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Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert
B.P.C. on the rocks
Battery Park City’s ice rink, which opened Sunday on the neighborhood ballfields, even had a decent size crowd on a Wednesday. Go to article
Hopeful Fiterman groundbreaking? Try yelling & accusations
By Julie Shapiro
A shouting match between Councilmember Charles Barron and a trustee of the City University of New York disrupted an otherwise festive groundbreaking on the new Fiterman Hall Tuesday morning.
Budget plan relies on B.P.C. money
By Julie Shapiro
Gov. David Paterson is pushing ahead with his plan to use $200 million in Battery Park City money to fill state budget gaps.
C.B. 1 sees Asphalt Green subsidies as threat to youth groups
By Julie Shapiro
Worried that the new Battery Park City community center will force other local programs out of existence, Community Board 1 wants to put limits on how much aid the new center can receive.
Millennium gym search goes back to school
By Julie Shapiro
Millennium High School’s search for gym space could end up right back where it started: inside the school’s building on Broad St.
Battery bikeway begins in June
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Parents try for old and new: P.S. 234 & 276
By Julie Shapiro
As Tribeca parents jockey to be zoned for P.S. 234 : waitlists.
Cries of betrayal as gay marriage is soundly defeated
By Paul Schindler
ALBANY — Since May, Senator Tom Duane, a Downtown Democrat and the chamber’s only out gay member, has said he had the votes to pass the marriage equality bill he sponsors.
Cortlandt commuters return
Goldman comes under fire over falling glass
By Julie Shapiro
The latest accident at the problem-prone Goldman Sachs headquarters sent shards of glass sailing toward West St. last Saturday morning.
Ice rink opens
Bike path closes again
What’s in a political name? New club is finding out
By Josh Rogers
The new political club splintering from Downtown Independent Democrats had its first meeting Monday night and just over two dozen potential members showed up.
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Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess
Pining for a great holiday season
There was singing in front of the “Chorus Tree,” a Santa Parade, train rides and holiday fun down at the South Street Seaport last Friday to kick off the Christmas season. Santa Claus and the singers will be there on weekends through Dec. 27.
Best bets for Yuletide activities
Sensational facts, told with the gregarious affection
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Goldner’s ideas conceived in Mali, born on Warren Street
Ominous, somber, kitschy and forlorn
Kazan: Vilified namer of names, socially conscious auteur
Celebration of culture merits more than cult following
Embraced in Łódź, shunned in NYC lobby
Stunning patterns emerge from circles, dots, lines
Koch on Film
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