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| Downtown's First K through 8th Grade School
Gets Go Ahead |
A 600-seat kindergarten through 8th grade school
will be built into a 75-story residential tower next to NYU
Downtown Hospital. The 600-seat school will open its doors in
the fall of 2008.
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| Fitness Amenities Part of New West Street
Promenade |
When it is complete in 2006, pedestrians will
find an oasis in the middle of lower West Street that will stretch
from Battery Park to West Thames Street. It will be lined with
park benches, Bradford Pear trees and sculptural metal beams
that double as fitness equipment for stretching, jumping and
balance exercises. What pedestrians won't find are the tennis
and basketball courts that some in the neighborhood had hoped
for.
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| One-Man Campaign to Co-name Part
of Chambers St. for Frederick Douglass |
Jacob Morris is convinced that on Sept.
3, 1838, a 20-year-old escaped slave named Frederick Washington
Bailey-later to change his name to Frederick Douglass-stepped
off the gangway of a steamboat docked at the foot of Chambers
Street and into history. One man wants a nearby stretch
of Chambers Street in Battery Park City co-named for Douglass,
and he called on Community Board 1 to give its okay.
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Downtown Opens Hearts
and Pockets for Tsunami Survivors
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Sitting next to a chart that displayed
the $86.98 his class had collected, P.S. 89 fifth-grader
David Galloza described his reaction when he first watched
the news of the tsunami. “I started thinking, ‘What
are we going to do?”’ David was hardly alone
among Lower Manhattanites, young and old. One month after
the devastation half a world away, Downtown schools, community
groups and representatives have raised thousands for relief
organizations. And there’s more coming.
Posted February 3
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Tribeca-based photographer Kate Moxham’s tale of
bearing witness to the tsunami’s devastation.
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| Fallen
Trees Signal Start of Shaft Work |
The first sign that something big was happening
across the street was the felling of trees. Then it was the
sight of men feeding the remains into wood-chippers. For years
to come, the sight in a narrowed fenced-off area between Hudson
Street and exit lanes of the tunnel rotary, will be that of
heavy machinary, a crane and men at work digging a shaft 540-feet
into the ground.
Posted February 3
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| New Owner Vows Puffy’s
Won’t Change |
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Just as she’s been doing for
the past 25 years, the artist Marisol walked into Puffy’s
Tavern one late afternoon last month and took a seat at the
bar. A couple of stools down from her sat Oscar Plotkin, the
man who would own the 60-year-old watering hole come Jan. 31.
“Are you going to destroy the bar?” Marisol asked
the owner-to-be after the two were introduced. “I hear
so many stories.”
Posted February 3
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| Greenwich St. Neighborhood
on the Rise |
NoBat? SoLib? East of West? No catchy
moniker has yet caught on for the area north of Battery Park
and south of Liberty Street from Broadway to West Street, but
developers and the city are hoping it ill become one of the
hottest neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan.
Posted February 3
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| Architect Seeks Approval For
Building with a Glow |
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Mid-block on Vestry Street, a strikingly
modern residential building of glass and stone may be constructed.
That the design is severe looking with a flat facade and slits
of windows, is one striking feature for a structure in the Tribeca
North Historic District. Another is that the new building will
glow.
Posted February 3
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| CB1 Calls on Police to End
Illegal Parking |
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Illegally parked city vehicles
and private cars with parking permits have been a long-simmering
frustration for Downtown residents, particularly those who live
close to the Civic Center and Police Headquarters. Last month,
the Seaport/Civic Center Committee of Community Board 1 called
in NYPD representatives to answer for the apparent abuse of
their department’s parking privileges.
Posted February 3
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| Making
a Scene |
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On stage at P.S./I.S. 89
last month, the I.S. 89 Manhattan Youth Players trod the
boards in sneakers, at times delivering the words of Shakespeare
with a freshness that only eighth-graders could muster.
Meanwhile, at P.S. 234, a younger cast rehearsed lines
from scenes they had written for themselves with the sorts
of characters and plot points that only grade schoolers
could imagine.
Posted February 3
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To Kids’ Delight, a Dirty Dog
Has Its Day
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Perhaps the prospect of never
again hearing your child protest at bath time is reason
enough to warrant a trip to see “Harry the Dirty
Dog” at Manhattan Children’s Theatre in Tribeca.
But it is certainly not the only reason you and your child
will enjoy the show.
Posted February 3
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| Art for the Ages |
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At Independence Plaza, a new program
is turning seniors into artists for the first time in their
lives.
Posted February 3
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| ‘Such
Immense Grief’ |
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Tribeca-based photographer Kate
Moxham tells of bearing witness to the tsunami’s devestation.
Posted February 3
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IN BRIEF
Vote
Saves Liberty Gardens
Developer at P.S. 234
Film Festival Volunteers
Glee Club Auditions
Baby Sitter Training
P.S. 234 Winter Fair
Burglar Proof?
Musicians Wanted
Free Health Screenings
FBI Seeks Street Name
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