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To the Editor: Extreme weather has been occurring with greater frequency and intensity throughout the world, and it has struck New York again. Unfortunately, the subtle mitigation efforts such as raised grates to contain subway flooding (disguised as bike racks) were overwhelmed by Hurricane Sandy, which defied expectations. Gov. Cuomo said that it seemed like “we have a 100-year flood every two years now.” Even before this awful event the warning signs have been there. July was the all-time hottest month on record in the U.S. Despite the reality of climate change and the dirty weather that comes with it, our leaders aren’t stepping up to solve this problem. We have an urgent need to revisit a global conversation about the climate that in the United States, has been neglected. I would encourage everyone in our community to get involved. The Climate Reality Project will host a global webcast on Nov. 14 called “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report.” Anyone can make a reservation at climaterealityproject.org. This event would be a good place to gain a refreshed perspective on this important issue. Jonathan Lee
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Thanks to businesses that helped us weather the storm
To the Editor: I just walked in from a last-minute run for a few items before Sandy hits. While Whole Foods and Food Emporium were all locked up, the lights are on and the lines are long at Duane Park Patisserie, Zuckers Bagels and our steadfast neighbors, Morgan’s Market, among other local shops. It reminded me of the days following 9/11 when Morgan’s remained open every day without electricity and Madeline Lanciani walked around the neighborhood handing out cookies to all her neighbors. When we need them most, our neighborhood businesses are there for us. Let’s remember that when it’s back to business as usual. Karen Brodsky
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In ways personal and public, big and small, countless friends, neighbors and strangers came to the aid of others in need—and for many the need remains. Tell us who you’d like to acknowledge, or where others can pitch in to help. Write to editor@tribecatrib.com.
To the Editor: I am writing to let you know how generous the Duane Street Hotel has been to us and other neighbors during this period without power, hosting us in their lobby each day and evening as long as we wished. They let us charge phones and laptops notwithstanding their own limited amount of power from their generator. They were truly supportive and friendly. Cosmopolitan Hotel and Cafe also have been great. Linda Pollak
To the Editor: I’d like to publicly express gratitude to the staff of the Millenium Hilton. On the first two nights of the blackout, when the hotel was running on minimal auxiliary power, they connected power strips to the concierge desk so that locals and guests alike could recharge their phones. When power returned to the hotel early, they opened the lobby to anyone who needed a recharge or a bit of warmth and light, and they could not have been more gracious or welcoming throughout. More than just a port in the storm, their generosity was heartfelt, and shouldn’t be forgotten. David G. Imber
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To the Editor: First, congratulations to Chairman Mehiel for a speedy resolution to the matter of Asphalt Green’s contract. It appears to be one that will save the Battery Park City Authority considerable sums of money, as well as give the community the much delayed community center. That being said, we should address some other issues. In reading Chairman Mehiel’s comments in the Tribeca Trib calling for “transparency and community participation” as his reasons for seeking to amend the Asphalt Green contract, one must address the irony. Under various BPCA administrations the community has been subjected to “public meetings” at which they could not comment; a board which in most cases lacks local resident repre-
sentation; a PEP force acting more like a militia than a community patrol; a lack of responsiveness to Community Board 1; politicians, and the local press; last year’s Draconian firing of 19 long-term employees without giving them notice, or at first, termination benefits; and the outright deception and lack of forthrightness by Ms. Hurwitz and others in blaming the Asphalt Green delays on the “permit process.” It was also disingenuous for Mr. Urstadt to talk of the Authority’s responsibility to finance affordable housing: the state and city have been raiding funds since day one to balance their budgets and everyone knows it. How much money was funneled back into affordable housing prior to Asphalt Green? The original housing mandate of the BPCA was 60 percent middle income,
20 percent low income, and 20 percent luxury apartments: have you noticed many housing units in the first two groups? And how much of the $200 million to be distributed to the 421-A Affordable Rent Program that was earmarked per a 2010 agreement has been? It’s only fair to give Mr. Mehiel time to continue his efforts, yet all in the community have heard positive statements by various administrations— only to find business as usual in regard to the aforementioned problems. With the “capital” he has acquired in recent days may he show his true concern and responsibility by remembering he is not chairman of financial statements and “widgets,” but of a thriving and growing community of people. John Brindisi
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Lower Manhattan in the days of the flood
West Street, near the Rector Street Bridge. The hurricane swelled the Hudson River, flowed over Battery Park City and turned West Street into a river of its own. caption
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Hurricane Sandy and its impact on Lower Manhattan is not a single story but countless personal ones. Here are just a few, compiled over the first days. BY JESSICA TERRELL AND CARL GLASSMAN
THE DAY AFTER Like the rest of the city and the region, Lower Manhattan woke up on Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, to the aftermath of the city’s worst storm in memory. From the South Street Seaport, where workers struggled to appraise damaged restaurants and shops, to Battery Park City where most residents had evacuated (but to the surprise of many still had power) an eerie quiet hung in the damp air. Although flood damage was severe in parts of the Seaport and Financial District, the biggest challenge facing Downtown residents on Tuesday and, for many, the days after that, was lack of power. What would become a seemingly ubiquitous roar of generators sucking up countless tonnage of river water from Lower Manhattan basements was only beginning to kick in. Doormen like Charles Hall, working in the dark lobby of 310 Greenwich Street in Tribeca’s Independence Plaza, said the most frequently asked question in Tribeca on the day after the storm was, “What is the latest on electricity?” At the 39-story IPN complex, which had no working elevators until Nov. 3, residents huffed their way slowly to upper floors using flashlights to navigate the dark stairways, and then the pitchblack hallways.
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Ella Biondi climbs to her 30th-floor apartment at 80 North Moore St. in Independence Plaza. The three-tower complex was without water, electricity and gas until Saturday, Nov. 4. Volunteers and building staff checked on elderly tenants who may have been in distress.
Though hardly as damaged as areas outside Manhattan, Downtown was hit hardest in the Seaport and the eastern edge of the Financial District, where water from the storm surge reached heights of six feet on several streets. On Wall Street, between South and Front, maintenance workers on that Tuesday—and for days after that—were pumping water from the basements of high-rise buildings. The water had risen at least five feet and appeared to have broken windows on the ground floor of 111 Wall Street. “The whole basement was flooded,” said lawyer Peter Nissman, who noted that he lost many files to the stormwater.
“We came by on Sunday to move them to higher shelves. I had no idea the water would go so high.” The South Street Seaport’s historic ships had no signs of visible damage, but most of Pier 16—which had been covered with five feet of water—and Pier 17—was off limits. Pier 15 appeared undamaged but the air was heavy with the smell of fuel and the water to the south had the sheen of an oil slick. The end of Pier 17 is higher than that of Pier 16, so many ground-floor shops had been spared significant damage, according to a guard working in the area. “Nothing was as bad here as it was
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Like most ground floors in the Seaport, Fetch, the pet service at 85 South St., was flooded, its ruined things put on the street.
across the street,” he said, nodding toward Fulton. The ground floors of most buildings on Schermerhorn Row were flooded, and many of the side streets below Pearl off Fulton were damaged by the rushing tide. On the other side of the island, Battery Park City—where most people had left their homes—ended up faring the best of Downtown neighborhoods, with power remaining on in almost all the buildings. Only number 400 in Gateway Plaza lost power, and remained without it for another three days. “It’s unbelievable,” said Jane Dunsmuir, a Battery Park City resident. “It feels like
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we are in this magical little bubble here.” There was almost no place to buy food in Lower Manhattan on the day after the storm, though in Tribeca three smaller markets, Morgan’s, Picnic Basket and Amish Market, stayed open for customers willing to shop by flashlight. And there were many. “We were stocked up but we were hoping to find any dollar pizza place, anything we don’t have to prepare,” said Nick Ludwick, of 90 Washington St., who was charging his phone at a generator next to the Amish Market. “This is literally the only place open.” At 2 p.m., security guard Tony Alton stood near the base of 7 World Trade Center, where water was being pumped out of the basement of a Con Ed station. “They started this at 6 this morning and they still aren’t anywhere near being done,” said Alton, who spent the night at 160 Nassau with about 40 construction workers and others who could not go home. “I’m just praying they will get this cleaned up as quickly as possible,” he said.
worker Sheila Evangelista that the hotel is subject to flooding. “I called Jonathan,” she recalled. “He said, ‘I need to get them out.’” The next morning the residents were moved to the other New Jersey hotel where things seemed to finally be working out. Hallmark’s Whitney Bryant even led an exercise class for the evacuees. But that night the hotel lost power and the generator was failing. To make matters worse, the hotel was running out of food. At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, chancing that they would not be allowed back into the evacuation zone, the buses returned to Battery Park City, where power had
AN EVACUATION ODYSSEY Jonathan Collins, director of the Hallmark senior residence in Battery Park City, was relieved to hear the mayor’s first pronouncement that there would be no evacuation. After all, the staff was prepared to stay put. “We had food, we felt comfortable about weathering the storm,” Collins said. But at 11:30 Sunday morning the
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The day after the storm, Il Porto chef Christian Meliano stands in the wrecked dining room of the restaurant at 11 Fulton St. Flood waters carried a beer fridge onto a counter.
Hallmark, in Zone A, had to evacuate. With just seven and a half hours left, the staff had to find accommodations for the residents, many of whom use walkers and some are in wheelchairs. Everyone began working the phones. One hundred residents were able to be picked up by their relatives. But that left over 100 residents, their aides, their pets—two dogs, three birds and five cats—and the staff. Collins rounded up two wheelchairaccessible buses and found a hotel in Manhattan for everyone—but at 2:30 he got a call from the hotel’s assistant man-
Community Center Seeks To Rebound from Flood
BY CARL GLASSMAN Manhattan Youth director Bob Townley stood on the steps leading to the lower levels of the Downtown Community Center, two days after the flood. At the bottom stood a pool of water, just a hint of the nightmare that lay beyond, more than 20,000 square feet of water, 20 feet high. “It’s hard to imagine,” he said, peering down into the murky water. “The ceramic studio, the art studio, the teen lounge, the kitchen, all the systems, the boiler, the pool filtration system and power system of the pool. All the bigticket items—$600,000 to $700,000 items. Each.” That day Townley and his staff leaders were trying to come to terms with the devastating damage caused by the swell of Hurricane Sandy waters that flooded the underground garage of 200 Chambers Street next door and gushed into the lower floors of the center at 120 Warren St. How would Manhattan Youth rebuild and continue serving some 3,000 Downtown residents in its after-school and many other programs? Townley said the center has no flood insurance. “Everything is going to be more money than we have,” he said. “It
could be millions of dollars in infrastructure, equipment, loss of program revenue.” Plans for a fund raising campaign is already in the works. “It will be a process like building the community center,” he said. “This is a rebuilding.” Within a couple of days after the storm, Manhattan Youth staff had pumps pulling water day and night from the center. On Saturday, five days after the storm, the rooms had been cleared and the damage could be seen. “Everything ended up in other rooms,” said Townley, who had moved the Manhattan Youth offices, still without power, into the living room of his Battery Park City apartment. “It’s a mess.” Until some power can be restored in the building, the big damage—to the center’s mechanical equipment—can’t be assessed. With the water out, the physical work of carrying out the wreckage has begun, as it has in so many flood-torn buildings. On Sunday, less than a week after the storm, a dumpster sat in front of the center, waiting to be filled. Townley knew the center was in trouble when the phone rang during the
ager, who had decided to cancel the reservation. Now, with only five hours left, the staff frantically worked the phones again. They finally found rooms in two hotels in New Jersey and one in Philadelphia and, after checking every room twice, began the laborious move. “The park officers and police stood here for hours,” Collins said. “They helped us carry some people onto buses.” The pets stayed behind with Collins and his wife, who have an apartment at the Hallmark. That night the manager of the hotel in Secaucus mentioned to social
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Two days after the storm, Bob Townley surveys the community center’s flooded stairs.
storm. A staff member manning the center told him water was flooding in from the garage. He decided to go see for himself. “I knew it was really crazy, but I was going to do it,” said Townley, who lives a few blocks away on Chambers Street. “I wanted to see if our sandbags were holding. I wanted to see what I could do. I always feel like I can solve a problem.” Townley put on waterproof pants, a jacket and boots and went outside. He crossed the Stuyvesant High School bridge. Cops at Greenwich and Cham-
bers tried to wave him over but he continued on, wading through the fourfoot-high rushing water, gripping fences as he went. “When I got to the community center, the staff took me downstairs. I was shocked. I hugged one of them. Then I shook all their hands and thanked them for pitching in to help the community. There was nothing I could do so I went home.” “I woke up the next morning and cried a little bit,” Townley added. “Then I went to the gym. I need to be healthy now.”
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BY JESSICA TERRELL Electricity had been turned back on in most Lower Manhattan buildings, but many others remained dark. Some businesses—even in areas untouched by flooding—were still closed. Some tenants lacked steam, with a winter storm on the horizon. With these challenges in mind, Community Board 1’s executive committee came together for an emergency session at Trinity Church on Sunday, Nov. 4. It was the first time the board had met since Downtown was evacuated, and a first chance for residents to address a question on everyone’s mind: What would it take to get Downtown back to normal? “Where do people turn for resources?” asked Doug Smith, a Battery Park City resident and owner of the World Trade Art Gallery in the Financial District. “I’ve been inundated with people from the neighborhood…they really don't know yet where they go [for help.]” The challenges facing the community after the storm appeared twofold: helping residents get home and addressing the needs of local businesses. The most immediate needs were steam for heat, and electricity in buildings still without power, Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes told the gathering, seated in church pews. Although Con Edison had turned on the Downtown grids, power was still off in numerous buildings because of issues with inspections or damage. The Community Board office had begun compiling a list of buildings where residents had been displaced, but reports were still trickling in. “Our community has been hit hard,” CB1 Chair Catherine McVay Hughes said before passing a resolution asking for any hurricane aid passed by Congress to include Lower Manhattan’s residents and businesses. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had recently announced an assistance program for residents who have been displaced, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick said, but details about the plan had yet to be disseminated to her office.
“There is going to be something, we just can’t tell you exactly what it is today,” Glick said. Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who had just been able to return to her home at 3 Hanover Square the day before the meeting, said her office is trying to get FEMA to set up a disaster relief center Downtown. In the meantime, volunteer efforts were helping to fill in the gaps for residents in need. Donors had been dropping off blankets at Southbridge Towers, though more would be needed to make it through the temperature drop, CB1 member and Southbridge Towers resident John Fratta said. “It’s going to be tough,” Fratta said. “We have a lot of elderly residents.” If the situation facing residents was grim, businesses, especially in flooded areas of the Seaport, were in equally desperate need of grants, federal aid, and basic information. “My store is full of oil. Not just water but oil,” said Tazz Latifi, owner of the pet store Petropolis at 91 Washington St. Latifi said she needs information on when she can return to her store. “I was told I would have to leave and that I can’t come back there because it is dangerous. They are putting red stickers everywhere.” The New York Waterfront Alliance told the committee it had conducted a “quick and dirty” survey of businesses in the Seaport. Businesses there—and across Downtown—will need grants and ongoing help from volunteers to clean out their wrecked shops. Although FEMA funds were being made available, businesses would need help with that, too. “It took me nine hours to just fill out the first two pages of the [FEMA] application,” Latifi said. One way to help, the board suggested, would be to form a small business committee to address specific needs. “It is going to take a long time to get businesses just up and running,” Fratta said. “We really are going to have to figure out what we can do to help.”
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Rendering of mall with a food market in the Link Building on Pier 17. Landmarks Commission approved the design and signage for the Link Building and the mall, at right.
Redesign for Planned Pier 17 Mall Developer expects a big food market to move into building next to glass mall BY CARL GLASSMAN
Howard Hughes Corp. has rethought its proposed shopping mall on Pier 17. The latest concept splits the mall building and its roof in two, opening up the ground floor to natural light as well as the weather. “So when it rains the rain will come down right through the middle of the building,” said Gregg Pasquarelli, a partner in SHoP Architects, the building’s designers. “We think that would be pretty fantastic and really have this great engagement with the waterfront.” Pasquarelli presented revised renderings to joint committees of Community Board 1 last month as part of a city approval process it must go through to gain a number of zoning and other land use exemptions. The Landmarks Commission approved the new designs later in the month. The architect also showed SHoP’s latest design for the Link Building, an extension of the Pier 17 structure at the southwest corner of the pier where
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In this latest design of the mall interior, the ceiling above the mezzanine is open to allow in natural light as well as the weather.
Hughes plans to house a food market. The new design calls for a section of the building to be demolished and glass added to its doors and windows. Hughes Executive Vice President Chris Curry told the board that they have yet to find a tenant to run the market. “We’ve begun discussions with other local [food market] operators who share our vision,” he said. Robert LaValva, founder of the New Amsterdam Market, has rejected Hughes’s offer to house his popular
weekly market in the Link Building and is instead seeking to put the New Amsterdam Market in the Tin Building and New Market Building. Hughes now has the option to propose development plans for those buildings. Many questions also remain about the company’s plans for the Tin Building, New Market Buildings and other city-owned Seaport properties. There are some concerns about the plan among area stakeholders, including the
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Seaport Museum chief Susan Jones presents her concerns about Pier 17 plans.
South Street Seaport Museum. Among other things, the museum is asking for a performance stage between Pier 16 and 17 to be relocated and waterfront access—and view corridors—to be preserved. “There are elements of this plan that really do threaten our ability to succeed down here,” Museum President Susan Henshaw Jones said. The board is expected to vote on Hughes’s land-use applications to the city on Thursday, Nov. 8.
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On the upper level of the soon-to-berebuilt Pier 17 mall will be an expansive public lawn, sweeping views of the Brooklyn Bridge—and a 90-foot-long sign in nine-foothigh letters that spells out “TROPAES”? The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved Howard Hughes Corporation’s proposal last month to place a large illuminated sign atop Pier 17, which would read “SEAPORT” backwards from Manhattan and people using the planned rooftop public space. The approval came despite Community Board 1’s scathing assessment of the sign. “I don’t think you need to scream out that
this thing exists in the evening, and I don’t think you need to scream out that it exists during the day, either,” CB1 Landmarks Committee Chair Roger Byrom told representatives of the Hughes Corp. last month. “I don’t think it adds anything. We know it’s the Seaport.” LPC commissioners disagreed, calling the sign designs “excellent.” The LPC also approved Hughes Corp.’s plans to place 32 vertical “blade” signs, each 32 feet high and mounted on the second floor of the north and south sides of the building— on the condition that there would be only one per tenant.
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‘Bleak’ Forecast for Local Schools By 2014, a projected shortage of up to 250 seats in Downtown elementary schools
BY CARL GLASSMAN Eric Greenleaf is the bearer of bad news once again. For more than four years, the NYU Stern Business School professor and Downtown parent has been accurately predicting an alarmingly growing demand for classroom space in Lower Manhattan elementary schools—demand that he says is being unmet even by the three new schools that have opened since 2009. In his latest report, presented last month to Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee, he called the near future of kindergarten enrollment “bleak.” “By 2013 there will be a total shortage of at least five and likely six classrooms,” Greenleaf said. “That’s 125 to 150 kids that there isn’t room for in the schools.” Looking ahead to 2014, Greenleaf said the picture gets worse, with 250 to 300 more children than classroom seats. “We’re facing a shortage that’s as big as the entire Spruce Street Elementary School,” he said, referring to the school at 12 Spruce St. that opened just last year. Greenleaf detailed his ominous projections for each of the five zoned elementary schools within Community Board 1. He painted the most dire picture for P.S./I.S. 276 in Battery Park City. “Overcrowding at 276 has met our worst fears,” Greenleaf said. The school, which opened a fifth kindergarten this year against Principal Terri Ruyter’s objections, will have no space for kindergartners next year without eliminating its pre-k program or science and art rooms, Greenleaf said. And by 2014, he added, the school will be five classrooms short. “There are kids who have siblings there right now who there won’t be room for,” he said. Ruyter issued her own “overcrowding study” that agrees with Greenleaf’s analysis. “With the addition of 5th grade in the 2013-2014 school year, we will
Above: Preschoolers on the streets of Lower Manhattan, like these outside Tribeca Community School, are reminders of what’s ahead for the public schools. Left: Eric Greenleaf presents his projections last month to Community Board 1.
officially not have enough classrooms for pre-k-[8th grade] enrolled students,” she wrote. “The time is now to develop short- and long-term solution[s].” Here is a summary of Greenleaf’s report on the four other zoned public elementary schools within Community Board 1. • P.S. 89. The school is completely full, Greenleaf said, and “things are going to get worse” with the opening of two large apartment buildings next to the Battery Park City ball fields as well as the opening of Riverhouse. In an email to the Trib, Principal Ronnie Najjar said the school will continue to have three classes per grade, as was originally intended for the building. Some classes are “underenrolled” according to the DOE's
maximum allowable class sizes of 32, she said. As for the new buildings, “Riverhouse has been open for five years, and the buildings on the field opened a year ago. We already have many children from those three buildings in the school.” • P.S. 397. Greenleaf projects that in 2013 the school will be short one classroom and four classrooms the year after that. “What happens at Spruce then? The middle school is threatened as well as pre-k, science and art,” he said. Principal Nancy Harris did not respond to an email request for comment. • The Peck Slip School. “Believe it or not, it is not likely to have enough room for next year,” Greenleaf said of the justopened school that is incubating with PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN
two kindergarten classes in Tweed Courthouse. He expects the school to be out of space in 2013. “I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that we get 50 [students] and we’ll just have to accommodate the kids that we get,” Peck Slip Principal Maggie Siena said in a telephone interview. The school has six classrooms and it may be possible to borrow one of the empty ones next year for a third kindergarten, she said. “But that’s where the real space issue would come up. If we have three kindergartens next year [plus two first grades] then we’re using five classrooms right there.” In addition, she said, there could be too few students for three sections to fund a third teacher. • P.S. 234. The school opened a sixth kindergarten classroom this year to accommodate waitlisted children at P.S. 89. But Greenleaf said it cannot sustain that number of kindergarten sections. “P.S. 234 is also not likely to have enough room next year,” he said. Principal Lisa Ripperger said she did not want to comment. The DOE, which has repeatedly said it does not determine its analysis of capacity on a school-by-school or a community board basis, declined to respond to Greenleaf’s projections for individual schools. “We are on track to meet the growing demand for school seats in Lower Manhattan, and will create an additional 700 seats at the Peck Slip School opening in 2015,” DOE spokeswoman Marge Feinberg said in an email. DOE officials have also said that P.S. 1, a school on Henry Street in Chinatown, has enough extra capacity to handle the overflow from Downtown schools. But Greenleaf and other Downtown school activists continue to insist that the city needs to fund two new schools to take care of an additional 600 children. He claims the Bloomberg administration is committed only to stopgap measures, such as converting art and science rooms to general classrooms and closing pre-k programs. “They are hoping they can squeak through 2012 and 2013,” he said, “because in January 2014 there’s a new mayor, and then it’s that mayor’s problem.”
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A group called for renegotiating the Authority’s contract with Asphalt Green. They said they feared that current ball field users would be squeezed out by Asphalt Green programs.
Liz McCabe addresses residents last month about organizing in support of Asphalt Green. Days later the Battery Park City Authority announced an agreement to open the center.
Deal Reached with Asphalt Green Amended contract with the operator means center can open, BPCA chief announces BY JESSICA TERRELL
It took nearly a year of delays, including months of secretive contract negotiations, but last month Battery Park City residents finally got good news: Their $55 million community center would be opening soon. Battery Park City Authority chairman Dennis Mehiel announced a conclusion to protracted efforts to revise its agreement with Asphalt Green at the Authority’s Oct. 23 board meeting. The goal, Mehiel said at the time, was for Asphalt Green to open by Dec. 1. Since then, however, storm damage ruined the gym floor and possibly other parts of the building, making the opening date less certain. But following news of the agreement, parents who had become vocally impatient over the delay were now happy. “I'm thrilled,” said Liz McCabe, a Battery Park City parent who has been an outspoken advocate for a speedy opening of the center, with Asphalt Green as the operator. “I think that the chairman Dennis Mehiel was really mas-
in good faith. I think everybody was honest about it,” Mehiel said at the Oct. 23 meeting. “But I’ve got to confess to you, I think they were a little smarter than we were and they got a deal that was quite favorable.” Mehiel said it became urgent to settle the negotiations over the At a meeting of the Battery Park City Authority board last month, center, which has chairman Dennis Mehiel announces the deal with Asphalt Green. long been fully furnished with terful in pulling this all together from gym equipment and has two swimming what was a dead stop.” pools filled with water, before it was too The changes, which had been orally late and the idle equipment would no agreed on but not yet signed when longer work. Mehiel made his announcement, would Mehiel’s announcement came as eliminate substantial financial risks for issues over the delay and operation of the the Authority. Mehiel said the original center had grown increasingly divisive contract, negotiated under the leadership in the community. Just days before of former BPCA president James Cav- Mehiel’s announcement, a group of anaugh, would have left the Authority on Downtown residents held a rally calling the hook for any potential losses sus- on the Authority to renegotiate the contained by Asphalt Green—an estimated tract so that use of the ball fields by $1.2 million in the first year alone. Asphalt Green—or another operator— “I think the contract was negotiated would have little or no impact on local
sports leagues and by Manhattan Youth, which uses the fields for its summer camp. Another group met to rally support for the center to open immediately under the existing contract with Asphalt Green. Bob Townley, director of Manhattan Youth, which is said to be losing field time for its summer camp, declined to comment on the impact of the new contract. Schedules of the community sports leagues will not be affected, Mehiel said. The Authority will retain control over the ball field scheduling, and in an effort to alleviate community concerns, will be issuing longer permits to current users. The Authority has also negotiated set hours for community use of the center’s auditorium. Bill Bialosky, president of the Downtown Soccer League, said he is pleased with the multi-year permits, but still has concerns about the long-term use of the field. As proposed in a 2010 memorandum of understanding crafted by the community board but never signed by the Authority, Bialosky would still like a committee of stakeholders and local representatives to be created to oversee the ball fields. “We would like to see some bigger resolution that becomes more of a concrete roadmap for the future,” Bialosky said.
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FiDi Plaza Seems Less Than Public BY JESSICA TERRELL It was supposed to be a mutually beneficial trade: Developers of the new W Hotel at 123 Washington St. would get permission to construct a taller building, and in return the community would get a public plaza in an area with limited open space. But just months after the long-anticipated Gwathmey Plaza opened at Washington and Carlisle streets, questions are being raised over what the neighborhood really got out of the deal, which gave the developer nearly 60,000 additional square feet. “This public space was proposed to us as an amenity for the community,” Community Board 1 member and nearby resident Pat Moore told representatives of the hotel’s developer, the Moinian Group, at a meeting of CB1’s Financial District Committee last month. “It is open to the public, but none of us can tell that it is open to the public.” Plaza users complain that the space appears less like a public plaza, and more like private outdoor seating for BLT Bar & Grill, on the hotel’s ground floor, and for a nearby food kiosk. The Moinian Group, its land use lawyer, and the plaza’s landscape architect did not respond to a request for comment. But representatives of the Moinian Group told the committee that the issues were largely a matter of “messaging.” “We want the plaza to be vibrant. We want people to be there as well,” Michael
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Four tables, on left, at the BLT Bar & Grill are supposed to be marked for public use.
Peisem, a development associate, said. “It’s a new plaza … we are getting the kinks out of trying to manage it.” The plaza is divided into two sections, one with a few wooden benches and an outdoor cafe for the restaurant, and another raised area with tables, benches and the food kiosk. Although the benches on street level are well-used by passersby, few people seem aware that the tables on the platform are for the public and not just seating for the burger kiosk. There is a sign on either end of the plaza stating that the space is for public use, but none within the seating areas.
“It doesn’t strike you as jumping out and saying, ‘public space this way,’” said Renee Campion, who was sitting at a table on the raised area and eating a burger from the kiosk. Seated near Campion were two weary visitors from Pittsburgh. “It seems like the seats are for the burger place,” said Katie, a tourist who declined to give her last name. “I was just hoping we wouldn’t get chased out.” In order to comply with city code, which limits how much of a public plaza can be used by a restaurant cafe, four of the tables next to BLT Bar & Grill must be public tables permanently affixed to
the sidewalk, and differentiated from the cafe with a dashed line on the ground. Until recently, all the tables at the cafe were close together, and covered with BLT umbrellas. At lunchtime they had place settings and appeared no different than the tables and chairs used by the cafe. “They all look the same,” Moore said. “I would not know that I could sit at the tables and have my lunch.” Zachary Bernstein, a lawyer for the Moinian Group, assured Moore that the four cafe tables were for public use only. “The restaurant is never going to serve meals on those tables,” he said. But that memo had yet to be passed along to the restaurant operator and a few days later a restaurant hostess told the Trib that none of the tables were for public use. On the phone, another employee told the Trib that the tables were for restaurant service during the day, but that members of the public could ask to speak to a manager and be put on a waiting list if they wanted to use a table. The day after the reporter’s telephone inquiries about the seating, the Trib stopped by the plaza and was shown the four tables reserved for the public. Asked when the policy began, the waiter said, “Today.” “[The plaza] was not a gift, it was a public space for increased height,” Community Board 1 Chair Catherine McVay Hughes said. “The community has to feel welcome to use it.”
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Drab Washington Street To Get Pedestrian Plaza
BY JESSICA TERRELL plaza nearby at Washington and Carlisle, A dreary block of Washington Street, which is underutilized, Kraus said. That just south of the 9/11 Memorial, is about plaza, adjacent to BLT Bar & Grill outto get a makeover. The city hopes to alle- side the W Hotel, has been the source of viate pedestrian congestion in the area by confusion over the “public” part of space creating a public plaza with granite that is largely used by the restaurant. blocks, tables, chairs, planters, and an The street plaza plan is part of the information kiosk staffed by the Downtown Alliance. Last month, Community Board 1 supported the plan to turn Washington Street between Carlisle and Albany into what is being called Washington Plaza. The city Department of Transportation plans to install a special epoxy gravel on the block this month and open the plaza a few weeks later. Residents have been complaining about crowded pedestrian conditions and garbage accumulation in the area since the Memorial opened in September 2011. Up to 15,000 visitors head to the Memorial each day, Joshua Kraus of the Transportation Department told the The Department of Transportation showed this rendering of the committee. When block-long Washington Street Plaza between Carlisle and Albany. they leave the Memorial, they often block the sidewalk or Bloomberg administration’s push to linger on corners as they try to figure out improve what’s been dubbed Greenwich where to go next, Kraus said. South, an area between West Street and “[The Washington Plaza] would offer Broadway stretching south of the World visitors a place to stop and reflect, look Trade Center site to the north end of around, think about where they are head- Battery Park. ed next and get some more information Jeffrey Mandel, a policy advisor in about what is available,” Kraus said. the deputy mayor’s office for economic The Alliance will clean the plaza as development, said the city pushed to get well as set up and take down tables and the plaza installed before the winter. chairs each day, he added. “We think it’s important to make our The DOT hopes the street closure best efforts in our last hours in the neighwill bring more people to a new public borhood,” he noted.
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has kept on the back burner for years. “We have so many ideas floating around,” she said. Ellsworth, an economist, said she first became concerned about the changing character of Tribeca when the former Marine Midland Bank building at the corner of Chambers Street and West Broadway was demolished, making way for the Smyth Hotel Tribeca. But it was a recent battle over a new residential building on Leonard Street that finally pushed her toward founding Tribeca Trust. And with the 57-story tower at 56 Leonard St. now under construction—just outside the historic district—she said preservation efforts are especially pressing. “When I look at pictures [of 56 Leonard Street] I just cringe in horror that this could possibly be happening,” Ellsworth said. “I hope that the injustice of it wakes people up. We’ve got to protect what we’ve got.” Tribeca Trust is also looking for people to help its efforts in many different ways. Write to lynnellsworth@tribecatrust.com.
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Developer’s Plans Sparking Fears BY CARL GLASSMAN
After their Tribeca building shook for two terrifying hours in late September, residents of a 12-unit co-op on West Street are still wondering: What’s coming next? The 156-year-old former warehouse at 288 West Street near Canal stands alone, flanked on each side by lots slated for development. To the south is planned a sprawling 10-story apartment building, developed by the Related Company, that will extend the entire block along Watts Street, from West to Washington. It was the demolition of a structure on that lot on the morning of Sept. 28 that rocked 288 West Street and rattled the people inside. One mother, certain that an earthquake was striking, ran to fetch her child from school. The fire department was called and the city shut down the work, by Waldorf Demolition. A long vertical crack on the south side of the building that residents say was caused by the work serves as a visible reminder of the incident. Since then demolition has resumed and been halted several times. (As of Nov. 5 a stop-work order had been lifted.) Residents of the building say they want to know what else could be awaiting their building, not only from the demolition but from the excavation and construction that comes later. “We know we’re an old building on landfill,” said Brent Kinetz, the co-op’s president. “We’re not a building on bedrock and the risk of damage is there. We’re trying to protect ourselves.” In response, Related lawyers told residents that the Buildings Department is aware of the conditions in the lot, high water table and all, and approved the plans. “Related’s professionals, some of the best in the business, have safely demolished buildings under similar circumstances,” a Related lawyer wrote to the residents’ lawyer, Carol Sigmond. Along with Sigmond, the residents have hired engineering consultants to find out what the future holds for demolition and construction. They claim they have hit a wall with Related, who they say is unwilling to give them the information they need to make sure their
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Above: Demolition site for a new building at 456 Washington St. Left: 288 West Street stands between two development sites.
building is protected. “Our lawyer and engineers have written to their lawyer and engineers saying, ‘Come on, let’s talk now,’” Kinetz said. “‘You guys have damaged our building with your first effort at demolition and we want to know what you’re planning on doing so we can effectively monitor our building together.’” Emails have been flying back and forth between the two sides since August. Related claims that it was being unreasonably denied access to the building in its attempt to establish and moni-
tor the building’s condition. “As a consequence of your denial, your belief that new cracks have appeared at 288 West Street as a result of the demolition cannot be substantiated,” Jesse Masyr, a lawyer for Related, wrote to the co-op’s lawyer. According to Masyr, vibration monitors, placed as close to the property line as possible, showed “de minimis vibrations” and therefore the company denies responsibility for any damage. But it is not just the residents of 288 West Street who have a problem with
Related’s planned new building. Those who live next door to the site at 466 Washington St. see their southern views—and light—drawing to an end. They acknowledge that the developer can legally block their lot-line windows. But Barbara Siegel, an artist and 33-year resident of the building, asked the developer to be a “good neighbor” and allow a 30-foot clearance between the two buildings so that she and her neighbors can still open bedroom and living room windows and get some light. “We moved in 1979 so we put our windows there not even thinking of the possibility that this kind of development would become rampant,” Siegel said. What came back, in a recent letter from Related lawyer Jesse Masyr, was a polite but firm “no.” “We hope that you will find the future building to be an asset to your neighborhood and the larger community,” he wrote. Masyr did not respond to a request for comment.
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Work Begins on Tower To Soar Over Tribeca The 57-story “Jenga” building was on hold for three years
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56 Leonard Street will rise 830 feet and have 145 apartments. It will take longer than most towering buildings because of its unusual cantalevered apartments. “This is not a cookie cutter building,” said the project manager, Tony DelGreco.
“No one thought that New York Law School would destroy their own library in order to put up a monstrosity,” Jim Stratton, a former Community Board 1 member who worked closely on the rezoning with the city, said at the time Alexico announced its plans. But the concern now is the impact of construction on the surrounding neighborhood. Committee chair Peter Braus called it “shocking” that construction will last four years, including nearly two years for the facade alone. “It’s a very complicated structure,” said Tony DelGreco, a vice president of Lend Lease (formerly Bovis Lend Lease) and the manager of the project. DelGreco said that the first 10 floors will go slowly because of the large, cantilevered apartments. “When you get past the 46th floor, that’s when you
BY CARL GLASSMAN Tribeca’s sleeping giant is about to rise. Four years of construction began last month on long-delayed 56 Leonard Street, the 830-foot-high residential tower announced four years ago for the southwest corner of Church and Leonard streets. For more than three years, the building’s completed foundation has sat barren while the recession-stymied developer, the Alexico Group, sought financing to complete the project. The 57-story building, with its irregularly jutting glass facade that resembles a colossal Jenga game, will soar high above low-rise Tribeca, unchanged from the design unveiled in 2008. Back then, Alexico was selling its 145 condos at prices from $3.5 million to $33 million for a 6,300-square-foot penthouse. The project, designed by the firm of Herzog & de Meuron, had been greeted unhappily by some in the community when it was introduced. They said it was grossly out of scale with the neighborhood and an unsuitable neighbor to the historic district. Longtime Community Board 1 member Bruce Ehrmann echoed that sentiment last month when representatives of Original plans for 56 Leonard Street called for a sculpture by Anish Kapoor at the base the construction firm in charge of the building. It is unclear whether it will still be installed. of the project, Lend Lease US Construction Co., came before CB1’s Tribeca get all the cantilevers coming again and it slows us down again,” he said. “So this has an 18-month conCommittee to give a preview of their work schedule. crete schedule for that reason. It’s just a slower, “This is a meteor that’s landing in absolutely the methodical job. You have to go slow to get it right.” lowest-rise section of Tribeca,” Ehrmann said. For the next three months, workers will be chopping Recalling that the site was exempted from the protecup the sidewalk and putting in utility vaults for Con tive “downzoning” of Tribeca in 1995 as well as incluEdison. It will take more than a year and a half, beginsion in the historic district, he called the decision back ning in December, to build the superstructure, with then “a tragic oversight.” facade work to start next July. The building is scheduled A sculpture by Anish Kapoor had been planned for for completion in spring 2016. the base of the building. It is unclear whether the piece Lend Lease has set up a phone line for constructionwill still be part of the project. related complaints, which they say will be answered Alexico bought the site for $135.5 million from within “24 to 48 hours.” The number is 212-448-3982. New York Law School, whose library had stood there. For Jim Stratton’s column about the building, see The school used the money to build its new library at page 38. the corner of West Broadway.
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Far left: Before the storm struck, some came to Hudson River Park to watch the river rise. Left: A few hours before the flood, the river splashed up through a wooden walkway in the South Cove.
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never been lost. “We even got the cooks in for dinner,” Collins said proudly. Despite the trouble, Collins could see a bright spot in it all. “I told my boss this was the best team-building exercise you could ever have.” UNREAL FORCE The afternoon after the storm, Chef Christian Meliano stood in what had been the dining room of Il Porto restaurant at 11 Fulton St. and pointed to a beer refrigerator that storm waters had deposited onto the restaurant’s bar. “It takes us five people to move that fridge,” he said with disbelief. “I’ve never seen anything like that.” Moving from room to room, Meliano and restaurant manager Gloria Jamarillo surveyed the damage with shock. Water inside the restaurant had reached nearly six feet. Windows were broken, tables and chairs overturned, liquor bottles scattered across the floor. “Oh, my God,” Meliano called to Jamarillo. “You have to come look at my kitchen!” Behind the kitchen doors the floor was covered with pots and pans and puddles of what appeared to be cooking oil. Water dripped from a broken faucet, stoves appeared to have floated and landed in other parts of the room. “This is crazy,” said Jamarillo, who had made sure the restaurant windows were taped and sandbags were placed in front of the doors before the storm arrived. “I can’t believe it. Everything is destroyed.” CLEANING BY CANDLELIGHT On Wednesday, in the basement level of Stone Street Tavern, co-owner Ronan Downs and his staff were cleaning up pools of spilled grease and hauling out bags of food and damaged supplies by candlelight. The bar had been severely flooded, but Downs was determined to get the place clean—electricity or no electricity. “We know how important it is to New York City,” Downs said, taking a break outside the his bar. “We also know how important it is to our employees.
They have families, so we want to get them working. We want to get working ourselves. We have families, too.” A similar scene was unfolding in establishments all along the street. “The Dubliner is being pumped out right now,” said Downs, a co-owner. Water at both the Dubliner and Stone Street Tavern had reached nearly four feet during the storm. “We found all the kitchen equipment floating,” Downs said. “Barrels of beer were floating. It was in total disarray. All our records, all our paperwork is totally destroyed in the office. The office is a complete mess.” Still, Downs predicted that he would have the tavern up and running within 24 hours of getting electricity. “It’s all hands on deck,” he said. “We just want to clean the place out, get the electric back on, and get back in business.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE 22)
PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN
Top: Kris Manrique hauls sandbags to Poets House on North End Avenue in Battery Park City, where there was a mandatory evacuation order. Above: Erin Sumwalt and Johnny Boose, with Hudson, leave their building at 450 North End Ave.
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With power out throughout Lower Manhattan, food was hard to find. In Tribeca, at Morgan’s Market, above, Picnic Basket and Amish Market, stores were open but dark.
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A MUSEUM IN THE STORM It took hundreds of volunteer hours and careful pre-storm calculations by the South Street Seaport Museum’s waterfront director, Jonathan Boulware, but the museum’s historic ships safely rode out the storm. “Did you see those boats? How beautifully those ships did?” said Museum President Susan Henshaw Jones on Thursday, Nov. 1, as she stood in front of the museum on Fulton Street. “If everything had been out on the ships, it would have been fine.” Indeed, although all of the museum’s artwork and exhibits were safely on the museum’s upper floors, roughly five feet of water flooded the ground floor and its rental spaces and galleries on Water Street. “Everything in here was just a shambles. Oh, shambles!” Jones said. “Shop merchandise ruined, the cafe ruined. Look at this sad thing.” The “oil-laced surge” damaged the museum’s electrical, heating and elevator systems as well as its shop merchandise, Jones later wrote in a plea for donations. “Hurricane Sandy has dealt us a body blow,” she said. RESCUING TYPE Hurricane Sandy forced countless laborious tasks onto those affected by the storm, but few are as painstaking as the ones now confronting Ali Osborn and Gideon Finck. The two men, recently hired to catalogue the museum’s extensive collection of wooden and metal type—millions of pieces—must remove the historic type from water-soaked drawers, wash off the salt water, and dry each letter so that it doesn’t warp. In one fateful night, their job changed from cataloging the collection to saving it. “If they bow, they’re useless,” said Osborn, surveying the wooden blocks spread across every available flat surface inside a storefront next to Bowne & Co., the South Street Seaport’s vintage print shop on Water Street. “They need to be flat for printing.” Volunteers were helping with the job. “We were just starting to really discover the treasures in the collection,” Osborn said. “So the timing was really bad.”
“The jury’s out,” Finck said, pondering how much of the rare type could be saved. “But just judging from what we have been seeing over the last couple of days, it looks like the majority of type is not going to warp.” Eight printing presses in the gallery were also covered with flood water, but the two men were fairly certain they could be repaired. And metal could wait longer than wood to be tended to. “A lot of the wood type was used for 19th-century advertising,” Finck said. “It’s rare, it’s beautiful.” HELPING HANDS BY THE HUNDREDS Standing inside the dark and debrisfilled Josh Bach gift shop on Fulton Street, Kristin Lepri reached out to grip the bottom of an enormous wooden display unit that had been knocked over in the storm and was leaning precariously against the wall. “I’m going to climb up,” she called out to one of the store’s owners, who was standing on the other end of the unit pulling off soggy merchandise and handing it to volunteers. “It’s OK. I’m small. I signed a waiver.” Lepri, who hoisted herself up with ease and began emptying the shelves, was one of roughly 200 volunteers who showed up at the South Street Seaport on the Sunday after the storm. Some brought their own shovels and garbage bags, others took rubber gloves handed out by New Amsterdam Market’s Robert LaValva, who organized the effort. Everyone pitched in where they could. At Josh Bach, nine volunteers helped empty the store of merchandise, while coowner Valentina Guazzoni stood outside and tried to determine what could be salvaged. At Barbarini, volunteers rinsed off slime-coated pots and pans and equipment. At Salud Restaurant and Bar they hauled debris to the street. At Keg 229, they helped knock down moldy sheetrock. “The pouring out of hearts and care and concern gives me hope,” said Guazzoni, who is uncertain she will be able to reopen the shop. “New Yorkers really do come together in times of need.” But as much as the volunteers did, more remains to be done. Few, if any businesses had flood insurance and the repairs needed to reopen are overwhelming for many owners.
At Whole Foods in Tribeca, people gathered for the free food handed out by employees. The store gave away many of its perishables, including produce and frozen foods.
“In the Seaport proper, every single ground floor business was ruined,” LaValva said. “Everything was washed away.”
call 311, and he said, ‘No. Call 911 right now,’” Paris recalled. An ambulance showed up soon after to help the woman. But for many residents stuck inside on the second day after the storm, Paris said, a friendly face and information from the outside world was often as appreciated as food and water. Deborah Dolan, property manager for the IPN complex, praised the tenants for helping each other. “Picking up food, walking dogs, they’ve been terrific,” she said.
FOR THOSE STILL IN THE DARK The most vulnerable tenants, trapped in dark high-rise buildings, needed to be looked after. Groups organized by Chabad of Tribeca, JCP and Julie Menin were among those who trekked through the dark hallways of building complexes such as Independence Plaza and Southbridge Towers carrying backpacks full of food and HUDSON RIVER PARK, AFTER THE FLOOD water, flashlights and batteries. At the height of the storm Hudson Chabad of Tribeca and JCP started out in Independence Plaza on the second day River Park Trust president Madelyn Wils climbed to the roof of Pier 40 to see for after the storm and knocked on doors. The 20 volunteers divided into groups, herself Sandy’s ferocious assault on the each covering 10 floors and assisted by staff who keep lists of tenants who may need help. “Some people were perfectly content,” said Susan Silverstein, president of the JCP board. “But there were also people who were scared and in need of help. They were trying to figure out how to acclimate and needed water.” “People were so grateful and so overwhelmed,” the ChaSCOT SURBECK bad’s Chani Paris A woman charges her cell phone in Zuccotti Park. People were gratesaid of the experiful for any place to recharge batteries and stay in communication. ence. “There are some elderly people in the buildings who have no idea what was park. “It was a sight to behold,” Wils recalled going on. They are just waiting for the lights to go back on. They have no radios in quiet understatement during a phone interview later that week. “The whole park or no batteries.” On the 20th floor of one IPN building, was underwater…it was surreal.” The next morning, Wils walked volunteers found an 85-year-old woman dragging supplies up a dark stairwell, through the park to assess what the recedstruggling to make it to her apartment ing waters had left behind. At Pier 25, flood waters had picked up concrete pavers above the 30th floor. Another volunteer ran into a frantic and deposited them across the pier. woman at 310 Greenwich Street who said Styrofoam used to create contours in the her elderly mother was on an oxygen tank playground floated up, making rubble of that had run out the day before and she did- the pavement that had covered it. Until the electricity is turned back on, Wils said the n’t know what to do. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 24) “She asked the volunteer if she should
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The new 55 Fulton Market, outside Southbridge Towers in the Seaport area, was without electricity, so it sold goods outside and did a brisk business.
In the lobby of the 600 building in Battery Park City’s Gateway Plaza, tenant volunteers organized meals for residents of the nearby 400 Building who had no electricity.
“There are some elderly people who have no idea what’s going on,” said a volunteer who was checking on tenants. “They’re just waiting for the lights to go back on.”
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The storm felled a tree in Titanic Park on Fulton Street in the Seaport. Sandy ravaged property and businesses in the Seaport more than any other part of Lower Manhattan.
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Cars floated from the flooded parking garage beneath the office tower at 85 Broad Street, where massive amounts of water were being pumped out for days after the storm.
As if buckling from an earthquake, the playground at Tribeca’s Pier 25—resting on a Styrofoam base—rose up with the surge of the river.
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electrical problem so far,” said Anthony Catanzaro, owner of Portobello’s Pizzeria, 83 Murray St., on Wednesday. That day Portobello’s appeared to be the only restaurant open in all of Tribeca—and well beyond—and a stream of grateful diners popped in. Most got food to go, but a few ate in the darkness of the pizzeria’s dining room. “Last night I had my guys ready, Catanzaro said. “Some of them walked over the bridge. I bicycle to work anyway so we got here early and here we are.”
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Kristoffer and Julianne Polaha return to their apartment at 200 Chambers St. on Saturday, Nov. 3, the day that power returned to much of Tribeca.
two men from Harlem brought a priceless gift to the Financial District: electricity and the Internet. Angel Hernandez and Daymion Mardel had parked their car on Wall Street near William and were offering free wifi access and cell phone charging from equipment set up in their trunk. “We are photographers, and we go on location where we have to be self-sufficient,” Hernandez said of the equipment. The men could charge 30 cell phones at a time and on each of the two days they were parked on Wall Street with their electronics-filled trunk wide open. “We’ve been overwhelmed,” Hernandez said. “This is the first chance some people have had to make a phone call in days, some to concerned relatives in their home countries.” Hernandez recalled a young woman from Moscow who had not been able to reach her parents since the storm struck. “Her family said they heard on the news that there are sharks in the street,” Hernandez said. “They were really worried about her.” FREE FOOD FROM WHOLE FOODS As hard as it was to find food in Tribeca on Wednesday, Whole Foods
was giving it away. Though the store at Greenwich and Warren was closed, with a backup generator illuminating the aisles inside, employees were manning both entrances. Up for grabs was a variety of produce and frozen foods. “We’re giving away everything that’s safe and perishable,” said Luke DeDecker, a store manager standing at the Warren Street entrance behind a box of apples, most of them already taken. “May I?” a woman asked, perusing the remaining few. “Go for it. Take as many as you want,” DeDecker told her. “You’re the guy,” she said, grabbing a couple. DeDecker said the store’s team leader came up with the idea the night after the storm. “It’s a lot of stuff,” DeDecker said. “We just like to help our community.”
PIZZA RELIEF Who needs electricity? The gas for the oven was on, and pizza dough— though usually prepared these days in an electric mixer—can always be made the old-fashioned way. “We are making and kneading everything by hand, which takes care of the
COMING TOGETHER A bond of community and giving back formed in Battery Park City after the upheaval and displacement that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And in the lobby of the 600 building of Gateway Plaza, days after the storm, that spirit lived on. That’s where dozens of residents gathered for breakfast and dinner that week, making sure that the tenants of the only building in Battery Park City to go without power—the 400 building— could still have some comforts of home. The lobby was filled with the chatter of neighbors and the gobbling down of home-cooked meals, courtesy of those lucky tenants with electricity. “People need to eat. And they need the warmth of knowing they’re taken care of,” said Rosalie Joseph, who has led most of the community events in Battery Park City over the past 11 years. “And when your spirits are down, you have to know that somebody’s got your back and a community around you.” “Like people did for us,” she added, alluding to the outpouring of support Battery Park City residents received after 9/11. In the middle of dinner on Thursday , the super of the 400 building arrived to announce that power was back in the building and one elevator was running. There was applause, but one tenant, perhaps only half joking, saw it differently. “It’s really nice what they did here,” he said. “I think people don’t want the lights to go on.”
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Left: Demolition of Burr’s water tank— built presumably to maintain pressure in the Manhattan Company’s distribution system and totally surrounded by neighboring buildings—is shown in this 1890 photograph by Jacob Riis. To the far left is a portrait of Aaron Burr that shows him at about the time he perpetrated his coup.
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A TANK AND A BANK Aaron Burr sponsored the city’s first water company—but his sights were set elsewhere BY OLIVER E. ALLEN he puzzling photograph above, taken in 1890 by none other than the famed journalist and photographer Jacob Riis, is titled “Aaron Burr’s Old Tank.” It is puzzling because the tank is completely enclosed by buildings (here being demolished) and because the famed politician Burr—the man who shot Alexander Hamilton—had by that time been dead for more than 50 years. Thereby, however, hangs a tale. That tale, in turn, hinges on two of Burr’s most prominent traits, his desire to counteract Federalist power in New York and his dislike of Alexander Hamilton. As it happened, the Federalists were immensely strengthened by their control of the powerful Bank of New York, which coincidentally had been founded by Hamilton. How could Burr start a rival financial institution? Ever the schemer, Burr noted that in the late 1790s New York was suffering from a series of epidemics that were partly due to its lack of a decent water system. Perhaps, he noted slyly, he could help remedy the situation. So in 1799, while momentarily serving as a state legislator, he sponsored a bill to charter a utility company called the Manhattan Company that would bring fresh and dependable water to the city. It happened
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that its charter stated that the proposed institution would possess the right to use its surplus capital to engage in various financial transactions. Questioned about this, Burr cheerfully admitted that among other things this permitted the Manhattan Company to open a bank, but no one
ture on Chambers Street (approximately across the street from today’s Tweed Courthouse) that included a colonnade plus a statue of Oceanus standing guard. Behind it was a mini-reservoir and nearby was the tank shown in our picture, whose function was presumably to main-
An imposing façade featuring a colonnade topped by a statue of Oceanus, titan of the seas and other waters, called attention to Burr’s small reservoir located on the north side of Chambers Street between Centre Street and Broadway.
objected and the bill passed. Work began immediately on the new system. Deep wells were dug on Reade Street between Broadway and Centre Street, and the Company announced its presence by erecting a handsome struc-
tain pressure in the wooden water mains (made of hollowed-out logs) that gradually fanned out to reach nearby houses and neighborhood pumps. Meanwhile, however, Burr had founded the so-called—and oddly
named—Bank of the Manhattan Company, which rapidly expanded and soon could see itself as a potent force countering Hamilton’s Bank of New York. He had achieved his purpose, no matter what became of his water supply system. That system indeed was faring poorly. The wooden mains kept breaking, and residents complained that the Manhattan Company refused to use its water to flush gutters and failed to repair the streets it dug up. The rapidly growing city could hardly depend on such a poor arrangement and after awhile the company quietly gave up. Even Burr himself survived it, dying in 1837. (So did his tank, which as we have seen lasted until 1890.) New York City would be without a truly dependable water system until 1842, when water piped into the city from the Croton River 45 miles north of Manhattan was finally made available to a delighted and relieved urban community. The Bank of the Manhattan Company, however, lived on, expanding and absorbing other institutions, until in the 1950s it was taken over by the Chase National Bank which thus became the Chase Manhattan Bank. More recently the Chase combined with the J. P. Morgan Bank to form today’s J. P. Morgan Chase, a true colossus. Aaron Burr would have smiled.
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Getting Ready for Parent-Teacher Talks
This month parents will be signing up for conferences to discuss their children with teachers who, after just two months, are quickly getting to know them. While some parents approach conferences with eager anticipation, others find them unrewarding or uncomfortable. Some even dread the evening. “I can ‘read’ the conference the moment I see CONNIE the parents — SCHRAFT the anxiety level and the curiosity level,” a Downtown teacher told me. “Some want to apologize for their kid. Some want me to know what good parSCHOOL ents they are. TALK Some are eager to hear my advice and suggestions.” Learning how to discuss your child with a teacher takes both a level of trust and practice. To help parents, the Department of Education has prepared a flyer entitled “Suggested Questions for Families to ask during Parent-Teacher Conferences” (available online by googling that title). Here are are just a few suggested
questions: • What does my child do well and what does he or she struggle with? • How does my child get along with classmates and adults? • Does my child participate in class discussions and activities? • What can I do at home to reinforce what my child is learning at school? Some of the questions may seem generic, but they can be a jumping-off point to an open and rewarding dialogue with the teacher. Specific details are what give parents the comforting feeling that the teacher is really trying to get to
child,” one Downtown teacher told me. Another sees conferences as “fact-finding missions,” during which she learns all sorts of things about her students— from the way they behave and play to their parents’ ideas about education and their own experiences at school. Information such as how a child deals with homework, the struggles parents have seen in the past, and some recent history—if there’s been a new baby, a divorce, or a death in the family—is invaluable. Uniformly, teachers agree that the most satisfying conferences are those in
Just as a teacher offers parents a view of a child’s school life, you can open a window into your child’s life at home. know and understand their children. Striving to “paint a picture of the child at school,” one early childhood teacher has begun using an iPad to document her students as they work, play, and go from one activity to another. When she presents these photos at conferences, parents are sometimes surprised. “He can do that?” they often say. Conferences are also the time when parents can open a window for teachers into their child’s life outside of school. “If I know what makes a child light up at home, it informs my teaching of that
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which a two-way conversation takes place between teacher and parent, and both are learning from each other. Unfortunately, the tone of many parent-teacher conferences these days has changed, perhaps reflecting the changes in our society. A seasoned Downtown teacher described one of her conferences years ago: The parents arrived with an infant, asked to sit on the meeting rug, and the mother breastfed her child throughout the meeting. That sort of relaxed atmosphere is
mostly long gone. In recent years, with increased focus on testing and standards, teachers are seeing a higher level of stress in parents. They worry about how their children are doing in school as well as how they compare to other children. And they worry, too, about whether they will be able to compete in the future. Teachers are also under more stress. They not only manage and teach children, each with their own strengths and needs, but collaborate with other teachers, write narrative report cards three times a year; attend regular professional development sessions and staff meetings—and never know when an administrator may drop in for an evaluation. Yet the teachers I spoke to enjoy conferences, and want to learn as much as they can from parents. The most difficult conferences, they say, are when parents don’t open up. As conference day approaches, prepare yourself—it will help you feel more at ease. Jot down any questions you may have, and be ready to talk about your child. Your most valuable contribution is a willingness to listen— and honestly share whatever you can to help your child. After all, that is what parent-teacher conferences are all about. Connie Schraft is the P.S. 89 parent coordinator. For questions about Downtown schools, write connie@tribecatrib.com
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Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. ARCHIKIDS Architect leads kids in a workshop making model skyscrapers. Ages 9–13. Sat, 11/10, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. TRASH FACTORY Make a structure using bottles, cans, paper and fabric. Ages 5 and up. Sat, 11/17, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. SCRIMSHAW Learn about carving and engraving and make a related project. Ages 5–12. Sat, 11/24, 10:30 am. $10; $6 students; free under 9. South Street Seaport Museum, Pier 16, seany.org.
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Once a month at the Anne Frank Museum, actress Christina Rosse, 22, is Anne Frank as she dramatizes excerpts from the young girl’s Holocaust diary.
After her performance, Christina Rosse takes questions from the audience, always in character. Many children, she says, feel as if they are really with Anne. Here, Rosse talks about what it’s like to play the famous diarist.
How did you prepare for this role? There’s a certain responsibility when portraying a real person, especially one who was so influential and whose story is known worldwide. I looked on the Internet, saw a lot of documentaries and read a lot of books. I tried to understand her temperament and why she felt certain ways about certain things. Then you take in all this information and you do your own interpretation, and you just hope it’s the right one. I really wanted to know my stuff, especially for the audience who come with questions. It’s so important to be accurate. Had you read the diary before? I read it in the fifth or sixth grade, when we learned about the Holocaust in school. But I couldn’t understand how intellectual she was, because my brain wasn’t there yet. Now I read her writings and I’m amazed how well-written they are and intelligent beyond her years. She puts adults today to shame in her understanding of how humans behave and their interaction with each other and their responsibilities to society. Has the role changed you? I was dating a guy for quite a while and I remember thinking, “Why wouldn’t he want to be a better person?” like what Anne wrote about her friend Peter. Not that he was a bad person, but why wouldn’t you want to try new things and grow? And that’s so Anne Frank. What is it like to portray hope in someone who you know has such a tragic end? I don’t think she had a choice but to be hopeful. Any piece of information the family would get, that they might hear
on the radio, they would hold onto. Imagine putting the iPhone, iPad and everything else away and just sitting with your thoughts. Mabe that’s why she she was so expressive with her diary. I’ve also done this in schools, usually middle schools, a few elementary schools. So many of the kids know a lot about her story and feel like they know Anne. When they ask me questions, they really feet like they are talking to Anne. One school wrote a song and sang it for me. Do you get a better understanding of her as you play her? It’s not something that I can quite put into words—it’s less of an understanding and more ©AFS/AFF, AMSTERDAM/BASEL of a connection. The more I play her, the more I feel a connection because she was so open and honest about her deepest feelings. Below the surface we all have a lot of similar emotions and feelings and thought processes. Also, my mind is taken up more and more by this person and her life, so CARL GLASSMAN every performance is more effortless. I Christina Rosse, above playing Anne Frank. Inset, Anne Frank, at about 12 years of age. feel her inside me. I don't know if that ,with Peter and I wasn’t sure if it was hear how small it was and the lack of prisounds weird, but it’s very real. Have you ever been stumped by a question? appropriate for third graders. I said, “I vacy. It’s overwhelming to think that this I was really nervous about that. If I don’t want to talk about that. It’s really is how they lived day in and day out for over two years. didn’t have the answer to a question. personal.” And they understood that. I try to take the audience to a place there was a cue I could use, then the What do people want to know about her? where they understand her life until the A lot of people ask about being capdirector would step in. I’ve never had to minute that they were captured. To when use it. Some kids have really good ques- tured and her time in the concentration somebody knocks their door down and tions. There was one about Anne’s jour- camp. I think it’s better that I don’t the audience realizes at that moment that ney from what she used to think about answer that because they can get those Anne is in hiding. religion to what she thinks now. I knew answers in the museum. Plus, I think it The next “Conversations with Anne” generally but not specifically. I thought, creates more of the illusion that she’s is on 12/1, 1 p.m. at the Anne Frank Cen‘Okay let’s just hope for the best,” but I really here. People also want to know ter, 44 Park Pl. $8; $5 9–16 and seniors; started sweating! And then there was a about the details of their living condifree 8 and under. annefrank.com. younger kid who asked about my kiss tions, and are are taken aback when they
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BY JULIET HINDELL ribeca artist Julian Harris’s exhibition, “Loveletters,” opening this month at One Art Space, came to life two years ago when his mother gave him bundles of letters that had been lovingly preserved since World War II. The letters told the heart-wrenching story of a family torn apart by war. Harris’s Jewish grandfather had been thrown into an Italian concentration camp, his grandmother was stranded in Vienna and his mother and uncle had been shipped off to England on the last Kindertransport, the voyages that saved Jewish children by sending them to live with British families. At ages 5 and 4 they were put on a train by their parents, not realizing that their separation would last for 9 years. “This story had been forgotten,” Harris said. “My family never talked about it and no one had been interested in the letters. By making this art I am keeping this story alive.” The letters are alive—and transformed—in his art. Piles and boxes of letters cover the floor in the basebasement studio on Jay Street studio. He steps over them to show his grandfather’s accordion and suitcase, objects wrapped in letters that his grandparents wrote to each other during the war. “There were probably 5,000 letters. My grandmother kept everything. These letters were important to her, they were kept throughout the war, then taken to Italy where they lived and then brought to America when they were starting a new Accordian Case life.” Paintings with letters collaged over part of the canvases will occupy most of the show. Many feature disembodied eyes looking out at the viewer; some are his mother’s eyes, some his own and there are others. “I like the idea of eyes looking out from letters that you read,” Harris said. “These are the survivors’ eyes looking out at you.” Another series called Letterboxes is completely covered in letters, some with stamps bearing the face of Hitler. “I love the way these look,” Harris says, running his hand over the surface. Another set subtly reproduces the shape of a swastika interspersed by the letters. Harris acknowledges that using the original letters may cause controversy. CARL GLASSMAN
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Julian Harris makes memories permanent by transforming letters of hardship into works of art
“I do feel the need to defend this because academics might say that these letters should have been preserved. But this stuff was going to be thrown out, and now everyone is interested in them. It’s the function of art to stir things up and get people thinking.” But just in case, he has meticulously archived all the letters by digitally photographing each one. Some letters were off limits, such as ones that had never been opened, returned undelivered by the authorities to his grandmother. Others were marked that they had been opened, apparently by Nazi censors checking for seditious content. The family had much to fear. Harris’s great-grandmother was killed at Auschwitz and his great aunt was killed at Chelmno. “I’ve translated some of them and mostly they’re about the minutiae of everyday life. My mother was thrilled by the idea of making art with them...Their story is better memorialized this way than being kept in a pile of boxes.” There is a whole set of letters in English, detailing his mother’s escape to England and her life there with a British family, that he has yet to touch. “They’re definitely part of our family,” Harris says. Those letters tell of the gradual Anglicization of his mother and of the extreme hardship his grandmother endured in Vienna where she was forced to forage for stinging nettles to eat. “I think one of the reasons my mother didn’t talk about this was an English reserve, a stiff upper lip she
acquired there,” Harris says. While the back-story of the letters is compelling, Harris hopes the works, as art, will speak for themselves. “I want them to have an impact as pure art but as you look closer you realize these are letters from a real family drama.” But beyond any artistic merit, Harris hopes the work will have a lasting legacy. “My dream is that my son will keep some of these and pass them onto his children. It’s already meant that he knows this story and his friends know this story. My family went through a horrific experience and now I live in what might be described as the lap of luxury in Tribeca. They survived, I’ve survived, and now this story won’t be forgotten.” “Loveletters” and other works by Julian Harris, Nov. 8–28. One Art Space, 23 Warren St, oneartspace.com. Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Scheme Behind Tower to Rise in Tribeca
“Trust us.” That was the line we heard from New York Law School two decades ago when the rezoning of Tribeca was negotiated. We of Community Board 1, and even City Planning Commission (CPC) staffers, trusted them. But like an upraised middle finger, the Law School’s JIM “trust” is now STRATTON’S under construction at 56 Leonard Street, details of which can be found on page 4 of this Trib. Fiftyseven stories and more than CITY 800 feet high, CHARRETTE it will look down upon every building north of the World Trade Center site for nearly two miles. Needless to say, it will also be out of character with all the buildings of the Tribeca historic districts that surround it. Until 1995, nearly all Tribeca from Church to Lafayette Streets had been zoned to allow some of the densest development in the city. Called a C6-4 district, this zoning
permitted as-of-right high-rise construction, gave bonuses for extra floor area, and gave developers the opportunity to buy additional development rights from neighboring low-rise buildings so as to build even bigger. The hitch was that Tribeca’s fiveand six-story buildings were already valuable properties by themselves, and three historic districts were being assembled to protect them. The C6-4 zoning was therefore inappropriate.
New York Law School, on the north side of Worth Street, insisted on being included in the unchanged C6-4, even though its block included only one tall building and was largely a parking lot. When the school produced a letter of agreement that mandated that their undeveloped space rise no higher than five stories, CPC gave in completely. The planners decided that it would do no harm to leave the school’s C6-4 zoning alone, and the community board
Beware the devious handshake of those who teach loopholes. Behind New York Law School’s “trust us” agreement with the city were two aspects of a plan that none of us saw coming. Ultimately the City Planning Commission “downzoned” nearly all of the 14 Tribeca blocks east of Church Street, either by changing the C6-4 designation or by mandating that the C6-4 be “contextual”—which included a ban on bonuses and the borrowing of development rights. The one area where planners refused to replace the old zoning was in the vicinity of Worth Street, where several buildings (40 Worth and the old Western Union Building, for example) already had C6-4 girth. Where buildings were already large, planners felt there was no need to change.
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nine-story building on the parking lot that had been mandated by the letter of agreement to be only five stories high. The trick here was that four of those floors were built underground, so they wouldn’t count as floor area. Then the law school transferred the “unbuilt” development rights from this officially labeled “five-story” building to the site of their former beautiful library building, which by now was only rubble in some distant landfill. The property was sold by the law school for $135.5 million. At the time I commented that “New York Law School is having its floor area and selling it, too.” They had a lot to build and a lot to sell. A C6-4 construction is allowed floor area ten times the size of its lot. An open space allows a “plaza bonus” of additional floor area. But it was dubious floor area taken from the law school parking lot that gave the project the sky. Four years of construction dust and noise will pass before the 56 Leonard spire of cantilevered picture windows is completed. The only thing Tribecans may find comforting in this tale of law school greed is that, were it not for the then-controversial change in zoning, there could be many more 56 Leonard–style buildings on every lot in eastern Tribeca. On that you can trust me.
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FILM g GOOD Animated and live-action micro-documentaries about people who are making a positive difference in the world. Daily to Fri, 11/30. See website for schedule. Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Selection of upcoming films: Mr. Freedom A right-wing American superhero is turned loose on the streets of Paris. Thu, 11/8, 7:30 pm. $12. Play Dirty Filthy imitation of the Dirty Dozen by Andre de Toth. Sat, 11/17, 8 pm. $12. Park Row 1952 film about the former center of
Vacancy: Film Stills. Arnie Kastenbaum Polemics. Ruth Ruskin Las Vegas City Center. Susan Keiser After the Fall. To Sat, 11/3. Sam Dole, Ryan Zoghlin and K. K. DePaul Winners of the 2012 Alternative Process Competition. Masterplaters Wet-plate collodion process. Wed, 11/7–Sat, 12/1. Opening reception: Thu, 11/8, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com. g Madeline Denaro Inner Circles/Outer Worlds. Fanciful acrylic and polymer paintings. To Sat, 11/17. Mon–Fri, 11 am–6 pm; Sat, 12– 6 pm; Sun, 12–5 pm. Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, 35 N. Moore St., cherylhazan.com. g robbinschilds I Came Here on My Own. Site-
NOVEMBER 2012 THE TRIBECA TRIB same family. Artist talk on Fri, 11/16, 6:30 pm. To Sat, 11/24. Opening reception: Thu, 11/1, 6 pm. The Ultravelvet Collection Sex Invaders. Thu, 11/29–Sat, 12/29. Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin St., hionasgallery.com. g Peter Buechler Plight and Premonition. Pixelated paintings made from digital images. Thu, 11/8–Sat, 12/15. Opening reception, Thu, 11/1, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com. g Alumni Reunion 2012 Group show featuring works by graduates from 1992, 2002 and 2012. To Sat, 11/17. Tue–Sat, 2–8 pm; Sun, 11 am–5 pm. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu. g
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National Park. Sculptures. Fri, 11/2–Sat, 12/8.
EXHIBITIONS g Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles Rare artifacts about the poet/writer/immigrant advocate, the importance of religious freedom and struggles immigrants past and present face. To December. Hava Nagila: A Song for the People Images, video and music tell the story of the wordless melody from Ukraine that became the theme song for Jewish celebrations everywhere. To May 2013. Through Soviet
Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Photographs of the war by Russian documentary photographers Evgenii Khaldei, Georgii Zelma and Dmitrii Beltermants. Fri, 11/16–Sun, 4/17/13. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm. Sun– Tue, Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g The Stilled Passage: A Photographic Journey through Ellis Island’s Unrestored Buildings Photographs by Philip Calabria. To
Sun, 1/6/13. $13; $10 seniors, $5 ages 4–12; free under 4. Daily, 8:30 am–6:15 pm. Ellis Island Museum, ferry leaves from Battery Park, nps.org/elis. g Urban Fabric: Building New York’s Garment District Exploration of the 18 blocks
in Midtown that once produced women’s and children’s apparel in vertical factories, and how those buildings were built and operated. To Sun, 1/20/13. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Wed–Sun, 12–6 pm. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g
Marvels and Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942–1986
Exploration of America’s evolving racial and cultural perceptions and ideas, as depicted by racist and xenophobic images of Asian Americans and incoming migrants. Alt. Comics: Asian-
American Artists Reinvent the Comic Book Works by Asian-American comic artists. To Sun, 2/24/13. $10; $5 students, seniors, free children under 12 and on Thursdays. Mon & Fri, 11 am–5 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm; Sat & Sun, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g
Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture Exploration of Native Americans who have had successful careers in the music industry over the past century. To Sun, 8/11/13. Circle of Dance Focus on ten social and ceremonial dances from throughout the Americas and their spiritual significance. To 2017. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am– 8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g
Romancing New York: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen Paintings that capture the architectural detail of New York neighborhoods. Ongoing. A Fisherman’s Dream: Folk Art by Mario Sanchez Brightly painted intaglios and bas-relief woodcarvings, depicting early 20thcentury Key West Harbor, its watermen and seafaring culture. Opens Thu, 11/8. $10; $6 students, seniors; free under 9. Daily, 10 am–6 pm. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org. g African Burial Ground The story of the free and enslaved men, women and children who lived and were buried Downtown. Ongoing. Free. Tue–Sat, 9 am–4 pm. African Burial Ground
GALLERIES: Five photographers from the artist collective Masterplaters will be featured in the show "Pictures from the Distant Present" at Soho Photo, 15 White St., from Wednesday, November 7 to Saturday, December 1. The contemporary photos, including "Story of the Eye" by Kym Kulp (above), are made with the wet-plate collodion process. The gallery is open Wednesdays through Sundays, 1 to 6 pm and by appointment. Opening reception is Thursday, November 8, 6 pm. For more information, go to sohophoto.com. American journalism. Sat, 11/24, 6 pm. $12. Raw Meat Horror movie in which a homicidal cannibal preys on London Tube riders. Wed, 11/28, 7:30 pm. $12. See website for more films. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Goodbye, Boys! Story of three boys in a Russian seaside town as World War II looms. Post-screening discussion with film historian Olga Gershenson. Sun, 11/18, 2:30 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story Documentary about Wat Misaka, the first Japanese American to be drafted into what is now the NBA, for the New York Knicks in 1947. Reservations required. Thu, 11/29, 7 pm. Free. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
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Photographs: Marky Kauffmann Prayer Images. Susan Bowen Streets of Cuba: Overlapping Exposure Panoramas. Jean Nestares Multiplex. Karen St. John Vincent
specific performance art incorporating video, soundscapes and dance. Jong Oh Position, Reposition. Site-specific installation. Christopher Duffy I Think I Want My Energy in All Colors. Installation in the gallery storefront. To Sat, 12/15. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org. g Abstract Realities: Trends and New Directions in Contemporary Art Group show
with more than a dozen artists. To Fri, 12/21. On view by appointment. Hal Bromm, 90 W. Broadway, halbromm@gmail.com. g Alex Katz Hard Days Ahead. Prints of black and white figure paintings. To Mon, 12/31. Tue– Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower, 108 Leonard St., 13th fl., artonair.org. g Amy Kao Field Guide to a Metropolis. Semiabstract depictions of cities. To Mon, 12/31. World Financial Center, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Peter Colquhoun Oil paintings of Lower Manhattan. To Mon, 1/7/13. Mon–Fri, 10 am–6 pm. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St. g Jason Covert The Bridge. Photographs that explore the space between generations in the
Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm and by appointment. KANSAS Gallery, 59 Franklin St., kansasgallery.com. g 13.0.0.0.0 Group show with works that explore questions of human life, its potential to end and various understandings of time. Tue, 11/6–Thu, 1/17/13. Opening reception: Tue, 11/6, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St., rhgallery.com. g Ben Henderson Color Boogie. Unplanned paintings by a self-taught artist. Wed, 11/7–Fri, 11/30. Opening reception: Wed, 11/7, 6:30 pm. Mon–Fri, 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun, 10 am–5 pm. Bond New York, 25 Hudson St., bondnewyork.com. g As Real as It Gets Group show of fictional products, brands and advertising to explore the marketplace as a medium. Thu, 11/15–Sat, 12/22. Opening reception: Thu, 11/15, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org. g Intersecting Lines Prints by ten contemporary Japanese artists working across a wide range of media, including printmaking with woodblocks, etching, silkscreen and lithograph.
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Amy Martin-Friedman A Day in My Shoes
Photographs of 25 women who are survivors of domestic abuse in an exploration of what makes women feel empowered. Proceeds from sales go to the Voice of Justice, a non-profit that aids adults and children who have experienced domestic abuse. Fri, 11/16, 6:30 pm. Bond New York, 25 Hudson St., bondnewyork.com.
MUSIC g Pipes at One Performances on the mechanical-action 1964 pipe organ. Wednesdays, 1 pm. Bach at One Pieces by Bach performed by the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Mondays. All concerts: free, 1 pm. St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway at Fulton St., trinitywallstreet.org. g John Ambrosini Thu, 11/8. Blue Vipers of Brooklyn Jazz, swing and blues. Thu, 11/15. West Point Jazz Knights Big band, popular jazz and original compositions. Thu, 11/29. All concerts: free, 1 pm. Trinity Wall Street, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org. g Selection of upcoming concerts: Omar Avital
LISTINGS azine. Reservations required. Fri, 11/9, 7 pm. $10. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g Regalia-Making Demonstration Native artist shows how festive regalia are made. Tuesdays, 2 pm. Celebrate Mexico Now! Folk Artists and Art Scholars and artists discuss how indigenous artists navigate both folk and “high” art markets. Thu, 11/15, 6 pm. All events: free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Selection of upcoming talks: The Timeline of Presidential Elections Discussion on voting patterns and whether they are based on campaigning or platform. Lunch included. Mon, 11/5, 12 pm. $40. The Real Estate Market Today
On John Cage Exploration of the poetic texts by the composer and music theorist. Tue, 11/13, 7 pm. Firespitter: Jayne Cortez with Rosamund King Poet and musician Cortez discusses her work. Wed, 11/14, 7 pm. All talks: $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Selection of upcoming talks: The Strange Science of Sleep and Dreams Panel discusses what the mind does while we sleep. Fri, 11/9, 6:30 pm. Pride: Flying Cars and Other Broken Promises Talk on the issues surrounding the inability for scientific advances to create the utopia we often think they can. Wed, 11/28, 6:30 pm. All talks: $25; $20 students. See website for more talks. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St. 40th fl., nyas.org. g
Dialogues in the Visual Arts: The SIGN and MEANING Three artists discuss their use of letters and words in their work. Wed, 11/14, 7 pm. $5. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
& His Band of the East and the Gregory Tardy Quintet Jazz ensembles. Wed, 11/7, 8 pm. $12. BETTY: The Workshop Series Poprock band. Fri, 11/16, 9 pm. $10. PUBLIQuartet
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Art and Economics Panel Talk on the con-
temporary art bubble, the role it plays in the economy today and what is keeping it afloat. Mon, 11/19, 5:30 pm. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
Rock and jazz improvisation. Sat, 11/24, $15. See website for more concerts. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Downtown Symphony Copland, Moorman and Beethoven. Wed, 11/7, 8 pm. Free. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., downtownny.com. g Spottiswoode & His Enemies Rock band with jazz, gospel and folk sounds. Fri, 11/9, 8 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g The Gilad Hekselman Trio Jazz. Wed, 11/14, 7 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Billy Ray Cyrus Performance of songs from his new CD, “Change My Mind.” Wed, 11/28, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.
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Rocketman: The Future of Jeremy Lin A panel of journalist discusses the NBA player’s life and cultural significance as the first Asian American to be featured on the cover of GQ mag-
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Dramatic series of original plays for radio and mobile media that takes place in various times in American history, inspired by popular songs of those eras. Mon, 11/5 & Mon, 11/26, 7 pm. $100. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.
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Performances of classic forgotten dramas. See website for schedule. To Sun, 11/11. $15–$30.
READINGS Regina Lee Blaszczyk “The Color Revolution.” Wed, 11/7, 6:30 pm. Thomas E. Rinaldi “New York Neon.” Thu, 11/29, 6:30 pm. All talks: free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g Sheila Yorke “Death in Her Face” and Charles Salzberg “Swann Dives.” Thu, 11/8, 6 pm. Robert Olen Butler “The Hot Country.” Mon, 11/12, time TBA. Mark Safranko “No Strings.” Wed, 11/14, 6 pm. C. Joseph Greaves “Hard Twisted.” Thu, 11/29, 6 pm. All readings: free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com. g Adele Kenny “What Matters.” Sat, 11/10, 7 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Carla Hall “Cooking with Love: Comfort Food that Hugs You.” Tue, 11/13. Penn Jillette “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday.” Wed, 11/14. All readings: 6 pm, free. See website for more readings. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g Patricia Dunn, Gae Polisner and David Ebenbach Writers read their poetry and prose. Tue, 11/13, 7 pm. Free. Pen Parentis, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org. g Noah and Raw Bernamoff “The Mile End Cookbook.” Wed, 11/28, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Christian M. McBurney “The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War.” Thu, 11/29, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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THEATER: The Maxim Gorky Drama State Theater is presenting “Ivanov” by Anton Chekhov and “Tovarich” by Jacques Deval, a play that was adapted to the Broadway stage starring Vivian Leigh. The plays will be in Russian but complimentary headsets with a translation will be available. “Tovarich” plays on Friday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., and Ivanov on Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers, tribecapac.org. Tickets start at $35. Call 212-220-1460.
Tips on broker vs. sale by owner, pied-à-terre and other investments and up-and-coming neighborhoods such as Hudson Square. Tue, 11/13, 12 pm. $21. On Howard Hughes Discussion of the business magnate’s personal life, which was riddled with disorders and physical pain. Mon, 11/19, 12 pm. $21. The Resilient City Look at New York City on the eve of the 1929 Great Depression, when the city had one of the busiest factory economies anywhere. Fri, 11/30, 12 pm. $21. See website for more talks. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g Art and Culture Lecture Series: Sue Coe Artist and activist. 11/7. John Jacobsmeyer, Dawn Clements and Graham Guerra Roundtable on drawing. 11/14. Thomas Woodruff Artist. 11/28. All talks: Wednesdays, 7:30 pm., free. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu. g Russian Masters: The Life and Work of Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva
Talk on the 20th-century poets’ lives and a reading of their works. Thu, 11/8, 7 pm. Passwords:
g We Are Pround to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 and 1915 A troupe
of American actors stumble over questions of authenticity and appropriation as they attempt to reconstruct the genocide in Namibia. Wed, 11/7–Sun, 12/2 (except 11/22 & 11/23). Tue–Sun, 7:30 pm, plus Sat, 3 pm. $35. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., sohorep.org.
WALKING TOURS g Tribute WTC 9/11 Tours of Ground Zero. Daily, hourly 11 am–3 pm; Sat, hourly 11 am–4 pm. $10; $5 ages 6–12. Visitors Center, 120 Liberty St., tributewtc.org. g Immigrant New York Visit sites associated with various immigrants. Meet at City Hall Park, Broadway at Chambers St. Tue, 11/13 & Wed, 11/21, 11 am. Gangs of New York The Five Points. Meet at SE corner of Broadway and Chambers St. Sat, 11/3, 1 pm; Thu, 11/15, 11 am; Tue, 11/20, 2 pm; Fri, 11/30, 11 am. Historic Lower Manhattan Meet at the U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green. Sun, 11/4, 2 pm; Thu, 11/8, 11 am; Mon, 11/12, 2 pm & 11/19, 11 am; Fri, 11/30, 1 pm. Revolutionary New York Meet on Broadway at Murray St. Tue,
11/6, 2 pm; Sun, 11/11, 12 pm. Seaport Historic District Meet at Broadway and Fulton St. Sat, 11/7, 11 am. The Financial District Meet at Broadway and Wall St., Trinity Church. Thu, 11/15, 2 pm & 11/27, 1 pm. All tours: $15; $12 students, seniors. New York City Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g 90-minute tours of the Financial District: Wall Street History from the Dutch to Today Sat, 11/3, 1 pm. History of Wall Street Sat, 11/17, 1 pm. All tours: $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g Chinatown: A Walk Through History Tour of the contemporary neighborhood and how it has evolved over 400 years to become one of the fastest-growing immigrant communities in New York. Sat, 11/10, 2:30 pm. From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Tour of Chinatown eateries that highlights their evolution and influence on the community. Sat, 11/24, 2:30 pm. All tours: $15; $12 students, seniors, free under 5. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
ET CETERA g Walk NYC Walking instructors lead fitness walks for people of all abilities. Mondays, 12 pm. Free. Meet at the flagpole in Battery Park, downtownny.com. g Classes: Arab Rhythm Circle Rhythms typical of Arab classical and folk songs on various percussion instruments. Mondays to 12/3, 6:15 pm. Arab Vocal Traditions Folk, tarab and hymnal traditions of Syria and the Arab world. Mondays to 12/10, 7:45 pm. Iqa-at wa Harakat Folk and dance rhythms of North Africa and the Middle East. Saturdays to 12/15, 3 pm. Women’s Dance Circle Social Egyptian “sharqi” dance and other Arab dances for weddings, birthdays and other special occasions. Sundays to 12/16, 12 pm. All classes: $20 each. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org. g Basket-Making and Raw Materials Learn about a variety of natural materials and techniques used for making baskets. Wednesdays, 2 pm. Free. Draw Now! Native American powwow dance troupe performs and an artist demonstrates techniques to draw the dancers. Sat, 11/10, 1–4 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Shadows and Mayhem: Writing Beyond the Known Class that explores ways to create
new poems and revise old work. Registration required. Saturdays, 11/3–11/17 & 12/1– 12/15, 11:30 am. $295/6 sessions. Revision and Close Reading Workshop with poet Fanny Howe on how to revise your poetry. Registration required. Sat, 11/10 & Sun, 11/11, 2 pm. $390. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g Trinity Knitters Knit or crochet items for shutins, veterans, and others. Yarn, needles, patterns and instruction provided. Thu, 11/6, 5 pm. Origami Learn the Eastern paper art. Thu, 11/8 & Tuesdays starting 11/13, 12 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org. g I Love Lucy Trivia Talk on Lucille Ball’s life and career, followed by trivia with tasty treats for the winners. Wed, 11/7 & 11/14, 5:30 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g Introduction to Prenatal Postpartum Exercise Based on Pilates principles. Thu, 11/8, 10 am. Chi/Dance/Exericise For Women. Tue, 11/13, 6:30 pm. Tai Chi and Shaolin
Demonstration for beginners. Wed, 11/14, 6:30 pm. All trial classes: free. Moving Visions Studio, 19 Murray St., movingvisionsdance.com. g
Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America Tasting with chef Maricel Presilla. Thu,
11/8, 6:30 pm. $32. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g In the Loop Knit and crochet household items for needy families living in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Fri, 11/16, 12 pm. Free. World Financial Center, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Book Discussion Group “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood. Tue, 11/27, 6:15 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.
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HUGE E 7TH STREET HOUSE Downtown. On a lot 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x98â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, there is a unique 3 family built 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x44â&#x20AC;&#x2122; + extension for sale with FAR available. This 1840â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house will be delivered vacant. Amazing 5,000+SF. $3.595M. WEB# 1751592. Mary A. Vetri 212-906-0575
6BR ON TRIBECA BORDER FiDi. Deborah Burke designed 5BR, 6 BATH LIB W FPLC &ULL mOOR MINT LOFT Huge EIK, 48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; great room. 23 wndws. Laundry w/ 2 W/D, master w/ two spa like baths. $6.25M. WEB# 1566573. Diana Benzaquen 212 317-7720 Vince Mauro 212-317-7721 LIGHTS, GLAMOUR, ACTION FiDi. Renov masterpiece with 2.5 custom baths and 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings. Very bright home with huge N/W windows, Poggen Pohl kitchen w/top applncs, laundry. $2M. WEB# 3167994. Penny Toepfer 212-906-9250
Union Square
GREAT PRICE, BIG ROOMS BPC. 1BR condo, 603SF, huge wndws w/ North expos, open SS kit, hdwd mRS COURTYARD W ""1 GRILLS BIKE bin storage, pet friendly 24-hr DM. $380K. WEB# 3230172. Richard N. Rothbloom 212-452-4485 Siim Hanja
Seaport
Richard N. Rothbloom
GREAT SEAPORT LOFT Seaport. Full floor loft, Co-op, now 1BR, 1 office, original details, unique manual elev. New windows, furnace, great light. Unusual home. $1.45M. WEB# 3337596. Liz Dworkin 212-906-0509
Gramercy/Chelsea
EXQUISITE PENTHOUSE Downtown. Prewar penthouse downtown, 3BR, 3.5 bath, 3 fireplaces, wraparound terraces, city and river views, spectacular living and entertaining. $10.8M. WEB# 1751594. Thomas Hemann 212-906-0580 Cherie Butler 212-906-0505 LIVE/WORK LOFT Chelsea. First flr double loft w/ 2 outdoor spaces,16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, 3 sleeping areas, 2.5 baths, W/D & separate entry to lower level windowed office. $2.995M. WEB# 3447234. Andrew J. Kramer 212-317-3634 HIGH FLR 5RM TERRACE Chelsea. Triple mint, city and river CAST IRON SOHO SoHo. Corner cast-iron bldg on Broadway and views, light all day. 4 expos, open chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, 2 designer baths. Prince, 11â&#x20AC;&#x2122;10â&#x20AC;? ceilings, presently 2BR, 2 Several WIC, TWAC. Pool, gym, FS. bath true loft in key- lock elevator Co$2.399M. WEB# 3477069. op. $1.995M. WEB# 3235710. Lisa Lippman 212-588-5606 Shirley A. Mueller 212-906-0561 Scott Moore 212-588-5608 Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207 SPACIOUS & REFINED LOFT INTELLIGENT DESIGN SoHo. Meatpacking District. Loft with 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Intelligently designed 1BR home in beamed ceilings, an airy 1,200SF, true SoHo. All details upgraded, large windows tons of sunlight & downtown chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen & spa like bathroom in the heart of Meatpacking District. views. $650K. WEB# 1739929. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 $1.85M. WEB# 3436612. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 GARDEN DUPLEX CONV 2 Downtown. Mint convertible 2BR, 1.5 bath duplex, soaring 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceils, exposed PRIVATE AWARD WINNING BRK WALLS CHEF S KIT HOME OFlCE LOFT TriBeCa. Architectural award spectacular 500SF private garden and winning 3,896SF loft w/ custom low maintenance. $1.245M. Japanese tea room, 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; curved bookcase, WEB# 1740330. SOARING CEILINGS lREPLACE AND EXPANSIVE Benjamin Morales 212-588-5637 terrace. $6.93M. WEB# 1039207. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468
Village
Financial District
LIGHT & TRANQUILITY FiDi. 2,028SF luxury lofty apt, Starck design + custom built ins. Huge MBR w/ 6 closets, 2 home offices, 2 full baths Bosch kitchen W/D, pool, gym. FS. $1.9M. WEB# 3481381. Brahna Yassky 212-906-0506 FRESH MODERN LOFT FiDi. Pristine stylish 2BR, 2 bath, 1,376SF. Great layout, 10 windows, N/S expos, OPEN CHEF S KIT -IELE 7 $ HDWD mRS panoramic roof deck, boutique condo. $1.552M. WEB# 3241333 Richard N. Rothbloom 212-452-4485 GREAT HOME-GREAT BLDG FiDi. Split 2BR, 8 oversized windows, high ceilings and more. Greenwich Club Residents enjoy the bldg amenities. $1.385M. WEB# 3448970. Peter Rogers 212-452-4464 Denise Guido 212-452-4479 99 JOHN ST SLEEK 1BR Downtown. Modern, bright, 1BR w/ 11â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, designer kitchen w/ SS appliances, W/D in unit. Full service condo w/ amenities & gym. $740K. WEB# 3425423. Jean Michael 212-588-5682 RENOVATED W. VILLAGE 1BR West Village. Feats. custom kit w/ SS appls, granite countertops, bath w/ TUMBLED STONE NEW RED OAK mRS ceilings & huge California Closets. $675K. WEB# 3442516. Sarah Orlinsky-Maitland 212-906-0573 Sharri Kane 212-906-0532 MUST HAVE BPC. Rare Jr. 4 in BPC in top Condo. Tonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of light, windows & dining area! Pets/sublets. Gym, roof deck and more incl. $435K. WEB# 1738369. Heather E. Stein 212-317-7733
PH, SPRAWLING TERRACE Union Sq. Triple mint 3,118SF 3BR, 3.5 bath PH w/panoramic vws, prvt entry, 2,000SF wrap landscaped terr in boutique DM condo. File No. CD05-0515. $9.7M. WEB# 1750739. Shlomi Reuveni 212-396-5801 Karin Rathje-Posthuma 212-396-5805 NEW YORK CITY THE HAMPTONS
Rentals QUINTESSENTIAL LOFT Downtown. 4,000SF SoHo loft w/ 5BR, 3 baths, huge windows, planting balcony, wbfp, W/D, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, FULL mOOR PRIV ELEVATOR ACCESS + monthly. WEB# 3432037. Mike Lubin 212-317-3672 PENTHOUSE LOFT RENTAL TriBeCa. Furnished classic loft. 2,800SF, 3BR, 2.5 bath PH with private roof deck. 4 exposures, 26 windows, wbfp. Available for 3-6 months. $21.5K/monthly. WEB# 3494652. Leslie Mintzer 212-452-4473 EXCEPTIONAL TOWNHOUSE TriBeCa. One-of-a-kind, fully furnished for short or long term rental. 4 stories of residential space plus fully planted roof deck. $20K/monthly. WEB# 1759409. Leslie Mintzer 212-452-4473 QUEEN ON GREENE SoHo. Exquisite renovations, On Greene cast iron, 2BR + study, 2 bath loft. CAC, W/D, 11â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceiling, light & views, rooftop. $13K/monthly. WEB# 1564756. Siim Hanja 212-317-3670 Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675 LARGE RETAIL LIVE/WORK 4RI"E#A 'ROUND m LIVE RETAIL APT w/ 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of street frontage. Perfect for RETAIL GALLERY OFlCES 2EAR HAS LARGE BR, kitchen and bath with W&D. $7K/monthly. WEB# 3250760. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 SUNNY LOFT OFFICE SPACE 4RI"E#A /FlCE SPACE W EXPOSED brick, beamed ceilings, Southern light & views of TriBeCa. Fully WIRED lVE OFlCES PLUS RECEPTION and kitchenette. $6.5K/monthly. WEB# 1560535. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468
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