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Julie Menin Elected Chairwoman of 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
will serve out the remaining one-year term of former chairwoman
Madelyn Wils, whose service was cut short after President C.
Virginia Fields failed to reappoint her to the board.
Posted June 22
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| Victims'
Families Protest 'Freedom Center' on WTC Site |
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The prospect of politics on display
in a portion of the future memorial planned at the World Trade
Center site has some relatives of the victims killed in the
Sept. 11 attacks angry. About 100 victims' family members rallied
at the site on June 20 in opposition to the International Freedom
Center, a planned museum dedicated to the struggle for democracy
and human rights around the world.
Posted June 22
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| City to Pre-monitor Air Around WTC Site |
The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center,
the agency that over the next decade will coordinate truck traffic,
enforce environmental regulations and otherwise aim to ease
the damaging effect of constant construction in the neighborhood,
will begin the task this month by first monitoring the quality
of the air.
Posted June 08 |
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| Work on Former Deutsche Bank Building
Set to Begin |
Work is set to begin as early as this month cutting
down, cleaning and hauling out the contaminated building materials
from inside the Deutsche Bank building, damaged in the Sept.
11 attacks. Once empty, the building's remaining structure will
be painstakingly dismantled floor by floor and similarly carted
off in pieces. The deconstruction of the building at 130 Liberty
St. is expected to be complete by December of 2007.
Posted June 08 |
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| Gritty Tribeca Piers Start
Final Season |
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Last month, Gov. George Pataki
announced the long-anticipated allocation of $70 million for
the rebuilding of the Tribeca portion of Hudson River Park.
When it is complete in 2008, a rebuilt Pier 25 and 26 will be
home to bigger, slicker versions of what is there now. Despite
the promise of a revitalized waterfront, however, there is also
talk of what will be lost.
Posted June 1
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| After 93 Years, Titanic May
Arrive Here |
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The Titanic never made it to New
York, but portions of the ship and artifacts salvaged from the
sunken wreck may be given a permanent home in Lower Manhattan.
Posted June 1
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| Mirrors to Take BPC Park
Out of Darkness |
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The future home of Teardrop Park
South, which will sit in building shadows almost year-round
and seemed destined to be the darkest of Battery Park City’s
urban valleys, might have offered gloomy planting prospects.
But tomorrow, there will be sun.
Posted June 1
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| For Memorial, Oaks Are Tall
Order To Fill |
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Landscaping plans are still on
target for the projected opening of the World Trade Center memorial
on Sept. 11, 2009, but the need for 300 oak trees of the same
size poses problems.
Posted June 1
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| Fulton Street Reopening Good
for (Nonfoot) Traffic |
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Community Board 1 is calling for
the traffic barricades on Fulton Street to come down. The goal
is to ease traffic congestion in a neighborhood overly taxed
by street closures and construction. While the plan will provide
a measure of relief for Downtown drivers, the idea was naturally
unpopular with walkers on Fulton Street whom the Trib caught
up with one day late last month.
Posted June 1
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| Pataki Details $800 Million
Funding |
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The Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation has committed more than $500 million of long-sought-after
funds for parks, cultural organizations, waterfront improvements
and a new school Downtown.
Posted June 1
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| Cultural Center ‘Gateway’
at Trade Center Site Is Unveiled |
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The latest piece of the Ground
Zero rebuilding puzzle to be revealed is the elevated glass
and wood cultural center that will house the International Freedom
Center and the Drawing Center, which was unveiled last month.
Posted June 1
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| Iconic Survivor of Sept.
11 Will Return to Park Home |
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The man with the briefcase, who
sat in Liberty Plaza across the street from the World Trade
Center for almost 20 years and then became an icon of 9/11 after
surviving the terrorist attack, will soon reclaim his spot on
one of the park’s benches.
Posted June 1
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| Parents Call for Safe Passage
At Greenwich St. Crosswalk |
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Situated as it is near the entrance
to Washington Market Park, the Greenwich Street crosswalk at
Duane Street may be the busiest kid-crossing of any intersection—without
a light—on that busy street. Parents have long complained about
the dangers of cars whizzing through the marked crosswalk and
the impeded visibility from dumpsters and parked trucks. But
last month they turned up the volume.
Posted June 1
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| The Light Drivers Keep Running—Into |
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There may be no traffic signal
in all of the city more abused than the one that lay shattered
on the sidewalk last month at the northwest corner of White
Street and Broadway.
Posted June 1
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| 9/11 Funds Keep Counselors
in Schools |
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Normalcy long ago returned to the
Lower Manhattan schools that children fled on Sept. 11, 2001.
But demons from that day can still lurk in the young minds of
some who were there. That is the view of the American Red Cross,
which recently announced that it is providing $1.1 million to
continue psychological services next school year at Downtown
schools.
Posted June 1
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| EPA Releases Draft Plan for
Testing for Residual WTC Dust |
The latest piece of the Ground
Zero rebuilding puzzle to be revealed is Nearly four years after
the collapse of the World Trade Center sent a cloud of noxious
dust over Lower Manhattan and across the East River to Brooklyn,
the Environmental Protection Agency has released the draft of
a plan to test for lingering contaminants in offices and apartments.
Posted June 1
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| Anger as City Set to Okay
Diesel Fuel at 60 Hudson St. |
At least 80,000 gallons of diesel
fuel are believed to be stored at 60 Hudson Street. And it appeared
late last month that the city was close to giving the building’s
owners the OK to keep it there, despite years of protests and
legal threats from neighbors.
Posted June 1
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| Officials Give Details on
the New School |
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Department of Education officials
revealed the first details of the planned 100,000-square-foot
Beekman Street school, from the ground-floor cafeteria to the
rooftop play area, at a public forum on May 24.
Posted June 1
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| A Visit to the Artist’s
‘Real World’ |
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Tom Otterness gives a rare tour
of his beloved playground in Rockefeller Park.
Posted June 1
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IN BRIEF
New
Park Toilets: THE Place to Go
School Staff Honored
Farmers on Fulton Street
Music School Fundraiser
Clearing the Archives
Food Tasting Workshop
Run For Knowledge
Walk for Autism
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