Posted Jan. 22
Schools over pools. That was the message voiced by P.S. 89 parents at a town hall meeting held by Community Board 1 on Jan. 10 to measure support for carving 10,000 square feet out of the planned Battery Park City community center to create more classrooms for PS 89.

Posted Jan. 12
Battery Park City residents appear to have won many of the concessions they angrily clamored for last month, when they complained that designers had not gone far enough in restoring planned amenities near the Rector Street Bridge. Dog owners are still waiting to hear the fate of the dog run.

Posted Dec. 29
Nine buildings, 1,651 apartments, two opposing sides in a long and divisive conflict. That is Southbridge Towers today. Residents of the Mitchell-Lama co-op are inching their way towards the biggest decision in the complex’s 32-year history—and sparring at every turn.

Posted Dec. 29
Tribeca residents understand that filming has become a way of life on their streets. But when “Law and Order” took over much of the Washington Market Park playground for four hours last month, it was a first.

Posted Jan. 10
The Landmarks Preservation Commission on Jan. 9 approved a proposal to put three stores--up to 12,000 square feet of retail space--inside the temple-like lobby of the former AT&T building at 195 Broadway.

Posted Jan.10
A new playground proposed for Burling Slip in the South Street Seaport is anything but conventional. Meant to evoke a ship, the playground will feature sand and water, as well as a full-time cadre of “play workers,” there to foment fun and ensure safety.

Posted Dec. 29
If ever there were a store that stoked women’s fantasies, it is P&S Fabrics. Bins of buttons and zippers, floor-to-ceiling baskets stuffed with skeins of yarn of every color, aisles stacked with bolts of fabrics of hundreds of patterns...But after 23 years at 355 Broadway, near Franklin Street, P&S is closing this month.

Posted Dec. 29
New Orleans artist Jana Napoli thought it fitting that her installation of dresser drawers, salvaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, would be displayed near the World Trade Center site.

“It’s in a place where people can understand what sudden loss is all about,” she said, “and I don’t think any place was more gracious to us after the storm than New York City.”

The 610 drawers Napoli collected can be seen on the Liberty Street Bridge from Jan. 4 through Feb. 9.

Posted Dec. 29
Rogers Marvel Architects, aTribeca-based firm, in concert with numerous governmental agencies and consultants, is designing new security elements for parts of the World Financial Center and the Financial District. These new features are designed to meld with their surroundings, and bringing something more than just security to the neighborhood. Many double as urban amenities, such as benches or lighting or modernist sculpture. Some are even invisible.

Posted Dec. 29
Shawn Tabankin, 32, completed New York Law School in Tribeca last month. As a lieutenant in the Army National Guard, he took a leave of absence after his first year of law school to lead a platoon in Iraq, for which he received the Bronze Star. He is the school’s only veteran of the war in Iraq. This is his story, as told to Trib editor Carl Glassman.

Posted Jan. 2
Fernando Diaz arrives at Battery Park in the early morning, pushing a cart piled with boxes. He dons a green gown, a mask and gloves.Then he climbs on the pile of boxes and sits on a bicycle seat screwed to the top, arranging the fabric to hide his perch. Suddenly Diaz is an 8-foot statue. Before an hour has passed, five more figures just like him are within shouting distance, waiting to trade photo ops for dollars.

Posted Jan. 2
Tucked away on narrow Walker Street is a shop called David Gage String Instruments. From outside, it looks like a humble one-man operation.But the shop happens to be one of the most respected bass repair shops in the country.