March 2008

Bouley's Liquor License Again Rejected By CB1 Committee
For the second time in as many months, Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee shot down chef David Bouley’s request for a liquor license for his planned new Japanese restaurant at 109 West Broadway, Brush Strokes.

  

Water Main Break Closes and Disrupts Church Street
A break in a 20-inch water main under Church Street flooded some adjoining basements and cut water service to residences and business along Church Street between Lispenard and Franklin Streets Tuesday, March 11. A large sinkhole, filled with water, occupied much of the intersection of Church and White streets.
  "Survivor Stairs" Moved
The steps of the "Survivor Stairs" were gingerly moved on March 10
from where they had stood as the only above-ground vestige of the
World Trade Center. Thousands of workers fleeing the burning towers on
Sept. 11 followed those stairs to safety.
Watch the Tribeca Trib Video

Markers to Recall Wall and Canal in Financial District
As part of the city's efforts to make Wall Street and the Financial District more resistant to terrorism, designers are also planning installations to evoke the neighborhood's early history.

Gerson Says Funding For BPC Library Is Secure
City Councilman Alan Gerson assured members of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee that he will make up more than $1.7 million in estimated construction overruns for the planned Battery Park City Library from the coming year’s city budget.

  

 

 

 

Workers Pay Slashed At Office Tower

At 123 William St., cleaners say they are suffering from 70 percent cut in their wages.


Anger At MTA Over Transit Center

  Official says planned Fulton Street Building is doomed by budget overruns, but Downtown residents and business owners say gutting the plan is not acceptable.
 

CB1 Stalls License for Bouley Eatery
  David Bouley's effort to get a liquor license for his soon-to-open fourth restaurant hit a wall last month when some CB1 members voiced strong opposition.
 

Showing The Way

  For one Chinatown teen, a mentor from Tribeca becomes the architect of a brighter future.
 

Owner Asks $17.5 M For Bogardus

  The owner of a Murray St. building plopped down his life savings of $135,000 for the down payment when he bought it in 1993. Renovations and one major discovery later, he's now selling for $17.5 million.
 

Volunteers Plan for "Attack"

  Lower Manhattan Citizen Emergency Response Teams gathered to plan their response to potential future emergencies if the government is unable to help.

 

Serpent Time

  Heaps of herpetological lessons for P.S. 150 3rd graders.
 
 

Winter Garden Hosts Gospel Competition
For one day last month, the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center was transformed from a sunlit retreat for tired shoppers into a very different kind of sanctuary, as 20 singing groups came from near and far to compete in the 8th annual Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition.

Watch the Trib's Gospel Competition Video

 

   Worker Badly Injured In Fall From Ladder
Police and firefighters responded after a worker fell two stories onto a sidwalk shed at 45 White St.
 
Judgment Day
At tryouts, Downtown Little Leaguers show their stuff.
 
  Dream Makers
I.S. 89's Manhattan Youth Players bring their nighttime fears and fantasies to the stage.
 
Week-Long Festival Brings New Sounds to Downtown
Experimental Intermedia's 18th "Festival With No Fancy Name" features composers who are neither classical nor pop.
 
  Objects as Wellspring of Human Heritage
Art in General's exhibitions uncover lost treasures and raise questions of preservation and cultural heritage.
 
A Window Into Dance
For a couple of days, the Church Street School for Music and Art turned an empty storefront into a dance stage.
 
  Vonnegut Work Brought to the Stage
Untitled Theater Company #61 brings Vonnegut's jaundiced humanism to the stage.
 
Police Beat
The month in crime, straight from the pages of the NYPD 1st Precinct's police log.
 
 



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