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Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess
Children’s Day ended with a crescendo Saturday night as fireworks lit the sky over the South Street Seaport. The colorful fireworks launched from barges in the East River followed a performance by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and capped a day of free children’s music and theater. Gordon, a familiar face from “Sesame Street,” hosted the festivities.
The girls of summer
By Julie Shapiro
It only took one softball game to convince Alex Townes-West to stick to baseball.
Chinese museum’s new center to open next week
By Julie Shapiro
Four years ago, Charles Lai huddled over scraps of paper with architect Maya Lin, planning the Museum of Chinese in America’s expansion.
‘Fitting tribute’ for Police Museum’s hall
By Julie Shapiro
The Hall of Heroes at the New York City Police Museum is a bare white room, with little ornamentation beside the rows upon rows of shining badges on the walls. The badges once belonged to the 757 police officers that have been killed in the line of duty since the N.Y.P.D. formed in 1845.
Opponents of truck garage tower still push for alternatives
By Albert Amateau
The Hudson Square Sanitation Steering Committee last week showed the Department of Sanitation the details of its Hudson Rise plan for a scaled-back, two-district Sanitation garage with a park on top at Spring and Washington Sts.
Downtown Little League highlights
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First and goal for school space in Sports Museum
By Julie Shapiro
The Sports Museum of America’s loss is Lower Manhattan families’ gain.
Education Dept.: Don’t believe what you read
“Anticipated Completion: November 2010,” reads the sign in front of P.S./I.S. 276, the new K-8 school rising in southern Battery Park City.
Tight security at B.P.C.’s Holocaust museum
By Jared T. Miller
Security was tighter outside Battery Park City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage last Friday, a day after a shooting at the Holocaust Museum in the nation’s capital.
A tour before Fiterman’s takedown
One month ago, anyone who entered Fiterman Hall had to don hazmat gear. A month from now, the demolition of the building will be underway.
L.M.D.C. puts laptops and frogs on principals’ menus
By Julie Shapiro
It isn’t every day that the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is referred to as “the cavalry,” but this week Millennium High School principal Robert Rhodes had reason to make the comparison.
Students’ Scoop on newspapers is keep on printin’
By Jared T. Miller
In the past year, reporting breaking news, speaking with CNN journalists and government officials, and covering the inauguration of President Obama might have been the opportunities of a lifetime for professional reporters. But for the seventh and eighth grade students at Manhattan Academy of Technology who write for their school’s paper, these were their first stories. |
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Vocal coach valued by the talented, profane, slightly insane
BY TRAV S.D.
Chelsea-based Maier envisions long life of cheering & chiding.
‘Unique and specific’ films bring focus to Mexican culture
BY STEVEN SNYDER
Sweeping epic, horror, family fare & a pop icon on the plate
Koch on Film
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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? |
