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PS 150 teachers’ views on moving
In April, the city’s Department of Education announced plans to close PS 150 in Tribeca and move the children, teachers and support staff to a new school being built in the former Foundling Hospital at 17th Street and Sixth Avenue. Many of the parents are protesting the move. The staff first sent this letter to parents, explaining their support for the plan. To the Editor: Several weeks ago we learned of the possible resiting of PS 150. Since then, we have reflected on this idea as educators, teaching professionals and community members. We have thoughtfully considered what is best for our students and how we can fully support their academic and social-emotional growth. With the recent implementation of the Common Core standards, the new special education reforms and our students’ social-emotional development in mind, we support resiting PS 150 to an environment that can provide the best possible resources and the opportunity to foster student and educator development. As the landscape of public education continues to evolve, the demands of the Common Core standards require a greater emphasis on academic rigor. The resiting of PS 150 will provide an extraordinary opportunity for students (CONTINUED ON PAGE 39)
Remembering Roger, a Seaport Santa
To the Editor: It has been a year since the passing of an icon in the annals of Christmas in New York: Roger Franklin, the onetime stage manager, actor and director who, for 21 incredible seasons, held court as the South Street Seaport’s resident Santa Claus. Roger never failed to enchant those who encountered him in his full-dress Santa suit. To the many who visited him, both here in the city, and throughout the world, Roger was one of the greatest goodwill ambassadors this town will ever know. Whether it was (CONTINUED ON PAGE 39)
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On Sept. 23, 1979, two years before the construction of Gateway Plaza began, a crowd of 200,000 converged on the landfill for an “anti-nuke” rally that was prompted by the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor.
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To the Editor: Thank you, Trib. The cover story “The Beach” brought back memories. As a young organizer, I was part of a campaign to stop nuclear power and develop alternative safe energy. We were at the anti-nuke rally on the beach and set up a little windmill with a hand-carved blade! We were all young and optimistic. Little did I know that one day I would raise my children on this “landfill.” I can only think that our voices for a greener society, while far from being realized, did help influence the building decisions in Battery Park City, where there are many great environmental initiatives. Battery Park City’s beach is long gone, yet our calls for wise governmental spending choices and alternative energy need to continue—and get louder. Bob Townley
Museum admission charge ‘shocking’
To the Editor: The recent decision of the board of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero to charge a $20—or even $25—admission fee for the museum is shocking. How, one might ask, is this different from the sidewalk hawkers of 9/11 memorabilia who are regularly so casti-
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PS150 Fight Over Move Goes On Teachers, at odds with parents, side with DOE plan to move Tribeca school to Chelsea
BY CARL GLASSMAN The “school” being saved in the PS 150 parents’ “Save Our School” campaign is no longer the single-class-pergrade one up the stairs in Independence Plaza. PS 150 parents, angry over the Department of Education proposal to move the school’s staff, teachers and students to a new building on West 17th Street in fall 2014, say that they will no longer fight the closing of their Tribeca school. Instead, they are now calling for the DOE to move PS 150 elsewhere Downtown—and they have Community Board 1 behind them. “We’ve gotten a great resolution from Community Board 1 that supports us staying in the neighborhood,” said PTA President Wendy Chapman, conceding that “one class per grade isn’t sustainable from a political standpoint.” In an effort to back the parents’ desire to keep PS 150 Downtown as well as ease school overcrowding, CB1 unanimously passed a resolution last month that calls on the DOE to build a new zoned school, with three classes per grade, near PS 150’s current location. “That would be a win-win for everyone,” said Corie Sharples, a PS 150 parent and the CB1 member who drafted the resolution. “A win for the teachers who want to grow the school, and a win for the parents who want to keep their kids Downtown.” The teachers, however, see it differently. Michael Iwachiw, the school’s science teacher and its United Federation of Teachers representative, said that all UFT members at PS 150, except for one who has children in the school, voted on May 24 to support the move to Chelsea. The vote put the union in the rare position of siding with the DOE. “At this point in time, the overwhelming desire of the UFT staff, except for one person, is to move out of this building as soon as possible,” Iwachiw said. “Seventeenth Street looks like a great opportunity. Let’s go for it.” As a result of their differences, some parents and staff members report tense relations between the two groups. “I still trust the teachers to teach my kids,” said a mother who asked not to be identified, “but it’s just very strained right now.” The teachers and staff first let their position be known in a letter (see page 3) to parents a couple of weeks after the DOE shocked the parents with its proposal. Among the reasons they stated for agreeing with the DOE was a chance for teachers of the same grades to collaborate with one another. “Anytime you have an opportunity to sit down with someone else and discuss
PS 150 kindergarten teacher Jennifer Aaron says she would prefer to be at a school where she can exchange ideas with other teachers of the same grade.
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At Community Board 1’s May meeting, PS 150 parents, including Shannon Burkett at the microphone, line up in support of the board’s resolution to keep the school Downtown.
your teaching practices, you’re better off,” PS 150 kindergarten teacher Jennifer Aaron told the Trib. “Democracy is based around hearing different voices. Education is the same thing.” Parents were stunned by the staff’s assertion in the letter that the PS 150 one-class-per-grade model has compromised some children’s ability to socialize. “It can start in pre-k or kindergarten when we see these relationships form,” said Rebecca Newfield, the school’s guidance counselor for the past six years. “And when they stay together year after year, by the third grade there are some pretty intense problems going on.” A meeting with parents, called by the staff to further explain its position, turned into a tense and unproductive gathering, according to several people who attended. Staff members said that the parents were not interested in hearing
their side, while parents complained that the meeting turned into a free-for-all because it was poorly run. Parents who oppose the move say they are backed by 85 percent of the parent population. Many of them have indicated that they would send their children to their zoned school rather than put them on a bus to Chelsea. (PS 150 is unzoned.) Despite votes by the community board and the school leadership team (representing parents, teachers and staff) that favor the goal of siting PS 150 in a new three-class-per-grade building Downtown, the staff say they worry about the missed opportunity of moving to Chelsea. “We are going for something that’s going to exist in 12 months that is beautiful, state of the art,’ said Laura Cohen, the school’s parent coordinator, referring to the Chelsea school. “We’re realists.
We’re going to reach out for what’s concrete and exists.” The staff is also concerned that if a new school for PS 150 is not built Downtown and the proposal to move to Chelsea is scrapped, the DOE will close the school altogether because it is considered financially unviable. (Later this year, the DOE will announce its next five-year capital plan for building new schools; it is unknown whether any will be slated for Lower Manhattan.) In the meantime, PS 150 parents have been pressing forward with their efforts to keep the school Downtown. A postcard-signing campaign resulted in the mailing of some 250 cards, illustrated by the children, to Mayor Bloomberg. At the May 28 CB1 meeting, about a dozen parents stood in line to give their reasons for staying Downtown, from the importance of their families to local businesses to the safer streets to the neighborhood activities that their children enjoy. They also noted that because many would end up sending their children to their zoned schools instead of Chelsea, Downtown school waitlists will grow longer. “The unfortunate and poorly planned proposal by the DOE will only serve to worsen the overcrowding situation as the local schools try to absorb our children,” said Susan Korenberg, who has two children at PS 150. PS 150 Principal Jenny Bonnet declined to comment for this article. But in her email to parents announcing the DOE’s proposal, she called the move “an extraordinary opportunity for your children.” “I’m hoping as a community we can band together,” she wrote. “Community” is something both parents and staff want to preserve, yet seems at the heart of their differences. “We see ‘community’ as something that was created in this building but can move,” Cohen said. “What’s going to break up community is if the families all decide to go back to their zoned schools. And that’s very sad for us.” Chapman has a broader definition of “community” to include a wide range of neighborhood amenities and activities— from parks and after-school programs to the Downtown Community Center and the Taste of Tribeca, the fundraiser shared with PS 234 that she co-chaired for many years. “I don’t want to think that PS 150 has to give up Taste of Tribeca. I’m not there yet,” Chapman said. The decision on moving PS 150 to Chelsea will rest with the Panel on Education Policy, a majority of its members appointed by the mayor. It is scheduled to vote in September. In the meantime, both parents and staff vow to continue pushing for what each side maintains is in the children’s best interests. “We all care about the kids, obviously,” said Newfield. “All the parents do, all the staff do. And I wish we could all come together for the kids.”
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Residential Towers, on the Rise Downtown’s Tallest Condo
BY ALINE REYNOLDS Larry Silverstein’s long-stalled 82-story condo-hotel tower at Park Place and Church Street is about to get off the ground. The 926-foot-high structure will become Downtown’s tallest residential building, surpassing the Frank Gehry-designed 76-story skyscraper at 8 Spruce St. Silverstein Properties announced last month that it had secured $660 million in construction financing for the nearly $1 billion project, originally slated for completion in 2011 but remaining only as a fenced-off concrete foundation since 2009. Silverstein demolished the former Moody’s headquarters to clear the way for the structure, which will stand just a block from his three towers at the Word Trade Center site. In addition to the 82-story hotel and condo building, Silverstein Properties is constructing a public plaza on Park Place. Now scheduled to open in 2016, the Four
Seasons-operated building will have 185 hotel rooms and 157 condominium apartments. Upon acquiring the property, Silverstein changed the address from 99 Church St. to 30 Park Place. A hotel entrance on Barclay Street will lead to three levels of lobbies, lounges, ballrooms and meeting facilities, in addition to other guest amenities. Residents will enter at 30 Park Place. The public plaza will be built between the tower and the 100-year-old Woolworth Building, on Park Place between Church and Broadway. Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes said in a phone interview that, while the development is “a positive sign that the economy has turned...we’re concerned about school overcrowding. It is important to make sure that the [Department of Education] provides adequate school seats for any new residential building, including this one.” Construction is expected to begin this fall.
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Left: 30 Park Place, designed by A.M. Stern Architects, will rise a block from the Woolworth Building. Above: Artist’s concept of the public plaza to be built on Park Place.
48 Stories, At Least, On Fulton Street RENDERINGS COURTESY OF SILVERSTEIN PROPERTIES
BY ALINE REYNOLDS A massive new residential building that will soar high above its neighbors is coming to Fulton Street. The tower, between Nassau and Dutch Streets, will be either 61 stories or 48 stories tall. The height depends on whether the developer, the Lightstone Group, expands its current site, which now includes 112-118 Fulton Street, and also demolishes the neighboring building at 120 Fulton. The company is applying for a tax abatement due to its inclusion of belowmarket-rate apartments as part of the proposed project. Meir Milgraum, Lightstone’s director of acquisitions, came before Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee last month for advisory approval of a “421-a” abatement, to include the 120 Fulton site. Milgraum said that if the developer receives the abatement, it will erect a lower, wider building with more units (463 instead of 400) and more below-market-rate apartments (93 instead of 80). Building a 48-story tower, Milgraum noted, would also cut down on the construction time by three to four months.
A city-required, 1,200-square-foot plaza on Dutch Street would be part of the project. The committee voted unanimously in favor of a resolution supporting the additional tax abatement because it would result in more lower-rent housing at the site. The construction, which Milgraum said would take two to three years, comes on the heels of five years of reconstruction on Fulton Street, as well as nearby work on the Fulton Transit Center and the new Pace University dorm at 180 Broadway. Jonathan Heuser, president of the condominium board at 119 Fulton St., a 15-story building across the street from the development site, said the continuous construction in the area has hurt property values and driven away nearby apartment owners and renters. “The street has been dug up repeatedly, and it’s been incredibly difficult living through that,” he told the CB1 committee, “and we’re just, finally, coming out of it.” The high-rise project, Heuser added, “is going to be a very traumatic experience for our building.”
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Two options for the residential tower on Fulton Street include a 61-story building, left, or a wider 48-story building that would include the lot now occupied by 120 Fulton Street.
Another resident of 119 Fulton St, who lives there with his wife and twoyear-old child, said in a phone interview, that while the city is investing in the area, “you don’t feel like there’s a lot of regard for the quality of the living experience.
It’s a very, very hard thing to deal with, especially with a family.” “I don’t really understand the justification for something so large,” he added. Demolition of 112-118 Fulton is slated to begin this summer.
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Tenants Claim Discrimination Over Gym
BY ALINE REYNOLDS Longtime tenants of Tribeca’s Independence Plaza North are railing against their landlord’s membership policy for the complex’s newly opened gym. After numerous complaints, the coowner of IPN has reversed a controversial rule that initially restricted access to the gym and children’s play space to “market rate” tenants, barring access to those paying reduced or governmentsubsidized rents. It now says it wants to charge non-market-rate tenants an annual fee—a decision that the Tenant Association maintains is still discriminatory. Following IPN’s removal from the state’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Program in 2004, tenants of the Greenwich Street complex have fallen into three categories: those who pay market-rate rents, and those who moved in before 2004 and are either paying lower rents as part of the Landlord Assisted Program (LAP) or receiving vouchers from the government’s Section 8 Housing Program. The facility opened in mid-May on the second floor of IPN’s 40 Harrison Street building. As of the end of May, non-market-rate tenants were still waiting for information on how and when they could start using the gym. According to its latest decision, market-rate tenants can get in for free while LAP and voucher tenants will have to pay to use the facilities—an amount as
The newly opened children’s play space (above) and gym are at the center of a dispute over access by all IPN tenants.
yet to be determined. A spokesperson for Stellar Management declined to comment on the revised policy. (According to a Stellar Management employee, the message to non-marketrate tenants that they could not use the gym was the result of a “miscommunication” among Stellar staff members.) Diane Lapson, the IPN Tenant Association president who met with Stellar representatives on May 23, said management is justifying the rule by saying that the annual fee is built into the leases of current market-rate tenants.
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Lapson and others believe the policy discriminates against non-market-rate tenants. The gym, she said, is “an amenity for the residents who live here—it has to be equitable so that all people are paying the same amount of money, even if it’s just a question of them writing [the fair-market tenants’] lease a little differently.” “I explained why I think the human rights law makes what they’re proposing illegal,” said Tenant Association Vice President Ed Rosner, who also attended the May 23 meeting. He cited a citywide law that states that discriminating against PHOTOS BY ALINE REYNOLDS
people based on their source of income, in terms of a “housing accommodation” or “the furnishing of facilities or services,” is illegal. Asked about the legality of Stellar’s policy, Betsy Herzog, a spokeswoman for the city’s Commission on Human Rights, said, “We would definitely look at this and investigate it... It sounds like they’re trying to get around having these people use the gym.” Some IPN tenants believe Stellar’s dual policy drives a wedge between the residents of IPN. “There’s this sort of attitude by the higher management...that we are not desirable,” said a longtime tenant who asked not to be identified. ‘Let’s keep the riff-raff out of the gym,’ is how it feels.”
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No Progress Reported As Museum End Nears BY ALINE REYNOLDS “It’s a very dire situation that we’re faced with. We’re doing everything in our power to make this work but, in fact, we have close to no winning cards in our hand.” With those words, spoken back in April to Community Board 1’s SeaportCivic Center Committee, South Street Seaport Museum general manager Jerry Gallagher laid out a bleak picture for the financially strapped museum, its galleries now closed because of irreparable Sandy-related damage to the HVAC system.
Corp. of thwarting the museum’s survival by providing inadequate financial assistance and denying its use of vacant, ground-floor space on Front and John Streets. (In early May, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sent a letter to Howard Hughes’ CEO David Weinreb, saying it is “incumbent upon Howard Hughes to help our community come up with a solution that will keep the doors open at this outstanding museum.” Nearly a month later he had yet to receive a reply.) A Howard Hughes spokesman declined to comment on discussions, if any, it is having with the Seaport Museum. Gallagher and MCNY director Susan Henshaw Jones also declined to be interviewed on the prospects for the Seaport Museum as it heads towards the end of its 21-month-long contractual relaCARL GLASSMAN tionship with Without an HVAC system, the museum has had to close its galleries. MCNY. A A sense of urgency in the room was spokesman, responding on their behalf, palpable, as the maritime museum’s life- said in an email that the Seaport Muline—its temporary operator, the M- seum’s financial situation is “not peruseum of the City of New York ilous” but confirmed that the contract (MCNY)—is being cut off on July 5. As expires in early July. a result, CB1 chair Catherine McVay “The Museum of the City of New Hughes called for a meeting with all the York’s Board of Trustees is well-infmajor players, including representatives ormed of what’s going on at the Seaport of CB1 and both museums, the city Museum and is supportive of what the Economic Development Corp., which staff is doing,” the spokesman said, owns the property, and developer adding that the Seaport Museum staff is Howard Hughes Corp., the leaseholder “still working hard.” of much of the area, in order to devise a John Fratta, who chairs CB1’s Seasolution. port-Civic Center Committee, said he As of the end of May, that meeting had not heard back from Jones since had yet to occur. meeting with her in late April to talk At the Seaport Committee’s May about the museum’s fate. meeting, Gallagher returned upbeat, not“What was supposed to happen was, ing the museum’s success in raising the she was going to reach out to the $250,000 needed to repair its schooner, [Museum of the City of New York] the Lettie G. Howard, as well as the Board of Trustees to see if she could conresumption of the Pioneer’s sailing sea- vince them to extend their term [as manson and other activities planned for the ager of the Seaport Museum] for another summer. He even mentioned a week- four months,” he said. “If she couldn’t, long summer camp slated for August at she was going to arrange a meeting with the museum. us and the trustees.” But Gallagher mentioned no progress The proposed extension, he noted, when asked about substantive discus- would ideally be timed with Howard sions on salvaging the museum. Hughes’ late-summer submittal of a land “The deadline is still at July 5th—I use application to the city, for the future don’t have information to share right use of the nearby New Market and Tin now as to whether or not it’s being buildings. extended,” he said, noting that discus“By extending the term,” he sions are “ongoing” between MCNY, the explained, “it would give us more time to Department of Cultural Affairs and the negotiate further with Howard Hughes Economic Development Corp. about on trying to find some more revenue that staving off the museum’s closing. the museum needs.” “I think Howard Hughes Corp. is Otherwise, Fratta told Gallagher at included in those conversations, as well,” the May Seaport Committee meeting, said Gallagher. At the April CB1 meet- “We’ll tell you right now, the museum is ing, he had accused Howard Hughes going to be dead.”
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THEY WILL DECIDE: The Community Education Council, the elected volunteers who will vote on a final zoning plan. From left: Demetri Ganiaris, Cheryl Glover, Elizabeth Weiss, Tamara Rowe, Beth Cirone, Simon Miller, Shino Tanikawa, Michael Markowitz, Sarah Chu, District 2 Superintendent Mario
Far left: Fifth-graders, from left, Mavi Celebi, Taylor Chapman and Maya Farhadi during a lesson on equivalent fractions. Left: Principal Jenny Bonnet in her office with the new math materials she has adopted. “There’s good and bad in everything,” she said. “I don’t think you’re ever going to find the perfect math program.”
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PS150 Is Downtown’s Math Rebel New principal ends a progressive method long popular in Lower Manhattan schools
BY CARL GLASSMAN Just days before PS 150 parents began fighting a surprise proposal to move their school to Chelsea, they were staging a quieter revolt. With the backing of the PTA, the school’s new principal, Jenny Bonnet, is dumping a math program that has long been a staple of PS 150 and other Downtown elementary schools. Parents recently voted to spend $15,000 of PTA money for a more traditional program for the school. It is modeled after a method used in Singapore that is popular among homeschoolers and that several PS 150 parents already use to supplement their children’s learning. The program they have rejected, Investigations, is a product of TERC, an education research organization. The method got an early start in the 1990s at Tribeca’s PS 234, a pioneer in progressive math instruction. The PTA’s decision to fund the new method, called Math in Focus, coincided with the new citywide math and literacy tests in April that are based on more rigorous Common Core learning standards. Bonnet, who took the helm at PS 150 in March 2012, said she believes these new standards, which Department of Education officials predict will yield lower test scores this year, are not well aligned with Investigations. “After six months, I got a sense that it might be time for a change,” Bonnet said, noting widespread discontent among parents and teachers over Investigations. “And with the advent of the Common Core in full swing now, we found that there were a lot of gaps in the TERC curriculum that was making it confusing and necessary for the teachers to supplement with other materials.” Investigations, which stresses a conceptual understanding of numbers, is meant to give students a deeper understanding of the theory behind calculations rather than rote problem solving. Proponents also say the method cuts down on errors that result from carrying and “stacking” numbers and provides support material for teachers and parents.
The Trib asked fifthgrader Taylor Chapman to show how she would solve math problems using a traditional “stacking” method and the strategies she would come up with for the Investigations-based method.
While they say no single math program is yet perfectly aligned with the Common Core, they continue to support its use along with material from other sources. But critics like Bonnet complain that the calculation methods are cumbersome and make unnecessary work. Parents at PS 150 who are familiar with Math in Focus say it resembles the way they learned math and that it relieves them of the duty of tutoring their children in basic arithmetic. “Now, my kids can do more things at home not related to schoolwork, and their time in school is going to be more productive,” said Celine Kastoun, who has a first- and a third-grader at PS 150. For PTA President Wendy Chapman, the change couldn’t come soon enough. The mother of a third- and a fifth-grader at PS 150 and a seventh-grader who graduated from the school, she said she
sent her two oldest children to a tutor because they—and she—were frustrated by what she considered overly complicated strategies for doing basic arithmetic. “I loved math as a kid, and to have my fabulously energetic, happy, really smart kid tell me she hates math—that crushed me,” Chapman said of her daughter, Taylor, now 10. There is a confusing array of competing math programs to choose from for principals and school districts: Everyday Math, Math in the City, GO Math!, enVisionMath, to name a few. Only one other school in District 2 (Chinatown’s PS 130) is adopting Math in Focus. Most Downtown educators interviewed said they had little firsthand knowledge of the program. “Why change when you have something very strong and very good?” said PS 234 Assistant Principal Elizabeth TAYLOR CHAPMAN
Sweeney, whose familiarity with Investigations goes back to 1996 when, as a staff developer, she helped introduce the curriculum in District 2 schools. The school’s principal, Lisa Ripperger, emphasized that more important than any individual program is support for the teachers. PS 234 has a math and a literacy coach who work only with the teachers. “Nothing to me in my budget is more important than my two full-time content coaches,” she said. In 2009, Thao Vo, PS 89’s math coach (now the assistant principal), asked 13 teachers to review Investigations and another commonly used program, Everyday Math. “We decided to stay with Investigations with the revisions. It seemed at the time, and now, to be something we could build on.” Peck Slip School Principal Maggie Siena, formerly the principal of PS 150 and a teacher at PS 234, said she will be keeping Investigations but with “pieces” of other programs that are “aligned with the Common Core standards.” At the Spruce Street School, Principal Nancy Harris said Investigations alone does not align with the Common Core but is a “framework” to build on with “some tweaks” and replacement units from two other math programs. Like Jenny Bonnet, Terri Ruyter, the principal at PS 276, is dropping Investigations. She calls it “fuzzy.” “It has some really strong things about understanding math theory and math concepts,” she said, “but it relies on the kids making sense of it, and not all the kids make sense of it. The kids who can make sense of it get it in like two seconds, and then they’re ready for the next thing.” Ruyter is choosing enVisionMath and supplementing it with aspects of other math programs. The so-called “math wars” have been going on since 1989, when the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics promoted a curriculum that, among other things, deemphasized computation skills. The TERC method grows out of this philosophy, known as “constructivism” or “discovery learning.” It’s a program that Bonnet concedes gives a deeper “number sense” but its multiple problem-solving strategies confuses many kids. “I don’t want to bash TERC,” she said. “I just think that this is a perfect transition time to try something new.” —Jessica Raimi contributed reporting.
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Docs-Only Theater Coming to Tribeca Far left: In front of the DCTV firehouse on Lafayette St., officials gathered with Jon Alpert, Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock for a “groundbreaking.” Left: Moore tells the gathering: “Non-fiction is some of the most popular television, whether it’s the good stuff like ‘60 Minutes’ or my favorite show, ‘The Bachelorette.’”
BY CARL GLASSMAN Tribeca is getting a movie theater just for documentaries. DCTV, the documentary film and education center located in the 1896 landmark former firehouse at Lafayette and White Streets, will begin construction in the next few months on the 73seat digital theater, which will provide theatrical runs for non-fiction filmmakers and their audiences. The $2.5 million theater, the first of its kind in New York City, is expected to open in early 2015. “We want to build a place where documentaries are celebrated—a theater
devoted to all documentaries all the time,” DCTV’s co-founder and co-director Jon Alpert said at a ceremony last month. Morgan Spurlock, director and star of the documentary “Super Size Me,” called the ceremonial groundbreaking event “a banner day” for documentary filmmaking. “Starting in a couple of years, documentary filmmakers will no longer have to worry about competing against the…‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Hobbits,’” Spurlock told the crowd. “Finally, there’s a place where only documentary films can be shown.”
Plans for the new theater began in 2006, when DCTV received an $800,000 grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. Since then the project has slowly raised funds from public and private sources. (The original design went before the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2009.) Designed by Paul Alter of Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, the theater will occupy a onestory former barn in the rear of the building, originally built for the horses that pulled fire wagons. DCTV, which serves more than
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13,000 students and media artists annually with its classes and production facilities, said it expects to attract 20,000 attendees in the theater’s first year and “millions more online.” Documentary producer and director Michael Moore, who opened a theater for independent film in Detroit, told the gathering that he hoped the theater would be the “Johnny Appleseed” of a new movement, with documentary theaters sprouting across the country. “The public likes non-fiction, but in film it’s been treated as some sort of weird cousin,” Moore said. “We need truth during these times more than ever.”
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Praise for a Restoration Plan It seemed like the moment would never come. An architect stood before the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission last month with a plan to restore longneglected 502 Canal Street, the crumbling, 184-year-old landmark on the corner of Greenwich Street. The extensive proposed work, presented by architect Adrian Figueroa, included a complete rebuilding of the facade with the original bricks. (Separately, he proposed a restoration for the adjacent building, at 504 Canal. Each is
slated to become a townhouse.) Twice since 2010, the commission threatened to sue owner Ponte Equities for alleged “demolition by neglect.” It took the collapse of a roll-down gate in January and the ensuing city-declared danger of imminent building collapse, to finally bring action. An unnamed lessee, praised by the commissioners, is behind the work. “This building is just such a disaster,” said commissioner Joan Gerner. “It’s wonderful that it will be returned back to the city.”
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The Forger’s Art
Great art forgers have been practicing their lucrative craft for thousands of years. Jonathon Keats, author of the recently published “Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age,” will discuss the history of forgery and the challenges it poses to the art world. The discussion will be moderated by Art & Antiques editor-in-chief John Dorfman. The talk is on Monday, June 10, at noon at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. Tickets are $21 and can be bought at 92ytribeca.org.
Dance on the Island
Dancers of all ages and levels are invited to join Ruth Goodman, director of the Israeli Dance Institute, to whirl to the beat of the hora, a traditional Israeli round dance. The free event, on Sunday, June 23, from 12 to 4 p.m., is sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and will take place on Governors Island. Check govisland.com for information.
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The Museum of American Finance will have free admission on Saturdays through the end of the year. Students who visit on Saturdays will be presented with an authentic, historic stock certificate. The museum, which is at 48 Wall St., has an extensive collection of financial artifacts and interactive exhibits. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weekday admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and free for kids under 6. For more information, go to moaf.org.
Polynesian Festival
All things Polynesian will be celebrated on Pier 26, located at the end of Hubert Street, on Saturday, June 22, starting at 10 a.m. Visitors can hear Polynesian stories, make a lei, take a ukulele lesson and paddle an outrigger canoe, with an outrigger race for men, women and teens starting at 10 a.m. All events are free. Go to libertychallenge.org for information.
Free Dance and Music
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Pier 25 Festival
This year’s annual North River Historic Ship Festival at Pier 25 (the end of North Moore Street) is offering free dockside tours of the steam-powered lighthouse tender Lilac, the 99-year-old wooden barge Lehigh Valley No. 79 and tug Pegasus. There will also be free river trips on the water-spraying fireboat John J. Harvey and on the historic schooner Pioneer. A schedule is at nrhss.org.
A Capella at Bogardus
The SoHarmoniums, an all-female a capella choir, performs at Bogardus Plaza, at Hudson and Reade streets, on June 21 at 6:30 p.m. It is part of the citywide Make Music event that takes place annually on the longest day of the year.
Poetry on the Big Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge becomes a poet’s paradise June 10 with the 18th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge. The Poets House fundraiser features guest poetry readings along the way, followed by Galway Kinnell’s recitation of Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” on the other side of the bridge. Dinner follows in the historic Tobacco Warehouse. The walk begins at 6:30 p.m. near 1 Centre Street. Tickets are $250; For reservations, go to poetshouse.org.
Meet, Greet and Party
The monthly Tribeca Meet and Greet, open to all, takes place Thursday, June 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Synagogue for the Arts, 49 White St. The gathering, sponsored by the synagogue-based Tribeca Music and Art, features live music and refreshments on the plaza. Suggested donation: $5. Clothing for Oklahoma tornado victims and canned food for the New York City Rescue Mission will be collected.
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moderated discussion between the artists and the audience. “Dance Conversations 2013” can be seen eight nights from Tuesday, June 4, through Friday June 14, and “Music with a View” runs for 10 nights from Monday, June 17, through Sunday, June 30. Reservations are recommended. See schedule at the flea.org.
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Far left: Jazz Age crime and celebrity shenanigans helped fuel the News’ rapid growth at 23 and 25 Park Place where it stayed ahead of its tabloid competition, the Daily Mirror and the Graphic. Note the rolls of newsprint on the sidewalk and curb. The paper was printed in the basement. Left: The two buildings still stand.
WHERE THE NEWS GREW UP
The Daily News spent its formative years on Park Place, where the tabloid’s colorful coverage of celebrities, scandal and crime made it the country’s biggest-selling paper.
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BY OLIVER E. ALLEN here is no way anyone could know from looking now at 23 and 25 Park Place (just east of Church Street) that these unassuming buildings once housed one of the most successful newspapers of our time, the New York Daily News. But for nine years during the 1920s, not only were the editorial and publishing offices of the fledgling News located in the buildings’ cramped quarters but the production facilities were there, too, with the tabloid’s printing presses pounding away in the basement. Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert R. McCormick were cousins who jointly controlled the Chicago Tribune. While in the service during World War I, they decided that as soon as the war was over they would start an illustrated mass-market daily paper in New York. Their first issue, published on June 26, 1919, was called the Illustrated Daily News, but Patterson, who directed it for the rest of his life, soon dropped the word “Illustrated.” From the outset, the paper was copiously illustrated with photos and was determinedly sensationalist. After a rough start, it caught on. Readers liked its breeziness and appreciated its compactness, which made it easy to read on the subway during rush hour. For its first two years, the offices were in a building on City Hall Place, a street that was removed in the late 1920s to make way for the Federal Courthouse.
As these digs were inadequate, the paper moved in 1921 to Park Place. Although the Park Place buildings ran through the block all the way to Murray Street, the News at first occupied only part of the space and conditions were far from ideal. No one had enough
before finally coming to rest on the second floor. Yet amid all this confusion, the distinctive Daily News personality soon took shape. The writing was tight and punchy and the headlines snappy. Sex and violence were hardly ever absent
The city room of the Daily News when the paper was housed on Park Place. The paper’s editorial staff grew from just nine in 1919 to 190 in 1930.
room. The floors were splintery and the elevator was agonizingly slow. As other tenants’ leases expired, the paper took over their spaces, and so departments were constantly being shifted around. At one point, the advertising staff was lodged in the middle of the newsroom, and the newsroom itself migrated from the third floor to the fifth
from its pages, but the paper also managed to always pay close attention to its readers’ personal interests and concerns. The “Inquiring Photographer” was an early and highly popular feature, as were the comics like “Gasoline Alley” and “Little Orphan Annie.” And News photographers were nothing if not inventive. In 1925, one of them
caught sight of a cat carrying its kitten across a busy street as a cop held up traffic; not quite quick enough to snap the picture, the photographer calmly picked up the kitten and placed it back on the street, whereupon the cat retrieved it again and the photographer got the shot that has become a classic. In 1928, another photographer made journalistic history by illegally photographing the Sing Sing electrocution of convicted murderess Ruth Snyder using a tiny camera strapped to his ankle. Readers were delighted and the paper grew rapidly. In 1922, circulation reached 400,000 and the News introduced a Sunday edition; by the end of 1924 circulation soared to 750,000 and the paper could boast that it was the most widely read newspaper in the country. In 1926, circulation passed the one-million mark (and 1.25 million on Sundays). By this time, everyone agreed that the Park Place buildings would no longer do. The paper’s printing presses had already been moved to a plant in Brooklyn, but far more space was needed for the rest of its operations. In 1919, the editorial department had consisted of just nine persons; in 1930, it had 190. So the paper at the end of the decade put up a huge new building on East 42nd Street, designed by the architect Raymond Hood, that today is a landmark. The paper’s employees moved into their new quarters in 1930, leaving behind on Park Place not a single trace of their days of glory there.
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Dana Leong plays a blend of jazz, classical and pop on Tuesday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. at Brookfield Place Plaza.
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This year’s River to River Festival (rivertorivernyc.com) runs through July 14 and there’s something going on Downtown— music, dance, theater and more—nearly every day.
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Sun, 6/16
6:30 pm Roadside Attraction Dance in and around a 1977 Coleman pop-up camper that has been retrofitted as a stage. Performance artists with the Third Rail Project use the camper as a setting for their quirky and surprising dancetheater choreography. Brookfield Place Plaza.
Mon, 6/17
6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16.
Tue, 6/18
5:30 pm Dana Leong Trio The trio performs a blend of jazz, classical and pop, including original compositions and arrangements. Brookfield Place Plaza. 6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 7 pm Laurie Anderson One of America’s most renowned multimedia performers, Anderson joins
guest writers and musicians on stage for live music and spoken word. Rockefeller Park.
Wed, 6/19
6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 7 pm Laurie Anderson See Tue, 6/18.
Thu, 6/20
6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 7 pm Peripatetic Audio Visual Ensemble Digital musician Liubomir Borissov and composer Konrad Kaczmarek superimpose images and sounds onto the streets and parks of Battery Park City in a musical and visual show. Rockefeller Park. 9 pm Sam Green with the Quavers and YMusic Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green teams up with two local musical groups to create a blend of music and cinema. He will screen two new film pieces that will be accompanied by live music. Pier 15.
Fri, 6/21
12, 12:30 & 1 pm The Jazz Saxophone Fifteen-minute solo sets performed by upand-coming NYC jazz saxophon-
ists. The performances take place simultaneously in three locations. Brookfield Place Plaza, One New York Plaza and Zuccotti Park. 2 & 7 pm Peripatetic Audio Visual Ensemble See Thu, 6/20. 6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 9 pm Indiamore Filmed in Calcutta and Varanasi, Indiamore combines imagery of Indian sitarists, dancers and children, along with harmonized voices, music and other sounds to create a multimedia documentary about Indian life. Pier 15.
Sat, 6/22
2 & 7 pm Peripatetic Audio Visual Ensemble See Thu, 6/20. 6:30 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 9 pm Tidal Andrew Schneider presents a live, palindromic multimedia performance about time travel. Cameras, projectors, microphones and underwater cameras turn the viewer’s perception of time toward the past. Pier 15.
Sun, 6/23
12 & 1 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16.
Mon, 6/24
12 & 1 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16.
Tue, 6/25
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12 & 1 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16. 5:30 pm James Maddock British-born solo artist will perform Americana tunes. Brookfield Place Plaza. 7 pm Angelique Kidjo This Beninoise singer-songwriter performs original music that blends Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, jazz, gospel and Latin styles. Her song’s lyrics are in Fron, French, Yoruba and English. Rockefeller Park. The quartet “So Percussion” sets up in a Pier 17 storefront in July. Date TBA. Go to rivertorivernyc.com.
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Wed, 6/26
12 & 1 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16.
Wed, 6/26
7 pm Terri Lyne Carrington & Guests Grammy Award-winner brings together jazz greats, including Antonio Hart and Jeremy Pelt, to perform arrangements of music by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck and Billie Holiday. The music will be accompanied by poetry and spoken word pieces from the Beat generation. Rockefeller Park.
Thu, 6/27
12:30 pm James Maddock See 6/25. Note different location: One New York Plaza. 1 & 7 pm Roadside Attraction See Sun, 6/16.
Sat, 6/29
5 pm Ecstatic Summer Two full sets of newly commissioned, collaboratively based music, one for brass and the other for percussion, by three composers. Brookfield Place Plaza.
Sun, 6/30
5 pm Ecstatic Summer See Sat, 6/29.
JULY
Tue, 7/2
5:30 pm Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys One of the most influential accordionists and vocalists in modern Zydeco music, Broussard has defined a new style of Creole music by incorporating R&B and soul into Zydeco music and dance. The Creole Cowboys join him on guitar, bass, scrub board and percussion. Brookfield Place Plaza. 7 pm Pedrito Martinez Cuban-born world-class conga player and singer Martinez performs funk, rumba, guaguanco and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Rockefeller Park.
Thu, 7/11
12:30 pm Hungry March Band The Brooklyn-based brass ensemble embodies the spirit of the city’s streets with its unique sound and eclectic dances. The performance includes guerrilla art, European jazz and circus feats, and more. One New York Plaza. 7:45 pm Hauschka, Kosminen and Zeigler Three experimental musicians form a trio comprising piano, percussion and cello, creating a medley of music with electronics. Pier 15.
Wed, 7/10
7 pm Leon Russell Singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performs classic rock. Rockefeller Park.
SUN, 6/9
THURSDAYS, TO 9/26
11 AM–2 PM ALMOST SUMMER CELEBRATION A family event that includes Native American stories, lawn games, art activities and educational nature demonstrations. Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell will perform children’s music, and refreshments will be available. Free. Wagner Park, Battery Park City.
10-11 AM RIVER TOTS For toddlers ages two to five. Hands-on learning and play activities vary from week to week and include eco-crafts, music, water experiments and more. All materials provided. Free. Pier 25, end of North Moore St.
MONDAYS 6/10, 7/8 & 8/12
1 PM BIG CITY FISHING Free program. Catch-and-release fishing. Rods, reels and bait provided, and instructors are on hand to demonstrate. Kids also learn about river ecology, the river’s varied fish species, fish biology and more. Pier 25, end of North Moore St.
6:30-7:15 PM STORY PIRATES The stories come from children, which might explain their zaniness. The Story Pirates actors seek inspiration and ideas for their show from the children in the audience, then sing, dance and improvise their way through the unique story. Free.
THURSDAYS, 6/27-8/29
SAT, 6/22 & SUN, 6/23
Sat, 7/13
2 pm Andrew Ondrejcak Writer, director and designer performs an open rehearsal of his new adaptation of August Strindberg’s “A Dream Play.” The piece investigates what happens when the divine visits everyday humans in ordinary circumstances. Building 110, Governors Island. 6:30 pm Brasslands Four brass bands from the Balkan region, followed by a screening of “Brasslands,” about the world’s largest trumpet competition, which took place in Serbia. Brookfield Place Plaza.
Sun, 7/14
3 & 7 pm The MP3 Participatory event in which attendees download an mp3 file, arrive at the designated destination and dance at the same time. South Street Seaport.
The Story Pirates bring their antics to Pier 25, Mondays, June 10, July 8 and Aug. 12
At Pier 25, end of North Moore St., storypirates.org.
THU, 6/13 6 PM BRADY RYMER AND THE LITTLE BAND Catchy, upbeat songs with roots in R&B, classic rock and soul styles. Free. Washington Market Park, Greenwich Street at Duane.
FRI, 6/21 5–8 PM SWEDISH MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL Celebrate the solstice with maypole decorating, folk dances and lessons from Swedish Folkdancers of New York, children’s games and Swedish delicacies. Traditional music performed by Paul Dahlin and fiddlers from the American Swedish Institute of Minneapolis. Dances will be led by Ross Sutter, singer and Scandinavian folklorist. Wagner Park. Battery Park City.
Tue, 7/9
7 pm La Excelencia This nine-person salsa ensemble brings modern vitality and social consciousness to the musical genre. Rockefeller Park.
And for the Family
CIRCUS ACTS AND BOAT TOURS At this year’s North River Historic Ship Festival, there will lots to do for adults and children: free dockside tours of a 106year-old tugboat, a fireboat, a wooden barge and a former Coast Guard lighthouse tender, plus boat rides on the Hudson. A circus rope artist, juggler and folk musician will perform and there will be demonstrations of trap-based fishing. Visitors can touch seahorses, crabs, shrimp and other river animals. For a full schedule and tickets to the Sunday circus ($13, $10 for kids), go to nrhss.org. Pier 25, end of North Moore St.
THU, 6/27 Beninoise singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo performs on Tuesday, June 25 at 7 p.m. at Rockefeller Park.
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6 PM PRINCESS KATIE AND RACER STEVE Katie leads the three-piece brass band with her vocals, while Steve plays electric guitar. Original kids’ rock ’n’ roll tunes. Washington Market Park, Greenwich Street at Duane.
The annual Swedish Midsummer Festival will be at Wagner Park on Friday, June 21 from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Below: Women from the village of Raipur walk to a pond to get water. Right: Children and parents parade through Rockefeller Park in support of the construction of a well in the Indian village.
Walking for Water
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At PS 89, a fundraiser to improve the health of villagers in faraway India
ive me a W! Give me an A! Give me a T!…” the kids shouted as they marched one morning last month carrying a big hand-painted banner for the Pure Water Project. It was, in a way, a pep rally for clean water, something that the 750 PS 89 students, parents and staff recently learned is a precious commodity in an Indian farming village of 1,500 called Raipur. Their mile-long walk around Rockefeller Park has so far raised more than $5,000 in pledges toward boring a 350-foot-deep well and piping the clean water to its residents, whose main water source is now a local pond. “Our goal is to bring them access to clean water, to bring a healthier lifestyle and to eradicate disease,” said Ankur Crawford, a Battery Park City resident and one of four natives of India who are behind the Pure Water Project. The work of the organization, begun by a Tibetan monk in 2002, has grown in India, but this is the first project initiated in the U.S. The
group has less than $10,000 to go in reaching the $70,000 needed to finance the well and the piping, Crawford said. Before the walk began, parents and students gathered in the PS 89 schoolyard for a “water dance.” Some kids made “waves” with a long blue sheet, while others danced in circles. A more practiced variation of the performance occurred in Rockefeller Park, as women from the New York chapter of Global Water Dances performed with the assistance of PS 89 dance teacher Catherine Gallant. For the past three years, the school has held a Liberty Walk to help a Haitian school. Now, along with the water project, they are considering adopting a school in Raipur that lacks the basic supplies. “We would be thrilled to support it,” Ankur said.
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Above right: PS 89 dance teacher Catherine Gallant assists dancers from Global Water Dancers as a line of PS 89 walkers pass by. Below right: Gallant with students perform their own water dance.
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Spruce St. Kids Collect Coins for a Cause
BY CARL GLASSMAN Students at the Spruce Street School, PS 397, learned that pennies, nickels and dimes can add up to big money and even bigger hearts when they gathered last month to distribute the fruits of a recent coin drive. Last month, in the school’s packed auditorium, the kindergartners, first, second and third graders screamed with delight as the tallies were announced, knowing that all the money was going to three Hurricane Sandy-related causes. The Spruce Street School had first held a drive for coats, food and other essentials shortly after the hurricane (some of the children themselves were displaced from their homes for weeks). The coin drive began in January. “Do you want to hear how much money we raised?” principal Nancy Harris called out to the children. “Do you actually want to give a check with that money?” “Yeah! Yeah!” the kids yelled back. First up to receive a donations was Theseus Roche, representing Manhattan Youth and the Downtown Community Center on Warren Street that had been heavily damaged by the storm. The pre-kindergartners and kindergartners, it was announced, had collected $1,465. “No! Wow!” Roche declared. “Thank you so much!” “We hope that can help rebuild the
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Kindergartner Shane O’Connor presents a check for $1,465 to Theseus Roche, the director of Manhattan Youth’s after-school program, which many of the students attend.
Downtown Community Center,” Harris said, “so that these kids and the other kids in the neighborhood can keep going there.” The first graders raised money for the New York Aquarium in Coney Island because they had visited the aquarium just days before the hurricane devastated it. (The aquarium partially reopened late last month.) A check for $1,010 was presented to Kate Fitzgerald, the aquarium’s manager of community relations.
Fitzgerald told the children how the staff worked heroically to save the sea creatures during the storm. “This money is going to help them to help the animals,” she said. The second and third graders raised $975 for South Street Seaport businesses through a fund overseen by the Downtown Alliance. And Harris announced, to her own wide-eyed surprise and the shrieks of children, the total amount the school raised separately, in April, with its Spirit Project, a street fair featuring food,
Principal Nancy Harris shows Jayson Llinas, left, and Ilan Kahanov a check for $5,000.
drink and music. “Five-thousand-dollars!” she exclaimed. Before the students returned to their classes, Fitzgerald summed up her feelings about the childrens’ acts of kindness. “When I go back to the aquarium today, I’m going to tell all the animals how great your school is,” she told the delighted children in the audience, “and all the good things you do for your community.”
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Finding Fault with a Faceless Dept. of Ed
I’ve been in an uncomfortable position the past few weeks—defending the Department of Education. I know that sounds crazy, given the errors in the scoring of the Gifted & Talented tests, the negative reaction to the rolling out of the Common Core standards, and the long wait lists at many of the city’s elementary schools. Yet here I am, standing up for the people who work in such offices CONNIE as Portfolio SCHRAFT Management (in charge of opening new schools) and Student Enrollment (in charge of managing admissions and enrollment), who faced a barrage of criticism SCHOOL from parents, TALK local officials, and even fellow DOE employees at last month’s overcrowding task force meeting led by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The message was clear: You are not doing your job. Probably no one intended to attack the two women representing the DOE at the meeting, who said they would be making alternate offers to waitlisted kids
at PS 234, 276 and 89 next month. (Update: PS 89’s waitlist was reduced to just three or four children after the school decided to open a fourth kindergarten class.) They had no answer to the big question looming over the meeting: Where will the children on the wait lists be sent to school? Although the women bore the brunt of everyone’s disappointment with grace, whoever in the DOE sent them to the meeting with their hands empty owes them an apology. In what is seen as a mismanagement of enrollment in our
other Downtown schools who volunteer hours of their time at auctions and book fairs, attend PTA meetings, and help out in classrooms throughout the year. No one blames the principals or teachers (who as employees of the DOE are the agency’s public face) for screwups on testing, enrollment, and curriculum changes. They are seen as victims, as much as the families who, through a random lottery, end up on a wait list, a temporary limbo that can drive a person to hate their lucky next door neighbor whose child was accepted to their zoned school.
People beat up on the Department of Education, but who exactly in the DOE can we blame? Who’s not doing their job? fast-growing community, they were the ones who had to take the heat. People beat up on the DOE but who exactly in the DOE is to blame? It’s certainly not the schools themselves. On an early Saturday morning last month, I watched parents race around Greenwich and Duane Streets as they prepared for the annual Taste of Tribeca, a fundraiser for PS 234 and PS 150. Those tireless workers and the parents who participated in this pricey fundraiser love their schools, as do parents at the
The School Construction Authority might seem a likely candidate for blame, but when its representatives show up at our monthly overcrowding meetings, they are armed with statistics that they assert are as accurate as the enrollment projections embraced by Community Board 1 and the task force. And they are so pleasant! As opposed to the task force members who have had it up to here with what they perceive as an inexcusable lack of planning. There is definitely planning going on. Go on the SCA’s website and take a
look. I am not a statistician, and maybe those projections are flawed, but it is sobering to realize that the DOE is charged with providing school seats for every single child in the city, not just for ours in this little end of Manhattan Island. The 2008 Capital Plan, which laid out the SCA’s construction goals for a four-year period, cited “the economic realities of the time” as the reason for slashing the previous budget by $2 billion. The need to prioritize the needs of each school district will become all the more difficult as the city faces a growing student population and aging infrastructure. And the DOE, in the coming capital plan, must also take into account the tremendous and unexpected costs of Hurricane Sandy, which damaged 70 schools. So, who – or what – is to blame? The economy? The school chancellor? The mayor, who 12 years ago took on the responsibility of the public education system, with the mandate of improving instruction, teachers, and test scores? The LMDC for encouraging families to move downtown after 9/11? Let’s just blame the DOE, whoever that is. Connie Schraft is PS 89’s parent coordinator. For questions about Downtown schools, email connie@tribecatrib.com.
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Dan Zanes will perform with Elizabeth Mitchell at the “Almost Summer Celebration” on June 9.
Preschool Play Toddlers accompanied by their parents or caregivers engage in interactive play on the lawn. Toys, books and play equipment are provided. For ages 2–4. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10 am. Free. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.
g Art & Games Group games and hands-on art projects, ranging from designing cities to making animal masks. Art supplies are provided. For ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm. Free. Teardrop Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
he “Almost Summer Celebration Family Program” offers Native American storybook readings and art and nature activities in addition to a concert with Grammy awardwinner Dan Zanes and
Preschool Art Young artists make projects out of paper, clay, wood and paint. Led by an art educator and artist. Materials are provided. For ages 2–4. Thursdays, 10:30 am. Free. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
Elizabeth Mitchell. The free event takes place on Sunday, June 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (concert at noon) at Battery Park City’s Wagner Park, adjacent to the Museum of Jewish Heritage at 36 Battery Pl. In case of rain, the event will be held in the museum.
g Sidewalk Art Kids will sketch a blueprint for a building, then use colorful chalk to draw their plans on the sidewalk in front of the museum. Sat, 6/8, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g Archikids Architect Yves Roger leads a workshop in which kids see images, vintage film and models of skyscrapers past and present, then build their own models. Ages 9–13. Sat, 6/29, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.
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Family Films See a full-length children’s feature films. Popcorn and snacks are welcome. Saturdays, 2 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.
GARDENING g Gardening Club Children ages 6–10 plant flowers, weed and compost, and learn about soil preparation, vegetables and herbs. Tuesdays, 4 pm. $130 for two months. Call 212-267-9700, ext. 366, for schedule and to register. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org. g Young Sprouts Gardening An introduction to simple organic gardening, including plant-
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Basketball Learn the rules of the game with adjustable-height hoops. Closed-toe shoes required. Mondays, 3:30 pm, ages 5–6; 4:30 pm, ages 7 and up. Free. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
g Soccer Learn how to play and to pass, dribble and shoot. Closed-toe shoes required. Tuesdays, 2:30 pm, ages 3–4; 3:30 pm, ages 5–7; 4:30 pm, ages 8–11. Free. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
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ing, watering and identifying weeds. For ages 3–5 with an accompanying adult. Tuesdays, 3:15 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
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Sunset Singing Circle Sing rounds and folk songs, led by Terre Roche. Fridays (except 6/21), 7 pm. Free. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org. g Teen Drumming Circle Learn the art of drumming on various percussion instruments with Senegalese musician Maguette Camara. Drums provided. Tue, 6/18 & 6/25, 4 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS g Parent & Baby Yoga Yoga for parents and their babies. Mondays, 6/3–6/24, 1 or 2:30 pm. $86. 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org. g
Family Yoga Night Yoga poses that are accessible to adults and children alike, with an emphasis on group and partner positions, plus a healthy, vegetable-based snack. For children and accompanying adults. Fri, 6/28, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 107 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org. g Drop-in Chess Get advice from an expert player. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm. Free. Picnic tables north of the Rockefeller Park House, near Warren St., bpcparks.org.
Children’s Storytime Children of all ages will read and hear stories, from classic tales to more recent publications. Saturdays, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.
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Toddler Storytime and More Toddlers 18 months to 3 years have fun with interactive storytelling, sing songs, watch finger puppet plays and enjoy being with other toddlers. Must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Wednesdays, 10:30 am. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave.; Tuesdays & Thursdays starting 6/11, 10:30 & 11:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.
g Kiwala Conoce el Mar Children hear the story by Ana Maria Pavez and Constanza Recart, translated from Spanish as “Kiwala Meets the Sea,” about the importance of llamas to the indigenous people of the Andes. Afterward, kids will make a llama pendant. Sat, 6/8, 1 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g
Ships, Seas and Poetries! Kids learn to “sing shanties like a sailor, write poetry like a pirate and build model boats like a shipwright learning the trade.” Sat, 6/1, 11 am. $5. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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Click, Clack, Moo Musical based on the award-winning children’s book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. The cows on Farmer Brown’s farm learn to type on an old typewriter, and begin to send him notes asking for electric blankets for use on cold nights in the barn and days off from milking. Sat, 6/1, 1:30 pm. $25. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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The PTA of PS 89 thanks its generous supporters for another amazingly successful spring auction! ABC Blooming Nails = Adriana Zubikarai = Alice Hartman Tutoring = Aliza Surut = Amund Bjorklund = Andrew Biggers = Anita Sirsi = Barry’s Boot Camp = Battery Park Pediatric Dentist = Battery Park Preschool = Bela Brazil = Benares Restaurant = Bikram Yoga NYC = Billy’s Bakery = Biscuits and bath = Bit’z Kids = Bliss Spa = Bloom = Blue Smoke = Boomerang Toys = Bowlmor Lanes = Bouchon = Breezin Up = Bricks = Bright Kids NYC = Britt Skerianz = Brooklyn Botanic Garden = Brooklyn Boulders = Brooklyn Brewery = Cara Maksoud = Camp Cody = Carole Hochman = Carole & Tim Reed = Chelsea Piers = Children’s Museum of the Arts = Christa & Warren Nelson = Christian StomsVik = Church Street School for Music and Art = Citibabes = Claire Danese/ Pilates = Clarins = Club Regina Cancun = Corinna da Fonseca Wolheim = Cove Nails = D-Dojo Karate = Dan Hughes Fitness = Davi & Tommy Tardie = David Bouley = Diana Tandia = Downtown Dance Factory = Downtown Day Camp = Dream Car Sprint = Dream Downtown Hotel = Duane Park Patisserie = Dunkin’ Donuts = Ecco Restaurant = Ellen Micenko = Estee Lauder = Euphoria Spa = Extra Virgin = Florentine School of Music, Art & Academics = Fountain Pen Hospital = Frankly Wines = Fred Astaire = Midtown Studio = Fredrica & Michael Ford = French Connection = Gabrielle Steinfels = Giggle = Gild Hall Hotel = Greek Peek = Guillermo Obregon = Harry’s Italian = Hartley House = Holmes Organizing = Hom Bom Toys = Imagine Swimming Inc. = International School of Jewelry & Design = Jack Rabbit Sports = Japanese Families = Jean Lee Yamner = Jem Fabric = Jessica Kennedy = Joe Moran = Joe’s Jeans = John Allan’s = Joulebody = Jung Yun – Acupuncture = Karen Sideman = Karin Tracy = Katja & Mario Schmolka = Kazumi Nomura = Kidville = Kris Humphries = Kumon = Lalaalu =
Do you have toys your children are not using? I am a Downtown resident who has worked in early childhood education throughout my career. I have recently established contact with a Senegalese military unit based in Ivory Coast, Africa. We are jointly initiating a program to provide toys and educational materials for children in the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Madagascar. Toys will be sent every month. If you would like to donate toys, old or new, or educational materials such as books, for children birth to 13 years of age, please email me to arrange for pick up at growingtogetherafrica@gmail.com Thank you in advance for helping these children!
– Dee Grieve growingtogetherafrica.org
Lamont Williams = Lance Lappin = L’Apicio = L’Ecole des Beaux Arts = Le Pet Spa = Lesham Loft = Lily O’Brien’s = Lisa Bennett & Nick Dolin = Lucky Strike = Mandarin Seeds LLC = Manhattan Fencing Center = Manhattan Sailing = Manhattan Youth = Marble Lane Restaurant = Marc Forgione = Maria Duque = Marlena Schaeffer = Marty Lipowitz = Matt Bernson Design = Max Restaurant = Modern Martial Arts = Music for Aardvarks = New York Knicks = New York Skyride = New York Vintners = New York Water Taxi = Nobu = Norma Garbo = North End Grill = NYC Elite Gymnastics = NYC is My Backyard = NY Kids Club = Offshore Sailing School = Olivia Harris by Joy Gryson = Pat Sciortino = Paul Hyams = Per Se Restaurant = Physique Swimming = Play Date/ Chala Yancy = Playgarden NYC = Pole Position = Polka Dot What = PS 89 Teachers & Staff = Raymond Weil = Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel = Reade Street Prep = Replay Music Studios = Rikki Storm = Rock and Soul Electronics, Inc = ROC Restaurant = Rubirosa Ristorante = Ruia NYC = Samantha Roberts = Sarah Murchison = Seamless Web = Seasonal Whispers = Sesame Street = Shake Shack = Shoofly = Smart Sitting = Smyth Hotel = Soul Cycle = SouthWest NY = Spring Lake Day Camp = Sprinkles Cupcakes = Spunto Thin Crust Pizza = Statue of Liberty Cruises = Style Room = Sunetra Sen = Super Soccer Stars = Sweet Lily Nail = T. Kang Tae Kwon Do = Tao Group/ Tao Las Vegas = The Palm TriBeCa = The Park Preschool = Thompson Hotels = Tiffany & Co. = Top of the Rock Observation Deck = Torly Kid = Town Residential/ Tricia Mader = Town Sports International – NY Sports Club = Tribeca Dental Center = Tribeca Grand Hotel = Tribeca Kids Photography = TriBeCa Medspa = Tribeca Nutrition = Urban Quest = Vintry Fine Wines = Wall Street Chinese = Walt Disney World Co. = Wet Paint! Art Studio = Xootr Scooter = Young Hee Salon = Young Yun Lee = YuYa Nails Spa And all parents & businesses that donated directly to the class baskets!
THANK YOU PS 89 201 WARREN STREET NY, NY 10282 WWW.PS89.ORG 212.571.5659
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Far left: Looney Lenny the clown was among the entertainment that returned to the Kids’ Zone in Duane Park. Left: The event offered plenty of opportunity to enjoy both food and the company of friends.
Street Treats at the 19th Taste PHOTOS BY DONNA FERRATO
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n the Taste of Tribeca’s 19-year history, rain has fallen on the culinary extravaganza just twice. Last month’s event, which benefits PS 234 and PS 150, was one of them. But it was anything but a washout as 75 restaurants continued serving, Looney Lenny the clown did his tricks in the Duane Park Kids’ Zone to the delight of children (photo above), and Cynthia Sayer and her Sparks Fly band performed on the Greenwich Street stage. “We come and we stay out, even in the rain,” said Hope Flamm, a PS 150 parent and co-chair of the event.
Return of a Tribeca Tradition
Cosmopolitan Cafe served ricotta crepes with a cherry sauce.
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t’s been eight years since Washington Market School in Tribeca staged a street fair. Indeed, many residents may not know that the school event—a fundraiser for student scholarships—was a long-time neighborhood tradition. In its early days, it took place on Greenwich Street in front of Independence Plaza, the school's location back then. “It was really very joyous, and that’s why we did it again,” said Ronnie Moskowitz, the school’s founder and head. Last month, the school fair returned, this time on Duane Street between Hudson and Church. What may have been missing in the fair’s old rustic charm was made up for in the wealth of fun stuff to do. The event offered some 35 activities, from a photo booth and spin art to a coin toss and music by five groups. Said organizer Rachel Macchiesi: “It was paradise for kids.” Among the activities were giant chess and Double Dutch, with the Double Dutch League.
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Elegant Sushi & Japanese Dishes in an Intimate Setting
“Tokyo Bay looks like most other sushi dens in the city, but the fish is better. The sushi and sashimi options are extensive...and the rolls are creative.” — Metro NY
Open 7 Days a Week Lunch 12–5pm Mon-Sat Dinner 6pm–12am Mon–Sat Dinner 5–11pm Sun Brunch 12–5pm Sun
Party Trays of sushi, sashimi & special rolls available for large or small events.
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A New Chapter
PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN
With her first novel, a Tribeca waitress turns an important page in her life Julie Sarkissian has been working at Edward’s restaurant on West Broadway in Tribeca for almost 10 years. In April, her first novel, “Dear Lucy,” was published by Simon & Schuster. Below is an excerpt from her conversation with the Trib’s April Koral.
An excerpt from “Dear Lucy”
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he very first time I ever worked at Edward’s was the summer in between my junior and senior years at Princeton. I was obsessed with waitressing because it got me out of my head. I felt like it grounded me, which is such a strange thing to say. After graduating, I came back to New York because I had gotten into the New School M.F.A. program. I showed up at the restaurant and it was like nothing had changed. The owner, Edward Youkilis, was sitting on the bench and said, “Hi.” I was shocked that he remembered me. But he said, “Yeah, come work here again,” and I did. While I was waitressing and working on my book, I did a lot of problemsolving. Little logical steps and structure were hard for me, and as I was waitressing that stuff would be at the very back of my mind. I would be working through it and then suddenly it would come to me and I’d think, “Oh, that would work.” When I’m really in the thick of creativity, it’s like when you have a really intense dream you can’t shake off. It’s almost unpleasant. And after five hours in that bizarre voice of Lucy [the novel’s mentally disabled protagonist], you come here and you’re like, “Cappuccino? What’s that?” After graduate school, I was very lost. I was scared about really committing to the idea of a career as a writer. I
Lucy’s voice really just came to me out of the blue. She was talking about gathering eggs. I don’t know how long she’s been developing in my mind without my knowing. At first, I didn’t think of her as mentally disabled. She was just a unique and singular voice. It wasn’t until later, when I started drawing the other characters and they reacted to her as if she was mentally disabled, that I started writing it that way. —Julie Sarkissian
Sarkissian waits a table at Edward’s, where she has worked for nearly 10 years.
always loved routine and structure. I missed grades and deadlines. Suddenly, I was all alone in my pajamas on the couch. My heart wanted to write so badly but my mind said, “You’re setting yourself up for rejection.” I worried and fretted. I think I was afraid of the isolation and the loneliness. I was in my parents’ home in California when I got an email from my agent saying she had read 20 pages and asked that I send the first three chapters by Fedex. My parents and I all got together and got it in the best shape we could. In college, I always sent my parents my essays. Since then I’ve sent them drafts. I grew up without a TV, and we were all huge readers. From a young age, we always talked a lot about books and literature. It was a big family activity. I
deeply trust my parents. They’ll tell me if something is confusing, where I need to give more information, if a transition is awkward. I don’t feel as bad when they say that something doesn’t work. It’s a safe place to get feedback from. I work 20 to 25 hours a week at Edward’s now. I’m trying to wean myself off it but I used all my money from my advance to pay off my student loans. I was very proud that I did that. It would be sad to leave Edward’s. Everyone here is an artist; it is my community. There are playwrights and musicians and a bunch of actors, and everyone talks about their lives and struggles. I’ve given lots of books to the customers. It’s exciting. Some of them knew I was working on it. But now I can point to it and say, “Look, there’s a copy right up there on the shelf. It really does exist, There it is!”
I take one hand to open the door and keep one around my apron. An egg jumps out. “Lucy, use a basket. When you don’t use a basket, then the eggs break.” Mister is standing next to the skillet. When the skillet is hot with oil he puts his beard inside his shirt. “Then we don’t have food for breakfast. And everyone is hungry.” “I am gentle with the eggs, Mister,” I say. “Missus said, ‘Have you ever known a girl who was as gentle with the eggs?’” Missus doesn’t say anything. Today Missus forgot to tell her face to wake up. She is stirring a bowl and watching the grits turn around and around by the spoon. Mister he makes the eggs and Missus she makes the grits and that is what breakfast is. Missus, Missus, say how good I always am with the eggs. That is my wish but she doesn’t look up. A lot of the times wishing doesn’t make things happen any better than they would without your wishing. But it is something hard to learn, not to use your time to wish things. “Missus, Missus.” I have to say it louder because her ears are still asleep. So I say it louder and louder. “Missus, did you ever know a girl who was as good with the eggs?”
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ring Barbra Streisand follows the life of comedienne and Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice from her beginnings on the Lower East Side. Wed, 6/26, 6:30 pm. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
g Eric Sanderson Landscape ecologist talks about his new book “Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars and Suburbs,” in which he envisions an American landscape less dependent on oil. Sun, 6/2, 2 pm. Free. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.
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Kimberlee Venable “All This Comes Back” is a site-specific video installation looping footage filmed at Jones Beach and Long Beach on Long Island. The black-and-white video positions the viewer at the water’s edge, stretching and skewing the images to produce a hypnotic rhythm as waves approach and recede in the gallery’s street-level windows. To Sat, 6/29. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.
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Jen Lancaster Self-help satirist immerses herself in Martha Stewart’s life advice in “The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING, Or Why I’m Never Getting All that Glitter Off of the Dog.” Embarking on a year-long quest to whip her life, house, husband and pets into shape, she organizes closets, makes crafts and plans parties. Tue, 6/4, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.
g Women Mystery Writers Female authors Deanna Raybourn (“A Spear of Summer Grass”), Lauren Willig (“The Ashford Affair”) and Annamaria Alfieri (“Blood Tango”) read and discuss their mystery books. Tue, 6/4, 6 pm. Free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com. g
Jo Robinson Author of “Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health” explains how today’s agricultural methods squander many of the essential nutrients we need, and offers novel ways to recapture them and enjoy good health. Thu, 6/6, 12 pm. $21. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.
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Kristina Sretkova Colorful abstract paintings by the Berlin-based artist. A portion of the proceeds from the artwork’s sale will benefit Manhattan Youth’s Downtown Community Center. To Sun, 6/30. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St.
ole Meet-Up is a free exercise series that meets weekly on Pier 25, at the end of North Moore Street. Classes are held every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. from June 24 to Aug. 20. (There is no class on July 23.) Space is limited to 75 people per class, and participants must bring their own mats. Reservations are required. To reserve, email Lole.Nyc@lolewomen.com. For more information on events on the pier, go to hudsonriverpark.org.
g Marc Tracy Editor and author discusses his volume “Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame,” a collection of stories about Jewish pioneering sports figures, including basketball’s Dolph Shayes, Chicago Bears quarterback Sid Luckman and handball champion Jimmy Jacobs. Author Rich Cohen and New Yorker staff writer Mark Singer will also share their comments. Wed, 6/12, 7 pm. Free with donation. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Christian McBurney Author of “The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War” discusses the 1778 campaign, whose goal was to capture the British garrison at Newport, R.I. With British resolve reeling from the striking patriots victory at Saratoga the previous autumn, the French and Americans hoped their efforts would end the war. Thu, 6/13, 6:30 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org. g An Evening with Adelia Prado Prado, one of Brazil’s foremost poets and author of eight books of poetry, will read her works with English translator Ellen Dore Watson. Wed, 6/19, 7 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g
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Malcolm MacKay Author discusses his biography, “Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney,” about the disgraced president of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1930s. Whitney was convicted of embezzlement and served time in Sing Sing. Wed, 6/26,
12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
DANCE
g Transmit Mistral Hay and Mary Remy perform “Transmit,” choreographed by Tze Chun. The dance compares past and present ideas about enlightenment and clarity. The dancers are accompanied by original music by Ithai Benjamin. Thu, 6/13 & Fri, 6/14, 7:30 pm. $10. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g Circle of Dance! Inti Raymi Traditional music and dance in honor of the Festival of the Sun, a celebration of the summer solstice and one of the most important times for the Native peoples of the Andes. Sat, 6/15, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Harbor Nagila The Museum of Jewish Heritage hosts an outdoor afternoon-long dance program on Governors Island. Participants will learn the hora and other Israeli dances with Ruth Goodman, director of the Israeli Dance Institute. Sun, 6/23, 12–4 pm. Free. Ferries leave from the Battery Maritime Building, mjhnyc.org.
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Native Games Four short documentaries about Native Americans from the Arctic to the Southwest: “Canoe Pulling: A Lummi Way of Life” (teens reflect on Northwest Coast canoeing as part of their cultural and community identity),
“4wheelwarpony” (young Apache skateboarders link past to present), “Toka” (women and girls of the Tohono O’odham tribe of Arizona play a traditional game of stickball) and “The Twenty-First Annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics” (documentary shows such events as the two-foot and one-foot high kick, the knuckle hop, the blanket toss and the four-man carry). Daily. See website for times. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Classic Films Screenings of classic, feature films. Call 212-732-8186 for weekly selection. Tuesdays, 2 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g
Wet Hot Summer Directed by David Wain, this cult classic follows a group of counselors at a sleep-away camp in Maine during the last days of summer. As the counselors try to squeeze in one last romantic encounter, the camp director worries about NASA’s space station, which is hurtling from space and headed for Camp Firewood. Cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper and Amy Poehler. Tue, 6/4, 6:30 pm. Free. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., tribecacinemas.com.
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Bring It On A high school film that avoids the popular kids vs. geeks formula, this movie follows a cheerleading team on the brink of losing their title. A new captain saves the team by creating inventive routines based on mime acts, kabuki theater and Bollywood films. Thu, 6/13, 7:30 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g
Funny Girl This 1968 romantic musical star-
g The Last Laugh This group show features works by five artists, including an audio installation, film, photography and other two- and three-dimensional pieces, all of which explore laughter, which George Bataille describes as beyond the extreme limit of knowledge, confusing, intoxicating and uncertain. To Sat, 7/20. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org. g
Group Show An assortment of mixed media, conceptual and documentary work from six gallery photographers: Gary Duehr, Susan Keiser, Peter Agron, Elsa Blum, Francisco Uceda and Dave Ortiz. Wed, 6/5–Sat, 6/29. Opening reception: Tue, 6/4, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.
g Patricia Gaeta The artist creates a body of work that ranges from large, deteriorating installations to small, refined collages. Concerned with forms of geometric abstraction, minimalism and op art, she uses graph paper, which she cuts into patterns. Thu, 6/13–Sat, 7/27. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com.
MUSEUMS
g Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience In 1818, the Duc de Richelieu called Barings Bank the sixth great European power after England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia. Barings remained a leading investment bank until its downfall in 1995. This exhibit explores five of the firm’s US investments, good and bad. To July. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under age 6. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g
The Woolworth Building @ 100 An architectural and technological wonder, the Woolworth Building, completed in 1913 and financed by the five-and-dime store entrepreneur Frank Woolworth, celebrates its centennial. To Sun, 7/14. $5; $2.50 students, seniors. Wed–Sun, 12–6 pm. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 36)
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Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture Exhibition on Native Americans who have had successful careers in the music industry over the past century. To Sun, 8/11. 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 Bad News! A staged reading of JoAnne Akalaitis’s new theater piece that comprises “messenger” speeches from classic plays, ranging from Euripides to Racine, a dramatic device central to the structure of many tragedies. Mon, 6/17, 6:30 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.
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A Cautionary Tail Vivienne and Luke, first-generation Chinese-Americans growing up in New York City, confront a confused tangle of family relationships, a diverse array of friends and their sexuality. In our digital age, how can they navigate their mother’s traditional expectations with their American culture of individuality? To Sun, 6/30. See website for dates and times. $15–$30. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.
The Jews of Cuba A large number of Jews immigrated to Cuba in the early 1900s, when the quota system in the U.S. effectively blocked their entry. But after the Cuban revolution, most fled for Miami, leaving only a few behind. This exhibit looks at the lives of some of the approximately 1,500 Jewish Cubans on the island today through the photographic lens of Debbie Rosenfeld. To Fri, 8/30. $8; $5 students, seniors. Tue–Sat, 10 am–5 pm. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.
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Front Row: Chinese American Designers Beginning in the 1980s, Chinese-American designers such as Yeohlee Teng, Vera Wang and Vivienne Tam emerged in the New York fashion scene. Since then, new designers have gained a standing in New York and the global fashion industry. The exhibit focuses on 16 Chinese and Chinese-American designers, including Derek Lam, Anna Sui, Jason Wu and others, and is curated by designer Mary Ping. To Sun, 9/29. Tue, Wed, Fri– Sun, 11 am–6 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under age 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
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Javier Ruibal Spanish singer, composer and guitarist performs original songs reflecting the diverse influences of his native Andalusia, including flamenco, Maghreb, Sephardic, jazz and Caribbean genres. Sat, 6/1, 8 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.
g Face the Music An avant-garde teen ensemble performs Steve Reich’s “Different Trains” along with other pieces from their repertoire. Sun, 6/2, 2:30 pm. Free with donation. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.
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Revolutionary War: A Nighttime Tour For the 11th year in a row, veteran guide James S. Kaplan leads a tour presenting little-known facts about Revolutionary War heroes, some of whom are buried in Lower Manhattan, and watch the sun rise from Trinity Church. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance at frauncestavernmuseum.org; ticketholders will be emailed a confirmation and the starting location of the tour. Thu, 6/4, 3 am–7 am. Sponsored by Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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he work of 16 artists appears in the show “Touched by the Holocaust” at the Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space, including Karen Frostig’s “Und-Die-Frage,” shown above. The artists are all related (first-, second- and third-generation) to survivors of the Holocaust. 49 White St. Through Aug.t 15. Saturday and by appointment. Call 212-966-7141 for hours.
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Hudson Square Music Festival The fifth annual festival will feature concerts each week throughout the summer. The June lineup is: Dave Davies, guitarist and vocalist and founder of the Kinks, returns to the stage with a new solo album (6/4); “Los Straitjackets,” known for their upbeat rock ‘n’ roll sound and the Lucha Libra masks they wear on stage (6/11); The English Beat experiments with everything from soul and reggae to pop and punk (6/18); Ben Taylor: Folk, pop, soul and country (6/25). Tuesdays, 6/4–8/27, 5 pm. Free. City Winery, 155 Varick St., citywinery.com.
g Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra The Downtown-based orchestra will perform an outdoor concert in celebration of spring with waltzes, foxtrots and tangos. Audience members are encouraged to dance. Tue, 6/11, 5:30 pm. Free. Brookfield Place Plaza, outside the World Financial Center Winter Garden. knickerbocker-orchestra.org.
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Trinity Youth Chorus The Spring Pops concert features songs about home and New York City, including “New York, New York” from “On the Town,” “New York State of Mind” by Billy Joel, “Empire State of Mind” by Alicia Keys and more. Sun, 6/9, 3 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.
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The Legends Indian musicians Pandit Jasraj and Pandit Hariprasad Chauasia perform a rare Jugalband, or Indian duet, with Jasraj singing and Chaurasia on the flute. Sun, 6/16, 4 pm. $25– $100. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.
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Alexis Cuadrado Bassist and composer performs “A Lorca Soundscape,” commissioned by the Chamber Music America as a part of “Lorca in NY: A Celebration,” with his quartet. The piece reflects on Federico Garcia Lorca’s book “Poeta en Nueva York,” which he wrote while living in and adjusting to culture shock in New York from 1929 to 1930. Fri, 6/21, 8 pm. $15. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.
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Medieval or Modern? Woolworth Building Centennial IIlustrated talks and demonstrations with architects, historians and journalists. Fri, 6/14, 1–5 pm. See website for ticket info. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.
Fashion Insider’s Guide to New York French Vogue correspondent Carole Sabas shares her carefully curated list of the current hotspots, classic haunts and hidden gems of New York for fashion-conscious New Yorkers. Mon, 6/24, 12 pm. $21. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.
g Refashioning Race, Gender and Economy Scholars and authors discuss the possibilities that technology presents for alternative fashions, how relationships between consumer and producer shift in the digital realm and the power of social media and other technologies to create platforms for alternative aesthetics. Tue, 6/25, 7 pm. $12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
History of Wall Street A 90-minute tour of the Financial District with an emphasis on the neighborhood’s history, famous figures and sites and place in the global trade markets. Meet at the museum. Sat, 6/8, 1 pm & Wed, 6/26, 11 am. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.
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Garden Tour A horticulturalist leads a tour of Wagner Park, with discussion of Battery Park City Parks Conservancy’s innovations in organic gardening on a large scale. Wed, 6/12, 1 pm. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.
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Revolutionary New York Unlike Philadelphia’s or Boston’s, New York’s Revolutionary history is hidden amidst modern structures. This tour explores the Patriot–Loyalist conflict within the city at the time and people and sites associated with the American Revolution, including the site of George Washington’s inaugural address and the grave of Alexander Hamilton. Meet at City Hall Park entrance, Broadway at Murray St. Fri, 6/14, 2 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Restaurants have played a role in Chinatown since the earliest eateries catering to Chinatown’s turnof-the-century “bachelor society.” Learn about those years and how Chinatown’s many restaurants continue to reflect the area’s changing immigrant population. Meet at the museum. Sat, 6/29, 1 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.
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and teachers. While we recognize that the “one class per grade” model has had its benefits and contributed to the tightknit sense of community at the school, we also recognize the tremendous potential of having multiple classes per grade. The opportunity to collaborate with other teachers on the same grade level allows each educator to deepen the understanding of his or her practice. We encourage and foster our students to learn from one another in their community. As educators, we hold ourselves to equally high standards of professionalism, and would like to grow and develop in a way that is just not possible given the current site of the school. Special education is a service, not a location. The special education reform mandates that all schools have the curricular, instructional and scheduling flexibility needed to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities with accountable outcomes. In our current model, this reform poses significant challenges. While many children currently receive services at risk and with IEPs, growing to three classes per grade would allow us to provide the best possible support to all children. In the past, some children have been sent to other schools due to our inability to provide the full range of mandated services. With the new special education reform and in a larger facility, we will be better able to support our students’ diverse learning needs. PS 150 has been “one class per grade” for the past 10 years. In the last decade we have seen a decline in diversity of our population and a change in the zoning for our school. For 10 years we have worked hard as a staff to manage the limitations of the “one class per grade” model. We have had significant triumphs but we have noticed that there are social and emotional implications for the children being together for so many years. Their ability to socialize, compromise, empathize and become independent are clearly affected. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we have seen children face social challenges. This affects their ability to reach their potential academically, socially and emotional-
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ly. Regrouping children in classes each school year encourages children to make new friends and enables them to have a crucial fresh start. While there are children who flourish here and we have many success stories within this model, the possibility of expanding addresses the children who have struggled. We see this change as an opportunity for all children in our school to succeed and reach their highest potential. Many of us have worked in the Tribeca area for many years, and have strong emotional ties to its tight-knit neighborhood. However, we also appreciate that the Department of Education recognizes our strengths and would like to cultivate those by providing us with the opportunity to grow, both in size and as educators. A school’s community is composed of the shared educational experiences, values and goals of its children, families and staff. We will take this essence with us wherever we go. No matter the physical location that houses our community, we will continue to focus on the well-being, growth, and success of the children we know and love. PS 150 Staff (18 of 19 signed)
Thanks to all who helped get new hoops
To the Editor: The Friends of Washington Market Park thanks all the neighbors, players, parents, kids and hoop fans who gave donations to the park to install our three new basketball backboards and hoops. We had small donations and big donations, from 8-year-olds who shoot hoops with their fourth-grade classmates and guys who call themselves “Clyde.” All came together to help us reach our goal within a few weeks. Come by and check out the action courtside. And from then on, enjoy the new hoops that you built. Thank you. You have made a lasting contribution to the park, the neighborhood and everyone who plays here. Listen for the sound of swish! Erica Martini and Jennifer Van Zandt Co-presidents Friends of Washington Market Park
Public Meeting Notice
Subject: Dean’s Restaurant 349 Greenwich St., N.Y., N.Y. 10013 is applying for an application for a beer, wine and liquor license dba Tombo Enterprises Ltd. There will be an opportunity for public comment at the following Community Board Meeting: Date: 6/12/2013, Time: 6:00 pm Location: Community Board #1 Office 49-51 Chambers St., Room, 709, NY, NY 10013 (Please bring ID) Any member of the public interested in learning more about this application or in expressing their opinion about it is urged to attend this meeting. Please contact Community Board #1 at 212-442-5050 or via email at man01@cb.nyc.gov with any questions or comments.
1 WTC leases are bilking taxpayers of millions of dollars
To the Editor: There are two sides to every story, as evidenced in the soon-to-be-completed 1 World Trade Center. (See “1 World Trade Center Is Topped with Final Section of Its Spire” by Aline Reynolds in the May Trib.) Last year U.S. Senator Charles Schumer successfully lobbied the Federal General Services Administration to sign a lease for space at 1 World Trade Center. But despite the celebrations, this makes no sense for taxpayers. First, we have provided several billion dollars toward subsidizing reconstruction of 1 WTC. Current cost is now $3.9 billion including a $1 billion cost overrun. The overall costs of rebuilding the 16-acre site including the 9/11 memorial and other projects has increased from $11 billion in 2008 to $15 billion today. Many components are several years behind the original scheduled completion dates. Now taxpayers are being asked to pay twice by providing funding for GSA to rent space at the same facility from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (another government agency) and the Durst Organization. Does Schumer have any conflicts of interest in soliciting campaign contributions from members of the Durst Organization as a political quid pro quo for “assisting” and “steering” the tenants? Why shouldn’t 100 percent of 1 WTC space be rented out to privatesector tenants, thus saving taxpayers money? There are already numerous other GSA buildings in Manhattan along with other locations in the five boroughs and suburbs. Residents from Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk who could have benefited by additional jobs based in their communities were sold out by Schumer. Don’t forget that many companies have been moving out of Manhattan to other boroughs, suburbs and out of
state. This has increased existing surplus capacity of office building space at these locations. Even more new space will be coming on line with the Hudson Yards project and rezoning of Manhattan’s east midtown. Many other owners of facilities can offer leasing at a far lower price per square foot. They could easily beat the so-called bargain of $40 a square foot at 1 WTC. Why not attempt saving taxpayers millions? With a $16.7-trillion-plus deficit, shouldn’t the GSA along with other federal agencies be consolidating rather than renting more office space? Schumer’s actions are padding the amount of leased space at 1 WTC with taxpayers picking up the tab. He reminds me of Don Corleone, the godfather. With all of his powers in reviewing and approving GSA’s annual budget, he made them “an offer they couldn’t refuse.” At the end of the day, Schumer has added on to our $16.7 trillion and growing national deficit. Since 1981, under Schumer’s watch serving as both a Congress member and Senator, the only thing that grew faster than reconstruction of 1 WTC was our national debt. It went up by $15.7 trillion, increasing from $1 trillion in 1981 to $16.7 trillion today while he held federal office. No wonder Schumer never talks about this at his standard Sunday news conferences. It is nothing to be proud of. Larry Penner
REMEMBERING ROGER
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standing before the magnificent Singing Chorus Christmas Tree, or simply chatting with people from every walk of life you can imagine, Roger Franklin made Christmas in New York magic. Sadly, with the impending renovation of the Seaport but a mere year or so away, I must conclude that Christmas in Lower Manhattan will be all the poorer without the wonderful Roger Franklin. Richard Washington
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