THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN

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EDITORIAL

Restoring an E.R. in the West Village
Last week, our editorial staff met with Michael Dowling, president and C.E.O. of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, and Bill Rudin, president of Rudin Management Company, to hear about the unique Center for Comprehensive Care that North Shore-L.I.J. is planning at the O’Toole Building of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Letters to the Editor

Downtown Digest

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

TALKING POINT

Is Basketball City a community recreation facility?
By Victor J. Papa
One only has to open the home page of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to begin to make stark comparisons about how the needs of one community are considered over those of another.

OBITUARY

Lucy Cecere, 87, senior advocate, heart of Village

IN PICTURES

Observing independence

Take them to the river


Ceremony commemorates lives lost, birth of unions BY Aline Reynolds Family members, trade unionists, local residents and students gathered at Washington Place in Greenwich Village on Friday, March 25, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which in a matter of minutes killed 146 immigrant garment workers, most of them young immigrant women. Park51 goes to court, twice BY Aline Reynolds Developer SoHo Properties has been both plaintiff and defendant in recent weeks in court trials that are perpetuating the tribulations Park51 has incurred since day one. Film highlights late-onset P.T.S.D. BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer Sonia Reich will be 80 years old on April 1. She lives in a nursing home in Northbrook, Ill., where she says that she is wearing a Star of David and that the doctors and nurses are trying to poison her. 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 Take Trav S.D.’s April double dog dare BY TRAV S.D. The cruelest mouth groans under the weight of its own fabulosity He’s my son — times 21! BY SCOTT STIFFLER NAATCO’s newest slice of future life is no mere clone For four in their twenties, it’s all in the timing BY JERRY TALLMER Playwright Panettieri on Obama and other bitter pills	Proposal guts old O’Toole building, sets stage for new E.R. at St. Vincent’s site BY Albert Amateau Executives of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and the developer, William C. Rudin, last week set the record straight about the new comprehensive care center and free-standing, round-the-clock emergency department proposed for the O’Toole building on the west side of Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets. Senate, Assembly honor Jurinko Making speedy deliveries via cargo bike BY Aline Reynolds Shortly after 9/11, Battery Park City resident Shelly Mossey accepted a reduced price for a rental in Gateway Plaza thanks to a grant provided by the federal government. Bill seeks to keep buses in check BY Aline Reynolds Two fatal bus crashes prompted the City to get behind a New York State law requiring permits of intercity buses for passenger drop-offs and pick-ups in Chinatown and citywide. Revised N.Y.U. plan is ‘too ambitious,’ critics say By Albert Amateau New York University spelled out its revised “N.Y.U. 2031” plan to build an additional 2.5 million square feet of space in its two superblocks in Greenwich Village at a Community Board 2 forum on Monday. LA II busted, misses opening 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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