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THE TRIB: 20 YEARS IN PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL GLASSMAN
This issue marks the 20th anniversary of The Tribeca Trib. We’re taking the occasion to look back in photographs at the past two decades in the life of Lower Manhattan. What you see is less an attempt to recall historic milestones and big events than a collection of visual impressions, of moments large and small that in a modest way reveal a multilayered portrait of our changing community. Reviewing these last 20 years has also enhanced our great appreciation for those who have brought us to this anniversary: our loyal advertisers, of course, and you, our readers and neighbors, who have helped us maintain our commitment to keeping you informed. APRIL KORAL, Publisher
CARL GLASSMAN, Editor
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Manfred Zu Yager, aka “Fred,” was not your typical activist. But the Staffordshire terrier liked to helpfully carry things in his jaws. So Gail Swithenbank and Michael Hall recruited him into their campaign to protect Tribeca’s trees from destructive dog urine. Fred carried the posters that the humans attached to trees.
1995
STREET OF DREAMS
Who knows how many hopes were dashed when dozens of headshots inexplicably landed on the cobblestones of Franklin Street.
2005
A RESPITE IN THE ‘REAL WORLD’
Vivian Ra, 5, spent a quiet moment in Battery Park City’s “The Real World,” commonly called the “Penny Park,” by Tom Otterness.
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2006
RELAXING AT THE POOL, ON LISPENARD STREET
Billy Wall, owner of Nancy Whiskey Pub, takes it easy on the Fourth of July. As is his Independence Day tradition, Wall fills up an inflatable pool and floats away the day while patrons enjoy free barbecue. Wall also treats his clientele on Memorial and Labor Days.
1995
FRONT ROW SEATS AT THE FAIR
There was live music, dancing, acrobatics and karate demonstrations as well as volleyball and food at the Sixth Annual Bubby’s Block Party held on North Moore Street. But for this family, it was also a chance to sit it out for a while and watch the goings-on.
1994 STAPLE STREET Staple Street has long had a gritty charm that moviemakers love. But when this picture was taken for Oliver Allen’s story on the history of the street, Tribeca itself was further off the beaten path and the street had a lonelier, more forlorn look. And the bridge? Around the turn of the 20th century, it was built to connect what then was New York Hospital’s House of Relief with a separate building that contained horsedrawn ambulances and a laundry.
1997 BIG UMBRELLA ON GREENWICH ST.
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A few times each year, life spills beyond the doors of Reade Street Pub, where the owners offer free burgers and beverages, live music and a good time. Even on each somber anniversary of 9/11, the pub provides a place for firefighters and others to unwind—even to dance.
When the Travelers Group installed a bright red 5,300-pound version of the company’s logo in front of its 388 Greenwich St. headquarters (now Citigroup), it weathered quite a storm. One critic called the public area “Mary Poppins Plaza.” And some employees didn’t like it, either. But it stayed for 10 years. A neon counterpart on the building’s north side bothered more people; after a lawsuit, Travelers agreed to dim it at night.
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2000 IT’S ONLY A MOVIE “Zoolander” filmmakers thrilled some, but annoyed others in December 2000 when they used Tribeca as a backdrop for a teeth-rattling car explosion stunt—the scripted result of a gasoline fight—that rocked the neighborhood and blasted a 60foot fireball into the air, above. Three stunt doubles, above left, were set on fire for the scene, action that did not make the final cut. Before the scene was shot, top right, a nearby tree was sprayed with water in an effort to protect it from damage. The stunt was staged in what was then a parking lot at North Moore Street and West Broadway.
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VIEW FROM 70 LITTLE WEST STREET, BATTERY PARK
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70 Little West Street, Battery Park. Pristine corner 3 bedroom, 3 bath offers unobstructed water view of the Hudson and Statue of Liberty. Top GREEN building with resort style amenities; spa, pool, health club, indoor/outdoor lounges and on-site parking. $4,250,000. NET#1316677.
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Key-locked elevator opens directly into loft with great light. Modern, renovated kitchen with Sub-Zero refrigerator, Viking gas range and microwave. Spacious master, renovated bathroom with double vanity, powder room, washer/dryer. $10,000/mo. NET#1322005.
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For more than 30 years, Mukesh (“Mike”) Patel and his six-by-sixnewsstand at 381 Broadway were a local institution. Known as the “Mayor of Broadway,” he seemed to know most everyone— and every newsy tidbit in the neighborhood.
Born on Washington Street in 1906, Marie Millar had lived in Tribeca longer than anyone when she spoke to the Trib in her Beach Street apartment, recalling the neighborhood of long ago.
2007
INSIDE SILVERSTEIN’S WORLD
At a presentation by the designers of the World Trade Center’s Tower 4, developer Larry Silverstein ponders an image of the glass proposed for the building’s exterior. It was a two-hour meeting in which the one topic was the curtain wall of the 974-foot-high building, to be ceremoniously dedicated six years later.
1997
ON THE OLD PIER 25
Bob Townley, director of Manhattan Youth, on the former Pier 25, where staff cooked burgers on an open grill and steel drum bands sometimes entertained.
2005
FAITH HEALER ON GREENWICH STREET
Pastor Ann Stratton lays hands on a man with diabetes, with a congregant ready to catch him at Faith Exchange Fellowship, now on Leonard Street.
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1994 THE NEUTRINOS, A FAMILY LIVING AFLOAT AT PIER 25 In 1991, a family headed by Betsy Terrell and Poppa Neutrino (aka David Pearlman), who called themselves the “Floating Neutrinos,” sailed to Tribeca’s Pier 25 aboard a paddle-wheel raft they built out of scrap lumber and other recycled materials. Above, Terrell rowed to her husband on Pier 25 and, above right, she paddled from the pier to the homemade boat, where she and her family of four and two friends lived for years. The group successfully sailed another one of their rafts (built largely from scraps found in Tribeca) across the Atlantic in 1998.
1998 MARTY MAYER, HOLDOUT ON GREENWICH STREET When the tenants of 452 Greenwich Street faced eviction to make way for the building’s conversion to a one-family home, Marty Mayer, 91, held on. He’d lived there for more than 50 years and in Tribeca for 81. Mayer ate gratis at La Vega, a Dominican luncheonette on the ground floor, and was looked after by neighbors, including Cheryl Moch, shown below with daughter Hannah. Mayer lived in his kitchen, at left, the only room with heat—a Coleman stove that also warmed water for bathing. But it was his tiny community, soon to disperse, that mattered most. “You can see why I want to stay here,” he said. “Everyone I get along with.”
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2010 STEEPLE SLEUTH Five levels up in the steeple of St. Paul’s Chapel, Omayra Rivera inspected 19th-century graffiti that covers walls and beams. Rivera, the church’s manager of business operations, took it upon herself to explore the 218-foothigh 1794 steeple that few others had climbed. Here and there, she found some historic treasures.
2008
MIA WOLFF’S HIGH ART
Painter Mia Wolff is a former circus trapeze artist who kept a trapeze in her Church Street loft, where she has lived since 1973. Wolff ended her circus career after an accident but she continued to take a swing now and then amid the imagined scenes in her paintings.
1998 AT HOME WITH ANNE COMPOCCIA This is how few people saw Anne Compoccia, the gruff former chair of Community Board 1, whose 12-year run in that position ended in 2000. A Little Italy native who lived simply and alone in an Independence Plaza studio apartment in Tribeca, Compoccia’s streetwise and wisecracking style set her apart in a world of slick bureaucrats and highpowered politicians. As she put it, “Someone once said, ‘You make “thank you” sound like “f—k you.”’ I don’t mean to be offensive. It’s just me.” In 2000, Compoccia was convicted of bank fraud and served out her time working in a hotel for homeless people with AIDS. Her sentence completed, she continued on as a paid supervisor, calling it her new life’s work. Compoccia died in February, 2011, after a long bout with cancer.
2003
THE (ALMOST) IMPRESARIO OF WALL STREET
After leaving the Knitting Factory, which he founded, Michael Dorf hoped to create a 1,000-seat performance hall in the august ground floor of 48 Wall Street. The enterprise didn’t materialize, but it was reimagined as his successful City Winery on Varick Street.
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2005 THE INTERIOR LIVES OF TRIBECA CHILDREN During a 2004 Inside Tribeca Loft Tour, sponsored by Friends of Duane Park, the Trib was taken by the decorative approaches to the children’s rooms in some of the spacious apartments. A spread in our January 2005 issue featured eight of them, including this bedroom for Nina Gerzema, age 1, who left a Chinese orphanage for a luxurious home on Warren Street. Artist Yona Feinman created the peaceful environment. “The baby spent her first year in crowded turmoil,” said Nina’s mom, Mary. The floor-to-ceiling mural, spanning four walls, could be a perfect day at the beach. “We later learned our baby is from a beach town in China,” Gerzema said. “It was a beautiful coincidence.”
2012 BALANCED MEAL Crazy Hat Day is a Downtown Day Camp annual tradition that makes for a fun start to the campers’ summer routine. This headgear, a complete table setting, turned heads and whetted appetites.
2006 HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE Elan Fox, 8, got a chance to handle reptiles, such as this 12-foot-long python, in one of Duane Park’s annual spring celebrations. Sponsored by Friends of Duane Park, the event features animals for petting, plants for potting and live music.
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2010
DO-SI-DO-ING, TRIBECA STYLE
Tribeca’s Washington Market Park went country for a few years, with square dancing, a genuine caller and hay bales for seating. More than a chance to try the Virginia Reel and Boot Scootin’ Boogie, it was a community mixer, too.
2013 SERIOUS STEPS Aspiring ballerina Veronica Hernandez, 13, practiced her technique in a class at the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in Tribeca. The teenage students attend ballet classes five and a half days a week and go to online school at night.
2003 BALLROOM BEGINNERS With nearly two girls for every boy in P.S. 150’s 5th-grade class, Tess Scriptunas and the other girls danced every other dance with a phantom partner. It was the school’s second year with Dancing Classrooms, a program of the nonprofit group American Ballroom Theater that promotes ballroom dancing in public schools. The Trib story, written by Amy Sewell, sparked Sewell’s idea for her successful 2005 documentary film, “Mad Hot Ballroom.”
2013 LACING UP FOR “THE NUTCRACKER” Before the first of two performances of “The Nutcracker,” Manhattan Youth staff member George Ross ties up the slipper of fairy Mina Yavachez. Each December dancers from Manhattan Youth’s afterschool dance classes take the P.S./I.S. 89 stage for a different interpretation of the holiday classic.
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2006 HEADER Marseille’s Jack Finio rose to the occasion in this Downtown Soccer League match. Finio’s moves were watched closely by opponent Raphael Santore of Valencia.
2007 FIELD DAY AT SHEA Kayma Lambert, far right, and Yani Porter, next to her, were among Downtown Little Leaguers and their coaches who sang the National Anthem on the Shea Stadium field. For a few sweet minutes, just before the Mets faced their first Milwaukee Brewers batter, the kids got a chance to stand along the dirt warning track of the outfield, and bask in the glow of the stadium lights.
2013 FLAGGED DOWN David Wilkerson made a catch as he was defended by his brother, Sam. Each Sunday on the Pier 40 fields, yellow “flags” went flying in the cold winter air. It was another season of flag football, organized by Manhattan Youth and the Downtown Giants, as 80 kids—boys and, yes, some girls—turned out for the fun.
2010 LITTLE YOGIS Amparo Chigul Santiago led students through yoga poses at P.S. 150. Unlike the steady tones heard in most yoga studios, their “oms” were considerably more exuberant. “Sometimes their energy is going all over the place,” Santiago noted. “I just remind myself to breathe, because if not, I’d go crazy.”
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2003 AGAINST THE WAR Jaya Borgatta, 8, sang peace songs with some 150 Tribecans in a candlelight vigil on Hudson Street to protest the imminent invasion of Iraq by the U.S. The group got honks of support from the slow-moving traffic. Said Katia Johnstone, 12, “I don’t want us to go to war. It’s going to affect everyone, including kids.”
2009 DAD, HOME FROM THE WAR Dismissed early from P.S. 234, Jodi Cheung, 10, is surprised to find her dad, William Cheung, home from Iraq and waiting for her. To the applause of kids and parents, Cheung lifted his daughter into the air. “I’m back, I’m back for good,” he softly said to her.
2007 BLOW BY BLOW There was lots to do at the sixth annual block party, sponsored by the Battery Park City Neighbors Association, but nothing quite compared to the sticky competition of the party’s first bubble-gum-blowing contest. A judge precisely measured Arthur Perry’s entry with a micrometer.
2007 READY FOR HALLOWEEN ACTION The annual Washington Market Park Halloween parade and party always bring together a motley bunch of giraffes, mermaids and astronauts, along with the requisite angels, pirates and, of course, superheroes such as Batman (Ken Harrell) and Robin (Harper Harrell, age 4).
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LOST TO THE PAST
1998 LAST OF THE BUTTERAND-EGGS MEN In the fall, the shutting down of Harry Wils and Co. on Duane Street signaled the end of an era for Tribeca, where buildings from Chambers to Harrison and Hudson to Greenwich were once filled with butter packers, egg candlers and warehouses. With mixed feelings Steven Wils, with his many refrigerated trucks, moved the operation to Secaucus, N.J. Wils said he burst into tears one day while pondering that move. “My father worked here his whole life, my grandfather worked in the street since he got off the boat and I have spent most of my life here. And I realized, now I’m leaving.”
2007 ONE REMAINING CUSTOMER, TO THE BITTER END Minutes before the Tribeca diner Socrates closed for good after 24 years at Hudson and Franklin streets, waitress Sylvia Ponce said goodbye to regular Paul McClaskey, the last customer to leave. To some, like McClaskey, Socrates was more than a favorite eatery. It was a second home. “I love you,” McClaskey said to the waitress as the two embraced. “I love you, too, Paul,” she replied.
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2006 THE DOOR CLOSES ON AN OLD SHOE STORE Steven Kleinfeld peered out the door of Craig’s Shoes, his 56year-old store on Chambers Street at West Broadway, that would soon have to close. The property had been purchased by a developer who would build what today is the Smyth Hotel. “It’s a terrible loss for the neighborhood,” said a longtime resident and customer. “I come in for the warmth and familiarity, not to mention the shoes.”
1999
ST. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
During a Christmas holiday service, Father John Ramos offered communion at the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center towers before its destruction on 9/11. For decades, church leaders had refused developers, who coveted the property. “We’ll be here until I die,” Ramos said.
2011
LAST DAYS OF TRIBECA’S POLICE STABLES
On a May afternoon, Jaime Cedeno swept pine shavings from the floor of Tribeca’s 99-year-old police stable. Soon the wooden stalls would be torn down to make way for the NYPD’s World Trade Center Command Center. “We’ve been here a long time and know a lot of people,” said one mounted cop. “It’s really a shame.”
2014 SAYING GOODBYE TO PEARL PAINT Ken Colman, who worked on the second floor of Pearl Paint for 29 years, got a farewell hug from artist and customer Laura Lee a couple of hours before the store closed for good. Pearl Paint had been a presence in the neighborhood since 1933 and a Tribeca artist’s institution on Canal Street for 50 years. “You’ve helped me so much,” Lee told the salesman.
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2005 INAUGURATING A PARK, REBORN Lou Reed was a headliner at this unique concert on Canal and West streets. But it was a verdant triangular park across the way and the five Tribeca residents who fought to create it who were the evening’s real stars. Beginning in 1999, Barbara Siegel, Margot Osborne, Richard Barrett, Carole De Saram and Jana Haimsohn fought a traffic plan for Canal Street after discovering that the asphalt island being turned into car lanes had once been a park. Only an act by the New York Legislature could stop it. Six years later, it was reborn as Canal Park.
2008 SINGING THE GOSPEL TRUTH Youth on Fire for Christ Choir, from the Bronx, brought heavenly voices and energy to the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden stage for the eighth annual Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition. Twenty choirs competed for $10,000 in prize money. “I know this is a competition,” said Youth on Fire music director Cory Gray, “but I just want to say, ‘Thank you, Lord.’”
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2006
ESCALATOR ESCAPADE
2010
ART IN THE BOWELS OF WALL STREET
The escalators, columns, stairs and other parts of the World Financial Center became the setting for a performance created by choreographer and visual artist Andrea Haenggi. Through movement, light and sound, she managed to bring the mostly empty spaces to strange new life.
During the performance of her work “Sensate” in the abandoned vault at 14 Wall Street, Carrie Ahern attempted to suspend herself by her dress. The audience followed her and three other performers as they alternately hurled their bodies, hugged, fought, crawled and more between two cavernous floors.
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2013
GETTING A LIFT FOR ART’S SAKE
Despina Stamos is crossed at Water and Broad streets by a performance art group called Tryst. As part of Sitelines, a summer series of public performances, the group carried willing pedestrians across the street. “Excuse me,” they would say, “we’re city cultural workers, would you like a lift?”
FIGMENTS OF IMAGINATION
Among the 250 interactive acts that were part of the annual staging of Figment on Governors Island was this performance choreographed by Shandoah Goldman. Women in painted body suits and “lantern-inspired” dresses took on the roles of their Chinese zodiac animals and were matched with male volunteers
2011 STRIP POKER ON DISPLAY For one week, the display window of Art in General on Walker Street became the showcase for “I’ll Raise You One,” a performance piece by Zefrey Throwell in which strip poker was played for all passersby on Walker Street to see—and there were many. Periodically, Throwell called for players to throw all their cards in the air, as shown here, and the game would begin anew.
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REFLECTING ON THE VIEW FROM OUTSIDE 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER
The 52-story replacement for the original 7 World Trade Center, destroyed as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks, was well on its way to its completion the next year when this photo, looking no
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orth, was taken from a construction hoist on the west side of the building.
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BATTLEGROUNDS
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1994 ZONING FEUD
It was neighbor against neighbor when the community debated a proposed rezoning of Tribeca. At a hearing at P.S. 234, Community Board 1’s Jim Stratton, who negotiated the plan with the city, argued with opponent Janna Townsend of a former group, the Tribeca Community Association. Opponents claimed that rezoning Tribeca from manufacturing to commercial would turn the neighborhood into Soho.
2000 NEIGHBORS AGAINST 60 HUDSON STREET NOISE Neighbors of telecommunications hub 60 Hudson Street, in the background, staged a protest against the building’s noisy backup generators and computer-cooling air conditioners. Among them were kids on stilts (students of Suellen Epstein’s Children’s Tumbling) who dressed up as 60 Hudson Street, the former Western Union Building.
2003 STILL FIGHTING 60 HUDSON STREET Attorney Norman Siegel, front, stands with two members of his legal team, behind him, and residents who had switched their fight from noise to the 2,200 gallons of diesel fuel stored in the 60 Hudson basement. Concern was heightened by the collapse of 7 World Trade Center on Sept. 11, apparently caused by ignited fuel in the building.
2013 PAROLE OFFICE MOVE TO FIDI
SEPTEMBER 2014 THE TRIBECA TRIB Millie Gillon, with daughter Claire, told city officials that the planned relocation of a probation office to 66 John St. will threaten her family’s safety. Behind her is Pace University’s Marijo Russell O’Grady, who expressed concern for the students who live in dorms in the area. But the move was already nearly complete.
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2000 HOSTILE TO A HOTEL
At a Community Board 1 meeting, Coco Gordon spoke out against a planned hotel at Duane and Church streets, eventually built as the 43-room Duane Street Hotel. Opponents said the hotel would be too narrow and cramped for the site and would bring too many people to the block.
2000 BALL FIELD PROTEST Kids, parents and politicians gathered near the Battery Park City ball fields to protest a rezoning plan that would allow taller buildings next to the fields. “Light Not Height,” one sign said. The Battery Park City officials said the added revenue was needed to make up for the lack of development on the fields’ site.
2008 A PLEA FOR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER REBUILDING At a Community Board 1 hearing on the lagging progress at the World Trade Center site, Hubert Edwards addressed six of the most powerful men behind the redevelopment. “This is the World Trade Center,” he said. “You’ve got one shot to get this right. Please get it right!” Seated at the table, from left, were: Janno Lieber, head of WTC redevelopment for Silverstein Properties; Joe Daniels, president of the September 11 Memorial & Museum; Robert Harvey, director of the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center; Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber; Avi Schick, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.; and Christopher Ward, executive director of the Port Authority. Caught in the crossfire of egos, emotions and competing interests, progress at the site was often slow. But the rebuilding has also been a centerpiece for civic engagement, a place where thoughtful minds came together, hoping to “get it right.”
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1999
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A BLEAK CONVERSION STORY
The commercial tenants of 150 Nassau Street claimed a harassment campaign by developer Jack Lefkowitz, who had plans to convert the building to apartments. The Buildings Department cited him for 25 violations, including blocking entrances and failing to maintain elevator service. Erik Derkatsch, left, found his office door smashed. Dr. Lewis Gross, above, endured three burglaries and a flood, and lost water while performing oral surgery. Architect Colin Cathcart, right, shown with pieces of fallen ceiling, lost phone service and electricity. Tenant Ira Gillman was beaten bloody in his office by two masked men. “Everyone has a sob story,” Lefkowitz’s assistant told the Trib, dismissing the complaints. “This morning my washing machine broke. Do you want to write about that?”
2003
NEW LANDLORD TAKES A GRILLING
Independence Plaza’s new owner-to-be, Laurence Gluck, stood on the stage of the P.S./I.S. 89 auditorium packed with tenants. He tried to assure them that he’d be “the most modest, gracious landlord” who could own the three-tower Tribeca complex. But tenant leader Neil Fabricant angrily pressed him on how much he would raise the rents, now that he had taken the complex out of the rent-subsidized Michell-Lama program. “We can’t live with graciousness,” Fabricant said. “We need a number.” This was the first time that the tenants had met Gluck, whose name had stirred fear among them for more than a year. “I’m feeling very vulnerable,” Renee De Santis, the mother of two small children, told Gluck. “Do I try to find a new home for my family? Do I tell my kids they have to leave the only neighborhood they’ve ever known?” Five months later, after three months of intense negotiation, the tenants association and Gluck reached a deal on rents that received a standing ovation in that same auditorium. “A weight has been lifted,” said tenant Stacy LiLieto.
1996
FISHY BUSINESS
In the dead of night on May 19, Benny’s Express, a fish handling company, moved into a warehouse at Washington and Watts Streets, with a five-year lease on the Ponte Equitiesowned building. With it came late-night racket and what some residents in the area described as an intolerable smell. Neighbors, including the Capsouto family who had a home and restaurant across the street, immediately began working to shut it down. In less than a month, Benny’s was gone—forced out by a coalition of neighbors, Community Board 1 and city agencies. “I thought I’d started a war,” said Robert Brucato, above, whose company had been kicked out of the Fulton Fish Market during an effort by the city to rid the market of organized crime. “People around here must be very influential and well-off to get so many things done so fast.” “When the community speaks about an issue in one voice,” said Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington, “you pay attention.”
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THE BIG STORIES
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STAYING OCCUPIED IN ZUCCOTTI PARK
At night, Zuccotti Park was transformed from a crowded and carnivalesque scene of protest into something between a quiet but politically charged encampment and a giant slumber party. While this protester was alone with his laptop, others took on kitchen and cleanup duties, checked out books from the “People’s Library” or curled up beneath plastic sheets.
1998 A WORKER IS BURIED ALIVE ON GREENWICH STREET On the night of July 10, officers who had dug and sifted through rubble at Greenwich Street and North Moore prepared to bring up the body of Luis Gomez, a laborer from Ecuador who was working in a pit in the street when a backhoe operator filled the hole with dirt and concrete. The accident occurred in one of the “test pits” dug in the street to check the location of utilities before work to narrow Greenwich Street could begin. At right, Isabelle Lacey was the first of many to place flowers at the site. Flyers, above right, were posted on nearby lampposts, blaming the tragedy on a contractor’s use of non-union labor.
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2010
FUROR OVER A MOSQUE
Plans by the Cordoba Initiative to build a mosque and 13-story educational and cultural center at 45-47 Park Place, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and wife Daisy Khan, top, set off a storm of protest by those labeling the center the “Ground Zero Mosque.” A big demonstration, right, took place in Zuccotti Park while a smaller counter-demonstration, far left, was held on Church Street, close to the Park Place site. Above center, Community Board 1 chair Julie Menin listened to speakers during a raucous hearing on the project.
2012 SANDY HITS DOWNTOWN Clockwise from far left: A partially submerged car on North Moore Street, near West Street. Manhattan Youth director Bob Townley stood on the stairs leading to the Downtown Community Center’s lowest level, which was under 20 feet of water. Two hundred and fifty volunteers joined hired workers to clear the debris from the 20,000-square-foot space that has since been totally rebuilt. A felled tree in Titanic Park on Fulton Street in the Seaport. Sandy ravaged more property and businesses in the Seaport than in any other part of Lower Manhattan. At Whole Foods on Greenwich Street in Tribeca, people gathered for free perishable food, including produce and frozen items, handed out by employees.
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2001 A FIRE BRINGS A SAD YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S END TO ART SCHOOL It took nearly 200 firefighters more than two hours to put out a blaze at the New York Academy of Art on Franklin Street. Three firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries; all the students and staff made it to safety. As grateful students watched with both anxiety and relief, the firefighters also rescued nearly all of their artwork. When it was deemed safe, a group of students was escorted to the basement, where many had studios. Standing in a couple of inches of water, they formed a human chain, passing canvases down a long hallway and up to the street. Below, Academy Director Steven Farthing surveyed the destruction.
1999 INDEPENDENCE PLAZAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DEVASTATING FIRE A fire one Sunday morning in May destroyed six Independence Plaza apartments. But lives were spared, firefighters said, because tenants of the high-rise at 310 Greenwich St. remained calm. As flames raged in the third-floor apartment, the residents, many of them trapped by heavy smoke in the hallways, took refuge on their terraces. Below, Catherine Palmer sat in her flooded apartment, next door to where the fire began. Below right, John Chuang examined the charred remains of the home he shared with his wife and sons. The fire in the apartment was sparked by a cooking mishap. Above right: Smoke pours from an apartment in 310 Greenwich.
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1999 THE SPREADING SHRINE TO JFK, JR., AND WIFE CAROLYN “It started with one rose, and I looked at it and said, ‘What’s this?’” recalled Michael Norton, who found the flower in front of his apartment building at 20 North Moore Street. Norton would soon have the answer as that single expression of mourning turned into a mountainous shrine at the building where his neighbors John F. Kennedy, Jr., and wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy had lived before they, along with Carolyn’s sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard. For two weeks, the mounds of flowers, posters, photos and assorted tokens of grief continued to multiply down the block. At its peak, the line of visitors to the makeshift shrine stretched for two and a half blocks, wrapping around Hudson Street and down Franklin. And as the crowds kept coming, the cameras kept rolling, their lenses trained on 20 North Moore Street from across the street. “It was such an intense experience,” said Ruth Hardinger, Norton’s wife (shown in bottom right photo clearing a loading dock of shrine remnants), “the feeling that we were trapped and the horrible sadness of it all.”
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Greenwich Street in Tribeca was alive with Election Day activity when the first jet could be seen flying low overhead, then crashing into the North Tower.
In the first hours after the attack, hundreds of people, like these on Jay Street, volunteered to treat victims and dig through the rubble. Most civilians were turned away.
IN THEIR EYES As the North Tower collapsed behind them, a stunned pair rushed up Hudson Street, near North Moore.
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TRIBECA, IN THE WAKE OF 9/11 Clockwise from left: National Guardsmen patrol the “frozen zone” on West Broadway below Chambers Street. The duties for some included checking the IDs of residents returning to their homes. On the Friday after Tuesday, Sept. 11, some 100 Tribeca residents gathered on Greenwich Street for a candlelight vigil and singing. To recoup some of his losses, owner Nikone Ongkeo of Mangez Avec Moi turned his West Broadway restaurant into a souvenir shop for tourists. Tourists hoping to see the smoldering ruins from the north, in Tribeca, stood behind a barricade at Greenwich and Duane streets.
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ‘BARGE OPERATION’ AT PIER 25 For eight months, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the waterfront south of Pier 25 was the site of trucks unloading debris from the World Trade Center into giant “pans.” Cranes hoisted each pan, dumping its contents into a waiting barge. The debris went to the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, and the steel to scrapyards in New Jersey. Nearly 5,000 tons were moved each 12-hour shift. The noisy, dusty and depressing operation led to sleepless nights among residents of nearby Independence Plaza and to demonstrations, mainly by parents of students attending Stuyvesant High School, also located close to the operation. To no avail, Madelyn Wils, the chair of Community Board 1, and City Councilwoman Kathryn Freed asked the city to move the operation four blocks north. Controversy over the work did not escape the men who were doing it. Said one: “We move tons of steel and everything goes through here, but no one cares and that hurts.”
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THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY IN WAGNER PARK
For the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, many people assembled before dawn in Wagner Park to hear music and speeches as the sun rose over the city. It would be the first of many observances to take place that day. The annual event in the park ended in 2005, but was renewed once more for the 10th anniversary.
2002 THE CITY’S FIRST 9/11 MEMORIAL IS RECONSTRUCTED During the week before Fritz Koenig’s Sphere would stand as the centerpiece for the city’s six-month commemoration of Sept. 11, ironworkers and engineers, with Koenig advising them, reassembled the broken and battered sculpture that had stood for 30 years on the World Trade Center plaza. For many of the workers, laboring 12-to-16-hour days to prepare the sculpture (including the construction of a base for the 22.5-ton orb), the effort was a welcome change from recovery work on the nearby site. “We’re putting something together as opposed to taking it apart,” said Peter Rinaldi, a Port Authority engineer and an architect of the cleanup effort. In December 2013, the Sphere was moved to another part of the park, but its permanent home remains controversial and uncertain.
2008 SHINING THE TRIBUTE IN LIGHT During a test of the Tribute in Light, Gerald MacMillan “flagged” each 7,000-watt unit to find the one that was out of adjustment. He was one of a crew of 30 in that year who produced the ritual of remembrance from atop the Battery Parking Garage.
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EMOTIONS WELL AT OPENING OF TRIBUTE CENTER
Jim Connor, an ironworker who was part of the recovery operation, helped prepare the World Trade Center steel on display at the Tribute Center on Liberty Street. During a visit, prior to the center’s official opening, Connor gripped the edge of the mangled beam and wept.
2010
AT SLURRY WALL, MUSEUM WORK IN PROGRESS
In June, 2010, a worker kept watch near the slurry wall on the west side of the memorial site as sparks fell from the torch of a welder above. Work was underway in what would be called Foundation Hall when the September 11 Memorial Museum opened four years later, housing, among other artifacts and exhibits, the “Last Column.”
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2010
A GATHERING AT ST. PAUL’S
On this Sept. 11 anniversary, many people gathered at St. Paul’s Chapel for reflection and prayer. Above, the Rev. Daniel Simons led a prayer at the chapel, which for months had been a place of respite for recovery workers. The table at center contained handwritten messages of remembrance and hopes for a better world.
2003
MESSAGES OF GRATITUDE
2004
FOR WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
A “gratitude scroll” was signed by one of many Battery Park City residents, expressing thanks to those who helped them on Sept. 11.
At a ceremony near Pier 25, staff who died at Windows on the World are remembered with roses, one tossed for each of the 79 victims.
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AS THE NAMES ARE READ
Hundreds of mourners gathered outside what then was a viewing fence onto the WTC site while, inside, the victims’ names were read.
PRESIDENTIAL EMBRACE
At Sept. 11 Museum dedication, President Obama hugs Alison Crowther, whose son Welles, a victim, saved Ling Young, left, and others.
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2012 1 WTC’s 408-FOOT-HIGH ANTENNA ARRIVES IN PIECES At left, ironworker Joe Spratt helps guide an antenna section, lifted by tower crane, onto a flatbed truck. One by one, nine pieces of spire bound for 1 World Trade Center were offloaded from a barge at Pier 25 and ever so slowly hauled across North Moore Street and down Greenwich (photo below left) to the site where they would later be lifted (photo below center) to the top of the tower. The sections had made a 1,500mile journey from Valleyfield, Quebec, where they were manufactured. “It’s majestic. Almost like a royal carriage,” Heidi Bennett said as a 68-ton section of antenna passed her building on North Moore Street, glowing white in the late-night darkness. “It’s magical.” Altogether, 18 spire sections were assembled to give the building its 1,776foot height. “We’re getting to the end of a long and wonderful journey,” Steve Plate, the Port Authority’s director of World Trade Center construction, said as the first of the sections was about to be raised. “This represents to me an exclamation point on the end of a wonderful project.”
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Dan Koise sings “A Little Help from My Friends” at apexart in Tribeca, where the gallery became the setting for a night of “Scaryoke.” Fourteen invited guests could pick their karaoke songs, but from a dwindling list, depending on the number they drew in the lineup. Koise was up last, but with singing help from his friends, it hardly looked scary at all.
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Cancan dancers flipped and swirled their petticoats to Jazz Age tunes at the first annual Bastille Day celebration on West Broadway. The festivities, sponsored by Cercle Rouge restaurant, featured a pétanque tournament while sausages sizzled, Champagne and wine flowed as the band played on.
1995 JUST DESSERTS ON NORTH MOORE More than a dozen contestants lined up on the street to compete in a Bubby’s restaurant pie-eating contest. The winner of the contest, held at the annual block party, could order free slices of Bubby’s pie for a year.
2005 CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION They were dancing on Desbrosses Street before Pia Awal and Tim Dutta’s wedding. But the real celebration was for a miracle: Awal, a leukemia patient, had received a life-saving stem cell transplant thanks to Dutta, who quit his job to work full time to find a donor match.
2013 STEPPING OUT Sy Amkrout and Bernette Rudolph shared a dance and a kiss when the Hallmark senior residence was turned into a 1940sstyle nightclub for an evening, with big band music from a live orchestra. “I cannot walk but I can dance,” said Anita Inglese, 87. “Isn’t that amazing?”
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2001 MUSCLE MATCH
Alex Schinas, left, and Douglas Schalla were among some 600 body builders in the annual New York Metropolitan Figure and Fitness Championships at Tribeca Performing Arts Center. As writer Anne Kadet noted in the accompanying story: “One by one, the contestants clenched their bellies to produce mounds of muscle bulging like challah bread. They spread their backs to show off wide wings of hard flesh and flexed their chests, revealing masses of veins, as if plates of spaghetti would burst from their necks.”
2000 DANCE NIGHTS ON PIER 25
2004 DOUBLE TASTES OF TRIBECA
This couple was enjoying the first summer of “MoonDances” on Pier 25 at North Moore Street in Tribeca, sponsored by the Hudson River Park Trust. Before the pier closed in 2005 for rebuilding, the dances became a popular seasonal event that outgrew the pier’s portable dance floor. Movies on the pier also began that summer.
At the 10th annual Taste of Tribeca, Sharon DiPietro got her taste from her daughter Rose, while John Meserve offered a bite to Anke Thiem. The event, which benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, drew 3,500 people that year, its first sellout crowd since the event began.
2007 CHARGING CHARGING BULL Frozen in mid-lunge, Arturo Di Modica’s Charging Bull at Broadway and Whitehall Street doesn’t look like it wants to make friends or entertain visitors. No matter. Next to the Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center site, it’s the most popular attraction in Lower Manhattan. Tourists flock to the icon of capitalism, posing astride its massive body, north and—like this woman—south. “I’ve seen people do some crazy things to that bull,” said a souvenir vendor. “At night sometimes, when people have been drinking, I’ve seen them do stuff to that bull that you couldn’t print in the paper.”
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2010 CELEBRATION OF THE HUDSON RIVER BEGINS DOWNTOWN On the Battery Park City esplanade, puppet-carrier Amanda Levy, above, relaxed during a pause in the annual Hudson River Pageant. Before the parade began, Katie Palmer, left, took a selfie as a diamondback terrapin turtle. They were among 2,500 paraders of 15-foot-high puppets and marchers costumed as American eels, seahorses and other river creatures. The Earth Day event, which stepped off at the North Cove in Battery Park City and proceeded along the river to Charles Street, was meant to call attention to the fragile ecology of the Hudson River.
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Jennifer S. Berghaus
Judith M. Gillis
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