EDITORIAL
Digging out of the W.T.C. hole
Will the World Trade Center be rebuilt in our lifetimes? For the first time since 9/11, the best answer seems to be “it depends.” Actuarily, a young or middle-aged person still stands a good chance to live to see this increasingly elusive day, but this week it came out that it could be two or three decades away.

Letters to the Editor

DOWNTOWN NOTEBOOK

Where’s the community board’s young boys & girls network?
By Chelsea-Lyn Rudder
I am a 24-year-old member of Community Board 1 and apparently an anomaly.

Under Cover

Police Blotter

Mixed Use

Transit Sam

SCENE

Big Brother is driving

Newt comes Downtown

Presidential Pooch

OBITUARY

Pat Monte, Rte. 9A project manager and B.P.C. engineer, dies at 81

YOUTH SPORTS

Batter up for new Little League president

Little Leaguers scrimmage before the big day

 



Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess

Construction of the Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center continues but it could be decades before some of the other towers are completed.

Facing decades of W.T.C. delay, Silverstein firm blasts Port
By Julie Shapiro
A Silverstein Properties executive slammed the Port Authority at a community meeting Monday night, an early public sign of what became an increasingly public battle as the week wore on.


New report says Downtown’s long-term future is bright

Rockland ferry service sinks

Chopper flights to airports resume

Bond trader takes M.S. and the markets in stride
By Julie Shapiro
Alexandra Levin woke up one morning in the summer of 2005 and could not walk.

Message sent to post office: Keep Soho branch open
By Patrick Hedlund
About 75 Soho residents joined with local activists and elected officials to protest the planned closing of the Prince St. post office on Wednesday, the same day crowds queued up to mail their tax forms by the April 15 deadline.

Port, Silverstein update board on rebuilding

 

 

News

W.T.C. crane jumped
View Port Authority video of a World Trade Center crane being “jumped” over the weekend. The five-hour operation is compressed down to 33 seconds.

Tensions high as B.P.C. board members battle
By Julie Shapiro
Tension roiled the usually sedate Battery Park City Authority when the board’s Audit Committee met Thursday morning.

B.P.C. goes for more suburban storefronts
By Julie Shapiro
New regulations could be coming to Battery Park City, and many business owners and residents are unhappy.

City moves to park buses in Tribeca

Jewelers hope to add ‘sparkle’ to sales
A citywide promotion aims to put the shine back on jewelers’ profits despite the recession.

Work resumes at W Hotel after accident

Governor pushes same sex marriage debate to front burner
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
Gov. David Paterson will introduce a marriage equality bill on April 16.

Gay youth: Community should pick 2 park directors
By Albert Amateau
FIERCE, the organization of lesbian, gay and transgender youth who have traditionally found refuge on the West Village waterfront, delivered a strong message — backed up by a new report — to the Community Board 2 Waterfront Committee on Monday.


Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival: Some things for nothing
BY STEVEN SNYDER
Tribeca Film Festival’s ‘escapist’ mission yields many free events 

All hail, Bette Gordon
BY TRAV S.D.
Film fest gives pioneering Tribeca artist her due.

Making filmmakers out of the digital generation
BY ELENA MANCINI
TFI Youth Program instills skills, nurtures talent.

When punk & indie film ruled NYC
BY RANIA RICHARDSON
Two tales recall long bygone era
of East Village edge. 


The caustic irony & sardonic wit of Lola Blau
WW II may be over, but the song remains the same

Atrocious fusion

Lies, sweetly disguised
By ELENA MANCINI
Pushcart Prize-winning author Paul Maliszewski has written a fascinating social history of faking that spans from the truth excesses of Swiftian satire to the recent fake-memoir bombshells in the publishing world.

Warming up for the Frigid Festival
By STEVEN SNYDER
For the third winter, Downtown theaters offer a roster of fresh drama.

Koch on Film

The newly stolen soul
By David Todd
A behind-the-book interview with New York author Mary Gaitskill

 


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