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EDITORIAL

The best health option
In her ruling last week approving the sale of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital property to Rudin Management, Bankruptcy Judge Cecilia Morris made it clear that she felt there was no likelihood that alternatives to the Rudin plan with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System would emerge. Given the current, contracting state of healthcare, plus the last-minute, nebulous nature of the only alternative plan of which we are aware, unfortunately, we have to agree with her.

Letters to the Editor

Downtown Digest

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

Transit Sam

TALKING POINT

And what happens in 20 years, after ‘N.Y.U. 2031’?
By Andrew Berman
There’s been a tremendous debate about New York University’s proposed 20-year expansion plan, “N.Y.U. 2031.”

SPORTS

Giants get opening day win over Braves


Farming at the Battery BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer With speeches, a song and a parade, ceremonial planting and some food, a one-acre farm opened at the Battery on Mon., April 11. Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe reminded the crowd that the land at the southern end of Manhattan dates back to farms that sustained the 17th-century Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. Mixed response over B.P.C. sculpture BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer An anonymous donor who lives in Battery Park City has offered to commission a sculpture worth about $750,000 to be placed at the entrance of the B.P.C. branch library. But some members of Community Board 1 aren’t so sure they want it at all. With big day approaching, updates and questions BY Aline Reynolds In fewer than 160 days, millions of people will descend on Lower Manhattan to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. An opening day to make the major leagues jealous BY Helaina N. Hovitz The crowds that usually gather at City Hall should always be as adorable as the one that was there on Sat., April 9. At Wall & Water students taste fruits of their labor BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer Mussel chowder was on the menu, followed by roasted pumpkin stuffed with sheep ricotta on a bed of black radish salad and pheasant cooked in milk. The dessert was flourless chocolate cake topped with vanilla sauce. ARTS DOWNTOWN Tribeca Film Festival expands reach, continues reinvention COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER With 93 features to choose from, common themes emerge 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.	St. Vincent’s sale is O.K.’d; Alternative plan was vague BY Albert Amateau U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Cecilia Morris approved the sale of St. Vincent’s Hospital’s Greenwich Village campus last week in a deal allowing Rudin Management to develop luxury residential condos and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System to operate a comprehensive care center with a 24-hour emergency department. Aiming to make bikers follow five simple rules BY John Bayles City budget threatens immigrant services BY Aline Reynolds 9/11 ad pulled after firefighter protests Austere budget is sign of times BY Sheldon Silver Energy, dynamism is foundation for building BY Larry A. Silverstein Lower Manhattan: Rising from the Ashes By Julie Menin Memorializing the past means looking to the future BY Joe Daniels School progress provides breather, but still not enough BY Eric Greenleaf Mixed-use is a dream come true BY Carl Weisbrod 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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