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To 92YTribeca: Thank you for the memories

Michael Hickey, who tended bar at Tribeca’s Reade Street Pub, 135 Reade St., and its predecessor, McGovern’s, for 35 years, died in his sleep on March 20 at his home in Carmel, N.Y., according to the building’s owner, Bruce Barasky.

Hickey was 77.

“He was very well liked and he had

view.

A religious man, Hickey would attend morning mass at a church on 44th Street, near Grand Central Station, before taking the train Downtown.

“People think being a bartender is easy, that you could teach any gorilla to pull beers,” Hickey told the Trib. “But being a bartender is about dealing with people. Psychiatrists uptown get $500 an hour. We get a $3 tip for talking to a guy for two hours.”

Hickey called the bar “a working man’s country club,” and said that he had made a lot of friends among his customers, adding that he “couldn’t even think of retiring.”

ALLAN TANNENBAUM From the bar’s winMichael Hickey, behind the bar at Reade Street Pub in 2004. dow, Hickey liked to so many friends,” Barasky said. “He was watch the trees across the street come to the kind of guy, if you needed five dol- life each spring. lars, he would give it to you. He never “They’re Bradford pear trees,” he turned anybody down.” said. “One week from today, mark my Hickey left his native Ireland at age word, there will be white blossoms. It 24 to escape work as a bread truck driv- happens every year at this time, but it is er, he told the Trib in an April 2004 inter- always so sudden.”

Support the NID: Let the West Side’s waterfront parks be our legacy

To the Editor: I am resident of Tribeca within the boundaries of the proposed Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) and I am writing to express my support of the NID. The Hudson River Park is the last frontier to be conquered in Tribeca and is one of our most valuable neighborhood amenities. The NID would create a stable source of funding for the park that is sorely needed to maintain it.

For me and others, it’s a place to bike, jog and exercise. For children and older residents, it’s an oasis where one can sit, breathe in fresh air, picnic and more. This park also benefits businesses and other commercial tenants.

As the former director of retail and commercial development of the

MetroTech BID in Downtown Brooklyn for seven years, I witnessed the important role the organization played in keeping the area safe and clean.

Having this type of group implement the directions of an involved board of directors assured the area’s stabilization and growth.

Let’s not be fearful of the magnitude of the project. Yes, it’s awesome in size and scope, but so are we as a community. As they say, the devil is in the details, so listen to the devil with courage and don’t let any confusion take hold. Let the West Side’s waterfront parks be our legacy. Years from now our residents, children, businesses and visitors will thank us for our actions today.

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To the Editor: 92YTribeca: Thank you for the memories!

For five years, the 92YTribeca created culture and gave stage to comedy, arts, music and food in our neighborhood. High praise for the visionary leadership of the 92Y, Sol Adler, Helaine Geismar Katz, and Michele Thompson, for what you created at 200 Hudson and the extraordinary efforts 92YTribeca made to serve the local and broader community through daytime classes, weekend programs and cuttingedge events one after the next. But this is more than just a salute and farewell.

For me, your story is intimately tied to my own.

Some of you may know that 92YTribeca started as Makor on West 67th Street. When I was single in the late ’90’s, Makor was an extension of my living room. It was the hub for 20somethings on the Upper West Side, a place to watch films, meet, and make friends in the café, and see concerts and comedy acts. Norah Jones got discovered at Makor—she had a sultry Tuesday-night gig for over a year.

One night in 2001, as the lights went down in the screening room, I caught the eye of a new face. I was a third-year rabbinical student at the time and all through the film, I crafted my plan. When the lights came up, I approached her and introduced myself.

She gave me her email address and three weeks later, I met up with her and her girlfriends. Way out of my league, talking to these hip, urban young professional women, I told her friend that I was in rabbinical school. The conversation stopped. And that girl from the screening room said, “Rabbinical? I thought you said medical school.” We laughed hard at that—12 years later, Julia and I are still laughing.

I’m certain ours is only one of thousands of great personal moments and stories to share—thank you, Makor, and then 92YTribeca for transforming culture, transforming lives, and creating great memories.

Darren Levine Darren Levine is the founding rabbi of Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue.

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The 92YTribeca cafe is popular both for its reasonably priced menu and relaxed, no-frills atmosphere.

Palmer Davis, in 2010, discusses a collection of images in his photography workshop at 92YTribeca.

A post-screening interview with Rashida Jones, Will McCormack and Lee Krieger of “Celeste and Jesse Forever.”

Days Numbered for 92YTribeca Technology is cited by ‘Y’ chief as rendering Downtown venue ‘not critical to our mission’

BY CARL GLASSMAN “An open door to extraordinary worlds.”

That’s the slogan of the 92nd Street Y, and a fitting one. But printed on the window of 92YTribeca, the institution’s Downtown outpost, it is ironic as well.

That door, at 200 Hudson Street, will soon close for good.

92YTribeca, a vibrant center of eclectic cultural activity—films, talks, classes, art, music and mingling—will end its five-year run this summer, the 92nd Street Y announced last month.

“Over the last five years, we have learned that a second, physical location is not critical to our mission,” 92Y’s executive director, Sol Adler, wrote in a letter to the staff.

Adler said the Y should invest in its flagship venue on the Upper East Side and in partnerships and online programming that reach communities “beyond the walls of any building.”

As an example, Adler cited live Internet broadcasts such as the Y’s participation with Social Good Summit, an international webcast meant to bring together experts to talk about technological solutions to world problems.

“As you can imagine, this has been a difficult decision,” wrote Adler, who declined to be interviewed.

At least one offering, a Jewish after-

about how big you were,” Feifke said. “If you had a project that was worthy of being seen, they helped you share it with the public. It was my favorite place to play.”

The 18,000-squarefoot center officially opened in October 2008 and kept its promise to be a place with something for almost everyone.

“We’re a whirlwind,” then-acting executive director Naomi Lapin said on that opening night.

“But what is great is that pretty much no matter what you’re interested in, PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN I’m confident we’ve got Live Band Karaoke and singers on stage last month in 92Y Tribeca’s 174-person-capacity performance something you want to space and bar. Musicians hail the space as a great club-like venue without the grunge and distractions. come and do.” school program called Connect, will be a Beau Bridges film series to a kids conThe Y’s evening fare of films, comerelocated Downtown, according 92Y cert by Rolie Polie Guacamole. dy and music, as well as its bar, was spokeswoman Beverly Greenfield.

Musicians, especially, are feeling the aimed at a mainly singles crowd in their Others may move uptown. loss of an important performance space. 20s and 30s. (The New York Times re“Who knows? We’re really not sure “When they close down venues, es- ported on the wedding of a couple who what we’re doing with each program pecially ones that support live jazz, that met at a Y Purim party in 2008 and made yet,” Greenfield said. “We’re sitting has an effect,” said saxophonist Tim it their Purim destination for the next two down and looking at everything.”

Green, who said he got important early years. They tied the knot in 2011.)

For the moment, she added, “There’s exposure at the Tribeca Y. “Some places For local parents of young children, still lots of awesome programming that’s you might be competing with glasses, the draw has been “BYOK” (Bring Your going to happen there before it goes.” pool and ping-pong tables. In 92Y it’s all Own Kid). Jill Swerdloff said her two The news left 92YTribeca’s highly- about the music.” children “loved” going to see regulars regarded staff stunned, and uncertain Steven Feifke, 21, premiered his en- Princess Katie and Racer Steve. over their future with the institution. It semble Big Band at 92YTribeca. He “We were fortunate to have a cultural also leaves a hole in the cultural lives of called the place “incredible.” institution like that in Tribeca,” Swerdthose who attended the diverse program“A lot of venues only want to book loff said. “Whenever something like that ming—from flower-arranging classes to someone with a big name. But it wasn’t closes, it’s a shame.”

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Volunteers vs. Dog Owners in DeLury Sq.

BY ALINE REYNOLDS On a recent afternoon in DeLury Square, the pretty pocket park on Fulton Street, a dog scampered onto the lawn. It was a small dog, but one whose paws could easily trample a host of daffodils and whose urine could harm a bush or even a tree.

Veronica Ryan-Silverberg and Rona Kluger, standing nearby, looked fed up.

“I’ve told you five times, you can’t let your dog off-leash,” Ryan-Silverberg told the dog’s owner.

“Write me up,” the woman said defiantly.

“As you can see, they don’t listen,” Ryan-Silverberg groaned.

Ryan-Silverberg is used to that kind of confrontation. (A man once hit her when she asked him to curb his dog.) It began when she decided to rescue threeyear-old DeLury Square from the dogs and garbage that were ruining the neatly landscaped little park, with its fountain, rock formations, flower beds and other plantings. The park, she said, was literally going to the dogs.

“The destruction of the plants was just not right,” said Ryan-Silverberg, a psychotherapist and a 30-year resident of the Southbridge Towers building next to the park. “There was no choice but to say something and do something.”

She started by talking to the management of Southbridge, who told her she had to contact the Parks Department.

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Rona Kluger, left, and Veronica Ryan-Silverberg head an effort to maintain DeLury Square.

sentative,” Ryan-Silverberg recalled.

“They gave us all sorts of tools to clean, and Southbridge gave us a storage room to lock them up.” They also planted new bulbs and installed temporary fencing.

Next, she spent $200 on “No Dogs Allowed” signs that she placed on the lawn. There a now a dozen of them.

“Then I started thinking, ‘We need people to clean,’” she continued. “I sent a notice out, and that started Friends of DeLury Park. Now, we have a team of cleaners—60-plus-year-old ladies out here cleaning every single day. There are about six of us, maybe seven.”

Last month, she and Kluger, also a Southbridge Towers resident, went before Community Board 1’s Seaport-Civic Center Committee to discuss the dog problem and their need for funding for additional park maintenance. The committee passed a resolution asking the Parks Department to make the square a dog-free park. (Under Parks rules, dogs are now permitted on the square’s walkways but not on the lawn.)

Kluger and Ryan-Silverberg believe that another step to take, with warm weather coming, is to convince the public to respect this tiny patch of urban

parkland.

She and Ryan-Silverberg decry workers who leave their trash behind after having lunch in the park.

“Maybe we have to have an educational campaign,” Kluger suggested.

“Something like, ‘We’re really sorry, but you can’t do everything you want in life.’”

“The city did this beautiful job, they spent a lot of money,” she added. “It should be lovely, but it’s not lovely, because it’s not well-kept.”

Ryan-Silverberg agrees.

“Their excuse is, ‘My dog likes to go in here,’ or, ‘I’m picking up after the dog,’ which is not sufficient,” she said.

“What I’m so surprised at is, they don’t understand that it’s destructive to the environment.”

Ryan-Silverberg, who is organizing a spring planting day in May, has taken gardening classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden since forming the Friends group. She said she wanted to learn “what plants are resistant, what will really last, and what will save us money.”.

She and her volunteers won’t let up until they achieve their goal of keeping the square a pristine refuge from the hustle and bustle of Fulton Street.

“This isn’t just another dirty street in New York City,” she said. “This is our front yard, and it will be for a very long time.”

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APRIL 2013 THE TRIBECA TRIB The Howard Hughes Corp. has the option to develop the Tin Building, far left, and the New Market Building, both vacant since the Fulton Fish Market moved to Hunts Point in the Bronx. Hughes agreed to having a food market in the Tin Building.

Food Market Deal for Fish Building Developer of Pier 17 mall concedes to plan with city, but market operator is uncertain

BY ALINE REYNOLDS Not one, but two food markets are coming to the South Street Seaport.

That was the announcement from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn last month after the council, led by Councilwoman Margaret Chin, struck a deal with the South Street Seaport’s private developer to open two new markets in an area long known for its historic Fulton Fish Market.

“We will soon be home to tens of thousands of square feet of indoor space specifically for local, regionally-sourced food,” Quinn said at a press conference in City Hall. “Now, New York City will no longer be one of the only major cities in the country without a destination market.”

In an agreement made on March 19, a day before the council greenlighted a proposal to overhaul Pier 17, developer Howard Hughes Corp. consented to establish two new food markets at the South Street Seaport.

One of the markets, which will be open seven days a week, will occupy at least 10,000 square feet in the Tin Building, a landmarked structure that the developer had the option to commercially redevelop. That market won’t open for at least another few years. Howard Hughes has also said it expects to open a

hope to work with New Amsterdam Market to find the best space for them that they can use,” she said.

Who will be in charge of that search?

“It may be Howard Hughes, it may be the EDC (Economic Development Corp.)—it depends on whether or not Howard Hughes exercises its option,” Quinn said.

Either way, she added, “It’s going to be a very restricted process of who the potential vendors PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN are.”

In a phone interview with the Trib following Quinn’s announcement, LaValva said he has yet to PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN decide whether he is Customers crowd the New Amsterdam Market last year for a pickle festival. Robert LaValva said he wants interested in operating the to move his market into both the Tin Building and the New Market Building.

New Amsterdam Market food market in the Link Building, next to gets a market.” in the Tin Building alone. He called the the mall on Pier 17, sometime before Robert LaValva, the founder of the guarantee of regional food markets at the October 2014.

New Amsterdam Market, has been lob- Seaport a “great achievement” and a Meanwhile, Howard Hughes has bying the city for years to move his mar- 10,000-square-foot market in the Tin until October to present redevelopment ket into the New Market Building and Building a “wonderful neighborhood plans for the New Market Building, the Tin Building. The seasonal market’s amenity.” which, along with the Tin Building, was 50 vendors have been setting up their But he compared separating the Tin home to the former Fulton Fish Market. stands on Sundays for the past eight Building and the New Market Building The plans will undergo the same years in a parking lot in front of the New to cutting the Statue of Liberty at its feet.

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“There’s no protection of the New (ULURP) as Pier 17, Quinn noted.

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Howard Hughes Corp. executive Chris Curry, left, and the New Amsterdam Marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert LaValva testify last month at a City Council hearing on Hughesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning requests.

to 10,000, it just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that capacity or potential anymore. If you have an iconic site with two iconic buildings and you lose one of them, it loses half its value, if not more, in terms of that magnetic draw.â&#x20AC;?

Another part of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deal with Howard Hughes will delay the start of construction at Pier 17 until this October, to allow the pierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shops to stay open through the summer and early fall. Chin and Community Board 1 had supported the merchantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plea to stay in business during the summer in order to recoup losses after Hurricane Sandy.

In addition, all Pier 17 tenants who are â&#x20AC;&#x153;in good standingâ&#x20AC;? with Howard Hughes, their landlord, will have a chance to return to the pierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new mall, Quinn noted. Those interested in coming back must present a proposal to the developer by Aug. 9.

At the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urging, Howard Hughes also agreed to allow free public access to the mallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire rooftop, and to donate rooftop space up to four times a year to community groups.

Finally, the council is requiring that Howard Hughes submit a detailed plan for docking at the future pier by June 30.

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Initial design idea for a new Bogardus Plaza includes square granite pavers, inground and pole lighting, and permanent as well as movable seating. Multiple plantings—ferns, perennials and bulbs, shrubs and grassy plants—are also part of the concept.

RENDERINGS BY MATHEWS NIELSEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS/COURTESY OF FRIENDS OF BOGARDUS GARDEN

$2M to Transform a Pedestrian Plaza City grant will help group bring a new landscape to Bogardus Garden and Plaza

BY CARL GLASSMAN A small patch of Tribeca is $2 million closer to becoming a reimagined oasis from the hubbub of street life.

Friends of Bogardus Garden have been chosen for a grant from the city Department of Transportation (DOT) to turn what is now a fenced-in garden and an adjacent pedestrian plaza into a unified 9,000-square-foot public space.

The concept calls for the current iron fence to come down and a landscape of plantings, special pavement and seating to be installed in the triangle bordered by West Broadway and Chambers, Reade and Hudson streets.

“Why do we have two separate areas?” said Friends president and founder, Victoria Weil, whose apartment at 90 West Broadway overlooks the area.

“Let’s integrate them. Take down the fence and have a plaza and a garden that intermingle sensibly and beautifully.”

Vaidila Satvika, director of the DOT’s Plaza Program, said the city could create a “bare-bones” version of that concept with the $2 million, but added, “In a neighborhood like this, if you want to be unique with paving materials that are dis-

fundraiser held in the four-story penthouse at 60 Warren St. owned

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Tirschwell said that of the many causes she and her husband support, this one is unique.

“I will be walking through this garden for the rest of my life, as will my children and my CARL GLASSMAN grandchildren,” Victoria Weil, president and founder of Friends of Bogardus Garden. she said. tinct, it certainly will cost a lot more than In December 2011, the city declared that.” the popular seating area next to Bogardus The DOT estimates that at least Garden to be a permanent plaza. another million dollars is needed to creThe plaza is enjoyed by just about ate what Weil calls a “more jewel-like” every kind of visitor, Weil noted. “You space, with custom pavers and more see the construction worker, the nanny, landscaping and lighting. the tourist, the students from BMCC The Friends group, which maintains [Borough of Manhattan Community the area, says it has already raised College] and Stuyvesant. It brings every$200,000 toward that goal and has one together.” applied for another $600,000 from elect“Public space is a very democratic ed officials. It is now raising the remain- space, and it really reflects the health of ing $200,000. the community you live in,” said Lisa “It’s a lot of work, but we feel very Hill, who programs events for the plaza. confident that we’re going to get there by “Now is the time to seize the moment.” summer in time to start design,” Friends Initial concept designs for the project board member Annie Tirschwell told were drawn up by landscape architect guests last month at a cocktail party and longtime Tribeca resident Signe

COURTESY OF FRIENDS OF BOGARDUS GARDEN

Nielsen, who has worked on many of Lower Manhattan’s public spaces, including the reconfigured and greened Duane Park and the landscaped west side of Greenwich Street. The Friends group would like Nielsen to design the plaza, but that decision rests with the city.

The group now raises $25,000 annually to maintain the space and it will cost them more than that once the three-tofour-year project is completed. The members are exploring the idea of a concession stand on the south end of the plaza—“something appropriate that doesn’t compete with local businesses,” said Weil, who anticipates possible controversy over the plan.

Weil acknowledged that more construction in the area could be unwelcome to some, particularly following the yearslong disruptions from the Chambers Street reconstruction project. “We’ve gone through so much construction on that corner and, as much as I’m excited about what it will be, I worry that the street will be opened up again,” she said.

But ultimately, she believes, her neighbors will be convinced that the makeover is worth the hardships, given its eventual rewards.

“Right now there’s a gated garden, there’s a sidewalk, and there’s a roadbed with epoxy gravel and some plastic planters,” she said. “This is Tribeca. We can do better than that.”

The Triangle’s 40 Years of Change

At left is the homely traffic island in 1979 that was to become Bogardus Garden.

The triangle first got some attention in the early ’80s from a community group calling itself the Washington Market Volunteers. They cleared broken glass from the tree pits, put chicken wire around them and planted daffodils. But the fences were knocked down and dogs and pigeons reclaimed the space. A grant to the now-defunct Tribeca Community Association to study ways to beautify Tribeca’s small spaces led to an application to the Department

of Transportation in 1984 to fix up the island.

It would be another 13 years before construction of a viewing garden began on what is now the James Bogardus Triangle, named after the father of cast iron architecture who had a foundry in the area. It was modeled after the garden in Sheridan Square.

The Friends of Bogardus Garden adopted the triangle in 2010, with the initial goal of cleaning and beautifying the green space. Ultimately, they partnered with the city to create a pedestrian plaza, yet another chapter in the triangle’s history of change.

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Above: At a CB1 meeting last month, 39 North Moore Street resident Anne Roy stands with fellow opponents of a planned restaurant in her building. Right: Partners in the project Santiago Perez, right, and Santiago Gomez listen to their critics.

Plans Dropped for N. Moore Eatery

BY CARL GLASSMAN Partners in a planned Mexican restaurant at 39 North Moore St., facing fierce opposition from neighbors, have lost their appetite for the project.

“We’re looking at other alternatives, most likely in that area,” Santiago Perez told the Trib late last month. “But so far we haven’t found one that we will pursue for sure. Our options are open, and we’re looking at other spaces that might be received better.”

Perez and partner Santiago Gomez faced a slew of opponents when they appeared last month before Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee to request a liquor license for the ground floor of a 10-unit condominium building. The meeting capped two months of neighborhood organizing against the proposed eatery, which was to be associated with a celebrated Mexican chef.

Gomez and Perez tried to assure the committee that they were not bringing Taco Bell-like cuisine to the street, going so far as to display a large photomontage of stereotypical Mexican restaurant dishes that they would not be serving.

“People are used to Mexican food being something like this,” said Gomez,

we want our restaurant to be on this same list.”

But the neighbors insisted that the establishment’s nationality was not the issue.

They came with visual aids of their own, such as a large blowup of the entrance (similar to the one at left) showing the proximity of the The 39 North Moore St. entrance, left, serves the commercial space, proposed restaunow a home furnishings store. The residential entrance is at right. rant entrance to pointing to colorful pictures of enchi- the residential entrance, and a map indiladas, burritos and tacos that likely set cating all the other liquor-licensed bars some mouths watering at the long din- and restaurants in the vicinity. ner-hour meeting. “Fast food or food that “You have a lot of establishments on is not healthy and is not something that the avenues, places to eat and drink, and creates a high atmosphere.” in the middle you’ve got quiet residential Another chart showed where Pujol, streets,” said Anne Roy, a 39 North the Mexico City restaurant of their Moore resident who spoke for the oppointended chef, Enrique Olvera, ranked in sition. “This is what makes our commuthe San Pellegrino hierarchy of the nity work.” world’s top eateries. “As you can see, our The committee voted unanimously to chef is number 36,” Perez boasted. “So oppose the liquor license and, according

to some residents, Gomez and Santiago had already dropped the notion of a restaurant at 39 North Moore by the time they were out of the room.

“I don't take anything they say at face value,” Roy later said. “But they did say they were looking for a more appropriate location.”

Opposition from the residents, who had threatened to block the restaurant in court, was apparently not the only incentive for the partners to look elsewhere.

According to Stephen Corelli, owner of the commercial space, a more practical issue played a role in their decision.

“There were concerns about the venting and they were unable to come up with a solution that was practical given the context of what was going on,” said Corelli, who bore considerable enmity from his upstairs neighbors over his decision to rent the space to a restaurant.

As a result, Corelli noted, “I would definitely say that would preclude another restaurant going there in the future.”

“I lost my tenant and I spent 10 grand drafting a lease,” added the owner, an architect who converted the building in the early ’90s. “And I felt bad that people were so upset about it.”

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$1,200 Is the Winning Bid For Keitel Voice Message

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With Harvey Keitel projected behind her, Winsome Brown auctions off a custom voice mail recording by the actor at the annual Church Street School for Music and Art benefit.

BY CARL GLASSMAN What would you pay to have Harvey Keitel answer your phone?

For Emanuele Della Valle, a new media entrepreneur, it’s a hefty $1,200.

And all for a good cause.

Della Valle won the as-yet-unrecorded “Please leave a message…” in a live auction last month, part of the annual fundraiser for Tribeca’s Church Street School for Music and Art, held this year at Tribeca Rooftop. Keitel is on the school’s artist council but was shooting a movie in Europe at the time and could not attend the event.

So what line would Della Valle want Keitel to deliver to his would-be callers?

“God forbid I want to script Keitel,” he wrote to the Trib in an email. “He should say something dry, to the point and with a New York accent. As he would.”

Della Valle, who said he has been friends with Keitel’s wife, Daphne Kastner, for many years, was the guest of Winsome Brown and her husband, Claude Arpels. Brown, as it happens,

was also the auctioneer.

Keitel’s voice was not the only celebrity-driven item on the block.

A Mets package of box seats and VIP field access was offered by former Mets star reliever and captain John Franco.

Brown got the bidding up to $5,000 when Franco himself appeared before the crowd and asked the next highest bidder if he would match the $5,000 for a second Mets prize. Thus, the school raised $10,000 in a matter of minutes.

All told, the school netted a record $115,000 from its live and silent auctions and benefit dinner, according to its director and co-founder, Lisa Ecklund-Flores.

“We need it so badly this year,” said Ecklund-Flores, noting that 10 months of rent—$50,000 worth—went unpaid by the school’s subtenant in the storefront next door before the business was finally evicted.

“It was so wonderful to feel all of that community support. The atmosphere was so warm,” Ecklund-Flores said of the event, a dressier affair than in years past.

“There was real love in that room.”

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A commercial building on Fulton Street, heavily damaged by two fires within the span of 24 hours, is being demolished.

The city-ordered demolition began on March 25, barely a week after a fouralarm blaze struck the five-story building at 140 Fulton Street in the early morning of March 17, only to be ignited again the next day. One firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling the second fire. No other injuries were reported.

Faulty electrical wiring caused the first fire, and smoldering embers from that fire led to the second blaze, according to a Fire Department investigation.

The DOB determined that the building, its interior all but destroyed, must be torn down. Caruso’s Pizza & Pasta, a popular eatery, occupied the ground floor.

“The building will have to be demolished due to significant damage from the fire,” said city Department of Buildings spokeswoman Gloria Chin. The work will continue for “a few weeks,” she said.

Peter An, the manager of Café Tomato, on the ground floor of 142 Fulton, was forced to close temporarily. He estimates his losses at approximately $5,000 for each day his place is not open. “I employ 20 people in my store,” he said.

“They need to work to make money.”

The fires also caused the evacuation of a five-family co-op at 138 Fulton, which shares a party wall with 140 Fulton. The residents have moved out indefinitely; they’ll be allowed back in sometime after the completion of the demolition.

“Once we aren’t out anymore, we’re going to have to fix up the inside of our apartment,” said Salvo Stoch, whose second-floor apartment sustained heavy water and other damage when firefighters broke through his wall to battle the blaze next door.

Guy Morris, who owns the groundfloor condominium at 138 Fulton, said his building was “structurally okay” and

that the city had hired Russo Demolition to dismantle 140 Fulton. The company didn’t return a call for comment.

“Their goal is to maintain the integrity of our building while demolishing it,” he said. “We’ve hired a structural engineer to assess that and monitor what effect [the demolition] would have, independently.”

The building at 140 Fulton has a history of violations, with nine deemed “immediately hazardous” or “major” since 2010. All but two violations remain open, according to the DOB’s website.

The building’s ownership is listed as Fulton Associates LLC. Neighbors say the owner is Century Realty, its address listed as 140 Fulton St. Century Realty has ties to the Gindi family, which owns the nearby Century 21 department store.

A call to Kenneth Dubow, who oversees the Gindi family’s real estate holdings, was not returned.

Nearly 170 firefighters responded to the first fire, a four-alarm that was reported around 7 a.m. Sunday and brought under control two-and-a-half hours later.

Twelve-year-old Bennett Wood anxiously awakened his parents when he smelled smoke in the family’s third-floor apartment at 138 Fulton.

“Our whole apartment was filled with black smoke,” Bennett’s father, Ed Wood, said. “We woke up everybody [in the building] and called 911.”

As the Woods and their neighbors left their homes, 140 Fulton was engulfed in flames. Firefighters broke through walls of the building to douse the fire, but did not extinguish it all, according to the Fire Department report.

The second blaze started around 2 a.m. on Monday, March 18. Firefighters were ordered out of the building after a partial collapse of the roof and fears of a total collapse of the structure, an FDNY spokesman said.

“It could have been a hell of a lot more dangerous had it happened in the middle of the night and the smoke crept to where people were sleeping,” Stoch said of the 7 a.m. fire that led to his and his neighbors’ evacuation.

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Earth Day: Manhattan

Flamenco at Alwan

Celebrate Earth Day by learning about Manhattan’s geographical history.

Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, will give a free lecture on how the borough’s ecology has evolved over the past 400 years. Sanderson will also discuss the impact that recent storms have had on Manhattan’s landscape. The event is on Thursday, April 18, 1 p.m., at the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace. For information, call 212-2679700 or e-mail info@bpcparks.org.

Guitarist and composer Arturo Martinez, the bandleader of Espiritu Gitano, has been a noted figure in the New York flamenco scene since the 1980s. His program on Saturday, April 20, at 9 p.m., rooted in the Andalusian Gypsy tradition, features Martinez on guitar alongside other instrumentalists, dancers and singers. Tickets are $20 and $15 for students and seniors at the door.

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Sandy Seaport Benefit

The Friends of Washington Market Park are trying to raise $6,500 to replace the three backboards on the Chambers Street basketball court. To make a donation online, go to washingtonmarketpark.org/help-our-hoops. As of the end of March, the Friends had raised $2,935.

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Free Pilates classes are being offered at Stuyvesant High School’s community center on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Registration is not required, but participants must bring a photo ID to enter the building, located at 345 Chambers St. The class is open to those 16 and older. Bring your own mat. For other Shape Up NYC classes, call 311 or go to nyc.gov/parks.

Russ & Daughters Talk

Since 1914, Russ & Daughters has been selling lox, herring, smoked sable, whitefish and other delicacies at its store on Houston Street on the Lower East Side. Mark Russ Federman, the grandson of Russ & Daughters’ founder and the author of the recently published “Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built,” will talk about his family’s landmark store at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this month.

He will be joined by Gabriella Gershenson, senior editor, Saveur. The museum is at 36 Battery Pl. The event is on Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. A light reception is included in the ticket price. $12; $10 students and seniors. For tickets, go to mjhnyc.org or call 646-4374202.

The Spruce Street School’s Parent–Teacher Association is organizing “The Spirit Project,” a free outdoor concert to benefit Downtown businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy. Jeff Tuohy, The Hollows and The Crusty Gentleman will perform. Beer, wine and food will be for sale. The event is on Thursday, April 18, 5–9 p.m., on Front Street between Beekman and Fulton.

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Neighbors Say Big Ad Firm Is Bad Fit

BY ALINE REYNOLDS It’s mad neighbors vs. Mad Men. A British ad firm and production house, scheduled to open in Tribeca this summer, is already setting off sparks.

Spring Studios, the agency behind big-name clients like Armani, Target, and Neiman Marcus, says it will likely hold up to 291 events a year—runway shows and fundraisers, for example— about third of which will draw between 200 and 800 people each. The rooftop, one of the venues for the events, has a legal capacity for 650 people.

Some nearby residents are angry and worried. They fear the glitzy parties at the five-floor, 120,000-square-foot facility at 50 Varick Street will bring crowds, noise and congestion to the area.

One penthouse owner, the megamillionaire investment banker Richard Handler, who lives at 1 York St., is suing to stop the project. Among other “real and irreparable harm” he claims he will suffer is an obstructed view from his $23.6 million, 14th-floor apartment, across the street.

Maria Donovan, a resident of 260 West Broadway, which faces 50 Varick from the east, was surprised by the number of people who will be coming to the building.

“We’ve never had anything like that presented to us before,” she said.

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Construction is under way at 50 Varick Street, which Spring Studios will move into in June.

her and her neighbor’s apartments, she is concerned about the loading and unloading of equipment into the building on St. John’s Lane, the alley that separates her building and 1 York.

“We’re worried about the flow of deliveries of large items and the vehicles used for [residents’] moves,” she said.

Handler, the penthouse owner, named Department of Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri and landlord 50 Varick LLC in his complaint, filed on March 25 in State Supreme Court. He claims that the DOB granted work permits without proper review and that the

project does not comply with zoning laws.

Last month, representatives of Spring Studios faced their opponents when they appeared before Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee, hoping to win their advisory approval for a liquor license.

A Spring consultant, Bradford Sussman, argued that the license would allow the company, rather than the clients, to oversee the functions in the space. Otherwise, he said, Spring “wouldn’t have the same level of responsibility for the individual events.”

David Hemphill, Spring’s events

director, promised that most of the gatherings would take place during the day and that they would not disrupt the neighborhood. He also pledged to keep visitors off the sidewalk and in Spring’s 4,500-square-foot ground floor.

In a follow-up interview with the Trib, Hemphill said that Spring’s office in London, in a residential area of the city, has caused no problems for its neighbors.

“We’re not a startup who’s coming in here and just trying it all for the first time,” he said. “We know our operations—we’ve done it many years successfully.”

Nevertheless, the vision of nightly rooftop parties was of special concern to Thorsten Kiefer, co-owner and developer of 11 Beach Street, a building diagonally adjacent to 50 Varick that is being converted into residential apartments.

“It’d be great to have one piece of paper where you very clearly say what the deal is for alcohol, the number of people, whether there would be music or no music,” he told Sussman at a working group meeting to discuss the ongoing issues.

“I don’t care if they’re drinking, eating, standing and watching a movie, or what they’re doing,” said Kathleen Cudahy, an attorney for 1 York. “We’re looking straight on into these people’s faces from some of our apartments.”

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“It’s for all of us to do whatever at the moment we feel we want to do to feel a sense of nature and green.”

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A “topping off” ceremony for the long-planned SeaGlass carousel in Battery Park is scheduled for April 18. It is the latest milestone in the transformation of Battery Park and the realization of a 1988 master plan funded by the Battery Park City Authority. The plan took on life in 1994 with the creation of the Battery Conservancy, a public-private partnership modeled after the Central Park Conservancy and led

by Warrie Price. The conservancy oversees the renovation and reconstruction of the 25-acre park, which includes Peter Minuit Plaza.

Last month Price gave the Trib a tour of the park and provided an update on what is there and what is to come. Here is her commentary.

1. THE BATTERY GREEN This three-acre area at the Broadway entrance to the park, on its northern end, will be programmed for lunches, sunbathing, relaxing and it’s also where we’ll present concerts in the temporary stage area. It is supposed to be completed by next fall.

This is going to be our Sheep Meadow. Five thousand people are going to come for outdoor concerts.

Those years where we’d have the River to River Festival, Dancing Under the Stars, all of that will now have a truly wonderful place. Look at all of the sense of openness. And I don’t think we’ve ever been able to present Castle Clinton National Monument the way it truly deserves; we’ve never had an unobstructed view to the castle.

There should be a sense here that this is our public, unprogrammed space—it’s for all of us to do whatever at the moment we feel is what we want to do.

2. THE WOODLAND The woodland, which goes all along State Street, is seven acres. It has a major pathway connecting to Peter Minuit Plaza and the castle. We’re the only mature woodland that exists Downtown. Eighty-eight trees were taken out with the Number 1 subway excavation, so we are going to plant over 100 new trees.

3. SEAGLASS CAROUSEL Kids in New York who will never get to scuba-dive or snorkel will have this incredible imaginary aquatic ride. It’ll carry a maximum of 32 riders at a time on four turntables and the rides will go for two to three minutes each. Eighteen figures go up and down and then move side to side. Water elements will be projected onto the walls where the spiral ceiling is, so you’ll feel like you’re in the water. As that ribbon of roofing

part of the bikeway is going to be where you see the farm right now.

We want to increase the farm and do cooking there.

Everyone keeps asking, ‘How did the gardens come back after Sandy?’ We’ll know for sure in the spring, but we did everything that we knew New Orleans did post-Katrina [to protect them].

6. THE BIKEWAY The bikeway goes on the inside of the park and on the other side of the CARL GLASSMAN subway station. It goes Warrie Price in Battery Park. She took up the cause of restoring the neglected park in 1994. around Peter Minuit Plaza, over to the Battery goes around, there will be projections of sea scenes.

Maritime Building. People ask me, ‘How are you The music is going to be specially composed. The going to slow [the bikes] down?’ I said, ‘We’re going fiberglass figures themselves are lit from within. They to stun them with beauty!’ People will just see a should look like seaglass, which is glass burnished by crowd, and they will modulate their velocity. See the the sands of the sea. Inside the fish, there are fibercurves? You really can’t pick up a lot of speed—and optics that change color and move, which fish do in why would you want to? You’re in a paradise here the wild. These are monumental fish—I’m talking with beautiful plants! about nine-by-nine!

7. CASTLE CLINTON 4. THE PLAYSPACE We have a partnership with the National Park Frank Gehry has created a wonderful playground.

Service to revitalize and rebuild Castle Clinton and we It will be over an acre, the largest playground are still working with the Park Service to get its Downtown. We have a base of money, but we need to approval. The concept by Thomas Phifer was selected raise quite a bit more. I’m going to try to raise it priin a competition in 1999 and calls for bringing the casvately. It’s still [too] early to say how much it will tle back to the period when it was a performance cencost. When it will open is all money-dependent, but ter within the historic walls—a 21st-century piece of it’ll be a year of construction. architecture.

There will be a stairway on the outside of the 5. THE URBAN FARM building that will encircle the concert venue, so you’ll The urban farm has been loved by so many have wonderful views of the harbor as you walk up.

Downtowners—they now know the Battery is for them. It began in 2011. It was our first educational and People loved the free concerts on Thursday evenings in recent summers. And that’s what the Park Service horticultural outreach to the community. We get many wants to do—that’s what we think Downtown should volunteers to our gardens, but this program really engages children and their families. We had 1,800 chil- have, an intimate waterfront performance venue within this historic structure where Jenny Lind, the Swedish dren last year from 11 different schools.

Nightingale, debuted in 1850.

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The Tribeca Film Festival April 17 – 28

he Tribeca Film Festival returns this month for its 12th year, packed again with a whirlwind of screenings, talks and activities. This year’s festival is notable for its foreign flavor—about half the movies come from outside the U.S.—and its introduction of new voices, with more first-time filmmakers than ever. But what most distinguishes the festival, the programmers say, is the broad range of stories and the artful approaches to telling them.

In the past, critics have faulted the festival for its size and scope—too many venues, too many films and too little focus. The organizers have scaled back the number of movies—there are about 85 featurelength works and 60 shorts. Still, programmer Cara Cusumano said, “We didn’t want to lose that sense that this is a festival for New York, and New York is not just one community. So we want to have a film for all the audiences that we are entertaining.”

But for all their cultural diversity, Cusumano says, the American and foreign movies “seem to be in conversation with each other in a special way.”

She cites “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors,” about a mother’s search for her autistic teen who has vanished in the subway before Hurricane Sandy struck, and “Odayka,” from Japan, the story of two wives awaiting the return of their husbands after the devastating 2011 Great East Japan earthquake.

“These are two completely different films coming from different parts of the world dealing with different types of tragedies,” Cusumano notes, “but coming at them from the same humanistic angle.”

Among its many documentaries, the 2013 festival also has a penchant for names you would know.

There are films about a legend of Broadway, Elaine Stritch, and of boxing, Muhammad Ali. The departed Richard Pryor and Gore Vidal are profiled, as is Moms Mabley, in Whoopi Goldberg’s paean to the late comedienne. The current YouTube phenom, a cat named Lil Bub, gets his own movie, one that even a cinephile like Cusumano says she could watch again and again. “It’s delightful and entertaining and sweet and everything that a good movie should be.”

What else would she pick for family fare?

Cusumano mentions the documentary “Dancing in Yaffa,” about Palestinian and Israeli children coming together in a ballroom dance program, and the narrative “A Birder’s Guide to Everything,” featuring a group of teens in search of an extinct duck.

If features like these are the festival’s main course, then the shorts, says shorts programmer Sharon Bidall, are the hors d’oeuvre. Maybe. But taken together, the eight shorts programs (there’s even one this year called “Worst Day Ever”) that Bidall has put together are nothing short of a feast. “It all depends on what you’re in the mood for,” she says.

Bidall is drawn to the ability of shorts directors to respond to recent events, with movies like “The Rider and the Storm,” about an ironworker and surfer from Breezy Point who finds his own kind of recovery after losing everything to Sandy.

“I encourage people to take a ride with me on these programs,” Bidall says. “It’s really fun and it’s something they certainly can’t get elsewhere.”

Indeed, the Tribeca Film Festival is about discovery—about finding something great that, most likely, will never again come to a theater near you.

SIDESHOWS FAMILY STREET FEST SAT., APRIL 27, 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. Eight blocks along Greenwich Street, from Hubert to Chambers, come alive with dancers, stilt walkers, Broadway performances, arts and crafts, face painters, puppet shows, music, games and much more, plus food served al fresco from Tribeca restaurants.

THE DRIVE-IN The movies go outdoors with the annual free Drive-In at the World Financial Plaza. Doors open and activities start at 6 p.m. Movies begin at 8:15 p.m.

THUR., APRIL 18: THE BIRDS It’s Hitchcock’s 1963 classic thriller about the fiendish side of our fine feathered friends. Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette.

FRI., APRIL 19: BEETLEJUICE A couple of ghosts discover the challenges of being truly scary as they try to rid their old house of its current inhabitants. The 1988 comedy is preceded by a costume contest and other family activities.

SAT., APRIL 20: LIL BUB & FRIENDZ The Web is fascinated with cats and none more so than Lil Bub, who makes the jump from YouTube to feature film as he goes on a search for his fellow feline celebrities.

TALKS ON FILM Directors, actors, and screenwriter stake the stage for discussions on everything from the crossover between film and the gaming industry to a conversation with Clint Eastwood following the world premier of “Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story.“

TICKETS Downtown residents get $2 discounts on evening and weekend screenings, $3 off of Tribeca Talks. For more information on tickets, screenings and myriad film festival activities go to TRIBECAFILM.COM (FEST 12 CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE)

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In search of foreign adventure? It’s all here. The sexy spy thriller set in Monaco. Lovers at the train station.

New awakenings in the Old World. Even Dr. Frankenstein is resurrected, twice, actually, in this year’s foreign narratives. But, as always, the selections here find new ways to surprise and delight. Often, they show us a world we have never seen before.

Consider WADJA (Germany). It’s the tale of a spunky 10-year-old Saudi girl determined to buy and ride a bicycle, consequences be damned. It’s a first from a female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia and offers a rare peek for western eyes into a closed world. Meanwhile, in rural Laos, a scrappy 10-year-old boy flees his doomed village and narrow fate in THE ROCKET (Australia). As the title suggests, he happens upon what might be his ticket out. Jin, a 17year-old rebel, goes AWOL from the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, fleeing into the mountains and into the comfort of unexpected allies in JIN (Turkey). ALI BLUE EYES (Italy) is a coming-of-age tale of a Muslim teen and troublemaker struggling to fit in and find modern love despite his family’s efforts to hold him back.

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In SIX ACTS (Israel) a teenaged girl, Gili, looks to improve her social status by sleeping with the cool boy in school. This, as you might expect, does not result in the status that she is looking for. WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW (Taiwan) is the story of what happens to desire over the decades. Here, a married man faces new temptation from an old flame.

Meanwhile, his sister flees her fiancé. The comedy explores the difficulty of chasing change in a traditional society. JUST A SIGH (France) gives us a glimpse of fleeting romance when two strangers, a Parisian actress (Emmanuelle Devos) and English traveler (Gabriel Byrne) meet on a train and imagine what a future together could mean for them.

A chance meeting at an art opening in FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS (Poland) leads a man to leave his girlfriend for a man he has just met, changing his life instantly and forever.

Similarly, REACHING FOR THE MOON (Brazil) is the story of the unexpected same-sex romance that bloomed between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.

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But enough with the love stories. Bring on the monsters and mayhem! FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY (Netherlands) reintroduces us to one Dr. Victor Frankenstein, but this time, to the horror of the Russian soldiers who discover him during the last days of World War II, he is reanimating dead Nazis in his lab. Fast-forward to the future, during a second Cold War in THE MACHINE (U.K.) and the mad doctor is replaced by a programmer creating a superstrong cyborg. It’s an indestructible, lifelike weapon. What could possibly go wrong? Vampires are afoot in BYZANTIUM (U.K. and Ireland). Herein lies the lurid tale of a bloodthirsty mother and daughter who have descended upon a sleepy seaside town. The horror happens in broad daylight in BIG BAD WOLVES (Israel), a thriller featuring a vigi-

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rom big issues to quiet portraits of a forgotten people, to celebrations of the colorful characters and artists who have changed the cultural landscape, documentary offerings at this year’s festival promise to be moving, motivating and memorable. First up is BIG MEN, a hard look at the heavy price paid by the people of Ghana and in the Niger River Delta when energy interests from America muscle in. The exposé casts a harsh light on the greed and corruption of the oil industry in Africa.

Meanwhile, in energy-poor Kanpur, India, the struggle is to keep the lights on in POWERLESS. Here, there is not enough electricity to power the entire city at once. We follow a resourceful bandit who taps the wires in working neighborhoods, risking his life to reconnect the city’s poor to power. Also from the energy front comes GASLAND PART II. It’s the followu-up to GASLAND, an exposé of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing of the earth in search of oil and natural gas. The practice can affect groundwater and spoil wells. In this follow-up, more calamitous circumstances are explored, such as earthquakes. There is violent upheaval on the streets in LET THE FIRE BURN. The documentary is an account of the 1985 standoff between the radical group MOVE and Philadelphia police that ended when police bombed the row house, killing five children and six adults.

THE KILL TEAM drops us into Afghanistan where four U.S. soldiers stand accused of war crimes for going off mission and allegedly hunting and killing Afghans for sport. Self-destruction is rampant in Oceana, West Virginia. OXYANA explores the epidemic of oxycontin abuse and its devastating effect on a small mining town. More hope-

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lante cop and a vengeful father in search of a serial killer. The c Luxemburg), a twisting tale of international intrigue—think spie beautiful Monaco. The scenery is brutal and unforgiving in WH Quebec, the dark comedy is the story of a man (Thomas Hade conscience, after a conflict with a stranger complicates his lon

No film festival would be complete without at least one picture in CYCLING WITH MOLIERE (France), the story of an aging acto on. Even an old friend struggles to snap him out of his ennui. T kitchen comedy, based on the true story of French president F palace and the food are exquisite. Bon appétit!

“CUTIE AND THE BOXER” ful is DANCING IN JAFFA. Filmed in Israel, it follows ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he teaches the basics to ethnically mixed groups of children in preparation for a contest. It offers a rare perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one that is charming and light on its feet. Personal and poignant, THE GENIUS OF MARIAN is a portrait of filmmaker Banker White's mother, who is losing her memory to Alzheimer's, like her mother before her.

Actress Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest, takes a frank look at the history of mental illness and suicide in her family's past and worries about its future in RUNNING FROM CRAZY. In THE BRIDEGROOM, we meet a same-sex couple who overcome struggles with family and society only to be finally separated by tragedy. The film explores what happens as the survivor fights for his rights without support or the legal protections of marriage. And then there is TEENAGE, a far-ranging explo-

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Even the Canucks in ALMOST CHRISTMAS are looking to make a buck. The buddy comedy features Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti as French Canadian immigrants making a go of it in the Christmas tree game. The stakes are higher in the family drama AT ANY PRICE, where “G.B.F.” we find a son (Zac Efron) dreaming of driving race cars and a father (Dennis Quaid) trying to find a way to keep him at home on the tractor. Growing pains in rural America are compounded by tragedy in HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES, the tale of two boys, brothers, struggling to cope with an unexpected death.

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e featuring a Frenchman on a bicycle. You’ll find that or in search of a spark or a single reason to carry To finish, we suggest HAUTE CUISINE (France). It’s a François Mitterrand’s personal chef. The views of the

THE PRETTY ONE explores the bond between sisters. Things get tragic and complicated when the prettier of the twins dies and the other assumes her apartment—and identity. A mother desperately looks for her son, an autistic teen, who has skipped class and escaped into the subway in STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, a touching tale based on a true story. Meanwhile, above ground, an abandoned toddler is rescued by a street artist in SIDEWALK STORIES. The silent movie, black and white and low-budget, has the feel of a Chaplin film, but one set in 1980s New York. Fred (Stanley Tucci) has finally left his wife, but years too late, he discovers, when he arrives at the door of lost love Velvet (Alice Eve) in SOME VELVET MORNING. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) have found each other once again in BEFORE MIDNIGHT, the third installment in the saga of the star-crossed lovers by filmmaker Richard Linklater. In FARAH GOES BANG, young Farah would settle for a single rendezvous. But she has trouble finding a worthy partner in this coming-of-age comedy, uniquely set in the near political past of the 2004 presidential election. Equally quirky is ADULT WORLD, a comic tale of a college grad eager to launch her literary career, but forced to settle for a retail gig at a sex shop. Back in high school, Tanner (Michael J. Willett), newly arrived and openly gay, faces a dilemma in G.B.F.: stay loyal to his crowd or become best friend with one of the popular girls.

Finally, there is the only-in-America tale of TRUST ME, about a struggling Hollywood agent who believes he has finally found his fortune in a child star. Will his dreams be dashed? Or is he desperate enough to make them come true?

ration of the tumultuous teen years, including the origin of the “species” in the 20th century and the changes it brought to the family and culture. AATSINKI: THE STORY OF ARCTIC COWBOYS explores a year in the life of the modern cowboys of Finnish Lapland, as they ride herd (reindeer, of course) in the Arctic Circle. From a bit farther south, in the Netherlands, comes RED HERRING. Here, we spend time with another dying breed, Dutch herring fisherman, whose generations-old trade is threatened by new trends and changing tastes. More precarious is the struggle of mercenaries of the Puntland Maritime Police Force, who take matters into their own hands in search of Somali pirates off the African coast. We follow them into battle in THE PROJECT. From the Coney Island shore comes BENDING STEEL, a surprisingly sweet story of a strongman in training whose dream is to one day join the Strongman Spectacular.

FLEX IS KINGS, also from the edge of Brooklyn, is a look at the street performance

movement of dramatic, contortionist dancing called Flex. The film follows innovators and promoters of the form as they prepare for competition.

Participatory art on a global scale is the focus of INSIDE OUT: THE PEOPLE'S ART PROJECT. We watch French artist JR as he persuades communities to create giant community-defining portraits in public spaces. Artist Ushio Shinohara paints with his fists in CUTIE AND THE BOXER. We have a ringside seat as the 80-year-old "boxing" painter attempts to jumpstart his career. Meanwhile, his wife, Noriko, an illustrator, seeks her own fame through the equally explosive works she has created documenting their long, sometimes rocky marriage. BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON is a celebration of the life and work of the charismatic artist whose "follow your own weird" philosophy led him to create oddball poems and paintings, as well as a wonderfully messy life.

More traditional and perhaps more emulated is the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert Block. The Pulitzer Prize–winning satirist, whose career at the Washington Post spanned more than five decades and 13 presidents, is remembered by his colleagues and admirers in HERBLOCK—THE BLACK & THE WHITE. Literary giant Gore Vidal comes in for the tribute treatment in GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA. The documentary features archival interviews with the late Vidal, as well as those who knew, revered and feared him most. From the pantheon of moving pictures we’re given a portrait of filmmaker Michael Haneke. MICHAEL H. PROFESSION: DIRECTOR examines the entire career of the director and offers a rare peek at the master at work. From the world of comedy, there is RICHARD PRYOR: OMIT THE LOGIC. The documentary promises a never-before-seen, unvarnished and comprehensive chronicle of the rise and fall and rise again career of the late, groundbreaking comedian. And finally, from Internet fame, comes LIL BUB & FRIENDZ, the story of what happens when the most famous cat online (Lil Bub) and its owner take a road trip to meet other Web-famous felines.

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ome short films excite because they cut straight to the heart of the story. Others surprise because they offer a filmmaker a container of sufferable length for wild experimentation. The following selections are just a few of the 60 works you'll find in the eight shorts programs that work their magic with economy, grace, or dazzling ingenuity.

Filmmaker Thirza Cuthand uses Super-8 film stock and magic marker to show and tell the story of her temporary blindness in SIGHT (Canada). CORN MOTHER is an experiment in preservation, capturing with distressed and dissolving images a fleeting moment in the filmmaker's life, her mother's last visit to her garden. DEAD WORLD ORDER (France) is a look at the meticulous preservation of the artifacts in Le Havre's Maison de l'armateur, which survived the bombings of World War II and today houses irreplaceable treasures. GRAVE GOODS is a more personal look at the things we leave behind. Here, we find a filmmaker turning her lens to the items, from mundane housewares to glamorous fashion accessories, left behind by her late grandmother.

ROYAL AMERICAN is a look at the life of a typewriter. The documentary traces the surprisingly prolific output of letters produced by a clunky 1930s model rescued from the scrap heap. Never say die is the motto of the Cryonics Institute, where the deceased are frozen and stored, awaiting medical advances in the future that might return them to life.

We get a look at the business, and the man behind it, in the documentary WE WILL LIVE AGAIN. A widower finds a way to cope, and raise a child in THE GIRL WITH THE MECHANICAL MAIDEN (Ireland). GRANDMA'S NOT A TOASTER is the story of siblings scheming to steal their grandmother's fortune. WHAT'S LEFT…WHAT'S LOST, a vivid and visceral narrative set in the 1950s, is the tale of a forlorn father struggling with the decision to end his own life, and to take his son with him.

The leap into the void propels THE ACROBAT (Spain), a stirring story about the act of suicide. The struggle for survival connects the characters in GRACE, the tale of what happens on a human scale in the hours after nuclear war breaks out. HERMENEUTICS (Russia) seems at first to be a standard World War II flick.

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“WHAT’S LEFT...WHAT’S LOST” Then everything changes in this experimental work that examines and demonstrates the art of interpretation. Similarly cryptic is THE MOON HAS ITS REASONS (U.K.). On the surface, it is a love story. But that is open to interpretation.

SPACE CADET, set in the early 1980s, is about pot-smoking parents facing the reality that their quirky 15-year-old son may need to see a shrink. THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM takes us to 1950s suburbia, where a housewife suspects the neighborhood dentist is up to no good. In 2021, a jailed journalist facing execution hatches a desperate plan in the THE EXIT ROOM. Meanwhile, in MURK LIGHT (Iraq), a pair of young Emirati friends ride through the day and night atop a bus, chasing dreams and an escape. The adventurers are on foot in ZZZZZZZ, the story of a pair of sleepwalkers wandering New York City streets.

And finally, there is EPILOGUE, where we meet Skillman. He has just wrapped up his last adventure. What is a superhero to do when all his villains have been vanquished?

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e look to sports for more than just scores. We look for drama, for escape, for heroes. The following sports-themed selections provide all that and more. The films, many of them this year portraying women in sport, document the struggles of athletes on and off the playing fields and providing the context, conflicts, and heart rarely found in the record books.

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI traces the evolution of generation-defining athlete and cultural icon Cassius Clay, from a charismatic young bruiser to ambassador for peace. The film focuses on the boxerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battles outside the ring, including with the U.S. government over his controversial religious conversion and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War. THE DIPLOMAT gives us a portrait of Olympic gold medal winner Katarina Witt. Here we find another world-famous athlete met with distrust by her own country. The photogenic figure skater became a cover girl during the Cold War, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most beautiful face of socialism,â&#x20AC;? earning her fame and privilege in East Germany. But it also made her a target of surveillance by the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret police.

More scrutiny might have rooted out swindler John Spano, who swooped in out of nowhere with a bogus backstory and $165 million to purchase the New York Islanders in 1997. BIG SHOT is the story of this dreamer and schemer who fooled the National Hockey League but not the press. When sports reporter Melissa Ludtke was shut out of the New York Yankees locker room in 1977, she successfully challenged major league baseball to open the doors to women. That did not settle the issue, though. LET THEM WEAR TOWELS explores the years of fan rancor and player harassment female reporters have endured while chasing stories into the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s locker room.

NO LIMITS is the story of Audrey Mestre, a free diver (the sport of diving without breathing apparatus) who chased her dream into the dangerous deep. What compels athletes to give it all for their sport? THE MOTIVATION introduces us to eight striving professional skateboarders fighting, through injuries, family struggles and financial troubles, for a place at the top. MCCONKEY follows the trailblazing career of extreme skier Shane McConkey, who changed the sport with his skill, style and daring before leaving it behind, tragically, in his final jump.

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You may have heard of Wilt Chamberlain, one of the tallest and most dominant NBA players in the history of the game. He went by many names, including Wilt the Stilt and Goliath. But in his early days, he was Wilt the bellhop. WILT CHAMBERLAIN: BORSCHT BELT BELLHOP is the story of Chamberlainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer job as a teen at a Catskills resort. As the film reveals, even there his legend was growing. Finally, there is PAT XO, a portrait of NCAA basketballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most successful coach, Pat Summitt, who was forced to leave the game at the peak of her career due to early-onset dementia. Instead of a gauzy retrospective, we get a raw and intimate film that gives us access into Summittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world by placing the story, and the camera, in the hands of her son, Tyler.

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The exhibition gallery at 233 Broadway, where hundreds of daguerreotypes were on display.

According to an 1852 article in Gleason’s Pictorial magazine, the Meade brothers had 10 assistants helping him in their studio.

Where the Woolworth Building now stands, the Meade brothers ran one of the most important photo galleries of its day

BY OLIVER E. ALLEN ore than a century and a half ago, during the 1840s, the early photographic images known as daguerreotypes were all the rage in the U.S. Invented by the French scene painter and physicist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, they were produced on silver-coated copper plates treated with iodine vapor. By 1839 they were being made throughout Europe, and about that time the process was introduced in the U.S. by Samuel F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the telegraph.

Although most practitioners were itinerant portraitists who traveled from town to town, many operated on a large scale. One of the most successful conHenry Meade Charles Meade cerns was run by the Meade Brothers, who were located at 233 Broadway largest in the world. where the Woolworth Building now stands.

They then closed all their other studios to concenBorn in England, the two brothers, Henry and Charles, came to this country in the 1830s. In 1842, trate on the new location.

The key feature of their new building was its exhiobserving the newfound popularity of the daguerreotype process, they founded a studio in Albany, N.Y., bition gallery that showcased hundreds of their works, where they perfected the art of portraiture and mastered including portraits of such well-known personalities as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, President James Buchanan the processing of the resulting pictures.

Soon they had opened branch studios in Syracuse and the Lincoln assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth.

Most of the portraits shown in the gallery were and Buffalo, and in 1850 they made their biggest plunge by launching their impressive daguerreotype facility at small, but there were also larger scenic pictures, for ever 233 Broadway. The studio that ranked among the since their Albany days the brothers had traveled wide-

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ly to photograph well-known sites such as Niagara Falls and the Capitol; now they included foreign spots, among them the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame and Shakespeare’s home. Many of these pictures were quite large—up to 16 by 20 inches—as daguerreotypes could retain their sharpness even when greatly enlarged.

Eager to add new images to their inventory, the brothers went to Europe in most years to produce more scenic views as well as to photograph celebrities. So the exhibits were constantly changing, making the gallery a lodestone for artisans, engravers, lithographers and other specialists in addition to the wider public.

The gallery, of course, was only one aspect of the operation, for behind the scenes were portrait studios and even larger spaces for group pictures such as school classes and military companies, plus elaborate processing facilities.

Although Henry Meade died in 1858, the firm continued to prosper through most of the Civil War until Charles’s death in early 1865, when it went out of business. By that time, the demand for daguerreotypes was waning as new photographic processes such as tintypes and glass negatives were taking over—radical technological shifts, the likes of which are all too familiar to us today.

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THE TRIBECA TRIB APRIL 2013 At right, swing dancing on the PS 89 stage with, far right, Samantha Lee and DJ Canty demonstrating their moves. Below: Victoria Perez and Henry Mondschein prepare to demonstrate the rumba before their whole class performed.

HAVING A BALL The stage becomes a ballroom for the 5th graders at PS 89

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“Dancing with girls. Dancing period.

Being on stage. Fear of being watched or laughed at or feeling awkward,” said his mother, Joanne Ames, ticking off the reasons that Charlie dreaded the whole idea of it. “He said, ‘I’m going to get myself expelled before that starts.’ And then he loved it!”

Such is the magic of Dancing Classrooms, the ballroom dance program just completed for the seventh year at PS 89 and now in more than 200 schools around the city. A performance last month in an auditorium filled with proud, sometimes tearfully joyful parents, proved once again that preteen boys and girls can become waltzing, tangoing, and swing-dancing “ladies and gentlemen.”

Teaching artist Steve Petrillo gave the ever-spirited lessons, overseen by the school’s dance teacher, Catherine Gallant.

“At first I was like, ‘Dancing with a boy is disgusting,’” Awa-Victoria Morel said, in one of several short

student “reflections” read from the stage. “But when I got used to it and was focusing on the dances more, it was really fun.”

Each of the three classes demonstrated two dances, with the audience tapping along to a sultry tango or hipwiggling merengue. And, sure enough, each child looked right at home.

“There are kids who are shier than others,” said Young Yun, mother of ballroomer Samantha Lee, “but on that stage you could not tell.”

Above left: The tango was one of the biggest crowd pleasers. Above: Lucinda DeLaney and Chris Hughes pair off. Students changed partners for each dance.

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Finger-weaving Hear the story “The Goat in the Rug” about how Native Americans use goat wool to make household items. Kids then make a finger-woven bookmark to take home.

Sat, 4/13, 1 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

g Family Yoga Night Kids play games, make art projects and sing songs while learning the basics of yoga with a caregiver. The yoga poses are designed to be appropriate for youngsters, and stories that go with them will take kids on interactive and imaginative adventures. Fri, 4/26, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 107 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

g Woolworth’s Gargoyles Kids tour the exhibit “Woolworth Building @ 100” to learn about gargoyles, then design skyscrapers with visual embellishments like those seen on gothic-style buildings. Ages 3–10. Reservations required.

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Storytime Interactive stories, participatory songs, finger-puppet plays and more for young children with their caregivers. For ages up to 18 months: Tuesdays, 11:30 am. Ages 18–36 months: Wednesdays, 10:30 am. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org.

DANCE g Native American Dance Social The Thunderbird Singers and Dancers join the Heyna Second Suns drumming circle to perform traditional Native American social dancing. Sat, 4/20, 7 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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Rolie Polie Guacamole A “Kindie” rock band from Brooklyn that performs high-energy interactive shows. The group incorporates funk, rock and folk music in their original songs about natural living, healthy eating and staying active. Sun, 4/7, 11 am. $15; free under 2.

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dren’s songwriter, sporting her signature pink, sparkly dress, sings upbeat tunes. For ages 8 and under. Sun, 4/21, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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plush rabbit given to a young boy yearns for the day the boy will choose him as his special playmate and love him so he can become real. This adaptation of the classic children’s tale “The Velveteen Rabbit,” by Margery Williams, is brought to the stage by Enchantment Theatre Company with music, life-sized puppets and masks.

For grades K–3. Sat., April 13, 1:30 p.m. $25. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights Guitarist Joanie and her band perform original kids’ music and rock ’n’ roll. Sun, 4/14, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

about the actress Lucille Ball, then play a game of Lucy-themed trivia. The winners get treats as prizes. Wed, 4/17, 4 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

The Okee Dokee Brothers Born adventurers and outdoor guys put their passion for nature, biking and canoeing into their Americana folk music. Their songs’ messages are, “Go out and play in the grass, watch the eddies swirl in the river and see the clouds morph in the sky.” Sun, 4/28, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Qing Ming Family Festival Qing Ming is a time to honor family and celebrate the arrival of spring. There will be storytelling, kite-making and writing or drawing about a family member who has played a special role in the child’s life. Reservations required. Sat, 4/6, 12 noon– 4 pm. $10; $6 2 and up. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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TGIF Storytime A series of whimsical stories from and about Judaism and other faiths.

For children with caregivers. Tales focus on traditions, holidays, family and other aspects of the world’s religions. Ages 3–7. Fri, 4/19, 3:45 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

THEATER g Conversations with Anne: Growing Up in Hiding A one-woman show in which Anne Frank’s life in hiding is dramatized, using words taken directly from her diary. She explores the circumstances that forced her family to hide and the frustrations of growing up so isolated. The performance is followed by a Q&A in which the actress stays in character as Anne. Sat, 4/6, 1 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 9. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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BUBBLE BABIES T

BY ALINE REYNOLDS hey mostly bobbed and floated.

Some paddled, a few advanced students blew bubbles.

But Bubble Babies, a Downtown Community Center program for children aged six months to two years, is not the class for parents who see a budding Michael Phelps in their children.

Here, instructor Vanessa King serenaded students with “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Ring Around the Rosie.”

And parents were delighted with the tiniest steps.

Take Suzii Chan, who had just dunked her 9-month-old boy, Auden, under the water. He resurfaced looking startled, but did not cry.

“I did it for a split second last time, and he was okay,” Chan explained, “so this time I just went for it.”

Not all babies take easily to the water, said King. But the earlier kids become acclimated to the water, the easier it is to teach them to swim.

“If you put kids who are three or four years old into the water for the first time, they’re afraid,” King noted.

“But if you don’t have to worry about that, you can actually get them working on skills.”

On a recent morning, eight-monthold Colette Chandra was all smiles when her mother, Marie Chandra, put her through a Bubble Baby drill.

“It seems very natural to her,” Chandra said.”I was surprised.”

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Anxiety vs. Optimism at Admissions Time In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bobby Knight, the former Indiana University basketball coach, was quoted as saying, “One of the worst things that I think I heard was, ‘It will be okay.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be okay?’”

After reading that story, I rethought my use of “okay,” which I use regularly, particularly when facing nervous parents handing in CONNIE their children’s SCHRAFT kindergarten applications.

“It’ll be okay,” I’d say, downplaying the anxiety about overcrowding that hits parents this time of year. Bobby Knight would hate me.

SCHOOL I am the TALK daughter of an optimist. My father’s parents never recovered mentally or financially from losses stemming from the Great Depression. As I was growing up, they seemed lethargic, bleak and fearful, compared to my charismatic, sunny and energetic dad. Being optimistic was his way of rebelling against a diminished life—and I wanted to be like him. This may explain why I have been accused of being “Pollyanna-ish” about the kinder-

garten admissions crunch Downtown.

I do not trivialize concerns about overcrowding in the neighborhood’s elementary schools. After all, I work in a school that was built specifically to address parents’ fears about overcrowding at P.S. 234. They began by knocking on the doors of the Gateway buildings in Battery Park City and asking if there were any children living in the apartments. It turns out there were.

The admissions process has changed dramatically in the 10 years that I have worked as a parent coordinator. We used to open the doors for registration in

attention to how many five-year-olds were registering for seats. Kindergarten classes were capped at 25, and the “Kindergarten Intake Application Process” began.

Life has definitely become more stressful for families. In a recent New York Times piece, “Born to Wait,” Soni Sanghea described waiting lists for schools, summer camps, sports teams, even hospital delivery rooms. We’re not alone; school overcrowding is happening all over the city.

Anxiety is contagious. Did I feel it last month, watching yet another mother

My job is not to talk statistics or projections, but to encourage parents to believe that they are capable of handling disappointment.

April, accepting all the zoned students, as well as siblings whose families had moved out of the zone. When we could, we even made exceptions to the rules by admitting children whose parents worked in the neighborhood.

Then things began to change. One year the number of our kindergarten classes went up to four. Then there were six, requiring some creativity to fit them all in the building. Consequently, parents became activists; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver formed an overcrowding task force. New schools were built, and the DOE was paying close

with three young children come into my office, holding a folder of documents and a crumpled yellow intake application? Absolutely. Did I scan the application for the birth date, hoping to find that the child was too young or too old for kindergarten? I confess that I did.

Was I hoping that the address indicated that the child was zoned for another Downtown school? Yes, my fellow parent coordinators, I admit it, I did, particularly when she handed me a second crumpled yellow form—for twins.

But I did not express my worry to the exhausted-looking mother with a

bawling baby fastened to her chest.

When I told her she did not need to fill out applications to other schools, that if she ended up on the waiting list and was still on it in June, the DOE would assign her child to the nearest school with room, she nearly cried from relief. I hope she went home and took a nap.

Pre-registration is taking place this month for the lucky families who are “in.” Others will spend the spring anxiously awaiting that phone call with the message, “There’s been a cancellation.”

I, along with parent coordinators from other Downtown schools, will meet with angry and emotional parents to whom I will express my heartfelt sympathy. I have kids and know what it’s like to need to make an adjustment when Plan A doesn’t work. But I also know that Plan B can turn out to be a fine alternative.

The politics of overcrowding are one thing; helping families is another. My job is not to talk statistics or projections, but to encourage parents to believe that they are capable of handling disappointment. Resilient parents raise resilient children, who will face the future realistically—with optimism, grit and a sense of humor. Very much like my dad.

Hope is in my DNA, but I will make an effort to stop saying that everything is going to be okay. Even though it probably will be.

Connie Schraft (connie@tribecatrib.com) is the PS 89 parent coordinator.

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BREAKING BOUNDARIES Dance redefined at the upcoming Performance Mix Festival

BY APRIL KORAL Karen Bernard was stressed.

It was a mere 34 days until the opening of her Performance Mix Festival, a week-long celebration of dance that she has faithfully organized for 27 years, and ticket sales weren’t going well.

“Right now only a few tickets have been sold,” she said, sitting in the festival’s “office,” the living room of her walk-up loft on Duane Street. “I always get extremely nervous, though it seems to always work out.”

Indeed it does. The successful event, which brings 30 performers from around the country as well as Canada and France, is a go-to event for fans of experimental dance.

The festival, held at Tribeca’s Flea Theater on White Street, is part of New Dance Alliance, an arts organization Bernard started in 1986 that promotes emerging forms of innovative dance.

Bernard notes that although many of the works in the festival are inspired by ballet, jazz or modernists such as Martha Graham, the comparison ends there.

“Some people might ask, ‘Is this dance?’” she said. “Lately it’s been called ‘organized movement.’ For example, everyday things like walking can be organized, then made to look like they flow into a dance.”

When Bernard talks about festival performances, though—using words like “crazy,” “quirky” and “amazing and exciting”—it sounds like anything but everyday. One of the dancers’ movements reminds her of German Expressionism. Another has a poetic feel to it. Yet another is high-energy, full of physicality and “totally out there.”

“I like dance that isn’t just a flowery, pretty thing, but serves a purpose,” Bernard explains.

This year, Michael Freeman will perform excerpts from a dance musical based on a transgender theme. Lindsey

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ful of grants, box office sales, individual donations and a silent auction.

But the expenses are high, she added—from renting the theater to paying salaries to printing programs. ”It costs as much as $45,000 to do the festival. I know that’s not a lot in the eyes of Broadway,” she said, laughing. “But we’re on a real tight budget.”

Bernard does a barter with a videographer, for example, who uses her studio.

And rather than put up out-of-town dancers in a hotel for a week, Bernard welcomes them into her loft, where they sleep on air mattresses.

The festival closes with performances by three veteran tap dancers—the perfect note to end the week, Bernard said.

“A lot of the works in the festival have a certain amount of angst in them.

They’re journeys, they're about getting through certain things or facing political issues. Tap is fun!”

Performance Mix Festival is at the Flea, 41 White St. April 8–13. $15, students and seniors, $10. Tickets at newdancealliance.org. See website for information about closing party and free breakfast and discussion.

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Coming to the Performance Mix Festival. Top: Mélanie Demers, Jacques PoulinDenis and Brianna Lombardo of the Mayday Dance Company perform “Goodbye.”

Above: Robert Tyree, left, and Melinda Ring’s Special Projects Company. Left: Karen Bernard in a solo performance.

Dietz Marchant, a member of the Nina Winthrop and Dancers Company, will explore the idea of solitude. Bernard, 64, will show her performance piece that deals with older women and their feelings about body image and mortality.

The wide range of ages among the performers is unusual in dance, Bernard notes.

“A lot of people don’t show older people anymore,” she said. “Some curators like a certain aesthetic and only want

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Festivals for experimental dance are hard to come by these days, Bernard said, because there’s less funding around to support them. The Performance Mix Festival has survived largely on a hand-

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Bill Shannon A new sculptural multichannel video installation, “Retaining Neutral Palette in a Forest of Heroic and Tragic Positions,” presents Shannon’s challenging and provocative choreography and performance art, translated into video. On display will also be line art and notes on paper. To Sun, 4/28. Daily, 9 am–10 pm. Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., dnadance.org.

g Literary Salon New York-based parents who are writers will read excerpts from their recent publications of poetry and prose, including Kelly Link (“Stranger Things Happen”), Leigh Newman (deputy editor of oprah.com) and Sarah Gerkensmeyer (“What You Are Now Enjoying”). Tue, 4/9, 7 pm. Free.

Pen Parentis, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org.

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Il Lee In his latest exhibit, “New York,” Lee uses a ballpoint pen to explore the potential of line and how it can appear to loop around itself endlessly and mass into multidimensional forms on a 2D surface. To Sat, 5/4. Tue–Fri, 2–8 pm; Sun, 11 am–5 pm and by appointment. Art Projects International, 434 Greenwich St., artprojects.com.

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Passwords: On Miguel Hernandez Admired by poets from Federico Garcia Lorca to William Carlos WIlliams, Miguel Hernandez was hailed by Pablo Neruda as “a great master of language, a wonderful poet.” Editor of Poetry magazine Don Share will read from Hernandez’s translated volume, framing the poet’s life and poetry in the context of his time and the poets around him. Tue, 4/9, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Aurora Wallace Professor of media, culture and communication at New York University will talk about her latest book, “Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City,” about the relationship between the media and urban space and how architecture contributed to the power of the press and media industries. Reservations required.

Mon, 4/15, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

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Mark Russ Federman Author-purveyor discusses his book “Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built” with Gabriella Gershenson, senior editor at Saveur. Federman, grandson of the Russ & Daughters founder, talks about his family’s landmark Lower East Side shop and how the family business has changed over the last century. Light refreshments included. Wed, 4/17, 7 pm. $12; $10 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Jeremy Scahill Best-selling author reads from and discusses his book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” which takes the reader inside America’s wars. The book is drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALS and Delta Force as well as private contractors who participated in operations to hunt down, capture or kill designated U.S. enemies. Thu, 4/25, 6 pm. Free.

Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

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How Do We Face Disaster? Student Poems from NYC In recognition of National Poetry Month, young people from New York City who were affected by Hurricane Sandy will read their poems about the storm. Fri, 4/26, 10 am. Free.

9/11 Tribute Center, 120 Liberty St., tributewtc.org.

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“The Mystery Box” Editor Brad Meltzer and several contributing authors read excerpts from an anthology of 21 stories on the theme of a locked box. From strongboxes to coffins to prison cells, the contents within are a mystery that, when unveiled, can be surprising, horrifying or shocking. Tue, 4/30, 6 pm. Free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com.

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The gallery is at 137 Duane St. 646-490-6355, rhgallery.com.

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Balanchine, Marius Petipa, August Bournonville, Antony Tudor, Paul Taylor, Jerome Robbins and others. Fri, 4/5, 7:30 pm. $25–$40. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu/schimmel. g

27th Annual Performance Mix Festival A weeklong festival of 25 dance and video art performances. (See page 42.) Artists show original choreographed works live and on film encompassing a variety of experimental and modern dance genres, from performance art to tap dance. See website for schedule and ticket details. Mon, 4/8– Sat, 4/13. $15–$60. New Dance Alliance at the Flea Theater, 41 White St., newdancealliance.org.

g The Circle of Dance: Medicine Bear Native Through music, dance and storytelling, American choreographer Santee Smith tells the traditional Iroquois story of how the Bear Clan came to be known as the “Keeper of the Medicines.” Thu, 4/18, 6 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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The Rape of Europa A documentary about the Nazis’ systematic theft and destruction of Europe’s art. But while Nazi fanatics looted, profiteered and planned to destroy trainloads of paintings, sculptures and rare collections, art professionals and everyday art lovers, from truck drivers to clerks, located, rescued and returned the looted treasure, helping to save and preserve much of Europe’s cultural richness. Tue, 4/9, 6:30. $8; $5 students. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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The Connoisseur’s Guide to Jazz Singing: Memorable Performances Caught on Film A definitive collection of rare performances by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Hartman and more. Free.

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In God’s Land Screening and discussion of the latest film by Indian director Pankaj Kumar, which looks at the issues tenant farmers face with land development and temple-owned land in India. The documentary uses live-action footage and computer animation to recount the history of the land and its exploitation perpetuated by religion and class hierarchies. Thu, 4/11, 7 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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Never Forget to Lie Emmy-winning Polish director Marian Marzynski examines his own experience as a hidden child, as well as those of other child Holocaust survivors and the complexities of the Polish-Jewish relationship.

Marzynski will attend the post-screening discussion. Sun, 4/21, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Slums of Beverly Hills A look at what it means to be a young woman in a man’s world through the adventures of Vivian, a teenager who stays in a series of flophouses with her family. She navigates sexual and social embarrassments on her journey of self-discovery with her older, more experienced, cousin Rita.

Director Tamara Jenkins will host a post-screening Q&A. Wed, 4/24, 7:30 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Una EVA quintuple y la Gran MANZANA Five Latino artists display their abstract works in this exhibit, translated as Five Fold EVA and the Big APPLE. The pieces are both 2D and 3D and are created using various media. To Sat, 4/20. Wed & Fri, 2–5 pm. Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard St. 4th Fl., salomonarts.com.

Exhibition Space Curated and organized by Greg Allen, the exhibit includes images, objects and perceptions of space from the early days of the Space Race, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Photographs by scientists and everyday stargazers will be on display, including one of NGC-5792, a spiral galaxy taken in 1957, as well as a picture of a meteor shower over South Dakota in 1960. To Wed, 5/8. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

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Kristina Sretkova Colorful abstract paintings by the Berlin-based artist, with additional works added to the collection halfway through the show. A portion of the proceeds from the show’s sale will benefit Manhattan Youth’s Downtown Community Center. Tue, 4/2–Sun, 6/30. Opening reception: Thu, 4/25, 6 pm. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St. g

Street Photography Work by 10 guest street photographers and 25 members of the artists’ collective. Nearly 70 images span the past 50 years of street life in cities around the world.

Wed, 4/3–Sat, 5/4. Opening reception: Tue, 4/2, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

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Svay Sareth Sareth’s 17-meter-long sculpture “Churning” is a site-specific work that brings to life Cambodia’s main plazas. Depicting a typical scene at a busy urban square in Phnom Penh that houses the VietnameseCambodian Friendship Monument, the memorial is replaced with a camouflage rendering of “churning of a sea of milk,” an ancient creation myth famously depicted as a bas-relief at Angkor Wat. Thu, 4/4–Mon, 5/27. Daily, 8 am–8 pm. World Financial Center Plaza, worldfinancialcenter.com.

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Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience Barings Bank was one of the few significant investment banks of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it remained a leader until its downfall in 1995. This exhibit explores five of the firm's U.S. investments, good and bad. To Sat, 4/27. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm.

Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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Mortified Everyone has embarrassing pieces from their past that they would like to forget. This show is a comic excavation of these teen angst artifacts, including journals, poems, home movies, anecdotes, artwork and more, shared by their authors and creators before an audience of strangers. Thu, 4/11, 7 pm. $15. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Front Row: Chinese American Designers The increasing presence of Chinese designers in the fashion world of the 1980s coincided with the growth of New York’s Chinatown, its manufacturing industry, and the outsourcing of large-scale production to China. Since then, new designers have gained a standing in New York and the global fashion industry. The exhibit focuses on the careers and unique assemblages of 16 Chinese and Chinese-American designers, including Derek Lam, Anna Sui, Jason Wu and others, and is curated by designer Mary Ping. Fri, 4/26–Sun, 9/29. Tue, Wed, Fri–Sun, 11 am–6 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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Song for Life Singer Charlette Schulamit Ottolenghi and pianist Shai Bachar mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with Mediterranean and Eastern European songs of mourning and resistance drawn from the experiences of women in the Holocaust. Wed, 4/10, 7 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Northwest Michigan College Children’s Choir The choir from Traverse City will perform classical choral pieces. Thu, 4/11, 1 pm. Free. St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, trinitywallstreet.org.

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Sharel Cassity Native American saxophonist pays tribute to Oscar Pettiford, the renowned bass player highlighted in the museum’s exhibit “Up Where We Belong,” by performing some of his best-known works. Thu, 4/11, 6 pm. Free.

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Guy Mendilow and Sofia Tosello Two musicians pair up to perform pieces blended with Sephardic styles that use the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. Through their songs they reveal traditional tales of sailors lost to the sea, kings and more. Fri, 4/12, 8 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Tribeca Chamber Players The group will perform selected quartets by Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 132 in A minor and a preview of Opus 130 in B-flat major (4/15) and String Quartet Opus 130 in B-flat major with Grosse Fuge (Opus 133) and a preview of Opus 131 in C-sharp minor (4/29). Mon, 4/15 & 4/29, 7 pm. Free. Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St., manhattanyouth.org.

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Her sister, Sis, escapes reality through drug abuse and empty sexual relationships. Their lives collide in an epic portrait of self-destruction, led by Lil’s oblivious husband and a sexual mercenary. This is a brutal portrayal of how cruel some can be to the ones they love when they want what the others have.

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 pm; Sundays & Mondays, 7 pm. Fri, 4/26–Sun, 5/26. $30. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.

Flute Alors Few instruments have been so much a part of the Western world’s musical history as the recorder. The ensemble gives examples of this with works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods as well as contemporary pieces. Thu, 4/18, 1 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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Espiritu Gitano Spanish flamenco music by guitarist and composer Arturo Martinez. His style of Andalusian Gypsy music has Arab and Jewish influences as well as inflections of North African, Hispanic-American and jazz sounds. Sat, 4/20, 8 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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Asefa A celebration of the Jews of Yemen with Sephardic rhythms and a sampling of JewishYemeni cuisine. Sun, 4/28, 1 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Photo Slide Show Photographer, naturalist and traveler Vlassios Pyrpyris shows slides from and discusses his trips to South America, including Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia. Tue, 4/9, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. West Wing rooms 2 & 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com.

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The SIGN and MEANING A panel of artists, moderated by the Brooklyn Museum’s curator emerita of contemporary art, Charlotta Kotik. They will discuss the use of single letters and full words translated into visual form. Artists Joe Arnheim, John O’Connor and Karen Schiff discuss their own methods in this genre. Wed, 4/10, 7 pm. $5. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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Yom Ha’Shoah: Remembering the Holocaust A guided tour of the museum’s exhibit “Meeting Hate with Humanity,” about constructive ways to counter and dispel bias, followed by a discussion with Helen Senor. Senor, who was born in Slovakia, spent much of her early childhood on the run during the Holocaust, and was taken in by a gentile who helped her survive the war.

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Increasing Women’s Political Participation Worldwide Activist and director of Women’s Political Participation in Washington, D.C., Susan Markham will discuss the National Democratic Institute’s initiatives that support equal participation for women in democracies around the world, from helping women in Burkina Faso get birth certificates to vote to training the only indigenous female governor in Guatemala. Wed, 4/17, 6:30 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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The Russian Avant-Garde Goes Underground Poets and scholars discuss the group of young Russian writers who in the late 1920s called themselves OBERIU and were poised for avantgarde stardom. But with the emergence of the Stalinist state, with its repression of avant-garde art, they were forced underground. Sat, 4/20, 2 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Hiring Smarter Adam Goldstein, who created a candidate ranking system that helps employers differentiate job applicants, discusses how major American financial institutions are dealing with today’s 400-to-1 ratio of job seekers to jobs available. Thu, 4/25, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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“Little Syria” in Lower Manhattan Curatorial staff from the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, will give a multimedia presentation on the history of the neighborhood south of the World Trade Center and the oncethriving community of Syrian immigrants and Syrian Americans. Tue, 4/30, 6:30 pm. Free.

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George Washington’s Inauguration To celebrate the anniversary of the inauguration of the first president of the United States, a historical reenactor will perform and describe the events of the day. Tue, 4/30, 12 pm. Free. Federal Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall St., nps.gov/feha.

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A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney Lucas Hnath’s portrait of a man who forever changed the American dream and way of life, in which Disney himself (Larry Pine) reads a screenplay he wrote about his last days on earth, and how he sought to change the world and the people who loved him. Tue–Sun, 7:30 pm; Sat, 3 & 7:30 pm. Tue, 4/30–Sun, 5/26. $30–$40. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., sohorep.org.

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History of Wall Street A 90-minute tour of the Financial District focused on the neighborhood’s origins as a Dutch trading post and its transformation into one of the financial centers of the world. Sat, 4/13, 11 am. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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Immigrant New York Explore the experiences of immigrant and ethnic populations in Lower Manhattan from the early 19th century through today. Stops include the Tweed Courthouse, the African Burial Ground and sites associated with Jacob Riis, Emma Goldman and others. Meet at the SE corner of Broadway and Chambers. Mon, 4/8 & Tue, 4/16, 1 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com.

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A Rebellious Brew: New York’s Tea Party of 1774 Contrary to popular belief, Boston was not the only Colonial city to have a “tea party.” Many seaports, including New York’s, had their own versions. Tour guide Fred Cookinham points out significant sites and explains why New York was so late to adopt the revolutionary spirit. Reservations required. Sat, 4/20, 11 am. $20. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

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t’s almost time for TOAST. The free three-day-long art walk that lures hundreds of daytrippers—from serious collectors to occasional art buyers to the just curious—takes place the first weekend of May. Some 80 Tribeca-based artists are expected to open their studios to visitors from all over the city and beyond.

TOAST—Tribeca Open Artist Studio

Coming to Studios Near You

Tour—began 17 years ago by a handful of neighborhood artists and it is still run by volunteers with studios throughout Tribeca.

“We have our usual cast of characters,” said TOAST president Shawn Washburn. “There are established Tribeca artists who have been in the neighborhood for many years, and a whole other crowd of young, emerging artists

who want to open up their spaces and show their work.”

There is a style and medium (drawings, paintings, ceramics, textile art, memory boxes, to name a few) for every taste in this art walk. Take the peaceful still lifes and urban landscapes by Peter Colquhoun. Or the mysterious abstracts

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NoLita PH WITH PRIVATE TERRACE Lafayette St. Create your own 4,472SF PH w/4,031SF private terrace on top of a FS Nolita condo. 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, GAS lREPLACES SWEEPING .3%7 views. $15.8M. WEB# 3502640. +YLE "LACKMON

HISTORIC PENTHOUSE Tribeca. Private boutique condo meets one-of-a-kind architecture in this 3,197 SF mint PH duplex. This loft shines with a boldness that inspires and calms. $5.995M. WEB# 3760687 Laura Moss 212-317-3684

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SoHo/NoHo SOHO POWER CORNER SoHo. 4OP mR LOFT W CEIL 'LORIOUS LIGHT 16 huge wndws. 100â&#x20AC;&#x2122; on Greene/ 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; on grand 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; LR, 3BR, 3 bath, 5,000SF+, exclusive roof rights possible. $6.7M. WEB# 1753156.

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

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST TriBeCa. Recently reduced. Stunning VIEWS SOUTH AND WEST FROM HIGH mOOR 3BR, 3.5 bath condo at 101 Warren.

Amenity-rich bldg, sunny, and turn-key. $5.995M. WEB# 3596897.

Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207 3BR CONDO TriBeCa. Gorgeous E, S, W views. 2,200+SF, 3 full baths, large living area w/open kit and DA. Great closet space. $3.695M. WEB# 3601619.

Scott Harris 212-317-3674

Gramercy/Chelsea LIVE IN AN ART GALLERY SoHo. Former Leo Castelli gallery featured in Town & Country. Mint 3,200SF open loft. 2BR, 2.5 bath w/ OUTDOOR SPACE "OFl KIT DOORMAN

lREPLACE - 7%"Â?

Erin Boisson Aries 212-317-3680 Nic Bottero 212-317-3664 SOHO CANVAS Downtown. CoExcl. Incredible spacious loft w/ huge wndws and major potential awaits.

11-12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils, orig details, low maint & income from ground rents make this a steal. $3.95M. WEB# 3568280.

Cordelia Robb 212-906-9323 BOND ST LOFT NoHo. Bond St LOFT FULL mOOR IN #ENTRAL .O(O "2

bath, NWSE expos, 14 wndws, excellent LIGHT DIRECT ELEV ENTRY %)+ LIVE WORK Co-op. $2.35M. WEB# 3432208.

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

SPECTACULAR YVES 1BR Chelsea. This spacious 1BR, 1.5 bath condo has an award-winning modern design and is perfect for buyers or investors. Floor-to-ceiling windows offer city views. $1.225M. WEB# 3810284.

Douglas Bellitto 212-906-0542 Anne Collins 212-906-0510

3,600+ SF LOFT CONDO Chelsea. Beautifully renov w/private elevator, this apt. has an expansive great room, 2-3BR, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, N/E/W exposures, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils, CAC, PT/ DM bldg. $5.9M. WEB# 3669357.

Nancy Candib 212-906-9302 Dominic R. Paolillo 212-906-9307

SOPHISTICATED CORNER Chelsea. Spacious & airy loft. High ceils & huge wndws N & E. 2BR plus 2 large mEX USE SPACES /PEN ,2 $2 KIT WD, CAC. $2.5M. WEB# 3782418.

David Anderson 212-588-5618 Janet Garson Gifford 212-588-5623 MINT LONDON TERRACE 5 RM HUGE DUPLEX LOFT TriBeCa. Chelsea. 2-3BR. all new, chic. 2 bath, open Huge condo duplex loft, 6000+SF, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kit, LR & FDR, corner master, WITH AMAZING lNISHES QUALITY AND huge 2nd BR, beamed ceils, exposed steel construction. Private pool, terraces, doors & radiators, WICs. FS Co-op, elegant ease. 4BR, billiard room. pool, gym. $2.349M. WEB# 3716572.

Must be seen. $24M. WEB# 3566972. Lisa Lippman 212-588-5606 Liz Dworkin 212-906-0509 Scott Moore 212-588-5608 AWARD WINNING LOFT MEATPACKING LOFT TriBeCa. Amazing downtown Meatpacking District. Located in a TriCeCa loft available. Features boutique prewar bldg w/low CCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and INCLUDE HIGH CEILINGS lREPLACE MAPLE taxes, property features include 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; mOORING BEAUTIFUL TERRACE AND A PRIVATE ceils and big windows w/sweeping garage. $6.93M. WEB# 1039207. city views. $2M. WEB# 3795804.

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PERFECTION ON JANE ST Greenwich Village. Five story Greek Revival, 22.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; townhouse with patio and roof terrace. Elegant master RETREAT lREPLACES 4URN KEY LUXURY greets the discerning buyer on every mOOR - 7%"Â?

Anne Collins 212-906-0510 Douglas Bellitto 212-906-0542

Union Square 8 USS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; UNPRECEDENTED PH Union Square South. Triple mint 3,118SF 3BR, 3.5 bath penthouse with panoramic Union Square Park views, private elevator, 2,000SF wraparound landscaped terrace in boutique doorman condo. No. CD05-0515 $8.995M. WEB# 1750739.

Shlomi Reuveni 212 396 5901 Mark Powell 212-906-9391

Financial District OASIS IN THE SKY FiDi. Mint condition 1BR PH w/1,100SF terr. 11â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils, fp, W/D, spacious and bright, stunning city views. Best of Downtown living.

Call today. $2.395M. WEB# 3342365.

S. Jean Meisel 212-906-9209 Susannah Wade 212-906-9304

BRIGHT BIG BEAUTIFUL FiDi. Luxurious Philippe Stark design 2,028SF sprawling light lofty. Huge master suite, 6 custom closets, 2 full BATHS SLEEPING AREAS OFlCE "OSCH Full-time doorman with pool, gym, roof deck. $1.875M. WEB# 3481381.

Brahna Yassky 212-906-0506 UNIQUE SEAPORT LOFT 3EAPORT &ULL mOOR LOFT VINTAGE Co-op building, many original details, manual elevator, bring your architect, wonderful neighborhood. Approx 1,650SF. $1.36M. WEB# 3337596.

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WINDOWS ON THE WATER BPC. Full on water views, Statue of Liberty, 716SF large 1BR, SS chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kit w/polished granite counters, 30ft long live area, 2 walk-in closets, HDWD mRS + 7%"Â?

Richard N. Rothbloom 212-452-4485 PARK ROW STUDIO SUPREME Chinatown. Bright & expansive Chatham Towers studio w/entry foyer, INLAID HDWD mRS #!# GREAT CLOSETS mirrored trim. FS pet-friendly Co-op WITH GARAGE + 7%"Â? !NDREW * +RAMER

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Rentals EXCEPTIONAL TOWNHOUSE 4RI"E#A -OD lNISHES LATEST IN HOME tech, elev, 6+BR, 4 major outdoor spaces, turn-key lux TH off lower Fifth Ave. $20,000/month. WEB# 1759409.

Leslie Mintzer 212-452-4473 TRUE CLASSIC SOHO LOFT $OWNTOWN &ULL mR 3& W "2

bath, wbfp, planting terrace, huge wndws & real cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open kit on fab Wooster St. $18,000/month. WEB# 3432037.

Mike Lubin 212-317-3672 CHIC & LUXURIOUS Downtown.

Private terrace from 3BR, 2.5 bath lux apt, Bulthaup kit, W/D, views of river and city, 24hr DM, private gym. $15,5000/month. WEB# 3807764.

Thomas Hemann 212-906-0580 TRIBECA SUMMIT TriBeCa. 2BR, 2.5 bath avail. Features include soaring 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils & beautiful Bulthaup kitchen. $12,500/month. WEB# 3756866.

Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 THE SMART CHOICE Gramercy Park. Co-Excl. Bright SOUTH FACING "2 HOME OFlCE SUITE

large high-end kit, amenity-rich FS bldg w/pool, sundeck, health club, sauna, storage and much more. $8,500/month. WEB# 3677014.

Elaine Clayman 212-906-9353 SPACIOUS 2BR LOFT TriBeCa. Spacious 2BR loft w/exposed brick WALLS HDWD AND MARBLE mRS AN open kit, SS appliances, and extra basement storage. $8,500/month.

WEB# 3760962.

Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 PERFECT RETAIL LIVE/WORK 4RI"E#A 'ROUND mOOR LIVE WORK w/10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of street frontage on Laight St. Blocks from Hudson River Park and great TriBeCa restaurants and SoHo shops. $6,500/month. WEB# 3811585.

Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 HARBOR VIEWS, SUNNY LOFT FiDi. 898SF lux loft, big great room (20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;8â&#x20AC;?x13â&#x20AC;&#x2122;6â&#x20AC;?), gourmet kit, sleeping area, 5 custom closets, spa bath, gym, roof deck/lounge, valet, concierge, DM. $3,350/month. WEB# 3713204.

Richard N. Rothbloom 212-452-4485

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