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EDITORIAL

B.P.C.A. has finished its work
Last week the Inspector General’s office released a report detailing financial improprieties on the part of the Battery Park City Authority. While alarming, the charges did not seem to us to rise to the level of major malfeasance on the Authority’s part, but they did indicate some careless management and sloppiness.

Downtown Digest

Letters to the Editor

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B.P.C. Beat:
Covering Battery Park City

TALKING POINTS
Welcome to Disneyland Tribeca
BY Tom Goodkind
I’m not looking to diss a Pier. The recently opened Pier 25 in Tribeca is very nice, clean and filled with children under 12 and their parents who must have been famished for family fare during the five years the original Pier (with no such age restrictions) was removed and rebuilt. I’m so glad it’s up and running filled with our great deserving neighbors and visitors.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
A man who was hungry for parks
An article by John Bayles in last week’s Downtown Express entitled “CaVaLa No More; Park renamed for local legend,” told how the small park between Canal, Varick, and Laight Streets had been re-christened Albert Capsouto Park.

In Pictures

Ink, guns and ammo

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*Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess*

The F.D.N.Y.’s newest weapon
Firefighter II, sister ship to Three Forty Three, entered service in the spring and is now moored at Pier 40. It was officially inducted into the F.D.N.Y. fleet last Sunday. Click here for the story.
N.Y.U. scraps plans for fourth tower in landmark site after I.M. Pei objects By Albert Amateau and John W. Sutter In a surprise reversal on Thursday, New York University announced that it was withdrawing its Landmarks Preservation Commission application to build a 400 ft. tall fourth tower on the superblock site of three I.M. Pei-designed residential towers. Residents want more than cameras Part 3 in a series on the New York City Housing Authority BY Aline Reynolds The New York City Housing Authority has neither the funds nor the personnel to implement all the security measures the residents want, such as monitored cameras and an enhanced Resident Watch program. Read Part One: When waiting for repairs puts lives in jeopardy Read Part Two: Lack of funding is root of problem Spring St. salt shed design sports some real sparkle BY Albert Amateau The city’s 11-member Design Commission took just fifteen minutes on Monday morning to unanimously approve the Department of Sanitation’s design of the enclosed salt shed to be built in connection with the D.S.N.Y. three-district Spring Street garage. Blue School moves to Water Street BY John Bayles What started as a parent-run playgroup in the East Village has transformed into a full-fledged elementary school that will soon call Lower Manhattan home. Shields of fallen heroes travel to nation’s capital BY Aline Reynolds Robert B. Helmke was suddenly diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in 2005. His illness didn’t arise from alcohol or smoking, but from inhaling the toxic fumes at Ground Zero. Hudson inspired memorial BY Aline Reynolds Water began trickling down into one of the 9/11 Memorial’s two reflecting pools last week, marking another milestone for the site since construction began in 2006. C.B. 1 talks fields and fares ‘No tower!’ hundreds say as N.Y.U. seeks approval By Albert Amateau About 300 people attended Community Board 2 hearing on November 8 on New York University’s Landmarks Preservation Commission application for approval of a proposed, 400-foot-tall tower on the university’s south superblock. Eating their way to an education BY Aline Reynolds First graders at P.S. 234 are getting an inside look at the restaurant business as part of their social studies class. Most recently they were found munching on hot brick oven pizza at a long rectangular table at City Winery in Hudson Square. They were there to get an insiders’ tour of the winery. Tomorrow’s taxi may have a sunroof Downtown in the movies: The Mouse That Roared BY Jeff Rovin Author Leonard Wibberley’s Cold War satire The Mouse That Roared was published in 1955 and filmed four years later. ARTS DOWNTOWN What’s Been Happening to Baby Jane? BY JERRY TALLMER Dexter sings with ‘terrifying lion-like power’ Rising Phoenix Repertory: Keepers of the Flame BY MARTIN DENTON Company champions work that’s ‘visceral, transformative, and unforgettable’ Just Do Art! Tribeca artist’s retrospective offers many “Sensations” BY SHANE McADAMS Color, as a form of energy, ‘stimulates our perceptual processes.’	Countdown until the 9/11 Memorial opens BY Joe Daniels When visitors enter the National September 11 Memorial and Museum offices, they pass by a large clock. A brand new Lower Manhattan BY Liz Berger Let’s make it official: This is not your father’s Wall Street! Possibly a watershed year for Lower Manhattan BY Julie Menin It’s been an extraordinary year for Community Board 1. Park protectors: Learning from the past BY Mark Costello In the past few weeks, the “town” that is Lower Manhattan paused to celebrate the work and life of two disparate men. The future looks bright for Hudson Square BY Jason D. Pizer We have weathered the harshest impact of the economic storm and the signs from our vantage point today point toward a more stable and prosperous tomorrow. Our schools downtown: Racing against time BY Tricia Joyce When asked to write this op-ed on our school situation post 9/11 in Lower Manhattan, I took a step back to look upon the neighborhood I moved to 20 years ago September and thought, “how could this happen here?” A City Councilmember’s first year on the job BY Margaret Chin I am writing this piece on November 1, the first day of my eleventh month serving as your Councilmember. Hometown pride and progress BY Sheldon Silver The future of Lower Manhattan has never looked brighter. Believe it or not, progress in Albany BY Daniel Squadron I know that many people will be surprised to read about Albany in the “Progress Report.” Canal Park Playhouse is open for business BY ALINE REYNOLDS Cabaret, clowning, acrobats comprise throwback aesthetic. A ‘Swan’ is Bourne BY SCOTT STIFFLER Return of radical rethink more than the sum of its male members. Reviewing Martin Denton BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK Prolific nytheatre.com founder pioneered comprehensive coverage. Koch on Film By Ed Koch

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The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
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