THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN

THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN — Volume 19 • Issue 12 | August 4 - 10, 2006

Editorial
L.M.D.C.’s record of achievements and blemishes
The L.M.D.C.’s announcement last week that it will be closing up shop in a few months gives us reason to reflect on its record. This state-city authority became such an integral part of Lower Manhattan that we undoubtedly will have more to say about them in the coming weeks and months, including the outstanding monetary questions growing from our news article in this issue. We’ll take a broader view this week.

Police Blotter

Letters to the editor

Under Cover

The Penny Post
Perchance to sleep
By Andrei Codrescu
I said, “I would like a quiet room with one of those beds you can set your sleep level to.” I was in one of those hotels that claim that after sleeping there, you’ll be fool enough to jump off a mountain or fly an airplane because you’re feeling so mighty chipper on account of the sleep they gave you.

Downtown Express photo by Jefferson Siegel
For the birds and pols
Gerald Charles, who hawks newspapers near City Hall, is also popular with City Hall Park’s pigeons who like the wild seeds he keeps handy.

News Briefs
Menin says Port’s interested in W.T.C. school

Forum would see if kids are alright 5 years later

Sports

Youth Activities

Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess Bridging the Hamptons gap Lower Manhattan’s East River beach may not make any travel magazines, but there are no views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in Montauk and this locale is also a wee bit closer for cooling off in the summer heat.		News Shifting dollars, debatable legacy as L.M.D.C. approaches its final days By Josh Rogers Up to $45 million of 9/11-related community development money has been shifted away from its promised uses, according to two members of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s board. Tower looming as law school breaks library ground in Tribeca By Ronda Kaysen New York Law School sold its Tribeca library building, making way for a new high-rise residential tower and shoring up its endowment, now one of the 10 largest in the country.

INSIDE

Goldman walkway will stay walkable, says B.P.C.A. By Ronda Kaysen The glass enclosed walkway connecting the new Goldman Sachs headquarters to the Embassy Suites Hotel building in Battery Park City will remain accessible to the public, James Cavanaugh, president of the Battery Park City Authority, told Downtown Express. Con Ed short circuits Hudson Park work By David Spett Hudson River Park work on Pier 25 has been temporarily suspended due to design changes required by Con Edison, according to the Hudson River Park Trust’s spokesperson. Nightclub’s reopening is not music to board’s ears By Janet Kwon Mehanata Meyhane: rowdy club or cultural hub? Mehanata’s new owner, Serdar Ilhan, says that along with the establishment’s new digs at 113 Ludlow St., it’s had an image swap as well. Do Downtowners really want to make Boy George cry? By David Spett George O’Dowd, better known as singer Boy George, was recently sentenced to five days of community service in District 3 for falsely reporting a burglary in his Little Italy loft.		Downtowners in the street give mixed marks to L.M.D.C. After the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced last week that it was disbanding, Downtown Express reporters asked people around Lower Manhattan to grade the agency on its record. Fantasizing about island future, as visitors see present By Ronda Kaysen Governors Island is on the cusp of change. Sitting silent and empty just off of Manhattan’s shore, it is a ghost town waiting to breathe again. Touring Washington’s stomping grounds for free By Janet Kwon A group of about 40 gathered on the front steps of the former United States Customs House on a particularly humid Thursday. Fanning themselves with anything they could get a hold of, some sat on the stone steps while others moved about searching for shade from the harsh noon sunshine.

Downtown Arts & Entertainment

Wielding influence through sculptures of steel By Steven Snyder It starts as a 32-square-foot hunk of steel — a massive, inanimate black mass — and ends up as an artwork designed to cut across borders both political and psychological and to build bridges between cultures. In ‘Amajuba,’ apartheid is not so black and white By Scott Harrah A play about the struggles of blacks in the poverty-stricken townships of South Africa during the apartheid years hardly sounds like an evening of lively, uplifting theater, but this illuminating import—which has received much acclaim in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia—is as emotionally upbeat and entertaining as it is sobering and poignant.		New Wave director, old film formula By Leonard Quart Claude Chabrol, Francois Trauffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were the leading directors of the French New Wave in the 1960s. All were committed to a cinema that expressed a personal vision, and in very different ways they defied mainstream cinematic conventions. Blood on the tracks By Jerry Tallmer I can still remember The Tomato bouncing in to the newspaper where I was working, her arms loaded with a batch of her husband’s wondrous photographs of steam engines of days gone by.

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