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EDITORIAL

Fall into the GAAP
The New York Uprising reform pledge signed by a majority of members of both houses of the Legislature had three points: independent, nonpartisan redistricting; ethics reform; and, finally, the implementation of a GAAP budget process.

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Downtown Digest

Question of the week

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

Business Spotlight

Escape the cold and visit Capri

IN PICTURES

Keep on toboggan; Spray it, don’t say it (Blizzard!)

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Last week’s snow, this week’s garbage
Once the snow was cleared, or simply melted, from city sidewalks last week, trash took its place as regular garbage pick-up was suspended.
City Dept of Education not buying into new enviromental standards BY Aline Reynolds The city Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency are at odds concerning recent discussions over eliminating possible airborne toxins from public schools. The Cordoba Movement is going on tour BY Aline Reynolds Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind the Cordoba Initiative and Park51, is embarking on a nationwide tour with the goal of spreading his message about peaceful interfaith dialogue and putting a stop to discrimination and violence against Muslim-Americans. Karate teacher rocks, in and out of the classroom BY Helaina N. Hovitz The boys in Manhattan Youth’s Martial Arts class want to be just like their teacher, and the girls want the boys to be like him too. Their teacher, James Clifford, is also the bass player in the Energy, a pop/rock band that will be celebrating the release of their third album at Irving Plaza next weekend. ARTS DOWNTOWN Before Dick did waterboarding: What Houdini knew BY JERRY TALLMER Reconstructed Water Torture Cell part of exhibit’s bag of tricks Mystery writers Chang & Rozan mine Chinatown COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER Literary sleuths can’t escape their past Galleries on break, but still much to see BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN Museums offer ‘a full spectrum of excellent exhibitions.’ Just Do Art! 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.	Group to help 9/11 victims find lawyers BY Aline Reynolds President Obama signed the James R. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act into law on Sunday, marking the end of a seven-year-long battle to get the bill passed. Seaport redevelopment back on the table Plans to redevelop the South Street Seaport, now owned and operated by the Howard Hughes Corporation, are back on the discussion table. Science and the city at 7 World Trade Center BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer To the tune of Johann Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz, multi-colored dendrites, neurons and synapses danced across a projection screen. Activists, pols say Paterson watered down fracking ban By Albert Amateau In the last executive action of his administration, Governor David Paterson vetoed a six-month moratorium on hydrofracture gas drilling, known as fracking, in New York State. 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’ Canal Park Playhouse is open for business BY ALINE REYNOLDS Cabaret, clowning, acrobats comprise throwback aesthetic.

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