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s THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN JUNE 19 - 25, 2009
Continued on page 3
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.
U NDER
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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
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
protested back then that the high-security his office would continue fighting for the MON. – FRI. 8:00AM – 7:00PM
Financial District was not a good place for common spaces, but he did not think it wise SATURDAY 10:00AM – 5:00PM
a school. to turn down classroom seats the city wants SUNDAY 11:00AM – 4:00PM (CLOSED SUN. JULY & AUG)
If the Greenwich Village school makes to build.
a permanent home at 26 Broadway, there
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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
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
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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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Manhattan Sailing School “He said Bovis is committed to getting demolition in the middle of July and finish by
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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of the New York Harbor from the deck great music performed by musicians who General admission $12. Through June 28
CLASSES of the historic ship. Tuesdays-Fridays: regularly play in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Thurs.-Sat. 8 P.M Suns 3 P.M. Theater for
3-5PM, 4-6PM and 7-9PM, Saturdays- Center, the Metropolitan Opera & New the New City 155 First Avenue (between
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
the grand prize in Fox Trot, Merengue, $25. 1-3PM and 3-5PM sails: Adults $25, Church, 371 Sixth Avenue at Washington
Rumba, Swing and Tango. Free. June 20, Student/Seniors $20, Children 12 and Place. 212-252-3621 washingtonsquare- READINGS
1-2.30 P.M. and 4-5.30 P.M. World Finan- under $15. Members receive $5 discount. musicfestival.org
cial Center Winter Garden, 200 Vesey Reservations suggested. South Street AND TALKS
Street. 212-417-7050 artsworldfinancial- Seaport. Pier 16. 212-748-8786 south- SUNSET SINGING CIRCLE An oppor-
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
Staten Island Ferry, lmcc.net THEATER atrocities of the Holocaust. $5, free
BLACK&WHITE WORKS This group for members. Get tickets online or call
EVENTS 4th of July celebration aboard exhibition will highlight a diverse range of CONVERGENCE-A THEATRICAL 646.437.4202. June 24, 7 P.M. Museum
Schooner Pioneer Spend four glori- black & white artworks in varying media. STUDY OF PEARL CLEAGE Per- of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial
ous hours cruising the waters of New Through July 31.Ronald Feldman Fine formances, readings and forums cel- to the Holocaust Edmond J. Safra Plaza,
York Harbor while you watch Macy’s Arts, 31 Mercer Street, 212.226.3232 ebrate the work of Pearl Cleage — the 36 Battery Place 646-437-4339 mjhnyc.
famous 4th of July fireworks display. feldmangallery.com acclaimed activist, novelist and dramatist org
Enjoy an array of beverages and light who boldly exposes social ills while keep-
fare. $250 per person. Reservations BEAUTY SURROUNDS US This exhi- ing her sense of humor, self and purpose. HARBOR VOICES This book sign-
required. July 4th, 6-10 P.M. Pier 16, bition features an elaborate Quechua $10 per event. Through June 21. 7 P.M. ing and a meeting with the author of
South Street Seaport. For reservations girl’s dance outfit, a Northwest Coast Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3 P.M. “Harbor Voices” is put together with
call 212-748-8786 or email reservations@ chief’s staff with carved animal figures The Shooting Star Theater, 40 Peck Slip, a walking tour of the historic district
southstseaport.org Purchase tickets and crests, Seminole turtle shell dance South Street Seaport, 917-239-6690 web. of South Street Seaport. Children can
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pre-Columbian Mexico, and an Inu- tug model that actually floats! Free
Karen Malina White, of “Chains” (See “Theater”
FREE HEARING SCREENINGS AT THE piak (Eskimo) ivory cribbage board. Two SUMMERWORKS FESTIVAL OF NEW admission from 5-9pm. June 19, 508
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LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEAR- interactive media stations show visitors PLAYS Obie-Award winning Clubbed P.M. South Street Seaport Museum
ING Every Wed. from 12-2 P.M. and in-depth descriptions of each object. Thumb proudly presents Summerworks 12 Fulton St. 212-748-8786 southstree-
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
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(between Greenwich and West St.) For ment. 15 White Street. 212.662.5532 provide an intimate view of Salvador show, at the box office. June 29, 7.30
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
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS: 9/11 June 25, 6-9 P.M William Bennet Gallery, Arts, 3 Spruce St. rivertorivernyc.com NIGHT Queens Shakespeare makes its Ground Zero. Daily. VISITORS CENTER,
J O H N K E L LY- T H E M I R R O R 65 Greene Street, between Broome and OPERA FOR ALL AT THE WFC WIN- Manhattan debut with an encore engage- 120 Liberty St. For hours and info, visit
CITY, COUNTRY, MEMORIES This STAGES:SELF PORTRAITS 1979- Spring Streets. 212-965-8707 williamben- TER GARDEN A performance of La ment of it acclaimed production of William tributewtc.org.
event will include professional and 2009 An unknown area of artistic nettgallery.com Navarraise by Massenet will present a Shakespeare’s romantic comedy classic. $15.
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
P.M Battery Park- Bowling Green. (631- traits-drawings, paintings, photographs presents the artwork of fifty international New York City Opera soloists and orches- ater- 41 White Street (between Broadway & weaves together the history, events,
567-9418) and video. Through June 26. Alexander artists born after 1976. Ongoing. $12, tra. Free. June 26, 7 P.M. World Financial Church) 212-352-3101 theflea.org architecture and people of downtown.
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
sing along, celebrate and bring your own seum.org Classical Theater presents free performanc- American Indian. One Bowling Green,
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
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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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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
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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
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