THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN

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EDITORIAL

Extend the Millionaire’s Tax
Governor Andrew Cuomo deserves a thumbs up for managing to deliver the state’s first on-time budget in years. However, he deserves a thumbs down for failing to include in the budget an extension of the “Millionaire’s Tax.”

Letters to the Editor

Downtown Digest

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

TALKING POINT

Celebrating progress and hoping to revive a debate
BY Margaret Chin and John Magisano
In the spirit of the special section in this issue of Downtown Express, we would like to focus on the progress our Lower Manhattan community has made over the past year.

NOTEBOOK

Toshi checked in and turned our lives upside down
By Nancy Koan
Cosmetic surgery doesn’t necessarily change the way a person feels about themselves inside. The same can be said for cosmetic renovation of buildings: If it’s not going well under the skin of the edifice, nothing will really change, or in fact, can get worse.

OBITUARY

Jack Hardy, 63, folk singer who ran weekly ‘fast folk’ workshops

IN PICTURES

Actors, politicians and activists all unite


Rauf, Khan are thinking past Park51 BY Aline Reynolds As developer SoHo Properties forges ahead with its plans for Park51, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, are conjuring up a different vision of an interfaith center. New owners take Claremont Prep in new direction BY John Bayles On Monday the parents and teachers of Claremont Preparatory School in Lower Manhattan received phone calls and letters that very well could have been cause for alarm. New members appointed to Community Board 1 BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer Community Board 1 has three new members: a lawyer, a hedge-fund manager and a union executive. New Tribeca treatment center partners with Columbia BY Aline Reynolds A new Downtown treatment facility has partnered with Columbia University to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment for young adults. Chin and BID feel the heat at forum BY Aline Reynolds Soho residents and property owners packed the basement of St. Anthony’s Church Tuesday night to rail against the proposed business improvement district planned through the heart of their neighborhood on Broadway. Sen. Squadron delivers the news Pop-up cafes get hammered down by unwilling board By Lincoln Anderson Five out of six applications for sidewalk pop-up cafes in Community Board 2 got shot down at last week’s full-board meeting. Plans to nix Water Taxi Beach, open up beer garden BY Aline Reynolds Water Taxi Beach in the South Street Seaport might soon become a vibrant hangout spot for those looking to have a beer, schmooze with friends and play ping-pong along the water. Billy gets subway signs back ARTS DOWNTOWN The playwright’s the thing BY SCOTT STIFFLER False notes aside, latest from Vampire Cowboys gets real and stays true. 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.	Austere budget is sign of times BY Sheldon Silver Despite some positive signs, our city is still facing challenging economic times. Tough decisions were made as we negotiated this year’s state budget. Energy, dynamism is foundation for building BY Larry A. Silverstein As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I think it’s important to take a moment to look at where we are, how far we have come, and where we are going. Lower Manhattan: Rising from the Ashes By Julie Menin Nearly a decade ago on September 11, 2011, our neighborhood was devastated by terrorist attacks that killed thousands of people and left a sixteen acre hole in the heart of our community. Memorializing the past means looking to the future BY Joe Daniels Less than six months from now, a new era will begin in Lower Manhattan, one that pays tribute to its past as it looks toward the future. School progress provides breather, but still not enough BY Eric Greenleaf The past year’s progress in alleviating school overcrowding gave Downtown a breather, but also time to consider how much work remains. Mixed-use is a dream come true BY Carl Weisbrod Almost eighteen years ago - in July 1994 - I was interviewed by a New York Times reporter who asked me, “What would Downtown look like a decade from now?” 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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