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Accepting some firehouse cuts
Many New Yorkers feel an emotional pull to their neighborhood firehouses and with good reason. Quite simply, our Bravest protect us. It is understandable why any cuts to the F.D.N.Y. trigger resistance.

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Downtown Express photo by Jefferson Siegel Longtime Seaport resident Gary Fagin will be conducting the free debut performance of his Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra next weekend at Downtown’s Winter Garden. Downtowner preserving the Seaport’s history and music’s classics By Julie Shapiro When the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra takes the stage for the first time Jan. 17, the two halves of Gary Fagin’s life will finally come together. Milstein safety plan is less than Goldman, some say By Julie Shapiro Milstein Properties unveiled a long-awaited safety plan Tuesday night for the residential towers that will soon rise at Sites 23 and 24 in Battery Park City. Authority approves new rent plan for 3 B.P.C. condos By Julie Shapiro The Battery Park City Authority approved a proposal Tuesday that will help some of the neighborhood’s residents but hurt the city’s affordable housing fund. Cyclists read roll of fallen on a rolling memorial By Jefferson Siegel Cyclists gathered to remember their own at the Fourth Annual Bike Memorial Ride & Walk on Sunday. Trump Soho hotel’s foes lose another round, but continue fight By Albert Amateau A State Supreme Court justice has dismissed the lawsuit by the Soho Alliance challenging the city for approving the Trump Soho condominium-hotel at Varick and Spring Sts.	Displaced tenants get little help due to landlord violations By Julie Shapiro The loud banging on the door came at 10 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving. Parking tickets way down Downtown By J.B. Nicholas New York City’s deficit is the largest in years, yet city traffic agents issued far fewer parking tickets last year than they did in 2007. In all, millions of dollars in revenue may have been lost. Squadron: We’ll get better in the Senate Daniel Squadron, New York’s youngest State Senator, said during his campaign that Democratic control would bring new transparent government to Albany, but the last few weeks have seen numerous embarrassing reports about Democratic senators and backroom deals. Deutsche contractor indicted for grand larceny By Julie Shapiro To the list of charges levied against John Galt Corp. workers since the fatal fire at the Deutsche Bank building, the district attorney added a new one this week: grand larceny. Chinese emergency officials meet with B.P.C. group A delegation of emergency management coordinators from China met their Battery Park City counterparts Tuesday night. Brides, take a number for upscale City Hall weddings
ARTS DOWNTOWN The greatest story never told By WILL McKINLEY A year ago, three days after Christmas, my mother died at the age of 72. Since then, like the reporter in “Citizen Kane,” I’ve been trying to piece together the story of her life through pictures, home movies, letters, yellowing scrapbooks and hazy recollections of friends and family. Labors of truth, vying for Oscar contention By STEVEN SNYDER Anonymity is the biggest challenge facing documentaries—films that typically lack the big advertising budgets needed to draw mass audiences away from the multiplex. A bowl of rock candy By TODD SIMMONS The newly christened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho has the potential to establish itself as a lively alternative to the usual circuit of New York City tourist destinations. Fantastic Mr. Brecht By JERRY TALLMER On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin that housed the German Parliament was ravaged by fire.	In focus behind the camera BY ELENA MANCINI “Annie Leibovitz at Work,” a newly published retrospective of the iconic photographer’s 40-year career, is equal parts text and images. She got her start in 1970, when one of her photos of Vietnam anti-war rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley was used for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, which subsequently offered her a job. White picket malaise By ELENA MANCINI “Prostitution is the perfect example of the double standard. It’s illegal to sell your body if you’re poor but when you’re rich—when you’re rich it’s perfectly acceptable. We just call it being a wife,” Eden in the flesh By JERRY TALLMER It was the morning after the opening, and the raves were in, but already Martha Clarke was on the cell phone

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