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EDITORIAL

To Each Their Own Rights
Last week Community Board 1 held a full board meeting with an agenda item so contentious and controversial that the chair of the board had to call in an unprecedented police presence. The hearing was held to vet the issue of the Cordoba Initiative’s plans to build a community and prayer center two blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Letters to the Editor

Under Cover

Police Blotter

Transit Sam

TALKING POINT

A Tradition of Tolerance: Welcoming Cordoba House
By Jean Bergantini Grillo and Paul Newell
Speaking at last week’s Community Board 1 meeting on Cordoba House was both distressing and heartening. Distressing because too many voices were raised in anger, too many names were called. Heartening because our community ultimately embraced tolerance over division and neighborliness over exclusion.

Less than artful rules on park vendors
By Josh Rogers
Almost everyone wants less crowded parks so it’s not surprising the city emphasizes congestion when promoting its plan to throw most of the art vendors out of the busiest parks.

 

IN PICTURES

Civil protests in the name of immigration reform

HOLIDAY

Honoring Military Heroes

List of Downtown Memorial Day Activities

 

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Local pols pushing for Park Row re-opening
BY Aline Reynolds
Paul J.Q. Lee, owner of a general store at 32 Mott Street for some 30 years, closed up shop shortly after 9/11. His family had kept the business going for 113 years but couldn’t survive the sharp drop in clientele once the NYPD began barricading streets that connected the shop to the heart of Chinatown.

Residents receive raises, rent protection
By Nikki Dowling
The New York Downtown Hospital on 170 Williams Street is located in one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in New York City. The number of patients who use the facility has been increasing steadily over the past several years and the hospital saw a large jump after St. Vincent’s Hospital closed in April. However, resident physicians of Lower Manhattan’s only hospital have not seen a raise in over four years. Many felt they didn’t have a voice in the workplace and were dissatisfied with the hospital’s sick day policy.

Claremont High moving into lavish new high-rise
by Helaina N. Hovitz
Claremont Prep is moving on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky…literally.

Cooper student loses eye in Gaza flotilla protest
By Lincoln Anderson
A Cooper Union student lost her left eye after being hit in the face with a tear gas canister Monday at a protest in Jerusalem over Israel’s naval raid on a six-ship Gaza relief flotilla that had left nine people dead.

Biden at the Bridge
Vice President Joseph Biden, Jr. and Mayor Michael Bloomberg were at the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday to announce that $30 million in federal funding from the Economic Recovery will go towards repairing the 127-year-old historic landmark.

Answering the deep, deep question
BY John Bayles
As a kick-off for the World Science Festival beginning this week in Battery Park, a full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble, was unveiled at a special event on Tuesday.

News

Protesting after school cuts, hoping for a remedy
BY Michael Mandelkern
Last Thursday Bob Townley, executive director of Manhattan Youth, led over 65 I.S. 89 students, counselors and faculty up Warren Street and across the Westside Highway, holding signs and screaming, “Save my after-school” and “Save our future” from the top of their lungs.

Potential new school on top of Peck Slip Post Office
By Helaina N. Hovitz
If the Peck Slip Post Office remains, they’d like to see a school as their new neighbor.

Gov approves Notaro for BPCA, more community input
BY John Bayles
Linda Belfer, chair of CB 1’s Batter Park City Committee, said while they had no specific person in mind, the board has been pushing for more residents on the Battery Park City Authority Board for years.

BPC Green market to come, black cars should move on
BY John Bayles
He arrived without any of the board members recognizing him. He left having made a lasting impression and with the full committee in his corner.

Gov Island season opens with new and old alike
BY John Bayles
When Governor’s Island officially opens to the public this Sunday, visitors will be treated to some brand new events and activities as well as some of the same old staples that have made the destination so popular for so long. President of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation Leslie Koch is predicting it to be the “best summer ever.”

First responders officially honored after nine years
BY Michael Mandelkern
Nearly nine years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, this Saturday will mark the first official commemoration of those who took part in the rescue, recovery, volunteer and clean-up mission during the aftermath.

Open season for NYC swim

Bringing color to City Hall

Oil’s not well in the Gulf

It’s high, it’s deep, it’s Downtown

Downtown-Village split exhibition on pro field

Honoring the Father of the NYC’s Italian American Community
 Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608-1655) is not a name most people would immediately recognize. However, he was honored on Wednesday at Bowling Green Park in commemoration of his settling in Dutch Nieuw Amsterdam on June 2, 1635.

ARTS DOWNTOWN

Downtown Theater Roundup
 BY TRAV S.D.
June’s busting out all over — with scary shows.

 

Koch on Film
BY ED KOCH

1931 work is ‘A Play of Our Time’
BY JERRY TALLMER
‘Voices’ worth hearing — and listening to.

 

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Volume 23, Number 4
The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
June 4 - 10, 2010

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