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Extreme pogoist Henry Cabelus, 15, performs on Pier 26, one of many events during the Hudson River Park Games on June 13.

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We Bid a Reluctant Farewell to Print

THE TRIBECA TRIB JULY 2015

Dear Readers, This is the 231st and final print edition of The Tribeca Trib.

After July, we will be coming to you only online from tribecatrib.com, hopefully performing our job as well or better—if differently—than the paper alone has been doing for the past 21 years.

Given that you now have the Trib in your hands, there is a good chance that you are, like us, a devotee of the printed word and picture, maybe even a believer, still, that the Internet cannot replace our tactile connection to the page.

But unavoidably, the cultural and technological tide has finally swept us up. And that’s not all bad. Though we have been online since 2002, it has become increasingly difficult to have two taskmasters, web and print. By shedding the paper, and the many hours devoted to its production, there will be increased time for reporting, photography, video and more. As we see daily, the web offers infinite journalistic and creative possibilities that the Trib has only begun to explore.

Month after month for most of these 21 years, I, as editor, stood beside the press, mother hen-like, checking copies of the latest edition as they rolled out of that thundering machine. Asking for lighter inking on page 4, better skin tone for the soccer player on page 26. I reveled in the magic of watching our paper—our community, really—come to life into something I could actually hold.

Finally, however, it is you, our readers and advertisers, who matter most. Your loyalty has kept—and will keep—us going, and it is you whom we appreciate, more than we can say.

CARL GLASSMAN Editor APRIL KORAL Publisher

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‘Medium may change, not the reporting’ I am writing to express my deep gratitude and appreciation, and to thank April and Carl for all the years of fine journalism and community service that they have provided to Lower Manhattan with your amazing Tribeca Trib newspaper.

We have entered the digital age, for better or for worse, and for all of us that means conversions from some of our analog ways of doing things, no matter how difficult the process. I know you will continue to provide the same insightful and incisive stories with your web format; I also know I am just one of many who will miss your print newspaper.

You have been an essential resource for our neighborhood for decades. We can always depend upon you for penetrating stories with special focus and meaning for local residents and businesses. Through the years, The Trib has supported and served the community in countless ways. Best of luck as you continue to thrive and grow, albeit in a different format. The medium may change but the keen reporting will not. You are the voice of Tribeca!

LISA ECKLUND-FLORES Executive Director, Founder Church Street School for Music and Art

‘I looked forward to turning the pages’ It is with some sadness that I received the news that the Tribeca Trib will no longer be available in print. While I read the paper’s highlights online, I did look forward to turning the pages of the newspaper to see what interesting, important, educational information or funny anecdotes you were bringing to my attention.

You have become Control Central for the important developments in our neighborhood— advocating for intelligent change, honoring the status of our architecture, holding discussions as to the need for more schools, parks and ball fields. Your leadership and mere presence as a thoughtful community bulletin board after 9/11 cannot be overestimated. But to all things, change does come. Know that I will continue to be grateful for your contribution to Tribeca and will look forward to seeing you online every month.

BARRIE MANDEL Harrison Street

‘Like our neighborhood, that newsprint was a bit wacky’

When April Koral of the Tribeca Trib told me she had some news. I said, “You and Carl are getting divorced.” It was worse than that. April told me the July issue would be their last print edition.

Being the opportunist I am, I asked if I could be on the cover. I had been on the cover twice, once, when we put a giant 24-foot sculpture on Pier 25 in 1997, and then again when the old pier closed around 2002. The Trib covered my caper to transplant a pine tree from Pier 25 down the highway to our new community center project. Sort of a

spiritual thing. (The tree died.) The police escorted us and Carl ran alongside. Now, with an all-digital Trib, I am not sure if there is a front cover for me to be on.

Carl and April were always fond of the unique and wild. While they respected and covered Manhattan Youth’s extensive youth programs, the creative and unique were always what sparked the Trib’s interest.

It’s funny because Carl and April don’t strike you as wild and crazy. They are sort of stable family types. But their paper always made us feel like we are a

community. A unique one.

The first deliveries of the paper were assisted by my van. And of course Carl smacked up the van a little. He’s really an intellectual, not a cabby. But the van was so far gone and the dent was another badge of honor.

It’s easy to say, “Oh, it’s a sign of the times, print to digital.” But damn, soon all we will be eating will be vitamins and not food. I like my news in print. And for Carl and April, local pioneers who made something happen, a toast to you guys!

Through 9/11 and floods, through

community politics and community expansion, the Trib covered it all. But most of all that big newsprint was a bit wacky reflecting the neighborhood it wrote about.

To start a paper way back when took courage. To keep it going for 21 years took a special talent. I hope I am not making you guys feel guilty but you can always reconsider. If not, thanks for all the great editions documenting our neighborhood.

BOB TOWNLEY Founder and Executive Director Manhattan Youth

Pretty much every month for the last 21 years, I’ve made it a habit of picking up the latest issue of the Tribeca Trib and bringing it home to peruse in those quiet, in-between moments when kids were sleeping, house chores were done and the work for my day job was finished.

I considered the time spent turning the pages at my dining room table, learning what my neighbors were up to, marveling at the arguments consuming our community board, scratching my head over the police blotter (how many people leave their handbags unattended??) one of the simpler pleasures of life.

So, I reacted with genuine sadness

when Carl Glassman shared the news that the Tribeca Trib was ceasing to be published in print.

As the dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I should have seen this decision coming. For years, from my professional perch, I’ve watched one publication after another adjust to sweeping technological changes by reaching the same conclusion.

With my professional hat on, I embrace The Trib’s decision and look forward to seeing the publication become even more engaged with the community, taking full advantage of the interactivity afforded by digital media.

And yet…

As a longtime resident, I find myself lamenting the loss of a physical reminder of a publication that has bound us together, often through trying times. As its many awards attest, The Trib has consistently distinguished itself with its in-depth reporting about local politics, zoning conflicts, business trends, crime, housing, education, sports, and the elderly. These are the issues that define us as a community.

How well we understand them and how intently we engage with them can determine whether we truly deserve to call ourselves a community—or whether we amount to little more than a fancy zip code.

I fully recognize that the next gener-

ation gets its news from social networks delivered via cell phones and that The Trib will need to compete for those eyeballs if it wants to stay relevant. There is plenty of healthy competition online, so my most fervent hope is that, freed of the obligation to produce a printed monthly publication, The Trib doubles down on what it does best: deeply reported stories, critical analysis of important issues, outstanding photography and videography.

Of course, I also fervently hope that an audience for quality journalism in Tribeca remains. As we tell our journalism students never to write in their stories, only time will tell.

SARAH BARTLETT

‘I embrace the Trib’s decision, and yet…’

An Endangered Seaport?

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National preservation group adds to opposition faced by the area’s developer

Rendering, released last year, shows plan for new Pier 17 mall and restored and relocated Tin Building as well as lower floors of proposed residential tower.

BY AMANDA WOODS Already bending to pressure to further scale down its planned residential tower in the South Street Seaport, the Howard Hughes Corp. was dealt a further blow late last month when the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the former fish market district as one of the country’s 11 most “endangered” places.

In a statement, the Trust condemned developer Howard Hughes Corp.’s plans for the Seaport—especially the 494-foot residential tower at the New Market Building site—as a “threat” that would “disrupt the look, feel and low-scale historic character of the Seaport.”

“The proposed developments will have an overwhelming impact on the historic neighborhood, diminishing the Seaport’s unique relationship to the water and compromising one of the most intact 19th century neighborhoods in Manhattan,” Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said in the statement. “If it were constructed on a pier jutting over the water, the tower would alter the character of the waterfront and block views of the Brooklyn Bridge to and from the historic Seaport.”

Meeks said she hopes that including the Seaport on the list will encourage Hughes Corp. to “consider relocating the tower away from this beloved historic

At a meeting of Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee, Howard Hughes Corp. executive Chris Curry, gives updates on Seaport development progress, but has no news about plans for a scaled-down apartment tower.

district.”

In response to the Trust, Hughes Corp. executive Chris Curry issued a statement that did not mention the Seaport’s designation on the “endangered” list, but reiterated that the company is “exploring a significant reduction to the height of the proposed building.”

In addition, Curry asserted his company’s “long-term vision for the Seaport [that] celebrates the area’s rich history by creating a vibrant Seaport District while also preserving its historic fabric and architecture.”

In the meantime, the city is set to demolish portions of the New Market and Tin Buildings deemed in “imminent danger of collapse.” Critics have charged that it was neglect by the city that allowed the piers to reach that condition, leaving them in the hands of the Hughes

Corp. to rebuild them as part of its controversial development project.

At a Community Board 1 Seaport Committee meeting last month, Richard Cote, an asset management official for the Economic Development Corp., the city agency in charge of the South Street Seaport properties, said that restoring the pilings was difficult and expensive because it meant removing concrete casings around the pilings with buildings still standing above them. The casings had been installed to protect the pilings during restoration project in the 1990s.

Was it better, asked committee member Paul Hovitz, to let the structure deteriorate “to the point at which we need to rely on a private corporation…to come in and pay for what the city should have taken care of in the first place?”

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us in the operations division is that without a plan, it would be a travesty to spend, I believe the estimate is $25 million,” Cote responded. “What are we doing with these buildings? Are we saving them? We have no plan.”

Hughes Corp. intends for the Tin Building to be dismantled and reconstructed, with an additional floor, 30 feet back from its current location. The New Market Building would be demolished to make way for the controversial tower.

An announcement early last month

by Hughes Corp. CEO David Weinreb that the developer is planning to further “address the height issue” of the tower left many curious about just what that would mean for the project.

But at a meeting of CB1’s Landmarks Committee, Howard Hughes Corp.’s Curry had nothing to report, angering the several dozen opponents of the plan in attendance who had hoped for an update.

“The height issue may never completely be satisfied to everyone’s satisfaction,” Curry said. “But what I can tell you is that we’re looking at a significantly revised plan that I don’t even know what it looks like yet so it’s not going to be shared.”

Curry said the project’s delay was due to the constant push from many to “slow down” the development plans.

“That’s why we don’t have much happening right now,” he said. “The slowdown happened. For eighteen months, we’ve been talking about what’s going to happen on the mixed-use project and it’s something that nobody wants to move faster [on] than I do.”

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Architects behind the design of a nearly 800-foot-tall residential tower planned for Tribeca, and the public plaza next to it, gave Community Board 1 a preview last month of what that project will look like.

The building, 111 Murray Street, will rise at Murray and West streets, in a lot previously occupied by St. John's University. With demolition of the college building now completed, foundation work for the tower is set to begin this month, said Alex Adams, who is in charge of the project for developer Fisher Brothers.

RENDERINGS BY KOHN PEDERSEN FOX ARCHITECTS, PHOTOGRAPHED BY TRIBECA TRIB (RIGHT) The 10,600-square-foot public plaza The floorplate of the 64-story structure expands on the upper floors, culminating in what the developers call the tower’s crown. allows the developers, which includes the Witkoff Group, to gain 20 percent more floor area for their building.

The plaza’s design, described by Geoffrey Valentino of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, calls for a central, oval lawn surrounded by a walkway that branches into two sloping paths, one leading to the sidewalk, the other to the tower lobby.

A water feature, four feet high and no more than a foot deep, will run along the west side of the lawn, Valentino said.

An array of plants, trees and shrubs in the plaza “helps you bring everything down to human scale on a site that’s surrounded by buildings,” Valentino noted.

A sculpture, not yet selected, will occupy a space on the plaza’s eastern side, accompanied by movable seating.

“We tried to create as many different spaces for the broad range of different users of the site,” Valentino said.

On the east side of the plaza will be a 60-foot-high building that the developers are calling a “pedestal,” with retail on the ground floor.

To the west is the residential building, twice the height of the nearby Independence Plaza towers and only WATER FEATURE SHADED SEATING 101 WARREN ST. BUILDING slightly shorter than what will be the “A modern sculpture Above: Rendering of pubneighborhood’s tallest building, now that we think, in the context lic plaza planned by under construction at 56 Leonard St. of all the large buildings that developers of 111 Murray Franz Prinsloo, of the architecture firm have happened down here, is Street. A variety of shrubs of Kohn Pedersen Fox, said the unusually very elegant in modern form,” and flowers will bloom large site, purchased from St. John’s he added. throughout the year, according to the landUniversity for $223 million, allows the According to Adams of the scape architect, Geoffrey developers to construct a stand-alone Witkoff Group, the plaza will be Valentino. Left: The public building that is not the “usual square box.” completed last because the site is plaza plan. Labels by The “The floor plate grows as it becomes needed as a staging area for equipTribeca Trib taller and then sliced at the top to create ment. this very singular sculpture,” Prinsloo The building is expected to open in said.

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Suit Filed to Protect Rare 1897 Landmark Clock

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BY CARL GLASSMAN No sooner had the Landmarks Preservation Commission [LPC] given developers a green light last December to turn the landmarked threestory clock tower at 346 Broadway into someone’s private triplex apartment, opponents vowed they would fight it.

Now they have made good on their pledge.

In a suit filed last month, a coalition of preservationists and horologists as well as the two men who have kept the timepiece running over the years, are hoping to reverse a decision that they claim revokes the LPC’s 1987 designation of the tower, and its rare 1897 clockworks, as landmarks. “The commissioners were basically taking a backdoor approach to dedesignating it,�said Marvin Schneider, the city’s clock master who for many years had been winding and oiling the clock along with his protege, Forest Markowitz.

The Elad Group and Peebles Corp. are including the clock tower as part of their restoration and condominium conversion plans for the landmark building, a former city property. The approval of that complex conversion came with the promise by the developers to keep the four-faced clock run-

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Forest Markowitz winds the 1897 clock last year, watched by clock master Marvin Schneider.

ning—electronically. But that would mean disabling the elaborate collection of gears, drive shafts and weights that are the trademark of the clock’s 19th-century technology.

The suit claims that the LPC, by letting the developer dismantle the working clock, would destroy the very reason it was designated a landmark. “This is one of two remaining mechanical clocks of its type that still exist,� the plaintiff’s lawyer, Michael Hiller, said in an interview. “In recog-

nition of its uniqueness and extraordinary craftsmanship and link to cultural and historic 19th century America, the Landmarks Preservation Commission specifically recognized the mechanism as a landmarked feature.�

The LPC referred questions to the city’s Law Department, who said the city “would be responding to the allegations shortly.� In a statement to the Trib issued near the time of the decision, an LPC spokeswoman said the commission “designated the clock-

works as interior architectural features and there would be no requirement that they be retained as the mechanism for operation.�

The suit also charges that the LPC must maintain the clock in a space that is accessible to the public. “By the Landmark Preservation Commission’s determination the public will be forever foreclosed from visiting or viewing it in any way in the space,� Hiller said.

At the LPC hearing, John Beyer of Beyer Blinder Belle, the project’s architect, said that access to the clock would not be possible, “legally, practically and from a safety point of view.�

He also argued that the clock had never been accessible to the public.

Schneider claims otherwise, saying he has been giving tours of the clock for years.

Since March, Schneider and Markowitz have been banned from running the clock because of the developers’ liability concerns. In an interview, Schneider was asked if the mechanism’s non-working state would damage it. “The oil will get a little thick but nothing serious will happen,� he said, adding, “as long as nobody touches it.�

The Elad Group declined to comment for this story.

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Mike Rogalle was a UPS driver who delivered a lot more than packages to people who lived and worked on Nassau and Beekman streets.

That was the message heard again and again one evening last month, when some three dozen neighbors gathered in the plaza of 8 Spruce Street for the dedication of a tree in memory of Rogalle, 58. The deliveryman died on April 22, 2012, from injuries suffered five days earlier when a driver lost control of her SUV and struck him on the sidewalk at 15 Beekman St., across the street from the plaza.

In his 39 years on the job, residents said, Rogalle had touched many lives with his curiosity, intellect, and personal interest in each of them.

“When we heard what happened we thought the best way to remember him and to let his family know how much we loved him was to plant a tree,” said Diane Rohan, the organizer of the event.

Donations poured in from residents of 140 and 145 Nassau streets.

Neighbors had hoped to plant the tree in front of 15 Beekman Street, but discovered that the hollow sidewalk prohibited installing a tree pit. The managers of 8 Spruce Street (the Gehry building), across from the accident site, offered the plaza for the planting and plaque—and lengthy wrangling for permissions from city agencies ensued.

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At dedication of tree and plaque honoring Mike Rogalle, Diane Rohan speaks to a group, most from 140 and 145 Nassau streets, whose lives were touched by the deliveryman, right.

The young tree and plaque are next to a bench where Rohan sometimes relaxes in the evening. “It’s really lovely to sit here and contemplate Mike’s life and how well he lived it,” she said.

Rohan, who lives at 145 Nassau, recalled that Rogalle’s deliveries often came with questions and caring about her and her family as he watched her son grow up over the years. “He’d ask how the pregnancy was going and then how he was becoming a toddler and a young boy and a tween and then a teen,” she said. “He was very curious.”

That curiosity, neighbors said, was

boundless. They recalled his discussions about space travel, history, politics, music and more.

“Every time I answered the door he’d systematically ask me deep and intelligent questions about the universe, stimulated by a show he had just watched, a book he had just read or a story he had just heard,” Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote in a statement that Rohan read to the crowd. “In fact,” Tyson added, “Mike Rogalle might have been the most intellectually curious delivery person the world has ever known.”

“Talking to Mike was often the high

point of my day,” recalled Kathleen Maher, a writer. “He’d ask about my work and he always broadened my perspective.”

Rogalle’s three grown children stood in the crowd, taking in the accolades for their father and what he had meant to the community.

“It’s unbelievable to see him honored this way,” Patrick Rogalle said after the ceremony. “None of us knew he knew this many people and this many people enjoyed speaking to him so much.”

Shannon Rogalle said that the family saw her father’s “more quiet side, the tired side” after returning to their New Jersey home each night around 10 p.m.

“It’s nice to hear that he was so vibrant when he was working,” Shannon said. “Everyone makes it sound like he walked with a pep in his step everywhere he went.” Late dinners, she added, would end with her father putting his head down on the table. “He was exhausted.”

When the ceremony ended and the picture taking and neighborly chatter around the tree drew to a close, the group proceeded across the street to the Beekman Pub at 15 Beekman St. There, they raised a glass to Mike Rogalle.

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A woman handed her husband $600, which he placed in his backpack, before he walked into the Freedom News II store. While the man stood in line to purchase coffee, a thief who stood behind him removed the $600 and fled.

HARRISON AND WEST June 24, 6:15 - 6:30 p.m.

A man placed his backpack on the ground in the Tribeca Skate Park. About 15 minutes later, he discovered that the backpack, which contained a MacBook Pro, external hard drive, iPhone, keys and a Massachusetts driver’s license, was gone.

BROADWAY & FULTON June 15, 8 p.m.

A woman who had just withdrawn money from an ATM was stopped by a man who asked for directions. He then brandished a knife and said, “Give me everything!” The victim handed over $800, her ring, bracelet and a pendant. #2 TRAIN, PARK PLACE STATION June 13, 8 a.m.

A pair of thieves robbed a 20-yearold man. One stomped on the victim’s foot while grabbing his cell phone and $400 Beats headphones while the other snatched a $1,200 bracelet off his wrist.

57 MURRAY June 12, 9–10 p.m.

While at the bar Cricketers Arms, a man put his computer case, containing a MacBook Pro at his feet. When he checked an hour later, the case was gone.

BATTERY PARK June 12, 6:15 p.m.

A woman placed her book bag on a bench and walked away to take pictures.

When she returned, the bag, which contained $1,700, bank cards and a Colombian driver’s license, was gone.

52 STONE June 11, 5:30 p.m.

A woman placed her backpack on a chair at Stone Street Tavern and went to the bathroom. When she returned, the $900 Barney’s leather backpack, which contained a MacBook Pro and a hard drive, worth a total of $2,900, was gone.

55 BROAD June 4, 2:45 p.m.

A woman was using her computer at Starbucks when someone took her $650

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While taking pictures with her family in Zuccotti Park, a woman left her bag unattended. Upon retrieving it, she discovered that her wallet was missing.

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Officers Assaulted

Officers were assaulted in two separate incidents in Lower Manhattan, leading to arrests in both attacks.

On Wednesday, June 24 just before 1 a.m., Idarie Forde, 30, reportedly argued with an traffic agent who issued him a summons for parking in a no-standing zone on Beaver Street between Broad and Pearl, before allegedly punching him three times in the face. Forde was charged with assault in the second degree, according to the Manhattan DA’s office.

The officer, who suffered a bruise to his eye and an abrasion to his elbow and hand, was taken to the hospital.

Ahmed Abdelhafez, 29, was arrested on Saturday, June 27, after he allegedly prevented a food cart owner in City Hall Park from showing his ID to two officers who had requested it. “Don’t give them ID, don’t give them shit,” Abdelhafez reportedly told the cart operator, before saying, “Fuck you” to the officers and threatening them. The officers’ sergeant was called and he requested to see the ID. Abdelhafez allegedly continued to prevent the vendor from handing it over. The officers then attempted to arrest Abdelhafez, who reportedly resisted, swinging at the sergeant and kicking him in the face. He was charged with assault in the second degree, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and resisting arrest, the DA’s office reported.

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BY AMANDA WOODS Fatigue seems to be setting in over charity run/walks in Battery Park City.

So far this year, representatives for five runs have appeared before Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee, requesting its advisory approval for street activity permits. (Two other requests, submitted to the Battery Park City Authority, did not go before the committee.) Complaints about closed streets, noise, early start times and a lack of benefits for the local community were voiced by some committee members as

Battery Park City.

Though the committee approved a request from the non-profit organization The New Agenda to hold its run, meant to raise awareness of sexual assault on college campuses, it recommended that the group change the section of the route that uses the streets.

But the route is not so easy to change.

The Authority has a standard route that all walks and runs through the neighborhood must use, along the esplanade with small sections on Third Place, West Thames and Battery Place.

Committee co-chair Ninfa Segarra asked Robin Forst, the BPCA’s vice president for external relations, whether the authority would be responsive to honor a request from the committee to change that route.

“The authority makes the decision,” Forst said.

“But you should register your concerns.”

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION The finish line of the the American Heart Association's run/walk Still, some event is on the Battery Park City esplanade. members insisted representatives for two more organiza- that the committee should turn down all tions stood before them last month with runs in Battery Park City. the latest requests.

“I say, ‘No more,’ and that we do a “Outsiders come into our neighbor- moratorium,” Smith said. “We’ve alhood, wake people up, clog up the ready hosted quite a bit and have done esplanade,” said member Tom Good- more than our fair share.” kind. “It’s becoming a circus.”

Committee chair Anthony Notaro “I feel like we’re being used and insisted that a moratorium is not the abused,” said public member Maria answer, suggesting that the board form a Smith. “For what we put up with, we get subcommittee to develop guidelines for very little back.” walk/run applicants.

The committee asked Youth Inc., one “This is New York City and there are organization that appeared before them, events in every neighborhood every day to return to the July committee meeting of the week,” he said. “It does bring to discuss how pedestrians would navi- vibrancy to the city, it is the lifeblood of gate the neighborhood on the day of the many of these charitable organizations, run, and explain how its partner organi- and to think that we could stop it is probzations would provide a benefit back to ably not realistic.”

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1994 n Family life aboard a raft off of Pier 25 n Years-long wait for a light at North Moore and Hudson Streets n Fight over creation of a park on the Hudson River n Neighbor against neighbor in Tribeca rezoning debate

1995 n Smith Barney plans big move to Tribeca n A P.S. 234 teacher is mourned n Tribeca rats are a pesky problem n City grabs funds meant for Greenwich Street improvements n Fuming over a North Moore Street dry cleaner

1996 City okays narrowing of Greenwich Street n Hope for making BPC ball fields permanent n A “quotron” planned for Washington Street n Movie theater to be part of Atalanta building conversion on North Moore Street n Fish selling “nightmare” on Washington Street n New owners for controversial Wetlands club on Hudson Street n

1997 Co-op tussles with Bouley over restaurant construction n Old firehouse on Franklin Street gets an owner n Tribeca school board rep faces removal n Washington Market Park to get a redesign n Shootings, drug bust at Club Vinyl on Hudson Street n

ven a free paper has to sell itself and each month for the past 21 years the Trib has tried to intrigue with its own visual take on a single Downtown story, from the hardest of news, such as 9/11, to the silliest. Manhattan Youth Director Bob Townley placed digitally atop a giant iguana sculpture (below) comes to mind.

This being the last print edition of The Tribeca Trib, we decided to dig out one cover from each of those 21 years, not only as reminders of some long forgotten stories but as a wave goodbye to one more—albeit small— neighborhood presence now lost to the past.

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1998 n Bagel-making ends in Hudson Street building slated for conversion n Zoning vote on P.S. 234 and P.S. 89 n Tribeca’s last butter-and-eggs business departs Duane Street n Protest over proposed Tribeca movie theater brings it to an end n Crackdown on Tribeca sex joints n A tugboat home sinks at Pier 25 n Worker buried alive on Greenwich Street

1999 Doorman firings at IPN n Neighbors fight proposed hotel in northern Tribeca n Fire at Independence Plaza n After long fight, developer gives up on 19-story hotel in northern Tribeca n On North Moore Street, a shrine to JFK, Jr. grows and grows n

2000 Greek church near World Trade Center hangs tough in face of development pressure n Tribeca piers get sliced n Commercial tenants harassed in conversion of landmark 150 Nassau Street n Guggenheim proposed for the East River n Plans shown for a big new New York Stock Exchange building n

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2001 n Anxiety over IPN buyout n Major fire at New York Academy of Art n Many compete in City Council race n The attacks of Sept. 11 and its local impact

2002 Many have say on redevelopment of WTC site n The first Tribeca Film Festival and street fair n “Tribeca High School” (later named Millennium High School) opens uptown n BPC residents mount fight against a proposed West Street tunnel n

2003 n World Trade Center site plan is selected n Independence Plaza sold to new owner n Gov. George Pataki says permanent PATH station to open in 2006 n Marketing team sets out to “brand” Tribeca 2004 Bomb scares are routine near Federal Plaza n El Teddy’s crown comes down n Design for Fulton transit hub unveiled n Church Street post office reopens n

2005 n CB1 and its “Friends” group feud over control of a half-million dollars n Public workshops held on what should go in Sept. 11 Memorial Museum n Moms stage “nurse-in” demonstration against breast-feeding ban in Winter Garden n Community joins Katrina relief effort n 500 people attend concert celebrating Canal Park opening n Business owners at Corbin Building protest their evictions n EPA unveils final plan for 9/11 dust testing

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One of Jonathan Waite’s last works, Self Portrait x 4, shows the painter at the end of his life, looking back on himself as an artist in younger days. Waite died on Nov. 18.

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2008 n Downtown Community Center opens n School crowding fears hit fever pitch n Steel falls from Goldman Sachs tower onto ball field n De Niro defends illegal addition to his hotel n Tribeca food merchants hit hard by new Whole Foods n Strand Bookstore annex on Fulton St. closes n Parents find site for a new Battery Park City school, to become P.S./I.S. 276

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Forgotten photos, discarded notes, thrown-away lists.

In Tribeca, a collector finds meaning in them all. [PAGE 47]

2006 n ‘Green’ toilet building planned for Washington Market Park n Pile driving shakes up P.S. 234 n Demolition on Warren St. sparks landmarking effort n Duane St. firehouse gets gift of 500-lb. pumpkin n New Amsterdam Market founded in Seaport n New bells for Trinity Church 2007 n Debating “Law and Order” takeover of Washington Market Park n 5 teams vie for chance at Governors Island design plan n 2 firefighters die in Deutsche Building inferno n Battle over Chinatown BID n Gardeners protest park toilet building

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2003 2009 n Bad economy threatens Taste of Tribeca n Arts groups band together for survival n Building collapse on Reade Street n Community rallies to save boy with leukemia n Bazzini owners prepare to close shop n Struggles of Downtown’s oldest private club

2010 Tensions over school zoning n Residents protest expected terror trials n Pain of Chambers Street construction begins n Plans for community center and mosque put community in the eye of a storm n Leagues sign off on new field design n Pedestrian plaza is instant hit on Hudson Street n

2011 Jewelry heist on West Broadway n Otterness art proposal for Battery Park City library sparks a protest n Police horses evicted from Tribeca stables n Occupy Wall Street occupies the attention of Zuccotti Park neighbors and Community Board 1 n At last, a light at Duane and Greenwich n Strip poker played in Walker Street storefront n

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5 Popular Reade St. shoe store is latest retailer to close 7 Puffy’s building for sale, but owner says bar will stay 14 For budding designers, a night of catwalks in Tribeca

6 Owner wants $17.5 million for beloved Bogardus home 11 Independence Plaza tenants protest firing of doorman 33 Third graders take up serpents at P.S. 150

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2013 n High winds blow out windows in Gehry building above Spruce Street School n Days are numbered for 92YTribeca n P.S. 150 is math rebel among local schools n Merger resuscitates NY Downtown hospital n Horn honking protest on Hudson Street n Protest summons court move to Tribeca n Intruder returns to historic boat at Pier 25

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A Tribeca street gets paved, the old-fashioned way. [PAGE 12] Minutes before Socrates closed last month for the final time, waitress Sylvia Ponce says goodbye to Paul McClaskey, the last customer to leave.

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South Carolina State University’s United Voices of Christ were among 20 groups singing at the Winter Garden last month in the Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition.

2012 Legal limbo for church that meets in PS 89 n A new mall building for Pier 17 is approved n Persistent problems at South Ferry Station are exposed n Pier 40 is given five years to live n Sandy strikes, devastating the area n Tribeca Trust forms in effort to maintain the neighborhood’s remaining character n

2014 Leonard Street neighbors help a struggling parking garage attendant n Flood devastates Church Street School, a home and businesses n At local schools, outrage over ‘unfair’ state tests n Sept. 11 Memorial Museum opens n Design planning begins for Bogardus Plaza n A chair competition for The Battery n Time runs out for Tribeca’s landmark clock n Seaport tower tug-of-war begins n

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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic “The Birds” comes to the Tribeca Film Festival’s Drive-In on April 18.

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Ken Colman, who worked on the second floor of Pearl Paint for 29 years, gets a farewell hug from artist and customer Laura Lee. “You’ve helped me so much,” she told him.

Chatham Gillis, left, and Jessica Gilmartin perform the P.S. 276 after-school ballet class’s version of “Dance of the Reed Pipes.”

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2015 n Car jumps curb, slams into Roc restaurant n Local leaders look to future minus powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver n Accused Downtown Little League embezzler is held on assault charges in the Bronx n Trinity Church brainstorms its new building n Safety crackdown after a hit-and-run outside the Spruce Street School n Lucky homeless bird lands at P.S./I.S. 276

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When the school year ended last month, so, too, did Pat Sanabria’s 32year career of teaching at P.S. 234 in Tribeca, the longest of any teacher at the school. Sanabria came to the school in 1983, when it was just two years old and located in Independence Plaza (the site of today’s P.S. 150), with a mere seven teachers and about 80 children. During her many years at the school, she has taught every grade, and for the past five years she has been the school’s library teacher. Below, in an edited interview, Sanabria talks to Trib editor Carl Glassman.

I was always in trouble in the first school where I taught because they thought I was too open-classroom minded. They wanted more structure, more conservative teaching. After I saw P.S. 234 and met Blossom [Blossom Gelernter, the school’s first principal], I realized this was the kind of school I had always wanted to work in. This was the way I thought teaching and education should be.

When Blossom said that I could develop my own curriculum, I said, “Really?” I loved the fact that we didn’t use textbooks, that in the morning children could choose whether they wanted to go to a reading center or a math center or a language arts center, that the children could have more ownership of what they would be doing.

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graduated from Bank Street School—I had gone to Hunter. But Blossom knew that I could do what she wanted me to do.

I’ll always be grateful to her.

I think the face of education has changed. The average time that teachers now stay in the classroom is seven to 10 years. For whatever reason, maybe personal, maybe people are looking to move up and change jobs or maybe they’re looking for something else in education, like developing curriculum. But for me it has always been working with children, seeing that light go on in their eyes, seeing them do something in May that was

hard for them in September.

I got married very early and by the time I was 22, I was divorced with three children. I was working nights at a bank and I would also spend time with my son at nursery school. After I was divorced, my son’s day care center on the Lower East Side said they would hire me as an assistant teacher if I got a certified.

CUNY was offering a scholarship for single moms. I got it. You had to keep a 3.7 grade point and they gave me a stipend. I had three years of college credits but they wouldn’t accept any of them, so I had to start all over again.

A week before saying goodbye to P.S. 234, Pat Sanabria reads to children in the library.

After finishing, I went to graduate school in education at Hunter and got a job teaching in the South Bronx. By then I had met my second husband and we had two children together. .

In the last 40 years, I have taught over 1,000 children and I am very blessed that parents have entrusted me with their most valuable treasure. I feel very fortunate that I was able to experience that. I am going to miss the children the most. I’m going to miss the relationships you build with them.

The decision to retire at this particular time just felt right. Blossom and I had dinner together about a year before she passed away and I said to her, “When will I know it's time for me to retire, and she said, “You’ll know when. It will hit you all of a sudden.”

I’m nervous, and a little scared about leaving, but I’ve been taking some courses online in archeology, my undergraduate major, from Brown University. I’ll definitely do that again this summer. I will continue my volunteer work for the World Wildlife Fund. We’ve done a lot with saving endangered animals due to climate change and poaching, and maybe I’ll volunteer at a museum to do research or cataloging. And I want to work at my neighborhood library, the Hamilton Fish branch at Houston and Columbia Streets.

But I don’t want to be in town in September! I’m going to go away. I think it will hit me in September.

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g Sidewalk Art Children sketch a blueprint for a building, then draw their designs in chalk on the sidewalk outside the museum. Ages 4 and up. RSVP required. Sat, 7/11, 10:30-11:45 am. $5 per child; free for members and BPC residents. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, skyscraper.org.

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Mondays in July, 2–3:30 pm. Free.

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Thinking About Science Workshops challenge kids to design and construct projects inspired by science and engineering concepts. Thursdays in July, 5–7 pm. Free. Pier 25, at the end of North Moore Street, hudsonriverpark.org. g

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he Children’s Museum of the Arts will run two free drop-in outposts this summer on Pier 25 (at the end of N. Moore Street), and Governors Island. On the pier, teachers lead art activities inspired by the waterfront on Tuesdays, 1–2:30 p.m. through Aug. 25. For families and children of all ages. Outside Building 14 on Governors Island’s Nolan Park, children will make art about nature and the island on weekends, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., through Sept. 27. See hudsonriverpark.org.

Big City Fishing Sunday Children learn how to fish and find out about river ecology and the many fish species that live in the Hudson. Rods, reels and bait are provided. Sundays to 9/27, 1 pm. Free.

Pier 25 at end of North Moore Street, hudsonriverpark.org. g Toddler Story Time The librarian shares lively picture books, finger plays and action songs with toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 12–36 months. If the weather is nice, meet on the steps behind the library in Teardrop Park South.

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Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org. g Design and Build a Model City Children discuss where parks, restaurants and stores belong in a city, then build a model skyscraper to place in their city. Ages 6 and up. Reservations required. Sat, 7/25, 10:30–11:45 am. $5 per child; free for members and BPC

residents. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, skyscraper.org. g Celebrate Bastille Day Learn about French culture and French artists throughout the museum. Create miniature models of French landmarks out of recycled materials, sew a Frenchinspired apron, create a clay painting inspired

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Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org. g Story Songs Bob “Bobaloo” Basey plays flute and drums for children and their families.

All ages. Mon, 7/13, 3:30 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g Bug Out Children (grades K–5) learn all about insects and why they are so important to our environment. Kids also do experiments, art projects and hear stories. Limited to the first 25

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Buzzy Bots and Crawly Critters: Bristle Bots In this hands-on science workshop, children explore and discuss the differences between living and inanimate things and study live bugs and crayfish. For children who have started school, accompanied by an adult.

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Free. Thurs, 7/9, 4 pm. Battery Park City Library, 2nd fl., 175 North End Ave., nypl.org. g Preschool Play Join toddlers, parents and caregivers on the lawn for play with puppets, toy animals, blocks, wooden vehicles, costumes and more. A story is read aloud at the end of the program. Free. Daily, 10 am–noon. Wagner Park, bpcparks.org.

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g Pearl Street Players Summer Camp A three-week summer intensive program that weaves history, creative writing and theatrical performance. Campers will investigate 18th-century New York City life through research and exploratory theater techniques. 7/27–8/16, 9:30 am–2 pm. $300 (lunch not provided). For students entering grades 7, 8, and 9 in September 2015. Minimum 15 participants.

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Free. Diker Pavilion, National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Ramblin’ Dan & The Freewheelin’ Band Rock ’n’ roll, reggae, bluegrass, folk, and hip hop, with lyrics about animals, emotions, weather, the environment, colors and more.

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Penny Jones & Co. Puppets A puppet ballet set to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” score about a boy who starts something he cannot stop. With participation and games for young audiences. Ages 3–8. Mon, 7/27, 6:30 pm.

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The Park Preschool and The Barclay Street School wish to congratulate April Koral and Carl Glassman on 21 successful years of delivering the news and events of our area through The Tribeca Trib.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF NYC KIDS PROJECT

Mindy Pfeffer performs with Mark, a puppet that has cerebral palsy.

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN Seated in front of a class of kindergartners at the Peck Slip School, Mindy Pfeffer held Bobby, a puppet in a wheelchair, and asked the children some questions.

“Could you be friends with Bobby and maybe hang out in the park?”

A chorus of “No’s” came back at her.

Pfeffer gave the kids a quizzical look.

“Can he do everything you do in the park?”

“No!” “Can he do some things?”

“No!” That was Pfeffer’s cue to turn to the puppet.

“Can you go up a ladder, Bobby?”

“Well,” said Bobby, as Pfeffer’s voice turned husky and kid-like, “I can’t go up a ladder by myself, but I can with help.”

Indeed, Pfeffer explained to her audience, Bobby and other disabled kids are more like them than they are different and—most important—it’s okay to be different.

That’s the message—mantra really— of NYC Kids Project, a nonprofit organization run by Pfeffer and fellow puppeteer Cecilia Arana, that offers class visits and performances before large

Above: Demonstrating with their teacher, Sarah Rookwood, Cecilia Arana shows kindergartners how a blind person can discover a person’s features. Far left: Thomas Kimes meets the puppet Bobby. Left: Children go through an exercise that helps them relate to the experience of a blind person.

groups with puppets that are blind and wheelchair-bound and, for older kids, characters with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and learning disabilities, too.

“When you say to kids, ‘We’re going to play superheroes,’ they can’t see at first that you can put a cape on a wheelchair,” said Arana, who has two sons in P.S./I.S. 276. “And when you play jump rope, if you can’t jump, well maybe you can turn the rope. Those are the aha!

moments that get exciting in the room.”

Pfeffer and Arana have many years of experience with a similar, long-running state-supported program that lost its funding in 2011. Having formed their nonprofit, they are working to revive its mission with the help of corporate donors and other sources. To be fully funded, they said, would require at least $400,000.

For now, the pair charges a small

consulting fee for classroom visits as they keep alive the dream of again having teams of puppeteers performing in schools throughout the city, regardless of means.

“There’s a million ways to do this,” said Pfeffer. “We just are new to running a business so it’s trial and error right now.”

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As a child, like most kids, I desperately looked forward to summer. In the hot, close classrooms of June, I dreamed of freedom. How would I have defined freedom at the age of 8 or 9? Probably very simply: I won’t have to get up in the morning and go to school.

I have a clear memory of one first day of summer vacation. At the end of the asphalt CONNIE driveway of SCHRAFT our house, tar formed thick bubbles in the heat. Sitting on the curb, I poked the bubbles with a stick, coating its tip with tar.

Then I wrote my name on SCHOOL the street, over TALK and over.

I’ve been thinking of childhood summers because of a recent parent workshop we held, about the transition from school to summer. We began with a discussion of the “summer slide,” of which my parents were fortunately unaware.

A reading specialist spoke about ways to prevent this loss of academic skills and knowledge over the months of vacation, and at the top of the list was reading. The advice was what you would

expect: read to your children, visit the library, listen to audio books on long drives, have discussions as you and your children read together, and “model” reading by doing it yourself. I guess my mother was doing that when she waved us away while turning the pages of a book.

As I grow older, I try to banish the nagging sense that things used to be better. But sometimes I feel for this generation of kids, who are growing up in an

“College and career-readiness” is a Department of Education mantra beginning in Pre-K, along with STEM, even though most people are not clear about what a STEM education looks like.

It probably looks like the summers I’m dreaming about—when kids planned and built tree houses in the woods, spent hours watching ants transport grains of sand to make a home, and dug up radishes that they had planted in late spring.

Those kinds of experiences are hard to

Sometimes I feel for this generation of kids, who are growing up in an era when summer, a time of discovery, adventure and independence, is now synonymous with a loss of skills. era when summer, a time of discovery, adventure, and independent exploration, is now synonymous with a loss of skills.

On a blog about summer memories, I read this lovely sentence: “I remember racing our bicycles up and down the quarter-mile gravel road next to my parents’ house on a warm evening and feeling like I could fly.”

As our education system tries to catch up with countries like Finland and South Korea, parents worry that their children will not be competitive in the global economy, which has produced an industry of tutoring and enrichment.

come by Downtown with manicured parks patrolled by rangers, and not enough available dirt for kids to really get dirty.

That’s not to say that there isn’t wonderful summer fun in the city: camps; mini golf on Pier 25; a ride on the Circle Line on a balmy evening; outdoor movies after dark; playing baseball on the Battery Park ball fields until the mosquitoes begin to bite; riding bikes along the river.

Most families take vacations. Those from overseas will fly home to Europe, Asia and South America to spend the

summer months speaking their first language, eating their native food, and reacquainting their children with their home culture. Many Downtown kids go to sleep away camps, where they learn archery, horseback riding, kayaking, and grow in confidence and independence by being away from the comforts and security of home.

Some will spend summer afternoons at the beach reading, not because it’s required, but because they just can’t put the book down. Some will play on baseball or softball teams that travel around the city and state competing in tournaments.

So what if they bring their Kumon workbooks along for the ride? Or if their downtime is spent practicing academic skills with BrainPop or RAZZ Kids on an i-Pad? In the good old days, boredom arrived in late August when camp and activities came to an end, and the novelty of unstructured afternoons wore off.

After an endless game of Concentration with my sister led to an argument, my mother shooed us outside. We wandered around aimlessly, itching our mosquito bites, until one of us had an idea.

Together we ran down the hill to our school and tried all the doors, desperately wanting to get back inside.

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Far left: An unlikely collaborator with artist Barbara Siegel, Ralph Di Donato was the construction manager of 460 Washington Street, a new 10-story building whose proximity to Siegel’s home forced her to brick up the windows on one side of her loft. Di Donato is holding a miner’s helmet that was crushed with equipment used at the site. Left: A drawing of the helmet

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CRUSHED BEAUTY Ralph’s Helmet

ARTIST BARBARA SIEGEL GIVES NEW LIFE AND AESTHETIC LOVE TO LOWLY, FLATTENED OBJECTS

BY APRIL KORAL In the 1970s, odd objects of unknown and mysterious origins would often land on the semi-deserted streets of Tribeca.

Barbara Siegel, an artist, began collecting this detritus flattened out by cars and trucks—an old dustpan, a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, a can of paint— soon after moving to her loft on Washington Street with her husband, Gary Schwartz, in 1979.

Pieces of junk to the untutored eye, but not to Siegel, who sees instead the flattened objects’ tawny colors and irregular shapes and their unexpected textures and terrains.

“They’re gorgeous,” she said recently in her studio, as she ran her hands across the creases of a crushed can.

Siegel hung the objects on a wall and forgot about them. But last year, she felt at a loss for her next project (“not uncommon with artists,” she noted) and happened to look at the artifacts and thought, “It would be great to draw them.” (A collection of the drawings is on display at A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, through July 26.)

“I like the idea of a metamorphosis, of transformation,” Siegel said. “In their original state they were functional, now they are not. But in a way they are more beautiful. And then they are given a new life as a drawing.”

The project itself was transformed thanks to Siegel’s penchant for collaborating with non-artists, in what she calls her “part biographical, part journalism” art.

Siegel has worked closely with a mineralogist, a horticulturist and sideshow performers, for example, to immortalize them through drawing, sculpture and artist’s books.

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This time, she found her collaborator, Ralph Di Donato, mere steps from her door—the man who was overseeing the construction of the new building that was so close to her home that she and her husband were forced to brick up the windows on one side of their loft.

Sealing the two windows, Siegel recalled, “was very hard for me to deal with.”

“Ralph was next door a lot and we started talking and we became pretty good friends,” Siegel said. “At a certain point, I realized that Ralph had all this heavy-duty equipment at the site that would be great for crushing objects. I asked him if he would choose some objects and run them over for me. He loved the idea.”

Di Donato so warmed to the artistic challenge that in addition to objects he found on the work site, he scoured eBay in search of a miner’s helmet that he thought would be good material for the project.

In an email to Siegel, Di Donato

explained that one of the reasons he had sought the helmet was that it represented a structure “coming out of the ground,” just as miners come out of the ground with coal or iron.

“It was very touching to me,” Siegel said, “that I was doing this CARL GLASSMAN weird thing and someone in his line of work was able to wrap his head around it and participate.”

Having spent countless hours watching the next-door building rise and overtake her windows, she found the collaboration cathartic.

“I loved the fact that this equipment that was so threatening to me could actually be used in a positive way in my work,” she said.

Siegel chose four of Di Donato’s pieces to draw, and asked him to email her his thoughts on the work he had done. His observations will be included in the show.

“Even in construction we manipulate drawings for site-specific design changes, as a sculptor molds clay,” he noted in his email. “We build forms to cast columns and beams, as an artist who builds plaster molds creates statues.”

“In one way or another,” he added, “we are all artists of our own lives, forever adding color and correcting the brushstrokes to make our world one-ofa-kind original!”

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Karski Reading of play by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, starring Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn (“Good Night and Good Luck,” “Lincoln”) about the littleknown Polish World War II hero and Holocaust witness Jan Karski. Free, but reservations required. Wed, 7/15, 1 pm; Wed, 7/15, 7:30 pm; Wed, 7/22, 7 pm; Thurs, 7/23, 7:30 pm; Sat, 7/25, 9:30 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Gibney Dance Company Outdoor performance of the company’s associate artistic director Amy Miller’s newest work, “Still and Still Moving,” uses composer Peter Swendsen’s electrocoustic. 7/10. Two halfhour performances begin at 5 and 6 pm.

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Friday, 7/24. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

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Murray and Warren). “Measure for Measure” shows are Wed, 7/8, and Fri–Sun, 7/10–7/12, 7-9 pm. Meet in front of Castle Clinton in Battery Park. Previews are Tue–Sun, 7/14–7/19; performances, Tue–Sun, 7/21–8/9. More information at newyorkclassical.org.

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Blue Planet Kazumi Yoshida’s sculptural and vividly colored paintings continue his investigation of multi-dimensionality, pattern and narrative. Through 7/12. Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, 35 North Moore St., cherylhazan.com.

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Soho Photo Work of the 40 winners of the annual National Photography Competition. Works include Paul Kessel’s “Entering the Metropolitan Opera,” Yorgos Efthymiadis’s image “Net,” and Mark Roussel’s “Finding and Losing My Father.”

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Profiled: Surveillance of a Sharing Society An exhibit that examines the juncture of post9/11 military concerns and the astronomical rise of social media technologies. Artists analyze the paradoxes in sharing everything with our suspicion of those looking. Works by James Bridle, Paolo Cirio, Jenny Odell, William Popelier, Julia Scher and Jens Sundheim. To 7/25. Apex Art, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

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Ten Tops Buildings 100 stories and higher, beginning with the 1931 Empire State Building and including nearly two dozen towers worldwide that are completed or under construction. The show focuses on the architectural features of the uppermost floors, including observation decks, luxury hotels and restaurants, distinctive crowns and night illumination, as well as the engineering and construction challenges of erecting such complex structures. Through 9/15. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

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Lafayette Twenty historic objects related to the Marquis de Lafayette, several of which have never previously been exhibited. Accompanying

Museum of the American Indian Free tours of what was once the U.S. Custom House. Designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1907, the building is a National Historic Landmark and includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Raphael Gustavino, murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh, and woodwork by the Tiffany studios. Daily, 1 and 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

Lafayette’s calling card and the general’s sash is a pair of pistols given by Lafayette to the Virginia officer David Miller. The exhibition complements the docking of Lafayette’s replica ship, the Hermione, at South Street Seaport on July 4th weekend. Through next year. Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. g

The Art Walk Collection Watercolors that illustrate the art and architecture guide for New York City. Created as an easy-to-navigate platform, the exhibit maps art installations, public art, NYC landmarks and off-the-beaten-track art, pairing them with text and multimedia. 7/6–7/31.

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Cerámica de los Ancestros More than 150 objects from seven Central American cultural regions. The work spans more than 3,000 years and includes examples in gold, jade, shell and stone. To 1/17. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 2nd fl., nmai.si.edu.

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The Peopling of America Center at Ellis Island A new major exhibition, “The Journey: New Eras of Immigration,” focuses on immigration from 1954, when Ellis Island closed, to present times. Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, libertyellisfoundation.org.

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Lowdown Hudson Music Fest Music on the waterfront featuring blues, rock, roots, and

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River & Blues Featuring John Hammond, the Grammy winner and Blues Hall of Fame virtuoso of harmonica and slide guitar. Free. Thurs, 7/9, 7–8:30 pm. Wagner Park, 20 Battery Pl., Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, bpcparks.org.

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Valerie June The American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist performs a mixture of folk, blues, gospel, soul, country, Appalachian and bluegrass. Thurs, 7/16, 7–8:30 pm. Free.

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Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years Relying on new research and analysis of the existing literature, Michael E. Newton presents a comprehensive account of Hamilton's rise from poverty. The talk will be followed by Q&A, book signing and viewing of the “Alexander Hamilton: Indispensable Founder and Visionary” exhibit. Fri, 7/10, 2–4 pm. Free. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St.. moaf.org.

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Charlie Wilson The legendary soul and R&B singer discusses his memoir. Mon, 7/6, 6 pm.

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Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Skyscapes Learn about Chinese Song Dynasty painting and Tyrus Wong's artistic styles while creating your own paintings and calligraphy. Sat, 7/18, 1–4 pm. Free with museum admission. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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Slow/Down/Town MJH and Lab/Shul A preShabbat party for 20- and 30-year-olds with Amichai Lau-Lavie and guests. Fri, 7/31, 5:30 pm. Pay what you can. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Craig Filipacchi and Jacques Foussard 212-452-4468 LIVING LARGE IN TRIBECA TriBeCa. Bright 1,640SF corner loft/ condo. 2BR, 2 bath, high ceilings, 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of open living space, 6 huge LR windows.

Open kitchen w/ pantry/laundry, huge MB w/ WIC. $2.75M. WEB# 12699517.

Thomas Michael Rozboril 718-613-2761

Village EXCEPTIONAL TROPHY PENTHOUSE West Village. Grand scale 4BR, 4 bath, with 24â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceil. great room.

360-degree river and city views.

Wraparound terrace. Architect masterpiece. $40M. WEB# 11294646.

Scott Harris 212-317-3674 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; WIDE RENOVATED MANSION 10th Street/Fifth Avenue. Stunning single-family w/approx 10,482SF indoor & 2,094SF outdoor. Features include a pool, elevator from cellar to roof, South garden & approx 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceiling. $38.5M. WEB# 12407999.

David E. Kornmeier 212-588-5642

25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; WIDE GOLD COAST HOUSE Greenwich Village. Rear carriage house is located on W 9th, off 5th Avenue. This exceptional and unique property is currently a 3 unit Co-op that will be delivered vacant. $18M. WEB# 12702535.

Mary A. Vetri 212-906-0575 TOWNHOUSE IN A TOWNHOUSE Charles Street. Unique West Village quadruplex in a boutique condo bldg.

6,524SF plus 1,280SF landscaped garden.

4BR, media rm, rec rm, elevator. Mint condition. $16.25M. WEB# 10018438.

Wolf Jakubowski 212-588-5630 2BR, 2 BATH CONDO LOFT LES. Be the 1st to live in a newly renovated full flr 2BR, 2 bath condo loft on Bowery. Details includes 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceil, private terrace, W/D, video intercom & low monthlies. $3.75M. WEB# 12577112.

Wendy J. Sarasohn 212-906-9366 Jamie S.Joseph 212-906-9369 Tania K. Isacoff 212-906-9376 2/3BR AT THE ARDEA Greenwich Village. Elegant home featuring 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, large West facing windows, original pocket doors with DINING ROOM AND A mEXIBLE mOOR PLAN IN prime Greenwich Village. $3.6M. WEB# 12615680.

Ileen G. Schoenfeld 212-396-5878 Aracely Moran 212-588-5649 CHIC VILLAGE OASIS West Village. 1BR, 1 bath garden APARTMENT WITH mAIR 0RIVATE LANDSCAPED patio, custom designed kitchen and bath, tons of storage, WD & DW. Condo rules. $849K. WEB# 12623085.

Nadine Adamson 212-452-4503 Kelsey Hall 212-396-5828 WEST VILLAGE BEAUTY West Village. Bright west facing 1BR, 1 bath Co-op. Exposed brick, renovated open kitchen w/dishwasher 7 $ .EW WOOD mOORS WINDOWS Close to subway. Low maintenance. $599K. WEB# 12253550.

Nicole Newlin 212-452-6206 0ENNY 4OEPFER AFFORDABLE GOLD COAST Greenwich Village. Full service prewar Co-op on West 9th and 5th Ave is available at a price that beats renting. High ceilings, walk in closet, quiet north expos and renov kit. $369K. WEB# 12289265.

Mary A. Vetri 212-906-0575 Eileen Vetri 718-613-2719

EAST VILLAGE ART DECO East Village. Large, high flr 1BR just listed at Ageloff Towers, a beautifully maintained prewar 1930s elevator Co-op bldg w/ live-in super, laundry & storage. $725K. WEB# 12744443.

Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675 Siim M. Hanja 212-317-3670

CREATE YOUR DREAM HOME Chelsea. Spacious loft-like gem in heart of Chelsea. High ceilings, lots of light, & 3 expos. Bring your imagination to make this your dream home. $950K. WEB# 9977322.

Harvey Messing 212-712-1121 Elise Roberts Messing 212-317-7737

Gramercy/Chelsea

SoHo

HISTORIC 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; WIDE TH Downtown. Gracious owner duplex and three 2BR rentals in vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. Recently renovated.

Architectural elements. Bi-level garden. $8.995M. WEB# 12683805.

Wolf Jakubowski 212-588-5630 MAGNIFICENT PH W/ 3 TERRACES West 20th Street. 5BR, 4.5 bath RENOVATED 0( BOASTS APPROX

interior SF and 1,700SF of terraces.

Expansive living room with 22ft ceilings, huge skylights & 2 wbfps. $7.5M. WEB# 10313333.

David E. Kornmeier 212-588-5642 HIGH FLR AT PORTER HOUSE Meatpacking District. Sunny, high mOOR CONDO LOFT IN THE HEART OF THE meatpacking district with sunset views, private balcony, 3BR, 2.5 baths, Ferretti kitchen, and W/D. $6.75M. WEB# 12486570.

Nic Bottero 212-317-3664 Erin Boisson Aries 212-317-3680 PREWAR DESIGNER LOFT IN NOMAD NoMad. Live in the heart of NoMad in the cast- iron Gilsey House built in 4RIPLE MINT "2 OFlCE BATH

OPEN CITY VIEWS FT CEILS 0ETS PIED A terre, guarantors ok. $2.3M. WEB# 12368581.

Katharine F. Tuckerman 212-906-9222 Edith F. Tuckerman 212-906-9228 CONVERTIBLE 3 BEDROOM Chelsea. Spacious loft-like gem in heart of Chelsea. High ceilings, lots of light, & 3 expos. Bring your imagination to make this your dream home. $950K. WEB# 9977322.

Harvey Messing 212-712-1121 Elise Roberts Messing 212-317-7737

AIRY AERIE #HELSEA 3UN KISSED HIGH mOOR CORNER 2BR w/ pre-war details on lovely, treelined block. Views to Hudson & Empire 3TATE "LDG 04 DOORMAN STORAGE BIKE room. $979K. WEB# 12696551.

Beth M. Hirsch 212-452-4493

Andrew O. Charas

Barry Herbst

A VERY RARE OFFERING SoHo. One of the few true, simplex 2BR and 2 bath apt avail in DTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most singular FS address. 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils, exposed arches and skylight. Shimmering treasure. $3.65M. WEB# 12436060.

David J. Cobell 718-399-4139 Andrew O. Charas 212-452-4463

Erin Boisson Aries

Gitu Ramani-Ruff

FiDi WATER VIEWS AT WALL ST FiDi. Sun splashed home. Water views, Greenwich Club Residences, 898SF w/ sleeping area, open SS kit, spa luxury bath, 5 big closets, 5-star amenities. $949K. WEB# 11008900.

Richard N. Rothbloom 212-452-4485

Rentals 3BR, 4 BATH IN TRIBECA Laight/Washington Street. Co-Excl.

"2 "! HOME ON HIGH mOOR offers sweeping views of city and river from every rm. Wonderful proportions + chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kit & W/D. FS bldg w/ gym. $24.5K/monthly.

WEB# 12358619.

-ARIA 0ASHBY *OANNA ! 0ASHBY 101 WARREN TriBeCa. Luxury & convenience await @ this bright & beautiful corner apt.

Sparkling 2BR, 2.5 bath, 2,000SF, with walls of glass. Avail July1 for 1 or 2 yrs. $14.5K/monthly. WEB# 12559193.

Beth M. Hirsch 212-452-4493 YOUR HOME ON THE PARK 'RAMERCY 0ARK BEDROOMS BATHS

WOOD BURNING lREPLACE WASHER DRYER

high ceilings, and keys to Gramercy 0ARK + MONTHLY 7%"Â?

Daniella G. Schlisser 212-906-9348 Matthew D. Hughes 212-906-9351

Jacques Foussard

Jocelyn Gould Turken

Kristin M. Hurd

Liz Dworkin

Richard N. Rothbloom

Steven Marvisch

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