Downtown Express photo by Tequila Minsky

Many Downtown youth programs like Children’s Tumbling in Tribeca are cutting back classes.

Youth programs hanging on as families tighten their belts
By Julie Shapiro
On the playground and in schoolyards, Lower Manhattan parents are talking about how to save money on programs for their children.

Drinks for Lady Liberty

Downtown the movie star

Ratner back to building 76 stories on Beekman
The Beekman St. apartment tower will rise to its full height of 76 stories to be the tallest residential tower in the city, developer Forest City Ratner announced last week.

School celebrates a decade in Battery Park City
By Julie Shapiro
A parade of photographs at P.S. 89’s anniversary celebration showed just how much can change in 10 years.

Student exhibit

News

Gerson loses Downtown club’s endorsement vote
By Josh Rogers
Pete Gleason won the endorsement of Downtown Independent Democrats Tuesday night delivering a body blow to the reelection efforts of Councilmember Alan Gerson.

Newcomer to the Council race says fresh approach is needed
By Josh Rogers
PJ Kim showed up for an interview last week with a big knapsack on his back looking like he’d fit in better on a grad school campus than at a City Council candidate forum.

Downtown’s wild about Harry
Prince Harry’s visit to New York City last week was a whirlwind of dignified tourism that took him all around Downtown, from the World Trade Center site and the British Memorial Garden to a polo match on Governors Island.

Candidate’s bar faces eviction

Residents pleased with Amuse bar’s withdrawl

Landmarks chief tells Chamber, ‘Can’t freeze built environment’
By Albert Amateau
Landmarks Preservation Commission Chairperson Robert Tierney told the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce that he sees the Village as “the epicenter of historic preservation.”

Don’t be subtle, make a statement, city tells Cosmo architects
By Julie Shapiro
Using the words “bland” and “generic,” city commissioners sharply criticized a proposal to enlarge the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tribeca this week.

Remembered at MOMA, forgotten at the cemetery
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN 
Two NY artists track down the grave of Piet Mondrian.

Lonely lunar worker: gone looney?
BY TRAV S.D.
Son of Bowie creates his own space oddity.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“Owl and the Sparrow” and “O’Horten

Truly, deeply mad — or merely performing? 
BY ELENA MANCINI
Surreal life and work leave many questions unanswered.

Out with the Ragu, in with the Mambo Mouth
BY JERRY TALLMER
Historic, hard-to-kill theater renovates, rises again.

Will it Rock-n-Roll away with a Tony?
BY SCOTT HARRAH
Flashy but thematically hollow
jukebox musical amuses.

When reality meets fantasy 
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Audubon denizens: awaiting Apocalypse or regeneration?