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| 11th-Hour Funding to Save Downtown High
School |
Just as community and school officials were losing
hope that Millennium High School would have the funds to move
to 75 Broad Street in September, Gov. Pataki last month announced
that government money will ensure that the school gets its Downtown
home after all.
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| Pataki Calls for Quick Improvements
Downtown |
Responding to a growing chorus of criticism that
rebuilding Downtown was moving too slowly, Gov. Pataki on April
24 announced a wide range of short-term and long-term improvements
to revitalize Lower Manhattan and, for the first time, a timetable
for their completion.
Posted April 24 |
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Residents, 9/11 Families Vie over Site
As the redevelopment of the World
Trade Center site moved forward last month following the selection
of Daniel Libeskind as master architect, tensions emerged between
Downtown residents and relatives of Sept. 11 victims over a
proposed bus garage, the memorial park and other design details.
Posted April 3
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Impresario Has Designs on Wall Street
Two months after stepping down
as CEO of the Knitting Factory, the influential music club he
founded 16 years ago, Micheal Dorf took a visitor on a tour
of his next Downtown dream: a 1,500-seat club on Wall Street
that could become the first major cultural catalyst for the
renewal of Lower Manhattan.
Posted April 3
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School Is Said to Urgently
Need Funds
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With just five months left until the start of the new academic
year, officials from Millennium High School, District 2, the
Department of Education, and Community Board 1 were still
scrambling to find funds to prepare the high school's intended
new home at 75 Broad Street.
Posted April 3
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Cars on Tribeca Streets Hit by Rash of Tire
Slashings
Cars parked on Duane and Reade
streets were hit by a rash of unexplained tire slashings last
month. On Sunday morning, March 23, every one of about 15 cars
parked on Duane Street between Church Street and West Broadway
was found with one or two tires on the passenger side slashed,
car owners and residents reported.
Posted April 3
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| Deutsche Bank Building
Rid of Mold Says Health |
Deutsche Bank has cleared its
building at 130 Liberty St. of mold, which some Downtowners
feared posed a health hazard, the city’s Health Department said
last month.
Posted April 3
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| Builder of Duane Street
Hotel Plans Another Hotel in Tribeca
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Developer Sam Chang, whose
plans for a hotel on the corner of Duane and Church streets
has generated opposition from residents on the block, is planning
to build a new six-story hotel in northern Tribeca.
Posted April 3
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| Seaport Zoning Agreement Sought
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IN BRIEF
Help
Keep Greenwich Street Green
Park Lawn Closed
Tribeca Film Fest Tix
A Benefit Italian Style
Books Needed
Duane Park Earth Day
Good Deed Day
Running for City Council
Good Deed Day
Weather Will Determine Ballfield Completion
Date
As warm weather slowly approached
last month, the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy prepared,
at long last, to lay down sod for its new ballfields, and the
Downtown Little League finalized plans for playing one more
season on other fields.
Posted April 3
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| Street Portraits
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Artist Dianne Talan finds character
in the buildings on her Chambers Street block. She is a portrait
artist of sorts, though her subjects are made of bricks and
mortar, not flesh and blood.
Posted April 3
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Tribeca Artists Open Studios for 7th Annual
Tour
Tribeca artists are once again opening their studio
doors to show, and schmooze about, their work. It’s the seventh annual
TOAST, or Tribeca Open Artists’ Studios Tour, with more than 100 neighborhood
artists welcoming visitors to their work spaces on April 26, 27 and
28.
Posted April 3
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| Incendiary Politics
Take Center Stage |
Two polemical plays, A.R. Gurney's
"O Jerusalem" and Jean-Paul Sartre's “Men Without
Shadows” are staged at the Flea Theater on White Street.
Posted April 3
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Angel Island: The Other
Immigration Story
An exhibition on Ellis Island tells
of the cruelty, detention, and despair faced by Chinese immigrants
at what was once misleadingly called “The Ellis Island of the
West”: Northern California’s Angel Island.Posted
April 3
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