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25 B’way’s great hall should be visible to all

To the Editor: With regard to the Cipriani organization’s plan to turn the great hall of the Cunard Building at 25 Broadway: I regret that this magnificent, formerly publicly accessible space, one of the great interior landmarks in Lower Manhattan, will for the foreseeable future only be visible to guests at private functions. The Cipriani organization has created similar situations at such iconic venues as the Rainbow Room, the former Bowery Savings Bank on 42nd Street and 55 Wall Street. It would be desirable if the vestibule area could be used, at least, as an alternate entrance for the other tenants of 25 Broadway and the public, affording views of the splendid Great Hall to countless numbers of people, not just those paying to experience it. George Calderaro

In praise of food trucks

This reader commented on the Trib’s Facebook page about an article in which Community Board 1 members complained that food trucks at the east end of Fulton Street were an eyesore, noisy, and hindered foot traffic: To the Editor: “Oh, come on. I am no fan of Howard Hughes Corporation and their ridiculous plan for the Seaport, but the food trucks are the one good thing that they have done down here.” Matthew Rosenstein

below Canal Street in the Tribeca area. To the Editor: Anyone interested can contact me at the Thank you for covering our joint email below. We will send you a CERT exercise with NewYork-Presbyterian application. OEM provides free 12Lower Manhattan Hospital (see June week training by FDNY and NYPD Trib). The daylong drill [to prepare the staff in case of a chemical explosion] is just part of what Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) do in their neighborhoods. Tribeca CERT is one of the first created by the Office of Emergency Management. I CARL GLASSMAN hope all your A CERT volunteer at last month’s drill at a Downtown hospital. wonderful pictures of the chemical wash and the personnel. You then become a part of “victims” we dealt with whetted your our Tribeca CERT team. readers’ interest in joining our Tribeca Thank you. CERT team. Jean Grillo We really, really need more local Tribeca CERT Team Chief volunteers, specifically those living jbgnyc@aol.com

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news, ready for further improvement [see June Trib]. All three proposals will be a great and welcome change. Years ago, when the garden was first suggested, I made a life-size portrait of James Bogardus with an anticipated concept to fabricate it in cast iron, which would have a great patina. (I never submitted the idea.) I am proposing that sculpture be placed in Bogardus Garden, at the north end, where there are existing base-like steps. We can all look forward to the improved park. Mimi Gross Gross is an artist and a resident of Tribeca since 1962. P.S. Congratulations for your on-going excellent neighborhood newspaper.

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Mobilization effort pays off as DOE announces promised school will open in 2015

BY CARL GLASSMAN Amid hugs, sign-waving and cheers, Spruce Street School parents rallied in front of their school last month to celebrate the news that their promised middle school, due to open next year with two sixth grade classes, is a sure thing. “We saved our middle school!” parents and kids joyfully chanted before the start of the last full day of the school year. “We did it!” What was first planned as a protest had turned into a triumphant gathering of the parents. The previous afternoon principal Nancy Harris was informed by Department of Education officials that the Spruce Street School, P.S. 397, will for certain become a K-8. Among those at the rally was the Collins family—Marie, Charlie and 2ndgrader Samantha—who held “thank you” signs for the DOE, among others, rather than the ones they left at home, with such messages as “Carmen Fariña Don’t Disappoint Us.” “I’m thrilled,” said Marie, whose family lives in nearby Southbridge Towers. “Now I don’t have to send my daughter far from my neighborhood to go to middle school. I want to keep her in my community.” The parents had mobilized a mere five days earlier, following comments by schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña that cast doubt on the future of the middle school and set off a flurry of concern among parents. Fariña had been asked at a news conference about the potential use of Spruce Street’s planned middle school classrooms for an expanded elementary school. She declined to rule it out, saying, “Everything is on the table.” “We’re looking at all possibilities,” Fariña said. “Are there schools where it makes more sense to allow the school to grow in a different way?” The chancellor’s response, reported in the online Trib, sparked a well-orga-

Above: Spruce Street School parents and kids turn what was to be a protest rally into a celebration. Left: School parents Elda Rotor, right, and Laetitia Damineni embrace in joy over their success.

nized effort to save the middle school just days before the school year ended. Parents quickly formed a “middle school task force.” They launched an online and in-person petitioning campaign, bombarded elected and education officials with calls and emails and set up a Yahoo group to aid communication among the many parents involved. “We are professionals and we pooled our strengths and resources and we got

the job done,” said PTA co-president Stacey Kurylo, one of three mothers who led PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN the campaign. “Most of us are business owners, lawyers, and entrepreneurs doing multiple things, so multitasking is not an issue.” “We have a very committed and fierce parent community,” said Elda Rotor, a parent who had the short-lived title of Spruce Middle School Task Force Media Coordinator. “We all trust each other to do the best we can and bring our skills together.”

The campaign gathered steam at a June 18 PTA meeting, where Harris expressed, with unusual public candor, her feelings about the unresolved fate of the middle school. Though she stopped short of taking a position on whether the middle school should go forward, she was unequivocal about the uncertainty that hung over the school’s families. “It’s not fair to parents and it’s especially unfair by June 18, to really feel, in the pit in your stomach, what’s going on,” Harris told the parents. “At the end of the day, it should have been resolved a long time ago, whatever the resolution is.” “I’m certainly not in the same position as you,” the principal added, “but I personally have felt frustrated and jerked around for years, as well, on this issue.” According to a DOE official who asked not be identified, the middle school had not been confirmed because it had yet to receive a “thorough review,” but “there was never any serious consideration for this not being a middle school. Every single proposal is looked CONTINUED ON PAGE 31

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teacher. Ripperger said she also needs more kindergarten students because the school later loses children to private school. “It’s not as though when we start with 175 we’re guaranteed to keep 175 all through first grade,” she said. Ripperger argued that drawing accurate zoning lines for the various Downtown schools is “an almost impossible task.” While one of the schools, P.S. 276, has a wait list for next year, the others in CB1 do not. (As of last month there were 47 empty seats among four of the five zoned elementary schools in the CB1 area.) Ripperger said new schools should have the flexibility to serve elementary or middle school students, depending on the “ebb and flow” of the population. Currently a 456-seat elementary school is budgeted for somewhere below Canal Street and Downtown school advocates are calling on the DOE for twice that number of grade school seats. “Right now there isn’t a need for more kindergarten seats,” said Ripperger, who advocates instead for another middle school. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be in time.” When one school does have too many kindergartners for its zone, parents should be flexible about traveling to another Downtown school that has the room, Ripperger said. That’s how wait lists were handled this past school year. She calls it “reforming the expectations.” “Wherever you’re living Downtown, your kid can go to a good school,” she said. At Silver’s task force meeting, Eric Greenleaf repeated his prediction of a shortage of at least 130 kindergarten seats Downtown in 2015, even with the opening of the Peck Slip School. But he also noted that many families had been scared off from moving Downtown because of all the talk about crowding. “Once the word gets out that there is room in these schools, people will respond in ways they haven’t been able to for years,” Greenleaf said. “So I think we’ll see lots of new kindergartners.”

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Washington Market Park seeks to end harmful fun in community gardens

BY CARL GLASSMAN One morning last month, Susan Henderson cut the ribbon on a new sign at the entrance to the community gardens in Tribeca’s Washington Market Park. It was a small ceremony, quietly celebrating the gardens’ three decades and, more important, the posting of a serious message to parents and caregivers. Watch where those small feet tread. Henderson, 70, who has been working a plot since the gardens began, is one of a number of community gardeners in the park who have complained about unsupervised children trampling the beds or helping themselves to the gardens’ carefully tended plants. Now they have the long-requested sign that officially forbids such behavior. The text is deftly worded, welcoming and finger-wagging at the same time. “Please enjoy our garden and avoid walking in the plots or picking the flowers,” it reads. “Children accompanied by caregivers are always welcome.” “Caregivers aren’t alerting children to the difference between the rest of the park and this area,” Henderson said. “A garden takes care and nobody’s showing them that.” Washington Market Park is best known as a popular play space for small children, with wide-open lawn and an array of play equipment for different ages. It is only in the northern end, among the marigolds, cosmos and hostas, where you mostly find adults, planting, pruning and watering. “There are a lot of spaces and activities in the park for children, but this is an area that also acknowledges the older generation,” said Monica Forestall, the community garden director for Friends of Washington Market Park. “It’s also the quietest, most peaceful part of the park.” Peaceful, that is, when it is not a playground for squirt gun fights and spirited races through—not always around— some of the 49 garden plots. “After school this is one of the

boys chased each other in and out of the community gardens, mostly running between the plots but sometimes stepping squarely into them. But on another occasion, when a small child bent down to pick a flower, her mother Top: In the park’s community garden, a quickly stopped her. small ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “No, no,” she said. above sign. Left: Gardeners say that kids “Those are very special get so caught up in their fun that they flowers.” often are not aware of the garden plots they are running through. Sarah Aronson, the Parks Department gartomatoes because vegetables are so dener at Washington Market Park, was cute.” among those who requested the sign. “You don’t want to have the kids not With caregivers on the other side of the come in here,” added Solomon, who has park, she said, children “mutilated” the been gardening in the park for 10 years, hose, rendering it unusable, and are “but they’re often in here so unsuper- oblivious of where they run. vised and it is an issue.” “They do need supervising,” AronOne recent afternoon last month, son said. “I remind them about how footthree children about nine years old steps can kill plants.” repeatedly walked into the gardens, and For the most part, Forestall said, the with occasional glances to see if the kids don’t intend to hurt the plants. coast was clear, picked unripened blue“They’re so caught up with their berries from two gardens and popped fun,” she said, “they’re not really aware them in their mouths as they lefts. Older of what their bodies are doing.” PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

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The block-long stretch of sidewalk between Church and Greenwich streets is often crowded with visitors going to and from the Sept. 11 Memorial Plaza.

Since mid-May, when the September 11 Memorial Museum opened and visitors gained free access to the Memorial Plaza through three entrances, tourists have swarmed the site. The crowded sidewalk on Liberty Street between Church and Greenwich makes for an unpleasantly tight squeeze for locals just going about their day. In an effort to see what is being done—or can be done—to help relieve the conditions, representatives from a variety of city and state agencies, as well as Silverstein Properties, gathered at a special Community Board 1 Quality of Life Committee meeting last month. Here are some of the main points. Cortlandt Way, the section of Cortlandt Street west of Church Street, will open in August, according to Glen Guzi of the Port Authority, providing an additional route for visitors to the Sept. 11 Memorial Plaza, thus relieving some of the foot traffic on Liberty Street. ANOTHER WAY IN

A metal barricade on the south side of Liberty Street now prevents pedestrians from spilling onto the street. Josh Kraus of the mayor's office said a second barricade may be placed in the street during the busiest hours, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., to effectively widen the sidewalk. MORE SIDEWALK

The south side of Liberty Street, between Church and Greenwich streets, is closed to pedestrians because of a hoist being used on Tower 4. According to Silverstein Properties spokesman Dara McQuillan, the hoist will be removed in November or December and the sidewalk opened. THE SIDEWALK HOGGING HOIST

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BY CARL GLASSMAN Amid soaring Doric columns and beneath the bronze-and-alabaster chandeliers of the magnificent lobby of 195 Broadway, drinks will be served. But only thanks to a last-minute act of the New York State Legislature. Stymied by a state rule that forbids selling alcohol within 200 feet of a house of worship—and therefore blocking a fine-dining restaurant from renting the space—the landlords of the former A T & T building have sought and won an ex emption to the law for their location. The new law, yet to be signed by the governor, was St. Paul’s Chapel is within passed last 200 feet of 195 Broadway. month in the waning days of the legislative session. Both the building and its lobby are designated landmarks, directly across Fulton Street from St. Paul’s Chapel. A plan for the interior, to include retail and dining, was passed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission more than three years ago. But the space

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has remained empty. In fact, the building’s lobby has been largely vacant since 1983, when AT&T moved uptown. L&L Holding Co. bought 195 Broadway in 2004 and has since sold a majority interest. But it manages and leases the building and says it wants a “high-end” restaurant in the space, something it insists Downtown is lacking. “Our issue is we have a big vacancy and there’s no place to go if you’re a Condé Nast or a HarperCollins,” Simon Wasserberger of L&L Holdings told

Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee last month. “No place for client lunches or dinners near enough to us.” Already having gained the backing of the Downtown Alliance, Wasserberger and his team were at the committee to ask for a letter directed to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that would show community support for the law. (Sen. Daniel Squadron sponsored it in the state Senate.) The community board letter, already drafted, argued that Lower Manhattan “suffers from a paucity of

high-end destination restaurants, which are critical to the area’s Post 9/11-Post Hurricane Sandy renaissance.” It went on to say that the community at large would benefit “tremendously” from having a five-star restaurant. The CB1 committee had no problem with sending the letter to Silver, but later several members at the full board did, saying at their monthly meeting that the issue should have been vetted by the whole board. Board member John Fratta said the support for 195 Broadway could set a precedent for other establishments seeking an exemption to the law. “Will this come back to bite us?” he asked. “It should go to the board,” Joe Lerner argued. “That lobby is one of the most beautiful lobbies in Downtown.” CB1 District Manager Noah Pfefferblit responded that the restaurant’s liquor application would need to be reviewed by the board. And Financial District Committee Chairman Ro Sheffe said a liquor license there would do no harm. “It’s a five-star restaurant in a nonresidential area. It’s totally commercial,” he said. “We didn’t see anything wrong with that.” According to Pfefferblit, Trinity Church supports the legislation. Trinity officials would not respond to a request for comment and Wasserberger of L&L Holdings said he would not comment for this story.

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Rendering of proposed design for Cafeteria Tribeca, at West Broadway and Reade Street.

BY AMANDA WOODS The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission gave its unanimous approval for the design of Cafeteria Tribeca, the restaurant planned for West Broadway at Reade Street, despite Community Board 1’s concerns that it would add to noise problems for its neighbors. The 185-seat, two-story restaurant, a spinoff of Chelsea’s popular Cafeteria restaurant, is going into the site formerly occupied by the restaurant MaryAnn’s, next to the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Of particular concern to the community board was the proposed glass front, nearly 100 feet long, that would face West Broadway. CB1 had objected to the amount of glass, which would open like garage doors to create an open-air restaurant. The board also noted in its resolution that noise from the place would be “intolerable.” The commission’s chairman, Robert Tierney, called such noise concerns “not relevant” to the panel’s decision. In April of last year, when approval of Cafeteria Tribeca’s liquor license came before CB1’s Tribeca Committee, neighbors bothered by two nearby Reade Street establishments, Sazon and Ward III, said they worried about the potential for more noise when Cafeteria moves into the space. CB1 gave its advisory approval, having heard promises from co-owner Mark Thomas Amadei that his restaurant would be sensitive to noise concerns— even promising to pay for soundproof windows. Having read last month of the restaurant’s design, several neighbors wrote letters to the community board expressing their renewed concerns. But at the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing, the discussion focused on historic precedents for the design, and whether the architect, Laurence G. Jones, drew ideas from

other buildings in Tribeca. “The signage takes inspiration from some older signage in the neighborhood,” Jones told the committee during his presentation. The canopy on the building would be similar to the “canopies across the street,” he added. Initially, some commissioners, such as Roberta Washington, said that the design for Cafeteria would not be a good fit for the neighborhood. “Somehow it doesn’t feel like it was in this district before,” Washington said, adding that it would be a “jarring” addition to the street. Commissioner Margery Perlmutter expressed a similar view. “When I look at this building, it reminds me of the Meatpacking District,” she said. “Where is your reference point?” Of particular concern for Perlmutter and other commissioners was the building’s glazed white brick, which, she argued does not exist elsewhere in the neighborhood. “White glazed brick is a fatally flawed building material,” said Commissioner Frederic Bland. “We could recommend some other material that replicates the whiteness.” Still, Bland was in favor of the design, arguing that the architect would be hard pressed to conform to other buildings on the street. “West Broadway is really a polyglot of many things,” he said. “I don’t think our role is to invest every little detail…It is a huge improvement on what [was] there in many ways. The building needs to be consistent within itself, and to me it is.” Despite her initial misgivings about the design, Washington also voiced her approval. “We have approved lots of buildings like nothing else in the neighborhood,” she said. “It is making a statement because it’s different. I think it’s approvable. It does no harm.”

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119 SOUTH STREET June 22, 10:50 a.m. A man came up behind a 20-year-old woman and snatched her smartphone from her pocket as she was listening to music with headphones. The thief fled north on South Street and west on Peck Slip. The woman attempted to follow him but gave up and stopped at a hotel, where she called 911. She told police that she cancelled her phone service and no unauthorized usage had been reported. 311 BROADWAY June 17, 8:30 a.m. A thief used a knife to threaten a 7Eleven employee who attempted to stop him from leaving the store with a fourpack of Red Bull, which he had swiped from the refrigerator and hidden under his jacket. When the employee followed the man out of the store, the thief brandished a knife with a wooden handle and said, “I will slit your throat and f--- your family.” The employee was not injured.

405 BROADWAY June 17, 8:30 a.m. Someone swiped a woman’s wallet from her bag as she sat at a table in Starbucks. The victim told police that she felt someone bump into her. Unauthorized charges totaling $145.25 were made on her credit cards. Along with numerous credit cards, the wallet contained the woman’s passport and driver’s license.

2 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS June 14, 2 a.m. A woman was having drinks at the bar at the Tribeca Grand Hotel when she realized that her purse, which she had hung on the back of her chair, was gone. Later, a bar employee found and returned the purse, which was missing her iPhone, wallet, driver’s license, bank cards, student ID and gym membership card. 1 SOUTH STREET June 12, bet. 8:30 and 11:15 p.m. A man parked his 2010 BMW van in a parking garage, and when he returned nearly three hours later, the van was open and accounting books, worth $2,600, clothing valued at $1,500, and other belongings were missing from inside.

80 CHAMBERS STREET June 11, 5 a.m. A Con Ed worker was at a street construction site investigating a previous theft that had occurred there when he spotted a man taking pieces of copper cable wire, worth about $1,500. The thief used a splicing tool to cut the wire and then placed the pieces in a cart. Confronted by the worker, the thief said, “I’m leaving, I’m leaving,” and fled with the wire pieces. The worker took a picture of the thief with his phone.

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C TRAIN, CANAL STREET STATION June 10, 2:20 p.m. A teenage boy reached into a train when its doors opened at the Canal Street station and snatched a girl’s iPhone from her hand. The victim cancelled her phone service and used an application to track her phone to West 48th Street and 10th Avenue. The phone was not recovered. 160 BROADWAY June 7, 3:20 p.m. A thief sat behind a French tourist at McDonald’s and took his wallet, containing $250, bank cards and a driver’s license, from his jacket, which was hanging on the back of his chair. The thief fled north on Broadway. The victim cancelled his bank cards, on which no unauthorized charges had been made.

#4 TRAIN, FULTON STREET STATION June 3, 3 p.m. A woman’s handbag containing $7,850 was snatched as she was walking up the stairs of the station. The thief fled down the stairs after he grabbed the bag. The bag also contained an iPhone, bank cards, house keys and a Century 21 employee ID.

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194 BROADWAY June 2, 3 p.m. Welding tools and other equipment worth a total of $5,150 was stolen from a toolbox in front of a construction site. 339 SOUTH END AVENUE June 1, bet. 5:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. An accordion was stolen from the trunk of a Nissan Pathfinder parked in the Gateway Plaza Garage. When the owner returned about three hours after parking the car, the instrument, worth $4,300, was missing.

Mugger Caught

A victim helped turn the tables on his attacker June 15 after getting punched by a thief who stole his belongings. The 36-year-old victim told police someone came up behind him at about 9:20 p.m., punched him in the back, snatched the wallet from his pants pocket and grabbed his backpack, which he had placed next to him on the sidewalk. When the thief tried to escape into the Bowling Green subway station, the victim followed him and tried to grab his belongings back. Both the victim and the man fell to the ground in the struggle. Two transit officers responded to the melee and arrested the suspect, identified as Albert Sides, 45. The officers recovered the wallet and backpack.

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BY AMANDA WOODS Beginning this month, 7,000 square feet of empty lot—a stone’s throw from the World Trade Center site—will have a new owner with a looming question: What to do with it? Until mid-May, when the September 11 Memorial Museum opened, the block-long lot at Albany Street, between Washington and Greenwich, served as the queuing area for visitors to the 9/11 memorial plaza. On July 1, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. became steward of the property but so far has no plans for its use. The space is part of a larger 32,000square-foot lot known as Site 5, just south of the World Trade Center, where the demolished Deutsche Bank building stood. (The northern part of the site remains a staging area for construction of the Vehicle Security Center.) “It’s insane to have a beautiful public space with trees fenced off,” LMDC President David Emil told Community Board 1’s Executive Committee last month. “It could be for a year. It could be for two years. It could be for 10 years, depending on what the ultimate disposition of Site 5 is. But even if it’s only for a year, why shouldn’t we have a plan to use it?” The community board committee already knows what they want to see there: a Greenmarket. In an April CB1 resolution, the board

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said that a market would let the community “reclaim” the space and transform it “into a dynamic, vibrant area.” The board also noted that it would be a longawaited replacement for the popular Greenmarket that had been at the World Trade Center for 15 years prior to 9/11. According to CB1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes, GrowNYC is studying to see if there is enough pedestrian traffic to justify a farmer’s market. Laura McDonald, a GrowNYC Greenmarkets spokeswoman, would not comment on the likelihood of the Greenmarket coming to the site. In a statement to the Trib she noted that

GrowNYC is “working with the Community Board and several community organizations that service the area to determine the best way to activate the space.” The future of the entire Site 5 is yet to be determined. While a “general project plan” for the space calls for a 1.3 millionsquare foot office tower, Emil said the glut of office space in the area makes the site currently unsuitable for commercial development. “If, for example, everyone in the government were to agree, we really don't need a fifth office tower in Lower Manhattan [at the World Trade Center]—

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what we’d really rather have there is something else, it could be something else.” While there may be no market for the tower now, he added, “in the next year or two, that’s a bigger issue.” Asked if it would be possible to build affordable housing on the site, Emil responded that the LMDC board has the power to change the designated use of the site to allow an apartment building. In the meantime, he said, it’s the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.’s job to come up with a “good use” for the now-vacant site. “It’s public land,” he said. “We should use it well.”

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On-the-Water Festival

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STEEL Look up at the Citigroup building in Tribeca and think of these guys. PHOTOS AND TEXT BY CARL GLASSMAN It was the summer of 1987 and across North Moore Street from our apartment, an office tower advanced skyward. The 40-story Shearson Lehman Brothers building at 388 Greenwich St.—today it houses Citigroup—was almost eye level with my family’s apartment on the 37th floor, providing a good view of workers securing the steel bones into place. Looking at the photos I took back then, I marvel anew at the derring-do of the ironworkers. Some with no hard hats, all without safety harnesses, as they straddled beams like tightrope walkers and maneuvered precariously within inches of the precipice. These men would have fit right into Lewis Hine’s hair-raising photos of ironworkers atop the rising Empire State Building. But we can hardly imagine such freewheeling aerial work on today’s skyscrapers. Jim Rasenberger, the man who literally wrote the book on ironworkers, “High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World’s Greatest Skyline,” said much changed in the early 2000s, with stiffer federal regulations and a clampdown on safety by the big construction companies. Until then, the men who worked highest up, connecting girders to the steel frame, could bend the rules in part because they considered harnesses restrictive. “They had to be almost balletic up there because they have to be able to get out of the way of a piece of steel if the wind catches it coming in on the crane,” Rasenberger said. Besides, the author noted, “The guys I knew hated safety measures. They didn’t want anyone telling them what to do.”

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Ironworkers atop the office tower under construction at 388 Greenwich St. in 1987. “High Steel” author Jim Rasenberger says beam walking, as shown above, was typical among the ironworkers known as the “raising gang.” Their job, at the top of the rising structure, was to grab and attach girders carried up by crane. Many were Mohawk Indians or from Newfoundland. “It's even scarier than it looks,” Rasenberger says, “because when the connectors [the men who take the steel from the crane] put the steel up they just put it in with one bolt on either side so it’s wobbly. So that piece of steel they’re walking on often is a little loose.”

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From a Downtown Dance Factory recital last month, clockwise from top left: a little improvisation from “KindiBallet” students; Sara Gerson leads “KindiCombo” dancers; Maisy Hoffman dances to “Young and Beautiful” with her lyrical dance class; a street hip hop performance; and “KindiHop” dancers Lila Shin and Delfina Barrett.

Students from Tribeca’s ever-growing Downtown Dance Factory take the stage.

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At end-of-year culminations in June, parents gathered in classrooms to learn from their children, the experts, about the semester’s studies—birds, farmers’ markets, New Amsterdam, the Westward Expansion. Everyone was proud and happy, and I felt that way, too. But beneath all that ran a stream of melancholy as the end of the year approached. CONNIE After the SCHRAFT culminations came the class picnics and graduation and Field Day, as predictable as the days of the week. Working in a school is like Groundhog Day—every SCHOOL year you do it a TALK little bit differently and, hopefully, a little bit better. You adapt to present circumstances, make some changes, and start new projects. But the basic proposition is the same—the students arrive in September and leave in June, taller and more confident, better readers, writers and math students. Year after year, we watch children transforming before our eyes, until they march across the stage and accept their

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diplomas. I’ve watched many of the teachers grow up, too, from eager beginners to experienced professionals. Many now wear engagement or wedding rings, and this year we had six pregnant staff members at the same time. The last day was a blur of emotion, hugs from parents and kids laden with shopping bags crammed with artwork, notebooks and spelling quizzes. A few little girls were crying in the yard as they hugged their teachers goodbye. I remember that feeling. I used to

is a palpable difference. It’s not just that I’m wearing shorts and flip flops. Even if the bulletin boards weren’t bare and the sign-in book hadn’t been put away, I would be able to feel the hollowness. I climb the stairway, where no posters hang advertising “Book Exchange,” “First Grade Farmers’ Market,” or “Pilgrim Movie—coming soon!” Outside the kindergarten classrooms, the lunch box bins are gone and a flap of bright blue paper hangs forlornly from a bulletin board. The assistant principal is already at

When I walk into school after the last day, even if the bulletin boards weren’t bare and the sign-in book hadn’t been put away, I would still be able to feel the hollowness. walk home on the last day of school with reddened eyes, convinced I would never again have a teacher as wonderful as Miss Harper (or Miss Evans or Mrs. Lipton). But of course, there was always another great teacher around the corner. We can all summon up that feeling of being released at the end of the school year. Is the melancholy I feel a longing for my own childhood? When I walk into the school the next day—for there are some of us who do not say goodbye on the “last day”—there

work in the conference room, creating a schedule of all the enrichment classes and teacher prep periods and lunchtimes for the fall—a time-consuming job that demands all her attention. The principal is finishing up teacher evaluations and next year’s hiring. She is keeping close tabs on her budget and enrollment for the fall. Over the summer I will keep in touch via email with families planning to move to our zone from overseas or out of state or uptown. It’s a waiting game—how

many of them will actually come? The arrival of these new students affects not only class size but how many classes there will be and how many new teachers are needed. In the hallways, the custodians are whistling. While they have to clean the school building from top to bottom over the summer, wax the floors, paint walls, and repair leaky sinks, the schedule is looser and they will have some time off. The teachers who are leaving, either for another position or motherhood, are in their old classrooms, packing up. They stop in the office to drop off their keys and say goodbye again, but with no tears this time. That was yesterday. One day this month I will begin working on the August letter to families, that simple but thrilling document that reveals next year’s teacher and will mark the end of summer. But not yet. First it’s time to experience July—the heat, the sweet wetness of popsicles from the ice cream truck, an interminable game of Monopoly, or maybe a case of poison ivy. So, take a swim, eat a peach, have a new idea—or two or three. And parents, don’t forget to read with your children every day this summer! It does make a difference. Connie Schraft is P.S. 89’s parent coordinator. For questions and comments, write to her at connie@tribecatrib.com.

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g Preschool Play & Art Songs, games and storytelling. For toddlers with an accompanying adult. Ages 2–4. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10 am. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

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about worms and composting and make a container of compost to bring home. Ages 5 and up. Thu, 8/7, 3:30 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

Hudson River Art Outpost Teaching artists from the Children’s Museum of the Arts lead art projects. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1–4 pm. Free. Pier 25 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org. g

Art and Games Lawn games and art projects using clay, wood and other materials. Ages 5 and up. Free. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm., Teardrop Park near Warren St. Thursdays, 3:30 pm., Rockefeller Park near Chambers St., bpcparks.org. g Chess Learn the game from an expert. All ability levels are welcome. Ages 5-15. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St., bpcparks.org. g Stack ’Em High Kids learn about materials architects use to construct tall buildings, then design their own high-rise models. Ages 4–8. Sat, 7/12, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g

Ink Experiments A Chinese calligraphy workshop that teaches basic skills. Sat, 7/12 & 8/2, 11 am. $10. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

Let’s Make a City A reading of Virginia Lee Burton’s picture book “The Little House” is followed by a workshop in which kids design their own buildings. Ages 5–7. Sat, 8/9, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

DANCE g Summer Dance! Native American storytelling and dance lessons for the whole family. Tuesdays–Fridays, 11 am & 1 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

West African Family Dance Kotchenga Dance Company leads the audience in traditional West African steps. Sat, 7/12, 6:30 pm. Free. Esplanade Plaza near 2nd Pl., bpcparks.org. g

Family Dance DJ Rekha leads Bhangra dancing accompanied by drummers and dancers who perform a fusion of Punjabi-style folk dance and hip-hop. Sat, 8/16, 6:30 pm.

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his summer at the South Street Seaport is a gamut of outdoor movies for kids (and adults, see page 28) that range from “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (above), to “E.T.,” to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Other free weekend offerings include storytelling, visits by TV and storybook characters and performances by Tim and the Space Cadets and Rolie Polie Guacamole. Details at southstreetseaport.com/events.

Basketball and Soccer Games and fun drills to improve skills. Basketball on Mondays, 3:30 pm: ages 5–6; 4:30 pm: age 7 and up. Soccer on Tuesdays, 2:30 pm: ages 3–4; 3:30 pm: ages 5–7; 4:40 pm: ages 8–11. Free. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St., bpcparks.org.

g Family Yoga Class Kids practice yoga, play games, do art projects and sing. Fri, 7/25 & 8/22, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

STORYTELLING Free. Esplanade Plaza near 2nd Pl., bpcparks.org. g Chinese Ribbon Dance Demonstration of traditional Chinese ribbon dancing. Afterward, kids try the moves themselves with ribbons provided. Thu, 8/21, 4 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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Origin Tales of the Northwest Coast Three short animated films teach children about the lives and cultures of the Native peoples whose ancestors have lived in the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. Daily starting Monday, 7/21, 1 & 3 pm. Free. The National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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Teen Drumming Circle Master Senegalese drummer leads a drumming circle. Drums are provided. Tuesdays, 4 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St., bpcparks.org.

Taino Music Kids ages 18 months to 4 years learn about Taino culture through stories, song, movement and activities. Wednesdays, 10:30

am & 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

NATURE PROGRAMS g Big City Fishing Do catch-and-release fishing and learn about river ecology and the many species of fish in the Hudson River. Rods, reels, bait and instruction provided. Ages 5 and up. Sundays, 1–5 pm & Mondays, 5–7:30 pm. Free. Pier 25 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org. g

River Rangers Kids learn about the Hudson River and nature with environmental educators. Hands-on activities including touch tanks, puzzles, science experiments, nature-inspired crafts and more. Ages 3–9. Mondays, 2 pm. Free. Pier 25 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org.

g Young Sprouts Gardening Simple projects including planting, watering and picking vegetables in an organic garden. Also storytelling and crafts. Ages 3–5 with an accompanying adult. Tuesdays, 3:15 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St., bpcparks.org. g

Gardening Club Kids prepare soil, plant seeds and bulbs, water, weed, harvest, compost and more. Registration required. Tuesdays, 4 pm. $130/two months (July/August, Sept-

g Storytime Picture books, finger-puppet plays and action songs. Free. To 18-months-old: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:30 am (to 7/31). Ages 1–3: Wednesdays, 4 pm (to 7/30). Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave. Tuesdays to 8/12, 10:30 & 11:30 am at New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g

Picture Book Stories A librarian reads classic and new picture books. Tuesdays to 7/29, 4 pm. Free. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

g Children’s Storytime Readings of new and classic children’s books. Saturdays, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g

Story Pirates The Story Pirates sing, dance and improv their way through never-before-seen adventures based on prompts that come from the audience members’ imaginations. Mon, 7/14 & 8/11, 6:30 pm. Free. Pier 25 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org.

g Storyteller Therese Folkes Plair tells the story “I Have a Dream and Other Important Wishes,” about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 “dream” speech and other stories. Kids make a dream book to take home. Ages 5 and up. Sat, 8/16, 11 am. Free. Teardrop Park near Warren St., bpcparks.org.

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Ten-year-old DJ Kai Song gets the kids jumping in Washington Market Park

Washington Market Park summer concert had a jumpier—and more youthful—vibe one evening last month when DJ Kai Song, who just turned 10, got behind the CD players and mixers for a rocking dance fest around the gazebo. Having played his first DJ gig at age 3, Song is already a veteran, with more than 100 gigs under his belt. But the park, he said, was special. “It was a different atmosphere than in a street fest or a club,” he said. “It was cool.” And watching the kids dance to his music was special, too. “I’m doing something I love,” he said, “and at the same time they’re doing something they love.”

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Above: Kai Song has plenty of company as he spins tunes from the Washington Market Park gazebo last month. Far left: The music got even the youngest toddlers moving to the beat. Near left: Kai learned at the knee of his DJ dad, Lars Schlichting. “He’s already a better DJ than I was when I was in my early 20s,” says the dad. “It boggles my mind.”

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BY JULIET HINDELL There’s an epic vibe of World Cuptype proportions about the Flea’s production of “The Mysteries,” starting with the 48 playwrights who wrote it, the 54 actors who appear in it, the 70 or so suppers served at intermission every night and the five-and-a-half hour running time—equal to watching three soccer matches back to back. But although that’s a butt-numbing challenge, the action on stage and quite often in the audience’s laps is a tribute to how enduring the stories in the Old and New Testaments are and the youthful exuberance of the talented cast. It’s also dinner theater and the Bible as you have never seen it before—the dwindling congregations of many a church might do well to take note of this contemporary, albeit ribald, interpretation of the gospels. In medieval times, mystery plays were part of the church’s arsenal to indoctrinate the faithful through entertainment and strike the fear of God and the Devil into the wayward. Some original versions would last for 40 days, so the Flea’s take is relatively short, but it sticks pretty closely to the standard content of old-world mystery plays. Starting with the Fall, we are introduced to the Angel Gabriel and the fallen angel Lucifer, played by two equally lissome and brilliant young women, Alice Allemano and Asia Kate Dillon. They

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Colin Waitt plays Jesus in “The Mysteries,” written by 48 playwrights and with a cast of 54.

compete for God’s affections by using a chorus of singing punk angels. God is played by the mesmerizing Matthew Jeffers, who is 4’2” and suffers from skeletal dysplasia. Dressed in a tracksuit and then a tuxedo, he warns that “Chaos is painful.” At times, this huge experiment in collaboration looks like it might descend into chaos despite Ed Sylvanus Iskander’s herculean directing effort. A member of the creative team confided during the dinner break (geographically appropriate falafel and salad) that

getting all the writers in line was “like herding cats.” In theory, there are 48 distinct gospels, each by a different writer. But in practice, writers were inspired by each other so that over the course of development it became less and less clear who had written what. The first 90 minutes zip through the Old Testament. Adam and Eve (Kyle Hines and Alesandra Nahodil) appear completely naked a few inches from the audience’s noses in this small theatre. Noah (Peter Sansbury) is a tree-hugging environmentalist; Abraham (Matthew

Cox) is a hilarious predecessor of the cast of “Deliverance” in duck-hunting camo; and all are accompanied by rousing songs arranged by David Dabbon. The dinner break comes just in time but the thought that there are two more 90-minute sessions to come is not for the faint of heart. The intermissions are a chance to chat with the actors, who serve the food and are members of The Bats, the Flea’s in-house and unpaid troupe. (Only a small number of actors who apply for membership are accepted.). After dinner, Part Two covers the story of Jesus up to the Crucifixion. There are fewer laughs but no less emotion with turns by Alison Buck as Mary, a teenage mother, a fabulous gospel choir led by Gabriel, and violence worthy of the current unrest in Iraq and Syria. The disciples build a following for Jesus with social media and Pontius Pilate is a cowboy. Luckily dessert comes as a respite (baklava and apples). Part Three deals with the Resurrection. Perhaps it was the effect of this marathon, but the production seemed to drag a little. But there are still some gems to keep the audience engaged, including the question, “Is this heaven? Not really, it’s Brooklyn.” To which an apt response might be that Tribeca is not Heaven either—but it’s heavenly to have such vibrant theater here. “The Mysteries” is at the Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org, through July 14.

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ELOQUENT ABSTRACTION Political Stance by Lisa Zilker

Lisa Zilker brings work of intelligence and verve to Synagogue for the Arts

BY JONATHAN GOODMAN ewish houses of worship are not known for their inclusion of contemporary art, but the Synagogue for the Arts has done a terrific job of bringing in the paintings of Lisa Zilker, who works with colorful, often primary-hued abstract passages in her pictures. Interestingly, she is a hardedge, non-representational painter, whose tones and forms belong to the Color Field school, which emphasizes applications of simple shapes on a twodimensional surface. Zilker, who specializes in sharply outlined but never overly simple compositions, presents her pictures with genuine aplomb in this synagogue space at 49 White St., through July 23. There she addresses spirituality and formal exploration rather than devotion. Pluralism has been a mainstream art condition since the 1970s; Zilker’s art belongs to a tradition that is by now a few generations old. It gives her a context from which to work, as well as providing her audience with a historical awareness that allows the viewer to appreciate her new efforts. Zilker’s work, at a distance, appears hard-edged, but closer up becomes more painterly; the tension between geometric form and abstract expressiveness is one of the best things about her work. Rounded shapes lock in like a puzzle, and the colors, often red and blue, complement each other to construct a composition of genuine elegance. These combinations of shape and hue are particularly evident in “Interior

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Fault,” a remarkably sophisticated and eloquent abstraction. Zilker has painted a jagged white form, much like a heraldry emblem, over a set of red and white triangles that are arranged in a rational order. The contrast between organic and geometric forms results in a dialogue that is both enjoyable to see and intellectually interesting to consider. Painting today is a bit on the defensive. Critics and curators keep announcing its demise. But an artist like Zilker infuses very good energy into her pictures, which first and foremost do what they are supposed to do: intrigue her audience. “Interior Fault” makes it clear that there is a future to Zilker’s abstrac-

Lisa Zilker with her paintings at the Synagogue for the Arts

tion, both for her personally and for art generally. The most remarkable point of Zilker’s show is its consistency. The artist regularly maintains a high level of artistry from canvas to canvas. In “Political Stance,” we see a row of columns, black, white, red, and blue, some with straight edges, but most with the zigzag outline mentioned above. Again, the effect of her work is larger than the sum of its parts. “Political Stance” regales the viewer with its vibrant complexity. The viewer recognizes from the painting’s title that Zilker is referring to the red and blue states. Humorously, she has reduced them quite literally to

abstractions—which in a way the states actually are, as their red or blue color is based on their political stance, itself an emblematic representation of partisan ideology. It is extremely clever of the artist to boil down an attitude toward government to a non-figurative form! As happens with Zilker’s pictures, her titles are just as intriguing as her art. She is a committed, highly talented painter who shows works of true intelligence and verve. Zilker deserves to be recognized within a wider context; her achievements demand no less. The show is open to the public through July 23, Mon., Tues., Wed., 2 to 4 pm and by appointment.

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George Grubb The photographer juxtaposes images of endangered wild animals against man-made city scenes in an effort to raise awareness of their plight. Wed, 7/2–Sat, 7/26. Opening reception: Tue, 7/1, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

Clay Risen New York Times editor Risen will read from his new book “The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act,” which chronicles the legislation passed by Congress in 1964 outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. His reading will be accompanied by an enactment of letters written by Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. Reservations required: 212-431-7993. Wed, 7/2, 6:30 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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g Anne Frank: A Family Photo Album As an amateur photographer, Otto Frank focused his lens on his two daughters. The photographs, salvaged along with Anne’s diary following the arrest, give a glimpse into the life of the family forced to flee their country during the 1930s. To Fri, 8/29. Tue–Sat, 10 am–5 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

g Rainbow Rowell The author gives her take on love, marriage and magic phones in her novel “Landline,” which follows Georgie and Neal as their relationship falls apart. Tue, 7/8, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

g Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse In collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum, this is the first major exhibition of works by Haida artist Robert Davidson. A pivotal figure in the Northwest Coast Native art renaissance since 1969, when he erected the first totem pole in Massett village, Davidson creates his own interpretations of traditional Haida art forms, including minimalist paintings, graphic works and sculpture with bright colors. To Sun, 9/14. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

g Book Discussion The group’s summer read-

ing list is “A Room with a View” by E.M. Forster (7/29) and “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms” by Gail Tsykiyama (8/26). Tuesdays, 6:15 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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Film Series: Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind A screening of iconic films directed by Steven Spielberg throughout the summer, including “Saving Private Ryan” (7/2), “Jurassic Park” (7/9), “Amistad” (7/16), “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (7/23), “Schindler’s List” (7/30), “Jaws” (8/6) and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” (8/13). Wednesdays, 6:30 pm. Free with a suggested donation. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

g Oil & Water: Reinterpreting Ink Chinese ink paintings by three notable artists, Qiu Deshu, Wei Jia and Zhang Hontu. Ink has been the primary medium of Chinese visual arts since their ancient and medieval incarnations, and is an integral part of calligraphy, poetry and painting. To Sun, 9/14. Tue–Wed & Fri– Sun, 11 am–6 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

g I Am Legend The sole survivor of a plague that devastates New York City struggles to find a cure. Sat, 7/12, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com. g True Grit A tough U.S. marshal helps a stub-

born young woman track down her father’s murderer. Sat, 7/19, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com. g Eyes on Sterlin Harjo Two short documentary films by the Seminole filmmaker Sterlin Harjo look at the day-to-day social issues that Native Americans face, including the elderly in need of good health care and young people learning to grow up amid two cultures. Daily to Sat, 7/20, 1 & 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g The Case of the Three Sided Dream The documentary tells the story of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a musician who, despite his blindness, became a successful jazz artist. The screening will be accompanied by a jazz performance and followed by a talk with the filmmaker, Adam Kahan. Sat, 7/26, 6:30 pm. Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza, 220 Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com. g

Men in Black 3 Agent J travels in time to “Men In Black” early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K. Sat, 7/26, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com.

When Harry Met Sally Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. Sat, 8/2, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com.

Four Weddings and a Funeral A committed bachelor must consider the idea that he may have discovered love. Sat, 8/9, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com.

g The Fed at 100 An exploration of the complex inner workings of the nation’s central bank and the pivotal role the Federal Reserve has played throughout the history of American finance. To October. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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attery Dance Company presents their 33rd Annual Downtown Dance Festival, taking place in Wagner Park from Aug. 17 to 21, 6 to 8 p.m. There will be free performances by companies from Romania, Spain, South Africa, India and the U.S. (see Elena Zahlmann of New York Theatre Ballet, above). A schedule is at batterydance.org. g

Clueless The 1990s cult classic starring Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy features a rich high school student who tries to boost a new pupil’s popularity. Thu, 8/14, 7 pm. $15. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., tribecacinemas.com.

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Andrew Salgado “Variations of a Theme” features bold, large-scale figurative paintings of people against abstract backgrounds. To Wed, 7/16. Tue–Sat, 11:30 am–6 pm. One Art Space, 23 Warren St., oneartspace.com.

The Aviator A biopic depicting the early years of director and aviator Howard Hughes’s career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. Sat, 8/23, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com.

g Hidden Passengers Goup show organized by Avi Lubin, features works by seven artists who explore the role of art in science today. To Thu, 7/26. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

Crazy, Stupid, Love A middle-aged husband’s life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks the help of a new friend who teaches him to pick up women at bars. Sat, 8/30, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, southstreetseaport.com.

George Schneeman “A Painter and His Poets” is the first major retrospective of Schneeman’s collaborative paintings, collages, prints and books, with portraits of his poet friends, spanning 40 years. To Sat, 9/20. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

g A Town Known as Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a Jewish Community Photographs trace the life of the town of Oswiecim, Poland— called Auschwitz by the Germans—which was home to a sizable Jewish population from the 16th century through the postwar period. Ongoing. Sun–Tue & Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. $12; $10 seniors; $7 students; free under 12. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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River & Blues: Christian Scott The trumpet player and his band will perform work inspired by their native New Orleans. Thu, 7/10, 7 pm. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org. g Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival Blues legends, including Sharon Jones & the Dap Kids, the Robert Cray Band, No BS! Brass Band and the James Carter Organ Trio, will perform their original, popular pieces. See brookfieldplaceny.com for schedule. Wed, 7/16 & Thu, 7/17, 6–10 pm. Free. Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St. g

Twice as Good Performance by the Native American rock band from California. Thu, 7/17, 6 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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River & Blues: Sun Ra Arkestra This eclectic big band plays ragtime, bebop and avant-garde interpretations of the jazz canon. Thu, 8/7, 7 pm. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

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g Secrets of the Founders Researchers Chrystal and D. Janie Guill read thousands of letters written by the nation’s founding fathers to their children and other family members, compiling a collection of some of their best pieces of advice. Their words of wisdom remain helpful today. Thu, 7/10, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. g

Re-imagining Asian (and American) Poetry American Studies scholar Dorothy Wang will talk with Chinese-American poets about the impact of racial subjectivity on Asian-American poetry. John Yau and Marilyn Chin will read works that showcase a range of styles within the field of AsianAmerican poetry, from traditional lyric to avantgarde. Thu, 7/10, 7 pm. Free. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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Picture Ourselves in Latvia British playwright Ross Howard’s comedy is about the suppressed desires and aspirations of the staff and patients of a psychiatric ward. Previews begin July 10; opening night, July 17. Through Aug. 9, Thu-Sat at 8 pm. Tickets are free (suggested donation $10) at BrownPaperTickets.com or 630-632-1459. Access Theater, 380 Broadway, accesstheater.com.

ribeca photographer Lucien Samaha was feeling down one winter day so he took a stroll west from his Walker Street loft, as always with camera in hand. The result of two hours of shooting and 300 photos is “Tribeca Blues,” a self-published book, and a show from July 15 to Sept. 3 at the French Malaysian restaurant Aux Epices, 121 Baxter St. Sometimes moody, sometimes mysterious, sometimes whimsical, but always lushly saturated with color, the photos bring a personal vision to an otherwise familiar Downtown landscape.

Arousal & the Lover In a sensuous comedy by George Pfirrmann, a Ukrainian prostitute living on vodka and Scrabble meets a lonely virgin with Asperger’s syndrome. Their story is juxtaposed against that of an English married couple’s secret erotic world. Thu, 7/24–Sat, 8/2. Mondays– Fridays, 9:30 pm; Saturdays, 1 & 9:30 pm. $15– $30. The Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org.

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Nighttime Tour A sunrise walking tour of Lower Manhattan that highlights how pivotal New York City was during the Revolutionary War against the Crown, including little-known facts about local heroes. Meet at the museum. Fri, 7/4, 3 am. $20. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. g Chinatown: A Walk Through History Uncover the history of one of New York’s oldest immigrant neighborhoods. The tour examines how the neighborhood has changed over the past several centuries, and accommodates the large number of immigrants who have passed through, both past

and present. Meet at the museum. Sat, 7/5, 7/12, 8/2, 8/9, 8/16 & 8/23, 1 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors; free under 5. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

Historic Seaport District This tour will explore the history, architecture and people of the oldest intact Manhattan neighborhood, the roots of which are embedded in the city’s early booming shipping industry. Visit Schermerhorn Row, the Paris Café, Old Fulton Fish Market and more. Mon, 7/7, Fri, 7/18 & Sun, 8/3 11 am; Mon, 8/11 & Fri, 8/22, 2 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g

Wall Street History A 90-minute historical walking tour of the Financial District. Meet at the museum. Sat, 7/12 (with an emphasis on

Alexander Hamilton and his contributions to financial history) & Sat, 8/16, 1 pm. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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FITiST Meetup Free exercise class. Tuesdays, 6:30 pm. Free. Pier 25 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org.

Drawing in the Park Sketch and paint the Hudson River, gardens and parks with an artist and educator. All materials are provided. Wednesdays, 11 am. Wagner Park near Battery Pl. Saturdays (except 7/5 & 8/30), 10 am. Free. South Cove near 2nd Pl. Free. bpcparks.org.

g Figure al Fresco Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. All

materials are provided. Wednesdays, 2:30 pm. Free. South Cove near 2nd Pl., bpcparks.org. g Volleyball After Work Casual volleyball games with other adults. A scorekeeper and balls are provided. No experience necessary. Wednesdays, 6 pm. Free. Esplanade Plaza near 2nd Pl, bpcparks.org. g Tai Chi Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with Instructor Alex Hingi. No experience necessary. Fridays (except 8/29), 8:30 am. Free. Esplanade Plaza near Liberty St., bpcparks.org. g

Bike Repair Workshop Instruction in tuning up your bicycle with professionals from Gotham Bikes. Registration required. Sun, 7/20, 11 am. $5. Pier 26 near N. Moore St., hudsonriverpark.org.

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Days before the DOE’S announcement, Spruce Street School Principal Nancy Harris spoke to the PTA about the frustration of not knowing the future of the middle school.

at because you never know.” “This community was very adamant that this was something that they want to see,” the official added, “and we listened to them and we reviewed and we said, yep, this makes sense.” Questions over the fate of the middle school have been raised repeatedly at meetings of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force. And school officials—including, as recently as last year, then-Chancellor Dennis Walcott—have maintained that the middle school would open. But at the June meeting of the task force, DOE officials in the room were silent on the sub-

ject. At that meeting, Silver said he was calling on Fariña to honor the commitment. “I want to reiterate that we were promised a K-to-8 school,” he said, adding, “We look forward to seeing the DOE live up to that promise.” Now that it has, Charlie Collins, like many other parents, says he is relieved. “The possible derailment of this on the eve of our children going into fifth grade was a major point of stress,” he said. “We have built a community of 300 families and we want to continue in that building. This was a great decision by the chancellor.”

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