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Manhattan Youth’s after-school dance program bounces back from hurricane destruction, with its most splendid production yet. [PAGE 26]

Zion Decatus starts performing even before hitting the stage last month in Manhattan Youth’s production of “The Nutcracker.” The 2nd grader is a student in the after-school hip hop class at P.S. 397.

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Thanking the volunteer who helped at IPN

To the Editor I did some volunteer work after Hurricane Sandy in Midland Beach (Staten Island) and Belle Harbor (Queens) but I had no idea what was going on right around Tribeca until I read Jacqueline Broder’s very moving article on the Views page in last month’s Trib. Thanks for printing it and thank her for her good work. Auxil Benevosoc

Help rebuild a quality ceramics studio

To the Editor: The first time I met Susan Kay she was slinging wet clay on Pier 25. Within moments of our encounter, she had my young daughters’ fingers knuckledeep in the cool material, shaping figures. Clay is a great medium for children. After a long day of studying, the kids would climb the steps to her studio and lose themselves in a gooey mass of clay. Susan always had great projects, but also gave the girls freedom to explore their imagination. I’ve been thinking about how lucky my children were to live within blocks of a serious art studio with an excellent educator. As my daughter Elizabeth said: “In my art class in school, there was never the time, individual attention, or knowledgeable instruction for ceramics. Susan’s classes got me using my fingers and thinking a whole new way about art.” At Downtown Community Center, Susan joined forces with Manhattan Youth to offer quality art classes in their after-school program. There, Susan has been able to expand her reach, bringing the wonders of clay to hundreds of Lower Manhattan children. I was saddened to hear how Sandy decimated the ceramics studio. Rebuilding and outfitting the facility for ceramics will take a serious commitment of time and money. I encourage your readers to remember the important role a quality art program plays in the development of children and the gap it fills within the community. Nell Cote

After 20 years, Mail Boxes, Etc. leaves Tribeca, owner says goodbye

a good couple of years, but over time it Joe Wightman opened Mailboxes, did build up. Etc. at 295 Greenwich St. in 1992. The When I moved here, there was no store’s last day was Dec. 31. He will be retail on Warren and Murray. And as taking over Greenwich Village Mail much as I love Whole Foods—I eat Center at 511 Sixth Ave. at 13th St. Here he talks about his time in Tribeca. there every day—that changed the tenor For a long time I wanted to own my of the neighborhood dramatically. And having a little shopping mall with Bed, own business and I had looked pretty Bath and Beyond makes it more seriously into a number of things. At homogenized, like the rest of America one of those business shows there was where you go anywhere and you see somebody there from Mail Boxes, Etc. the same stores with the same stuff. (MBE) and I left my card. I forgot all I would have stayed here with an about it. Then one day I got a letter intelligent rent. The landlord wanted saying, “Are you still interested in 122% with a five-year lease. I tried to MBE and I thought, “Yes.” negotiate with I was looking them, but they everywhere but said, “This is it, here, even though take it or leave it.” I knew this neighI don’t think any borhood because I business owner worked around would do that. here in city govStores on this corernment for 12 ner have been vayears and my cant for a really father worked on long time. Obvithe old Radio ously they feel Row at 21 West they know what Street. Then Joe Wightman the market is and some friends can afford to warehouse vacant stores. I came from out of town and said they expect they’ll bring in another bank, wanted to go to Tribeca Grill. We got drugstore, fast food, but never a small there early and my wife said, “Why service business like mine. I think that don’t you look here, this is a great hurts the neighborhood. neighborhood.” And I saw the vacant You know, neighborhoods evolve. store on Greenwich Street. And that’s Everything changes in life. Usually you how it happened. bitch about the things you knew that I knew the area was on its way up. are no longer there and complain that But I was here in the real beginning everyone else doesn’t know anything, before it was up. So I sucked wind for and they’re not as smart as you are. I am sure there were some old-timers who thought a MBE franchise was not To the Editor: what Tribeca should stand for and now I am sorry to learn that Mail many are my most loyal customers. Boxes, Etc. at 295 Greenwich St. I will miss being here. I’ll miss the has closed. Because the rents are so open space, being two blocks from the high here, they are unable to find park. I love it. It’s a beautiful commuanother location nearby. I have heard nity, one of the nicest in Manhattan. I they will be replaced by (another) take the ferry in every morning and large bank. I can count six banks walk through Hudson River Park. It’s a within a few blocks now, but the wonderful way to start your day. services that Mail Boxes provides I want to say thanks for supporting will not be available anywhere in me for 20 years. It has been wonderful Tribeca. What a shame. having a business in this neighborhood. Merle Temkin I really feel this is home.

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A Future for Performance Center ? LMDC chief questions financial viability of WTC center as critical funding vote is stalled

In a rare appearance, Maggie Boepple speaks publicly last month about ongoing plans for the performing arts center and political impediments that may stand in the way. Left: A conceptual model of the center, to be located where the temporary PATH station now stands. The building is to be designed by Frank Gehry.

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The future of the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center could be decided “before the holidays.” So said Maggie Boepple, the woman charged with planning for the center, in a dramatic announcement early last month to Community Board 1. Progress on the center, Boepple said, could hang on a crucial vote by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to release the $1 million for staffing and funding needed to move the project forward. The December meeting for that vote never came, further casting into question the future of the center—the sole cultural component of the site’s master plan. Just days after Boepple’s presentation on Dec. 6, LMDC President David Emil told the Trib that the LMDC would not meet for at least another month. There were concerns, he said, about where the remaining cash—most recently estimated at $450 million—would come from. “Until we understand what it is really going to cost, and how we are going to pay for it, there is hesitancy to commit significant additional funds,” Emil said. The LMDC, which has not met since September (and put off the Performing Arts Center vote then), had yet to schedule a January meeting as of Jan. 1. Yet even as funding remains uncertain, firmer plans for the design and programming of the center are taking shape. Boepple, in her first appearance before the community board since she was hired as an advisor to the performance center’s board in early 2012,

revealed new details about the project. She also alluded to the political obstacles, ones she hasn’t seen “in all my years of working around government.” “Someday I will write a book about it,” she said. The LMDC, formed after Sept. 11 to oversee federal revitalization funds for Lower Manhattan, set aside $100 million for the performance center in 2010, but it has yet to authorize the spending of that money. “[The] LMDC slowed things down for political reasons that we think we have addressed,” Boepple said of recent

meetings with the agency. “But you never know.” She called Gov. Andrew Cuomo “the last hurdle.” Julie Menin, who sits on the board of the Performing Arts Center and served on the LMDC board until last CARL GLASSMAN summer, said there has been a history of delays by the LMDC caused by the “multitude of agencies and players involved.” One recent decision by the Performing Arts Center board—headed by real estate developer John Zuccotti and including World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein—has been to eliminate features such as classrooms and offices to reduce construction costs. “We have substantially downscaled the building from when I got there,” Boepple said. The board currently envisions a 1,000-seat theater and a smaller flexible

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performance space for 200 or 250. The building would have smaller spaces for more intimate gatherings, Boepple said. “We want to make this a very inviting and warm environment,” she said. “So there will be lots of nooks and crannies.” The board opposes classical ballet and large-scale opera at the center, Boepple said, and favors contemporary dance, theater, and annual festivals. The Joyce Theater is the only arts organization so far designated to be housed in the center. The board also hopes the center, to be open during the day for meetings, will collaborate with the annual Tribeca Film Festival, Boepple said. If the LMDC gives the financial goahead, the number of board members will be increased and a silent phase of fundraising will begin. Current board members have each pledged to donate or raise $5 million. Despite the challenges, Boepple still sounded a note of optimism. “We are all trying to gallop along here,” she said.

The ‘PAC’ Saga, Through the Years

Sept. 15, 2003 112 arts groups submit applications to be among four cultural institutions picked for the Trade Center site. Feb. 10, 2004 Joyce Theater and Signature Theater are picked for a performing arts center at Fulton and Greenwich streets, the Drawing Center and International Freedom Center (IFC), to go in a cultural center on the memorial quadrant. Dec. 2004 The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is created to raise $500 million for the cultural buildings. March 2005 LMDC president Kevin Rampe says the performing arts center is on schedule for completion in 2009. April 2005 Gretchen Dykstra is named president of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. At the same time, it is announced that the cultural components are not part of the initial $500 million funding. Instead, they are part of a “second phase,” creating the need for two capital campaigns. May 2005 Design for the cultural center, by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, is unveiled. June 8, 2005 Debra Burlingam, sister of the pilot of the American Airlines jet that terrorists crashed into the Pentagon, stirs an uproar in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, condemning IFC as un-American. June 24, 2005 Daily News reports on Drawing Center shows that featured Abu Ghraib and other “anti-American” art. June 24, 2005 Gov. George Pataki orders LMDC to get guarantees from cultural institutions that they will not produce programs offensive to the families of victims and to visitors. “We will not tolerate anything on that site that denigrates America,” he says. July 2005 A letter from IFC organizers to the LMDC promises no “blame America” exhibits. They state: “We are proud patriots.”

July 2005 Anita Contini, the LMDC’s director for cultural programs, resigns. Aug. 2005 LMDC commits $50 million toward the Frank Gehry-designed performance center, estimated to cost eight times that. Sept. 2005 Pataki orders the IFC off the site. Nov. 2005 LMDC will give the Drawing Center $150,000 to find an alternate Downtown home. June 2006 Port Authority announces that a temporary PATH terminal will occupy a portion of the performing arts building site while the new station is under construction. March 2007 City announces that the Signature Theater will not be in the performing arts center but in a rebuilt Fiterman Hall. Aug. 2007 Signature Theater’s plans for Fiterman Hall fall through. April 2008 LMDC chairman Avi Schick floats the idea of combining the performing arts center with the Fulton Street Transit Center. The idea is later abandoned. July 2008 Schick says $5 million of the $55 million allocated for the center is going toward its planning and design. “The rest of it is waiting for the moment we can identify the place and time and site,” he said. Jan. 2010 Officials end uncertainty over siting of the center, saying it will go next to 1 WTC building as planned. Dec. 2011 Mayor Michael Bloomberg appoints the first five members of the Performing Arts Center Board, within days of a deadline to create the board or lose $155 million in LMDC funding. Sept. 2012 The LMDC Board opts to delay a vote to release $1 million in funding for staffing and development for the PAC. Board Chair Avi Schick announces that the board is likely to meet in October to discuss the issue. It does not meet again in 2012.

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Glass Is Blown from Gehry Building High winds send glass falling from 76-story tower, raising concerns at P.S. 397 below

BY JESSICA TERRELL High winds early Friday morning, Dec. 21, blew out a window on the 19th floor of the Frank Gehry-designed residential tower at 8 Spruce Street, sending it crashing onto a small truck parked across the street. “Fortunately, no one was injured,” Joyce Baumgarten, a spokeswoman for the building’s developer, Forest City Ratner, said. “It did fall on the roof of the garage and there was one car that was damaged.” The apartment window shattered the rear window of a Toyota 4x4 truck parked on the roof of a four-story garage on Beekman Street. By Friday afternoon the car had been moved and most of the glass cleaned up, a garage employee said. The damage also included a broken side mirror. “We will take care of whatever damage was done,” Baumgarten said. Hurricane Sandy had also blown windows out of the 76-story tower, completed less than two years ago. no injuries were reported in either incident, Baumgarten said. P.S. 397, the Spruce Street School, is housed at the base of the building. Principal nancy Harris said that not only had windows blown out of the building's Spruce Street side during the hurricane, but large panels of glass crashed in front of the William Street plaza entrance. With that in mind, she said, she worried about safety around the school when she arrived there that morning around 7 a.m. amid heavy gusts. “Before I even took my coat off I sat down with my custodian and we wrote an email to the management company expressing concern, and wondering what safeguards were put into place given the history,” Harris told the Trib. She directed arriving families, who normally are asked to wait outside the building, on the plaza, to come directly

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The rear window of this truck was shattered on Dec. 21 when a window from 8 Spruce St. landed on it. Right: Five windows were missing on the south side of the building late last month.

into the school’s lobby. According to Harris, it took hours— long after the wind had died down—to get a response from the company, Cooper Square Management, who she said “pretty much just said if there’s anything you need to know, we'll let you know.” A call to Harris from the Trib on the day the window fell “escalated communication within the [Department of Education],” she said. “And after school we heard back from the management company, saying that one window had blown out and that it was an isolated incident and that everything was fine.” A representative of Cooper Square

Management did not respond to a request for comment. Carl Friedberg, who lives nearby on William Street, has also been concerned about the building. “Something is wrong,” he said. “The CARL GLASSMAN

windows should not come out with this kind of wind.” Friedberg had been keeping an eye on the high-rise since Hurricane Sandy, when he noticed shattered glass in the vacant lot next to his building and saw several windows in 8 Spruce Street boarded up. “During the storm you could hear the windows popping,” Friedberg said. On the morning of the latest incident, Friedberg said, his wife saw workers cleaning up glass and carrying a window frame into the garage and then across the street and into the luxury high-rise. Plywood covered five of the windows on the Beekman Street side of the building last month, including the 19thfloor window blown out during the night. Baumgarten said that representatives from the company that supplied the windows were investigating the building’s windows and seeing what changes may be needed. She said she did not know the name of the vendor. The building did not notify its tenants of the incidents, Baumgarten said. “It’s a huge building,” she said. “There are almost 900 apartments there so obviously I don’t want to minimize this, but you know this is just a few.” “Sandy was an aberration,” Baumgarten said. “It was a huge storm. And this is one window in what was high winds this morning.” The city’s Department of Buildings did not return multiple calls for comment. An employee of Green Apple cleaners, on the ground floor of 8 Spruce Street, said she would like to have been alerted so she could pay more attention when walking to and from work. “It’s scary,” said the employee, who did not want to give her name. “For something to fall from that high.” Baumgarten said that “things do happen” in new buildings but she was confident that falling glass will not be a continuing problem. “Adjustments need to be made and that’s what they are doing,” she said. “And we know we can get this taken care of.”

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A worker prepares a layer of pads during construction of the ball fields in 2011.

The fields remain much as they were after being flooded during Hurricane Sandy.

Little League Season Is Threatened BPC Authority says total replacement of fields is needed, casting season into question BY JESSICA TERRELL AND CARL GLASSMAN

Battery Park City’s $3 million artificial-turf ball fields will need a “total replacement” before they reopen, the Battery Park City Authority announced on its website on last month. What that means for the Downtown Little League, and the 1,100 children who are expecting to play on them next spring, is unknown. “We are frankly at the mercy of the Authority,” Downtown Little League President Bill Martino said. “We are hopeful that they are going to look to get the work started and completed as soon as possible.” The fields, installed in the summer of 2011, were inundated with flood water from Hurricane Sandy. It took nearly seven weeks for the Authority and its contractors to complete a damage assessment, and there are still unknowns remaining. In its online statement, the Authority said that until the artificial turf and the layers beneath it are removed, contractors will not know whether the complex of “storm management” and irrigation systems need to be repaired as well.

“As such, a determination as to duration of the project is not known,” the Authority wrote on its site. A major component of the field is its drainage system, in which rainwater drains through the layers of porous materials below the artificial grass and is pumped into a 100,000-gallon tank in a residential building next to the field. In early December, BPCA spokesman Matt Monahan told Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee that there were worries about the contents of the water that soaked the fields. “A source of our concern [is] for possible health issues from the foul water the surge carried, which contained salt from the river/harbor, backwash from overtaxed sewers and whatever else may have been in the water emerging from the tunnel,” Monahan later told the Trib in an email. Martino said he was told by an Authority staff member several weeks before the online announcement to start looking for an alternate playing field. That was not an option, he replied. “The only alternative is to cancel our season for 1,100 children and their families,” Martino said. “There are no other options, other than we have a season or we don’t.” Both the artificial-turf fields at Pier 40 and Pier 25 reopened last month and it is unclear how the possible contamina-

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design to prevent a repeat of future storm damage. “We hope they will be proactively addressing this situation so it can be as resilient as a lot of the other infrastructure in Battery Park City,” said Community Board 1 Chair Catherine McVay Hughes. In the meantime, Martino said he remained optimistic that the field could be replaced, if not by the start of the league’s permit on March 1, then by the start of its season the following month. “Of course I’m hopeful. I have to be hopeful,” Martino said. “Every time I get an email from a parent, which is a couple a day, I say we expect to be playing April 1.” Costello questioned the timing and manner of the Authority’s announcement. “Announcing this on a website without a courtesy call, without some background information, is very cavalier,” Costello said in a telephone interview. “It’s hard to understand why it’s coming out now, a few days before Christmas, why the community board was blindsided and the leagues, too.” Uncertainty over the upcoming season, Costello added, is hard for parents, who, since December, have been signing their children up for baseball. “It’s a big part of people’s lives,” he said.

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Tensions Build Over Enrollment at P.S. 276 BY CARL GLASSMAN

Parents begin signing their kids up for kindergarten this month, again sparking waitlist worries and crowding concerns at Downtown schools. nowhere are those concerns more acute than at P.S. 276 in lower Battery Park City, where parents fear that their school will be saddled with more 5-yearolds than the school can handle. Last month, P.S. 276 parents started a petition that calls on the Department of Education to limit the number of kindergarten classes in the school to three—the number that the school was intended to have when it opened in 2010. The DOE opened five classes this school year and the last, and four the year before. School parents and Downtown school activists as well as Community Board 1 have also long asked for new temporary classrooms, as well as the siting of new schools, to take care of the overflow. “If we continue to add classes at that rate, obviously we won’t have any room in the school after not too long,” said PTA co-president Matt Schneider. With the need for a solution growing urgent, according to parents, Schneider and other school leaders were hoping for a DOE response to their request. It was to come, they thought, at the monthly meeting of Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force on Dec. 20. But Drew Patterson, the DOE’s director of planning for South Manhattan, did not

Principal Terri Ruyter at last month’s meeting of Silver’s schools task force. She says P.S./I.S. 276 cannot take more than three kindergarten classes next school year.

attend. (He was preparing for a meeting that evening, said Jahmeliah nathan, executive director of the DOE’s Office of Public Affairs, who told the group she was there to listen and report back on their concerns.) nathan promised that Patterson would be at the next meeting on Feb. 7, as well as at a planned sit-down with Principal Terri Ruyter early this month. “Yeah, he canceled the first one after I asked repeatedly for meetings,” complained Ruyter, who later told the Trib that she has been requesting to meet with Patterson since the middle of October. Ruyter, who fought against the addi-

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said. “If their second choice is private school, then they need to get cracking on that because contracts are due. If there’s not a seat you have to have a backup plan.” A DOE spokesman did not respond to questions about the city’s kindergarten PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN admission plans for tional two kindergarten classes this year, P.S. 276—or when they will be decided. has made no secret of her displeasure But in response to crowding questions in with the DOE’s handling of enrollment October, a DOE spokesman said that at her school and what she calls its lack capacity is analyzed on a wider geoof a “proactive solution.” graphic basis, not school by school. For In September, she issued her own Lower Manhattan that includes China“overcrowding study” that, among its town where, they have said, P.S. 1 is a conclusions, said that the admission of likely alternate choice. five kindergarten classes in 2013 would “We are on track to meet the growing mean that P.S./I.S 276 would be over demand for school seats in Lower capacity by six classes in the 2015-2016 Manhattan,” the DOE said in a statement school year. last fall, noting that the city has opened But if the DOE does limit the kinder- more than 2,000 new seats in Lower garten classes to three, Ruyter said, par- Manhattan, and have more than 1,500 ents need to know now. “Kindergarten seats funded and sited in the city’s 2010enrollment is already happening,” she 2014 capital plan.

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The newly installed gym floor in the BPC Community Center was removed after the flooding.

Like Ball Fields, Future Is Uncertain for BPC Center BY JESSICA TERRELL

Battery Park City residents eager to start working out or swimming laps at Asphalt Green might want to put away their gym shorts and goggles for a while. Flooding from Sandy has complicated contract negotiations and left the center once again without an opening date. “There were financial assumptions about [Asphalt Green’s] pre-opening costs and how that was going to be allocated between the Authority and Asphalt Green because there is a sharing of that expense,” Battery Park City Authority Chairman Dennis Mehiel told the Trib after the Authority’s December meeting. “The pre-opening expenses now are in somewhat disarray.” The Battery Park City Authority had announced just days before the storm that it had resolved a contract dispute with operator Asphalt Green and hoped to have a contract signed and the $55 million center built and furnished by the Authority, open by Dec. 1. Part of the uncertainty now, Mehiel told the Trib, is whether Asphalt Green will be able to open in time to operate its summer camp, a “critical component” of its ability to make a financial go of it. “If it turned out that they couldn’t do that, it would cause a material change to the financing,” he said.

If Asphalt Green can run its summer camp—now in question because the fields require reconstruction—contract concessions negotiated before the storm will remain “close” to where they were, Mehiel said. The changes, made in closed-door meetings between the Authority and Asphalt Green, were aimed at eliminating substantial financial risks for the Authority. Mehiel has said that the original contract would have left the Authority on the hook for possible losses sustained by Asphalt Green—an estimated $1.2 million in the first year alone. Asphalt Green’s marketing director, Christina Klapper, did not return multiple requests for comment Flooding on the ground floor and in the basement of the center—which was completely constructed and furnished— has affected the heating system, swimming pool and gym floors. In order to replace hardwood floors damaged by flooding, Authority Spokesman Matthew Monahan told Community Board’s 1’s Battery Park City Committee last month, the space must be heated to a certain temperature, requiring boilers that may have to be replaced. The Authority said in early December that it was two to three weeks away from an assessment of the damage, but still had no update by the end of the month.

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Pier 25 Playground Needs Funds to Reopen

BY JESSICA TERRELL Pier 25’s popular children’s playground, badly damaged by Sandy’s floodwaters, should be repaired and open for play by the summer. That’s the goal, at least, for Friends of Hudson River Park, which is well on its way to raising the estimated $400,000 needed to get the playground’s swings, climbing apparatus, water play and more to reopen. “It is one of the busiest places in the park,” said Friends President A.J. Pietrantone, explaining why the playground was a funding priority for the group. “It hasn’t been open that long and it was the only playground that was damaged in the park.” By the end of last month, the organization had raised $345,000 to aid in repairs to the badly damaged waterfront park, $280,000 of it earmarked for the playground. The already financially struggling park is facing an estimated $10 million in repairs after the storm, which badly damaged its electrical system. At the playground, Styrofoam used to create contours in the playground floated up, making rubble of the pavement that had covered it. A $100,000 challenge grant by a Friends board member kicked off the fundraising effort for the playground. Peter Braus, a member of the Friends board, and his wife, Kaija, hosted a fundraiser at their Leonard Street home

last month that brought in another $170,000, Pietrantone said. After storm damage had been assessed, Hudson River Park Trust President Madelyn Wils said that she hoped FEMA funds would pay for many of the repairs. But Pietrantone said those funds may take years to arrive, and won’t cover everything. “The needs are so great,” he said. If FEMA money comes in and there is more money than needed for the playground, extra funds would be set aside

for future playground repairs, Pietrantone said. The Friends organization is planning another fundraiser in the end of January. But Pietrantone hopes to raise $120,000 for the playground before then so that funds from that event can help with additional Pier 25 repairs, such as replacing the sand on the volleyball courts. In the meantime, the organization is also moving forward with its efforts to create a neighborhood Improvement District that would assess a fee to owners

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Left: Pier 25, at the end of North Moore Street, was flooded during the storm. Above: Flood waters wreaked havoc on the contoured paving at the playground on the pier. The playground is yet to reopen.

of property near the park. (In Tribeca, that includes the west side of Hudson Street to the river.) Friends hopes that the district, if approved, would generate $10 million yearly and help pay for park repairs and operations, as well as landscape maintenance along West Street. The organization plans to hold another round of public meetings on the proposal in early February, and is aiming to submit its formal application for the improvement district in March.

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The annual MulchFest for Christmas trees and an e-waste recycling event will take place at the south end of Bowling Green Park on Saturday, Jan. 12. MulchFest will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and e-waste, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. The holiday trees are turned into mulch. A van run by Downtown Alliance, the MulchFest sponsor, will also pick up trees left at Wall and William, John and Gold, Pearl between Fulton and Beekman, West Thames between Battery Place and South End, South End and Albany, and north End between Murray and Warren. Most electronics can be dropped off, including computers, monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, cables, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and video games and gaming consoles. Microwaves, air conditioners or large household appliances are not accepted. The event is sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center, lesecologycenter.org.

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Soho Photo, the Tribeca-based cooperative photography gallery, is mounting the 16th annual juried show by its members. Photographs by 44 artists selected by Susan May Tell, chair of the American Society of Media Photographers’ Fine Arts Committee include a range of styles and genres, from traditional black-andwhite and color straight prints to pinhole and digitally altered photos. The gallery is at 15 White St. and open Wednesday to Sunday, 1–6 p.m. sohophoto.com

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Standup comics from the Tonight Show, Def Comedy Jam and Last Comic Standing will riff on the most famous of all bar mitzvah and wedding songs, during “A Comedic Salute to Hava nagila,” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. The event is part of a longer-running exhibit on “Hava nagila” at the museum. Tickets run from $10 to $15. Info: mjhnyc.org.

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The South Street Seaport Museum, which is facing $22 million in post-storm repairs to its electrical and heating systems, reopened last month with two new shows, “A Fisherman’s Dream: Folk Art by Mario Sanchez” and “Street Shots/nYC.” The museum, at 12 Fulton St., is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Its temporary number is 917-492-3480.

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Lower Manhattan residents interested in joining Community Board 1 can learn more about the process at an event at the Manhattan Borough President’s office, 1 Centre St., on Jan. 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP to 212-669-4385 or cbinfo@manhattanbp.org. The deadline to apply for a position on the board is Jan. 18.

Discussing Warhol

A new exhibit at the Met, “Regarding Andy Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,” is the inspiration for a free two-part talk on Warhol offered by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. 75 Battery Pl., on Jan. 24 and 31 at 1 p.m. Registration is required: 212-267-9700 ext. 363.

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Pace U’s New 34-Story Dorm BY JESSICA TERRELL

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Pace University, already in the midst of building a new 24-story dormitory at 180 Broadway, is seeking permission this month to erect a 34-story dorm on a vacant lot at 33 Beekman St., across from the Gehry-designed residential tower and the Spruce Street School. The building would replace a 500bed leased dorm space at 55 John St. and would add 260 beds to meet a growing demand for campus housing. “Just over 10 years ago we had about 500 residential students Downtown and now we have 2,000,” said William McGrath, a senior vice president at Pace. Because Pace envisions a building that is six stories taller than the 28 stories that zoning allows, it is seeking a variance from the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA). Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee is expected to weigh in on that request on Jan. 14, in what may be a contentious issue for some board members and residents who are weary of construction in the area. “How many more towers do we want to build down here? It's just ridiculous,” CB1 Seaport Committee Chair John Fratta said. “We are getting too many.” The building is being developed by SL Green, which is also constructing the Pace dorms at 180 Broadway. That project came under fire from neighbors for what they said was excessively loud construction noise, early morning deliv-

eries and late-night work. According to McGrath, the noisiest part of the construction process at 180 Broadway was demolition work, which won’t be a factor at 33 Beekman. And, he said, SL Green was quick to respond to neighbors’ complaints. “I know that SL Green is committed to being responsive to the community at the 33 Beekman building as well,” McGrath said. The university expects construction on the project to start in the spring, with students taking occupancy in 2015, McGrath said. Located directly across the street from the Gehry tower and the Spruce Street School, the L-shaped former parking lot, at the corner of Beekman and William streets, has long sat vacant. Although design decisions are not final, a letter from the project’s lawyer to the BSA noted that the building is expected to be “clad primarily with brick, aluminum window wall and metal panels.” Hotel developer Sam Chang previously owned the site, and had once hoped to build a 36-story hotel on the lot. Gene Kaufman, who designs many of Chang's buildings, including the hotel originally planned for the site, will be the architect. Pace has six buildings near the Beekman lot, including its main campus building at One Pace Plaza, and the land-

mark former new York Times building at 41 Park Row. In its letter to the city, the school said the larger dorm building “would be especially beneficial as it is very close to the buildings at 1 Pace Plaza and 163 William Street and would help create a campus atmosphere.” The first three floors of the dorm building would have administrative offices and student recreation facilities, as well as a small ground-floor retail space. As part of the project, the university would also construct a 3,012-square-foot public plaza with benches, swivel seating and tables on the corner of Beekman and William streets. But the community board may ask for more than that in exchange for its blessing. The Seaport Committee has long been seeking space for a community center, and local school advocates continue to push for additional elementary schools Downtown. For some community board members, news of the proposal last month brought to mind a larger struggle playing out between other universities and neighborhoods across the city. “Columbia is taking over West Harlem, nYU took over the Village… Pace is trying to keep up with all of this,” board member Michael Kramer said. “And in every case the community boards were very strongly against the universities putting more density in their neighborhoods.”

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BY CARL GLASSMAN When the dust finally settles, Maggie Siena will be a happier principal. Dust, mud, filth. That’s what the kids have been tracking into her Peck Slip School and what, she says, makes for unhealthy recess—when the ground is dry enough to play on. This month, it appears, all that is going to change, and from an unlikely source: debris from Hurricane Sandy. Siena’s school is in its first of three years at the Tweed Courthouse, “incubating” there while a permanent building is under construction. The playground is a pleasant, shady patch of City Hall Park on the east side of the building. But little grass can grow there. “The kids get dirt in their eyes and breathe in substantial amounts of dust,” Siena said. “The first wet day there were chunks of mud in the classroom. It was unbelievable!” As far back as last May, long before school started, Siena was asking the Parks Department for a solution. Artificial turf, her first choice, was nixed because of its expense, the park’s historic status, and the possibility that part of the African Burial Ground lies below. In past years, the Parks Department had sodded the area. It was a remedy, at a cost of about $25,000, that lasted nine to 12 months, according to other princi-

pals who started their schools at Tweed. Bill Castro, the Parks Department’s Manhattan Commissioner, announced at a September community board meeting that Parks would resod in the fall and again in late May. But that plan—partially restricting recess in outdoor-weather months—did not go over well with Siena. And her counterproposal, to cover the ground with wood chips, like those used in Tribeca’s Washington Market Park, got a tepid response from Castro. “There were no more answers, no more solutions [from Parks],” Siena said of the months that followed. Finally, at urging from the offices of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Councilwoman Margaret Chin, came a familiarsounding plan: wood chips. namshik Yoon, Parks chief of operations, announced the belated solution at a meeting of Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force. He said Parks staff would visit Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, where hurricane debris is being stored and ground. “We’ll see what kind of maintenance issues come up but that should alleviate some of the mud issues,” Yoon said. “It’s promising news seven months after I would like to have gotten it,” Siena said later. “I’m hopeful that it works.”

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The 10,000-Foot Question: How to Use That Space? BY JESSICA TERRELL What could the Downtown community do with an extra 10,000 square feet of flexible space in Lower Manhattan? The answer: not much. That was the response to a question posed to Community Board 1’s Executive Committee last month, when it was asked by the city to come up with a topfive list of desired 10,000-square-foot amenities—a likely giveback from the sale of two city-owned buildings totalling 650,00 square feet in Downtown’s Civic Center area. “I think that 10,000 square feet as a takeaway is irrelevant,” said board member and school overcrowding activist Tricia Joyce. “I’m spitting mad.” The space, board members said, was about one-fourth the amount of space that would be needed for, say, a community center. “What do we want in our 10,000 square feet?” said committee member Ro Sheffe. “We want a 50,000-square-

the office of city comptroller, he has yet to take an official position on the current proposal. He will have the opportunity to weigh in after the Economic Development Corporation awards a contract to a bidder. Three buildings were originally up for sale under the city’s proposal: 22 Reade Street, 346 Broadway and 49-51 Chambers Street. The City Council rejected the sale of 22 Reade Street in november (which some on the council would like to see become an African Burial Ground museum) but approved the disposition of the other two buildings, which currently house offices for more than a dozen city agencies. Space given to the community could be in either of the two buildings being sold, but is more likely to be in 49-51 Chambers. “There is nothing really east of West Broadway as a community amenity,” said Board Chair Catherine McVay Hughes, pointing to a map that showed community centers and two libraries on Lower Manhattan’s west side, but nothing on the east. McVay Hughes is one of several community board members on a task force created last month by the EDC, which is conducting the sale, to weigh in on the disposition of the buildings. Assemblywoman Deborah Glick declined to participate in the task force, after being told that she— and all other participants—would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which she called in a statement “a shocking and antidemocratic move.” The city’s Economic Development Corp., which is conCARL GLASSMAN ducting the sale and is 49-51 Chambers Street is one of two city buildings to be sold. expected to announce its chosen bidder this foot school.” month, did not respond to a request for Ten thousand square feet is about the comment. size of P.S. 234’s five-classroom annex. CB1’s Executive Committee considSale of the buildings has been a con- ered declining to provide a list of tentious issue for the board and for elect- requested amenities and asking Stringer ed officials such as Borough President to block the sale instead. But it eventualScott Stringer, who wanted to see the ly opted to come up with its top five. buildings used for affordable housing or “They are asking us what we want other community amenities. and if we don’t tell them, we think that “We don’t want to see the sell-off of they will determine on their own without these properties for a one-shot to close a us,” said Michael Levine, the board’s budget deficit,” Stringer said a year ago, director of land use and planning. when the proposed sale was announced. At the top of the board’s final list was Stringer had initially threatened to public school space. That request is folblock the sale. He has that power as head lowed by a community center, nonprofit of the Borough Board, made up of repre- performing arts space, space for a senior sentatives of all of Manhattan’s commu- support center and a library on the east nity boards. An announced candidate for side of the CB1 district.

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120 GREENWICH Dec. 3...6 p.m. A diner left her Louis Vuitton purse unattended at a table while she went to the restroom. A thief made off with the $900 bag and later racked up roughly $7,000 in charges on her credit cards. 1 WHITEHALL Dec. 4...9:32 a.m. Employees at a Duane Reade store confronted a shoplifter, who had slipped $100 worth of disposable razors into his pocket. When cornered, the thief flashed a box cutter at the employees and fled.

TRINITY & MORRIS Dec. 5...4:45 p.m. A pickpocket bumped into a man on the street and plucked a Blackberry from his front-left jacket pocket. NASSAU & FULTON Dec. 12...2:45 a.m. A thief approached a man at the entrance to the Fulton Street subway station, punched him in the head, then stole his $600 smartphone and wallet. 57 READE Dec. 12...9:05 a.m. Upset that a car made a fast turn from Broadway onto Reade Street, a pedestrian in the intersection yelled at the driver to slow down. The driver then exited his car and hit the pedestrian on the side of the face with a metal steering wheel lock, and spat on him. 30 WALL Dec. 13...3:35 p.m. A thief cut the lock on a gym locker and stole an iPod and wallet. The thief then attempted to make a $3,239 purchase on one of the stolen credit cards.

95 PEARL Dec. 15...6 a.m. In a bar fight, a man punched another customer, fracturing his eye socket. 1 WHITEHALL Dec. 15...7 p.m. A woman was trying to buy a Metrocard when a thief stole the wallet from her purse.

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The nine largest of 18 antenna sections for 1 World Trade Center arrive by barge at Pier 25 on Dec. 11 after a 1,500-mile journey from Valleyfield, Quebec. The sections weigh from five to 67 tons.

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Giant sections of the 408-foot-tall, 1,525-ton antenna come home to 1 World Trade Center

t’s majestic. Almost like a royal carriage,” Heidi Bennett said as a 68-ton section of antenna slowly passed her building on North Moore Street, glowing white in the latenight darkness. “It’s definitely magical.” One by one, nine pieces of spire, bound for 1 World Trade Center, were offloaded from barge to flatbed at Pier 25 last month and ever so slowly hauled across North Moore Street and down Greenwich, trailed by flashing lights and an entourage of hard hats. From the street and buildings above, some watched in wonder, not knowing what they were seeing but drawn to the almost unearthly sight. “Last night I looked out my window and that thing was going down the street. Holy s--t! It looked like a space ship all lit up,” said Ted Ryan, who had come out the next night for a closer look at the operation. “It was unbelievable.” The spire sections, half of the 18 that will be assembled atop the tower, arrived last month following a 1,500-mile journey by barge from Valleyfield, Quebec, where they were manufactured. In five days, all were delivered to their new home, ready to be hoisted. “We’re getting very close to the end of a long and wonderful journey,” Steve Plate, the Port Authority’s director of World Trade Center construction, said as the first of the sections was about to be raised. “This represents to me an exclamation point on the end of a wonderful project.” Once installed, a process expected to take three to four months, the 408-foot spire will give the building its 1,776-foot height, making it the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere. Eva Eckert admired one of the brightly lit antenna sections going by her on Greenwich Street and considered, scornfully, the tower where it was headed. “The building is nothing special,” she said of the Trade Center site’s tallest building. “So it needs that antenna.”

“This represents to me an exclamation point at the end of a wonderful project.”

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One by one, the brightly lit antenna sections were escorted, at five miles an hour, down Greenwich Street to 1 World Trade Center. Department of Transportation workers went ahead of the procession to swing stoplights out of the way.

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The first piece arrives atop the tower, and seemingly the world. Once assembled, the 408-foot antenna will make 1 World Trade Center 1,776 feet tall and provide service to broadcasters in the region. Above left: Looking otherworldly as it lifts off from a barge near Pier 25, the first of nine antenna sections is swung by crane to a flatbed truck parked on West Street. Above right: After the section is lowered, ironworkers help harness it to the flatbed truck that will carry it to 1 World Trade Center.

Left: Ironworker Joe Spratt helps guide an antenna section, lifted by tower crane, onto a flatbed truck. Spratt’s grandfather was an ironworker who helped build the original World Trade Center.

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The nine largest of 18 antenna sections for 1 World Trade Center arrive by barge at Pier 25 on Dec. 11 after a 1,500-mile journey from Valleyfield, Quebec. The sections weigh from five to 67 tons.

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Giant sections of the 408-foot-tall, 1,525-ton antenna come home to 1 World Trade Center

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Saying Goodbye to a Loft and a Column

Arrivals and departures. Life gives us many of them. My first arrival on the street where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived nearly four decades came weeks after moving here from Ohio. Working as a copyboy, I took the IRT (read â&#x20AC;&#x153;1 trainâ&#x20AC;?) to Franklin Street to buy a box of mimeograph paper. Yes, mimeograph paper. More than a dozen years later, in 1973, I conJIM ducted the first STRATTONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S neighborhood of meeting local loft residents while lying on my back with a slipped disk. When asked, none of the loft residents had ever heard the CITY name â&#x20AC;&#x153;TribeCHARRETTE ca.â&#x20AC;? A month later, my spine still relegating me to the floor, I was asked by a friend to come to a Hudson Street building where a landlord had installed plumbing and electricity, and had written leases to renters willing to renovate their spaces. Now with a cash problem, he wanted them out. Buy your spaces, I told them, and help him co-op the building. It was easy to do at that time, I explained, and it

would be protection against an uncertain future. My friend bought her loft for $4,000. At this time in my life I was watching my marriage collapse, watching myself forced out of a SoHo co-op I had helped to build. I learned the Hudson Street landlord was flipping another building, on Franklin Street, and despite being broke I decided to chance it. I put a binder on the entire loft building with my last $1,000. Yes, $1,000. It was unseemly low

ing any money on the deal. The first incarnation of my loft included 125 sheets of gypsum wallboard, with nearly another 100 sheets required for the ceiling. I installed four of the eight ceilings in the building myself, alone, sheetrock lifted by a hoist seemingly designed by Dr. Seuss. In my own space I had to unbolt nearly 200 feet of diamond-plate steel just to get to the floor. Thereafter, every screw, every electrical outlet, every two-byfour, left a bruise, or a sliver, or a spinal

Four children, one born in each of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, were raised in this loft. As the two youngest now laugh with friends in the kitchen, we all know that this may be their last visit to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;clubhouse.â&#x20AC;? even to my new friend. His own partners might look askance at the meager figure. So in the deal I was given a $3,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;finderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeâ&#x20AC;? I would never see. It was added to the $1,000 so that the new binder amount, $4,000, would be large enough to pass muster. That was 1974. Dozens of people to whom I showed the building turned down opportunities to join us. An artist friend paid five times as much for a smaller space elsewhere because she thought going through a â&#x20AC;&#x153;real developerâ&#x20AC;? would be safer. I seemed less trustworthy, she said later, because I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mak-

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again where they have gathered since grade school. Their happiness overflows to me, at my work, but we all know this may be their last visit to the clubhouse. Recently my wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family suffered tragedy. Her aunt had a serious stroke, her uncle died. Her two cousins are left with the immense problem of dealing with debt and a magnificent townhouse that should have become the golden source of their parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; retirement, but has instead become a massive burden. To me this was a chilling reminder that in the years I have left I cannot allow the loft I love to become a crushing weight upon my family when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone. Better to hand out right now a bit of the largesse it has accumulated, rather than gamble on an uncertain future. So the neighborhood that I helped to build, Tribeca, will cease to be my home by the time the next Trib is on the streets. At the moment we have no idea where we will end up, although we will certainly remain somewhere in the city. And after some 200 columns, this Charrette will be my last. It has been my luck to write for such a fine paper, for people who allowed my sometimes acerbic opinions to get a wide airing. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cry for me, Tribeca. We will still come around. We will still read the Trib, and still go to Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The one good thing about this departure is that we will be allowed more arrivals.

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24 BY OLIVER E. ALLEN f you had stood on the corner of Chambers and West streets in 1910, as the photographer of this view did, you might be pardoned for assuming that the scene would never change. After all, the wagons and carts and their drivers thronging the picture were engaged in a valuable service—bringing food into New York City—and why would that not continue forever? Yet well before the intervening century was over everything in the picture (except West Street itself) would have disappeared and a totally new scene been installed. What presented itself in 1910 was the working waterfront serving the western part of today’s Tribeca, which functioned as the city’s food depot. The Hudson River piers were leased mostly to the railroads or steamship companies that brought food from the rest of the U.S. to the metropolitan area—the food to be ferried by these rail lines across the Hudson and auctioned or sold on the piers to wholesalers in the area or to other users (hotels, restaurants, retail grocers) who then would sell them to hungry New Yorkers. In our photograph, the big double-fronted pier on the left is presumably leased to the Erie Railroad (leaseholds would change from time to time), and the similar structure beyond it is probably being used by the Baltimore and Ohio. Virtually everything in the picture is there to serve the piers, from the wagons parked on the left awaiting food pickups to those on the highway beginning their delivery, even to the sailors on the sidewalk at right. Although you can’t see it, the Hudson River controls everything in our photo. The restaurants and other establishments along the right-hand edge of the photo are there to serve those working on the waterfront. Note also that in the middle distance there is a streetcar whose route terminates at the Erie pier. All these features and participants would remain in place for almost half a century after 1910; the piers and their vehicles (eventually motor) would still be there in the early 1950s. But then the scene would begin to change as a result of powerful economic factors. First, trucks would begin taking over from the railroads, so that food and other products would now increasingly come to the city over bridges and through tunnels instead

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The view up West Street from Chambers, as seen in 1910. At left is the Erie Railroad’s Pier 20.

of by water. Second, shipping would be taken over by containers, which could not be handled on old-fashioned piers. This led to the rerouting of freight to areas away from Manhattan, such as Newark and the Bronx. So Manhattan’s piers decayed and one by one were scrapped, and the traffic they generated disappeared. Where the piers had stood on the Lower West Side, landfill soon

created Battery Park City, which moved part of the actual waterfront westward. Today the Erie pier has been replaced by the northern end of Battery Park City, where Stuyvesant High School now stands, to which students gain access by a pedestrian bridge over West Street. The buildings on the right in the photo have been replaced by the Borough of Manhattan Community College. The

telephone and electric light poles have long since been taken down and their wires buried under the pavement. Only the traffic on West Street remains, far faster and noisier now, of course. And today, just north of Stuyvesant High School, one can get a nice view of the great body of water that was out of sight in 1910: the mighty Hudson River.

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he nearly 200 children from Manhattan Youth’s 18 afterschool dance classes came together Dec. 15 on the P.S./I.S. 89 stage. It was the organization’s third annual adaptation of “The Nutcracker.” And while the two afternoon performances were filled, once again, with creatively costumed and choreographed kids from kindergarten to middle school, this “Nutcracker” was a bit of a holiday miracle. Just seven weeks before, the floodwaters that submerged the lower floor of the Downtown Community Center on Warren Street destroyed everything that had been stored there, including $5,000 worth of costumes, plus the canvas, paints, power tools and everything else needed for Manhattan Youth’s elaborate winter and spring productions. “There was no question that we were going to do this. But I couldn’t even wrap my head around it,” Susan Kay, the production’s director, said of her reaction to the destruction. “We were all stressed out. The teachers were worried that it wasn't going to be great and I had to reassure them that it was going to be fabulous. And it was fabulous.” Fabulous, in part, because Connie Tarbox succeeded in creating all 200 costumes. And with less rehearsal time than usual and a relocated practice space, the after-school dance teachers in six Downtown schools managed to get their young students choreographed and ready. “The fact that the kids are all doing the same thing in the same direction is really amazing,” Kay said. “You figure they have only an hour per class, once a

Peck Slip School kindergartners, from left, Mariam Dzidzikashvili, Samantha Dvorin and Laylah Gilani on their way to the P.S./I.S. 89 stage.

week for not that many weeks.” Standing on stage before the production began, Manhattan Youth Director Bob Townley praised the efforts of his staff for putting the show together under trying conditions. But the biggest applause came from his announcement. “As we speak there is water—hot water—going into the swimming pool in the Downtown Community Center,” he said. Susan Kay could barely respond when asked what this latest production meant to her. “I’m going to cry,” she said. “Don’t make me cry.”

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Kids Can Get Lost in Admissions Hubbub

The other day I was updating the school website and mistakenly typed “2012-2013 school year.” Fortunately, I realized my error, and fixed it. The holidays are over; the ball has dropped; we are just dipping our toes into 2013, and already, the 2013-2014 school year is looming. “Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future,” as the Steve Miller song CONNIE goes. SCHRAFT Some of the fifth grade parents who were turning in their children’s middle school applications last month asked me when the next deadline would be. I reminded SCHOOL them that they TALK wouldn’t hear the outcome of those carefully considered choices until the end of May. “For now, just enjoy fifth grade,” I advised. It is a perennial problem for all of us —staying in the present, trying not to worry about the future, while still needing to plan for the next year and not miss any deadlines. Just a few short months since the last child on last year’s kindergarten waitlist was placed, Downtown schools are about

to begin that admissions process all over again. Parents of children who will turn five this year must locate their child’s birth certificate, contact pediatricians for immunization records, and make sure to have two recent and appropriate proofs of address. While the timeline for applying for kindergarten is the same throughout the city, every school handles the process a little differently, so you should go on the website of your zoned school and see what you have to do and when you have to do it. (If you want to learn more about the

in an IEP (individualized education plan), which will guide your zoned school in providing the support your child needs. It is a daunting task, navigating the city’s special education system, and in recent years, getting a child into his or her zoned elementary school has become challenging as well. Before becoming frantic, though, please consider this: In the midst of the applications, the tours, the information sessions and the deadlines, all of which can be stressful for families, are for your children. Doesn’t it feel sometimes that

Advice to parents: Try to stay in the present with your children—plan but don’t worry— and don’t miss the deadlines! school, sign up for a tour; it is a great opportunity to be inside the building and maybe a classroom, and get a feel for the place where your child will spend sixand-a-half hours a day for the next six years.) This is also the time of year when pre-kindergarten children who have been receiving special education services from providers around the city will begin to be assessed for their kindergarten needs in a process called “Turning 5.” Consisting of a parent interview, as well as assessments and observations of the child, this process eventually results

they are forgotten in these processes that wouldn’t exist but for them? At work, when I am speaking to parents about kindergarten options, pre-K programs, private school applications, G&T testing, or other school issues, the children themselves are fiddling around in the office, drawing on scrap paper, eyeing the holiday chocolates on the counter, knocking over a basket of crayons. Half ignoring them, I offer a picture book, as I focus on relaying the minutiae of the different processes. But the kids are the reason parents are worrying about kindergarten admis-

sions and wait lists, as they try to do everything right for their children, a task we know is impossible. Last month I walked with a group of fifth graders to the library on North End Avenue to drop off coats the school had collected in our annual coat drive. There were six 10-year olds and four heavy plastic bags of coats—I mean, heavy! The kids experimented with the best way to carry, hoist and drag them. Along the way, we took several breaks, during which they sat on the soft, stuffed bags and chatted. I mostly listened. They were so nice to each other! They were funny and enjoying themselves and dreaming of the day that will come this spring when they are able to go out to lunch together, without grownups. No one needs to be reminded that childhood is fleeting. One moment, your children are cuddling on the couch with you; then they are texting to say they’ve arrived at school; and before you know it, you are becoming acquainted with the common app for college admissions. For a New Year’s resolution, let’s get the applications in on time, but remember what is really important, your children—who they are, what they love, what they want to become, and how we can help them get there. Connie Schraft is the P.S. 89 parent coordinator. For questions about Downtown schools, write connie@tribecatrib.com.

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g Letters from Anne and Martin In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., this theatrical onewoman show about the life of Anne Frank will feature writings by both Frank and King. A postperformance discussion with the audience will follow, with the actress still in character. Sat, 1/12, 1 pm. $6; $4 students, seniors, children 9–16; free under 8. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

Princess Katie and Racer Steve Rock group presents its “Cool Like That!” concert, full of highenergy music that get kids dancing and singing along. In addition to classics, they will perform music from their forthcoming album “Love Cake & Monsters.” Sun, 1/13, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

Jeremy Plays Guitar Jeremy and the Rockucation Band play songs about issues in everyday life—riding the subway, hailing cabs, making mistakes and taking turns—packaged in a way that gets kids dancing and singing. Sun, 1/20, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

ARTS & CRAFTS Print It Workshop on various types of printmaking, including block prints, monotypes and silkscreens. Fridays, 12–6 pm. $11. Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org.

Sewing Saturdays Children learn how to sew, do individual or collaborative embroideries, weave and complete other textile-based craft projects with a teacher. Saturdays, 10 am–5 pm. $11. Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org.

New Year’s Calendar Construction Kids learn about geometric shapes used in architecture and then create a 3D, 12-sided calendar for 2013 that celebrates skyscrapers and geometry. For ages 7 and up. Registration required. Sat, 1/12, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

So Sew Tall In conjunction with an exhibit on garment manufacturing in New York City, kids and their families learn about the factories that once produced the largest volume of women’s wear in the country. Then, using a variety of materials, kids build their own miniature factories. Ages 7 and up. Registration required. Sat, 1/26, 10:30

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eet a frog named Sam and other quirky characters invented by singer/songwriter Ben Rudnick and his band in a kids concert that has the swing and bounce of American roots music, plus new versions of traditional tunes including “Greensleeves” and “Old Joe Clark.” Sunday, Jan. 27, 11 am. $15; free under 2. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

Preschool Play & Art Stories, play, art projects and dress-up games, all designed to encourage imagination and discovery. Each week focuses on a different theme—colors, nature, animals, the alphabet. For preschool children and an accompanying adult. $350; $280 for each additional sibling. 16 sessions. Registration required. Thursdays, 1/10–4/25, 10 am or 3:30 pm or Fridays, 1/11–4/26, 10 am. Battery Parks City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.

Mario the Magician Magic show that incorporates humor, interactive elements and original, handmade props catering to kids. Sun, 1/13, 2:30 pm. $20; $10 children. Space on White, 81 White St., mariothemagician.com.

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Ka-Boom! Inside Out & Unmasked Children 9 to 13 with an accompanying adult explore the “Marvels and Monsters” and “Alt.Comics!” exhibits about the history and depictions of Asians and Asian Americans in American comic books, then create an alter ego hero self-portrait. Sat, 1/26, 1 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

Color Your Canvas: Watercolors Kids 7 and up experiment with watercolors and use a variety of materials, including coffee filters, straws, and stencil paper. Sun, 1/27, 1 pm. Free. Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St., cmany.org.

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Storytime Interactive activities, including stories, songs, rhymes and finger puppet plays, for toddlers and babies, with their parents or caregivers. Birth to 18 months: Mondays (except

Winter Tales Six short animated and documentary films from Canada depict Native American life, culture and folktales. The films’ stories include one about an Innuit hunter who must rescue his son from a half-human, half-sea monster, and another in which Inuit youth and elders discuss life in the Arctic Circle and demonstrate how they hunt, fish, play and make music. Daily to Sun, 1/6. 10:30 & 11:45 am. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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1/21), 9:30 am; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:30 am. Ages 18 months to 3 years: Wednesdays, 10:30 am. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

Chess Lessons for children 5–12 who are beginners or early intermediate level. $220 for 10 sessions. Registration required. Wednesdays, 1/16–3/20. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.

Stories & Songs 14-week music and musical performance for infants, toddlers and preschoolers with an accompanying adult. Musicians include Lou Gallo, Valerie June and Suzi Shelton, who will perform and lead interactive music activities from folk and pop to reggae and blues. Instruments and other materials provided. Registration required. Mondays (except 1/21 & 2/18), 1/7–4/22, or Wednesdays, 1/9–4/10. Ages 6–12 months, 9:30 am; 13 months–3.5 years, 10:20 or 11:10 am; 6 months–3.5 years, 12 pm. $300/14 sessions. Battery Park City Parks at 6 River Terrace, 212-267-9700 ext. 363, bpcparks.org.

The Star People Children listen to a book about the Lakota people and a young boy coming of age. After the story, they learn about traditional star quilts, then make their own star quilt

Block Play Imaginative block play for toddlers ages 2.5–4 with an accompanying adult, designed to develop motor, math, language and art skills. $120 for 6 sessions. Registration required. Tuesdays, 1/22–2/26, 10 am or 3:30 pm. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.

The Big Family Quiz Thing An afternoon of trivia for children 8 and up and their families with five rounds of multimedia questions, including video and audio puzzles, music and more, ranging from pop culture to history to sports. The winners will get prizes. Sun, 1/13, 2 pm. $15 per person; $50 for family of four. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Scenes from “Le Corsaire.” Far left: In the Enchanted Garden. Left: India Rose is “sold” in slave market—lifted by Juan Aquirre, right, and Ben Ryan. Below: Gaylen Bolard, center, and other garlandbearers in the Pasha’s garden.

A showcase of student talent from the Tribeca-based Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet

PHOTOS AND TEXT BY CARL GLASSMAN illed as a showcase for its gifted students and professionallevel Studio Company, the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet took the Michael Schimmel Center stage last month with “Behind the Veil.” The presentation brought together a glorious staging of excerpts from Acts 1, 2 and 3 of the 19th-century classic “Le Corsaire,” and a second act that included portions from five other ballets. “You’re trying to give the highestlevel kids opportunities to do what they’re shining at, so you choose repertoire to help them grow and also to show what they can do,” said Misha Chernov, who directed the production. “By choosing a repertoire with a bar just above the school it forces you to grow to the next level.” Chernov, a former ballet dancer and actor and his wife, Gelsey Kirkland, the renowned former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, started the Tribeca-based school less than three years ago. It has grown, Chernov said, “way beyond our expectations.”

Watching these performers, it is easy to forget their youth—mostly teens and college-aged students. Their talent and dedication are honed by the exacting

Nicole Federov as the Russian princess in “Swan Lake,” and Anthony Rosario as a slave captor and seller in “Le Corsaire.”

demands of the academy. Selected through auditions in 23 cities, they study ballet eight hours a day, five and a half days a week and attend school,

online, in the evenings. Most live away from their families. “You can’t demand a tremendous amount if the kids aren’t studying every day,” Kirkland said. Clearly a perfectionist, the former prima ballerina said she was pleased with the latest performance. “It’s a very good assessment of the growth of the kids and also unexpected shiners come up on stage. People you wouldn’t expect to burst out, do.” The academy is already preparing for a grand production, to be performed a year from now, of “The Nutcracker.” There are more than 200 roles and, through their after-school program, Kirkland and Chernov hope to draw Downtown children, ages 5 to 14, for some of them. “We want them now so we can train them over the year,” Chernov said. For those who choose it, Chernov said, classical ballet is about much more than the performance. “It’s about opening up one’s eyes and soul to a beauty that isn’t out there in the world,” he said. “It’s like a garden. You have to cultivate it.”

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LateNite: other.explicit.bodies Performance art, burlesque and experimental theater are combined in a contemporary cabaret show on themes of eroticism, gender politics and feelings of otherness. Curated by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko. Fri, 1/11 & Sat, 1/12, 10 pm. $17; $12 students, seniors. Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., dnadance.org.

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In Our Language Five short films, including a documentary that explores the aftermath of the boarding school experience in northern Quebec’s First Nations community of Kitcisakik and a filmmaker’s journey to understand Nuxalk language, culture and history. Daily, 1 & 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

E.T. Screening of the classic 1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg about a young boy who finds a lost extraterrestrial. The two become friends as the boy helps E.T. to find his way home. Sat, 1/12, 7 pm. $12. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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13.0.0.0.0 Works by 19 artists are inspired by the Mayan long-count date marking the end of the 13th Bak’tun cycle (which fell on Dec. 23) to explore notions of apocalypse, rebirth and temporal cycles. Installation, performance, video, sculpture, painting and drawing. To Thu, 1/17/13. Tue–Sat, 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St., rhgallery.com.

anjo great Béla Fleck will perform this month with a gathering of other fivestring masters—Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Richie Stearns, Eric Weissberg and Noam Pikelny—on the stage of Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. They will play solos and duets as well as full-tilt banjo blowouts with all the players and an acoustic band. Audiences will hear traditional bluegrass and old-time country music as well as unconventional banjo genres such as jazz, classical and rock. Sunday, January 20, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $30, $40 and $55, available at pace.edu/schimmel or 866-811-4111. The Schimmel Center for the Arts is at 3 Spruce St. between Park Row and Gold Street.

Andrew Haik Demirjian Digital media art that addresses the relationship between consciousness and the environment. The work combines computer programming, conceptual art and music to create systems that change based on the user’s input. To Thu, 2/28. Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm. The Clocktower, 108 Leonard St., 13th fl., artonair.org.

Soho Photo 2013: 16th Annual Members’ Juried Show Photographs by 44 artists selected by Susan May Tell, chair of the American Society of Media Photographers’ Fine Arts Committee, including a range of classic and contemporary works from pinhole, mixed media and digital to color, black and white, toned and otherwise manipulated prints. Wed, 1/2–Sat, 2/2. Opening reception: Thu, 1/3, 6 pm. Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com.

Timothy Paul Myers: Adrift Using graphite pencils and paint-like correction tape, Myers layers found vintage postcards to create curving abstract designs while revealing the intimate handwriting and colorfully stamped postcards below. From afar, some of the drawings suggest tribal art or primitivism, while others appear to reference mid-century textile design. Myers credits Abstract Expressionists Cy Twombly and Antoni Tapies as influences on his work. Thu, 1/10–Sat, 2/23. Opening reception: Thu, 1/10, 6 pm. Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com.

Open Sesame The effects of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 is explored by artists working with mementos such as housewares, letters and diaries along with interviews. In their reflection and reaction to this invasion, the artists bring in their own histories, circumstances, and geographies to the story. The exhibition presents a personal narrative, oscillating

between the fictional and the real, documenting a moment, or parts of a moment, that quickly escaped. Thu, 1/17–Sat, 3/2. Opening reception: Wed, 1/16, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org. g

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy’s Annual Art Exhibition Works inspired by the gardens and parks of Battery Park City, views of the Hudson River and the historic architecture of Lower Manhattan by participants in the past year’s free public art programs. Sun, 1/27–Fri, 3/8. Opening reception: Sun, 1/27, 1 pm. Mon–Fri, 2–4 pm. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 75 Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

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Marvels and Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942–1986 Through a selection of potent and indelible images, this show explores the history of America’s stereotypical and politically charged depictions of Asians and Asian Americans. A concurrent show, Alt.Comics, presents contemporary Asian American artists using the medium to craft their own narratives. To Sun, 2/24. $10; $5 students, seniors, free children under 12 and on Thursdays. Mon & Fri, 11 am–5 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm; Sat & Sun, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of

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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Photographs of WWII by Russian documentary photographers Evgenii Khaldei, Georgii Zelma and Dmitrii Beltermants, who merged documentary photography with avant-garde modernist sensibilities to create works that have influenced 20th century art and beyond. To Sun, 4/17. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm. Sun– Tue, Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience In 1818, the Duc de Richelieu called Barings Bank the sixth great European power, just after England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia. Barings was one of the few significant investment banks of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it remained a leader until its downfall in 1995. This exhibit explores five of the firm’s U.S. investments, both good and bad. To Sat, 4/27. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

g Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture Exhibition and documentary on Native Americans including Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Salas and Mildred Bailey and who have had successful careers in the popular music industry over the past century. To Sun, 8/11. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Street Shots/NYC Images from the past decade by 125 photographers who have captured life as it unfolds in New York City’s public places, from streets and subways to parks and beaches. Ongoing. $10; free under 9. Daily 10 am–6 pm. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org.

MUSIC g Twelfth Night Festival: Goldberg Variations Dan Tepfer offers his Goldberg Variations/Variations: alternating movements of J.S. Bach’s variations and his own Jazz interpretations. Mr. Tepfer has toured internationally with his creative take on this benchmark of the Baroque era Sat, 1/5. Free. St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway, trinitywallstreet.org.

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Early Jazz Concert with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Ms. Vinnie Knight, Jonathan Batiste and the Stay Human Band. Thu, 1/3, 8 pm. $40; $37.50 students. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. Tickets ar tribecapac.org or call 212-220-1460.

Tribeca Chamber Players Works by Beethoven, including the string quartets Opus 59, No. 1 in F Major (on Jan. 7) and Opus 59, No. 2 in E Minor (on Jan. 21), plus chamber music by other composers. Mon, 1/7 & 1/21, 7 pm. Free. Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St., manhattanyouth.org.

Second Annual Maqam Fest Alwan’s annual music event showcases six ensembles from New York and around the U.S., each bringing its own approach and variation on maqam music, a complex Arab-Islamic genre that is played in regions from northwest Africa to western China and the Balkans to Sudan. Fri, 1/11, 8 pm. $30; $25 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org.

Native America North Contemporary indigenous music by First Nation groups from Canada, including Digging Roots, Elisapie and Don Amero. Sat, 1/12, 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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t was hanging in the Museum of Modern Art when the portrait of Wally by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele was discovered to have been plundered by the Nazis. “Portrait of Wally: The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits” is a documentary thriller in which the painting of Schiele’s mistress, one of his favorite models, takes center stage in a restitution struggle involving the U.S. government, one of Austria’s leading art collectors, and some of the world’s major museums. The 90-minute movie, released least year, will be followed by a discussion with director Andrew Shea. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2:30 p.m. $10, $7 students/seniors. Museum admission: $12 adults; $10 seniors 65 and up; $7 students. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

David T. Little's Soldier Songs Peer into the soul of the soldier. Composer David T. Little combines elements of theater, opera, rock-infused concert music and animation, creating an opera that explores the perceptions versus the realities of the soldier. 1/11-1/13 and 1/16-1/18, 7:30 pm. $30, $40, $55. Michael Schimmel Center, 1 Pace Plaza. Tickets at schimmel.pace.edu or call 866-811-4111.

Songs of Freedom: Natalie Douglas in Concert Musical tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Natalie Douglas and other performers sing civil rights songs by Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Paul McCartney and Lena Horne, including Horne’s anthem “Now,” which she sang to the tune of “Hava Nagila.” Mark Hartman, musical direction, piano, and vocals; Saadi Zain, bass; and Joe Choroszewski, drums. Wed, 1/16, 7 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

Tift Merritt with Anna Schuliet Merritt, a singer-songwriter, performs country soul originals. She will be accompanied by visual artist Schuliet, who will create an improvisatory piece of art inspired by the music during the performance. Sat, 1/26, 8 pm. $25. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino This group are leaders in a new wave of Southern Italy’s beloved pizzica tarantata music (also an ancient ritual said to cure a poisonous spider’s bite) with its frenzied, trance dances brought to life by the pulsating tamburello drum, recorder and accordion. $35. Fri, 2/1, 7:30 pm. Michael Schimmel Center, 1 Pace Plaza. Tickets at schimmel.pace.edu or call 866-811-4111.

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Michael Bush Michael Jackson’s designer, stylist and friend of 25 years reads from his book

“The King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson,” about the pop star’s position as a fashion icon and legend. Tue, 1/8, 6 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g

Literary Salon New York City-based parents/writers read excerpts from recently published work of poetry and prose. Readers include Thaddeus Rutkowski, Patricia Dunn and Gae Polisner. Tue, 1/8, 7 pm. Free. Andaz Wall Street Hotel, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org.

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Learn How to Download to Your Devices Find out how to browse, select, and download audiobooks and eBooks to your computer, MP3 player, Nook, Kindle, iPad, or smartphone. Free. Daily, 11 am–3 pm through 1/29. Battery Park City Library, 175 North End Ave, nypl.org.

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery This book by Witold Pilecki, translated from Polish and recently published in English, tells the true story of Polish officer Witold Pilecki who in November 1940 deliberately had himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz. While imprisoned in the camp he smuggled out a series of reports describing the conditions. Historian Timothy Snyder of Yale discusses the book with Museum Director David G. Marwell. Wed., 1/9, 7 pm. Free with suggested donation. Tickets will be available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 4 pm on the day of the program. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

The Enduring Relevance of Alexander Hamilton Richard Sylla, professor of history of financial institutions and markets, speaks on Hamilton’s life and legacy in commemoration of his birthday. Fri, 1/11, 1:15 pm. Free. Trinity Church, 79 Broadway, moaf.org.

Grand Central’s Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan When Grand Central Station was completed on Feb. 2, 1903, after 10 years of construction, 150,000 people came to see the inspiring new terminal, the city’s most complicated construction project of its time. Kurt C. Schlichting, author of this biography of Wilgus, will discuss the innovator’s career and his tireless work moving people and goods over and under Manhattan Island and its waterways. Those efforts forever changed New York’s transportation system. Reservations required. Thu, 1/14, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

Hudson and Delaware River Valleys Slideshow of photos of New York State taken during the four seasons. Presented by Charles Decker, mountain climber and member of the Sierra Club Photo Committee. Tue, 1/15, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. West Wing rooms 2 & 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com.

New York Neon Architectural designer Thomas Rinaldi presents a visual tour of the surviving early- and mid-20th-century neon signs, many of which are in danger of disappearing, and discusses the development of neon signs, their technological evolution and their role in the city’s streets and American cultural identity. Thu, 1/24, 12 pm. $21. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

Public Art Talk on Andy Warhol’s Art Art historian Dorothea Basile will offer a look at his art and the artists he influenced in conjunction with the exhibition “Regarding Andy: 60 Artists, 50 Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thu, 1/24 & 1/31, 1 pm. Free. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace, bpcparks.org.

Adapting Cities to Climate Change in a Post-Sandy World Scholars, journalists and sci-

entists explore the impact of hurricanes on New York City and surrounding areas and how urban planners and officials can plan for climate change. Thu, 1/24, 6 pm. $20; $10 students. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org. g The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations and Traces of the Holocaust International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked with a panel discussion among psychologists, artists and survivors. Sun, 1/27, 2:30. Free with a donation. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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g Beyond Bubbie: Tales from the Kitchen A performance dedicated to food, family recipes and the stories that link them together. Raconteurs include journalists and writers whose work focuses on food, chefs, cookbook authors and food-television personalities. Wed, 1/16, 7 pm. $15. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g

The Vandal It is a freezing night in Kingston, NY, when a woman meets a familiar boy at a bus stop. In an exploration of relationships, this play by Hamish Linklater reveals how we live and the stories we tell ourselves when we are haunted by the people we have loved and lost. Fri, 1/18–Sun, 2/17. Tuesdays–Saturdays, 7 pm; Saturdays & Sundays, 3 pm. $45–$50. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.

A Comedic Salute to Hava Nagila An evening of humor about the oft-parodied “Hava Nagila” by comedians of stage and screen Max Alexander, Melvin George and Adrianne Tolsch, hosted by Dave Konig and Cory Kahaney. Wed, 1/23, 7 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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g Free Downtown Walking Tour Two-hour tour of Battery Park, Federal Hall, Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, St. Paul’s Chapel, Woolworth Building, City Hall and Fraunces Tavern. Reservations are required. Go to freetoursbyfoot.com. (The tour is free, but contributions are accepted.) Tour distance is approximately 1 mile. Mondays, 10 am. Meet at the Charging Bull, 26 Broadway. g Alexander Hamilton’s New York Ninetyminute guided tour of the Financial District with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton and his contributions to financial and political history in New York and the U.S. Meet at the museum. Sat, 1/19, 1 pm. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g

Immigrant New York Explore the experiences of immigrant and ethnic populations of Downtown from the early 19th century through today. Stops include Tweed Courthouse, the African Burial Ground, Five Points, and sites associated with Jacob Riis, Abraham Cahan and Emma Goldman. Meet at City Hall Park, Broadway and Chambers Street. Thu, 1/24, 1 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. bigonion.com.

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BY APRIL KORAL When Lauryn Chun was growing up in California, her Korean-born mother advised her to never take Kimchi, Korea’s most popular food, for lunch— or even eat it in public. The smell, she explained, would offend Americans. That advice would sound odd to the 17 people who came to Chun’s cooking class at the New Amsterdam Market last month. They were eager to learn how to prepare this fermented dish, often made with cabbage, that Koreans eat daily. “As soon as I heard about it, I signed up,” recalled Joe Langford, who had rolled up his sleeves in preparation for the class (making kimchi can be a messy affair). “I said, ‘I gotta learn how to make it.’ I like to have it around all the time, and I spend a lot of money on it!” In addition to the incentive of saving money, several people extolled the benefits of the “healthy” bacteria contained in fermented foods. Caroline Press said she ate about a quarter of a cup of kimchi every day after work. “It’s like a snack,” she said. “It feels healthy, feels good.” Press and her fellow students were each given a wooden cutting board, a bowl of bright red paste, its essential ingredient chili pepper flakes, and plastic gloves. Then a large bag full of brined cabbage was opened and the pungent odor illustrated Chun’s mother’s fears. Chun is a kimchi guru of sorts—she began selling her artisan line of kimchi

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called Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi in 2009 and has since authored “The Kimchi Cookbook,” published last month. Before starting the class, she gave the group some background about the pickling tradition, with its recorded history in Korea going back to the 12th century. In the past, women would prepare kimchi in the late fall, she said, sometimes using up to 100 cabbage heads that were buried in the ground in earthenware pots, where they slowly fermented and could be used throughout the cold winter months. As the students slathered the layers of cabbage leaves with the paste, Chun

looked over their shoulders, providing pointers. “Take time to rub it in,” she told one woman. “Get right into the end of the leaf,” she said to another. Brant Shapiro, who came with his son, 9, and daughter, 11, ended the afternoon by buying two bottles of Motherin-Law’s Kimchi. Would he now consider eating more of it? Maybe even using it instead of the sauerkraut that he puts on his daily turkey sandwich? Shapiro didn’t reject the idea. “I’m Jewish, not Korean,” he noted. “But who knows?”

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In Tribeca, Syrians Talk of Art, Not War

BY CARL GLASSMAN For a few hours last month, a Tribeca dance studio became the refuge of cultural exchange for eight Syrian artists far from the tumult of their country. The performers and visual artists, on a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of several U.S. cities, spent the day at the home of Battery Dance Company with its director, Jonathan Hollander, who has made international touring and cultural diplomacy one of the cornerstones of his 37-year-old company. The visit was unlike any the travel weary group had experienced in their other cultural destinations. As Hollander described it, “They were tired of being talked to and wanted interactive programs.” Interactive is what they got. In a twohour workshop, Battery dancers Carmen Nicole and Clement Mensah showed the non-dancers a Rorschach-like image that they were asked translate into movement. Hollander explained it was a way to show the group how his dancers work with students in public schools and “share our passion and new techniques of creativity with a physical language.” “We thought, how can they abandon themselves even for two hours and forget what’s going on at home where their families are in jeopardy,” Hollander said. “And yet they were able to.” The State Department prohibited

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Left: Battery Dance Company’s Jonathan Hollander talks to Syrian visitors. Above. Two Syrian artists try a workshop exercise.

press coverage of the workshop and only allowed the Trib into the studio at the tail end of the Syrians’ visit. In brief interviews, the artists described a cultural life in their country now stunted by war. “The situation is so bad. You can’t go outside your door after 4 p.m.,” said Yahya, a television and movie actor. (The Trib agreed to use first names only.) “You can’t find anyone in the street. I’m out of a job this year.” Yahya added: “If I talk about art in Syria, I can be killed. You know why? Because Islam thinks that art is taboo.” Yahya said that if Islamists take over the

country, “I’m sure I’ll leave Syria.” “I used to work outside the city and bring my work to Damascus to exhibit. But now I exhibit outside Syria,” said Yamen, a sculptor and art teacher. “The cultural life, it was really rich, but now it stopped. We still struggle to continue but it stopped.” Like other artists interviewed, Yamen said the war misrepresents the Syrian people to the outside world. “We think there is still hope because we are peaceful people,” Yamen said. “We don’t care about war, we don’t care about weapons, we don’t care about pol-

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