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Port Authority Tells Plans for Tunnel Rotary
Redo
Relief is on the way for the dizzying circle of honking and congestion
known as the Holland Tunnel Rotary. (Posted
Nov 12)
Missing Pearl Street Couple Remembered at Vigil
On Nov. 7, the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Camden Sylvia
and Micheal Sullivan from their Pearl Street loft, a group of their friends
and relatives, as well as several detectives who have worked on the unsolved
case, gathered in front of their building for a candlelight vigil. (Posted
Nov 11)
Reassuring Signs on the Environment
As the Environmental Protection Agency’s
indoor cleaning and testing program inched forward last month, agency
officials said that almost all Downtown apartments that had been tested
for asbestos in the program’s first two months were free of contamination.
But critics of the EPA too little comfort in the results. (Posted
Nov 5)
What will be the long-term health consequences of living or working near
the World Trade Center catastrophe? Last month. the lead researchers from
health studies at eight universities came to the Tribeca Performing Arts
Center to talk about what they are doing and what they have found so far.
(Posted Nov 5)
The EPA Cleanup: What You Need to Know
Fears, Hopes Ride on a Buried West St.
Fearing that a West Street tunnel has gained support
among Downtown planning officials, group of residents, mostly from Battery
Park City, has launched a campaign to convince anyone who will listen that
burying West Street is a bad idea. (Posted Nov
5)
Among various proposals for burying West Street, Brookfield Properties,
which owns the World Financial Center, has been shopping around a plan that
it claims will cost less and take a shorter time to build than others, and
most importantly, will improve the “dreadful” state of its retail
tenants. (Posted Nov 5)
Tenants, IPN Owner-to-Be, Stake Claims
While IPN tenants last month launched fundraising and
voter registration drives to counter the perceived threat from the impending
sale of the complex, prospective owner Larry Gluck sought to reassure
them, at least those with low and moderate incomes, that they had little
to fear. (Posted Nov 5)
Brief Homecoming for a Pier 25 Legend
Poppa Neutrino (aka David Pearlman), the man who built a raft out of scrap
on the Tribeca waterfront and sailed it across the Atlantic, returned to
Pier 25 last month. It was a brief stay, and one, he says, that was rudely
interrupted. (Posted Nov 5)
Tower Fight Is Taken Public
Beneath a banner depicing a skyscraper towering menancingly over a child,
local elected officials, community leaders and P.S. 234 principal Anna
Switzer staged a press briefing at the school on Oct. 28 to publicize
their opposition to Edward J. Minskoff’s proposed office tower for
city-owned Site 5B, across Warren Street. (Posted
Nov 5)
Focus on Knitting Factory as Neighbor
Last month was liquor license renewal time for the Knitting Factory, the
venerable music venue at 78 Leonard St., and club owner Micheal Dorf came
to Community Board 1’s Quality of Life Committee to face criticism
from neighbors about noise, crowds and garbage on the block. (Posted
Nov 5)
Property Owners Struggle With Big Insurance
Hikes
In the wake of Sept. 11, co-op and condominium residents
as well as large developers are facing steep premium and deductible hikes
while their coverage is being cut. Some fear that higher rents and maintenance
charges resulting from jumps in insurance costs may undermine efforts
to revitalize Lower Manhattan. (Posted Nov 5)
Planning Chiefs Meet on Downtown
At a unique public forum last month, five former chairs
of the New York City Planning Commission, as well as its current leader,
Amanda Burden, discussed the city’s efforts, past and present, to
shape the character of Lower Manhattan, saying that the government needs
to invest in transportation improvemens and other public amenities to
lure builders Downtown - fast. (Posted Nov 5)
Taking Flight
For
seven decades, Tribeca resident Anthony Camera has lived a second life,
alone among the pigeons at his rooftop retreat. (Posted
Nov 5)
Business Group Plans Eventful ‘Tribeca
Week’ to Boost Shops
In its continuing effort to bring people Downtown and
promote local shops, galleries, restaurants and bars, Tribeca Organization,
a coalition of small businesses created after 9/11, is organizing “Tribeca
Week,” a series of activities from Saturday, Nov. 9 through Wednesday,
Nov. 13. (Posted Nov 5)
Behind Scenes, Milsteins and CB1 Clash Over
250 Water St.
A battle dating back 20 years between community activists
in the South Street Seaport area and the Milstein real estate family has
flared up yet again. Hoping to derail a Milstein plan to put a residential
tower at 250 Water Street, Community Board 1 is trying to change the area’s
zoning rules to lower the allowable building height, while Milstein Properties,
the site’s owner, is working behind the scenes to win support for
its building plans. (Posted Nov 5)
IN BRIEF (Posted
Nov 5)
Study
Suggests Market for WTC Site
Church Offerings
On Giant Street Work
More Business Help
Discounted Electricity
New Lecture Series
A Taste of Wall Street
P.S. 150 Tours
Junior Tennis Winner
At 15, BPC Parents Association
Expanding into a Place for All
The Battery Park City Parents Association is
not just for Battery Park City, and not even just for parents.What used
to be largely a group of neighborhood mothers with young children is now
an organization looking to embrace everyone from teens and singles to
retirees. (Posted Nov 5)
A Hole New Image
Digital-age
kids thrill to photos from cigar box cameras. (Posted
Nov 5)
‘Looking In’ Brings Art to the
Passerby
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Looking
In,” exhibition, is streetscape, performance space and gallery in
one. Anyone strolling by the otherwise drab 50 Murray Street, the former
Internal Revenue Service building turned sprawling residential conversion,
will be treated to an odd and sometimes entertaining and thought provoking
assortment of installations in windows on Church, Murray and Park Place.
(Posted Nov 5)
Exhibit Details Devastation of Years Past
Even centuries ago, Lower Manhattan knew calamity.
Two great Downtown fires, in 1776 and1835, which destroyed much of the
neighborhood, are memorialized in “Forged by Fire,” an intriguing
exhibit on view at India House on Hanover Square.
(Posted Nov 5)
Zany Shenanigans in Flea’s “Clown
Brain”
An angst-ridden clown is driven to the psychiatrist’s
couch, the denizens of his brain appear in the form of a troupe of physical
comedians, and he falls in love with a kindred soul named Slappy in Dick
Monday’s wry and whimsical “Clown Brain,” at the Flea
Theater. (Posted Nov 5)
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