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EDITORIAL

Where’s the real Park51
Last May, Daisy Khan, who heads the American Society for Muslim Advancement, approached a C.B.1 committee about appearing at its upcoming meeting to share plans for an Islamic community center.

Letters to the Editor

Downtown Digest

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

IN PICTURES

About 500 Egyptian and Egyptian-American demonstrate in Manhattan

Downtown Notebook

An author comes clean about her mother’s hoarding
By Wickham Boyle
Jessie Sholl is a hyper-clean, nearly elfin, 41-year-old woman who for nearly a decade has lived in the West Village between great bookstores: Three Lives and Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks.

Talking Point

A valentine for Village businesses
By Deborah Glick
As someone who has spent nearly my entire adult life in Greenwich Village, I was crestfallen when St. Vincent’s shut its doors.

Local pols looking for rabbit luck
The Chinese Lunar New Year Festival was held last Sunday. According to the Chinese Zodiac, the rabbit is the luckiest of the symbols. (click here)
Trinity says it’s time for residential in Hudson Square By Lincoln Anderson and John W. Sutter Calling Hudson Square’s zoning “outmoded,” Trinity Real Estate wants to rezone a major portion of the district to allow residential use. No flat screens, just smiles needed for this SOUPerBowl party BY Helaina N Hovitz It’s 6:15 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday and even the most notorious restaurants in the city are empty — some haven’t bothered to open. Everyone is watching the Super Bowl with friends and family, gathered at bars or relaxing at home — but there’s still a line outside the NYC Rescue Mission at 90 Lafayette Street. Squadron named “Champ” by United Neighborhood Houses Last week NY State Senator Daniel Squadron was recognized by United Neighborhood Houses, a non-profit organization that promotes and advocates for settlement housing communities throughout New York City. Cooper Sq. faces demo By Albert Amateau Preservation advocates gathered in front of 35 Cooper Square on Friday afternoon demanding that the Landmarks Preservation Commission protect the early-19th-century, Federal-style building by giving it landmark designation. Avenues: the world school debuts grand plan BY SCOTT STIFFLER Any student navigating the first day of school knows that appearances count — and first impressions can last forever. ARTS DOWNTOWN Tennessee, TNC and a famous BOB BY TRAV S.D. Theater thrives, thanks to the late Ellen Stewart Lewis & Freud team up, for takes on God BY JERRY TALLMER Play sees icons spar over the ultimate question. B.P.C. Art Classes Win Raves BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER Winter session runs now through March. Just Do Art! Far beyond flowers and cand	Lines, lotteries signal same old song for elementary schools BY Aline Reynolds The lines in front of Lower Manhattan elementary schools are once again forming, the same way they have been for the last two years. ‘Blackout’ response to girl’s letter Chinatown buses could require permits BY Aline Reynolds On the morning of the second day of the Chinese New Year, community activists and politicians weren’t celebrating at a restaurant or a park. Road Runners’ half marathon draws B.P.C. ire BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer The plans for a half marathon that is scheduled to bring 10,000 runners plus spectators and support personnel into Battery Park City on March 20 met a chilly reception from Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee at its monthly meeting on February 1. Edgar Tafel, 98; Worked with Wright By Albert Amateau Edgar Tafel, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright and designed St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church Community House, died Jan. 18 in his Greenwich Village home at age 98. Entrepreneur Krevey brought historic ships to City BY ALBERT AMATEAU John Krevey, a waterfront entrepreneur and activist who brought historic ships to Chelsea and ran the popular gathering place Pier 66 Maritime, died on Friday, February 4 at the age of 62 while on vacation with his son in Santo Domingo. Protestors in Times Sq. tell Mubarak to get out now Times Square was busting at the seams on Friday, as hundreds of Egyptian-American protesters gathered to support those in Egypt who are calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately. Malcah Zeldis: A Life Traveled in Painting BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN When I walked into the Tribeca home and studio of folk artist Malcah Zeldis, my immediate impression was that I had physically entered a storybook. A large selection of paintings covered the walls with vibrantly colored narratives that enveloped me as I surveyed the space. Hot property in the Baltics lands at La MaMa BY JERRY TALLMER State violence collides with secret violence against loved ones.

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