Tribbits: October 2008

POSTED OCTOBER 7, 2008

Poets House Preview

Poets House has organized a day of free events and readings on Sat., Oct. 11,  in celebration of its future home in Battery Park City. Poetry-related walking tours start at 1 p.m. At 3 p.m. there will be outdoor readings by Edward Field, Joan Larkin, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith and John Yau. Activities start at the bandshell in Rockefeller Park (near River Terrace). For information, go to poetshouse.org or call 212-431-7920.

Free Mammograms

Free mammograms are available at St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center at 325 West 15 St. on Fri., Oct. 17, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for uninsured and under-insured women who are 40 and over and women over 35 with a history of breast cancer in their families. Call 212-604-6009 for an appointment. 

Planting Day

The Downtown Alliance is holding its second Community Planting Day on Sunday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. in Bowling Green Park. The Alliance plans to bring hundreds of plants and flowers into the park for planting. Gardening tools will be provided, and there will be free sandwiches and soda.   

Patricia Clarkson Reads

Award-winning actress Patricia Clarkson will be reading the poetry of  Howard Altman on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. at Duane Park restaurant, 157 Duane St. English tea will be served along with finger sandwiches, scones with Devonshire clotted cream and preserves, and a selection of petit fours. $25 per person. Reserve in advance at 212-732-5555.

Exhibit at Tribute Center

Those who lived in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, need no reminding that the aftermath of the attacks left many businesses struggling to survive. The Tribute WTC Visitors Center at 120 Liberty St. brings those days into vivid relief with “Getting Back to Business,” an exhibition that focuses on the challenges faced by retailers large and small. The show includes artifacts, photos, audio stories and videos. For hours, go to tributewtc.org.

TOAST Looking for Help

TOAST, the Tribeca Open Artist Studio tour, is looking for volunteers to help organize next year’s event. Anyone with experience in graphics, publicity, fundraising, advertising, administration, Web management and special events planning is invited to attend a meeting on Oct. 15, 7 p.m., at the Nancy Pantirer studio, 81 Leonard St. For information, call Joan Greenberg at 212-343-1187.

Mercy Corps Opens

A series of activities sponsored by Mercy Corps, which is opening this month in Battery Park City at 6 River Terrace, will run from Oct. 16 to 22. The theme of the events is world hunger and includes poetry readings and panel discussions. For information, go to mercycorps.org/getinvolved/events.

Renewable Energy in NYC

Three panelists will discuss the feasibility of Al Gore’s challenge to produce 100 percent of our energy from renewable, clean and carbon-free sources. They will also make suggestions on how the city can lead the way in renewable energy production and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Panelists include Klaus Lackner of Columbia University, Sanjoy Banerjee of City College and Charles Komanoff of Komanoff Energy Associates and the Carbon Tax Center. Thursday, Oct. 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., 40th fl. $20; $10 students. Registration required. Go to nyas.org.

Halloween at Trinity Church

Wandering around Trinity’s historic churchyard, the site of the Alexander Hamilton grave, is one way to spend the evening of Friday, Oct. 31. From 6 to 8 p.m., “Haunted Hamilton” cocktails will be served (non-alcoholic beverages also available) during a Haunted Hamilton Happy Hour. A $5 donation is suggested. At 8 p.m., the 1920 silent classic horror film, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” featuring John Barrymore with the original score played by Cameron Carpenter, Trinity’s organist, will be shown in the church. Trinity is at Broadway and Wall Street. The film is free.

BPC Skating Rink Will Have to Wait

The Battery Park City Authority has shelved the idea of installing an ice skating rink on its ball fields.

The Authority had been considering a proposal to install a temporary ice skating rink on the fields for all of December and part of January, but announced earlier this month that the fields’ current planting schedule would not allow it. The fields are resodded each year following the conclusion of the fall soccer season—usually around Thanksgiving—and could not be ready for the start of baseball season in the spring if the rink were installed.

Community Board 1 member and Battery Park City Ball Fields Task Force chairman Jeff Galloway said the Authority would revisit the matter sometime after it makes a determination regarding plans to replace the natural-grass fields with artificial turf. Galloway said the new field turf could be installed as soon as the winter of next year, in time for the 2010 baseball season. But its installation depends on the completion of the community center, to be part of an apartment complex on the west side of the fields. That construction is due to be completed at the end of next year.

Port Authority Says BPC Ferry Terminal May Open in October

Eight years after announcing plans to open a new ferry terminal in Battery Park City, the Port Authority has said it may finally be ready to deliver on that promise later this month.

Originally scheduled to open in 2005, the Authority installed its new, $50 million floating ferry terminal near North Cove this past June. Since then, delays in the permitting process and final outfitting of the terminal have postponed its opening to the public, according to Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman.

Coleman said the Authority expects to have the terminal open and running “by the end of [October] or beginning of November.”

When it finally does open, the terminal will serve close to 7,000 ferry riders a day, according to the Authority’s most recent estimates.

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