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EDITORIAL

A job well done
 Just a few years ago, Community Board 2 was an example of everything that possibly could be wrong with a community board.

MEMORIAL

The way it was when Cronkite took off his glasses
By JERRY TALLMER
One thing I’ve learned about Walter Cronkite in the hours since he left us last Friday at 92.

Letters to the Editor

Mixed Use

Transit Sam

Under Cover

Police Blotter

IN PICTURES

Yankee stars salute Little League A’s star Thomas

City Hall Park’s best spot when the weather’s hot



Photo by Joe Woolhead

Tanya Ridley, a metal lather, hoists a rod of rebar at Tower 4 at the World Trade Center site.

Rosie the Riveter redux: Women work it at W.T.C.
By Julie Shapiro
Ashia Johns goes to work every day wearing a white hard hat on her head and a flashy white-gold diamond ring on her left hand.

Ice, ice, baby: Rink is for real this year at B.P.C. ballfields
By Julie Shapiro
An ice rink is coming to Battery Park City this winter.

The Financial Center gets In The Loop with knitters
By Jared T. Miller
As she stood below palm trees in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center last Friday, Ina Braun could barely contain her joy at the sight of more than a dozen knitters completing projects they would donate to charity.

Underused lanes should be pedestrian space, BID says
By Jared T. Miller
A new plaza near the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel may be on its way, according to an announcement by the Downtown Alliance business improvement district last Wednesday.

 

News


25 Broadway makes the grade for private school’s expansion
By Julie Shapiro
Claremont Prep’s $30 million expansion is back on track after the school finalized a lease this week for 200,000 square feet at 25 Broadway.

Faced with construction, merchants want facade funds
By Julie Shapiro
After years of enduring the seemingly endless construction on Fulton St., Aleks Misyuk thought he finally had some good news.

Piece of Deutsche Bank drops off, causing a partial work stop

It appears Pier A actually now will not be profitable
By Julie Shapiro
Despite the city’s best efforts to wring money out of Pier A, the redevelopment project likely will not turn a profit, the Battery Park City Authority said this week.

Nadler nets millions for the arts

Senate passes business-aid bill

Students make case for landmarking Confucius Plaza
Aaron Eng-Achson and his second-grade E.S.L. class from P.S. 42 spent this spring learning about landmarks.

Four complex, collaborative Downtown projects
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Surreal concepts encourage imagination, contemplation

Four fleeting Chelsea art exhibits, to be seen soon
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Introspection, satire, wit used to explore subject, form, self.

Summer in the City
Best Downtown Bets for July & August

Struggle to love spans the centuries
BY JERRY TALLMER
Potomac Theatre Project’s potent plays poised to please

Four separate shows, showing below Houston 
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN 
‘The discovery of many rare treasures’ awaits

Vocal coach valued by the talented, profane, slightly insane
BY TRAV S.D. 
Chelsea-based Maier envisions long life of cheering & chiding.

 

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?


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