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EDITORIAL
All the best Barry, and thanks
When the first students enter the new P.S./I.S. 276 building in Battery Park City next fall, the man they perhaps will have the most to thank will likely be 1,000 miles away.
The High Line and art
There’s no question that the High Line is an imaginative, new sort of park, the likes of which New Yorkers had never really witnessed before it opened this summer.
TALKING POINT
A drop of gas info could save gallons
By Daniel Squadron
This holiday season, millions of Americans will take to the road — and spend literally billions of dollars on fuel. We’ll be reminded once again that buying a car is not just a one-time expenditure.
Letters to the Editor
Police Blotter
Mixed Use
Under Cover
FROM OUR ARCHIVE
“From Broadway to Seaport, a role of a lifetime”
By Jen Campbell
Downtown Express
Dec. 14 - 27, 1999
When the Downtown Express profiled him ten years ago, Roger Franklin, a k a the “Seaport Santa,” had been named “Best Dressed Santa” in New York two years in a row by The New York Times. Franklin said his look was “very much in keeping with the old buildings in the Seaport.”
SPORTS
Ball is soft but pitches can be fast, Downtown girls learn
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Giants win national championship, but are denied trophy
Billybey replacing noisy ferries with quieter models
Quieter ferries are coming to Battery Park City, after Gateway Plaza residents complained about the noise.
Apothéke owner looks to Tribeca
Now a tower of steel
A better walk through the garage?
By Julie Shapiro
Liz Berger, president of the Downtown Alliance, does not mince words when she talks about Greenwich St. South, the oft-forgotten Lower Manhattan neighborhood that the Alliance hopes to revitalize.
Honk for meditation
Len Rosenfeld, 82, artist known for ‘wire paintings’
By Julie Shapiro
Leonard Rosenfeld, an expressionist artist who lived and worked Downtown for 50 years, died last Wednesday night at the age of 82.
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News
Quality of life gadfly leaving B.P.C. for better…
By Julie Shapiro
Barry Skolnick, crusader for quality of life Downtown, is leaving the city at the end of the year.
 Stars of stage and arts salute Tallmer as a ‘critic who cares’
By Albert Amateau
Luminaries of the theater gathered at The Players Club on Nov. 23 to honor one of their own, a man of the theater and a writer of distinction, the journalist Jerry Tallmer, who now writes for The Villager and Downtown Express.
Spruce parents float idea to adjust school zones
By Julie Shapiro
Parents dissatisfied with the two school zoning options on the table for Lower Manhattan have drafted their own proposal.
Motorcycle accident
Chinatown activists press fight to move terror trials
By Julie Shapiro
Chinatown residents vowed this week to keep fighting the decision to put the 9/11 terrorist trials in their neighborhood.
Bar complaints on Murray
Neighbors of Biddy Early’s on Murray St. are pushing the state to revoke the bar’s liquor license. |
ARTS DOWNTOWN
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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She like girls; and pays the price
By Jerry Talmer
Playwright charts sad cost of same sex affection.
Empathy and education among two persecuted groups
By Elena Mancini
Exhibit examines Jewish and Black academic convergence.
Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
Embraced in Łódź, shunned in NYC lobby
Stunning patterns emerge from circles, dots, lines
Koch on Film
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