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To the Editor: Bravo on the story in the July/August issue of the Trib on the piracy product market in Chinatown. As a native New Yorker I have seen this trade go on for years ever since the 1980s. But at this point it has become a huge and ugly element contributing to human trafficking, illegal child labor and a true curse on human rights. What bothers me most is the incredible amount of tourism demand for these products. Tourists even purchase extra luggage to carry all this stuff back home.

I have worked in retail for many years in the Downtown area, selling authentic products. Over the years, I have noticed that this kind of tourism does not help small, local business. Tourists come in expecting pirate pricing and do not care if the product is fake or real. Plus it is embedding in their minds that everything in New York City is cheap. In reading past issues of the Trib, I really loved that you have covered the financial struggle the Seaport Museum is going through. I am a strong supporter of this community, as my family has

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The Tribeca Trib garnered 10 awards from the National Newspaper Association’s 2013 Better Newspaper Contest, to be handed out this month at the organization’s convention in Phoenix, Ariz. Breaking News Story: First and second place and honorable mention went to the Trib, with the top prize going to Juliet Hindell for her story on a group of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who split off from the crowd and took their own path to protest. Jessica Terrell’s piece on persisting problems with the restored South Ferry subway station won second place, and a story on conditions at Pier 40, also by Terrell, took an honorable mention. Feature Story: April Koral won second place for her story on three brothers in the textile business on Walker Street who refuse to sell their building; third place went to Carl Glassman for post-Sandy repair delays faced by tenants at 67 Vestry Street. Newspaper Web Site: Third place. “Your redesign paid off, what an (CONTINUED ON PAGE 50)

been here since 1981, and it is sad that many tourists today are not as interested in museums like the Seaport Museum as they are in fake handbags. I hope the Tribeca Trib continues to write about the issue of counterfeit activity and I hope your coverage prompts law enforcement to crack down not only on the merchants, but the public who continue to patronize them. Adam Alvarez To the Editor: Councilmember Margaret Chin’s efforts to punish buyers of counterfeit merchandise, while perhaps well-meaning, is nevertheless misguided. Such actions would damage tourism in this city and would also do little to stop the selling and buying of unlicensed goods in the Canal Street area. The trafficking of illegal items is a direct result of the New York City police department’s failure to stem the flow of these goods into the neighborhood. The police department itself has admitted that catching peddlers in the act of such transactions is difficult and that they are basically engaged in a catand-mouse game. Targeting the buyers, many of whom are out-of-towners, is an act of desperation. Few citations will result, and most of the visitors to the city will not return to face hearings. In addition, these questionable, lowlevel cases will simply add to an already overburdened court system bureaucracy. Instead of scapegoating the lowest rung of the illicit sales pyramid and wasting valuable police resources, the focus should be on interdicting these counterfeit goods at points of production, and importation and distribution sites. No matter how much they complain, no major, high-end establishment ever lost one dime because an out-oftown visitor from Iowa bought a 40 dollar knock-off handbag from a ped(CONTINUED ON PAGE 51)

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Far left: Undated photo shows the “beach” when it was little more than a junkyard. Left: Artist’s concept of the transformed beach, with wetlands for wave attenuation.

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Beach Dreams May Come True Boaters see hope in $7 million funding for sandy stretch beneath the Brooklyn Bridge

BY ALINE REYNOLDS A decade ago, when rowing enthusiast Rob Buchanan first laid eyes on a desolate, garbage-strewn patch of sand beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, he saw beautiful potential. “I remember being struck by the sight of real sand and the waves that were lapping,” he recalled. “Once I knew it was there, I couldn’t go by without looking at it. It’s the only true sandy beach in Lower Manhattan.” Brooklyn Bridge Beach, so named by waterfront activists, is a sandy stretch tucked between the East River and East River Esplanade. Until recently, the city has taken little notice of the space. Less than a block long and only about 60 feet wide at low tide, the space was once a graveyard for abandoned cars and is now littered with washed-up debris. A fence with a sturdy padlocked gate separates it from passersby on the adjacent esplanade. Buchanan, 54, a co-founder of the Village Community Boathouse on Pier 40 and a former collegiate rower, is one of several boaters who for years has dreamed of the forlorn space becoming a bustling, barrier-free beach, a place where human-powered boats can land and people can relax. Last month, the City Council matched $3.5 million in capital funding secured by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer toward the transformation of the beach, bringing the total available funds for the project to $7 million. The beach is part of the East River Blueway Plan, an initiative released earlier by Stringer and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh that is intended to bring activity to the waterfront between the Brooklyn Bridge and East 38th Street. The plan calls for a wading area, terraced seating, and boat ramps. It also lays out strategies for storm resiliency, including the creation of wetlands and wave-attenuation walls. For a recent interview with the Trib, Buchanan fought some heavy current from where he set off in Brooklyn and pulled his plywood rowboat, the East

Above: At the sandy patch that he has long wanted to see transformed into a public—if tiny—beach, Rob Buchanan pulls his rowboat back into the East River. Left: Buchanan on the beach with the plywood boat, The East River Flyer.

River Flyer, ashore at the beach. Leaning against the esplanade railing, he described a simpler vision of the sandy area, one the city can more easily afford. It might include some amphitheater-style seating and a portable pool, but most of what’s needed is already there, he noted. “There’s a sense that they have all this money and have to spend it, hire architects and build stuff—but, really, it doesn’t take any money to fix the beach,” he said. “Let’s just open the gate and invite the community to do smaller things.” The New York City Water Trail

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Association, a group of more than 20 boating organizations, has worked with Stringer’s office to determine the beach’s future docking capacity and conducts weekly tests of the water near the beach. (The group has concluded, more often than not, that it is safe for swimming.) “We were really thrilled that they gave us a seat at the table in terms of figuring out what might work,” said Nancy Brous, who serves on the association’s steering committee. “I think they saw that there was a real demand and a real desire to access the water.” Brous and Buchanan are hoping the

spruced-up beach becomes a hub for human-powered boats, with a shipping container for storage. “I’m confident people on the Hudson side will use it as a stop-off point to get an ice cream cone or a cup of coffee,” said Brous. Years ago, Buchanan brainstormed with SHoP Architects about the beach, and presented their ideas to the city Economic Development Corp. when it was planning the East River promenade. “They said, ‘We’re not dealing with that. It’s a liability issue,’” he recalled. But that didn’t dampen Buchanan’s enthusiasm for the sandy patch. Once a year, he and fellow boaters would row from the beach to Brooklyn and back in honor of George Washington’s 1776 evacuation of the Continental Army from Brooklyn. In 2006, they organized a luau there to protest the beach’s inaccessibility, and were confronted by NYPD’s harbor cops. “They said, ‘If you land on it, we’re going to take your boat,’” Buchanan recalled. But he and his fellow boaters have continued to use the beach as a place to wait until the tide turns. “If you could launch a boat there, that’d be great,” Buchanan mused. “If they take the fence away, that’s what’s going to happen.”

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Merger’s Cure for an Ailing Hospital BY ALINE REYNOLDS This summer, Arlene Eastman, the patient care director in the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Lower Manhattan Hospital, got a delivery she once could only dream about. “I got five new IV carts,” Eastman happily recalled. “We never had IV carts—they’re pretty expensive. My nurses are excited!” The emergency room of what was formerly New York Downtown Hospital has lately been stocked with other muchneeded basic equipment, from ultrasound machines to blood pressure monitors to thermometers. “We’ve gotten so many things over the last few months,” Eastman said. “Simple equipment that we weren’t able to get previously.” The addition of new equipment is just one of the many changes that have begun to take place since New York Downtown Hospital, Manhattan’s only hospital south of 14th Street, merged with its affiliate, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, in July. It is now the sixth campus of NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest hospital systems in the country. For a hospital that was barely surviving, these are heady times. Administrators now talk about expansion and capital investment. They speak proudly of bringing Downtown scores of specialists and subspecialists—some of the

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Emergency Department nurses, led by Arlene Eastman, right, meet for a “huddle” to review patient care. The routine is new to the hospital since the merger.

“best doctors in the country,” they say— and building new offices. “It’s night and day,” said Anthony Alfano, vice president of operations who had been at the financially troubled New York Downtown since 2006. “We were a small, struggling hospital. We now have a large faculty and resources that we didn’t have in the past.” In interviews with the Trib, administrators of the newly merged hospital detailed some of the changes that

patients will be seeing at the six-floor, 180-bed hospital at 170 William Street. Already, they have carved out a separate area of the emergency room for children, built out a 14,000-square-foot space for such departments as ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and ophthalmology, and increased nurse-to-patient ratio. The plan is to make all rooms private (now, 80 percent have two beds) in the next few years and equip them with amenities such as flat-screen TVs.

“We no longer have the restrictions of being financially strapped,” Alfano said, “so that we can get into a culture of growth. It’s always been, ‘Where are we cutting next?’” The growth that he and other top administrators especially like to tout is the addition of doctors from Weill Cornell Medical College, who will practice out of new offices at 156 William St. And they are proud of the association between their hospital and NewYorkPresbyterian, with its impressive roster of specialists. “Most of the patients, we’re going to treat, care for, and they’re going to go back home,” said Michael Fosina, the hospital’s new chief operating officer, “In those instances where they need tertiary care, our doctors will pick up the phone and call their colleagues uptown and we’ll get them into the bed, into the right service at the right time.” Eastman, who has been at the hospital for 13 years, says she already sees the benefits of the merger. Nurses now attend lectures given by department heads and take NewYork-Presbyterian classes on topics such as pain assessment and sedation methods. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, administrators say they are looking into having their own steam-generating plant to prevent the kind of shutdown that occurred when Con Ed could not provide

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steam and the hospital was without heat. (Patients were evacuated for more than a week after Sandy.) The hospital also plans to decentralize its electrical system to enable the use of power in select areas. The merger follows years of financial turmoil at Downtown Hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;caused, among other things, by reduced government reimbursements and a rise in labor and service costs. According to NewYork-Presbyterianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x153;certificate of needâ&#x20AC;? application requesting the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authorization of the merger, approximately half the patients who came to the emergency room were either on Medicaid or uninsured, and the costly obstetric unit alone added more than a million dollars a year

to the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall deficit. Its affiliation with NewYorkPresbyterian began in 2005, after it severed ties with New York Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Langone Medical Center. With the merger this year, the hospitals become one legal entity, with a single board of trustees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was our hope against hope that there would be a merger,â&#x20AC;? Alfano said, adding that few, if any, hospitals like the former New York Downtown can survive these days without an affiliation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be a part of a network,â&#x20AC;? Alfano said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and a network that has resources and a network that can basically feed upon one another.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The day of the stand-alone community hospital,â&#x20AC;? he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is in the past.â&#x20AC;?

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Funding Feud Over Pier Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Completion BY ALINE REYNOLDS Who should come up with the millions of dollars still needed to reconstruct Pier A? The onus is on the city, not the Battery Park City Authority, according to City Comptroller John Liu, who has rejected the BPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial request to approve part of a bond sale that would secure the remaining $5 million needed to build Pier Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outdoor plaza. The pier, at the northwest edge of Battery Park, has been undergoing a years-long restoration and transformation into a major dining destination that is due to open next spring. Since 2008, the authority has been charged with overseeing the work. Excess money raised by the authority through ground rents is mandated by law to support subsidized housing around the city. Liu, who along with the mayor must authorize the BPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital expenditures and borrowing, objects to the new financing being spent on the pier instead. But the Economic Development Corp. (EDC), the pierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner, which has already contributed $30 million toward its restoration, is balking at footing the bill, according to Liu. He spelled out his concerns in a recent letter to BPCA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Mehiel. At the very least, Liu said, the EDC should split the $5 million for the plaza with the BPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly since the

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pierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease states that the two agencies would â&#x20AC;&#x153;negotiate in good faithâ&#x20AC;? to determine the funding needed for the plaza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pier A plaza funding request troubles me,â&#x20AC;? Liu wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because the New York City Economic Development Corporation, BPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner in the Pier A redevelopment project, has refused to share in the plaza costs despite its historical responsibility for Pier A and its significant unrestricted fund balances.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;After over a decade of Pier A delay and decay under EDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership,â&#x20AC;? the letter continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it is highly unfortunate that the EDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intransigence could cost the affordable housing community sever-

al million desperately needed dollars.â&#x20AC;? Responding to Liuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims, an EDC official told the Trib that, as the pier is the BPCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project, the BPCA is responsible for funding the overruns. In response to Liuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concern about the $5 million, the BPCA removed the sum from its three-year capital budget proposal that was part of a more than $1 billion bond offering approved by the Public Authorities Control Board last month. The $90 million in other capital funds addresses upgrades to Battery Park Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aging infrastructure, including repairs to its seawall and electrical system,

while the rest of the bond will refinance prior bond debt at a lower market rate. The BPCA, the pierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaseholder, would have been willing to cover the remaining pier costs, Mehiel said at an Aug. 20 board of directors meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The [EDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] position is that...if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cost overrun, BPCA capital funds should be expended to complete the project,â&#x20AC;? he told the board members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not resistant to the idea, but the city comptroller is.â&#x20AC;? Mehiel went on to say that the BPCA is â&#x20AC;&#x153;contentâ&#x20AC;? to comply with Liuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Bloombergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orders once a consensus is reached. Robert Serpico, the authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief financial officer and newly appointed interim president, said that, with rising interest rates, financing approval is needed soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The time is critical, because the market has been moving against us,â&#x20AC;? he told the board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we could lose literally millions of dollars by delaying this offering.â&#x20AC;? The new pier is supposed to open by next Memorial Day with three floors of restaurants, including an oyster bar, that will be run by the Poulakakos organization, along with a visitor center and an events space. It is unclear whether the $5 million in overruns will delay its opening. Peter Poulakakos, who owns several Lower Manhattan restaurants, did not return a call for comment.

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In the Running for City Council JENIFER RAJKUMAR

f all the Democratic primary contests to be decided on Sept. 10, it’s the City Council race that hits closest to home. Whether Margaret Chin is chosen to return for a second term, or her challenger, Jenifer Rajkumar, can unseat her, the winner has her work cut out for her, representing a diverse 1st Council District that runs from the Battery (and Governors Island) to parts of Greenwich Village. The council members’ responsibilities, of course, are much more than legislative. They are expected to be constituent problem-solvers, community champions, land-use negotiators and funding angels to local nonprofits, to name a few of their duties. Below are excerpts and summaries of answers from the Trib’s interviews with the candidates, both on and off camera.

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WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY’VE BEEN JENIFER RAJKUMAR, 30, the daughter of physicians who had immigrated from India, grew up and attended private schools in Westchester County. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Stanford University Law School in 2008. Hired out of law school by a Washington, D.C., firm specializing in class-action law suits, she spent a year there before taking a fellowship at the National Women’s Law Center, a policy organization that was advising Congress on the effects of Obamacare on women and families. About a year later, in December 2010, she moved to Gateway Plaza and, within a couple of months, began a successful campaign to unseat Linda Belfer for her long-held position as Democratic district leader. “I saw it as a wonderful way to further the social justice causes I had always cared about,” she said. By the summer of 2012, Rajkumar had decided to challenge Margaret Chin. Rajkumar is now of counsel for the D.C. law firm she had worked for, but running for office is her full-time job. “I was lucky to have a combination of savings and also family backing that allowed me to take the risks to pursue my dreams,” she said.

MARGARET CHIN, 60, immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong at age nine and grew up in Chinatown. Her father worked in restaurants and her mother in garment factories. She attended public schools and graduated from Bronx High School of Science. She earned a degree in education from City College of New York and went on to teach, first in an elementary school and then, for 14 years, in the continuing education division of LaGuardia Community College. The first ChineseAmerican to represent Chinatown in the council, Chin was a founder and later the deputy executive director of Asian Americans for Equality. She cites her experience as a community organizer and efforts in building affordable housing as well as her affiliations with progressive groups as important credentials for the job of City Councilwoman. “I have a strong background in advocacy for affordable housing, for immigrant families, for working families for close to 40 years,” she says. Chin lost three bids for the office before winning her first term in 2009. She and her husband, parents of a grown son, have lived in Hanover Square since 1987.

ON LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENTS AND GETTING THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THEM “One of the big changes I would try to make is to create a master plan for Lower Manhattan so we already map out ahead of time how many schools we need in each area, how many affordable housing units we need, so that a real estate developer who wants to come here knows from the beginning that if you’re going to develop here you need x number of units, x number of schools. As a civil rights litigator, I have the ability to get in there and advocate effectively for our community.”

“In the City Council I have introduced legislation that can look at making sure that developers who are doing large-scale development contribute to school seats in the district. But also, if the development is not as-of-right, they have to go through a public process in those negotiations. We have to push for making sure that they either [build] schools or support school seats in the neighborhood so that we can meet the growing needs of an increased population.”

ON NEGOTIATORS AND NEGOTIATIONS Rajkumar emphasizes the negotiating skills she practiced during her year as a civil rights lawyer in Washington. She claims that Chin has let down her constituents in negotiations with developers and the city on a number of projects. Her decision to run for City Council, she said, came as she and fellow opponents of the NYU expansion were expelled from the council chambers for disrupting the proceedings in which the council voted to approve the plan. “That was when I realized that the council member was representing real estate interests more than the people of the district,” she said. Rajkumar claims that Chin failed to represent the will of the majority in negotiations over affordable housing on the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, in which she sided with advocates for total affordable housing. The NYU expansion, she says, gained nothing for the community and should have been opposed. Chin’s leadership in the eventual approval of the redevelopment of Pier 17 by the Howard Hughes Corp., she says, means future development that threatens the New Amsterdam Market.

Chin angrily refutes Rajkumar’s charges, countering that her opponent has no experience with land use negotiations. She claims successes that were necessarily tempered by consensus and compromise. Such negotiations, she says, are not the same as a lawyer arguing for a client. “It’s easy to say, ‘I’m a tough negotiator,’ but it’s a different type of negotiation,” Chin says. She calls NYU “a significant institution in our neighborhood” and not the same as a private developer. Among the positive outcomes of the deal, she says, is a 25-percent reduction in space sought by the university. She’s proud of the results of negotiations on the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, which calls for 500 belowmarket apartments among the 1,000 units to be built there, as well as an agreement by the city for more below-market apartments off-site. And she defends her approval of the renovation of Pier 17 by the Howard Hughes Corp. because it comes with open space atop the pier mall and funds for the Seaport Museum. More development, she argues, will have to go through a new land use review.

REALISTICALLY, WHAT THEY MOST WANT TO ACCOMPLISH Rajkumar said she will “make sure” that Lower Manhattan is fully prepared for the next hurricane. She said she will see to it that building codes are changed in Tribeca, Battery Park City and the Financial District to require electrical equipment to be built higher so that buildings can continue to function. She wants to see removable storm walls in parts of Lower Manhattan and would “spearhead” the creation of core volunteer groups that will take care of the most vulnerable residents by coordinating emergency response teams in the district.

Chin’s first priority is to see another school built in Lower Manhattan. She says she helped convince the Department of Education that 1,000 more seats are needed Downtown in the coming years. “Hopefully in my next term we can identify the site that will become the future public school.” She sees 22 Reade Street, a city-owned building originally slated to be sold off by the city, as a possible site, and she says she has asked the School Construction Authority to determine whether it can be retrofitted for a school.

‘I’M THE BEST CANDIDATE BECAUSE…’ “I know how to fight for you. As a civil rights lawyer, I have been at the negotiating table with the big corporate executives on the other side. And I’ve been able to represent my clients effectively. As a council member I will be able to get in there, sit in the negotiating table, sit across from that big real estate developer who wants to come in the neighborhood and extract the concessions our community needs. I stand on principle that as an elected representative the people come first—I am accountable only to you the voters. I am not accountable to big outside business interests or big outside real estate interests. Not to the mayor, not to the speaker of the city council. At the end of the day I am here to represent only you, the people. In Council member Chin’s four years in office we have not seen this. We have seen her represent real estate interests and that is why I had to step up and run for that position.”

“I have a strong background in advocacy for affordable housing, for immigrant families, for working families for close to 40 years. And in my first term in the City Council I brought that advocacy and that commitment to the City Council. It’s my track record and my history in this district. And the range of issues that I fought for and worked on for my community range from bringing justice for Pvt. Danny Chin…to helping fire victims get temporary shelter and move back to their own homes. I think there’s absolutely no comparison. [Rajkumar] is somebody who just dropped in. I’ve been here 50 years, lived here, worked here, raised a kid here. This is my hometown and that’s the strongest difference. People also know me even way before I got into the City Council, the track record that I have in terms of my community service, my community organizing. That’s one of the reasons people elected me four years ago.”

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Thousands packed Pier 26 in June during one of three days of Gay Pride Week entertainment, capped with a performance by Cher.

BY CARL GLASSMAN Call them rousing crowdpleasers or cacophonous neighborhood intrusions, the summer concerts on Pier 26 reverberated to the highest levels of the Hudson River Park Trust. The decision by the trust to call it quits after this season for the popular “pilot program,” which drew thousands to the rock concerts, along with a slew of noise complaints from nearby residents, was announced reluctantly in a statement from trust president Madelyn Wils. “While our staff has heard from many people including Tribeca residents who are enjoying the experience of listening to this caliber of music from the beautiful Pier 26 setting,” Wils wrote, “we are unhappy that the community is so divided, therefore the series will not return to this location.” Earlier, Wils had told Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee, which had approved the concerts, “If this doesn’t work out, then we won’t do it next year. You’ll be the judge.” The final concerts feature Empire of the Sun on Sept. 5, followed by Passion Pit, scheduled for Sept. 6 and 7. The concert promoters, Bowery Presents, chose not to exercise its contractual option for an additional concert this month, according to Wils. The events that drew some of the most complaints were three days of music during the day and evening as part of Gay Pride Week. Those events are not under the trust’s control, and it is unclear whether they will return next year.

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DOE Scraps Plan to Move P.S.150 to Chelsea School BY CARL GLASSMAN Armed with a PowerPoint presentation, letters of support and pages of graphs and statistics, P.S. 150 parent leaders managed to convince Department of Education officials to scrap their plan to re-site the school next year to Chelsea. Meeting with the DOE officials late last month in a last-ditch effort to change their minds, leaders of the parent opposition and representatives of local elected officials pled their case against moving staff and students of the one-class-pergrade school from Tribeca’s Independence Plaza to a new facility in the former Foundling Hospital on West 17 Street. The plan was expected to be brought for a vote at the Sept. 19 meeting of the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. But in a Sept. 3 letter, School District 2 Superintendent Mariano Guzman said the DOE would not go forward with its plan. “The Department of Education will not be issuing a proposal to relocate PS 150,” Guzman wrote. “Thank you for your involvement regarding this matter.” Buxton Midyette, a parent leading the opposition to the move, praised Guzman and Drew Patterson, the DOE’s director of planning for Lower Manhattan, for heeding their concerns. “The process really worked,” Midyette said. “They were conscientious in talking to all the constituents involved, and our concerns

and message were heard.” First presented in April, the proposal was bitterly opposed by parents who said they would not bus their children to the new Chelsea school. The move was supported by the majority of the school’s staff and teachers. Prior to the Sept. 3 announcement, the DOE, which did not respond to a request for comment, was reportedly considering turning the P.S. 150 space into a pre-k and kindergarten center in an effort to relieve the perennial kindergarten crunch in Downtown schools. In the August meeting with Guzman and Patterson, the parents argued for keeping their school intact through the 2014-15 school year. They said that the opening of the 712-seat-capacity Peck Slip School in 2015, as well as the vacated classrooms in Tweed Courthouse where it is temporarily housed, would end the need for a kindergarten center. DOE officials had argued that the small school is not financially viable and that the teachers were lacking the needed support of colleagues. They also said it did not have the resources to meet the new Common Core Standards. But the parents said there is no arguing with success. P.S. 150 was among the highest-scoring (in some cases, the highest scoring) Downtown school on the recent Common Core tests.

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9/11 Remembrances

Downtown residents can request passes to the community evening at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Plaza on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. They can be picked up at Community Board 1, 49-51 Chambers St., Suite 715, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or email community@911memorial.org by Friday, Sept. 6. (Include your address and the number of passes requested.) The annual Sept. 11 hour of reflection with the World Trade Center Survivors Network will held from 12:30 to 1:30 on Sept. 11 at the Living Memorial Grove in City Hall Triangle. Attendees will again include survivors of the 1993 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Following the ceremony, people will gather for an annual luncheon, from 1:30 to 3:30, at a nearby restaurant. For more information and directions to the grove, go to survivorsnet.org/programs/okc. Community members are invited to remember 9/11 and talk about how to achieve a world â&#x20AC;&#x153;free of terrorâ&#x20AC;? on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St. Speakers include Rev. William Grant, Rabbi Jonathan Glass, Bob Townley and others. Also on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parallel Stories: The World Trade Center and Battery Park City,â&#x20AC;? a discussion with Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial & Museum; Carol Willis, The Skyscraper Museum; and Matthew Fenton from The Broadsheet. Tickets are available on Sept. 11, starting at 4 p.m. The museum will not charge admission that day, and will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Next Sandy

Learn about hospital evacuations, community emergency responses, poststorm service restorations and more at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Superstorm Sandy: What Happens Next Time?â&#x20AC;? on Friday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pace Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. The event will be presented by New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. Presenters will share their experiences in responding to Sandy and other emergency situations. Free. To register, email your name, affiliation and address to Wanda Coleman at wac9045@nyp.org.

Writers, Actors Wanted

The Tribeca Performing Arts Center is seeking writers and actors for their annual 12-week Writers in Performance workshop. The free classes, which include writing exercises, theater games, improvisation, movement and ensemble work, culminate in two performances for the public on December 6 and 7. Auditions are by appointment only on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 17 and 18. To schedule an audition, contact Mario Giacalone the week of Sept. 9 at 212-220-1459 or Mgiacalone@bmcc.cuny.edu.

Sukkot Block Party

JCP, is holding its free annual Sukkot block party on Sunday, Sept. 22 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Duane Street between West Broadway and Church. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities include music with Jacob Stein, holiday storytelling, building an edible Sukkah, a scavenger hunt, and sack races. The rain location is the Synagogue for the Arts, 49 White St.

Family Yoga

Free yoga classes for parents and their children are held on the fourth Friday of every month (the next one is Sept. 27) from 6 to 7 p.m. at Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place, 107 Greenwich St. The class includes games, art and songs. For information, contact Jenn Chinn at jchinn@trinitywallstreet.org. or go to trinitywallstreet.org.

9/11 Compensation

Downtown residents, workers and others who suffer from 9/11-related illnesses have until Oct. 3 to register for financial compensation from the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). People with cancers covered by the law have until Oct. 12, 2014. The VCF will compensate successful applicants who submit proof of their physical health problems, ranging from asthma, sinusitis, lung disease and lower back pain. To register, go to claims.vcf.gov/welcome.aspx. More information at vcf.gov/filingdeadlines.html.

Talk by Najla Said

Najla Said, the daughter of the wellknown Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, will speak about her book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family,â&#x20AC;? at Alwan for the Arts. The memoir recalls Saidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life as a young American girl who longed to fit in and who often felt conflicted about her cultural background and identity. The free talk will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) at the center at 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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Ride a Rare Carousel

Vintage French carnival rides and carousels, along with an array of late 19th- and early 20th-century flying swings and a pipe organ, will be at Governors Island every weekend through Sept. 29, 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Entrance to the display is free; rides and games are $3 each. For directions, go to feteparadiso.com.

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Landmarks Looks at AMEX Windows

Big store windows, proposed for former stock exchange edifice, get Landmarks scrutiny

BY CARL GLASSMAN The austere limestone-and-granite faces of the former American Stock Exchange building will be sporting big, bright storefront windows. But not as big as its owner, Allan Fried, had in mind. The fortress-like 14-story building (actually two interconnected buildings, one at 84 Trinity Pl., the other at 123 Greenwich St.) is slated to become a 174-room hotel with up to 100,000 square feet of commercial space. Architect Morris Adjmi’s design called for six new windows, nearly 15 feet high, on the building’s Trinity Place side, and five windows that would rise 26 feet on Greenwich Street. (That would be about four feet and 15 feet taller, respectively, than the building’s current windows.) The building, landmarked by the city last year, dates back to 1921 (Greenwich Street) and 1931 (Trinity Place). Their architects, Starrett and Van Vleck, were content with small windows on the first floor because it was the second-story, high-ceilinged trading floor that needed the large windows for sunlight.

Top renderings: At left, the submitted plan for 26-foot-high windows on the Greenwich Street side of the former American Stock Exchange Building and, at right, the plan for the Trinity Place side, which included nearly 15-foot-high windows. Bottom photos: The two sides of the building as they appear today.

Following Adjmi’s presentation to the Landmarks Preservation Commission last month, the commissioners praised the developer’s efforts to bring a new use to the building while keeping much of its historic look. But they called for a design that retained more of the building’s original, unadorned lower section and asked him to return with a revised plan before voting on it. Under Adjmi’s design, the new windows on the Greenwich Street side would rise 26 feet and replace a row of small windows beneath the high-arched windows on the second floor. Commissioner Michael Goldblum called for those little windows to remain, along

with some five feet of original masonry separating them from the first-floor windows. In doing so, he said, the building would “still get the amount of light that’s necessary, and retain that original fabric there.” Goldblum was no less concerned about the proposed windows overpowering the Trinity Place side of the building. “There is a massiveness and a starkness about the existing base that really is invaded upon with the massive windows on that side,” he said. The commission’s vice chair, Pablo Vengoechea, found the size of the windows acceptable but suggested that they be raised in order to “add more solidity MORRIS ADJMI ARCHITECTS VIA THE TRIBECA TRIB (4)

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he story of Lower Manhattan’s schools is in many ways the story of the community below Canal Street itself. From a commercial, child-unfriendly Downtown to neighborhoods bustling with families, Downtown has bloomed. Along the way, for better or worse, the neighborhoods’ rough edges have been smoothed, the empty stretches claimed by developers and the skyline altered in previously unimaginable ways. In this special section, we reach into the Trib’s 19 years of archives, and the recollections of those whose memories go back further, for glimpses of Downtown school days through the decades, with a focus on public elementary schools within the geographical boundaries of Community Board 1.

The story of our schools is many stories, of course, way bigger than this simple sampling of history can begin to show. And how could we recall all the teachers, administrators, parent volunteers and political activists who made these institutions what they are today? Indeed, made them possible at all. It is worth reviewing, as we do in this special section, that not a single school would be standing in Lower Manhattan if it were not for the pluck of parents and their political allies who demonstrated the needs and made the demand to the city and state. That’s a fact and an enduring lesson that today’s Downtown parents, ever concerned about school overcrowding, should take to heart—it is more than the children who have their homework cut out for them.

SCHOOL DAYS THE STORY OF DOWNTOWN SCHOOLS THROUGH THE YEARS

IN THE BEGINNING: P.S 234 and BEFORE

he class of 3rd- and 4th-graders, at right, were pioneers of sorts, among the first generation of Downtown public school students. This was 1978, 10 years before Tribeca’s P.S. 234 would open, and a time when there were barely enough children in Tribeca to have a school at all. Parents fought the Board of Ed just to keep it open. Located in Independence Plaza, the site of today’s P.S. 150, it began in 1976, first as an annex of P.S. 130, then P.S. 3. The sprinkling of children came from the surrounding artist lofts and newly opened apartments in Independence Plaza. “Basically, the only reason why we could go on with such a small number of children was because parents helped,” recalled John Scott, whose daughter, Katrina Wyatt, is a 3rd-grader in the class photo. “I remember being able to work lying on the floor or wherever, and kind of at my own pace,” said Wyatt, now 43 and a high school teacher in New Jersey. The school was headed by the late Blossom Gelernter, who, in a 2008 Trib interview, described the parents and the school’s three or four teachers as “kind of free-floating.” “We were able to carry out our ideas that all of us had been nurturing,” she said. “We were able to do it because we were small and nobody was watching us.” Those ideas, eccentric for their day, would continue into the new P.S. 234 building by Gelernter and her assistant principal, Anna Switzer, who would take over as principal in 1990 and remain for the next 13 years. The school was first going to be shoehorned into the new Shearson Lehman tower (now Citigroup) site a few blocks north. In a compromise fought by those who opposed it, Community Board 1 agreed to the tower in exchange for a school on the city-owned lot at Chambers and Greenwich. “That was when a lot of us recognized it was a good time to establish a residential community down here,” recalls Paul Goldstein, who was CB1 district manager at the time and helped negotiate the deal. “And a school was about as important as you could get.”

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Left: A 1978 class photo of the combined 3rd and 4th grades in the small Independence Plaza school building. The school, then an annex of the Village’s P.S. 3, was a forerunner of Tribeca’s P.S. 234, also known as the “Independence School.” Below: How it has grown. In Sept. 2011, the entire P.S. 234 student body stood in the schoolyard to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

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or decades, the push to bring amenities and services to a burgeoning Downtown population has been a nonstop effort of community leaders, with schools at the top of the priority list. Opened in 1988, P.S. 234 became Downtown’s first stand-alone grade school outside of Chinatown. (The Early Childhood Center—now P.S. 150—would be housed in Independence Plaza.) It would be 10 years before a second school would be built. P.S. 89 (with I.S. 89) was a boon to BPC families. But located almost across the street from P.S. 234, a wide swath of Downtown would, for years, remain without a neighborhood school for its fastgrowing population. Local activists were always ahead of the city, not only in sounding the crowding alarm but in finding new school sites. Community leaders and activists discovered every one of them. There’s P.S. 276 on a site that was to be a women’s museum; the Spruce Street School that took over a OCTOBER 1998 space first slated for Pace University; the Peck Slip School, now being built in a former post office. “There is so little school planning done by the city and it’s always come down to the community and the elected officials who get these things off the ground,” says Paul Goldstein, who has been part of many of those efforts, both as the longtime Community Board 1 district manager and, currently, as an aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Now they are at it again. “We’re just laypeople,” one Tribeca parent said of the search, “looking at taped signs on windows saying ‘Space Available.’”

P.S./I.S. 89: Not in the Plan

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P.S./I.S. 89 and the apartment building under construction in November 1997.

attery Park City seemed to have it all—shopping, restaurants, parks and sparkling new residential towers with river views. But the urban planners seemed to forget about the people. And the birds and the bees. People were making families in a neighborhood, owned by the state and run by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), that was being built for professional singles and power couples. A school was never part of the Battery Park City master plan, which presumed that families would move with their school-age children to the suburbs. Early residents clearly saw the flaw in that plan. By the time the neighborhood was only onethird complete, in 1993, a group of residents counted 582 kids living there. “Just go to the window and look down. Do you not see all the baby carriages?” That is how Marti Cohen-Wolff, an early resident, and other parents advocating for a school in the neighborhood, would often put it to the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). But it would take more than talking points to convince the Authority. So Cohen-Wolf and about 35 others from the newly-formed Battery Park City Parents Association, including key players Dorothy Baratta, Jean Citarella and Sharyn Lawall, mobilized themselves—holding meetings, posting fliers and going door to door with surveys, tallying the number of children and asking parents if they planned to stay in the neighborhood. The parents compiled the data, created pie charts and other graphics showing the current need and projected growth, bound it into a book and presented it to the BPCA. “They were flabbergasted,” says Cohen-Wolff. And they were finally convinced that Battery Park City needed a school of its own. So was the Board of Education. But where to find the money and the space? Cohen-Wolff credits fellow BPC parent and school advocate Dorothy Baratta with an idea that would serve as a model for the creation of other Lower Manhattan schools in coming years—make a deal with a developer to build a school into the base of a building. That developer would turn out to be the BPCA, which in 1996 started construction on a five-floor, 102,000-square-foot school at the foot of a new residential tower on West Street, between Chambers and Warren streets. The $36-million school was financed from bonds issued by the Educational Construction Fund. The school opened in the fall of 1998. “They came through,” Wolff said of the BPCA and the other agencies involved. “It was just a matter of convincing everybody that they had to do it.”

From Peck Slip Post Office to Peck Slip School

he trusty old post office will still do in a pinch. Lower Manhattan’s newest elementary school, set to open in 2015, is now under construction in the building the U.S. Postal Service left behind at Peck Slip and Pearl Street. When the post office cleared out, moving its sorting facilities and carrier center to Church Street, it left three open floors in the four-story building (the post office planned to keep the first floor). Not a lot of space, but enough. Downtown school advocates spoke up. The city submitted a bid. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver wrote to the postmaster, explaining that “No use for this building would be as valuable to Lower Manhattan as a new school.” The plan was to install an elementary school with 400 seats— not nearly enough to relieve the shortage of seats Downtown, but a start. Then the U.S. Postal Service delivered more good news— they wouldn’t need the first-floor Peck Slip space for selling stamps and shipping supplies after all. The post office would

move its retail space to 116 John Street, leaving more room for the school. Silver dashed off another letter, this time to Chancellor Dennis Walcott, urging the city to seize the moment. “We must not miss this excellent opportunity,” he wrote. City officials agreed to allocate the funds for a k-5 school for 712 students, five sections per grade. The school, with two kindergarten classes, began “incubating” in Tweed Courthouse last fall. The building plan calls for the addition of two floors to the four-story building. A combination gymnasium and auditorium, with a stage and removable seats, will occupy the fifth floor. The sixth floor will have an enclosed rooftop playground with metal fabric to keep balls from sailing onto the street. “It’s not necessarily what we would have liked,” the School Construction Authority’s Michael Mirisola said of the ”gymatorium.” “But, as you can see, we maxed out every floor.”

Peck Slip School Principal Maggie Siena welcomes a child on the first day of school at Tweed, the school's incubator site.

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P.S. 397: East Side Gets a School of Its Own

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Left: In 2009, P.S. 397 kindergartners in Tweed Courthouse. Right: P.S. 397 principal Nancy Harris on the day her building opened in 2011.

n elementary school for the east side of Lower Manhattan in Community Board 1 has long been the desire of residents in the area. As far back as February 2000, at the first meeting of a new school task force formed by CB1, one member suggested a parking lot next to then-NYU Downtown Hospital, where the hospital was considering putting a 45-story tower. The proposed 45-story building on Beekman Street turned out to be 76 stories, developed by Forest City Ratner and designed by Frank Gehry. When in 2006 nearby Pace University backed out of a deal with the developer to reserve space in the tower for dorm rooms, Downtown representatives swooped in. “We pounced,” recalled Paul Goldstein, then CB1’s district manager, who attended the meeting in which Pace withdrew. “The speaker [Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, who Goldstein would later work for] had a relationship with Ratner and they were able to get

it done.” The promise of tax-free Liberty Bonds and city construction dollars helped. The project was beset by delays, in part due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claim that the city could not afford to keep its funding commitment. (See photo of P.S. 234 parents protesting against Bloomberg on page 29.) An opening, promised for 2008, was pushed back to 2009— and then back again. When in 2011 the glass doors of the fivestory building finally swung open to reveal 100,000 square feet of sunny classrooms, library, auditorium, and music rooms, a slew of city officials were there to greet the building’s first students. “To be in our new building, finally, and to see the results of what this community for so many years has been advocating for, and the families have been waiting for, it’s just surreal,” P.S. 397 principal Nancy Harris exclaimed on that first day.

P.S./I.S. 276: On a Site Imagined for a Museum

f former Gov. George Pataki and the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) had their way a decade ago, a women's museum, run by the governor’s advisor and close friend of his wife, would be standing today at 55 Battery Pl. But the site was a rare and perfect one for a stand-alone school, and P.S. 89 needed relief from the influx of children filling Battery Park City’s new residential buildings. The $150-million museum plan, announced by the governor in 2000, was going nowhere, as the Trib pointed out in a February 2006 cover story. "I couldn’t even find a web site for it," complained Barry Skolnik, at the time a Community Board 1 member and the first to suggest that a school could at least share the site. CB1 backed the idea. “Not feasible,” said a spokeswoman for the BPCA, whose leadership was appointed by the Republican governor. But political fortunes changed in Jan. 2007, when Democrat Eliot Spitzer took office and CB1 kept pressing for a new school. “We’re not saying the women’s museum is not an excellent idea, just not at that site,” then-CB1 chair Julie Menin said in December 2006. “We’re going to fight very hard to get a school there.” The next month, with the intervention by Assembly Speaker

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Annex to P.S. 130 (later P.S. 3) opens in Independence Plaza. Forerunner to P.S. 234.

CB1, local officials negotiate “fast tracked” construction of P.S. 234 in exchange for approving Shearson Lehman tower. P.S. 234 opens. Pre-k-to-2nd grade Early Childhood Center opens. Tribeca activists turn vacant lot behind P.S. 234 into Tribeca Community Playground, eventually to become a playground for the school and a dog run. In a survey, BPC parent activists count 582 children living in the neighborhood, making a case for their own school. Architect Henry Stoltzman shows plans for P.S./I.S. 89, part of a 250-foot-high apartment building. First Taste of Tribeca takes place on Jay St. Following delays by State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who held up a school bond offering saying school crowding was worse in other areas, construction begins on P.S./I.S. 89. Sept. P.S./I.S. 89 opens Sept. Playground behind P.S. 234 is opened. Community Board 1 forms task force aimed at creating a new Downtown school. P.S. 89 parents begin a letter-writing campaign calling for another school in Battery Park City. Sept. ECC becomes P.S. 150. Students of now-closed 3rd-to-5th-grade Bridges move to the school. Sept. 11 Downtown schools evacuate as Twin Towers burn. P.S. 234 resumes at P.S. 40, P.S. 150 and P.S. 89 at P.S. 3 and I.S. 89 at O. Henry Learning Center. June To ease crowding, P.S. 234 PTA calls for a plan, later scrapped, to expand the school onto the playground, with three floors and two classrooms on each floor. P.S. 234 principal Sandy Bridges says prekindergarten classes will be discontinued because of crowding. Pace University withdraws plan to be in 76-story residential building on Beekman Street, providing a site for a new school. CB1 calls for a school at 55 Battery Pl., site of planned women’s museum. P.S. 234 annex opens. May School crowding fears intensify as P.S. 234 parents and Assemblyman Sheldon Silver form new school task forces. P.S. 397 and P.S. 276 begin incubating in Tweed Courthouse. Jan. After much divisive debate, zoning lines are drawn for Downtown schools to include P.S. 276 and P.S. 397. Sept. P.S./I.S. 276 opens.

2011 2012 P.S. 276 principal Terri Ruyter chats with 1st grader Riley Keenan.

Sheldon Silver, BPCA president James Cavanaugh said the authority would be “open to discussing it.” And two months later, Silver told parents the deal was done. In September 2010, the $80-million, eight-story school building would open, complete with solar-powered lighting, a rooftop running track and outdoor science lab with sweeping views of New York Harbor.

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Dec. City begins negotiations with U.S. Postal Service for a 400-seat elementary school in vacated Peck Slip post office. The city later agrees to fund 712 seats. Sept. The Spruce Street School opens. June P.S. 234 and P.S. 276 end waitlists by opening additional kindergartens. Sept. Peck Slip School begins incubating at Tweed Courthouse. April P.S. 150 Parents are told their school will be relocated to a new facility in Chelsea and they organize to fight the plan. June The DOE determines that 1,000 additional school seats will be needed Downtown (below 14th Street).

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each kids their times tables, and you’ve given them something to memorize. Teach them to handle a snake and they’re left with a memory. From snakehandling and fashion-modeling to baking and bug-watching, Downtown kids have explored worlds far beyond—and far wilder—than their classrooms. There was the time a yoyo champion taught after-school kids from P.S. 234 and P.S. 89 tricks like “Rock the Baby” and “Man on a Trapeze.” At P.S. 150, the students rolled out yoga mats, humming “Ommmm!” and learning their pos4 tures. At the school’s predecessor, the 5 21 Early Childhood Center, a musician 1st- and 2nd-graders to play the THE RIBECA RIB taught harmonica. “Melody and rhythm are really important,” the teacher gently reminded them, after they had played a few cacophonous bars. Look what’s got the PS 234 principal “Woodwinds Forced to Practice with the Dishes,” screamed a P.S. 234 Times headline in 2003. Fifth-graders Ruben Sonz-Barnes and Huei Lin had an exclusive: Woodwind students were griping about having to take lessons in the crowded school scullery. “I got a JANUARY 2008 good response right away,” said Ruben. “On the second day, I got a lot of responses on the typos.” Then there were the snakes, with their rules of handling. “Heads bite, butts do not,” an animal educator from Snakes-n-Scales told P.S. 150 3rd-graders before handing them an albino Burmese python. “Don’t reach for the head. You’re a stranger.” Yet one more important lesson, and memory, likely to stick.

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A TASTE OF HAUTE CUISINE, 2000 The scene in the P.S. 89 cafeteria kitchen was a merry riot of slicing and chattering as the 4th-graders took on the task of preparing a school dinner party for 90. The kids had learned the arts of menu planning, cooking, place settings and table manners, as part of a pilot program of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food.

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rowns up,” the ballroom dance instructor called out in his rolling Russian accent. “Bow ties out.” And with that, the P.S. 150 5th-graders paraded out of the room in proud cotillion form—a girl on each boy’s arm. It was a courtly conclusion to the students’ first ballroom dancing lesson, brought to the school in 2003 for the second year by the American Ballroom Theater. (The program has continued at P.S. 150 as well as P.S. 89.) The 10-week course introduced the kids to the tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba and merengue, and to one another. For the very first time, these youngsters were going to dance with members of the opposite sex. By the end of their first session, boys and girls were stepping together as true dancing couples, with their elbows out “like chicken wings,” as instructor Alex Tchassov put it. And by the

CLASS CLOWNS, 2012 Spruce Street School 2nd-graders act out their “Ridiculous Robots” routine, led by Aristian Karanikolas. The act was part of “The Piggie and Gerald Circus,” rehearsed during an 11-day circus arts and clown theater workshop taught by members of Marquis Studios, a group that hosts circus arts programs at city schools. The program included writing and drawing assignments as well as instruction in circus skills.

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P.S./I.S. 276 WINTER CARNIVAL 2010 Karaoke drew enthusiastic participation from 6th-graders Caitlin Stallings and Viktoria Cegielski, who belted out a Katy Perry song during the PTA’s fundraiser for the new school, now a P.S./I.S. 276 annual event. The fair featured games, crafts, dancing and an international food festival.

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fifth class, they had turned into little “ladies and gentlemen,” he noted. They had also turned competitive, eyeing the citywide championships. The school’s team would advance to the semifinals, but no further. The kids’ journey, however, so inspired Tribeca resident Amy Sewell, who had followed the class for a story in the Trib, that she enlisted the help of a friend and filmed a documentary the next year. “Mad Hot Ballroom,” which followed 5th-grade dancers from P.S. 150 and two other city elementary schools, would go on to make a splash at the Slamdance Film Festival, where it was picked up by Paramount Pictures for national distribution. The film documents the drama of the competition, and though the P.S. 150 kids lose, we see them grow more poised and confident, inching ever closer to the end of childhood.

STRINGIN’ ALONG, 2008 Champion yo-yo player and yo-yo teacher Patrick Cuatero came to Manhattan Youth’s after-school program to teach children complex yo-yo tricks. The course culminated in a performance where participants, like Mona Johnson and Ruby Marzovilla, showed off their new skills by performing synchronized gravity pulls.

A SHOW OF TALENT, 2012 Madison Heiss, a P.S. 89 2nd-grader, played “Lightly Row” in a talent show presented by the school’s PTA. Each year the students take the stage in an array of performances that can range from ballet and piano-playing to jumping rope and telling jokes. The show begins with “auditions” in March, but everyone, from preschoolers up, get a turn in front of the audience.

SERPENT TIME, 2008 As part of their study of snakes, 3rd-graders in Danielle McKee’s class at P.S. 150 created snake habitat collages, wrote snake stories, made snakes out of clay and even raised their own corn snake almost from birth. But nothing could top the day when they were visited by four different kinds of snakes, and got to hold this 25-pound albino Burmese python.

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t is a matter of mathematics. Simply put, but not simply solved, there are more children in Lower Manhattan than there are seats in the local public schools. Overcrowding is not a new problem, but it has proved to be a confounding and sometimes heartbreaking one for parents whose introduction to their 5-year-olds’ public education is the uncertainty of lotteries, waitlists and rezonings. The first sign of overcrowding surfaced at P.S. 234 in the ’90s and has not abated. An annex in a new apartment tower next door, and still more classrooms rented in the Downtown Community Center, eased the pressure temporarily. But in the spring of 2009, parents who had Feeling the fallout from Downtown’s hoped to send their kids to the toddler explosion. popular elementary school were, for the first time, told there was no more room. They would instead be assigned to P.S. 276, a new school that, along with P.S. 397, would be “incubating” in Tweed Courthouse on Chambers Street. MARCH 2004 “It’s just a really bad dream,” said one parent, who lived next door to P.S. 234 and pictured her daughter eventually attending school a mile and a half away in Battery Park City. “I was talking to my husband about the possibility of moving out of the city, which is something I never considered before.” In time, P.S. 276 would have waitlists of its own. The Department of Education (DOE) has so far found ways to absorb most students who begin as randomly assigned numbers on waitlists. Often, the solution has meant adding another kindergarten class or two, or turning an art or science room into a classroom—hardly solutions that can be sustained, school activists assert. For the school year beginning this month, the DOE eliminated the P.S. 276 and P.S. 89 waitlists by adding two kindergarten classes to P.S. 89. The P.S. 234 waitlist was solved by adding a kindergarten class at P.S. 150. And the Spruce Street School took the few extra children that the Peck Slip School could not absorb. Since 2008, Eric Greenleaf, a Downtown parent and New York University marketing professor, has been forecasting the growing demand for classroom space in elementary schools in Community Board 1—a demand he says is unmet, even with the three new schools that have

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LOOKING FOR NEW SPACE, 2008 In an effort to find more space for the burgeoning population of students at P.S. 89 (from left) principal Ronnie Najjar, parent coordinator Connie Schraft and parent Lisa Tinker explored the basement of a hoped-for school space at the Cove Club, which was being used by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy for offices and storage. This had been school advocates’ space of choice to relieve kindergarten crowding at P.S. 89 until construction of P.S. 276, a block away, was completed. The DOE said it could not be readied in time and later made Tweed Courthouse the “incubator” space for P.S. 276 as well as P.S. 397.

THE DREADED WAITLIST LETTER, 2010 Overcrowding at Downtown schools meant that when 201 parents of Tribeca 4-year-olds opened letters from P.S. 234, many were not happy with the news. With a waitlist 67 seats long, parents like April Uchitel— seen here with daughter Luella and the letter from P.S. 234 informing her that Luella is number 23 on the waitlist for kindergarten—were “heartbroken” to learn that they had yet to secure a seat for their child in the fall.

THE TRIBECA TRIB SEPTEMBER 2013 KEEP THE AGREEMENT, 2006 Shouting “Liar, liar, pants on fire,” P.S. 234 parents and kids, led by John Jiler, demonstrated outside St. John’s University, where Mayor Bloomberg was speaking. Bloomberg had said the city could not afford to keep its promise to build two new schools.

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SOUNDING THE ALARM, 2012 In one of his many demographic projections since 2008, P.S. 234 parent and NYU professor Eric Greenleaf warned of school crowding. Department of Education officials had routinely refuted his numbers until this year, when they said Downtown will be short 1,000 seats.

CHANCELLOR MEETS TASK FORCE, 2013 Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and other DOE officials met with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force. The meeting led the DOE to reexamine Downtown’s school needs. The task force has long been on the forefront of advocating for new schools.

opened since 2009. Each year he has presented bleak demographic projections for Lower Manhattan, and each year DOE officials have claimed that he was wrong. Until this year. Greenleaf and other members of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force shared their latest projections with schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott in April, leading the DOE to reconsider. The result: the city says that Lower Manhattan is heading for a 1,000school-seat shortage, not far off from what Greenleaf had been saying all along. That may well lead the city, which will announce in November a new five-year school construction plan, to allocate funds later this year for a new school—to open years from now. Greenleaf said he is pleased that the DOE is finally recognizing the growing need for more Downtown school seats. “But, frankly,” he said, “a lot of the seats are really needed now.”

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At an October, 2011 hearing, Wendy Driscoll, with her son, Alex, testified against a zoning proposal to send northern Tribeca children to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village.

“It’s going to be very difficult to yourselves when you go home tomap it out in a way that is fair to every- night,” she said, “do you want your body.” children to hear that they are getting to That was Battery Park City parent go to a great school, or do you want Dorothy Baratta back in September them to hear that they are getting sec1997, talking about zoning for yet-to- ond best?” open P.S. 89. Should the school be open Still, there was no shortage of to just kids from Battery Park City? complaints after the vote. And if Battery Park City children “Why am I all of a sudden not part would no longer of the Tribeca be going to P.S. community?” 234, parents livasked an angry ing east of Broadmother from way asked, why eastern Tribeca, shouldn’t their now zoned for children now be P.S. 397 rather allowed to go than Tribeca’s there? P.S. 234. Few issues It all feels disget Downtown tant now, with parents fired up both new schools like school zonup and running, ing. Worries over and praised. So, safety, property too, did the 2011 values, convenrezoning, trigience, social gered by the need ties—not to mento create a zone tion academics— for the Peck Slip can fuel the School. The first flames of discord DOE proposal among otherwise sent northern Trineighborly moms Victoria Petrusenko, supporter of zoning beca kids to P.S. 3 plan 3, showed her preference at a and dads. in the Village. 2010 CEC meeting. For Lower Following an upManhattan, the hubbub reached a peak— roar, that plan was rejected as was the or a nadir—one January evening in next one, which sent eastern Tribeca 2010, when the District 2 Community kindergartners to Chinatown’s P.S. 1. A Education Council would choose be- final plan, passed at the end of 2011, tween two proposed zoning plans. Each zoned all Tribeca for P.S. 234, among would break up the zones of P.S. 89 and other zoning changes, but meant waitP.S. 234 in order to create zones for P.S. lists for that school and others. 276 and P.S. 397. Overwrought parents The tortuous process will start all were so divided—supporters of each over, with a whole new set of parents, plan even dressed in different colors— if and when Lower Manhattan gets that the principals of all five Down- another public elementary school. town schools stood before the parents “I can’t believe I’m dealing with and tried to calm them. elementary school,” said Victoria P.S. 234 principal Lisa Ripperger Petrusenko, the mother of a 2-year-old reminded the crowd that they were who was fighting for a rezoning plan now teaching their children how to back in 2010, “when I should be thinkhandle conflict. “I want you to ask ing about nursery school.”

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Janna Mandel-Townsend helped lead a We pulled up immense weeds, removed band of residents claim an empty lot next to bricks, roofing material, glass and debris, and P.S. 234 for the community. This is her story, plugged saws and drills into nearby street reprinted from the May 1999 issue of the Trib. lights. We built planters and placed them In June of 1990, the land next to P.S. 234, around the perimeter to prevent the lot from between Chambers and Warren, was a haven becoming another parking lot. The planters for a few homeless people, the 10 car owners were filled with rocks and rubble, then topped who parked there and the rats that lived in the with soil and planted with flowers from the five-foot-high weeds. It was a city jungle littered farmers market. with trash, scads of old tires and two abanMonday morning, before the school bell doned cars. rang, we invited everyone to the P.S. 234 courtNeighbors discovered that it was not peryard to see the transformation. Though quite missible to build on the land because it was unusable, the dirt clearing surrounded by geradesignated as an easement, and requested that niums was spectacular! A small entrance had it be used for the active recreation space we been created with a rock garden and wooden COURTESY OF JANNA MANDEL-TOWNSEND In 1990, the space next to P.S. 234 was “adopted” by Tribeca residents. desperately needed. Even our new school, P.S. archway with “Tribeca Community Playground” 234, had no playground. Although the city was painted across the top. intent on putting tall buildings nearby, without concern for the need for outdoor It was a symbolic act to demonstrate to the city that we needed recreation space space, they wouldn’t give this small site to the community. So we decided to take it. as much as the city needed to bring in revenues from development—and that qualI can’t say who did it, but on Friday night the cars were removed, and the next ity of life is a valuable commodity. That summer, families religiously passed the hose morning about 30 of us—photographers, architects, dancers, artists, writers, lighting from household to household for daily watering. Bringing the hose to and from the designers, lawyers, teachers, carpenters, all neighbors—got together and built a site was quite a chore, but in September the geraniums were still very much alive “playground.” and the land was still ours.

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t was just a piece of undeveloped land next to P.S. 234, but back in the Tribeca of the ’90s, any patch was a space to play. And not just for kids. With no dog run in the area, pet owners marked the same territory. This wouldn’t do. “You can’t have kids and dogs playing in the same recreation space,” said Bob Townley, who then, in 1995, chaired the Community Board 1 committee that oversaw the property. The board held the lease on the property between Chambers and Warren streets, and the school wanted it for a playground. But dog owners would not be bowed. Signs banning dogs from the yard were removed and locks on the gate broken. The turf war was on. A compromise, two years in the making, saw the school cede a quarter of the lot for the dog run on the Warren Street side. But that did not cool the controversy. Too small, some dog owners sniffed, insisting that the whole space be open to dogs and kids. But a fence went up and a group, “Dogs of Tribeca,” was formed to maintain the dog run and lobby for more space. The fight was now between dog owners who agreed to the allotted space and those who didn’t. “All of a sudden, people weren’t talking to each other,” said dog owner Linda Walsh. The bitterness eventually subsided. When elections for a new “Dogs of Tribeca” president were held a year later, no candidates or voters bothered to show. “I’m involved with politics every day of my life,” said a dog owner. “I don’t want to get involved with politics with my dog, too, for God’s sake.”

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Top: In November 1996, P.S. 234 Principal Anna Switzer stood before dog owners as they voted to accept a quarter of the 9,000-square-foot area next to the school for a dog run. Above: In March 1997, just hours after a fence was erected to demarcate the area for the dog run, a vandal tore a hole in it. Some dog owners fought against members of Dogs of Tribeca, newly formed by Denise Ulich, who were willing to accept the division of territory. Left: Jane O’Hara, in September 1999, tried out the equipment on the new playground before it officially opened. A P.S. 234 parent, David Feiner, designed the space.

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ABOVE: P.S. 234 1st-graders, led by teacher Elizabeth Keim, file past St. Bernard’s, the vacated parochial school on West 13th Street where they moved from P.S. 41. ABOVE RIGHT: P.S. 89 4th-grade teachers Margaret O’Connell (left) and Shoshana Wolfe share a classroom in P.S. 3 on their second day at the Greenwich Village school. The room had yet to be furnished with chairs and desks. Before the school moved from their claustrophobic quarters to a school on East Houston Street on Oct. 22, principal Ronnie Najjar told parents, “I feel like I’ve been walking around with a huge roll of masking tape, trying to hold things together.” RIGHT: In a festive and emotional return to P.S. 89 on Feb. 28, 2002, parent Michael Fortenbaugh leads kids to school on their first day back since Sept. 11.

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t was a noble time,” said Anna Switzer, the former principal of Tribeca’s P.S. 234, as she recalled the five difficult months spent out of her school building following Sept. 11, 2001. “People behaved nobly.” Getting back—into their homes, their businesses, their pre-Sept. 11 lives—was a struggle for many in Lower Manhattan. For parents of Downtown students, the struggle was especially prolonged. And difficult. There were concerns over caustic air and the debris-filled trucks and barges on West Street, as well as disagreements between PTAs and the Board of Education over how thoroughly the buildings had been scrubbed. And some parents wondered whether the kids would be emotionally prepared to return to the schools from which they fled: “What does it mean for children to be this young and know this much?” asked parent Elissa FEBRUARY 2002 Krauss. Of the 415 students attending P.S. 89 on Sept. 10, only 250 remained on Oct. 23. (Before a healthy rebound later in the year, the Battery Park City Nursery was nearly emptied, down from 120 toddlers to just 41.) During the initial weeks, students from both P.S. 89 and P.S. 150 were shoehorned into P.S. 3 classrooms in

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Greenwich Village while their schools’ administrators worked around the table of a tiny office. I.S. 89 students found themselves squeezed in among high schoolers at what then was the O. Henry Learning Center on West 17th Street, where several schools were already housed. “The teachers and staff have been heroic,” said a P.S. 234 parent. “They have no resources, no room, and they’reworking with children who are traumatized.” After about three weeks at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, P.S. 234 students moved to the vacated St. Bernard’s Parish School. The much-reduced student population of P.S. 89 found roomy quarters at NEST on East Houston Street while P.S. 150 remained at P.S. 3. Some families fled upstate or to New Jersey, waiting for the right time to return, if at all. “He wants to go back and be with his friends,” said one mother, living in New Jersey, speaking of her 2nd-grader. “But he’s thinking about Battery Park City pre-Sept. 11. He doesn’t realize that most of them aren’t there.” P.S. 234 students returned to their building on Jan. 22, more than a month before P.S. 89 went back to theirs. (Thirty families pulled out of the school altogether, to avoid sending their children to the Battery Park City building.) Also controversial among parents was the October 2001 reopening of Stuyvesant High School, where some students had complained of coughs and watering eyes. The day they returned, P.S. 234 students assembled in the yard to sing “This Land Is Your Land.” It was that morning when, as P.S. 234 teacher Pat Demarco recalled years later, “We knew we were going to be okay.”

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Parents for Positive Return, a group intent on returning on Feb. 28, 2002, held a rally at P.S. 89. Until then, most media attention went to parents opposed to moving back.

thing for everybody. And then you realize, arents had just dropped off their there is no right thing for everybody.” children, and some were still lingerThe split among the P.S. 89 parents ing in the schoolyard when the first grew so ugly that the PTA leader pulled his plane hit. “People crying, hysteria. I got child out of the school. Three months later every parent into the building,” Principal his successor did the same. Ronnie Najjar recalled. There were a few Hoping to stave off the mandated parents whom she pulled aside. “You can come to the cafeteria with the rest of us, or return to P.S. 89, the parents voted to authorize a lawsuit against the Board of you can take your child home,” she told Education—only to withdraw it days later. them. “But you cannot stand outside the classroom and scream.” Emotions would remain high at the school for months while worries about environmental risks at the school, used as a temporary command center for the Office of Emergency Management, mounted. Deep divisions formed among parents about the timing and safety of At a Jan. 25, 2002 P.S. 89 PTA meeting, PTA co-chair Sharon Sprague takes a vote to allow a suit against the Board of the children’s return to Education’s mandate for a return to the school on Feb. 4. the school buildings. Their cause drew heavy press coverage and After the attacks, the students had was eventually countered by the opposibeen sent, along with P.S. 150 children, to tion, calling themselves Parents For a P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village. They would eventually be moved into a wing of NEST, a Positive Return. Under the glare of TV lights, their children rallied in favor of school on East Houston Street and Avenue going back. “We want our school!” they D. That, too, brought controversy. shouted. Many parents were furious, complainLike the I.S. 89 students who had ing that the Board of Education had foistalready returned more than a month earlied the out-of-the-way building on their er, the students would get their wish. But already fragile and heavily diminished by the time they returned, on Feb. 28, the school population. Some parents and division among parents and the catateachers were again enraged when the strophic disruption to the neighborhood Board of Education mandated that P.S. 89 had taken a heavy toll. P.S. 89 finished up children return to their school on Feb. 4, the school year with barely half the number 2002. of children who had been enrolled the day “Being on the [PTA] board has been before Sept. 11. the worst experience of my life in the last month,” said parent Maria Orinitsas. “There’s so much pressure to do the right SCHOOL DAYS CONTINUES ON PAGE 374

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P.S. 234 2nd-grader William Matar wrote a letter bound for Haiti during a class period devoted to the country and its earthquakedevastated people. There was Haitian storytelling, meditation and poetry in honor of the victims. Prior to the class, the school’s students had raised some $10,000 for Haitians in need. P.S. 89, meanwhile, collected more than $600 that month.

hey have cooked up fundraisers, solicited donations from merchants, collected coins, written the mayor and marched through the neighborhood carrying signs and shouting demands. Lower Manhattan school kids have shown they can respond, no matter the cause or crisis, with a selflessness beyond their years. “It really opens your eyes to what’s happening around the world,” P.S. 234 5th-grader Olivia Ballard said in 2006, when her school and P.S. 150 collected money at Taste of Tribeca for the U.N.’s World Food Programme. Others have bought Christmas gifts for needy kids and raised thousands of dollars for hurricane, earthquake and tsunami victims half a world away. Each act was a lesson in giving that would not show up on a test but would make a difference.

WALKING FOR PURE WATER IN INDIA, 2013 P.S. 89 students and their parents paraded through Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City to raise funds for the Pure Water Project, which will use the money towards the cost of digging a 350-foot-deep well and piping clean water to the village of Raipur, India. Their walk, an annual end-of-year event to help people in need, brought in more than $5,000 in pledges.

HELPING TSUNAMI VICTIMS, 2005 In response to the tsunami in Asia and the Pacific, 5th-graders at P.S. 89 began Operation Piggy Bank. Each week, students brought in coins and checks to add to the piggy banks in their classrooms. They were among many Downtown schools and community groups that mobilized to raise thousands of dollars for the Red Cross, UNICEF and other relief organizations.

A PLEA FOR THE PLANET, 1999 Members of I.S. 89’s Take Back the Planet Committee marched up Trinity Place and Church Street as part of the environmental activism that Andrea Greer was teaching in her science class. The students took to the streets after learning about the harmful effects of Styrofoam on the Hudson River.

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Preschool Play Toddlers with their parents or caregivers play on the lawn. Toys, books and play equipment are provided. For tots ages 2– 4. Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10 am. Wagner Park, near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org. g Leggo My Legos Toddlers 18–36 months old play with blocks while developing their interpersonal skills. Wednesdays (except 9/11), 11 am. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g

Art & Games Group games and hands-on art projects, from designing cities to making animal masks. Art supplies provided. For kids ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm at Teardrop Park, near Warren St. Thursdays, 3:30 pm at Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org. g Preschool Art Very young artists are introduced to paper, clay, wood and paint with projects planned and led by an art educator. Materials are provided. For tots ages 2–4. Thursdays, 10:30 am. Rockefeller Park, near Warren St., bpcparks.org. g Stack ‘Em High Woolworth Using stacking blocks, kids learn about and construct models of tall buildings, including the Woolworth Building, the subject of the Museum’s current exhibition. Sat, 9/7, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g

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Stories from the Seventh Fire Four short animated films tell the stories of the trickster rabbit Wesakechak and other tales from Great Lakes-region Native Americans. Daily, starting on Mon, 9/9, 10:30 & 11:45 am. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Fantasia Disney’s 1940 film features eight animated segments set to the music of composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas and Schubert. Pizza will be served. Fri, 9/20, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 107 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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The Pop Ups Jason Rabinowitz, Jacob Stein and their Grammy-nominated kids’ band will perform some of their most popular songs. Kids also make holiday craft projects. Sun, 9/8, 2 pm. $10; $7, children ages 10 and under. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Princess Katie and Racer Steve This New York City-based rock ‘n’ roll band performs original children’s songs with a three-piece horn section. Thu, 9/12, 6 pm. Free.

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Conversations with Anne: Becoming a Writer One-woman show recounts how Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday, and then spent the next two years filling it with her thoughts and experiences. After the play, Anne Frank stays in character to answer questions from the audience. Sat, 9/7, 1 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com. g

High Notes An outdoor rooftop celebration of great books and music for the whole family, including a reading by Frank Haberle, a performance by guitarist Joao Luiz, and arts and crafts projects provided by the Church Street School for Music and Art. Snacks will be served. Tue, 9/17, 5:30 pm. $25; $10 kids. For tickets, go to concertartists.org. Pen Parentis, 59 John St., penparentis.org.

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Parent & Baby Yoga for new parents and babies. Mondays, 9/9–10/28 (except 10/14), 1 and 2:30 pm. $150/7 sessions. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.

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Kids Can Cook! Kids learn a recipe and make their own tasty treats to bring home. Limited supplies are provided. Mon, 9/23, 3:30 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g

Family Yoga Class Kids learn the foundations of yoga, including breathing techniques and age-appropriate poses, and play games. Vegetable-based snacks will be served. Yoga mats available. Fri, 9/27, 6 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

Stories and Songs Musicians lead interactive singing and music-making. For children 6 months to 3.5 years old with accompanying parents or caregivers. Registration required. Mondays, 9/9–12/16 (except 10/14 & 11/11); Wednesdays, 9/11–12/4. $275/13 sessions. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org. Metta World Peace The New York Knicks player will read from and sign his new children’s book, “Metta’s Bedtime Stories.” The stories’ shared goal is to help the reader approach each day with a positive attitude. Wed, 9/18, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

Ballet Barre Storytime Ballet-themed stories, plus a short ballet movie and a related crafts project. Costume attire is encouraged. Ages 5–8. Mon, 9/30, 3:45 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

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In August of 2003, I attended several weeks of DOE training along with 1,200 other newly hired parent coordinators, mostly women, of various ages and backgrounds. None of us had any idea what the job would entail—what skills would be needed, whether we would be welcomed or ignored. Were we working for the parents or the principals? Lately, I’ve CONNIE been thinking SCHRAFT back and noting what’s changed since I first arrived at P.S. 89. In 2003 the budget was flush, and there were still empty classrooms in the five-yearold school. SCHOOL But parents’ TALK worries were not so different from now. They were concerned about test scores and class size, and they wanted a nearby zoned middle school. But one aspect of the school was very different—admissions. Back then, there were no waitlists or alternate offers. Moving to the zone meant the promise of your child’s admission to your zoned school—as long as you could show proof

of birth and address. Class size mattered, but we were obligated to enroll every child who lived in the zone, which back then encompassed all of Battery Park City. One year the kindergarten classes hovered around 30 students in each of three classes, and parents weren’t happy. Neither were the teachers or the principal, but what was there to do? The next year, the numbers were so high that a fourth kindergarten class was needed. The following year, there were six. The art room and the computer rooms became classrooms. The parent room became an art room, and the technology

It was an aha! moment. Suddenly, parents became activists and were taking buses to Albany to rally for more schools. An overcrowding committee was formed, generating postcards, buttons and petitions. Local politicians such as Borough President Scott Stringer and then-Councilman Alan Gerson came and listened to parents, and began advocating for more schools. Soon, Community Board 1 joined in and Speaker Sheldon Silver’s overcrowding committee was born. Proactive parents didn’t wait for the DOE; they searched the Downtown neighborhoods for new school sites. In

It took an aha! moment for P.S. 89 parents to turn activists—to start taking buses to Albany, rallying for more schools and form overcrowding committees.

program was relegated to what had been the boys’ locker room. Although no programs were lost, parents were alarmed and they raged at PTA meetings. But no one did anything until one day in 2007 when the principal said something that changed the parents’ attitude. She described how P.S. 234 parents had lobbied for another school when they began to see the overcrowding. She said, and I am paraphrasing, “I am the principal, but this is your school.”

September 2008, the principal and I, along with a group of parents, toured the Cove Club, which had housed the Battery Park City Conservancy. There are now three more schools— P.S./I.S. 276, Spruce Street and Peck Slip—but parents are still scouting the area for new school sites. This summer I have been fielding emails from parents moving to the neighborhood. Some have done research and are aware of the waitlists for kinder-

garten; others innocently assume that simply residing in one of the nearby high-rise apartment buildings entitles their child to a seat—the way it used to be. We are opening five kindergartens this year and some families moved away this summer—so there will most likely be space for everyone. Key words: most likely. When I first began, P.S. 89 was known as a school that would accept outof-zone students. It had taken a hit after 9/11 when many BPC families evacuated and never returned. Parents who worked in the neighborhood would come to me with a report card in their hand, lobbying for their child to attend P.S. 89. But the times had already changed, and when I went to the principal with these requests, she patiently explained that we could not accept out-of-zone families anymore. Still, I considered it my job to make the case. Now, without much conversation, I send those parents to the district office, where variance requests are made, and suggest they consider another school. I’m friendly but firm. I don’t even feel that bad about it anymore. I’ve toughened up, I suppose. After a decade, I tread a line between optimism and realism. I use more qualifiers in my replies, and I no longer make promises. Connie Schraft is P.S. 89’s parent coordinator. For questions and comments, write her at connie@tribecatrib.com.

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Michael Showalter This humorous guide, “Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too: A Guidebook for Men and Their Cats,” is designed to help men understand, appreciate and bond with their mother’s, girlfriend’s or sister’s cat. Mon, 9/9, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

Najla Said Said, the daughter of the well-known Palestinian intellectual, Edward Said, will speak about her book, “Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family.” The memoir recalls Said’s life as a young American girl who longed to fit in and who often felt conflicted about her cultural background and identity. The free talk will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 pm.) Free. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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photographic print. Wed, 9/4– Sat, 9/28. Opening reception: Tue, 9/10, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

liver Lake on alto saxophone is one of many jazz musicians, including those playing the oud, the riqq and the dumbek, who will be performing in the annual International Concert for Peace at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the box office or at tribecapac.org.

Jason Rohlf Vibrant and textured, the abstract, geometric paintings in “Shop Rag Paintings” use elements of collage and drawing embedded in layers of patterns and surfaces. Thu, 9/5–Sat, 10/12. Opening reception: Thu, 9/5, 6 pm. Tue– Fri, 11 am–6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com.

Tad Lauritzen Wright Symbolism, text, figures and collage are combined in witty paintings and drawings in this show entitled “From the Foothills of Ambiguity,” which explores human interaction, community, memory and politics. Tue, 9/10– Sat, 10/5. Opening reception: Thu, 9/12, 6 pm. Mon–Fri, 11 am–6 pm and by appointment. Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, 35 North Moore St., cherylhazan.com.

g Pen Parentis Literary Salon Local writers, including Liz Rosenberg (“The Laws of Gravity”), Will Allison (“Long Drive Home”), Amy Shearn (“The Mermaid of Brooklyn”) and recipient of the Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents John Jodzio (“If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home”), read aloud their newest poetry and prose. Tue, 9/10, 7 pm. Free. Pen Parentis at Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org. g An Afternoon of Poetry Poets published by Red Hen Press, including Brendan Constantine, Kim (Freilich) Dower and Thomas Lux, will read their original works. Sat, 9/14, 4 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g

Bo Lidegaard Author will discuss his book “Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis,” about how the Danes helped smuggle nearly all of their Jewish compatriots to freedom in Sweden. Sun, 9/15, 2:30 pm. $15. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Book Group This month’s discussion group is about “Sold” by Patricia McCormick. Registration is required. Wed, 9/18, 5:30 pm. Free. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org. g

John Lawton “Then We Take Berlin” follows Joe Wilderness, a World War II orphan who was drafted into the Royal Air Force, where he smuggles coffee with Frank, an Army captain. Nearly two decades later, Frank tries to get him to “grow” their operation by smuggling people. Wed, 9/25, 7 pm. Free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com.

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50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus Steve Pressman will screen and discuss his film about a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Vienna during World War II to save 50 Jewish children. Wed, 10/2, 7 p.m. $10 adults, $7 students/seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Death of a Cameraman Artists create images in response to footage of a gunman taken in Syria moments before he shoots the cameraman. The show is an exploration of what it means to bear witness to events from a distance. The pieces shed light on the space between the camera and the eye, and between documentary, documentarists and the documented. Thu, 9/12–Sat, 10/26. Tue– Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

Life of Pi A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. Wed, 9/4, 8 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, Pier 17, downtownny.com.

Eye on Oaxaca Three short films focus on the work of Ojo de Agua Comunicación, the independent, indigenous media collective located in Oaxaca, Mexico. One claymation short is made by Oaxacan children; another film documents the production of brown sugar in a small town. Daily starting Mon, 9/9, 1 & 3 pm, Thursdays, 5:30 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

Maria the Korean Bride Maria has been married 50 times, holding ceremonies in all 50 states. She has been married to a dog musher from Alaska, a Samoan-American named Spam from Hawaii, a Las Vegas impersonator dressed as Diana Ross, and many others. Maria and some of her husbands will be present for the screening to talk with audience members. Sat, 9/28, 4 pm. $15. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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6th Annual Governors Island Art Fair 100 rooms of painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance art in the island’s military barracks. This is New York’s largest independent exhibition. Every full weekend in September. Information at 4heads.org.

Heather Stoltz and Yona Verwer Artwork featured in “City Charms & Sewing Stories” address the subject of people’s vulnerability. The pieces are based on traditional Jewish texts and liturgy, and Stoltz’s quilted wall hangings and fabric sculptures feature Biblical women, giving voice to oft-overlooked characters in Jewish history. To Sat, 11/30. Synagogue for the Arts, 49 White St., synagogueforthearts.org.

g Dancers Among Us Photographer Jordan Matter has chronicled dancers in far-flung New York City venues such as the Plaza Hotel, the subway, Fifth Avenue and a helipad. His playful photographs, which appear in his book, “Dancers Among Us,” will be shown in the lobby windows of One New York Plaza at Water and Whitehall from Wed, 9/4 to Fri, 10/4.

g Cimetière d’Ixelles New commissions by Helena Almeida, Germaine Kruip, Jochen Lempert, Alexandra Leykauf and Eva Lofdahl that explore death. Sat, 9/21–Sat, 10/19. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.

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Rising Waters: Photographs of Hurricane Sandy Drawn from an open call for submissions from the public, more than 100 digital and print photographs by 90 photographers, both professional and amateur, document the damage and recovery from Hurricane Sandy, one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in recent history. To Sun, 9/29. Sat–Sun, 12–6 pm. Governors Island, Building 19, mcny.org.

2013 Fellows Exhibition Paintings and sculptures by the 2013 post-graduate fellows Jonathan Beer, Aleah Chapin and Nicolas Holiber feature the variety of artistic approaches that students learn at the academy. Tue, 9/3–Sun, 9/29. Opening reception: Tue, 9/3, 6 pm. Thu–Tue, 2–8 pm and by appointment. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu.

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here An assemblage of artists’ responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad by a bomb explosion that occurred in March 2007. This traveling exhibition features approximately 250 books and 50 broadsides by artists from around the world. To Fri, 9/27. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm; Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

Fugitiveart: Made to Fade This exhibition explores the implications of fine-art photographs as ephemeral objects. Two dozen photographers will share 90 images engineered to fade within six to 18 months. Each image is intended to reengage artists and the public in the irreplaceable beauty, power and expressiveness of the

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have gained a standing in New York and in the global fashion industry. This exhibit focuses on the careers and unique assemblages of 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 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

William Floyd’s House of Revolution This photographic exhibit debuts the first artistic collection documenting the Old Mastic House, which is part of the Fire Island National Seashore on Long Island. It was the home of William Floyd, an American revolutionary and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Commissioned by the National Park Service, artist Xiomaro brings the Floyd house to life with 17 pieces. To Sun, 12/1. Daily, 12–5 pm. $7; $4 students, seniors, children 6–8; free for kids under 5 and for members of the active military. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes Juxtaposing modern works with historic, ancestral objects reveals the stories, experiences and histories of Anishinaabe life in the Great Lakes region. Pieces include dodem or clan pictographs on treaty documents; bags embroidered with porcupine quills; painted drums; and carved pipes, spoons and bowls. To June 2014. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

ife Among the Gypsies: The Pre-War Photographs of Jan Yoors, 1934–40 is an exhibit of 34 photographs by Belgian photographer Jan Yoors of the Roma (Gypsies) of Eastern and Central Europe. Yoors left home at the age of 12 to join a band of Romanies, spending most of his teen years with them. His images are a rare view of Roma customs and culture during the prewar years. The photos are on display at the Anne Frank Center from Thursday, Sept. 5 until Friday, Jan. 3, with an opening reception on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 6 pm. The Center, at 44 Park Pl., is open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free for children under 8.

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Music In Motion Juilliard School students play in this month-long series of performances of classical, contemporary and jazz tunes inspired by dance. Weds, 9/4, 9/11, 9/18 and 9/25 at 12:30 pm in the lobby of One New York Plaza at Water and Whitehall.

Jazz Sail Live jazz will be performed on the sailboat Clipper City as it cruises around the city for two hours. Wednesdays, 9:45 pm. $95; $45 for children ages 12 and under. South Street Seaport, Pier 17, manhattanbysail.com.

Concerts at One: Britten 100 Music by the composer, Benjamin Britten, in honor of his 100th birthday. Celebrated favorites and rarely performed works in Britten’s repertory will be performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Other featured artists include tenor Nicholas Phan, cellist Matt Haimovitz and the Trinity Youth Chorus. Thursdays, 1 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

Jeremy Udden’s Plainville Brooklyn-based saxophonist plays a mix of jazz, instrumental rock, folk and indie music with his band. Fri, 9/6, 6:30 pm. Free. South Street Seaport, Pier 17, southstreetseaport.com.

Jarana Beat A fusion of elements from Mexico’s African and indigenous traditions that incorporates son jarocho, mexika, son huasteco and contemporary influences. Sat, 9/14, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

Marco Benevento Keyboard pianist performs “A Circuit Bent Piano Rock Picture Show in Exploding Color,” a jazz, jam band and indie music concert that brings in multimedia, including video, costumes, dancers and other shenanigans. Thu, 9/19, 8 pm. Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Mr. Ho’s Orchestroitica An experimental big band dedicated to performing the lost space-age pop music of Juan Garcia Esquivel will perform “Sonorama.” The performance is based on memorized transcriptions of Esquivel’s recordings from the 1950s and 60s, and recreates the Hollywood, Latin and jazz sounds of the mid-20th century. Sat, 9/21, 7:30 pm. $35. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu. g

Nathan Hall Day Commemoration A ceremony to commemorate the 237th anniversary of the execution of Patriot spy Nathan Hall will feature an official New York City proclamation and songs sung by New York City school children and the Sons of the Revolution color guard. Mon, 9/23, 12 pm. Free. City Hall Park, frauncestavernmuseum.org.

Django’s Dream A 1930s Gypsy swing festival featuring guitarists Stephane Wrembel and Kamlo and Alfonso Ponticelli who will play music by Django as well as Flamenco, jazz and other Gypsystyle music. Sat, 9/28, 7:30 pm. $35. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.

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Cody Harjo will show how dance regalia are made, demonstrating traditional Native American beadwork, porcupine quillwork and other decorative techniques. Wednesdays, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

Travel Photo Slideshow Sierra Club photo committee members and tour leaders Chuck and Helen Pine will share their photographs of Yellowstone National Park in wintertime. Tue, 9/10, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. west wing room 2 & 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com.

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At The Flea: The Recommendation tells the story of friendship and loyalty in a class driven world. To 9/22, 7 p.m. $15-$35. Sarah Flood in Salem, Mass A radical retelling of the events leading up to the Salem witch trials. Blood feuds, black magic and the birth of capitalism merge in this portrait of a village where history may repeat itself. Tue, 9/24–Sun, 10/27. Tuesdays–Saturdays, 7 pm; Sundays, 3 pm. $15–$55. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.

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g Taverns: Patriots, Pirates and Prostitutes This 90-minute tour explores Lower Manhattan history through taverns, one of the only places in early New York City to attract the rich, the poor, the influential, the lawful and the criminal all at once. Stops include Fraunces Tavern, Delmonico’s, Stone Street and Coenties Slip. Saturdays & Sundays, 3

pm. $25. Wall Street Walks, wallstreetwalks.com. g

Wagner Park Garden Tour Tour the gardens of Wagner Park with a horticulturist and learn about innovations in organic gardening on a public scale. Wed, 9/18, 1 pm. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

Bird Watching A birder/naturalist leads a walk and talks about the variety of birds that rest and nest in the parks of Battery Park City. Binoculars and field guides provided. Sat, 9/21, 11 am. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

g Revolutionary New York Uncover New York City’s Revolutionary era that is hidden beneath modern structures—and visit the site where the Declaration of Independence was first read aloud in the city, graves of important historical figures and where George Washington made his inaugural address. Meet at the entrance to City Hall Park, Broadway at Murray St. Wed, 9/25, 11 am. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g

Public Art Tour: The Real World An art historian leads a tour of Battery Park City’s public art collection, focusing on “The Real World,” the whimsical sculptures by Tom Otterness. Sat, 9/28, 2 pm. Free. Rockefeller Park near Warren St., bpcparks.org.

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215 ACRES AVAIL ABLE — 845.866.1596 5 25.5 acres....................$210,000 $199,000

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6 28 acres ....................$275,000 $225,000

2 12.2 acres....................$210,000 $199,000 $199,000 3 13.2 acres....................$210,000

$210,000 7 45.5 acres...................$250,000

$199,000 4 15.4 acres....................$210,000

Total Property .....$1,100,000 $1,100,000

ARCHITECT — GORDON GILBERT

• 1.5 hours from NYC and Northern New Jersey • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 30 min. away • Proposed new Concord development 4 miles from property • 70 Acre Spring Fed Lake - beautiful for swimming • Perfect for development, home sites or hotel • Town of So. Fallsburg and Monticello minutes away • Two 18 hole county golf courses within a few miles • Peaceful and quiet surroundings, no motor boats • Pristine woods to be preserved • Excellent value for total parcel or individual home site

NoLita

TriBeCa A HOUSE FOR ALL REASONS TriBeCa. Private garage in stunningly renovated 25-foot wide CORNER TOWNHOUSE #ONlGURED WITH 5+BR, elevator, superb roof garden. $19.5M. WEB# 3850292. Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207 Shirley A. Mueller 212-906-0561

PH WITH PRIVATE TERRACE Lafayette Street. Create your own 4,472SF penthouse with 4,031SF private terrace on top of a full service Nolita condo. 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, GAS lREPLACES SWEEPING .ORTH South, East, and West views. $14.5M. WEB# 3502640. Kyle Blackmon 212-588-5648 2BR WITH DEN AND TERRACE Lafayette Street. Perched on the TH mOOR THIS 3& "2 PLUS den, 2.5 bath condo has 2,021SF private terraces,12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ceilings, gas lREPLACE AND OPEN 3OUTH %AST and West exposures. Full-service building. $8M. WEB# 3884910. Kyle Blackmon 212-588-5648 2BR WITH PRIVATE TERRACE Lafayette Street. Perched on the TH mOOR THIS 3& "2 2.5 bath condo has 2,010SF private outdoor space, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings and GAS lREPLACE /PEN .ORTH %AST and West exposures. Full-service building. $6.5M. WEB# 3884919. Kyle Blackmon 212-588-5648

SoHo/NoHo RARE SOHO 70 X 70 SoHo. Grandly squared 70-foot x 70-foot Mercer Street loft with 12-foot ceiling, 13 huge windows, 3 exposures, original wood columns AND mOORS GLORIOUS LIGHT PRIME SoHo location. $4.45M. WEB# 3992706. Siim Hanja 212-317-3670 Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675 EARLY ARTIST AUTHENTIC SoHo. Clean open volume of true loft space. Fully usable 25-foot x 80-foot dimensions plus foyer entry, North, South, and West exposures, 13-foot ceilings, exposed brick, open kitchen. Pure SoHo aesthetic. $2.95M. WEB# 8706379. Rudi Hanja 212 317-3675 Siim Hanja 212-317-3670

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST TriBeCa. Stunning views south and WEST FROM HIGH mOOR "2 BATH condo at 101 Warren. Amenityrich building, sunny, and turn-key. $5.75M. WEB# 3596897. Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207 NORTH MOORE CONDO LOFT TriBeCa. This loft has a spacious living room drenched in sunlight WITH A WOOD BURNING lREPLACE exposed brick walls, steel beams and a curved glass feature wall. $3.5M. WEB# 8555301. Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 STUNNING PH TRIPLEX TriBeCa. Beautiful 3BR, 2.5 bath home with approximately 2,000SF of private terraced spaces. City, river and bridge views in a true PENTHOUSE ON THE mOOR $2.9M. WEB# 3970495. Julia Hoagland 212-906-9262

ROOFTOP OASIS IN TRIBECA TriBeCa. Private sun-drenched 3 level rooftops this pristine duplex loft that was recently renovated with an open layout, Miele appliances, 2 zone central air conditioner and washer/dryer. $1.595M. WEB# 8570613. Sarah Orlinsky-Maitland 212-906-0573 Sharri Kane 212-906-0532

Gramercy/Chelsea

Rentals

PW PENTHOUSE W/TERRACE SoHo. Mint prewar duplex with 1,000SF planted roof terrace. 2,500SF loft with 17-foot x 40-foot living/dining space, 3BR, 3.5 bath, WOOD BURNING lREPLACE FOOT ceilings and oversized wndws. Prime location. $24,000/month. WEB# 1223450. SPRAWLING PREWAR LOFT William Grant 212-906-0518 Jill Mangone 212-452-4478 Chelsea. Over 3,600SF condo CHIC RENTAL AT 40 BOND and the potential for 3 bedrooms NoHo. Herzog and de Meuron with expansive living area. North, designed 1,382SF. Split 2BR, 2.5 East, and West exposures, 12-foot BATH 3OUTH FACING mOOR TO CEILING ceilings, central air conditioning, windows overlooking Bond Street. exposed brick, oversized windows, Full-service condo building with part-time doorman building. $5M. gym. $19,000/month. WEB# 8635289. WEB# 8762118. Nancy Candib 212-906-9302 William Grant 212-906-0518 Dominic R. Paolillo 212-906-9307 Jill Mangone 212-452-4478 STUDIO IN THE SKY 'RAMERCY (IGH mOOR 3OUTH FACING FULL FLOOR WITH VIEWS NoMad. Dramatic renovated 4BR, studio with separate kitchen. Lots BATH PLUS HOME OFlCE WITH KEYED of sun and city views. 24-hour ELEVATOR lREPLACES WASHER DRYER doorman building with roof deck, garage, laundry, gym, live-in super. and real chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen. A perfect property in an ideal location. $425K. WEB# 8757137. $14,000/month. WEB# 3796307. Rudi Hanja 212-317-3675 Erin Boisson Aries 212-317-3680 Siim Hanja 212-317-3670 Nic Bottero 212-317-3664 BOUTIQUE OFFICE BUILDING 4RI"E#A "EAUTIFUL OFlCE SPACE with exposed brick, beams and wonderful southern light and RARE VILLAGE LOFT views of Tribeca. Large open space Greenwich Village. Commanding AND OFlCES ALL FULLY WIRED loft on coveted Village block with $10,900/month. WEB# 8611821. 11.8-foot ceilings, 14 windows and historic views. Wide corner 23-foot Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 Iestyn L. Jones 212-452-4461 x 28.5-foot living room, keyed elevator, and washer/dryer. $3.8M. LIVE / WORK W/FRONTAGE WEB# 8559566. 4RI"E#A 'ROUND mOOR LIVE WORK Erin Boisson Aries 212-317-3680 apartment with 10 feet of street Nic Bottero 212-317-3664 frontage: Inviting with exposed brick, natural stone, central HVAC 321 SECOND AVENUE and stainless steel appliances. Downtown. Perfect pieds-a-terre $5,800/month. WEB# 3811585. or full-time home. Ultra glam Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 studio with high ceilings, working lREPLACE 7ATERWORKS MARBLE BATH Iestyn L. Jones 212-452-4461 custom millwork in lovely historic COZY 1BR ON GREENWICH twnhouse. $435K. WEB# 8594931. TriBeCa. This bright and sunny Mike Lubin 212-317-3672 1BR condo is available for a one year rental. It features pine HARDWOOD mOORS CENTRAL AIR conditioning, and a state-of-the-art kitchen. $2,600/month. WEB# 8579597. 2 BEDROOM CONDO DEAL Chinatown. Just when you thought Filipacchi Foussard Team 212-452-4468 Iestyn L. Jones 212-452-4461 you were priced out of the market, THIS SUNNY TOP mOOR "2 WITH Juliet balcony beckons. Elevator, roof deck and very low monthlies. $699K. WEB# 8508875. Andrew J. Kramer 212-317-3634

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