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TRIBECA TRIB For the city’s sake, Remembering Anthony Camera save 67 Vestry St.
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To the Editor: To Landmarks Preservation people the word façade is not pejorative; the façade of a building, the face it shows the public, is part of the character of a neighborhood. The grand old building at 67 Vestry, mostly populated by artists and now threatened by the developer’s axe, is part of the façade of New York. To the hundreds of thousands of people who move along the Hudson—on foot, by bike, by ships large and small—little remains of the New York of my youth, let alone the nineteenth century. Except for 67 Vestry and one or two others, the visitor sees only a string of glass-and-steel buildings—a couple of architectural interest, the rest not at all. We may as well be in Houston. But we aren’t in Houston. We’ve chosen to live in New York because we understood it to be a place that values beauty, culture and history. The city could go a long way toward proving that by saving 67 Vestry. John Jiler
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An article in the May, 2013, issue of the Trib that recalled Battery Park City when it was “the beach” misidentified the photographer of the above photo. It was taken by Howard Ires.
Anthony Camera, a former Tribeca resident who flew pigeons from a roof in Brooklyn, was featured in the Trib in November, 2002. To the Editor: April Koral wrote a terrific feature on my wife’s uncle 12 years ago. Just wanted to let you know that Anthony Camera passed away on March 11 at the age of 93. April captured his kindness, humor and simplicity in this piece, for which we are grateful. Anthony lived in Tribeca up until a few years ago, moving to Delaware to be close to his nephew due to failing health. Your article was framed and in his room when he passed. Rick Gillespie
Too many parking spaces taken over by gov’t workers
To the Editor: Over the past few years almost all parking spaces in Tribeca and FiDi between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. from Monday to Friday have been taken over by government employees. Hundreds of vehicles park on our streets bearing plastic notices placed on the dashboards saying such things as: Official Business Office of the Comptroller, Official Business Office of the Attorney General, Federal Enforcement: This Vehicle Is on Official Business, Administration for Children’s Services, and many others. I realize that the government employees are more important than the rest of us and I fully understand that they should be permitted to park here while we cannot. I understand that city employees should not be forced to take public transportation. They deserve to commute by car and park for free in our neighborhood while the rest of us take public transportation. I do not own a car, almost never take a taxi, and manage to get around New York quite rapidly. Why can’t they take public transport? Within three blocks of City Hall are 11 subway lines! There are also many buses.
These privileged parking permit holders even park on Broadway next to City Hall, taking away a lane in the most congested part of Broadway where an extra lane on the east side of Broadway for traffic turning left onto the Brooklyn Bridge would be very helpful. All these privileged government employees not only cause a lot of congestion, they also add to our air pollution. Much of the time the spaces reserved for loading and unloading trucks are used by government employees with these special parking privileges. This interferes with local business. I recommend that Mayor de Blasio take away most of these special parking privileges, insist that his city employees take public transportation like the rest of us, have the police ticket cars with expired permits or parked in zones reserved for trucks loading and unloading, eliminate all parking for everyone on Broadway between Chambers and Vesey Street—and provide more parking spaces for local residents. Gordon Bowling
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BY NATHALIE RUBENS
It took just one small electrical fire on a Saturday evening late last month to upend the lives of a family, a fledgling small business and a school. Extension cords sparked a fire March 22 in a thirdfloor apartment at 72 Warren St., according to Fire Department spokesman Frank Dwyer. The fire set off the unit’s sprinkler system and even before firemen arrived, water was pouring into the spaces below. Water gushed for hours into the second-floor loft where Katherine Hill and Marco Moretti have lived and worked for 20 years. The destructive downpour continued into the mezzanine administrative offices of the Church Street School for Music & Art, and then onto the ground floor where Val Chen had only recently opened Stitched Tribeca, her crafts store, workspace and gallery.
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On the night of the fire and flood, water can be seen on the outside of 72 Warren St., coming from the third floor.
Family Loses Both a Home And a Business, All at Once
Dwyer, the FDNY spokesman, described thirdfloor apartment 3E, where the fire began, as a “Collyers’ Mansion,” a reference to the home of the famed hoarding brothers in the 1940s. It is a term that firefighters use to describe a dwelling so packed with clutter that it is a danger to the occupants and emergency responders. The tenant of the apartment, Tom Brigham, could not be reached for comment. Asked about the fire and flooding, Charles Karp, the building manager of 72 Warren, replied, “I only have one thing to say to you. The cause is under investigation and we had some water damage and the insurance companies are working out who’s going to pay for what.” Following are three stories of loss and uncertain futures for those struck by the downpour of that Saturday night.
Marco Moretti was inside the family’s second-floor apartment with his 13year-old son, Lorenzo, that night when, a little after 8 p.m., they were startled by what they said sounded like a waterfall. “When we heard the sound of the water on the window and on the air conditioner, the first thing that we thought [was] there was a tempest or something,” Moretti recalled as he stood among the piles of drenched belongings and work equipment that were stacked everywhere. Moretti said he then walked to the front of the loft and found it under about six inches of water. Until that night, Moretti and his wife, Katherine Hill, had been running a communications and branding company, FDT Design, out of their loft. Now they and their son are at once homeless and out of work. Their vagabond status has led them to spend a few nights in local hotels and depend on the kindness of friends to put them up until they can find temporary housing that they can afford. The landlord, they say, is planning to make the apartment liveable again but that could take at least six months.
Hill said this disaster came on the heels of already difficult recent years for the business. “We’re destitute now,” she said. I don’t know how we’re going to rebuild.” The family does not have renter’s insurance, Hill said, and will likely not be able to stay in the neighborhood where they have lived since 1994. The brown water that poured through the ceilings and into the apartment damaged about two-thirds of the live/work loft space, as well as many of the family’s belongings, including the business’s computers, monitors, printers, shelves of books, their son’s mattress and even the family’s shoes. “It’s as if a swimming pool dropped into our home,” Hill said. As for work, Hill said, “We’re basically out of business now.” Their son Lorenzo is living with friends who opened up their home so he could regain some sense of normalcy. “He’s traumatized,” Hill said of him. “We are all trying to keep it together.” The family has started the Hill-Moretti Family Fire Fund at www.gofundme.com/hillfire.
Val Chen, a Battery Park City resident, opened Stitched Tribeca, her crafts shop and gallery, in the storefront space at 72 Warren this past October. The new business, she said, was just starting to gain momentum in workshops, sewing classes and summer camp enrollment when the flooding brought it all to a halt. When the Trib visited Chen in the empty storefront a few days after the fire, she had removed all the soaked textiles and art, thrown out all the destroyed goods and found herself alone among the bare walls and shelves of what had been her new store. “Honestly, it was like someone slamming the door on my coffin,” said Chen, who tried hard to salvage as many of her yarns, fabric and textile samples as possible and, more than anything, the artists’ wares she was retailing on consignment.
All her dampened sewing machines and any goods she managed to save have been laid out to dry in her living room. At least, she said, she was able to salvage eight rag dolls that a group of girls was working on. She plans to deliver them to the children personally. Chen expects that the ceiling and walls will have to be replaced, but she can’t say how long it will take or whether she will be able to start over. “Can my store be what I originally envisioned it? I don’t know,” she said. “This was the time that the business was about to ramp up.” The World Trade Art Gallery, 74 Trinity Pl., hosts a Stitched Tribeca “Knit-Along” on April 5 and April 12 from noon to 3 p.m. Come to knit or just say hello. For more information, go to www.stitchedtribeca.com.
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Katherine Hill, Marco Moretti and son Lorenzo among the stacked remains of their office.
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Val Chen in what had been her Stitched Tribeca, now cleared of its water-damaged goods.
At Church Street School, Offices Flooded from Above
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Lisa Ecklund-Flores, co-founder and director of the Church Street School for Music & Art, was at home with her husband, Jon Flores, in Tarrytown that evening when the phone rang and they got the news. They arrived at the school around 10:30 p.m. “I knew it was water, but I didn’t know it was going to be pouring down like Niagara Falls,” she said. “It was devastating to see all of this water falling on top of our computers, on top of our desks, on top of our important papers.” The school, which houses its administrative offices on the mezzanine level of 72 Warren Street below the HillMoretti apartment and next door to its main building, was in complete disarray the week after flood. As Ecklund-Flores and others cleaned up and dehumidifiers hummed, debris lay scattered on desks (including over much of the paperwork from last month’s benefit), and computers and musical instruments had been set out to dry. An air conditioning unit hung precariously by a single bracket near a gaping hole in the ceiling that revealed the floor of the family’s loft above. Downstairs, in the performance space, staff worked at desks in a makeshift office. Amid the water damage that the
school is still assessing are several guitars, an electric piano, all the phones, printers, a dozen computers and associated keyboards and monitors. “I’m really concerned about the music, because some of those scores are really expensive, and I’ve got a whole bookshelf filled with music,” EcklundFlores said. Even more painfully personal are the damaged paintings, artwork and other belongings of Susan Duncan, the school’s former associate director, who died of cancer in 2009. “I’ve always kept her all around me by keeping her stuff all around me,” Ecklund-Flores said, speaking through the mask that she makes sure to wear while sorting through the wet items. Despite the improvised look of the temporary office space, classes and performances were running as usual the week after the flood. “There’s a little bit of this scrappy do-or-die attitude at Church Street School that’s got us through a lot of fixes,” Ecklund-Flores said. This month, the Church Street School will hold fundraising events dedicated to its recovery. To make a direct donation to the school’s Office Recovery Fund, go to www.churchstreetschool.org.
PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN
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Pier A’s Coming Mega-Center of Dining, Drinking Historic Pier A, for decades the victim of neglect and disrepair, will return to life in June as a mega-eating and drinking complex, including multiple bars, restaurants, a lounge, a tourist information center and a gallery of historical photos. The man in charge of the interior transformation of this 32,000-square-foot shell of a building is Danny McDonald, a 48-year-old bar designer and native of Ireland. Starting life in New York as a 17-year-old bartender, he has gone on to design numerous bars and restaurants, including Harry’s, Ulysses and Grace, all owned by the Poulakakos family, the lease holders for Pier A. McDonald said he took pains to give the 126-yearold pier a vintage look, from a collection of 170 retrofitted steamship pressure gauges that will glow above the long first floor to the Gilded Age-style stained glass above the main lobby. McDonald even helped name the rooms, most evoking the harbor’s history. “It’s a delight to stay very close to the story of this pier,” McDonald said. “All you have to do is re-tell it and pay it the historical respect that it deserves.” Trib reporter Amanda Woods toured the unfinished interior with McDonald, and here is what he says is coming. THE GALLERY
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This is the main entrance, one of 10 entrances into the building. In the floor, a large letter “A,” made of military steel, is embedded in the concrete floor. The entrance is lit by hand-made Bevolo glass and steel lighting fixtures. Historical photos will hang on the wall. INFORMATION CENTER
Visitors can get information provided by the
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dining room. He plans to hang 170 antique pressure gauges from the ceiling. The dials of the round gauges, once belonging to 19th-century steamships, will be retrofitted to light up from the inside. (“If it happened to be St. Patrick’s Day, we might give them a little bit of green tint.”) The wooden ceiling will be new but, like much of the pier’s interior, will be made to look as old as the pier itself. “When you walk in,” McDonald says, “it’s going to feel like this could have been here all along.”
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Oysters will be served throughout the Long Hall and shucked and steamed at five stations of the oyster bar. At the far west end of this area are the winding stairs that lead to the clock tower. The stairs, not legal for their intended use, will become a glass-enclosed refrigerated “wine tower” three stories high. “It’s going to be one of a kind,” McDonald says. CARL GLASSMAN
Pier A is a 126-year-old landmark that had long been in a state of decay. Its renovation was overseen by the Battery Park City Authority.
Downtown Alliance, with additional material from the South Street Seaport Museum. LOBBY TO THE SECOND FLOOR
Elevator and glass staircase take visitors to the second floor, with a glass opening to the staircase. McDonald calls this section “a tribute to the Gilded Age—the 1880s and 1890s—with a high level of stained wood finish and stained glass on the ceiling.” He says the area is meant to invite people upstairs, to let them see that Pier A “is not just about downstairs. There’s also a second level.” THE LONG HALL
This room is true to its name and, along with the Oyster Bar at the other end, can hold more than 600 people. McDonald pictures 200 to 300 drinking and eating customers in the informal setting of Pier A’s largest
SECOND LEVEL
THE COMMISSIONER’S ROOM
This room, with its original teak walls, was the setting for Don Corleone’s office in “Godfather II.” “It’s that kind of place you say to the guy at the door, ‘We’re going to be three for the parlor,’” says McDonald. The bar can hold 50 people and opens onto a balcony with a view of the harbor.
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Bar designer Danny McDonald in Pier A’s first floor, next to what will be an oyster bar and shucking stations. The vast floor can hold more than 600 people.
Patrol, New Yorker and Liberty—each named with a local historical reference in mind. THE GALLEY
This is an open kitchen with three chef’s tables. McDonald says it’s the only part of the pier that is designed with a contemporary rather than historical look. There is sizable wall space to hang contemporary art from the Hudson Valley. “Why not celebrate local artists?” he asks rhetorically. THE STATEROOM
Next to the “galley” is a dining room that will have six tables (including one in the galley) but can also seat up to 60 people together.
“It becomes one huge dining table right in the center of the room, which is great,” McDonald said. “You don’t get to do that every day.” THE HARRISON ROOM
This bar will have a big stained glass window with the letter “A,” a visible feature of the building’s exterior. The room provides an unusual view up West Street to 1 World Trade Center.
THIRD LEVEL (Not shown)
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The third level runs about a third of the length of the pier building and contains a large room for a wide variety of special events.
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'Dear Thief…' Victim of Jewelry Theft Pens a Letter to the Perp APRIL 2014 THE TRIBECA TRIB
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Cass Lilien continues making jewelry in her Harrison Street shop, with a note to the store’s burglar posted in the window. She estimated the losses at $20,000.
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BY AMANDA WOODS On the storefront window of her tiny Harrison Street jewelry store and studio, Cass Lilien posted a letter last month that begins, “Dear Thief.” The letter was a plea to the burglar who broke into her Tribeca store during the night of March 13 and stole more
understand how your thoughtless crime affected me,” she told the burglar. “This was not a crime against a big insurance company but an artist and small business owner.” Lilien reported to the police that she left her shop on March 13 around 6:15 p.m. When she returned the next day a little after noon, she found that an assortment of jewelry— including designer bangle bracelets, a gold chain with diamonds, a London topaz ring and a cameo ring—were gone. The glass cabinet once filled with many jewelry pieces is now empty. And 10 necklaces that once hung around the neck of a bust were missing. Jewelry case in Cass Lilien's shop that was emptied by the thief. But jewelry on the than $20,000 worth of rings and neck- rest of the shelf was untouched. laces. “Please do the right thing and “I don’t think they wanted to spend return it, no questions asked,” the letter any time in the window,” Lilien said. reads. Police interviewed residents in the Lilien said she penned the note after apartments above her store but said they a customer saw how upset she was and had no leads. said the thief probably walks by her shop Since Lilien posted the letter, many every day. Writing to the perpetrator passersby have come in, telling her they would lift her spirits, the customer told are sorry about the burglary. her. Meanwhile, she struggles to process “I did it, and it’s goofy, but it made the loss. me feel way better,” said Lilien, 48, “I worked really hard to create a realstanding beside her little workspace in ly special atmosphere and a nice experithe closet-sized shop at 24 Harrison St. ence when you come in here,” she said, “I don’t know why.” “and it feels like some of that got taken “I hope you read this so you can away from me.”
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Counterclockwise from below: Thousands of Orthodox Jews fill designated areas for blocks along Water Street, with elder rabbis seated near the podium at Old Slip; a boy in the crowd on Fulton Street; a son looks to his father during prayers; women pray together on Pearl Street. Women also filled a segregated area on Water Street.
BY NATALIE RUBENS PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN ens of thousands of religious men, women and children flooded into the Financial District and Seaport last month in prayer and protest. Transforming the neighborhood into a sea of wide-brimmed black hats and long black coats, the ultra-Orthodox Jews came to demonstrate against legislation in Israel that would require members of religious communities to be drafted into Israel’s armed forces. “We are here to make a strong scream to God that we want things to change,” said Moishe Cohen from Lakewood, NJ. The gathering was more massive prayer service than protest, with not a single slogan-bearing sign seen anywhere among the demonstrators who jammed onto closed-off Water Street, from Broad to Fulton. Those designated areas for the rally filled to capacity, forcing thousands to pray along nearby Pearl Street or in alleyways, women always across the street from the men. On closed-off Fulton Street, too, men stood shoulder to shoulder for blocks. Some perched on hydrants, others on the climbing equipment in Pearl Street Park. Rabbis and elders from multiple sects of the usually fragmented Orthodox Jewish community stood on a platform at Water Street and Old Slip, their amplified plaintive prayers heard blocks away. The demonstration echoed a rally held March 2 in Jerusalem, where an
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estimated 300,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered for mass prayer against a new conscription law. The law was later passed, repealing the longstanding exemption from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews registered in a seminary, or yeshiva. This segment of the population makes up approximately 10 percent of the 8 million Israelis. All other Israeli men are required to serve three years in the mili-
tary (women two years) from age 18. “This development is both deeply dismaying and profoundly shocking, an affront to the world Jewish community and to the honor of Hashem’s (God’s) name,” one of the prayer leaders said at the conclusion of the service. One of the marshals, Alexander Rapaport of Brooklyn, said he came to “share in the anguish with those who feel intimidated in the Holy Land.”
“This is a protest against Israeli law that would imprison Jews who want to study,” added demonstrator Yitz Farkas. Not everyone, however, was protesting a new conscription law. One man came out “to pray for the general situation in the Middle East and in America,” he said, “and get a little help from above.” Watch the audio-slide show at tribecatrib.com.
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305 CHURCH STREET March 23, 10:50 p.m. During the night, someone stole a safe containing $400, a petty cash box and assorted documents from a basement office at Los Americanos Restaurant. When an employee returned the following morning, the office door was wide open. Police found no signs of forced entry. Officers discovered an article of clothing covering a surveillance camera in the office. 14 WALL STREET March 19, 6:10 p.m. A woman at Equinox Gym left her locker unlocked when she went to the bathroom. When she returned, she discovered that her purse, Louis Vuitton makeup bag, BlackBerry, iPad, MetroCard, passport and debit card had been taken.
10 BARCLAY STREET March 19, 6:30 p.m. A man parked his Mercedes-Benz sedan. When he returned an hour later, the rear window was broken and a laptop worth $2,000 was missing from the back seat. 8 SPRUCE STREET March 17, 9:45 p.m. A 19-year-old woman said that a 21year-old man she knew from work visited her 30th-floor apartment with his friends at 10 p.m. Sunday and stayed until 4 a.m. Monday. When the woman’s parents returned that evening, her mother discovered that one of her drawers had been tampered with, and that a blue topaz ring, a Venetian glass necklace, white stone earrings and 22 other pieces of jewelry, plus a $100 American Express gift card, were gone. Police arrested Jamar Allah, 21, and Lemon Abdoulie, 19, for allegedly stealing the jewelry, worth a total of $36,500. The other alleged thieves were still at large.
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77 WARREN STREET March 15, 11 p.m. A man left his jacket unattended at the Warren 77 NYC Bar. The next morning, when he awoke in the Cosmopolitan Hotel where he was staying, he discovered that his BlackBerry and credit and debit cards were missing from the jacket pocket. Unauthorized charges totaling about $1,000 had been made on his card. 59 PEARL STREET March 15, 6 p.m. A thief stole a wallet from a woman’s handbag, which she left unattended on
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SIXTH AVENUE & WEST BROADWAY March 12, 11:15 p.m. A thief snatched a woman’s cell phone from her hand on the A train and attempted to flee at the Canal Street station. The victim and a bystander chased the man before he was caught by police. Wamisho Dimore, 17, was arrested. 47 BROADWAY March 7, 11 p.m. A woman attending a party at China Chalet went to retrieve her coat, iPad and MacBook Pro from the coat check to find they were missing. The Norma Kamali coat and the iPad were worth $800 each and the computer was valued at $1,200.
160 FRONT STREET March 6, 4 p.m. A thief made off with two spools of fiber optic cable worth $4,300 from the roof of an apartment building. 127 PEARL STREET March 4, 6:45 p.m. Someone swiped a 30-year-old man’s backpack containing a Lenovo laptop, worth $1,800, and a passport from the Killarney Rose bar. The man said that he placed the backpack on the floor and walked away. When he returned 20 minutes later, it was gone. 76 CHAMBERS STREET March 3, 2:15 p.m. A woman’s purse was stolen from the back of her chair at the Blue Spoon Coffee Co. Police recovered the purse in a garbage can outside the cafe, but the woman’s wallet, containing $1,650 and two credit cards, was missing. 111 JOHN STREET March 2, 11:30 p.m. Three men attacked a 19-year-old 7Eleven employee, slapping his face and the back of his head while demanding his wallet. The perps fled empty-handed. The victim suffered a laceration on his eye, requiring stitches. Minutes later at Pine and William streets, the three perpetrators allegedly punched a 22-year-old man in the face, displayed a knife and snatched his wallet. Arthur Rowland, 21, and Rosendo Mendoza, 24, were charged with robbery in the first degree and attempted robbery in the second degree. The other assailant got away.
5 DEY STREET March 1, 2 p.m. Someone took a Brazilian tourist’s bag that she had left on the back of her chair in Aroma Cafe. The bag contained $1,000 and a camera valued at $500.
In CB1 Hot Seat Over Late-Night Partying
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BY NATHALIE RUBENS With a hand over his heart and a humble look in his eye, David Hemphill, manager of the neighborhood newcomer Spring Studios, stood apologetically last month before Community Board 1 members and neighbors. He was there to assure them that the behemoth 150,000square-foot operation at 50 Varick will indeed behave. The U.K.-based production studio and advertising agency had been in an awkward position following a Super Bowl party fiasco that pumped loud music onto the streets until 2:30 a.m. in early February. The event caused some on the board to reconsider its advisory approval of a liquor license, still pending before the State Liquor Authority. Residents living near the facility also had complained of black town cars blocking traffic lanes, bright lights emanating from the building and loud delivery loading on Varick Street. All this flew in the face of a long list of stringent stipulations agreed upon by both Spring Studios and CB1 representatives last spring. “We certainly didn’t do that for our health, and have every intention of following everything to the letter,” Hemphill told CB1’s Tribeca Committee. Busy with Fashion Week last month, Hemphill was not at the February committee meeting when a Spring Studios representative was reprimanded for the late-night incident. While some members remained peeved at Hemphill’s noted absence at the February meeting, the CB1 committee overall appeared to take the manager
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Spring Studios has dimmed construction lights following complaints. Right: David Hemphill speaks to CB1’s Tribeca Committee.
at his word, and agreed not to amend or rescind its support of the license. No more events, third-party or private, are scheduled to take place until construction of the studios is finished, in July at the earliest, according to Hemphill. Not everyone in the room was reassured by Hemphill’s promises that a liquor license for Spring Studios—and therefore full control of what goes on there—would mean neighborhood peace. “Upon completion, all bets are off and I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Paul Barenholtz, a resident whose apartment looks out at Spring
With Liquor License at Risk, Megu Says Promoter-Run Parties Will Be No More
BY AMANDA WOODS Four months before their liquor license would be up for renewal, two representatives of the 100-seat Japanese restaurant Megu New York, at 62 Thomas St., stood before Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee and received a stern warning. Stop the latenight drinking—beyond the allowable hours of their liquor license—or risk losing their license altogether. Two frustrated neighbors told the committee at their March meeting that drunken and noisy crowds congregate outside Megu and on surrounding blocks, depriving the residents of sleep. John Willenbecher, who lives half a block away on West Broadway, said that he once went outside at 3:30 a.m. to confront Megu’s bouncer about the problem. Willenbecher told of a confrontation with the bouncer. “I said this was a residential street where many people live and, at this hour, sleep. He shoved me and told me, ‘If you don’t like it, move to
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another neighborhood.’ As I left, I saw someone throwing up on a fire hydrant.” Megu’s liquor license only allows the establishment to serve alcohol until 11:30 p.m. on Sunday through Thursday, and until midnight on Friday and Saturday. Peter Braus, the chair of the Tribeca committee, asked the Megu representatives if they serve alcohol past those hours. “Serving alcohol is up to midnight, but people tend to stay a little longer,” said one of two Megu representatives, a woman, who stood before the committee with their lawyer Frank Palillo. (The restaurant representatives did not give their names to the committee and declined to give them to reporters.) “So they stay until three in the morning with no alcohol?” Braus countered. “That seems difficult to believe. Is [Willenbecher] just wrong? That these parties are not going till that late?” The woman hesitated, then responded, “As far as we are concerned, we are
Studios from across the Holland Tunnel rotary. Others had come to support Spring Studios. One of them was Edgar Pereira of the Chinese-American Planning Council, located on St. John’s Lane, the alley directly behind Spring. Pereira noted that the alley used to be dirty and poorly lit. “Since they’ve moved in, we’ve seen a 180-degree turnaround,” Pereira said. He thanked Spring Studios for sending crews to clean up the alley, donating planters and providing summer internship opportunities for their youth. Hemphill tried to assure the committee that once construction is completed,
noise from deliveries will no longer be a problem and traffic during events will be controlled by paid off-duty uniformed police. In the meantime, he said, they have been dimming the lights in the huge windows. Every event that has been part of Spring Studios’ “soft opening” has been a learning experience, he said, with the late-night Super Bowl party apparently the most instructive of them all. “It was a mistake and something that will not be repeated again.” “We appreciate that,” replied Committee Chair Peter Braus. “And trust it won’t.”
Two representatives from Megu, right, did not identify themselves and said little during their appearance before CB1.
not serving alcohol.” With his clients struggling to respond to Braus’s disbelieving follow-up questions, Palillo asked to temporarily excuse himself and his clients while they discussed the matter in the hallway. When they returned, Palillo explained that private parties, run by promoters who rent the space, have indeed been held at Megu. At these events—
unaffiliated with the restaurant itself— alcohol may have been served, he noted. “But we will stop that,” Palillo added. “It’s a problem for the neighbors, and we do not want to be a problem to the neighbors.”
Bomb Shield for Stock Exchange Called ‘Desecration’
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BY CARL GLASSMAN A new fortress-like steel entry to the New York Stock Exchange may be immune to explosives, but not the verbal blasting it got last month from Community Board 1. Stainless steel plates are now installed above the Exchange’s entrance at 18 Broad Street. And on each side of the entrance to the 1903 landmark building are heavy steel mechanisms used to raise and lower a 4,000-pound “security shutter” that only becomes visible when in use. Put in place a year ago with a temporary permit from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the apparatus replaced a non-historic transom and grate that had been installed following the 1982 bombing by terrorists seeking Puerto Rican independence. Eugene Travers, a lawyer representing the Exchange, told the committee that his client wants to make the new installation permanent. But the committee, which is advisory to the ultimate decider, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, told Travers that the Exchange should find another solution. “You need to make it [historically] contextual and then figure out a way to incorporate your security procedures into what it should be,” said committee member Marc Ameruso. The New York Stock Exchange “is an incredibly important feature of our
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The entrance to 18 Broad Street was rebuilt to accommodate a two-ton security barrier that can be lowered in the event of an attack. The shutter was installed a year ago.
city and this is just a desecration,” said Corie Sharples, another committee member and principal in the firm of SHoP Architects. Sharples insisted that the apparatus could be set further back into the building and made less visible. “It makes no difference if someone is trying to get in this building with a bomb,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re six inches further into the perimeter, it really doesn’t. I mean, don’t tell me that it matters.” “You’re looking at a non-historic entry that’s being replaced with an equal-
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ly non-historic security system,” Travers argued. The committee voted to reject the application and recommended that the Exchange renew its temporary permit while it looks for another way to secure the entrance. The Landmarks Commission was scheduled to consider the installation on April 1. “The problem is that this type of device has to be at the exterior skin of the building for it to be effective,” said the project’s architect, Curtis Taufman of American Defense Systems, Inc., in a
telephone interview with the Trib. “If I could have done it differently, I would have.” Taufman said he would have attended the meeting, but was not asked. “Even if we desired to pull it inside, a lot of modification would have had to be done to the building and to the lobby to get the same type of reinforcement,” he added, saying that many alternatives had been considered. “As an architect, I am very, very sensitive to maintaining our landmarks, but I’d been taught in school that our first concerns were life and safety.” Taufman said plans for the security shutter last year had only Buildings Department approval and was days away from installation when the Landmarks Commission discovered it had been overlooked in the approval process. “A lot of effort went into this under the impression that it was approved,” he said. CB1’s Landmarks Committee was unhappy that it was a lawyer and not the architect, as customary, who presented the plans to them. Travers was unable to answer technical and aesthetic questions about the project, and committee members said it was difficult to understand the Stock Exchange’s position without that expertise. “The New York Stock Exchange, they govern themselves differently,” the architect said. “I think they just didn’t want to talk that much about the details.”
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BY AMANDA WOODS Atheists were back in federal court last month, hoping to reverse a lower court’s decision to allow the National September 11 Museum to display the World Trade Center “cross” when it opens in May. The group, American Atheists, tried to convince a three-judge panel that the two crossed steel beams, found in the Trade Center debris, is a religious relic that violates the First Amendment right to church-state separation. “It is dangerous for this to be in a government-backed display,” said Edwin Kagin, the attorney for the atheists. “This is about an endorsement of Christianity.” Almost immediately after the 17foot-high object was discovered, it became a shrine of sorts to many who labored in the rubble after 9/11. Later it was moved to nearby St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church. In 2011, to the dismay of atheist groups, the cross was moved again, this time to the museum, which is owned by a foundation and supported by both public funds and private donations. That move set off the suit against the site’s owner, the Port Authority, and against the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. The plaintiffs claimed that the cross must either be removed or other religious groups—including themselves—be given symbolic recognition. Last year, U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts sided with the defen-
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Above: Demonstrators in Foley Square before a hearing last month. Left: The “cross,” shown in place last fall in the museum.
dants, saying that the cross serves a historical purpose. She noted in her opinion that many rescue and recovery workers turned to the cross for comfort and as a way to cope with the devastation they witnessed. “Simply because one object, which is one component of a secular exhibition is religious does not engender
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endorsement,” she wrote. During the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on March 6, Gerard E. Lynch, one of three judges who listened to the arguments, seemed to echo Batts’s opinion, noting that religious expression was part of the story of Sept. 11. “Whether or not they are being endorsed,” the judge said, “these are things that took place and are being described as part of the history.” “The overwhelming message of this artifact—we’ll call it a cross—is that Christianity is the predominant religion
of the United States,” argued Kagin, who also appeared to back away from the atheists’ call to return the cross to St. Peter’s. Rather, he said, atheists deserve equal treatment. “Are you asking us to say that the display, no matter what else they do, violates the First Amendment?” Judge Reena Raggi asked Kagin. “Specifically, what we need is an object of some sort, even a plaque that says to the world, ‘Atheists died here too,’” Kagin replied. “So the relief that you’re looking for is some sort of plaque or other acknowledgement,” Raggi said. “That’s it?” “That’s it,” Kagin replied. The judge seemed puzzled by the suggestion of a plaque. “If the cross is being displayed because of its historic significance, a plaque that had no historic significance wouldn’t seem to have the same claim to equal treatment,” Raggi said. “What am I missing?” Mark H. Alcott, the attorney for the museum said that the cross tells an important part of the 9/11 story. “Every other exhibit has a historic connection to the events of September 11,” he said. “That’s our mission, to tell that truth. There’s no plaque that had anything to do with the history of September 11, so they’re asking us to transform this from a history museum to a make-believe recital that will ease the sensibilities of some.”
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If you are a resident or business owner below Canal Street, or if you resided or owned a business in Lower Manhattan on 9/11, you may reserve a free ticket to preview the 9/11 Memorial Museum from May 15 to May 20, prior to the museum’s opening to the general public on May 21. The previews are free, but reservations are required and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets at 911memorial.org/dedication.
Parks Seek Volunteers
Two local parks are looking for volunteers. The Friends of Finn Square, a group of neighborhood residents who care for the one-tenth-acre garden south of the Franklin Street uptown subway entrance, are seeking volunteers to help plant flowers this spring. No gardening experience is required, although expertise is always welcome. Write to Jessica Raimi at jraimi@earthlink.net. The Friends of Delury Square Park, at Gold and Fulton streets, are looking for volunteers to work alongside Parks Department gardeners to plant flowers, keep the park clean, run fundraising events and maintain the park’s website. Email friendsofdelurypark@yahoo.com or call 917-499-4767.
Remembering the Tutsi
Genocide survivors and members of the Rwandese community in the tri-state area are holding the 20th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. In addition to reflections by survivors on how they have been able to rebuild their lives, Edouard Kayihura, author of “Inside the Hotel Rwanda,” will speak. The event is Sunday, April 13, 3 to 5 p.m.
Mini Golf Opens
Pier 25’s mini golf course, complete with two waterfalls, a fountain and gardens, will open for daily operation on Tuesday, April 15. Games at the 18-hole course are $5 and $4 for children 13 and under (cash only). Information at manhattanyouth.org.
Advice on Rat Control
A free training session on how to safely and effectively eradicate rats and mice will take place on Thursday, April 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 310 Greenwich St., 2nd floor community room. The workshop will be led by a representative from the city’s Division of Veterinary and Pest Control Services. Registration is required. Email man01@cb.nyc.gov.
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If you are certified, you can become a New York City tree pruner. The Citizen Pruner Tree Care Course trains New Yorkers in tree care and pruning as well as teaching basic tree biology and street tree identification. Upon successful completion of the 12-hour program, participants receive a license that certifies them to prune their neighborhood street trees. The $100 course starts Tuesday, April 22, and meets at 51 Chambers St. To learn more and to register, visit treesny.org/citizenpruner.
Saving the Shad
The River Project, a marine science field station at Pier 40 that studies the Hudson River Estuary, is holding a 5K Shad Run on Sat., April 26, to raise money and awareness about the recent near-disappearance of shad from the river. The run/walk starts at 8:30 a.m. at Pier 25 (North Moore and West streets.) The event will be followed by talks by experts on the subject at The River Project’s Wetlab on Pier 40. There will also be children’s activities, live music and food. Details at riverprojectnyc.org.
Talks on Cybercrime
A symposium on cybercrime threats and trends hosted by Pace University will take place on Thursday, April 3, from 8 to 10 a.m. The speakers include experts from the FBI, Citi’s eCrime laboratory and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. The speakers will also discuss how the public can protect themselves from cybercrime. The free event will be held at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St. Information and reservations at pace.edu/lubin/newsevents/cybercrime-in-the-world-today.
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BY AMANDA WOODS Howard Hughes Corp., the developer that is proposing a controversial 50-story building north of Pier 17, says it is also considering putting up a second, even taller tower about three blocks away. The hotel and residential tower, which can be more than 1,000 feet high, would be built at 80 South Street. Hughes Corp. says that project is in addition to its proposed 600-foot residential tower that opponents insist is out of character with the surrounding Seaport Historic District. In a statement issued on March 26, Hughes Corp. executive Chris Curry confirmed the developer’s interest in the project, saying it is “reaffirming our belief in the future of the area by expanding our investment.” A project at 80 South Street had been in the works by another developer, Cord Meyer, which has opted to sell the site and plans to the Hughes Corp. The Department of City Planning has approved an air rights transfer for a soaring tower at the site, close to Imagination Playground, Pier 15, and the historic ships at Pier 16 as well as the mall that Hughes Corp. is building on Pier 17. The most recent design, by Morali Architects, is for 1,018-foot structure. Last month, the Seaport Working
Group, made up of Lower Manhattan civic leaders, elected and city officials and Hughes Corp. representatives, began a series of discussions about the developer’s Seaport plans. Only after the group has come to an agreement can the Hughes Corp. finalize its development proposal for review by the city. Although Hughes Corp. maintains that it is interested in going forward with both buildings, some believe that the developer views 80 South Street as an alternative to their initial project (to be built on the site of the New Market Building), in case it got rejected. In an email to the Trib, Borough President Gale Brewer, a co-chair of the working group, described the possibility of Hughes developing 80 South Street as “certainly interesting.” Robert LaValva, the president of the Seaport’s New Amsterdam Market and a leading opponent of the Hughes Corp.’s plans, commended the developer’s proposal for 80 South Street, saying in a statement that “it also provides a great opportunity” for the city to rethink the Hughes Corp.’s proposed 50-foot tower. Hughes Corp. has said that tower is necessary in order to fund the restoration of the landmark Tin Building, build a marina and extend the East River esplanade through the Seaport.
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ver the course of its 12 days, the Tribeca Film Festival will screen 87 featurelength films, from sober documentaries and dramas to smart or silly comedies. Then there are the 58 short films, some of them about brief encounters in the real world, quite a few set in New York, and many that are wildly experimental. The film buff should have little trouble finding an intriguing title or taking a chance on a subject, but what are some best bets for the typical ticket buyer? “Opening nights are a great place to start tackling the festival,” said Cara Cusumano, now in her fourth year as a festival programmer. “These are films that we really believe in, that we think are representative of the festival and of the high quality of work that we would love to showcase.” Among them are “Dior and I,” which opens the documentary competition, “Gabriel,” a New Yorkbased narrative about a teen struggling with mental illness, and “Time Is Illmatic,” a hip hop documentary that opens the festival and features a post-screening live performance by Nas, the revolutionary rap artist and subject of the film. Then there are the don’t-miss shorts, such as “For Spacious Sky,” a tale of backwoods brothers that fes-
tival shorts programmer Sharon Badal called “one of the best examples I’ve seen of Americana storytelling in a long time.” Another shorts highlight Badal picked is “Helium,” about a hospital janitor who befriends a dying young patient. “Most phenomenal last shot I’ve seen in forever,” Badal said. And for the first time, there is a dedicated program of New Yorkbased documentary shorts. Mixed in with the traditional shorts you’ll find experimental works, many of which play with the material quality of film itself, which is being supplanted by digital technology. Among them you will find works by artists who have manipulated the film stock by hand, or explored the space between frames or experimented with the chemical process. “Celluloid film is very fragile. It can decompose,” said Jon Gartenberg, who programs the experimental offerings. “To me, these are artists that are working mostly outside the commercial mainstream, that are very sensitive and aware of this as they make their film. “The films,” he adds, “are as much about the texture as they are about the content.” Whatever your choices, you’ll want to see them here, while you can.
TICKETS Single ticket sales for Downtown residents begin April 13. Tickets, $17 for evening and weekend general screenings, $9 for matinees, can be purchased online, by phone, or at a ticket outlet. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., is the Downtown outlet. Downtown residents get $2 off general screenings, $3 off other tickets, when bought at an outlet. Additional ticket information, including free screenings, available at www.tribecafilm.com.
SIDESHOWS FAMILY STREET FEST SAT., APRIL 26, 10 AM–6 PM Eight blocks on Greenwich Street, from Hubert to Chambers, will come alive with dancers, stilt walkers, clowns, jugglers, music and games. Also expect plenty of food for sale and free popcorn.
FREE DRIVE-IN AT BROOKFIELD PL. Seating and programs begin at 6 p.m.Screenings start at dusk, approximately 8:15 p.m. THUR., APRIL 17: MARY POPPINS The dream nanny, played by Julie Andrews, takes her charges on delightful adventures with her sidekick, a jack-of-all-trades (Dick Van Dyke). Program: Disney-themed trivia contests, a spelling bee, a high-flying kite show and more. FRI., APRIL 18, SPLASH Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) falls in love with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) in this 1984 fantasy romantic comedy. Program: Performance by Tails of Glory, dancers from the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. SAT., APRIL 19: NEXT GOAL WINS The film follows the American Samoan national soccer team, which has been called “the worst team in the world,” as they train for the next World Cup. Program: Samoan drummers, virtual soccer drills, face-painting and more.
TALKS ON FILM Discussions with producers, directors, writers, actors and cinematographers are on tap for the annual Tribeca Talk series. From Ron Howard and Kevin Spacey to Michael Douglas and Terence Winter, a host of creative voices will share their film wisdom in oneon-one conversations and on panels. And a four-day “Future of Film” series will look at the interaction of art, politics, science and technology. Individual tickets are $30; a few of the panels are free. Details at tribecafilm.com. FEST 13 CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE
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ere are some of the highlights of the international fare this year, each of them offering something inventive, eye-opening, tragic or triumphant and, above all, transporting. For starters, consider the strange landscape in BROKEN HILL BLUES where a group of teens have come of age in a town without a future. Their village in northern Sweden sits above a collapsing iron ore mine. Soon to be displaced, and on the precipice of adulthood, the adolescents struggle to find their footing. Meanwhile, in the suburbs of Tblisi, Georgia, a lonely young mother of two tries to hold on as she awaits the return of their father—in another half-dozen years—from prison. When she learns that the notoriously clamped-down penal system allows monthly visits between prisoners and spouses, a quickie wedding is proposed in BRIDES. In BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD a recently retired, yet still married, woman acquires a lover young enough to be her son. Sexy complications ensue as she takes dangerous chances, seemingly daring her husband to catch her in the act. It is a French film (but, of course). Things remain cosmopolitan in THIRD PERSON (Belgium) which features three intermingling stories, set in New York, Paris and Rome, of romances in bloom. ZERO MOTIVATION (Israel) takes a similar approach with three stories of young female Israeli soldiers. But here, what is blooming is boredom at a remote army base in the desert. How the three deal with the bureaucracy, and one another, sets them apart from typical war film characters. Then there is the three-chapter tale HUMAN CAPITAL from Italy. It is about two families, one wealthy, the other struggling middle class, whose lives become intertwined through a road accident. Roman Polanski offers up a singular story of obsession in VENUS IN FUR. The film follows a theater director who struggles to cast the right leading actress for his play. No one “JOURNEY TO THE WEST” seems right, until one day a mysterious woman who seems a little too right walks into the theater. The pair begins an intense collaboration that blurs the lines between the play and reality. From Norway comes IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE. Here, a grieving and vengeful father gets in over his head as he tracks down the drug dealers responsible for his son’s heroin overdose. Sounds heavy, and it is, but moments of black comedy keep things buoyant. BLACK COAL, THIN ICE, on the other hand, is pure film noir. The thriller, set in a bleak Chinese industrial town, is the tale of a suspended small-town detective who goes it alone in his search for a serial killer. (The film took the top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.) In I WON"T COME BACK, we meet a young Russian woman on the run from the law. But the story really takes off when she meets a spunky orphan along the way and the pair set off on a dangerous adventure together through several countries. The journey is spiritual in JOURNEY TO THE WEST (France, Taiwan) as a modern-day monk, perhaps the rein-
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mall questions can lead to big answers, or so that seemed the plan in many of the documentary offerings this year. Here's the question that launches THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO: Who was this guy and why is his chicken so tasty? And we’re off, through small towns and big cities across the country learning about immigration, adaption and innovation in search of the answer to the larger question: how did Chinese food become so American? FAMOUS NATHAN is a look at the history of the humble hot dog. The film, directed by the grandson of “Famous” Nathan Handwerker, is more than just an insider look at how the sausage is made. It is a personal and nuanced tale of family history and the immigrant experience in New York City. ART AND CRAFT is an exposé on a brilliant phony. Mark Landis, a gifted and prolific painter, is an expert forger of masterpiece works of art. His pieces, which he has donated to museums across the country, have fooled and confounded curators for years. The film is less concerned with how Landis does it, but why. Meanwhile, Magician James “The Amazing” Randi focuses intently on the “how,” revealing sleight of hand secrets in an effort to expose phony fortune-tellers and other tricksters in AN HONEST LIAR. What is love? Can it be measured, made, is there a mathematical formula? Perhaps science can provide the answer. In LOVE & ENGINEERING a Bulgarian engineer and his bachelor friends conduct a series of experiments hoping to crack the code. A few luminaries and legends get the bio-pic treatment, including the late literary icon Susan Sontag. REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG offers an intimate look at the work and life of the culture critic and her relevance today. ALL
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carnation of an early Buddhist traveler, slowly, meditatively wan present. A young Hindu aspires to a life of devotion in VARA: A distracted by worldly obstacles, such as her forbidden romanc Meanwhile, in Caracas a young boy’s sudden obsession wi ried that the child might be gay in the tender and heartbreaking her troublemaking son to Mexico City in GUEROS. There, he an university studies aside (the film is set during the 1999 student endary musician. Finally, there is THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL accounting of the brief, real-life disappearance of the French n plot involves a ridiculous hostage scenario in which the author, hand over his captors.
“LOVE & ENGINEERING” ABOUT ANN: GOVERNOR RICHARDS OF THE LONE STAR recalls the career of the witty and no-nonsense liberal Texas governor, through interviews with those who knew her best and behind-the-scenes battle stories. (The first female leader of the state, she was ultimately defeated by a pair of good old boys named Karl Rove and George W. Bush.) The work of Bob Weir is well outside the political world but ensconced in the rock 'n roll firmament. Weir was a founding member of the Grateful Dead. THE OTHER ONE: THE LONG, STRANGE TRIP OF BOB WEIR focuses on the life and work of the rhythm guitarist and singer who shared the spotlight for years with Jerry Garcia. You might not recognize Vincent Furnier without his make-up. But there was a time during the 1970s when the pioneering shock rocker dominated the dial. He comes in for his close-up in SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER. Trumpeter Terry Clark is a jazz legend who mentored many, such as Miles Davis and Quincy Jones. In KEEP
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he dialects are recognizable and the backdrops familiar but the following, which are just some of the many domestic narrative feature offerings at the festival this year, still surprise by showing a new angle on life in America. Take social media and Millennials, for example. The 20-something friends in ABOUT ALEX have kept in touch since college through social media and such, but how well have they really communicated? Not well, it turns “ABOUT ALEX” out, as things left bottled up, unrequited and untexted between them explode during a boozy and raw weekend reunion in real life. A chef’s shortcomings are shown to the world when his angry rant against a critic goes viral, making him a talented but unemployable cook in CHEF. How will he get his mojo back? With a food truck and a road trip, of course. JUST BEFORE I GO is the tale of a down-on-his-luck dude who has decided to end his life. But first, he has to return to his hometown to make a few things right. The clumsy quest, featuring a zany cast of characters, is lighter than it sounds. In GABRIEL, a troubled teenager goes off his meds and in search of his first love, convinced that finding her would make him whole again. FIVE STAR is the story of another troubled young man, the son of a slain gang member, who is taken underwing by a streetwise survivor. Set in East New York, the film is part documentary, part fiction. Similarly, BELOW DREAMS is shot documentary style with fictional flourishes. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of three young people whose dreams seemed doomed by the harsh economic realities of New Orleans. EVERY SECRET THING takes us to the sinister suburbs. Here, we find a pair of young women returning from prison to the community that has not forgotten that as young girls the pair were convicted of stealing a baby off a front porch. Soon after, another child goes missing and the mystery deepens in the community as the suspicion spreads. The search is on for a long-lost rock star in LUCKY THEM, as a veteran rock journalist is given one last chance to redeem a career she has so far squandered by being a partying scenester. In MATCH, a renowned but reclusive Juilliard dance instructor (Patrick Stewart) reluctantly grants an interview for a student’s dissertation. He is soon sorry as the research is a ruse, the questions are personal and the truth is uncomfortable. Can he continue to dance around the truth?
ON KEEPIN' ON we catch up with the 89-year-old who, though in deteriorating health, is determined to teach and inspire one last student. Meanwhile, BALLET 422 offers a behind-the-curtain peek at the New York City Ballet as choreographer Justin Peck creates a new original piece. The fly on the wall film follows the creative process from conception to premiere. DIOR AND I (DIOR ET MOI) offers a similar rare view, this time into the fashion world, but by offering a backstage look into the creation of a new collection, the first by haute couture artistic director Raf Simons. We step into the ring in MARAVILLA, which bobs and weaves with Argentinian boxer Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez as he trains to reclaim the title of middleweight champion. The film also steps outside the ring to fill in the life story of the once pen-
niless amateur turned champion and to reveal the political machinations behind the boxing profession. What really happened during the 1986 Tour de France is more riveting than you might remember. Five-time tour winner Bernard Hinault “The Badger” was supposed to help his friend and teammate Greg LeMond secure his first victory but instead battled the young American for the duration of the tour. The race and the rivalry are recounted in SLAYING THE BADGER. Documentary filmmaker Matthew VanDyke set off on a motorcycle in 2007 to see and film the Arab world. POINT AND SHOOT is the remarkable true story of what happened when VanDyke traded his camera for a gun and joined the Libyan rebel army in its fight against Gaddafi. THE NEWBURGH STING uses footage gathered from hidden cameras to tell the story of a thwarted bomb plot. Homegrown terrorists had planned to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx in 2009, but were instead led into a trap by their “leader,” who was a government informant. Meanwhile, SILENCED is an eye-opening look at the dark side of national security. It introduces a group of whistleblowers who dared question the government’s reach and authority and suffered the consequences. Then there is 1971, the true story of a group of activists who plotted a break-in of an FBI office to leak documents that would expose illegal surveillance of American anti-war activists. The plotters reveal themselves and share their story while the film raises questions surrounding security leaks in activism today. THIS TIME NEXT YEAR looks in on Long Beach Island, NJ, which was laid low by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The film captures a year in the life of the community, from the struggles of individual families to rebuild to the wider political issues that slowed the process. TRUE SON turns a lens on Stockton, Calif., a disaster of a city riddled with crime and financial difficulties that rival Detroit. But it is a story of optimism as one young man, 22-year-old Michael Stockton, makes a run for City Council on a promise to reinvent his hometown. The question is, can he really? FEST 13 CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE
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he list of short film offerings in the festival this year is long. Can't catch them all? Try these true stories, tall tales and small wonders. Conservation has rarely seemed as cinematic as it does in DUKE AND THE BUFFALO, a documentary short on a Colorado crew that herds the endangered wild bison once a year. The film features epic western ranges, rugged ranchers on horseback and 2,000 wild buffalo rumbling across the screen. IN GUNS WE TRUST also has a flavor of the Wild West, but it’s no nostalgia piece. The documentary looks at the citizens of a small town in Georgia where by law every head of household is required to own a gun. The law went on the books in 1982. Unspeakable violence gets a voice in LIFE AFTER MANSON with a Manson family member speaking out 40 years after the notorious murders. POUR RETOURNER, a narrative short from Canada, gives us the story of a gifted prison chef who is returned to a society that does not want him back. LOVE IN THE TIME OF MARCH MADNESS is an animated but true-life tale of a tall woman (6'4" since middle school) trying to find her place in the world. A longtime newspaperman on Cape Cod, who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, makes the brave decision to take notes on his decline and report the story out for his readers in the documentary short A PLACE CALLED PLUTO. Meanwhile, in HUMAN VOICE, a narrative set in 1950s Naples, Italy, an older woman played by Sophia Loren makes a final phone call to the love of her life. 70 HESTER STREET is a documentary that looks back at a Lower East Side address that the director and writer Casimir Nozkowski once called home. Hardly nostalgic but certainly inventive, ONE YEAR LEASE is a documentary about roommates who endure their lease with a cat-loving landlady. Voicemail messages tell most of the story. Even more novel is ACETATE DIARY, an experimental short in which the film stock is used as a writing, but still projectable, surface. THE PINK HELMET POSSE introduces the world to Bella, Sierra and Rella, a trio of skateboarding six-year-old girls in knee socks and tutus out to prove they can shred as well as, or better than, the boys.
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“THE BACHELOR WEEKEND” 70-somethings, former brothers-in-law, as they tour Iceland. Their acid tongues, unexpected diversions and odd chemistry make the journey more satisfying than your typical road trip flick. MURDER OF A CAT sort of puts it out there right in the title. It's a quirky crime procedural, featuring a charming oddball (Greg Kinnear) who sets out to find the culprit behind his beloved cat’s death. Along the way he finds clues to his pet’s secret double life and, just maybe, love. Otto Wall should be so lucky. In GOODBYE TO ALL THAT the poor guy is blindsided by a divorce, disconnected from his daughter and clueless about how to restart his life, especially dating. Finally, not for everyone’s taste, is SUMMER OF BLOOD, which also features a sad sack who is unlucky in love until one day he is bitten by a vampire. Go ahead, scoff. But it works. The vampire life suits him. His confidence is restored. There is only the messy matter of maintaining it. Guess how.
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BY JULIET HINDELL Once a month some 20 people, mostly women and mostly from Downtown, gather for breakfast in the back-room of Tribeca’s Sarabeth’s to cross-cultivate their businesses and boost their entrepreneurial spirits. It’s called The Grid, a growing networking group of small business owners—an architect, landscape designer, interior decorator and photographer, to name a few—who mine contacts and actually make some sales. The group has far outgrown its beginnings of just a year ago, when the first few members—many of whom knew each other through their kids— would meet in living rooms and end up talking about…their kids. “At the first meetings we used to introduce ourselves and say, ‘I have two daughters and where they went to school,’” said Amy Bergman Bonomi, a real estate agent and co-founder of the group. “Then, after a few meetings, we moved away from the kids and it became all about business.” The sessions follow a set format with each member giving a brief introduction about their work, a review of referrals that came through the group and an indepth presentation by one member about their business. A file stuffed with business cards is passed around the table. At a recent meeting, members shared a rapid-fire list of referrals. Astrid
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Duteuil said that in addition to the work her landscape design business has gotten as a result of The Grid, she appreciates the business tips and camaraderie. “It’s reassuring to meet people who are all in the same boat,” she said. “We have the same struggles and we support each other.” Michelle Gutierrez, a professional mediator, agreed. “Other networking groups I’ve joined end up being social clubs,” she said. “But that’s unproductive.” Bonomi laughed. “We try to keep to the schedule as everyone has to get back to work after the meeting.” Most don’t have far to go, as the majority live and work below Canal Street. Liz Kaplanski, who opened Paradigm Kids preschool in the Financial District a few months ago, feels the neighborhood connection is part of the group’s success. “We have so many cross-references from being Downtown, we run into each other a lot around the neighborhood,” she said. “Lots of our kids go to school together and I think that makes it a stronger network.” As the group broke up, the talk was of website redesigns, locations for popup stores and the next meeting’s presenter. Then it was back to the cold, hard work of running a business. For information on The Grid, email information@thegridnetwork.org.
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spring by making kites and planting seeds. Sat, 4/5. Performances and workshops from 12 to 4 pm. See website for complete schedule. $10; free under 2. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
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Family Yoga Class Kids learn the foundations of yoga, breath and age-appropriate yoga poses, plus games, art projects, songs and more. A healthy, vegetable-based snack will be served. Yoga mats available. Fri, 4/25, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.
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Modern Masters Kids learn about mediums and techniques used by well-known artists, then make their own works. Artists are: Richard Sweeny (4/2), M. C. Escher (4/9), Sonia Delaunay (4/16), Jackson Pollock (4/23) and Joan Miro (4/30). Ages 6 and up. Wednesdays, 4 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.
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Life In a Skyscraper Tour the museum exhibit, “Sky High” about high-rise apartment buildings and learn about living in a skyscraper. Kids then create their own model residential building. Ages 5–9. Sat, 4/5, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.
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Tiny Poets Time Poetry readings and related activities for toddlers. Thursdays, 10 am. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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Public School Fundraising Is an Education in Itself THE TRIBECA TRIB APRIL 2014
Downtown PTAs have always supplemented school budgets by raising money for enrichment programs and state-of-the-art technology, things that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be possible if the schools relied on city funding alone. Now, some PTAs are not only paying for Smart Boards and iPads but also the basicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;paper, folders, art supplies and pencils. CONNIE As budget SCHRAFT cuts force principals to manage their dwindling funds creatively, they have grown to depend on the parents who devote themselves to raising and managing money for SCHOOL all the stuff that TALK schools need. The Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regulations prohibit PTAs from paying salaries for school personnel, but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop them from buying books, classroom rugs, incubators for hatching ducks and saxophones for music programs. When a Halloween bake sale can bring in over $1,000, and schools petition local corporations like Goldman Sachs and Brookfield to sponsor school events, being a PTA treasurer is not so
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than ever at all the Downtown schools. Back when P.S. 234 and P.S. 150 were the only elementary schools Downtown, parents at those schools, with help from neighborhood restaurants, created Taste of Tribeca, now marking its 20th year. Spruce Street Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taste of the Seaport, inspired by the Tribeca model, supports not only the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arts programs but helps draw attention to the rebirth of that Sandy-devastated neighborhood. P.S. 89 and I.S. 289 parents started Run for Knowledge to buy books for their beautiful new library, which had
When a Halloween bake sale can bring in over $1,000, being a PTA treasurer is not so different from running a small business. annual appeal. It is now up to 60 percent, a big leap from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 37 percent. How did they do it? The board reached out to the class parents, who in turn reached out to the families individually. Politely but firmly, they urged them to donate something, even a small amount. It was a successful strategy. The upside of shrinking school budgets is a growing generosity and support on the part of families, and a stronger communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the feeling that we are all in this together. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening more
opened without a single one. A decade later, P.S. 89 parents generously included Battery Park Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s P.S./I.S. 276 school in this collaborative neighborhood event. Along with the tried and true school fundraisersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the bake sales, book fairs, holiday pie sales and carnivalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;schools seek new ways to raise money. In recent years, P.S. 234 has opened a pop-up store in a vacant space, selling donated highend clothing. P.S./I.S. 276 includes an international potluck at their winter carnival. Two or three times a year, Lower
Manhattan Community Middle School sells out its 200 or so staff-made empanadas at lunchtime. For most of the schools, spring auctions are the biggest fundraisers. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a night out to socialize with neighbors, friends and school staff, and a chance to bid on vacations, gift certificates to great local shops and restaurants, and tickets to sports events. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re communitybuilders, too. At P.S. 150, many of the auction items last month were provided by creative mothers and fathers. (One of them, a custom-made Halloween costume, was offered by designers who count Lady Gaga among their clients.) I heard from a parent that at P.S./I.S. 276â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live auction last month, a playdate with the principal went for over $9,000. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auction season now. I.S. 289, and P.S./I.S. 276 as well as P.S. 150 held theirs in late March. Soon, parents at P.S. 89, P.S. 234, Peck Slip, Spruce Street and Lower Manhattan Community Middle School will gather to raise muchneeded funds. If you are a parent, join your teachers and friends, have a glass of wine and bid on a dinner or a massage. And support those local businesses, which, hand over another donation form with the opening of each new school. Connie Schraft is P.S. 89â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent coordinator. For questions and comments, write to her at connie@tribecatrib.com.
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Clockwise from top: The orphans with Annie (Eden Mills) center, sing “Hard Knock Life”; Lauren Pincone (Rooster) attempts a dance with Ines Biollay’s Miss Hannigan; Skyler Coffey as Daddy Warbucks on the radio with Eden Mills, Mollie Garcia, Marie Sullivan and Ray Rattray; Clara Park and Ines Biouley; Azaan Chawla as FDR with Ray Rattray and Skyler Velez.
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BY THEA GLASSMAN efore the curtain rose on “Annie” last month at I.S. 276, director Melissa Ferraro stepped on stage for a few introductory words. “I told the cast that the matinee audience might be a little less enthusiastic than the opening day audience.” She leaned forward into the mic and smiled. “Prove me wrong.” And prove her wrong they did. The school’s packed auditorium exploded in cheers and whistles to the musical’s familiar tunes: “Tomorrow” earnestly belted out by Eden Mills’s Annie; “Little Girls” sung by a snarling Miss Hannigan (Ines Biollay); and the orphans’ famous complaint that it’s a “Hard Knock Life.” The musical, produced by Manhattan Youth’s afterschool program at I.S. 276, moved seamlessly as the
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sets (by Jamie Watkins and Irene Castillo Leon) transported the audience from the grim orphanage to Daddy Warbucks’s mansion, complete with grand staircase. The few unplanned moments during the show were handled just as gracefully as the choreographed ones. After a glass of “Champagne” accidentally spilled on stage, one of the actors, playing a maid, dropped to her knees and began scrubbing. “If I were in charge, these kind of things wouldn’t happen,” she improvised, to a roar of laughter and applause. Annie’s journey drew to a close with an all-cast rendition of “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow,” followed by a standing ovation and the glow of camera phones whipped out to capture the children as they took their bows. Students flung their arms around each other before making their way off the stage, still dancing.
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The Paris-American Reading Poets Marie Howe, Joseph Fasano and Danez Smith will read their poetry from the ezine “The ParisAmerican.” Fri, 4/4, 8 pm. $10. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
g Larry Ruttman Longtime New York Times baseball writer Murray Chass and retired Major League pitcher Bob Tufts join Ruttman in a discussion of his book, “American Jews and America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball.” The three will talk about the evolving relationship between Jews and the national pastime. Sun, 4/6, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g
Pen Parentis Literary Salon Julia Fierro (“Cutting Teeth”), Sara Lippmann (recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship), Ben Tanzer (“Orphans”) and Caeli Wolfson-Widger (“Really Happy Family”) read their newest poetry and prose. Tue, 4/8, 7 pm. Free. Pen Parentis at Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org.
g Arun Kundnani The author of “The Muslims are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror” will discuss the increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the West as it relates to the war on terror. Thu, 4/10, 7 pm. $5. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.
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Sheila Bair The former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and author of “Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself” will talk about her experiences presiding over the corporation during one of the most tumultuous times in recent banking history. Tue, 4/15, 5:30 pm. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
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Wendy Williams The popular radio and TV personality will read from her first novel, “Hold Me in Contempt: A Romance,” about a successful women who learns what is most important in life after suffering injuries from a terrible car accident. Tue, 4/15, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.
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Judith Dupré Author will talk about her latest book, “Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings,” an updated edition of her popular skyscraper survey, first published in 1996. The volume includes the world’s most remarkable buildings, and explores the ancient roots of multi-story architecture. Tue, 4/29, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.
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Thunderbird Social A participatory traditional Native American dance social with music and percussion provided by the Heyna Second Sons Singers and Silvercloud Indian Singers. Sat, 4/12, 7 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.
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Taylor 2 Paul Taylor’s renowned company will perform original Taylor pieces, including “Aureole,” “Dust” and “Company B.” Thu, 4/24–Sat, 4/26, 7:30 pm. $25–$40. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.
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Anishinaabe Home Two films take a look at the lives of Native Americans from the Great Lakes region of the United States, including “Manoomin: The Sacred Food,” about the importance of rice to the Anishinaabe people, and “Jim Northrup: With Reservations,” which chronicles a year in the life of a man on the Fond du Lac Reservation. Daily, starting Mon, 4/7, 1 & 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.
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Happy Birthday, Duke In celebration of Duke Ellington’s 105th birthday, professor of comparative literature and English Krin Gabbard will screen historic film of Ellington and his orchestra from 1929. In addition to concert footage, there will also be clips of Ellington as an actor in “Black and Tan” and “Anatomy of a Murder.” The films will be followed by a Q & A. Tue, 4/15, 7:30 pm. Free. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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Diary of a Country Prosecutor A 1968 Egyptian film based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim follows the daily activities and misfortunes of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in a town in Egypt. This comedy of errors is presented as the diary of the protagonist, a young prosecutor whose European education clashes with a legal system that is foreign to him. Wed, 4/16, 7 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.
g Nora NOH Considered one of Korea’s greatest fashion designers, Noh dominated the Korean fashion scene and culture in the 1980s. She was the first person to host a fashion show in Korea and trailblazed with miniskirts. The documentary pieces together interviews, photos and footage of her life and work to show the person behind the brand. Tue, 4/29, 6:30 pm. Free. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., tribecacinemas.com.
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2014 MFA Open Studios Current MFA students who are finishing their theses host a oneday open studio. Fri, 4/25. Call 212-966-0300 for times and details. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu.
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Bright! Color in Three Dimensions Pieces by six artists use plastic, textile and paper to create colorful sculptures, brightening the Cortlandt Street lobby of One Liberty Plaza. To Fri, 4/25. Mon–Fri, 9 am–5 pm. One Liberty Plaza at Cortlandt St., artsbrookfield.com.
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Coding the Body This group show features works by a dozen artists who explore how our bodies are constantly influenced by codes, from the coded programs in smartphones and computers to age-old codes of religious or superstitious conduct. To Sat, 5/10. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.
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Lisa M. Zilker The Queens-based artist will display geometric works in “Conversations Between Blue and Red.” The grid-like paintings are integrated with organic and simple botanical shapes. To Thu, 6/12. Tribeca Synagogue, 49 White St., tribecasynagogue.org.
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ed in memory of the children of Paris who were deported to Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944. Wed, 4/9–Fri, 6/20. Opening reception: Wed, 4/9, 6 pm. Tuesdays–Saturdays, 10 am–5 pm. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com. g
Lisi Raskin “Recuperative Tactics” is a largescale, site-specific piece inspired by Raskin’s trip to Afghanistan in 2013. The artist uses the remnants of previous art projects, leftover materials and found objects to transform the gallery into a reconstruction of her memory of the country and how it had been ravaged by war. Sat, 4/19–Sat, 5/31. Opening reception: Sat, 4/19, 6 pm. Tue– Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.
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George Schneeman “A Painter and His Poets” is the first major retrospective of George Schneeman’s collaborative paintings, collages, prints, and books, with portraits of his poet friends, spanning 40 years. Schneeman’s playful, energetic, modern, clear and likable art opens new possibilities in writing and art. Tue, 4/22– Sat, 9/20. Opening reception: Tue, 4/22, 6 pm. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
g Sky High & the Logic of Luxury This exhibition examines the recent proliferation of super-slim, ultra-luxury residential towers on the rise in Manhattan. To Sat, 4/19. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g
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dramatic recovery of historic materials belonging to the Jewish community of Iraq in a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, and the National Archives’ work to preserve the materials. To Sun, 5/18. Sun–Tue & Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. $12; $10 seniors; $7 students; free under 12. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota-U.S.
War of 1862 Twelve panels on the 1862 conflict in southern Minnesota between Dakota akicitas (warriors) and the U.S. military and immigrant settlers, which ended in a mass execution of 38 Dakota men. To Sun, 6/1. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g
The Fed at 100 An exploration of the complex inner workings of the nation’s central bank and the pivotal role the Federal Reserve has played throughout the history of American finance. To October. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
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Defining Lines: Maps From the 1700s & Early 1800s These early maps give detailed depictions of an emerging nation. They include an engraved map of the Hudson and Mohawk River valleys as well as Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario, a map by John Silsbury, who created the first jigsaw puzzle as a way to teach children geography, and a pre-Revolution plan of New York City, with a bird’seye view of lower Manhattan Island, eastern New Jersey, and western Brooklyn. Ongoing. Daily, 12–5 pm. $7; $4 students, seniors, children; free under 5 and active military. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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Exodus: Dreams of the Promised Land in Antebellum America An interdisciplinary concert featuring the Western Wind vocal ensemble and
OMING U C P A SELECTION OF DOWNTOWN EVENTS
now, so reviled recently by New Yorkers, gets a far more favorable review in the group show by that name now at the Hal Bromm Gallery. These eight artists see snow’s gentler side, finding beauty in the patterns it creates in tree branches and in the play of sharp contrasts. But they also feel the acute loneliness on nighttime city streets blanketed in white and in forests where snow-covered boughs are weighed down almost to the breaking point. The different takes on snow, by Rita Baragona, Lois Dodd, Barbara Kulicke, Arthur Kvarnstrom, Simeon Lagodich, Ken Metcalf, Tom Keough and St. Clair Sullivan, can be seen through Wednesday, April 30 at Hal Bromm, 90 W. Broadway, halbromm.com. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 34)
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guest actors speaking the words of abolitionists such as Fredrick Douglass and Angelina Grimke. Musical pieces by William Billings and Stephen Jenks, early spirituals and Shaker hymns will be performed. Sat, 4/5, 3 & 7 pm. $35; $25 students, seniors. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. g
Buckhead Girls Choir An all-female visiting youth choir performs a variety of choral works. Thu, 4/10, 2 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.
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Cabaret Jazz A cabaret concert featuring Barbara Carroll, Jay Leonhart and Andy Bey as a part of Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights in Jazz 2014 series. Thu, 4/10, 8 pm. $45; $40 students. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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Futuristic Africa: Baloji The Congolese-Belgian rapper and singer will perform a mix of rap with Congolese soukous, rumba and ’60s soul. He will be joined by his band, including guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and a horn section. Thu, 4/17, 7:30 pm. $35. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.
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Gaida Syrian singer Gaida performs Syrian folk songs, traditional tunes and freestyle improvisations over Arabic and Latin sounds. She will be joined by several guest performers. Sat, 4/19, 8 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.
TALKS g
Developments in the World Capital Markets In conjunction with the International Stock Exchange Emeriti, R. Cromwell Coulson, president and CEO of Markets Group, and Nik Mohamed Din, former chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, will lead a discussion about trends in global markets today, followed by a Q & A. Tue, 4/8, 5 pm. Free. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
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Japan Slideshow Photographer Susan Sigrist will share old and contemporary photographs of
Snowy Field by Tom Keough Japan. Tue, 4/8, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St., west wing rooms 2 and 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com. g
Snonado: Surviving Frozen Science The Arctic and the Antarctic poles challenge scientists with some of the most formidable environments on the planet. Learn from scientific explorers what drives them to undertake fieldwork in such punishing conditions, and what happens when something goes wrong. An interdisciplinary panel of scientists and those responsible for keeping them safe will discuss their work and how they prepare for the dangers they face. Tue, 4/8, 6:30 pm. $25; $20 students. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org.
g A Conversation with Robert Davidson In conjunction with the “Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse” exhibition, Barbara Brotherton of the Seattle Art Museum and the artist will talk about his artwork, which captures images related to the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Thu, 4/10, 6 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g
Passwords: On Seamus Heaney Tom Sleigh talks about the use of description in Seamus Heaney’s poems, exploring Heaney’s marveling at life, senses and the natural world. Thu, 4/10, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and Health Jeanne Abrams discusses the pharmaceutical knowledge early Americans possessed, and how they treated various ailments. Thu, 4/17, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
g Jews, Comics and the City Three cartoonists, Liana Finck, Miriam Katin and Eli Valley, will discuss how their families and backgrounds inspired their representations of Jewish life. Wed, 4/23, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
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The Mysteries Forty-eight playwrights and 54 actors tell the story of the Bible in a single six-hour night. Thu, 4/3–Sun, 5/25. Thursdays–Saturdays & Mondays, 6:30 pm; Sundays, 4:30 pm. $15–$75. The Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org. g
An Octoroon Written by Branden JacobsJenkins and directed by Sarah Benson, this production follows the goings-on at the late Judge Peyton’s plantation, Terrebonne, which is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George, heir to the estate, falls in love with Zoe, who has a black ancestor. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans for George, Zoe and Terrebonne. Wed, 4/23–Sun, 5/18. Tuesdays–Sundays, 7:30 pm; Saturdays, 3 & 7:30 pm. $35–$50. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., sohorep.org.
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g Lower Manhattan and the Financial District Visit Bowling Green, Battery Park, Wall Street, City Hall Park, the World Trade Center, the Wall Street bull, New York Stock Exchange, the Woolworth Building and more. Meet at Broadway and Whitehall St. Wednesdays, 2 pm. Pay what you wish. Free Tours By Foot, freetoursbyfoot.com. g
Immigrant New York An exploration of various immigrant and ethnic groups that have lived in Lower Manhattan in the past 150 years. The tour goes through sites in Chinatown, Little Italy, the Five Points and the Lower East Side, and stops at places including Tweed Courthouse, the African Burial Ground and more. Meet at City Hall Park, Broadway and Chambers St. Fri, 4/4, 11 am; Wed, 4/16, 1 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com.
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A Rebellious Brew: New York’s Tea Party of 1774 This tour will unveil New York City’s little known “tea party” and its role during the Revolutionary War in a city that was deeply divided. Sat, 4/26, 11 am. Call for prices. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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