
EDITORIAL PAGES . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 Rumors of the Peck Slip Post Office’s demise just help local Democratic legislators stay connected to their
won’t go away, and this week the U.S. Postal Service constituencies, rally the party troops, etc. There’s a male
finally admitted they’re considering closing the Seaport and female leader for each part of an Assembly district.
YOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-25 outpost. None of the candidates had much bad to say about
“It’s one of the options, but no final decision has each other — hey guys, if you run for an office not many
been made,” U.S.P.S. spokesperson Darleen Reid told people know about, can you at least make it fun?
ARTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-31 UnderCover. Newell did say he had wished Silvera had endorsed
The Postal Service is doing a facilities optimization him against Silver. There wasn’t much chance of that
study to see if they can make better use of their spaces, happening, given Silvera has been a loyal Silverado over
Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-31 including the Peck Slip office, Reid said. E-mail and the years. Which brings up another interesting point —
online bill payments have cut into the Postal Service’s Silver has not yet endorsed Silvera. The speaker told us
revenue, with mail volumes plummeting to levels not he’ll wait to see who makes the ballot before weighing
CLASSIFIEDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31 seen since the 1960s, so the U.S.P.S. has to make cuts, in on the race.
Reid said. Newell said it would be good if one of the eight dis-
C.B. 1 Reid expects a decision to come by the end of the trict leaders in Silver’s district did not always agree with

M E E TING S
The upcoming week’s schedule of Community
U.S.P.S. fiscal year Sept. 30.
Meanwhile, UnderCover tipster Paul Hovitz heard
from Peck Slip employees this week who were told that
in September, they would be moving to the much larger
Church St. post office. Hovitz is also hearing that the
the speaker. (Newell did quickly endorsed Silver last year
after losing the primary.)
Newell and Silvera are backing Pete Gleason for City
Council while Turkel is in incumbent Alan Gerson’s
corner.
Board 1 committee meetings is below. Unless other- Peck Slip building was sold, but property records don’t
wise noted, all committee meetings are held at the show a sale. Workers first began delivering the message
board office, located at 49-51 Chambers St., room to Hovitz about the pending closure almost a year ago. CREDIT SQUEEZE
709 at 6 p.m. A developer wants to overhaul the former Citibank head-
quarters at 250 West St. and replace the offices with 105
ON THURS., JUNE 18: The Quality of Life LOST HEARING condos and a rooftop addition — but there’s the small matter
Committee will meet. City Councilmember Alan Gerson does not have any of paying for it.
direct power over the parties mired in a dispute over the Developer Elad Properties sought approval for the chang-
Note: Community Board 1’s monthly meeting future of the World Trade Center site, but usually the es to the historic building from Community Board 1’s
has been postponed until June 30 at 6 p.m. in major players eventually show up to testify at Gerson’s Landmarks Committee last week and plans to go to the city
the Southbridge Towers Community Room at 90 Lower Manhattan Redevelopment hearings. Landmarks Preservation Commission July 7. C.B. 1’s com-
Beekman St. However, when Gerson scheduled a hearing on the mittee gave the project an advisory go-ahead, but the devel-
Trade Center site for June 3, at the outset of the recent oper doesn’t yet have the money to build the project.
tense negotiations over the site’s finances, the Port “Nobody is financing anything,” a candid Yoel Shargian,
Authority begged off, requesting that Gerson move the C.O.O. of Elad Properties, said after the C.B. 1 meeting.
hearing later in the month. Company spokesperson Lloyd Kaplan later added, “It’s
Gerson agreed, on one condition: that Port Authority early on in the process. We haven’t crossed that bridge yet.”
executive director Chris Ward come to the rescheduled Kaplan said the company would not seek financing until
Read the Archives hearing. The Port agreed, and Gerson set a new hearing
date of June 15.
they receive city approval.
It’s been just over a year since the community board saw
But then, as the date approached, Gerson heard from another plan for the building, from developer Coalco New
www.DOWNTOWNEXPRESS.com the Port that Ward would be out of town during the new York. They defaulted on the property, Shargian said.
hearing and wanted to send written testimony. That was
unacceptable to Gerson, so he postponed the hearing
once again, now to June 26 at 10 a.m. WEDDING BUS
“It’s so important to have [Ward] there to answer Jason Sherwood, 39, Downtown Express’s senior mar-
questions,” Gerson said. “To wait one more week made keting consultant, and Meryl Finger, 32, tied the knot
sense.” in Key West Sun., June 14. The lead up to the wedding
UnderCover asked Gerson if Ward had promised to was a wild bus ride — literally. The happy couple took a
SEND YOUR show up to Gerson’s hearing if the major issues about
the site’s future remained unresolved. The parties have
crowded bus down from New York with Finger’s plus-size
burlesque band, the Glamazons. Footage from the ride

Letter to the
spoken very little publicly since negotiations started at and the Orthodox Jewish wedding is expected to air in
the beginning of the month. October on a wedding reality show that Sherwood’s confi-
The Port Authority “made it clear that it was uncon- dentiality agreement forbids him from disclosing. Mr. and

Editor ditional attendance, whether or not they have a deal,”


Gerson said. “It’s not going beyond this month, I assure
Ms. Sherwood are back in the city and are hoping to take
a short honeymoon away from the cameras soon.
you,” he added of his thrice-scheduled hearing. We wish ‘em well. Congrats.
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Paul Newell, who challenged Assembly Speaker Irene Chang, general counsel to the Lower Manhattan
PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR PHONE NUMBER Shelly Silver last year in his first primary in over two
decades, has entered the Downtown Democratic District
Development Corp., missed the L.M.D.C.’s meeting last
week, but Chairperson Avi Schick assured the board that she
leader fray to join a race that already pits incumbent had a very good reason: Chang gave birth to a son, Degan
FOR CONFIRMATION PURPOSES ONLY Adam Silvera against Avram Turkel. Chang Cimino, April 19. Degan, who weighed 7 pounds, 8
“I didn’t know the job was so glamorous,” quipped ounces, was also welcomed into the world by father Paul
Silvera. Cimino.
downtown express June 19 - 25, 2009 3

Education Dept.: Don’t believe what you read


“Anticipated Completion: November guarantee that local children will receive an
2010,” reads the sign in front of P.S./I.S. admissions preference.
276, the new K-8 school rising in southern “We’re the ones who worked so hard to
Battery Park City. have the school built,” Mihok said. “It was
That date will come as a surprise to the supposed to be a neighborhood school in our
many parents who have been watching the neighborhood.”
school’s progress closely and are expecting Mihok’s oldest daughter is finishing fourth
it to open as promised in September 2010, grade at P.S. 89, and he hopes she will attend
not November. But Will Havemann, spokes- sixth grade at P.S./I.S. 276 in 2010.
person for the city Dept. of Education, said Havemann said the D.O.E. would
this week that there’s no cause for concern: decide on 276’s middle school admissions
The School Construction Authority sign is policy over the next year, working with the
incorrect and the school will open on sched- District 2 Community Education Council.
ule, Havemann said. Most middle schools have no geographic
The D.O.E. also had good news for par- preference, yet they end up filling with
ents earlier this month when they said the local students anyway through self-selec-
sixth grade at P.S./I.S. 276 would open in tion, Havemann said.
2010. Previously, the D.O.E. had said the Part of the reason Downtown parents
school would just have kindergarten and want a middle school with preference for
first grade classes in 2010, and the middle their children is that the neighborhood’s
school would not open until those students zoned middle school, Baruch, is up on E.
reached sixth grade in 2015. 21st St., a particularly long trek from south-
Jeff Mihok, who lives across from the ern B.P.C.
new school, is glad the D.O.E. agreed to
open the sixth grade earlier, but he wants a — Julie Shapiro

City about to secure


more school space Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller

The Dept. of Education said this week that P.S./I.S. 276 will open at the beginning
of the 2010 school year in September with a sixth grade, and not in Nov. 2010,
the building that have not yet been spoken despite a sign to the contrary.
Continued from page 1 for, Goldstein said. They could be elemen-
tary, middle or high school seats, he told
because it is overcrowded. The city briefly Community Board 1’s Youth and Education
mulled moving G.V.M.S. temporarily to Committee Tuesday night, and the com-
P.S./I.S. 276, the new Battery Park City mittee members appeared to favor middle
school, but it now appears more likely that school seats.
G.V.M.S. will move to 26 Broadway instead, While the committee members, all local
Goldstein said. parents, appeared grateful that new school
Havemann confirmed the possibility of seats were on the way, they were concerned

50%
G.V.M.S. moving to 26 Broadway and said that the city often forgets about amenities
he would have more information about the like gyms and auditoriums when they carve
use of the new space by the end of the sum- classrooms out of office buildings. Several
mer. The Greenwich Village school needs to
move in fall 2010.
Downtown high schools in office buildings
have no gyms.
UP TO ON SELECT
A move to the Financial District would
likely anger Village parents who have also
“It’s not enough to have the seats,” said
Liat Silberman, a Youth Committee member. MOVING BOXES
been fighting for school space, and had
hoped to find a spot closer to home for the
“There has to be the structure around the
seats.”
All summer long … From now through August 31, 2009
middle school, which presumably would “I don’t think it’s a suitable space,” added
change its name. Ann DeFalco, co-chairperson of the com-
The principal of G.V.M.S. did not return mittee.
295 Greenwich St. (corner of Chambers Street)
calls for comment. Goldstein said he had raised the same New York, NY 10007
The city previously floated moving anoth- concerns with the Dept. of Education, and Tel. 964-5528 Fax. 964-5530
er middle school, I.S. 89, from Battery Park he thinks it would be hard to build large www.mbe.com/usa/MBE2038.htm
City to 26 Broadway, but local parents gathering spaces into 26 Broadway. He said
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Tight security at B.P.C.’s Holocaust museum


BY JARED T. MILLER been parked down the block from the muse-
Security was tighter outside Battery Park um since before the attacks in Washington,
City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage last Friday, according to Aldredge. The increased police
a day after a shooting at the Holocaust presence near the main entrance did, how-
Museum in the nation’s capital. ever, attract some attention.
Wednesday’s shooting at the Holocaust “I hate the outdoor security, but I can
Museum in Washington D.C resulted in the understand,” said senior citizen Jason Cutler,
death of a security guard before the 88-year- a lawyer who works for the New York City
old gunman was shot and critically injured. Law Department’s Office of the Corporation
Though traffic to the Battery Park City muse- Counsel, adding that he felt safe with the
um last Thursday was relatively low, two police added police presence. “You want to make
vehicles and several officers were present on sure nobody gets hurt.”
museum grounds during the day. Police have “They’re certainly communicating that
continued the extra presence this week. they were aware of what was going on,” said
The museum also serves as a memorial to 58-year-old New Jersey resident Mike Boyle,
the Holocaust. Museum visitors and workers about the museum’s decision to increase
present in the area said they felt safe from security. Boyle was chaperoning an 8th grade
a future attack, though most agreed that class trip to the museum Thursday, and said
last week’s events seemed to be an isolated the students had discussed Wednesday’s inci-
incident. dent but did not seem concerned. He said
“Security has always been something that the Hillsborough, N.J. school had con-
that’s important of us since we opened,” sidered the possibility of canceling the trip,
Betsy Aldredge, museum spokesperson, said but ultimately decided that Wednesday’s
last week as she gestured towards the muse- shooting was an isolated occurrence.
um’s airport-style metal detectors and X-ray Others interviewed said they were not
scanner. “We’re open for business, and more worried about the possibility of an attack.
secure than ever.” “It’s a very friendly and nice neighbor-
Aldredge added that the museum hosted hood,” said Alona Kovarskaya, who works
a concert the previous night that drew a nearby on Water St. “There are a lot of tour-
crowd of over 200 people, and that museum ists and parks people. I don’t think anyone Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller

visitors have mainly been reacting positively should be concerned.” Police vehicles outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage last week.
to the enhanced security measures. Besides But making museum visitors feel safe is
the additional vehicles, the N.Y.P.D. main- a top priority for the museum, according to “We want the community to come think what we do is more important now
tains a mobile counterterrorism unit that has Aldredge, especially in light of recent events. support us,” Aldredge said, “Because we than ever.”

Prince Sts. and Anthropologie, 375 W. R. Christopher Asch, 56, was also
Broadway near Broome St. in Soho and advisor of the Battery Park City school’s

POLICE BLOTTER shops on the Upper East Side.


The suspects walked into the shops
with plastic bags lined with aluminum
foil, which obstructs surveillance devices,
quiz bowl team, the cricket team and the
Republican Club until he was reassigned
to a teacher detention center after the
city’s Special Investigator’s office issued
June 18 arraignment. The victim was taken to stuffed the bags with merchandize and a report in May of last year substantiating
Subway stabbing St. Vincent’s hospital with non-life-threaten- walked out, police said. They went from claims by four male students.
Police arrested Maria Marrero, 48, on ing injuries. store to store in a car, according to police. Asch pleaded not guilty at his arraign-
the Downtown platform of the A/C subway The suspects are Marjorie Cedeño, 43; ment last week.
station at Chambers and Church Sts. shortly Armondo Astudillo, 41, Freddy Ornaza, The Daily News and the Post identi-
after 1 p.m. Tues., June 16 and charged her Shoplifting spree 28, and Robert Sandoval, 27. In addi- fied the suspect as member of the North
with assault for stabbing her boyfriend sev- Police arrested three men and a woman tion to the Max Studio and Anthropolgie American Man Boy Love Association.
eral times on his right arm during an argu- from New Jersey on Wed., June 10 and in Soho, they were accused of stealing He is charged with inappropriately
ment. The stabbing with a sharp unknown charged them with shoplifting from eight from Gap, Arden B, Bolton’s, BCBG, and touching the boys on several occasions
instrument occurred at the north end of the clothing boutiques including Max Studio, Chico’s on the Upper East Side. until last February when four students
platform. Marrero was being held pending a 426 W. Broadway between Spring and told school authorities that he grabbed
one boy’s leg and massaged it.
Molesting arrest Richard J. Condon, the special inves-
Police arrested Louis Lanclos, 47, on tigator for the city school system, said
Tuesday afternoon June 9 and charged Asch was separately charged with taking
him with sexually abusing a woman, 76, seven students on an unauthorized trip
in Sara Delano Roosevelt Park on Forsyth to Harvard to participate in a quiz bowl
St. near Delancey St. The suspect grabbed competition. Stuyvesant officials did not
Lilly O’BRIENS the woman’a breasts and buttocks and
put his mouth on her neck, the charge
approve the trip and the parents of one
student who went on the trip made a
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67 Murray Street-NY,NY 10007 pending a July 29 court appearance. system in 1989 and began at Stuyvesant
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is “seeking his termination,” said Margie
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City presses L.M.D.C. over Deutsche money problems


BY JULIE SHAPIRO The L.M.D.C. agreed in principle at the board meeting $225 million, exactly five times the original, $45 million project
The city is worried that a cash shortfall will further delay to give contractor Bovis Lend Lease another $20 million to estimate when the L.M.D.C. bought the building in 2004 for
the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building. complete the project, and the L.M.D.C. said they could need $90 million.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. will run out an additional $10 to $15 million to get the building down. The L.M.D.C. hopes not to have to sink any more public
of money for the project by October and will need up to $35 The L.M.D.C. has not yet identified a source for the funds into the project. Instead, money could come from the
million to finish it, the agency’s leaders said last week. money, and if the L.M.D.C. needs to use more than about Deutsche Bank, the building’s prior insurers and even from
Cas Holloway, special advisor to the mayor, confronted $10 million of its federal funds to cover the shortfall, the Bovis itself, rather than from the L.M.D.C.’s federal funding
Avi Schick, chairperson of the L.M.D.C., about the money allocation will have to go through a 90-day public comment stream, Schick said.
at the L.M.D.C.’s board meeting June 11. period. Given the need for the money in October, Holloway The building’s prior insurers have given $63.5 million
“The payment of contractors on a timely basis is to a pushed Schick to schedule another L.M.D.C. board meeting to the project so far, but Schick said they owe more. The
large extent what drives the manpower that is put on the in July for an update, rather than waiting until August. L.M.D.C. also has several claims against Bovis related to the
job by those contractors,” said Holloway, who is a member “It’s going to be close, and there’s no reason for it to be August 2007 fire in the building that killed two firefighters
of the L.M.D.C.’s board and chief of staff to Deputy Mayor close,” Holloway said of getting the money on time if the and numerous other delays on the project.
Ed Skyler. “I want to make sure we don’t find ourselves in board did not meet again until August. And now the Brooklyn U.S. attorney is investigating
a situation where we have to scramble to ensure we have a Schick continued to hedge, but then Carl Weisbrod, Bovis for overbilling on five New York projects, including
backstop of funds to pay for the work.” another board member, took Holloway’s side, and Schick the Deutsche Bank building and the 9/11 memorial at the
Schick assured Holloway and the other board members immediately agreed to a July meeting. World Trade Center site. James Abadie, head of Bovis’ New
that that would not happen. The mayor and his staff have repeatedly advocated for York office, resigned Monday.
“We will definitely not get caught short,” Schick said. closing the L.M.D.C. and transferring its functions to the As a result of the probe, Schick expects to get money back
David Emil, L.M.D.C. president, later added, “Believe city, though that does not appear likely to happen soon from Bovis, but he said it may make sense for the L.M.D.C. to
me, we do not want to get into a situation where there is a because it is opposed by the governor. front the cash and then fight it out with the lawyers later on.
cash problem.” With the new cost increase of up to $35 million, the total cost
But Holloway remained unconvinced. to clean and demolish the Deutsche Bank building could reach Continued on page 6

A tour before
Fiterman’s
takedown
One month ago, anyone who entered Fiterman Hall had
to don hazmat gear. A month from now, the demolition of the
building will be underway.
But last Thursday, in the narrow window between cleaning
the building and demolishing it, the project managers led a
tour of the empty structure. A former Borough of Manhattan
Community College classroom building, the 15-story Fiterman
Hall was heavily damaged on 9/11 by the collapse of 7 World
Trade Center.
Fiterman Hall is scheduled to begin coming down in the
first week of July and contractors expect the building to be
gone by October.
Evidence of the building’s former life is all but gone now,
with little remaining but concrete floor plates, exposed col-
Downtown Express photos by J.B. Nicholas
umns and dangling light bulbs. Fences enclosed in netting
mark off debris chutes, and a rebuilt fire stairwell cuts through
the empty floors. On the south side of the building, termed
the “gash area,” twisted steel and crumbled concrete show the
impact 7 W.T.C. had when it tore off part of Fiterman Hall’s
facade.
The collapse of 7 W.T.C. literally rocked the building, said
Benn Lewis, vice president of Airtek Environmental Corp., the
project’s environmental consultant. Many of the steel connec-
tors that joined the building’s beams buckled under the pres- Assembly Speaker Sheldon
sure, and it would have cost more money to repair the building Silver last week toured
than to take it down, Lewis said. Fiterman Hall, the college
Looking out over the gash area onto the park in front of 7 building badly damaged
W.T.C., Lewis said the sprawling view will be similar to the one on 9/11. The long-awaited
from the double-height lounges Pei Cobb Freed designed for demolition is expected to
the new building, which will open in 2012. begin next month and end
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who organized the tour in October.
for his Fiterman Hall community advisory council, said he was
impressed by the progress.
“Next time we will see an empty lot here, hopefully in
November,” he said after the tour.

— Julie Shapiro
6 June 19 - 25, 2009 downtown express

L.M.D.C. puts laptops and frogs on principals’ menus


BY JULIE SHAPIRO schools a chance, the L.M.D.C. set aside
It isn’t every day that the Lower $4.5 million of the community enhancement
Manhattan Development Corp. is referred money in 2007 and said they would run a
to as “the cavalry,” but this week Millennium new, highly publicized application process.
High School principal Robert Rhodes had That was supposed to take months, but it
reason to make the comparison. wound up taking years.
To the delight of Rhodes and other Part of the reason for the delay is that the
Downtown principals, the L.M.D.C. is mak- L.M.D.C. initially tried to funnel the money
ing good on its three-year-old promise to give through the Dept. of Education, which did
out grants to local schools. Under the pro- not work, L.M.D.C. President David Emil
gram, the 51 public schools below Houston said at a recent board meeting. This year,
St. will each receive up to $100,000 this sum- the L.M.D.C. decided to work with the non-
mer to spend on technology and supplies. The profit Fund for Public Schools instead.
L.M.D.C. unveiled the details of the program “It’s better late than never,” said Alice
in meetings with principals this week. Hom, principal of P.S. 124. Three years ago,
“I am a very ecstatic principal,” Rhodes Hom applied for a grant to redo her gym’s
said after one of the meetings. “I went in floor, which is made of concrete covered in
with a wish list, and I came out feeling like tile. Hom would still like to use the L.M.D.C.
everything on the wish list is a possibility.” grant money for the gym, and to repair the
Rhodes plans to use the money to upgrade stage in the auditorium, but those projects
Millennium’s computer, science and photog- are not eligible under the new rules. She
raphy equipment, and he also wants to buy will likely use the money for SmartBoards
new furniture to serve his rapidly growing instead.
school. The money will be particularly help- The new L.M.D.C. grants cover only Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert
ful this year, as school budgets are squeezed physical supplies, not capital improvements Downtown school officials pored over Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and
and Millennium takes on extra students, or staff salaries, said Angela Rossi, director Fund for Public Schools materials Wednesday. Schools below Houston St. can apply
Rhodes said. of projects and programs for L.M.D.C. To for up to $100,000 worth of school supplies, including $140 for a preserved frog
Rhodes first applied for an L.M.D.C. apply, principals will select the items they to dissect.
grant three years ago, when the development want from an online catalogue of approved
corporation was giving out $45 million in vendors, cobbling together a shopping list the sooner they will get the items. The sup- as she flipped through the application
community enhancement funds. But most that totals $100,000. The Fund for Public plies could arrive as early as September and materials.
schools Downtown didn’t know about the Schools will accept applications from July 2 will definitely arrive by the end of the year, “We need everything,” she said of her
grants, and very few applied. To give more to Sept. 1, and the sooner principals apply, Rossi said. brand-new school.
At the meetings with principals this week, Some principals said they had hoped
the L.M.D.C. handed out a sample form for more flexibility in the grants, but the
showing what $100,000 can buy. Among L.M.D.C. has to follow strict federal stan-
This could be you! other items, one school could get three
SmartBoards ($14,400 each), three 37-inch
dards and it can be time-consuming to
comply with them. Having the schools order
TVs ($890 each), 24 laptops ($1,300 each), from a menu of items will allow the money
two fingerprinting kits ($700 each) to study to go out as quickly as possible, said Avi
forensics and 10 preserved frogs for dissec- Schick, L.M.D.C. chairperson.
tion ($140 each). Maggie Siena, principal of P.S. 150, said
All the existing public schools below she looked forward to taking time over the
Houston St. are eligible, and the two new summer to pick out the supplies teachers
schools opening in Lower Manhattan can and parents want, likely including technol-
apply as well. Nancy Harris, principal of ogy and gym equipment.
the Spruce Street School, which will open “It’s shopping — it’s fun,” she said.
with just kindergarten classes this fall,
looked both pleased and overwhelmed Julie@DowntownExpress.com

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disrupt work at the Deutsche Bank.
Continued from page 5 Schick also spoke to Bellaman about
the recent accidents at the building, which
“We need to get the building down first prompted two massive responses by the Fire
before any of that,” he said of the legal Dept. in one week after pieces of equipment

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wrangling. malfunctioned.
Robert Harding, a board member, said At the meeting with Bellaman, Schick
the L.M.D.C.’s legal analysis of the Bovis said he reiterated “the need to have their best
investigation was lagging, and Schick agreed people on the job,” a refrain that many took
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Opportunities as low as $99.
with Michael Bellaman, Bovis’ United States floor and the facade is removed down through
C.E.O., at Bellaman’s request. the sixth floor. The L.M.D.C. expects to begin
Manhattan Sailing School “He said Bovis is committed to getting demolition in the middle of July and finish by
www.sailmanhattan.com to the bottom of it, whatever that means,” the middle of January 2010.
212-786-0400 Schick said of the investigation. Bellaman
committed that the investigation would not Julie@DowntownExpress.com
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Chinese museum’s new center


to open next week
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
Four years ago, Charles Lai huddled
over scraps of paper with architect Maya
Lin, planning the Museum of Chinese in
America’s expansion.
Hundreds of details and decisions later,
the museum’s new Centre St. space will
open for the first time next Friday morning,
June 26.
“We are all extremely excited,” said Lai,
the museum’s executive director. “There’s a
vision, an image of what it could look like,
and then on a daily basis over the last several
years, bit by bit it’s coming to reality.”
The 14,000-square-foot space on Centre
St. a block north of Canal St. is six times
0C7:27<54=@/63/:B673@B=;=@@=E bigger than the museum’s current Mulberry
St. location. Lin’s design, featuring bronze,
earthy tones and natural materials, includes
New York Downtown Hospital is a center of excellence for galleries, a courtyard, interactive kiosks and
Wellness and Prevention, inpatient and ambulatory care, and a 100-steat auditorium. The building is aim-
aleader in the field of emergency preparedness. ing for a LEED Silver rating. Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller
Next Friday will mark the “soft opening” A worker opens a package to the Museum
You will find an efficient and effective health care experience of the museum’s new space, where construc- of Chinese in America’s large new center
tion is about 95 percent complete. The per-
at New York Downtown Hospital and will have the best of both manent collection won’t be done until early
at 215 Centre St. The $15 million space
will open in part next Friday and the
worlds: the support of your own private physician along with the August, and MoCA will hold a larger grand museum expects the entire project to be
latest developments in preventive care and specialty services. opening Sept. 22. But Lai decided to open done in August.
the museum as early as possible so the com-
munity can begin using it this summer. is working hard to finish raising the $15 mil-
Our Wellness and Prevention Team provides a broad range of On July 1, the Chinatown Film Project lion necessary to construct and operate the
services including a Women’s Health Program, dedicated to the will premiere at the museum, featuring 10 expanded space.
prevention and treatment of medical conditions that are common short films that present different visions of While the big picture of the finances is
the neighborhood. Later in the month, MoCA never far from Lai’s mind, this week he was
to women; digital mammography; comprehensive non-invasive will host more screenings as part of the Asian consumed with getting the space ready for
cardiovascular assessment; and cancer screening and detection American International Film Festival. the opening.
through Downtown Hospital’s affiliate, the Strang Cancer An event Lai is particularly excited about The museum’s main floor consists of gal-
is the first Asian American ComiCon on July leries that center around an interior court-
Prevention Center. 11. The daylong conference at MoCA will yard Lin left largely untouched. As visitors
explore the role of Asians in both histori- look through windows onto the courtyard,
Bringing the latest medical research,most up-to-date screening cal and contemporary cartoons and graphic they will also see short films about Chinese
techniques,and the newest technological advancements to novels. Speakers will include artist Bernard Americans projected onto the glass.
theheart of Lower Manhattan, our Wellness and Prevention Team Chang, who recently illustrated Wonder In the museum’s entrance, Lin designed
Woman, and Larry Hama, a writer and edi- a Journey Wall composed of hundreds of
will advise you on how to preserve your single most important tor for Marvel Comics. bronze tiles. Each will have a donor’s name
asset… your good health! This is our commitment to you. MoCA will kick off the summer program- and his or her country of origin and current
ming with free admission June 26-28, and hometown, to show personal journeys.
throughout the summer Target is sponsoring Lin will speak about the museum’s design
free admission on Thursdays. The rest of the at the 10 a.m. opening next Friday.
time, adult tickets will be $7 and seniors and Starting June 26, MoCA will be open at
students will be $4. 215 Centre St. Saturdays and Sundays 10
MoCA, like many nonprofits, has faced a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays and Fridays 11 a.m.
financial problems as the economy wors- to 5 p.m. and Thursdays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
ened over the past year. Lai dismissed two For more information, visit mocanyc.org or
workers and left several positions unfilled call 212-619-4785.
since last fall, and remaining staff took a 5
percent pay cut this spring. Lai said the staff Julie@DowntownExpress.com
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‘Fitting tribute’ for


Police Museum’s hall
BY JULIE SHAPIRO architects wanted to convey solemnity
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Police Museum is a bare white room, with A kiosk sponsored by American Express At Prospect Park Residence, you’ll find the comforts of
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“It’s adequate in some ways,” said Architects from Perkins+Will donated
Manche Mitchell, an associate with the over 750 hours to the project in the past
architects Perkins+Will. “But I don’t think year and a half, the firm said. s(OUR/N SITE,ICENSED(OME#ARE!GENCY
it acts as a memorial or affects you emo- The museum began raising money for s,ICENSED0RACTICAL.URSES
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of the N.Y.P.D. who have Former city police commissioner Howard sessentia®ˆ!3ECURE-EMORY
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made the ultimate sacrifice.’ um’s president, also attended.
This year, the Police Museum is cel-
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Heroes sometime next year. Bose said. In 1973, the First Precinct
“If I do nothing else while I’m here, moved to its current headquarters on
this project is most important,” Bose said.
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2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

St. Vincent’s Manhattan - O’Toole Building McBurney YMCA


36 7th Avenue (12th and 13th Street), 5th Floor 125 West 14th Street (6th and 7th Avenue)
Tuesday, June 23 and Wednesday, June 24 Sunday, June 28
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center


325 West 15th Street (8th and 9th Avenue)
Wednesday, June 24
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Daily News Building


450 West 33rd Street (9th and 10th Avenue)
Wednesday, June 24
11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association


Benevolence Association
62 Mott Street
Friday, June 26
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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downtown express June 19 - 25, 2009 13

Opponents of truck garage tower still push for alternatives


BY ALBERT AMATEAU One site, which extends between W. 50th Washington, assistant director of Friends of charged that the settlement of the Friends
The Hudson Square Sanitation Steering and W. 51st Sts. between 11th and 12th Hudson River Park who also attended the lawsuit, which forced Sanitation to propose
Committee last week showed the Department Aves., includes a parking lot owned by Gary June 12 meeting. Washington noted that the three-district Spring St. project, was in
of Sanitation the details of its Hudson Spindler, an ally of the steering committee the Friends’ report on Pier 76 two years ago effect an unlawful change in the Hudson River
Rise plan for a scaled-back, two-district willing to sell the property to the city for a indicated there was space on the pier for a Park’s legislation. The suit also charged that
Sanitation garage with a park on top at single-district D.O.S. garage, as well as a the department’s decision to locate the three-
Spring and Washington Sts. marine waste-transfer station, plus the auto district garage at Spring St. was arbitrary and
The community-friendly Hudson Rise tow pound that currently occupies the pier that the department failed to conduct a good-
plan, however, depends on Sanitation’s across from the Javits Convention Center. faith review of an alternative at Block 675, a
agreeing to remove District 5 garbage trucks Sanitation officials refused The Friends, a park advocacy group, settled site at W. 30th St. at 11th Ave.
from the city-approved plan for a three-dis- a lawsuit in 2005 calling for D.O.S. to get its The city responded last week saying that
trict Spring St. garage. Hudson Rise calls for to consider a garage at the Districts 2, 4 and 5 trucks off the Gansevoort Sanitation reviewed potential alternatives,
developing the UPS-owned Spring St. site to Peninsula between Gansevoort and Little W. but the list did not include the two alterna-
accommodate only Sanitation trucks serving tow pound. 12th Sts. so that the 8-acre peninsula would tives currently under consideration. The
Districts 1 and 2 — Greenwich Village and be ready for park use by the end of 2012. The city’s response also said that challenging the
Lower Manhattan. settlement called for significant payments by 2005 settlement of the Friends of Hudson
Phil Mouquinho, a steering committee Sanitation to the Hudson River Park Trust, River Park’s suit was years too late. The set-
member who attended the June 12 meeting District 5 garage, Mouquinho said. The loca- the city-state agency building the 5-mile-long tlement challenge should have been brought
that included Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler and rep- tion, however, includes two other adjacent riverfront park, if Sanitation remains on the within four months of its signing, not three
resentatives of City Council Speaker Christine properties that might have to be acquired for peninsula beyond 2012. and a half years, the city said.
Quinn, reported that Department of Sanitation the department’s use. The Friends would be willing to forgo The property owners’ action against
officials said they would look at the Hudson The other alternative for District 5 trucks the payments after 2012 if D.O.S. needed D.O.S. was originally before State Supreme
Rise plan and would respond to it this week. is in the Riverside South property on W. more time to find an alternative to Spring Court Justice Edward Lehner. But in April
The Hudson Rise plan calls for a two-dis- 60th St., now owned by the residential devel- St. for its District 5 trucks, Washington city attorneys moved to transfer the case
trict Spring St. D.O.S. garage no taller than oper Extell. Sanitation officials said Extell’s said. He added, however, that the Friends to State Supreme Court Justice Michael
75 feet. The city’s plan for a three-district plans for five buildings comprising 3 million would want a time limit on any suspension Stallman, who brokered and signed the
garage calls for a 120-foot-tall building. Both square feet at the site is currently undergoing of payment. settlement of the Friends’ lawsuit against
plans would allow UPS, the current owner of the city’s uniform land use review procedure, “We would not sign off on an open-ended Sanitation.
the lot, to continue using the site as a holding or ULURP. Mouquinho said it appeared suspension,” he said. The coalition of property owners agreed
area for its delivery garage on Greenwich St. Extell was unwilling to alter the project to Earlier this year, a coalition of property with the transfer to Stallman, even though
Mouquinho said also that D.O.S. officials accommodate a District 5 garage. owners in Hudson Square and Tribeca filed a their case is partly based on challenging the
indicated last Friday that the department had Department officials on Friday refused lawsuit challenging Sanitation’s Spring St. plan. validity of the settlement.
investigated two of three proposed alterna- to talk about putting a District 5 garage on The property owners, including several mem-
tive sites for the District 5 equipment. Pier 76 at W. 36th St., according to Matthew bers of the Sanitation Steering Committee, Albert@DowntownExpress.com

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and security. The district’s $1.7 million bud-
get comes from property owners, who pay a
fee of about 19 cents per square foot.

MIXED USE “As Hudson Square emerges as the new


home for next-generation creative compa-
nies, the BID’s goal is to channel the inno-
vation occurring in every building into the
BY PATRICK HEDLUND public realm,” Baer said.
The BID’s board of directors is comprised
of property owners, commercial tenants, an
GETTING DOWN TO BID’NESS area resident and local elected officials, and
The recently minted Hudson Square is chaired by WNYC President and C.E.O.
Business Improvement District will get to Laura Walker.
work out of its new offices on Varick St. Tobi Bergman, a Hudson Square resident
starting July 1. and Community Board 2’s nonvoting repre-
The BID — which will serve the area sentative to the BID, said easing neighborhood
roughly bounded by Houston St. to the traffic will be one of the organization’s main
north, Canal St. to the south, Sixth Ave. to concerns moving forward. The former Printing
the east and Greenwich St. to the west — is District’s retail viability and beautifying the
being headed by new president Ellen Baer. streetscape also remain central goals, he said.

Fireworks Cruise!
Celebrate the 4th of July from a new perspective as you enjoy the Macy’s
The improvement district’s offices, at 180
Varick St. near the corner of Charlton St., sit
across the street from radio station WNYC’s
Bergman did have one gripe, though.
“I wish they would have come up with
a better name than Hudson Square,” he
new headquarters. lamented of the oft-debated topic of the
Fireworks with Statue Cruises from the Hudson River. This year’s fireworks
The BID will focus on marketing the neighborhood’s name. “It sounds like a shop-
display has been shifted in honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson.
neighborhood and quality-of-life issues, but ping mall.”
Our DJ will keep you entertained as you enjoy the buffet along with will not handle other traditional improve-
complimentary coffee, tea and soda. ment district duties, such as street cleaning mixeduse@communitymediallc.com
Spirits will be available onboard for
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Between Church & Broadway near City Hall Park
I am pleased to report that, at my urging, the Department
of Education has now agreed to open the planned 6th grade
classes at PS 276 in Battery Park City when that new school
212-233-2995
opens in the fall of 2010. I know that many parents would
prefer to have their children attend a middle school in Lower
Most Major Insurance Carriers Accepted
Manhattan and this victory will give more local families that
option.
I will continue to work with my School Overcrowding
Task Force to create additional public school seats to serve our
growing Lower Manhattan community.
Read the Archives
For more information,
www.DOWNTOWNEXPRESS.com
please call Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Office at 212-312-1420
downtown express June 19 - 25, 2009 15

S EAPORT R EPORT
BY JANEL BLADOW artists will be living in this sculptural and WOMEN, MONEY & POWER… If green- once was Staples and closed the tight
Yippee! It’s June! Summer’s officially technological habitat on the eggs from its backs are more your style than green works, space it had up the street. The new drug
here and as Alice Cooper would scream… chickens, food — squash and string beans then check out “Women of Wall Street,” exhib- emporium is clean, chock full of drugstore
School’s out for summer! to corn and potatoes — grown in its outdoor it at the Museum of American Finance. The basics — hair products, skin creams and
flats and hydroponics greenhouse gardens. two-part exhibit — historical and contempo- sundries — and has an expanded phar-
ALL THE (SINGING) YOUNG DUDES… Their water comes from its self-treatment rary — looks at the ladies who made big bucks macy. It even has a fresh food bar with
if you remember the Alice Cooper classic system that collects rainwater and recycles and history in this male-dominated sector of sandwiches and yogurt sundaes. Best yet,
then you’ll remember this one too from gray waste H2O (dish water, etc.). our economy. It spans from Isabel Benham, a it’s open 7 a.m. to midnight, seven days a
Mott the Hoople. Catch it and other rock At first, Mattingly told S.R. that her big- first female to be named partner to a Wall St. week — great for late night ice cream or
classics when the band’s lead Ian Hunter gest hurdle was collecting permits to launch firm, through Muriel Siebert, the first woman imported beer runs.
rocks out at Rockefeller Park (Warren & a live-aboard barge in the East River, but to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
East End, Battery Park City; out of Seaport then backtracked. (in 1967). Along the way, you get such tidbits HAPPY FEET… In Buenos Aires, the
Report domain but S.R. thought its well “I’d say finding the barge at a price we as Abigail Adams had the insight to see trad- home of the tango, fans of the sexy South
worth mentioning), on Wednesday, June could afford was the hardest,” she said. “The ing bonds was far more financially rewarding American dance known as “tangueros” sneak
24, as part of this summer’s River-to-River first one was donated to us. It sunk during the that buying farmland and then had to convince out at lunchtime to catch a twirl or two at
Festival. Over on S.R. turf, New York City winter when ice froze to it. We had to send it her doubting husband! the local “milonga” or tango dance hall, Izzy
Opera performs favorite arias, duets and to the scrap yard. It took four months to find For those who want a greater experi- Manaloto tells Seaport Report. Well, thanks to
overtures many opera gringos might rec- another and redesign our plan to fit.” ence, take Saturday’s (June 20) walking Andrea Katz and her AKO store and design
ognize on Saturday, June 27. Both concerts Mattingly drew on a multinational crew tour, which begins at the museum at 1 studio, S3 has it own version of the “milonga”
begin at 7 p.m. and are free. of artists and activists, environmentalists p.m. ($15, including museum admission). for “practica” or free weekly tango dance les-
and marine engineers to create Waterpod The tour spotlights women powerbrokers sons. In Cannon’s Walk on Front Street, next
WATERWORKS… She started thinking (www.thewaterpod.org.), which is remi- such as Victoria Woodhull, who opened to the store, lunchers can lunge and swing and
“wearable house” for a mobile culture but niscent of works by Buckminster Fuller, the first woman-owned brokerage in 1870 swirl to the sexy rhythms. Free lessons from
her vision grew by leaps into a floating home among others. Along with Mattingly, who and ran for U.S. president — long before tango teachers and directors of the School
for four. Local photographer and sculptor estimates the project cost $150,000, artist Hillary! The museum is at 48 Wall St. of Traditional Argentine Tango of New York
Mary Mattingly conceived of and designed Alison Ward will be living onboard through 212.908.4110, www.moaf.org. Sergio Segura and Anton Gazenbeek are
the domed barge, Waterpod, now anchored Oct. 12. Another artist, Eve K. Tremblay, available to all who drop by. Tango Tuesdays
off the north side of Pier 17. Visitors are will be alternating with other artists/writ- LATE NIGHT QUICK SHOP… Duane begin at 12:30 p.m. with a free half hour les-
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invited aboard this weekend to see what life ers/sculptors who want to give the water- Reade opened its new variety store at the son at 1 p.m. then dancing for all until 2 p.m.
is like on a sustainable environment. Four world a shot. corner of Water and Fulton Sts., in what Grab a rose and your dancing shoes. Ole!
16 June 19 - 25, 2009 downtown express

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downtown express June 19 - 25, 2009 17

Hula hoopsters
A hula hoop contest last Sunday morning in front of the Babylicious clothing boutique
on Hudson St. brought out a dozen contenders, including Hallie Schwartz, left, Ella
Kay, center, and Victoria Adams, right. Even those who didn’t win got to pick a prize,
a choice between an ice-cream sandwich and a goody bag filled with candy.

A passion for justice.


Diverse opportunities The experience to deliver it.

for diverse companies.


At The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey we want our partnerships
to reflect the diversity of our business activities and our region.
Each year we award millions of dollars in contracts to minority, women-owned
and small businesses (M/W/SBEs) — over $575 million in 2008 alone. Hundreds
of M/W/SBEs play a major role, delivering critical services and products that fuel
one of the largest transportation systems in the nation.
If you’re an M/W/SBE we’re here to connect you to our contractors, tenants
“I want to build a District
and internal business units. To find out more about our supplier diversity program Attorney’s office that’s defined
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EDITORIAL Our side is also to blame


PUBLISHER & EDITOR
Breaking the W.T.C.
John W. Sutter
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Josh Rogers
stalemate
for Albany’s mess
ARTS EDITOR
Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada — who shouldn’t
Scott Stiffler
REPORTERS
Relying on a judge or an arbiter to resolve the World
Trade Center impasse is a worst-case scenario. It would
TALKING POINT be trusted as dogcatcher — to be president
of the Senate….
Albert Amateau
Lincoln Anderson likely mean more delays and may not lead to a real BY LIZ KRUEGER “Of course, this is Albany, so the
Patrick Hedlund resolution at all. The physical and financial components Democrats, have much to be ashamed of,
Julie Shapiro of the W.T.C. are so complicated that each side would Democratic State Sen. Liz Krueger, who too. They broke their campaign promises to
SR. V.P. OF SALES AND undoubtedly continue to argue about who was fulfilling represents the 26th District covering most operate the senate in a more open and demo-
MARKETING the terms of such a judicial decision. of Manhattan’s East Side, sent a letter to cratic fashion.”
Francesco Regini An amicable, fair compromise is the only way out constituents Tuesday to explain the stale- One potential silver lining from this
of this mess. The Port Authority of New York and New mate in the senate between Republicans and situation is that the senate may be forced to
SR. MARKETING CONSULTANT
Jason Sherwood Jersey, which owns the site, started the negotiations with Democrats. Excerpts below: change its model of operations, given that we
a reasonable position, but that reason is running into the now face an equally divided body. The senate
ADVERTISING SALES real world complications of rebuilding the W.T.C., and The last two weeks in Albany have taught Democrats have already proposed a biparti-
Allison Greaker
Jeremy Marks needs to be readjusted. The Port’s refusal to take on risk me that no matter how dysfunctional I thought san operating agreement to the Republicans,
Dani Zupanovich to finance a speculative office in order to help a private this place was, it really was possible for it to used in numerous other states and the U.S.
developer is justifiable. But the problem is there does not get worse. I assure you that I share your frus- Senate when they found themselves in simi-
RETAIL AD MANAGER
Colin Gregory appear to be a feasible Plan B other than to look at holes tration over the current power struggle and lar circumstances, to circumvent the gridlock
in the ground for a few more decades, build a memorial the failure of the Democratic majority to act created by a 50-50 split.
OFFICE MANAGER to the thousands of 9/11 victims adjacent to a construc- on important issues that matter to the daily
David Jaffe
tion disaster area, and maintain indefinitely the open lives of New Yorkers. While things are still in Our proposal includes:
ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR wound that we Lower Manhattan residents and workers flux, I wanted to give you my perspective on • A rotating Presiding Officer of the
Troy Masters have lived with for the last eight years. what has happened and what it all means. Senate, alternating daily, one each to be des-
ART DIRECTOR Since the construction of Tower 2 can’t happen I strongly believe that the attempted ignated by the Democratic and Republican
Mark Hasselberger without the Port’s assistance, W.T.C. developer Larry coup had nothing to do with reform and conferences.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Silverstein has to put up more money on the front end was simply a blatant power grab by the • Establishing a six-member Senate
Jamie Paakkonen and has to be willing to transfer a significant amount of Republican Party and a couple of disaffected Conference Committee, comprised of three
DISTRIBUTION & CIRCULATION the upside to the agency at the back end. It’s clear that Democrats. The Republicans’ claim that the members designated by the Democratic
Cheryl Williamson Silverstein has upped his offer some, but since many of coup was done for the good of the people Conference and three members designated
the negotiation details have stayed behind closed doors, and in order to enact government reform is by the Republican Conference, to determine
CONTRIBUTORS
Frank R. Angelino it is impossible to know how far he has gone. completely ridiculous. Remember, this is the which bills and resolutions will reach the
Wickham Boyle Silverstein has already recouped most of his invest- same Republican Party that controlled the floor, and
Tim Lavin ment in the W.T.C. so he has many millions to gain and senate for more than 43 years and made it • Rotating Floor Leaders, alternating
David Stanke little to lose when his Towers 2, 3 and 4 are built. The one of the least democratic and deliberative daily, one each to be designated by the
Jerry Tallmer Port has already agreed to help him build 4, and both legislative bodies in the nation. Now in their Democratic and Republican conferences.
PHOTOGRAPHERS sides have agreed to put off 3. The Port should get large latest power grab, they are attempting to
Lorenzo Ciniglio ownership stakes or the equivalent in Towers 2, 4 and make Pedro Espada the president of the sen- Unfortunately, so far, this proposal was
Milo Hess possibly 3 if it takes on the debt obligations needed to ate and next in line to be governor…. This soundly rejected by the Republicans, who
Corky Lee keep construction going at the W.T.C. is an outrageous act which on the face of it would rather let government grind to a halt
Elisabeth Robert The public authority, which often seems more power- belies any claims they make about trying to than give up their last chance of having
Jefferson Siegel
ful than the governors it reports to, should use this addi- reform the system. power.
tional revenue on things connected to its core mission, That said, I think all of us in the What the impact of all of this is on
Published by such as transportation improvements Downtown, but it Democratic conference have to look criti- broader legislative issues remains to be seen.
COMMUNITY MEDIA, LLC should also support an important project it has helped cally at what role we played in what went Regardless of the short-term outcome it will
145 Sixth Ave., NY, NY 10013 delay, the W.T.C. Performing Arts Center. wrong. I believe that the biggest failure of no doubt be harder to move progressive leg-
Phone: (212) 229-1890 The Port’s temporary retail podium idea for two of my conference was that it was not aggressive islation in a number of areas. This is a great
Fax: (212) 229-2790 the tower sites does not seem feasible. There are not enough in advancing a reform agenda. From disappointment to me, as I had high hopes
On-line: www.downtownexpress.com good answers to the tough questions. How do you get the day I ran for office I have advocated for progress on important issues like afford-
E-mail: news@downtownexpress.com an investment of hundreds of millions, if not billions for reform of the senate’s rules in order to able housing, public education, environmen-
of dollars on supposedly interim structures, and attract empower individual members regardless of tal policy, and same-sex marriage. However,
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desirable tenants? Can you redesign the plan for the who was in the majority. there is always the possibility that as legisla-
podiums without setting the other projects like the train While the Democratic leadership did tors we will learn some valuable lessons.
station and the memorial back years? Would the podi- introduce new rules that improved trans- I am hopeful that one of the lessons
Downtown Express is published every week by ums become obstacles to building towers even when the parency, made it easier to move bills to the learned from this whole process will be the
Community Media LLC, 145 Sixth Ave., New
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years ago in the last big dispute with Silverstein, is nev- other issues such as equitable distribution of represents the same number of constituents
ertheless completely skeptical of the podium idea and resources were not addressed. The common and should have adequate resources. I am
PUBLISHER’S LIABILITY FOR ERROR
The Publisher shall not be liable for slight so is virtually everyone else, save for the Port and its sense and “small d” democratic changes an optimist and believe that if I persevere
changes or typographical errors that do not
lessen the value of an advertisement. The pub- associates. I have been fighting for were rejected. I we will ultimately be able to make real
lisher’s liability for other errors or omissions
in connection with an advertisement is strictly
The mayor and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver believe that many of my colleagues adopted progress.
limited to publication of the advertisement in any
subsequent issue.
deserve enormous credit for fighting for a fair compro- a “to the victor goes the spoils” model, and Please continue to hold us accountable,
mise. The Port should give up on the podiums and make while I repeatedly argued against this, in the and know that I will do my best in Albany
Member of the
New York Press a new counter-offer to get Tower 2 and the site built. end, the conference was not willing to go to be a force for positive change. It is not
Association And Silverstein needs to absorb more of the risk of this as far down the reform road as they should an easy fight, and these last couple of weeks
Member of the deal, and reward the Port for the risks it runs in guaran- have. have left me frustrated and angry, but more
National teeing the financing. I think Bill Hammond nailed the situa- committed than ever to fighting for what I
Newspaper
Association
No one wants to see the terrorists’ destruction linger tion in his column in Tuesday’s Daily News: believe are the changes necessary to create
for generations. ”They claim to be reforming Albany’s dys- a more responsible and responsive govern-
© 2009 Community Media, LLC functional ways. Yet they picked slippery ment for New York State.
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DOWNTOWN NOTEBOOK
The sweet rhythms of the bake sale counter
BY MICHELE HERMAN own hands to feed to your children and their peers to raise little ones. The elementary kids are small and soft and
Friday afternoon: 2:15. I’m working the weekly bake money for the institutions that they attend? As with many can’t resist touching the goods. Each one comes with a
sale Downtown at I.S. 89, where my younger son is an subjects having to do with the unpaid work of mothers, grown-up attached. Their transactions are much slower
eighth grader. The other bake-sale moms and I are raising there’s not much written history about bake sales. But my and more painful to watch — there are eating habits to
easy money for the graduation, and we have it down to a guess is that they have existed almost as long as there’s been be instilled and sugar rushes to be avoided and sibling
science. fire and barter, and they will continue to exist until the sorry jealousies to be appeased. Shifting from the independent
Because the kids share the building with an elementary day when we get our nourishment from a pill-dispensing middle-schoolers to the needy elementary kids is like a trip
school, their lunch period is some ungodly morning hour, robot. back in time, to a phase that seemed, at the time, as if it
and they’re ravenous by the time they’re sprung at 3. We would last forever.
stake out a strategic spot in the lobby, catching them and Me, I’m hurtling forward. In the fall, my older son will be
their spending money before they can haul off to the deli a high-school senior and my younger son will be a freshman.
down the block. The first couple of weeks our spreads were
Market research (i.e., seeing what’s In high school, if there’s a bake sale, it’s conceived and run by
magnificent — decorated cupcakes, peanut-butter kisses, the kids. College is a time of many sweets — late-night runs
garlicky bagel chips, nice signs. But market research (i.e.,
left at the end) indicated that all to the grocery store, free sundaes sponsored by the Random
seeing what’s left at the end) indicated that all the kids really Act of Kindness club, but it’s not a bake-sale time of life. And
want is hot dogs, lemonade and brownies, so that’s what we
the kids really want is hot dogs, besides, when the time comes, I’ll be at least a state, if not half a
give them now, a buck apiece. continent, away. I know that my bake-sale days are numbered,
My husband says we’re nuts to put all this time and effort
lemonade and brownies. which is why I’m filling up on them now.
into raising money for the eighth-grade graduation, a party The other crucial ingredient is the moms. We’ve all been
that will last a couple of hours and that marks one of life’s in the mom business for quite a while by now, and we’re
more forgettable rites of passage. He has a point. When you Bake sales are also a great excuse to watch the kids in pros. We have stamina and strength and as much grace
break down the process, it is a little thick with middlemen action, at a time when they’re changing so fast it’s hard under pressure as a Hemingway hero, along with the famous
(or women): we buy the ingredients, we bake the goods, to get a bead on them. They line up in front of me, one eyes in the back of the head. We are also really good at
carry them to school, sell them to kids in exchange for money Converse All-Star-clad foot in childhood and the other in sensing the needs of others, staying out of the way when
which they’ve probably been given by their parents, money adulthood. They are silly and serious, oblivious and polite, discretion is called for, and bonding over a cash box with a
which we then use to throw them a party, which will involve loud and bashful, latent and sexual — sometimes within the pesky latch.
more baked goods. same body. Fish come in schools and lions in prides, but One recent Friday, when we were cleaning up, the sweet
But a lot of life’s endeavors work this way. I remember middle-school girls come in huddles. Sometime between younger daughter of one of the moms threw up a chocolate
the horror I felt as a child when I asked my mother why sixth and eighth grade, they grow so long and lean it’s cupcake she had barely finished chewing. A middle-school
she attended so many meetings, and it became clear that as if they’ve been through a taffy pull and have all stuck kid would say “euuw, gross.” I picture the average dad sigh-
she attended meetings mostly to plan more meetings. My together. The boys are more motley in size and shape and ing and looking around for help. But us moms? We enacted
younger son, like most kids, has similar feelings about mak- groupings. Some are beefy and deep-voiced, while others an impromptu mom ballet. One reached for an empty
ing his bed, which he will proceed to mess up the very same are still waiting for their hormones to get to work. My Rubbermaid container, another held the girl’s hair back and
day. But I argue that extra effort is not necessarily wasted own son has grown four inches in the past few months. stroked her head. I ran for the school paper towels. You
effort. Each week when he comes by for a lemonade, gripping the know the ones — they’re folded brown rectangles and when
From where I’m standing — behind a table filled with paper cup with a big man’s hand, I do a double take. The you wet them they practically turn back to sawdust. And,
fresh brownies as varied as the bakers who made them and kids fish cash out of their pockets or their first wallets. like bake-sale brownies, they give off a sweet smell of life
a cash box stocked with singles from last week’s sale -- a They’re adept at handling it, but you can tell it’s still a bit with schoolchildren.
bake sale seems like one of the more wondrous rituals of life of a novelty.
with schoolchildren. What more timeless, locavore business After feeding the big kids, we hoist the heavy tables Michele Herman is a freelance writer and part of the I.S.
transaction is there than making something sweet with your down the long hall and out to the yard to catch the 89 P.T.A.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


fic. We can only hope that the delay in interests. Speaker Silver has supported responsible governance.
Chinatown safety reconstruction will last at least until there mayoral control of the Panel on Education For too many years, the forces of
is someone in City Hall that will consider Policy, and I believe this is the right move corruption and greed held sway in
To The Editor: the will and safety of those who live and to keep reforms moving in the right direc- Southbridge. This “romp” of unbridled
Re “Chinatown happy as traffic plan is work in the area. tion. criminality came to a halt when, in 2006,
stalled for now” (news article, June 12 – the treasurer of the board pleaded guilty
18): Ora Gelberg David Rodriguez to charges of fraud and conspiracy. She
The good news is there is a delay thanks admitted to covertly engaging in the ille-
in part to Councilman Alan Gerson. I gal practice of “selling” her apartment,
don’t know if it is true that if Mayor Mike all the while publicly objecting to legal
Bloomberg gets re-elected in November, Mayoral control Southbridge reforms privatization.
this project will start the day after, as was In this most recent election, our neigh-
told to Jan Lee by a city official, but this To The Editor: To The Editor: bors have affirmed the new transparency
is the first time I am considering not vot- As a longtime resident and parent of Re “The ‘true majority’” (Letter by offered by our open board meetings and
ing for Mayor Bloomberg. I am an opti- a child in a school in Lower Manhattan, Geraldine Lipschutz, June 12- 18): timely posting of minutes. The average
mist and believe time and politicians will I’m thankful to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Sadly, the distortions and fabrications number of votes for a Southbridge Rights
improve and realize that closing Park Row Silver and his support of mayoral control in Ms. Lipschutz’s letter regarding the candidate was double the number of votes
is not the way to fight terrorists. (editorial, May 29 – June 4, “Keep mayoral recent Southbridge Towers board election received by Victor Papa.
Before the closing of Park Row, buses control, with modifications”). Thanks to distract from the most important achieve- Southbridge voters will not be fooled
ran not only on Park Row but also on this new system, we have seen the reform ments of the current board. Since presi- by specious reasoning. We will freely
the now closed Pearl St. Life was not that was necessary to turn failing schools dent Wally Dimson and the Southbridge and democratically determine our own
a battle to open Park Row but certainly around. Making changes to the law that Rights slate have gained control, they future.
more pleasant and for residents and of would undermine the mayor’s authority have solidly delivered on their promise
course for businesses, tourists and traf- puts schools back into the hands of special of full transparency, accountability, and Diane Harris Brown
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Little League girls play to win at hardball


Continued from page 1

Elan Halpern, 10, one of the most accurate


fastball pitchers in the league and the biggest
player on the team.
Michael Halpern, Elan’s father, said he was
thrilled to see all three girls playing together on
one team.
“It’s not just one girl, but three of the best
girls,” Halpern said.
Elan, Ava and Alex all started playing Little
League at 5 or 6 and had no desire to switch to
softball when they turned 9, like most girls do.
“I don’t like softball,” Elan said as she
sprawled on the bleachers at Pier 40 before a
recent game. “It’s too slow-mo.”
“I felt like it wasn’t that challenging,”
added Ava, a fourth-grader at P.S. 234. “I
like challenges.”
Asked what the best part of baseball is,
Ava and Elan answered immediately and in
unison: “Winning.”
All three girls said they have gained the
respect of their teammates, but opposing teams
can sometimes pose a problem.
Downtown Express photos by Elisabeth Robert
Alex was the only girl on her Junior Minors
Lower team last year, and during games, players Elan Halpern, top, tags out a runner at second in a recent Downtown Little League game. She, Ava Villalba, center in middle
from other teams made fun of her, she said. photo, and Alex Townes-West, right, are three of the best players on the Pirates and the only girls on the team. Bottom, Ava
“If I walked past the dugout they’d say fields a ball warming up at shortstop that was just out of the reach of Alex, who plays third base.
bad things, like ‘You’re bad, I can beat you,’”
Alex said. “I didn’t really care. I didn’t pay after Alex’s first strike. “It’s okay Alex,” they
attention to them.” said after the second strike. And when she
Ava said this year one boy on the Pirates struck out, they looked as surprised as she did.
sometimes tackles her. All three girls said they prefer playing with
Elan looked angry at the idea and said, “He boys, since they tend to be more competitive.
knows I’d beat him up if he touched me.” “It doesn’t occur to us that it would be an
But, Ava concluded, “Mostly they’re nice.” issue,” said Malcolm West, Alex’s father. “All
Tom Merrill, president of Downtown Little her friends are boys — she’s a real tomboy.”
League, said boys may be hesitant about accept- Susan Townes, Alex’s mother, said she
ing girls at first, but they quickly rally around recently ran into another NEST parent, who
them. He recalled a Majors game last year, said the girls in Alex’s class were getting
where a catcher made a derogatory comment to very cliquey. Townes asked her daughter if
Shai, one of the few girls in the Majors division, that was a problem, and Alex replied, “How
when she was up at bat. The rest of the game, would I know? I’m not friends with any of
her male teammates played furiously. them,” Townes said.
“Our team started to punish the kid, stealing Eliseo Villalba, Ava’s father and a Pirates
on him, to get back at him for talking trash at coach, sounded awed as he described practicing
Shai,” Merrill said. with his daughter.
Kussie, the Pirates manager, said he expect- “When I throw to her, I don’t hold back,”
ed to see a difference in the way the boys treated Villalba said. “I throw like I’m throwing to
the girls on the team, but he never found one. an adult. I don’t take into account that she’s a
“Maybe it’s a different generation,” he 9-year-old girl.”
said. “The boys don’t take it one way or Villalba said Ava also has good fielding
another — they say [the girls] are good and instincts and makes decisions quickly, put-
I’m glad they’re on our team.” ting into practice the lessons she has learned
Kussie has noticed some developmental from watching countless hours of Yankees
differences that make the girls strong play- games on TV.
ers. They are more focused than the boys, Alex and Ava will continue in the Minors
honed in on competing and winning the next year, then they hope to move on to the
game. The boys have more nervous energy Majors. Elan isn’t sure about next year — she’s
and sometimes can’t sit still, Kussie said. starting sixth grade at the Manhattan Academy
During a Pirates game on June 9, the of Technology in the fall and hopes to play as
girls often sat on the bench or took practice many sports as she can, particularly basketball.
swings while waiting to bat, while some of This week Ava and Elan tried out for the
the boys roughhoused, swinging their base- Little League’s summer tournament team. Elan
ball caps at each other. made the team last year.
Elan’s voice was one of the loudest from the Michael Halpern, Elan’s father, said the boys
bench as she cheered her teammates on. Elan plays with treat her entirely as an equal,
“Stay alive!” she frequently called out to and don’t appear to resent her, even when she
players who had two strikes against them. strikes them out.
And when Alex was up at bat the boys on “It’s probably very beneficial for the boys
her team did nothing but encourage her. that are around her to see that girls can do it,”
“C’mon Alex, shake it off,” they called out Halpern said.
22 June 19 - 25, 2009 downtown express

Students’ Scoop on newspapers is keep on printin’


BY JARED T. MILLER ing the paper they started behind as they enter high school.
In the past year, reporting breaking news, speaking with Though several students anticipated busy schedules for the
CNN journalists and government officials, and covering coming year, they hope to work for their new high schools’
the inauguration of President Obama might have been the newspapers.
opportunities of a lifetime for professional reporters. But “I’ll be trying to do newspaper again,” said eighth
for the seventh and eighth grade students at Manhattan grader James Dellasala, who will be attending Millennium
Academy of Technology who write for their school’s paper, High School in the fall. He currently authors The
these were their first stories. Scoop’s comic strip and writes articles on politics and
M.A.T.’s school newspaper, The Scoop, is about to con- entertainment.
clude its first year of publishing on June 22. Founded in “I think I’ll try to pursue staying within a newspaper too,”
May of last year by teachers Alfonso Guerriero and Chris said Weston Loving, who writes the paper’s food column. “If
Piccigallo, the newspaper is one of the few public middle my school doesn’t have one, I’ll try to get one running.”
school newspapers in New York City. The paper includes Though younger generations are finding more and more
news and sports writing, comics, and even a food column. of their news online, the students at M.A.T. still feel the need
“I had this idea that I wanted to start something different, for their newspaper to continue going to press.
and different being a newspaper,” said Guerriero, a social Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert “It’s more comforting to have, I think — it’s there, it’s
studies teacher. “This school has come a long way, in the Eighth grader Matthew Tanzosh, left, the editor of The physical” said eighth grader Matthew Tanzosh. “It’s defi-
positive way, so I wanted to somehow broadcast that to the Scoop said newspapers are “more comforting to have, nitely good to have a source of news around, because you
[school] community.” I think — it’s there, it’s physical.” With him are one have to know what’s going on.”
Student reporters interviewed acting Surgeon General of the M.A.T. school paper’s teacher advisers, Alfonso The cost of printing the approximately 700 copies
Steven Galson last October, as he toured the physical Guerriero, and reporter, James Dellasala. of The Scoop—enough to distribute to both the middle
education and sports programs for which the Chinatown and elementary schools at M.A.T.— is covered by mul-
school is renowned. The Scoop ran their inauguration hoped her experiences would resonate with the school’s large tiple sources. Parent as well as private donations are an
story based on photos and reporting that a student had Asian population. De La Cruz also gave the student report- important source of funding, though the paper recently
done when she attended the ceremonies with her mother, ers advice on journalism, and discussed coverage of Asian received two printers as a result of their request on
who is a federal judge. The newspaper also gives its communities in the media. DonorsChoose.com. They are also applying for fund-
reporters a chance to follow local news; recently, eighth “We don’t want it to be a gossip type of school newspaper, ing from the Newspaper Association of America, and
grade E.L.L. student Danny Lam reported on last month’s we want to cover all issues: serious issues as well as funny Downtown Express has given reporting and writing tips
big E. Broadway fire and his article will appear in the issues, community issues,” Guerriero said. “That was really to the students in its role as the paper’s grant partner.
paper’s final issue. the idea behind it: build bridges within the school and build Regardless of economic considerations, however, the
Early that year, CNN reporter Veronica De La Cruz visited a community.” teachers said that The Scoop’s first year will definitely not
the class after Guerriero contacted her. De La Cruz lectured At the end of this year, all but two of the paper’s student be its last one.
to his class about the role of Asian Americans in society, the writers are graduating. For many, M.A.T.’s paper was their “There’s no doubt in my mind,” said Piccigallo. “We’ll
subject of several of her stories for CNN. Guerriero said he first introduction to journalism, and graduating means leav- find a way to keep this going for the kids.”

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JUNIOR MINORS LOWER Bompey also had a hit and an RBI each.
Dodgers v. White Sox
The White Sox bats, usually so reliable,
After some heroic grounds-keeping to were silenced by an awesome Dodgers
remove a couple of lakes from the field, defense. Both Mack Hallett and Ryan
the epic battle of the Dodgers v. the White Marrus had unassisted double plays. In
Sox could begin early in the morning on the fourth, Mack caught a pop-up at
the Battery Park City north field. the pitcher’s mound and made the play
In the bottom half of the first inning, to first as Jack Beaumont scrambled to
with the score still tied at zero, Graham get back to the base, ending the inning.
Stuard snagged a ground ball in right field Ryan Marrus snared a line drive off Paul
and threw it to Rylie Spiegel at second. Stukas’s bat - the first time Stukas had
Spiegel tagged the base before Russell been retired at bat this season - and then
Goldmeer could get down the baseline, beat Luca Biro back to first, for a game-
taking Spiegel out in his rush to the base, ending double play.
but she came up smiling, ball in hand, for Congratulations to the Dodgers on a
the out. fantastic performance, and to all the kids
The score was still 0-0 in the bottom on what has been a remarkable season.
of the second when the White Sox bats
came alive. Luca Biro started the inning MINORS
off with a one-out triple and was driven Reds vs. Pirates The Reds their coaches, and their lucky mascot, Prophet.
home on a base hit by Paul Stukas. Paul
scored home on Ryan Vig’s blast. Further The Reds’ new mascot Prophet, a black three. She stole second and third during favor for the Pirates, shutting out the
base hits by Michael Cheeseman, Russell Labrador retriever, made quite a differ- Hudson Kussie’s at-bat, but was stranded Reds. Oliver Brown had an awesome
Goldmeer, and Jack Beaumont brought ence in the dugout Tuesday, relaxing and there as Rohan got a strikeout. single and stole second, and Jonah Frere-
Vig home with a third White Sox run. entertaining the team. The Reds, having Down 3-0, the Reds listened to the Holmes’s hit moved him to third. Iliana
It stayed that way until the Dodgers lost five successive games, also decided to Prophet and started swinging. Douglass Memmo’s walk loaded the bases, but Rio
attack began in the fourth and fifth take advantage of the 75 allowable pitches Stapler’s infield fly brought him to first. stranded all three runners.
innings, with every player on hand for Tyler Rohan. Rohan obliged by strik- Ben Steinberg drove him in with a pow- In the top of the third, Rohan began
producing hits. Ryan Marrus, Lucinda ing out his first Pirates’ batter looking. erful punch to left field, but Halpern’s working his magic again with another
Delaney, Rylie Spiegel, Mack Hallett, Rio Hope-Gund’s seeing-eye grounder to throw to second base was dead-on. scoreless inning for the Pirates. In the
Declan Rexer and Alexi Judge all scored, first base eluded the defender, scoring the Rohan struck out the side in the top bottom of the inning, Stapler’s tattoo
bring the total at the end of the fifth Pirates’ first run. Elan Halpern smashed of inning two with only ten pitches. Rio
inning to 8-4. Graham Stuard and Will one to centerfield, scoring runs two and Hope-Gund (on the mound) returned the Continued on page 24

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since that made for a five run inning.
In the top of the fourth, down 6-3, the
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Vocal coach valued by the talented, profane, slightly insane


Chelsea-based Maier envisions long life of cheering & chiding
daughter came along,” says Maier, “We needed
ARTIST PROFILE a bigger place, and that’s why we moved to
Chelsea. I’ve lived here ever since. It’s changed
BY TRAV S.D. enormously in that time. I love all the art gal-
On a recent Sunday afternoon, at an hour leries and restaurants. None of that was here
of the day when most nightclubs are shuttered when we first moved to the neighborhood.”
and silent, Joe’s Pub was the setting for an Her affinity for what she calls “artsiness”
amazing alternative cabaret show. The sun was stands her in good stead among her current
blazing outside; but inside, it may as well have clientele. Recently, her work has taken her
been one o’clock in the morning. out of the classroom and into the theatre.
Called “Idol Idle Idyll Worship – Sacred She coached the cast of the Broadway show
and Profane,” the show was hosted by trash- “Passing Strange” last year, completed “Are
mouthed “Christian” country singer Tammy You Going to Arabay” at Dixon Place and
Faye Starlight. Guests included Justin Bond staged a benefit show for the Living Theatre
(a.k.a. Kiki of Kiki and Herb) singing glam at Joe’s Pub. Her most recent project has been
versions of torch songs; fellow drag artist Our a proposed series of “Depression Brunches” at
Lady J (a remarkable songwriter and Jerry Lee the latter venue: early shows at which audience
Lewis style boogie-woogie piano player); and members are encouraged to bring their own
Lisa Faith Phillips, whose performance piece food in order to keep the cost of the night club
concerned her career as a topless dancer and outing down. Hence the twelve noon start time
phone sex worker. Aside from the general level of “Idol Idle Idyll Worship.”
of outrageousness, these performers all share The range of talent she works with was
something in common: their voice teacher. Photo by Katie Szczypinski fully represented in the show. Tammy Faye
In a city (and an industry) of gimmicks and Barbara Maier, at her home in Chelsea Starlight’s act is mix of country and faux
angles, Chelsea resident Barbara Maier has gospel, meant as a simultaneous tribute to
carved out a niche for herself as the vocal coach “My aunts may even have been tone deaf,” she ports of call as Cairo and Hong Kong) — per- and parody of the sounds of Nashville. Justin
to New York’s more outré chanteuses. Her cli- laughs. Still, she took voice and piano lessons forming everywhere from the New York City Bond’s repertoire is typically all over the map.
ent roster includes not only those ladies named from a young age, and remembers fondly a cer- Opera to summer stock. “Because I’m only The current occasion is no exception, as he
above but also Debbie Harry, Penny Arcade, tain aunt who “was like Auntie Mame. She used four foot eleven [in height], I was a natural uses the show’s depression theme as an occa-
Murray Hill, Diamanda Galas, Amber Martin, to bring me on trips to Chicago to see all the big ingénue,” Maier says. “But when I got to be in sion to try the Yip Harburg standard “Brother,
Roseanna Vitro, Meow Meow, Lady Rizzo, shows that toured there from Broadway.” my 40s those parts sort of dried up, so I fell into Can You Spare a Dime?” — before switching
Lava Sperry and Sanda Weigl. Her family encouraged her love for music teaching. I never expected to.” to a selection from “Marat/Sade.” Our Lady
“I love teaching a variety of different kinds and theatre — up to a point. “They definitely She began teaching voice at the American J performs her own songs which are more in
of performers,” says Maier, “The challenge of didn’t want me to pursue it professionally,” she Musical and Dramatic Academy at the Ansonia a modern pop, post-rock and roll vein. Lisa
working with such individuals is that I don’t says, “That — and the fact that I really hated Hotel in 1976. According to Maier, her psy- Faith Phillips is not a singer at all; her voice
dictate what it will sound like. I work within music theory — was why I majored in psy- chology training came in handy at her new training supports the lengthy monologues she
the parameters of what they want. I’m just there chology.” Maier seems to have learned a trick calling. “At times, it’s like being a therapist,” delivers. The sheer variety of this group alone
to help them do what they do without hurting or two from her chosen major, however. She she says. For a while, her eclectic slate of pupils is enough to keep anyone interested.
their voices. The challenge is in finding words enrolled at Columbia to get her Masters in psy- included cantorial students; but in the 1980s, “I love my students so much,” says Maier, “I
to communicate to them across so many differ- chology, which very conveniently required her avant-garde superstar Diamanda Galas became can’t think of doing anything else. Sometimes I
ent styles. Teaching is like performing in that to move to New York (where she took private one of her pupils. Galas referred her to Debbie think I want to die at my piano saying ‘No, no,
respect. It’s trying to get your message across.” singing and acting lessons on the side). By the Harry and soon word of mouth had innumer- no! You’re doing that all wrong!’”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Maier says she time she was working toward her psychology able performers from the downtown scene But she hastens to add, “That may be a
never expected her path to lead her here. Born Ph.D., she started getting singing work in opera reaching out to her. couple of decades from now. People in my
and raised in small-town Booneville, Indiana and musical theatre. By 1974, downtown had become her natu- family tend to live into their nineties.” Which
during the Great Depression, she comes from From the late 1950s through the 1970s, ral habitat anyway. “My husband and I had is good news for students — and New York
a family that wasn’t even particularly musical. she traveled the globe (including such far flung been living at 72nd and Broadway until our audiences.

neled space. No fear of riding in the subway has been demoted to the position of subway Central.

KOCH labyrinth exists in the current film.


For all the mayhem in the picture, it
contains no intense suspense. While I don’t
dispatcher.
I did not bond with any of the characters
and, therefore, felt no involvement. Of all
With so many dreary films out there, this
one is a welcome relief — but it did not have
the impact I had hoped for. The original film

ON FILM
remember every detail of the original version the actors in the picture, Denzel Washington was far superior and will be remembered in
released 35 years ago, I do recall that it was is the most believable. Turturro is much too years to come, while the current remake will
a very exciting and suspenseful film. bland and without nuance, Gandolfini is soon be forgotten.
“THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3” (+) The same drama exists between two adequate but not towering, and Travolta is HS said: “I have become a fan of the
This remake of the 1974 film provides an principal figures. Ryder (John Travolta), over the top. subways over the last seven years. I ride
adequate evening of entertainment, but it is leader of the group that has taken the sub- A long scene of police cars transporting the 6 train that the killers attacked. I hope
not as exciting or memorable as the original way hostages, is demanding a ten million the ransom from Brooklyn to the hostage it never happens again (the event seems to
version. Those who saw the first movie and dollar ransom from the city. The mayor car at Grand Central is nowhere near as recur every 35 years) but if it does, I hope
are expecting a blockbuster will be disap- (James Gandolfini) authorizes the payment exciting or memorable as scenes in other Denzel Washington is around.
pointed. to prevent Ryder from killing any more films, e.g., the car chase in “The French “The movie was flashy, splashy and color-
When the first film was released, Abe passengers. Ryder demonstrated his will- Connection.” One scene involving Turturro ful; decent summer entertainment in an air-
Beame was the mayor of New York City. ingness to kill when the police, represent- and Washington taking a helicopter from conditioned theater. Did it rise to greatness?
The city was approaching the abyss of bank- ed by hostage negotiator Camonetti (John Wall Street to Grand Central is ridicu- No. They ought to bring back the 1974
ruptcy and its citizens, appalled by the dan- Turturro), didn’t respond quickly enough lous. They depart the MTA headquarters movie so people can compare the technology
gers of subway crimes, were turning to city to his demands. Ryder prefers dealing with on Madison Avenue, go down to the Wall and the human interaction. The subway fare
buses for their commute to work. The graf- Walter Garber (Denzel Washington), a Street heliport and chopper back to Grand in 1974 was 35 cents. First run movies were
fiti-covered subway cars at the time added to former high-ranking MTA official accused Central Station. They could have walked the $2.50. I wonder what the 2044 remake will
the fear of being trapped in a cramped, tun- of bribery. While awaiting his trial, Garber few blocks from the headquarters to Grand be like.”
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‘Unique and specific’ films bring focus to Mexican culture


Sweeping epic, horror, family fare & a pop icon on the plate
BY STEVEN SNYDER
Samuel Douek says he never could have
imagined, when he first launched the Hola
FILM
Mexico Film Festival some 8,000 miles away in
Australia, that the event would resonate every
bit as strongly with New Yorkers as it did with HOLA MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL
audiences half a world away. “I was in Australia June 23 through 28
starting my Master’s and I’ve always loved film
Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street (between
and I started noticing that they’d have all these
ethnic movie festivals; each new week, there 5th and 6th Ave.)
was an Italian and Russian and German film (212) 255-8800 or www.holamexicoff.com
festival,” recalls Douek, a native of Mexico City.
“These festivals all ran much the same way,
showing 15 or 20 films in a single week, and so with. I’m hoping this helps to explain to audi-
I started thinking: Why is there nothing here to ences what was happening, and why these films
celebrate Mexican films, which are every bit as were so important in helping our industry to
unique and specific as those other cultures?” move forward.”
The initial plan was modest: To bring Maria will appear in person as part of
Mexican films to a select few Australian cities. the celebration. This festival centerpiece will
But what started as a regional affair quickly also include a lecture on Mexican popular
grew in popularity, spreading across the outback A scene from Roberto Sneider’s “Tear This Heart Out” culture by Jose Agustin, a special message
and then across the Pacific. In 2008, Douek from Luis Zapata, as well as screenings of
returned to North America after his masters, Douek had tested the waters, and received a dozen films— is a testament to the diverse two Maria hits: 1968’s “Five of Chocolate and
and agreed to arrange a handful of screenings a tidal wave of encouragement; and so, he set stories and themes that permeate Mexican One of Strawberry” and 1971’s “La Verdadera
as part of the New York International Latino about launching a far more ambitious plan for cinema. Douek says the highlight of this year’s Vocación de Magdalena.”
Festival. “It was a much smaller thing, where 2009. The result: The largest incarnation of the fest is an Angelica Maria tribute scheduled for Working in the Mexican film industry from
we only did it for four days, and had a smaller Hola Mexico Film Festival yet, making a series the evening of Thursday, June 25th. “She’s a 1950 through 2002, Maria racked up a dense
slate of titles,” he says. “But the crowds that of North American stops in Los Angeles (June pop icon in Mexico who, as the Mexican film and diverse portfolio, and Douek said he sought
turned out really caught us by surprise — more 9) and Chicago (June 19) before arriving in industry started dying, started appearing in to match that diversity in crafting the festival’s
than 2,000 people, and a lot of them recent New York at the Quad Cinemas June 23. some 150 films,” Douek says. “She helped to full lineup. “Hola Mexico” opens on June 23rd
new immigrants who were in town to work or The eclectic 2009 program — a total of 26 bring people out, and it was very interesting,
go to school.” events, which incorporates a slate of more than some of the writers and directors she worked Continued on page 29

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DANCE American Ballroom The- Sundays: 1-3PM, 4-6PM, 7-9PM. Prices: York City Ballet orchestras and the Brook- 9th and 10th Streets) 212.254.1109 theater-
ater Watch 5th & 8th grade dancers from 4-6PM and 7-9PM sails: Adults $35, Stu- lyn Academy of Music. Free. June 19, forthenewcity.net.
New York City public schools compete for dent/Seniors $30m Children 12 and under 8.30 P.M. St. Joseph ‘s Roman Catholic
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Rumba, Swing and Tango. Free. June 20, Student/Seniors $20, Children 12 and Place. 212-252-3621 washingtonsquare- READINGS
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cial Center Winter Garden, 200 Vesey Reservations suggested. South Street AND TALKS
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center.com streetseaportmuseum.org tunity for people to get together and sing WE REMEMBER WITH REVERENCE
in a casual and welcoming atmosphere. AND LOVE:AMERICAN JEWS AND
FANFARE Twelve dancers perform to EXHIBITS 9/11 Remembered The exhi- Free. June 26, 7 – 8:30 P.M Battery Park THE MYTH OF SILENCE AFTER
Michael Nyman’s compositions creat- bition explores how the NYPD responded City Parks Conservancy, 2 South End Ave. THE HOLOCAUST Author Hasia R.
ing a series of “fanfares” celebrating the on 9/11. Ongoing. New York City Police 212-267-9700, bpcparks.org Diner will discuss her compelling book,
everyday. Free. Through June 27, 12.30 Museum, 100 Old Slip. 212-480-3100 bringing new insight to the topic of the
and 1.30 P.M. Whitehall Terminal for the nycpolicemuseum.org indifference of American Jews to the
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every Thurs. from 4-6 P.M. Call or email Ongoing through March 2010. NATIONAL the creatures that inhabit the local harbor WOMEN OF WALL STREET The 2009, 14th annual festival of new plays. tseaportmuseum.org
to schedule an appointment. LEAGUE FOR MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, estuary, harbor water quality, and what exhibition showcases notable women The festival’s three shows will run Sundays-
THE HARD OF HEARING, 50 Broadway, One Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai. is being done to maintain this valuable in the world of finance and Wall Street Saturdays 8 P.M.(except Wednesdays).
6th Fl. 917-305-7766, appointments@llh. si.edu ecosystem. $30 adults / $25 students throughout history. Museum of American Punkplay written by Gregory Moss and TOURS
org. & seniors / $20 children 12 and under / Finance, 48 Wall Street, 212.908.4110 directed by Davis McCallum, plays June 7
BITTER SWEET BY ARLENE GOT- Members receive a $5 discount. South financialhistory.org - 13, Precious Little, written by Madeleine PUBLIC ART WALKING TOURS LMCC
35TH ANNUAL STUDENT RECITAL AT TFRIED This collection of Gottfried's Street Seaport, Pier 16 (Programs Afloat) George and directed by Hal Brooks, plays offers a series of three self-guided audio
THE NY CHINESE CULTURAL CEN- work, which reflects the intricacies of the 212-748-8786 southstreetseaportmu- June 14 – 20 and Telethon, written by tours exploring public art downtown.
TER Dance and art come together as stu- street photography genre today, blurs the seum.org MUSIC Kristin Newbom and directed by Ken Rus Titled “Art and Security,” “Art and the
dents present the traditional Red Ribbon lines of conceptual and documentary pho- Schmoll, plays June 21 – 27. $18 (adult), Body,” and “Monuments and Memory,”
Dance, Ballet and Tai Chi as well as visual- tography in her mix of personal and public PERSISTENCE OF DALI This exhibition BRASIL GUITAR DUO A performance $15 (student) theaterMania.com, 212-352- the 45-minute tours are narrated by Perry
ly inspiring Dunhuang. $20, $15 for groups musings of New York City and its people. presents a collection of 150 exceptional of one of the most critically acclaimed 3101 for tickets. June 3 to 27, Ohio Theatre, Garvin and William Smith. Download
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tickets call: 212-220-1460 tribecapac.org Sohophoto.com Dalí’s surreal universe. Opening reception P.M. Michael Schimmel Center for the SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH TRIBUTE WTC 9/11 Walking tours of
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emerging art exhibition, children’s art/ expression of an enigmatic performance turbulent love story unfolding at the time Through June 27, Wednesday-Saturday 7 WALL STREET WALKING TOUR This
writing and sale. Free. June 20, 10 A.M- 4 artist is presented in the from of self- por- YOUNGER THAN JESUS The exhibit of civil war in Spain. Performed by the P.M., Saturday matinees 3 P.M. The Flea The- free 90-minute guided walking tour
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Gray Associates.526 W 26th Street. 212- seniors $10, students $8, under 18-free. Center Winter Garden, 200 Vesey St, Thurs. and Sat. at noon. Meet at the
PRIDE MEETS THE STREETS Dance, 399-2636. alexandergray.com The New Museum, 235 Bowery newmu- artsworldfinancialcenter.com SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR New York steps of the National Museum of the
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lawn chair. Come by E. 4th Street for an IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK Visit MICHAEL ARENELLA QUAR- es of the classic play. Free. June 23 and July Alliance for Downtown NY, 212-606-
afternoon of rainbow kite flying for kids, a Manhattan’s oldest surviving building, 54 WOMAN OF LETTERS: IRÈNE TET Lunchtime musical entertainment 7. 7 P.M. Battery Park ( meet at Castle Clinton) 4064, downtownny.com
costume shop and special events and per- Pearl Street which has witnessed nearly NÉMIROVSKY AND SUITE FRAN- at Zucotti Park. Free. July 1st. 12.30-1.30 212-252-4531 newyorkclassical.org
formances including: V-Love, transgender 300 years of the city’s history. Ongoing. ÇAISE The exhibit examines the life, P.M. Zucotti Park – formerly the Liberty 1625: DUTCH NEW YORK Walk
cabaret artists, HyperGender Burlesque, $4, $3 seniors and children under 18, and work, and legacy of this enthralling, Plaza Park ( Broadway and Liberty St) TOMANDO CAFE This theatrical scrap- along the shoreline of 1625 as we visit
rock band, Tongue in Public, Dred, a solo free to children under six. Fraunces Tav- often controversial, literary figure. Now book of a black Puerto Rican woman’s fam- sites – and some extant remains – of
performance about gender. June 27, ern Museum, 54 Pearl St. 212-425-1776, extended through August 30. $12 adults, WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC ily in the 1950s is told through magical real- the original Dutch settlement of New
3:00PM-7:00PM fabnyc.org frauncestavernmuseum.com. $10 seniors, $7 students, children under FESTIVAL Free outdoor classical and ism, storytelling, myth, poetry and music,
12 free. Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Music of the Americas concert series, with a liberal dose of strongly brewed Listings
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NER PIONEER Enjoy spectacular views SCHOONER PIONEER Learn about Stravinsky Plus: two exciting evenings of by Subway Diva Rosateresa Castro-Vargas.
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Hola film festival DOWNTOWN DIALOGUE


group is attacked by drug cartels. The movie
Continued from page 27 chronicles dozens of characters and their fruitless
attempts to cross into the nation to the north.
IT’S SO EASY BEING GREEN
with “Tear This Heart Out,” Roberto Sneider’s Douek says the primary focus of his pro- BY LIZ BERGER
sweeping epic that in many ways parallels gramming was diversity — integrating a full mix

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the iconic American masterpiece “Gone With of documentaries, family films, horror thrillers orry Kermit, you’re dead wrong. It is easy being “green.”
the Wind.” Swapping out the Civil War for and animated movies in hopes of revealing the And, as Lower Manhattan and New York City embrace the 21st century, sustainability
Mexico’s turbulent post-revolutionary era of wide-ranging variations of the Mexican experi- – defined more than two decades ago by the UN World Commission on Environment
the 1920s and ‘30s, “Tear This Heart Out” ence. “When you talk about ‘Mexican cinema,’ and Development as “meeting the needs of the prese nt without compromising the abilit y of future
focuses on a young woman who’s wooed and some people get one vision in their minds,” he generations to meet their own needs”– is more important than ever. From the US Green Building
wed by an older, magnetic general. More than says. “But we’re hoping to show a Mexico that Council’s LEED standards to Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC to last Sunday’s New York Times
just a compelling story, the film doubles as a is far more cutting-edge and cosmopolitan than Magazine’s infrastructure issue, the message is clear: go green!
thorough entrée for unfamiliar audiences into some people might expect and to broaden their 400 years after Nieuw Amsterdam was founded at the foot of a forested island, Lower
Mexican culture — the big-screen adaptation of perspective, that Mexico is a far more varied Manhattan offers a new model of a central business district, mixing commerce, residential life
a novel by Mexican author Angeles Mastretta and richly textured place.” and tourism. Lower Manhattan’s scale, density and public transportation access are inherently
and starring both former telenovela star Ana Douek is also sensitive to the fact that the sustainable, and that’s a major reason why companies continue to locate here, families choose to
Claudia Talancon and the long-time Mexican Hola Mexico Film Festival arrives on a wave live here and visitors come by the millions. There’s a lot packed into our one square mile, which
leading man Daniel Gimenez Cacho. A soar- of negative press about his country. Just a was recently voted one of America’s “most walkable neighborhoods.”
While the streams and wetlands Henryk Hudson claimed for the Dutch are long gone, Lower
ing spectacle in every possible way, it’s little week ago, the headlines involved a shootout
Manhattan’s green era is just beginning. At the Downtown Alliance, we’ve launched a series of
surprise that it was selected by Mexico to be between police and drug cartels in Acapulco.
green programs, big and small, which we intend to grow over time. Our Green Around Downtown
the nation’s Academy Award entry for the 2009 Earlier this year, Mexico City was forced to
initiative is designed to achieve three goals: reduce the district’s carbon footprint, build
best foreign-language film. shut off its water for several days due to severe community around green activities and, spread the word to new businesses, commercial tenants,
Other notable festival titles include “I’m drought. Poverty is gripping the country, illegal residents and government that Lower Manhattan is at the forefront of the green revolution.
Gonna Explode” (showing June 27, 28), about immigrants continue to stream into America, Green Around Downtown starts internally. At the Downtown Alliance, we practice sustainable
a teenage boy and girl who escape a world of and even the global H1N1 pandemic has been waste reduction and energy conservation in all our facilities and day-to-day operations, including
depression and sexual harassment and launch traced back to a small Mexican village. “This paper recycling, “drive-to-web” marketing and information campaigns that use on-line resources
a “coup” against the adult world. “The Old has definitely been a hard time, and some of instead of printed materials. And, you may have noticed that we’ve replaced tee-shirt give-aways
Thieves” (June 26, 27) chronicles the daring our films reflect that,” Douek says. “But we’re with re-usable shopping bags!
and audacious bank heists that roiled Mexico in also hoping to show people a different side — Green Around Downtown also creates opportunities for people who live and work in Lower
the 1960s, turning the successful criminals into to show New Yorkers that Mexico isn’t just Manhattan to “green” our community together. More than 200 neighbors showed up last month
everyday heroes of the masses. “Teo’s Journey” overwhelmed with problems and conflicts but for our second annual Spring Community Planting Day and, undeterred by the drizzle, planted
(June 25, 28) is a timelier story, about a 9-year- also that it has a rich culture with important flowers and shrubs in Wall Street Park. Last October, over a thousand folks “adopted” geraniums
old trying to illegally cross the American border things to say. You can learn a lot about us and over 100 planted Dutch tulip bulbs in Bowling Green Park during two days of Fall Community
by night, separated from his father when the through these movies.” Planting. And, in early January, residents, property owners and commercial tenants recycled over
400 holiday trees in our inaugural Mulch Mania 2009.
On the transportation front, there’s no greener central business district in North America than

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Lower Manhattan: 90% of employees walk or take public transportation to work. 14 subway
lines, 25 express and 8 local bus lines, the PATH and an ever-growing number of ferry routes criss-
cross Lower Manhattan, moving roughly 130 million people a year through the bi-state region
quickly, efficiently and sustainably. Within Lower Manhattan, the Downtown Alliance operates
two public transportation alternatives: the Downtown Connection, our free, low-emissions
Should you hire an attorney, seek mediation... shuttle bus service, with a new route along Warren and Murray Streets from North End Avenue
Or represent yourself? to Broadway; and Bike Around Downtown, our seasonal, free bike rental program headquartered
at the Seaport and available through our website, www.downtownny.com/bikearound/. Last year,
800,000 people rode the Downtown Connection and 5,000 used our bikes. Help us break these
G.P.S. green records in 2009!
We are also encouraging local businesses to go green. Our dedicated Going Green Downtown
website, http://www.downtownny.com/GoingGreen, offers information and advice on finding
GoProSe green space, negotiating green leases and reducing energy consumption. We convened a public
seminar for small businesses on the subject, too. And, we are developing short- and long-term
initiatives to brand Lower Manhattan as a green district, incentivize green interior construction
empowers informed decisions. and pilot new technologies that could reduce energy consumption and waste.
Call for an appointment: (212) 842-0269 Lower Manhattan’s businesses, builders and property owners are going green. Silverstein
Properties built 7 World Trade Center, the city’s first LEED Gold office building, and achieved
Energy Star status for 120 Broadway. Goldman Sachs is following suit with its new headquarters,

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which will join nearly 5 million square feet of existing green real estate in Battery Park City, thanks
to the Battery Park City Authority’s “green sustainability” requirements. Last year, the New York
Marriott Downtown added a rooftop micro-turbine farm to self-generate low-emission electricity,

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while forward-thinking local restaurants like Bridgewaters and Picnick are packing outgoing
orders with compostable and biodegradable tableware, including corn-flour utensils.
More commercial and residential buildings are switching to natural light, compact fluorescent
bulbs, individually-controlled thermostats and low-water flow toilets and fixtures to conserve
The Substance Use Research Center energy and other natural resources. And, organizations like the New York Academy of Sciences
are keeping Lower Manhattan at the forefront of sustainable development. The Academy
at Columbia University launched its Green Science and Sustainability program in fall 2006, and is a primary institution
for furthering the reevaluation of environmental and energy strategies worldwide.
seeks medically healthy Meth users between the ages of 21 and 49 When the buildings at the World Trade Center site are completed, Lower Manhattan will have
to participate in a 10-session study evaluating stimulant effects. more than 16 million square feet of green space in 15 residential and commercial buildings. That
could be a green world record. 400 years after Henryk Hudson first sailed up his eponymous river,
You can earn up to $1,004.
Lower Manhattan is still the greenest part of Mannahatta!
- Liz Berger is President of the Downtown Alliance
For more information, please call: (212) 543-6013 or (212) 543-6545
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