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SIGNS OF CHANGE

Can neighborhood-friendly stores survive in Tribeca?

CARL GLASSMAN

The popular deli New Fancy Foods said goodbye to Tribeca last year after its building at 351 Broadway was purchased by a developer and slated for demolition.

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Worries grow over soaring rents and loss of neighborhood fabric

BY CARL GLASSMAN For years, warm weather has meant a few tables and some street life outside Ivy’s Bistro on the corner of North Moore and Greenwich streets. But this spring the sidewalk is empty and the restaurant dark and vacant, just as it is across the street at Tribeca Pizzeria, where the last slice was sold on April 26.

And whether it’s the fried eggs and sausages that no longer sizzle on the Imperial Coffee House grill on Church Street or the children who soon will miss the giant mermaid statues on the loading dock of Urban Archeology, on Franklin, many Tribeca residents complain that neighborhood-friendly stores seem to be vanishing before their eyes.

“People come in and say, ‘I’m glad you’re still here because we’re losing a lot of our neighborhood businesses,’” said Yvonne Fox, owner of Dudley’s Paw, a small pet supply shop at 327 Greenwich St. “They are outraged, and worried they will only have banks and nail salons and corporate stores in the neighborhood.”

“They feel like, what can we do?” she added. “We can’t march in the streets.”

That sense of helplessness, mixed with sadness and anger over what appears to be an accelerating loss of small retail businesses in Tribeca, is a pervasive feeling among local residents these days. The ghostly strip of shuttered shops in Independence Plaza on Greenwich Street, where only a Duane Reade and Food Emporium survive, is the most vivid reminder of the change.

But whether it is Zoie’s Cafe on Beach Street or the Bubble Lounge on North Moore (both closed) or Basics Plus hardware on Church (going out), no part of the neighborhood seems untouched by the loss.

For those who remember Tribeca 15 or more years ago, when dozens more storefronts stood empty, today’s commerce could, by comparison, be seen as humming. And there are those who believe retail life is still healthy in the neighborhood.

“I see a lot of activity going on and I think that the perception that there are a lot of vacancies is just that, a false perception,” said Max Talpalar, director of Sinvin Realty, a firm that represents the West Broadway space vacated this year

by Maslow 6 Wine Store.

But the seeming spate of recent business exits has many residents fearing for the future.

Reasons for the closings, experts say, are varied and complex.

Buildings that are sold and slated for demolition or residential conversion provide no options for longtime store owners who find themselves victims of the neighborhood’s success at attracting

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Top: Storefronts of vacated businesses in Independence Plaza.

Above: Simeon Lagodich and Tracy Gill in the antique frame store that they have to close on Reade Street after 19 years.

Left: The shuttered Imperial Coffee House on Church Street.

“People are outraged and worried that they will only have banks and nail salons and corporate stores in the neighborhood.” wealthy apartment buyers. New Fancy Foods, a popular deli at 351 Broadway, near Leonard Street, had catered to residents and city workers in eastern Tribeca for 20 years. It was one of the stores in a three-building deal that will lead to the tearing down of those buildings, to be replaced by a 19-story residential tower.

“Thank you for last 20 yr lovely TriBeCa,“ says a sign on the deli’s door.

“It’s not my choice,” said Urban Archeology owner Gil Shapiro, whose 20 years at 143 Franklin St., where he occupied all six floors of the building for manufacturing and display, ends in

August. “I can stay. I just have to buy the building.”

“He’ll probably get 150 million,” Shapiro said of his landlord. “I don’t know what he’s going to do. I mean, God bless him.”

Big rent increases, of course, are often cited as the culprit when a local business has to go. Indeed, rents have soared citywide over the past 15 years.

But for a neighborhood with sparse foot traffic compared to nearby commercial districts such as Soho and Greenwich Village, the rent expectations of landlords seem to many to be out of sync with local reality. Some spaces remain empty for months and even years.

By the summer, Tracy Gill and Simeon Lagodich will have to vacate their Reade Street antique frame business, Gill & Lagodich Fine Period Frame Gallery, where the rent, they said, is being tripled, from $12,000 a month to $36,000.

“I walk a fine line between thinking, ‘Oh, poor me,’ and why shouldn’t my landlord make money if we’re were pay-

ing below market,” Gill said. “But we were never offered anything reasonable.

He didn’t say, ‘You’re going from $12,000 to $16,000.’”

“It’s bonkers,” said Lagodich. “A broker told me that spaces like the ones across the street are 25 [thousand dollars a month] now. “Meanwhile, there are like 10 places for rent a block from here and more places are going out.”

One day before he would shutter his Tribeca Pizzeria, Steve (he did not want his last name in print) was seated in the store’s dining area, his mind, he said, filled with the tasks that lay ahead: collecting on overdue accounts, returning a rented ice maker, getting ready for the auction of the store’s contents. His was the last of the six Vornado Realty Trustowned storefronts in Independence Plaza to close and he had long since come to terms, he said, with the store’s fate. Vornado’s purchase of the properties two years ago had sealed it.

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Cops say they have narrowed search for driver who fled scene

BY CARL GLASSMAN Police say they are cracking down on law-breaking drivers near the Spruce Street School following a hit-and-run accident last month on Beekman Street, outside the school, that injured a woman and left parents increasingly nervous about safety in the area.

The unidentified pedestrian, who suffered a fractured leg and a cut on her head, was struck April 13 during the school’s morning drop-off time. Witnesses said the woman at the wheel drove her white sports car onto the sidewalk and stepped on the gas to get ahead of a line of cars stopped on Beekman Street. The street has been narrowed due to construction of a Pace University dormitory across the street from the school.

Three years ago, a United Parcel Service worker was killed a half-block away when a woman lost control of her car and drove onto the sidewalk.

While those two accidents have heightened fears, the street has long been the source of complaints about drivers violating traffic and parking rules, and construction of the 34-story building is compounding problems. An increase in the number of children walking to school unaccompanied by adults—the school will have its first sixth grade students next year—is adding to parents’ worries.

“Next year it’s going to be more and more children using those streets alone and we need to figure out something before one of these kids gets killed or hurt,” said Sarah Elbatanouny, a Spruce Street School parent.

Late last month, Nancy Harris, the school’s principal, called parents to a safety meeting attended by three officers from the First Precinct.

Jason Poirier of the Highway Safety Division said that, since the accident, police have been posted on Beekman Street between Broadway and William for at least two hours a day. So far, he said, they have written 40 summonses for failing to yield to pedestrians, running stop signs and other offenses.

As for the driver who hit the woman,

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Top: Outside the Spruce Street School, on Beekman Street near William, where problems with traffic have been compounded by construction across the street.

Above: Spruce Street School Principal Nancy Harris, right, addresses a parents’ meeting on school safety attended by Det. Tommy Moran, left, and Highway Safety officers Brienne Warren and Jason Poirier.

Poirier said detectives “are not 100 percent on [identifying] the car. They’ve narrowed it down and they think they know.”

(This account contradicts a statement

by First Precinct Community Affairs Officer Gene Schatz to Community Board 1’s Quality of Life Committee last month, reported in an online version of this story. In that meeting, Schatz had said that the car and its owner had been identified but no arrest had been made.)

The same car that hit the woman, the officers said, is believed to have later been involved in a accident in a parking

lot in Brooklyn and had left the scene.

There were no injuries in that incident.

At the CB1 committee meeting last month, a Department of Transportation official said his agency has beefed up its enforcement at the construction site that has taken over a lane of the street.

“If there are serious violations we have suspended their permits and stopped their operations until they have revised their work plans,” said Luis Sanchez, the DOT's borough commissioner for Lower Manhattan.

Sanchez said he expects construction to be off the streets “in a few months.”

“Once construction is eliminated,” he said, “we hope things will get back to some sort of normal condition.”

In the meantime, Sanchez said, a light is being installed at the corner of Beekman and Nassau streets, the closest intersection west of the school. The light, he said, is meant to slow drivers who otherwise would speed up to make the green light at Park Row. But after the light is installed and the construction goes away, a confluence of other traffic issues will remain, said Nancy Harris, the Spruce Street School principal. Among them is a hospital garage slated to be built on part of the plaza shared by the school and with an entrance on Beekman. Vehicles exiting a loading dock at 8 Spruce Street, the building above the school, are a danger as well, she said.

“People are really concerned and we want to advocate for a crossing guard,” she added.

But low pay and difficult hours means that demands for the guards outstrips supply, Poirier told the parents.

“We get very limited applicants and there definitely isn’t enough to go around,” he noted. “If we got two school crossing guards tomorrow, there’s already spots for them that aren’t filled.”

The terrifying incident that sparked this attention took place as children were coming to school on their first day back from spring vacation. Stacy Cohen was on Beekman Street with her 7-year-old son, pushing her 6-month-old in a stroller, when she saw a car coming toward her on the sidewalk, at first slowly making its way between the school building and a car parked half on the street and half on the sidewalk.

“All of a sudden the car accelerated, maybe 20 feet in front of us. I walked backwards, trying to hold onto to the stroller while getting my son out of the way and he ran into the gutter on the street,” Cohen recalled. “The lady who got hit had just walked past us. We saw her literally fly in the air and hit the pavement.”

The car reportedly continued barreling up the sidewalk until it reached the light.

“My 7-year-old was in shock,” Cohen said. “Just stone-faced.”

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BY AMANDA WOODS AND CARL GLASSMAN

The planned West Thames Street pedestrian bridge, in an off-again, onagain state of bureaucratic limbo for years, is inching ever closer to reality.

The project last month got the goahead from the Battery Park City Authority for a final payment— $750,000—toward a detailed design phase that will allow contractors to bid on the bridge, now budgeted at $27.5 million. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) is funneling $20 million of federal money into the project; the authority has agreed to pick up $7.5 million in construction costs.

Over the years, plans for the bridge have been mired in jurisdictional and funding disputes between the city, state and the Battery Park City Authority, as well as slowed by a host of other delays.

“It’s an unbelievably complex group of governmental interests that have to come together to make this work,” LMDC President David Emil said in a phone interview. Aside from disagreements over who would pay for what, he said, “It is a city project that is landing in Battery Park City. It goes over a state highway that is going to be built by the city of New York using federal funds.”

“I wish it could’ve been faster and it should’ve been faster,” he added, “but it’s very complicated.”

Emil’s involvement with the bridge stretches back to the late 1980s when, as then-president of the Battery Park City Authority, he envisioned the structure as a connection between the yet-undeveloped southern end of Battery Park City and the Rector Street subway station.

The idea resurfaced as a replacement for the “temporary” Rector Street bridge that had been hurriedly built to replace the Liberty Street bridge, which was heavily damaged on 9/11. But real planning did not start until 2009, with the anticipated opening of P.S./I.S. 276 on Battery Place. The school opened in 2010, the year the bridge was first expected to be ready.

SHoP Architects drew up a preliminary bridge design in 2009. Four years later, a “final” design by the firm WXY

was revealed, only to further be refined following a lengthy public review.

“When are they actually going to get started on it?” BPCA board member Martha Gallo, a Battery Park City resident, said before the board’s vote last month authorizing the $750,000.

“I’m coming up on my third anniversary [with the authority] and Mike Bloomberg thought he was going to cut a ribbon at the beginning of construction.

And we’re still talking,” replied the board’s chairman, Dennis Mehiel.

“When is the last time that we saw the design?” Mehiel asked a few

moments later.

“Not since I’ve been here,” replied Gwen Dawson, senior vice president for asset management.

According to Emil, construction is expected to begin in the fall. Despite the long string of delays, he said the project’s completion, which he expects to take two years, will be a victory for many.

“More than any other of these public projects, this is an everyone-in-the-community project,” Emil said. “So it would be very wrong for me to feel anything other than happiness that we all managed to pull it together.”

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BY AMANDA WOODS AND CARL GLASSMAN

When people think of ways to help the struggling South Street Seaport Museum, gazpacho, watermelon and beer are hardly what come to mind. But well-known chef and Seaport resident Henry Meer, who has reigned over the kitchen of his City Hall Restaurant in Tribeca for 17 years, has just such ideas. “I have this vision of having these New York City pushcart hotdog stands and serving a kosher hot dog with pushcart onions and sauerkraut,� Meer told a Community Board 1 meeting last month.

He was there to seek approval to serve beer and wine until midnight, seven days a week, for what he calls an “urban pier garden� on Pier 16.

Meer will lease the space from the South Street Seaport Museum, which docks two of its historical vessels at the pier.

Although Meer said he is looking forward to pursuing this very different culinary venture—conceding that the pushcart idea is “the romance in me talking�—he noted that he has the museum’s fortunes in mind as well. “I walk my dog down on the pier and see that it’s in need of sustenance, life and food,� said Meer, who lives nearby on Fulton Street. “And in talking [with Seaport Museum officials], we figured it was such a great opportunity to support

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sunrise educational tour� and “a sunset tour with maybe wine and some food.�) “I’d like to see us as being protectors of Pier 16,� Meer said.

The restaurateur is planning to install a 2,500-square-foot establishment, with 30 tables, 110 seats and a bar, and a menu that includes grilled corn on the cob, watermelon, lemonade, cucumber salads and, of course, hamburgers.

An enthusiast for bringing oysters back to New York Harbor, where they once thrived, Meer already imagines modifying a shipping container to use as an oyster shed.

Asked in a telephone interview whether he would be doing some of the cooking, he said, “I flip burgers on Duane Street,� referring to his high-end restaurant. “Hopefully, I can still flip burgers on the pier.� “We’re forced to serve an $18 burger on Duane Street but the pier is a different kind of animal,� he noted. “We’re hoping for much more traffic. The density of people at the pier will only grow as the seaport grows.�

Meer said he is still in the process of figuring it all out, from utility hookups to programming to the amount of business he can anticipate from his new enterprise. “It is for-profit,� he said. “That’s something that’s important to say because we need to be able to pay our team and our rent and have some shekels at the end of the day.� “The first summer,� he added, “will be very educational for us.�

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The Trib garnered six awards in the New York State Press Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Better Newspaper Contest, announced recently at the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual convention. The honors include two first places, for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photographic Excellenceâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Use of Photos.â&#x20AC;? Tribeca Trib Online took second place for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Websiteâ&#x20AC;? and third place for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Home Page.â&#x20AC;? Thea Glassman and Carl Glassman won second place for their video about the Clocktower at 346 Broadway and Carl Glassman received third place for his photo essay about local residents who helped a neighborhood garage attendant who had become homeless.

Beach Volleyball for Kids

Sign-up begins this month for beach volleyball games for kids in grades 6 through 12. The games take place Fridays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m., on Pier 25 at the end of North Moore Street. The league runs from May 15 to July 17. The signup fee is $25 and is free for Downtown Community Center members. Write Marshal Coleman, mc@marshalcoleman.com.

Art Classes in BPC

Free art classes taught by professional artists begin this month in Battery Park City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawing in the Parkâ&#x20AC;? is on Saturdays, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. at South Cove, overlooking the Hudson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elements of Nature Drawingâ&#x20AC;? is on Wednesdays, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. in Wagner Park. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Figure Al Frescoâ&#x20AC;? also takes place on Wednesdays, 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30 p.m. at South Cove. Each week, a model will strike both short and long poses. All materials are provided. Registration is not necessary. For details, go to bpcparks.org.

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by Craig Lucas, Will Eno and Lynn Nottage to be performed this month Downtown will take place in a mobile 4by-8-foot theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just large enough for one actor and one audience member.

Free performances of Theater for Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Not the Stranger You Think I Amâ&#x20AC;? can be seen Downtown at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St., May 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m., and at Zuccotti Park, Broadway and Liberty, May 27â&#x20AC;&#x201C;31, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. More information is at ArtsBrookfield.com/T4.

Trinity Asks for Input

The public is again invited to give their ideas on what they would like to see in a new parish building and community center to be built at 68-74 Trinity Place.

This third in a series of gatherings or â&#x20AC;&#x153;charettesâ&#x20AC;? will be led by Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rector, the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, and the staff of Pelli Clarke Pelli, the firm designing the building. The charette takes place Saturday, May 2, starting at 10 a.m. in St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapel, 209 Broadway. The final two gatherings will be on June 6 and July 11. Reserve by calling 212-602-0736. trinitywallstreet. org/about/conversation/rsvp.

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Silver Gets Warm Welcome by School Advocates 11

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Assemblyman Sheldon Silver was met with applause last month as he entered a conference room filled with the familiar Downtown faces of his School Overcrowding Task Force.

It was the former Assembly speaker’s first meeting with the group since his arrest in January on federal corruption charges.

“It’s certainly a pleasure to have you back here today,” said Silver, looking relaxed and smiling as he sat down at the head of a conference table in offices far more modest than the sprawling suite he had long occupied. “First, let me assure you that I hope to continue to lead this School Overcrowding Task Force and to continue the work that we have done until now and I look forward to being more productive going forward.”

At the group’s last meeting, in December, Department of Education officials had announced no progress in its search for a site for a new 456-seat Downtown elementary school that the city funded nearly a year and a half ago.

At this gathering, Ben Goodman, a DOE official, said that the search for a site continued, to which Silver tried to sound more upbeat.

“Let me say it this way,” he told the group. “There are rumors that the search has been narrowed and there are discussions.”

The urgency was brought into sharp relief by two principals who announced kindergarten wait lists at their Downtown schools for the coming year.

Nancy Harris, principal of the Spruce Street School, said she has 20 zoned children on a wait list, a first for her school.

And at P.S. 276 in Battery Park City, Principal Terri Ruyter said 41 children are waiting to get into the school’s kindergarten. An additional 15 children are waiting for seats for the first grade and 14 for the second grade. The waitlisted kindergartners were assigned seats at either P.S. 234 in Tribeca or the Peck

Slip School.

“We were able to keep everyone in the Downtown schools who is zoned here,” said Gentian Falstrom, the DOE’s senior director of admissions for kindergarten.

Asked at the end of the meeting how it felt to be so warmly welcomed by his longtime task force, Silver told the Trib, “I think most of the people recognize that I’ll be vindicated on this matter and I intend to continue representing them the best way I know how on the important issues Downtown, and we’re going to keep moving along.”

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Assemblyman Sheldon Silver listens to a discussion at the first meeting of his School Overcrowding Task Force since his arrest.

“Listen,” he added, “these are my friends. Everyone we’ve worked with for so many years.”

Catherine McVay Hughes, chair of Community Board 1, said there was “definitely” a lot of support in the room for the former speaker, whose power and influence have helped bring Downtown school crowding problems to the attention of education officials at the highest level.

“It’s wonderful to have someone who understands how the system works to convene all the key players in the room again,” she said.

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BY AMANDA WOODS The charm of sidewalk cafés in Tribeca is wearing thin on some members of Community Board 1.

Angered by the city’s recent approval of an enclosed sidewalk structure for a new bar-restaurant on Sixth Avenue, near White Street, the board has formed a task force to study outdoor café seating, with the hope of changing city rules that allow enclosed sidewalk cafes on all streets in Tribeca.

“These aren’t small, attractive umbrellas with the planters,” said Alice Blank, the CB1 member who is chairing the task force.

Blank said she opposes the structures on both aesthetic and practical grounds (they take up valuable sidewalk space, she says) and because they are unfair to other restaurateurs who don’t have the same privilege. “Why should a merchant be able to have a permanent structure on a public street?” she argued.

(The only permanent enclosed sidewalk café structure in Tribeca is attached to the now-shuttered Super Linda restaurant at Reade Street and West Broadway.)

The group also does not want openair sidewalk seating on “selected side streets” in Tribeca, which the community board has routinely opposed and the city has just as routinely approved.

Zoning regulations allow them in all of

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During warm weather, outdoor seats like these at Terra in Tribeca help draw customers to restaurants and are an important source of revenue.

Tribeca except Canal Street. According to a recent CB1 study, 37 of the 51 sidewalk cafes in the CB1 district are in Tribeca.

At a meeting of the task force last month, Richard Suarez, a planner at the Department of City Planning, offered the group a glimmer of hope.

The “easiest way” for the community board to have influence over sidewalk cafe regulations, he explained, is to propose changes within what the city has designated as the Tribeca Special Mixed

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Use District, a zoning classification that applies to most of the neighborhood. The group could suggest an amendment to the current zoning that would change the kinds of sidewalk cafes permitted in that area.

According to Suarez, the Department of City Planning “would look very closely” at the board’s recommendations. The final change would require the approval of the community board, Borough President and the City Council.

The issue was taken up again at the

Tribeca Committee, where Peter Braus, the chair, argued that there might be some streets where enclosed sidewalk cafes should be allowed.

“Church Street, generally speaking, from Chambers to Canal, is a very quiet, desolate street at night,” Braus noted. “In parts, there is virtually no street life, and I, as someone who lives right off Church Street, think it would benefit from having more activity in the evening.”

Another member, Adam Malitz, said he didn’t think the committee should oppose any sidewalk cafes in Tribeca.

“I think what we have right now is a solution in search of a problem,” Malitz said. “We never received complaints about sidewalk cafés versus noise or congestion at all.”

The City Council’s Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee (and later the entire Council) approved the Sixth Avenue enclosed structure. At that hearing, the restaurant’s owner, Gregory Nardello, testified that the seating area could be closed off with a roll-down gate if its permit were revoked.

In a resolution later passed by the full board, the group requested that the Department of City Planning, with feedback from CB1, revise the zoning regulations to disallow enclosed sidewalk cafés from “selected areas in the Tribeca district” and open-air cafés from “selected” side streets.

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The Taste of Tribeca will again take place on Duane Street between Greenwich and Hudson.

With the Taste of Tribeca turning 21 this month, it is only fitting that a new event for the day is a bar tour.

Five local craft beer and cider producers—KelSo, Catskill Brewery, Bronx Brewery, Gun Hill Brewing and Sovereign Cider—will donate their products. Reade Street Pub, The Hideaway, Warren 77, Church Publick and Woodrow’s will each feature one beer or cider. (There is no extra charge for the beer tastes. Each fully-used ticket will be redeemable for a four-ounce taste at one of these venues.)

The line-up of restaurants for this year’s Taste is as impressive as ever, with 70 of Tribeca’s chefs and restaurants offering up samples. Among them are

Tutto Il Giorno, Macao, Duane Park Patisserie, Edward’s and Thalassa.

Also new this year will be a Sports Zone run by Manhattan Youth that will join the popular Kids Zone.

Entertainers will include jazz banjoist and vocalist Cynthia Sayer, the students of Church Street School for Music and Art, and TriBattery Pops.

Taste of Tribeca is Saturday, May 16, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine, on Duane Street between Greenwich and Hudson streets. Tickets are at tasteoftribeca.org. General Tasting Cards are $50 for six tastes from any participating restaurants.

The event benefits arts and enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234.

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A man entered a southbound train at Chambers Street, ran a serrated knife across a woman’s forearm without cutting her and demanded her phone. When the woman tried to look up at the man, he pushed her and held her head down, saying, “Don’t scream and don’t look at me.” When the doors opened at Rector Street, the thief fled with the $250 purse, which contained a $600 iPad, a $300 iPhone, a $250 Samsung Core phone, and bank cards among other items. The woman also got off the train and called the police. Although police were able to recover the bag, the iPad and two phones were not found.

249 PEARL STREET April 22, 1 a.m.

Someone broke into a 1993 Ford van through the rear window and made off with garbage bags containing about 100 handbags valued at $2,500.

DUANE AND GREENWICH STREETS April 21, 11:30 a.m.-noon A photographer left her suitcase unattended during a photo shoot on the street.

When she returned about seven minutes later, the suitcase, which contained assorted cameras and lenses, a laptop and a hard drive, was gone. The total value of the items was estimated at $17,375.

55 CHURCH ST. April 18, 9 p.m.

A thief swiped a woman’s $6,000 Chanel purse that she had placed on the chair next to her at a bar in the Millenium Hilton Hotel. The bag contained an iPhone and credit cards. Using a tracking app, police were able to trace the phone to a shoe store at 626 Broadway, where they arrested the alleged thief and recovered the victim’s belongings.

Natasha Youk, 54, was charged with identity theft in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, according to the Manhattan DA’s office.

SIXTH AVENUE AND FRANKLIN STREET April 17, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.

A man parked his motorcycle, valued at $6,000. When he returned after 90 minutes, it was gone.

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WEST AND CHAMBERS STS. April 18, 9:25 p.m.

A man rented a Citi Bike at Barrow and Hudson streets and rode to West and Chambers streets where he left the bike in the rack without properly securing it.

When the man returned five minutes later, it was gone.

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A woman, accompanied by a man, entered Tribeca Issey Miyake, the designer clothing store, removed clothing items from the shelves and took them into the fitting room. About 20 minutes later, the woman reportedly walked out of the fitting room and left the store. A store employee later discovered that two tops totalling $1,250, a $1,080 skirt and a pair of $940 pants were gone.

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At a Planet Fitness gym, a woman placed her wallet on the floor while she exercised and forgot to retrieve it when she went back to the locker room. When she returned, it was gone. A cleaning worker later found the wallet, minus credit cards and $30. The thief, an unidentified male about 26 years old, was caught on surveillance video. About five hours after the first theft was discovered, a man returned to his locker to find the lock removed and his credit cards, cell phone, Long Island Railroad pass and other items missing.

250 BROADWAY April 12, 2:30 a.m.

A thief who appeared to be in his teens made off with 140 packs of Marlboro cigarettes, valued at $1,680, from the back of the register shelf at a 24-hour Duane Reade.

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55 BROAD ST. April 7, 1 p.m.

While eating at Hale & Hearty, a woman placed her pocketbook on the back of her chair. After she left, she discovered that $120 and a credit card were missing from her bag. An unauthorized charge of $2,406 was made on the card.

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BY APRIL KORAL

f money could really talk, what tales could be told by the 250 notes on display at the new exhibit, “America in Circulation: A History of US Currency” at the Museum of American Finance. From the first notes printed by the Continental Congress, which listed the colonies on its face and boldly proclaimed “We are one,” to the 1861 $10 notes produced by the Confederacy with an allegorical female figure representing hope, the images etched on these papers reveal much about our country.

The colony of Maryland took an initial small step toward monetary independence from Britain in 1767 by printing the first bill with the word “dollar.” The simply-designed $6 bill had the Maryland arms on one side and the words “Tis Death to Counterfeit” on the other. As war approached, it became urgent for the colonies to raise money. Even the smallest amounts were helpful. In 1776, The Continental Congress issued a million dollars worth of notes in denominations of less than one dollar. Buying these notes may have turned out to be more patriotic than the purchasers imagined. When redeemed in 1790, they were only worth a penny on the dollar, making a thirdof-a-dollar note issued in New York (printed by Samuel Loudon, who was also a publisher and bookseller at 5 Water St.) worth only onethird of a penny.

The glorious era of paper money began in the 1800s.

Any bank could ELSA RUIZ Visitors can see bills up-close via computer terminals that flash images on screens. issue a note, and so they did. By the 1830s, there were thousands of banks, many of them short-lived, that printed notes bearing intricate artwork that required skilled etchers to reproduce. The face of a $2 bill from Stonington Bank in Connecticut showed a dramatic scene: a whaling boat from which sailors were being tossed into the ocean by an angry whale. In 1826 the Hoboken Banking and Grazing Company issued a $1 note with a vignette of Benjamin Franklin at his desk, created by the noted Hudson River School artist Asher Durand. (Lest people were unfamiliar with Hoboken, “Opposite the City of New York” appeared in large letters next to the bank’s name.) Some bills favored scenes of prosperity or chugging trains or determined-looking settlers answering the call of Manifest Destiny.

On display, too, is perhaps the most beautifully designed American money—two silver certificates issued by the U.S. Treasury in 1896. In one, a winged woman holding a lightbulb represents electricity as the dominant force in the world; the other is an allegory of “Science Presenting Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacturing.” Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, tried to pressure the U.S. Treasury to withdraw the former because it showed the woman’s bare breasts.

Indeed, it was the norm that most bills featuring women posed them in either peekaboo togalike dresses or in highly romanticized settings. As the exhibit’s curators point out, the $1 silver certificate issued in 1886 with a portrait of Martha Washington is notable because it shows “the only ‘real,’ i.e., non- allegorical, female featured on federal paper currency.”

“America in Circulation,” which is largely the collection of investment firm owner Mark R. Shenkman, also offers a bonus that would make a great addition to other shows of art—computer terminals that allow one to get close to the art. Visitors can zoom in and see the brilliance of the engraver’s work, which is also flashed above on a large overhead screen. The show can also be seen on the museum’s website at moaf.org.

The Museum of American Finance is housed in the magnificent lobby of 48 Wall Street, a 1929 landmark that is itself worth a look. The museum is open Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m., and will be closed on May 6 and 7. Admission is $8, $5 for students and seniors.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: This 1928 $500 note was worth 25 $20 gold pieces that today would contain a bullion value of $25,000.

Collectors call this 1865 $2 First National Bank of Kansas note a “lazy deuce” because of the large numeral two lying on its side.

Collectors nickname this 1905 $2 gold certificate the “Technicolor Note” because of its use of bright colors.

The vignette on this 1896 silver dollar certificate represents “History Instructing Youth.” “History” is pointing to a book open to the Preamble of the Constitution.

The image of the unfinished pyramid on this 1779 $50 Continental note is similar to the one on the back of today’s $1 bill.

A 1910 bill in honor of the Lewis and Clark expedition, where the explorers are shown flanking an American bison.

The allegorical figures on this 1896 $2 silver certificate are those of manufacturing and commerce receiving the gift of steam and electricity. On the back were portraits of Robert Fulton and Samuel Morse.

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what it would cost him to stay.

“She knew that would be impossible for this kind of business to pay that,” said Steve, who opened the pizzeria 20 years ago this month. “I’d guess it would be maybe 60 grand a month. Legitimately, it’s worth $30,000 or $35,000, and that would still be too much for me.”

(According to a knowledgeable source, Vornado Realty Trust has vacated its stores as part of a plan to enlarge the spaces by extending them outward to the Independence Plaza building line, an area now apparently defined by an overhang in front of the stores. A spokeswoman for the company did not return a request for comment.)

Experts say that Vornado and other landlords, especially those with newly purchased properties, are willing to keep their spaces vacant for months in hopes of attracting dream “credit tenants” as they are called, such as banks and chain CARL GLASSMAN stores.

Some of them don’t have a choice, The vacant Super Linda restaurant is reflected in the window of the former Gotham Bike according to Stephen Corelli, an archi- store, empty for more than a year. The bike store moved nearby to Reade Street. tect who has long owned (now debt- managing principal in the commercial free) two retail spaces on North Moore brokerage firm Lee and Associates, charStreet, including one that houses the new acterized the retail market in Tribeca as Nexxus salon, owned by the giant “too many vacancies chasing too few Unilever. tenants.”

Owners borrow money based on the “There is perception and there’s realexpectation of “enhanced” cash flows, ity,” said Braus, who in the past has repCorelli said. “If they don’t get those resented properties in the neighborhood. rents, either their lender has the ability to “Landlords are looking at Tribeca as this nix the deal or they face the prospect of place with great demographics—high not having enough income to service the income, high density—and I think the debt because they paid so much for the density is lacking.” property.”

With some exceptions, Tribeca “I wouldn’t be surprised if you start- restaurant owners and retailers can’t pay ed to see some defaults because of that,” the $200-per-square-foot-and-above he added. rents that many landlords are asking, As for owners like himself, whose Braus said, noting that, except for fast your expectations.” properties have increased “significantly” food, restaurateurs in the city are unable Residents were stunned when The in value in the last five years, “it’s a to pay more than 8 to 10 percent of their Harrison, a popular restaurant at the corboon,” Corelli said, but one that comes revenues on rent. For retailers the maxi- ner of Greenwich and Harrison streets, with concerns for those who, like him- mum is 15 percent. had to close late last year, the result of self, also live in the area.

“To see all these empty storefronts, what a knowledgeable source estimated “What people are worried about is as someone who has lived in Tribeca for to be a nearly fourfold increase over the how the neighborhood is going to 20-plus years, it’s frustrating to me,” restaurant’s first lease, signed in 2001. evolve,” he said. “We came to Tribeca Braus said. “If there’s a lot of space on (Owner Jimmy Bradley could not be because of certain wonderful qualities. the market you either need to adjust your imediately reached for comment.) But it You get a little bit worried that there will expectations so that you meet the reality was not long before Maison Keyser, a be a sameness.” of what people can pay or you have to be French boulangerie with a chain of stores Peter Braus, a Tribeca resident and prepared to sit until the market meets in more than 20 countries and seven in

“Landlords are looking at Tribeca as a place with great demographics—high income, high density—and I think the density is lacking.”

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Manhattan, took the space at what is said to be an eye-popping $220 per square foot.

(A Trib analysis of Tribeca groundfloor rents in 2000 showed a range of about $30 to a high of $75 per square foot.)

It is deals like that, experts say, that tempt other landlords to hold out for bigname tenants who can pay such high rents.

“If spaces remain unleased for six or 12 months then owners start to panic.

One person would drop the rent and everyone drops the rent,” said a major developer and longtime Tribeca resident who asked not to be identified. “But if a couple of deals get done then people are going to feel more confident in their position and to hold out as long as they can.”

“Unfortunately for the neighborhood,” he added.

The storefront owners who, historically, have most cared about maintaining longtime, neighborhood-friendly tenants are the “accidental landlords,” as they are sometimes called. They own groundfloor spaces in the buildings where they live, often by virtue of having pioneered their homes years ago.

“We’re not the same as the real estate guys around here,” said one of those residents who, with several of his neighbors and former neighbors, owns ground-floor property in a building that is located in a particularly desirable part of Tribeca.

The resident, who asked not to be identified, said that the “lousy little space” owned by his group was recently valued at $8 million, which presents what he termed “not quite a moral crisis, but borderline” as people are “coming out of the woodwork” to buy it.

“When somebody starts offering millions and millions of dollars, and you always knew this was going to be your nest egg, you’re going to try to make the most of it,” said the owner, whose friendly relationship with his downstairs tenants goes back many years.

“But at the same time,” he added, “we’re going to do what we can to not spoil what we have here.”

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Those large and growing numbers mean more demand than ever for the fields at a time when the Battery Park City Authority has said, to the dismay of many, that it will open the field-permitting process to organizations outside Lower Manhattan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have more work to do but now have fun and play ball,â&#x20AC;? announced Community Board 1 Chair Catherine McVay Hughes.

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With spring comes the fleet of yellow school buses, carrying children from around the city to parks and museums so that they can have educational experiences outside the classrooms.

For our second graders at P.S. 89, it is the study of birds that takes them beyond the school building walls and into a new world of learning.

What is it about this soCONNIE cial studies SCHRAFT unit that causes so many children—girls and boys—to become truly engaged in acquiring knowledge, some, for the very first time?

Is it the reSCHOOL al ization that TALK those birds that kids have more or less ignored until now have unique names and characteristics?

Is it the challenge of identifying them by size, coloring, beak, and song? Is it the many field trips to go birding in Central Park, the High Line, and Jamaica Bay? Or the thrill of spotting an osprey in its nest?

I have some friends, formerly of Tribeca, who moved to Holland more than a decade ago with a large papier-

maché bird that their younger son had made during his second grade bird study.

It had become dusty and worn, but when we visited our friends years later, there it still hung, an ode to ornithology, school, childhood, and memory.

Threatened by the demands of the Common Core learning standards and state testing, hands-on social studies such as the bird study may one day go the way of landlines. Teachers and educational leaders may come to believe that

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appropirate study then led them to acquire such skills as looking at a bird really closely with binoculars, noticing its characteristics, then consulting a bird guide in an effort to identify it correctly.

They would rule out one bird because its beak was too short, another because its tail was rounded not square, and finally choose the correct one.

Focus, concentration, and patience, not traits usually associated with 7-yearold boys.

What is it about the social studies about birds that causes so many children to become truly engaged in their education— some for the first time? they can’t afford to spend months on a curriculum in which students learn by wondering, researching and discussing.

What a terrible loss that would be.

I still have a well-thumbed “Golden Guide to Birds” that one of my sons used during the bird study, with Post-its marking the birds he had identified—a mourning dove, a Northern flicker, a goldfinch. The names themselves are both evocative and child-friendly.

I remember how serious my son and his classmates were about the study. I was startled and amazed at how capable wild little boys could be. This age

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These days the students still use bird guides, but they also have classroom iPads or i-Pod Touches on which there is a great app to identify a bird by its call.

One recent morning, a second grade class visited Central Park’s Ramble, the migration route of over 230 species of birds. The students identified 14 species, some common ones like blue jays and mallard ducks, but they also spotted a downy woodpecker and a black-crowned night heron. A child told me he’d seen a rock dove (the fancy name for a pigeon).

There are those who will argue that school time would be better spent learn-

ing computer coding or Mandarin, that traveling to parks to look at birds is not going to make our students more competitive with other countries. I disagree.

There is no substitute for this kind of hands-on education, evident in other grades as well: kindergartners cutting open apples to examine the seed structure; first graders interviewing a fisherman at the Union Square Park farmers’ market; third graders learning about natural dyes as they study New Amsterdam.

It is these experiences that will help turn many children into researchers, scientists, problem-solvers and thinkers, and ones that they will remember and treasure when they grow older.

The son of our friends who moved to Holland became ill with a rare and incurable disease, and for a couple of years before his death was unable to play soccer or to skateboard, his passions. But even confined to a wheelchair, he could go birding with his family. He carried that interest with him from a P.S. 234 classroom and an inspirational teacher.

This month his family will dedicate a bench in the Ramble to their son. In honoring Christopher and his hobby that began as a public school social studies unit, they will also be validating the belief that the best kind of learning is infused with direct experience.

Connie Schraft is the P.S. 89 parentcoordinator. She can be reached at connie@tribecatrib.com.

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS g Tennis Clinic The Friends of Washington Market Park are sponsoring free tennis clinics for children in May and June. Instructors from Super Duper Tennis, a New York City kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tennis program, will teach the basics of the game and lead children in drills and games. The clinic takes place 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26 and 6/2, 6/9, 6/16 and 6/23.

7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8-year-olds, 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10-year-olds, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 pm. No reservations necessary, but space is limited to the first 20 children to arrive at the courts. Chambers Street at West, washingtonmarketpark.org. g Friday Night Family Swim Parents and kids can swim together in the indoor halfOlympic-sized pool. Bring your own towel, lock and swim cap. Pool toys, noodles and floaties provided. Dedicated lanes are available for lap swimmers. Day passes: $15; $10, youth, students and seniors.

Fridays, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, and 5/29, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:45 pm. Community Center at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St., bpcparks.org. g Go Fish! Annual all-day event sponsored

by Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Sat, 5/16. 10 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 pm: catch-and-release fishing with master anglers. Barbless hooks are used and fish are placed in saltwater tanks for observation and identification before being returned to the Hudson. Rods, reels and bait are provided. 11 am: Experienced birder will look with children for species that live in or migrate through the park. (Binoculars are available to borrow.) 12 pm: Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem perform bluegrass-inflected songs for all ages. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 pm: Fishrelated art projects. Free. Wagner Park. bpcparks.org. g The Happening Warren Street block party to support Church Street School for Music and Art. Games, life-size collaborative art projects, face painting, musical performances by Church Street School faculty and students, food, drinks, prizes and more. Sun, 5/17, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm. For tickets go to churchstreetschool.org/the-happening-2015.

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MUSIC g Fantasia 2015 Dancers from the Joffrey Ballet School turn into sorcerers, waltzing flowers and ostriches en pointe accompanied by a live orchestra. Sat, 5/30, 6 pm and Sun, 5/31, 12 and 3:30 pm. $40; $20 for children and seniors. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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Poetry with Charles Waters Kids write comical poems and act them out with Waters, a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poet, actor and teacher.

Sat, 5/9, 11 am. $5; under 4, free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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James Chandler (Mr. Lambchop), Johnny Lee (Stanley Lambchop) Caroline Dubberly (Mrs. Lambchop) and Justin Duncan (Arthur Lambchop).

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One night, the bulletin board above Stanleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bed falls on top of him and he becomes flat. So begins â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanleyâ&#x20AC;? that plays Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 p.m. at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center. For ages 5 and up.

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Stories for All Ages Professional storyteller Laura Simms knows how to weave a tale that teaches as well as entertains both young and old. Her adventure-filled stories often show how people and animals share the natural world around us. Sat, 5/9, 11 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 pm. Free. In Teardrop Park at the end of Warren Street in Battery Park City.

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Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org. g Storytime with Puppets Celebrate the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans through storytelling, puppetry and art. Children make their own puppets. Free with museum admission. Sat, 5/16, 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g Skyscraper Top Hats After a tour of the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten Tops,â&#x20AC;? kids make a wearable skyscraper top hat modeled after their favorite tower. Ages 6 and up. Reservations required. Sat, 5/2, 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:45 am. Children $5; free to Battery Park City residents. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, skyscraper.org. g

Lego Block Play Toddlers are invited to enjoy

piles of blocks or bring a toy car and drive around a Lego town. First come, first served.

Friday, 5/8, 5/15 and 5/22, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

Storytelling Whimsical tales about traditions, holidays and families. Ages 0â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4. Wed, 5/6, and Wed, 5/20, 3:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:15 pm. Free.

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g Author Talk Paul Czajak will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seaver the Weaverâ&#x20AC;? about a spider who, against his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wishes, weaves his web in the shapes of triangles, squares and hexagons.

All ages. (This event will be recorded.) Thurs, 5/21, 4 pm. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org.

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g Curious George The famous mischievous monkey enters the world-famous Golden Meatball Contest in Rome. Performed by Theatreworks USA. Ages 4 and up. Sat, 5/30, 1:30 pm. $25. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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BOGARDUS GARDEN AND PLAZA The Friends of Bogardus Garden will host their annual “Spring in the Plaza” on Saturday, May 9, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (rain date, May 10, same time). Singer Mike Messer from Dirty Sock Funtime Band and the TriBattery Pops will perform, and Suellen’s Stilt Walkers will be

Along the River: Fun Abounds

There’s a program for every kid’s fancy in Battery Park City parks

In May, Battery Park City Parks Conservancy rolls out its extensive childrens programs. Below is a sampling of their offerings. Unless otherwise indicated, they are free.

For more park activities, go to bpcparks.org.

GARDENING CLUB Children ages six to 10 prepare soil and garden beds, plant seeds, seedlings and bulbs, water, weed and harvest. The young gardeners will learn about green practices such as composting and the use of beneficial insects and worms as well as the life cycles of plants. $130 per two-month cycle; $350 for all three cycles (if paying in May). Registration required at registration@bpcparks.org.

Tuesdays, 4–5 pm. Children’s Garden, Rockefeller Park.

YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING Children have a chance to enjoy simple gardening projects such as planting seeds and watering. Weekly gardening lessons teach about pollinators, worms, seeds, weather, flowers and birds.

Teachers also read from books about nature that relate to the day’s activities. For ages 3–5 with an accompanying adult.

Tuesdays, 3:14–3:45 pm. Children’s

Garden, Rockefeller Park.

SOCCER Younger kids learn the game’s basics; older players practice skills and scrimmage. Fun is emphasized over winning. Closed-toe shoes required. Tuesdays, 2:30–3:15 pm, ages 3-4; 3:30–4:15 pm, ages 5–7; 4:30–5:30 pm, ages 8–11.

Rockefeller Park.

BASKETBALL Rockefeller Park basketball courts between Warren and Murray streets are reserved for children on Monday afternoons. Adjustable hoops are used. Younger children learn game fundamentals; older children scrimmage. Closed-toe shoes required. Mondays, 3:30–4:30 pm, ages 5–6; 4:30–5:30 pm, ages 7 and up; ART + GAMES Children do art projects that reflect the city and the river, such as making sea creatures out of clay or miniature buildings out of wood. On some days, the projects are made from recycled materials such as cardboard. Kids also

play lawn games such as freeze tag and tug-of-war. No advance registration is required. For ages five and up.

Thursdays, 3:30–5:30 pm.

Rockefeller Park.

PRESCHOOL PLAY Toddlers play on the lawn.

Toys, books, water table, and play equipment provided. For toddlers with an accompanying adult. Mondays (except 5/25), Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10 am–12 pm. Wagner Park.

PRESCHOOL PLAY & ART Children make a different project every week with such materials as paper, clay and recyclable materials. Led by an artistteacher.

For

toddlers with an accompanying adult. Thursdays, 10:30 am–12 pm. Rockefeller Park.

WEDNESDAYS IN TEARDROP Art projects include drawing, sculpting and creating group projects such as murals.

Kids also play Red Light Green Light, Mr. Fox, Wiffle Ball and Four Square. For ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, May 6, 3:30–5:30 pm. Teardrop Park.

DROP-IN CHESS An experienced chess instructor leads lessons at all levels for ages 5 to 15. Players of all abilities are welcome. Wednesdays, 3:30–5 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren Street.

Face painting at Bogardus Plaza on May 9.

on hand. Activities include face painting, robot building (with the Brooklyn Robot Foundry), cookie decorating, clay molding and fabric weaving. Photographer Andrea Buman will take family portraits in the garden. Reade St. and West Broadway, bogardusgarden.org.

DUANE PARK On Sunday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., in celebration of Earth Day kids can enjoy a bouncy castle in the park and pot a plant to take home.

Guitarist Wilson Montouri will play jazz, Brazilian and pop tunes, and there will be complimentary apples and cider. Sponsored by the Friends of Duane Park. Duane and Hudson streets, duanepark.org.

WASHINGTON MARKET PARK Every year, as part of the citywide It’s My Park Day, kids don gloves and after instructions from the Washington Market Park gardener, plant hundreds of impatiens and marigolds, as well as summer and fall bulbs. The planting is on Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

A limited number of children’s gardening gloves and trowels will be available. The event is sponsored by the Friends of Washington Market Park. Greenwich and Duane streets, washingtonmarketpark.org.

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he newly opened shops at Brookfield Place exude luxury of the sort that many visitors can’t—or don’t care to—acquire. But the best things in life at this shiny mall (along with the regular schedule of entertainment provided by Arts Brookfield) are free. For me, it’s the steady flow of people. They provide a variety of visual delight against a backdrop of high-end goods, towering ads (with their giantsized models), and, of course, the colorful array of culinary offerings at the French food mart, Le District.

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New York City, of course, is the people-watching capital of the world. But Brookfield Place, scrubbed of every molecule of grittiness that the city-as-stage usually offers, brings a different kind of experience to the person whose idea of spending is measured not in dollars but in time set aside for observing.

Below is a sampling of what caught the eye of this observer/photographer, a tiny taste of what makes the place fun. On your next visit check it out. There’s a lot more there where this came from.

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Cats Paying Dues The tap dance company celebrates its 10th anniversary with the world premiere of Three Suites. Each performance will feature the same program of new works choreographed by Andrew J Nemr. 5/13–5/17, 8 pm. ,5/16, 2 pm. $33. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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g Patty LuPone: Far Away Places Accompanied by a five-piece band, the two-time Tony Award winner (“Gypsy” and “Evita”) will perform songs

by Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Willie Nelson, Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf, the BeeGees and others.

Sat, 5/9, 7:30 pm. $79–$119. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.

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Don Quixote The Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet performs this famous tale about the visionary who tilts windmills and sees beauty where others see only squalor. Thurs, 5/14 and Fri, 5/15, 7:30 pm; Sat, 5/16, 2 and 7:30 pm. $39-$59. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.

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Cuban Family Dance Pepito Gomez performs music that encompasses the history of Cuba, from the rumba of the Buena Vista Social Club era to the modern sounds of timba, a post-salsa, high-energy style. This music is for dancing—no partners or experience necessary. Dance instruction provided. Sat, 5/9, 6:30–8 pm. Free.

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Al Son Son Flamenco The culminating presentation of a six-month workshop for local dancers designed to deepen their understanding of authentic flamenco traditions. Choreography and direction by Sonia Olla, with musical direction by Ismael Fernández. Thurs, 5/28, 8 pm. $20. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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(Registration not required.) Fri, 5/29, 12:15 pm.

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

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Navajo Jewelry More than 300 unique pieces

Voce: Rising Opera Stars in Recital Soprano Heidi Melton performs, accompanied by pianist John Parr. Sun, 5/17, 3 pm. $39. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.

he three-day Beat Festival at Brookfield Place offers music from such diverse musicians as Feedel Band, a fusion of jazz and Ethipian music (Thursday, May 7), Niyaz, an Iranian-American duo with singer Azam Ali, above, and Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi (Friday, May 8), and Brazilian singer Flavia Coelho, Honduran guitarist Guayo Cedeño (Saturday, May 9). At the Winter Garden, 230 Vesey St. All concerts are free and no reservations are necessary. Details at brookfieldplaceny.com/events.

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Dancers Among Us Photographs by Jordan Matters of dancers in everyday situations. Also on view is a photo collaboration by Francisco Diaz and Deb Young along with five solo shows. 5/65/30. Opening reception: Tues, 5/5, 6-8 pm.

Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

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of jewelry made by members of the Yazzie family of Gallup, N.M. The show, “Glittering World,” is ongoing throughout the year. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism This exhibition focuses on the work of Jewish émigré and American-born designers and architects who helped create a modern domestic landscape. See vintage furnishings, housewares, and graphic designs by Anni Albers, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Alvin Lustig, Saul Bass, Ernest Sohn and more than 25 others who helped forge this movement. Tours will be offered on Sundays in May at 12 pm, except May 24.

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Cerámica de los Ancestros More than 150 objects from seven Central American cultural regions. The work spans the period from 1000 B.C. to the present and includes examples of work in gold, jade, shell and stone. 4/18–1/17.

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Bach on Broadway The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra perform the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway. All concerts are free.

Complete schedule at trinitywallstreet.org/music.

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g Ben Vereen in Concert Best known for his theatrical roles in “Pippin” and “Wicked,” Vereen covers many of the musical highlights of his career accompanied by a three-piece band. Sun, 5/30, 7:30 pm. $49–$69. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.

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Randy Cohen and Diane Ackerman The Emmy Award-winner and original writer of “The Ethicist” for the New York Times Magazine, Randy Cohen, interviews Diane Ackerman for his public radio show. Ackerman is a poet, essayist, and naturalist, and the author of two dozen works of nonfiction and poetry. The evening includes live music featuring Irish harpist Maeve Gilchrist.

Thurs, 5/14, 7 pm. $10; $7, students and seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Literary Salon . Readings and signings by Sarah Pekkanen, Charles McNair, Liz Rosenberg and Amy Scheibe followed by a Q&A. Wine will be served. Free. Make a reservation at penparentis.org. Tues, 5/12, 7 pm. This last meeting takes place in a private library at 41 Park Row, 16th floor.

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Lenore Skenazy Dubbed the “World's Worst Mom” after she allowed her 9-year-old son to ride the subway alone, Skenazy talks about raising kids who are independent. Sun, 5/10, 2:30 pm. $15; members $12. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Witness to History: The Images of Tony Vaccaro Alex Kershaw, author of The Liberator, speaks with 92 year-old Vaccaro, who smuggled his portable 35mm camera onto the battlefield in Europe and elsewhere during WWII and created an intimate and comprehensive record of daily life as a soldier. Wed, 5/13, 4 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War Author Peter Moreira explores how Morgenthau, FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury, appealed to the patriotism of ordinary Americans to help sell the bonds that financed WWII. Wed, 5/20, 7 pm. $15; Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Symposium: Jewish Culture and Modern Design Leading scholars examine mid-century Jewish American culture and its influence on everyday design. With Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, Jenna Weismann Joselit, George Washington University and others. Tues, 5/26, 10 am–12 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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eing Here.../this time” is the final act of a three-year project by the Harlem-based Marjani Forté that examines the intersections of mental illness, addiction and poverty. The show also features a 3-D audio installation by composer and sound designer Everett Saunders. Wed., May 6 through Sat., May 9, at 7:30 p.m. $20; $15, students and seniors. Gibney Dance Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway, entrance at 53A. gibneydance.org.

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Scrabble Day Play Scrabble with other adults at the library. Mon, 5/4, and Mon, 5/18, 12–2 pm.

Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

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Zen Meditation Group A monthly gathering to learn, discuss and practice meditation. No prior experience necessary. Thurs, 5/21, 1–1:45 pm.

New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

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The Book Talk Join a “book swap” discussion and bring a book you love, hate or just want to talk about. Registration required by phone or in person.

Mon, 5/11, 5:30-6:30 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

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Death Cafe An informal gathering where participants can share questions, concerns and experiences regarding any aspect of death. Mon, 5/11, 6:30–8:30 pm. Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Place, 2nd fl., trinitywallstreet.org.

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Asian Pacific American Trivia Night An evening of trivia inspired by all things Asian American.

Come on your own or team up with groups of up to five. Prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. Thurs, 5/7, 5–7 pm. $12; $10 for students and seniors. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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Free Senior Swims For 65 and over. Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St. Mon–Thurs, 12:30–2 pm. Senior water aerobics classes also available. Go to “Aquatics,” manhattanyouth.org or

call 212-766-1104 ext. 221.

Museum of the American Indian Free tours of what was once the U.S. Custom House. Designed

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

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Barrow Street Poetry Reading An evening of poetry featuring Claudia Keelan, Soraya Shalforoos, Doug Anderson, and Page Hill Starzinger. Tues, 5/13, 6:30 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Curators’ Tour: The Art of Tyrus Wong Join a

curator-led talk and tour of “Water to Paint, Paint to Sky” about Tyrus Wong’s life, craft and his lasting influence. Thurs, 5/14, 5:30–6:30 pm and Thurs, 5/28, 6:30–7:30 pm. Free with museum admission. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

Lines into Sentences: Prose Poetry & Fiction Renee Gladman, Ben Lerner and Eileen Myles discuss their experiments with various poetic forms as well as their work in editing and publishing transgenre works. Thurs, 5/21, 7 pm. $10; $7, students and seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Women of Wall Street Walking Tour Discover the female power brokers who have dared to infiltrate this male-dominated industry. The tour highlights women such as Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President and opened the first woman-owned brokerage in 1870; Muriel Siebert, the first woman to purchase a seat at the New York Stock

Exchange; and many other women who are influencing the financial world today. Meet at the museum. Sat, 5/9, 1–2:30 pm. $15 (includes museum admission). Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St. moaf.org. g

Scandals and Scoundrels A 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals. Meet at the Museum.

Fri, 5/15, 11 am–12:30 pm. $15 per person includes admission to the museum and talk with Ian Klaus. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St. moaf.org.

g From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Tour traces the evolution of eateries in Chinatown, highlighting the ways in which these spaces have both shaped and reflected the community. Sat, 5/30, 1–2:30 pm. $15; $12, students and seniors; free for children under 5. Reservations required.

Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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