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EDITORIAL

A win for health
Last Thursday’s announcement that North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and VillageCare have agreed to team up to open an urgent-care center on W. 20th St. near Sixth Ave., in the Chelsea/Flatiron area, came as welcome news. For one, it means the standoff has ended with the estate of St. Vincent’s Hospital on whether the urgent-care center would be sited, at least temporarily, in the former St. Vincent’s emergency department space on Seventh Ave. between 11th and 12th Sts.

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Pic of the week

TALKING POINT

Where I was, in every sense, when Bobby hit ‘shot’
By JERRY TALLMER
André Breton, meet Leo Durocher. Bobby Thomson, meet Gertrude Stein.

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Downtown Express photo above by Aline Reynolds Workers at a nursery in Millstone Township, N.J. prepare a swamp white oak tree before it is carefully placed onto a truck. It is one of over 400 trees that will be transported to the W.T.C. site in time for the opening of the 9/11 Memorial next year. W.T.C. site has new life; first trees are planted BY Aline Reynolds Life has returned to the World Trade Center site nine years after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Rent stability returns to I.P.N. after five years BY Aline Reynolds Tenants of Independence Plaza North in Tribeca came out victorious on Tuesday after a five-year-long battle with their landlord. Pick on someone your own size Port looking elsewhere for crossing guards BY Aline Reynolds Sam Schwartz Engineering is not ready to relinquish its post at two of the busiest intersections in the city. Familiar with the First Precinct, commanding the Seventh BY Albert Amateau When Deputy Inspector Nancy Barry became commanding officer of the Seventh Precinct on the Lower East Side in May 2009, she was no stranger to the station house on Pitt Street. Voting goes to the dogs Different kind of Wall St. tour led by insiders Making a statement ARTS DOWNTOWN Please don’t call it a Fall Arts Preview Compiled by Scott Stiffler It’s more like an Autumn Roundup, OK? FringeNYC: Gone yes, but not forgotten BY SCOTT STIFFLER Tim & Micah’s show over, still worth checking out. Playwright asks: Is a rabbit just a bump in the road? BY JERRY TALLMER Ultra-intimate sexual act viewed as ticket to fame. The A-List By Scott Stiffler	News Port, Silverstein seal deal on towers 2, 3 & 4 BY Aline Reynolds After five months of deliberation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has finalized an agreement with real estate mogul Larry Silverstein to redevelop the World Trade Center. A Conversation with Larry Silverstein One press release better than 50; Park51 supporters bond BY Aline Reynolds Over 50 citywide and national organizations have assembled to form an umbrella coalition in support of Park51. De Blasio creates list of local slumlords BY John Bayles Landlords in New York City may soon find their names on a new list created by the City’s Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. However, it’s not a list they want to make. ‘It’s our land,’ defiant owner tells fracking forum By Albert Amateau The City Council’s Tuesday forum on proposed hydrofracture natural gas drilling in the state, which potentially threatens most of the city’s drinking water, attracted about 200 people, including officials from the federal Environmental Protection Agency and two Upstate property owners who support the controversial process. Park vendors win again Muslim Cabbie Stabbing P.S. 276 has a home, and a brand new one to boot BY Aline Reynolds After an incubator year at Tweed Courthouse on Chambers Street, P.S. 276 is opening its very own doors this school year over at 55 Battery Place. Mentors help students break the trend and ditch the city BY John Bayles Melissa Peralta thought about college when she was in high school, but knew it wasn’t within her reach. Girls Prep gets a new home After 20 years, Church St. School still creating BY Aline Reynolds Twenty years ago, Lisa Ecklund-Flores converted a second-floor loft at 311 Church Street into a school. It consisted of two large classrooms, a small lobby and an office. Fruit of her labor is to put kids through college By Roslyn Kramer Luz Vera doesn’t speak much English, but her mastery of the American way is huge. Mexican by birth, she has raised five children in New York City while earning a living as a street vendor whose workday starts before dawn.

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Volume 20, Number 37
The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
September 1 - 7, 2010

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