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Chin, Squadron and Silver vow to save senior center services
BY John Bayles
If the predicted cuts to the New York State budget for the upcoming fiscal year come to pass, over 100 senior centers throughout the city could be forced to slash services or close altogether.

Seaport welcomes new tenant
A new theater will be opening in the South Street Seaport in April.

Cancer is primary concern at NIOSH hearing
BY John Bayles
Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Dr. John Howard sat for six hours and listened. Much of what he heard was not new. But his eyes were fixed on every speaker as if it were the first time he had seen them, as if it was the first time he had heard their stories.

Budget cuts put new school in jeopardy, angers parents
BY Aline Reynolds
As if school overcrowding in Lower Manhattan weren’t bad enough, it might get worse in the coming years, an alarming prospect for Downtown parents banking on sending their children to neighborhood schools.

Tents and Trails carries gear for every excursion

Pot activist: ‘It was all medical marijuana’
By Lincoln Anderson
Dana Beal would rather be smoking a joint — but he’s in the joint.

ARTS DOWNTOWN

Money, love, lust and revenge on two different stages
BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER
Two plays set by their English playwrights centuries ago in Italy sailed into Lower Manhattan last week, both with money, or its absence, as the fulcrum of the plot and both with feisty heroines subjected to male caprice. SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE

Three rounds of boxing
TV show, play, tournament might hook you on the sweet science
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
Want to become emotionally invested in a gritty underdog story or just watch two muscular guys wail on each other in a state-sanctioned bout that’s as artful as it is brutal? Only the sweet science known as boxing delivers. Try telling that to the general public, though.