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EDITORIAL

St. Vincent’s: The facts
As seen at last week’s meeting when officials from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical System tried to describe their plan for a Greenwich Village urgent-care center, the anger over St. Vincent’s Hospital’s closing remains palpable.

Letters to the Editor

Under Cover

Police Blotter

DOWNTOWN NOTEBOOK

Le petite voyageur: A New Yorker strolls through the City of Light
BY Helaina N. Hovitz
“Can we get a taxi this way?” I asked a small man in uniform at the airport as I quickly rolled my suitcase toward the small blue exit sign. “You’re from New York, yes?” he asks me. “I can tell.”

 

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Art vendors take the heat, then and now
Last week, in an article entitled “The Rules: New limitations on art vending in city parks,” Albert Amateau described new regulations limiting the number of art vendors in city parks and the swift resistance of Robert Lederman, president of A.R.T.I.S.T., a group representing street artists.

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Contrary to popular opinion, Muslims and mosques okay in Downtown
BY Aline Reynolds
Muslim-American Rudy Ramadan was a first responder during the 9/11 attacks. She helped create triage centers and makeshift pharmacies on site and was almost killed by the falling debris as she tried to save lives.

E X C L U S I V E
Poll shows NY resitance to mosque


Pulitzer winner talks captors, communication and the future
BY David McCabe
A foreign correspondent for the New York Times, David Rohde has been all around the world, from Israel to Bosnia, asking questions, but for about an hour last week he answered questions from an audience at the 9/11 Memorial Preview site on topics ranging from his kidnapping by the Taliban to his observations on the region.

Peering into Lower Manhattan’s future
BY John Bayles
The fourth dimension is time and the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center has harnessed the technology to allow visitors to its website the ability to see into the future, just by clicking a mouse.

L.M.C.C. names new prez
Sam Miller, a long-time advocate for the arts, has been appointed president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the not-for-profit organization producing cultural events and providing grants, services and programs for the arts in Lower Manhattan for 37 years.

A pragmatic approach to revamp an outdated street
BY John Bayles
There’s a street in Lower Manhattan that seems out of place, like it doesn’t belong in the burgeoning corporate capital of the world. It’s wide, very wide, and the buildings that line it look they are straight out of the 1950s with huge arcades and plazas. There are few trees and the public spaces are barren and boring. That street is Water Street.

News

The kids are all right, for now
BY John Bayles
On Tuesday Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Council approved a budget of $63 billion for FY ’11. It ended weeks of despair for numerous groups whose programs were on the chopping block.

Mysterious signs appear after Chin sends out press release
BY Aline Reynolds
The Chinatown community, among others around the City, is outraged that the M.T.A. has not translated signs in non-English speaking communities such as its own. District 1 Council Member Margaret Chin says community members who can’t read the signs are now left in the dark.

Artists, an island and the process
BY John Bayles
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has created a new paradigm for interaction between artist and viewer — a group studio that allows the viewer a unique insight not only into the art, but into the process as well.

City officials promote community involvement and organizing
BY Aline Reynolds
In the same week, two different city officials introduced ways to encourage community involvement in government.

Trying to save the city harbors before it’s too late
BY Aline Reynolds
Over 100 concerned New Yorkers from all over the city convened at Murry Bergtraum High School last Thursday evening to discuss ways in which City Planning can improve the New York-area harbor and waterfront.

Squadron pushes crackdown on unruly nightclubs
BY Michael Mandelkern
Bars in Lower Manhattan attracts tourists and locals that howl as loud as wolves well past midnight, but the New York State Legislature is trying to help those who live near the nightspots get a more peaceful night’s sleep.

A day camp, dedicated staff has long history
BY Michael Mandelkern
Children in bright blue and white tie-dye shirts, ages five through nine, ran, skipped and slowly shuffled into P.S. 234’s yard, some still clinging to their parents’ hands, for their first day at the junior Downtown Day Camp on Wednesday morning.

Inaugural event raises big bucks for small school
BY Helaina N. Hovitz
The temperatures on Saturday did not deter the forty Taste of Front Street volunteers. And their commitment paid off: they helped raise $7,500 for the Spruce Street School Parent Teacher Association.

SPOTlight
Haute pampering for pups
BY Joseph Rearick
It’s not hard to tell when dogs are happy; they swish their tales energetically between their legs, yelp for joy, and pull eagerly against the leash towards the object of their affection.

 

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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Volume 23, Number 8
The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
July 2 - 8, 2010

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