Posted June 2
The landlord at 7 Dutch Street has plans to gut and renovate the interior of the building. First, he will have to evict the artists who have long lived there. They have so far refused buyout offers and have appealed their evictions to a state agency, calling the landlord's plan a "phony demolition" undertaken only to force the tenants out.

Posted June 2
The score: natural grass 1, artificial turf 0.
The Battery Park City Authority turned down a request last month from the Downtown soccer and baseball leagues to replace the grass at the Battery Park City ball fields with artificial turf. The leagues said the turf would provide more playing time for the neighborhood’s burgeoning population of ball-playing youngsters.

Posted June 2
“He’s kicking like a crazy child,” Sandy Bridges, the principal at P.S. 234, proclaimed proudly as she sat for an interview last month. That child, due to be born in early September, is the reason that Bridges will not be returning in the fall to the post she took over from Anna Switzer three years ago, at the school where she taught for eight years before that.

Posted June 2
Pressing ahead in their long battle against the building they call a “virtual tinderbox,” more than 60 Tribeca residents came together last month to fill their war chest and boost morale.
The May 15 gathering came three weeks before the group’s best hope of victory in their bid to end the building’s storage of an estimated 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel.