Volume 21, Number 51 | The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan | May 8 - 14, 2009

Downtown Express photos by Jefferson Siegel
Filmfest family fair
The predicted rains did not fall Saturday so big crowds came out for the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual family fair on Greenwich St. At right, Tribecans Kathleen Dorado, left, and Willa Nathan, both 14, towered over the crowds on stilts. Above, Emery Gasch, 4, was one of many children who took a tour of a fire truck, here under the watchful eye of Lt. Michael Thomas.