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Bagging the buyers
A bill on counterfeit trademark merchandise proposed by Councilmember Margaret Chin, at first glance, might seem like it’s coming out of left field. In short, the councilmember is proposing that buyers of obviously counterfeit items should face penalties for their actions, to the tune of up to $1,000 and a year in jail per item. That is, get caught by police while buying five knockoff Gucci handbags on Canal St. and a person could face up to five years in the slammer, plus a five-grand fine.

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Downtown Digest

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

Transit Sam

TALKING POINT

The 9/11 Health & Compensation Act of 2010
BY Catherine McVay Hughes

NOTEBOOK
Cruises spotlight New York’s majestic harbor
BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer
New York City’s harbor is one of the “great wonders of the world,” says David Rockefeller Jr. at the start of an audio recording that accompanies NY Waterway’s Downtown harbor tour.


Tribeca Film Fest street fair plans to rock the vote This year’s Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair will have an new, added political component, spurred on by the recent population boom in Lower Manhattan. 3 vessels to call Pier 25 home BY Aline Reynolds Come summer, Pier 25 in Hudson River Park will once again be a hotspot for maritime lovers from around the city. Another tenant for Hud. Sq. There’s a loading dock at 345 Hudson that has been transformed. On Tues., April 19, local elected officials and community leaders gathered to commemorate the transformation, in the form of a ground breaking. Shorewalking 26 years in a row Deal gives 400 new apartments to FiDi Getting tough on booze licenses ARTS DOWNTOWN Band and film is salute to Haiti “When The Drum is Beating” screened at Tribeca Film Fest’s Drive-In with a performance by Haiti’s most celebrated big band, Septentrional. Tribeca flicks worth flocking to Four reviewers, four films, eight upward thumbs FLOWERS OF EVIL, CAIRO EXIT, DONOR UNKNOWN, BLACKTHORN Movie done, popcorn gone, questions linger TFF’s plentiful Q&A sessions deliver directors, stars to the people GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, LIKE WATER Tribeca Film Fest directory	Amid concerns over vending, Chin targets knockoff buyers BY Aline Reynolds Soho resident David Bober was conversing with his son’s classmate on Broadway and Grand St. one day in March, when a street vendor accosted him. Strike two for lawsuit over Spring St. mega-garage By Albert Amateau Hudson Sqaure and Tribeca opponents of the Department of Sanitation garage proposed for the UPS property on Spring St. lost a key battle last week when an Appellate Division panel unanimously affirmed a lower court dismissal of their lawsuit to block the project. Trash is going solar A taste of Paradise Valley now in B.P.C. BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer It takes two to three hours each way to get from Paradise Valley to Battery Park City, depending on traffic. Jeff Henry and Mary-Jean Bendorf of Cranberry Creek Farm in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania have been making the trip every Thursday since the World Financial Center Greenmarket opened for the season on April 7. Superblock decision registers; Dorm funds could be blocked By Albert Amateau The State Historic Preservation Office has declared that New York University’s Washington Square Village superblock is eligible for the Federal and State Registers of Historic Places. ARTS DOWNTOWN As TFF winds down in material world, digital presence lingers Their Movies on Demand, our web reviews deliver more content Reimagined history, Chinese action style! Detective flick tells epic tale on appropriately grand scale In danger, from bullets and bullies ‘Club’ and ‘Project’ shine light on risk, rage THE BULLY PROJECT, THE BANG BANG CLUB Real paranormal sleuth on fakery in film, TV BY SCOTT STIFFLER Like the morons who ignore a zoo’s warning sign not to tease the animals — then end up regretting it when a tiger jumps the moat and mauls them good and plenty — those who wake the dead for fun and profit should see their own destruction coming a mile away. Raffle & Lecture: Win a night in a haunted house

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