Ward fires back at Silverstein in W.T.C. fight
By Julie Shapiro
Adding too much office space too quickly at the World Trade Center could spell disaster for the city’s real estate market, Chris Ward, executive director at the Port Authority, said this week.

Fired up & ready to go
By Chelsea-Lyn Rudder
Lower Manhattan celebrated a rite of spring on Saturday, April 18 when the Downtown Little League kicked off the 2009 season with its annual parade and opening day ceremony.

Lots of hits the first day

Holocaust painting returned
Before Adolf Hitler rose to power, he had great aspirations to be a painter in Vienna. Hitler and his Nazi generals took particular interest in acquiring art owned by the Jews.

Ecology center recycles its message
By John Bayles
The Lower East Side Ecology Center is known for its composting, but Executive Director Christine Datz-Romero is promoting a new message: Reuse is the best thing we can do.

Fearing a rush to demo proposed district buildings
By Albert Amateau
The Landmarks Preservation Com-mission and local elected officials are co-sponsoring an information meeting next month to hear the concerns of property owners in a part of the proposed South Village Historic District that the commission is considering.

Chinese museum makes cuts as it builds new center
By Julie Shapiro
The Museum of Chinese in America laid off one worker and gave the rest of the staff a 5 percent pay cut last month in the face of a worsening economy.

Trinity job meetings

Wall St.’s woes scrawled on Soho’s walls
By Dean Stattmann
The sardonic graffiti appearing around New York’s Soho lately seems incongruous, since this is one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

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NEW: Video Feature:
Progress at the World Trade Center
Downtown Express columnist David Stanke and Artist Mahmut Celiker talk to associate editor Josh Rogers.

City nixes Tribeca bus plan
By Julie Shapiro
Under fire from residents and elected officials, the city agreed Friday to nix its plan to move 18 commuter buses to West St.

We’re bankrupt but not broken, Seaport says
By Julie Shapiro
After General Growth Properties executives spent months promising the community that the company’s finances were strong, the South Street Seaport owner filed for bankruptcy last Thursday.

B.P.C. boy hopes for bone marrow donor
By Candida L. Figueroa
With less than three weeks to his 5th birthday, Kai Anderson is fighting for his life and in search of a bone marrow donor. In early April, he was diagnosed with a form of leukemia.

Tensions high as state investigates B.P.C. Authority
By Julie Shapiro
Tension roiled the usually sedate Battery Park City Authority when the board’s Audit Committee met last week.

Squadron: Traffic cameras needed on Canal and West Sts.
The city will soon install 50 new red-light cameras, and State Sen. Daniel Squadron wants as many as possible to target dangerous intersections in his district.

Deutsche work expected to resume this week

Tribeca Film Festival Reviews
“Blank City” and Handsome Harry

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.