SEPTEMBER 2005

 

 


Public Presents Views on WTC Memorial
Photo: Carl Glassman
What is the vision for the 100,000-square-foot memorial museum planned for the site of the World Trade Center? At a workshop held on Sept. 19, the public got a chance to offer its views.
Posted September 23
 

9/11 Remembered
Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman

Ground Zero is the epicenter of grief each Sept. 11, as families of the lost gather and the gut-wrenching reading of names is broadcast from the pit. But in the orbit of the World Trade Center site, Lower Manhattan observes the day in countless other ways.
Posted September 15

 
The Drawing Center Awaits Its Future
Drawing Center president George Negroponte, an artist in his own right, is seated at home, where one of his own works is on display.
Photo: Carl Glassman
George Negroponte and his Soho-based Drawing Center, remains in limbo following Gov. Pataki's about-face on the appropriateness of the museum for the World Trade Center site.
Posted September 4
 
CB1 and 'Friends' in Feud Over Funds
A Community Board 1 committee, headed by Bill Love, left, and formed by board chairwoman Julie Menin, next to Love, question Paul Goldstein, CB1 district manager and vice-president of Friends of Lower Manhattan, over the workings and finances of Friends. Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
August is usually a quiet month for Community Board 1. But for some members, work continued last month as the board struggled to settle a dispute with its benefactor, Friends of Lower Manhattan, over half a million dollars.
Posted September 4
 
Pact Sought on Pile Driving Near P.S. 234
Just as P.S. 234 students were getting ready to start the new school year, City Councilman Alan Gerson was working to hammer out an agreement with developers to avoid months of ear-splitting pile driving directly across the street from the school.
Posted September 4
 
Rent Stabilization Fight May Loom for IPN
Lawyer Seth Miller addresses Independence Plaza North tenants last month. Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
The tenants of Independence Plaza North spent four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in a battle, as they saw it, to save their homes. But recently the tenants discovered that they may have avoided all the grueling effort, and gotten an even better deal with their landlord.
Posted September 4
 
 
CB1 Nixes Liquor License for 570-Person Club
They thought they had come prepared. There was the architect, the general manager, the creative director, the performance director and the project manager, not to mention a sound consultant and security consultant, and there were letters of support from art critics, museum curators and even a church pastor.
Posted September 4
 
FairyTale Comes True in Tribeca’
Guests danced on Desbrosses Street before the wedding. Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
It was not the colorful procession of guests dancing down Desbrosses Street or the groom's ceremonial arrival on a motorcycle that made this wedding so remarkable. Nor was it the traditional Hindu ceremony against the backdrop of Lower Manhattan's skyline. For Pia Awal and Tim Dutta, a New Jersey couple married at Tribeca Rooftop on July 30, what made the day special was the joyful prospect of life itself.
Posted September 4
 
It's a Boat! It's a Plane! No, It's…Both?
Crew members of the amphibious plane pose for photos on the fuselage after touching down in New York Harbor. Photo: Allan Tannenbaum
"In Germany, everyone knows about the history of the plane," said Andrea Daser, who watched from the deck of a tugboat as a strange bird called the DO-24ATT circled the skies over New York harbor on Aug. 24. "Here, people are like, 'What is that, a boat or a plane?'" It is a bit a both, a c t u a l l y.
Posted September 4
 
Nursing Moms Stage Feeding Frenzy
Jennifer Grant (at left) and Yvette Aronesty nurse their infants in the Winter Garden. Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
"This truly is like a dinner party for babies," one mother exclaimed, as all around her infants took in their lunch, blissfully unaware of their role as agitators.
Posted September 4
 
 
Heritage House
Ladder 1 firefighters sit atop their 1865 truck in front of City Hall.
Photo: Carl Glassman
The Ladder 1 Engine 7 firehouse on Duane Street celebrates its 100th anniversary this month. But the illustrious past of these two companies goes back well beyond a century.
Posted September 4

 
 
Mike's Place
Newsstand owner Mukesh Patel, known to most as "Mike." Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
The true currency at Mukesh Patel's tiny newsstand is friendship and smiles.
Posted Setpember 4
 
Young Builders Learn Architectural Basics
At the Skyscraper Museum, Archikids director Yves Roger shows young builders the start of a structure they will make out of toothpicks and gumdrops. Photo: Carl Glassman
Photo: Carl Glassman
While many kids spent their summers frolicking at camp, staring at computer screens, or poring over Harry Potter, how many could add "creating an icosahedron" to their list of activities? Probably only the 20 or so who attended a recent free workshop given by Archikids, an organization dedicated to teaching architectural principles and appreciation to children ages 9 to 13. And they will be doing it again, and the Skyscraper Museum, this month.
Posted September 4
 
Concerts Mark Battery Dance's 30 Years
In his Broadway studio, choreographer Jonathan Hollander rehearses dancers for a new ensemble piece, to premiere this month at the Tribeca Perfroming Arts Center.
Photo: Carl Glassman
In New York City's brutally competitive and chronically underfunded world of modern dance, choreographer Jonathan Hollander and his Battery Dance Company defy the odds.
Posted Setpember 4
IN BRIEF
LMDC Seeks WTC Museum Feedback
Hurricane Benefit
Music Makers Wanted
Emergency Training
CB1 to DOT: Slow Down
BPC Block Party
Southbridge Yard Sale
 

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