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Cleared for Customs
The plaza in front of the U.S. Custom House filled with dozens of discarded trees for Mulch Mania last Saturday. The second annual Downtown Alliance event in Bowling Green featured equipment that broke down the trees into mulch, which attendees could take home. The Custom House, one of the city’s first landmarks, holds the National Museum of the American Indian and the Southern District Bankruptcy Court.
Smooth sailing on lease
The Battery Park City Authority is about to sign a five-year renewal lease for 7,400 square feet in the Regatta building on W. Thames St. for $65 per square foot.
Girls Prep is set to expand, but Shuang Wen space safe
By Albert Amateau
Girls Preparatory Charter School, with 261 elementary school students in its Lower East Side building, will expand over the next three years to accommodate between 200 and 250 new middle school students, according to a Jan. 8 decision by the Department of Education.
Late night school meeting ends in no decision
By Julie Shapiro
Tribecans will have another two weeks to fight over whose children will attend P.S. 234, after the District 2 Community Education Council failed to endorse a school zoning plan Wednesday night.
Rocks now, water and flowers to follow
Café pops into Soda Shop space
By Julie Shapiro
Behind the darkened windows of the former Soda Shop on Chambers St., a transformation is underway.
Straphangers let it all hang out
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News
Updated Jan. 18: Council leader confident that kindergarten lottery is unlikely
Our Woman in Haiti
Tequila Minsky live from Haiti for the Downtown Express
Historical find in Downtown’s newest neighborhood
By Julie Shapiro
Construction workers tunneling into Battery Park City landfill recently found something much older than the neighborhood itself: The concrete bulkhead put in place over 100 years ago.
Survey finds business program hard to find
By Julie Shapiro
Nearly two years after the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. launched a program to help small businesses, an informal survey found that only one in three eligible businesses had heard of the program.
Subway changes at Fulton
Straphangers who tried to navigate the Fulton St. subway station last weekend found trains missing, stairways closed and transfer passages covered in plywood boards — and many of those changes will return this weekend.
Hudson Square sanitation lawsuit dismissed by judge
By Albert Amateau
State Supreme Court Justice Joan B. Lobis this week dismissed the lawsuit by Hudson Sq. residents, businesses and community groups challenging the city’s plan to build a three-district sanitation garage on Spring St.
Buffalo style Italian Renaissance
Tribeca got a new landmark this week: 311 Broadway, a five-story Italian Renaissance-style building.
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ARTS DOWNTOWN
What does it take to be a Wild Man?
BY JERRY TALLMER
Artists, mobsters, taught Maguire ‘cognizance of risk.’
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Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
Gallery Listings
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Downtown, Village and Chelsea exhibits not to be missed.
Times change, song remains the same
BY RICHARD ANTONE
All-star CD pays tribute to 1960s Village music scene.
Characters, audience and author are all orphans
BY JERRY TALLMER
Insights from Hallie Foote: Horton’s daughter, favorite actress
At home, the singular Stritch sings Sondheim
BY JERRY TALLMER
Early tribute trumps upcoming March birthday fetes.
Get to know Kenkeleba and Kamoinge
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