City wants to phase out dirty heating oil
BY Aline Reynolds
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection proposed a law last week that would eliminate permits for numbers four and six heating oil, which release up to 15 times more soot than does number two heating oil or natural gas.  

City plans to make Water Street pedestrian friendly
BY Aline Reynolds
Workers and residents near Water Street will have an added incentive to eat and schmooze outdoors in the summer months, thanks to a new city plan to spruce up the area’s open spaces.

C.B. 1 to inventory Downtown affordable housing
BY Aline Reynolds
Community Board 1 is on a mission to document the affordable housing units that still exist Downtown. The board’s affordable housing task force is coming out with a new guide this spring.

25 arrested during protest
A rally held in front of the city Education Department’s headquarters at Tweed Courthouse in protest of the city’s shuttering of failing public schools turned ugly on Monday.

Downtown is epicenter of crisis, says union prez
BY Aline Reynolds
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew is just as fed up with the city’s Department of Education as are some Downtown education activists.

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!

Living Theatre’s ‘quasi-biblical hymn’ to anarchy fights fair

‘Men Go Down’ worth going Downtown for

ARTS EVENTS AT THE WFC WINTER GARDEN