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BY CARL GLASSMAN It’s yet to be seen what architect Robert A.M. Stern has in mind for the block-long condo building he is designing for West Street between Vestry and Desbrosses. To make way for the planned 152,000-squarefoot building at 268 West St., The Related Companies purchased—and is demolishing—Ponte’s restaurant and the five other Ponte Equities-owned parcels on the block. But the project’s sales office, a couple of blocks away, looks to be a little showpiece of its own. Well before those 44 condo units are ready to be lived in, they’ll be sold out of what until recently was Prima Auto & Truck Repair at 440 Greenwich St., at Vestry. The developer plans to restore and convert the one-story garage into a shiny real estate office complete with model apartment. On the Greenwich Street side, two glass-andsteel storefront windows will be installed where there is now a roll-down gate and entrance to the former garage. Four matching windows on the Vestry Street facade will go into what originally were four loading bays, now filled in with concrete blocks. Installed in the two westernmost window bays on Vestry Street will be what the project’s restoration architect, Joseph Levine, calls a “light box” or “lit glowing space that has some life.” While it is still unclear just what people will see in those windows, Levine said it will be temporary and not carry advertising. Awnings are proposed to hang over the building’s two entrances, near the corner. A loading dock-like stairway would go on the Vestry Street side and handicap ramp and stairs on Greenwich Street. (The entrance has to be raised, Levine said, to the flood plane elevation.) Levine, who is also a consultant on the West Street condo project, to be designed by Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, said the sales office is anticipated to remain for about two years. He showed his plans last month to Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee, which voted its advisory approval to the plan, set to go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on March 3. Despite the near total transformation of the building, one small vestige of its former life remains in the plans. On the corner of the building will continue to hang the small green-and-yellow sign that reads in all capital letters: “Registered Motor Vehicle Repair Shop.”
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BY CARL GLASSMAN AND APRIL KORAL The recent announcement by the Downtown Little League board that a former treasurer admitted to pocketing $60,00 to $80,000 from the league’s reserves has set parents reeling. But his problems with the law, the Trib has learned, go well beyond the league. In a note sent to parents last month, the board wrote that Edwin Valero, 47, “was a member of the DLL board for the 2014 season and served in a role that granted him access to DLL’s bank accounts.� According to people familiar with the situation, Valero is believed to have used a league debit card to make withdrawals from ATMs. “When I read this I thought, could this possibly be the same nice guy?� said Monica Forrestall, whose son played on a team in 2013 for which Valero was the assistant coach. “He showed up for every practice and every game and he seemed like a congenial and very nice person.� “I was very shocked,� said Jim Conley, who coached in the Downtown Little League for many years and knew Valero, whose son was on his team. “But then when I saw the amount I was just blown away.� “It’s a small and tight community,� Conley said. “He had to be very desperate to put himself in a situation where he would be outcast from the neighbor-
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hood.� These comments were made before the Trib discovered what had not been publicly known—that Valero is currently being held on Rikers Island awaiting trial on numerous charges of domestic violence. Valero pled guilty in January 2014 to
charges that he had attacked his ex-girlfriend in her Bronx apartment, kicking and punching her, cutting her clothes off with a kitchen knife and slamming her head against the side of a bed frame. He was sentenced to one year of probation, and an order of protection was issued. Valero was arrested again in October and December 2014, and charged with attacking the same woman, with whom he had had a five-year relationship and whose name is being withheld by the DA’s office. A grand jury indicted him in January on 22 counts based on charges that include holding a pillow over the woman’s nose and mouth for several minutes, repeatedly pushing her head and body into the wall and strangling her into unconsciousness. He pleaded not guilty and is being held on $50,000 bond or $30,000 cash, according to the DA’s office. Valero, a father of two who is separated from his wife, had not had a fulltime job since 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile. People who know him said that he
had been staying with friends and most recently did not have a permanent address. The missing funds represent a large part of the money the league takes in— about 30 to 40 percent of the organization’s yearly revenue (based on its most recent filings with the IRS). But the board emphasized to parents that the league is solvent and the 2015 season will not be affected. It is unclear whether certain “extras,� such as clinics, tournament trips paid for by the league, uniform purchases, or any other league activities will be affected. The league’s president, Andrew Zelter, did not respond to this and other emailed questions regarding the theft and its impact on the league. Valero’s lawyer in the domestic violence cases, Insha Rahman, also did not respond to requests for comment. In its note to parents, the board said it had “instituted new policies and procedures and has established internal finance and audit committees. The league is also working with its accountant and bank on fraud protection measures,� and is hoping to recover some the money from insurance. “There’s a lot of responsibility vested in the treasurer,� said David Glovin, who saw the league and its budget grow rapidly during his time in that role several years ago. “There needs to be sound oversight.�
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St. John’s University at Murray and West streets is being demolished to make way for a 740-foot-high residential tower, separate four-story building, and possibly a public plaza.
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Developers Fisher Brothers and Witkoff are planning a 62-story tower at Murray and West streets, slated to be one of the two tallest residential buildings in Lower Manhattan. So when their representatives came to Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee last month, the question was: Is there a giveback for the community? The answer was yes, no, and maybe. To make way for the 740-foot tower and a separate four-story pavilion with wide space in between, the St. John’s University building is now being demolished on the site, which lies between West and Greenwich. The developers, who paid the university $223 million for the site, reportedly are putting 139 units in the tower. During his presentation to the committee, Anthony DelGreco, a project executive at Plaza Construction, the construction managers for the new building, said that a public park would be designed for the large open space between the tower and the pavilion. “Are there plans to include any community facilities within the building?” committee member Alice Blank asked after the presentation. “No, not at the moment,” responded Alex Adams, a project executive with Fisher Brothers, one of the developers for the site. “There’s a public park, you said, right?” asked committee co-chair Elizabeth Lewinsohn. “This is one of the things we’re still sort of working through,” he said, distancing himself from DelGreco’s earlier statement. After more discussion, it turned out that the city is allowing the developer to put up a building that is 20 percent
larger than zoning allows (an FAR or floor area ratio of 12 rather than 10) if it provides a public plaza or includes affordable housing. So maybe there will be an open plaza, or maybe not. Adams said that they had “looked at” the idea of affordable housing but that is was “complicated.” “We understand that [it is a] priority for the current administration and the community board, absolutely. It’s something that we’ve been weighing, but I’m not in a position to make a commitment on it right now.” “Would you consider having any sort of community facilities in the building at all?” pursued Lewinsohn, repeating the request. “I mean, any suggestions? This is a very large residential tower and it would be nice to sort of provide something for the community.” The answer remained the same. The executives said demolition of the St. John’s building is expected to be completed next month, with construction to start immediately after that. The tower is slated to be ready by the summer of 2018. Adams said he was not ready to show renderings of the building. “We have plans that are very close, but until they’re final, it’s not appropriate for us to be sharing information,” he said, “especially since some of the decisions we’re trying to make are specific to the entry of the building and sort of the outer shape of the building.” Blank urged Adams to present the design as soon as possible. “I would say that given the scale of this building,” she said, “it would behoove you all to definitely come before the community board with the plans such as they are and a real understanding of what this public space is.”
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BY AMANDA WOODS Beginning this fall, you can look ahead to five years of construction on Worth Street, seven days a week. That’s the prognosis for the nineblock stretch of roadway between Hudson Street and Park Row. City officials delivered the news last month to Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee, saying that many details of the $90million utility repair and replacement work, to begin this fall a block at a time, won’t be known until a contractor comes on board. What is certain, said Norberto Acevedo, Jr., of the city’s Department of Design and Construction, is that there will be disruptions along the street to traffic, bus stops, parking, deliveries and, periodically, water service. When there is construction between West Broadway and Church, for example, barricades will be set up on the north side of two-way Worth between West Broadway and Church, with traffic only permitted to pass eastbound on the south side of the street. As a result of the work, some bus stops may need to be closed or relocated. Water will be shut off for up to eight hours at a time, according to Acevedo. Allowable hours of work will be Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (with the potential of some overnight work from 9 p.m to 5 a.m.), Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
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Worth Street, looking east, with construction related to work being done on Hudson Street.
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Some community board members didn’t like those hours and asked if they could be changed. But altering the work schedule, said Luis Sanchez, the Department of Transportation’s Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner, could increase the cost of the project by millions. “The more restrictive [the schedule] is, that $90 million also becomes $100 million,” he said. “So that means $10 million comes from some other part of the city budget. He added, “This is like a balancing
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through the kinds of reconstruction scenarios that have been going on with Chambers and Hudson [projects],” he said. Acevedo told the committee that he would be open to holding “task force” meetings, where neighbors could voice their concerns about the project to the Department of Design and Construction and other agencies. “That could be at your call,” Acevedo said. “You want [those meetings] once a week, fine. Once a month, fine. We could certainly do that.” Community feedback helped change the course of the Chambers Street project, Acevedo noted. Complaints from the community board about the two-blocklong segments of work prompted his department to limit the construction to single blocks. Michael F. Barrow, a partner at Xeno Lights, a lighting rental company at 1 Worth St., was concerned about how the work would affect deliveries. Acevedo said that such issues would be worked out once the construction begins. “Within moments of you saying there’s a problem,” he said, “we would definitely be out there and dealing with construction barricades to get them out of your way.” Acevedo said he would return to the committee with additional information after a contractor is hired and more of the project’s plans become final.
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BY AMANDS WOODS On March 26, the doors to many new restaurants and stores in Brookfield Place will finally begin to open. The retail roster includes 25 shops— mostly high-end sellers of clothing and accessories—with staggered openings through the spring and into midsummer, according to David Cheikin, Brookfield Office Properties vice president for leasing, who last month gave Community Board 1 a rundown of the scheduled openings. Remaining under construction until later in the year, he said, are Burberry and Ferragamo. The “largest and most complicated to build,” Cheikin noted, is the 85,000square-foot, three-story Saks Fifth Avenue, scheduled to open next spring. Aside from the 14 food stalls at Hudson Eats, Brookfield Place will house three new restaurants, including L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, expected to open by the fall; Parm, a casual eatery and sandwich shop serving ItalianAmerican food, with an anticipated April opening; and Amada, specializing in tapas, to be ready by the end of summer at the earliest. Le District, a food market run by restaurateurs Howard and Peter Poulakakos, is scheduled to launch in April. Cheikin said there are still “six or
eight” spaces that have yet to be rented. The future is uncertain for Cobbler Express Shoe Repair, one of the World Financial Center’s original small businesses when the complex opened in 1988, and one of the first to return after Sept. 11, 2001. “We would love to say we have a spot for him,” Cheikin said, “but I don’t want to be here and tell you something that I can’t live up to.” In advance of the first store openings, most of the construction barriers—long a source of inconvenience for people making their way through the Brookfield complex—will come down. The bridge that now connects 200 and 225 Liberty Street is slated to be rebuilt to make it more energy-efficient, Cheikin said. Here is a lineup of the new tenants: Clothing and accessories shops: Hermès Paris, Salvatore Ferragamo, Zegna, Scoop NYC, theory, Judith & Charles, Michael Kors, Calypso St. Barth, Bonobos, Aspinal of London, Diane von Furstenberg, Paul Smith, J. Crew, Vince., Satya Jewelry, Vilebrequin, Tory Burch, Burberry, Saks Fifth Avenue. Other stores: Posman Books, Cos Bar, Davidoff Cigars and Babesta. Also: Equinox Fitness Club, Institute of Culinary Education, Bright Horizons Early Education & Pre-School.
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BY AMANDA WOODS The seemingly endless Chambers Street reconstruction project, which has disrupted street traffic, pedestrians and businesses since the summer of 2010, will finally come to a close this April. The $24.4-million project to replace two 19th-century water, along with a slew of other utility work, was originally expected to finish in the summer of 2013. But faced with Superstorm Sandy, unexpected repairs to a gas main and other holdups, the project has dragged on. The construction initially progressed two blocks at a time, but community complaints about disruptions to traffic prompted the city’s Department of Design and Construction to limit the work to single-block segments. The project’s final segment of underground work, east and west of Church Street, will be completed early this month, John DeLucia, the director of street reconstruction at the city’s Department of Transportation, told a Community Board 1 committee last month. Then, the workers will temporarily restore the pavement with a non-permanent asphalt. In April, the street will be repaved and free of all barriers, he said. “The water main is in [and] they’re just finishing up whatever utilities,� DeLucia said. “And then it becomes two-
way traffic, like they were never there.� Here is a rundown of two other Lower Manhattan street projects: • The Hudson Street water main project, which began in 2010 and has involved replacing or reconstructing century-old water mains beneath Hudson Street from Hubert to Leonard, is expected to finish in June, DeLucia said. The workers have two more steps to go: They must relocate utilities to allow them to place the last piece of a 48-inch water main at Hudson and Worth. Then they will pave the street, DeLucia said. • The Broadway reconstruction project has involved replacing aging facilities along Broadway from Ann to Rector. It was originally set for a 2017 completion date, but is running well ahead of schedule, DeLucia said, though he did not say when it would finish. The sections of Broadway from Liberty to Maiden Lane, and from Maiden Lane to John, will be done by mid-March. Once those areas are complete, work will begin between Ann and Fulton, according to DeLucia. Work is ongoing in the section from John to Fulton, which he said is expected to be completed in June. South of Liberty, all work is completed on both sides of the street and will soon proceed from Liberty north to Vesey.
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A panel of women involved in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood will talk about their roles in that difficult process. Participants include an ironworker assigned to the transportation hub, executives of Brookfield Properties and the Port Authority, and the chair of Community Board 1, among others. The free event, part of Women’s History Month, takes place Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the 9/11 Tribute Center, 120 Liberty Street.
Music on Broadway
Free afternoon concerts resume this month at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed every Wednesday at 1 p.m. at St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. At Trinity Church, 75 Broadway, concerts are Thursdays at 1 p.m., and the lineup is more varied, ranging from works by Schoenberg to contemporary American Art Songs to jazz. Program details can be found under “Music” at trinitywallstreet.org.
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College admissions essay writing coach Lauren Haines talks to students about how to choose a meaningful topic and write a good essay as well as how to overcome anxiety and writer’s block. Tuesday, March 3, 4 p.m. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org.
Celiac Disease: Fact vs. Fiction
Medical experts will discuss “Celiac Disease: Fact versus Fiction” on March 26 at Pace University, 3 Spruce St. The talk is the second of three free seminars presented by NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College and Pace University. The subject of the final seminar, on April 21, is “New Approaches and Challenges in Autism Spectrum Disorders.” Registration for both talks is from 8:30–9 a.m. on the day of the event (light refreshments will be served), and the free, hour-long talk begins at 9 a.m., followed by a Q&A. RSVP to communityrelations@pace.edu.
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Early bird tickets to the Taste of Tribeca, the gourmet food fair that raises
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Civic Center Tour
Thirty-year city court insider Linda Fisher will lead a tour of the Civic Center in Lower Manhattan. The tour, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, is on March 29, at 11 a.m. Fisher will tell the story of the Civic Center’s development, and deconstruct the web of city, state and federal halls of justice, as well as discuss the architectural significance of the area. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at mas.org or by calling 212-935-2075.
Conversations at Death Cafe
Jane Hughes Gignoux, author of “An Insistence on Life: Releasing Fear of Death to Fully Live,” is leading this season’s Death Cafe at Trinity Church. An informal gathering for people to share questions, concerns and experiences around the many aspects of death, the goal of the cafes, which take place throughout Europe and Australasia, is to help people make the most of their lives. Monday, March 9, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Free. To RSVP and for information, email community@trinitywallstreet.org. Trinity Church’s Parish Center, 2 Rector St., Main Room, trinitywallstreet.org.
In Bloom in BPC Park
Even when temperatures are frigid, plants still offer up their beauty in the Battery Park City gardens. Recently, along the esplanade, there are the pretty hairy toad lily with its dried fruits and the delicate seed pods of the snake root. Outside the Merchants River House is the lovely fringeleaf wild petunia. A photo gallery is under “What’s Here” and “Nature” at bpcparks.org.
International Careers
If you have a yen to work abroad, sign up for the panel discussion “International Careers with the U.S. Government” at the NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, 15 Barclay St., Tuesday, March 24, 6:30–7:45 p.m. Moderated by Judith Siegel, formerly with the U.S. International Information Programs, the panelists will offer practical advice and share personal experiences. Register at events.scps.nyu.edu. Seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR D ANA S EMAN
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Left: Hermione, a replica of the 1779 French ship that ferried General Marquis de Lafayette to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. Below right: The Coast Guard Barque Eagle. South Street Seaport Museum interim Director Jonathan Boulware would like to bring the two ships and other historic boats to the seaport, but needs permission from the city for the boats to dock at Pier 16 (below left) where the museum’s vessel, Wavertree, is now tied up.
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South Street Seaport Museum interim Directo Jonathan Boulware addresses CB1.
Seaport Museum chief says visiting vessel program is “critical” to his institution
BY AMANDA WOODS Two famous historic sailing ships will dock at the South Street Seaport this summer, if Jonathan Boulware, the South Street Seaport Museum’s interim director, has his way. Those ships are the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, now based in New London, Conn., which serves as a seagoing classroom for U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets, and Hermione, a replica of the 1779 French ship that ferried General Marquis de Lafayette to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. The ships would be part of a visiting vessel program that Boulware called “absolutely critical” for the museum because the institution can only afford to sustain one of its tall ships, he told Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee last month. Those, and other visiting vessels large and small, he said, would help the museum maintain its “street of ships” even as it loses boats of its own. “There is a lot of emotional connection to the idea of having big squarerigged ships on the East River,” Boulware said. “The iconic view of a big square-rigged ship there is worth having.” In order to accommodate those vessels, though, the museum must expand to
other piers, Boulware said. Last summer, he said, he had to turn away the Barque Eagle for lack of space. Piers 15 and 16 are the only two Seaport piers that remain open and accessible, and according to Boulware, Pier 16 is “pretty well filled up.” Although Pier 17 is currently closed as the Howard Hughes Corp. builds a new mall there, Boulware said he hopes that in the future he and the developer can “work together on berthing historic ships on Pier 17 as well.” The city’s Economic Development Corporation has also allowed the museum to use the north side of Pier 15 for the
tall ship Wavertree, which Boulware said he hopes to hold onto after it returns from the shipyard and takes a berth at Pier 16. “But we will also need other spaces in the district,” he added. Boulware has the support of CB1 in that push. The board passed a resolution, calling for “adequate pier space at the South Street Seaport” and “the pier access required to institute a visiting vessel program.” Currently, the south side of Pier 15 is used by Hornblower Cruises, which operates sightseeing tours and evening and entertainment cruises. Docking priv-
ileges at the pier are determined by a competitive procurement process, according to a spokesman for the Economic Development Corp., the city agency that oversees the piers as well as the rest of city’s seaport properties. “[A visiting ship program] brings all kinds of things to the district that the Seaport Museum couldn’t do even if we did have two big square-riggers of our own,” Boulware said. “It brings in a foreign flag ship, a French ship, it brings in the Coast Guard Barque Eagle, it brings in things that you can bring your families to and tour and say, ‘There’s something new at the Seaport.’”
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LIFE COACH Tyrell Davis takes a shot.
Coach Tyrell Davis tells how he helps his middle school players score, on the court and in the classroom.
Tyrell Davis, 24, coaches the Lower Manhattan Community Middle School’s junior varsity and varsity boys basketball teams. Three years ago he came to the school as an aide in the after-school program, but quickly—and happily—inherited coaching duties of the struggling Bulls. Last year, the JV team went undefeated until its loss for the championship. And the varsity squad nailed its first winning season with a 12 and 5 record. This year has been much like the last, with both teams now competing in semi-final rounds. Off the court and in the classroom, Davis also helps his players score. The coach regularly oversees their schoolwork, checks in with their teachers, tutors and counsels them. “He’s a good person,” said sixth grader Jaimie Wilmot. “And he helps us any way he can.”
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Tyrell Davis helps his players off the court, too. Every Tuesday he attends Abdoul Guidno’s science class and checks on his work. “Abdoul had a bad couple of months and now he’s doing great,” Davis said.
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he lesson I try to teach the kids is that it’s not just about winning or losing. It’s more like we’re a family. You wouldn’t want to let your brother down or sister down. So they all want to play for each other. They also don’t want to let me down. You can have the most talented kids but if they don’t understand the concept of team, they won’t win. If you feel like you’re playing for somebody, you play your heart out. It’s not my job description to get involved in their academics but I do. I check in with every teacher. I’ll tutor the kids one on one. And the kids always have someone they can open up to. If they’re not going to class, there might be something going on at home, or they feel like they’re being bullied. If a kid missed an assignment and three other kids on the team turned it in, I’ll go to the kids who turned it in and say, “Why didn’t your fourth teammate turn in the assignment? You should ask your teammate if he turned his assignment in. We’re all a team. We’re all a family.” Now they do that without my saying it. At lunch we monitor the kids, talk about how the day was, play chess. Then I drop in on a few classrooms, make sure my players are sitting in the front rows, paying attention, doing the right thing in the class. On the days they have away games, I like the kids to dress up in a tie, button-up shirt,
slacks. That teaches them to present themselves well, respect other people’s house and school. Most important, you’re representing Lower Manhattan Community Middle School. It’s like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thing, you gotta be hungry for the game, but off the court you gotta be the gentleman. Our team has kids of all different backgrounds. But there are no racial cliques. We’re all treated equally, no one judges you and everyone feels comfortable in their own
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PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN (5)
Clockwise from above left: In a game against the I.S. 276 Chargers, Coach Tyrell Davis huddles with his junior varsity team, ending with their rallying cry: “1-2-3 LMC, 4-5-6 family!” Davis, normally low-key on the sidelines, calls out to his players. Following the Bulls victory over the Chargers, the two teams slap hands. Jia Wei Chen blocks a shot in the varsity team’s game against I.S. 276. Josiah Chandler drives down court, flanked by teammate Anthony Singh.
skin because, like I say, I see us more like a family. I know the importance of family. My father was shot in the head and killed when I was six years old, and my mom had a hard time after that. I had to become a man fast. Basketball helped raise me and stay away from the wrong kinds of things. I feel like basketball saved my life. Where I’m from all the kids want to be superstar basketball players. And I was one of those kids, but I used basketball as a tool
to help me to go to a school where I couldn’t have gone. I graduated from Henry Street School for International Studies. I played basketball there and they’ve retired my number. I was different because I was a man at 15 years old. I didn’t do what the normal 15-year-old kid was doing. From the bad things to the good things. I went home and did my homework. Then I went to sleep because I wanted to make it to practice in the morning. My friends would say, “Let’s
go to this party,” and I’d say, “No, I want to go practice 100 jump shots.” I had my priorities right at a young age. Then again, they had people that I didn’t have so they had somebody to lean back on. With me, if I leaned back I was going to fall. After high school, I got a basketball scholarship to St. Francis College. I’m a really fast player. I got a good motor. Also, there’s nothing I haven’t seen so nobody scares me. A lot of guys say, “I’m playing against this player today—oh man! It’s going to be a rough game.” But for me it’s like another day in the office. I just play. I was 12 when my little sister was born, and it was best that I help raise her. My mom is real strong and I love her. She had me when she was 15, and worked in a hotel, cleaning up. But she hurt her shoulder, and had a lot of health problems. I went to my sister’s parent-teacher conferences, put her in after-school programs, sat with her when she did her homework. My sister needed me. Her father wasn’t there. He just stopped coming around. I didn’t want her to go look for love. I didn’t
want her to have a kid when she was 15. We live together in my grandmother’s place. She goes to the Lab School and she’s doing good. I’m really proud of her. I feel so appreciated at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School. I feel warm here, I wouldn’t trade this opportunity for anything. It’s not about money, it’s more the opportunity that Kelly [Principal Kelly McGuire] gave me that nobody else gave me. Now we’re a powerhouse team. We’re not the smallest team out of the contenders, but a lot are much bigger than us. We practice really, really hard. We won’t touch the basketball at the start of practice, we’ll just run, run, run. We’ll do conditioning in the gym. I feel like if we’re more conditioned than the bigger guys, they’ll be tired. The players know that as long as they do what they’re capable of doing to the best of their abilities, I don’t care about the outcome. As long as we can look ourselves in the mirror and say we did everything we could do to win—and that we played for each other.
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MARCH 2015 THE TRIBECA TRIB Far left: The class goes into a restful “child pose,” taking a few breaths to quiet down and prepare for the end of class. Left: Teacher Hillary Lopes is in “low lunge” position as Emily Lee makes her way there. Below: Class begins with “heart-and-belly breathing,” as Lopes sounds the singing bowl and Madeline Kolodziej assumes her position.
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They intone mantras like “I love my mom” and “I am so huggable.” And their “downward dog” can be punctuated by a giggle here and there. Still, these children, as young as five, are doing real yoga at P.S. 89. Twice a week for three weeks, kids voluntarily trade their recess play for yoga poses on the school’s stage, led by their cheerful and everpatient instructor, Hillary Lopes. “It’s weaving in games and songs, but with taking the time to breathe, to be a little still,” said Lopes, 29, who works with Little Flower Yoga, an organization that brings the practice to schools. Stillness, of course, does not come easily to fidgety children and Lopes said she has to readjust her expectations. “Just me showing up and being as kind, calm, collected and focused as I can amidst child chaos and energy brings them eventually to a place where they are at least being introduced to it,” she said. It may help that it’s mostly girls who choose
Far left: Ace Kehoe meditates, focusing on his heart and breathing. Left: Lopes gives a hand massage during savasana, the final relaxation exercise. Kids can also request a temple massage.
to participate, though there are usually one or two boys in each class. One of them, 3rd grader Ace Kehoe, said his friends are missing out. “Most of the boys just like to go outside and play and have fun,” Ace said. “But I think yoga’s a little bit better because you get to calm down if you’re having a rough day.”
Vice Principal Tao Vo, who organized the program five years ago, had long practiced yoga as a low-impact exercise. “I figured there might be kids who enjoy it as well,” she said. “It’s a nice combination of structured activity but there’s creativity involved, too.” “Where do you feel the stretch?” Lopes asked one class as they pulled themselves into a “low lunge” pose. “In my legs,” one child yelled. “In my arms,” said another. “I feel it in my heart,” came a sincere third reply. Whatever the feelings during their short yoga recess, the benefits, some kids say, are long-lasting. For 3rd grader Zeyna Tai it means being “happy and relaxed” for the rest of the day. And best of all, she added, “If my brothers are being annoying, I’m not getting really, really mad at them.”
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A teacher dropped a child off in the office, as the class passed by. He’d not been listening or following directions all morning; he was pushing children and bumping into them, the teacher reported. She’d reached her tipping point. “He needs a break,” she said through tightened lips. Children sometimes need to take breaks, and a CONNIE little quiet time SCHRAFT in the office can often help them settle themselves for the rest of the day. What was unusual in this case was that the boy was smiling. That is not the customary facial exSCHOOL pression of a TALK child who has been sent to the office. Back when I was in school, I can remember teachers saying to students, “Wipe that grin off your face.” The teachers thought the kids were being disrespectful, and maybe some of them were. But some of them were probably just nervous and the smiling was uncontrollable. Smiling at inappropriate times is often a sign of anxiety. I’m not a psychologist, and I still don’t know why that boy was smiling.
When I told him that he could return to the classroom, I reminded him that there was to be no more fooling around in class. He nodded, and gave me a big grin. Schools these days understand that children misbehave for many reasons, and we always begin with the famous adage of Ross W. Greene, author of “Lost in School”—“If they could, they would.” Most children who end up in the school office have “lagging skills,” another of Dr. Greene’s key words. They are anxious or self-absorbed or incapable
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but we call him impulsive—not bad or mean. We encourage him to empathize with the child whose sandwich has been soaked and to think about the cafeteria workers who will have to mop up the sticky floor. But the child returns to the office regularly. Is he trying? Is our treatment of him ineffective? Are we making too big a deal over some infractions while taking others too lightly? These are some of the questions we ask ourselves when we talk
Schools now understand that children act out for many reasons, and most who end up in the school office have so-called “lagging” social and emotional skills.
of controlling themselves for any number of reasons. Some of them will eventually be diagnosed with ADHD. Being aware of this has changed the way we handle discipline. Recently, I received an email from a parent who was concerned about the behavior of some of the children in her child’s classroom. She felt that the “bad” kids were preventing the “good” kids from learning. We just don’t look at students that way anymore. What about a six-year-old who pours chocolate milk on his neighbor’s tray during lunch? It’s not a nice thing to do,
about students’ behavior. Once I asked a boy if he was sorry he had hurt another child. The answer is obvious, right? But he shook his head no. Clearly, he didn’t understand the question. I asked again with different words—did you feel bad when the girl cried? Still, a shake of the head. I was mystified but pressed on. Would you like it if someone pushed you down and then kicked you? A slight hesitation, then another shake of the head. It would hurt, right? He nodded in agreement. I was get-
ting somewhere. And no one likes to be hurt, I said. I thought I had made my point, and the conversation ended there. Time will tell if he understood. There’s another child who is often punished for behavior that would usually be described as mean, but if you saw him in the office, you would think he was sweet. He speaks pleasantly and is polite. You would never guess that he had just pulled a girl’s glasses from her face and thrown them across the hall. The principal called the girl to the office and encouraged a conversation between the two kids. Every time the boy offered an excuse—“She just walked by when my arm was swinging” and “I didn’t see her walking by”—the girl shook her head. Faced with her honesty, he became quiet. You may have noticed that in each example I’ve described, I’m talking about a boy. Girls are less likely to be sent to our office, and, nationwide, statistics bear this out. Generally, boys are more active and less mature than girls; they have a harder time focusing and sitting still, which makes school tough for them. We can all sympathize with that. Sometimes a child arrives in the office, saying, “I’m not in trouble, I’m just taking a little break.” That’s the new face of discipline. Connie Schraft is the P.S. 89 parent coordinator. She can be reached at connie@tribecatrib.com.
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Stories and Songs Movement, parachute games, dancing, singing and live music for ages ages 6 months to 3.5 years and ages 13 months to 3.5 years. Classes began in January, but a pro-rated fee is available for the remaining sessions, which end April 8. See website for more information. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org. g Gross Biology Children learn what’s inside them, how their bodies work hard to keep them healthy and why it is important to make good eating choices. Thursdays, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, and 3/26, 4 pm. Free. Presented by Children’s Museum of Manhattan for ages 5 and older. First come, first served to the first 25 children with an adult. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org. g
Baby Laptime Pre-Walkers Babies and their caregivers enjoy simple stories, lively songs and rhymes. Mondays, from March 2 to March 30, 9:30 am. For 18 months and younger. Free. Limited to 50 babies and their caregivers; first come, first served. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org.
g Deep Space Uni-Verses Children will hear poems about outer space and try their hands at writing their own poems about imagined worlds beyond ours. Ages 6 and up. Sat, 3/21, 11 am. $10. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Design and Build a Model City Children will discuss where parks, restaurants, stores and work areas belong in a city, and then build their own model city. Ages 6 and up. Sat, 3/21, 10:30–11:45 am. $5 per child; free for members and Battery Park City residents. RSVP by Friday, 3/20, at 5 pm by calling 212-9456324. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, skyscraper.org.
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Persian Festival Explore the world of Persian culture with live music, dance workshops, theater, interactive storytelling, music and dance performances, art-making workshops, and more. Sundays from March 8 to 22, 10 am–5 pm. Ages 1-65, $11; under 1 and over 65, free. Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org. g The Peking Acrobats In this one-hour program for young audiences, performers make daring maneuvers atop a tower of chairs, trickcycle, tumble, somersault, and do gymnastics. Sat, 3/21, 2 pm. $25; $10 children. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu. g
Open Ships Explore the four-masted 1911 barque Peking and 1907 lightship Ambrose. Visit the ships’ decks, captain’s quarters and sailors’ bunks. Learn about the history of the ships and the seaport district. Fridays through
The Saturday Morning Shows
If you didn’t catch The Saturday Morning Show last month, there are two more weeks of variety shows coming up. The free events, which take place at Hudson Eats on the second floor of Brookfield Place, are geared towards ages 8 and under. Here’s the schedule: Saturday, March 7, 11 am: Vered The band Vered and the Babes play on pots and pans, as well as more conventional instruments such as the French horn and trumpet. Kids and parents are invited to join in the singing and dancing. Saturday, March 7, 12 pm: Bill Gordh Storyteller, banjoist and author Bill Gordh entertains with an interactive performance. Gordh has performed with the
Sundays, 11 am–5 pm. $12; $8 students and seniors; $5 children, 2-11. Buy tickets online. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., southstreetseaportmuseum.org.
York Philharmonic and at the Clearwater Festival. Saturday, March 14, 11 am: Mario the Magician Unless they are curmudgeons, parents will find Mario the Magician just as entertaining as do their children. Mario makes his own inventive props and delivers them in a comedy in the style of his heroes Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Saturday, March 14, 12 pm: Mil’s Trills Led by singer Amelia Robinson, Mil’s Trills introduces children to musical instruments in an interactive show that makes learning fun.
Mario the Magician will perform Saturday, March 14, 11 am, at Hudson Eats, Brookfield Place.
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The Gruffalo Theatrical adaptation of the story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about the Gruffalo’s child who ignores her father’s warning and tiptoes out into the snow one night and into the dark woods. Sat, 3/14, 1:30 pm. $25. Ages 4 and up. Tribeca Performing Arts Center at 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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Talk about rebounds. The BMCC Panthers came off last year’s 9-and-18 season to capture the CUNY Conference title with a 91-83 victory last month over Bronx Community College. The game capped a 25-and-3 season (10 and 0 in regular season play). The Panthers would end the post-season as number three in the nation, with Nolan Adams named both conference and region Coach of the Year in just his second season with the team. (The Panthers went on to lose the regional championship to Hostos Community College, 69-62.) Despite the final score, the second half was anyone’s game down to the last three minutes, with 11 lead changes and seven ties. The Panthers breakthrough came at 2:46, when Lowell Stevens widened BMCC’s three-point lead to 81-76, and BMCC took control from there. Success, Adams said, was built on serious recruitment that brought together players who “really mix well.” Then there’s 6-foot-7 sophomore Akeem Williams. the “backbone” of the team. “He’s taken the younger players under his wing,” Adams said. Williams, however, heaped the praise on his coach. “He’s here every day no matter what’s going on in his life, and he’s working hard,” the center said. “The same energy, the same enthusiasm. He brings it every day.”
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Above left: Elijah Bryant, who scored 14 points, takes a leap. Above: The Panthers give Joseph Ojo a lift as they celebrate their 91-83 victory. Ojo was named the tournament’s most valuable player with game totals of 18 points, six rebounds and five assists. Left: Coach Nolan Adams rallies his team during the late, tightly scored second half. “I was trying to keep them calm and composed,” he said. Below right: Jericho Cherisma goes for the dunk in the first half. Below left: Tyler Smith drives down court, guarded by Brian Berrios.
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Tribeca Park, at Beach Street and West Broadway, is just a few blocks from the New York Academy of Art, where Nicolas Holiber had been a student a couple of years ago. So Holiber knew the park well, and when he got a chance from the city Parks Department’s Art in the Parks Program to choose a site for an installation, Tribeca Park came right to mind. “I thought it would be the perfect area for a giant’s head,” the artist said matter-of-factly. And not just any giant’s head but, as its title, The Head of Goliath, indicates. In May, Holiber will install a six-foot-long representation of David’s mythical victory, to be constructed mostly of wood, with elements of plaster, fiberglass and found objects. Holiber, 29, welcomes viewers to see that large head as a literal representation of the giant. But for him it is a metaphor for a very real modern-day struggle, one that artists especially can understand. “People go to New York to be the underdog and beat whatever obstacle is in front of them,” Holiber noted. “The head of Goliath was David’s trophy and for me the trophy of overcoming obstacles is something a lot of people in New York can relate to.”
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A photo montage that shows Nicolas Holiber’s Head of Goliath in Tribeca Park.
“In a way,” he added, ”New York is the Goliath.” Holiber entered the prestigious Academy “thinking I was going to be a big figurative painter. Then you get to school and your whole world is turned upside down. You’re exposed to so many artists and teachers.” By the time he started a third-year fellowship, Holiber was ready to “push away” from the representational and figurative art that is the focus of
the academy. He turned to sculpture for the first time, creating a whole new body of work and satisfying an urge to build, mostly out of found materials like discarded wooden pallets. In the beginning, he said, that work was “monstrous, weird, comical but also serious figures.” “It was exciting for me because it was so new and, at the time, the sculptures were really just raw and it was much more about the object than rep-
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Nicolas Holiber with one of his creations.
resenting something.” Now, the artist said, he is returning to more representational work, though judging from his idea of Goliath, elements of the monstrous remain. And once it’s installed, Holiber said, he is looking forward to watching the piece weather and degrade during its three months in the park. “My intention is that it becomes a kind of relic,” he said, “a modern ruin in the park.”
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Annual Lantern Festival This year’s annual Lantern Dance Festival at the Chen Dance Center will feature works by choreographers H.T. Chen and Remy Charlip. H.T. Chen’s latest dance/theater piece, “South of Gold Mountain,” is about the Chinese men and women lured to America by the promise of gold and committed to making a better life for their families. The historic tale unfolds through contemporary dance and a score that blends Chinese music with Southern blues. March 5-7, 7 pm. Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry St. $25; $15; $12 for students/seniors Reservations: 212-349-0126 or chendancecenter.org.
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Amanda Selwyn Dance Company A series of shorts dramatizing how we reinvent ourselves over time. Each piece will highlight signature structures and elements in Selwyn’s style. Fri and Sat, 3/13 and 3/14, 7:30 pm; Sun, 3/15, 3 pm. $25. For tickets, call 212-220-1460. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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he Laura Pawel Dance Company combines improvised and choreographed works along with impromptu talk by the performers, a few of whom have worked together since Pawel founded the company in 1968. “3 a.m.” (above) is about sleeplessness, wanderings and other middle-of-the night afflictions and will be performed to original live music by Cecilia Coleman Quartet. Shows are Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21, at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry St. Tickets: $20; $15, students and seniors. Call 212349-0438 for reservations. More information at chendancecenter.org.
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Art at Warburg Work by Russell Conner, Liam Dean, Rimo Fujita and Robin Rice. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St. To 3/28.
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Magdalena Solé and Five Gallery Artists Solé’s work portrays the aftermath of the Japan tsunami. Also on display are the works of Sandra Carrion, Conor Doherty, Mark Santos, Lois Youmans, and the posthumous showing of Erle S. Myers’s photos. 3/4-4/4. Opening reception: Tues, 3/3, 6-8 pm. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.
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Image of Israel: Origin and Identity Pictures by photographer Max Richardson, who lived and worked in Israel for over 25 years. Included are portraits made with 8" x 10" and 4" x 5" field cameras, composite digital images and photographs printed on glass, replicating the first commercial color process. Also images of Jerusalem printed directly on the renowned Jerusalem Stone. To 3/15. Call for viewing hours. Tribeca Synagogue, 49 White St., tribecasynagogue.org.
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Concerts at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel Vocal and instrumental performances of emerging and established artists, featuring a diversity of music styles, from jazz to classical. Thursdays at 1 pm. Trinity Church, 120 Broadway. Wednesdays at 1 pm, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra perform the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway. All concerts are free. Complete schedule at trinitywallstreet.org/music.
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American Showstoppers: Irving Berlin Fred Barton and His Orchestra will bring an entire century of Irving Berlin’s greatest songs to life, from his earliest American hit, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” through the entire 20th-century evolution of the Broadway musical. Fri, 3/6, 7:30 pm. $29$49. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.
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Saxophones Supreme Peter and Will Anderson, Lou Donaldson Quartet, Ken Peplowski, Grant Sewart, Ehud Asherie, Neal Miner and Aaron Kimmel will be playing sax in this month’s “Highlights in Jazz” concert. Produced by Jack Kleinsinger, the series is now in its 43rd year, the longest-running jazz series in the city. Thursday, 3/19, 8 pm. $45, students $40. Tickets at tickets.tribecapac.org. g
The Nile Project Young master musicians from throughout the Nile Basin perform modern
melodies from Ethiopia, Arab classical music of Egypt and Sudan, and rarely heard rhythms and melodies of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. Representing the rich diversity of Nile Basin cultures, the vocalists will sing in 11 different languages. Fri, 3/20, 7:30 pm. $29. Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., schimmel.pace.edu.
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Cookbook Talk and Wine Tasting Authors Jeff and Jodie Morgan will discuss their new book, “The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table.” Along with wine tastings, they will talk about food and wine pairings and some easy-to-prepare appetizers, salads, soups, side dishes, main courses and desserts. Sun, 3/8, 2:30 pm. $10, $7 students/seniors, $5. Tickets at mjhnyc.org or call 646-437-4202. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
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Nguyen Phan Que Mai: A Reading and Discussion with Bruce Weigl Mai is an awardwinning Vietnamese writer, journalist and translator. The most recent of her four books of poetry, “The Secret of Hoa Sen,” offers intimate glimpses into daily life in the streets, houses, and fields of postwar Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, renowned translator and Mai’s collaborator on this latest book, is the author of 13 poetry collections, including “The Abundance of Nothing,” which was nominated for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. Tues, 3/10, 7 pm. $10; $7 for students and seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: Kubrick’s Music Learn how filmmaker Stanley Kubrick changed cinema through his use of music in film. This talk and film retrospective will go back to earlier works such as “Paths of Glory” and “Dr. Strangelove” to hear how Kubrik was already taking chances with music, even before he made “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Followed by an informal Q&A. Tues, 3/17, 7:30 pm. Free. Tribeca
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Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. Antisemitism and Political Extremism in Hungary and Greece Tad Stahnke of Human Rights First discusses how the atmosphere of deepening intolerance across Europe for Jews and other marginalized groups weakens European values, trans-Atlantic allegiances, and a united front against Russian aggression. Sun, 3/15, 2 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g
A Force for Good John Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management U.S. and author of “A Force for Good,” has gathered noted financiers to explore how Wall Street can harness the same creative energy that invented credit default swaps and channel it towards the public good— in the form of a stable retirement system, investment strategies that protect the environment and reward responsible corporate behavior, and furthers a financial industry with an ethical culture of integrity and client focus. Panelists include Charles Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates, Barbara Novick, co-founder of BlackRock, and John Rogers, former CEO of CFA Institute. Wed, 3/18, 5:30–7 pm. Discussion followed by Q&A. $15; free for students. Reservations required. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
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The Interfaith Family Today In conjunction with the Forward’s recently launched advice column, “The Seesaw,” panelists Susan Katz Miller (Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family), Laurel Snyder (Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes), and others will explore how interfaith families approach such matters as holidays, religious education, and inlaws. Wed, 3/25, 7 pm. $10, $7 students and seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
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Personal Monsters Nic Esposito, Chris Tarry
and Cara Hoffman read from their newest works, followed by a Q&A moderated by M. M. De Voe and Salon’s curator, novelist Christina Chiu. Tues, 3/10, 7 pm. Free. Ages 21 and up. Pen Parentis Literary Salon, Andaz Wall St., 2nd Fl., 75 Wall St., penparentis.org. g
Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution Andrew Schocket discusses how the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history. He also examines how our views of the past and present illuminates our ideas of what the United States means to its citizens in the 21st century. Thurs, 3/12, 6:30 pm. $10; free for museum members. Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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Financial District and 9/11 Memorial Learn about the stock market and the financial history of the area. Stops include Wall Street, Federal Hall, New York Stock Exchange, the Bull, U.S. Custom House and Bowling Green and the 9/11 Memorial. Tuesdays through 4/1, 3–4:30 pm. $27. Wall Street Walks, wallstreetwalks.com.
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Death Cafe An informal gathering to share questions, concerns and experiences around the many aspects of death. The goal is to help people make the most of their lives. 3/9, 6:30–8:30 pm. To RSVP, email community@trinitywallstreet.org to reserve. Parish Center, 2 Rector St., Main Room, trinitywallstreet.org.
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Free Senior Swims For 65 and over. At the Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St. Mon–Thurs, 12:30–2 pm. Senior water aerobics classes also available. Go to “Aquatics,” manhattanyouth.org or call 212-766-1104 ext. 221.
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Foley Square in 1917. Shown are four of the five streets that intersected and gave the name to the notorious nearby slum known as Five Points.
What is now Foley Square, flanked by courthouses, was once compared to “a very sink and common sewer.”
BY OLIVER E. ALLEN To get an idea of how completely Foley Square has been transformed over the past century, note the subway entrance that appears in our old photograph above—taken in 1917—just to the right of the Piedmont Cigarettes sign and facing a billboard that says “Be Careful.” Standing at the confluence of Lafayette (far left) and Centre streets, it serves today as the entrance to the J and M subway lines. In our contemporary photo, taken from roughly the same spot, it is the only structure visible from the former view. Even the other two subway entrances are gone. There was good reason to wipe out the old scene: the neighborhood was not one that most people would want to preserve. Much of the land on the left side of our old photo was originally under a body of water known as the Collect Pond, which in the 1700s was a popular picnic and skating spot but by 1800 was attracting all sorts of disagreeable factories, from tanneries to breweries to slaughterhouses, and was considered “a very sink and common sewer.” The Pond was drained and filled in by 1811 (although its overflow stream still flows to the Hudson under Canal Street), but it had already contaminated
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A contemporary view of Foley Square taken from about the same angle as the one above.
the neighborhood to the east, giving rise to the notorious slum district known as Five Points. Named for the intersection of five streets located at or near the open triangular area just to the left of the word “Hill” on the building advertising the Hill Publishing Company, the Points was dominated by crumbling dwellings, shacks and taverns catering to sailors. As one authority has written, it was “renowned for jam-packed, filthy tenements, garbage-covered streets, prostitution, gambling, violence, drunkenness,
and abject poverty.” Charles Dickens and other notables were fascinated by its squalor. Five Points in turn was responsible for nearby Mulberry Bend just beyond it, a violent area centering on a curve in Mulberry Street, which is visible in the 1917 photograph at the far edge of the open patch in the middle distance. For a while it was considered the most crimeridden area in the city. Indeed the open patch resulted directly from the Bend’s notoriety because of
the writings of the social reformer Jacob Riis—particularly “How the Other Half Lives” (1890), which focused attention on it and ultimately persuaded the city to try solving the problem by simply demolishing the western side of the street. Thus was created Columbus Park, which today is thronged by the residents of Chinatown, just beyond Mulberry Street. And the removal of the Bend led to the clearing of the whole Five Points area and thus to the development of Foley Square as a governmental and judicial district. Named for the prominent Tammany Hall politician Thomas F. Foley, who kept a saloon nearby, the square today contains a park named for the Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine (and located where Lasher & Lathrop once made paper). But it is dominated by two imposing classical structures, the New York County Courthouse (1926) and the U.S. Courthouse (1936). Their porticoed splendor exudes such an air of permanence that it is hard to believe that the foul-smelling Collect Pond and the depraved Five Points ever existed. This article first appeared in The Tribeca Trib in March, 2004.
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TRIPLE MINT 4 BR + TERR Laight Street/Washington Street. Co-Excl. Stunning PH w/ soaring ceilings, massive living space, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, exquisite master Suite, terrace in best Tribeca FS condo w/ garage. $13.5M. WEB# 11837606. Maria Pashby 212-906-9388 Joanna A. Pashby 212-906-9386 BOHEMIAN CHIC LOFT TriBeCa. 195 Hudson, one of TriBeCaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most desirable condo bldgs. CEILS "2 BATHS /WNER S OFlCE w/street entrance. 24hr DM, storage rm, prvt garage, roof terrace. $6.9M. WEB# 11334394. Lisa Gustin 212-396-5844 FULL FLOOR LOFT CONDO Broadway. Private elevator access, approx 4200 square feet of entertaining space. Wood burning fplc, exposed brick walls, 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceiling. Excellent condition. $5.5M. WEB# 11256574. Juliana Frei 212-396-5886 Drew Glick 212-396-5883 EVERYTHING...DONE RIGHT TriBeCa. Beautiful & spacious 4BR, BATH WITH HOME OFlCE STUDY playroom & 600SF private terrace. All new full service condo meets classic TriBeCa loft. $5.379M. WEB# 11122643. Beth M. Hirsch 212-452-4493 A PERFECT CANVAS 4RI"E#A &ULL mOOR LOFT FEATURING 11ft ceilings, exposed brick, extensive southern-facing views, and a U- shaped layout that can be transformed to your desire. $4.95M. WEB# 10024105. Craig Filipacchi and Jacques Foussard 212-452-4468 ARCHING AMBITION TriBeCa. Rare & raw, 4000SF Central 4RIBECA FULL mOOR LOFT W BRICK archways, 11 windows, original tin ceil, direct key-locked elevator. Small Co-op building. $4.475M. WEB# 11996113. Siim M. Hanja 212-317-3670 Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675
PERFECT LIVE/WORK SPACE TriBeCa. Massive triplex property with approx 5,400SF, including approx 500SF of commercial space that can be DESIGNED TO YOUR OWN SPECIlCATIONS $3.75M. WEB# 11815025. Craig Filipacchi and Jacques Foussard 212-452-4468 2,563SF TRIBECA LOFT TriBeCa. 2,563SF. 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122;9â&#x20AC;? ceils, inspired renovated, superb orig details, cast iron fluted columns, huge chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kit, heated bath flrs, keyed elev entry, stone facade. Price reduced. $3.475M. WEB# 9685751. Siim M. Hanja 212-317-3670 Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675 TRIBECA DREAM HOME Jay Street. Triple mint 2BR, 2 bath stunner on one of TriBeCaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most sought after cobble stone blocks. Exposed brick and reclaimed Coney Island boardwalk wood accents. $2.975M. WEB# 12038304. Wendy L. Richardson 212-906-9257
Village EXCEPTIONAL TROPHY PH West Village. Grand scale 4BR, 4 bath with 24â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceil, great room, 360 degree river and city views. Wraparound terrace. Architect masterpiece. $40M. WEB# 11294646. Scott Harris 212-317-3674 Sophie P. Ravet 212-452-4470 TOWNHOUSE IN A TOWNHOUSE Charles Street. Unique West Village quadruplex in a boutique condo bldg. 6,524SF plus 1,280SF landscaped garden. 4BR, media rm, rec rm, elevator. Mint condition. $19.25M. WEB# 10018438. Wolf Jakubowski 212-588-5630 BRILLIANTLY RENOVATED 1-FAMILY West Village. 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide Greek Revival townhouse overlooking Bleecker Gardens. Features include 4-passenger elevator, total smart home technology & terraced South garden. $26.5M. WEB# 9740815. David E. Kornmeier 212-588-5642 LOFTY TERRACE West Village. Perfect for spring & summer living, large private terrace w/ open views in huge airy rambling 3BR, 3.5 bath loft in FS condo with gym, garage & DM in WV. $6M. WEB# 9804249. John R. Edwards 212 906-9252 WEST VILLAGE RIVER VIEWS Perry Street. Sweeping Hudson River views from charming 1BR, 1 bath home. Spacious LR w/ wbfp and private terrace, sunlit BR w/ storage, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen. Full service Co-op. $1.295M. WEB# 11713391. Amanda Brainerd 212-452-4515 Simone Mailman 212-452-6209
Allison H. Conner
WEST VILLAGE TH 7EST 6ILLAGE &OUR mOOR TOWNHOUSE that sits in a private street enclave and features an open-concept living area, BEAUTIFUL OAK mOORS TWO lREPLACES AND roof deck. $5.995M. WEB# 11480989. Craig Filipacchi and Jacques Foussard 212-452-4468 1BR, 1 BATH CONDO + PVT TERR East Village. 1BR, 1 bath + private terrace condo just renovated w/ highEND lNISHES 2OOF DECK GYM BIKE rm, low mnthly costs, investor & pet friendly. $699K. WEB# 11856171. Nicholas Z. Palance 212-396-5873 IN THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE Greenwich Village. Located in the heart of GV, this renovated 1BR is close to transportation, Washington Sq Park, Union Sq & trendy shopping & restaurants. 24-hr DM. Pets OK. $625K. WEB# 12025551. Sharri J. Kane 212-906-0532 MINT GREENWICH VILLAGE STUDIO Downtown. Tastefully renovated designer apartment. Luxury space w/ sleek kitchen, chic bath, 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings w/ custom lighting, Brazilian hardwoods & custom closets. $610K. WEB# 11699566. Joseph Ralph Lorino 212-452-4513 Erik Harssema 212-452-4512
Gramercy/Chelsea MINT TH TREASURE West 19th Street. Located on charming tree-lined block. Mint 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Greek Revival brick home. Meticulous renovation & restoration. South garden. Perfect move-in condition. $7.5M. WEB# 11189374. Richard Ziegelasch 212-452-6274 John Burger 212-906-9274 MAGNIFICENT PH WITH 3 TERRACES West 20th Street. 5BR, 4.5 bath renovated PH boasts approx 4,912 interior SF and 1,700SF of terraces. Expansive living room with 22ft ceilings, huge skylights & 2 wbfps. $7.5M. WEB# 10313333. David E. Kornmeier 212-588-5642 60 GRAMERCY PARK NORTH Downtown. Spacious 3BR, 2 bath w/formal DR and sep LR. Fully equipped WEIK, high beam ceil, W/D in apt, FS Co-op on GP w/gym, bicycle rm, central ldry, key to GP, pets ok. $2.7M. WEB# 11996214. Rajan D. Khanna 212-588-5625
GRAMERCY PARK 3 BR Gramercy Park West. Condo. Outstanding direct views of Gramercy Park. 45â&#x20AC;&#x2122; entertaining expanse. 3 bedrooms + library. Large windows, excellent light. Perfect move-in condition. CAC. $7.5M. WEB# 11395268. John Burger 212-906-9274 JEWEL BOX HOME Gramercy Park. Great value townhouse, this approx 1500SF home has an additional 2000SF of air-rights. Zoned C1-9A, Bring your architect to begin building your dream home. $2.59M. WEB# 11122180. David E. Perry 212-588-5697 PARK GRAMERCY Downtown. Opp to combine large 1BR W NURSERY HOME OFlCE W ADJACENT APT TO create 3BR, 3 bath, sep din area, N/W/E expos. FS DM condop-condo rules, roof deck, pets ok. $2M. WEB# 11865998. Rajan D. Khanna 212-588-5625 PREWAR 2BR + FIREPLACE Gramercy Park. Rarely available ONE AND mOORS IN TOWNHOUSE w/ 2 balcs. Meticulously renovated 2BR, 2 bath, wbfp, open kit, W/D, high ceils & through-wall AC. 80% Fin. $1.9M. WEB# 11913232. Russell K. Miller 212-906-9360 William A. Grant 212-906-0518
BPC/FiDi MORSE BUILDING LOFT FiDi. Glorious light illuminates this spacious 2BR, 1 bath corner loft w/13 wndws facing S & W. Abundant custom storage, EIK, HDWD mOORS 7 $ AND HOME OFlCE nook. $1.95M. WEB# 11335046. Leslie A. Mintzer 212-452-4473
Bill Roche
Chun Jon Ha
Frans H. Preidel
Joan Goldberg
Laura E. Moss
Nadine Adamson
Rentals TRIBECA SUMMIT West Village. In the heart of Tribeca, this 2 bedroom, this 2.5 bath apartment boasts a Bulthaup kitchen, soaring 12ft ceilings, and sundrenched space. $12.75K/ monthly. WEB# 11482582. Craig Filipacchi and Jacques Foussard 212-452-4468 Jason Schuchman 212-452-4461 DUANE PARK TREETOPS TriBeCa. Beautifully designed & finished 2BR, 2 bath loft right on Duane Park. Direct elevator, CAC, W/D. Furnished or unfurnished for a 1 or 2 yr lease. $11K/ monthly. WEB# 11732482. Beth M. Hirsch 212-452-4493
Nic Bottero
Sharri J. Kane
Shelley S. Saxton
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