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Two months ago, Michelle was Michelle Szwarcberg , a resident of diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease, the Financial District, died at age 34 a rare complication from her cancer. on Oct. 10. Below, is an edited version Her primary concern was that her death of her story that her partner, Dereick not affect Pilar’s quality of life and Wood, placed on gofundme.com/future any more than the already michelleslastwish. Being a terminally ill cancer patient, unimaginable. Our friends mentioned starting a fund for Pilar and that Michelle was given a “wish” in the last brought a smile and some relief to months of her life. Rather than use that Michelle in her last days. wish on herself, she used it to have I realize the best way for me to Idina Menzel (of the Disney movie honor Michelle’s life is to give Pilar the “Frozen”) come to the hospital to sing with our 3-year old daughter, Pilar. That happiest and fullest life possible. This was the kind of mother she was: always is more important now than ever; child psychologists say that it’s critical that a putting Pilar first. In November of 2013, Michelle was child has stability in life right after losing a parent. And with the loss of Michdiagnosed with stage 3 triple-negative elle’s income, breast cancer. We that stability is had just celebrated going to be her 34th birthday much harder to and were planning maintain. To for the holidays have to change with our families. routines, switch Later, we discovpreschools, and ered she tested even move into a positive for a new home to offBRCA genetic set this loss mutation, which would make the explained why she impact of had acquired this Michelle’s passdisease so young. ing much more The cancer Michelle Szwarcberg and Pilar. difficult for Pilar. Michelle had is The hardest part is knowing that rare and the treatment options were Pilar will grow up without the kisses, both limited and painful. Despite the the bedtime stories, the motherly supodds against her, Michelle refused to port through her adolescence, her presput her life—and ours—on hold. She ence when she graduates from college, continued to work full-time and even or the simple comfort of mama’s hand carried her laptop and work cell phone to hold when she meets life’s chalto all 16 grueling chemotherapy sessions. She scheduled her radiation treat- lenges. The good news is that I can already ments for 5:45 a.m. so she wouldn’t see Michelle’s strength and resilience miss any time at the office. More important, she continued to be within her, which makes me confident she’s going to be okay. And as her an amazing mother to Pilar. She never father, my life is committed to making missed a playdate or holiday gathering sure of that. But if there’s a way I can and even managed to whip up a wonmake life without her mom a little betderful Curious George-themed third birthday party for Pilar when the cumu- ter—a little easier—I know I’ll have fulfilled Michelle’s final wish. So, I’m lative effect of the treatments left her pushing my pride and ego aside and fatigued and weak. She never felt sorry asking for your support. Thank you. It for herself or asked for anything from means the world to us. others. Michelle was truly one of a Dereick Wood kind.
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CB1 Cries Foul over Community Space in City Sale
BY AMANDA WOODS As one of two major Civic Center buildings put on the block in 2012 by the Bloomberg administration, sale of the Clock Tower Building, the two-blocklong 1898 landmark at 346 Broadway was opposed by Community Board 1. Badly needed school seats should have been part of the deal, they said. But the $160 million sale went through with the promise of a different amenity: a nearly 16,000-square-foot media center. Now, the board complains, they aren’t getting all of that, either. As it turns out, the media center that was to occupy the building’s ground floor would instead be partially housed in the basement and add up to a little less than 10,000 usable square feet. R. Donahue Peebles, whose Peebles Corp. and the El Ad Group are converting the 14-story building into condomini-
The landmark 346 Broadway (aka 108 Leonard Street and the Clock Tower Building). Inset: Developer R. Donahue Peebles speaking to Community Board 1’s Planning Committee.
“There’s no gimmick here,” the developer said. “We’re providing the same amount of space on a lower floor.”
um residences, explained the proposal (yet to be approved by the city) to CB1’s Planning Committee last month. The committee told him they’re losing out in the bargain. “As a community member, I’m feeling that, already, I’m not getting what I was promised.” CB1 member Tammy Meltzer said. But Peebles insisted that his company is not backing down from that agreement. “There’s no gimmick here,” he said. “This is what we offered. Measure it however you want, and we’re providing the same amount of space on a lower floor.” The alteration was made, he explained, to satisfy the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s request to make the grand former banking hall on the floor above a publicly accessible space, rather than the townhouses that the developer had wanted. To do that, Peebles said, an elevator-and-stair core has to be installed and the ground-floor community facility reconfigured. Ashley Thompson, from the mayor’s office, made it clear that any fault by the city rests with the previous mayor. “From [this] administration’s perspective, we understand the frustration, and you’re right,” Thompson said, noting what she termed a “miscommunication” by the Bloomberg administration. “It should have been very clear from the beginning what the 15,713 square feet
actually amounted to, which is the rentable square footage.” But CB1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes was not satisfied, noting that the new plan reduces the amount of usable community space by 36 percent. “That is what the community is due, 16,000 square feet,” she said. “That’s not our problem if someone miscalculated usable, rentable or not.” “It’s not mine either,” Peebles responded, “because I have a contractual document. We were very transparent. We used the city’s floor plan, the city’s survey, we attached it so there would be no ambiguity, and it adds up to 15,700 the way they chose to count it.” The city chose the Tribeca-based documentary film center DCTV (Downtown Community Television Center) to run the media center, located two blocks from its home at 87 Lafayette St. Jon
Alpert, co-founder and co-executive director of DCTV, said the reconfigured space will be less attractive to funders. “We thought we were going to be able to create the most magnificent media center in the entire country in this space. The space is different now.” According to an agreement with the city, the developers are giving $2 million to DCTV to build out the space. But Alpert claims he needs $8 million to $10 million to do it right. “To be blunt, $2 million to outfit the media center is not enough money to get the machines, the equipment, the projector and things like that,” said Alpert, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose organization provides low-cost film production courses and rental facilities to teens and adults. “So we are going to be tasked with coming up with the extra money to be able to do it.”
As compensation for the less valuable space, the developer agreed, through negotiations with the city’s Economic Development Corp., to give the city an additional $2.5 million. Those negotiations may continue, according to Jeffrey Nelson, the executive vice president of real estate transactions for the EDC. “There’s a question in our mind as to whether the $2.5 million is an appropriate compensation,” he said. “The additional $2.5 million will go a long way, whether it’s to finish building out the community facility space or, if you guys have any other ideas, we’re certainly all ears as well,” Thompson told the committee. “We can’t settle for anything less than we originally asked for,” board member John Fratta said. “And [even] that’s a pittance compared to what we should be getting in the first place.” The board’s resolution calls on the city to negotiate an agreement with the developers that “restores the value of the community space” and asks for more than the $2.5 million in compensation, to be spent within Community Board 1. Peebles Corp. and El Ad Group must not only come to terms with the city over its compensation for the space, but they also need to win Landmarks Preservation Commission approval for its extensive restoration and conversion proposal, described on the next page. The developers and their architectural firm of Beyer Blinder Belle are scheduled to go before the commission on Nov. 18.
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Far left: Rendering shows the proposed restoration of the Leonard Street lobby. The lounge, at far left, is proposed to replace what today is a bank of elevators. Near left: Rendering of a landmark marble room proposed as a private conference room and moved in its entirety from the fourth floor to the first floor. CB1 said in its resolution that the space should be relocated to the building’s planned community space on the ground floor so that “it may be enjoyed by the public.”
Grand Plans in Search of Landmarks Blessing BY CARL GLASSMAN “We are going to bring this building right up to the 21st century,” architect John Beyer told Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee last month. The building, 346 Broadway, is a city landmark, not only on the outside but with more interior landmarked spaces than any in the city. Known as the Clock Tower Building, it is slated for an ambitiously complex renovation and restoration that will convert the 14-story building to condominium apartments. “Although the building is sound, there’s a fair amount of deterioration, all of which will be restored perfectly,” said Beyer, of the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The proposal, by developers Peebles Corp. and the El Ad Group, who bought the building from the city in May, will go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Nov. 18. CB1, in its resolution to the commission, said there was “much to admire” about the plan, “not least of which is the developer’s intent to bring back some glory to a crumbling monument.” But the board came down hard on much of it, too, calling the proposal “daunting and distressing.” The once grand headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Co., enlarged by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1897, was taken over by the city for agency offices in 1967. Over the years the building has fallen into disrepair, sometimes dangerously so. For years a sidewalk bridge has obscured the ground floors of the Broadway and Leonard Street sides of the building, serving as protection against the risk of falling chunks of facade. Among the most dramatic features of the proposal is the relocation, in its entirety, of a landmark marble room, the President’s Office Suite, from the fourth floor to the first. The developers want to install a third elevator-and-stair core, which would go through that space.
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Inset: A portion of the lower level of the former banking hall as it looks today. Above: A rendering of how it might appear as a restaurant, one of the possible commercial uses for the restored, two-level space. Its marble staircase to the second floor would be moved.
The former banking hall, with its marble walls and ornate ceiling, would become a commercial space (shown above as a restaurant) and its marble staircase to the balcony moved to accommodate the new core. “Every piece of it,” Beyer said, “the walls, the balustrades, treads, risers, everything” will be moved. Another landmarked interior space, now offices on the second floor, would be converted into apartments, and the clock tower turned into a triplex penthouse. (See story on page 16.) “So you’re going to tell prospective owners that they can’t screw in widescreen TV sets, they can’t put in curtains,” said the committee’s co-chair, Bruce Ehrmann. Beyer conceded that incorporating publicly protected spaces into private residences was “unique.”
“It is almost satirical to think of its part of the plan. “The assemoccupant coming to the Landmarks blage looks somewhat as if Preservation Commission for permission a circa 1980s suburban to put up wallpaper or a curtain bar,” the corporate campus were CB1 resolution noted. plopped on top of the As for the building’s much loved building,” the resotimepiece, CB1 said “a directive must be lution stated. put in place to keep the clock working.” The building is proposed to have a 12,000-square-foot green roof “almost like an elevated park for people around us,” Beyer said, that would sit atop a 13thfloor glasswalled roof Rendering of proaddition, visiposed 12,000-squareble from the foot green roof. Two pentstreet. houses (as well as mechanical The board equipment) would rise above them. Below, the rebuilt 13th floor with glasssaved its choicwindow facade. est words for that
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BY AMANDA WOODS Seven years ago, Community Board 1 pushed for more greenery at the Seaport’s planned Peck Slip Park. Now the board is calling for quite the opposite––a plainer, simplified cobblestone plaza. The current design for the two-blocklong plaza, between Front and South streets, includes grass, flowering plants and shrubs on one of those blocks. Back in September, Laurence Mauro, the Parks Department’s program director, came to CB1’s Seaport Committee to talk about the plan, which also features a stone plaza with tables and chairs and includes the stone outline of a ship. Steps would dip below street level as if into the boat’s belly. Sculptural steel “ribs” would evoke those of a ship. But committee member Jason Friedman––an architect who had argued against the design at that meeting–– returned to the October Seaport Committee armed with a PowerPoint presentation and a forceful argument for scrapping the whole long-delayed plan. The committee agreed, and late last month CB1 passed a resolution calling on the Parks Department to come up with a “simplified, low maintenance, flexible and resilient Peck Slip design.” “The space might be better just kind of open, more cobblestone, more sensitive to the historic district, preserving the slip as a contributing historic element in the South Street Seaport,” Friedman told the committee. He argued that since construction equipment was recently removed, the area has become a well-used, successful public space. In the future, he said, it could accommodate merchantsponsored activities, a Greenmarket, or public art projects, to name a few possibilities. Amanda Zink, owner of The Salty Paw, a nearby pet supply shop and boutique, said that the Seaport district does need more green, “but not there.” “When you say green, I think it would mean no dogs allowed,” she said. “I think you [should] keep it open and flexible so the dogs can use it, the Greenmarkets can use it. It just needs to be protected somehow.”
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Above: Jason Friedman, right, presented a variety of possible uses for a more flexible open space on Peck Slip, including (clockwise from above left) merchants’ seating, art exhibits and a farmers market. Below: Rendering of the current plan for Peck Slip Park.
Paul Hovitz, co-chair of the board’s Youth and Education Committee, said Friedman’s proposal would be welcomed by the three schools in the area, the Spruce Street and Peck Slip public schools, and the Blue School, which have little or no outdoor play space. Opposing sides formed in 2006, when a plan for the park was first proposed. There were those who said the
Seaport was in great need of green space and others who argued that a park was not historically appropriate for the landmark district. In April 2007, CB1 pushed the city’s Parks Department to redesign it, because the plan too strongly favored the less green plaza side. Committee chair John Fratta, backing Friedman’s argument, said the Seaport is not what it was back then. NYC DEPT. OF PARKS & RECREATION
“We took a lot of time on this last resolution in 2007,” Fratta said. “We got it right, but from 2007 to today, the area has changed, the population changed.” Only one committee member, Joe Lerner, opposed Friedman’s proposal. “To me, a park means grass,” he said. “Just open space is not good enough.” “I live around the corner and I miss green space,” committee co-chair Marco Pasanella countered. “But I also see that there’s a real need in Peck Slip for this kind of flexible community space. And I see how much people are using it.” “I don’t have any problem with them going back to the drawing board,” said Hovitz, “because, in fact, the space is excellent just the way it is.” A Parks Department spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the community board’s resolution.
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BY AMANDA WOODS If an Ebola patient arrives at NewYork Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, the staff is trained and ready, a hospital official told Community Board 1 last month. The NewYork Presbyterian system of hospitals, including the one Downtown at 170 William St., is among eight in the state that Gov. Andrew Cuomo selected to accept patients with the deadly virus, Michael J. Fosina, the hospital’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, told CB1’s Seaport Committee. In preparation, the hospital has been drilling and training its staff since July on Ebola screening methods and treatment, Fosina said. His remarks came two days before a doctor in New York City, who had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, tested positive for the disease and was taken to Bellevue Hospital, the city’s front line of treatment. “At every entry point into any of the hospitals, screening is being done for all patients who come in,” Fosina said. “And we’ve been doing drills and making sure that we’re prepared and our staff is getting it right.” “That’s been going extremely well,” he said. The hospital has been working with
city, state and federal officials who will monitor the staff's readiness, according to Fosina, adding that NewYork Presbyterian’s chief quality officer is taking “100 percent of his time to make sure we get it right,” he added. Fosina detailed other changes to the hospital since NewYork Presbyterian merged with New York Downtown Hospital 15 months ago. A renovation project, to be completed in April, will add 20 more single-bed rooms to the hospital, for a total of 152, and will add and upgrade equipment. Still more beds will be added as the need arises, he said. More doctors, with a range of specialties, are being hired to treat an increasing number of patients. The doctors are now seeing emergency room patients within 10 minutes, Fosina said. The hospital’s satellite offices are growing, too, according to Fosina. The Weill Cornell Medical Associates office at 40 Worth St. was recently expanded by 4,000 to 5,000 square feet, and this month or next, an additional floor of doctors’ offices will open at nearby 156 William St. “Our job is to adjust and change to the needs of the community,” Fosina said. “And so that’s what we’re spending a lot of time focusing on doing.”
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BY CARL GLASSMAN Prominent thinkers on urban design and historic neighborhood preservation will be speaking this month in Tribeca, where their words will have special meaning. The Tribeca Trust and the Historic Districts Council are sponsoring an evening of talks called “The Dilemmas of Historic Districts and Urban Design in an Era of Skyscrapers.” Sound esoteric? Maybe. But it’s a subject that could hit as close to home as that new big building rising down the block or just across the street. It is an evening with Steven Semes, who heads the University of Notre Dame’s historic preservation program in the School of Architecture, and John Massengale, co-author with Robert Stern of “New York 1900” and co-author of the just-published “Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns.” The event takes place on Saturday Nov. 15 at the New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., from 4 to 6 p.m., with a reception that follows. The “dilemma” in the event’s title is one often faced in Tribeca’s historic districts, said Tribeca Trust founder Lynn Ellsworth. “How do historic districts survive intact with a vital, continuing sense of
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place when the development pressure is so great on them,” said Ellsworth, whose Tribeca Trust is waging a campaign to convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission to extend the Tribeca North Historic District. Semes, the author of “The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation,” will speak on ways that growth and change can be managed within historic districts without destroying them. “I stumbled onto his book,” Ellsworth recalled, “and I thought, ‘Oh, my God,’ he explains the schools of thought on this in a coherent way. This is just the kind of person to educate neophytes.” And she said Massengale, who has travelled the world evaluating the way streets are used—the good and the bad— is just the one to talk about the potential for transforming some of Tribeca’s. “We look at all the public spaces here,” Ellsworth said, “all the unused roadway all over the place and we think, we need people like Massengale looking at our streets and giving us ideas.” Advance tickets are $15 at eventbrite.com and $20 at the door. For more information go to www.tribecatrust.org.
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Landscape architect Piet Oudolf ’s designs celebrate texture and pattern
BY PAM FREDERICK Movement. That is what Piet Oudolf, one of the world’s premier garden designers, is striving for in his latest plan for Battery Park. It is what he sees when he works in the park, and what inspires him about the site—the people, the harbor, the bustle of New York. “The dynamics of all that happens around here, the uses, the movement of the water, the water itself,” the Dutch designer explained last month during a week of working in the park. “It’s wonderful to see the water in front of you, to have a park on the shore.” Oudolf, 70, is known for natural landscapes that celebrate texture and pattern as much as, if not more than, color and blooms. In 2002, Warrie Price, the Battery Conservancy’s president, spent part of her summer vacation visiting Oudolf at his home and gardens in Hummelo in the Netherlands, to better understand what he does and how he does it. By that September, the conservancy had engaged Oudolf to create a master plan of horticulture for the park. Since then, Oudolf has designed gardens for the High Line and the Goldman Sachs headquarters in Battery Park City with landscape architect and Tribeca resident Ken Smith. Oudolf's first project for the Battery Conservancy, in 2002, was the Gardens of Remembrance on the elevated portion of the promenade. The Bosque, with its meandering paths at the south end of the park, was next, in 2005. He is now working on the first phase of the gardens along the new perimeter bikeway, as well as this last section of the Bosque that surrounds the Seaglass carousel near the park entrance at State Street. Here, with the canyons of the Financial District to the east, mounds of earth rise up resembling dunes, with a direct view of the harbor over their crests. While in town, Oudolf oversaw workers as they placed hundreds of seedlings into position on the mounds.
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Piet Oudolf stands among the hundreds of seedlings that will be planted as part of his design for the last portion of the Battery Bosque.
He then paced each garden plot, checking the location of every potted plant and tweaking their position before they were placed in the dirt. Oudolf works from large, handdrawn plans, color-coded and labelled with his own periodic table—invented abbreviations for Amsonia tabernaemontana (a Missouri native flowering perennial) and Arucus Horatio (a shrub-like plant with creamy-white flowers) and Ceratostigma lumbaginoies (leadwort, a wiry ground cover). The drawings, with the amoebashaped border of the garden beds, look like colorful organisms with their little mitochondria and lysosomes and nuclei floating about. (And they are art in themselves—Oudolf currently has a show at the gallery Hauser & Wirth in Somerset,
England.) But none of it is there at random. Each dot, dash and x-mark on the drawing is placed to predict the rhythms and the patterns Oudolf wants to achieve. “If you don’t make it precise, you can’t make the garden,” he said. “I can see it in the drawing how it will grow. You have to have the image in your head.” The gardens at the Battery are dominated by grasses, which move with the wind, interspersed with perennials to give the overall visual effect and feel of a meadow. “I want it to read as one big landscape,” Oudolf said, “not as a little garden. In the overall, it is one big picture.” In private gardens, he notes, a plant can be easily replaced. But in a public garden, where he is turning his design
over to others to tend as it matures, a plant that fails to thrive leaves a gap in the landscape. So he sticks to his palette of about 20 proven plants, ones he relies on to weather the elements—both natural and man-made. After all, he said, “Do you need to expand your alphabet when you write a new book?” Instead it’s the arrangement and the patterns that he works and plays with in each commission, the placement of plants next to each other, and the textures those combinations create, both in summer when the plants are lush, and in winter, when they have another phase of beauty in dormancy. “The plants I know, but it is how you put them together,” Oudolf said. “The results can surprise you. If it’s good, it is always better than I expected.”
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BY CARL GLASSMAN How high is high enough? Responding to the cries of Peck Slip School parents concerned about the noisy learning conditions in rooms shared by two classes in Tweed Courthouse, Department of Education officials have replaced six-foot room dividers with heavier, sound absorbing 10-foot ones. And with 15-foot ceilings in the grand rooms, they say they might be able to build up still higher. But that hasn’t silenced the complaints of some parents, nor of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who continue their call to solve the problem by having adjacent rooms turned into classrooms. “This week they made an attempt to rectify it. That didn’t work,” Silver told his School Overcrowding Task Force late last month, adding, “We are going to have to find a better way.” The Peck Slip School is in its third and last year of temporary quarters in Tweed Courthouse on Chambers Street before moving to its new building near the Seaport. One of the Tweed rooms that parents have their eyes on is a former classroom that schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña had turned into a center for professional development. The other is a chancellor’s conference room. Fariña has so far declined to give up either one, though Silver offered her the large conference room in his own nearby office as an
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At a CB1 meeting Peck Slip School parent Joy Martini complains about noise in her child’s class. Right: The new higher dividers.
option. “They didn’t like that idea,” Silver said glumly. But DOE officials, including Peck Slip School Principal Maggie Siena, say the new barriers are dampening the sound in the rooms. The dividers carve up the 2,300-square-foot rooms into three sections, two of which are classroom spaces. The third area is office space used by a special education teacher and a teacher mentor. “It has been helpful. It’s not like all of a sudden we’re in a silent space,” Siena told the Silver task force, adding that the classes—two second grades and two first grades—“tend to be very calm, in many
ways calmer than rooms that are single because there is the sense of awareness.” Siena said the two teachers in each room are trying to do the same activities simultaneously and independent reading often happens at the same time or when the other class is out of the room. In the meantime, plans are afoot to build the barriers higher, though they are restricted from going to the ceiling because of landmarks and city code constraints. “We are committed to looking at baffling material that goes on top of that wall as best we can without disrupting the ventilation, the lighting and some of the other issues,” said Richard Boc-
chicchio, borough director for the DOE’s office of space planning. “We have our contractor looking into options for that right away.” But Paul Hovitz, co-chair of Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee, held fast to a call for separate classroom space in one of the nearby rooms. “Why has Chancellor Fariña, who is an educator, dug her heels in and said we must have these rooms here, which are right adjacent to the classrooms?” Hovitz said. “If I were the parent of a first or second grader I would not want to make the best of a situation, I would want the best situation to be provided for them.”
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BROAD & WATER STREETS Oct. 26, 4 p.m. When she got off the Staten Island Ferry, a German tourist felt someone bump into her. Soon after, she realized that her iPhone, valued at $400, was missing from her sweater pocket. 2 CORTLANDT STREET Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m. A woman was tending to her 5-yearold nephew when someone jostled her. A few minutes later, when she went to make a purchase from a nearby vendor, she realized that her shoulder bag was gone. The purse contained a camera valued at $600, bank cards, a $65 scarf, and other items. SOUTH STREET SEAPORT, PIER 15 Oct. 19, 2 a.m. Two men snatched a woman’s handbag she had left unattended on a nearby bench, and fled on Citi Bikes. While riding away, the men removed two credit cards and an iPhone valued at $500, and then dropped the bag. FULTON STREET SUBWAY STATION Oct. 16, 2 a.m. A woman fell asleep as she waited for an uptown Lexington Avenue train. When she awoke, her iPod, headphones and wristlet were gone. The wristlet contained $250, a $30 weekly MetroCard, a debit card, a health insurance card and a driver’s license. Five fraudulent transactions, totaling $82.16, were made on the woman’s debit card. 78 SOUTH STREET Oct. 16, 4:30 a.m. A thief broke the front window of the Watermark Bar and Lounge on the Seaport’s Pier 15 and stole an iPad valued at $1,500. SOUTH & FLETCHER STREETS Oct. 16, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. An employee parked his company’s 2006 Ford van and returned three hours later to find it missing. 55 FULTON STREET Oct. 13, 9:25 a.m. A man forced his way into a locked office at 55 Fulton Market, where he removed $72 from an employee’s purse. Edward Byrd, 51, was arrested and charged with burglary in the third degree, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. ZUCCOTTI PARK Oct. 8, 3:30 p.m. A thief approached a woman who was sitting in the park and snatched an iPhone out of her hand.
E TRAIN, CHAMBERS ST./WTC STATION Oct. 7, 3:30–4:30 a.m. A 24-year-old woman who had fallen
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N TRAIN — WHITEHALL STREET STATION Oct. 4, 2:30 - 2:50 a.m. Police arrested a thief who had allegedly stolen an iPhone 6 from a sleeping subway passenger on his way downtown. The passenger boarded a southbound N train in Queens and fell asleep with his phone in his left front pants pocket. When he awoke at the Whitehall Street station, he discovered that it was gone. An officer caught the alleged thief, Marco Saraguvo, 36, nearly five hours later on a Queens-bound 7 train, where, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, a cop saw him take a Samsung phone from a sleeping passenger’s lap. The officer recovered the Samsung as well as the iPhone 6 and another phone that Saraguvo was carrying. Saraguvo was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to the DA’s office. #2 TRAIN — WALL STREET STATION Oct. 4, 2 p.m. When the train doors opened at the Wall Street station, a thief snatched a nameplate necklace, valued at $200, off the neck of a passenger and fled.
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Tribeca’s Gourmet Garage announced early this year that it expected to open an 8,500-square-foot food store at 366 Broadway by December. But it will not be arriving until late next spring, according to co-owner Andy Arons. “Plans to convert the space into a ‘scratch’ kitchen and fresh food marketplace are complex, so the process takes some time,” Arons said in an email to the Trib. “We are almost there, and hope to begin construction in November with a late Spring opening planned.”
Release of the Fishes
Children from Washington Market School will help return fish, crabs, snails and other animals to the Hudson River. Refreshments will be served. Thursday, Nov. 6, 4-6 p.m. At the Wetlab on the south walkway of Pier 40, Houston and West streets.
Moby-Dick Reading
A three-day marathon reading of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” begins Friday, Nov. 14 (6–11 p.m.) at the Ace Hotel, 20 West 29 St., continues Saturday, Nov. 15 (10 a.m.–11 p.m.) at the South Street Seaport Museum, and concludes Sunday, Nov. 16 (10 a.m.–4 p.m.) at Housing Works, 126 Crosby St. More than 150 readers will read tenminute sections of the novel. For a list of the readers, which includes authors, actors, editors and artists, go to mobydickmarathonnyc.org.
Gardeners Needed
The Friends of Finn Square are look for volunteers to help plant bulbs in the triangle just south of the uptown subway entrance at Franklin and Varick streets. The planting takes place Saturday afternoon, Nov. 15. The square is partly maintained by the Parks Department but the flowers are all furnished by neighborhood volunteers. If you’d like to help, write to Jessica Raimi at jraimi@earthlink.net.
Spanish Harlem Sounds
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a two-time Grammy Award-winning salsa and Latin jazz band, performs at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., on Friday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. The 13 musicians and vocalists are on a mission to keep alive the legacy of salsa dura or “hard salsa.” Tickets are $35 and $45 at tribecapac.org.
Film Noir at Trinity
Two classic film noir movies, both shot in New York City, will be shown at Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall Street, this month. “Side Street” (1950), starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell, will be screened on Nov. 7. “Naked City” (1948), winner of Academy Awards for cinematography and film editing, will be shown on Nov. 21. Both films begin at 7 p.m. and are
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Help Dominican Youth
The Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project will hold a fundraiser on Thursday, Nov. 13, at Saleya Tribeca Restaurant, 65 West Broadway, 7–10:30 p.m. There will be a performance by Andre Veloz & Friends and a show by Dominican artists. Tickets are $250 per person at dominicandream.org. Proceeds go to early childhood development, at-risk youth and workforce development programs.
Revolutionary New York
Evacuation Day marks the departure on Nov. 25, 1783, of the last British troops from Manhattan at the end of the Revolutionary War. In honor of that day, the Museum of American Finance offers a 90-minute walking tour on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., of the Financial District, with an emphasis on New York during the Revolution. Tickets are $15 and include admission to the museum and a “Lunch and Learn” with Jeffrey Rubinstein, author of the novel “Evacuation Day and the Lost Deed to Manhattan.” Meet at the museum, 48 Wall St. Tickets at moaf.org.
Hip at Poets House
The popular Boston poetry reading series, Mr. Hip Presents, is coming to Battery Park City’s Poets House for an evening of readings by young poets along with musical guests Maria Dontas and the Good Vibes Trio. The event is Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10. Poets House is at 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
Comedy at the Seaport
The Serious Theatre Collective, winner of a New York International Fringe Festival award, is presenting “Musical Sketch Comedy for Lovers and Platonic Friends” this month at South Street Seaport’s Cannon’s Walk. The 80minute show of musical theater, sketch comedy and a live band plays Thursdays through Saturdays: Nov. 6–8; Nov. 13–15; and Nov. 20–22. Curtain is 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 at the door (cash only) at 206 Front St. or online at themagicjukebox.brownpapertickets.com.
Kristallnacht Recalled
The Tribeca Synagogue is offering an evening of art, discussion and music on Sunday, Nov. 9 in remembrance of Kristallnacht, the wave of violent antiJewish pogroms in Germany and Austria that in November, 1938. At 5 p.m., the gallery will open with photo portraits of survivors by George Bargad Bogart; at 6:30 p.m., Berlin filmmaker Debbie Elbin will speak on anti-Semitism in Germany today; and at 7:45 p.m., the klezmer group, Livakus, performs “The Lost Jewish Music of Belarus.” $15, $10 students and seniors. Tribeca Synagogue, 49 White St., www.tribecasynagogue.org.
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THE TRIBECA TRIB NOVEMBER 2014 ith not one but two schools participating and twice as many restaurants, Taste of the Seaport was bigger than ever last month. Along tentlined Front Street, from Fulton to a Peck Slip packed with kids activities, 45 restaurants doled out dishes, bands played and the crowds enjoyed it all. The eateries came from south of the Brooklyn Bridge down to South Ferry, all east of Broadway. Begun modestly in 2010 as the Taste of Front Street to benefit the Spruce Street School, the Peck Slip School joined in this year as an equal partner and beneficiary of the proceeds. The school, housed for its third and last year in Tweed Courthouse, will move into its Seaport home next September.
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“We expect to bring in a lot of money for professional development and arts enrichment and classroom materials and everything like that,” said Peck Slip School Principal Maggie Siena, who was taking tickets at the Da Claudio booth, where Italian tea sandwiches and tiramisu were being served. “But it’s also a big community builder—not just for the Peck Slip community but the Downtown community.” “So many people here are still dealing with post-Sandy recovery,” said Hope Flamm, chair of the Taste of the Seaport board. “So there’s the spirit of let’s make this bigger and better for that reason alone.”
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Clockwise from left: Heather Dillmann, from The Dubliner, doles out mac and cheese; the Pens performed on Front Street; while sister Mirian waits, 14-month-old Adam Ekhtear enjoys some lentil soup from GRK; pumpkin spiced macarons from Financier Patisserie; SuperDuper Tennis set up a net and lobbed balls to children; butternut squash soup from Cedar Local.
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Marvin Schneider, the city’s official Clock Master, restored the clock in the tower of 346 Broadway in 1980 and has dedicated himself to keeping it running ever since. It’s been a volunteer effort since the city sold the building in May.
The clock tower of 346 Broadway is slated to become a penthouse, and the rare landmark clock the domain of its wealthy buyer. How will the treasured timepiece continue to run, and to ring?
For the Clock Tower Clock?
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very Tuesday morning, almost like clockwork, you might say, Marvin Schneider and Forest Markowitz wend their way up the spiral stairs inside the tower atop 346 Broadway. Climbing through the eerie darkness of the pendulum room, they enter a chamber all but untouched by modern technology or time. Sunlight filters through the tower’s four translucent clock-faced walls, illuminating a rare 117-year-old mechanism that keeps ticking, thanks to the meticulous care given it by these two men. u
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Is Time Running Out for the Clock Tower Clock? CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
It’s work that Schneider, the city’s official Clock Master and a retired supervisor in the Dept. of Human Resources, has been performing since 1980, following a yearlong volunteer effort to revive the neglected, broken-down timepiece. For the first time in 20 lifeless years, the gears turned again, 2,600 pounds of weights were set in motion and the clock chimed on the hour. Since he was joined in 1992 by Markowitz, a retired senior director in the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp., the pair have wound, oiled, inspected, reset and otherwise preserved the 1897 E. Howard Watch and Clock Company’s No. 4 Striking Tower Clock as one of the few still-functioning tower clocks of its kind. For how much longer, time will tell. As part of a proposed restoration and condominium conversion plan for the landmark building by the Peebles Corp. and El Ad Group, who purchased the building from the city in May, the clock and its tower will be privately owned by the buyers of a proposed four-level penthouse. While the developers say they plan to keep the clock, which along with its mechanisms is a protected city landmark, it is unclear whether, or even how, it will continue to run once it is inside someone’s home. Along with landmark-designated offices on the second floor that will also be turned into residences, it will have the distinction of being a privately owned but publicly protected historic landmark. Schneider, Markowitz and other clock preservationists have formed an advocacy group called Clock Tower Associates. They say the clock and its workings are a public trust, soon to be lost. “How would someone get up here?” asked Schneider, who along with Markowitz has been taking care of the clock as volunteers since the city sold the building. “They’ve got to provide access to getting up to the clock machinery.” The question was raised last month after architect David Beyer’s presentation on the conversion plan to Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee. “We don’t have any specific plans at the moment,” replied Haim Hershkovitz, El Ad’s vice president of construction. Nor, apparently, do they have to. The Landmarks Preservation Commission “cannot require that the clock continue to run or to ring,” LPC spokeswoman Damaris Olivo said in an email. “The Commission designated the clockworks as interior architectural features and there would be no requirement that they be retained as the mechanism for operation.” Even if the clock can continue to show the time, more questionable still is whether the future penthouse owners will want to hear the bell chime hourly each night, above their heads. “I can’t comment on the ringing of the clock,” Beyer told the CB1 Committee. “I
The 5,000 pound bell, located above the clockworks, is twice the size of the Liberty Bell. It is struck by a 70-pound hammer.
Forest Markowitz resets the time. As he turns the wheel, the hands move on all four giant clock dials. “If you think this is easy, it’s not he said. “There’s a lot of force there.”
don’t know what to say about that.” The clock stopped ringing in May, Schneider and Markowitz said, after the developers bought the building and cut power to the clock tower. Now the 97year-old motor can’t wind the clock or raise the 1,600 pounds of weights that allow the bell to chime for eight days as
the weights descend. The manual winding of the bell-ringing weights is an arduous task that the men must forgo except for an occasional few twists of a mechanism that enables the bell to ring for a few hours. For the first time since the city’s blackout of 2003, Markowitz, 64, and Schneider, 75, must wind the clock manually to
The 5,000 pound bell, located above the clockworks, Liberty Bell. It is struck by a 70-pound hammer.
keep it telling time. “I don’t have to go to the gym today,” an out-of-breath but smiling Markowitz said during one of his breaks in the 20minute-long hand-cranking process. Schneider and Markowitz said they were told by a construction manager in the building that an electric line could be run
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“How would someone get up here?” the Clock Master asked. “They’ve got to provide access to the clock machinery.”
BEYER BLINDER BELLE
Above left: Rendering of the room that is at the base of the clock tower, as part of a proposed private, four-level penthouse. Doors and windows will be added so that they are on all four sides of the room, opening onto the terrace that surrounds the room. Stairs will also be added. The shaft holds the weights that descend and terminate in this room, allowing the bell to ring for eight days. Below left: Marvin Schneider in the room, as it looks today.
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is twice the size of the
Having finished his weekly routine, Schneider descends the spiral staircase that leads from the machine room to the pendulum room.
up to the tower, but nothing has come of it. Then again, they said, they have been cautious about pursuing it. “In the back of my mind, it’s like we’re glad to able to do this, so don’t press your luck,” Markowitz said as he rotated the clock’s crank, or “key.” “Because I suppose they could say, ‘Hey, don’t come
back in the building at all.’ And what are we going to do? It’s their building.” “So we’re trying not to be confrontational,” added Schneider, who along with Markowitz maintains the clocks at City Hall, Herald Square and the Sun Building on Chambers Street, among others. “At this point we’re just coming in in order to
have the clock noticeable from the street telling the time, the bare minimum.” In fact, the men have had little contact with the developers since the $160 million purchase of the building. Schneider recalled being brought into a meeting with El Ad Group executives in their midtown office soon after the building changed hands. He thought he would be negotiating a service agreement with the new owners. “So they sit me down and give me a cup of coffee and they say, ‘You know, that space up there is too good to pass up,’” Schneider said in his account of the meeting. “We know the clock is a landmark. So what do you think of taking the machinery down and putting it into the banking room or something like that and making a display?’” “So I said, ‘Even if it works, there are thousands of these things all over the country from wrecked buildings but there are very few in their original space,’” Schneider continued. “This is to see a piece of history working in its original place and a tribute to American technology.” “They said, ‘Yeah, but more people will see it this way.’” El Ad executives declined to answer questions about the clock. In an email,, Deborah Wilen, El Ad’s projects coordinator, wrote: “[We] recognize how important 346 Broadway is to the neighborhood and the City. At this point, we are still finalizing the design so are not currently in a position to confirm any specifics.”
R. Donohue Peebles, president of the Peebles Corp., did not respond to a call requesting comment. According to the developers’ proposal to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which is scheduled to be heard on Nov. 18, there is no plan to move the clock mechanism. But that hardly comforts its supporters, who say it must continue to run, as well. “The loss of the clock ringing has been mourned by the entire neighborhood,” stated CB1’s resolution to the Landmarks Commission. It went on to say, “A directive must be put in place and enforced to keep the clock working.” “Of the few remaining public timepieces of lower Manhattan that have helped to schedule the lives of New Yorkers over the past several centuries,” Chris DeSantis, author of the book “Clocks of New York,” said in an email, “the enormous clock on top of the 346 Broadway is by far the most important.” “If the clock were to ever cease to function,” he added, “it would result not only in a tremendous loss to the community, but a loss of one of the few existing adornments serving today as a testament to the city’s great architectural period.” Schneider recalled putting it differently to the El Ad executives as he left their meeting. “There has to be a way to satisfy the wolf,” the Clock Master told them, “and leave the sheep whole.”
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Far left: Before the start of the race, Liz Sadowsky, parent of children in both P.S. and I.S 276, announces instructions to runners. Left: Getting ready with some stretches. Below: The annual Run for Knowledge race begins in Wagner Park, with middle schoolers first.
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Here they go again! It was the 15th annual Run for Knowledge last month, taking toddlers to middle schoolers—and their parents—from Wagner Park to Rockefeller Park for the sake of fun and funds for Battery Park City's two P.S./I.S. schools, 89 and 276. Principals Ronnie Najjar, P.S. 89, and Terri Ruyter, 276, were waiting at the finish line with medals for everyone—their greetings and smiles just as big for the stragglers as the runners at the head of the pack. What makes the school leaders especially happy, of course, is what this fundraiser does for the schools. “It’s books, it's staff, it’s professional development. It’s a good chunk of money and it really helps,” Ruyter said. “Whatever we make from this frees up money for half a teacher’s salary, which is a lot. Our budgets are really tight.” At P.S. 89, Najjar said, the funds pay for dance and music groups to come into the school, “enriching the enrichment” programs. “Run for Knowledge is a great benefit, and the community piece, I just love,” she said. “Babies in strollers to anyone!”
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Chess Learn the game from an expert. Ages 5–12. For beginners through early intermediate level. Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30 pm. (No class on 11/11.) $350. Classes have started but new students can pay on a pro-rated basis. 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.
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Skyscraper Skeletons Learn how skyscrapers stand tall through a reading of the children’s book “Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building.” Kids will then build their own skeleton of a skyscraper using toothpicks and gumdrops. Ages 4 and up. Sat, 11/8, 10:30–11:45 am. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place, skyscraper.org.
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Thanksgiving Crafternoon Hear a story and create fall wreaths to take home. All ages. Thurs, 11/20, 4 pm. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave., nypl.org.
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MUSIC g Taino Music Kids ages 18 months to 4 years hear about Taino culture through stories, song, movement and activities. Wednesdays, 10:30 am and 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Baby Laptime for Pre-Walkers Simple stories, songs, and rhymes for children up to 18 months and their caregivers. Thurs, 11/20, 11:30 am. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave. nypl.org. g
Yellow Sneaker The musical group focuses on caring for the environment, friendship, and love and kindness. Families, musicians, and puppets will sing and learn together. Sun, 11/16, 10:30 am. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., pjlibrary.org.
g Children’s Storytime Readings of new and classic children’s books. Saturdays, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.
harles Waters, a children’s poet, actor and educator, will get kids laughing with humorous poems at Battery Park City’s Poets House on Nov. 22, starting at 11 a.m. The children will also write their own comical poems together and act them out on stage. $5 per child. Poets House is at 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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Storytime at Tribeca Saturday Greenmarket Join Battery Park City librarian for songs and stories about farming and planting. Sat, 11/8, 10 am. Takes place near the entrance of Washington Market Park, Greenwich between Chambers and Duane streets.
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Animal Habitats Learn about different environments, such as the rainforest, desert, and mountains and explore the animals and insects that live there. Free. Ages 5 and up. Mon, 11/3, 3:30 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.
g Toddler Storytime A librarian shares picture books, finger plays, and action songs with toddlers and caregivers. Ages 1 to 3 years. Wed, 11/5, 10:30 am. Battery Park City Library, 2nd floor, 175 North End Ave. nypl.org.
THEATER g Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Judy Blume’s 10-year-old Sheila Tubman comes of age in ArtsPower’s musical about discovering the person within. $25. Sat, 11/15, 1:30 pm. Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Go to tribecapac.org or the box office, 199 Chambers St. g
A Christmas Carol Scrooge Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and others appear in the musical based on Dickens’ classic tale. $25. Sun, 11/23, 1:30 pm. The Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Go to tribecapac.org or the box office, 199 Chambers St.
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Conversations with Anne Call 212-4317993 or email info@annefrank.com. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.
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Release of the Fishes Children from Washington Market School help return fish, crabs, snails, and other animals to the Hudson River. Refreshments will be served. Thurs, 11/6, 4-6 pm. Takes place in the Wetlab on the South Walkway of Pier 40 at Houston and West streets.
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Last month I attended a professional development session at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It felt like playing hooky. Along with other parent coordinators, I listened to arts educators from the museum staff and from the Department of Education talk about the benefits of exposing children to art. When Karen Felder, the head of arts education for CONNIE the DOE, SCHRAFT asked the group to think about their earliest experience with art, I recalled my visits to the Frick with my parents as a five or six year old, gazing awestruck at SCHOOL the enormous TALK Fragonard paintings of little girls on swings in opulent gardens. The purpose of this museum visit was to promote arts education but also to emphasize that because it sits on the property of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Museum is free for every one. The cost of admission is merely a suggestion; no one has to pay. This also holds true for the Brooklyn Museum, the American Museum of Natural History,
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El Museo del Barrio, and many others. In the last fifteen years, museums all over the city have increased their programming for children and families. They understand that for their institutions to remain relevant, they cannot be bastions for educated New Yorkers; they had to become bastions of arts education. The room where we met was at the end of a brightly-lit hallway, along which hung amazing examples of art created by the city’s public school students—from puppets by kindergartners to realistic self
a short subway ride away; even families who supplement school with tutors make sure that their children have time for a hip hop lesson or two. In school, teachers of art, music, and dance are artists, musicians, and dancers themselves, and they bring passion and purpose to their classes. Cluster or enrichment teachers, as they are called in school jargon, work closely with classroom teachers to integrate the arts into curriculum. For instance, a 3rd grade study of the Brooklyn Bridge included
Museums now understand that in order to remain relevant, they cannot be bastions for educated New Yorkers; they had to become bastions of arts education.
portraits by high school kids. The artists represented were the winners of an annual contest co-sponsored by the Metropolitan and the DOE, and all public school art teachers are encouraged to enter artwork by their students. Downtown schools have always embraced the arts, possibly because earlier residents of lower Manhattan tended to be artists or other creative types. While that is no longer the case, arts still abound, both in school and out. Just take a look at the number of dance programs, music and art classes that are available in the neighborhood or
making a bridge in the style of a Pointillism, and creating a dance in which students use their bodies to “build” bridges. At the museum, we were asked to examine two artworks—a self-portrait by the great Jacob Lawrence, showing the artist at work in his studio, and a portrait by Marsden Hartley of a German officer, a collage of symbols and badges. The question: would you rather be represented realistically or symbolically? Conversation was rich and deeply personal, and the moderator closed with a reminder that using detail to support
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one’s response is a tenet of the Common Core standards. I had another experience with arts education recently when I was exploring the Robert Gober retrospective at MOMA. In the final gallery sat a dollhouse made by the artist; building dollhouses and selling them was how he supported himself when he first moved to New York. Suddenly, a group entered the room, adults and children carrying folding stools, which were opened and arranged around the dollhouse. It was an arts program for children with special needs. Some of the children reached out to touch the dollhouse, and their parents had to hold them back. The instructor asked appropriate questions, with the intent of encouraging the children to look closely at how the object was made. Did the founders of MOMA imagine that on a Sunday morning, the galleries would be filled with families pushing strollers and pointing out colors and shapes to their toddlers? It was three progressive women who saw the need for a museum devoted to modern art, different from the more traditional museums. If they were watching the group around Gober’s dollhouse, I think they would be very pleased. Connie Schraft is the parent coordinator at P.S. 89. For questions and comments, write to her at connie@tribecatrib.com.
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A ROMANTIC HURRICANE HITS THE FLEA! NOVEMBER 7-DECEMBER 21 A disengaged stay-at-home dad and an apocalyptically anxious mom meet in this illicit rom com that spins out of control. In a world headed for disaster, what are the rules?
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BY JULIET HINDELL A corner of South Africa is currently installed on Walker Street at Soho Rep. With rough red earth underfoot, walls covered in rusty corrugated iron and laundry drying overhead, the entire theatre has been transformed into a family’s disheveled but well-used kitchen. The best seats in the house are overturned buckets—some of them empty industrial-sized containers for cooking oil. A mouthwatering aroma of cooking wafts all the way out to the street and much of the actors’ time on stage is spent cooking. What’s served up, however, is food for the soul rather than the stomach in “Generations,” a bite-sized play with music. But while the searing performances as well as the stirring songs composed by Bongi Duma and sung by a choir of 13 are deeply moving, you have to ask why director Leah C. Gardiner devoted so much effort and talent to a 30-minute show. This nuanced, mesmerizing play and its powerful group of acapella singers just leaves you wanting more. The action, which unfolds all around the buckets and benches where the audience sits, centers on three generations of a family as they cook and reminisce about the day one of the granddaughters was proposed to. “He asked her if she could cook?” the girl’s mother says. “I coached her to cook
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depend on her culinary prowess. Each generation of the family has its claim to being the best cook. The young fiancée’s parents, portrayed with humor by Ntombikhona Dlamini and Michael Rogers, both vie for the title. But the grandfather, in an emotional performance by Jonathan Peck, contradicts them all. He says he taught them all, including the grandma, the charismatic Thuli Dumakude, to cook. Without giving too much away, this play is not about cooking and the mood quickly turns from celebration to despair. Near the end, the grandparents are left alone on stage, while the rest of the family gradually melts JULIETA CERVANTES into the choir. Shyko Amos, Khail Toi Bryant and Thuli Dumakude in a scene from “Generations.” Nothing is spelled out, but deep, generational tragedy, I did... I was the cooker—she was the “Born Bad” was also performed at Soho perhaps the AIDS crisis in South Africa, cookless.” By the end of the play, audi- Rep. ence members may have that line and Here, the repetitive lines take on a is alluded to. And that is why the play most of the rest of the play down by heart poetic and elegiac nature that seems to be might benefit from expansion, to give the because British playwright Debbie Tuc- echoed when the choirs bursts into seem- audience time to absorb the magnitude of ker Green’s script is circular and spare. ingly impromptu songs. The bass voices its theme. As it stands, it’s a superb piece But as different characters take up the make those bucket seats reverberate of experiential theatre that just whets the appetite. same words, they seem to convey differ- nicely. “Generations” will be at Soho Rep, ent meaning and power. Playing with The future of the young lovers, language is something of a trademark for played with tenderness by Mamoudou 46 Walker St,, sohorep.org., through Nov. Green, whose verbally distinctive play Athie and Shyko Amos, seems at first to 23.
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It’s not your usual night at the theater. For the price of $12, which includes a beer, audiences get to see five 10-minute plays and vote for their top three favorites. The winning playwrights then write another episode with the same characters that is performed the next week. Now in its third season, #serials@theflea, the Flea Theater’s late night shows (curtain time is 11 p.m.) feature The Bats, the Flea Theater’s volunteer resident acting company. Some of the playwrights and directors have already found wider fame, such as Rob Askins
(“Hand of God”) and Nick Jones (“The Coward”). Carol Ostrow, the theater’s producing director, compared the shows to a “live TV serial.” “There are devotees who never miss a show,” Ostrow said. Indeed, the theater’s 40 seats are always filled. “What else can you do that’s funny, fun and something to do with friends?” she added. This month’s cycle runs Thursdays through Saturdays, November 13 to 22. Tickets are at theflea.org or call 212-3523101.
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Seeing 1 World Trade Center: An Artist’s Views Murray Street Awning
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Three years ago, Joe Bilger, an artist who has lived on Warren Street for nearly 30 years, was struck by a rare illness along with broken vertebrae. After surgery, the doctors advised him to walk around his neighborhood and to stretch his neck and look up. Bilger took their advice and what he saw, everywhere he went, was 1 World Trade Center, rising on the skyline. As he regained his strength and lengthened his walks, he began drawing the emerging tower, each time from a different angle. Twenty-six of his paintings, all a modest 12 x12 inches, are on display at Front Art Space, an equally modest space at 118 Chambers Street (it is 48 square feet) to Nov. 16. “The World Trade Center was conspicuous by its absence,” Bilger said. “It was something always seen, kind of like a lighthouse. This tower is a new object in the neighborhood, a new landmark.” The show’s title, “100 Famous Views of Ego” is a play on words on the famous 19th-century series of Japanese woodblock prints, “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” a favorite of Bilger’s. The artist’ goal is to make 100 views of the tower; he has 60 more to go. “It might take a couple of years,” he said. But he is in no hurry. Front Art Space, Tuesday to Friday, 2–7 pm.
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Give Me Liberty Sylvanus Shaw invokes imagery of early American statehood in media ranging from oil on panel to collaged holograms, security envelopes and other mediums. Through 3/16/15. Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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Metropolis! This family-friendly musical from Shenzen, China, celebrates the city’s transition from a small fishing village to a teeming metropolis. The show features modern, hip-hop, ballet, salsa and acrobatic dance. Thurs, 11/13, 7:30–9 pm. Tickets: $25–$35. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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2014 Soho Photo Alternative Processes Competition Winning entries from some 650 images that were submitted to this competition. Opening reception: Tues, 11/4, 6-8 pm. To 11/29. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.
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The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times Lawyer turned life coach Allison Carmen discusses her book about her attachment to certainty and how learning to say “maybe” changed her life. Tues, 11/4, 6 pm. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. Free.
MUSEUMS
g Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More That 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated For Today’s Kitchen Author Janna Gur discusses her cookbook, which features dishes from around the globe, with Jayne Cohen, author of “Jewish Holiday Cooking.” Sun, 11/23, 2:30 pm. $15, $12 members. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
g Fragments: Photos of Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe Yale Strom’s photographs, taken between 1981 and 2007, explore the postwar traditions of Central and Eastern Europe’s remaining Jewish communities. To Fri, 11/28. Tue–Sat, 10 am–5 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.
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For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw The American Indian photographer documented Indian subjects starting in the mid-1920s and continuing for 50 years. The show is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw’s daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo and Tom Jones of the University of WisconsinMadison. To 2/15. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.
ibney Dance has expanded beyond its long-time home in Soho into 280 Broadway (entrance at 53A Chambers St.). Audrey Hailes (right) and the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble will open the center’s first series of dance concerts on Nov. 5, 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15–$20, and available at gibneydance.org.
g Karski & the Lords of Humanity This film tells the story of Jan Karski, the Polish resistance fighter who risked his life to reveal the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the director, Slawomir Grünberg. Wed, 11/19, 7 pm. $10 adults, $7 students and seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
GALLERIES g Material Way The first exhibit in the “Art Ahead” series at Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Shirley Fiterman Art Center. The 14 works use paint, canvas, tables, coffee cups, thread, plastic and more to engage the viewer’s sense of play. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Through 12/1. bmcc.cuny.edu/sfac. g
Gallery Opening plus Movie Discussion and Music Sun, 11/9. 5 pm: Photo portraits of survivors by George Bargad Bogart. 6:30 pm: Film and discussion on anti-Semitism and education in Germany today with Berlin filmmaker Debbie Elbin. 7:45 pm: “The Lost Jewish Music of Belarus,” performance of Klezmer music by Litvakus. $15 and $10. $100 sponsorships available to honor relatives with a photo in the program. Tribeca Synagogue, 49 White St., tribecasynagogue.org.
MUSIC g David Wong & High Strung A concert and fundraiser to support Borough of Manhattan Community College scholarships. Wong uses electric and acoustic violins and his voice to arrange pop, rock, and other top 40 hits into improvisation-filled orchestrations. Fri, 11/14, 8 pm. BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g Spanish Harlem Orchestra Thirteen musicians and vocalists perform New Yorkstyle salsa. Fri, 11/21, 8 pm. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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Teams of architects, engineers, contractors and students compete to build large-scale artworks made entirely of unopened cans of food. At the end of the show, the cans are donated to City
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Expressions of Gratitude Abstract work by Soheyla Ben-Amotz. Bond Real Estate, 25
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Harvest. Visitors are asked to bring a can of highquality food to the exhibition’s collection station. 11/6-11/20, 10 am–6 pm. Free. For information, visit canstructionny.org. Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com.
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Frank’s stepsister and childhood friend, shares a first-hand account of Frank’s life and the discovery and publication of her famed diary. Like Frank, Schloss went into hiding in Holland, was betrayed and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Wed, 11/5, 7:30 pm. $36 in advance, $45 at door, $18 students. ChabadBPC.com/historicevening. P.S. 89, 201 Warren St.,
Thurs, 11/6, 1 pm. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Restaurants have played a major role in Chinatown social history. This tour traces the evolution of these eateries, many of which were designed for the communities bachelors, highlighting the ways in which they have shaped and reflected the community. Sat, 11/29, 1 pm–2:30 pm. $15; $12 students and seniors. Reservations required. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
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George Washington: The Master Tactician Learn how Washington matured as a commander and applied lessons from previous battles to out-maneuver and outfight the British, particularly Sir Henry Clinton in the critical 1779 campaign on the Hudson River. Presented by Michael Schellhammer. Thurs, 11/6, 6:30 pm. Doors open at 6 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
ET CETERA g Tai Chi Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with instructor Alex Hing, and discover its many physical and mental benefits. No experience necessary. Thursdays, 11/6-1/29 (excluding 11/27, 12/25, and 1/1), 7:15-8:15 pm. $140 members, $150 non-members, $20 drop-in. To register call 646-210-4292. Community Center at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St., communitycenteratstuyvesanthighschool.org.
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13 States or One Nation: George Washington and the Economics of the Confederation Pulitzer-Prize winner Edward Larson talks about his new book, “The Return of George Washington: 17831789,” followed by Q&A and book-signing. Attendees are invited to bring lunch. 11/12, 12:30 pm. $5; includes museum admission. Free to students. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St. moaf.org.
g Judith Dupré The author of “Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings” discusses these remarkable buildings as well as the ancient roots of skyscrapers and visionary cities of the future. Wed, 11/19, 6:308 pm. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. RSVP programs@skyscraper.org. g
Teacups Filled with Snow: Writing Poetry for Children and Young Adults Matthea Harvey and Marilyn Nelson, leading poets and writers for children and young adults, respectively, discuss how their poetic practices are influenced by their writing for young people. Sat, 11/22, 3–5 pm. $10; $7 students and seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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adeline Denaro’s large abstract paintings are on display at Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, including “Caracara,” above, to Nov. 15. According to Denaro, there is an ”underlying visual order that gradually seems to emerge” while she works. “I seem to be forever altering and adjusting the framework of some invisible reality.” The gallery, at 35 North Moore St., is open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 12 to 5 p.m. cherylhazan.com.
THEATER Ig See You A play directed by Jim Simpson about a pair of middle-aged Tribeca parents struggling to find purpose in a world headed for disaster. Performances run 11/7-12/21. Tickets are $15, $30, $50 or $70. Lower-priced tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org.
g The Cutthroat Series. Eleven turn-of-the-century French plays featuring adult content (graphic, amoral horror) grouped into two- and three-play evenings. The audience is invited to vote on each one and the winners take part in an extended run in January. To 12/22. Tickets are $15, $25 or $35. Lower-priced tickets available on a first-come, firstserved basis. The Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org.
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U.S. Custom House Tour the historic building and learn about its history. Fri, 11/4, 1–2 pm.
Free. No reservations required. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Historical Lower Manhattan This tour spans 400 years of the city’s history, from the original Dutch settlement and trading outpost at Bowling Green to the takeover by the British in 1664 to the financial capital it is today. Stops include Trinity Church, Federal Hall and the New York Stock Exchange. Lasts approximately two hours. Meet at the steps of the Museum of American Indian, 1 Bowling Green. $20; $15 students and seniors.
Make Your Own Christmas Cards: A Printmaking Workshop Learn the techniques of ink blot printing while creating and carving Christmas cards. Supplies included in workshop fee. Sat, 11/22, 10 am–1 pm. $25. Email Ryan Campbell at the.house.of.campbell@gmail.com to register. Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Place, 2nd Fl., trinitywallstreet.org. g Free Senior Swims At the Downtown Community Center 120 Warren St. Monday through Thursday, 12:30–2 pm. Senior water aerobics classes. Mondays and Thursdays, 12:45 pm. To register, go to the “Aquatics” at manhattanyouth.org or call Lily at 212766-1104 ext. 221.
g Badminton One singles court and two doubles courts available. Rackets and birdies provided. Bring towel and lock for locker. $15, $10, seniors and students. For all ages. Thursdays, 7–9:30 pm; Sundays. 1-5:30 pm. Community Center at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St. communitycenteratstuyvesanthighschool.org. g
The Loop Knitting and crocheting led by a fiber artist. Completed pieces will be donated to Win, which provides New York City homeless families with support services. Bring hooks and needles. Yarn and patterns are provided. Fri, 11/21, 12–2 pm. Balcony near the Hudson East food court, Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St., brookfieldplaceny.com.
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