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From formal services to grassroots
gatherings, Downtown residents and workers are finding a richer
palette of religion choices today than ever before-in historic
old churches, loft living rooms, converted apartments, school
auditoriums and even a rock club. What the neighborhoods of
Tribeca, Battery Park City and the Financial District sometimes
lack in stained glass, they make up for in spiritual enterprise.
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| Where to Find Religion |
This month, as Christmas lights and Chanukah
candles brighten neighborhood homes and streets, area
residents and workers will come together for spiritual
enrichment and religious celebration. Here are some of
the places where Downtowners are finding religion.
Posted December 3 |
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| WTC
Memorial Board Is Announced |
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Corporate CEO's, cultural, civic
and financial leaders, and seven victims' family members make
up the board of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation,
it was announced on
Dec. 1. They will be charged with the job of raising a half-billion
dollars for the memorial and two cultural facilities on the
site.
Posted December 3
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| Hotel Design Is Praised and
Approved |
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The commissioners' comments were
effusive, the vote unanimous, and architect David Rockwell pronounced
himself "pleased, very pleased" as he walked out of
the Landmarks Preservation Commission chambers last month. The
architect had just won approval from the commission to tack
another story onto his design for an upscale hotel in Tribeca.
Posted December 3
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| Penthouse Denied
for Historic Building |
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Peter Moore is going back to the drawing board, reluctantly.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission last month rejected
the developer-architect's bid to put a three-story penthouse
atop a sprawling, derelict 50-foot-high structure in north
Tribeca that he intends to convert to condos.
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| DA: A Tribeca Attorney Stole Nearly $1
Million From Clients |
The Manhattan District Attorney's office last
month brought charges against a Tribeca attorney accused of
stealing $813,839.87 in closing fees and other funds from real
estate dealings from his clients since February.
Posted December 3 |
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| Will 70-Story Tower Be Home to a School? |
In a surprising development, talks are underway
to put a new east side K-8th grade school into a towering residential
building planned for the parking lot of NYU Downtown Hospital,
after Pace University pulled out of a deal with the developer.
Posted December 3 |
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| Owners Say Survival Rests
with Dancing |
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A neighbor likes the quiet, but
the new owners of a Tribeca restaurant say the empty dance floor
is killing business.
Posted December 3
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| Team of Tribeca Rescuers Begins
Training in January |
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With memories of the terrorist
attacks etched deeply in the minds of many local residents and
workers, concerns about emergency preparedness linger throughout
Lower Manhattan.
Are Tribecans prepared to help their neighbors if another crisis
strikes?
A free nine-week Community Emergency Rescue Training course
is being offered beginning next month in Independence Plaza's
community room at 310 Greenwich St.
Posted December 3
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| Embattled Promoter Calls Trib Racist in
Its Coverage |
In response to an article about uncertainties
surrounding a fledgling arts festival, the event's organizer,
who is black, accused The Tribeca Trib of racism in its handling
of the story.
Posted December 3 |
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| Firemen Sizzle, Chefs Fizzle
at Cook Off |
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It was a clean sweep for firefighters
in the Tribeca Cook Off, an annual cooking competition that
pits firefighters against local chefs, using the firefighters'
recipes. Now in its third year, the dinner drew a thinner crowd
to Tribeca Rooftop on Nov. 9 than in years past, but the competition
was just as heated.
Posted December 3
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| Mind
Your Manners |
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Lunch had just been served in a
private penthouse dining room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Battery
Park City and hostess Judith Ré draped a cloth napkin
across her lap and considered her guests.
There were six in all, ranging in age from 7 to 12. They had
come for a lesson in etiquette, and maneuvering through a three-course
meal would be the morning's final lesson.
"I see elbows on the table," she said.
Posted December 3
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| Read
All About It! |
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Fifth-grade students at P.S. 234
have launched a newspaper . The Unlimited, an eight-page monthly
paper, will hit the school hallways this month.
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IN BRIEF
BPC Tower
Construction to Begin
Cheese Tasting
BPC Parent Network
Call for TOAST Entries
Little League Sign-up
Coat and Toy Drive
A Rockin' Record Sale
Child Care Voucher for Downtown
Residents, Workers
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