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EDITORIAL

A fond farewell
Today the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty stands only two stories high. According to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the building will be completely demolished by the end of the month.

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TALKING POINT

Critics can’t roll back the progress on bike lanes
By Barbara Ross
After being cooped up inside, watching the snow that blanketed the city melt from my apartment window, I grabbed the trusty bicycle I use daily for transport, eager to hit the streets again.

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Chin chips in
City Council member Margaret Chin tosses a Christmas tree into a wood-chipping machine at last weekend’s MulchFest held at Bowling Green. The event was hosted by the Downtown Alliance and over 240 trees were turned into mulch.
Survey gives public chance for input on center programs BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer The community center now being built on the west side of the Battery Park City ball fields in the Liberty Luxe/Liberty Green residential complex is just a shell. No final determination has been made as to what programs the facility will offer when it opens in January 2012. Department of Education to decide fate of 26 Broadway and Millennium High BY John Bayles A hearing held last week on the Department of Education’s proposal to move the Richard R. Green High School of Teaching from East 88th Street to 26 Broadway in Lower Manhattan might have been pointless. It’s very possible the D.O.E. has already made up its mind. C.B. 1 chair sets 2011 goals BY Helaina N. Hovitz Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin amassed a laudable list of accomplishments in 2010. Waterfront park president to set sail for new job BY Albert Amateau The Hudson River Park Trust announced on Wednesday that Connie Fishman, president of the state/city agency that is building the five-mile-long riverfront park, is leaving her post after 11 years with the Trust, seven of them as president. 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.	Deutsche Bank building almost down BY Michael Mandelkern Community Board 1’s W.T.C. Redevelopment Committee met on Monday to track the deconstruction progress of 130 Liberty Street and development status of the World Trade Center site. Diving for a blessing, a cross and good luck Parishioners from St. Nicholas Church, which was demolished during the 9/11 attacks, held one of the time-honored Epiphany rituals in Battery Park this past Sunday. Skyscraper Museum exhibit highlights NYC factories BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer Factory labor and factory life — the phrase invokes repetitive, monotonous work, unsafe conditions, assembly lines and company towns. Firefighters battle four blazes By Albert Amateau Firefighters responded to two fires in the East Village on Tuesday morning Jan. 4. 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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