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MTA Settles With Business Owners Displaced By Transit Center
Posted August 16
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has agreed to provide settlements to 88 of the small businesses soon to be displaced by the new Fulton Transit Center. "The money is already starting to flow," an attorney for the tenants says.
Park Advocates Step Up Campaign To Reopen City Hall Park
Posted August 9
Park advocate Skip Blumberg is giving the city a choice: reopen City Hall Park to the public, or face a lawsuit. The clock is ticking.
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The "Tribeca Observer"?
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Posted July 20
Regardless of who finally ends up buying the New York Observer, readers won’t be seeing a “Tribeca” page that looks like this. The prototype page, printed last month, apparently was a design contemplated for what would have been the paper’s expanded film coverage had Tribeca Enterprises partners Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff gone through with their purchase of the paper. But negotiations broke off recently between the weekly’s owner, Arthur Carter, and the De Niro team, who reportedly had hoped to make the struggling paper profitable, in part, with an editorial emphasis on the film industry. Carter and Tribeca Enterprises ended negotiations after two months of rumor and speculation in the press over the possible sale.
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Tribeca's Synagogue For The Arts to Alter 'Floating' Facade With Security Shield
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Posted July 3
With a $75,000 “target hardening” grant administered by the state’s Department of Homeland Security, the synagogue plans to build a nine-foot-high, shatter-proof glass wall that would enclose about two-thirds of the plaza. “We’re going to hear about it from the architecture community,” said the synagogue's rabbi, Jonathan Glass. “But we have no choice.” There was one member of that community who they would surely hear from—the architect.
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Ball Fields May Shut Down As Two BPC Buildings Start to Rise
Updated July 12
Downtown’s only ball fields, which serve hundreds of the neighborhood’s young soccer and baseball players, may be closed next year when the construction of two residential buildings begins in Battery Park City.
Public Input Sought on New BPC Community Center
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Battery Park City Calls For Extending Bridge's Last Stand
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Posted July 3
The pre-fabricated steel structure spanning West Street went up in a rush, and with a minimum of fuss over design and materials, six months after the Sept. 11 attacks. But plans to remove the “temporary” bridge have hit a snag.“We are looking to extend its life until there is a plan for another bridge," said Jim Cavanaugh, president of the authority. So far, there is no plan for another bridge.
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Brookfield To Double Its Retail At the World Financial Center
Posted July 3
Attention shoppers: a new department store may be coming Downtown.
Brookfield Properties is looking for a store to anchor a significant increase in retail space at the World Financial Center.
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Later Start For School Day Angers P.S. 234 Parents
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Posted July 3
What a difference 20 minutes makes.
That was the message sent by a group of angry P.S. 234 parents last month after it was announced that starting in September the school day will begin at 8:50 a.m. rather than the usual time of 8:30.
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Beekman Street School Delayed; Pile Driving Might Last Months
Posted July 3
The much-anticipated new k-8th-grade school that is to be located at the base of a 75-story tower on Beekman Street will not open until September 2009, a year later than originally announced. The delay could add to the strain on the increasingly crowded P.S. 234, as families move into residential buildings around the school.
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Bring Back the Old Firehouse Doors, Say Firefighters |
Posted June 2
The firemen of Engine 7/Ladder 1 are particularly proud of their historical firehouse, which turned 100 last year. So it was galling to the men when workers contracted by the Fire Department arrived last month to replace the house’s three old wooden doors with metal ones that look completely different—except, of course, that they are red.
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Councilman Wants Funds for Downtown Health Follow-Up
Posted July 3
City Councilman Alan Gerson asked the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation last month to fund a $5 million pulmonary and environmental health center to diagnose and track ailments related to the destruction of the World Trade Center.
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Deciding the Future of Grand South Street Seaport Space |
Posted July 3
There are beautiful things right out in the open in this city, easy to locate and love, like art and architecture. Then there are the attractions that are harder to find, but impossible not to fall for once discovered. Like empty space—glorious, yawning, wide-open-with-possibility empty space. So it is with Peck Slip, a broad, open sea of cobblestone in the South Street Seaport.
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Fashion Statement: Downtown Teen Creates Clothing Line |
Posted July 3
Welcome to Daniela Jacobs’ Tribeca atelier, a tiny bedroom with a sewing machine wedged beneath a bunk bed. It is a place where models juggle fittings between homework and S.A.T. prep, and where Daniela, a 15-year-old La Guardia High School student, has designed and stitched her first line of clothing.
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On This Stage, If You've Got a Script, You've Got A Shot |
Posted July 3
“Somebody shoot the writer," came the call from a critic in the backrow.
It is just another night at SLAM Theatre, a playwriting competition in Tribeca where anyone with a script in hand can get a scene on the stage, anyone who tosses his name into a hat can be an actor, and, of course, everyone is a critic.
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Circus Meets Vaudeville at Seaport |
Posted July 3
From Scotland to Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, something (slightly) wicked this way comes.
It is a traveling sideshow where the feats of derring-do by the flying Miss Flee and the sword-swallowing and cigar-snuffing antics of Miss Behave are followed by more risqué fare, like the handsome gent splashing about in the bathtub, or the burlesque artist who seems to have misplaced her hanky (Oh my, where ever could it be?).
That’s right, the erotic circus is coming to town.
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IN BRIEF
TREE HELPERS HOPE TO BRANCH OUT IN TRIBECA |
BABY TOY, CLOTHING DONATIONS SOUGHT |
'FRIENDS' GROUP OFFERS GRANTS FOR NON-PROFITS |
No one knows Tribeca’s trees like Steve Boyce, president of Friends of Greenwich Street. Not only has he surveyed and mapped every neighborhood tree, but he is out to make sure that the number of trees is growing, and that they’re staying healthy. MORE |
Want to free your closets of those boxes of playthings your child has long outgrown? Babylicious, a baby toys and clothing shop at 51 Hudson St., is seeking donations of old toys, clothing and books. MORE |
Friends of Lower Manhattan, a nonprofit group that funds Downtown community projects and organizations, is now accepting grant applications. Grass-roots, nonprofit groups can apply for grants ranging from $2,500 to $25,000. MORE |
HUDSON RIVER HOSTS RACES AT NORTH COVE |
YARD SALES AT SOUTHBRIDGE |
FREE, HEALTHY DISCUSSION ON NUTRITION IN BPC |
The race is on—three of them—in the Hudson River, on July 23. First, there is a three-mile run and half-mile swim at 9:45 a.m. at North Cove in Battery Park City. That is followed at 10 a.m. by a half-mile swim from South Cove to North Cove. And a 2.4-mile “Race for the River” is set for 10:45 a.m., beginning at Pier 62 at 23rd Street and ending at North Cove.
For more information or to register, call 888-NYC-SWIM or go to www.nycswim.org.
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Community yard sales will be held at the Southbridge Towers residential complex on July 27 and 29 and Aug. 24 and 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m |
A free talk by nutritionist Jen Hoy, “Reading Between the Lines: Nutrition Labels and Ingredient Lists,” will be held July 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Chevy’s, 102 North End Ave., at Vesey Street. Children are welcome. The talk is sponsored by the Battery Park City Neighbors and Parents Association, www.bpcnpa.com. |
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DETAILS OVERDONE AT NEW TRIBECA HOTEL |
AT BOGARDUS TRIANGLE, A CALL FOR MORE 'FRIENDS' |
FROM ACROSS THE POND, PRAISE FOR TRIBECA TRIB |
Along with idling limos, another kind of pollution continues to inflict Tribeca: “contextual” architecture. The latest example is the hotel nearing completion at North Moore and Greenwich Streets, designed by Matt S. Markowitz Architect and SK Architecture. Though part-owned by the developer Robert De Niro, the project received $45 million in Liberty Bonds. Why is a De Niro luxury hotel getting such subsidies? Where’s our affordable housing?
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Earlier this month, an enthusiastic band of committed garden lovers braved a rainy evening to join the Friends of Bogardus Triangle Viewing Garden for a spring fund-raiser. Hosted by Stephen Harris Architects, the party brought together local businesses, neighbors, friends and supporters to celebrate spring and to renew their commitment to the on-going care and maintenance of the garden.
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I live in northern England, but I check out the Tribeca Trib online as often as possible. I’m always interested in the development of the World Trade Center site. I just want to say that I thought your post-9/11 issue [October 2001], which I downloaded from your website, was a fantastic and very moving tribute. I read every page, every message of sorrow and encouragement.
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