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Divergent views on tax to help pay for Hudson River Park upkeep ‘This plan would put the park on solid footing, and allow it to thrive for years to come.’

To the Editor: It might surprise many parkgoers to learn that Hudson River Park is not part of the New York City Parks Department and receives no city or state tax dollars for annual maintenance.

While the capital funds to build the park came from the federal, state and city governments, the funding to maintain the park comes from commercial properties within it—a model conceived as a way to create significant public open space without adding a burden to state and city budgets. And for the past decade and a half, that model worked.

However, as the park has expanded and piers have been renovated and opened to the public, the revenue from commercial nodes has not kept pace.

For example, while Pier 40’s parking operation has provided crucial revenue to the park (and invaluable field space for sports teams), its deteriorating infrastructure puts that revenue source at risk.

One of the original financing concepts for the park is now back on the table for Westside residents—a Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) for Hudson River Park. The Hudson River Park NID would be funded by the residential and commercial property owners closest to the park.

‘It is unfair because it is a park user fee applied only to residents of the NID zone.’

To the Editor: The proposal to fund Hudson River Park’s operating budget with a business improvement district (cunningly renamed as a Neighborhood Improvement District for this purpose) is fatally flawed, primarily because it is unfair and undemocratic, and therefore must be rejected.

The BID funding structure is based entirely on taxpayer entities. The assignment of one vote per tax lot makes sense in a BID where the vast majority of the buildings are commercial, but would create a wildly undemocratic situation in the case of the Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District (HRP-NID) because of the high concentration of residential buildings in the zone. If the NID is implemented, co-op shareholders will be disenfranchised relative to condominium owners and residential tenants will be completely disenfranchised. For example, take three identical 20-unit multifamily buildings, one of which is a condo, one a co-op and the last a rental building where all the units have been decontrolled under the N.Y.C. rent control laws and the owner has the ability to pass on the NID assessment. Each of the condo owners pays the assessment and in return gets one vote, each of the co-op owners

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To the Editor: I really appreciate the Trib. I enjoyed your piece last month on “The Empress of Patterns” by Oliver Allen. I have sewed most of my clothes since I was in grade school. The article reminded me of opening our drop-leaf table (putting the pad on, of course) and pinning the tissue pattern to the material.

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Harold Reed, a Seaport resident, member of Community Board 1 and strong proponent of the arts in Lower Manhattan, died in January at the age of 75. Excerpted below are remarks made by two of Reed’s friends at a memorial held last month at the Seaport Museum.

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Uncertainty Over Embattled Eatery

Plans up in the air for Mexican restaurant that North Moore neighbors say they will fight

BY CARL GLASSMAN Plans for a Mexican restaurant at 39 North Moore Street were stirring the ire of upstairs condo owners and sending shockwaves through nearby multimillion-dollar lofts last month.

But the true intentions of the restaurant developers, two men who apparently would be making this their first culinary enterprise, has become clouded in uncertainty.

In a letter to a member of the building’s condo board, who had requested a meeting with the two partners, Santiago Gomez said they were considering other options. “[We] have not signed a lease or anything similar yet,” Gomez wrote. “We want to make sure everyone is happy and we work in a peaceful environment.

(Wether [sic] in this space or some others we are exploring around in the city.)”

Several days later, on the phone, Gomez told the Trib, “Nothing has changed. We are waiting for something to happen, so we’re just sitting down and waiting.”

Gomez would not specify what they were waiting for.

“A lot of things about the project need to be defined,” he said. Gomez referred further questions to his partner, Santiago Perez, who did not return calls for comment.

Stephen Corelli, the developer of 39 North Moore and owner of the commercial space, said he “thinks” they are still interested. “We’ve had a lease generated, we’ve had comments to it, we’ve negotiated it,” Corelli said. “Whether or not they sign the lease I just have no idea.”

The partners, who had set out in February to apply for a liquor license, called off their appearance before Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee following a flurry of opposition from neighbors. They are not scheduled to appear before the committee this

CARL GLASSMAN (2)

The 39 North Moore Street entrance at left serves the commercial space, now occupied by a home furnishings store. The residential entrance is on the right.

month either.

The resident recalled telling the partNeighbors said the restaurant would ners, “I’m hearing that you’re moving on bring late-night noise and street traffic and I’m also hearing that you’re not.” If and that the space could not physically they continue to pursue a liquor license, accommodate the requirements of a the resident said she warned the men that restaurant.

In early February, Perez said in a telephone interview that he delayed his date with the community board in order to first meet with the residents.

Condo board president Bettina Blohm and a second resident, who asked not to be identified, met with Gomez and Perez on Feb. 22.

In an email, Blohm described the meeting in general terms, calling it “friendly.”

“We were able to explain to HOTEL MATILDA them our opposition of both the Chef Enrique Olvera is said to be part of the plans.

Board and all the residents of the building to the restaurant,” she wrote. she would continue to organize against “They spent a lot of time telling us the restaurant. She said, if need be, her how they were looking at other spaces,” condo would go to court to enforce the said the other resident. But the messages board’s recently passed resolution that were mixed, she said, because Gomez forbids a bar or restaurant in the space. talked of continuing to seek permits. And Though Corelli owns the space, this the partners were reportedly in the space resident claims the condominium declathe day before considering “design ration gives the board that power. details.”

Corelli, who developed the building

in the early 1990s, strongly disputes that.

“I think everybody knows that wouldn’t survive judicial scrutiny,” he said.

In an interview early last month, Perez described the restaurant concept, with 60 seats and a 10-stool bar, as a “high-end Mexican restaurant, not a bar.”

He said that acclaimed chef Enrique Olvera, whose Mexico City restaurant Pujol was called one of the 50 best in the world by San Pellegrino, would be at the restaurant for two months before and two months after the restaurant opens, and return there for a week each month, according to Perez.

“The first thing that comes to mind when a neighbor hears about Mexican restaurants is margaritas, tequila shots, etc.,” Perez said. “So I think it’s very important to highlight the type of restaurant we’re trying to do, to move away from that misconception.”

Perez and Gomez, who say they have family connections to a string of restaurants in Mexico City, recently formed a company, Both Sides of the Table, to develop the project. It will be, Perez said, a “crown jewel” of others to come.

“I think the neighborhood blends really well with the concept that we are trying to develop,” he said.

Long Ago, Another Battle at 39 North Moore

Architect Stephen Corelli and the commercial space he owns at 39 North Moore St. are no strangers to controversy.

In November 1995, a battle broke out over another newly acquired tenant, a dry cleaner. It would not be long before Corelli, who then lived on the building’s second floor, regretted his choice of renter and, like other residents, viewed the business as a potential health hazard.

(The dry cleaner, Jeffrey Namm, eventually chose the space after an explosion in December 1994 shattered the window of his soon-to-open store at 146 Duane St.) Residents living upstairs (two of whom still reside in the building) and next door sued to prevent Namm from opening, claiming he threatened property values and health. Large demonstrations on North Moore ensued as Namm’s White Glove Valet became a symbolic target for elected officials CARL GLASSMAN

Stephen Corelli developed 39 North Moore, center building, and number 41 next door.

In May 1997, an employee of Ecomat, the cleaner that would replace White Glove Valet, stood outside 39 North Moore St.

and environmentalists seeking to eliminate dry cleaners from residential buildings.

Namm won the suit but the pressure never let up. City inspections of the building found some excessive levels of the toxic solvent, perchloroethyline, and he was shut down—then allowed to reopen after passing further inspections.

Another cleaner, one that does not use “perc,” brought Namm’s suffering business out of bankruptcy and in May 1997 he was gone. (That cleaner would last less than two years, and be replaced by a fabric store.)

“This is a big victory for everyone who doesn’t want to live with the equivalent of a toxic waste dump operating on the first floor of their building,” said Tom Freston, then the CEO of MTV and a sixth-floor resident of the building.

“I was within my legal rights, within the codes of the city,” said the dejected dry cleaner. “I just got run over in the name of politics.”

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Rendering of the planned Maiden Lane Pavilion, as seen from the East River esplanade.

Mesh fencing will separate cyclists from pedestrians.

New Life Along East River Esplanade

BY ALINE REYNOLDS By year’s end, a bicyclist or pedestrian will be able to travel along the East River’s edge all the way from the Brooklyn Bridge down to the bottom of Manhattan.

Eventually, the soon-to-be completed segment of waterfront greenway will provide a vehicle-free loop between Manhattan’s east side and the five-mile stretch of Hudson River Park.

The final section of the $150 million esplanade overhaul, between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges (which is still in the design phase), will be completed next year.

Last month, two Community Board 1 committees got a first glimpse of the plans for the southernmost portion of the esplanade.

Renderings presented by officials of the Economic Development Corp.

(EDC), the city agency in charge of the project, showed a plan that includes a maritime “educational center,” two restaurants, a new walkway and other public amenities. Pier 15 in the South Street Seaport is slated to house the glass-enclosed maritime center and a café, which will be surrounded by historic ships and offer panoramic views of the harbor.

The walkway will link the pier to the

A maritime education center and café are planned for Pier 15 at the South Street Seaport.

southern Financial District, allowing pedestrians and cyclists to travel along the waterfront from Pier 17 to Whitehall Street. For hungry passersby, there will be a restaurant in a new, brightly-lit pavilion tucked under the FDR Drive at Maiden Lane.

Public restrooms will be installed at John Street.

The Pier 15 café and the Maiden Lane Pavilion restaurant, both to be operated by Merchants Hospitality, are expected to open by Memorial Day. By the spring, the portion of the esplanade that extends from Wall Street to the tip of Manhattan will be ready for use.

The mechanical equipment serving these and the other East River waterfront pavilions was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy, causing a two-month delay in construction, according to Terri Bahr, an EDC project manager.

“It’s just taken a long time to agree to what the insurance companies will front in order to get things replaced,” she explained.

The renovated esplanade is being transformed from a dilapidated space into an expansive walkway with curved seating, extensive plantings and sleek gray-and-white pavers. At the eastern edge of Wall Street, mesh fencing will

separate pedestrians from cyclists. (The EDC redesigned the buffer—originally slated to be a six-foot-high aluminum wall—after it received negative feedback from CB1 in 2010.)

Modifications have also been made to a popular dog run at Wall Street. The EDC got rid of the fencing used to separate large and small dogs. “We were told by the dog owners that they wanted just wide open space,” Julieanne Herskowitz, an EDC project manager, said.

Seaport Committee member Joseph Lerner voiced concern that the Pier 15 café could encroach on publicly accessible space.

“Even now,” he said, “there’s not a surplus of seating on both the upper and lower levels. You’re taking away what we thought was public space.”

Herskowitz said the city would be willing to address public space issues after the café opens.

The café area “is a relatively small space in comparison to the entire layout of the pier,” Herskowitz said, “[but] if this is a request, then it is something we can certainly look at.”

The city is repairing the pier’s decking and seating, which has already been damaged by skateboarders in the short time since it opened. Those repairs are expected to be completed by the summer.

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Pain of Chambers Street Is Extended

BY CARL GLASSMAN The seemingly endless traffic, pedestrian and business disruption known as the Chambers Street reconstruction project will end even later than projected.

City officials, overseeing the complex replacement of two 150-year-old water mains and the intertwined utility work that goes with it, said that the neighborhood would get its street back by the end of next year. The work, which began in the summer of 2010, was originally expected to end this summer.

At a meeting held last month for residents and business owners affected by the project, Tom Foley, assistant commissioner for the city’s Department of Design and Construction, said that part of the delay is due to unexpected repairs to a gas main.

“On paper that gas main looks great—it’s only 40 years old,” Foley said.

“Then once it’s exposed, voilà, let’s take care of it now while that area is excavated.”

Then there was Hurricane Sandy, which diverted crews to other parts of the city. “One event like a Sandy pushed us back several months,” Foley said.

Chambers Street intersections, the sites of crisscrossing utilities where hand excavation is often required, are especially slow-going. Chambers and Church will be the last to be completed, next summer. Construction at Chambers and West Broadway, which has taken over

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Tom Foley, the Department of Design and Construction official who heads the Chambers St. reconstruction project, gives an update on the work. Right: Chambers and Hudson streets.

part of Bogardus Plaza, is due to be finished in November. But Chambers Street work between the intersections should be done by this summer. By Memorial Day, the construction fences along the street will be down, Foley said.

Hal Bromm, who lives at West Broadway and Chambers, called on the Department of Transportation’s representative at the meeting, John DeLucia, to close Chambers Street to traffic entirely in order to get the work done faster. As it is, he said, the single lane of cars are

forced to crawl down the street. “Only idiots are driving on Chambers Street,” he said, “and the bus could be rerouted.”

“Closing it is going to make the other streets worse,” DeLucia said. “You’re going to make Reade Street worse, you’re going to make Murray Street worse.”

But at the insistence of Bromm and others, DeLucia agreed to study the possibility of closing the street.

Foley said construction is being “expedited” with more daytime and

weekend work, and most sleep-depriving night work is coming to an end.

In the meantime, Craig Baro, owner of Cosmopolitan Café at Chambers, near West Broadway, said the disruption, which has included gas leaks into the restaurant, has nearly done his business in.

“The mountains of garbage, the wind blowing the fences down, the rats, it’s really gotten horrific,” he said.

“We understand the hardship in terms of what this construction has brought,” Foley said.

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They’re Coming Down the Road

45 Bike Share Stations Will Be Downtown Soon

BY ALINE REYNOLDS After much delay, the city is finally getting its bikes in order.

Citi Bike, the city’s ambitious bicycle sharing program that was to begin last summer, will be up and running in May, Department of Transportation officials have announced. Software glitches had stalled the program, which will now put 45 stations south of Canal Street.

The self-service, solar-powered bike kiosks will be open 24 hours a day, and bikes can be returned to any of the nearly 300 stations around the city.

Because the city has shifted the location of some of the stations, a DOT official presented the latest map last week to Community Board 1’s Planning Committee.

Not everyone was pleased with the changes.

In Tribeca, a planned kiosk was moved half a block away, from the west side of Duane Park to the northeast corner of Duane and Greenwich (residents said it “ruined” the aesthetics and historic nature of the park), only to draw new complaints.

Committee member Adam Malitz, who lives directly across the street in Independence Plaza, said that a station at that intersection could imperil pedestrians when cars make the sharp left turn from Greenwich Street onto Duane. And Diane Lapson, president of the Independence Plaza Tenants Association as well a committee member, said the narrowness of that part of Duane Street

could pose further dangers to pedestrians.

“We just can’t see how it’s going to work out on such a skinny, narrow corner,” Lapson said.

The stations are supposed to have the added benefit of deterring cars from speeding, Stephanie Levinsky, a DOT planner, told the committee.

“If there are safety concerns,” she added, “then we’ll of course look at moving the station, [but] we do want to leave a period of time to monitor it.”

Plans are still in place for a bike station at the south end of Bogardus Plaza, near Chambers Street, despite concerns about the safety of pedestrians, especial-

New Signs to Show the Way On Lower Manhattan Streets

BY ALINE REYNOLDS “Can you tell me how to get to Ground Zero?”

Downtown residents may soon be getting fewer questions like that one from tourists when the city rolls out a new set of “wayfinding” maps on local streets.

The maps, part of a citywide program to help visitors and natives alike navigate unfamiliar streets, will be located in Downtown plazas and near intersections.

Inspired by Massimo Vignelli’s iconic design of the New York City subway map, they are also meant to orient subway riders emerging above ground.

“It’s about getting people to their destinations, similar to the goal of the bike share program,” Wendy Feuer, an urban designer at the city Department of Transportation, told Community Board 1 recently.

Some of the maps show entire neighborhoods; others zero in on a single street.

Signs dubbed “fingerposts” will direct pedestrians to such landmarks as the National September 11 Memorial and

the U.S. District Courthouse, and some of the maps even indicate how long it will take to walk there.

The city has yet to settle on where to put the maps and the public will get to weigh in on their locations during walking tours organized by the city. (The Department of Transportation will hold “Wayfinding Content Workshops” this month in several Community Board 1 committees open to the public. See page 22.)

The first wayfinders will be installed in Chinatown in late March or early April.

Michael Levine, Community Board 1’s planning director, cautioned the DOT against too much detail.

Chinatown’s maps, he said, “have everything imaginable in one map, which make the map less legible. People want to know where the courthouse is or how to get to Chinatown, but they don’t need to know where every single school is in the neighborhood.”

The city will install four different types of “wayfinding” maps to direct pedestrians to nearby landmarks and subways.

ly children. The kiosk is planned for what now is a staging area for the Chambers Street reconstruction project.

But once it is installed, Friends of Bogardus Garden President Victoria Weil told the Trib, she will work with the DOT to “find ways of making [the plaza] as safe as possible for pedestrians.” One idea, she said, was to rearrange the planters into a kind of obstacle course, forcing cyclists to slow down or dismount.

With safety in mind, a station originally planned for Vesey Street near the National September 11 Memorial Preview Site will be going to Barclay Street near Church. And Friends of City Hall NYC DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION

Park convinced the city to move a station slated for the east side of the park to a parking lane on Spruce Street.

Any bike racks that are displaced by bike share stations will be moved to nearby locations, Levinsky assured the committee. A bike rack next to Battery Park City’s Gateway Plaza is being moved to inside the apartment complex.

Levinsky said the bike program is mostly intended for commuters, rather than for cyclists looking for a long, fun ride.

“We don’t want you to take it to the greenway and ride it for two hours,” she said, “because that will end up costing you a good deal of money.”

(The $95 annual bike share membership includes a 45-minute borrowing period, after which riders pay incremental fees.)

Battery Park City resident Tammy Meltzer complained that the number of bikes in her neighborhood “seems disproportionately high for a small area.”

But committee co-chair Jeff Galloway, who lives in Gateway Plaza, disagreed.

“I think the more, the merrier,” he said. “I hope we have no further delays so I can pay my 95 bucks and start using it!”

The DOT will be surveying Downtown residents and business owners this month to get more feedback on station locations.

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Tax Plan for River Park Draws Critics

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At forum, Downtown residents denounce a tax to help maintain Hudson River Park

BY CARL GLASSMAN Proponents of a plan to help maintain financially strapped Hudson River Park with an added property tax got an earful last month from Tribeca residents who would see their tax bills rise.

Two dozen residents attended an informational meeting at the Downtown Community Center, sponsored by Friends of Hudson River Park. Many of them came to complain, saying the tax is unfair.

Called the Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) and modeled after the city’s business improvement districts, the Friends proposal calls for assessing residential and commercial property owners within a few blocks of the five-mile-long park.

(The assessment would be based on the square footage of their space; commercial owners would annually pay 15 cents per square foot, and residential owners, 7.5 cents.)

The Hudson River Park Trust and its fundraising arm, Friends of Hudson River Park, paint a dire picture of the

park’s future if the additional revenue is not raised. Rent from commercial tenants can’t keep pace with the expense of maintaining the park, they say. While city, state and federal funds paid to build the park, the Trust must find other sources of income to operate it. Through the NID, the Friends group is hoping to generate $10 million annually, 60 percent of which would go toward the $16 million needed for the park. Most of the remaining 40 percent would fund safer West Street crossings, beautification of the medians and the enhancement of nearby public spaces.

“We’re at a crossroads,” the Trust’s executive vice president, Noreen Doyle, told the gathering. “From the first day we were able to take care of ourselves. But this year and last year we have found ourselves in a deficit position.”

The road to approval of the NID is a long one. It requires multiple public hearings before community boards, the Department of City Planning, the Planning Commission and, finally, the City Council, which has the ultimate say.

The plan has been in the works for years, and its sponsors say that over the past three years they have consulted with a broad range of co-op and condo boards, individuals and groups.

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aware of the NID until recently.

“It feels like a steamroller effect,” said Lynn Ellsworth, a co-op owner at 165 Duane Street who started an online petition against the NID. Some complained that the lines drawn for the district seemed arbitrary.

“Why aren’t the boundaries further?” asked Sonia Stock,of 16 Hudson St. “If you’re going to tax us, why not tax other people who enjoy the park?”

“We were trying to do something that was in the closest proximity to the park, which benefits some more than others,” replied A. J. Pietrantone, executive director of Friends of Hudson River Park.

“That’s not true,” Stock shot back.

“You walk out in the park and there are people from the East Side, West Side, uptown. Everybody benefits from the park.”

Proponents cite a Regional Plan Association study showing that the value of property gets a boost from its proximity to the park. But critics are unconvinced by the argument.

“When the real estate gains value, we pay more property tax,” said Jacques Capsouto, president of the co-op that houses his Capsouto Frères restaurant at Washington and Watts and an owner of the building across the street where he lives. “The city gains. We don’t gain any-

thing. You should get [funding] from the city.”

“The state and city give us money for building the park,” Doyle responded.

“And that is why there is a park today.”

Pam Frederick, a Hudson River Park Trust director and president of the Friends of Washington Market Park, said other parks in the neighborhood—Duane Park and Bogardus Triangle, for example—are well maintained because they don’t rely on funding from the city, but from residents who live nearby.

(Washington Market Park is funded differently but also not by taxpayer dollars.)

“Battery Park City Parks is the gold standard. They look like that because every resident in Battery Park City pays 400 bucks per year,” Frederick said.

“No city park can keep up with that standard,” she added. “But that’s what we’re looking to achieve.”

The proposed district includes many different neighborhoods and three community boards between Chambers Street and 59th Street. Pietrantone said that the tenor of each forum around the district has been different. But in an interview he noted that others were more “balanced” and participants came more with questions than opinions.

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Face Lift

The bunker-like base of 1 World Trade Center is getting a shine.

Each day, more shimmering glass covers are hoisted and fastened onto the building’s 186-foot-high podium. More than 2,000 of these frosted “green” panels, each with two sheets of glass, will make up the exterior of the tower’s base once it’s finished by early next year.

The European-made glass, each piece measuring 13 feet 4 inches by two feet, has a special coating that absorbs sunlight while trapping minimal amounts of heat.

Once the installation is complete, the glass will form a shiny skin around the protective concrete walls of the base.

In 2011, designers rejected an origi-

Workers have been hoisting and installing glass panels onto the base of 1 World Trade Center. First the panel is lifted by crane, and one worker is carried up to help attach it from the outside. Others work on the installation from inside the building.

nal plan to use a prismatic glass, deemed too costly, impractical and brittle.

“This [glass] has much more highend lighting behind it, it’s much more efficient from an energy point of view, and it also has a third dimension to it,” said Steven Plate, the Port Authority’s director of World Trade Center Construction.

The glass panels, arranged at various angles, will be illuminated with energyefficient lighting that, Plate said, will “make the building sparkle.”

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American Wine Tasting

There were 440 American wine producers in 1970. Today, there are 7,000.

Jancis Robinson, co-author of “American Wine,” will talk about the nationwide “wine revolution” at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., followed by a wine-tasting reception. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 20, at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25 and are available at 92ytribeca.org.

Knickerbocker at Pace

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra returns this month with its fifth season opening concert. Pianist Harumi Hanafusa plays composer Gary Fagin’s Suite from Kurt Weill’s “Mahagonny” and Akira Nishimura’s soulful “A Shaman.” Hanafusa will also perform Ravel’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in G. The concert is Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St. Tickets: $35 at schimmel.pace.edu.

Aging and Stress

Seniors and their families can learn how to combat age-related depression and stress from Serge Mosovich, a psychiatry professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The free lecture, “Staying Sane in the City That Never Sleeps,” is Wednesday, March 27, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Hallmark, 455 North End Ave. There will be complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.

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Tribeca Trust Event

The Tribeca Trust is holding a “meet and greet” cocktail party for local residents and business owners on Tuesday, March 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. at RH Gallery, 137 Duane St. RSVP to Jalashgar@tribecatrust.org. The Tribeca Trust is a newly formed advocacy group with a mission to mobilize residents to preserve the neighborhood’s historic character.

Are Arts Humanizing?

Has technology robbed us of the art of developing meaningful relationships through conversation? Are we becoming less civil? With arts programs being cut from schools, how do we cultivate empathy? “How Do the Arts Humanize Culture?,” a free panel discussion on Monday, March 4, 7 p.m., at Nyack College Manhattan, 361 Broadway, will pose these and other questions. Speakers include: Peter Filichia, a theater critic and author; Larisa Gelman, director of educational outreach 92nd Street Y; and Dana Talley, music professor at Nyack and former tenor for the Metropolitan Opera.

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Church Street School

The annual fundraiser for Church Street School for Music and Art takes place Tuesday, March 5, 7 to 10:30 p.m., at Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Desbrosses St. There will be a silent auction, including a Van Cleef & Arpels factory tour in Paris, New York Mets box seats and a spring rental of an 18th-century farmhouse in Chatham, NY. Entertainment includes musical performances and dancing, with dinner provided by Kurt Gutenbrunner of Blaue Gans. Tickets, which start at $200, can be purchased at churchstreetschool.org.

A Poetic Feast

Poets House is hosting a celebratory evening of poetry, wine and food in the company of U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and other writers. The fundraiser, which will conclude with a dinner at the North End Grill, is Monday, March 18, at 6 p.m. at Poets House, 10 River Terrace. Poets Daniel Halpern, Sharon Olds and Charles Simic will be in attendance. Tickets are $750 each. Call Krista Manrique at 212-431-7920, ext.

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Vivid depictions of Iraqi life following the American invasion—and the grim plight of Iraqi journalists and widows—are captured in a series of documentaries, animations and shorts presented by the Festival of Iraqi Culture this month. The films will be shown at Alwan for the Arts Theater, 16 Beaver St., on Thursday, March 21 starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $10; $5 students and seniors. Go to alwanforthearts.org.

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Principal Has Plan to Ease Crowding

BY CARL GLASSMAN

The principal of P.S./I.S. 276 presented a proposal last month for tackling the growing classroom shortage at her school.

Terri Ruyter told a meeting of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force that she reluctantly favors freeing up two classrooms by ending pre-kindergarten at her school, at least until the 2017–2018 school year.

For the coming year only, she said, she would keep one of those rooms for pre-kindergarten “to provide a cushion for some families.”

“I feel like I’m throwing pre-K out and I don’t mean to do that,” Ruyter said.

“I think pre-K is a really important thing.

Our pre-K is fabulous.”

To help make up for the loss, two half-day pre-K sections, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, will be offered at the Peck Slip School, which opened this year in Tweed Courthouse.

“It can only be a one-year thing because of our space considerations,” Peck Slip principal Maggie Siena said. “But if we’re able to do something for a year, that’s great.”

Ruyter unsuccessfully fought the city Department of Education the last two years over its demands to put five kindergarten classes in her school, which is intended to have three. Now, she said, she would be willing to accept four kindergarten classes. That would mean collapsing those four classes into three

“huge” first grades the following year, she said, “but I don’t know that I really have a choice.”

Ruyter’s proposal also includes limiting enrollment in the middle school’s sixth grade next year to two rather than its current three sections.

As of Feb. 27 the parents of 134 inzone students had filled out pre-enrollment kindergarten forms, with a final total of 154 children projected to enroll for kindergarten, according to Erica Weldon, the school’s parent coordinator.

By the end of February, the DOE had yet to decide how to handle the demand.

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plan for 276, weighing a number of different concerns and perspectives,” Drew Patterson, the DOE’s Director of Planning for South Manhattan, told the task force. “We haven’t completely arrived yet at a 100-percent solidified plan for 276, but I think we’re getting close and we’re working on it.”

Later this year, the city will come up with its next five-year plan for building schools. Whether Lower Manhattan gets another new school, as many Downtown school advocates have demanded, is yet to be seen.

“Going forward we’ll be getting our [demographic] projections,” said MichPHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Left: In signs of what’s to come, the strollers of siblings of current PS 276 students, at a recent school fair. Above: Principal Terri Ruyter offers her plan for the coming years.

ael Mirisola, of the city’s School Construction Authority. “We hope they match with your projections—possibly not, probably not—but we’ll sit down and figure out where we go from here.”

Eric Greenleaf, a task force member who has long been making his own projections on behalf of concerned parents, warned that at the rate that births Downtown have been increasing, by 2015— the year the Peck Slip School opens in its new building—there will be a shortage of 200 kindergarten seats.

“And the School Construction Authority,” he said, “tells us repeatedly we don’t need any more schools.”

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A man snatched a woman’s gold purse from the back of her chair in Panini & Co. Breads. Inside the purse was approximately $440 in cash, two credit cards and a debit card. The woman, 42, was visiting from the United Kingdom.

59 MAIDEN Feb. 16, 2:28 p.m.

A 25-year-old woman’s MacBook laptop was stolen from the food court in Zeytuna Market when the woman left the computer unattended as she walked away to answer a phone call. The laptop is valued at $1,300.

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A woman’s iPhone, valued at $450, was lifted from her pocket when she was exiting the A train at Fulton Street. The woman used a ‘Find My iPhone’ app, which tracked the phone to 66 Rivington St. on the Lower East Side, but no suspects were identified.

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A verbal argument escalated into a physical fight between two men on the A train, one of them, age 41, the other, 30 and accompanied by a 7-year-old child. The older man pulled out a box-cutter and cut the younger man’s head and jacket.

129 FULTON Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m.

A 27-year-old man attempted to steal approximately $115 in items from CVS. He was arrested.

397 GREENWICH Feb. 21, 12 p.m.

A thief swiped a man’s bicycle, valued at $1,280, and the accompanying lock.

386 CANAL Feb. 22, 9:30 p.m.

A 29-year-old man’s Apple computer was lifted from Roll & Go Pizza.

123 WEST BROADWAY Feb. 23, 5:25 p.m.

Two women shoplifted approximately $1,500 worth of clothing from A Uno Tribeca.

The women stole a $940 Rosaline dress, a $225 Porto Maud dress and a $195 Sympli dress.

129 FULTON Feb. 24, 1 p.m.

A security guard noticed a 52-year-old man attempting to steal a can of Chef Boyardee and a $15 pair of sunglasses from CVS. He was arrested.

100 JOHN Feb. 24, 3 p.m.

A woman discovered a man leaving her apartment when she returned home. When she questioned what he was doing, the man claimed to be “with a leasing company” and then escaped down the stairwell. No property was reported missing from the apartment.

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Bob George among the shelves of records he has collected over nearly 30 years.

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BY APRIL KORAL ob George, who reigns over one of the world’s largest libraries of popular recorded music, is quick to note that he is not a collector. Collectors drink too much, he observes. They spend too much money on their collections. They are obsessed.

Then how to explain all the recordings—more than two million—crammed into row after row of floor-toceiling shelves that fill the offices of ARC (The Archive of Contemporary Music) at 54 White Street? From 12,000 blues recordings to every Beatles and Beach Boys record to thousands of punk bands and New Wave artists to singers whose careers can be summed up in a single LP? “I just take care of them,” George, 63, says, laughing.

“I am like the Buddha. I must not want anything, because if you want something, then you’ll do anything to get it.”

Luckily, a lot of records come to him, maybe because tossing vinyl records just doesn’t feel right.

ARC, which George started in 1985 with friend and library science graduate David Wheeler, got its first major collection in 1986 from a Boston collector, whose house George says, had been condemned from the weight of 100,000 discs. It took a summer for George and volunteers to pack the records and drive them to New York.

Then came his second break.

“One of the computer people in Boston read about what we were doing and asked me to lunch. He had never met us before, and he wrote us a check for $50,000.”

The archive has grown exponentially since then, thanks to hundreds more donations of record collections, large and small. “Jellybean [Benitez], one of the first three

producers of Madonna records, just emptied out his basement and gave us 6,000 records, mostly Latin music.”

Serious collectors, he says, “are willing to entrust us with their whole life’s work and what they love the most.”

To name a few: early blues devotee Keith Richards donated his 12,000 blues recordings; “Fiddler on the Roof” composer Jerry Bock gave his collection of 9,000 Broadway and original cast albums; and former Def Jam executive Bill Adler donated 1,000 Christmas LPs and CDs. This year the ARC received 27,000 LPs from the Voice of America but, for now, George says, it can’t afford the shipping cost from Washington to New York.

At least once a week a vinyl buff notices ARC’s storefront with its display of faded album covers and wanders inside. Last month, George gave one of them a tour of the place. The visitor, a vinyl collector himself, peered down the aisles of shelves. “Holy shit,” he kept saying. “This is like falling into a gold mine. This is overwhelming.”

Overwhelming, but with little monetary value. “This collection is great because it has so many things,” George says, “not because it has some valuable things.” Just the kind of collection that would appeal to a devout anticapitalist like Bob George.

“I am against engaging in commerce of any sort. We don’t try to market anything. We don’t put ads on our website. We don’t have a cafe. We don’t sell tote bags.”

He paused. “A gift shop would probably make it easier to survive.”

The Archives survives with the help of two founda-

tions, its board of directors and its landlord, the building’s co-op.

“We pay one-third of the market rate,’ George says.

“They’re incredibly generous.”

Even so, it’s a struggle. He says the archives have lost many donors in the last few years, mostly people who used to give $50 to $100.

“It’s hard to get enough money to pay the rent every month.”

On his weekend hunts for music—usually at local flea markets and yard sales—George rarely spends more than 25 or 50 cents. His limit is $2.50. (Exception: a rack of Michael Jackson air fresheners that cost him $20.)

George displays the air fresheners and many other favorites in his doorless office that overlooks an airshaft.

He points to a wall display. “This is my favorite new section—ridiculous religious records.” On another wall are autographed covers. He is proudest of the Rolling Stones’ first U.S. album (1964), signed by all the band.

From a pile on the floor George picks up a record called “Carnival on the Rhine.” “We just got these from Fred Schneider [the B-52s’ lead singer]. Fred’s are fabu-

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lous! He finds the worst junk ever made, but they have great covers!”

A few years ago, George decided to give direction to his acquiring.

“I wanted to keep it more interesting for me.

ARC opened at 54 White Street in 1996.

Otherwise I’m just a two-bit bureaucrat running an organization.” His idea was to organize a worldwide week of activities around one country’s music, with concerts, radio shows, lectures and performances. The music weeks have also brought records into the archives.

Last year was the Brazil project, and ARC received donations of 20,000 recordings. This year is the Indian project. In the fall, George went to India to deliver a paper at a conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, to meet other collectors and go on his own personal quests.

One trek took him down the back roads of Delhi in search of a rumored record shop that had a Beatles 78 of “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” After much wandering, George navigated down a seemingly endless alley with old car engines piled on either side. At the end was the elusive record store.

“It was the holy grail kind of search,” George recalls.

“It was such an anomaly, making a 78 of a 45 song from 1963. They did it because so many people had wind-up phonographs in India.” But it was not to be his. At $1,000, the record was beyond his budget.

George came to New York City to study art at the Whitney Museum, which then had an outpost on Reade Street. Afterward, he did a stint as an art teacher, but soon segued into music.

In 1981, he produced Laurie Anderson’s first single, “O Superman,” and went on to host a BBC radio show, spinning American rock and pop and experimental music.

He published a discographical reference on punk and New Wave music. He was soon inundated with records of musicians who wanted to be in the next volume.

By the time he moved to Tribeca, in the early ’80s, George had acquired 47,000 records, the beginnings of ARC’s collection.

George has long stopped collecting records for himself, though his he has remained true to vinyl.

“I am not an audiophile,” he says, “but if you’re listening to a recording that was made on analogue, and you listen to a digital version, there is no comparison. A Motown record sounds terrible on a CD. But on vinyl it sounds great, 70 years later.”

For Bob George’s all-time favorite (and very eclectic) vinyl albums, go to tribecatrib.com.

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3/5 BATTERY PARK CITY 5 PM Location: Battery Park City Library, 175 North End Ave. 1) Department of Transportation Wayfinding Content Workshop (before 6 pm meeting).

2) Route 9A Update: Tom Mellett, Construction Manager, Lisa Weiss, Landscape Architect, Julie Nadel, Community Liaison, Route 9A project.

3) West Thames Street Bridge Update.

4) Traffic light study and traffic calming measures. Update.

5) Brookfield Properties. Update (tentative). â&#x20AC;˘ North Cove Yacht Harbor, application for a seasonal liquor license.

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1) Department of Transportation Wayfinding Content Workshop (before 6 pm meeting).

2) Plaque for Fallen Firefighters.

3) Update on Broadway 1000 Steps by Mary Miss.

4) Presentation about proposed plan for London Calling film shoot at 20 Exchange Pl.

by Jason Farrar, Location Manager.

5) Water Street streetscape improvements.

Presentations by DOT Pedestrian Project Group and DOT Urban Design and Art Unit.

6) South Prow, 10 South St. (Governors Island), application for wine and beer license for Little Evaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Resolution.

7) 111 John St., application for wine and beer license for Mooncake Foods. Resolution.

8) 32 Old Slip, application for catering facility liquor license for Convene at 32 Old Slip.

Resolution.

9) 53 Park Place, application for restaurant wine and beer license for Amish Market.

Resolution.

The following notices have been received: â&#x20AC;˘ The Bosque Area, Carousel and Fountain Kiosks, Battery Park, application for a restaurant wine and beer license for The Cleaver Company. â&#x20AC;˘ 22 Maiden Lane, application for wine and beer license for Sushi Ă la Kawa. â&#x20AC;˘ 75 Nassau Street, application for renewal of wine and beer license for The Diner.

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1) Governors Island Special Purpose Zoning District. Resolution.

2) Water Street temporary programming for POPS Text Amendment. Resolution.

4) Hurricane Sandy: Initial Lessons for New Buildings, Presentation of NYC Department of City Planning Report by Diana Switaj.

5) Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency. Report.

3/12 YOUTH & EDUCATION 6 PM 2013 Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten numbers within the CB1 area. Update.

3/13 TRIBECA 5 PM 1) Department of Transportation Wayfinding Content Workshop.

2) Fresh Direct, Mark Lefcozich, Director.

3) Public Art for Tribeca Park, Department of Parks. Resolution.

4) Washington Market Park equipment request

by Pam Frederick. Report.

5) Bogardus Plaza capital improvement project. Update by Victoria Weil, President, Friends of Bogardus Garden.

6) 65 West Broadway, application for an alteration of a liquor license for Saleya. Resolution.

7) 363-367 Greenwich, application for a liquor license for American Cut. Resolution. â&#x20AC;˘ Application for liquor licenses for 228 West Broadway (Bubble Lounge) 2 Desbrosses St., (Apogee Events), 17 Murray St., (Dark Horse) and 113 Reade St., (113 Reade Street).

3/14 LANDMARKS 6 PM 1) 502 Canal St., application for facade reconstruction. Resolution.

2) 25 Broadway. Application for signage.

Resolution.

3/19 SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER 5 PM 1) Department of Transportation Wayfinding Content Workshop.

2) Update by Durst Properties (tentative).

3) Update by Howard Hughes Corp. (tentative).

4)Save Our Seaport Coalition mission statement. Resolution.

5) Spirit Raise project. Report.

6) Chabad of Wall Street (Mardi Gras Festival Productions, promoter) street activity permit application for Fulton Street bet. Water and Gold. Friday, May 10, 10 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 pm. Report.

7) 139 Duane Street, application for a renewal of a sidewalk cafe license for Blaue Gans.

Resolution.

8) Application for alterations in liquor licenses for 42 Peck Slip (Paris CafĂŠ), 230 Canal St., (name TBD) and 22 Fulton St. (Pizza and Pasta Delight). Resolutions.

3/20 EXECUTIVE 6 PM 1) Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Update â&#x20AC;&#x201C; David Emil, president.

3/21 QUALITY OF LIFE 6 PM 1) Annual update by WTC Health Registry.

2) Updates by CB1 Senior Programs: â&#x20AC;˘ Southbridge Adult and Senior Citizens Center.

Joseph Morrone, president. â&#x20AC;˘ Battery Park City Seniors. Ruth Ohman. â&#x20AC;˘ Independent Plaza North Senior Center.

Nicole Brown, director (invited).

3/28 CB #1 MONTHLY MEETING 6 PM Location: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., 10th Fl.

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BMCC’s women basketballers grab CUNY’s citywide title, the Lady Panthers’ first in 10 years

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t’s going to be a historic event, to say the least,” Coach Veronica Sherman said the day before her Borough of Manhattan Community College Panthers faced the Hostos Caimans on Feb. 22 at BMCC. “Historic” in Sherman’s eyes, because the two women’s teams had last met in the finals for CUNY’s community college championship in 2004, with the title going to Hostos.

In fact, BMCC’s women hadn’t held the trophy since 2003, when Sherman herself was on the team.

So the Panthers’ 57-53 victory over Hostos was all the sweeter—and tougher—following a final, riveting push by their opponents. With less than a minute to go, this was anybody’s game.

“Hostos put up a really, really good fight,” Sherman said after the game. “I was scared toward the end.”

The Panthers appeared to have little to fear with a 33-15 lead going into the second half—eight of those Panther points scored consecutively by Gabrielle Alleyene in less than two minutes.

(Alleyene went on for a 16-point total and Player of the Game title.)

Five minutes into the second period Hostos had shaved the lead, 35-24, and kept on coming. With 55 seconds to go, they trailed by a point, 53-52. But the remaining seconds belonged to the Panthers after Emani Odom sank two free throws.

“Everybody came together here,” said Sherman, who will be losing five graduating players after this season.

“We’re a family.”

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Above: The BMCC Panthers celebrate their 57-53 victory over the Hostos Caimans, BMCC’s first championship since 2003. Below, from left: The Panthers’ Gabrielle Alleyene, named Player of the Game with 16 points, outjumps Kristina Shcherban; Ashley Coffee drives down court, shadowed by Hostos guard Justina Davis; in the last minutes of the game, with Hostos quickly gaining on her Panthers, Coach Veronica Sherman tries to rally the Panthers to break their opponent’s momentum. Hostos had a 23-3 drive in the second half.

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When Kids Enter an Alien School Culture

Imagine spending days in a room full of people speaking a language you don’t understand. Or staring at an assignment with words you cannot decipher. Or inching along a lunch counter with foods you’ve never seen before.

(Where else in the world do they eat fried mozzarella sticks!)

It sounds tough, but this is the experience of a growing number of students in our local CONNIE schools. Their SCHRAFT families— from Japan, China, Brazil, Israel and other countries—choose to live Downtown because we’re near the Financial District; others SCHOOL work at the TALK UN, teach at universities, or work in film, technology or journalism.

What happens to the kids who are thrown into a melee of children talking about American video games and TV shows, playing games of tag with complicated rules, moving swiftly from math to reading to science class and recess? How do they manage?

Astonishingly well. In just weeks, they begin to learn English, make

friends, figure out how to play Foursquare, and follow classroom routines.

The fifth graders go off on three-day trips in the fall, and, with the help of the English Language Learner teacher, are speaking up clearly in class.

This is not to say it is easy. Parents report that the children are exhausted at the end of the school day, and I’m sure there are tearful moments. This band of English Language Learners is learning resiliency along with American culture.

But last spring a group of Japanese families came to me with a concern.

They were worried that with the grow-

families. Japanese children, they had also heard, felt isolated at school and spent most of their time with other Japanese students, and that mothers often struggled alone with school-related issues.

I told the families that we had experienced nothing like this at PS 89. When we can, we pair a newly arrived student with another child who speaks the same language, who functions as both a buddy and an interpreter. We also introduce new families to others with their language, to provide support.

But this was also of concern to the

What happens to students from abroad who are thrown into a melee of children talking about American video games and TV shows? ing number of families from Japan and elsewhere, there might be resentment from local families. One parent wondered if students from overseas should have to pay tuition.

I assured her that we welcomed international families and the diversity they add to our community, and that public school is free for all children. I thought this would calm their worries, but they had more on their minds.

They heard that in Scarsdale there had been tension between the large Japanese population and local American

parents, who worried that their children wouldn’t learn English and integrate into the community if they spent the day with another ELL student. A parent whose child had been at the school for a couple of years felt it was an imposition on his child to have to interpret for a non-English-speaker.

In recent years we have received requests from international families that their children be placed in class with children of the same culture, and about an equal number have requested the opposite. I was beginning to understand

this conundrum.

The outcome of that meeting with the Japanese families was the creation of an International Families group. We meet every other month to socialize and hear from school staff about various topics requested by the parents, such as how the ELL teacher works with students at school; how parents can help their children at home; what the math program is all about.

I eventually googled “Scarsdale” and “Japanese” and found an article from 1991 called “The Japanning of Scarsdale.” The article discussed the tensions between the cultures that the parents had described to me; I could see why they were alarmed. Problems ranged from mean ethnic graffiti in the bathrooms to parents being rebuffed and ignored by neighbors. Subsequent posts, though, showed that since the article was published, the community has gone to great lengths to alleviate the friction.

At the end of our last meeting, I asked the families what else they wanted to learn in preparation for future meetings. One father from Israel came up to me afterward and said, “I’d like to understand the Super Bowl.” I laughed and told him we could arrange that.

I didn’t tell him that March Madness lies ahead.

Connie Schraft is the PS 89 parent coordinator. For questions and comments, write to connie@tribecatrib.com.

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Fri, 3/22, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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g Art: Make a Mess! An art class for toddlers and young children that mixes creativity with playtime. Kids learn about textures, colors and shapes through hands-on activities and art projects. Ages 12—18 months: Mondays— Wednesdays, 11:15 am; Thursdays, 1:30 pm; Fridays 2 pm. Ages 2—4 years: Mondays— Wednesdays, 10:15 am & 1:30 pm; Thursdays, 2:30 pm; Fridays, 3 pm. $10.

Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St., manhattanyouth.org.

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harlotte’s Place hosts a screening of “Wall-E,” the computer-animated film about a robot (Wall-E) who is designed to clean up an Earth wrecked by humans’ garbage. After falling in love with another robot, the two travel into space, and happily change the future of robot and mankind. Friday, March 15, at 6 p.m. Pizza will be served at this free event. Charlotte’s Place, sponsored by Trinity Church, is at 109 Greenwich St. For information go to trinitywallstreet.org.

g St. Patrick’s Day: Greening the City How to make cities “greener” through the creation of model green buildings. Ages 7–14. Reservations required. Sat, 3/16, 10:30 am. $5.

Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

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g Animation Celebration: Looking North Seven short animated children’s films about the everyday life, art and folktales of indigenous populations from Canada’s Arctic and Subarctic regions, including one film based on the Inuit tale about how ravens became black.

Daily to Sun, 3/17, 10:30, 11:45 am, 1 & 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

Laura Doherty Acoustic rock and folk-pop tunes for the whole family. Doherty explores the adventures of big-city life through a child’s eyes. Sun, 3/17, 11 am. $15; free under 2.

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Storytime Interactive stories, participatory songs, finger-puppet plays and more for young children with caregivers. Ages 0–18 months: Mondays, 9:30 am & Tuesdays 11:30 am.

Ages 18–36 months: Wednesdays, 10:30 am.

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Sun, 3/24, 11 am. $15; free under 2.

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Winter EcoCruise Kids Ages 3 to 12 can board the Water Taxi and sail around the New York Harbor looking for harbor seals off the rocky shores of Governors, Hoffman and Swinburne islands. A guide also talks about the seabirds that winter there, including ducks, geese, loons

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Passover with ShirLaLa The singer and her band kick off the Passover season with an interactive musical journey from Egypt to the Land of Milk and Honey. Kids also make related holiday crafts. Ages 3–10. Sun, 3/17, 2 pm. $10; $7 children 10 and under. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Yoga Night Kids with their caregivers learn about yoga, do stretches and breathing to

g Imagination Islands Mythical beasts, magical forests, lost treasure and more can be found at this island-making workshop in which children create maps and poetic descriptions of distant, unexplored and imagined islands. $5; free under 4. Sat, 3/9, 11 am. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name? A storyteller recounts tales about springtime from Native American cultures. Kids then use sun stamps to design and create a spring tote bag.

Sat, 3/9, 1 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green,nmai.si.edu.

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Mario the Magician Everyone can participate in this show. Mario uses special handmade props and tricks he made himself to get kids—and adults—to laugh, learn and think creatively. Sun, 3/10, 2:30 pm. $20; $10 kids. Space on White, 81 White St., mariothemagician.com.

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Jeffrey Brooks In his book “Black School, White School: Racism and Educational (Mis)Leadership,” Brooks, a professor of education, discusses what he says is institutional racism embedded in the American public education system, and his belief that administrators reproduce race and class inequality in the institution that is supposed to create equal opportunity. Tue, 3/5, 6:30 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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Michele Krauss “Through Windows” is an exhibition of oil and sand paintings of views through windows seemingly suspended in space and time.

To Sat, 3/16. Tue–Sat, 11:30 am–6 pm and by appointment.

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absence and is greeted by his family, who have high hopes for a post-Saddam future. The film is preceded by five documentary shorts about contemporary life in Iraq. Thu, 3/21, 6:30 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors.

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Meriç Algün Ringborg In collaboration with the Center for Fiction in New York, Ringborg’s project presents hundreds of books that have never been borrowed from the Center’s library. The exhibit examines what subjects have “currency” or desirability, and brings attention to overlooked topics that may have relevance in the future. To Sat, 3/23. Tue– Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.

Jeffrey Frank Author disyears documenting deserts from the air in 27 countries. His dramatic cusses his new book, “Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange photos are on display at the World Financial Center Winter Garden until Political Marriage,” about the nearly 20-year political and priFriday, March 15. The gallery is open daily from 8 am to 8 pm. More information vate relationship between is at worldfinancialcenter.com. g Marina Adams “Coming Thru Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon that endured Strange” is a collection of despite hurtful slights, tense recent paintings exploring the g Ruma Chopra The historian and author of g Mutiny on the Bounty The 1935 film that misunderstandings and distance in age and boundaries, or lack thereof, between color and “Unnatural Rebellion” will discuss her book won Best Picture in the Academy Awards temperament. Thu, 3/7, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & lines, and canvas and its surroundings. To Sun, about the thousands of British-American mainrecounts the true story of the HMS Bounty, Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

3/24. Mon–Thu, 11 am–6 pm; Fri–Sat, 9 am–2 land colonists who rejected the war for which left England in 1787 on a voyage to Tahiti pm and by appointment. Hionas Gallery, 89 American independence. Shunning rebel viounder the command of the tyrannical Captain g Literary Salon New York City-based parFranklin St., hionasgallery.com. lence as unnecessary and unlawful, they Bligh. When officers challenged Bligh’s cruelty, ents/writers read excerpts from their recent emphasized their blood, kinship, language and they joined the crew to mutiny and cast Bligh g Inside Order A group show of works by publications of poetry and prose, including religious ties with Britain. Despite their loyalty, in adrift. Tue, 3/12, 6 pm. $8. South Street Austin Ratner (“In the Land of the Living”), L. Elizabeth Atterbury, Graham Collins, Joe Fyfe, the end they were still marginalized when the Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org.

Annette Binder (“Nephilim”) and David EbenEthan Greenbaum and Marina Pinsky. The British instituted martial law in New York.

Thu, bach (“Into the Wilderness”). Tue, 3/12, 7 pm. pieces together explore the visual representag The Longest Journey: The Last Days of the 3/21, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, Free. Pen Parentis, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org. tion of “building” through various media, images Jews of Rhodes This documentary examines the 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. and practices, and a metaphor for developing ancient Jewish community of Rhodes, whose g Alexander Garvin Architect and urban planabstract languages. To Sat, 3/30. Tue–Sat, 11 g Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar Editors 1,800 members were first stripped of their civil ner talks about Paris, Chicago, New York and am–6 pm, and by appointment. Kansas Gallery, discuss their volume “We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics rights under the Italian racial laws in 1938, Philadelphia in his book “The Planning Game: 59 Franklin St., kansasgallery.com. and Politics in a Time of War,” about the everythen sent by the Nazis to die at Auschwitz in Lessons from Great Cities,” emphasizing public day lives of Iraqis who must cope in an environ1944. Director Ruggero Gabbai will take quesg Papo Colo “Assorted Times in Singular investment in parks, infrastructure, streets, ment fraught with political conflict and tension. tions after the screening. Wed, 3/13, 7 pm. squares and public buildings as the key to a Spaces” explores the composition of poetry as Wed, 3/27, 7 pm. $5. Alwan for the Arts, 16 $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish city’s successful future. Reservations required. visual imagination through drawings, collages Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.

Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Tue, 3/19, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, and poems created by the artist since 1976. To 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

Mon, 4/1. Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower, g Mermaids Cher and Winona Ryder star in 108 Leonard St., 13th fl., artonair.org. the 1990 film about an eccentric mother and g Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick The g Cirque Ziva Cirque performance featuring her teenage daughter, whose idea of rebellion is g Tara Fracaiossi “Archive Index,” an ongoing poet and a German scholar share their new the Golden Dragon acrobats, the premier converting to Catholicism. As she struggles to translation of the penultimate book by the exisproject since 1998, is composed of thousands Chinese acrobatic touring company. The dancers find out what God has in store for her, she tential German poet Ernst Meister, called “In of digital photos documenting Fracalossi’s daily seemingly defy gravity in pieces that meld tradibegins to understand the root of her mother’s Time’s Rift.” Meister’s body of work is simultanelife and surroundings. She takes the images out tional with contemporary elements. Sat, 3/2, 3 flamboyance. Thu, 3/14, 7:30 pm. $12. ously emotional and strange. Having fallen of their original context to create new juxtaposi& 7:30 pm. $20–$50. Schimmel Center for the 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. silent after World War II, he returned to poetry in tions and relationships. To Sat, 4/13. Masters & Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu/schimmel. his final years, earning the Buchner Prize. Tue, Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com. g Music Is the Message Four short films, 3/19, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets three directed by Native Americans, look at peog Toothpaste & Coffee House: Change and House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. ple in Native communities who have been sucg Renata Adler, Film Critic and Novelist: A Continuity A history of the poetry publisher cessful in the music industry in such genres as g Lisa Bier Author of “Fighting the Current: The Coffee House, from letterpress editions and offCelebration Five culture writers discuss the hip-hop, traditional indigenous and even Elvis Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870– set printing to newer technologies. The exhibit— work of the former New York Times film critic, impersonation. Daily starting Mon, 3/18, 1 & 3 1926” talks about the groundbreaking efforts including broadsides, chapbooks and important New Yorker staff writer and novelist Renata pm, plus 5 pm on Thursdays. Free. National made by early female swimmers. New York has first editions—provides a capsule view of this Adler, and the influence she had on film critiMuseum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling played a central role in the sport, as the state’s independent press (and its precursor Toothcism with her sharp and pithy observations. Her Green, nmai.si.edu.

Women’s Swim Association contributed greatly paste Press) known for editorial excellence and favorite film, “L’enfance Nue,” from 1968, about to the national swim team’s sweeping victory in elegant design. To Tue, 6/4. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 an abandoned 10-year-old boy who is passed g Life After the Fall The documentary follows the 1920s Olympics. Thu, 3/21, 6:30 pm. $12. pm; Sat 11 am–6 pm. Poets House, 10 River from guardian to guardian, will be screened. the lives of director Kasim Abid’s family memSouth Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., Terrace, poetshouse.org.

Thu, 3/7, 7 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson bers in Iraq following the American invasion. southstreetseaport.org.

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Tunnel Rock and Sequoia National Park Slide show by landscape photographer Ruth Formanek of the natural rock formation in California. Tue, 3/19, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. West Wing rooms 2 & 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com.

Robert Holmgren The photographer uses a toy camera to create in-camera multiple exposures. The results, blackand-white images that are a blend of chance and choice, are often surprising.

Wed, 3/6–Sat, 3/30. Opening reception: Tue, 3/5, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Photographs of the war by Russian documentary photographers Evgenii Khaldei, Georgii Zelma and Dmitrii Beltermants.

To Sun, 4/17. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm.

Sun–Tue, Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience In 1818, the Duc de Richelieu called Barings Bank the sixth great European power, after England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia. Barings was one of the few significant investment banks of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it remained a leader until its downfall in 1995. This exhibit explores five of the firm’s US investments, good and bad. To Sat, 4/27. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture Exhibition on Native Americans who have had successful careers in popular music. To Sun, 8/11. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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Street Shots/NYC Recent images by 125 photographers, both professionals and amateurs, who have captured life as it unfolds in New York City’s public places, from streets and subways to parks and beaches. Ongoing. $10; free under 9.

Daily 10 am–6 pm. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org.

The Woolworth Building @ 100 A centennial celebration of the “Cathedral of Commerce,” a Gothic tower built by the five-and-ten-cent store entrepreneur Frank Woolworth and architect Cass Gilbert. At 792 feet, the building was a marvel of early 20th-century technology and architecture.

The exhibit examines the building’s design and historical and contemporary significance and iconography in the city’s skyline. To Sun, 7/14. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Wed—Sun, 12—6 pm. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

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Tanya Tagaq Inuit performer refashions traditional throat singing into a contemporary sound, and sings an original composition to accompany Roberty Flaherty’s 1922 silent movie “Nanook of the North.” The film, progressive for its time, looked at the everyday lives of the Inuit people, once thought of as remote and foreign. Sun, 3/3, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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The Limits of the Planet: A Debate Leading scientific figures and scholars debate whether the best path to sustainability is through stressing limits or innovation, and explore the ways human activities have pushed Earth’s resources and ecosystems to their breaking point.

Thu, 3/21, 6:30 pm. $20; $10 students.

New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St. 40th Fl., nyas.org.

Tribeca Chamber Players Works by Beethoven, including string quartets Opus 95 in F minor (Mar. 4) and Opus 127 in E flat major (Mar. 18).

Mon, 3/4 & 3/18, 9 pm. Free. Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St., manhattanyouth.org. g Shanghai Restoration Project A blend of Chinese culture, hip-hop and electronic music with visuals creates a multimedia performance inspired by 1930s Shanghai jazz bands.

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The Knickerbocker Orchestra featuring Harumi Hanafusa Acclaimed Japanese pianist Hanafusa joins Lower Manhattan’s orchestra to perform Ravel’s jazz-influenced piano concerto in G and the American premiere performance of Akira Nishimura’s “A Shaman.” Also on the program is music by Bartok and Kurt Weill’s “Aufsteug und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.” Fri, 3/8, 7:30 pm. $35. Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu/schimmel.

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Ghetto Tango Music and songs created in the underground cabarets of Jewish ghettos in Nazioccupied Europe. These Yiddish tunes are rooted in the popular music of the time, including Jewish folk music, American ragtime and Argentine tango. Sun, 3/10, 2:30 pm. $20; $10 students.

Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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MOCAMIX: Crossing Frets for Tapping Pipa player Min Xiao-Fen, komungoist Jin Hi Kim and Afro-Cuban dancer Max Pollack. Musicians improvise and meld their styles to create a combination of contemporary and traditional Chinese, Korean and Caribbean music, dance and song.

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Spottiswoode & His Enemies Singer and songwriter Jonathan Spottiswoode leads the eclectic New York-based rock band. The original tunes are inflected with folk, jazz and gospel elements. Fri, 3/22, 8 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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Koren Ensemble and Food Will Win the War Koren Ensemble performs their 50-minute piece “Hi-Five,” an intricate jazz pop work, and Food Will Win the War plays moody and melodic orchestral chamber pop. Fri, 3/22, 9 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

TALKS Italian Art: From the Pantheon to St. Peter’s Janetta Rebold Benton, a Pace Professor and a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss the art of Italy from antiquity to the baroque period (March 6: the Middle Ages; March 13: the Renaissance era; and March 20: Mannerism and the Baroque. The lectures will take place twice each day, with a Q&A luncheon following the matinee talk. Wed, 3/6, 3/13 & 3/20, 11 am & 7:30 pm. $25; $45 for lecture and Q&A luncheon. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu/schimmel. g

Sloth: Is Your City Making You Fat? Myriad factors account for Americans’ expanding waistlines, but is our environment as much to blame as nutrition and genetics? A panel of scientists and fitness and urban planning experts discuss how to design cities that keep us physically active. Wed, 3/13, 7 pm. $25; $20 students.

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Hamlet Shakespeare’s classic drama, in which Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle for murdering his father, marrying his mother and succeeding to the throne, is performed by only four actors. To Sun, 4/7. Mondays & Wednesdays–Saturdays, 8 pm. $30.

Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, theatrebedlam.org.

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The History of Ha! Comedian David Misch presents a no-holds-barred survey of what is being billed as “absolutely everything funny that has ever happened—in 45 minutes.” From ancient tricksters to “Modern Family,” he shares where the funny comes from and where it will ultimately end (hint: Philadelphia). Fri, 3/22, 12 pm. $21. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Lower Manhattan Learn about the city’s history through a tour that includes Federal Hall, Battery Park, St. Paul’s Chapel, the Woolworth Building, Fraunces Tavern and more. Meet at the Charging Bull, near 26 Broadway. Mondays & Fridays, 10 am; Saturdays, 2 pm. Free. Free Tours

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Historic Lower Manhattan This tour covers 400 years of Lower Manhattan’s history, starting with its beginnings as a Dutch fort and trading post. Stops include Trinity Church, Federal Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, sites associated with the 18th-century slave uprisings and more.

Meet at the U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green.

Thu, 3/7 & Mon, 3/25, 1 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com.

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by Jamie Stern DAVID: 1924 How she met him, she never said.

Why she liked him, if she liked him.

From Bialystok, he blistered everything he touched.

Esther was eighteen.

She must not have been looking.

Maybe the meanness came later.

Maybe it was too familiar to pass up.

Maybe she never saw him eat.

Meat. Biting into the bone.

Ripping it. Bloody. Nearly raw.

Animal to animal.

She could not have been looking.

She was eighteen.

She was reading Longfellow.

A Lawyer Finds Her Poetic Voice

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Above: One of the notebooks Jamie Stern used to write “Chasing Steam,” her newly published collection of poems about her grandmother. Inset: Esther, the author’s grandmother.

Memories of a grandmother come to life in Jamie Stern’s newly published volume Jamie Stern, 62, a litigation lawyer and 30-year Tribeca resident, is the author of “Chasing Steam.” The newly published collection of poetry was inspired by her grandmother’s life and relationships within the family. Stern discussed her writing with April Koral. poetry teacher of mine, Marie Ponsot, would say, “A pencil and piece of paper can save your life.”

I wrote poems from childhood through college, but after I went to law school and had kids, I stopped writing.

Having children was this miraculously wonderful thing for me. But when the kids grew up, what could I do that would make me feel that good? One of the things that filled out my life was poetry.

About eight years ago, when my oldest son was in high school, I started taking poetry workshops.

The first class I took was like going home. Suddenly I had this whole way of expressing myself that was not legal writing—a different way of using language and of thinking about whatever I saw or felt. For me it was a way of recovering something that I loved when I was young and that I had let go.

It never occurred to me that I would do anything other than take some classes.

When I was in college, I didn’t think I was good enough. I wasn’t Auden. I wasn’t Faulkner. But I didn’t have those kind of expectations now—so it was just a delight.

Putting words on a piece of white paper is a hard thing to do, especially if the initial words aren’t very good. I write

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on scrap paper, in notebooks, or scribble and asking, “Why are they crying?” on the back of discarded paper. What I My grandmother compensated for a put down initially rarely ends up in the terrible marriage by playing bridge, finished product. There may be a one going to Manhattan once a week, and line, a verse. I’ve worked on some of my reading and reciting poetry. She was depoems for years. I’ve spent days working termined to enjoy life. That didn’t mean on just one word. going to Paris. It meant being great at Most poets revise and revise, and so bridge! I think I wanted to try to undermuch of the pleasure of writing for me is stand my grandmother, and also learn in the revision. Very often, I can only see what I want to say after I have written it—my first thought is not always the real thought.

For some reason, three or four years ago I started to think about my grandmother Esther, who died in 1993. I’m not exactly sure why.

My mother died before my grandmother. I suppose I Jamie Stern in her office at home. missed them all.

Esther escaped from Poland right from her indomitable spirit. after World War I. She always had a book Last year, I sent the Esther poems to by her bed called “101 Famous Poems” an old friend who is a poet. I asked her, and she knew them all by heart. We lived “Are these any good?” She told me to in a two-family house in Passaic and we send them to the Virtual Artists Colwould sit on the porch and recite lective [a small poetry press]. In the Longfellow. spring I got an email saying they wanted Although Esther was very brave, she to publish them. I couldn’t believe it. I never had the courage to leave my grand- had to read the email out loud. father Dave. He was so violent, so Suddenly, I no longer felt like a volatile. At his funeral I sat next to her. lawyer trying to write poetry. I had My mother cried and my uncle cried. I earned the right to call myself a poet. It remember looking at my grandmother was an extraordinary feeling.

GONE FISHING Did Dave hit them or did screaming do the trick.

Send Esther to some corner crying. Slicing pain across her side. Her son Billy wrapped around her waist.

Her daughter Florence shouting at a slamming door.

While Dave, still yelling, with a rod and leather bag, pounded down the stairs to start his car. A weekend on the lake without them.

Dave loved to fish.

Cold water seeming not to move.

A still boat.

The chance to slit some trout’s throat.

MARRIED Esther was small.

She made herself smaller.

When Dave was home, she hid behind pots, clothes hanging out of doors, children.

She laughed when he was working.

She smoked.

She found a piano they could have.

For nothing. Almost.

Lessons they could have.

For nothing. Almost.

When he was working, she read sonnets.

Dave was always working.

Lifting something heavy, pushing himself and the men on the floor, while his father read Hebrew, his brother became a doctor, his sisters married well.

The foreman his mother wanted Dave worked with his hands.

Fury was what he felt most.

There are no stories about Esther’s wedding.

Or her dress, if she had one.

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BY OLIVER E. ALLEN lthough New York City today is unquestionably the nation’s center for serious drama, it gave few signs at first of becoming so. For at least its first century its inhabitants cared more for drinking than for watching anything like a play.

But by the end of the 18th century New Yorkers seemed ready for something more ambitious, and the result was a playhouse that was at first called simply the New Theatre and then, because it faced the open area later named City Hall Park, the Park Theatre.

Designed by the French architect Marc Isambard Brunel, it was located at 21, 23 and 25 Park Row (then called Chatham Street) where J & R now stands, and cost a princely $130,000. The theater opened in 1798 and enjoyed a 50year run that put New York solidly on course toward its eventual theatrical leadership role.

While the building’s exterior was rather plain the interior, seating some 2,000, was handsomely appointed. The first tier level even had a saloon.

The Park was not the city’s first actual playhouse. That honor goes to the John Street Theatre, which opened in 1767 a few blocks to the south. Although President Washington is known to have attended a few performances there, its offerings were mainly lowbrow and it was poorly patronized. It quietly expired just as the Park was getting under way.

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At the site of today’s J&R, the city’s most illustrious theater of its day once stood COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

As it happened, the new house was well positioned to cater to the city’s upscale society who lived nearby.

Offering dramas from England, dance, operas and the occasional circus acts at reasonable rates (a dollar for box seats, 50 cents for the pit or orchestra and 25 cents for seats higher up), the theatre on a good night attracted a healthy sprinkling of classy New Yorkers.

Their like did not make up the whole house, however, for in the theatre’s upper

tinge of hateful tobacco, and heard, without ceasing, the spitting, which is of course its consequence.”

Management tried to minimize such behavior. It offered a $50 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of “certain ill-disposed persons [who] have made a practice of throwing at the performers in the Orchestra and on the Stage.”

It had no effect. The writer Washington Irving described how the “honest folks in the pit” milled about near the stage, noisily commenting on the play before them, while rowdy “gallery gods,” including platoons of prostitutes, added to the general din by “stamping, hissing, roaring, w h i s t l ing,” Interior of the old Park Theatre from an 1805 woodcut. “groaning in reaches and top balcony a totally differ- cadence,” and flinging “apples, nuts & ent crowd predominated—hoodlums, ginger-bread” at those below. uncouth youngsters and even prostitutes.

Edgar Allan Poe even found nonhuAs the visiting English writer man perpetrators. “The well-trained Frances Trollope noted after one other- company of rats at the Park Theatre wise splendid evening, “The piece was understand, it is said, their cue perfectextremely well got up, and on this occa- ly…By long training they know precisesion we saw the Park Theatre to advan- ly the time when the curtain rises, and the tage, for it was filled with well-dressed exact degree in which the audience is company; but still we saw many ‘yet spellbound by what is going on. At the unrazored lips’ polluted with the grim sound of the bell [signaling the start of

the show] they sally out; scouring the pit for chance peanuts and orange-peel….”

But the theatre thrived year after year, and its managers did what they could to discourage the competitors who arrived in increasing numbers.

In 1822 a West Indian entertainer named William Henry Brown rented rooms in a hotel next to the Park and began staging three performances a week, whereupon the Park’s manager hired ruffians who bought tickets to the show, cracked jokes loudly, threw crackers onto the stage and started a riot.

Thoroughly intimidated, Brown gave up.

As the years went on, however, the Park Theatre found its audience changing. The upper-class patrons were beginning to move uptown, and so the managers offered fewer serious plays.

In December 1848 the theatre burned to the ground. By happenstance the controlling owner of the property was the family of John Jacob Astor, who had died the previous March. Noting that the wellto-do customers were now gone, the family opted not to rebuild the playhouse, erecting stores in its stead.

Uptown, playhouses of every sort were opening and the theatre district kept moving until it finally ended up near Times Square, where it remains today.

But downtown the Park Theatre is not totally forgotten. In back of its former site runs a narrow lane called Theater Alley, a reminder of the days when this storied playhouse was one of the toasts of New York.

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‘This is a plan would put the park on solid footing.’

Residential contributions would be based on square footage; a 1,000square-foot apartment would contribute $75 a year. The fund would then be used for Hudson River Park maintenance as well as other neighborhood uses, such as maintaining the median in the highway, ensuring safe crossings to the park, and enhancing neighborhood streets.

If approved, the Hudson River Park would be one more beneficiary in a trend of neighborhood support now well established in New York City.

Central Park has been run by a nonprofit since 1998; the Madison Square Park Conservancy has run parts of the park’s maintenance operations since 2001; Bryant Park has been managed privately since 1988. Closer to home, Battery Park City was built in 1980 with an agreement that fees collected from each residential and commercial unit maintain its 36 acres of public park land. Our own Duane Park—the second

oldest park in all of New York City—is entirely supported by the Friends group that resurrected it in 1995.

In all these cases, neighbors have agreed to support their public open spaces with private dollars, knowing how valuable they are both to their lifestyle and their property value.

Hudson River Park has drastically changed how Westsiders use the waterfront. It was only 15 years ago (the park was created by a state act in 1998) that there was no bike path, no promenade, no Pier 25 and no Pier 40—in short, no access to the river at all.

The direct support of neighborhood residents along the park in the form of the Hudson River Park NID can provide badly needed maintenance funds for the park we love.

A Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District has the potential to put the park on solid footing, and allow it to thrive for years to come.

Pam Frederick

‘The NID is reasonable, it is prudent and it is necessary.

Government has done its part.’

To the Editor: I am a residential property owner within the boundaries of the proposed Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District and fully support the plan.

Hudson River Park and other waterfront parks that have been developed over the past few years have brought us back to our harbor roots, improved our quality of life and vastly upgraded nearby neighborhoods and their property values. I have had the good fortune to be involved in many of these efforts.

The lessons from this experience are clear. First, the value of these parks to neighbors, users and the rest of the city is immense.

Second, since the new state park investments of the early 1970’s, all of the new waterfront parks came into being only as the result of a new model of public/private partnership. In this model, state and city government has come up with all or most of the capital funding and private revenue streams account for most or all of the operating funds. The parks would not have happened if government had to bear the ongoing maintenance costs.

Third, waterfront parks are uniquely

costly to maintain. The upkeep of bulkheads and piers built out into the water combined with exposure to waterfront weather which is growing ever more severe require ongoing costly capital maintenance to keep these investments from crumbling in their difficult environments. Looking to government to be responsible for this capital maintenance sentences these great new parks to a life of deterioration and decay.

The budget shortfalls facing Hudson River Park have been well documented and are alarming. Filling the gaps will require a variety of new revenue sources and probably state legislation to permit some of them. The proposed NID takes a proven tool that has served many commercial and residential areas extremely well and adapts it imaginatively to the needs of the park. It is a tool that other parks would be wise to investigate.

The NID proposal has been diligently researched and exhaustively vetted. It is reasonable, it is prudent and it is necessary. Government has done its part. It is now time for us—local residents and businesses—to do our part and support its creation.

H. Claude Shostal

REMEMBERING HAROLD REED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3)

enthusiastic cheerleader, a much-needed stylist and healer, a quirky favorite uncle, a holder of secrets, and a comrade in arms during the struggles of spiritual life.

He was a seeker and collector of bests—the best restaurants, the best therapists, the best theater, the best musicals, the best art exhibits, the best doctors, the best vacations, the best websites, the best experiences and

knowledge—that he so happily and generously and joyously shared with everyone.

You would be ceaselessly entertained and magnificently educated in Harold’s presence.

He was a true gentleman in the total sense of the word, a generous and sweet man with whom I had the blessing and good fortune to have shared a beautiful friendship.

‘This is a fatally flawed plan that is undemocratic.’

pays their share of the assessment on their building and together share a single vote, and the rental tenants pay their share of the assessment on their building but do not get a vote because the building’s vote belongs to their landlord.

In addition to being undemocratic, the NID assessment is unfair because it is a park user fee applied only to residents of the NID zone. One can easily imagine the shock, outrage and disgust that would have met a proposal to institute an admission or user fee to fund HRP. But that’s exactly what the NID assessment is, except instead of applying to all visitors, it only applies to the owners and residents of the NID zone.

In fact, the promotional materials distributed by the Friends of Hudson River Park to garner support from residents in the zone essentially say as much: “Without your support, the Park you use as your gym, playground, concert venue and haven to escape could disappear.”

The proposition that the Park has raised property values may be true for river or park view properties, but is less likely in the eastern half of the NID zone. For example, it is much more likely that the West Broadway and Hudson Street corridors from Chambers Street to Duane Street increased in value due to the renovation of Duane Park, the greening of Bogardus Triangle, the creation of Bogardus Plaza and the transition of the Cosmopolitan Hotel from an SRO to a tourist hotel.

Further, using prior increases in property value to argue that property owners have a duty to “give back” a portion of their gains in the form of the NID assessment sounds great, but is really fairly unsupportable. The most obvious counter-example is owners who have recently moved into the zone and thus paid the increased price for their home. They have no gains to “give back” but will still be charged the assessment. In addition, increases in property values are also already partially given back by owners via increases in their New York City property taxes and at the time of sale to both New York City and State via the Real Property Transfer Tax, the Real Estate Transfer Tax and “Mansion” Tax, and income taxes levied on capital gains.

How can it be fair to add an additional charge to nearby property owners to support a park used by tens of thousands of other New Yorkers and visitors each year?

Lastly, the deceptively cozy name.

How can a neighborhood span parts of three Community Boards, three City Council districts, two State Senate districts and three State Assembly districts and still be considered a neighborhood?

How can an undemocratically elected executive board fairly balance the needs and priorities of both residents and commercial property owners over such a large area? It can’t, and shouldn’t. Another, more fair method of funding HRP’s operating costs must be devised.

Nicole Vianna

‘The NID tax could jeopardize the very organizations the community has voluntarily supported.’

To the Editor: I very much believe in voluntary neighborhood support for parks and other amenities and that is precisely why I am opposed to the Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District.

As I understand the situation, there would be nothing voluntary about paying an NID assessment. It would be required by law and as such would amount to an additional tax on Tribeca residents. Given the relentless upsurge of New York City real estate taxes in this neighborhood the last thing we need is another tax.

More importantly, the NID tax could jeopardize the very organizations the community has voluntarily supported.

I’m sure I’m not alone in having a limited budget to fund my contributions to the Bogardus Garden, Duane Park, the Church Street School for Music and Art, and the ACE neighborhood cleanup program.

If the NID starts taxing me it threatens my ability to continue to contribute to organizations I have supported for many years, and thus threatens those organizations themselves.

Harry Johnston

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Village PERFECTION ON JANE ST West Village. 5-story Greek Revival, 22.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; TH w/patio & roof terr. Elegant master retreat. 4 fps. Turn-key lux greets the discerning buyer on EVERY mR - 7%"Â?

Anne Collins 212-906-0510 Douglas Bellitto 212-906-0542 HUGE E 7TH STREET HOUSE Downtown. 25x98 lot, unique 3 fam built 25x44 + extension for sale w/FAR avail.

1840s house delivered vacant. Amazing 5000+SF. $3.595M. WEB# 1751592.

Mary A. Vetri 212-906-0575

NEW YORK CITY

Erin Boisson Aries

Union Square

Financial District

PREWAR LOFT CONDO West Chelsea. 3,600+SF and potential for 3BR w/expansive living area. NEW expos, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, CAC, exposed brick, oversized wndws, PT DM bldg. $5.9M. WEB# 3669357.

Dominic R. Paolillo 212-906-9307 Nancy Candib 212-906-9302 LONDON TERRACE 5 ROOM Chelsea. 2-3BR. All new, mint, chic.

2 baths, open chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, LR and FDR, corner MBR, huge 2nd BR, beamed ceils, exposed steel doors and radiators, WICs, FS Co-op, pool, gym. $2.349M. WEB# 3716572.

Lisa Lippman 212-588-5606 Scott Moore 212-588-5608

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Joan Goldberg

Lara Leonard

Leslie Mintzer

Patricia Panella

Sophie Ravet

Candace Roncone

Miriam Sirota

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