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Thanks to those who helped P.S. 150

To the Editor: The proposed move of P.S. 150 to Chelsea was featured in several Tribeca Trib stories last spring. Thanks so much for the coverage. This story happily ended with the DOE reversing course and allowing P.S. 150 to remain at the “top of the stairs” at 334 Greenwich Street. There was never a happier first day of school. Working closely with Community Board 1, District 2’s Community Education Council and elected officials made this possible. We also wish to gratefully acknowledge the DOE’s willingness to listen to our community’s concerns and rethink their proposal. Superintendent Mariano Guzman attended our November PTA meeting and assured us that there are no plans to move P.S. 150. Further, if a new school is built Downtown, P.S. 150 parents, with the DOE and community leaders, should work with all to have the “right of first refusal” to incubate the new school—music to our ears. P.S. 150 is a small community that stresses the arts and music. It’s also the only “choice” elementary school Downtown. Had the move happened, public school choice for Downtown parents would have vanished. Choice works, as our strong test scores and A on our recent School Progress Report underscore. P.S. 150 has always been the little school that does big things. We thank our community. Wendy Chapman P.S. 150 PTA Co-President

Greenspace is now free of officers’ cars

To the Editor: A quick update on my letter to the editor in the October Trib about the cars parked on the sidewalk near the greenstreet at Sixth Avenue and West Broadway. Since the letter appeared, the situation has done a complete turnaround. There are never any cars on the sidewalk. I thank the Command and Officers of Transit District 2 for making this swift improvement. The Tribeca Trib was instrumental in this change. Don Thomas

‘Narrow personal gain’ vs. saving ‘architectural fabric’

To the Editor: We are appalled by the city’s stance toward new development, which apparently has been given carte blanche. The Landmarks Preservation Commission seems cued more by real estate interests and architectural vogue than by its original mandate to scrupulously preserve and protect New York City’s architectural heritage. Due to unbridled development, this irreplaceable heritage is under threat. “Fueled by lax zoning laws, cheap capital and the rise of a global elite with millions to spend on pieds-à-terre,” (New York Times, “Shadows Over Central Park,” Oct. 28, 2013), Tribeca, like the neighborhoods surrounding Central Park, is being severely compromised. Much of Tribeca falls under Landmark designation. Residents of landmarked buildings must comply with stringent rules governing even the most minuscule of alterations. By contrast, the development of in-fill sites, even landmarked ones, has become a design free-for-all. These developments are all about lining the pockets of investor groups that have immense political influence and little regard for what they leave in their wake. Encircling 100 Franklin Street (landmarked Lot 29) is an array of 19th-century architectural treasures that run almost unbroken up and down Franklin and White Streets. The historic integrity of this neighborhood has made it a magnet for international film companies, tourists and architectural historians alike. A non-contextual building on Lot 29, like that so egregiously proposed by the development firm DDG, would seriously eat away at the heart of the Tribeca East Historic Landmarked District. While Landmarks has asked DDG to modify its original proposal, we have every reason to fear the developers will return with a design that continues not only to denigrate an authentic 19th-century corner but also to require zoning

variances. It is a profound insult to painstakingly devised landmark guidelines when developers assume they will be granted variances—exemptions from the law—for construction on landmarked sites. DDG has not even closed on Lot 29’s purchase but presumes, in advance, it will bend the rules. Without these variances the gargantuan profit incentive associated with building an oversized structure shoehorned onto two tiny triangular parcels vanishes. Lot 29 abuts fragile historic buildings, sits over an MTA tunnel and is prone to underground flooding. DDG claims it is an enormous challenge to build here, because, in truth, Lot 29 is not suited for their species of building. A broad alley touching the middle of Lot 29 (which has served as a small but useful parking lot since 1949) opens upon a fascinatingly rich palimpsest of late 1800s’ architectural styles. This alley, home to mature trees and the only oasis of greenery on traffic-snarled Church Street, would be lost under DDG construction. Lot 29 might instead be made a handsome open space: there are people ready to make it such. DDG has called its development “a stitching of the cut” created when Church Street was enlarged. Their “stitching” would only inflict deeper harm. The adjacent magnificent Second Empire building on White Street and, more widely, the historic east-west architectural fabric spanning Church Street would be forever spoiled. Piling injury upon injury, the developers’ extraction of real estate value would be an irreversible, one-way transfer of worth from the marred neighborhood to their investor group. Their riding roughshod over so much that is precious, over so many lives and over thoughtfully devised restraints, just for narrow personal gain, surely is wrong. Residents of 17, 9 and 44 White St. and 108, 104, 103 and 102 Franklin St.

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Right: In the basement of 100 Hudson Street, Pamela Casper goes through paintings she salvaged after the flood. Behind her, Jonathan Porath cleans his wife’s paintings. Below: The trench on Hudson Street, in front of the building, allows for work on the water main trunk as well as other utilities.

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BY CARL GLASSMAN It was all too familiar. The hum of humidifiers, the workers in hazmat suits filling dumpster after dumpster with debris-stuffed garbage bags, the sorting through of flood-ruined belongings in the dampness of a lower floor. But this was no Sandy-like natural disaster that swamped the basement of 100 Hudson Street, a 10-story co-op between Franklin and Leonard streets. Last month, a leak from the yawning, utility-filled trench in front of the building, part of the massive Hudson Street water main project, emptied four feet of water into the building’s 7,000-squarefoot basement. According to a statement by the city’s Department of Design and Construction, the leak was the result of a “mechanical failure on an existing fitting connecting to the sprinkler system at 100 Hudson St.” Residents said the building’s superintendent called the Fire Department around 5 a.m. on Nov. 10, when he saw

the trench filling with water and watched in horror as, with a big whoosh, it suddenly began to drain. The force of the water, they said, bored a hole through the basement floor, “pushing aside tremendous blocks of cement.” Firemen pumped out the water, leaving more than a half-foot of mud in its wake. Storage cages line the basement, and they were filled with ruined belongings, many of them irreplaceable. “That’s old art that’s going to get thrown away,” artist Pamela Casper said, motioning to a garbage bag filled with her work. Two series from the 1980s that were especially precious to COURTESY OF PAMELA CASPER her—drawings of breakdancers The flood left behind about seven inches of mud at an 18th Street roller rink and throughout the basement. pastels of the World Trade Center as seen from her apartment— said. “I scraped it off just to try to air them but they were ruined.” were among the casualties. Nearby, Jonathan Porath was clean“They were caked with mud,” she

ing the oil paintings by his wife, Basmat. He said he thought he could save most of them, but he was less certain about the piles of negatives. “I just washed them and dried them,” he said. “Twenty-five years of family photographs, before the digital age.” In its statement to the Trib, the DDC said, “We sympathize with residents who may have lost belongings, and we understand that the building’s management and the contractor, CAC Industries, have been speaking to try to reach a resolution. Failing that, residents may file claims with the City Comptroller’s office within 90 days.” Neither representatives from C.A.C. Industries, the contractor in charge of the Hudson Street project, nor Andrews Building Corp., the building’s management company, could be reached for comment. “Do we just eat this and rack it up to one of those things?” said Casper. “I mean, Hurricane Sandy I understand. I would think this is preventable.”

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Reacting with shock and dismay, Downtown school advocates learned last month that the city plans to build only one school below Canal Street in the coming years, instead of two they expected. Earlier in November, the city released its much-anticipated capital plan for building and maintaining public schools over the next five years, a report widely understood to include two 456seat schools that would relieve overcrowding within Community Board 1. But in a presentation on the plan to School District 2’s Community Education Council, Michael Mirisola, a School Construction Authority official, said that only one school would be sited below Canal Street, CB1’s northern boundary. “It is disappointing and shocking to get the news tonight,” Buxton Midyette, a P.S. 150 parent and School Leadership Team member, said at the meeting. “Of the 912 seats we expected, there is still going to be a shortfall of 456 seats.” “I’m floored,” said Paul Hovitz, cochair of Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee. “We’re going to end up with wait lists again.” Speaking at Community Board 1’s monthly meeting the next evening, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, “We believe those seats belong in Battery Park City and the Financial

The draft capital plan had cryptically named four of the new District 2 schools “Project 1,” “Project 2,” etc., without giving their locations. (A DOE spokeswoman had declined to answer questions from the Trib about the schools.) As it turns out, Mirisola informed the CEC panel, “Project 1”—the other Lower Manhattan school—is a previously announced elementary school planned for Hudson Square. It is a school that Trinity Real Estate is obliged to build as part of its deal with the city to rezone the neighborhood in order to allow largescale development. The school, budgeted to receive $27.5 million in city money, is expected to be filled with children from the new residential buildings. If not, zoning for the school could include parts of Tribeca, thus relieving pressure on P.S. 234. Of the other two unnamed schools, besides the one likely to be built Downtown, one is for the retrofitting of a former parochial school on West 33rd Street while the other is planned for Hudson Yards. Both the 33rd Street School and the yet-to-be sited Downtown school will each have seats for 456 students and each budgeted at about $50 million. In February, an amended version of the capital plan will be submitted for approval to the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. It will then be voted on by the City Council in June.

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In the P.S./I.S. 89 auditorium, Michael Mirisola of the city’s School Construction Authority tells District 2’s Community Education Council about the city’s plans for new schools.

District and we will press that point very, very strenuously…that’s what we want those seats to represent.” “If we can get a thousand seats down here,” he added, “it will go a long way towards alleviating the problem.” Members of Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force had hailed a city Department of Education report from earlier this year that acknowledged, for the first time, a coming shortfall of 1,000 school seats in Lower Manhattan—a subdistrict called “Greenwich Village/Tribeca” and defined by the DOE as

below 14th Street and west of Broadway. The task force had previously identified a need for more than 1,200 seats in the area covered by Community Board 1 and assumed that the new schools would be built in their area. Some school advocates say they had been reassured that the 912 seats would be located below Canal Street. “I am thrilled that the Department of Education’s new capital plan includes funding for two new elementary schools in Lower Manhattan,” Silver had said in a statement at the time.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDS Christmas came early to the community center at Stuyvesant High School. Set to close on Dec. 20, the center will remain open for an indefinite period following an agreement between Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dennis Mehiel, president of the Battery Park City Authority, which operates the center. Mehiel and Silver jointly announced the agreement late last month. The authority had been under heavy pressure from Community Board 1, local elected officials and Downtown sports leagues to rescind its plan. In September, the BPC Parks Conservancy, an arm of the authority that runs the center, announced its decision to discontinue its low-cost memberships for the use of two basketball courts, a weight room and its own programming. It attributed the decision to close the center in part to its “significantly diminished” membership. Addressing a meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee at Asphalt Green in early November, authority spokeswoman Anne Fenton said the center is operating at an annual deficit of $200,000. “We also made a major investment in the new [Asphalt Green] community center, which is where we’re sitting now, and that’s why we’re looking to leave Stuyvesant High School,” she said. “We’re willing to work with the elected

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officials and the community board in your selection of a new operator.” In announcing the authority’s change of heart, Mehiel and Silver said they have agreed to form a committee charged with selecting a new operator and “developing funding sources” for the center. A BPCA spokesman said the Parks Conservancy will run the center during the “interim period.” Manhattan Youth Director Bob Townley, who had vehemently objected to the center’s closing, was pleased by

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Silver and others insist that, per a 1987 agreement with the city’s thenBoard of Estimate, the authority has a binding obligation to run the center, which opened in 1993, as part of the deal for siting the school in Battery Park City. “We believe the authority has to continue to play a role to make this program viable—it’s just that simple,” said Paul Goldstein, Silver’s district director, who negotiated the agreement as CB1’s former district manager. “This program needs to have some degree of subsidy to continue to make it affordable.” The planned closing of the center had been especially worrisome to those who have been regulars over the years. Devon Kolb, 19, of Gateway Plaza, a member since he was seven, said he comes to the center three or four times a week. “It’s my gym,” said Kolb, who was shooting baskets in the fifth-floor gym just days before the announcement. “I come here and play basketball and basically that’s the only thing that keeps me active at the moment.” In the gym two floors below, Andrew Sambuk, a Hofstra University English professor, had just arrived for the Monday night half-court game that has been his ritual since 1996. “The game’s meaningful,” he said, “but so are the social relationships that have formed. I’d miss it terribly.” —Carl Glassman contributed reporting.

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Developer says it must build a 600-foot tower to pay for critical area improvements BY CARL GLASSMAN AND ALINE REYNOLDS

The Howard Hughes Corp. revealed last month its long awaited but “very preliminary” plans to bring big changes to the South Street Seaport. Speaking to a standing-room-only— and often angry—crowd in the Southbridge Towers community room, a Hughes Corp. executive and the project’s architect described a plan for a 600-foothigh residential tower that they maintain will help save the South Street Seaport Museum and its ships, rebuild and preserve the historic fish market Tin Building, create a marina and more. “A tall building is what we’re proposing, showing you it’s necessary in order to satisfy a lot of wants and needs from the community,” Chris Curry, a Hughes Corp. executive vice president, told the meeting of Community Board 1’s Seaport/Civic Center Committee. It was a statement that drew jeers and sarcastic chuckles from the room. The committee, and later the full board, voted to oppose the tower. “Even though we are going to have more dialogue, we are going to make our concerns very clear,” said committee chair John Fratta. “At this point we are opposed to any type of tower on that site.” The proposed residential tower would be 50 stories tall and stand on a newly built platform at the site of the New Market building, shuttered since the Fulton Fish Market moved out in 2005. The architect, Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects, defended the demolition of the building, which he says is deteriorating and a “really dangerous situation.” The building lies just outside the South Street Seaport Historic District and is deemed not historically significant by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the architect noted. The Tin Building, meanwhile, is in fragile condition and must be reconstructed to be saved, Pasquarelli said. Having suffered a fire, most of the “tin” is actually deteriorating fiberglass made to look like tin. The building, planned to house a food market, would be reconstructed 30 feet away from its present location, with an added second story. (The building, he said, has to be raised in order to avoid potential flooding, and moved both because its overhang sits just below the FDR Drive and to accommodate a continuation of the East River Esplanade through the site.) Pasquarelli put the cost of the Tin Building’s “first-class” restoration at $45 million and the rebuilding of Pier 17, which he says is on the verge of collapse, at $50 million. All told, Pasquarelli said, it would

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN / RENDERING BY SHOP ARCHITECTS

Above: Rendering of Seaport plan for a 600-foot tower, new Pier 17 mall and marina. Gregg Pasquarelli (inset) of SHoP Architects presents the proposal. Left: Howard Hughes Corp. executive Chris Curry (back to camera) listens to New Amsterdam Market supporters who protest the plan.

Second Try for a Seaport Tower

In 2008, General Growth Properties, Howard Hughes Corp.’s predecessor, put forth a plan to erect a 500-foot, 42-story apartment and hotel tower at the site of the New Market Building, just north of Pier 17—an area that sits just outside the city-designated South Street Seaport Historic District. General Growth also proposed building a smaller hotel at the site of the Tin Building, which it proposed to move, along with a half-dozen low-rise retail buildings along Schermerhorn Row (the portion of Fulton Street between Front and South streets). Numerous community meetings were held with General Growth Properties to discuss the tower, the most contentious aspect of the plans. In resolutions, Community Board 1 called on the city to protect the New Market Building by including it in the historic district—a request that the Landmarks Preservation Commission twice turned down. The General Growth project was eventually scrapped, around the time the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009. cost $125 million to $150 million to fund these and other projects, including a proposed marina. (The cost of saving the Seaport Museum was not mentioned.) He maintained that the developer needs to build a 670,000-square-foot building to pay for it all.

Many in the room were of no mind to accept a tower in the heart of the Seaport. They asserted that a building of that height has no place on a site that is adjacent to the historic district. “The tall tower that suddenly came on the scene doesn’t fit. It’s not appropri-

ate to the context of the whole historic fabric of the neighborhood,” said Diane Harris Brown, a Southbridge Towers resident. Supporters of the Seaport’s New Amsterdam Market and its founder Robert LaValva, a leading opponent of the Hughes Corp. plan, held signs and grilled Curry about whether the New Amsterdam Market would have a role in the proposed project. “The New Amsterdam Market was invited to be a tenant in our Pier 17 renovation project, and Mr. LaValva made it very clear, he had no interest in being a tenant of ours,” Curry said. “And at this point, we have no interest in talking to the New Amsterdam Market about our new project.” Later, LaValva walked to the front of the room to explain his position. “Yes, we were invited to be part of new Pier 17 mall, and I did decline that,” he began. “The reason is very simple. We don’t think that this historic district should be led by a suburban shopping mall.” LaValva said he would call on the next city administration to “halt” the Hughes Corp. plan, which is being overseen by the city’s Economic Development Corp. He said he wants to see the start of “a true master planning process.” For now, a lengthy city review process lies ahead, including multiple public hearings and required land use and Landmarks Preservation Commission approvals. That process is not expected to be completed before the spring of 2015.

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City officials defend relocation decision, calling the offenders ‘low-risk’

BY CARL GLASSMAN Financial District residents crowded into a hearing room last month in a display of anger and fear over the planned move of a probation office to their neighborhood. The city plans to move a division of the Department of Probation from its 346 Broadway offices, at Leonard Street, to 66 John Street. According to city officials, who appeared at the sometimes raucous meeting of Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee, a daily average of 40 “low-risk” offenders would report to the offices. The relocation of the Probation Department’s Community Progression Track, as the office is called, is part of a shuffling of many city agencies to new locations due to the sale of two city buildings. The most common offenses among those visiting the offices, which are open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., are theft and larceny, drug-related charges and driving while intoxicated, said Ryan Dodge, the Probation Department’s communications director. He tried to allay residents’ fears, saying that the offenders “earned their way” into the program based on many factors, including job and family status and compliance with their terms of probation. “The vast majority of probation clients are everyday New Yorkers who are working to overcome their past mistakes,” he said. “We’re committed to helping them do so, but our first priority is public safety.” Dodge, along with Matthew Berk, a city real estate official, and Laurence Busching, a criminal justice coordinator in the mayor’s office, sat at a table facing the committee. The three men drew verbal fire from the board and community members who expressed their indignation over a plan that came to light, only incidentally, a couple of weeks before. Repeatedly, plan opponents referred to schools and families in the area and

the perceived threat to residents’ safety. “I want you to look her in the eye and tell her you want her to be the victim of a crime,” Millie Gillon, a Financial District resident, said, holding her 8month-old daughter and squarely facing the city representatives. “And you want her mother to be the victim of a crime.” Mark Craig, the president of 99 John Street, a condominium with more than 400 units, noted the many children in his building and the surrounding area. “You have a lot of narrow streets that can be conducive to hanging out,” he said. Many at the meeting, held in the New York State Assembly hearing room, were angry over the lack of notification by the city, much like the reaction of Tribeca residents over a planned summons court move from 346 Broadway to 71 Thomas Street. (See story on page 13.) “It’s unfortunate that there was no due process where people should have the opportunity to come and raise concerns,” said Paul Goldstein, director of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s district office. In a letter to administration officials, Silver expressed his “deep concerns” about the plan.

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Millie Gillon, with daughter Claire, tells city officials Ryan Dodge, left, and Laurence Busching that the relocation of a probation office to 66 John St., left, will threaten her family’s safety. Behind her is Marijo Russell O'Grady, Pace University’s dean of students, who expressed concern for the many students who live in dorms in the area.

“Now that the cat is out of the bag, it’s time for this administration to listen to us,” said Patrick Kennell, a Financial District resident, noting an online petition against the move with more than 1,500 signatures. The city officials listened but contin-

ued to insist that the community had nothing to fear. “There are residential apartments across the street and next door,” Busching said of the current probation office, “and we’ve had no complaints.” Other sites were considered, Berk said, but “programmatically, operationally, this [66 John Street] location was the best solution.” “There is anxiety,” responded committee member Susan Cole. “There is nothing you’re telling us that alleviates that anxiety.” The community board later passed a a resolution “strongly” opposing the relocation of the probation office to 66 John Street. A “comprehensive assessment” of the impact to the neighborhood should be conducted, the board said, before the move takes place. —Aline Reynolds contributed reporting.

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Opponents of the city’s plan to relocate a summons court to Thomas Street and West Broadway are pressing hard to stop it. Their online petition against the move by the end of last month had more than 1,500 signatures. Thousands of dollars fill its growing legal coffers. And last month they sued the city to block the plan. The judge issued a temporary restraining order, which keeps the city from proceeding until Jan. 15. The lawsuit, filed by nearby residents and several business owners, claims that the summons court would change the neighborhood from a “quiet, residential community into a clogged way station for persons charged with summonable offenses.” The court, known as the Summons Arraignment Part, adjudicates tickets for a gamut of offenses. The most common one, according to the city’s statistics, is for public consumption of alcohol. The court is now housed three blocks away at 346 Broadway, a building with many municipal offices. The city is selling the building to a developer with plans to convert it into a hotel and condominiums; its offices are being dispersed to other city-owned buildings. (The planned move of a probation office to 66 John Street has stirred an uproar in the

Financial District. See page 12.) Opponents are claiming in court that the city bypassed a required public review process for the sale of 346 Broadway and an environmental study for the court’s move to Thomas Street. A spokeswoman for the city’s Law Department, citing the “active litigation,” declined to comment on the case. But in October, Cas Holloway, the city’s deputy mayor for operations, appeared be-fore Community Board 1 to defend the move. While not commenting on the review process, he said there would be no major impact on the neighborhood. Unlike at 346 Broadway, people would not queue outside because a waiting area for 250 people would be built into the space, which now houses a civil court. On average, 500 people report to the court daily, Holloway said. “This was one of the only areas where you could do the queuing inside,” he said. But opponents maintain that an interior holding area is not enough. “People get there early in order to get out early so everybody is around the block before the doors are open,” said their lawyer, Richard Emery. “Even when there’s 250 people inside there’s still another 400 people who need to be processed, and they process them very slowly.”

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Sazon Rebuffed on Request

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Left: Reade Street residents Mark Dimor and Lisa Schiller say why they object to Sazon, above, serving liquor until 4 a.m. Above right: Edward Rodriquez, who coached Downtown Little League teams for seven years, said he is a “local guy” who cares about the community.

BY ALINE REYNOLDS CARL GLASSMAN Restaurant manager Edward Rodriguez has inherited a slew of problems. With almost a year on the job as general manager of Sazon, the popular but locally troubled Puerto Rican restaurant at 105 Reade St., he came in earnest to Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee last month with hopes of showing good intentions—and the request to serve alcohol until 4 a.m., Thursday to Saturday. What followed was a litany of complaints that neighbors have been leveling at the 150-seat establishment almost since it opened in 2009. Currently, Sazon must stop serving liquor at 1 a.m. and Rodriguez was seeking CB1’s advisory approval to the State Liquor Authority for an alteration to his license. The committee and the full board turned him down. (He is nevertheless going ahead with the application.) According to several Reade Street residents who attended the meeting, noisy crowds gather on the street, restauAND

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rant windows stay open beyond an agreed-upon 7 p.m., and the sidewalk at times doubles as a toilet. “It’s very loud out there,” said Mark Dimor, who lives nearby. Patrons congregate on the sidewalk, he added, “just after drinking it up, singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ and then going on their way. Then the next wave comes out.” Rodriguez, who owned the South Street Seaport restaurant Salud until Hurricane Sandy shuttered it, acknowledged that large groups go in and out of his place between 8 and 10 in the evening. But he denied residents’ claims that the disturbances go late into the night. Lisa Schiller, a 24-year Reade Street resident, lamented the changes that places like Sazon and other nearby bars and restaurants have brought to her oncequiet street. “Staying open until four in the morning is an abuse to the people who have lived on this block,” she said. Still, Rodriguez argued that he loses customers to nearby places like Ward III and Maxwell’s that are already licensed

to serve alcohol until 4 a.m. And he maintained that he has been trying to make improvements. “I changed the culture of the clientele,” he said. In an interview with the Trib, Rodriguez said that owner Genero Morales brought him in “to turn the restaurant around.” Since taking over last December, he said, the menu, reservation system and lounge décor have all been revamped to make Sazon a classier and quieter place. “It’s no longer this rowdy disco hangout,” he said. “It’s a fullblown restaurant establishment and I want to be known for that.” Rodriguez is hardly helped by the restaurant’s history. Soon after Sazon opened in 2009, neighbors complained not only about crowd noise, but also about dancing and live music in the downstairs lounge. The restaurant allegedly violated State Liquor Authority stipulations against those activities in the license it was granted in 2010 and neighbors continued to complain. So Community Board 1 was in no mood to com-

ply with owner Morales’s request in 2011 for advisory approval of a second bar and DJ in the basement lounge. “The applicant has repeatedly, openly, and brazenly operated in violation of the stipulations to which he originally agreed,” the board said in its resolution denying the request. Morales shot back with a much-publicized $50-million lawsuit against CB1, claiming racial descrimination. A federal judge later dismissed the case. Rodriguez said he was aware of “issues” with the restaurant when he took the job. “I heard about it and it is important for me to make changes,” he said. In recommending that the Tribeca Committee deny Rodriguez’s request, co-chair Michael Connolly noted that neighbors have yet to see “sufficient enough change.” But he told the manager he could come back with his request next summer. “We’re looking for more signs of good faith going forward,” Connolly said.

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Book Program

A biographer and a journalist explore Catholicism and the Holocaust in a free program, “France, Rescue and the Church,” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Susan Zuccotti’s biography, “Père Marie–Benoît and Jewish Rescue,” tells the story of a French priest who helped Jews get fake papers during the war. Leslie Maitland recounts her Jewish mother’s lifelong yearning for a Catholic Frenchman from whom she was forced to separate in her book, “Crossing the Borders of Time.” Wednesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, mjhnyc.org.

Genealogy Workshop

The National Archives at New York City’s “Finding Family Genealogy Series” will take place on Dec. 10, from noon to 1 p.m. The staff will give an overview of research tools at archives.gov and suggest ways to search the archival holdings, including using the Online Public Access Catalog. Register at newyork.archives@nara.gov or 866840-1752 to reserve a space. The workshop will be held in the Learning Center of the U.S. Custom House at One Bowling Green.

Holidays in the Parks

Washington Market Park’s free annual Christmas party will take place on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. (Rain date is Sunday, Dec. 8.) Santa will be at the gazebo taking requests and the Trinity Church Youth Choir will sing carols. There will be hot apple cider and homemade cookies; new, unwrapped toys can be dropped off for Toys for Tots. The Friends of Bogardus Garden is sponsoring a holiday sing on Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 4 to 5 p.m. The Church Street School Choristers and the Battery Park City Adult Chorus will perform holiday songs on the plaza. The Friends will be collecting new, unwrapped toys (K through 5th grade) for the Henry Street Settlement. Homemade cookies and hot chocolate will be served.

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Each year, half the community board seats are up for appointment or reappointment. The Manhattan Borough President’s office is now taking applications for next year’s seats. If you’re interested in becoming one of the volunteers who serve on Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1, or to become a public member, go to mbpo.org and click on “About Community Board 1.” The application deadline is Feb. 1.

Comedy at TPAC

Jim Mendrinos, author of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Comedy Writing,” and a stand-up performer on BBC, Comedy Central and HBO, will appear at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

Record Sale

ARC (The Archive of Contemporary Music) is holding its holiday record and CD sale on Saturday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 15, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. More than 25,000 45s, LPs, CDs and DVDs will be sold, including recordings of punk/new wave, Christmas songs, world music, classical, rock and more. There will also be a special Lou Reed section. ARC is at 54 White St.

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Ice rinks at Brookfield Plaza and the South Street Seaport are now open. At Brookfield Plaza, 90-minute sessions take place daily from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. (last session begins at 8 p.m.) with a half-hour break in between. Entrance is $15. Skate rentals are $5. Call 646-6561384 for information. 250 Vesey Place, therinkatbrookfieldplacenyc.com. The South Street Seaport ice rink is open Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Unlimited skating is $10, children five and under are free. Skate rentals are $6; southstreetseaport.com. Skating lessons are available at both rinks.

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E TRAIN, WTC STATION Nov. 23, 5:25 a.m. A 22-year-old man was arrested for lifting a sleeping passengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wallet, tablet and cell phone, among other belongings. The wallet contained credit cards and a driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. Police apprehended the thief in the station and recovered the items, collectively worth $935. BROADWAY NEAR MAIDEN LANE Nov. 22, 5:15 p.m. A woman was pickpocketed upon leaving her office building at 140 Broadway. She told police that she may have been bumped at the corner of Maiden Lane and Broadway on her way to the subway. Inside her Louis Vuitton wallet, valued at $900, were ferry passes, gift cards and $800. 36 WHITE Nov. 17, 4:30 a.m. A womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car was vandalized while she attended an event at a nearby restaurant. The perpetrator smashed the vehicleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front passenger window and stole more than $24,000 worth of items, including pearls valued at $7,500, a $6,000 diamond ring and two pairs of sunglasses.

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Back to the drawing board for Tribeca building hotly opposed by neighbors

BY CARL GLASSMAN The architect of a hotly contested glass-walled residential building, proposed for two oddly shaped lots in Tribeca’s historic district, will have to rethink their design. The Landmarks Preservation Commission last month took a look at plans for the building at 100 Franklin St.— actually two connected triangular structures with a single glass front that would stand on what are now parking lots along Sixth Avenue, between White and Franklin streets. Largely echoing many of the nearly two dozen residents and others at the hearing who testified against the building, the commissioners said the design is a self-conscious and inappropriate addition to the neighborhood. “There’s too much going on, making the building too frenetic, too show-offy,” Commissioner Frederick Bland said. “The whole thing just needs to calm down,” he added, while also noting the “many laudable and interesting aspects” of the scheme. “You’re trying too darn hard to be both cool and of the moment and also refer back,” Commissioner Michael Goldblum said of the two-story penthouse proposed for the northern, eightstory building. The roof structure is meant as a reference to the mansard roof of the 1868 loft building it would abut at 17 White Street. The commission did not take a vote

Left: Peter Guthrie presents plans to the Landmarks Commission. Top: Nancy Owens tells a CB1 committee why she opposes the building. Above: Mel Bochner, a neighbor of the site, testifies against the design at the commission hearing.

Two-story penthouse of the proposed design for 100 Franklin St. was meant to refer, in a modern way, to the mansard roof of 17 White St., next door.

on the project, by DDG Partners. Its chairman, Robert Tierney, told the developers to “rework” the design. Along with the roundly criticized penthouse, architect Peter Guthrie’s concept for the difficult site called for a solid glass facade in front of brick arches and the building’s structural support. Behind that would be the apartment windows. The arches are meant to be visible through the glass and would begin on the second floor, above proposed storefronts. Guthrie said he sees the brick arches as a reference to the surrounding historic buildings. Goldblum disagreed that the arches bring to mind neighborhood history. “Here you’re creating a fictive building, which never would have looked like this and it certainly wouldn't have started at the second floor,” he said. Asked by a commissioner how the building fits into the Tribeca East Historic District, Guthrie called it a “celebration” of the typical 19th-century loft

building, with its order of base, middle and top. “It also celebrates our time, where we as architects are working today,” he said. “Unabashedly,” RENDERING BY DDG PARTNERS he added, “we’re sticking our neck out as we haven’t before.” For nearly an hour, residents and others testified—as they have at three Community Board 1 meetings—that the building doesn’t match the character of the neighborhood. Prudence Carlson, a leader of the opposition and a resident of 17 White Street, called it “incoherent, menacingly ugly and out of size.” To architect Walter Melvin, the penthouse looked like a “glass spaceship which has crashed on the roof.” Anne Luce, the 17 White Street co-op president, said in a statement read to the commission that the structure would be an “insult of a modern glass building with no context to our building.” The Landmarks hearing marked the third time that CB1 had weighed in on the project. Back in October, with just a few neighbors of the site present, the board’s Landmarks Committee, chaired by Bruce Ehrmann, praised the overall design in a resolution while offering a

scathing critique of the penthouse and the “bulbous” elevator bulkheads that would protrude from the roof. Some 20 residents, unhappy with what otherwise was an approval of the project, appeared at the full-board meeting later in the month, causing the board to delay a final vote on the building until this month. Attending the meeting with the Landmarks Committee in early November, where Guthrie gave a second presentation, residents again lambasted the project. This time the meeting was chaired by Roger Byrom (Ehrmann was out of town), who aggressively challenged the developers to delay their appearance before the Commission in order to resolve the community’s objections. Or, as he put it, “Maybe this is a project you should walk away from.” The committee voted to reject the entire project. The final CB1 committee resolution submitted to the Landmarks Commission, and later approved by the full board, included 21 “whereases” and appeared to be an attempt to include both the softer language of the first resolution and to recommend that the developer “find a proposal that is contextual, appropriate and has the community’s support.” Carlson called the commission’s response to the project “reasoned.” “I think that they want to do the right thing for the neighborhood,” she said. “But there are so many question marks floating in space in terms of what will happen,” she added. “When they come back with something, will it really be more appropriate?” —Aline Reynolds contributed reporting.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDS Pacing back and forth last month behind the condemned Pier 17 mall, until a couple of days before the site of his food court business, Joseph Demane spoke on the phone to an auctioneer. It was time to get rid of the remnants of his Simply Seafood, now piled like junk in a nearby shipping container. “The fryers are in there, the grill’s in there—pretty much everything except the two walk-ins,” he told the auctioneer. Returning to his belongings, he stared with dismay at what was left of Simply Seafood, a family Seaport business dating back to the 1940s. “It’s all just basically equipment that is 15 to 20 years old, so whatever he wants to come in and give me for it…” Demane said, his voice trailing off. On the advice of their lawyer, Joseph and his father, John Demane, had kept their restaurant open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., in the otherwise deserted mall. (The rest of the tenants vacated their shops in September.) On Nov. 13, a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the Howard Hughes Corp. had the right to evict Simply Seafood. Two days later, Joseph Demane was locked out of the building. “It would have been a little more amicable if they had said, ‘All right, you have a week to get your stuff out,’ rather than just coming in and seeing every-

owing money to the Hughes Corp. and insisted that he and his father “did nothing wrong.” “[The judge] said that we were frequently late with payments, and that really isn’t true,” he said. “But the judge ruled the way he ruled. Obviously, you can’t argue with him.” The Hughes Corp. can now go forward with its plans to demolish the mall and replace it with a $200-million glasswalled shopping center. In an emailed statement, a spokeswoman for the developer said, “While the Howard Hughes Corporation inherited this situation from the previous landlords, we are pleased that it has been resolved after a long and arduous process.” Demane came in to work the day after the judgment and served some customers, though “my heart wasn’t in it,” he said. The next day, the building’s main entrance was locked. “It’s disheartening,” Demane said of the decision. “Nothing we said really resonated with the judge. We were willing to work with [the developer], but obviously they had their own plan.” Does he regret all the long hours he spent in the empty mall, manning his restaurant to the very end? “No,” he replied, without hesitation. “I said a million times that I’ll go down fighting—I wasn’t just going to give it to them.”

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In a shipping container on Pier 17, Demane sorts through the remnants of his food stand.

thing thrown into a storage container,” Demane said. “It’s really upsetting, but what can you do?” said Justin Owusu, who had worked for the Demanes for some 30 years and was now without a job. “I’ve got nothing,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult.” In his decision, Judge Shlomo Hagler wrote that the South Street Seaport Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Hughes Corp., the pier’s leaseholder, was “entitled to possession” of the 550square-foot space. The Demanes had run

Simply Seafood in the mall’s third-floor court since 1995. The Demanes had maintained that their lease was valid until 2020. But the judge ruled that they had been in default of the lease and therefore lost the right to renew it. As of last month, the judge had yet to determine how much Simply Seafood owes the developer in back rent, interest and utility charges. Hughes Corp. claims that amount exceeds $1 million. Speaking to a Trib reporter at the loading dock, Joseph Demane denied

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BY THEA GLASSMAN or 15 years, long-time Tribeca residents George Rush and Joanna Molloy were the prime gossipmongers for the Daily News, chasing juicy stories on the romances, infidelities, legal woes and sex scandals of the rich and famous. Little did readers know that the behind-the-scenes stories of the tabloidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rush & Molloyâ&#x20AC;? column were even more intriguing. Those have been saved for the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scandal: A Manualâ&#x20AC;? (Skyhorse Publishing), a riveting read for the celebrity-conscious set. Not exactly a â&#x20AC;&#x153;how to,â&#x20AC;? but a chronicle of reportorial exploits, the book follows the gossip columnists as they navigate the delicate terrains of finicky sources, celebrity backlash and the mad rush to get the story first. Many of their subjects were surprisingly chummyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rocker Courtney Love would call to chat about her love life, and when the columnistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; son was born, Barbara Walters and Woody Allen sent gifts. Others held grudges. Robert DeNiro didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be anywhere near them; Sarah Jessica Parker admonished them

for revealing the tensions on the Sex and the City set. And then there was the time that Rush tried to overhear Princess Dianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conversation at a party while pretending to examine a nearby artwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Could you please move your ear-ah over there-ah?â&#x20AC;? the princess said to him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scandal: A Manualâ&#x20AC;? not only puts celebrities under the microscope, but also takes a closeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and amusingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;look at the authorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relationship. They began their life together as intense competitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he at the Post, she at the Daily Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;guarding their sources jealously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of our marriageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early issues was whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get custody of The Donald,â&#x20AC;? Rush writes. He relishes the time he beat his wife to the home phone, anxious to get the scoop on Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rumored impending wedding to Marla Maples. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Married or not, there would be no mercy!â&#x20AC;? Rush wrote. Yet for every juicy headline Rush & Molloy printed, there were the ones they chose not to. They obliged director Mike Nichols when he asked that they not print that he was smoking (it would have upset wife Diane Sawyer). For a while after the death of JFK Jr. and his wife Carolyn,

they stopped publishing gossip about the family, out of respect. Rush and Molloy watched the world of gossip evolve. The in-depth pieces they once wrote were being replaced by quicker itemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what designer heels Kim Kardashian was wearing, for instance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God forbid we missed a development in the romance of The Hillsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; twits Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt!â&#x20AC;? says Rush. The Daily News changed and the blogosphere grew. Three years ago, Rush & Molloy ran its last column, with a sidebar that read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top Itemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rush and Molloy Are Splitting! Now that we have your attention, let us clarify that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a divorce lawyer. The two writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; evidentially have mixed feelings about their time as celebrity reporters and, in their book, they leave â&#x20AC;&#x153;would-be gossipsâ&#x20AC;? with some advice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gossip about something that matters to you,â&#x20AC;? they say. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go after liars, braggarts, quacks and hypocrites. Try to give your victim a chance to respond.â&#x20AC;?

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From â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scandal: A Manualâ&#x20AC;? by George Rush with Joanna Molloy At a big movie premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be wedged cheek-by-jowl along a rope line with thirty reporters and their camera crews. Like most assembly lines, the red carpet produced a shabby product. Stars were usually racing to the theater. So they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much time to talk. If you had a controversial question, their publicists were there at their side to tell them not to answer it. If you did get an interesting quote, the eavesdropping reporter next to you was likely to steal it or to ask the same question you asked, so they could claim it was their quote. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I usually preferred to try to catch the actors at the after-partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had a few drinks. If there was no after-party, or if we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t crack it, the red carpet was unavoidable. The best strategy was to think of a concept or theme. For instance, at the premiere of Tim Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical Sweeney Todd, we asked one and all to donate their thoughts on blood, since Burton splashed a lot of it in the film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like to keep my blood inside me, thank you,â&#x20AC;? said Johnny Depp, who played the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Had he ever lost a lot of blood? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes,â&#x20AC;? he deadpanned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I found it!â&#x20AC;? Deppâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pal Keith Richards, said he was only creeped out by â&#x20AC;&#x153;other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood.â&#x20AC;? Had he seen the Broadway version of Stephen Sondheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ghoulish musical? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nah,â&#x20AC;? said the cadaverish-looking rolling Stone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I knew the original Sweeney Todd. He gave a hell of a shave!â&#x20AC;? And so on. Sutured together, the quotes made for an amusing read. The crimson conveyor belt sometimes delivered people you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care to speak with. Typically, it was an eight-year-old who played the son of the lead actor. But the kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publicist might be the gatekeeper for the actor you needed to talk to. And so, the publicist might whisper that, if you talked to the kid, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get five minutes with the star. Deal!â&#x20AC;?

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began pitching in to transform the dilapidated space. They tore up a 20-year-old carpet, ripped out sagging shelves, patched walls, painted, installed a new floor and hung a set of handsome glass doors and new awning with the word “Front,” the gallery’s name. Their sons, Mauricio and Dionisio, became their social media consultants, managing their Facebook page (“We don’t have a clue about how that thing works,” Dionisio said) and building a website for the gallery. On opening night in October, they brought an upright piano down from their loft. As one of their son’s friends

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played, guests chatted on the sidewalk. The couple say that sales have been good. The gallery attracts a wide range of people, beckoning construction workers on Chambers Street, students, nannies wheeling their charges, local artists, latenight restaurantgoers who like to peer through the glass (the gallery’s light is always left on and the gates open). “This is sooo cute!” people often remark. But to his surprise, Cortes said, the gallery is also somewhat of a “curiosity.” “People look at the awning and say, ‘What is this? What is this doing here?’” He has seen tourists pose in front of it for photos. One visitor took a picture of the CARL GLASSMAN

Left: Dionisio Cortes, Leticia Ortega and Noemi Bilger (at rear) at Front. Above: Friends and family help with the renovation.

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“Circus of Memories.” Burkholder gives the images a translucent quality by combining the 19th-century impressionistic bromoil printing process with hot wax painting. Wed, 12/4–Sat, 1/4. Opening reception: Tue, 12/3, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

Peter Quinn The author talks about and reads from his mystery novel “Dry Bones,” about a detective who investigates an ill-fated intelligence mission in Eastern Europe more than a decade after the end of World War II. Tue, 12/3, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

20 Years: Art Projects International A celebration of the gallery’s 20th anniversary with a group show featuring different media and artistic genres. Tue, 12/10–Sat, 1/25/14. Tue–Fri, 11 am–5 pm. Art Projects International, 434 Greenwich St., artprojects.com.

g Lily Brett Australian rock journalist Lily Brett rubbed elbows with Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and the Who, but started her life in a German Displaced Persons camp, the child of Auschwitz survivors. Brett explores the unusual trajectory of her life in her autobiographical novel “Lola Bensky.” Wed, 12/4, 7 pm. Free, donations welcome. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Open Studio Tour at Governors Island Visit the visual artists who have been working in Building 110, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island. Also see performing artists Luciana Achugar and Ishmael Houston-Jones. (Some content may not be suitable for children.) 12/13, 2-6 pm. Reservations required. Go to Open Studios at lmcc.net.

Wallace Stroby Author talks about his mystery novel, “Shoot the Woman First,” about Crissa Stone, a woman who steals bags of cash from drug dealers. Fri, 12/6, 6:30 pm. Free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com.

Writers in Performance As part of their 12-week workshop, a dozen writers share poetry and prose they have written using theater games, improvisation and movement. Fri, 12/6 & Sat, 12/7, 6:30 pm. $14 suggested donation. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

hotographer Annie Ling documents the lives of Chinatown residents and workers in her one-woman show, “Floating Population.” Ling spent extensive time with her subjects and the often intimate images show that she earned their friendship and trust. Fri, 12/13–Sun, 4/13/14. Tue–Wed and Fri–Sun, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Thu, 11 a.m.–9 p.m. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

g Phyllis Lambert The author will talk about her book “Building Seagram,” which traces the history of the Seagram Building at Park Avenue and 52nd Street. Considered one of the greatest icons of 20th-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram, the Canadian distillery. Lambert, Bronfman’s daughter, was 27 when she took over the search to find an architect to construct the building. She ended up choosing Mies van der Rohe. Tue, 12/10, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl. skyscraper.org. g

Pen Parentis Literary Salon Local writers, including Daphne Uviller (“Hotel No Tell”) and Gabriel Roth (“The Unknowns”), read their newest poetry and prose. Tue, 12/10, 7 pm. Free. Pen Parentis at Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org.

Steven Mandis Author and former employee of Goldman Sachs talks about his book “What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences,” which draws from his own experience, interviews with former clients and partners, and an analysis of SEC and congressional findings. Fri, 12/13, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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Muriel Rukeyser Centennial A celebration of the life and work of the poet who won the 1935 Yale Younger Poets Prize for “Theory of Flight,” with readings of her works by more than a dozen

poets and writers. Sat, 12/14, 2 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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We Still Live Here/As Nutayunean An awardwinning documentary explores the cultural resiliency of the Wampanoag, the Native American tribe that greeted the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. The film follows Jesse Little Doe Baird’s efforts to restore Native language fluency to members of southern New England’s Wampanoag communities. Sun, 12/1 & Mon, 12/2, 12 & 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve The documentary explores the impact of the 100-year-old institution’s past and present policies and how they affect our everyday lives in the U.S. and the global marketplace. Wed, 12/4, 5:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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Scaryoke!!! This interactive exhibition is a look into the joy and terror of singing in public. Visitors are invited to perform karaoke behind a shower curtain and on a stage, using songs from a playlist. To Sat, 12/21. Tue, 11 am–6 pm; Wed,

12–8 pm; Thu, 3–11 pm; Fri, 1 pm–1 am; Sat, 11 am–10 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

g Life Among the Gypsies: The PreWar Photographs of Jan Yoors, 1934– 40 Thirty-four photographs by Belgian photographer Jan Yoors provide a visual representation of Roma (Gypsy) history, customs and culture during the prewar years. Most of the photos are of Yoors’ adoptive Romani family, with whom he spent the summers of his teen years. To Fri, 1/3/14. Tue–Sat, 10 am–5 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

Jill Magid Artist and writer Magid critiques our relationships with authority figures, including police, military personnel, secret service agents, corporations and CCTV surveillance in “Woman with Sombrero.” To Sat, 12/21. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.

g Come Celebrate with Me: The Work of Lucille Clifton Writings by Clifton, including poems from the 1950s through 2010, drafts, manuscripts and letters, as well as photographs and other materials from the poet’s archives. To March, 2014. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm; Sat, 11 am– 6 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org

Linda Winters Abstract paintings that use everyday objects found in the artist’s studio as a catalyst to explore the relationship between color and space. To Fri, 1/3/14. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St.

g Life Is Wonderful Work by Stephen Pile, a New York based photographer, who grew up in rural Arkansas. To 1/12/14. Maslow 6, 211 West Broadway, maslow6.com. g Art in a Box 2013 Online Art Sale & Popup Exhibition Art can be purchased at artin–abox.org/benefitartexhibition through Friday, 2/6. All proceeds go to Children at Risk. Artwork shown at Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, 13 Jay St., on Wednesday, 12/11, 11-6 pm. g

Jill Skupin Burkholder Photographs capture unrelated objects in antique shops and present them as pictures of what we leave behind in

Sky High and the Logic of Luxury This exhibition examines the recent proliferation of superslim, ultra-luxury residential towers, all 50 to over 90 stories high, on the rise in Manhattan. To Sat, 4/19/14. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

The Fed at 100 An exploration of the complex inner workings of the nation’s central bank on its centennial. The exhibit highlights the pivotal role the Federal Reserve has played throughout the history of American finance. To October, 2014. 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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Benjamin Britten in honor of his 100th birthday. Celebrated favorites and rarely performed works of Britten’s repertory will be presented, led by Director of Music and the Arts Julian Wachner and performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Other featured artists include tenor Nicholas Phan, cellist Matt Haimovitz and the Trinity Youth Chorus. Thu, 12/5, 12/12 & 12/19, 1 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

Jim Mendrinos The New Yorkborn, stand-up comedian who has been featured on Comedy Central and HBO offers humorous commentary on topics from world politics to personal relationships. Fri, 12/13, 8 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

New York Classical Theatre Performance of an abridged (15 minutes), lively version of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” with just two actors playing all the roles. Wed, 12/18–Fri, 12/20, 12:30 & 1:30 pm. Free. Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com.

Singer Cristina Fontanelli performs Italian songs, arias, and Neapolitan and Christmas classics, accompanied by piano, mandolins, guitar and accordion. Sat, 12/7, 3 pm. $40–$62.50. Proceeds will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

g Handel’s Messiah performed by the Trinity Choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. (Trinity presented one of the first performances of the work in North America in 1770.) Sat, 12/7, 7 pm & Sun, 12/8, 3 pm. $45–$95. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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efore and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes” juxtaposes modern Indian works with historic, ancestral objects of the Anishinaabe people of this region. Contemporary work includes “Maple Sugar Time” (above) by Patrick DesJarlait (Ojibwe), 1946, as well as clan pictographs on treaty documents; bags embroidered with porcupine quills; painted drums; and carved objects. To June, 2014. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

g Sound: the Encounter Horns, saxophone and percussion tie together the dance and vocal traditions of Iran and Syria in a way that reflects the historical and contemporary connections between the two cultures and artistic communities. Sun, 12/8, 7 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org. g

The Turtle Island Quartet A celebration of the winter holidays, including Hanukkah, Diwali, Christmas and the winter solstice, with jazz singer Tierney Sutton. Mon, 12/9, 1 pm. Free. Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com.

Maria T. Balanescu Quartet Led by a Romanian violinist and composer, this group creates a mix of classical and traditional music, meshing it with computer technology. Fri, 12/20, 7:30 pm. $35. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.

Kosher Gospel Joshua Nelson performs a fusion of Hebrew tunes and gospel from his new album “Barechu.” Wed, 12/25, 3:30 pm. $35; $25 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

A Franco-Flemish Christmas Trinity Choir sings works by French and Flemish composers, including

“Josquin des Pres, Brumel and Dufay. Sat, 12/28, 6 pm. $25. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org. g Clarion Music Society The Clarion Choir performs Rachmaninoff’s choral masterpiece, the “Vespers,” based on ancient Russian Orthodox chants. Tue, 12/31 & Wed, 1/1, 5 pm. $25. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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Jewish Genes: A Contemporary Look Dr. Harry Ostrer of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine talks with Judith Shulevitz, from the New Republic, about passing Jewishness along from generation to generation, and whether the concept of the genetic transmission of Jewishness is a dangerous ideology. Sun, 12/8, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Photo Slide Show Vlassios Pyrpyris shows photos from China, India, Japan and Afghanistan. Tue, 12/10, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. west wing, room 2, tuesdayeveninghour.com.

g Experiencing Death: An Insider’s Perspective A panel of doctors who have conducted research on death will discuss their theories about the process of dying, and what happens before and after we die. Registration required. Wed, 12/11, 7 pm. $15; $7 students. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org. g

The Gaspee Affair Historian Steven Park will talk about the Gaspee Affair, which occurred in 1772 near Warwick, Rhode Island, when the HMS Gaspee, a schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, was attacked and looted. Thu, 12/12, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

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Family Furniture A coming-of-age tale about a family and a summer in Buffalo when everything changes. Amid gin and tonics and tennis doubles, the play presents a heartfelt tale about the relationships between parents and children. To Sun, 12/22. Tuesdays–Saturdays, 7 pm; Saturdays & Sundays, 3 pm. $15–$70; $100 VIP. The Flea

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g Separation A production of Giorgi Eristavi’s 1849 play using modern music, choreography and stylized costumes. The playwright’s ideas about the importance of peaceful relations between nationalities is told with humor and Georgian dances and songs. Sat, 12/21, 8 pm. $50–$70. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.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, the 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.

Immigrant New York This tour explores the experiences of the various immigrant and ethnic populations residing in Lower Manhattan from the early 19th century through today. Visit Chinatown, Little Italy, the Lower East Side and the former Five Points, along with other sites associated with immigrant groups and well-known immigrants. Tue, 12/10 & Thu, 12/26, 1 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com.

From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Restaurants have played an important role in Chinatown since the earliest immigrant arrivals. The first Chinese eateries in New York catered strictly to Chinatown’s bachelors. But as the population diversified, so too did the restaurant establishments. This tour traces the evolution of the neighborhood’s eateries, highlighting the ways they have reflected the community. Sat, 12/14, 1 pm. $12; $9 students, seniors. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Asphalt Green wants to exercise your mind, not just your body. Tuesday Talks, a series of daytime lectures and classes, begins next month at the Battery Park City sports and fitness hub on North End Avenue. Weekly offerings range from architecture and art to food, fashion and history, with a heavy dose of parenting expertise to meet the interests of Downtown’s burgeoning family population. Behind the new series is Debbie Himmelfarb, a Tribeca resident and former director of the well-regarded daytime programming at 92Y Tribeca, where she put together hundreds of lectures, classes, film series and workshops before the Y closed in July. “Debbie came to me and said she would be interested in working with us,” recalled Asphalt Green Executive Director Carol Tweedy. “I was, like, really? You just dropped out of the sky?” Tweedy said the Battery Park City Authority, with community input, had always intended cultural programming to be part of the center. But at first that mission seemed alien to her institution, whose flagship center on the Upper East Side focuses exclusively on fitness and athletics. “As we thought it through, we so appreciated that a full life is an intellectual and a physical one,” she said. “They come together and enrich each other.”

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Tuesday Talks programmer Debbie Himmelfarb in the Asphalt Green theater. She expects to use the theater, which can seat up to 150, for her most popular programs.

Asphalt Green already contracts with Church Street School for Music and Art for its music program and Great Performances for culinary arts classes. Tuesday Talks will be a major addition to those cultural offerings. Himmelfarb said she wants to present programs for many different tastes, and it shows. A lecture on 19th-century composers in April, for example, is followed the next week with one on choosing a preschool. “Our goal going in is really to paint

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with a very broad brush of inviting in many different communities,” she said, “and not just Downtown, but all over.” At 92Y Tribeca, she said, she learned that the secret to successful programming is “the more variety the better, and the excellence and expertise of the speaker. Those will be the two most important tenets here.” Case in point are the first few Tuesday offerings, which shift from family dinner strategies to fashion trends over the past 250 years (in conjunction

with a new exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology). Then on to a lecture on the work of architects Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava. It is no accident that the two “starchitects,” the subjects of a lecture by architectural historian Gail Cornell, have designed prominent Downtown buildings. (Gehry’s residential tower on Spruce Street and Calatrava’s PATH station at the World Trade Center.) Himmelfarb is presenting talks by experts on two other nearby iconic structures, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Himmelfarb is especially targeting the multitude of Downtown couples who face the personal and parental challenges of child-rearing. Seven of the programs are meant for them, from career advice for stay-at-home mothers to setting limits for children to family photo tips. Himmelfarb said a goal of the program is to “build community” through such shared interests, and it is something she expects to see as audience members leave the lectures. “I think they’re going to be smiling and happy and talking to each other,” she said. And energized, too, added the center’s director, Bryan Beary. “If you’re able to listen to a talk on cooking and that inspires you to improve your skills—on your own or with Asphalt Green—that’s a benefit for everybody.”

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BY JULIET HINDELL Who doesn’t know someone who cannot part with a worn-out piece of furniture because it once belonged to a long-lost relative—while I write this, I’m sitting on a creaky dining chair that belonged to an uncle. Holding on to the past for good or ill is at the heart of “Family Furniture,” now playing at the Flea. If you are gearing up for a large dose of family over the holiday season, the world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s poignant coming-of-age tale of a family grappling with change in 1950s America is just the ticket. Gurney has debuted many of his recent plays at the Flea, a tribute to the White Street theater’s commitment to quality new writing. In this play, Gurney is revisiting territory that has become his stock in trade in his more than 50 years as a playwright. It’s the obsolete world of upper-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestants where manners, when your family first came to America and what clubs you belong to are the measure of your social standing. It’s a setting that seems remote and quaint in comparison to our tweeting, texting times. Here we join a family at their summer house on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie, close to Buffalo—Gurney’s home town. The son and daughter are home from college for the summer. Their parents, Claire and Russell (Peter Scolari

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and Carolyn McCormick) in wonderfully restrained performances, are pillars of the summer community, solid tennis players, proficient sailors and the sort of people who pronounce tomato with a long ah. Nick, the son, played by an energetic Andrew Keenan-Bolger, is anxious that they will find out his girlfriend is Jewish, while Peggy, their daughter, the limpid Ismenia Mendes, is trying their patience by dating the son of Italian immigrants.

It’s a world where cocktails are at six, maintaining a stiff upper lip is all-important and furniture is rarely new. “Why buy new furniture when old things are better looking and last longer?” Claire, the mother of the family, asks as she chooses new fabric for slipcovers. “This couch originally came from your grandmother’s house in Cornish, New Hampshire.” And as we discover, Claire is covering up more than an old couch. You’ll

Carolyn McCormick and Peter Scolari as Claire and Russel in “Family Furniture.”

have to imagine that couch and the other furniture. The spare set, designed by Rachel Hauck, consists of a series of light benches and one antique-looking chair that deftly transform the stage into an outdoor terrace, a series of rooms and, most memorably, a small dinghy rocked by the wind. It’s in this boat that Russell broaches the subject of his daughter’s romantic choices. “What I’m saying is that all married couples need to adjust their personal arias to the reliable cadences welling up from the same background,” he says. Russell schemes to change his daughter’s direction and for a brief moment it seems he may have succeeded, until his own social class lets him down. The son’s choice of girlfriend is also making waves. In one of the play’s most humorous scenes, the Shakespearespouting Betsy (Molly Nordin) tries to persuade Nick to confront family problems by performing parts of “Hamlet” for his mother and father. As summer draws to a close, a new order descends upon the family and nothing will be quite the same again. Gurney’s latest play is a wistful time capsule of a bygone age and it’s as comfortable and as comforting as that old couch your grandma gave you. “Family Furniture” by A.R. Gurney, The Flea Theater, 41 White St. Runs to Dec. 22. theflea.org.

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