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EDITORIAL

Con Ed needs to cut a deal
This week Con Edison sent a letter to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation stating their claim to $174 million dollars in funds allocated by Congress to restore electric, gas, and steam service to Lower Manhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. This is in addition to the $164 million Con Ed has already received through this Housing and Urban Development Program. We believe their claim is much more complicated than they state, and that they may not be legally entitled to these funds.

Letters to the Editor

Under Cover

Police Blotter

TALKING POINT

Thank Albany while you wait longer for that bus
By Josh Rogers
Descend to the depths of the Chambers St. J-M-Z station and it’s a trip back in time, although I doubt anyone feels nostalgic for the subway stations of two and three decades ago. There’s peeling paint everywhere and the tiles that have not fallen off yet are blackened with filth.

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Early morning boozing; blame it on the World Cup
By Michael Mandelkern
On June 26, 2002, in an article entitled “World Cup pushes happy hour to the morning,” Downtown Express writer Valerie Nahmad covered the transformations bars made for the World Cup to adjust to the wide time zone gap between the games played in host countries South Korea and Japan and viewing them live in New York.

YOUTH SPORTS

Baron’s remain on top
After beating the Monarchs in a playoff game on Tuesday, June 15, the Royal Giants were pumped to face the first place Barons in a semifinal match the following Thursday.

 

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Baby Grand
Mom Emily and her 3 month old daughter Livia were among the first to play one of the 60 “Play Me, I’m Yours” street pianos located throughout the city. She waited patiently until the piano was unlocked at 9 a.m. Monday morning.


St. Vincent’s postmortem: Why Village hospital died
By Lincoln Anderson
“It’s all true,” said Arthur Webb, the former chief operating officer of St. Vincent’s Hospital.

No more W trains for Whitehall commuters
BY Joseph Rearick
On June 27, the M.T.A. is scheduled to implement a series of service changes to the subway and bus system in an attempt to reduce a budget gap of nearly $800 million. One of the most notable changes for Downtown residents and workers is the discontinuation of the W train, which currently begins at Whitehall Street and services several locations below Canal Street before continuing to Astoria, Queens.

Lower East Siders fight for two senior centers
By David McCabe
Amid cheers of “Si, se puede,” seniors, school children, and local residents converged Tuesday on the Lillian Wald houses to protest the closing of two senior centers, one at the Jacob Riis houses and the other in the Wald complex, due to budget cuts.

An interview with Stuyvesant High’s 2010 valedictorian
Emma Ziegellaub Eichler : The Stuyvesant High School valedictorian with a 98.7 G.P.A. discusses her extracurricular endeavors, how she balanced them with a social life and A+ schoolwork, her college plans, what she likes and dislikes about Lower Manhattan and a very high profile speaker at her graduation.

Recipient named for Albert Capsouto Memorial Scholarship
BY Michael Mandelkern
With a robust high school career of community service, Szeyin Lee, a senior at Stuyvesant High School, was awarded the first annual $1,000 Albert Capsouto Memorial Scholarship this month to ease the financial burden of preparing for college.

Lower Manhattan high schools graduate
BY Michael Mandelkern
The graduating class of 2010 at Millennium High School has a graduation rate of roughly 98 percent and all 147 students have been accepted into various prestigious colleges in the fall, including Syracuse University, Smith College, Columbia University, George Washington University, American University, New York University and several S.U.N.Y. and C.U.N.Y. schools, such as Stony Brook and Baruch.

Your local hardware store is now even more local
BY Joseph Rearick
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A man wearing a snugly with a Pomeranian inside of it walks into a hardware store. But for the recently opened Tribeca Paints owner Andrew Scheman, it’s the beginning of a relationship founded on attentive service, expertise and a genuine care for the residents of his beloved neighborhood.

News

Silver, loft tenants rejoice over new law
BY John Bayles
When Mayor Bloomberg sent a letter at the eleventh hour to Governor David Patterson to try and sway him to block the passage of a new loft law, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver went into fighting mode.

Legal Eagles: The Next Generation

Ambulances, E.R.’s scramble to deal with St. Vincent’s loss
By Lincoln Anderson
Regarding the impact of St. Vincent’s Hospital’s closure, there’s no denying there has been an increase in the number of patients that ocal hospitals are seeing in their emergency departments.

Libraries bracing for looming budget cuts
BY Ailene Reynolds
The New York Public Library is bracing for the deepest budget cut in its 115-year history. And if it goes through, students in English for Speakers of Other Languages courses throughout Lower Manhattan might have to look elsewhere for instruction.

Horwitz to lead B.P.C.A. in new direction
By Aline Reynolds
The Battery Park City Authority is altering its direction, moving from a development corporation to a management corporation. The move is evident as the Authority hired Gayle Horwitz to serve as the new Chief Operating Officer of the authority, as of June 21.

Downtown restaurants make plans in wake of BP disaster
BY Joseph Rearick
The aftermath of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may soon expand to include another set of victims: the plates of Downtown diners.

C.B. 1 and Nadler answer questions on health care reform
BY Aline Reynolds

Garage demo causes alarm
BY Albert Amateau
The environmental committee of Community Board 2 asked some hard questions last week about the impending demolition of the old sanitation garage at Spring Street where the Department of Sanitation intends to build a salt shed as part of its three-district garage project on property owned by UPS.

Downtown Day Camp branches out
BY Michael Mandelkern
As elementary school children graduate and outgrow the Downtown Day Camp, the 19-year-old Tribeca summer camp is opening its doors exclusively to 5th grade and junior high school students.

The Rules: New limitations on art vending in city parks
 BY Albert Amateau
The Bloomberg administration established new rules last week for vending “expressive matter” in sections of Union Square, Battery Park, the High Line and Central Park, but the drastic reductions originally proposed for vending locations were eased in the version published Friday in the City Record.

The Reaction: How the vendors feel
BY Joseph Rearick
On Monday afternoon, tourists streamed through Battery Park and paused momentarily at a few of the dozens of art vendors situated in booths beside the park’s pathways to pour over the New York City-centric paintings, memorabilia and photographs. Vendors greeted them heartily, hoping to make a brisk business in the next few weeks. Come July 19, their means of making a living will completely change.

 

ARTS DOWNTOWN

Another Downtown theater bites the dust
BY TRAV S.D. 
Vital Soho institution booted to make way for needless boutique.

 

 

Pins, needles, and a sense of history
By Stephen Wolf
The walls of a Chelsea high school tell an epic tale.

Upcoming Tony honors a lifetime in the theater
By Jerry Tallmer
Gifted interpreter of Albee and O’Neill joins their ranks.

More time for ‘Zero Hour’

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch

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