THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN

Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess

Half the distance, but a whole effort
This runner crossed the finish line in last weekend’s NYC Half Marathon and clearly gave it his all.



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9/11 victims receive legal advice on compensation via Zadroga law
BY Aline Reynolds
Denise Villamia, 51, takes more than 10 medications daily for a range of illnesses she claims to have developed from volunteering at Ground Zero in the weeks following 9/11.

West Thames Park still a muddy mess
BY Terese Loeb KreuzerWest Thames Park on the eastern side of Battery Park City between West Thames and Albany Streets opened with fanfare on Memorial Day weekend of 2010, but not long after, the playing field just south of the Rector Street pedestrian bridge turned to mud. It is still muddy, in more ways than one.

Program helps vulnerable students in a single stop
BY Helaina Hovitz
Anthony Rose, 35, lives in a shelter and often misses meals because he is in class. He has no living family and a minor criminal record.

ARTS DOWNTOWN

The heart’s most fundamental expression
The new poetry of the city, in wordshops and Slams
BY STEPHEN WOLF
Though not invented in New York City, poetry has flourished here as nowhere else in the world and has done so nearly from the start. “All the blessings man e’er knew,” wrote Jacob Steendam when we were still New Amsterdam. “Here does our Great Giver strew.”

Fundraisers for friends in need

Pop-up cafes stir debate
BY Aline Reynolds
A new type of outdoor café proposed for restaurants in Community District 2 is causing controversy among local residents.

Documentarian doubts need for heavy police response

New Amsterdam Market gears up for new season
BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer
Over the last few years as plans have surfaced for the former Fulton Fish Market on South Street that included high-rise hotels and apartment buildings, an ex-city planner with a passion for food has been battling to keep the area firmly rooted in its history.

Pushing to get more girls into the game
BY Aline Reynolds
Girls, ages 5 to 17, enter sports at a later age than boys, participate less in athletics and drop out more frequently from team competition – particularly in densely populated areas like Lower Manhattan, according to a recent study.

Scrappy program expands composting to more sites
By Lincoln Anderson
Earlier this month, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, joined by representatives of the nonprofit group GrowNYC and Action Carting, announced that the city is expanding composting to six additional Greenmarket sites, including two in Manhattan — in Abingdon Square Park and Tribeca.

N.Y.U. shifts public school, hotel in latest design

ARTS DOWNTOWN

Revival confirms Stoppard’s place in pantheon
BY JERRY TALLMER
On 47th Street, seems like old times

A century later, factory fire not forgotten
BY SCOTT STIFFLER
Citywide events pay tribute to Triangle’s legacy.

Learning to create, and critique, at Poets House
BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER
Instructors offer variety of strengths, teaching styles

Just Do Art!

Dance programs inspire and illuminate
BY WICKHAM BOYLE
Movement provides antidote for winter doldrums.

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