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| Plans Finally Afoot to Bring Down Fiterman
Hall |
After nearly four years there is
movement to finally bring down Fiterman Hall. The Borough of
Manhattan Community College building at 30 West Broadway was
badly damaged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by falling debris
from neighboring 7 World Trade Center. In the years since, the
building's structure has been shored up and the holes in the
façade plugged. But the building's interior, presumably loaded
with dust from the World Trade Center, has been left untouched.
Posted July 15 |
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Julie Menin to Lead Community Board 1
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By a wide majority, Community Board
1 elected Julie Menin, the founder and president of Wall Street
Rising, as chairwoman in a special election held June 21. Menin
won 35 of the 49 votes and will serve the remaining year of
former chairwoman Madelyn Wils’ two-year term. Wils’ tenure
was cut short in March when Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia
Fields declined to reappoint her to the board.
Posted July 2
Menin
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| Fight Over Seating on West
Broadway |
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Picture Tribeca’s northern stretch
of West Broadway as a kind of Parisian boulevard lined with
sidewalk cafes, where sophisticates quietly sip espressos and
expertly chosen wines. Or, picture the same block bustling with
late-night boozers noisily crowding and cavorting around a nearly
block-long string of outdoor tables. Those were the conflicting
images conjured before Community Board 1 last month when the
owners of two neighboring establishments faced resistance from
residents as the owners sought the board’s approval for outdoor
seating.
Posted July 2
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| Street Co-Named for 9/11 Brother
Victims |
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“This intersection will forever
be known as Mark and Stephen Colaio Way,” said Councilman Alan
Gerson, standing on the top step at the entrance to the American
Thread Building on the morning of June 10. A few minutes later,
family members of the Colaio brothers, who lived in Tribeca
and died in the attack on the World Trade Center, tugged on
a rope to reveal a new street sign at the corner of Beach Street
and West Broadway.
Posted July 2
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| Tribeca’s Hallelujah
Chorus |
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Each Sunday morning, congregants
file to their seats in the spare, newly converted sanctuary
at Greenwich and Vestry Streets, accompanied by the infectious
rhythms of a three-piece band and a gospel chorus. By
the time soloist Carolyn Miller has belted out her second
or third rock-influenced spiritual of the morning, the
polished, electrifying force of the music is sending bodies
swaying, arms lifting, and 200 voices ringing in song.
Into the sleepy Sunday stillness of northern Tribeca,
old-time religion has arrived.
Posted July 2
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| A Bold ‘Retro’ Antenna for
60 Hudson St.? |
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When Tribeca-based architect George
Boyle looks at the hulking building that takes up the entire
block bounded by West Broadway and Hudson, Worth and Thomas
Streets, he does not see the controversial 60 Hudson Street.
Boyle sees the Western Union Building, the Ralph Walker masterpiece
that he calls an “Art Deco mountain.”
Posted July 2
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| Plans for East Side School
Raise Variety of Concerns |
Members of Community Board 1 last
month had their first peek at floor plans for the new school
slated to be included in a 75-story residential tower that will
be constructed on the parking lot of NYU Downtown Hospital on
Beekman Street.
Posted July 2
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| Victims’ Families Protest
‘Freedom Center’ |
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The prospect of politics on display
in a portion of the memorial planned for the World Trade Center
site has some relatives of the victims killed in the Sept. 11
attacks angry.
Posted July 2
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| 7 World Views |
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For $50 a square foot, what you
see is what you get at the new 7 World Trade Center. And look
at what you see.
Posted July 2
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| At Town Hall Meeting, Planned
Memorial Project is Both Derided and Defended |
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It is mostly rubble now, with a
few surviving trees here and there, but by next spring the city-owned
lot in Hanover Square will be a proper park once again, with
topiaries, hand-engraved paving stones, more benches than ever
before and a private trust to pay for its maintenance. So why
are some neighbors of Hanover Square Park, the future home of
the British Memorial Garden, so upset?
Posted July 2
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| As Construction Boom Looms,
City Starts Downtown Air Tests |
The Lower Manhattan Construction
Command Center, the city agency that will coordinate truck traffic,
enforce environmental regulations and otherwise aim to ease
the impacts of constant construction in the neighborhood over
the next decade, began its task in June by launching a program
to monitor air quality Downtown.
Posted July 2
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| City Legalizes Diesel Fuel Storage
at 60 Hudson St. |
The city has signed off on a list of safety enhancements promised by the
owners of 60 Hudson Street that in turn allows for copious
amounts of diesel fuel to remain in the building. The
fuel stored in the building, as much as 80,000 gallons
below ground and 6,400 gallons above, has long been a
source of fear and anger among 60 Hudson's neighbors.
Posted June 5 |
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| Mysterious Visages Light Tribeca
Night |
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There is an almost perfectly
reasonable explanation as to why pigs appeared to fly in Tribeca
one night last month.
Posted July 2
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IN BRIEF
One
More Hotel for Tribeca
Hudson River Swims
Island Getaway
Drumming and Dancing
Knitting Lessons
Summer Sing-Along
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