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Count us out, Downtown’s tony nabes telling the census
By Julie Shapiro
The Lower East Side doesn’t often get the chance to beat Battery Park City — but that’s just what’s happening in the race to return census forms.
Bob Zuckerman’s in BID’ness on the Lower East Side
By Albert Amateau
The Lower East Side Business Improvement District last week announced the appointment of Bob Zuckerman as executive director of the BID, covering roughly between Allen and Ludlow Sts. from East Houston to Grand Sts.
Tunnel plaza study
The square block of access ramp, shrubbery and crushed rock at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel has been off limits to pedestrians for about as long as anyone can remember.
Poets House expands its children’s programming
Poets House is expanding its programming for children.
Green festival for green neighborhood
Voices of 9/11 will be heard in memorial’s museum
Interactive exhibits allowing visitors to hear 9/11 stories and tell their own will form the heart of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum when it opens as soon as 2012.
Outpouring of safety concerns at forum on watershed drilling
By Albert Amateau
New York State’s proposed permit rules for hydrofracture gas drilling, including drilling in the city’s watershed, inspired a forum by opponents on April 1 at John Jay College and another scheduled for Thurs., April 15, at Cooper Union.
Proposed new rules for park vendors
Put me in coach, I’m ready to play
Youth Sports
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News
Liu says mayor wants to take over Battery Park City
By Julie Shapiro
After grabbing Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park from the state, Mayor Bloomberg has now set his sights on a new acquisition: Battery Park City.
Push to use $150 million in leftover money for W.T.C. arts building
By Julie Shapiro
Julie Menin is pushing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to use a recently revealed pot of money to build the performing arts center at the World Trade Center site.
Nearing the end, St. Vincent’s moves to D.N.R.
By Albert Amateau
St. Vincent’s Hospital is facing the last two weeks of its 161-year history.
Grand St. fire leaves one man dead and 200 homeless
By Albert Amateau
A fire that broke out in a Chinatown building, which had two-dozen housing violations late Sunday night, spread to two other buildings, and left 200 people homeless, injured 33 people, including 29 firefighters, and left dead one 87-year-old man, whose body was discovered on Monday night.
State cedes control of Governors Island to city
By Julie Shapiro
For the price of a bottle of water, the city took control of Governors Island this week and assumed responsibility for the island’s ambitious $270 million park development plan.
Surprise, Downtowners are NOT complaining about chopper noise
Crane part makes wrong turn into the Liberty bridge
Talking with the Donald at his Soho opening
By Lincoln Anderson
Saying the Trump Soho New York condo-hotel has created 350 permanent jobs and will boost business for Downtown stores and restaurants, Donald Trump led a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Friday, officially opening the towering new building.
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How to spend the rest of the 9/11 funds
Just imagine: professional playground players this summer
Work at the W.T.C.
A new chapter in Battery Park City life
More parks coming to Battery Park City
Helping solve Downtown’s construction problems
Building a train station
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ARTS DOWNTOWN
TFF Makes Bold Bold Move into Digital Realm
By Scott Stiffler
Dowtown Express recently spoke with the Tribeca Film Festival’s Nancy Schafer (executive director) and Geoffrey Gilmore (chief creative officer of Tribeca Enterprises, former longtime Sundance Film Festival director and a native of Huntington, Long Island).
Programmers of Tribeca Film Festival speak out
BY R. RICHARDSON
2010 picks a rebuttal to ‘too many films and being erratic’ criticism.
Getting personal: TFF’s international selections
BY ELENA MANCINI
Spanish, Asian films range from the surreal to the sublime.
TFF delivers full menu of funky freebies
BY STEVEN SNYDER
Founded in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Tribeca Film Festival was envisioned as a means of galvanizing an ailing neighborhood.
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