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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 13
express THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN AUGUST 7 - 13, 2009

Agency report supports

Silverstein in World
Trade Center dispute
BY JOSH ROGERS
A child who was born
the day of the 9/11 attack
has about a 50-50 chance
of battling senioritis in high
school before the time he
or she will be able to ride
a train in the multi-billion-
dollar train station under
construction at the World
Trade Center.
That was one of the con-
clusions (minus the hypo-
thetical high school senior)
reached in the latest analysis
of the W.T.C. by the Lower
Manhattan Construction
Command Center, a post
9/11 agency formed in part
to help speed up Lower
Manhattan rebuilding.
Nearly one third of the
command center’s $17.5 mil-
lion annual budget ($5.19
million) comes from the Port
Authority, yet its analysis
backed key points Silverstein
Properties has been mak-
ing in its financial dispute
with the Port — namely that
authority delays are responsi-
ble for the construction risks
preventing the firm from fin-
ishing the W.T.C. towers on
time. Even Tower 4, the only
W.T.C. office Silverstein is
currently building, has a 50
percent chance of finishing
over two years late, in 2015,
according to the L.M.C.C.C.
document.
The Daily News first
reported on the confiden-
tial analysis on Tuesday, the
same day a copy was provid-
Downtown Express photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio
ed to Downtown Express.
Also this week, Silverstein
filed for arbitration after

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What a long strange trip
With skyscrapers hovering nearby, Arlo Guthrie helped celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock during a concert
last week in Battery Park. In one way, the ’60s spirit is more alive near Wall St. than it was four decades ago on
Yasgur’s farm: The River to River concert was officially free.

Gerson’s opponents make the ballot,

but he’s kept off another week
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
City Councilmember Alan Gerson
remains off the ballot five weeks before
the Democratic primary for his seat.
The Board of Elections refused to
let Gerson on the ballot last week after
his campaign committed a series of
small errors. Gerson’s first chance to
join his four opponents on the ballot
won’t come until next week, when
Judge Edward Lehner will hear a court
Tribeca’s newest park referee’s opinion on the case.
“I’m as confident as ever,” Gerson
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told Downtown Express Wednesday.
He called the Board of Elections’ ruling
against him “totally bogus” and said he
was not even considering the possibil-
ity of being kept off the ballot. “By any
legal analysis, there’s no question that
we’ll be on the ballot,” said Gerson,
who is an attorney.
To get on the Democratic primary
ballot, City Council candidates have
to file a petition with signatures of
at least 900 registered Democrats in
their district. Gerson submitted about
7,000 signatures, which should have
been more than enough, but two of
the 13 volumes of signatures misstated
his address. Parts of those volumes,
containing about 1,000 signatures,
incorrectly showed Gerson’s address as
1505 LaGuardia Place, rather than 505
LaGuardia Place, based on a printer’s
mistake, Gerson said.
When the Board of Elections noticed
the discrepancy last month, they contact-
ed Gerson’s campaign, and Gerson sent a
volunteer elections lawyer to fix it. But the
lawyer did not sign and date a modified
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C.B. 1
M E E TING S
The upcoming week’s schedule of Community
Board 1 committee meetings is below. Unless other-
wise noted, all committee meetings are held at the
board office, located at 49-51 Chambers St., room
709 at 6 p.m.
ON THURS., AUG. 6: The Landmarks Committee
will meet.
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WHAT’S COOKING AT L.M.D.C.?
The brand-new film “Julie & Julia” has a surprising Lower
Manhattan connection. Starring Meryl Streep and Amy
Adams, the movie chronicles the true story of Julie Powell,
a burnt-out New York City secretary who decided to cook
all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French
Cooking” in one year and blog about it.
So what exactly was this dead-end job that so bored Powell that
she was driven to the cooking project that made her famous?
As it turns out, it was a gig at the Lower Manhattan
Development Corp. Powell worked as a secretary there while
she was doing her cooking-and-blogging project in 2002 and
2003. She frequently vented about her “government drone”
job on her blog.
In November 2003, shortly before she quit the L.M.D.C.,
she described being overwhelmed by likely having to work
straight through the weekend, shortly before eight potential
designs for the 9/11 memorial were unveiled.
“It is absolutely [expletive] D-Day at the LMDC,” she
wrote on Nov. 11, “and if I have to reschedule one more Very
Important [expletive] Person I will kill someone, and let me
just warn any VIFPs who might be out there reading, it’s not
gonna be me.”
Several months earlier, she complained about the very
detailed procedures she was required to follow and said,
“I’m just distressed that there’s no procedure for getting
a [expletive] liquor cabinet in the staff kitchen, where it’s
really needed.”
L.M.D.C. spokesperson John De Libero declined to com-
ment on Powell’s remarks.
A Reuters review of “Julie & Julia” draws a connection
between Powell’s job and the malaise that compelled her to
take on the cooking project: “She works in a federal govern-
ment office overlooking the World Trade Center crater and
laments that she has never finished anything in her life.”
Upon reading that quote, Catherine McVay Hughes,
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Committee, was filled with sympathy.
“Sometimes the community feels like that, too,” Hughes
told us.
OBAMA SHINE ON B.P.C.
President Obama last week tapped Battery Park City
resident Benjamin B. Tucker to be deputy director of the
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Tucker,
58, is a criminal law professor at Pace University in Lower
Manhattan and has also worked at Columbia University’s
national center on addiction. A former beat cop who grew up
in Bed-Stuy, he will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate
before taking office.
TRIBECA UNREST
Neil Fabricant, a leader in the fight a few years ago to keep
Independence Plaza North apartments affordable for existing
residents when the landlord withdrew from the Mitchell-Lama
program, has entered a new battle with Mayor Bloomberg. He
has organized FUNY, Fed Up New Yorkers, an anti-Bloomberg
group also opposed to all City Council candidates who sup-
ported the end run around term limits. There is a four-page
FUNY paper and there was a FUNY meeting last month.
“Voters went twice to the polls and said ‘No third term.’
This is about Mike Bloomberg against the people of New
York,” Fabricant told UnderCover.
Public Advocate Candidate Mark Green dropped in to
the meeting and representatives of Margaret Chin’s council
campaign were in attendance. Another I.P.N. resident and
FUNY man, John Scott, said he was against Councilmember
Alan Gerson and for Chin in the council race. Scott, an
outgoing member of the District 2 Community Education
Council, also denounced Bloomberg for ignoring parents on
education. “It’s not about mayoral control, it’s about mayoral
dictatorship,” said Scott regarding the city school system.
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
Pete Gleason’s campaign for City Council got a boost
this week from Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic nominee
for mayor in 2005.
Ferrer, former Bronx Borough President, endorsed Gleason
Monday at a rally on the steps of City Hall. Afterward, the
Gleason campaign released a statement from Ferrer that
praised Gleason’s background as a lawyer and police officer
and noted their shared Bronx heritage.
“I know [Gleason] won’t be one of those go-along-to-get-
along faces in the crowd,” Ferrer said at the press confer-
ence. “He served in the trenches long enough to know this
is about people.”
BOARD ADDITION
The L.M.D.C. is getting a new board member to replace
Martha Stark, the former city finance commissioner who
resigned amid a nepotism scandal in April.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg is appointing Kate Levin, com-
missioner of the Cultural Affairs Dept., to take Stark’s place.
That could signal that the mayor wants to push forward
the plans for the performing arts center at the World Trade
Center site, a project that has languished as a low priority
since it can’t be built for years under the current plan.
The L.M.D.C. recently floated moving the PAC to the
Tower 5 site once the Deutsche Bank building comes down,
which would allow the PAC to rise sooner. Levin’s appoint-
ment could be another signal of progress in that direction.
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B.P.C. residents push for ground rent changes
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
Battery Park City residents are launching a
new campaign to keep their homes affordable,
and they have a powerful ally on their side.
That ally is Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver, who recently met with residents of
11 condo buildings in southern B.P.C. where
annual fees are slated to skyrocket in the next
several years.
At Liberty House on Rector Pl., for example,
residents paying an average of $31 a month in
ground rent will have to pay $276 a month
starting in June 2011.
“I am very concerned about the impact
of these increases on the entire Battery Park
City community,” Silver said in a statement. “I
believe that these increased payments, particu-
larly in these tough economic times, threaten
the financial stability of the buildings and could
force residents out of their homes.”
Even before the scheduled increases, B.P.C.
residents already pay among the highest taxes
in the city. The arrangement dates back to the
founding of Battery Park City, which is public
land that was leased to developers through
competitive bidding. When residents buy con-
dos, they take over a small portion of the devel-
oper’s ground lease, essentially renting their
space from the Battery Park City Authority.
The authority turns much of that ground rent
money over to the city, where it is intended to go
toward affordable housing. That is because the
earliest plans for Battery Park City called for the
neighborhood to have mostly low and middle-
income housing. Instead, the planners decided
to use the prime waterfront property for mostly
market-rate housing, and charge a ground rent
that would be used to build affordable housing
elsewhere in the city.
Residents now pay anywhere from $30 to
over $500 a month in ground rent, in addition
to paying the equivalent of city property taxes
and a fee to support the neighborhood’s parks.
Under schedules negotiated with the developers
Car-free street fair returns Saturday
For the next three weekends, seven miles
of New York City streets will be closed three
Saturdays as part of the city’s “Summer Streets”
program.
Introduced last year by the city Dept. of
Transportation, Summer Streets closed off
sections of several major streets in Manhattan
in order to encourage alternative transporta-
tion — walking, biking, and rollerblading —
and offered free events throughout each day.
This year’s program, which begins August 8,
includes free salsa and tennis lessons as well as
live music. The route will be the same this year
– Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park via Lafayette
St., Fourth and Park Aves. then 72nd St. Cars
will also not be allowed on those streets from 7
a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 15 and 22nd.
The events will also serve as a stage for
the winners of the “Bike in Style” contest,
sponsored by LMVH Moët Hennessy Louis
Vuitton. Students from the Fashion Institute
of Technology designed biking gear for the con-
test, focusing on style as a motivation to create
clothing and other items for the contest.
August 7 - 13, 2009
several decades ago, the ground rent payments
are set to increase dramatically in the next
several years.
A source familiar with the discussions
between Silver and the condo owners, speak-
ing on condition of anonymity, said the solu-
tion is to draft a long-term agreement that
eliminates sudden spikes in ground rent.
“We can’t see why ground rents have to
double or in some cases more than double,”
the source said. “That’s just added tax dollars
flowing to the city.”
Jim Cavanaugh, president of the B.P.C.A.,
said he was open to meeting with Silver and
the residents but could not comment on their
ideas because he hadn’t seen details.
The authority has already adjusted ground
rents at three buildings in Battery Park City:
the Regatta, the Liberty View and the Cove
Club. But those buildings were slated to pay
much more ground rent than the buildings
now meeting with Silver, and Cavanaugh has
said that the decision to mitigate the increases
at the Regatta, Liberty View and Cove Club
should not be viewed as a promise to help
other buildings as well. (The Cove Club was
dissatisfied with the authority’s offer and is
among the 11 buildings now working with
Silver.)
One of the condo owners hoping the author-
ity will change its mind is Eric Wallace, who
bought a unit in the Liberty House in 2002 with
assistance from federal 9/11 recovery grants.
He and his wife want to raise their young sons
in the neighborhood, but they would have
trouble paying the planned 10-fold increase in
their ground rent.
“That’s just not a sustainable way to grow a
community,” Wallace said.
On top of ground rent and taxes, Wallace
and other condo owners also pay building main-
tenance fees and extras like flood insurance.
While virtually all fees are increasing, Wallace,
who works in healthcare, said the economy
“I thought last year it was going to cause
havoc in the community,” said John Fratta,
chairperson of Community Board 1’s Seaport/
Civic Center Committee. “For the most part I
was pretty pleased. It was a nice event.” He
said he supports the event this year.
As part of this year’s “Summer Streets”
events, Stanton St., between Allen and Orchard
St. will be closed Sundays. The events are
sponsored by the Lower East Side Business
Improvement District, and take place in 13
communities citywide. Between one and seven
blocks are closed, and the event drives foot
traffic to local businesses.
“The challenge in this city is always that
people shop where they look, and not where
they live,” said Roberto Ragone, executive
director at the Lower East Side B.I.D. “It’s a
way for people to relax and enjoy themselves,
and take inventory and what’s available in this
neighborhood.”
The Stanton St. “Weekend Walks” will take
place on Aug. 23rd, 30th and Sept. 6th and
13th from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
means that his family’s income is staying flat,
and he knows other families that have had to
leave the neighborhood.
Last week, Wallace start-
ed an online message board
(groups.yahoo.com/group/bpcgroundrents) for
concerned B.P.C. residents to share informa-
tion. More than 20 people have joined so far,
including one retiree who wrote that the ground
rent increases would be “devastating.”
Wallace said the model of Battery Park City
generating revenue for the rest of the city was
based more on a vision of Battery Park City as a
crash pad for wealthy stockbrokers, not on the
family-oriented community that the neighbor-
hood has become.
Terry Lautin, a broker with Prudential
Douglas Elliman who has been living and
working in B.P.C. since 1998, agreed that the
neighborhood’s residents are being dispropor-
tionately taxed.
“I don’t know that the escalation of [ground
rents] is really going to be helpful for anybody,”
Lautin said. “It’s still a young neighborhood.
Just because it’s enjoyed healthy growth, I don’t
know that you’d want to penalize that.”
Lautin also pointed out that the neighbor-
hood has been through a lot since 9/11, from
toxic dust to the seemingly endless rebuilding.
Tom Tam, a broker with Battery Park Realty,
said the maximum monthly ground rent that
would make sense is 25 cents per square foot,
or $250 a month for a 1,000-square-foot apart-
ment. Some condo owners will be paying more
than twice that figure after the increase.
Tam said he has had buyers back out of
deals after finding out about the upcoming
ground rent increases.
Charles Urstadt, vice chairperson of the
B.P.C.A. board, said the question of offering
rent relief is not a simple one. He objects to any
changes to ground rent agreements that reduce
the amount of money that goes to the city for
affordable housing.
Pedaling south near Prince St. on Lafayette St. during last year’s “Summer Streets.”
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Urstadt said that when the authority sells
bonds, the deals are based on the authority’s
finances, including the amount of ground rent
the authority expects to collect. Changing the
ground rents could violate those agreements,
Urstadt said.
In addition, Urstadt pointed out that the city
should have a say in any changes, since the city
is the party that gets much of the ground rent
money. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office
said in an e-mail that the city would have to
review the details of any proposal before com-
menting.
One argument against changing the ground
rents is that the condo owners knew what
they were getting into when they bought their
units, and they received a below-market price
for the units because of the future ground rent
increases.
In the 1990s, Battery Park City apartments
sold for 25 to 30 percent less than comparable
units in other neighborhoods, said Tam, the
broker.
“If you bought it over 10 years ago, then you
have good deal,” Tam said.
Both Tam and Lautin, the Prudential broker,
said reducing ground rents would increase sales
prices, which would benefit current residents.
Wallace, the Liberty House resident, said he
is not looking to make money off of a reduction
in ground rent — he just wants to be able to
afford to stay in his home. While Wallace said
he has always known about the rent increase, he
was not expecting it to come in the middle of an
economic downturn. At a time when corporate
America is receiving all sorts of subsidies and
tax breaks, Wallace said it makes sense to offer
some assistance to homeowners like himself
and his neighbors.
“This is a cost of living issue,” Wallace said.
“We’re just trying to make sure we have enough
to get by.”
Julie@DowntownExpress.com
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POLICE BLOTTER
Independence Plaza
burglaries
A burglar, or burglars, entered two apart-
ments at 80 N. Moore St. in Independence
Plaza Wed., July 15 during the day and made
off with laptop computers and other items,
police said. The residents of the apartments
on the 34th and 35th floors of the 39-story
tower left for work around 8 a.m. and dis-
covered the thefts when the returned home.
Police discovered small prying marks near
the latches of the doors at the two apart-
ments. Officers scheduled to return to dust
for fingerprints were delayed by other duties
until 10 p.m. and the victims cancelled the
appointments because they had to go to
sleep, according to the police report.
Boutique robber
A man walked into Paracelso, a clothing
boutique at 414 W. Broadway at 3:30 p.m.
Tues., July 21 grabbed the 70-year-old sales-
woman, shook her violently, pepper-sprayed
her and fled with $100 he took from a cash
box and three blouses he took from hangers,
police said. The suspect was described as a
white male about 30 years old, 6’4” and 220
pounds with long black hair.
Flower robbery
Police arrested William Lopez, 22, and
a 16-year-old at 1:30 a.m. Sun., July 26 and
charged them with stealing flowers from a
shop at 56 Fulton St., near Cliff St. The teen
punched an employee who tried to stop the
pair, then tried to break into a cash register
and hit the employee again, according to the
charges. Both suspects were charged with
second degree robbery.
Hit with shoe
A Brooklyn man, 37, got into an argument
around 2:50 p.m. Wed., July 15 on Maiden
Ln. at Pearl St. with an acquaintance who
took off his shoe, hit the victim about the
head and face with it and fled, police said.
Cell phone snatch
A woman talking on her cell phone on
Wooster St. between Spring and Prince Sts.
around 8:45 p.m. Thurs., July 30 had it
snatched from her hand by a man who fled
west on Spring St., police said.
Spring burglar
A burglar broke into the Cleo & Patek
shop on Spring St. around 4:28 a.m. Tues.,
July 21 and made off with handbags valued
at a total of $1,500, police said.
Soho eatery burglar
A night porter at Zoe Restaurant, 90
Prince St., thought the person he spotted
in the place at 11 p.m. Tues., July 14 was
a daytime employee but when he checked
later discovered a basement door was off
its hinges, an iPod and four laptops were
gone and the safe had been damaged but not
opened, police said.
Rainy day burglar
A resident of 65 Reade St. told police
he saw a man he believed was a building
employee on the fire escape and lent him
a screw driver around 9 a.m. Wed., July
29, but later remembered that it had been
raining heavily and went back to check
on the supposed worker. The man was
gone, but three fifth floor apartments at
85 Chambers St., accessible from the roof
of the Reade St. building, were burglar-
ized, police said. Four laptop computers,
two watches, a digital camera and $200
in cash were stolen, police said. The rainy
day burglary suspect was described as a
white man with crooked teeth, 5’10” and
160 pounds.
Attendant impersonator
A Queens woman drove her 2007 black
Toyota into what she thought was a parking
lot near a construction site on the northeast
corner of Maiden Ln. at Front St. around 3
Church St. was closed briefly near the World Trade Center site Tuesday afternoon.
Witnesses said that police were inspecting a suspicious package and reopened the
street quickly.
p.m. Sun., July 19 and gave her keys to the
attendant, police said. Right behind her a man
pulled his 2003 Toyota Camry into the lot
and gave his keys to the attendant. When they
returned they discovered the space was not a
parking lot, and their keys and cars were gone
along with the attendant, police said.
Car missing
An employee of a Brooklyn contractor
parked the company car on the northeast
corner of Beekman and South Sts. on
April 24 but no one returned to the spot
until 11:30 a.m. Fri., July 24, police said.
The vehicle was gone and the loss was
reported to police the following day. A
check of the auto tow pound indicated
the car had not been towed. Police did not
know why the car was left at the site for
three months.
Soho car theft
A New Jersey man told police he parked
his car on the northeast corner of Spring and
Thompson St. on Sat., July 18 and returned
at 7 p.m. to find it had been stolen. The car
was equipped with Lo-Jack anti theft equip-
ment. Lo-Jack, however, said that only police
cars equipped with the device could track
stolen cars, police said.
Domestic assault
Police arrested Richard Purcell, 45, in his
apartment on Gold St. at 5 a.m. Wed., July
15 and charged him with assault for pushing
his domestic partner to the floor and hit-
ting her with a 40-inch flat-screen television
during an argument. Police said the victim
passed out and revived to find Purcell vacu-
uming the floor. Another argument ensued
and he kicked her, according to police. He
was freed on $2,500 bail pending a Sept. 22
court appearance.
Bags gone
A Brooklyn woman having lunch at a deli
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at 130 Water St. on Tues., July 28 discovered
around 12:30 p.m. that her bag, with her
Brooklyn Law School ID, iPod, DVD player
and cell phone, had been taken from the
back of her chair.
A waitress at Zeytuna, 59 Maiden Ln.,
put her bag under a counter at the restaurant
at 11 a.m. Mon., July 20 and discovered it
missing at 3 p.m., police said. She found it
in the bathroom, empty with $20 in cash and
personal ID gone.
A patron of Aqua Grill, 210 Spring St.
was talking with a man at the bar around
9 p.m. Wed., July 22, and left her bag on
the floor beside her chair while she went
to the women’s room. She returned to
find that her bag, with $500 cash, iPhone,
driver’s license and reading glasses, was
gone and so was the man she had been
talking with.
A patron of the Soho Grand bar at 310
Broadway put her bag on the stool beside
her at 10 p.m. Tues., July 21, and two hours
later found it had been stolen. She told
police there were no unauthorized charges
on her credit cards.
Lawyers’ guilty plea
David Resnick, 44, and Serge Binder, 39,
pleaded guilty on Thurs., July 30 to failing
to pay taxes on cash illegally received from
a suspended lawyer who illegally practiced
under their names in Lower Manhattan.
Resnick and Binder, Brooklyn per-
sonal injury lawyers, accepted $8,600 per
month from May 2006 to August 2007
from Richard Boter and allowed him to
practice under the name of Resnick and
Binder at 139 Fulton St., according to the
Manhattan District Attorney. Boter made
the deal because he anticipated being
disbarred in Sept. 2007 for stealing more
than $148,000 from his clients, according
to the District Attorney’s office.
Resnick and Binder were disbarred, for-
feited the cash they received from Boter and
were sentenced to five years probation.
— Alber t Amateau
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Agency report backs Silverstein in W.T.C. dispute

Continued from page 1 Project P.A.’s predicted opening Constuction Center opening date (50 %)
Gov David Paterson made a new proposal MEMORIAL PLAZA 9/2011 1/2013
that was very similar to the Port’s last offer
to the firm. TRANSIT HUB 6/2014 4/2018
As for the construction report, in addi-
tion to the prediction that the transit hub prob- TOWER 1 12/2013 12/2016
ably will not be done until 2018, the document
also said: TOWER 4 2/2013 10/2015
• The W.T.C. memorial fountains will not
be working by the ten-year anniversary of the The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center recently completed an analysis predicting the months that there is a 50 percent
attacks as had been promised, and that even chance of finishing various World Trade Center projects and the agency compared the dates to the Port Authority’s latest estimates.
by early in 2013, there is a 50-50 chance the
fountains will not be working and the first stage
of the memorial plaza will not be done.
• Tower 1 or the Freedom Tower, a Port
project, is likely to be done two years late, in
2016.

The command center cites delays in build-

ing the complex maze of infrastructure equip-
ment as the reasons for most of the delays.
In the case of Silverstein’s Tower 4, the
expected delays building Greenwich St., the
site’s Vehicle Security Center, chilled water
equipment, and a center on the site to coordi-
nate construction activity, are the reasons the
project is at risk for delays. All of these infra-
structure projects are the Port’s responsibility,
although the vehicle center is being held up
by delays demolishing the nearby Deutsche
Bank building, which is owned by the Lower
Manhattan Development Corp.
The command center declined to comment
on the report and the Port Authority in a pre-
pared statement said: “The dates are wrong.
Our comprehensive analysis, completed every
month, shows we are on schedule to meet the
completion dates we released last October.”
Silverstein has remained skeptical of the
Port’s schedule because the agency has not
released detailed construction goals and Photo shows work on the World Trade Center memorial, center, but a new analysis of the site’s construction predicts the
schedules beyond a few months. Mayor memorial’s plaza will not be finished until 2013, two years later than the current schedule.
Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver, who have criticized the Port’s “intran- ter in charge when it isn’t hard to figure out many years from now… I cannot accept a pro- year and all of the parties including the mayor
sigence” in its negotiations with developer what is wrong. posal that does not put all insurance into the are committed to a 2011 opening, but “the
Larry Silverstein, seized on the command “You just go there and look at what’s going immediate construction of the site.” L.M.C.C.C. report identifies serious risks of
center report this week. on,” Silver told Downtown Express. “Nothing Janno Lieber, president of Silverstein’s delay to infrastructure elements that surround
“Last year, when the Port announced its has risen out of the ground.” World Trade Center Properties, said: “These the memorial and could, if unaddressed, affect
new plan that would fix the problems at the He and the mayor both warn that if the deci- ideas also don’t address the principal issue – the our ability to open permanently after 9/11/11.”
site and lead to progress, it asked us all to sions are left to an arbitrator, it will add months, Port’s chronic failures at the site. Every project Bloomberg, who is also chairperson of the
hold it accountable,” Bloomberg said in a if not years to the project. for which the Port Authority is responsible has memorial organization, backed off his full-
prepared statement Tuesday. “We are, and the A rebuilding source familiar with Silverstein’s fallen years behind schedule and billions of dol- throttled support for the L.M.C.C.C. report
results are intolerable.” thinking said the firm will ask the arbitration lars over budget, hindering the entire W.T.C. Wednesday, saying he thinks the memorial plaza
Bloomberg also said the command cen- panel for all $2.75 billion it has paid the Port in rebuilding effort.” will be mostly done in 2011.
ter should be released from its ties to the rent and insurance proceeds and may seek puni- The Port maintains it has met just about “I continue to believe that on Sept. 11,
Port and the Lower Manhattan Development tive damages as well. The developer also wants all of its quarterly construction goals, but in its 2011, you will be able to walk a plaza with
Corp. so it could take a stronger oversight a detailed construction schedule and wants to latest report Wednesday it did not mention that trees,” he said, but as to whether the waterfalls
role at the W.T.C. The agency was set up suspend its rent obligations while the dispute it had still not met its 2008 goal of turning the will be running then, he said “probably.”
in 2005 and under its charter, the executive is resolved. Tower 2 and 3 sites over to Silverstein. The mayor also said a compromise was pos-
director is supposed to report directly to the Paterson, in a letter to Silverstein, did offer Steve Coleman said it expects to be ready to sible although he suggested having three gover-
governor and mayor, but as a practical matter to suspend rent for Towers 2 and 3, where the finish the sites sometime next month, at which nors in eight years did not make it easier.
it has not worked that way. The L.M.D.C.’s governor and the Port want to delay construc- time it will be able to stop paying the $300,000 “Perhaps we can put the genie back into
board oversees the command center and the tion until the Silverstein can get private financ- daily late fees to Silverstein. the box and get everybody calming down and
two agencies share legal staff. ing. But the governor also asked Silverstein to As for the memorial, Coleman said not only come up with an agreement because I think we
Silver, who over the last few months has use his remaining insurance proceeds to help do they plan to have the plaza open Sept. 11, weren’t that far away,” he said. “The problem
agreed with the mayor on every aspect of the build the public underground infrastructure 2011, they also will be ale to stage this year’s really at this point in all fairness to Silverstein is
W.T.C. stalemate, disagreed with Bloomberg instead of on the office towers he wants to ceremony on part of the plaza. the Port Authority….Every time you get a new
about the L.M.C.C.C. In a brief interview build. Joe Daniels, president of the National governor everything stops while they bring in
across the street from the site on Tuesday, Paterson wrote: “Your proposal husbands September 11 Memorial and Museum, said in their people and do some research.”
Silver said he did not want to add to the a significant portion of insurance money for a prepared statement that the Port has made
bureaucracy by putting the construction cen- future office development that could be built good progress building the memorial in the last Josh@DowntownExpress.com
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Gerson’s ballot fight continues another week

Continued from page 1

cover sheet for the stack of petitions, an error

that the Board of Elections decided was fatal to
Gerson’s application. Gerson is appealing.
Judge Lehner, in the New York State Supreme
Court in Manhattan, sounded surprised by the
details of the case when he heard an outline of
it from the bench Monday morning.
“We’re still doing cover sheets in this day
and age?” he asked the lawyers who were stand-
ing before him. “I thought cover sheet issues
were passé these days.”
Lehner added that if he were allowed to just
make a discretionary decision, he would not
remove a candidate from the ballot because of a
cover sheet problem, but he said he would hear
the matter and follow the law.
Lehner appointed referee Leslie Lowenstein
to hold hearings on the case and report back with
an opinion. Gerson testified before Lowenstein
on Tuesday, and Lowenstein will hear additional
testimony on Thurs., Aug. 6 before writing up
an opinion by early next week. Lehner could
render a decision as soon as Aug. 12.
At the first hearing Tuesday, Lawrence A.
Mandelker, an election lawyer Gerson hired,
argued that the Board of Elections never should
have removed Gerson because his original
cover sheet was not defective. If the board had a
Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert
problem with the address mistake, they should
have simply invalidated those signatures, which Councilmember Alan Gerson, left, came to the First Precinct’s National Night Out against crime Tuesday night after testifying
still would have left Gerson with plenty of sig- earlier in the day to secure a place on the ballot.
natures to qualify for the ballot.
The Board of Elections did not argue against Gerson’s entire application is invalid.
Gerson’s position at the hearing, but instead Gerson isn’t the only candidate to have
Raymond Dowd, lawyer for Gerson challenger trouble getting on the ballot in the First District.
Pete Gleason, jumped into the fray. Dowd Challenger Arthur Gregory was also briefly
brought a separate action against Gerson, seek- off the ballot after Dowd, Gleason’s lawyer,
ing to keep him off the ballot, and the referee is objected to Gregory’s signatures. The Board of
weighing both Gerson and Gleason’s requests Elections found that Gregory had only about
simultaneously. 830 valid signatures, fewer than the 1,100
At Tuesday’s hearing, Dowd said Gerson Gregory submitted and the 900 required.
purposely misstated his address, with “clear But at a hearing Wednesday, Gregory’s
deception and intent to confuse the Board of lawyer pointed out that Dowd was one day
Elections.” He accused Gerson of fraud, an late in filing his objection to the signatures,
issue Lowenstein plans to take up in more detail which meant that the objection was invalid
at the second hearing Thursday. Specifically, and Gregory was automatically allowed onto
Dowd will make the case that Gerson’s cam- the ballot.
paign changed the incorrect address on the Gregory said his reaction to the news looked
petitions after people signed them, meaning something like a football player who has just
that people did not sign the final version of the scored a touchdown. Dowd said he would not
document. appeal the decision.
Gerson called Dowd’s accusation of fraud The two additional Democratic candidates
“ridiculous.” for Gerson’s seat — Margaret Chin and PJ Kim
“At most it was an innocent mistake by vol- — are also locked in a battle over signatures,
unteers,” Gerson said after the hearing. with Chin claiming that 5,000 or about 90
Gerson spent about an hour on the witness percent of Kim’s 5,500 signatures are invalid.
stand at Tuesday’s hearing but offered little new Lowenstein, the referee, is also hearing that
information. He frequently said he could not matter and will submit an opinion to Judge
recall the dates and contents of conversations. Lehner for a hearing on Aug. 12. Unlike
Separately, the Board of Elections held Gerson, Kim remains on the ballot despite the
a hearing related to Gerson’s petitions on challenge, at least for now.
Wednesday, but it was narrowly focused on A. Joshua Ehrlich, Chin’s lawyer, accused
the two volumes of signatures that had the Kim of fraud, claiming the witnesses who
address mistake. Gerson thought last week that signed most of Kim’s petitions either forged
he had a chance to be allowed on the ballot at their names or conducted some other type
the hearing, but when it was clear he didn’t, he of fraud. In response, Jerry Goldfeder, Kim’s
took the case to court. The Board of Elections lawyer, said Ehrlich’s accusations amounted to Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert

unanimously decided Wednesday that the two nothing more than “a fishing expedition.” Perhaps Joselyn Febus, 3, was dreaming of horses in Zuccotti Park Tuesday at
volumes were invalid, a ruling that has no the First Precinct’s anti-crime fair.
impact since the board previously decided that Julie@DowntownExpress.com
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With kids’ programs aplenty, rec center may target adults

BY JULIE SHAPIRO
Construction of the new community cen-
ter in Battery Park City is flying along, but
the details of the center’s programming are
taking longer to hammer into place.
The major concern is that the 50,000-square-
foot center, slated to open at the beginning of
2011, will displace existing programs in the
neighborhood, including Manhattan Youth
and the nonprofit sports leagues.
“I’m troubled that these issues haven’t
been taken seriously,” said Mark Costello, a
director of Downtown Little League.
The league runs spring programs on the
B.P.C. ballfields adjacent to the new center.
Asphalt Green, the likely operator of the
center, runs similar but much more expen-
sive programs at its original location, a fit-
ness center on the Upper East Side.
The Battery Park City Authority is working
with Costello and the leaders of other local
groups to address their concerns, and Costello
said he remains optimistic that everyone has
good intentions, though he is frustrated by
the slow pace of the negotiations.
“This should all have been worked out a
long time ago,” Costello said.
Jim Cavanaugh, president of the B.P.C.A.,
said the authority would continue control- Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert

ling the ballfields and the leagues would not
be affected.
Bob Townley, president of Manhattan
Youth, arguably has the most to lose when
the new B.P.C. center opens. Townley opened
his own nonprofit Downtown Community
Center just over a year ago right across
West St. from the new center. He runs many
programs that are similar to Asphalt Green’s
offerings on the Upper East Side and is con-
cerned their offerings could supplant him.
Specifically, Townley worries that if
Asphalt Green cuts into Manhattan Youth’s
after-school and summer camp clientele,
Manhattan Youth won’t have enough money
to support its free senior and teen programs.
Townley said Asphalt Green and the B.P.C.
Authority understand his concerns and are
amenable to his suggestions.
“It’s too soon to jump for joy or criticize,”
Townley said.
Cavanaugh confirmed that the authority
wants to avoid programming overlap.
“We think there’s plenty of room for both
community centers to thrive,” he said.
Townley said that even apart from his
concern about competition from Asphalt
Green, it wouldn’t make sense for the new
center to focus on young children, when
many neighborhood programs are struggling
to fill seats and some have closed.
“They’re not going to make it sustainable
with children’s programs,” Townley said.
“Do we need another camp down here? I
The Battery Park City community center, under construction with two residential towers, have more adult programs than origi-
nally planned, and it will probably be run by Asphalt Green.
Asphalt Green, and the contract could be signed
as soon as next month. The authority was initially
deciding between Asphalt Green and the YMCA
to run the center, but the YMCA withdrew its
proposal earlier this year, YMCA spokesperson
Kevin Shermach said. Shermach declined to give
a reason for withdrawing.
When Asphalt Green and the Y submit-
ted their proposals to the authority last year,
the Y had stronger financials. Asphalt Green
expected to lose about $3 million in its first
few years and would take longer to turn a
profit than the Y, which would have only lost
about $2 million.
But some in the community preferred
Asphalt Green’s approach to the center,
which they said was more tailored to Lower
Manhattan’s needs. While Asphalt Green’s
Upper East Side center focuses on athletics,
the B.P.C. center will have broader program-
ming, Cavanaugh said.
“This is not just going to be a replica of
the center on the Upper East Side,” he said.
Asphalt Green will work with local groups
to bring in cultural events, and a community
taskforce will help advise the authority and
Asphalt Green, Cavanaugh said.
An Asphalt Green spokesperson did not
return calls for comment.
If members of the community have been
vocal about what they don’t want at the new
Board 1 member who lives on West St.,
agreed that there is a need for more adult
services in the neighborhood, since most
existing programs are geared toward children.
She suggested that the center host business
and social networking events. Offbeat athletic
leagues with sports like dodge ball could also
be popular, along with a health club option
that undercut competitors’ prices, she said.
Tiffany Winbush, 26, another C.B. 1
member, said she and her husband would
be more interested in cultural programs
than athletic ones. She thinks the center
could succeed by replicating 92YTribeca’s
affordable prices and laid-back atmosphere.
Winbush added that the neighborhood also
needs more restaurants and shops.
Everyone in Battery Park City has their
own idea of the most-needed service, and half
a dozen residents who spoke to Downtown
Express listed grief support groups, dating
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mixers, a bank, an indoor playing field, free
B.P.C. Parks Conservancy programs and a
community gathering space for teens, singles
or seniors among their top choices.
Ruth Ohman, a senior citizens’ leader at
Gateway Plaza, would like the new center
to have free lectures, movies and classes
for seniors, as well as a drop-in lounge for
socializing.
“We don’t really have a place to call our
own down here, and that would be nice,”
Ohman said.
Martha Gallo, one of the leaders of the
B.P.C. Neighbors’ Association after 9/11 and
an early voice of support for the community
center, said there are plenty of needs for the
new center to serve.
“There’s going to be enough room for
everybody,” she said.
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don’t think so. Another preschool? No.”
The new community center will go in the
base of the new residential towers Milstein
Properties is building along N. End Ave. The
authority will pay $27 million to build out
the space and then will turn the center over
to an operator who will run programs and
generate money for the authority.
Cavanaugh confirmed to Downtown Express
that the center’s operator will almost certainly be
center, they also have many ideas about what
they do want.
Townley thinks the neighborhood needs
more programs for people in their 20s and 30s
who don’t have children. Since Asphalt Green of our Readers.
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Tribecans say the jig is up at Sazon
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
A new bar in Tribeca is breaking the law by
blasting live music and having a dance floor,
neighbors charge.
Sazon, a Puerto Rican restaurant on Reade
St. that turns into more of a lounge after hours,
has drawn a slew of complaints from local
residents since it opened in May in the space
formerly occupied by Fresh.
Residents of the Tribeca side street say
Sazon’s patrons make too much noise when
they spill into the street late at night, preventing
people from sleeping. But the biggest problem,
they say, is that Sazon is not abiding by its liquor
license, which expressly prohibits live music.
Sazon also does not have a cabaret license,
which means the bar cannot have dancing.
“There have been no indications that Sazon
attempted to abide by its liquor license,” said
Kelly Adams, who lives across from Sazon on
Reade St.
Shortly after 10 p.m. last Saturday, a five-
piece salsa band played in Sazon’s lower-lev-
el lounge, the trumpet player blaring solos.
Several couples danced in a small space cleared
between tables and the bar.
Owner Genaro Morales told the Web site
Always Hungry New York in June that Sazon
has been “getting crowded already, like a big
dance party.”
Mike Smith, spokesperson for the State
Liquor Authority, said Sazon promised in its
application to have only background music on
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shifts to more of a nightclub or bar atmosphere
after hours.
“If they’re not conforming, we can take
action,” Smith said.
Sazon also is not allowed to have any patron
dancing, said Elizabeth Miller, spokesperson
for the city Dept. of Consumer Affairs, which
issues cabaret licenses. Miller said she had not
received any complaints or tips about Sazon yet,
but the department would look into the case.
Martin Mehler, a lawyer representing Sazon,
initially told Downtown Express that Sazon
had no live music or dancing. When told that a
reporter had visited the bar and observed both
activities, Mehler said he would have to consult
with his client. He did not return a subsequent
call for comment.
At a Community Board 1 meeting last week,
Francis Buscemi, another of Sazon’s lawyers,
said the owner had ordered signs telling patrons
to respect neighbors and keep the noise level
down. Buscemi also promised the doorman
would “take a more active role” in keeping
patrons quiet outside, and he said Sazon would
close its windows after 7 p.m. on Fridays and
Saturdays.
Sazon has been operating under a series
of temporary liquor licenses while the S.L.A.
makes a decision about transferring Fresh’s
old license to Sazon. Since there are more than
three other bars near Sazon, the S.L.A. held a
500-foot hearing last month on the proposed
license transfer, and several residents attended
to express their concerns.
One of the residents’ top complaints is that
the block of Reade St. between Church St. and
W. Broadway has grown saturated with late-
night establishments.
Mary Ann’s, a Mexican restaurant on the
corner of Reade and W. Broadway, has an
outdoor cafe that can get noisy, residents say.
Then there is Sazon, where patrons often hang
out outside smoking or talking on cell phones,
residents say, though it looked like bouncers
were keeping the street quiet early last Saturday
night. Finally, another bar, Ward 3, recently
opened beside Sazon on Reade St., and while
residents haven’t cited specific problems with it,
they still say the street has too many bars.
“That was your typical quiet side street
in Tribeca,” said Bruce Ehrmann, a Tribeca
Bars face tighter law as loophole
in 500-foot rule to close
BY JULIE SHAPIRO
Bar owners seeking licenses will once again
face tougher restrictions under a bill passed by
the State Legislature this summer.
The bill strengthens the 500-foot rule, which
limits new bars and clubs if there are three or
more existing liquor licenses nearby. The new
legislation was prompted by a court ruling last
November, which weakened the 500-foot rule
and gave bar owners more leeway in neighbor-
hoods that are densely packed with bars.
“The [ruling] last November really shot a
500-foot hole in the statute’s intent,” said State
Sen. Daniel Squadron, who sponsored the new
legislation. “This closes it up.”
Squadron’s legislation clarifies that any-
one who wants to serve liquor within 500
feet of three or more other establishments
that serve liquor must hold a public hear-
ing and show that the new venue would be
in the public’s best interest.
That is exactly how the previous ver-
sion of the law was being enforced, until last
November, when a Sate Supreme Court judge
said the law referred only to three or more
licenses of the same type. That meant that if
a block had a dozen restaurants that served
liquor but no bars, a new bar could open there
without a 500-foot hearing. In that way, the
ruling removed the extra layer of public review
that usually applies to dense neighborhoods,
including much of Lower Manhattan.
In response to the ruling, Squadron,
who represents Downtown Manhattan and
Brooklyn, and Assemblymember Robin
Schimminger introduced legislation modify-
ing the wording of the 500-foot rule so that
it clearly covered all types of liquor licenses.
The Assembly passed the bill in June and the
Senate passed it July 16, and now it is await-
ing delivery to Gov. David Paterson’s office.
Paterson is expected to sign the bill, but the
governor’s office does not comment on bills
before the governor has seen them. The State
Liquor Authority also declined to comment.
John Weis, chairperson of Community
Board 4 in Chelsea, called the new legislation
“terrific.”
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resident and member of C.B. 1. “Now it’s an
all-night affair.”
The board did not oppose a license for
Sazon earlier this year, since they did not realize
there would be problems for residents. C.B. 1 is
arranging a meeting between residents and the
bar’s representatives, which could take place as
soon as next week.
Anne Kelly, who has lived on Reade St. for
nearly 25 years, said she’s never seen anything
like Sazon, which frequently blasts “Sweet
Caroline” and has people literally dancing in
the streets.
“It’s very disrespectful,” Kelly said. Even
from the middle of her third-floor apartment,
she said, “you can hear the screaming.”
Julie@DowntownExpress.com
The court ruling from November originated
from Weis’ district, a catering hall on W. 46th
St. called Hudson Terrace. The venue was
allowed to bypass the 500-foot rule under the
court ruling, which meant that although there
were four other liquor licenses nearby, there
was no 500-foot hearing and Hudson Terrace
did not have to prove that its operation was in
the public’s interest.
Beside Hudson Terrace, Weis had not heard
of any other bars that received an advantage
from the court ruling.
“It more threw everyone into a bit of tur-
moil,” Weis said. “No one knew which venue
was licensed in which way.”
The district managers of Community Boards
1 and 3 Downtown also said they did not know
of any licenses that avoided a 500-foot hearing
under the court ruling, and they agreed that the
ruling created confusion.
The problem was that the S.L.A. did not
previously keep track of which licenses fell
under which categories, and it was often unclear
whether an establishment was a bar or a restau-
rant. As new applications arrived, no one knew
how to tell how many venues of a given type
were within 500 feet, meaning it was impos-
sible to tell when the 500-foot rule applied.
The court decision “caused a huge backlog
in applications,” said Susan Stetzer, district
manager of C.B. 3. “We’ll be very happy [when
this is] cleared up.”
Separately, Squadron’s new legislation
makes a change to another piece of the liquor
license law, called the 200-foot rule. The rule
restricts liquor licenses within 200 feet of a
school or a house of worship. Currently, if a bar
already has a license before a church or school
moves in nearby, the bar is allowed to stay but
cannot move at all within the 200-foot zone.
The bill would allow the bar to move within
the 200-foot zone, a change that Squadron said
would allow the bar to move a bit away from
the school or church.
“It gives a little more flexibility,” Squadron
said.
Julie@DowntownExpress.com
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Yonkers ferry
Commuter ferry service to Yonkers received a
$300,000 boost from the Empire State Development
Corp. last month.
Without the money, the New York Water Taxi
service between Lower Manhattan and Yonkers likely
would have ended in July. The grant has allowed
Water Taxi and the City of Yonkers to not only keep
the ferry service going, but also to launch an advertis-
ing campaign and add a new stop: W. 39th St.
The enhanced ferry route went into effect Aug. 3
and includes the original stops of Pier 11 near Wall
St., the World Financial Center and Yonkers in addi-
tion to W. 39th St.
The $300,000 grant will support the ferries for
another three months, which will hopefully be enough
time for the marketing to produce results, said David
Simpson, a spokesperson for Yonkers Mayor Phil
Amicone.
In particular, Simpson is banking on the new stop
in Midtown to make the service more attractive and
increase ridership.
“I know a lot more people living in lower Westchester
who work in Midtown than in the Financial District,”
Simpson said. “It’s just where most of the larger firms
are now.”
The Yonkers ferry once extended up to Haverstraw,
but Water Taxi discontinued that service May 1
because few people used it. The ferry, which began
Wet cleanup
Despite rainy weather, about 200 high school volunteers spent the day cleaning up the streets of Chinatown
in 2007, was originally subsidized by the Lower
Sunday. As part of Chinatown Youth Initiatives’ “Make Change Count” programming, the cleanup featured 15
Manhattan Development Corp., an E.S.D.C. subsid-
teams of volunteers with trashcans, brooms, tongs, and dustpans helping to beautify the neighborhood. The
iary.
weekend included community oriented workshops and discussions at N.Y.U.’s Silver Center on Saturday, and
culminated with the Sunday event.
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Learning with computer games at Chinatown summer school
BY JARED T. MILLER
The School of One doesn’t much resemble
a traditional classroom. Teachers pair off with
students, and tutor them under banners play-
fully titled with New York City landmarks;
a group of students watches as a teacher
explains a lesson by projecting a laptop onto
the whiteboard in front of them; and most
strikingly, most of the students are teaching
themselves by playing computer games.
A pilot program launched July 9 by the
Dept. of Education, the School of One is an
effort to “re-imagine the traditional class-
room,” said Chancellor Joel Klein, who toured
the program two weeks ago. The Dept. of
Education chose I.S. 131 in Chinatown as
the testing ground for the program, which is
currently only a math-focused summer school
program for 90 sixth-grade students who vol-
unteered to participate.
Using technology developed specifically for
the program, the School of One aims to make
teachers more efficient and offer students a
greater variety of learning methods. It does
so in several ways: Analysis of each student’s
educational strengths and weaknesses as well
as their personal likes and dislikes leads to an
individually crafted teaching style for each stu-
dent. Individualized monitoring of students’
progress allows lessons to move at the stu-
dents’ pace, compensating for quick learners
as well as those who require extra help. And
in many cases, most of the instruction can be
done on a laptop available to each student.
“The question that I had always asked
myself is, ‘If I was only working with a small
group of students, what would the rest of the
class actually be doing?’” said Joel Rose, chief
executive for Human Capital at the New York
City Dept. of Education and founder of the
School of One. “I never really had a good
answer to that question — at least not one that
wouldn’t require eight hours of preparation.”
Rose’s answer struck him last year when
he was visiting a New Horizons Learning
Center. In the South Florida branch, there was
a sign — “Choose Your Modality,” — hung at
the entrance. The center, which specializes in
technical training for adults, offered several of
the “modalities,” or teaching situations: live
instruction, at-home learning, and mentored
one-on-one learning. Rose spent the follow-
ing summer months writing and planning the
foundation for what now resides inside a con-
verted library in I.S. 131. The program cost
about $1 million to implement, though Rose
explained that the majority (nearly $900,000)
of the cost was for infrastructure and software
that will be reused as the program expands.
At the beginning of each school year, all of
I.S. 131’s students are assigned laptops from
the “I Teach/I Learn” program, making the
school an ideal candidate for the technology-
heavy School of One. Teachers hope to con-
tinue some elements of the program in the
coming school year.
Students have a similar choice of how to
learn best. Based on personality surveys as
well as educational assessments taken prior
to the beginning of the program, students
are paired with what suits them best. Like
the goal of any school, students are fit with
schedules that match their learning ability;
August 7 - 13, 2009 11
Downtown Express photos by Jared T. Miller
I.S. 131’s new summer school program uses computers for games, math drills and to schedule more individual student instruc-
tional time throughout the day. The program was set up by Joel Rose of the Dept. of Education, below.
but the personality profile, which asks ques-
tions about likes, dislikes, and hobbies, helps
pair students with the right kind of learning
method. A student who plays sports regular-
ly and a student who enjoys art classes, for
instance, would likely have different sched-
ules. Schedules are displayed on a screen at
the front of the room, changing throughout
the day for each student. Rose compares it
to an airport flight screen, in terms of its vis-
ibility and organization.
As a result, the early stages of the pro-
gram have shown significant learning progress
for the students involved (which is moni-
tored by the computerized algorithm that sets
their schedules and receives their grades on
daily assessments). A “handful” of students,
according to Rose, are attending the program
because they are behind or having trouble with
the material they had recently learned. The
system constantly adjusts for their progress,
only advancing to the next lesson after the
current one has been completed satisfactorily. “A lot of this technology is just tricking of coming in half an hour before his students,
Conversely, Rose noted that several students a television generation into learning,” said preparing for lessons and adjusting for any
have been advancing rapidly through the mate- teacher Matthew Miller, who teaches special problems that might occur, and either monitor-
rial; the students, who will be entering seventh education at the school during the academic ing progress or teaching face-to-face through-
grade in the fall, are nearly finished with the year. He said he rarely hears complaints of “I out the day’s four class periods.
seventh grade math curriculum. can’t do this” from his students, who appear to Miller says he’d like to incorporate parts
”It’s a good problem to have,” Rose be more motivated by the difference in educa- of the technology into his academic year
laughed. tional technique. But for Miller, the efficiency curriculum. Though the program is still
The system creates a similarly favorable of a computerized curriculum is key. only planned for the summer, Rose said he
situation for the teachers involved. The pro- “What’s better than an assessment a day at planned to analyze the results of the pro-
gram, which is led by four teachers, four grad- the end of every day, already graded, already gram, and if they are favorable begin plan-
uate students from New York University and locked in for me?” Miller said. “Everything ning for introduction of the School of One’s
two high school interns, appears at first glance that computer’s doing is an hour and a half, math curriculum. He said he hoped to do so
to be self-sufficient. The majority of students two hours of work for me after school at night, by this coming January. For Miller, incorpo-
play games on their laptops; Math Score offers every night. I think it’s a great trade-off.” rating the technological focus at the heart of
students a chance to solve problems in a more Miller’s schedule is already created for him the School of One is most important.
traditional fashion, whereas Dimension M the night before, determining which students “Think about it — we’re so bombarded by
resembles a “first person shooter” video game, will need help when. The algorithm internal- extreme amounts of media,” Miller said. “Here
where the student must answer math ques- izes the results of the day’s assessments and we are putting, traditionally, photocopies and
tions to rack up virtual trophies and prizes for matches that with the student’s progress and black and white books [in front of students].
their efforts. preferred learning style. Miller’s day consists It’s just not gonna last, in my opinion.”
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Deutsche demo’s pricetag inches up even higher

The long-delayed Deutsche Bank demoli-
tion got a little bit more expensive this week,
as the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
approved another $2.5 million for the project.
That’s just a fraction of the roughly $280
million previously allocated to buy, clean and
demolish the building, and it won’t be the
last time the L.M.D.C. needs more money.
The project’s price tag could rise by another
$30 million before it’s done.
The newly allocated $2.5 million may
help pay for the project’s rising legal costs.
At a meeting Tuesday, the L.M.D.C. board
approved an additional $130,000 for photo-
copying and document management, bringing
the total for that purpose to $850,000. The
board also approved a $700,000 increase to
a contract with the law firm Dechert L.L.P.,
bringing Dechert’s compensation to a total
of $8 million.
The L.M.D.C. has faced the scrutiny
of Manhattan District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau since the August 2007 fire in
the building that killed two firefighters. The
legal fees are associated with the fire and
the conduct of the contractors the L.M.D.C.
hired for the job.
The $2.5 million allocation comes from
federal grant money designated for the south
side of the World Trade Center site, where
the Deutsche Bank building sits. The $2.5
million is all that is left of that grant,
which originally totaled $63 million, said
Avi Schick, chairperson of the L.M.D.C.
The new allocation will give the Deutsche
Bank project enough cash to get through
at least the end of November, but then
the L.M.D.C. will need more money. The
L.M.D.C. hopes to draw from the building’s
prior insurers, who have already given $63.5
million, and from contractor Bovis Lend
Lease, who may be found to be liable for
some of the project’s delays, including the
2007 fire. If money from Bovis and the prior
Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St., is
currently cleaning it of 9/11 contaminants so
it can be demolished. The cleaning is nearly
complete, but demolition will not begin
until after Labor Day because Bovis has not
finished its final plans and submitted them to
the city Buildings Dept.
Once the cleaning work finishes, “There
will be a period of time now where there is
just some mobilization going on,” Schick said
at the L.M.D.C.’s board meeting Tuesday.
John De Libero, L.M.D.C. spokesper-
son, said demolition would take about six
months, although L.M.D.C. President David
Emil said last week that it was premature to
give a timetable. If De Libero’s timeline is

Speaker Sheldon Silver

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and security of New York City and our Lower Manhattan community.
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Security recognizes the greater level of significant risk that we face, and
has increased its assistance to New York under the various Homeland
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Bower, Massimino was part of a crew on the space shuttle Atlantis that recently
repaired the Hubble Space Telescope. Massimino took other New York memorabilia
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PATRICK HEDLUND
TRINITY PARK SET FOR SEPT.
A planned public park/sculpture garden
for the vacant lot at the intersection of
Canal St. and Sixth Ave. in Hudson Square
has started taking shape more than a year
after property owner Trinity Real Estate
announced the project.
The half-acre triangular plot, bordered
by Varick St. to the west, will serve as a
multi-use public plaza featuring large art-
works, seating and a tree nursery, according
to project architect Interboro Partners. The
Brooklyn-based design team was selected
for the project, called Lent Space, by the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which
partnered with Trinity to develop an interim
plan for site over the next few years while
the landlord decides what to do there.
In response to a request that a fence sur-
round the park, the architects will construct
a “moveable sculpture fence facing Duarte
Square [on the Sixth Ave. side] that can
enclose or open the site to different degrees
and also serve as a public amenity in the form
of park benches and wall panels for exhibi-
tions,” according to Interboro’s Web site.
The park will include a collection of
trees and assorted greenery set in planters,
which will eventually move to nearby streets
for the emerging Hudson Square business
improvement district. The space is slated
for a late September opening, an L.M.C.C.
spokesperson said, with a full program of
exhibitions and events to be announced in
the coming weeks.
GOING POSTAL
The United States Postal Service is con-
sidering closing nearly 700 post office
branches across the country due to financial
constraints, including 14 in the city and
a pair Downtown, but the South Street
Seaport’s Peck Slip branch escaped the
budget ax.
After initially releasing a list identifying
53 possible closures across the city, the Post
Office trimmed that number to just 14 post
offices this week, including the Lower East
Side’s Pitt Station on Clinton St.
The branch, located between Grand
St. and East Broadway, sits next to the
Seward Park Co-op, which owns the prop-
erty and leases it to the U.S.P.S. The other
(IZIPSTQIRX[MXLE0MGIRWIH4VSJIWWMSREP'SEGLMRK
Downtown branch marked for possible
closure is the West Village Post Office on
527 Hudson St., between Charles and W.
10th Sts.
Seaport resident Paul Hovitz, who has
been fighting the Peck closure, said he was
happy about Peck Slip and thanked U.S.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler and Community Board
1 for intervening.
The U.S.P.S. is facing a $7 billion short-
fall from fiscal year 2008, including a 4.5
percent drop in total volume nationwide or
9.5 billion pieces of mail.
August 7 - 13, 2009 15
N.Y.U. WATCH
New York University recently filed plans
with the city to build an 11-story religious
center in the Village despite previously pro-
posing a building nearly half as tall.
According to a July 23 application with
the Department of Buildings, N.Y.U. is seek-
ing to construct a 72,861-square-foot, multi-
use faith facility at Washington Square Park
and Thompson St. But the original proposal,
unveiled in early June, showed a six-story,
61,000-square-foot building with a 4.9 F.A.R.
(floor to area ratio). Under the current zon-
ing, N.Y.U. can construct a building of up to
6.5 F.A.R. (nearly 80,000 square feet) as of
right, but the university stated in June that it
opted instead to build a structure using a 4.9
F.A.R. — about 18,000 square feet and one
story lower than what is allowed.
The school stated then that a shorter, squat-
ter building with wider floor plates would
better suit the needs of the center, which
will house N.Y.U.’s four chaplains — Jewish,
Protestant, Catholic and Muslim — together Downtown Express photo by Patrick Hedlund
for the first time at the same location. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Trinity Church is working on their sculp-
However, the university’s application with ture park on Varick St. and expects it to open next month.
D.O.B. requests a 5.75 F.A.R. featuring five
more stories and nearly 12,000 additional architecture and creative uses enjoys strong public market programmed and managed by
square feet than was initially offered. community support,” read a statement from Urban Space Management and housed, in
A university spokesperson explained that Diana Taylor, the Trust’s chairperson. part, in recycled shipping containers.
the application’s plan was modified because The developer’s plan includes a strong The Trust’s selection follows on the heels
N.Y.U. needed to submit a proposal it knew arts emphasis, with dedicated space for of the developer’s blockbuster purchase of
would be rejected in order to pursue a zon- galleries, exhibitions, auctions and enter- A.I.G.’s twin Financial District high-rises
ing variance with the Board of Standards tainment, as well as a permanent outdoor in early June for a reported $140 million in
and Appeals. The school requires the vari- venue for the Tribeca Film Festival on the partnership with a Korea-based bank.
ance since its intended design doesn’t con- pier’s roof. The design also provides for
form to current setback and open-space a 170,000-square-foot, covered, open-air mixeduse@communitymediallc.com
requirements.
But since the original six-story plan also
doesn’t conform to current requirements,
university-development watchdog Andrew
Berman wondered why N.Y.U. didn’t sim-
ply file an application reflecting that design
proposal.
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for this taller, higher-F.A.R. building that
they said they don’t want to do?” said
Berman, executive director of the Greenwich
Village Society of Historic Preservation. “Is
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the public’s head?”
Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U.’s vice president of
government affairs and community engage-
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to its goal of constructing the six-story build-
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versions with D.O.B.
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Dear Transit Sam,
Commuting from Chambers St. near
Battery Park City was a mess last week.
Chambers St. was supposed to be converted
from two-way traffic to one-way traffic west-
bound between North End Ave. and West
St., the weekend of July 24. The NYC [Dept.
of Transportation] moved the bus stop signs
that Friday and no one noticed but my fellow
bus riders and I of course. Bus operations for
the M20 and M22 were supposed to change
on Monday July 27, even though Chambers
St. was still two-way. The conversion had not
taken place. Even though we were encouraged
to use the new locations, the buses would not
pick us up there. They just drove right past us.
Transit Sam, we need your help! Why was this
delayed? Are the new bus stops now being uti-
Transit Sam
The Answer man
(D.O.T.) was doing. Apparently, the proper
permits were held up or not submitted on
time. Since there was no conversion yet,
buses were still servicing their regular stops.
In any event, Transit Sam got to the bottom
of it, and the permit has been approved,
the changes were implemented on Monday,
and the bus drivers are now servicing the
relocated stops.
The northbound M20 and M22 bus stop on
North End Ave. has been relocated to Warren
St. at West St., beside the ballfields. The con-
version to one-way traffic is expected to last
through Labor Day, maybe a little bit longer.
Transit Sam
Dear Transit Sam,
Outside the City Hall subway entrance that’s Downtown Express photo by Joshua A. Knoller

lized and how long with this conversion last, if
it even happens?
Roberto, Battery Park City
Dear Roberto,
It was a case of the right hand (the
M.T.A.) not knowing what the left hand
right in front of 1 Centre St., the word “sub-
way” is spelled “SVBWAY.” Was this a typo?
Josh, Park Row
Dear Josh,
I guess you could call it an intentional
typo. The “V” is a testament to the Roman
architecture in the area and can be found
A Roman lettering touch at the City Hall “SVBWAY” stop.
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EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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John W. Sutter
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Letting Downtown Downtown’s got parks “rank” the deaths of 9/11?
Pretty damn insulting to the public that
Josh Rogers
ARTS EDITOR
choose a candidate To The Editor:
you just asked to contribute to building this
memorial, Mr. Daniels.
Scott Stiffler Re “Underused lanes should be pedes-
New York’s arcane and partisan election procedures trian space.” (news article, July 24 – 30): Michael Burke
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Albert Amateau
Lincoln Anderson decade before John McCain became the Republican funding for transforming underused streets Eng. Co. 21, FDNY
Patrick Hedlund Party’s establishment figure, we remember him dem- into public plazas in neighborhoods lacking
Julie Shapiro onstrating in New York as he compared our election open spaces for pedestrians.”
system to the Kremlin because party leaders were Edgar St. is within one block of Battery
SR. V.P. OF SALES AND
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Francesco Regini primary run against George W. Bush. He had a point. city. It’s within 2 blocks of Hudson River
Recent election developments in Lower Manhattan Park which extends all the way up to the To The Editor:
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There are five Democratic candidates running to be definition that neighborhood does not lack the ballot” (news article, July 31 – August 6):
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Julio Tumbaco who has been denied a place on the September 15 pri- Surely, in the midst of a recession, the might be eliminated from the Sept. 15 bal-
Danielle Zupanovich mary ballot by the city Board of Elections is incumbent city can a find better use for the money and lot because of a one-digit printer’s error
Alan Gerson, who has collected about 7,000 signa- resources it would take to expand a mini- on a cover sheet involving only about 15%
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Colin Gregory tures — that’s 6,100 more than is required. Gerson has park that no one will use. of the signatures on his petitions is outra-
lived almost his whole life at 505 LaGuardia Pl. but geous. When a similar typo temporarily
OFFICE MANAGER some of his petitions listed his address at non-existent Robert Martinez removed Councilman Bill de Blasio from
David Jaffe
1505. His campaign’s efforts to correct that mistake Brooklyn, NY the ballot for public advocate, a related
ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR appears to have led to another equally persnickety one New York Times editorial characterized
Troy Masters and the B.O.E. — which by design is evenly partisan the city’s election laws as “notoriously
ART DIRECTOR between Democrats and Republicans and in actuality unfair” and advocated that “the burden
Mark Hasselberger is a threat to democracy — has refused to consider his Good for the public too should be on the board of elections to find
GRAPHIC DESIGNER case anymore. ways to keep candidates on the ballot, not
Jamie Paakkonen Gerson is now fighting in court and expects to get To The Editor: to push them off for typographical errors.”
DISTRIBUTION & CIRCULATION a place on the ballot next week. We hope so because Re “Street work could delay memorial In the situation involving Mr. Gerson,
Cheryl Williamson any other result would be unfair to Downtown’s vot- opening, official warns” (news article, July he has collected almost eight times the
ers. It is up to the people to decide whether Gerson 31 - August 6): required number of signatures, and the
CONTRIBUTORS
Frank R. Angelino deserves four more years, not partisan hacks or judges. First, I’d like to thank City Councilmember 7,000 voters who signed his petitions (far
Wickham Boyle Does anyone really believe that on those many pages of Alan Gerson for speaking up for the incendi- more than any other candidate) will effec-
Tim Lavin 7,000 signatures, there are not at least 900 registered ary idea of identifying firefighters who gave tively be disenfranchised if his name is not
David Stanke Democrats living in the First District who signed up to their lives Sept. 11 as “firefighters” at the on the ballot.
Jerry Tallmer put Gerson on the ballot? W.T.C. memorial. Just as revealing has been the reaction
PHOTOGRAPHERS It’s hard to blame the other candidates for trying As you reported, “Daniels said that many from Pete Gleason, one of Gerson’s oppo-
Lorenzo Ciniglio to knock people off the ballot. They are just playing family members objected to the inclusion nents. In de Blasio’s situation, the Times
Milo Hess by the warped rules that they were given. It is well of rank because it would create a hierarchy reported that even his three main competi-
Corky Lee known in New York political circles that you must get among those who were killed.” tors in the race supported his right to be on
Elisabeth Robert at least two or three times the number of signatures That’s odd. Right down the hall from the ballot. In marked contrast, Gleason,
Jefferson Siegel
needed because it is very easy to have signatures Daniels’ office is the “Family Room” with all apparently lacking confidence in his ability
thrown out in challenges. Why shouldn’t voters be those distinctions that “create hierarchies.” to defeat Gerson in a head-to-head contest,
Published by allowed to sign more than one candidate’s petition? Put there by the families. So, let’s get this has taken the low road and is strongly push-
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Park harkens back to when Canal was a canal
With an abbreviated name that matches
its Tribeca surroundings, the recently opened
CaVaLa Park has been a welcome addition
to the area for those who work nearby.
An abbreviation of Canal, Varick, and
Laight, the three streets that border the tri-
angular park, CaVaLa opened quietly on July
20. A spokesperson from the Parks Dept.
said they hoped to organize a ribbon cutting
ceremony in early September.
The park has not yet attracted a lot of
visitors, but it has gotten good reviews so
far.
“It surprised me how nice it turned out
to be, because I was a little skeptical about
the location,” J.D. Marlow, 23, who works
nearby on 6th Ave., said about the park’s
proximity to the Holland Tunnel entrance.
“It’s going to be a nice little intersection
here.”
Local artist Elyn Zimmerman co-designed
CaVaLa with Parks Dept. landscape archi-
tect Gail Wittwer-Laird. Zimmerman also
designed the memorial for the victims of
the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
She contributed the park’s centerpiece, a
fountain resembling a series of cascading
waterfalls, which is meant to represent the
former canal that used to occupy the area
CaVaLa Park opened two weeks ago and has gotten good reviews so far.
August 7 - 13, 2009 19
and gave the nearby street its name. The
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
contributed $2.4 million to the project, and
the remaining funds came from the may-
or’s office and the Paul and Irma Milstein
Foundation to reach the park’s $3.3 million
construction cost.
“We were just saying how nice it is,” said
Kri Muhammad, 32, who goes to school
nearby at the Art Institute of New York City
and had stopped by the park with her friend.
“With the fountain, it’s a good use of space”
The area was swampland in the mid
1700s, Since then it has served as a canal,
been occupied by Crucible Steel Company,
and most recently, served as a paved space
owned by the Dept. of Transportation fre-
quently used as parking space for utility
vehicles and police cars. In its current form,
the park is lined with benches and features
trees, shrubs, and seasonal flowers, as well
as three stone chess tables.
“I think it totally transforms the area.”
said Max Heller, 40, who work nearby, as he
ate lunch at one of the park’s chess tables.
“It creates an oasis that hasn’t been here in a
hundred years.”
— Jared T. Miller
Downtown Express photos by Jared T. Miller
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ARTS +GAMES This project, designed by an art specialist for
school age children, includes clay, painting and jewelry design.
Free. Every Thursday through October 29, 3:30-5:30 PM. Nelson
A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City (access: Chambers). Call
212-267-9700 or visit bpcparks.org.
BEGINNER TENNIS LESSONS Group sessions with an expe-
rienced instructor will emphasize the fundamentals of the game
of tennis. For beginner kids ages 6-12 - 6 sessions- $150. Satur-
days, through August 29, 10:30 to 11:30 AM. For beginner teens/
adults over 13- 6 sessions – Members: $210, Non-members:
$240- 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Community Center at Stuyvesant
High School, 345 Chambers Street. To register, call 646-210-4292.
For more information, visit ccshs.org.
CHILDREN’S BASKETBALL Children can play with adjustable
height hoops, plus participate in fun drills to improve skills. Free.
Mondays and Fridays through October 30 (except holiday week-
ends) 3:30-4:30 PM for 5-6 year olds, 4:30-5:30 PM for 7 & older.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan
(access: Chambers Street). Call 212-267-9700 or visit bpcparks.
org.
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS (CMA) Children can
explore painting, collage, and sculpture through self-guided art
projects. Open art stations are on-going throughout the after-
noon, giving children the opportunity to experiment with materi-
als such as paint, clay, fabric, paper, and found objects. Admis-
sion $10. Wednesday through Sunday, 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-6
PM Children’s Museum of the Arts, 182 Lafayette Street, 212-
274-0986, cmany.org.
DOWNTOWN SUMMER DAY CAMP Enjoy the same enrich-
ing activities that country day camps offer without the stress of
traveling out of the city every day on a bus. The camp combines a
daily program with special events to give children an exciting and
varied camp experience. Kids K-6th grade. For rates and to regis-
ter, go to downtowndaycamp.com or call 212-766-1104, x250.
EAST INDIAN FAMILY DANCE Children will be able to experi-
ence energetic and joyful community dancing at Battery Park City.
Free. August 15, 6:30-8 PM. Esplanade Plaza (located along the
Hudson River at the end of Liberty St.). Visit bpcparks.org.
FUN FOR KIDS AT THE NYC POLICE MUSEUM Kids can test
out the sirens used in an NYPD patrol car, take their friend’s “mug
shot” in a police line-up and see what life is like on the other side
TRIBECA DENTAL
For the Whole Family
General Dentistry & Cosmetic
Dentistry + Implants
Bleaching + Orthodontics
Dr. Martin Gottlieb
Dr. Raphael Santore
Dr. Reena Clarkson,
Orthodontist
Dr. Ken Chu,
Dr. Grace Chin
Dr. Sara Fikree
Pediatric Dentists
19 Murray Street
Between Church & Broadway
For an appointment, call 212-941-9095
August 7 - 13, 2009
of the bars in a real jail cell — a much more. Adults $7, children
(6-18): $5.00, children under 6: free. New York City Police Muse-
um, 100 Old Slip. Call 212-480-3100 or visit nycpolicemuseum.
org.
GO FLY A KITE Manhattan Youth and Governor’s Island are
inviting everyone for kite-flying, open spaces and lots of fun.
August 7, 10 A.M. to 3 PM Governor’s Island Picnic Area. For ferry
schedules, visit govisland.com.
GONE FISHIN AT THE SCHOONER PIONEER Participants
will have an opportunity to use an otter trawl net to catch
live animals in New York Harbor, and examine them up close
before releasing them. They will also learn about the local har-
bor estuary where these creatures live, and how human activ-
ity threatens their survival. $40 adults, $35 students & seniors,
$25 children 12 and under. August 29, 12-3 PM. South Street
Seaport, Pier 16. For more information, visit southstreetsea-
portmuseum.org.
GLOBAL STORY HOUR Through weekly stories, participants
learn about new countries and cultures, participate in interactive
activities, and learn how to make a difference. Every Friday at
3:30pm. Action Center to End World Hunger, 6 River Terrace, Bat-
tery Park City. Call 212-537-0511 or visit actioncenter.org.
KIDS STORYTIME Storyteller Yvonne Brooks leads a storytime
with arts and crafts for kids ages 3-7, every Saturday at 12 PM
in the children’s section. Baby storytime with storyteller Stewart
Dawes takes place on Friday at 4:00 PM for ages younger than 2.
McNally Jackson Booksellers, 52 Prince Street, (between Lafay-
ette and Mulberry). Call 212-274-1160 or visit mcnallyjackson.
com.
KIDS PROGRAMS Put your children’s energy to good use
through art, basketball, chess, cycling, exploration, gardening,
and music among other activities. Days, materials fees, and park
locations vary. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Two South
End Ave. Call 212-262-9700 or visit bcparks.org.
MOVIES FOR KIDS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE
AMERICAN INDIAN Special screenings for the kids are shown
through August 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM and 11:45 AM, daily. Films
shown: The Legend of Quillwork Girl and her Seven Star Broth-
ers, Letter from an Apache and others. National Museum of the
American Indian, One Bowling Green. Call 212-514-3700 or visit
nmai.si.edu.
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YOUTH
ACTIVITIES
PRESCHOOL DAY CAMP Children 18 months to 5 years old
are invited on a quest for summer fun! This summer’s theme is
“Safari.” Kids will learn about the jungle, do safari searches for
animals, plan a “trip” to far away places, and engage in a lot of
imaginative play. Flexible schedules including half days, full days
and day care options are offered. Limited space is still available
through August 21.The Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway
(between Jefferson & Clinton Streets) For more information, call
646-395-4250 or email preschool@edalliance.org.
PLAYDATE AND NEW PARENT DROP IN The Playdate
“Drop-In” is a great place to bring toddlers. While the children
play together, the parents can socialize in the parenting center.
The New Parent “Drop-In” gives new parents the chance to
discuss their concerns and ask questions. Topics include feed-
ing, sleeping, creating support networks. Punch card for 10
sessions is $100. Summer Special: $90 punch card if purchased
before August 31. Playdate Drop-Ins are Mondays & Thursdays,
10-11:30 AM and Tuesdays 3-4:30 PM. New Parent Drop-Ins are
Mondays 1:30-3:30 PM. Educational Alliance Downtown Par-
enting Center,197 East Broadway (between Jefferson & Clinton
Streets.) Visit edalliance.org.
TEEN PROGRAMS Save teenagers from the boredom blues
through classes on art, babysitter training, CPR, and environmen-
tal activism. Days, materials fees, and park locations vary. Bat-
tery Park City Parks Conservancy, Two South End Ave. For more
information call, 212-262-9700 or visit bcparks.org.
PRESCHOOL PLAY AND ART Join other toddlers, parents
and caregivers for interactive play on a grassy lawn. Toys, books
and equipment provided. Free. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednes-
days, through October 27 (except September 7 and October 12)
10 A.M- 12 PM. Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. Call 212-267-9700 or
visit bpcparks.org.
SUMMER ART COLONIES The Children’s Museum of the
Arts will run a Summer Art Colony on Governors Island and
the CMA facility at 182 Lafayette Street in Soho for children
ages 6 to 14. The two-week day camp sessions, led by pro-
fessional artists, will run though September 4. CMA’s Summer
Art Colonies allow children to spend their summers exploring
nearly every art form in the fine, performing and media arts.
The classes are structured to allow full immersion into art. For
more information, call 212-627-5766 or visit cmany.org.
STORYTIME AT BABYLICIOUS Children ages 3 to 4 are
Moving Visions’ Murray Street Studio
A Wise Choice for your child’s dance education!
Dance for Children and Teens
• Modern Ballet (ages 5-18) • Choreography (ages 8 & up)
• Creative Movement/Pre-Ballet (ages 3-5)
ADULT CLASSES Yoga - Tai Chi • Chi/Dance/Exercise for Women
19 Murray St., 3rd Fl.
(Bet. Broadway and Church)
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welcome to participate in free storytime with songs, stories
and lots of fun. Free. Every Tuesday, 9:30 AM. Babylicious, 51
Hudson Street (between Duane and Jay Street). Call 212-406-
7440 or visit babyliciousnyc.com.
STORIES FOR ALL AGES Children are able to enjoy a story-
time in beautiful Battery Park City. August 15, 11 AM. Rector
Park West. Call 212-267-9700 or visit bpcparks.org.
TODDLER PLAY GROUP Story time, play time and fun edu-
cational activities are all part of the Community Toddler Play
Group for parents with their children. Foster your toddler’s
imagination through history, science and maritime-themed
activities using interactive materials and engaging book read-
ings.$7 per child, free to family members, Every Wednesday.
1-2:30 PM, South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton Street.
For more information, call 212-748-8786 or visit southstree-
tseaportmuseum.org.
TEEN ENTREPRENEUR BOOT CAMP This program gives
teens the exciting learning experience that they need to suc-
ceed later in life. For more information, visit teenentrepreneur-
bootcamp.org.
TEEN VOLLEYBALL All teens are welcome and no previous
experience necessary; referee/scorekeeper and ball provided.
Presented by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Satur-
days, 4:30-6:30 PM. Community Center at Stuyvesant High
School, 345 Chambers Street. Call 646-210-4292.
YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM-SUMMER ART CLASSES This
program provides affordable art classes for kids and teens —
allowing students to experience creating art in a professional art
school environment. Class size is limited to 12 students, so indi-
vidual attention is maximized. All art supplies are included. For
ages 10 to 14 and 15 to 19. Meetings twice a week for 6 weeks.
$220 per 12-session course. Through August 14. Educational Alli-
ance Art School. 197 East Broadway between Jefferson and Clin-
ton Streets. To register, or for more information, call Lee Vasu at
646-395-4237 or visit edalliance.org/artschool.
YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING This gardening program is
for children 3-5 years old. It includes simple gardening projects
appropriate for preschoolers. Free. Tuesdays, through October
27. 3:15-3:45 PM. Space limited-first come, first served. The
Children’s Garden, Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park
City (access: Chambers Street). Call 212-267-9700 ext 348 or
visit bpcparks.org.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR EVENT IN THE DOWN-
TOWN EXPRESS KIDS LISTINGS? Listings requests may
be e-mailed to listingseditor@gmail.com. Please provide the
date, time, location, price and a description of the event. Infor-
mation may also be mailed to 145 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10013-1548. Requests must be received two
weeks before the event is to be published. Questions? Call
646-452-2507.
212-608-7681 (day)
www.murraystreetdance.com
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Director’s third time yields charming ‘Beeswax’

‘Mumblecore’ film brims with emotion, eschews ‘grand revelations’
BY LEONARD QUART
Andrew Bujalski is the elder statesman —
and arguably the most gifted — among a group
of writer-directors (including Aaron Katz, Joe
Swanberg, and the Duplass Brothers) who are
part of the loosely defined mumblecore move-
ment. Bujalski has said he regards that move-
ment as an imposed rubric that the filmmakers
shy way from.
Still, the films collectively share an intimate,
low-key, performance-based aesthetic as well as
minimalist, open-ended narratives. They focus
on the everyday problems — usually about the
relationships of young, middle-class college
grads whose days are spent in conversation.
The majority of the characters are smart, slight-
ly adrift, somewhat faltering in speech (a great
many unfinished sentences and uncomfortable
silences) and generally unsure of themselves.
Mumblecore films are made on tiny budgets
with non-professional casts, without special
effects or stylistic virtuosity, and are completed
with an ethic of self-help and collaboration.
Bujalski notes that he really wouldn’t
know how to direct professionals. He feels
his set is an intimate one, and his directo-
rial method is built on “exploration and
personal rapport, not craft.” For Bujalski,
“the casting is the movie.” The presence of
non-professionals and the intimate set, how-
ever, does not mean the films are exercises in
improvisation. Bujalski writes full screenplays
where, despite some liberty for the actors to
Photo by Matthias Grunsky, courtesy of The Cinema Guild
improvise, “the films follow the structure of
the written scenes.” Twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren navigate conflict in “Beeswax”
Bujalski — a 32 year old Harvard gradu-
ate — has made three films: “Funny Ha Ha” in Williamsburg and focuses on the experience suit). Lauren is between jobs, but is con-
(2002; the first mumblecore film by general
consensus) “Mutual Appreciation” (2005), and
of Alan (Justin Rice), an indie rock musician
who tends to undermine his chances for mak-
templating an offer of work in Africa. The
film has a number of secondary characters
FILM
his latest: “Beeswax.” ing the right musical contacts. All the while, that are given some psychological depth,
“Funny Ha Ha,” Bujalski says, was made he’s trying to suppress his growing attrac- like Merrill Jeannie’s old boy friend — a law
BEESWAX
without any concern about marketing it to an tion to a very sharp Ellie (Rachel Clift) — student who provides her with legal advice Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski
audience. He thought he could make a film, if the girlfriend of Alan’s shambling best friend and emotional support. 100 minutes; in English; not rated
it was cheap enough, which would be a film Lawrence (Bujalski). Bujalski sees “Beeswax” as a film “where
“he would like to see.” Of course, he wound Bujalski’s talent for using his camera’s pen- everything is connected and disconnected.” At Film Forum; opens August 7
up paying a price — by having to be his own etrating eye to evoke his characters’ unstated It’s a film where nothing is spelled out, and if 209 West Houston Street
distributor. emotions distinguishes this subtle film. All there are no grand revelations, imperceptible
Of the three films, “Funny Ha Ha” is the three of his characters are self-absorbed, attrac- emotional changes do occur in the lives of the 212-727-8110; www.filmforum.com
most decidedly minimalist. It centers on a tive people who project the kind of complex twins. The feeling of real people struggling with
group of recent college graduates who spend ambivalence that mainstream films (usually significant life choices is successfully conveyed
their days doing little but drinking beer and dependent on predictable behavior) rarely in a quietly indelible fashion. to consume and digest, because they eschew
wasting time. The film’s protagonist, the lumi- aspire to. Bujalski may have made his last mum- conventional narratives; but he doesn’t see
nous Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), takes alien- Bujalski’s third film, “Beeswax,” takes place blecore film. He has an agent, and has already his films as elitist (even if he knows he
ating temp jobs and generally seems lost. in Austin, Texas (where Bujalski now lives). written a few Hollywood screenplays. Bujalski appeals mainly to an audience of cineastes).
All her relationships with men are ungainly, It’s directed in the same diffident style as his admits he would like to have a “career,” and try However, though his films may lack breath-
including an old friend who makes an awk- first two films. The difference is, these char- his hand at conventional films. He is anxious to less pace and stunning compositions, in their
ward pass and one workmate, Mitchell (played acters are a bit older and have work lives that have “the learning experience,” but, at the same quiet way they are profoundly resonant and
seamlessly by Bujalski) — a passive-aggressive are more structured—and the story itself has time, “do something that is meaningful” if he suggestive.
whose yearning for the disinterested Marnie a touch of a narrative hook (what Bajulski gets mainstream work.
and turns hostile, despite his trying to main- somewhat facetiously calls a “legal thriller”). The films he has made give him joy. He
tain a courteous surface. Little happens in The film’s nominal plot is driven by a legal sees them as dealing with “dangling ques-
the film except for Marnie’s painful encoun-
ter in a supermarket with her heart’s desire,
Alec (Christian Rudder) — who has his new
suit that is never defined and never comes to
a dramatic conclusion. The central characters
are two extremely close twin sisters Jeannie
tions” and not with “direct, but with tangled
and confused communication.” The films are
basically about negotiation, so the characters KOCH
wife in tow. Despite his marriage, Alec con-
tinually makes moves towards Marnie, and
then retreats. In the film’s final scene, Alec
and Lauren (played by real-life twins Tilly and
Maggie Hatcher)
For Bujalski, “There wouldn’t be a film
“feel each other out in an extremely tentative
language.” They don’t deal with the larger
political and social world. Always at the cen-
ON FILM
and Marnie are together; equivocally bonding without the Hatchers.” Jeannie, a paraplegic ter are the personal relationships; and in their Ed Koch is making progress in his recovery
and separating without any clear conclusion who handles her disability without an iota breakdown and the attempt to fix them, he from heart surgery on June 19. We wish him
(another characteristic of mumblecore films). of self-pity or self-consciousness, owns a sees the root of politics. well and hope to have him back — praising
“Mutual Appreciation” (2005) takes place vintage clothing store (the object of the legal Bujalski knows his films may be difficult and panning — as soon as possible.
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Two decades after his death, Salvador Dalí persists

Exhibition focuses on lesser-known medium of prints
ART
PERSISTENCE OF DALI
Through September 3
At William Bennett Gallery
65 Greene Street
212-965-8707
or www.williambennettgallery.com

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
In an exhibition that is largely focused
on prints but also includes a handful of
unique drawings, William Bennett Gallery
aims to make another case for Salvador
Dalí.
The premise of the show, which accord-
ing to the gallery owner Mr. William Bryan
Ledford “is the result of a year’s worth of
research and 8-10 months spent sourcing
and acquiring the art,” is reflected in its
title. It was inspired by one of the art-
ist’s most famous paintings, 1931’s “The
Persistence of Memory” — suggesting
that Dalí continues to inspire an eclectic
audience.
Twenty years after his death (on
January 23, 1989), the Spanish artist is
known as much for the strikingly bizarre
images that helped to define Surrealism as
for his eccentricities. Dalí was an incred-
ibly skilled draftsman equipped with a
fascinating imaginative mind — but he
was also an extrovert who created a col-
orful, scandalous persona that provoked
the public’s attention. Dalí’s taste tended
towards the excessive, and he often pro-
claimed a strong passion for everything
luxurious and gilded. He romanticized
the unknown and hence, the exotic. He Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

“Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska” — from “Memories of Surrealism”

Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery
“Surrealist Flower Girl” — from
“Memories of Surrealism”
cherished everything oriental, be it in
clothes, accessories, or to the extent that
he claimed Arabian ancestors (descended
from the Moors).
In life, as well as in art, Dalí was cal-
culatedly controversial. One of his most
shocking decisions perhaps, especially
to his fellow artists, was his refusal to
explicitly denounce the Franco regime.
In her book “Surrealism and the Spanish
Civil War,” Robin Adèle Greeley describes
how the leading surrealist André Breton
accused Dalí of defending “the Hitler
phenomenon.” Though Dalí responded by
saying, “I am Hitlerian neither in fact nor
intention,” the rift deepened and he was
eventually expelled from the Surrealist
group.
It is ironic that while Dalí’s ambition
to become one of the art world’s first
pop-cultural icons was realized, it also
aided in diminishing his credibility as a
serious artist. His most famous paintings
date from the first half of his life, in par-
ticular the 1930s and 1940s. After fleeing
Europe during World War II (he lived in
the US between 1939 and 1948), his fame
began to increasingly overshadow the
quality of his work.
Today, as the omnipresence of the mere
image of the man — his slicked-down
hair, curly waxed mustache, holding his
famous gold-headed cane — has begun
to fade, our focus shifts back towards his
work. Without the constant distractions
of media hype, we find ourselves able to
contemplate Dalí’s works in its various
facets and recent exhibitions, (such as the
superb “Dalí: Painting & Film,” which
was organized by Tate Modern, London,
in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-
Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain, and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in
2007 and 2008).
Dalí’s output and versatility remain
astonishing. Besides painting, draw-
ing, and sculpture, Dalí also worked
in film, photography, and printmaking.
Joan Kropf, Curator of Collections at the
Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg,
FL (a nonprofit institution not affiliated
with any commercial enterprise) points
out that Dalí explored printmaking as
early as “while at school in the Academy
of San Fernando in Madrid in the early
1920s.” While he engaged in printmak-
ing periodically throughout his life, it
was especially in later years (when faced
with the rising costs of his increasingly
luxurious lifestyle) that Dalí devoted him-
self more and more to this medium that
allowed him to produce multiple works
in a short period of time. “As was com-
mon with all of the prolific artists of the
20th century,” according to Mr. Ledford,
Dalí “worked with various printers on
his editions. Most of his editions were
‘original,’ meaning that he did the work
on the stones or plates. On rare occasion
he worked with printmakers to produce
cooperative prints.”
At William Bennett, a generous selec-
tion of Dalí’s print portfolios, including
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“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1969) and “Divine

Comedy” (1960), are on display. Mr. Ledford points out
that “Dalí’s work does play a big part of the gallery mis-
sion, which is to help collectors (young and old) acquire
important works from renowned 20th century masters.”
The gallery has myriad proof of the artist’s lasting ability
to draw large crowds as he, according to Mr. Ledford,
“probably accounts for 75% of all our visitors, but only
for 20-25% of our business.”
“Persistence of Dalí” offers a whole range and we are
invited to examine Dalí’s various styles and progressions
within this medium. The quality of the prints, many of
which were commissioned, varies greatly.
According to Joan Knopf, Dalí’s “editions are uneven-
ly regarded. Some are esteemed, others have created
controversies.” In “Memories of Surrealism” (1971), we
find Dalí incorporating some of his signature vocabulary
from the 1940s, such as the elephant (a recurring image
that first appeared in his 1944 painting “Dream Caused
by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second
Before Awakening”). The portfolio, which includes 12
hand signed lithographs, is less satisfactory and almost
feels like a clichéd comment by Dalí on Dalí. It is less a
testament to innovation and more the regurgitation of a
vocabulary gathered from the past: crutches, clocks, and
butterflies. One cannot help but wonder if this work was
done with a keen eye for its commercial value.
But there are some prints that provide a glimpse Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

into the artist’s soul. One of the best examples is a “It Was Then That Love Enjoyed Waging War” — from
portfolio from 1979, entitled “The Art of Love – L’art “The Art of Love” Image courtesy of William Bennett Gallery

d’aimer.” The portfolio here is “one of only nine sets in
the world that were reserved for Dalí and other people
associated with the publication of the portfolio,” said
Ledford.
Another 144 sets were made for the public. It is a
body of work which, along with all of Dali’s authentic
prints and editions, is very well documented in two
different sets of catalogues raisonné published by the
Salvador Dali Archives and by Prestel.
“The Art of Love – L’art d’aimer” pays homage to
Ovid’s “Ars amatoria,” a poem that was published in
Rome around 1BC. Here, Dalí has translated Ovid’s les-
sons on love, seduction and intrigue into a colorful tour
de force. Everything feminine is accentuated. Comprised
of etchings, lithographs, and woodcut engravings, it is
not only one of the most rare books by the artist, but one
of his most lyrical efforts in this medium. The works are
sensual, playful and show a quality unknown from most
of his early paintings: a tenderness of sorts and a loose
caressing of the form that differs greatly from his signa-
ture style known to feature crisp images rendered with
Renaissance-esque precision. But there also is a notion
of nostalgia inherent in these works, evoked by dark
overtones. Perhaps it reflects Dalí’s awareness of enter-
ing the last phase of his life or the decreasing health of
his longtime partner and wife Gala, who would die only
a few years later in 1982.
“Biblia Sacra” (1964) was originally commissioned by
one of Dalí’s leading patrons, Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, in
the attempt to bring Dalí back towards Catholic ideals.
The five-volume work, which took the artist six years to
make, is shown in its entirety — including 105 original
lithographs. It is the largest issued suite of the Spanish
master’s work. The original illustrations were completed
between 1963 and 1964, with a combination of gouache,
watercolor, ink, and pastel.
Poetry suited Dalí’s lifelong interest in dreams and
nightmarish scenarios. “Divine Comedy” (1960) was
another commission, this time from the Italian govern-
ment. It is based on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem envi-
sioning the Christian afterlife. Dalí himself thought of
this depiction of the journey from Hell to Purgatory and
into Paradise, as one of his most successful print suites.
“Paradise Lost” (1974) is Dalí’s interpretation of John
Milton’s poem concerning the Judeo-Christian story of
the Fall of Man. In ten color etchings, he has captured in
sharp, assured lines the temptation of Adam and Eve by
“Dressed in the Nude in the Surrealist Fashion” —
from “Memories of Surrealism”
the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the
Garden of Eden. The compositions are simple and Dalí’s
use of color is sparse and unusually restrained. It is an
elegant body of work, aiming to illustrate and interpret
Milton’s masterpiece rather than to replace its text with
visuals.
No matter how complicated, celebrated or even dis-
liked by some, Dalí was and remains a force. That he was
a visionary is undeniable and that his work continues to
fascinate older and younger generations alike is a fact.
There is great feeling in much of his work and a strong
sense of Romanticism especially in later years. Though
Dalí’s body of work does by no means need to be re-
discovered, its evaluation, in particular in regard to his
prints, still seems a continuous process.
A visit to William Bennett Gallery in August or to
the Salvador Dalí Museum year round (which holds an
extensive collection of the artist’s prints) offer two more
accessible opportunities to experience Dalí’s different
efforts in this particular and much lesser known artistic
medium.

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INTRODUCTORY ART WORK-
SHOPS Are you thinking about tak-
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pottery, cartooning, drawing and pho-
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THEATER
ICE FACTORY 2009 FESTIVAL OF NEW
WORK Downtown theater companies
have the opportunity to showcase their
latest projects during the summer festi-
val. August 12-15, 7 PM- “Banana Bag
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SoHo Think Tank, Ohio Theater, 66 Woost-
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EVENTS
SUNSET JAM ON THE HUDSON Par-
ticipants will improvise on African, Latin
and Caribbean rhythms in a drumming cir-
cle led by master drummers. Instruments
provided, or bring your own. Fridays,
through August 28, 6:30-8:30 PM. Robert
F. Wagner, Jr. Park. For more information,
call 212-267-9700 or visit bpcparks.org.
FREE HEARING SCREENINGS AT
THE LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF
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-2 PM, and every Thursday from 4-6 P.M.
Call or email to schedule an appointment.
LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEARING, 50
Broadway, 6th Fl. Call 917-305-7766 or
visit appointments@llh.org.
PUBLIC SAILS ABOARD 1885 SCHOO-
NER PIONEER Enjoy spectacular views
of the New York Harbor from the deck
of the historic ship. Tuesdays-Fridays:
August 7 - 13, 2009
3-5PM, 4-6PM and 7-9PM, Saturdays-
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4-6PM and 7-9PM sails: Adults $35, Stu-
dent/Seniors $30m Children 12 and under
$25. 1-3PM and 3-5PM sails: Adults $25,
Student/Seniors $20, Children 12 and
under $15. Members receive $5 discount.
Reservations suggested. South Street
Seaport. Pier 16. Call 212-748-8786 or
visit southstreetseaportmuseum.org.
DANCE
TURNING HEADS, FROCKS IN
FLIGHT Part dance and part dancing
parade, the performance is a celebration
of freedom and personal transformation
performed by women of many cultural
backgrounds to reflect the diversity of
New York City. Free. August 10-11, 13:
Performance at 12:30 PM, August 12: Per-
formance at 6:30 PM. South Cove Plaza in
Battery Park City at the Mary Miss Stair-
case. (Subway: 1/R/W Rector Street; 4/5
Bowling Green) For more information,
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28TH ANNUAL DOWNTOWN DANCE
FESTIVAL Enjoy performances feturing
ethnic, classical and contemporary dance
from around the world. Free. August
22-23, 1 PM. Battery Park. For more infor-
mation, call 212-219-3910 or visit battery-
dance.org.
EAST INDIAN FAMILY DANCE Expe-
rience energetic and joyful community
dancing for all ages. No experience nec-
essary. Free. August 15, 6:30-8 PM. Espla-
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along the Hudson River at the end of
Liberty Street) For more information, visit
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READINGS
AND TALKS
THE MEANING OF SKATEBOARD-
ING A group of author/skaters will discuss
the meaning of skateboarding, from recre-
ation to art form. August 20, 7 PM. McNally
Jackson Booksellers, 52 Prince Street,
(between Lafayette and Mulberry). Call
212-274-1160 or visit mcnallyjackson.com.
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD Read-
ing from a contemporary collection of true
stories of seduction, heartbreak, and
regret. August 19, 7 PM. McNally Jack-
son Booksellers, 52 Prince St, (between
Lafayette and Mulberry) 212-274-1160
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TOURS
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW
YORK TOUR Visitors will be able to tour
the Fed’s gold vault and learn about the
Federal Reserve’s central banking func-
tions. Free. Federal Reserve Bank of NY.
33 Liberty Street. Call 212-720-6130 or
visit newyorkfed.org.
PUBLIC ART WALKING TOURS LMCC
offers a series of three self-guided audio
tours exploring public art downtown.
Titled “Art and Security,” “Art and the
Body,” and “Monuments and Memory,”
the 45-minute tours are narrated by Perry
Garvin and William Smith. Download
the free tours to your IPod or other MP3
player and start walking. lmcc.net.
WALL STREET WALKING TOUR This
free 90-minute guided walking tour
weaves together the history, events,
architecture and people of downtown.
Thursday and Saturday, at Noon.. Meet
at the steps of the National Museum of
the American Indian. One Bowling Green,
Alliance for Downtown NY. Call 212-606-
4064, or visit downtownny.com.
1625: DUTCH NEW YORK Walk along
the shoreline of 1625 as we visit sites –
and some extant remains – of the original
Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam,
now New York. Visit architectural digs,
Stone Street, the shortest lane in Man-
hattan, the edge of Fort Amsterdam, and
more. $20; $15 seniors and students.
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SOHO ARTS WALK Experience SoHo’s
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down famous cobblestone streets that
were once the stomping grounds of such
greats as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel
Basquiat. Free admission into galleries.
The third Thursday of every month through
September. Visit sohoartswalk.com.
GANGSTER, WRITER, RABBI Par-
ticipants of this Lower East Side Walking
Tour will learn about the common ground
between gangster Jack Zelig, writer
Sholem Aleichem & rabbi Jacob Joseph.
August 23, 11 AM. The walking tour will
begin at the Eldridge Street Synagogue (12
Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division
Streets). For more information, call 212-219-
0888 or visit eldridgestreet.org.
LOVE AND COURTSHIP WALKING
TOUR This unique Lower East Side
walking tour explores love at the turn of
the century. $15 ($12 for students and
seniors) September 6, 2 PM. The walking
tour will begin at the Eldridge Street Syn-
agogue at 12 Eldridge Street, between
Canal and Division Streets. For more
information, call 212-219-0888 or visit
eldridgestreet.org.
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE
STREET These guided tours, led by his-
torian-trained docents tell the story of the
1887 landmark synagogue, and illuminate
the experience of the East European Jew-
ish immigrants who settled on the LES
in the late 19th century. Sun.-Thursday,
10 AM-4 PM. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $6
children. Museum Of Eldridge Street, 12
Eldridge St. Call 212-219-0888 or visit
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EXHIBITS
JOHN LENNON-THE NEW YORK CITY
YEARS Rare, original and never-before-
seen artifacts of John Lennon are on
display at this rocking exhibition. $24.50;
students with ID, $19.50. Buy tickets at
museumtix.com or 866.9ROCKNY. At the

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, 76
Mercer Street. Visit rockannex.com.
WOMEN OF WALL STREET This
exhibition showcases notable women
in the world of finance and Wall Street.
Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall
Street. Call 212-908-4110 or visit finan-
cialhistory.org.
MUSIC
COOL MUSIC FOR WARM SUMMER
DAYS The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band
will cool off the summer heat and warm
up the spirit. Free. August 20, 12:30 PM.
24 State Street (1 Battery Plaza). Call 212
407-2429 or visit rivertorivernyc.org.
LO-FI RADIOSTARS Classic rock jam
band from Connecticut in concert at
the SuTickets are available online or by
calling 866-468-7619. $10. August 27,
7:30 PM. Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St
(between Bleecker and W. 3rd St). Visit
sullivanhallnyc.com.
FRONTIER-A TRIBUTE TO JOUR-
NEY Great rock from the 1980s comes
back again thanks to this Journey tribute
show. $12. August 14, 7:30 PM. Tickets
are by calling 866-468-7619. Sullivan Hall,
214 Sullivan St (between Bleecker and W.
3rd Street). Visit sullivanhallnyc.com.
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Trio,
whose music transcends musical genres,
will participate in the Seaport Music Fes-
tival. Free. August 14, 6 PM. South Street
Seaport, Pier 17 Stage (Fulton and South
Street) For more information, visit sea-
portmusicfestival.com.
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