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EDITORIAL

N.Y.U. begins public review of expansion
Earlier this month, after four years and more than 50 meetings of the Borough President’s path breaking Community Task Force on N.Y.U. Development, the borough president, Scott Stringer, announced that he was “suspending” the task force to make way for two critical public reviews of N.Y.U.’s plans.

Letters to the Editor

Under Cover

Police Blotter

TALKING POINT
What BP and Penn. drilling accidents can teach us
BY CHRISTINE C. QUINN and JAMES F. GENNARO
Our TV screens and newspapers have been inundated with daily images of the catastrophic destruction of the Louisiana Gulf. Fifteen hundred miles away, what can we New Yorkers learn from the greatest environmental disaster of our time?

FROM THE ARCHIVE
Current Hotel boom is a prediction come true
In July 1998, the Downtown Express included an article titled “New Hotel is planned at White St. site in northern Tribeca.” Josh Rogers reported the acquisition of a triangular space located between the Church Street and 6th Avenue by Hartz Mountain Industries, the company that owned and operated the SoHo Grand hotel and predicted a “second act” for the company’s venture in the hospitality industry.

Beating the heat!

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Archeologists at the W.T.C. site observe and take notes last week when workers uncovered the city’s largest scale archeological find since 1982.

Uncovering the past while building for the future
BY Aline Reynolds
World Trade Center construction workers were going about their business last Tuesday on Water Street, digging 25 feet below street level, when the ribs of a cargo ship started to appear.

Subway booth closures create controversy, safety concerns
BY John Bayles
Last Friday city council Members were joined by members of the Transit Workers Union Local 100 at City Hall to discuss the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s plans to close or reduce hours at a number of subway station booths. The action would also result in the layoffs of 220 station agents.

Turning construction sites into works of art

A green thumbs up for new BPC market
BY Joseph Rearick
Last Thursday morning an odd sound filled the air at the plaza outside Two World Financial Center at 225 Liberty Street: live banjo music. Heralding the official opening of NYC’s newest greenmarket, the tune promised the injection of rural vibes into that location every Thursday until Thanksgiving.

Pols work to foster responsible energy use
BY Michael Mandelkern
In the midst of a heat wave elected officials, utility companies and city agencies are doing their part to reduce energy use and foster sustainability.

News

New LMCC pres Miller has a passion for the arts
BY Aline Reynolds
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a nonprofit arts and culture organization that sponsors art events and supports artists through grants and advocacy, ushered in Sam Miller as its new president on July 7.

The Verdict
Judge denies artists, new park rules in effect
BY Albert Amateau
A federal judge last Friday denied artists a preliminary injunction against new rules that limit the number and locations of First Amendment-protected vendors in four Manhattan parks: Union Square, the High Line, Battery Park, and parts of Central Park.

The Reaction
Vendors say eyes no longer on their art
BY Joseph Rearick
On Monday, July 19, the paths of Battery Park looked vastly different than they had just a day before. As the City Parks Department enacted new regulations restricting art vendors in Manhattan’s parks to a set number of specifically located spaces, the roadways leading towards the water were noticeably empty of the vendors who once congregated there to attract passing tourists.

Possible windfall awaits for struggling arts groups
BY Aline Reynolds
Downtown struggling arts organizations just might get a break.

Goldman Sachs funds summer jobs for youth

Conrad Hotels to replace Embassy Sweets in BPC
Hilton will be swapping hotels at 102 North End Avenue on Vesey Street, in Battery Park City, to introduce the first Conrad Hotels and Resorts to Manhattan.

Ferries may provide solution when 9/11 memorial opens
BY Aline Reynolds
Two ferries connecting New York and New Jersey might help accommodate the surge of tourists visiting the new 9/11 Museum and Memorial when it opens next year.

State targets ABC loophole

SPOTLIGHT
Love on the menu at a Seaport restaurant, Italian style
BY Joseph Rearick
When Alberto Baudo took over ownership of Acqua Restaurant, he remembered something his mother told him when he was just a boy in Rome. She told him one ingredient was essential to preparing good food: love.

 

ARTS DOWNTOWN

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

 

 

Audacious ‘Niche auteur’ Solondz back with sorta-sequel
BY RANIA RICHARDSON
‘Wartime’ boldly updates 1998’s ‘Happiness.’

As July sizzles, Con Ed power propels their show
BY JERRY TALLMER
Parking Lot plays are Drilling Company’s gift to a hot town.

Ever battling good taste
BY GARY M. KRAMER
John Waters talks about his heroes and what it takes to offend him.

Koch on Film
By ED KOCH

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Volume 23, Number 11
The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
July 21 - 27, 2010

 

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