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Readers respond to 40 biking stations with 700 bikes below Canal St.

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To the Editor: It’s great that the mayor is promoting the use of bikes. I’m all for green transportation. But it’s foolhardy to let loose a swarm of participants in the traffic flow without making sure they will be integrated into the system of rules that provides some minimum of safety on the streets. Bikes, like cars, should stop at red lights and stop signs, travel one way on one-way streets, and leave the sidewalk to pedestrians. Even when I am crossing a one-way street at a red light, I have to be aware that a bicycle may suddenly appear from any direction. I happen to be old and unsteady, and if a bike hit me I would probably fall over and break. But younger friends say they too are afraid for their safety. The present free-for-all is not safe for cyclists either. If the mayor wants to fill the city with bikes, he must make sure we have rules for cyclists, that everyone knows what they are, and that they are strictly enforced. Deborah Allen To the Editor: I am among many on my block who oppose the installation of the Citibank bikes and the large rack on Duane Street. I don’t want to have to see a corporate name and logo every time I look out my window. One of the reasons I bought into a historic district was to shield myself a bit from such visual trash. A better location would be the

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In a story about the new viewing area above the Battery Park City ball fields, Lisa Grossman’s sons, Shea and Jaden, were misidentified. In the article “The Many Faces of Taste of Tribeca,” the photo IDs of Robert Ripps, the event’s head photographer, and Jack Berman, who is taking over that title next year, were reversed. In addition, Taste of Tribeca’s treasurer’s correct name is Pat Goss.

northwest corner of Worth and Hudson in front of 60 Hudson. A huge rack there would be no worse than the silly anti-terrorism planters that are currently in place at that location. Meanwhile, given the high probability that the citizens of New York will soon be assaulted by the Citibank logo everywhere on those bikes and bike racks, I urge everyone to consider the creative possibilities of duct tape. Lynn Ellsworth To the Editor: There is a half-acre’s worth of asphalt on Duane Street between Greenwich and Hudson, where I live. The city Department of Transportation proposes to carve out less than 2 percent of this expanse, a mere 360 square feet, for a Bike Share station—and some of my neighbors are, sadly, up in arms.

The [online] Trib article didn’t depict the positive changes to our block, our neighborhood and our city that Bike Share will bring about: fewer cabs, less double-parking, less idling and honking, and less speeding and danger as more New Yorkers have an opportunity to avail themselves of quiet and healthful bicycling. I’ve been privileged to live on this block, the pedestrian heart of Tribeca, for 18 years. My family regards the empty patch of street abutting Duane Triangle Park as an ideal site for a Bike Share station, and we avidly look forward to it. Charles Komanoff To the Editor: While I am all for overhauling the tax structure so that municipalities have more revenue to undertake amenities like the bike share program, until that happens, we are likely to continue to see bus stop signage, subway advertisements, and the like. CitiBikes comes from a long tradition of private sponsorship of public services that ought to, by right, be fully government-supported—but in this country, more and more, are not. I think NYC should be applauded for the speed with which it brought this program to fruition, especially in this economy. Realistically, corporate branding is an inherent element in making a program like this possible. For better or worse, we live in a mixture of the 19th (on Duane Street, where I live), 20th and 21st centuries. Judy Levine

Authority (another government agency) and the Durst Organization. (Does Schumer have any conflicts of interest in soliciting campaign contributions from members of the Durst Organization while at the same time steering them tenants?) Why shouldn’t 100 percent of 1 WTC space be rented out to privatesector tenants? There are already numerous other GSA buildings in the city and suburbs. With a $16-trillion-dollar-plus

deficit, shouldn’t the GSA along with other federal agencies be consolidating rather than renting more office space? Schumer’s actions are just padding the amount of leased space at 1 WTC with taxpayers picking up the tab. Schumer reminds me of Don Corleone, the “Godfather.” With all his powers in reviewing and approving GSA’s annual fiscal year budget, he is making them “an offer they can’t refuse”! Larry Penner

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At a New Station, Problems Persist Commuters say water has been dripping in this passageway and causing damage to the ceiling since the station opened in March 2009.

Some tiles at South Ferry Station that fell off shortly after the station opened in 2009 have not been replaced.

Damaging leaks at 3-year-old South Ferry Station are yet to be solved by the MTA

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BY JESSICA TERRELL

Rushing down the stairs to catch the #1 train at South Ferry Station on a recent rainy morning, Sophia Lucas grimaced as she eyed a puddle of water and sludge collecting in the passageway leading to the platform. “That’s gross,” said Lucas, also surveying the ceiling, where paint was bubbling and peeling from water damage. “It’s been a problem since the station opened. I don’t understand why they haven’t fixed it.” Opened to great fanfare in 2009, the South Ferry Station cost the MTA $530 million to build, and the agency continues to give special attention to its daily upkeep. On any given day, a half-dozen workers armed with spray bottles and brooms keep the platform and trains pristine. But even careful cleaning by MTA crews cannot hide the fact that the subway’s newest station is already showing signs of damage. Brown sludge drips from the ceiling, congealing in large swaths along otherwise sparkling white walls. In one of the hallways, strips of paint hang where the ceiling has bubbled. Many columns along the platform are missing chunks of tile, and wall tiles along an escalator are cracked or missing altogether. What most commuters don’t know is that ever since the station opened, the MTA has been trying to fix the leaks that are causing most of South Ferry’s problems. “Addressing the leaks has been an ongoing effort,” MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said in an email to the Trib. The first new station built by the MTA in two decades, South Ferry replaced a century-old station too small for today’s longer trains. The opening was delayed by three months when it was

The MTA claims that water damage is also to blame for the chunks of tile missing from platform columns. The agency is looking for a permanent way to stanch the leaks.

revealed that a gap between the train and the platform had been built too wide to pass public inspection. But behind the scenes were less public problems. “Right before their planned opening, they discovered leaks. The tunnel itself was leaking pretty badly,” Jerry Gold, the MTA’s independent engineering consultant at the time, told the Trib. One remedial measure they took was to inject grout behind the walls to try prevent the water from coming in. “But what that basically does a lot of the time,” Gold said, “is water will then flow to a new place.” Gold told the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA that the leaks resulted from poor construction quality, poor specifications, and poor supervision. “The waterproofing methodology specified was not the best and it wasn’t applied the best,” Gold told the Trib, laying fault with both the contractor, Shiavone Construction, and the MTA.

Sludge mars portions of the tiled wall at South Ferry Station. Despite the leaks, many commuters said the new station is a big improvement over its predecessor.

But according to Ortiz of the MTA, leaks have persisted at South Ferry because the station is below the water table. “Despite efforts to waterproof the South Ferry structural box during construction by the contractor, we have experienced leaks,” Ortiz said. “To remedy this problem, funding has been secured from the contractor to address the leaks through grouting.” Ortiz, who declined a Trib request to tour the station with an MTA engineer, could not say how much of the reported $3 million in funding, secured from Schiavone Construction to fix the leaks, had already been spent. “We’ve done grouting and we need to look at other methods for a more permanent solution,” Ortiz said. No more work is currently scheduled, he said. A spokeswoman from Schiavone Construction, also a contractor on the $1.4-billion Fulton Transit Center project, referred questions back to the MTA.

Jan Wells, associate director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee, said she visited the station not long after it opened, and was surprised by the damage she saw. (Wells sent photos to the Trib that she took of missing tiles in early 2010; the tiles are still missing.) The Committee commented on the leaks to the MTA in its 2009 report, but its main complaint about the station was a lack of contrast in signage that caused problems for the visually impaired. Wells noted that they have received few complaints about the station. “I think people are just so glad it is done and that there is this nice connection now to the ferry,” Wells said. Rushing through the station on their way to work, many commuters agreed. “The escalator is always out, and that’s ugly,” said one of them, pointing to yellow sludge on the wall. “But the old station was dark and narrow. This is nicer.”

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Bike stations are slated for this corner of Duane Park (left) and for Bogardus Plaza (center). Victoria Weil on Bogardus Plaza (right).

Bike Site Concerns in Tribeca Some residents object to bike share locations for reasons of safety and logo intrusion BY JESSICA TERRELL

Downtown is scheduled for a major two-wheeled makeover next month, with 700 bicycles slated for rental in more than 40 sites below Canal Street. That’s a cause for delight among many, but a source of chagrin for several dozen Tribeca residents who fear the city’s Bike Share program will be an unsightly intrusion into the historic district, and a threat to pedestrian safety. “I foresee accidents,” said Victoria Weil, president of Friends of Bogardus Garden and Plaza. The plaza is scheduled to have 23-dock station installed on its southern edge at Chambers and Reade streets. “It’s a small space. There are pedestrians, there are small children, there are tables. [The Department of Transportation] suggested that maybe we designate a bike lane or a bike area through the plaza and I said, ‘That’s impossible.’” “[Duane Park] is a historic park and I think it’s going to ruin the whole aesthetics of the park,” said Community Board 1 member Paul Sipos, one of more than 65 Duane Street residents and business owners who signed a petition last month asking the DOT to reverse its decision to place a 23-dock station at the western edge of Duane Park. “There are better places.” DOT officials were meeting with concerned community groups and residents late last month about the two locations, but whether they would be changed is yet to be seen. A DOT spokesman declined to comment on when the list of designated stations will become final. “I can only hope for the best for the Bike Share program,” said Weil, who had met with the DOT to suggest alternative locations, but was waiting for a response at the end of the month. “I am trying to be more optimistic. I am working on believing that we all want is best for the community, for the plaza, for Tribeca.” Kari Parker Davidson, speaking for Friends of Duane Park, said her group has also suggested alternate locations and had yet to get a response. “We know

they are considering all of the information we gave them and we are eager to hear the outcome of their review,” Parker Davidson said in an email to the Trib late last month. Charles Komanoff, a longtime Duane Street resident and former activist with the organization Transportation Alternatives, enthusiastically supports having the bikes on his street. He calculated that the installation will take up a “minuscule” 2 percent of the street between Greenwich and Hudson. “When you compare it to some of the other uses of the street, idling limou-

number of 30-minute rides during their access period. After that, the cost begins to add up quickly. A four-hour ride, for example, would cost $77. The city received more than 10,000 suggestions for bike locations through an online application, including two suggestions and 41 votes of support for bikes to be at Bogardus Plaza. “We are trying to get a [station] in every 1,000 feet,” the DOT’s Bike Share Program Director Kate Fillin-Yeh told a CB1 committee last month. Any location that was flagged in community workshops “automatically

CitiBikes like these will sport the logos and trademark blue of Citibank.

sines, personal vehicles, double-parked cars,” Komanoff said, “it’s questionable to me whether it’s much of an intrusion at all.” The DOT spent months holding public meetings and soliciting input from community boards, business groups and the public about where to place the bicycle stations, but only posted its proposed list online in May. According to the most current map, the more than 40 stations planned throughout CB1’s district will have roughly 1,400 bike “docks.” Bike stations will vary in size, holding between 23 and 59 bikes. Some stations in the street will require the removal of parking spaces, but most are planned for street areas already off limits to parking or to sidewalks and plazas. The bikes are intended for short distances; passes, sold on a daily, weekly or annual basis, allow users an unlimited

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came off,” Fillin-Yeh told the committee. Not so, said Weil, who supports the concept of bike sharing. She said a group member went to an initial community meeting to ask that no station be placed in the plaza, and followed up with a letter opposing the plan a few months later. “We spent a long time on the phone with them expressing our concern, but it’s a program they have been trying to bring to the city for three years now and they want to give it a go,” Weil said. After learning that a station was going on Bogardus Plaza, Weil asked for it to be moved to the north side of the plaza so that riders heading north would not cross the pedestrian space. Weil said a DOT official told her the agency wanted the bikes close to the subway exit so that tourists are sure to see them. “It’s a substantial concern because they’re putting the people who go to our

plaza at risk,” Weil said. “Do people automatically start walking their bikes through the plaza?” At Duane Park, residents worry that the logo-laden bikes will spoil the look of their street, one of the most architecturally preserved in Tribeca. Sponsored by Citibank, the bright-blue bicycles prominently feature the bank’s trademark emblem on at least five parts of the bikes. Riders will buy their passes at a pay station that will also sport a large Citibank logo. The petition signed by Duane Street residents notes that the buildings surrounding the proposed bike station are landmarked and that it “would significantly diminish the antiquity and historical character of the block.” “I’m wild about the bike share program,” said Madeline Lanciani, owner of Duane Park Patisserie. “I saw it in Paris four years ago and thought it was the best thing since the car. I just don’t believe it belongs around this pretty little park. I think it will totally detract from it.” The Landmarks Preservation Commission regulates alterations and installations to the city’s historic districts, such as Tribeca’s, but had yet to see a plan, Commission spokeswoman Elisabeth de Bourbon told the Trib. Because the installation is movable, approval could come from the agency’s staff rather than the full commission. Jeff Galloway, a Battery Park City resident who chairs the committee that has worked with the DOT on the bike program, was later disappointed when he saw the bikes, laden with Citibank logos. He called the bikeshare program “exciting” and one he would use but “there’s an aesthetic issue in addition to whatever philosophical issue might be associated with it,” he said. The DOT has said it will monitor the stations and CitiBike will operate a 24hour complaint line. The stations, which are solar-powered, don’t require digging up the pavement or sidewalk to install, Fillin-Yeh said, and can be moved if there is a problem. Weil said she was relieved that the DOT told her it would place signs asking cyclists to walk bikes through the plaza. But her group was maintaining a “wait and see” stance, she added. “We are pessimistic by nature, but maybe it will be OK,” she said. “And if it’s not OK, we will have to fix it.”

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Two Schools Bring an End to Waitlists P.S. 234 and P.S. 276 all but eliminate lists, but not worries about future crowding BY CARL GLASSMAN

Frustration and anger over kindergarten waitlists gave way to joyous relief for many parents last month as two Downtown schools took in their overflow of zoned students. But the news also heightened concerns among some that a worse classroom crunch is now down the road. All 22 Tribeca children on the P.S. 234 list received offers and all but three newly arrived children—out of a list of 28—will be able to attend P.S. 276 in Battery Park City. (More children are expected to be added to the list over the summer.) Both principals made room by adding an additional kindergarten class. But they reached those decisions in very different ways. At P.S. 234, Principal Lisa Ripperger said she found the space without arm-twisting from the Department of Education. She can open a sixth kindergarten, she said, because she anticipates one fewer 2nd grade class than expected. In addition, she said, there are very few special education children who need to be in a self-contained room for the entire school day. “I’m forecasting ahead that by next year I’m not going to have enough kids to justify using an entire room,” she said. P.S. 276 Principal Terri Ruyter, on the other hand, said she held out as long as she could against pressure from the DOE officials and waitlisted parents. Within two years, she told them, there would have no room for 5th graders to grow into the school. “I pushed back,” Ruyter told the Trib in a telephone interview. “And then I was told it was too bad.” “I didn’t not want to do it because of the kids and the families,” Ruyter said, noting that she is already “very attached” to the 13 waitlisted children in the school’s pre-kindergarten program. “I was thinking long term about, ‘How do we manage this in the space we have?’ I don’t see the DOE being proactive in fig-

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Emily Greenfield teaches one of P.S. 234’s five kindergarten classes. Next year the school will add a sixth class to clear its waitlist.

uring out a long-term solution.” The pre-kindergarten through middle school opened just two years ago and is designed for three classes per grade. Only P.S. 89 continues to have a waitlist, but it was much smaller by the beginning of June, when seven children from the original list remained, and four new ones had been added. In meetings with DOE officials last month, parents of children on kindergarten waitlists forcefully asserted their children’s right to attend their zoned schools. For outspoken parents like Totti Shikova, whose son was on the P.S. 276 waitlist, the news came as a sweet reward. “We are thrilled,” she said. “Finally I was able to answer my son’s question [about] where is he going to go to kindergarten next year.” Shikova added that she and the other parents will continue to support efforts to find a solution to the classroom shortage. “If there isn’t any, next year we will be in the same situation, if not worse.”

Ruyter said she is now trying to decide the classroom arrangement for next year but she is determined not to lose the rooms dedicated to science and art. The bigger challenge will be the following school year, starting in 2013. That is when this year’s 3rd graders, now the oldest elementary students in the school, reach 5th grade. “We have to figure out how we’re going to fit all the kids without compromising the academic program,” Ruyter said. That is also a concern among parents in the school. Matt Schneider, the father of a 1st grader and a member of the P.S. 276 School Leadership Team, said he worries that by the time his son is ready for 6th grade there, the middle school will be gone, replaced by an expanded elementary school. And P.S. 276 parents worry about the impact to the school facilities, like the lunchroom and library, to handle a student population much bigger than intended. “The DOE is solving a short-term problem at the expense of the longer-

term solution,” Schneider said. “There’s going to have to be something harsh down the road and I don’t know what that's going to be.” According to Ripperger’s three-year projections, the additional students at P.S. 234 will not create crowding as the kindergartners move up in the school. Plans to “grow the school back down,” she said, can still be accomplished. The promise of additional school funding also led Ripperger to make room for more students. Despite the long history of concern about overcrowding at P.S. 234, she said her numbers overall were down this year, from 844 students to 822. “The loss of them was a fiscal hit and I felt it,” she said. “I especially felt it in combination with the recession and less money the DOE is making available in the budget based on how they’re funding everything.” “I don’t like having too many kids in a class,” she added. “But I don’t mind having a big school.”

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Left: Developer Steven Schnall argues for his design before the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. Above: Franklin Street resident Chris Ahearn makes his case to the commissioners that the height of the proposed building is out of scale with others in the area.

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BY JESSICA TERRELL Developers of a controversial sevenstory residential building with a twostory penthouse at 11-15 Leonard Street were sent back to the drawing board last month by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. More than a dozen nearby residents, along with their lawyer, attended the meeting in hopes of convincing the Landmarks Commission that developer Steven Schnall’s newly proposed building in the Tribeca West Historic District was too tall, too bulky and, with its glass facade, probably too bright for Leonard Street, between Hudson and Varick. Two one-story garages built in the 1920s now stand on the site. In a unanimous vote last month, Community Board 1 had advised the Commission to reject the proposal. The building’s facade, designed by architect Wayne Turett, would be made of channel glass, a translucent structural material, separated by metal frames— with the entire building wrapped in a steel frame. The sides of the building would be gray brick and steel. “The building does not conform in

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Architectural renderings show the proposed glass and steel facade during the day and how it might look at night with some of the apartment lights turned on.

any way to the style of the district,” said Eric Bogosian, a Hudson Street resident. “This is particularly irritating on a block where the city has made great efforts to rebuild the cobblestone surface, and where the recent renovation of [other

buildings] has added to the atmosphere of preservation.” Neighbors objected to the building’s proposed 116-foot height, considerably taller than several of the surrounding buildings. Most commissioners did not

object to the height, but did seem to oppose the size of the two-story penthouse because, they said, it was out of proportion to the overall bulk of the building and called attention to itself. “I think the massing is okay, and I could go for a building that tall,” Commissioner Joan Gerner said. “I just think the penthouse has to relate to the base of the building.” The commissioners did agree with the residents about certain design elements. Franklin Street resident Chris Ahearn, who opposes the design, showed the LPC a board illustrating the height of other nearby buildings. “There is an overall clumsiness to the building,” said Frederick Bland, one of several Landmarks commissioners who criticized the proposed design of the seven-story building, but not its size. “The staggering of windows all over the place is an almost tiresome-now trend, which I think has no bearing here in this district. I find it to be a cliché.” Like the residents, the commissioners also opposed the four garage doors that

City to Duane Reade: Tone Down ‘Burma-Shave’ Sign Plan Comparing Duane Reade’s proposed signage on a Broadway landmark to a popular old highway ad campaign for shaving cream, the Landmarks Preservation Commission told the company to scale it back. The drugstore giant is moving into the ground floor of 100 Broadway, between Pine and Wall streets, that was recently vacated by Borders. Its plan to put the company’s familiar signs in each of five Broadway-facing windows needed approval from the Landmarks commissioners, which it ultimately received—but for a toned down version. The commissioners were unanimous in declaring that the company was trying to overload the imposing facade with its messages. “The signs, which are really [like] Burma Shave signs along the street saying ‘Duane Reade,’ ‘Open 24 hours,’ ‘Pharmacy Rx,’ are

inappropriate,” said Commissioner Fred Bland, noting that they were even more objectionable because they faced Trinity Church and its historic graveyard. “I’m not an advertising man,” added Commissioner Michael Devonshire, “but I think it will be obvious with the lights on and the doors open that it’s open for 24 hours. I think there can be a subtlety to this signage that isn’t represented by this application.” Community Board 1 had earlier approved the plan, requesting that a master plan for all the windows be worked out. Another retailer, as yet unsigned, will occupy a portion of the ground floor. The 116-year-old landmark, known as the American Surety Company Building, was once the second-tallest building Above:in the city. Parents

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A Happy Ending for Park Lawn Saga BY CARL GLASSMAN The grass won! That’s how it seemed last month when the fence came down around the Washington Market Park lawn, if only for a day, and opera lovers could sit comfortably on the soft blades to hear the Downtown Symphony’s performance of “Don Giovanni.” For weeks it was uncertain whether that freshly grown lawn, seeded just seven weeks earlier, would be ready for an audience on May 20—not to mention surviving beneath the scampering feet of children in the coming weeks. “Be very, very careful with every single blade of grass,” the orchestra’s conductor, Douglas Anderson, announced before the start of the performance. “We’ve got to make it last the entire summer.” In fact, Parks Department officials were so protective of the grass that, much to the dismay of the musicians, it wasn’t until that very morning that the performance was approved. “If you ask anyone who grows grass, you don’t want anyone on it,” said Pam Frederick, president of Friends of Washington Market Park. “You don’t even want the pigeons on it.” The still-fragile lawn was fenced in again as soon as the concert ended. “I opened it up for the concert and a kid said, ‘Thank you,’ recalled Chris McCarthy, the park’s manager. “And

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Top: Douglas Anderson conducts the Downtown Symphony Orchestra at the park’s gazebo. Right: The fence down, a child enjoys the grass.

when he saw me refencing it, he said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Just two more weeks.’” Indeed, the fence was to come down again for the kids on the first weekend in June. “I’m going to open the whole lawn because I like the wow of it,” McCarthy

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eventy-three restaurants serving thousands upon thousands of bites of Tribeca cuisines. That, along with added helpings of music, kids activities and local business promotions, was last month’s 18th annual Taste of Tribeca. A crowd, estimated by Taste organizers to be nearly 7,000 people, filled Duane Street and nearby Greenwich for the mega-event that raises funds for local schools P.S. 150 and P.S. 234. Though the event is now in the past, for the volunteers who organized it there are still debriefings and details to wrap up. “It’s definitely not over until sometime in mid-June,” said Taste co-chair Faith Paris. “We only take about a month off and then we start talking about next year.”

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Above: Robert LaValva updates Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee and a large crowd of supporters on his efforts to create an indoor market. Right: New Amsterdam Market vendors stood up at the meeting and were applauded by appreciative shoppers.

BY JESSICA TERRELL For the past six years, Robert LaValva has been expanding his weekly New Amsterdam Market in a South Street Seaport parking lot. Although the number of vendors and loyal followers of the market’s regional food offerings continues to grow, his bigger dream lies close by—in two Fulton Fish Market buildings shuttered since 2005. “The Fulton Fish Market is older than Central Park as a public site,” said LaValva, who wants to install a yearround market in the two waterfront structures—the landmark Tin Building and

the New Market Building. “Lower Manhattan has a real treasure. It’s something utterly unique and compelling.” But the Howard Hughes Corp., which plans to build a new mall on Pier 17, holds the lease on many of the cityowned Seaport properties. A letter of intent from the city’s Economic Development Corporation gives it “the right, but not the obligation” to propose a plan for the buildings. That agreement, along with the extensive repairs the structures require, are the biggest obstacles standing in the way of LaValva’s dreams.

He is hoping to change that with the support of Community Board 1 and elected officials. Last month LaValva came before the CB1’s Seaport Committee, backed by some 100 people from around the city who share his vision. “We have come to rely on the market in the summer and fall months,” said Southbridge Towers resident Zev Keisch. “I really, really would love to see it continue and expand.” “We, of course, love it when old buildings can be adaptively reused,” Nadezhda Williams of the Historic Districts Council told the gathering.

“This is an even better case where these buildings can be used for their original purpose, why they were built, their whole essence.” Hughes Corp. executives say they want to see an indoor food market in the Seaport—but in a different place. They approached LaValva in May about moving his market into a small building on Pier 17. LaValva said no thanks. “Unfortunately, Mr. LaValva expressed no interest in being our tenant at the Seaport,” Christopher Curry, a Hughes Corp. executive, wrote to the (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)

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The Hallmark Battery Park City will hold its first annual Hallmark Heroes Silent Auction benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides programs and services to severely injured service members. The auction is on Thursday, June 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Hallmark, 455 North End Ave.

City Hall Tour

Architectural historian Gail Cornell will lead a tour of the Civic Center area, including a rare look inside City Hall, Tweed Courthouse, the Municipal Building, the Potter Building and the original New York Times building, on Tuesday, June 12, at 10 a.m. Tickets are $48 and can be purchased at 92ytribeca.org.

Record and CD Sale

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which preserves popular music recordings made in America from 1950 to the present, will host its annual summer sale from Saturday, June 9, until Sunday, June 17, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. More than 20,000 items will be for sale, including books, CDs, LPs, singles, VHS, DVDs, sheet music, records and more. Prices start at $1. Musical genres range from jazz and blues to classical. There will also be vintage 60s psychedelic posters from the Grande Ballroom in Detroit and rare Fillmore East programs. ARC is at 54 White St., arcmusic.org.

Mel Brooks and More

“Blazing Saddles” opens the Mel Brooks comedy series at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 27. The movies will be shown Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. July’s films are “Young Frankenstein” (7/11), “Silent Movie” (7/18) and “High Anxiety” (7/25). Entrance is free with a suggested donation. The museum is at 36 Battery Place. “Rancho Deluxe,” a 1975 comedy with Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston, will play at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., on Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at 92ytribeca.org.

Honoring 9/11 Firemen

An art installation honoring the 343 firefighters who died on September 11 will be on display June 4–8, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at 2 World Financial Center, 225 Liberty St. Spanning 21 feet, the piece is made of portraits of 343 of the victims painted on small burned blocks of wood. The project is a partnership between artist Dawn Howkinson Siebel and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

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Poets House’s annual “Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge” will take place Monday, June 11. The walk begins at 6:30 p.m. in the park outside the Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street. On the way to Brooklyn, poets Marie Howe, Thomas Lux, Sharon Olds and Tracy K. Smith will read poems by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Hart Crane and others who celebrated New York City and the Brooklyn Bridge. The walk concludes at Fulton Ferry Landing with a sunset reading of Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell, followed by dinner at Bubby’s Brooklyn. Tickets begin at $250. Reservations are required. Proceeds support Poets House programs and services. Contact Krista Manrique at 212-431-7920, ext. 2830, or krista@poetshouse.org.

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Robert LaValva, creator of the New Amsterdam Market, will lead a panel discussion on the science and culture of local food followed by a tasting. Panelists are Brian Halweil, editor of Edible Brooklyn; Peter Hoffman, chef at Savoy and Back Forty; and Jennifer G. Phillips of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. The free talk, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, takes place on Tuesday, June 26, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the South Street Seaport Museum. Registration is required. Go to nyas.org.

An Island Gone Wild

Figment, with its wildly creative activities and art projects by dozens of artists, takes over Governors Island on Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Many of the projects are open to public participation and are suitable for children. The event is free, as is the ferry to the island, which leaves from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South St. For a ferry schedule, go to govisland.com. Information on Figment is at figmentproject.org.

Recycle Old Textiles

Nearly 6 percent of the city’s residential waste stream consists of textiles such as clothing and towels. That adds up to 193,000 tons annually. You can recycle your textiles at the Tribeca Greenmarket at Greenwich and Duane Streets every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Recyclables include clean and dry clothing, paired shoes, bedding, linens, hats, handbags, belts, fabric scraps 36” x 36” or larger, and other textiles.

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At CB1 committee meeting, Slavik Gofman argues that a new wine bar in 279 Church Street will be a positive addition to the area. He bought the building in September.

279 Church Street is a four-story building with a fifth-floor addition.

Paolo Meregalli explains to CB1 his idea for a wine bar/restaurant on Church Street.

New Hope for ‘Ugly Duckling’ Building

BY CARL GLASSMAN Not every dog of a building has its day. But the much-maligned 279 Church Street may be on its way to a swanky future. That, at least, is the hope of the building’s new owner, Slavik Gofman, who insists that the best hope for the brick structure, near White Street, is his newfound commercial tenant, a high-end wine bar and restaurant called Mulino a Vino. “What I’m saying is, this is an ugly building and I’m here to improve it,” Gofman told Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee last month. Gofman and the wine bar operator, Paulo Meregalli, were there to persuade the committee to recommend a liquor license for Mulino a Vino. The establishment, to occupy the building’s ground floor and basement, will be similar to a restaurant in Italy owned by Meregalli’s wine merchant family. Meregalli insisted that the building would not be the source of noise problems, as it had been in years past. Ears pricked up when he mentioned serving $4,000 bottles of wine by the glass. The board voted to approve the

clubs,” Meregalli said. “I know about the wine. For me this is just a showcase for my wine. I’m not going to be successful if I do something that I don’t usually do.” Meregalli said that more than half of his wine-paired menu will be cold dishes, with live acoustic music acCARL GLASSMAN In August, 1998, police padlock the Harmony Theatre at 279 companiment. Church St. as part of a crackdown on sex clubs. When a committee member suggested license (with closing times limited to that the food selection resembled a bar midnight on weekdays, 1 a.m. on week- menu, Meregalli seemed incensed. ends). Still, it was a hard sell to the com“I’m not going to pay a high-end chef mittee and the wary neighbors in the just for some finger food!” he exclaimed. room who knew the space over the years With apartments to rent upstairs, when it was a lap dance club and, later, a Gofman said he had a stake in keeping noisy venue for experimental theater and his own tenants happy. private parties. “I could actually hear the “This is the ugly duckling of the words [of the music] that was being street. This is a building that’s had night played,” said Alex Lloyd, who lives on clubs, burlesque theater, lounges, disthe top floor of 35 White Street. cotheques, all kinds of noise-creating “I don’t know anything about the businesses,” Gofman told the committee,

adding that he has been approached by nightlife establishment operators. “It’s in my best interest to make sure that we put something in there that [allows me] to rent not just the ground floor but also the whole building.” The only indication of that building’s former life is a small sign on the front that reads “Burlesque.” It has been 14 years since the former owner, Madeline D’Anthony, ran Harmony Theatre, a lap dance and strip club in the space. In August 1998, police padlocked the place as part of a zoning initiative by the Giuliani administration that cracked down on sex establishments. But Erika Sommer, who lives around the corner on White Street, said the noise problems arrived later, with the performance venues Collective Unconscious, the Tank and Fig Theater. Now, she said, she fears that if Mulino a Vino fails, the space will be subleased to a noisy club. (A 15-year-lease on the 4,000-squarefoot venue is $25,000 a month, according to Commercialobserver.com.) “Is it a viable business plan in this oversaturated area for people to get a nice glass of wine?” Sommer said. “I don’t know.”

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13 JAY May 1...3 p.m. A thief made off with a 2003 Suzuki motorcycle parked on the street. 14 WALL May 2...3 p.m. A woman placed her $275 watch, $500 bracelet and iPhone in a locker with a broken lock at the gym. When she returned from exercising, her belongings had been stolen.

250 BROADWAY May 4...12:35 a.m. A tourist from Florida was getting off a shuttle bus when a thief snatched his camera bag, running off with a $2,500 camera and $1,300 lens.

102 NORTH END May 4...6:55 p.m. A moviegoer placed her purse on the back of a bathroom door while she washed her hands; a thief stole it, along with her iPhone. 18 HARRISON

May 4...7:30 p.m. Thieves smashed the driver’s side window of a woman’s car and stole $2,280 worth of clothing.

CANAL & CHURCH May 6...7 a.m. A man parked his rental car, a 2012 Dodge Caravan, at 7 a.m. When he returned at 4 p.m. it was gone.

140 CHURCH May 8...2:40 a.m. When a 7-Eleven clerk tried to grab a pack of beer back from a shoplifter, the thief shoved him to the ground and fled.

10 HANOVER SQUARE May 8...8:30 a.m. A thief managed to steal a laptop from a Starbucks customer’s bag while he was wearing it. 261 WATER

May 9...10 p.m. Someone stole a $500 Prada purse, a $600 Coach bag and $200 in cash from a restaurant closet.

BROADWAY & VESEY May 12...7 p.m. A thief snatched a woman’s wallet from her purse and charged $720 to her credit card at Abercrombie & Fitch. 59 JOHN

May 13...3 p.m. A clerk observed a man stealing 15 bars of soap. When confronted, the shoplifter dropped the bag of soap and sprayed an unknown substance in the clerk’s eyes before fleeing.

SOUTH & WHITEHALL May 15...3:20 p.m. Two men cornered a third man inside

a public bathroom and then stole his phone.

22 BARCLAY May 15...11:10 p.m. A homeless man was transported to the emergency room with head injuries after an assailant attacked him with a wooden beam while he slept on the steps of St. Peter’s Church. 125 MAIDEN LANE May 18…12:30 p.m. Thieves stole a $2,100 scooter parked on the street. 26 BROADWAY

May 18...1:15 p.m. A man entered an HSBC bank and passed the teller a deposit slip stating “This is a robbery” and demanding cash. The clerk walked over to his manager to seek approval for the transaction, and after three minutes of waiting, the would-be bank robber left.

6TH & W. BROADWAY May 22…3 p.m. Police caught one of two assailants who pushed a California tourist up against a wall on the stairs of the Canal Street C subway station and, claiming to be police officers, removed $40 from the man’s wallet. The man was able to identify one of the thieves when police caught him a few blocks away on Walker Street. FRONT & BEEKMAN May 22…9 p.m. A man parked his Suzuki motorcycle on the street; he discovered it stolen when he returned.

SOUTH & WHITEHALL May 23..12:40 p.m. Police arrested two teenagers who stole a third teen’s Blackberry after punching him in the face and kicking him while he was on the ground. 14 WALL May 24…3:50 p.m. A woman placed her wallet in the top of a shopping cart while in TJ Maxx, and a thief stole it, along with $40. 80 PINE

May 25…noon Someone plucked a woman’s wallet out of her bag left on the back of a chair at the restaurant Hale and Hearty, and proceeded to buy $1,300 in merchandise at Bed Bath & Beyond, and $140 in Metrocards.

W. BROADWAY & CHAMBERS May 26…11:40 a.m. A thief on a bicycle snatched a woman’s purse off her shoulder as he pedaled by her on West Broadway. The purse contained a Mac laptop, an iPad, and a bottle of Adderall.

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Community Board

The following is a partial list of the board’s agendas. For updates, go to the CB 1 website. Meetings start at 6 p.m. and are held at 49–51 Chambers St., Rm. 709, unless otherwise noted. Call 212-442-5050 to confirm dates. An ID is needed to enter the building.

6/5 BATTERY PARK CITY 6 PM

The PTA of PS 89 thanks its generous supporters for another amazingly successful spring auction! ABC Blooming Nails • Ada Nails and Spa • Add Accessories • Affina Beauty & Spa • Alison Brod Public Relations • Artistic Quality Therapy Assoc. • Asphalt Green • Baker TriBeCa • Beans & Greens • Bela Brazil • Biscuits and Bath • Blaue Gans • Bliss • Blue Smoke • Boomerang Toys • Bumble and Bumble • Camp Cody • Carole Reed Interior Design • Chelsea Piers • Children’s Museum of the Arts • Chinese Mirch • Church Street School for Music and Art • Claire Danese Pilates • Clinique • Club Regina Cancun • Cooking with Caroline • Cosmetic and Implant Dental Assoc. • Cove Nails • Creative Kitchen • Petrarca Cucina E Vino • Dan Hughes Fitness • Daniel Abelson Private Chef • Dave Gahan–Depeche Mode • DJ Kucha • Dop Dop Salon • Downtown Dance Factory • Downtown Day Camp • Dr. Majid Jamali • Dr. Michele Martinho, PC • Dr. Steven Simonte • Dunkin Donuts • Ecco • Elan Flowers • Euphoria Spa • Exerblast • Extra Virgin • Fairy Tales Hair Care • Ferrara Bakery • Four Seasons Hotel • Francois Payard Bakery • Frankly Wines • French Connection • Gagosian Gallery • Gary Graham • Giggle • Gran Melia Vacation Club • Greenwich Grill • HBO • HIT Entertainment • Holistic-Dentists/Dr. Lewis Gross • Holmes Organizing • Hom Bom Toys • Hotel Jerome, Aspen, CO • Il Giglio • Imagine Swimming • IMG Worldwide • Indagare Travel • Inwood Country Club • JEM Fabric Warehouse • John Allan’s • Jung Yun Acupuncture • Karpov Orthodontics • Kidville • Kittichai • Kristin Hanson Jewelry • Kumon • La Mer • Lance Lappin • Le Pet Spa • Leshem Loft • Light Journey Wellness Solutions • Lillian Nassau LLC • Lilly O’Brien’s • Maria Duque–Real Estate Agent • Maria Paula Piotto–Personal Trainer • Mehtaphor • Merchants Riverhouse • Michael Weinert • Modern Martial Arts • New York Kids Club • Nick Mautone • Nikki b • Nobu • Norma Garbo • NY International Children’s Film Festival • NYC Elite Gymnastics • NY's Finest French Cleaners • Odeon • Physique 57 • Playgarden NYC • Polarn O. Pyret • Project New York • Rare Hair Salon • R C Forbes & Co • Rival Scooters • Roc • Salaam Bombay • Sarah Murchison Photography • Sazon • Seasonal Whispers • Sequin • Shake Shack • Shoofly • Soul Cycle • Staples • Statue of Liberty Tours • Stella and Dot • Stephen Knoll New York • Susana Villa • Sweet Lily Nail • Tada • T. Kang Taekwondo • Tenoverten • The Battery Park City Broadsheet • The International Culinary Center • The Odeon • The Quad Manhattan • The Wine Array • Torly Kid • Tribeca Beauty Spa • Tribeca Dental Studio • Tribeca FasTracKids • Tribeca Kids Photography • Tribeca Language • Tribeca Nutrition • Tribeca Park Pool & Gym • Tristan Eaton • Vilebrequin • Vince Smith Hair Experience • Vintry Fine Wines • VIP Nails • Wet Paint! Art Studio • Window 24 • Cass Lilien Jewelry • YogaMaya • YuYa Nails Spa • 100 Design LLC • 2.B.RYCH

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Location: Mercy Corp, 6 River Terrace • Statement of Needs and Priorities for the BPCA – Discussion • Pier A, update by the Battery Park City Authority – Presentation • 225 Liberty, application for restaurant outdoor kiosk wine and beer license for Oaxaza Express The following notices were received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses: 36 Battery Pl. 2nd Fl. application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Foremost Glatt Kosher Caterers • 30 Water St., application for restaurant liquor

6/6 FINANCIAL DISTRICT

• 100 Broad St., application for restaurant

license for DRT Group LLC – Resolution

liquor license for Clearing House Restaurant Group, d/b/a to be determined – Resolution • 165 Front S., application for restaurant liquor license for Aashiya Sushi Corp. • The Bosque Area in Battery Park, application for a restaurant wine and beer license for the Cleaver Company • Barricades surrounding Charging Bull sculpture in Bowling Green – Resolution • Application by Go Green Ride for taxi parking facility at 201 Pearl S. – Resolution The following notices were received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses: • 2 Broadway, application for Chipotle • 7 Dey St., application for renewal of wine and beer license for Arome • 11 Stone St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Ancora • 26 South William St., alteration application for a corporate change for Lukes Lobster • 114 Pearl St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Fresco By Scotto on the Go • 123 Washington St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for BLT Bar & Grill • 129 Front St., renewal of application for hotel liquor license for Exchange Hotel • 130 Cedar St., application for renewal of hotel restaurant liquor license for Club Quarters

6/7 PLANNING & COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE

• Civic Center Consolidation and Disposition

Plan – Resolution

6/11 WTC REDEVELOPMENT - 6 PM Location: NYS Assembly Hearing Room, 250 Broadway, 19th Fl. • MTA update including progress on Corbin Building • Update on Conditions Covered by the Zadroga Act - Celine Mizrahi from Congressman Nadler’s office

• Millennium High School – Update by Parent Coordinator Angela Benfield

6/12 YOUTH & EDUCATION

• 279 Canal St., application for restaurant

6/13 TRIBECA

• 181 Duane St., application for unenclosed

liquor license for Tribeca Blue Hotel

• 325 Broadway, application for restaurant

sidewalk café license for Max Restaurant

liquor license for Veniamin Osiashuili or entity to be formed d/b/a TBD • 78 Leonard St., application for restaurant liquor license for Tetsu • 73 Warren St. application for restaurant liquor license for Yummy Meep LLC d/b/a TBD The following notices were received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses: • 319 Greenwich St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Salaam Bombay • 181 Duane St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Max Tribeca • 161 Hudson St., application for renewal of tavern wine and beer license for Moomah Café • 397 Greenwich St., application for renewal of restaurant wine and beer license for Wichcraft • 105 Hudson St., application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Nobu • 429-435 Greenwich St., application for renewal of restaurant and taverm liquor license for Dylan Prime

6/14 LANDMARKS

• 1 Centre Street, application to install rooftop

HVAC unit – Resolution

• 125 Watts St., application for rooftop pavilion

and glass railing – Resolution

• 104, 105, 106 South St., application for

façade alteration, new storefronts and rooftop addition -- Resolution

6/19 SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER

• Brooklyn Bridge Project Noise – Discussion

with Department of Environmental Protection The following notices were received for renewal, upgrade or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses: 33 Peck Slip, application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for Vox NY

• Update by Lower Manhattan Construction

6/21 QUALITY OF LIFE

Command Center (LMCCC) – Presentation by Robin Forst, Director of Government and Community Relations

6/21 COMBINED YOUTH & EDUCATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE 6:30 PM • Traffic Issues on Beekman Street – Discussion

with the Department of Transportation, NYPD Traffic Division, New York Downtown Hospital, and the Spruce Street School PTA

6/25 HOUSING COMMITTEE Agenda to be determined

6/26 CB MONTHLY MEETING – 6 PM Location: NY Law School, 185 West Broadway All documents relating to the agenda items above are on file at CB1’s office and are available for viewing by the public upon written request to man01@cb.nyc.gov.

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During a dress rehearsal, pianist Nobel Ding and Indian dancers Sadie Lover and Ava Gardner wait in the wings for their turn to perform.

econd-grader Nobel Ding, nattily attired in suit and tie, had just sat down at the keyboard. “Wait a minute, before you start, stand up,” P.S. 89 talent show emcee and musician Steven Sendor said. “He not only plays better than me, he also dresses better than me!” he joked, turning to the audience. “You’re just going to show me up in every way.” With that, the pianist sat back down and whizzed effortlessly through “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Dance of the Scavengers.” Ding was among 100 children, from pre-kindergartners to 5th-graders, who performed last month in the annual P.S. 89 Talent Show, presented by the school’s PTA. It’s a show that really starts with “auditions” in March, in which talent is noted but not judged. “It runs the gamut of the little ones jumping around the stage to kids who work really, really hard to get choreographed and have lots of rehearsals for months,” said Janine Villano, who produced the show. Evie Dolan, a 2nd-grader who sang “The Way I Am” accompanied by her dad, Patrick, on guitar, was one of those who delivered a polished performance beyond her years. But when the song ended and loud applause rang out, she was back to being a seven-year-old. Taking a quick bow, she dashed off the stage. “Evie, where are you going?” Sendor called out. “Evie!” The little girl made an about-face and shyly returned. “Now you’re going to get another bow,” Sendor announced, “because that was sensational.”

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Once again, P.S. 89 students took the stage in a dizzying array of performances.

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Third-graders Isabella Provenzano and Angela Fernandez are Ken and Barbie dancing to “Barbie Doll.” The girls were among the many kids who chose to dance but they were the only performers who came with an elaborate stage set.

Below: Fourth-graders Aixa Lacroix and Samantha Lee perform “Rolling in the Deep.” Aixa also played “The Pink Panther Theme” with her brother Ivan on saxophone.

Madison Heiss, 2nd grade, plays “Lightly Row.”

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN After a ribbing from emcee Steven Sendor, 2nd-grader Nobel Ding plays “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Dance of the Scavengers.”

Kindergartner violinist Katie Raarup plays “Song of the Wind.”

Third-grader Shiori Fujii showed off a unique talent. She could have jumped all night.

Julia Heiss, 5th grade, dances to “Blackbird,” sung by 3rd-grader Maddy Sendor.

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A SHOW OF

TALENT

During a dress rehearsal, pianist Nobel Ding and Indian dancers Sadie Lover and Ava Gardner wait in the wings for their turn to perform.

THE TRIBECA TRIB JUNE 2012

Once again, P.S. 89 students took the stage in a dizzying array of performances.

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at TRIBECATRIB.COM

Below: Fourth-graders Aixa Lacroix and Samantha Lee perform “Rolling in the Deep.” Aixa also played “The Pink Panther Theme” with her brother Ivan on saxophone.

Madison Heiss, 2nd grade, plays “Lightly Row.”

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN After a ribbing from emcee Steven Sendor, 2nd-grader Nobel Ding plays “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Dance of the Scavengers.”

Kindergartner violinist Katie Raarup plays “Song of the Wind.”

Third-grader Shiori Fujii showed off a unique talent. She could have jumped all night.

Julia Heiss, 5th grade, dances to “Blackbird,” sung by 3rd-grader Maddy Sendor.

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Taste of Tribeca would like to thank all our supporters! As we celebrate our 18th year we would like to acknowledge all of the people who helped make it happen. Taste of Tribeca would not be successful without the generosity of many talented and tireless individuals. These supporters donated their time, discounted merchandise, financial contributions or valuable professional services. Please forgive us if we forgot to express our thanks in person or have left your name off this list. The children of PS 234 and PS 150 will reap the rewards of your generosity for years to come.

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Nothing New About Dangers of Fracking

The year 1974 was a big one for the energy shortage. Cars were lined up everywhere at empty pumps, drivers fighting each other over the last dregs of fuel in the lines. Energy cartels were weeping: oil reserves were running dry, costs of extracting the dwindling supply were skyrocketing. In that year I JIM was writing a STRATTON’S weekly newspaper column for the SoHo Weekly News, a long-defunct community newspaper that is most remembered for its chronicles of the burgeoning Lower ManCITY hattan art CHARRETTE world. My column, Keeping Aloft, chronicled another aspect of our neighborhood, the loft movement. Fast-forward to December 2009, when this Charrette discussed the country’s widespread ignorance about fracking. Fracking is short for a shale-drilling process in which dozens of poisonous compounds are pumped into the earth with huge volumes of water, breaking up

oil shale and yielding energy-producing gas for the companies that do it. Some poisonous water is pumped back to the surface along with the gas, while much of it is allowed to remain deep within the earth, where it is free to leach slowly upward with its lethal array of toxins. While the oil companies advertise fracking as “green energy,” their version of “green” has been known to poison cattle and to turn tap water flammable. Even as this is being written, frackers are at work only a few miles west of the Delaware River, where New York City derives most of its fresh water.

described him as “...a specialist employed by a very wealthy Texan with extensive oil interests. (He) nodded heartily as I went through my own analysis of the pretended petroleum ‘shortages.’ “‘You only missed one thing,’ he said. ‘And that’s the real reason for it all. Shale.’” Yes, my March 21, 1974, newspaper column was about fracking. It was a word no one knew at the time, except perhaps for those few people actively doing it. In the 35 years that elapsed between

Fracking has poisoned cattle and tap water. Yet frackers are now at work only a few miles west of the Delaware, where New York City derives most of its fresh water.

In 1974 this writer was also involved in launching a business in New Orleans. Recently, while rummaging through my writings from that period, I discovered a column written by me and published in the March 21, 1974, SoHo Weekly News. When I read it, I gasped. I had been an observer at the dawn of the fracking era, and I never realized it. According to my column, I had gone to a New Orleans party and talked to someone I had met socially before. I

this 1974 column and my 2009 Charrette I had completely forgotten the conversation, and still don’t remember the man who told me about it. But the words remain, as written in 1974. “Shale, according to my party friend, figures heavily in oil company projections for future energy. A pilot project for its extraction, which he said was in Colorado (probably in the Green River Formation) has been yielding oil at $5.40 a barrel. He added that this figure

is secret and has been misrepresented upward in official public estimates. By comparison, low-sulfur oil can be extracted and delivered for about $3.75 per barrel. “To ease environmental restrictions on the ravages of shale development and to float the price of oil to the point where shale extraction would be profitable, my friend said that the local oil companies had all but shut down most of the producing wells in South Louisiana. Only the new wells, with unlimited pricing permitted by the government, were still going strong. “I am not able to confirm a lot of this gentleman’s story.... However, his credentials were in order, and who he worked for was fact. “As to the closing down of producing wells, several other totally different sources in the delta oil trade confirmed that a good lot of the best wells were, indeed, capped off. “If getting at shale is a prime mover in this fake energy price swindle, I can believe it.” Energy companies confirm that the mining of oil shale began 40 years ago in Colorado. What they don’t admit is that their phony energy crisis of the 1970’s was created to make profitable the environmentally-risky process called fracking. I exposed all this in 1974, and not even I, the writer, had a clue.

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George Washington Lunched Here NORTH WIND PICTURE ARCHIVES

General George Washington and his entourage are welcomed by New Yorkers as they make their way down Broadway.

BY OLIVER E. ALLEN n the wall of 200 Hudson Street, just below Canal Street, a handsome plaque commemorates a visit made by George Washington to this neighborhood in 1775 under circumstances odd enough to make the tale worth telling. Washington was coming through town on June 25, 1775, on his way from Philadelphia to the Boston area to take command of the fledgling colonial forces, which just a few days earlier had endured a bloody battle with the British at Bunker Hill. Naturally, the city fathers wanted to honor such an august personage with a parade. But there was a catch. No war had yet been declared and New York—although the sentiments of its 20,000 inhabitants were mixed on the question of rebellion—was at least nominally in the control of the British. Not only that, but it so happened that on that very same day, the British governor of New York Province, William Tryon, was due back from an extended absence, and an elaborate welcoming ceremony had already been planned for him. What if the two parades were to meet head on? Or what if the partisans of one camp were heard to be shouting louder than the other, and blows ensued? Something had to be done to avoid a diplomatic—if not actual—crisis. A neat compromise was arranged. Governor Tryon, who was already in the harbor and was scheduled to arrive at Coenties Slip (near the foot of Broad Street) at 4 p.m., was persuaded to delay his arrival until 8 p.m. Meanwhile, General Washington would come across the Hudson River

from Hoboken in the early afternoon to land not at the foot of Manhattan but as far away from the downtown district as possible. They chose a point near the western end of present-day Canal Street, in sparsely settled terrain that is now Tribeca. Luckily, there was someone who lived right there who could provide a fine welcoming reception for the general. He was Leonard Lispenard, prosperous brewer and responsible public citizen (Leonard Street was named for him) and the owner of an eight-acre estate just

got underway, heading down Greenwich Road (today’s Greenwich Street) with New Yorkers cheering their newly chosen leader along the way. (A pro-British resident chronicling the event referred to “the repeated shouts and huzzahs of the seditious and rebellious multitude.”) One can almost imagine the imposing general, who was well over six feet tall, in his dark blue uniform as if he were there today, guiding his prancing horse past what is now the Tribeca Grill, the Food Emporium and other contemporary landmarks. Just below Read’s

On June 25, 1775, Leonard Lispenard entertained George Washington in his home near what is now Canal and Hudson streets where Washington would be landing. His mansion was situated not far from the commemorative plaque previously mentioned. Lispenard was happy to help. So it was that around 4 p.m., Washington, accompanied by newly elected Continental generals Charles Lee and Philip Schuyler plus a troop of Philadelphia light horses, stepped ashore from the Hoboken Ferry and, after greetings and introductions, proceeded to Lispenard’s house to be handsomely, if briefly, entertained by a flock of local worthies. It is not known exactly what was consumed, but as Washington was not a teetotaler, one can surmise that food and drink of various sorts and strengths were offered and gratefully received. It was arguably the first expense-account luncheon ever staged in Tribeca. An hour later the welcoming parade

(now Reade) Street, the procession turned east (along Chambers Street perhaps), proceeding to Broadway and then south to Hull’s Tavern, near Trinity Church, where Washington was to spend the night. With half the festivities completed, many of those who had shouted lustily for the general now headed down to the waterfront to welcome the other biggie, Governor Tryon, who obliged them by landing right on schedule at 8 p.m. He was received warmly by the crowd— New Yorkers admired him for his blunt, straightforward manner and for having indicated distress over Great Britain’s policy toward the colonies. But observers noted that Tryon looked somewhat glum. Although he had been away, he had by now almost certainly been told of Britain’s embarrassing performance at Lexington and Concord

the previous April, and he might even have heard of the savage Bunker Hill affair. As Tryon, surrounded by his council, paraded up Broad Street from the dock, he must have wondered how much longer a representative of the British crown would be greeted so pleasantly in this vital colonial city. But a confrontation had been avoided. Tryon spent that night in a house on Broadway at Bowling Green, only a few blocks from Hull’s Tavern, where Washington was lodged. There was no communication between the two dignitaries. The following day, after more ceremonies, Washington departed for Cambridge. He would not be back until the following spring, when he would arrive with his army to begin his unsuccessful attempt to prevent New York City from being taken by the British. His welcome on the 25th of June must have pleased and impressed the general, for it showed that the colonial cause had ample support in the city. But it appears that he came away with a dislike for New York. Aristocratic but personally cautious and conservative, Washington had the rural outsider’s natural suspicion of New York’s sinful ways. No amount of wining and dining by the likes of Leonard Lispenard could have budged him from that view. Reprinted from Tales of Old Tribeca: An Illustrated History of New York’s Triangle Below Canal by Oliver E. Allen, published by The Tribeca Trib. An second volume, Tribeca: A Pictorial History, is on sale at Duane Park Patisserie, 179 Duane St.; Mailboxes Etc., 295 Greenwich St; Stella, 184 Duane St.; and Working Class, 168 Duane St.

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pring arrives in a big way in Downtown parks, thanks to the volunteers who each May plant flowers and plan the celebrations. So many helpers arrived at Wall Street Park for the Downtown Alliance’s Spring Community Day that the planting expanded around the corner to Water Street. Kids had plants to pot and animals to pet in Duane Park, and Bogardus Garden and Plaza was the busy site of cookie-decorating, face-painting, crafts-making, music and more. A record number of kids turned out for planting in Washington Market Park’s “It’s My Park Day.” “When the children come back, they’ll realize how much hard work goes into the park,” said Erica Martini of the park’s Friends group. “They won’t pick flowers or hang on branches. It instills a respect.”

Below right: Gabriela Hayes, left, and Hayden Van Zandt, both 4, dig in for Washington Market Park’s “It’s My Park Day.” Below left: Sadie Schnierow, 6, displays her work from the Blue School’s booth at Spring Community Day at Wall Street Park.

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P.S.150’s Linda Jones, Retiring, Looks Back BY THEA GLASSMAN Linda Jones was eating at a sushi restaurant recently when a stranger called out her name. At first, Jones recalled, she didn’t recognize the woman in her mid-20’s who was standing before her, until she looked more closely and saw the four-year-old she had once taught. “And then I said, ‘Oh, Anna!’” After 40 years of teaching, 23 of them at P.S. 150 (formerly the Early Childhood Center), Jones has a mental rolodex of hundreds of names and young faces of children she has taught. But no more names will be added after this month. Jones, one of the school’s original teachers, is retiring this month. “I’ve run into people who recognize me and then I have to peel back their identity to what they looked like when they were four or five or six,” she said. If the face or name doesn’t come to her, she said, her memory can be jogged by “a little piece of something that stood out for them from that year.” What continues to fascinate Jones is how her former students are fundamentally the same. “I love being able to have conversations with parents whose kids I had in nursery school, and we can still talk about that child,” Jones said. “What I knew about them at that point and how they dealt with life then is still true.”

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Linda Jones with her first grade students at P.S 150, where she has taught for 23 years.

Jones said that many of the children who stand out the most are those who presented her with the most “challenges.” “You put so much time and effort and thought into how you can make it better for those kids,” she said. Jones calls the process of helping them “spiritual,” saying that oftentimes she had to look within herself to find solutions. “Every time I came up with a kid that I found hard to identify with I just had to look deeper,” she said. “What I came up with was always very gratifying because in order to understand someone else you

have to look deeper within yourself.” Jones, who grew up in Iowa, said her dream had always been to be a full-time mother. (She has one child.) She turned to teaching after she graduated from art school, married a musician and realized that someone would need to earn an steady income. “I really enjoyed being open to how kids learn and how they are as people,” she explained, “so I said to myself, ‘If I’m going to work my whole life I want to do something I really know I’m good at.’” But the city school system, Jones

said, has changed a lot since she began teaching, and not for the better. “When I first started, there was room for play. I had a block area. Now, we don’t have the luxury to have that.” Instead, she said, there is an immense amount of pressure being put on teachers. She compared the new style of education to “a corporate type of management technique,” in which teachers who get burned out are simply replaced with someone new. “I’ve hung in there no matter what,” Jones said, laughing, “I’m a farm girl from the Midwest. No matter how tough it gets, you do the best job that you possibly can.” Now that that job is over, Jones has decided to leave her future wide open. “I actually don’t have plans. That’s my plan, not to have a plan,” she said. “The last big transition I had was when I came into this job,” she recalled. Back then, she remembers, she did so much “fussing and worrying...and then this just sort of fell in there.” “So I’m not going to do the fussing,” she added. “I’m just going to see what falls in there.” A retirement celebration for Linda Jones will be held at P.S. 150 on Friday, June 22, from 5 to 8 p.m. Contributions for a memory book for Jones—photos, stories and drawings, etc.—should be sent to celebrate.lindajones@gmail.com.

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FIGMENT AT GOVERNORS ISLAND an art fair and exhibition, comes to Governors Island on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10. For kids and families there are hands-on craft activities, games and hula hooping and interactive art, including a light show powered by bicycles, a sound installation and Ben Jones’s Treehouse, shown here. The ferry leaves from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South St. Information at figmentproject.org.

ARTS, CRAFTS & PLAY

NATIVE AMERICAN ART Ledger art-making activity. Mondays–Saturdays, 10 am. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. PRESCHOOL PLAY Mondays–Wednesdays, 10 am. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org. MAKE A PAPER PARFLECHE Make and decorate a “suitcase of the Plains.” Wednesdays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. POP-UP ART Art workshops with crafts and media. Wednesdays, 3 pm. Pier 25 at N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org. GAMES AND CRAFTS Ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm at Teardrop Park near Warren St.; Thursdays, 3:30 pm at Rockefeller Park near Warren St. bpcparks.org. PRESCHOOL ART Projects with clay, wood and paper. Thursdays, 10:30 am. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., bpcparks.org. INDIAN DOLLS Kids make a cornhusk doll. Thursdays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. NATIVE CRAFTS Ages 6 and up. Thursdays, 4 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. INDIAN GAMES Play games from Native cultures. Fridays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. SIDEWALK ART Sketch a blueprint of a building on the sidewalk. Ages 4 and up. Registration required. $5. Sat, 6/9, 10:30 am. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. SEAPORT DOINGS Maritime craft projects. Ages 6–9. Registration required. Sat, 6/9 & 6/23, 10:30 am. $15. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org. JEWELRY WORKSHOP Make jewelry with marbles and wire. Ages 13– 18. Mon, 6/11, 4 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. GOING GREEN Learn about green buildings and build a model. Ages 6 and up. Registration required. Sat, 6/23, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. MASK WORKSHOP Make a mask from dried gourds. Registration required. Sat, 6/23, 1 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

FILM CHILL! NORTHERN SHORTS Animated films about Arctic native cultures. Daily, 10:30 & 11:45 am. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. RATATOUILLE Animated film about a mouse who moves to Paris to become a chef. Plus pizza. Fri, 6/15, 6 pm. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinity wallstreet.org.

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MUSIC AND DANCE SUZI SHELTON Rock musician performs with her kids as backup singers. Sun, 6/10, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. PRESLEY AND MELODY Interactive music for preschoolers. Thu, 6/14, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. DANCE WORKSHOP Movement and art project with professional dancers and teachers. Sat, 6/23, 1 pm. Building 110, Governors Island, rivertorivernyc.com.

SCIENCE & NATURE YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING Ages 3–5. Tuesdays, 3:15 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren St. bpcparks.org. FIRE & ICE Scientific demonstrations. Ages 5–12. Tue, 6/26, 3:30 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org. GARDENING CLUB Prepare soil, plant and compost. Ages 6–10. Registration required. Tue, 7/3–Tue, 8/28. $120/two months. Rockefeller Park near Warren. bpcparks.org.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS STUDIO TOURS Visit a studio that makes kids’ films. Reservations required. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 am & 4 pm. $10. Little Airplane Studio, 207 Front St., littleairplane.com. FINANCE DAY Family tour of the Financial District. Saturdays, 11 am–2 pm. $30/family of four. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. CAR SHOW Display of classic patrol cars. Sat, 6/9 & Sun, 6/10, 10 am–4 pm. NYC Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, nycpm.org. GO FISH Catch-and-release fishing, art projects and

music. Sat, 6/16, 10 am–2 pm. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl. bpcparks.org. BIRDS OF PREY Meet falcons, owls and hawks. Sat, 6/16, 11 am. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl. bpcparks.org. SWEDISH FESTIVAL Maypole, folk dances and wreath-making. Fri, 6/22, 5–8 pm. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl. bpcparks.org. BIG CITY FISHING Catch-and-release fishing. Tue, 6/26, 12 pm. Pier 25 at N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org.

SPORTS BASKETBALL Mondays & Fridays. Ages 5–6, 3:30 pm; ages 7 and up, 4:30 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren. bpcparks. SOCCER Tuesdays. Ages 5–7, 3:30 pm; ages 8–11, 4:30 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., bpcparks. WIFFLE BALL Tuesdays. Ages 5–7, 3:30 pm; ages 8–11, 4:30 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., bpcparks.org.

STORIES & POETRY BABY HOUR To 18 months. Mondays, 9:30 am; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:30 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave. Thu, 6/7 & 6/14, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. READING ALOUD Ages 3–5. Mondays, 4 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., and New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. TODDLER STORIES Ages 18–36 months. Wednesdays, 10:30 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave. Thu, 6/21 & 6/28, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. TINY POETS TIME Poetry reading for toddlers. Thursdays, 10 am.

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t. Paul’s Chapel, the 246-yearold Episcopal church where George Washington prayed and 9/11 recovery workers found refuge made a bit more history last month. It became home to a synagogue. With yarmulkes donned, candles lit and Hebrew prayer books in hand, some 70 Lower Manhattan residents came together for the first time as congregants of Tamid: the Downtown Synagogue. “On behalf of Trinity Wall Street and St. Paul’s Chapel, we are thrilled you are here,” Trinity Wall Street’s vicar, the Rev. Canon Anne Mallonee, told the congregation during the May 18 Sabbath service. “We are excited to have you gather here as the first New York synagogue to begin in the 21st century.” Tamid is led by Rabbi Darren Levine, the former executive director of the Tribeca-based JCP (Jewish Community Project) and the organization’s only fulltime administrator. Three other Reform rabbis—all of whom Levine has known since their days together in seminary— are joining him. The service last month,

starting something new but part of something old, part of a community that’s been here a long time.” The relationship with St. Paul’s, part of the Trinity Wall Street parish, was sparked on the Battery Park City basketball court, where Levine and the Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones of Trinity Wall Street Levine introduces Trinity Wall Street reverends, from left, Daniel watched their sons Simons, Mark Bozzuti-Jones and Anne Mallonee. play basketball, neiLevine said, was a taste of what’s to ther knowing the other was clergy. Then come in September, when Tamid will came the discovery. begin holding monthly Sabbath services “Oh, my God, you’re a rabbi? You’re at St. Paul’s. a priest,” Bozzuti-Jones recalled. “It was “I think we were able to lift off,” the easy from there. Because we already had beaming rabbi said after the service. “We that friendship, we had that bond.” got the organization up and running.” Levine said there will be a “natural “It was such a feeling of community time” in the evolution of Tamid—three and history,” said Rabbi Darcie Crystal, to five years, he estimates—for the synawho helped lead the service. “We’re gogue to have a space of its own. In the

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P.S. 276 Looks at Media Influence on Girls BY JULIET HINDELL Since “Miss Representation” premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival it has been shown in thousands of places—in libraries and schools, churches and synagogues, colleges and corporate headquarters. According to its producers, more than one million people around the world have seen it. The film, which targets the media’s highly sexualized and disparaging portrayals of women, came to P.S./I.S 276 in Battery Park City last month. The organizers—the school’s PTA, NYC Dads Group and HRP Mamas—hoped to start parents discussing the issues raised by the film. “I’m so glad we live in a community that actually wants to talk about the representation of women,” said Mary Jo Winkler, mother of a 13-year-old daughter and one of about 60 parents who attended the screening. “In other places I’ve lived people just aren’t interested in a dialogue.” “This film should be shown at every school in the city,” said Julie Matsumoto, a mother of two I.S. 276 7th graders. “The big question it raises is, what has happened that the equality of women has declined so much?” Following the screening, Fred Kaeser, author of “What Your Child Needs to Know About Sex and When: A Straight Talking Guide for Parents,” opened the discussion with a plea to

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teachers and parents to talk to even young children about the issues raised by the documentary. “We only heard from high school students in the film but these issues need to be discussed even in elementary schools,” he said. “The media sends horrible messages about the role of women but we can tell kids that we don’t have to care what people think of us,” said panelist Anneka Fagundes of the Girls Leadership Institute, whose goal is to give girls the skills and confidence to become leaders. Panelist Peggy Drexler, assistant pro-

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fessor of psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell, thought the film underplayed the achievements of women despite the media’s portrayal of females but she agreed that the issues it raises should be addressed. “Our culture is run by money and sex sells,” she said. During the question and answer part of the evening, the audience seemed less interested in the larger cultural picture than in how to handle these issues in everyday childrearing. One mother recalled her young sons’ shock at seeing an explicit Victoria’s Secret ad. The panelists noted that this

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5:30 pm Bob Stillman Trio Old and new tunes from the American Songbooks. World Financial Center Plaza.

1 & 3 pm Trisha Brown Dance Company Open rehearsals for Astral Converted. Building 110, Governors Island. 7 pm Le Grand Continental See Fri, 6/22. Pier 16. 8 pm Chico Mann Multi-instrumentalist performs electro Afro-Cuban and Latin freestyle. Pier 17.

12:30 pm Emily Elbert Singer, songwriter and guitarist. One Liberty Plaza, Liberty St. near Broadway. 1 pm Underneath Where We Are See Sun, 6/24. 88 Pine St. 7 pm Third World Band Reggae incorporating elements of R&B, funk, pop and rock. Rockefeller Park near Warren St. 7 pm Twelfth Night See Tue, 2/26. Castle Clinton in Battery Park. 9 pm Act Without Words II See Tue, 6/26. Theatre Alley between Ann St. and Beekman St.

DRUMMING CIRCLE Teens learn drumming techniques from a Senegalese drummer. 4 pm. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., bpcparks.org.

Tue, 6/12 5:30 pm Gregg August Quartet Jazz, Latin jazz and classical. World Financial Center Plaza.

Mon, 6/18 8 pm Stella Days A man struggles between the excitement of the unknown and comfort of the familiar in 1950s Ireland. Tickets at 6 pm. Elevated Acre, 55 Water St.

Tue, 6/19 5:30 pm Edmar Castaneda Trio Harpist performs in Colombian style, accompanied by drums and saxophone. World Financial Center Plaza.

Wed, 6/20 7 pm Philip Glass Ensemble and Face the Music Retrospective program of the composer’s music, including Glassworks. Rockefeller Park near Warren St.

Thu, 6/21 4:30 pm KUN 64 pianists perform the composition by Wendy Mae Chambers on 64 baby grand toy pianos, arranged in yin/yang pairs, ending with “Suite for Toy Piano” by John Cage. Pier 15. 5 pm Edmar Castaneda Trio See Tue, 6/19. One New York Plaza, South St. at Whitehall St. 7 pm Eddie Palmieri Salsa and latin jazz. Rockefeller Park near Warren St.

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Sun. 6/24 2 pm Le Grand Continental See Fri, 6/22. Pier 16. 2:30 pm Body Language Experimental quartet from Brooklyn. Pier 17. 4 pm Underneath Where We Are Duet choreographed by Tara O’Con with an ambient soundscore, exploring the body’s relationship to the space it inhabits. Teardrop Park near Warren St.

Mon, 6/25 1 pm Underneath Where We Are See Sun, 6/24. 88 Pine St. 8 pm Collaborator A playwright retreats to his mother’s house during a difficult time and encounters his childhood neighbor, his polar opposite. Tickets at 6 pm. Elevated Acre, 55 Water St.

Tue, 6/26 1 pm Underneath Where We Are See Sun, 6/24. 88 Pine St. 5:30 pm Angelo M Trio Blues on guitar, Dobro, mandolin and harp. World Financial Center Plaza. 7 pm Twelfth Night New York Classical Theatre perform’s Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identities and misguided lovers. Castle Clinton in Battery Park. 9 pm Act Without Words II Two actors crawl out of sleeping bags, live their lives,

Thu, 6/28 12:30 pm Angelo M Trio See Tue, 6/26. One New York Plaza, South St. at Whitehall St. 1 pm SHOW Performance that pushes the boundaries of theater and the relationship between performers and audience. Broad St. at Wall St. 3 pm Source of Uncertainty Collaboration of DIY modular synth makers. Pier 17. 7 pm Twelfth Night See Tue, 2/26. Castle Clinton in Battery Park. 9 pm Act Without Words II See Tue, 6/26. Theatre Alley between Ann St. and Beekman St.

Fridays FOLK SONGS Musician leads rounds and folk songs. (Except 6/22). 7 pm. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

Thu, 6/14, 6 pm BRADY RYMER AND THE LITTLE BAND THAT COULD Songs that celebrate children who have different abilities. 6 pm. Washington Market Park, Greenwich St. at Duane St., rain location 120 Warren St., washingtonmarketpark.org.

Thu, 6/21, 6 pm PRINCESS KATIE AND RACER STEVE Original rock ‘n’ roll for kids. 6 pm. Washington Market Park, Greenwich St. at Duane St., rain location 120 Warren St., washingtonmarketpark.org.

Fri, 6/29 1 pm SHOW See Thu, 6/28. Broad St. at Wall St. 7 pm Veronica Falls and The People’s Temple Harmonic, psychedelic and pop music from the ‘50s and ‘60s. Pier 17. 7 pm Twelfth Night See Tue, 2/26. Castle Clinton in Battery Park. 9 pm Act Without Words II See Tue, 6/26. Theatre Alley between Ann St. and Beekman St.

Sat, 6/30 1 pm SHOW See Thu, 6/28. Broad St. at Wall St. 1 & 3 pm Trisha Brown Dance Company See Sat, 6/23. Building 110, Governors Island. 6 pm FEEL...FORM Four female dancers engage in a psychedelia-inspired kaleidoscope of movement. Staten Island Ferry terminal. 7 pm Twelfth Night See Tue, 2/26. Castle Clinton in Battery Park. 7 pm Ecstatic Summer Voices, keyboards, guitars and percussion. WTC Plaza. 7:30 pm Electric Midwife Six women dance in two trios, mirroring each others’ movements. Pier 15.

Philip Glass is at Rockefeller Park, Wed., June 20, 7 p.m.

Brady Rymer Sat, 6/23, 10:30 am MODEL BOATS Make a model tugboat, schooner, cargo ship or lightship. Sat, 6/23, 10:30 am. Call for reservations and price. Pier 16, 917-4923395, rivertorivernyc.com.

Sun, 6/24, 10:30 am ART INSPIRED BY THE SEA Art teachers help kids make an organic art installation using found objects, plus stopmotion animation using clay. Pier 16, rivertorivernyc.com. KEEPING THE HARBOR SAFE Learn about NYPD patrol boats and make a police boat model. Sat, 6/30, 10:30. Call for reservations and price. Pier 16, 917-4923395, rivertorivernyc.com.

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40 DANCE g Downtown Dance Factory Dance Recital Spectacular Students ages 3–14 perform jazz,

hip hop, ballet, lyrical and tap. Sat, 6/9 & Sun, 6/10, 10:30 am & 3 pm. $18. Tap City Youth Concert Tap dancers ages 5–19. Sun, 6/17, 6 pm. $20. New York Chinese Cultural Center Chinese music and dance performed by students from the school of the arts. Sun, 6/24, 2 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g Performance Project Showcase Students, after working with professional dancers, present their entirely original choreography. Fri, 6/15 & Sat, 6/16, 8 pm; Sun, 6/17, 3 & 7 pm. $12. Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., dnadance.org. g Inti Raymi Ecuadorean dance group Ayazamana performs traditional dances for the Andean ancestral Festival of the Sun. Sat, 6/23, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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reconsideration of the form, status and relevance of iconography through a collection of works by contemporary artists and designers. Ongoing. Mon–Fri, 9 am–5:30 pm; Sat–Sun, 9 am–3:45 pm. The Trinity Museum, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

the roller-skating rink. Sat, 6/16, 9:30 pm. $10. Stay Hungry An heir lives in his family’s mansion alone, with only a mattress to sleep on. Wed, 6/27, 7:30 pm. $12. See website for more films. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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photographs by prominent Western photographers and artists of the Isleta Indian Reservation. To Sun, 6/10. Small Spirits Dolls from more than 100 Native cultures throughout the Western hemisphere. To Thu, 7/19.

IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas Panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry. To Fri, 8/31. Admission is 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 Let My People Go! The Soviet Jewry Movement, 1967–1989 Exhibition about

the Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate but were denied the right to leave. To Sun, 8/5.

Filming the Camps Filming the Camps Footage from noted filmmakers of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. To Sun, 10/14. Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles Rare artifacts about the writer and immigrant advocate, the importance of religious freedom, and struggles faced by immigrants past and present. To December. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm. Sun–Tue, Thu 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed 10 am–8 pm; Fri 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g America through a Chinese Lens Images by Chinese and Chinese-American photographers depicting America through their point of view. June 4, 1989: Media and Mobilization Beyond Tiananmen Square Media coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests from Asian-American and Chinese-language periodicals. To Mon, 9/10. $7; $4 students, seniors, free children under 12 and on Thursdays. Mon & Fri 11 am–5 pm, Thu, 11 am–9 pm, Sat & Sun 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

Andrew Carnegie: Forging Philanthropy

Display on Carnegie’s life and work, with a spotlight on his love of Scotland, his business life and his philanthropic activities. To October.

Checks and Balances: Presidents and American Finance Financial challenges faced by American presidents both in the Oval Office and in their personal lives. To November. Tue– Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g African Burial Ground The story of the free and enslaved men, women and children who lived and were buried Downtown. Ongoing. Free. Tue–Sat, 9 am–4 pm. African Burial Ground Center and National Monument, 290 Broadway, africanburialground.gov. g Dialogue in the Dark Experience the New York City environment, including getting on and off a subway and crossing the street at Times Square, relying only on guides for the blind and visually impaired. Ongoing. $23.50; $20.50 children, students; $21.50 seniors. 11 Fulton St., dialoguenyc.com. g Soul Seekers: Interpreting the Icon A

Dozens of musicians, including Burkina Electric, left, perform at Bang on a Can, a 12-hour concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden on Sunday, June 17, from noon to midnight. Free. For details, visit Bangiaceae.org.

Island Museum; ferry leaves from Battery Park, nps.org/elis.

FILM g In the Language Four films explore Native American communities’ struggles to retain their language. Daily, 1 & 3 pm. Free. Amaqqut Nunaat/The Country of Wolves and

Tunnilt: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos Films made by Native Americans from Arctic Canada. Thu, 6/14, 6 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g In Darkness Chronicle of Leopold Socha and the group of Jews he sheltered from the Nazis ini the sewers of Lvov. Sun, 6/3, 2:45 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Blazing Saddles FIrst film in a summer-long Mel Brooks series. Wed, 6/27, 6:30 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Selection of upcoming films: Rancho Dude A casual cattle thief causes grief for small-town ranchers for fun. Wed, 6/6, 7:30 pm. $12. Quiet Cool A NYC cop must battle henchmen with a teenager in a pot-growing Northwestern town. Fri, 6/8, 8 pm. $12. Ninja III: The Domination An aerobics instructor is possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja who seeks revenge on the police who killed him. Sat, 6/9, 10 pm. $10. Roller Boogie A rich girl and poor boy fall in love on

jackhanley.com. g Is Schuster Manifestations. Geometric paintings. To Sat, 6/2. Tue–Sat, 11:30 am–6 pm and by appointment. One Art Space, 23 Warren St., oneartspace.com. g Mimi Saltzman Pure Now. Paint, salt, oil and minerals on canvas. Wed, 6/6–Fri, 7/27. Opening reception: Wed, 6/6, 6:30 pm. Bond New York, 25 Hudson St. g James Verbicky Iconicity. Collages of retro and contemporary advertising logos from print media. Diederick Kraaijeveld New works. Sculptures. To Sat, 6/9. Mon–Fri 11 am–6 pm; Sat 12–6 pm; Sun 12–5 pm. Cheryl Hazan Mosaic Studio, 35 N. Moore St., cherylhazan.com. g Summer Selections Group show. To Fri, 6/15. Tue–Fri, 11 am–5 pm. Art Projects International, 434 Greenwich St., artprojects.com. g Soledad Arias On Air. Text-based works of archival print on paper. To Fri, 6/22. Tue–Sat, 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St., rhgallery.com. g Michael Berryhill Incidental Western. Paintings, sculptures and drawings. To Sat, 6/23. KANSAS Gallery, 59 Franklin St., kansasgallery.com. g Rob Carter Faith in a Seed. Miniature replicas of the houses that Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau and Sir John Bennet Lawes lived

in. Lia Lowenthal Fifteen Seconds. Photographs of large-scale works in an elevator. To Sat, 6/23. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org. g Jeremy G. Landau Skyline Sentinels: New York Water Towers. Panoramic photographs. To Fri, 6/29. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St. g Silence Group show featuring video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation, curated by Jaanika Peerna. To Thu, 7/5. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com. g Mike Anderson and Javelin Canyon Candy. Site-specific installation and immersive soundscape that brings a Western-themed music video to life. To Tue, 7/31. Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower, 108 Leonard St., 13th fl., artonair.org. g Janet Newman Electric Organic. Paintings of flowers. To Thu, 8/30. Sovereign Bank, 110 Hudson St. g Mad About Art + Design Juried art exhibition of 16 artists and designers using photography, painting, sculpture, installation and functional art and design. To Tue, 9/4. McNeill Art Group, 143 Reade St., mcneillartgroup.com. g Transforming Function Various artists repurpose tools of science, technology, architecture and design. To Sun, 9/30. Building 110, Governors Island, rivertorivernyc.com. g The Permanent Way American landscape photographs by five artists of the transcontinental railroad. Wed, 6/6–Sat, 7/28. Opening reception: Wed, 6/6, 6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org. g Rick Odell My Better Half. Martin Frank Step Up. David Miller Bon Coiffur: Barbershop and Beauty Parlor Images in Ghana and Mali. Norman Borden Thank You for Not Smoking. Susan Keiser Fire and Ice. Wed, 6/6–Sat, 6/30. Opening reception: Thu, 6/7, 6 pm. Wed– Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com. g Karlos Carcamo Microphone Check. Fri, 6/8–Sat, 7/7. Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin St., hionasgallery.com. g Mary Mattingly The Flock House Project. Sculpture erects collapsible, movable and modular homes that reflect the unique constraints of living in an urban space. Sun, 6/17–Sat, 6/30, on view 24 hours. Battery Park near the Sphere, rivertorivernyc.com. g Tales: The Narrative Image Four artists transform windows into a giant architectural storybook using lyrical imagery and motion to spark imagination. Thu, 6/21–Fri, 8/24. Mon– Fri, 7 am–7 pm. One New York Plaza, South St. at Whitehall St., rivertorivernyc.com. g Summer Exhibition Works by artists affiliated with the Academy. Thu, 6/21–Sat, 7/28. Tue–Sat, 2–8 pm; Sun, 11 am–5 pm and by appointment. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu. g

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Nervescape. Site-specific sculptures, drawings and installation that explores themes of vanity, beauty and fetish. To Tue, 9/4. Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower Gallery, 108 Leonard St. 13th fl., artonair.org.

MUSIC g Maya Azucena and Allan Harris Blues and jazz music of Bessie Smith and Jackie Paris. Fri, 6/1, 8:30 pm. $25; $15 students, seniors. 4.0 Modern pop music that channels Motown soul. Sat, 6/30, 8 pm. $35. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g The SIMA Trio Western classical music of Armenia on violin, cello and piano. Sat, 6/2, 8 pm. Kiran Ahluwalia and Rez Abbasi Traditonal Punjabi folk songs. Sat, 6/9, 9 pm.

Arturo Martinez and Ensemble Espiritu Gitano Flamenco music. Sat, 6/16, 9 pm. All concerts: $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org. g Buddy Guy Musician performs tunes from his new CD “When I Left Home: My Story.” Wed, 6/13, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g Selected musical performances: West Fourth A variety of compositions for cello. Fri,

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THE TRIBECA TRIB JUNE 2012 6/8, 9 pm. $15. Caravan of Thieves Gypsy swing inspired by vaudville. Sat, 6/9, 9 pm. $15. Mt. Varnum and The New Mellow Edwards Synth, swing and indie rock. Fri, 6/22, 9 pm. $15. LaGuardia High School’s New Music Ensemble Acclaimed group performs cross-cultural music. Sat, 6/23, 7:30 pm. $10. See website for more concerts. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra with Marin Mazzie Music for the Tempest Toast: A

Tribute to Emma Lazarus. World premiere, plus works that inspired Lazarus’ writing. Mon, 6/11, 7 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Manado State University Choir and

g June Fourth Elegies Poet and translator Jeffrey Yang reads recently published poems by Liu Xiaobo, a prominent figure in the Tiananmen Square protests who is currently imprisoned in China for his writings. Reservations required. Thu, 6/7, 6:30 pm. Free. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g Marni Davis “Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition.” Sun, 6/10, 2:30 pm. $10. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk Fundraiser walk from City Hall to Fulton Ferry Landing with poetry readings along the way. Followed by dinner at Bubby’s Brooklyn. Reservations required. Mon, 6/11, 6:30 pm. $250. Poets House, poet-

g Black Mountain Poets Poet Lee Ann Brown talks about the experimental Black Mountain College in the 1950s and 1960s, with a focus on Charles Olson and Robert Duncan. Sat, 6/2, 3 pm. On John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell Talk on the works and lives of three postwar American poets. Tue, 6/5, 7 pm. The Beats Talk on the Beat poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima. Fri, 6/8, 7 pm. All talks: $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Selection of upcoming talks: On Jackson Pollock’s Creative Imagination Exploration of how the artist’s rural roots influenced his artistic development. Mon, 6/4, 3 pm. $29. The

41 American Colonial-era long arms. Thu, 6/14, 12:30 pm. The World’s First Stock Market

Boom and Collapse: John Law and the Mississippi System Economist discusses the 18th-century financial bubble created by John Law’s Mississippi System in France. Wed, 6/20, 12:30 pm. All talks: $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g From the Sidelines Panel explores the American Jewish involvement in sports. Sun, 6/17, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Joseph Mitchell’s Harbor Panel discussion on the lost New York City waterfront with local writers. Tue, 6/19, 6:30 pm. Made in New

“News Paper Spires: From Park Row to Times Square,” an exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum, focuses on the years 1870 to 1930, and takes a look at some of New York City’s first skyscrapers, which housed the headquarters for such newspapers as the Times, Tribune and World. Above is an illustration of a Hoe Double Sextuple Press that appeared in Scientific American in 1903. To Sunday, July, 15. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 12–6 p.m. The museum is at 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. shouse.org.

Electric Kulintang Traditional and contemporary music from Southeast Asia. Sun, 6/24, 7:30 pm. Free. St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, rivertorivernyc.com. g Oceanic Verses Multimedia opera about two ghosts in courtship by the Mediterranean Sea. Mon, 6/25, 7:30 pm. Free. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., rivertorivernyc.com.

READINGS g

Niall Ferguson “Civilization: The West and the Rest.” Mon, 6/4, 5:30 pm. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g Akaschic Noir Night Editors and contributors of several anthologies read excerpts. Mon, 6/4. Jason Starr “The Craving.” Wed, 6/13. Brian Gruley “The Skeleton.” Thu, 6/21. All readings: 6:30 pm, free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com. g Shawn Colvin “Diamond in the Rough.” Tue, 6/5. Dan Bucatinsky “Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?” Tue, 6/12. Alafair Burke “Never Tell: A Novel of Suspense.” Mon, 6/18. All readings: 6 pm, free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g John Nagy “Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania.” Thu, 6/7, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

g Eric Firley “The Urban Towers Handbook.” Tue, 6/19, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g Poetic City Poets and lyricists read their original works. Tue, 6/26, 7 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., poetshouse.org.

TALKS g

People of the Plains Talk on the culture and history of Native Americans of the Plains region. Mondays–Wednesdays, 10 am. Taino Culture Discussion of Taino culture past and present, including traditional objects and their uses. Mondays, 2 pm. Moccasin Making Demonstration Tuesdays, 2 pm. Beading Demonstration Thursdays, 5 pm. Free. Basket Weaving Demonstration Tue, 6/12 & Wed, 6/13, 10 am & 1 pm. IndiVisible Historian discusses Garifuna identity in New York and beyond. Thu, 6/21, 6 pm. Connections: We Are Here Panels on contemporary art from an indigenous perpective. Mon, 6/25, 11 am. Free. All talks: free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Blues in My Soul Panel discussion with musicians about jazz and blues legends Bessie Smith and Jackie Paris. Fri, 6/1, 7 pm. Free. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

Beatles: A Trip Through Strawberry Fields Talk on how the 1967 release of “Strawberry Fields Forever” changed pop music. Wed, 6/13, 12 pm. $18. The Metropolitan Museum in the Progressive Era Discussion of the museum’s decision in the early 20th century to make its collections available for view to the general public. Thu, 6/21, 3 pm. $29. American

Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians Based on historical patterns, explanation of why some presidents get reelected and others do not. Wed, 6/27, 12 pm. $18. See website for more talks. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g

The Science Behind the Hype: Resveratrol in Wine and Chocolate Talk

about the chemical component that early scientific research indicates may have health benefits. Tue, 6/5, 7 pm. $25; $15 students. See website to register and for more talks. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org. g Nathan Hale: American Spy, American Hero Talk on the 21-year-old who was hanged

by the British for espionage. Tue, 6/12, 12:30 pm. $7; $4 students, seniors. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., fraunces–tavernmuseum.org. g The Brown Bess Musket in Alexander Hamilton’s America Talk with a collector of

York Contemporary design and production in NYC today. Thu, 6/21, 6:30 pm. Mannahatta/Manhattan Wildlife Conservation Society speaker discussess what Henry Hudson would have found when he landed here. Sun, 6/24, 1 pm. All talks: free. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., rivertorivernyc.com.

THEATER g Mortified Comedic excavation of teen angst artifacts, including journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies and stories. Thu, 6/7, 7 pm. $20. The Daily Show Live Stand-up comedy from writers from “The Daily Show.” Thu, 6/14, 9 pm. $15. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Uncle Vanya Adaptation by Annie Baker of the play by Anton Chekhov. Tuesdays–Sundays, 6/7–7/15, 7:30 pm. $35–$45. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., sohorep.org. g Poor Liza Modern rendition of Nikolay Karamzin’s story of love, seduction, betrayal and social conflict. Fri, 6/15, 8 pm & Sat, 6/16, 7 pm. $56–$146. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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A pair of 1920s garages now occupy 11-15 Leonard Street. The new building called for four.

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