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Tweed is school crowding solution To the Editor: For our problem of school overcrowding, there is space Downtown: Tweed Hall. This historic and spacious building was earmarked as the new home for the Museum of the City of New York. Mayor Bloomberg squashed that idea, taking it for the Department of Education headquarters.

Suppose those offices were all shifted to One World Trade Center, just four blocks away? With our growing number of public school students, perhaps the DOE could use more office space than Tweed Hall can support. Then our neighborhood could use all of Tweed Hall for a local public school.

Another space for a school, suggested by Bob Townley of Manhattan Youth, was the block south of the Peck Slip post office, now a parking lot.

What if half the lot was developed as a four- or five-story school, and the other half used for outdoor recreational activities for public school children?

Pamela Warshay

Turf piece is puff To the Editor: Carl Glassman’s piece “Home Turf” [see October Trib] on the synthetic turf fields being installed by the Port Authority, was my first exposure to the Tribeca Trib. That you would publish a puff piece like that which doesn’t address any of the serious, well-founded grounds for opposing synthetic turf makes me never want to pick up the Trib again.

Real journalism is much needed in these days of corporate spin and would be much appreciated by Tribeca residents.

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Allergist downplays effects of 9/11 dust on Downtown residents To the Editor: Regarding the letter to the editor [Oct. Trib] written by Robert Y. Lin, M.D., allergist at New York Downtown Hospital: Dr. Lin, if you are insinuating that most of the respiratory conditions suffered by residents who lived downtown during the 9/11 attack are psychological, I beg to differ.

Many of us have worked exhaustively for 10 years to bring the aftermath health issues to light. Of course there are many psychological issues stemming from 9/11, but there are legitimate physical health conditions as well.

When you pulverize two buildings the size of the World Trade Center, where do you think they went? The people living and working Downtown breathed in the dust and debris.

When Christine Todd Whitman said it was safe to return to Lower Manhattan, she was probably being

prompted by those wanting Wall Street up and running. It was NOT safe. I am actually discouraged and a bit angry at your post. I’m not even sure why you would have posted it. If your intention was to encourage folks to seek help with post-traumatic stress, you could have worded your good intentions differently. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t just one more person trying to downplay the potential devastating effects to downtown individuals’ physical health.

As a doctor serving the downtown area, I sure hope you have educated yourself on the special health conditions, especially the new onset asthma and the many children’s breathing issues that have developed, especially in Chinatown. For several years, I’ve lost confidence in Downtown Hospital and all its changes. Your post hasn’t helped.

Diane Lapson

Parents react to school zoning proposal for Downtown children To the Editor: As a P.S. 234 parent I was horrified by the outrageous comments of other local parents in your online rezoning article. It seems that property values and taxes are the main concern for parents who may have to send their children to alternate schools next September.

People moved here thinking 234 would be “their” school and are understandably upset. But to disparage P.S. 3 as an “inferior school” is the height of snobbery and exemplifies the unfortunate direction our neighborhood has been heading in the past few years.

The problem we have is overcrowding and the lack of seats for incoming students. I think outrage should be focused toward this issue.

If these parents feel entitled to the status that 234 would bring them, maybe they should start applying to private schools.

Nancy Usiatynski

To the Editor: The proposed rezoning does not make sense. Most of the families in North Tribeca own their homes and pay property taxes. They paid substantial sums to purchase their homes and to establish roots in a community—and the school zoning was a clear factor in their decision to buy.

How is it justifiable that families who rent at 50 Murray and 89 Murray and don’t pay property taxes, get to go to a school funded in significant part through property taxes, while those making a more serious financial commitment to a community get shut out from one of the key benefits provided by the taxes they pay?

Frank Davies To the Editor: Although I appreciate the quote in the online Trib, I think your reporter missed my point. The Fulton Street community is basically an area bounded by Beekman to the north, Broadway

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City Has Second Thoughts on Its School Zone Plan to Split Tribeca Education official says DOE is searching for a different way to avoid P.S. 234 wait list

BY CARL GLASSMAN The Department of Education appears to be changing its mind about a much-criticized proposal to send north Tribeca kindergartners to school in Greenwich Village.

“What I hear is, ‘We want you to go back to the drawing board. We want you to rethink the Canal Street issue and placing 234 kids above Canal Street,’” Elizabeth Rose, the DOE’s Director of Manhattan Planning, told a meeting of District 2’s Community Education Council late last month.

“We need time to figure out if there are ways that we can still address the 234 wait list without this particular strategy.

If there are ways that we can accommodate some of the specific requests that we’ve heard,” Rose added.

The CEC is expected to vote on a final version of the plan in December. It has 45 days to decide after the final proposal is presented.

At a hearing held early last month, the proposal, which splits Tribeca in half at North Moore Street, was roundly denounced by parents living in northern Tribeca. They said it would separate their children from their own neighborhood and expose them to the dangers of crossing Canal Street.

“We moved here because our building on Laight, between Washington and West, is zoned for 234,” said Cecilia Artaucho, the mother of children aged 4 and 2. “We pay real estate taxes, we’ve been supporting the community. Why should we not get to go to the school that is in our neighborhood and in our zone?”

“You hold in your hands in some ways the spirit of our community,” said Tim Cameron, the father of a 3-year-old daughter. “We live in Tribeca—the Triangle Below Canal.”

CEC members also have spoken out

Above: At a hearing last month, Elizabeth Rose, a DOE planning official, explains the city’s zoning proposal for five Downtown schools. Left: Wendy Driscoll, with son Alex, says that she would fear crossing Canal Street to take her child to school.

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against the plan for Tribeca. At a special zoning meeting last month, they appeared unwilling to support the proposal if it came to a vote.

Community Board 1 also sided with north Tribeca parents, saying the DOE proposal “provided no significant remedy” to the demand for kindergarten seats at P.S. 234.

Though P.S. 234 Principal Lisa Ripperger had not previously expressed her opinion about the plan, she told the Trib late last month that she, too, agrees with the north Tribeca parents.

“I hear what people are saying in northern Tribeca about wanting to be part of the Tribeca community and I support their desire to want to stay here,” Ripperger said. “There’s no easy alternative in terms of what other slice of the 234 zone we’re going to slice off and move someplace else.”

But Ripperger cautioned that if the P.S. 234 zone stays intact, a kindergarten wait list is a near certainty next year.

Four-year-olds throughout Tribeca (who do not already have siblings in the

school) will be subject to possible assignments to another school. So far, few parents from south Tribeca have expressed their opinions at meetings on the DOE’s zoning proposal. “They should be coming to the hearings, too,” said Ripperger. “This is not just about the people who live in northern Tribeca.”

The rezoning of five Lower Manhattan elementary schools is partly triggered by a need to zone the new Peck Slip school, expected to open in 2015.

Some parents in the proposed zone for the Peck Slip school and living in an area bounded by Gold, Fulton, Liberty and Broadway, told the CEC that they want to be zoned for nearby P.S. 397.

CEC members said they need more information on the number of children affected before taking a position.

The panel appears to support the part of the plan that shifts the zone for Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City from P.S. 89 in the north neighborhood to P.S. 276 in the south.

CEC members have complained that the DOE’s proposal, which sends Tribeca

children to P.S. 3 on Grove Street, only serves to push the crowding north, in a domino effect, into Greenwich Village and Chelsea schools, where rezoning is also taking place.

Many opponents of the Tribeca rezoning plan say that too few families are affected to warrant the change.

“It’s not a fair distribution of the pain,” said CEC member Michael Markowitz.

It is not known, of course, how many children in north Tribeca would end up at P.S. 3 under the proposed zoning. But according to figures provided to the Trib by P.S. 234’s parent coordinator, Magda Lenski, 13 kindergartners from that area who do not have older siblings at P.S. 234 attend the school this year. (In total, 26 kindergartners from north Tribeca go to the school, Lenski said.)

Rose said she expects to present the next zoning proposal for Lower Manhattan at a special CEC meeting, to be held this month at a date not yet announced at press time.

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Artist in Court Over Return to Her Loft

Owners are allegedly dragging their feet in reopening a vacated landmark, now stable

BY CARL GLASSMAN It has been four years this month since the Department of Buildings slapped vacate orders on 287 Broadway, the 1872 cast iron landmark at the corner of Reade Street. And still its six floors stand empty. Still, too, artist Cora Cohen, 67, is without the top-floor loft where she lived and painted for 35 years.

“I want to come home,” she said as she stood in the emptiness of her former studio.

Cohen’s return to the building, indeed the building’s return to life, is taking a strangely long time.

On Nov. 29, 2007, the Buildings Department vacated the structure after determining that it was leaning southward some eight inches and in danger of collapse. Excavation for a high-rise next door—the now nearly completed “Reade 57,” which wraps around the building from Broadway to Reade Street—had compromised its foundation.

But it has been a year since the building was tied into the new, neighboring structure, according to sources familiar with the work. They say it is no longer in danger of collapse.

This month, in a series of hearings before a judge, lawyers for the landlords, the Gindi family, owners of Century 21, are expected to argue that they should be given more time to make the building habitable.

Cohen’s lawyers claim they could have reopened the building long ago.

“It comes down to mucking around with a whole lot of letters and language pretending they’re doing something,” Cohen’s lawyer, Arlene Boop, said of the owners’ actions over the years.

In September, an appellate judge upheld a ruling in landlord-tenant court that compelled the owners to do what is needed for the city to lift its vacate order.

Cohen’s lawyers want the judge to hold

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Above: Cora Cohen in the loft where she lived and painted for 35 years. The city says the owner must remove bracing at left (and in photo at left) before it will lift the vacate order on the building. Behind her is ornate railing from the building’s roof.

the owners in contempt of court for not carrying out the orders.

What stands in the way of the vacate order being lifted?

Wooden bracing in the fifth- and sixth-floor hallways, left from when it was needed to stabilize the building, prevents 287 Broadway from meeting legal egress requirements, a Department of Buildings spokeswoman told the Trib. It needs to be removed.

“The building owner’s engineer needs to submit a report to this department showing that the building has been properly stabilized and egress has been restored to the building,” said the spokeswoman, Ryan Fitzgibbon.

“The best I can tell you, not being an architect, is that it’s a very little deal,” said Boop, of the firm Alterman & Boop.

“It’s just not that much work.

Calls for comment were not returned

by Kenneth Dubow, who oversees the Gindi family’s real estate holdings, and

Christopher Mason, their lawyer in the case. Christa Waring, an architect with Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, the firm most recent hired by the owners to come up with a plan for the building, said she could not comment.

“I talked to the owner and he would prefer that we don’t do any interviews,” she told the Trib.

As far back as January 2008, Cohen has been in court with the owners, alleging that they have been impeding progress in making the building safe so that she could move back in. Sorting out blame for the building’s leaning problems in the first place has involved a slew of lawsuits between contractors, subcontractors and insurance companies as well as the Reade 57 developer, John Buck Co., and the Gindis. (Cohen is joined in her suit by another tenant, Avraham Zeines.)

Covered under the city’s Loft Law, Cohen was the only protected rent-controlled tenant in the building. She says her rent was about $1,100.

“I don’t really know what they

want,” she said of the owners. “I don’t think they want me here for under market value but how much they don’t want me I don’t know.”

According to Boop, the owners have offered to buy out Cohen for a sum she called “pretty low.”

“It might have paid for a studio-size apartment,” she said, adding that in the last 10 years it has been difficult for artists to find comparable space when they have had to move.

Cohen, a prominent Abstract Expressionist who now rents a studio and apartment in Long Island City, periodically enters the building’s dusty darkness and makes the long climb up its rickety stairs to her old apartment to fetch one thing or another.

One day last month, accompanied by a reporter, she went to retrieve a coat rack she said she thought might still be there. The rack was gone, but Cohen was in no hurry to leave as she moved about the loft, with its nearly 13-foot ceilings and sunny views both north and east. She used to have a magnificent view south as well. Now that the building next door hugs the south wall, those two windows are dark.

“If I were here now I would make that my painting wall,” Cohen said.

She recalled her search for the perfect studio back in 1972, before she found this one. “I’d see all these spaces and I’d say, ‘This is a dump, I’m going to get asphyxiated. I need air. I need three exposures.”

Now, more than three decades later and with two exposures, not three, the old, empty loft still calls her.

“It’s my home and I want to come back here and I want to be left alone and make the paintings I want to make,” she said. “That’s what I do.”

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Residents, Protesters Speak Out at CB1

BY JESSICA TERRELL Liberty Street resident Erinn Williams stood next to a bunkbed in her children’s bedroom and looked down from the window overlooking Zuccotti Park.

Twenty-four stories below, the evening protesters’ cheering echoed inside the room. Williams sighed.

“It’s pretty quiet tonight, but you can still hear it,” the mother of three said.

“When it’s loud, you can’t hear someone else talking on the other side of the room.”

Williams was one of many Financial District residents who had grown weary of—or outright angry about—the roundthe-clock occupation of the park in their neighborhood. They complained of the drumming and shouting, and protesters urinating in their doorways late at night.

And they said they wanted their park back.

From mid-September to the end of last month, Community Board leaders held nearly a dozen meetings with protest representatives, trying to find a way to balance the group’s First Amendment rights with the residents’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their homes.

“If they are serious about their cause, they should try to ameliorate [the conditions]—to whatever extent possible—the people in the neighborhood,” said CB1 Financial District Committee Chair Ro Sheffe, a nearby resident who spearheaded the meetings with Quality of Life Committee Chair Pat Moore. “They are just antagonizing people.”

Those meetings resulted in a good neighbor policy created by Occupy Wall Street and passed by the group’s general assembly on Oct. 13.

The document reiterated a no drug and alcohol policy in the park, and limited drumming to two hours a day, between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The group’s community relations committee also set up a 24-hour complaint phone line, 917524-7811, and email address, owscommunityaffairs@gmail.com.

But with no firm leadership structure within the movement, enforcing the agreement proved to be a challenge.

Some drummers said they hadn’t been consulted on the two-hour-a-day limit,

Above: Gordon Crovitz, president of the 55 Liberty Street co-op board, condemns the takeover of Zuccotti Park across from his building. Left: Drumming in the park has been one of the biggest causes of complaints of residents.

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and refused to comply. Others said the music was their form of protest and countered with a four-hour limit.

“This is not a luncheon, it is a protest,” said drummer Ashley Love.

Frustrations came to a head during two community board meetings last month, where residents on both sides of the issue as well as protesters spoke out, often passionately.

“You are not occupying Wall Street,” Liberty Street resident James Fernandez angrily told protesters in attendance at one of the forums. “You are occupying my backyard.”

“Please get organized,” Paul Beban, a Liberty Street resident, implored. “Until

you figure out how to coexist with us in a peaceful way, we are not going to be happy that you are here.”

But Kathleen Moore, a resident of 125 Cedar St., was greeted with cheers from many protesters in the room when she said, “I am one of the residents most affected—I live less than a block away. It is not always pleasant, but I want to welcome you to the neighborhood.”

On Oct. 25, the full board passed a resolution opposing the forcible removal of the protesters. And they called on elected officials and protesters to work together on a solution to the problems now facing residents and nearby businesses, including a need to find toilet

facilities.

CB1 also asked the city to keep better track of complaints to 311, and called on the Police Department to remove nonessential barricades in the neighborhood.

The resolution passed 33 to 3 and earned the praise of many on the Community Board, such as member Michael Connolly, who called it “one of the best things the community board has done.”

But CB1’s resolution drew the wrath of some residents, who said their needs were being ignored.

“This community board has failed to represent the community,” said Gordon Crovitz, president of the 55 Liberty coop board.

“The frustration is massive,” said Jason O’Brien, adding that business at his bar, Trinity Place, was down about 30 percent. “I don’t feel it’s been dealt with properly.”

Han Shan, a protester who had become the most public face of Occupy Wall Street’s community relations group, said he would continue his efforts to work out conflicts with residents.

“I know we have a lot of support from the community, and that’s why I feel such a responsibility to address the community’s grievances,” he said.

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OCCUPY THE NIGHT The sun goes down and life goes on in Zuccotti Park

water, cleaning a stack of aluminum serving dishes. Gravel and plants filter the water, which is then used for the park plants.

“I just came down and looked around and said, ‘Okay, I will wash dishes,’” says Aldrich, who arrived at the camp several days earlier. “It seemed like the easiest thing I could get my hands on and start helping with.”

Aldrich was prepared to spend the night—his last in New York before heading home—sleeping in the park. But his wife surprised him with a hotel room.

“She said, ‘Honey, you’ve done enough.’”

BY JESSICA TERRELL PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN t night, Zuccotti Park is transformed from a crowded and carnivalesque scene of protest into something between a quiet but politically charged encampment and a giant slumber party. One night last month, before the tents went up and the temperatures plunged, reporter Jessica Terrell stayed through the night to report on the nocturnal side of the occupation.

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9 P.M. THE DINNER RUSH The buffet line at Occupy Wall Street’s kitchen is lit by a small construction light taped to the top of a broom handle. It’s just bright enough for protesters to see the evening fare: salads and sandwiches donated by businesses, pizza, trays of spaghetti and yams, pasta salad and rice.

In the makeshift kitchen, a halfdozen volunteers bustle about, chopping lettuce, coring apples, accepting and sorting donations. A young woman drops off a box of Quaker Oats granola bars. As fast as the food comes in, it goes out to the long line of hungry diners jostling for space with the curiosity-seekers making their way through the park.

“Would you like some bread pudding, dear?” asks a middle-aged woman in a hairnet, scooping out food at the head of the line. “We got chocolate and regular,” she adds, as the generator dies, and the jerry-rigged light goes out.

A few moments later, it comes back on, and Jillian Deas, 21, adds some chocolate bread pudding to her plate.

“It’s really good,” Deas says, taking a bite as she sits down next to a cardboard sign with the words A UNIFIED CHAOS

The evening at Park begins at 7, with what the protesters call their general assembly.

During the gathering, which lasts for hours, many decisions are approved.

painted in rainbow colors. “I didn’t expect to be fed like this.”

her senior thesis. “When I am not here, I feel like I should be.”

9:15 P.M. SETTING UP CAMP Up the walkway, Natasha Jacobs, a 21-year-old NYU student, squats next to a queen-size air mattress and tapes a tarp over it. Behind her is a sea of blankets, sleeping bags and more tarps stretching toward Cedar Street and then east for most of the block-wide park.

“This is going to be my ninth night in a row sleeping here,” Jacobs says. “If you’ve been here for a while and you have a set camp, it’s not that bad. But since it’s getting so crowded, I think a lot of people are getting uncomfortable.”

Jacobs lives in the city and could go home at night, but she prefers the park.

“You never know when something is going to happen,” says Jacobs, who is documenting the occupation as part of

9:55 P.M. MUSICIANS CALL IT A NIGHT Along Church Street, the music is still playing, as it has been all day. There are two saxophonists and 14 drummers.

One man beats on a drum with an empty plastic water bottle; another strikes a metal railing with drumsticks. A third beats a pair of pipes on the stone steps.

The song is one long continuous improvisation. Then, at exactly 10 p.m., a community relations volunteer tells them it’s time to call it a night. Reluctantly, a man dancing on top of a metal trash can with a GREED IS GROSS sign climbs down and walks off into the night.

10:30 P.M. KITCHEN DUTY Richard Aldrich, a 67-year-old farmer from New Hampshire, stands over a row of tubs filled with soapy

12 A.M. PREPARING FOR RAIN A volunteer manning the “comfort station” dumps a bag of ponchos into a bin labeled “rain gear.” Behind him, volunteers work to organize piles of donated clothing and blankets.

“Do you have any tarps left?” Salem Rivera, 20, asks anxiously. Hanging behind him is a small whiteboard with the latest weather prediction: rain. “Sorry, we’re all out,” the volunteer tells him.

Rivera takes two clear plastic bags from a roll at the edge of the table. He starts to walk away, hesitates, and returns to grab a second poncho from the bin.

“I have important documents in my book bags,” he says. “If I get wet I don’t care, but if my social security or birth certificate gets wet, that’s gonna be a problem.”

12:15 A.M. A FREE BED FOR THE NIGHT Niklas Mihr, a 24-year-old German tourist, weaves between tarps and bedrolls looking in vain for an empty spot where he can lie down.

“This is my first time in New York,” Mihr says, clutching a blue sleeping bag

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PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Top photos: While the nighttime temperatures allowed it last month, protesters bedded down only in sleeping bags, or covered themselves with what they could find at the “Comfort Station.” Above left: The “kitchen” stayed busy until late, feeding a constant stream of occupiers. Above right: The “People’s Library” was a popular stop for politically conscious readers.

he picked up at the comfort station. “I met some guys in Vermont who said, ‘If you don’t get a place to stay, just go there and stay the night.’”

“I like the vibe,” he added. “People are very open. You get very easy into conversations. I really like the drums, some hippies doing guitar music, fiddle and stuff. But on the other side, I heard people fighting, screaming about space. I think it’s what happens when you have something like this. People have different levels of comfort.”

1:15 A.M. THE LIBRARY IS OPEN Stephen Boyer stands in front of the “People’s Library” chatting about poetry with a friend. Boyer, one of a dozen volunteer librarians at the camp, is compiling an anthology of Occupy Wall Street poetry.

“Every week people send me emails and I add to it,” Boyer says, holding the spiral-bound book.

Behind Boyer, some 40 bins of books are sorted by genre: gender studies, political theory, history and resistance. Two plastic chairs are available for visitors to read in the dim light.

Like other librarians, Boyer would like his library to be quieter. The 27year-old called 311 earlier in the night to complain about the jackhammering that started on Liberty Street just as the protesters’ general assembly began.

“They are trying to make us sleepdeprived, to make us go crazy, but it’s not going to intimidate us,” Boyer says, with a shrug. “The trash trucks come through—every city has it. But the drilling, right when the general assembly starts, that’s intentional.”

2 A.M. OCCUPY MCDONALD’S A steady stream of protesters files

into McDonald’s on Broadway to use the restroom. One man walks in wrapped in a blanket, another stumbles in barefoot, yawning and rubbing his eyes. Two girls wear pajama pants, one of them clutching a toothbrush. A man enters the restaurant carrying a trash bag filled with his belongings. He sits wearily at a table and begins to doze, only to be awakened by employees, who tell him to leave.

More men than women come in and

drug and alcohol counselors.

On his solitary rounds, Rivera says, his mind sometimes wonders to thoughts of John Zuccotti, chairman of the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties, and namesake of the park.

“Did he ever think to himself, that his little park might be the birthplace of the second American independence revolution? His tiny little park. And this may very well be that.”

“I like the vibe,” said a German tourist who was staying the night. “On the other hand, I heard people fighting over space. People have different levels of comfort.” some seem lost. They stand in front of the women's room door until employees point them in the right direction.

3:30 A.M. THE DOCTOR'S ROUNDS Wearing a black t-shirt with a red cross taped to the arm and the words “Stop bitching and start a revolution” emblazoned across the front, Dr. Roberto Rivera, 59, is one of several volunteer medics who spends the night walking through the encampment looking for medical trouble.

In a bag, along with the usual instruments, Rivera carries a space blanket to treat hypothermia—something that isn’t a problem yet, he says, but could be soon.

Over the weekend, Rivera said, he called an ambulance for several overdose victims.

Despite a ban on alcohol and drugs in the park, the encampment has attracted some street people with drug problems who come for the free food. The camp’s security team, he adds, is trying to find

4:30 A.M. LIGHTS, CAMERA… A reporter for WPIX—one of several television stations with a truck set up on Cedar Street—stands on the edge of the park studying a notecard. His cameraman turns on a large floodlight and begins shooting footage of the park for an early-morning newscast. “Hey, we’re trying to sleep,” a protester says to the cameraman, shielding his eyes from the bright light. Meanwhile, the reporter steps in front of the camera, motioning to the sleeping group behind him, and speculates about how they will get through the night in the rain.

5:30 A.M. THE CITY STIRS The neighborhood begins to stir around the sleeping protesters. Delivery trucks screech to a halt and unload supplies to the row of food trucks on Cedar Street. Garbage trucks rumble past, buses drop off the first commuters, and a woman jogs down Liberty Street, looking curiously at the park’s residents. Men in suits begin pouring into McDonald’s,

mingling among a few sleepy-eyed occupiers stepping in to use the bathroom.

6:30 A.M. LAID OFF AND READY TO HELP Volunteers start carrying plastic containers of water to the kitchen, preparing for breakfast.

Most of the camp is asleep, but a few protesters wait for coffee.

“I got laid off from my job yesterday, and went straight to the train station to come out here,” says Sean, a 48-year-old cook from Baltimore who is supervising the coffee station. “I got to Penn Station at 2:30 this morning and walked down. I am just hoping to help.”

Shivering slightly, Shane, a protester from New Jersey, looks up at the threatening sky.

“If you have a poncho and waterproof shoes, and can cover everything up, you’ll be all right,” he tells Sean. “If you don’t do that, it’s going to be a lot less pleasant.”

7:30 A.M. A NEW DAY The first drops of rain are a wake-up call at the encampment; most everyone begins to rise.

At the “media center,” volunteers try to erect a giant pink patio umbrella to cover the generator and electrical equipment. Everywhere, protesters are wrapping their belongings in tarps and plastic bags.

After looking worriedly at the sky, a man in a windbreaker and shorts folds up a green bedroll.

“We’ve been to several Occupy encampments in other cities,” says Jeff, who will only give his first name. “The other encampments have had access to better amenities like tents and mattresses or porta-potties,” he says. “They are much more hard-core here.” n

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Seaport Museum Makes Plans for Revival

BY JESSICA TERRELL Sporting a printer’s smock, Robert Warner bustled about Bowne & Co. Stationers on Water Street, dusting shelves and clearing out unwanted merchandise. Walking across the shop’s old wooden floor, he stopped to admire a large antique printing press that he had recently oiled and made ready for work.

“Nineteenth-century presses are more beautiful than anything today,” Warner said, clearly pleased to be back with the 150-year-old machines that had been locked away for more than six months.

The reopening of the Seaport Museum’s historic printing shop, closed since the museum laid off its staff in February, became the first reassuring sign of life returning to the troubled institution. Others are soon to follow.

The Museum of the City of New York took over management of the maritime institution on Oct. 6 for an interim period of up to 18 months. That’s not much time to save a museum that has been floundering for years.

“We feel that we have to really get out of the gate,” Museum of the City of New York Director Susan Henshaw Jones told the Trib in a telephone interview.

For Jones, that means launching a flurry of Seaport activity. Besides rehiring Warner as director of Bowne & Co. Stationers, she is planning exhibitions, to open in January. School groups will

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Master printer Robert Warner in the museum’s newly reopened Bowne & Co. Stationers.

again be touring the museum. And, with the help of two archivists, the cataloguing of its collections is set to begin.

“We would like to get some of the Seaport collection up on its website,” Jones said. “Collections access is very important from our perspective.”

Jones hopes to reopen the museum’s galleries to the public on Jan. 22. A 22minute multimedia presentation on the city’s history, created for the Museum of the City of New York, will be among the first offerings. Jones has reached out to a variety of groups soliciting art and photos to show in the gallery spaces as well.

“We want the exhibits to be contemporary and edgy,” Jones said.

The Museum of the City of New York also closed the Seaport’s historic ships for the winter to assess needed repairs. All of the boats need work, Jones said. The 100-year-old Peking, for example, has broken portholes and rotting decks, not to mention a rusting hull.

In October, the museum began to tackle its biggest challenge: paying for those repairs.

Last month, Community Board 1 voted unanimously to support Jones’s request for funding from the city to

repair the Ambrose and hire a shipmaster to care for the Seaport Museum’s eight aging vessels.

Jones has also said she wants to renegotiate the museum’s agreement with the city to allow the institution to lease some of its vacant space for commercial uses.

The museum is leasing a gallery space at 209 Water St. to the Tinsel Trading Company for a pop-up holiday shop, expected to open at the beginning of this month. But allowing the museum to rent out spaces longer would help with the funding crisis that had all but shut it down.

Jones is expected to give an update about her efforts to CB1’s Seaport Committee on Nov. 15. She will also be meeting in November with members of Save Our Seaport, a group of Seaport Museum supporters who spent much of the summer advocating for the city to step in and help the museum.

Save Our Seaport volunteers complained that the previous administration did not communicate with its volunteers about problems that came up. If the museum were to be saved, they argued, it needed to be with the help of its volunteers.

Jones said that the volunteers’ input will now be heard. Everyone, she added, now has the same goals.

“The first mission of the museum— the ships and the landmark buildings— deserves another try,” Jones said. “That is what we are all about.”

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It Was a Long Road to a Light at Duane St.

BY CARL GLASSMAN It took more than a decade, and then it took just days.

The announcement last month that a stoplight will be installed at Duane and Greenwich streets came swiftly following a near-tragedy that set in motion a renewed call for action.

But the decision followed years of requests and pleading and traffic studies that went nowhere. Yet another study was promised after a cab struck—but left unharmed—3-year-old Ozzie Carty as he crossed Greenwich Street on a scooter, accompanied by his mother on Sept. 30.

Community advocates, who had lobbied the Department of Transportation for years, were taken by surprise when they got the good news.

“Wow, we were preparing intermediate steps thinking it might take another few months to get the study done,” said Nelle Fortenberry, the former president of Friends of Washington Market Park and one of the leaders in the group’s efforts over the years.

Fortenberry said that, at best, she had hoped the city would put cones in the intersection as an interim measure until the city agreed to a permanent solution.

Efforts by Fortenberry and the Friends group go back to 2004 (following Community Board 1 resolutions from years earlier). That year they launched their campaign for what they called the Tribeca Kids Safety Zone, ask-

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Sonia Carty crosses Greenwich Street, at Duane, with son Ozzie. A near-tragedy at the crossing, when a cab grazed Ozzie, sparked a new demand for a light at the intersection.

ing the city to make Greenwich Street safer between Harrison and Warren streets. Thirteen local community organizations and schools signed on as supporters. Still, nothing changed at Duane Street.

Nor did it change following several accidents over the years involving pedestrians and two traffic studies.

The studies failed to show that the number and speed of vehicles on Greenwich Street met federal requirements for a stoplight or a stop sign.

Advocates argued that exceptions

should be made to the rules to allow for the slower pace of the many children and seniors who cross there.

As recently as last year, at a City Council hearing, the Department of Transportation Assistant Commissioner Laurie Ardito was asked whether the agency could issue a waiver to the federal guidelines.

“We’ve always followed the federal warrants when it comes to installing traffic lights or stop signs,” she said. “There is no exception to that rule.”

Still, that was just what Borough

President Scott Stringer was asking for publicly last month when he stood near the intersection with local residents, including Ozzie’s parents, at his side.

“City and federal departments of transportation must put this bureaucracy aside and work together to ensure that this corridor is truly a safe place to live,” Stringer said.

A couple of weeks later the DOT released a statement saying that another study was conducted and it found “a major increase in pedestrians on weekends, with the number of people crossing Greenwich as much as three times the level recorded during a 2007 study.”

“All these disparate groups had voiced concerns about the intersection,” said Fortenberry. “I think Stringer succeeded in making it one voice, and letting the DOT know this wasn’t going away.”

Sonia Carty, Ozzie’s mother, had pledged to fight for a light following the incident. She said she was grateful that the city’s decision had come so quickly.

“I had prepared myself for a much longer battle,” she said. Carty said she was amazed by the support she received from the community.

“Beginning with the article in the [online] Trib about the accident, everywhere I went people were asking about Ozzie and to me that was the most moving experience,” she said. “It would have been a fight against a lot of people.”

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The Friends of Finn Square, a group of neighborhood residents who care for the garden at the intersection of Franklin Street and West Broadway, need volunteers. Experience in gardening is desirable but not necessary. If you’d like to get your hands dirty and enjoy the outdoors, call Jessica Raimi at jraimi@earthlink.net.

The New York Theatre Ballet jumpstarts the holiday season at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden with free performances of “The Nutcracker” at 12:30 and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

At 6 p.m., the Winter Garden will also have its annual lighting celebration.

Waterfront Gathering The Lilac, a historic Coast Guard vessel docked at Pier 25 since early this spring, is hosting a “Friend Raiser” before the ship closes to the public for the winter. There will be live music and a cash bar from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nov. 3 aboard the vessel. The event is free, but registration at lilacpreservationproject.org is required. Attendees are advised to dress warmly.

Online Worlds An anthropologist and an Internet game designer will discuss the ways that virtual gaming connections can mimic and sometimes supplant real-world relationships. “Virtual Humanity: The Anthropology of Online Worlds,” at the New York Academy of Sciences, will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 250 Greenwich St. Information is at nyas.org or 212-298-8600.

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Music at Poets House The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra kicks off its fourth season with an evening of poetry and music on Monday, Nov. 14, from 6 to 8 p.m., at Poets House, 10 River Terrace. The event will feature music set to the writings of e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson and other poets. Tickets are $125. Information at knickerbocker-orchestra.org.

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A thief in a leather jacket and black helmet approached a man getting into his car, brandished a gun, and demanded a bag containing several hundred tickets for the Water Taxi and the Wax Museum and other tourist attractions valued at $6,400. After the victim handed over the bag, the thief jumped onto the back of an approaching motorcycle and the two thieves drove off.

Oct. 20...3:05 p.m.

An Italian tourist placed her bag, containing $1,100 euros, under a table at Au Bon Pain. A thief stole it while the woman ate.

145 FULTON Oct. 8...4:11 p.m.

A woman left her wallet momentarily on the counter of the store, Mr. Closeout, after making her purchase.

Another woman walked up behind her and stole the wallet.

90 FULTON Oct. 8...11 p.m.

A thief stole a woman’s purse from the back of a bar stool.

121 FULTON Oct. 10...9 p.m.

A man walked up behind a woman eating dinner at the bar and snatched her purse from her hand.

WATER & FULTON Oct. 13...10 p.m.

A thief approached a woman talking on her iPhone and snatched it from her hand before fleeing.

VARICK & FRANKLIN Oct. 19...3:33 a.m.

A man fell asleep on the northbound 1 train. He was awakened by a man removing a bag from his lap. The thief ran off the train with the bag, and was arrested at Vestry and Hudson streets.

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A woman slashed at a Parks Department officer’s shirt with a piece of glass, cutting his stomach. The woman, who was apprehended by police, had defecated on a bathroom floor, the officer told police.

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Location: Battery Park City Authority, 1 World Financial Center, 24th Fl. 1) Presentation on Asphalt Green by Carol Tweedy and Dr. Paul Weiss 2) Update on Rector Street bridge security with NYS DOT 3) Ferry emissions: Discussion with representatives of NY Waterway, NYC Dept. of Transportation, U.S. Dept. of Environmental Protection and the Port Authority The following notice has been received for renewal of a liquor license: • 200 West St. for Delicious restaurant

11/2 FINANCIAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE 1) Presentation on restoration of temporary bike path in Battery Park by Josh Benson of Department of Transportation.

The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses and sidewalk cafe applications: • 56 Beaver St., application for restaurant liquor license for Delmonico’s Restaurant • 120 Cedar St., renewal of liquor license for O’Hara’s Pub • 142 Fulton St., renewal of wine and beer license for S&J Tomato Inc.

11/10 LANDMARKS COMMITTEE 1) 312-322 Canal St., application for new storefront infill and second floor windows and cornices: Resolution 2) 1 White St., application for rooftop addition: Resolution

11/14 WTC REDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 1) 9/11 Memorial update 2) Department of Transportation update on Memorial buses 3) LMDC update (invited)

11/15 SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER COMMITTEE

1) Hydraulic fracturing in New York State: Follow-up report 2) Strategic planning needs assessment

1) Seaport Historic District presentation by Robert Lavalva 2) South Street Seaport Museum update by Susan Henshaw Jones 3) 142-144 Beekman St. application for renewal of unenclosed sidewalk café license for Salud! Restaurant & Bar: Resolution The following notice has been received for renewal of wine and beer or liquor license: • 87 Baxter St. for Nha Trang Vietnam Restaurant Inc.

11/7 YOUTH & EDUCATION COMMITTEE

11/17 QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE

11/3 PLANNING AND COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

1) Lilac preservation project: Presentation by Museum director and vice president Mary Habstritt 2) Millennium gymnasium and related issues: Discussion with New York City School Construction Authority President Lorraine Grillo 3) Speaker’s Overcrowding Task Force meeting: Update by Paul Hovitz 4) Department of Education proposed rezoning: Discussion

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1) 43 Murray St., application for a tavern liquor license for Woodrows Management LLC, d/b/a pending Sidewalk café applications: • 109 West Broadway, application for enclosed sidewalk café for Super Linda Restaurant: Reconsideration of resolution • 65 West Broadway, application for renewal of sidewalk café license for Jean restaurant The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses:

1) Update on construction projects in Lower Manhattan by Robin Forst, director of community and government relations, LMCCC 2) Discussion on the restaurant grading system: Presentation by Department of Health official Beth Torin 3) Discussion on the BigAppleRx Discount Card: Presentation by Department of Health 4) Discussion on the 311 system by Department of Citywide Services

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Inside this 6-year-old is the little girl she was meant to be, waiting to come out.

Peter Curry reads to his daughter Maisy. Though Maisy’s parents doubt that she will ever be able to talk, they hope that one day she will learn to read.

Raising Maisy TEXT AND PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

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ou’ve probably never heard of Rett syndrome.

Neither had Peter Curry and Heather Daly until they discovered the reason their happy, healthy Maisy, now 6, had begun to fall behind other children as she approached her first birthday.

It would take a year of genetic testing before the couple, who live in the southern end of Battery Park City, got the devastating diagnosis.

Even then, when Maisy was 20 months, the disease was only beginning to take its toll. Though she had never learned to walk, Maisy could speak about a dozen words, and she had yet to suffer the frequent seizures and other severe symptoms of Rett that she would soon endure.

“After her second birthday she took a dramatic turn,” Heather says.

The rare neurological disease, which strikes an estimated one in 10,000 births and afflicts only girls, often reverses the child’s motor skills. Identified less than 30 years ago, Rett syndrome is caused when the body can’t make functioning proteins needed to build the neurons that control motor skills. The neural

At breakfast, Peter feeds Maisy and Heather is in charge of 1-yearold Finn. Maisy also receives nutrition at night through a tube.

pathways for sending messages to the rest of the body just aren’t there.

Information is taken in normally, researchers say, but it can’t come out.

Maisy cannot walk or talk or use her hands. Even the crawling ability she had as a baby is gone. Drinking became so difficult that in the summer of 2010 she was hospitalized with dehydration.

Fearing a recurrence, Peter and Heather, both 36, made the difficult decision this summer to subject their tiny daughter to the risks of surgery and have a tube implanted in her stomach. Now, Maisy gets a regimen of medications, fluids

On the World Financial Center plaza, Maisy and Finn get stair climbing practice. Maisy needs support in order to stand.

and nutrition supplements through it.

Especially important are two seizure medications, which limit the number and severity of the attacks she has almost daily. Without warning, Maisy goes stiff and her eyes roll up. Usually, the seizures are short, but not always.

“You okay? Come on. You okay?”

Peter says repeatedly to Maisy, more as a wish than a question as a seizure strikes her at breakfast. Peter holds the child’s head, hands pressed against her blond curls, as he and Heather wait anxiously for the attack to pass.

“Okay, all over now,” he says, final-

ly, when it does.

Peter, a molecular biologist and former researcher at Rockefeller University, is well suited to handle the tubes, syringes, medicines, and the maintenance of Maisy’s feeding tube site.

Heather is glad of it. “When they told me, ‘Oh, no problem, you can just attach this tube and fill her up with medicine,’ I thought, ‘You have the wrong person. I’m terrified.’”

“I’ve gotten better,” she added, “but it still makes me nervous.”

Heather calls Maisy “Daddy’s girl.”

(CONTINUED ON PAGE 22)

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21)

Above: Maisy practices at home on a borrowed eye-gaze machine. Right: Her special education teacher, Lois Grant, uses a SMART Board to help her recognize numbers and try to point to them. Below right: At Support by Design in Tribeca, physical therapist Marilyn Russo works with Maisy on a swing, which she both sits and lies on.

The swing is meant to help her equilibrium.

“That’s why Finn is Mama’s boy,” she says, grinning at the couple’s perky oneyear-old, seated opposite Maisy at the dining table. “Daddy spent a lot of time with big sister.”

Indeed, Peter stopped working to be with Maisy full-time after her symptoms became severe. (Last year, when Maisy started school, he took a new job in Tarrytown, N.Y.) Heather gave up her practice at a big Midtown law firm and now works for the federal government from her office at home.

“I had wanted to be the mom who did it all,” Heather sighed.

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

• There are an estimated 300 children and teens with Rett syndrome in the metropolitan area and many are the patients of Dr. Aleksandra (Sasha) Djukic, founder and director of Tri-State Rett Syndrome Center at Montefiore Medical Center.

Djukic’s boundless advocacy and support for Rett syndrome families gives parents like Maisy’s hope.

Insisting that “silence must not be misunderstood as lack of understanding,” Djukic says it is the eyes—unaffected by the disease—that hold the key to the ability to communicate.

“One of the diagnostic criteria of the disease is the penetrating eye gaze,” she says. “They have strong eye gaze. That is their way of communicating.”

An eye-gaze device, about the size of a laptop computer, is the brightest hope for Rett sufferers to “speak,” Djukic says. The device scans the retina and allows the eyes to control it rather than a mouse or a keyboard. The device can

Above: Every three weeks, at home, Maisy receives an intravenous infusion of antibodies because she lacks natural defenses. Before the feeding tube was implanted in her stomach this summer, dehydration had narrowed her veins, making the process difficult. Though it is easier now for visiting nurse Thomas Daniel, at left, and home nurse Sharon Knowles, it can still take several tries. Here, Maisy is being prepared for one of three attempts last month. The third was a success.

also generate speech from the command.

“After a year of seeing 200 girls we have scientific proof that two-thirds can easily, effectively utilize them,” Djukic says.

Peter and Heather say Maisy has performed well on the $16,000 machine but she’s had limited opportunity to use one.

Just last month, the Department of Education agreed to furnish her special education classroom, in P.S. 33 in Chelsea, with the machine.

“We hope to advance to the point where she can use words and not use the symbol for the word. You start with the picture and the word and eventually take away the picture,” Peter says. “But that’s a higher level of training.”

Peter and Heather long for that day, when she can read and say what’s on her mind. “We do have a memory of Maisy talking to us,” says Heather, “so we’re always trying to get that back.”

“We know she’s in there and can’t

get it out,” Peter adds, softy. “And that’s tough.”

Tough, too, is looking ahead long term. Rett has been reversed in mice, a promising advance, but a cure may be far off. “It’s very hard to picture Maisy being older and how we’re going to deal with that,” says Heather. “And what we’re going to do if there’s a time when we can’t take care of her. I think that’s something we try not to think about.”

• For now, Heather and Peter discover Maisy’s choices by putting “yes” and “no” cards in front of her. With difficulty at times, but often with certainty, she gives her answer.

One evening recently, Heather presented Maisy with a question as she sat up in bed. “Maisy, can Finn come up?

Can Finn come up for a book?” Heather (CONTINUED ON PAGE 24)

Children with Rett syndrome are often beset by seizures. Maisy has them almost every day, though they are usually not as severe, nor as scary to her parents, as they have been in the past. Above, Maisy stiffens during a seizure, then lies supine, her eyes rolled back, while Peter comforts her. This episode lasts about a minute.

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21)

Above: Maisy practices at home on a borrowed eye-gaze machine. Right: Her special education teacher, Lois Grant, uses a SMART Board to help her recognize numbers and try to point to them. Below right: At Support by Design in Tribeca, physical therapist Marilyn Russo works with Maisy on a swing, which she both sits and lies on.

The swing is meant to help her equilibrium.

“That’s why Finn is Mama’s boy,” she says, grinning at the couple’s perky oneyear-old, seated opposite Maisy at the dining table. “Daddy spent a lot of time with big sister.”

Indeed, Peter stopped working to be with Maisy full-time after her symptoms became severe. (Last year, when Maisy started school, he took a new job in Tarrytown, N.Y.) Heather gave up her practice at a big Midtown law firm and now works for the federal government from her office at home.

“I had wanted to be the mom who did it all,” Heather sighed.

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

• There are an estimated 300 children and teens with Rett syndrome in the metropolitan area and many are the patients of Dr. Aleksandra (Sasha) Djukic, founder and director of Tri-State Rett Syndrome Center at Montefiore Medical Center.

Djukic’s boundless advocacy and support for Rett syndrome families gives parents like Maisy’s hope.

Insisting that “silence must not be misunderstood as lack of understanding,” Djukic says it is the eyes—unaffected by the disease—that hold the key to the ability to communicate.

“One of the diagnostic criteria of the disease is the penetrating eye gaze,” she says. “They have strong eye gaze. That is their way of communicating.”

An eye-gaze device, about the size of a laptop computer, is the brightest hope for Rett sufferers to “speak,” Djukic says. The device scans the retina and allows the eyes to control it rather than a mouse or a keyboard. The device can

Above: Every three weeks, at home, Maisy receives an intravenous infusion of antibodies because she lacks natural defenses. Before the feeding tube was implanted in her stomach this summer, dehydration had narrowed her veins, making the process difficult. Though it is easier now for visiting nurse Thomas Daniel, at left, and home nurse Sharon Knowles, it can still take several tries. Here, Maisy is being prepared for one of three attempts last month. The third was a success.

also generate speech from the command.

“After a year of seeing 200 girls we have scientific proof that two-thirds can easily, effectively utilize them,” Djukic says.

Peter and Heather say Maisy has performed well on the $16,000 machine but she’s had limited opportunity to use one.

Just last month, the Department of Education agreed to furnish her special education classroom, in P.S. 33 in Chelsea, with the machine.

“We hope to advance to the point where she can use words and not use the symbol for the word. You start with the picture and the word and eventually take away the picture,” Peter says. “But that’s a higher level of training.”

Peter and Heather long for that day, when she can read and say what’s on her mind. “We do have a memory of Maisy talking to us,” says Heather, “so we’re always trying to get that back.”

“We know she’s in there and can’t

get it out,” Peter adds, softy. “And that’s tough.”

Tough, too, is looking ahead long term. Rett has been reversed in mice, a promising advance, but a cure may be far off. “It’s very hard to picture Maisy being older and how we’re going to deal with that,” says Heather. “And what we’re going to do if there’s a time when we can’t take care of her. I think that’s something we try not to think about.”

• For now, Heather and Peter discover Maisy’s choices by putting “yes” and “no” cards in front of her. With difficulty at times, but often with certainty, she gives her answer.

One evening recently, Heather presented Maisy with a question as she sat up in bed. “Maisy, can Finn come up?

Can Finn come up for a book?” Heather (CONTINUED ON PAGE 24)

Children with Rett syndrome are often beset by seizures. Maisy has them almost every day, though they are usually not as severe, nor as scary to her parents, as they have been in the past. Above, Maisy stiffens during a seizure, then lies supine, her eyes rolled back, while Peter comforts her. This episode lasts about a minute.

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Far left: At bedtime, Peter connects a “gtube” to the port in Maisy’s stomach. He will then send a regimen of medicines through it. Left: Heather, less comfortable with some of the medical aspects of Maisy’s care, combs her daughter’s wet hair after a bath.

Below: In the morning, Peter carries Maisy downstairs to breakfast.

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Raising Maisy (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23)

puts the cards in front of Maisy. At first, she seems uninterested.

“Can you touch it?” her mother asks, trying to coax a response. “Are you thinking about it?”

Suddenly, Maisy slaps a card, declaring her answer. “Maisy’s the boss,” Heather beams, and she says, “No way, José.”

Like most children, Maisy’s bedtime routine includes a bath and book—but with plenty in between. Peter attaches Maisy to oxygen. He cleans the gastrictube site on her stomach, hooks up the tube and pushes her medicines through it. (Overnight, Maisy also gets formula through the tube.)

“It must feel weird to go straight into your tummy this way, right?” Peter says to Maisy as he pushes on a syringe. “But it’s easier than drinking, right Maise?”

Peter hooks a monitor to Maisy’s toe. It will measure her heart rate and the oxygen saturation in her blood. (With Rett, the brain can even forget to tell the body to breathe.)

As Maisy drifts off to sleep, an alarm sounds.

Her oxygen level is low. “You can see her lips and around her eyes are purple,” her dad says calmly.

He turns up the oxygen and watches the numbers on a bedside monitor slowly rise. “Yeah, now we’re getting pink. Now you’re bouncing up,” he says to Maisy, who already is asleep.

And though she is sleeping, Peter leans over the bed and reads “Goodnight Moon,” as he does each night. “…Good night stars, good night air, and good night noises everywhere.”

At that, he closes the book and kisses his little girl lightly on the cheek.

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Downtown Isn’t Beyond Fracking’s Reach “Clean, Safe, Natural Gas.” This mantra is heard repeatedly on television commercials, to assure an inattentive public that gas drilling is good for us.

We are being lobbied. Those words “clean and safe” are repeated over and over, because the energy industry knows that gas drilling is neither. The poisons they use in “hydrofracking,” which releases gas for harvest deep in the earth, can easily infect the water table of an entire JIM region. (My STRATTON’S Charrette of Dec. 2009 gave details.)

Keeping hydrofracking out of New York State has become a pitched battle between the multi-billionCITY dollar energy CHARRETTE companies and the people in their way. Currently state officials are looking at a badly flawed environmental impact statement that remains the only thing standing in the way of the frackers.

Curiously, we of Tribeca were early players in that war. The city’s first hearing on fracking was at Stuyvesant High School in 2009. And on Nov. 30 we will

host the city’s next public hearing at Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Tribeca and our city are deeply involved because the next target for “clean, safe” hydrofracking is the Delaware River basin, which provides our own city tap water. Deep under the Delaware is the Marcellus shale, containing quantities of natural gas that make corporate fingers tremble at their ledgers.

We are directly connected to the Delaware by a massive fresh water tunnel that runs beneath our feet, joined at the other end by the Cannonsville and Pepacton Reservoirs. Yet the lobbyist-

chased from Congress by an outpouring of lobbyist money. Point man in the effort was Vice President Dick Cheney, former CEO of Halliburton, which manufactures the fracking technology.

The 2005 law prevents federal agencies from policing new energy sites. It even restricts what a state or locality can do to defend itself.

The industry is wily. It dangles big money in front of small farmers to secure fracking leases. In small type a lawsuit is threatened if negative effects on the affected land are revealed. The landowner also assumes all responsibility if anything goes wrong.

The next target for so-called “clean, safe” hydrofracking is the Delaware River basin, which provides our city’s tap water. influenced Delaware River Basin Commission went to great lengths to keep affected city folk unable to comment on the fracking issue.

The City of New York, however, independently staged its own hearings at BMCC. Word has spread about the threat of fracking to our water, and with it the deceitful tactics of its industry.

Corporate fortunes were guaranteed in 2005, when exemptions from the Clean Air and Water Acts were pur-

To shield companies further from private lawsuits, leases and drilling operations are repeatedly traded among conspiring corporations. If a neighbor gets sick, it will be impossible to find a company to sue.

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But gas wells don’t come in the dozens. They come by the hundreds.

From the air, Bradford County, Penn., looks like an ant farm, with hundreds of wells interconnected by truck roads gouged into former forests and fields.

This devastation is only a few dozen miles west of the Delaware.

The proposed EIS is woefully bad, as are the proposed regulations.

Analysis focuses only on single wells, ignoring the effects on the environment of a massive build-out of many hundreds. (Six hundred wells would poison as much water as the entire Upper Delaware River down to the water gap.)

Further, a single inspector could unilaterally allow frackers to ignore regulations...in an industry where passing around money is as tainted as the lands they despoil.

The Monongahela River (one of Pittsburgh’s “Three Rivers”) no longer has fish. Gas companies poured fracking fluid into a dead mineshaft, where it leaked away and was eventually pumped into the river. The Monongahela flows into the Ohio River, which flows into the Mississippi. Now all three waters have poisonous fracking fluid as an add-on.

No problem, say the ads. “Gas is clean, safe, and natural.”

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On Manhattan Youth’s 25th birthday

BOB TOWNLEY Remembers When you first started Manhattan Youth, what other organizations were available for kids in Lower Manhattan?

We were the vanguard. Now it’s not as unique. Today there’s a new preschool opening nearly every day. I applied for a job through the New York Times for youth coordinator for Community Board 1. I was 26. It was only a half-time job, because there were very few youth to coordinate. It was so desolate down here that once Paul Goldstein, who was the community board district manager, sent me to the parking lot guys on Greenwich and Chambers to tell them not to park their cars on Greenwich Street. They were blocking trucks going to the World Trade Center.

I started a football team and we played in East River Park and a basketball program on Sundays at Murry Bergtraum High School. Paul had started a karate program in Southbridge Towers.

It was all state-funded through Trinity Church. Then Trinity said they didn’t want to be involved anymore. So we formed Manhattan Youth with a couple of friends of mine from graduate school and the community board.

Where was your first office in Tribeca?

We were in the basement of an animal hospital that used to be at 154 Duane St. I had a little room with a desk and phone. We shared the space with a freezer where they put the dead dogs and cats that they put to sleep. I’d take a nap in the vault under the sidewalk.

What made you start Downtown Day Camp?

I was in the shower when I got the idea for a camp. I was working at a homeless shelter during the day and at Manhattan Youth at night. I thought, “I

could quit my day job at Henry Street Settlement! P.S. 234 had just opened. I had no money. I recruited Russ Schulman, who still works for us, from Florida. He was 19. We would work in my apartment making schedules. I decided we needed a pool so I went to Related Management, which owned 225 Rector.

Nowadays they would never take a chance. But I signed a lease and gave them 3,000 bucks, the first month’s rent, and they gave me a health spa and a pool.

But we’ve had to tweak it a lot. There are new programs in the community.

We’ve had to be more financially strategic, more competitive. I’d like to be more offcenter, do funky stuff, but some things put butter on the bread and others are just wacky.

I’m a great fourthquarter player. I kick into high gear when survival issues are in my face.

Not a bad deal. But how did you know how to run a day camp?

I didn’t. I hired people I knew from the neighborhood to run programs. And I couldn’t believe that people were calling me and writing me checks. I’d keep the checks in an envelope. The first summer, we ended up cutting off at about 50 kids.

The camp has been the most important part of ManhattanYouth because it brought in money. The money is still critical. It built the community center. We squirreled away money every year and paid for all the soft costs. Though we’re grateful to the city for paying the hard costs.

You once joked that you wanted to be rich enough to own the Jets.

But it seems that money and power are not what drives you.

My friends in college would always say, “We’ll run City Hall one day.” We were all interested in achievement. But I quickly realized that most achievement didn’t have a soul to it and I wasn’t cut out to do battle with Wall Street or with developers. I get taken to the cleaners by contractors all the time. I’m more like, “Okay, let’s form a consensus.”

For 20 years, you’d been talking about building a community center. Why? When I was a kid, I went to a community center in Queens. I was an only child. Home was boring to me. There was no Facebook.

We played ping-pong and pool and watched movies. I learned everything there, even sex ed, when I was in 4th grade. Before that I had a very big misconception. But I won’t go into that now.

Is this the community center you always wanted?

In some ways, yes. We had mentors, for example, who were in their 20s who were our heroes. They were distinct from teachers and parents, a different category of adult, more understanding. I think that’s very similar to what we have going on here.

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Manhattan Youth has grown so big. Do you look back on the early, simpler days with nostalgia?

No. In the beginning there was so much problem-solving to do. We had to figure out what would work, what would catch people’s attention. I had no administrative experience. How the hell do you do it? How do you tell people about your programs? There were no emails. We were so appreciative when you kept writing articles about us.

Now it’s financial. We have to figure out how to run it. We had money in the bank when we went to build the community center. Now it’s all gone.

CARL GLASSMAN

This month, Manhattan Youth—the organization that has served thousands of Downtown children—celebrates its 25th anniversary. Founder and Executive Director Bob Townley sat down with April Koral to recall how it all began.

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30 ARTS, CRAFTS & PLAY CORNHUSK DOLL Make a traditional Native American doll using cornhusks. Free. Thursdays, 2 pm.

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THE AMAZING ELEVATOR Learn about the invention that makes skyscrapers possible and construct a pulley system. Ages 8–15. Registration required. $5. Sat, 11/5, 10:30 am.

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DRAWING WORKSHOP Discover the artist Carl Beam, then make drawings inspired by his work. Registration required. Free. Sat, 11/12, 10:30 am. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

FINDING HOME Poetry writing and arts and crafts that explore the meaning of home. Registration required. $7; $4; free under 12.

Sat, 11/12, 1:30 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., 212-6194785, mocanyc.org.

ARCHIKIDS Hands-on workshop led by an architect.

Ages 9–13. Registration required. $5. Sat, 11/19, 10:30 am. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., 212-968-1961, skyscraper.org.

DANCE THE NUTCRACKER Performance by the New York Theatre Ballet. Free. Tue, 11/29, 12:30 & 6 pm.

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Inspired by an old favorite, “The Yellow Brick Road” is about a teen caught between Latino and American traditions who is swept up by a tornado and dropped into a land of munchkins and a wicked bruja. Ages 6 to 10. Sunday, Nov. 20, 3 p.m. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. $25. Tickets at smarttix.com and tribecapac.org.

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FILM NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN’S FILMS Shorts about Native Americans’ uses of fire. Free. Daily starting Mon, 11/7, 10:30 & 11:45 am. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

FILMS FOR CHILDREN Feature-length movies. Call for schedule.

Ages 3–12. Free. Thu, 11/3, 11/10 & 11/17, 4 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9

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MUSIC TAINO CULTURE AND SONG Learn about Taino culture and sing traditional Taino songs. Free. Wednesdays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

THE SUZI SHELTON BAND Children’s rock ‘n’ roll. $15; free under 2.

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FROM GRIDLOCK TO GARDEN Reimagine your neighborhood using the historic map collection at the library.

Ages 12–18. Free. Fri, 11/18, 3:30 pm.

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JUNIOR DETECTIVE DAY Solve mysteries using crime scene investigation techniques, chemistry, experiments and fingerprinting. Ages 5 and up. $8; $5 students, seniors, children; free under 2. Sat, 11/19, 11 am–2 pm. NYC Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, 212-4803100, nycpolicemuseum.org.

LIGHT UP HANUKKAH Holiday activities and a musical performance by the group, the Macaroons, featuring such rock songs as “Billy Bagel” and “Dreidel Bird.” $10; $7 ages 10 and under. Sun, 12/4, 1:30–4:30 pm. Music at 2:30 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., 646-437-4200, mjhnyc.org.

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STORIES & POETRY READING ALOUD Stories for 3–5-year-olds. Free. Mondays, 4 pm. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., 212-790-3499 and New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., 212732-8186, nypl.org.

CHILDREN’S STORYTIME Stories and activities. Free. Tuesdays & Saturdays, 11 am. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., 212-587-5389, bn.com.

BABY STORYTIME Stories, songs and rhymes. For ages 0–18 months. Registration required. Free.

Tuesdays (except 11/1), 11:30 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., 212-790-3499; Thu, 11/3 & 11/10, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., 212-7328186, nypl.org.

TODDLER STORYTIME Interactive stories, songs, finger puppet plays and more. For ages 18–36 months.

Registration required. Free. Wednesdays, 4 pm. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., 212-790-3499; Thu, 11/17, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

TINY POETS TIME Poetry reading for toddlers. Free.

Thursdays, 10 am. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, 212-431-7920, poetshouse.org.

PLAINS INDIANS STORIES With a storyteller. Free. Thursdays, hourly 10 am–4 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Action, humor and participation. Free.

Wed, 11/9, 3:30 pm. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., 212-790-3499; Tue, 11/15, 3:30 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

WE ARE RIVERS Performers bring Richard Lewis’ book about rivers to life through dance and song, followed by a craft project. Ages 4– 10. Free. Sat, 11/12, 11 am. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

THEATER GROWING UP ON THE PRAIRIE Theatrical performance of the stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder about pioneers in the American heartland. Ages 7–12. $25. Sat, 11/5, 1:30 pm. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., 212-220-1459, tribecapac.org.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL The classic holiday story. $18; $17 seniors, $16 children. Sat, 11/12–Sat, 12/24. Saturdays & Sundays, plus Fri, 12/23, 12 & 2 pm. Manhattan Children’s Theatre, 380 Broadway, 212-226-4085, mctny.org.

GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD Animated illustrations accompanied by live performances of catchy original story songs. Ages 3–12. Free. Tue, 11/22, 3:30 pm. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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ith the first-day hoopla behind them (Mayor Bloomberg, architect Frank Gehry and a ton of press were in attendance), kids and staff are settled into Lower Manhattan’s newest school building, P.S. 397, otherwise known as the Spruce Street School.

After two years of incubating in Tweed Courthouse, the school now serves children from pre-k to 2nd grade—and is meant to grow into a kindergarten through 8th grade.

Last month, Principal Nancy Harris (right), gave the Trib a tour of the gleaming new facility in action, and beamed as she spoke of its special features.

Still, she said, none of it “is above and beyond the work that happens between a teacher and kids.

We try to remain grounded.”

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Spruce Up 8 “All the furniture that we use in the school is either furniture that I purchased with our budget when we were at Tweed or furniture allocated to the new building. Anything that I purchased I brought with me. The teachers like this rug. It creates a space boundary.”

Above: Chrissy Koukiotis gives a math lesson to her kindergarten class.

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Every classroom has a SMART Board, built-in LCD projector, wifi capability, two iMacs and a laser printer.”

Left: Science teacher Jessica Oakley works with children at one of the science classroom’s three computers.

6 “This is the rooftop recess yard, or the ‘patio’ as I like to refer to it lovingly, because it is paved and on pedestals for drainage. When you look at the Gehry building from street level the school is at the base and people have very mixed opinions about its architecture. From here, if you ‘erase’ the grates, all you see is the building. It’s definitely a unique perspective.”

Kindergartner Lucas Tartanella shows his hula hoop prowess during recess.

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Above: An after-school dance class rehearses on stage.

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NANCY SCHULMAN Division Head: Early Learning Center Former Director, 92nd Street Y Nursery School

“Every part of a child’s life is important. If you are successful in lower school, feeling confident about yourself as an effective member of a larger group, the sky’s the limit.”

LIBBY HIXSON Division Head: Lower School Former Middle School Head, The Dalton School

“Many schools require students to do drills and memorize facts.

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TOM BONNELL Division Head: Middle School Former Associate Head of School and Middle School Head, The Dalton School

“All students need a realm in which they can feel ‘expert.’

That takes time, attention and hard work. But in developing that interest, they gain a capacity to succeed that you don’t get simply by having broad coverage.”

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BY OLIVER E. ALLEN lthough few of us may pay any mind these days to the Holland Tunnel except for those times when its traffic backs up onto our streets, it surely merits our attention. For when it opened in November 1927, it was universally acclaimed an engineering marvel. Its design was so unusual, in fact, that it was named not for a politician or other public figure but for the chief engineer who had supervised the project. (The fact that the Netherlands, or Holland, had once owned this town was only a coincidence.)

The city had needed a vehicular connection between New York and New Jersey ever since the advent of the motor car at the beginning of the 20th century. But should it be a bridge or a tunnel? A bridge was soon ruled out: the need for high clearance (at least 200 feet to allow big ships to pass underneath) and the cost of acquiring land for its Manhattan approaches indicated that it should be a tunnel, and planning for it began in 1913.

How big a tube and how would it carry the traffic?

An early proposal was from the famed engineer George Goethals (the supervisor of the Panama Canal), who recommended a single but very large tube carrying traffic in both directions, one level above the other. But another idea came from a young (in his thirties), brilliant New York engineer named Clifford Millburn Holland, who had already directed the building of four subway tunnels under the East River.

He proposed two separate tubes, one carrying eastbound traffic and the other westbound. When his plan was accepted in 1919 he was named chief engineer in charge of building the whole thing.

He was already known in the trade as a tremendously hard worker with total mastery of the facts at hand. One time during the building of the 60th Street tunnel under the East River, when Holland was conferring with associates at the noisy digging site under the river, one of the “sand hog” bosses was heard to remark, “That bird could come down here blindfolded in the dark and tell us if we are going wrong.”

But the new Hudson project presented a huge and special challenge: how to ventilate such a long tunnel? Railroad tunnels, even long ones, presented no such problem: trains were electric-pow-

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But cars put out deadly carbon monoxide, which would have to be vented.

Holland and his associates studied all known motorcar tunnels throughout the world and found no answer—they were all short borings that could virtually self-ventilate. Finally, one of Holland’s assistant engineers, Ole Singstad, proposed a duct system that carried the day.

Because a roadway inside a tunnel occupies only the center section of the tube, there is space both above and below it for ventilation ducts. Singstad advised using the lower space for incoming fresh air, forced in by huge fans and released through openings

Above: Cross-section of tunnel during construction shows the crucial ventilation ducts.

At left, workers in 1924 celebrate the “holing through” joining the tube’s two ends. On its opening day, Gov. Al Smith called the tunnel “the wedding of two commonwealths.”

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beside the roadway, with the upper to visit the 9,250-foot tubes themselves, space carrying away the used air. Two and so an estimated 20,000 pedestrians huge ventilation towers would be built rushed in from both ends, laughing, at each end of the project, one for blow- shouting, leaning down to feel the cold ing fresh air in and the other for sucking air rushing in through the ducts, exuberit out. After much study, Holland and antly greeting those coming in the oppothe others decided to go with the site direction. Finally, as midnight scheme. And in practice the new approached, the two tubes were cleared arrangement proved a total success: the system can completely change the air in the entire tunnel in 90 seconds.

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40 DANCE Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre Modern dance set to music by ETHEL. Thu, 11/3–Sat, 11/5, 7:30 pm. $25; $15 students, seniors.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., 212-220-1459, tribecapac.org.

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NY Butoh-Kan Masters Butoh-style dance

with modern dance, pantomime and classical ballet choreographed by Akira Kasai. Fri, 11/18, 8 pm. $17; $13 students. Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 212-625-8369, dnadance.org. g

The Nutcracker Performance by the New

York Theatre Ballet. Tue, 11/29, 12:30 & 6 pm.

Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, 212-417-7000, worldfinancialcenter.com.

Small Spirits Dolls from more than 100 Native cultures throughout the Western hemisphere. To Thu, 7/19/12. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green. Fri–Wed 10 am–5 pm; Thu 10 am–8 pm. 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu. g African Burial Ground The story of the free and enslaved men, women and children who lived and were buried Downtown. Ongoing. Free.

African Burial Ground Center and National Monument, 290 Broadway. Tue–Sat 9 am–4 pm.

212-637-2019, africanburialground.gov. g A Church for the New World Chronicle of the Episcopal parish from the 17th century to

movies. Fri, 11/4, 10 pm. $10. The Sons of Joao, the Admirable New Baiano World A look at Brazilian pop music in the 60s and 70s.

Thu, 11/10, 7 pm. $12. The Peanut Butter Solution A boy loses his hair and can’t follow the directions on the formula to re-grow it. Fri, 11/18, 10 pm. $10. See website for more films.

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Dread Spawn (Head Wrong) Remake of

the 1984 film “Red Dawn,” replacing the USSR with China. Registration required. Thu, 11/10, 6:30 pm. Free. Crime and Punishment On the North Korean border, Chinese military police enforce the law with a heavy hand. Reservations

NOVEMBER 2011 THE TRIBECA TRIB show for the gallery’s 30th anniversary, exploring concepts of chronology, sequence and time.

To Sat, 12/10. Art in General, 79 Walker St., 212-219-0473, artingeneral.org. g Danny Goldfield NYChildren. Photographs of children from 171 countries living in NYC. To 12/21. Park51, 51 Park Pl., park51.org.

Il Lee Monoprints, Editions and Paintings.

Abstract lines on paper. To Thu, 12/22. Art Projects International, 429 Greenwich St. Suite 5B. Tue–Fri 11 am–5 pm. 212-343-2599, artprojects.com.

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EXHIBITIONS g Checks and Balances: Presidents and American Finance Financial challenges faced

by American presidents both in the Oval Office and in their personal lives. Opens Tue, 11/8. To November 2012. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St. Tue–Sat 10 am–4 pm. 212-9084110, moaf.org.

Supertall! International survey of skyscrapers that have been completed since 2001 or are expected to be completed by 2016. To January 2012. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl. Wed–Sun 12–6 pm.

212-968-1961, skyscraper.org.

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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race How the Nazi regime aimed to change g

the genetic makeup of the population through eugenics, and how biomedical fields played a role in legitimizing those practices. To Sat, 1/7/12. Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles Rare artifacts about the poet/writer/immigrant advocate, the importance of religious freedom and struggles faced by immigrants. Let My People

Go! The Soviet Jewry Movement, 19671989 Exhibition about the Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate but were denied the right to leave. Sun, 11/6–March 2012. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm.

Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. Sun– Tue, Thu 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed 10 am–8 pm; Fri 10 am–5 pm. 646-437-4200, mjhnyc.org.

The NYPD Motorcycle Squad: A Century of Service to New York City A history of the

Canstruction, an annual design competition in which architects and engineers create structures built entirely from unopened cans of food, will be on display at the World Financial Center from Thursday, Nov. 10 to Monday, Nov. 21. Afterwards, the food is donated to City Harvest. Daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 5 p.m. on Nov. 21. Admission is free. For information, call 212-417-7000 or go to worldfinancialcenter.com.

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motorcycle units, including vintage bikes and original footage from the 1960s and 70s. To Mon, 1/9/12. 9/11: A Uniform Response 30 photographs of first responders. To Mon, 1/16/12. $8; $5 students, seniors; children; free under 2. NYC Police Museum, 100 Old Slip.

Mon–Sat 10 am–5 pm; Sun 12–5 pm. 212-4803100, nycpolicemuseum.org.

Alcatraz: Life on the Rock Exhibit on the island’s history. To Thu, 1/12/12. Ellis Island, Ferry leaves from Battery Park, 212-363-3200, nps.gov/elis. g

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Emily Dickinson Manuscripts, letters and

more. To Sat, 1/28/12. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terr., 212-431-7920, poetshouse.org.

Lee Mingwei: The Travelers and the Quartet Project 100 shared diaries in which

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travelers wrote their thoughts on what it means to leave home, and a sound installation about the experiences of displaced people. To Mon, 3/26/12. $7; $4 students, seniors, free children under 12 and on Thursdays. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St. Mon & Fri 11 am–5 pm, Thu, 11 am–9 pm, Sat & Sun 10 am–5 pm.

212-619-4785, mocanyc.org.

Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century Work by g

prominent photographers and artists who documented this community. To Sun, 6/10/12.

today, including photos and items related to St. Paul’s Chapel’s role in the 9/11 recovery effort.

Ongoing. The Trinity Museum, Broadway at Wall St. Mon–Fri, 9 am–5:30 pm; Sat–Sun, 9 am– 3:45 pm. 212-602-0800, trinitywallstreet.org.

Dialogue in the Dark Experience the city, including getting on and off a subway and crossing Times Square, relying only on blind and visually impaired guides. Ongoing. $23.50; $20.50 children, students; $21.50 seniors. 11 Fulton St., 888-926-3437, dialoguenyc.com.

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FILM Mother Earth in Crisis and Indigenous Lands and Forests Films about Native Amer-

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icans’ relationship to the natural world. Daily, 1 & 3 pm. Corn Is Who We Are, La Cumbia del Mole and Las de Blanco Day of the Dead films. To Sun, 11/6, hourly 11 am–4 pm. All films are free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212-5143700, nmai.si.edu. g Big Apple Film Festival Selections from the city’s independent filmmakers. Tue, 11/1–Sun, 11/6. See website for details. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., bigapplefilmfestival.com.

Selection of upcoming films: Mur Murs Exploration of street life in early 1980s Los Angeles. Wed, 11/2, 7:30 pm. $12. The Mechanic One of the preeminent hit man g

required. Fri, 11/11, 6:45 pm. $10; $8 students, seniors. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., 212-619-4785, mocanyc.org.

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Thomas Dang Vu Conversations with the

Ancestors. Calligraphy, poetry, textiles, oils and opposing color palettes. To Thu, 11/3. One Art Space, 23 Warren St., 646-559-0535, oneartspace.com. g Adam T. Bernard Tao/The Way. 50 paintings, calligraphic works and ceramics by the Taiwan-trained artist. To Sat, 11/5. World Financial Center. Daily 10 am–1 pm. 212-4177000, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Chip Hughes, Sadie Laska and Jocko Weyland Scruffy. Un-manicured paintings. To

Sat, 11/5. KS Art, 73 Leonard St. Tue–Sat 12–6 pm. 212-219-9918, kerryschuss.com.

Richard Gins Quantum. Paintings, drawings and monotypes. To Wed, 11/9. Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard St., 212-966-1997, salomonarts.com.

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Madeline Denaro Between. Abstract paintings. To Sat, 11/12. Bruce Tolman Decade Ponds. Eastern-style works. Thu, 11/17–Sat, 12/17. Cheryl Hazan Mosaic Studio, 466 Washington St. Mon–Fri 10 am–5 pm. 212-3438964, cherylhazan.com.

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Walking Forward: Running Fast Group

New York City skyline and the city from the air at sunset and night. To January 2012. Tachi Gallery, 414 Washington St. Daily 10 am–6 pm.

212-226-6828, tachigallery.com.

The Westward Eye Group show featuring artists from the Los Angeles art scene. To Mon, 1/23/12. The McNeill Art Group, 143 Reade St., 631-838-4843, mcneillartgroup.com.

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Micah Ganske Tomorrowland. Paintings and sculptures depicting toxic and abandoned areas of the US. Collapse Group show featuring works inspired by Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” Tue, 11/1–Fri, 1/13/12. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St. Tue–Sat 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. 646-490-6355, rhgallery.com.

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Photographs of large graffiti murals. Wed, 11/2–Wed, 11/30. Opening reception: Wed, 11/2, 6:30 pm. Bond New York, 25 Hudson St. g Stephanie Lyn Slate “Souvenirs” and “The Inevitable.” Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Denyse Murphy and David Zimmerman Winners of the 2011 Alternative Process Competition. Wed, 11/2–Sat, 12/3.

Opening reception: Thu, 11/3, 6 pm. Soho Photo, 15 White St. Wed–Sun 1–6 pm and by appointment. 212-226-8571, sohophoto.com.

Karl Klingbiel The Gates of Eden. Gestural, abstract paintings. Thu, 11/3–Sat, 12/17.

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THE TRIBECA TRIB NOVEMBER 2011 Opening reception: Sat, 11/3, 6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., 212-925-9424, masterspelavin.com.

Melanie Vote Oil paintings. Fri, 11/4–Fri, 11/25. Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin St., 212-2749003, hionasgallery.com.

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Walls that Divide Us Group show featuring

different perspectives on the suppressive nature of globalization. Wed, 11/9–Thu, 12/22. apexart, 291 Church St., 212-431-5270, apexart.org.

MUSIC Downtown Symphony Works by Schubert, Finzi and Anderson. Wed, 11/2, 8 pm. Free. The Wonder Stuff, Arms and Sleepers, Dryer and Domenick Carino Charity concert for the g

Noble, 97 Warren St., 212-587-5389, bn.com. g Jock Soto “Every Step You Take.”

Registration required. Thu, 11/3, 6:30 pm. Free.

National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

Philosopher Poet: A Reading and Conversation with Michel Deguy French

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poet and professor of literature. Fri, 11/4, 7 pm.

Approaching You in English: Israeli Poet Admiel Kosman With his English-language translator Lisa Katz. Wed, 11/9, 7 pm. An Evening with Hungarian Poet Dénes Krusovsky Poetry reading about the diverse definitions of the human body. Fri, 11/11, 7 pm.

tures in the plains. Mondays–Wednesdays, 10 am. Taino Culture Past and present, and objects significant to the Taino people.

Mondays, 2 pm. All talks are free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

Slide shows: Wolff’s Pond Park 11/1.

Greece and the Islands 11/8. Colorado Canyons and peaks. 11/15. Hawaii 11/22. The Elbe River From the Czech Republic to Berlin, g

Germany. 11/29. All talks: Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St., 212964-3936, tuesdayeveninghour.com. g

Great Painters and Their Masterpieces

American Cancer Society. Fri, 11/11, 8 pm. $15.

Alexis P. Suter Band Roots, blues and soul.

Fri, 11/18, 8 pm. $15. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Recreation of Genesis’ famous 1974 show, down to the exact same costumes, set, lighting, slideshow and instruments. Fri, 11/25 & Sat, 11/26, 8 pm. $55–$60. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., 212220-1459, tribecapac.org.

41 Broadway, 212-925-6625, ccny.cuny.edu/cwe.

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany Historian and scholar in the field of

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medical ethics discuss the origins and legacies of Nazi medical practices. Sun, 11/6, 1 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., 646-437-4200, mjhnyc.org.

Selection of upcoming talks: Virtual Humanity: The Anthropology of Online Worlds How virtual connection apes real-world

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interactions. Wed, 11/9, 6:30 pm. $25; $20 students. The Forever War: Malaria versus the World The disease’s resistance and new research. Wed, 11/16, 12:30–6:30 pm. $40. See website to register. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., 212-298-8600, nyas.org.

Lectures by scholars and experts: The Sultans of

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Smack: Turkey, the Heroin Trade and the Alliance Between State and Organized Crime Thu, 11/10, 6:30 pm. America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare Mon, 11/14, 6:30 pm. Impact of the Yugoslav and Rwanda Tribunals Tue, 11/29, 6:30

Andrew Rehrig, Maria Wildhaber and Tania Tachkova Flute, bassoon and piano trio.

11/3. Aaron Diehl and Dominick Farinacci Piano and trumpet. 11/10. Quintette Jazz. g

11/17. Concerts: Thursdays, 1 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall, trinitywallstreet.org.

pm. See website for more talks. All talks are free.

Registration required. Center for Global Affairs, 15 Barclay St., 15th Fl., 212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu/globalaffairs.

Selected musical performances: Chris Bergson & Tony Leone and Mulebone Roots and blues duos. Fri, 11/4, 9 pm. $10. Warren Wolf & Wolfpack and Lage Lund Jazz. Wed, 11/16, 8 pm. $15. Marco Benevento and Superhuman Happiness Rock piano. Fri, 11/18, 9 pm. $15. See website for more concerts. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 212-6011000, 92ytribeca.org. g

THEATER g mother land / foreign relations Part performance,

g Graham Haynes Improvisations by trumpeter. Thu, 11/17, 6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., 212-925-9424, masterspelavin.com.

READINGS Tashaa Alexander “A Crimson Warning,” Lauren Willig “The Orchid Affair” and Deanna Raybourn “The Dark Enquiry.” Tue, 11/1, 6 pm.

Anthony Horowitz “The House of Silk.” Mon, 11/7, 6 pm. Joyce Carol Oates “The Corn g

The Terence Blanchard Quintet, a jazz group featuring composer and trumpeter Blanchard, will perform original pieces at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts at 3 Spruce St. Saturday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25–$50 and can be purchased online at pace.edu/culture or by calling 212-346-1715.

.“Like the Wheels of Birds”: Emily Dickinson’s Itinerary of Escape Fragments,

Maiden” and a dozen contributors to the anthology, “New Jersey Noir.” Tue, 11/8, 6 pm. All readings are free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., 212-587-1011, mysteriousbookshop.com.

canceled writings, pinned texts and envelope poems. Tue, 11/15, 7 pm. All readings: $10; $7 students, seniors. See website for more readings. Poets House, 10 River Terr., 212-431-7920, poetshouse.org.

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Robert Frank “The Darwin Economy.” Wed, 11/2, 12:30. $5. Richard Kurin “Hope

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Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem.” Tue, 11/15, 5:30 pm. $15. Nicholas Dungan “Responsible Finance: Albert Gallatin and the Swiss–American Example.” Tue, 11/29, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., 212-908-4110, moaf.org.

Levi’s writings by actor John Turturro. Mon, 11/7, 7 pm. $20. Lucette Lagnado Author reads from her book “The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn,” with Malachy McCourt. Wed, 11/30, 7 pm. $10. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., 646-437-4200, mjhnyc.org.

The Mark of the Chemist Reading of Primo

Mahmoud Darwish “In the Presence of Absence.” Wed, 11/2, 7 pm. Free. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., 646-732-3261, alwanforthearts.org.

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Selected author readings: Tony Iommi “Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath.” Thu, 11/3. Darrell Hammond “God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F***ed: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live and Other MindAltering Mayhem.” Tue, 11/8. Nada Prouty “Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA.” Thu, 11/10. Bill Maher “The New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” Mon, 11/14. All talks: free, 6 pm. See website for more talks. Barnes &

of Prohibition.” Wed, 11/9, 6:30 pm. Reservations required, free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., 212-968-1961, skyscraper.org.

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Elissa Schappell and Greg Olear Poetry and prose. Tue, 11/8, 7 pm. Free. Libertine Library at Gild Hall, 15 Gold St., penparentis.org.

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Daniel Okrent “Last Call: The Rise and Fall

John Ferling “Independence: The Struggle to

Set America Free.” Wed, 11/16, 6:30 pm. $10.

Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., 212425-1778, frauncestavernmuseum.org.

TALKS g Selection of upcoming talks: People of the Plains Talk on Native Americans and their cul-

Talk by author and professor Dr. Janetta Rebold.

Wed, 11/2, 11 am. $25; $5 students. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., 212-346-1715, pace.edu/culture.

Artist talks: Beverly McIver Painter. 11/2.

Robin Williams Painter. 11/9. Carlo McCormick Writer and Eric White Artist.

11/16. Barbara Pollack Writer and artist. g

11/30. All talks: Wednesdays, 6:30 pm, free.

New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., 212966-0300, nyaa.edu. g

The 160th Birthday of Charles H. Dow

Panel discussion on the journalist who founded the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Registration required. Thu, 11/3, 5 pm. Free. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., 212-908-4110, moaf.org. g Selection of upcoming talks: Momofuku Milk Bar Bakery pastry chef. Fri, 11/4, 12 pm. $18. Vietnam: Looking Back 35 Years Later Talk and footage from the war. Tue, 11/8, 12 pm. $18. Women in Power Talk on Indira

Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. Fri, 11/18, 12 pm. $18. New New York Photos of new New York landmarks. Wed, 11/30, 12 pm. $18. See website for more talks. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 212-601-1000, 92ytribeca.org. g Reading Hip-Hop: Off the Records, In the Books with Joseph G. Schloss. Fri, 11/4, 6

pm. Free. Center for Worker Education, 25

part lecture, part installation on China’s history through newspaper headlines and the interrogation of a mother’s history. Thu, 11/3, 6:30 pm.

Free. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., 212619-4785, mocanyc.org.

The Key of Awesome Creators of the YouTube show come to the stage. Thu, 11/3, 7 pm. $12. Mel and El: Our Time of the Month Musical comedy. Thu, 11/17, 7 pm. $15.

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#serials@theflea 50 actors and five short plays. To Sat, 11/5. Thursdays–Saturdays, 11 pm. $10. She Kills Monsters A young girl finds her dead sister’s Dungeons and Dragons notebook and embarks on a comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games. Fri, 11/4–Fri, 12/23. Tue–Sat, 7 pm; Sat–Sun, 3 pm. $25; $10 Saturday matinees. Kutsukake Tokijiro A traditional Japanese lone wolf gangster story explores themes of love, obligation and self-sacrifice. Thu, 11/10–Sun, 11/27. See website for times. $20. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., 212-226-0051, theflea.org. g

Comedy Tribute to Mike Destefano Wellknown and up-and-coming comedians honor the late comedian with standup and rare performance footage. Wed, 11/9, 8 pm. $25–$35.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., 212-220-1459, tribecapac.org.

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Elective Affinities A funny and savage portrait of cultured life. Starts Thu, 11/17. See website for times and admission. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., 212-868-4444, sohorep.org.

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Thursdays and Saturdays, 12 pm. Free. Sponsored by the Downtown Alliance, 212-606-4064, downtownny.com. g Tours of the Financial District: Wall Street History Wed, 11/2 & Tue, 11/29, 11 am.

George Washington’s New York Sat, 11/19,

1 pm. All tours: registration required, $15. Meet at Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., 212908-4110, moaf.org. g The Financial District Meet at Broadway and Wall St., Trinity Church. Fri, 11/4, 11 am; Wed, 11/9, 1 pm; Mon, 11/21 & 11/28, 11 am. Gangs of New York The Five Points. Meet at SE corner of Broadway and Chambers St. Sat, 11/5, 2 pm; Sat, 11/19 & Tue, 11/29, 1 pm. Historic Lower Manhattan The history, architecture and people of the neighborhoods. Meet at U.S. Custom House, Bowling Green. Sun, 11/6, 11 am; Thu, 11/17 & Wed, 11/30, 1 pm. Meet at Broadway and Chambers St. All tours: $15; $12 students, seniors. New York City Walking Tours, 212-4391090, bigonion.com. g Evacuation Day Tour On Nov. 25, 1783, the British fled their base of seven years in New York City. A tour of significant sites associated with the evacuation. Meet at the museum. Fri, 11/25, 11 am. $20. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., 212-425-1778, frauncestavernmuseum.org.

ET CETERA g Capoeira Mucurumim Afro-Brazilian martial art. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30 pm. $10. Park51, 51 Park Pl., park51.org.

Beading Demonstration Artist demonstrates Native American beading techniques. Tuesdays, 2 pm. Free. Sweetgrass Basket Workshop Weave a sweetgrass basket. Registration required. Thu, 11/3, 6 pm. $25. Dream Catcher Workshop Make a dream catcher. Registration required. Thu, 11/10, 6 pm. $25. Cornhusk Doll Workshop Create a Haudenosaunee cornhusk doll. Registration required. Thu, 11/17, 6 pm. $25. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu. g

Trinity Knitters Knit or crochet items for shutins, veterans and others. Materials and instruction provided. Tue, 11/1 & Thu, 11/17, 5 pm. Free.

Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., 212-6020800, trinitywallstreet.org. g

City Hall Photo Safari Learn how to photograph buildings, taking into account composition and the interplay of light and shadow. Sun, 11/6, 10 am; Mon, 11/21, 9:30 am; Sun, 11/27, 9 am. $100. New York City Photo Safari, 52 Chambers St., newyorkcityphotosafari.com.

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g In the Loop Knit and crochet shawls and scarves for women with cancer who are staying at the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge. Fri, 11/18, 12 pm. Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Castle Clinton Anniversary Celebration of the site’s 200th birthday. Talks, tours and festivities. Fri, 11/25, 10 am–4 pm. Free. Castle Clinton, Battery Park, 212-344-7220, nps.gov/cacl.

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School rezoning (cont.) to the west, Liberty to the south and Gold to the east. This pocket of tight streets and mixed-use buildings provides the residential base for grocery stores, the Downtown Hospital, shops and restaurants. The new redistricting literally splits our neighborhood in half.

The Fulton Street line should be moved south to Liberty and should include both sides of the street. What kind of community is it when children from different sides of the same street don’t even go to the same school?

It doesn’t seem like the parties responsible for drawing the lines really understand the dynamics of our community, and they need to.

Albert Price, 102 Fulton Street Condominium To the Editor: The Downtown school rezoning proposal is categorically unfair to those of us in Northern Tribeca. We purchased our apartments with the explicit understanding that our children would

attend P.S. 234.

We have paid local taxes for years in preparation for our kids to attend this school. This rezoning is a fundamental breach of trust that we placed in our city government and a manifestation of poor city planning. We should not be made to suffer the dual impact of having to take our kids across dangerous Canal Street, and see our property values diminished.

The failure of local government to adequately plan for school expansion should be handled in a more democratic way with a two-stage plan. First, in the short term the Tribeca school zone should remain intact and the lottery system expanded. Second, construction to expand the current schools should begin immediately.

In this way, each resident of Tribeca is afforded the same benefits, and a long-term plan would be in place to correct the situation.

David Driscoll

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Jewish Culture Downtown ON VIEW

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany SUN | NOV 6 | 1 P.M. Prof. Sander Gilman, Emory University, and Prof. Arthur Caplan, UPenn, examine the origins and legacies of Nazi medical practices.

Learn about the poet who gave voice to the Statue of Liberty. mjhnyc.org/emma

$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members Tour the exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race at 12 P.M. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call 646.437.4202.

The Primo Levi Center Presents the English Premiere of

The Mark of the Chemist MON | NOV 7 | 7 P.M.

Experience an inspiring soundscape and incomparable view of the Statue of Liberty. mjhnyc.org/khc/voices

John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou) and New Yorker critic Joan Acocella star in a staged reading inspired by Primo Levi's scientific works.

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The Arrogant Years: One Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

The story of Jews who emigrated from the former Soviet Union.

WED | NOV 30 | 7 P.M. Lucette Lagnado and Malachy McCourt (A Monk Swimming) have a lively conversation about their immigrant stories and discuss Lagnadoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book.

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FAMILY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION

The Macaroons Light Up Hanukkah

An examination of German medical and scientific policies during the Nazi era.

SUN | DEC 4 | 2:30 P.M.

This exhibition is produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Enjoy a fun-filled Hanukkah concert for kids ages 3 to 10.

Crafts from 1:30 - 4:30 P.M.; free with concert ticket.

$10, $7 children 10 and under; Museum members: $7, $5 children 10 and under Public programs are supported, in part, through the Edmond J. Safra Hall Fund.

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