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BY ALINE REYNOLDS

Five hundred WorldTrade Center constructionworkers lined up for turkey

subs, angus hamburgers andhot dogs last Friday after-noon during a break fromwork.

The feast, held on theground floor of 4 W.T.C.,was a pre-Thanksgivingdinner provided by W.T.C.developer Larry Silverstein.

The food was supplied byBig Daddies caterers basedin Massapequa, Long Island.

Even to help a little, tomake their day go easier,brings satisfaction to myday, said Jordan Signorelli,

who was busy flipping burg-ers on the grill before theworkers arrived.

Three large turkey sub-marines were laid out on theadjacent buffet table, wait-ing to be devoured.

You can see advance-ment [on the W.T.C.] overthe last few months, saidTom Kurtz, who servedlunch to a different group of

Downtown Express Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

Mr. Bloomberg goes to WashingtonNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 16, 2010 lobbyingfor the Zadroga Act. He was joined by Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, who moved the bill through theHouse, and Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the senatesponsors of the bill.

BY TERESE LOEB

KREUZER

In the predawn darknessof November 16, a smallgroup of people huddledunder umbrellas outside theDistrict Council 37 build-ing on Barclay Street inLower Manhattan, waitingfor a bus to take them to Washington, D.C. for yetanother round in the fight

for passage of the JamesZadroga 9/11 Health andCompensation Act.

The $7 billion bill is thenumber one priority for NewYork lawmakers these daysand would provide medi-cal monitoring and treat-ment to World Trade Centerresponders and to peoplewho lived, worked and stud-ied in Lower Manhattan on9/11 and who might havebeen affected by toxins. It

would also reopen the 9/11Victim Compensation Fund.In September, after years

of struggle, the ZadrogaAct passed the House ofRepresentatives. Followingthe Thanksgiving recess, itwill come up for a vote inthe Senate, where 60 votesare needed to prevent a fili-buster that would kill thebill, probably forever. It has58 supporters.

The people on the bus,one of two chartered by

the Fealgood Foundation,included first responders,Lower Manhattan residents,members of 9/11 familiesand City Council MemberMargaret Chin. AlexSanchez, 43, brought hisnine-year-old son, Jack.

I did clean-up workon skyscrapers surround-ing the pit, said Sanchez,describing himself as cheaplabor.

I worked down there six

months, seven days a week,12 to 14 hour days, saidSanchez.

BY ALINE REYNOLDS

AND ANDREA RIQUIERThe long-awaited and

much-needed West ThamesStreet pedestrian bridgemoved one step closer tobecoming a reality this week.Assemblyman SheldonSilver announced Mondaythat the Lower ManhattanDevelopment Corporationhad allocated up to $20 mil-lion to build the bridge.

I am so pleased that this

bridge, which has been a toppriority of mine, is now setto be built, said AssemblySpeaker Sheldon Silver, thebridges chief advocate.

With our successfulopening of the new P.S. 276this year, children and theirparents will have a safe andreliable way to cross thisdangerous intersection.

The need for a pedestrian

Lobby for Zadroga;

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Safe crossing via bridge,

moving forward

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W.T.C. workers first Thanksgiving on site

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Downtowns affordable housing stockcould increase and the East Side waterfrontcould receive a facelift, if funding from theLower Manhattan Development Corporationmaterializes.

The L.M.D.C. decided on distinct cat-egories for the allocation of approximately$200 million in grant money for Downtownprojects at its monthly board meeting onMonday, two months after it announced theavailability of the funds.

Ninety-nine million dollars will be allo-cated to the Performing Arts Centerand$37million will fund the East River waterfront

esplanade.A total of $17 million would be directedtowards the walkway along the BatteryMaritime Building, and to infrastructureimprovements between Piers 15 and 16 andCatherine and Pike Slips on the Lower EastSide. It will also encompass a refurbishmentof the walkway near the Battery MaritimeBuilding in Bowling Green, according toL.M.D.C. spokesperson John Delibero.

The remaining $2 million of the $37 mil-lion sum would allow for at least the EastRiver Park Connector aspect of improve-ments in the area of Pier 42, he said.

But it does not include the redevelopment

of Pier 42, which currently consists of a park-ing lot and a shed.New York State SenatorDaniel Squadron would like to see the piertransformed into a recreational green spacefor the local community. Its an iconic proj-ect to match the [P.A.C.] on the West Side,he said. Without it, [the waterfront project]wont reach the full potential.

Construction of Pier 42, he added, wouldcreate a unified Harbor park for LowerManhattan, connecting the Hudson RiverPark on the west side with the East RiverPark on the east side.

Squadron and U.S. Senator Charles

Schumer held a press conference on Sundayat the Pier 42 site, at Montgomery Street andthe East River, to advocate for the allocation of$45 million in L.M.D.C. grant money, separatefrom the $200 million, to go towards the trans-formation of the pier into open park space.

Community Board 1 Chair Julie Meninsupports the Pier 42 overhaul, saying thatit would foster short- and long-term jobcreation and be on par with the West Sidewaterfront. She confirmed that the $45 mil-lion would not come from the $200 million

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Twelve thousand of the glass panels willbe installed between the 20th and 104stfloors of the tower, after the underlying fire-proofing of each floors steel core is complet-ed. Once the construction crews get into arhythm, we expect they will install the glass

panels at the rate of one floor per week,Coleman said. The project is supposed to becompleted by 2012.

The glass is whats called a low E-coating,which is energy efficient and eco-friendly,according to Steve Coleman, spokesperson

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A new Guinness World Record was set on Tuesday when one intrepid soul gave 797high-fives in one hour to an assembled crowd, breaking the previous record of 429.

The record-breaking corresponded to the fifth anniversary of the Bodies exhibit atthe South Street Seaport.

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MEETINGSThe upcoming weeks schedule of Community Board

1 committee meetings is below. Unless otherwise noted,all committee meetings are held at the board office,located at 49-51 Chambers St., room 709 at 6 p.m.

ON WED., DEC 1: C.B. 1s Financial DistrictCommittee will meet.

ON THUR., DEC 2: C.B. 1s Planning andCommunity Infrastructure Committee will meet.

for the Port Authority, the developer of the building. It was

made, in other words, to let in a good amount of naturallight, reducing the need for artificial lighting sources.A different glass faade designed for security purposes

will be installed between the 1st and 20th floor by early2012. It will resemble the coating of the first 10 floors of 7W.T.C., according to Coleman.

Construction of One W.T.C. is slated for completion in2013. At 1,776 feet high, it will become the tallest sky-scraper in America.

N.Y.C.L HOSTS UNLIKELY FILM FEST

On Wednesday, December 1, The New York County

Lawyers Association will present the next installment of itsfirst annual film festival. Decembers screening will includetwo films: Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary abouta small band of Liberian women who came together in themidst of a bloody civil war; and a short film, Come HomeMore Often, that documents the issues surrounding theunexpected death of the filmmakers sister, who had Downsyndrome. The screenings will be followed by a discussionwith the filmmaker of Come Home More Often and a repre-sentative of Pray the Devil Back to Hell.

Although N.Y.C.L.A. has held many community events inthe past, this is their first film festival. Its such a wonder-ful deal. For $5, you get beer, popcorn, youll get to meeta filmmaker, said Anita Aboulafia, director of communi-

cations for the organization. All proceeds will help fundN.Y.C.L.A.s pro bono programs.

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Guilty of murderA Manhattan jury on Thurs., Nov. 18

found Jeromie Cancel, 24, guilty of theAugust 2008 strangling murder of KevinPravia, 19, a Pace University student, inPravias Chelsea apartment.

The jury deliberated a day and a half afterthe end of the trial that began Nov. 5 beforeit rendered the guilty verdict. Cancel encoun-tered Pravia near Union Sq. Park and wentwith the victim to his apartment at 239 W.15th St. where he garroted Pravia with an elec-tric cord, according to the charges. Pravia,an honors student in the Lubin School of

Business at Paces campus near City Hall, hadlast been seen by friends getting into a cab atGold and Fulton Sts., after a party.

Cancel was arrested three days later afterburglarizing his fathers home in Queens.He told police at the time how he killedPravia who was sleeping while a horror filmwas playing on television. Cancels lawyer,Michael Alperstein tried but failed to havethe confession excluded as evidence. StateSupreme Court Justice Daniel Fitzgerald isto sentence Cancel on Fri., Dec. 10.

LES burglarPolice are looking for a suspect they

identified as Irving Walker, 40, for 13 bur-

glaries on the Lower East Side from Oct.12 to Nov.15. The suspect entered the frontdoor of apartments on Madison St. betweenRutgers and Catherine Sts.; East Broadwaybetween Pike and Rutgers Sts., and Eldridgeand Forsyth Sts. between Hester and GrandSts., mostly during the early hours.

The suspect often woke sleeping resi-dents during the burglaries, police said.Police described Walker as a 6-ft., 210-lb.black man whose last known address was2636 University Ave., Bronx.

He is suspected in the following bur-glaries: 133 E. Broadway on Oct. 12; 33

Catherine St. Oct. 14; 120 Madison St.,Oct. 18; 7 Monroe St., Oct. 22; 105 HenrySt., Oct. 25; 114 Madison St., Oct. 26;122 Madison St., Nov. 3 at 2:10 a.m. and69 Eldridge St., at 5:10 a.m.; 201 MadisonSt. on Nov. 7; 113 Madison St. Nov. 11; 75Madison St., Nov. 13; 215 Madison St., Nov.14 and 74 Forsyth St., Nov. 15.

Kid porn arrestDavid Watson, 62, former cultur-

al events director at Pace UniversitysLower Manhattan campus, was charged in

Westchester on Wed., Nov. 17 with promot-ing sexual performance by a child and pos-

sessing child pornography.Watson had posted Craiglist ads looking

for a nubile girl next door, according to aDaily News item quoting the WestchesterCo. District Attorney. A plainclothes policeofficer arrested Watson at an Elmsford, N.Y.,motel carrying pictures of minor children in

sexually suggestive poses, the Daily Newsitem said. He pleaded not guilty and wasreleased on $5,000 bail. Watson was placedon administrative leave at Pace.

Bar hoppingPolice arrested Jeffrey Lewis 54, on Sat.

Nov. 13 after the owner of a bar at 64 StoneSt. found him leaving the place at 11:30 p.m.with 10 bottles of liquor. Police found thatLewis had been recorded on a video surveil-lance tape taking 10 cases of Red Bull froman office at 160 Pearl St. around 11:30 p.m.

Fri., Nov. 12. Lewis was being held in lieu ofbail pending a Dec. 8 court appearance.

Robbed in BPCA Battery Park City man told police he was

walking on the southwest corner of NorthendAve. and Murray St. around 1 a.m. Tues.,Nov. 16 when a mugger came from behind,knocked him to the pavement and made offwith his duffle bag with two cameras and light-ing equipment with a total value of $1,800.The victim, 63, could not describe his assailantnor say how many attacked him.

You look lostA visitor from Florida got out of the

subway station at Canal and Varick Sts.around 5 p.m. Sun. Nov. 12 to discover thather parents who had been on the train withher were nowhere to be seen. A strangerstopped her and said, You look lost. Letslook around on our tiptoes, and then tookher by the wrist. The stranger then grabbedthe womans wallet that was on a strap onher wrist and fled. The victim, 38, lost $68in cash, credit cards and her Florida divers

license, police said.

Stolen on trainA woman who got on a No. 2 train at

125th St at 10 a.m. Thurs., Nov. 4 got offat the Fulton St. station about 20 minuteslater and discovered that her wallet, which

had been attached by a chain to her shoul-der bag, was gone. She told police she laterdiscovered that someone had used her stolendebit card to deposit $6,300 into her accountand then had withdrawn $7,000.

Bag goneA Queens woman told police she went to

Uncle Mikes bar at 57 Murray St. around12:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 18 and put her bagon a chair while she was texting and thenshot some pool. She later discovered thather bag was gone but could not identify anysuspect in the crowded bar, police said.

Gone from BouleyAn employee at Bouley Restaurant, 163

Duane St., told police on Wednesday after-noon Nov. 17 that someone had stolen her

jacket and her wallet from her bag earlier thatday. The victim discovered later that severaland her jacket from work earlier unauthorizedcharges had been made on her debit card at aDuane Reade pharmacy and for a MetroCard.

Gone from lockerA Brooklyn man told police he put his

clothes in a locker at the Equinox fitness cen-ter, 14 Wall St. around 6 p.m. Fri., Nov. 19and returned after his work out to find thatsomeone stole his jeans, Tag Heuer watchand his wallet with ID and credit cards. The

victim said he did not lock his locker.

Auto theftA Brooklyn woman who parked her car

near the southwest corner of Vandam St.and Sixth Ave. at 12:05 a.m. Fri., Nov. 19returned at 5 p.m. to find her 2000 DodgeCharger was gone. It had not been towedand police said there were no signs of brokenglass indicating a forced entry.

Motorcycle gone

A Brooklyn man who brought his motor-cycle to the Ducati Triumph agency at 155Sixth Ave., at Spring St. at 11:20 a.m. Fri.,Oct. 29 for servicing returned on Saturdayafternoon Nov. 20 to find the bike, valued at$25,000, was gone. The agency owner saidthe bike had been parked at the curb in frontof the location after it was serviced.

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Branding a neighborhood to attract more touristsBY ALINE REYNOLDS

The New York Travel Advisory Bureaujust released a map of Manhattan in its effort

to brand Lower Manhattan as the CanDo(Canal Street Down) district. The map willinclude graphics and text about museums,theaters and other Downtown recreationalspots.

Unlike its six other editions, the newmap has no advertising, noted N.Y.T.A.B.Chairman Clive Burrow, who spoke aboutthe Can Do initiative at the Lower ManhattanMarketing Associations board meeting lastThursday morning.

We want [Downtown] to be a pri-mary destination, not a cast-off destination,Burrow said. The map, he added, is a clear,

internationally graphic symbol of what weretalking about.Burrows introduced the CanDo Map two

weeks ago at the World Travel Market, aninternational networking event for travelbusinesses in London. N.Y. T.A.B. is doinga trial run of 150,000 CanDo Maps in thecoming months, which will be distributedin Lower Manhattan hotels, museums andgovernment buildings.

Downtown is anticipating an additional10 million tourists over the next three years:the 9/11 Memorial is counting on five millionvisitors next year, the 9/11 Museum expects

nearly three million visitors in 2012, andanother two million tourists are anticipatedat One World Trade Center in 2013, accord-

ing to L.O.M.A. Board President TravisNoyes. L.O.M.A. is forming a new transpor-tation subcommittee to devise tactics to ease

the expected pedestrian traffic.The new subcommittee will be com-prised of L.O.M.A. board members alongwith representatives from ferry companies,taxi services and the city Department ofTransportation. It will meet once a monthand have a very focused agenda, accord-ing to Noyes. One of the issues being, withall these people coming Downtown, howdo we make sure these people understandhow to get around, he said. Theyll alsohave conversations with the American BusAssociation about streamlined parking anddrop-offs around the World Trade Center.

Uncultivated transportation, Burrowsaid, could cause a potential divide betweenresidents and tourists. We dont want thatproblem, he said. We have to come upwith solutions that benefit the residents.

At the same time, Burrow defended thetourists as the economic backbone of LowerManhattan. Theres a good reason to likethem because money will be coming intothe community, he said, crediting the out-of-towners for subsidizing the neighbor-hoods theaters, museums, and other formsof entertainment. He praised Downtowns22hotels for working together to come upwith creative ways to draw clients. The lat-est addition is the Sheraton Tribeca, whichopened last month on Canal Street.

Local elected officials fear that adding thetourist attractions in the neighborhood andthe CanDo branding could lead to over-crowding. If Lower Manhattan becomesoverrun, if it becomes a place where youcant get around where the sidewalksare unsafe and uncomfortable that willhurt all of us, said State Senator DanielSquadron at the L.O.M.A. meeting.

Squadron said that Lower Manhattan isgearing up for its second phase of revitaliza-

tion, and that elected officials, companiesand community leaders need to work togeth-er to handle the upcoming influx of tourists.

We have the potential for it to becomesomething thats not good for the commu-nity, and it slowly hurts our image, makes itless attractive to come down here We cansolve that.

City Councilmember Margaret Chinsaid that the best means of transportationDowntown is by foot.

We gotta find a way to really [provide]direction in terms of signage, so people canreally walk [around] our neighborhood, she

said at the meeting. Theres so many greatthings that people can find and discover justby walking.

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Councilmember Margaret Chin, with New York Travel Bureau Chairman Clive Burrow(right) discussing the new CanDo map last week.


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L.E.S. single moms honored by health services programBY ALINE REYNOLDS

Thirty-three-year-old Annette Cruz has been hospitalizedfor asthma eight times since 2008. She got it from inhalingthe fumes as she transported firefighters from Ground Zeroto safety from on 9/11. Her three-year-old son, Ericsson, alsohas trouble breathing and other medical problems.

Having a female nurse by her side made her job as asingle, low-income mother a little easier. She was like asunlight coming in through the door, every time she walkedin, Cruz said. Her nurse, Johanna Goepel, taught her howto be patient when Ericsson acts up. For that and manyother accomplishments, Cruz and others like her were hon-ored last Wednesday evening at the Visiting Nurse ServiceHeadquarters Auditorium on the Upper East Side.

Cruz gets the care for free thanks to the Visiting NurseService of New York, a health services provider that offerslow-income parents around the city homecare nurse visits

a few times per month during and after pregnancy. Low-income, first-time mothers and fathers around the city areeligible for the service. Its part of a larger national program,the Nurse-Family Partnership, that began in the 1970s inupstate New York.

Lisa Landau, director of the Nurse-Family Partnershipprogram at the N.Y.C. Health Department, said toddlers areoften neglected in such childhood development programs.I think theres been a focus on universal [kindergarten]and universal pre-k we keep going down [in age], but not[from birth to three-years), when theres a huge amount ofbrain development, explained Landau.

The department does outreach to hospitals, schools andhomeless services around the city to attract client. It was

introduced to New York City in 2003, serving more than100 families on the Lower East Side since its inception therein 2007.

All N.F.P. clients graduate from the program when theirchild turns two, said Cheryl Baez, community relationscoordinator at the Department of Health. The youngstersand their families received silver lockets, a rose and a copy ofthe Dr. Seuss book, Oh The Places You Will Go.

Twenty-one-year-old Marleny Vargas, the events key-note speaker, spoke to the need for more nurse servicesDowntown. I come from a neighborhood where a lot ofmoms dont know how to be moms, she said.

Vargas juggles two jobs and schoolwork, crediting hernurse for getting her through the first few months of moth-

erhood.Johanna helped me to plan how to manage having a babyand still continue college, said Vargas.

Goepel also gave her client practical advice to trainher son, Leandro, to eat regular food without choking, forexample, and to read aloud to him. She was somebody morethan a nurse, she was like my friend somebody I needed,Vargas said.

The nurses also help the parents achieve personal aspira-

tions. Part of the program is to help our clients think ofwhat they want to do long-term, and break down steps inorder to make that goal, said Visiting Nurse Service of NewYork nurse Rebekah Bennett.

She helped 20-year-old Celene Rodriguez acquire a teach-ing job at University Settlement, sitting beside her while shefollowed up on her application. She hopes to send her two-year-old, Christopher, Jr. there starting next year.

Bennett also taught Rodriguez and the childs father,Christopher Sanchez, everything from breastfeeding to babyproofing their apartment.

She and the other nurses feel grateful to share the firstfew years of the childs life with their parents. What a gift itis that all of these women let a complete stranger into their

lives, she said. We become a part of their whole experienceof being a mom for the first time.The program is still struggling to get the word out: only

about 15 percent of eligible L.E.S. family candidates nowreceive the service. And though it has broadened its clienteleby tenfold citywide since 2006, only 8.5 percent of all eligiblelow-income familiesaround the cityget the domestic care.Its a relatively new program, and it just needs to be rolled

out, said Jacob Victory, vice president of the V.N.S.N.Y.

State Senator Daniel Squadronsecured $7 million forthe program since 2008, 80 percent of which is allocated to

N.Y.C. services. I need you to go out and spread the word,he told the Lower East Side parents at the graduation eventlast Wednesday evening.

The N.F.P. program will also receive part of the $1.5 bil-lion earmarked for grants to home visitation services aroundthe country. Were aiming to garner as many of those fundsas we can get, said Landau.

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Marleny Vargass two-and-a-half year old son, Leandro, graduated from the N.F.P. program last week.

bridge became immediately clear following a traffic routingchange along West Street in late 2006. Several pedestriansafety managers were positioned and new crosswalks estab-lished, but those were always intended to be interim solu-tions while funding for a bridge was sought. It is hoped thata bridge will improve access to Battery Park City as well asimproving safety.

The funding was announced as part of a $37 million potapproved by L.M.D.C., which also included allocations foraffordable housing and utility companies. The L.M.D.C.snext step will be to designate an agency that will oversee thedesign and construction of the bridge.

I want to thank all the members of our community whojoined me in pressing for this much-needed bridge, Silversaid in a statement.

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Tribeca uneasy about the new next to the oldBY ALINE REYNOLDS

Contemporary architects refurbishingTribeca buildings often struggle with intro-ducing their contemporary designs to aprimarily historic neighborhood.

Most building renovations and addi-tions in Tribeca are subject to approvalby the N.Y.C. Landmarks PreservationCommission, since more than 75 percentof the neighborhood is landmarked; thesystem poses certain constraints on archi-tects.

Part of the pleasure of the contem-porary city is that its always changing,said Jeremy Edmiston, principal at SystemArchitects, which works on Tribeca proj-ects. The idea of a landmark district isto save the history that we have and tryto reanimate that history by renovating itin a way that respects the existing archi-tecture.

That was his mindset in redesigning187 Franklin Street, a three-story residen-tial building in the Tribeca West HistoricDistrict. The current 700-square-footspace, created in the mid-90s, is crampedfor the family of four that live in the build-ing, so the owners hired an architect todesign a two-floor addition.

Edmiston also plans to overhaul thebuildings faade by installing modern,

angled windows and curvy balconies. ButCommunity Board 1 voted against the pro-posal at last weeks landmarks committee,deeming it too contemporary.

The issue we had was it was a verymodern, radical design, said Roger Byrom,chair of the Landmarks committee. We just felt that it wasnt contextual for the

historic district.Edmiston contended that the neighbor-

hood wasnt built to be unmodern.The mixture of the old and the new

really animates the neighborhood, reallybrings it to life, he said. The differenceis what were all interested in, living in

the city.He is confident that the design stillhas a chance to win approval of theL.P.C., since it adheres to height and sizeregulations. Though this would distin-guish it from the other edifices on theblock, Edmiston assured the buildingsbrick exterior would be preserved, and

that its new height would match the adja-cent buildings.

The community is vibrant, and wewant our home to contribute to the neigh-borhood, said the couple that lives in 187Franklin and requested anonymity. Thefacade is designed to bring together both

functional and artistic elements in a man-ner that complements the neighborhood

and its heritage.The former building at 187 Franklin

was a one-story order repair shop createdin 1923, when warehouses and factoriesfilled the block. The neighborhood wasstill zoned a manufacturing neighborhoodat the time, and the intentions of thearchitects were vastly different then fromwhat they are today. Many of the buildingson Franklin Street, which were mostlyconstructed at the turn of the 20th cen-tury, have been preserved just as is. Theycant be replicated in their original forms,however, because, We just dont havethose techniques available to us anymore,Edmiston explained.

Passersby last Friday afternoon gave thenew design mixed reviews. Brian Breire,who owns 186 Franklin Street, across thestreet from 187 Franklin, shuttered uponinitial glance at the new design. Im madbecause its unfamiliar to me, he said.

Jill Hoffman, who lives diagonallyacross the street at 184 Franklin, grimacedat the illustration. It might be very desir-able, but it doesnt seem to fit in at all,she said.

Others seemed to embrace the designsforeign look. I dont see anything wrongwith it, said Chris Carpentiere, a localaccountant.

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New York City School system took anotherturn last week, with a parent group sub-mitting a resolution calling for a differentappointee.

The Chancellors Parent Advisory Council,a citywide organization made up of parentrepresentatives of each Community SchoolDistrict, voted unanimously to pass a resolu-tion that stated, in part, We the membersof the Chancellors Parent Advisory Council

respectfully request that the Mayor appointa Chancellor who meets the requirementsfor New York City Schools Chancellor with-out having to have a waiver from the NewYork State Education Commissioner.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg namedCathleen Black to replace Joel Klein aschancellor on November 10, promptingobjections from parents, lawmakers, andthose involved with school reform. Blackhas had a successful career in publishing butno previous experience in education.

In general, people feel that the per-son who runs the school system should

have some education background, said SueDietrich, co-chair of the Council. Theressome concern that Ms. Black had less thanJoel Klein did, but at least Joel Klein cameup through the New York public schools andtaught there. We feel (Black) has not reallyshown that she has any background. Shehas not gone to public schools, her childrendo not go to public schools.

Dietrich said the resolution was sent byemail to Mayor Bloomberg and to David

Steiner, the state education commissioner.Steiner is charged with determining whetherBlack should receive a waiver that wouldallow her to serve as chancellor despite hav-ing no education credentials.

The resolution was not intended to sin-gle out Black, Dietrich said, but ratherto emphasize the Councils preference forsomeone with different qualifications. Asparents weve felt for many years that wehavent been listened to, she said. Wevebeen frustrated that the parents voice is notheard.

Andrea Riquier

Advisory Council not

happy with Black

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Mixing the modern and the historic as it pertains to architecture in Tribeca is noth-

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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

With equal parts politics and goodhumor both of which were his hallmarks Community Board 2 elder statesmanEd Gold was memorialized at New YorkUniversitys School of Laws Vanderbilt Hallon Washington Square South on Sunday.

Gold died on Sept. 9 at age 84.About 150 friends, community board col-

leagues and political allies filled the schoolsGreenberg Lounge to hear speakers sharememories of Gold and the early VillageIndependent Democrats club, of which hewas a co-founder; praise his important workas a respected, veteran community boardmember; laud his skill as an incisive writer ofopinion columns and articles for The Villager:recall his campaigning vacations on FireIsland; and, last but not least, tell of hisrenowned tte--ttes at his headquarters,the former Joe Jr. burger joint on W. 12th St.,down the block from where he lived.

Among those in attendance wereCongressmember Jerrold Nadler, state SenatorTom Duane, Assemblymember Deborah Glick,City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, BoroughPresident Scott Stringer and Democratic State

Commiteeman Arthur Schwartz.John LoCicero, an early political ally inthe Reform Democratic movement and long-time friend, recalled early political races onwhich he and Gold strategized. At one point,some club members were urging a challengeagainst longtime Village Assemblymember BillPassannante. But Gold counseled against it.

As LoCicero recalled, Ed said, No onelikes Bill Passannante, but neverthelesswent on to say that Passannante was right onall the important issues, such as civil rightsand womens rights.

Former Councilmember Carol Greitzer,

another V.I.D. co-founder, recalled the headytimes of activism in the Village in the 1950sand 60s when she was a female Democraticdistrict leader.

We stopped the road through the park,she said, referring to Washington Square.We beat Robert Moses slum-clearance proj-ect. We saved Jefferson Market Courthouseso it could become a l ibrary.

Gold, as a member of the first publicadvisory board of the New York PublicLibrary, pushed through a change to allowdonors to give their funds to the branch oftheir choice.

Gold, Greitzer and their fellow V.I.D.members toppled the mighty TammanyHall and Carmine DeSapio and propelledEd Koch into office, paving the way forhim to eventually become New York Citysmayor.

Noting that the 50th anniversary ofReform Democratic politics in New YorkCity is coming up, Greitzer said Gold surelywould have played an important role in it.

In the early 1960s, Gold headed the city-wide Reform Democratic movement throughthe Coalition of Democratic Voters.

He had total recall of incidents thattook place at community board meetings,Greitzer said of Golds vaunted institutionalmemory noting, He would tell themover and over, prompting laughter from theaudience.

Speaker Quinn said she knew Gold for histalking points in The Villager and as an elderstatesman with a great sense of humor.

Gold, who headed Fairchild Publicationsbooks division, left sizable bequests to boththe Journalism School of Columbia his

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London loves to co-opt our culture. Examples includefood, music and of course television. Now, the tide hasturned and were taking a page from their book when itcomes to securing our streets.

The New York Police Department is installing securitycameras around Downtown as part of a Lower Manhattaninitiative to catch signs of terrorism.

Nearly half of the 1,300 cameras have been scatteredfrom Canal Street to Battery Park, river-to-river, outside offinancial institutions, government agencies and other note-worthy buildings. The 1.7-square-foot area is deemed to bethe primary target of overseas terrorists in New York City,according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

Many terrorist plots against New York City involved tar-gets in Lower Manhattan, including two successful attackson the World Trade Center and plots against the World TradeCenter retaining wall, the [Port Authority Trans-Hudsonservice], the New York Stock Exchange, and the BrooklynBridge, Browne said.

Many of the cameras monitoring the government agenciesand financial institutions were already in place -- the LowerManhattan Security Initiative team connected them to itscenter at 55 Broadway. It was a matter of getting their feedsand connecting them with the software that allows us to bealert to things rather than having people watch the camerasall the time, Browne explained.

The devices will be programmed to automatically alert apolice officer, for example, if a package is left untended formore than 30 seconds, or if a camera catches a vehicle head-ing in the wrong direction on a street. Browne noted thatlicense plate readers and radiation detection equipment arealso hooked up to the center.

The L.M.S.I. is modeled after Londons Ring of Steel,

a camera-based security system created in the early 1990s toprotect the citys financial district from bombings by the IrishRepublican Army. It is costing the N.Y.P.D. approximately$201 million 90 percent of which is federally funded, andthe rest subsidized by the N.Y.P.D.

The recent installment of the cameras coincides with aheated debate about the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He hasbeen held in detention, without charges, since spring 2008and the location of his trial has yet to be determined.

The trial would require heightened security measures,such as checkpoints, that could total more than $200 mil-lion per year, according to various reports. Browne wouldnot confirm this number, however, nor would he commenton the specific role the L.M.S.I. has in implementing thesesecurity measures.

Community Board 1 chair Julie Menin and others arepleading with the Obama Administration not to hold the trialat the U.S. Courthouse in Foley Square, a decision that hasbeen tabled for over a year by the Obama administration.

I urge the administration to use the idea I championedof having a federal court judge preside over a federal, civil-ian trial at a military installation or other location thatwould have lower security costs and minimal impact to thesurrounding neighborhood, Menin wrote in a November 12letter to the president.

New York State Congressman Jerrold Nadler used therecent trial of terrorist Ahmed Ghailani, who partook inthe 1998 Embassy bombings in East Africa, as proof thatfederal civilian trials of this sort do not pose a security orfiscal threat to Lower Manhattan. Ghailani is the first formerGuantanamo detainee to have undergone a civilian, ratherthan military, trial.

Despite the negative predictions by some, the

trial was effective and transparent, with no securityproblems in the heart of Manhattan, Nadler said in astatement.

Holder recently said that Mohammed is supposed toreceive his court date and location soon. In the meantime,Menin and others are growing increasingly frustrated bythe delay. She has proposed alternative location sites, suchas the West Point Military Academy and elsewhere, toconduct the trial.

Its unacceptable, Menin said in a phone interview. Thereneeds to be a decision now to uphold the rule of law.

Latest trial changes Sheikh Mohammed debate

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When asked about potential funding sources for the $45million, Delibro said, I cant answer that at this time.The $200 million allocation will undergo a 30-day publiccomment period, which is a crucial step in the release of themoney, according to Menin.

I want to make sure that the public has the ability to beable to provide input on what the allocations should be, andthat it be a truly transparent process, said Menin.

Delibero refused to comment on when the public com-ment period would take place.

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and vegetables, flowers, cold cuts andprepared foods and beverages that willinclude beer as well as soft drinks, juicesand water.

It will take a couple of weeks to puteverything in place, he said.

Mr. Kim, who also owns a salad barand deli in Jersey City, has a 20-yearlease on the 4,000-square-foot BatteryPark City store. The on-site manager willbe Ted Kim (no relation to owner JamesKim), but owner Kim said he would be inthe store daily until everyone in BatteryPark City has stopped by! HudsonProduce will deliver. The number to callis (212) 945-0500.

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HANNUKAH GIFTS: The Pickman Museum Shop in theMuseum of Jewish Heritage on Battery Place is not yourusual museum store. Linger for a few minutes and yourelikely to find yourself talking to other customers or to man-ager Warren Shalewitz about where you grew up, who youknow, politics, the economy, games, food, books, WorldWar II, Israel, or who knows what. The background musicto these conversations comes from the stores extensivecollection of CDs. Recently, Jewish Soul was playing and if you stayed in the store long enough, you would haveheard everything from Eddie Fisher singing Oh, My Papato Jan Peerces rendering of Kol Nidre.

The Pickman Museum Shop has a large selection of giftsfor Hannukah, which starts on Dec. 1 and continues foreight days, commemorating the rededication of the SecondTemple in Jerusalem 2,200 years ago when consecratedoil sufficient for one day miraculously burned for eight.There are a variety of menorahs, of course, ranging from abattery-operated menorah with LED lights ($20) to a silverfiligree menorah that can double as a Sabbath candleholder($350). The store also stocks a large number of dreidelsincluding some made of papier mch by Muslim womenin Kashmir ($10). (Dreidels are tops with Hebrew lettersinscribed on each side that are used for a gambling gamewhere the prize money is usually Hannukah gelt foil-wrapped chocolates shaped like coins.)

The museums most popular show this year has beenProject Mah Jongg, which runs through January 2, 2011.The shop has a number of gifts for mah jongg aficionadosincluding a Project Mah Jongg set of playing pieces ($129plus an optional $15 for a case in which to keep them),china dessert plates decorated with pictures of mah jonggtiles ($10) and jewelry crafted by Marlene Weisman Abadiof Brooklyn out of stray tiles from old mah jongg sets com-bined with colorful beads. Marlenes Lost and Found lineincludes necklaces, bracelets, hair barrettes and pins rang-ing in cost from $27 to $130.

The store has a terrific assortment of books, CDsand DVDs. One tantalizing item is called The UltimateGoldbergs, a six DVD set released this year of 71episodes of The Goldbergs plus 12 radio shows allstarring the incomparable Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg($59.95). The show ran on CBS and NBC between 1949 and1956, with an estimated 10 million viewers per episode.

Displayed next to the DVD set is a book about GertrudeBerg by Glenn D. Smith, Jr. called Something on My Own:Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956.(Syracuse University Press, $24.95) Is it a good book?a customer asked Mr. Shalewitz. Oh, yes! he repliedGertrude Berg was an interesting woman. She wasnt justan actress. She was a writer and producer and active in pol-itics. In 1950, he explained, when Bergs co-star on TheGoldbergs, Philip Loeb, was targeted by the U.S. Houseon Un-American Activities Committee as a Communist andthe shows sponsor, General Foods, demanded that Loeb befired, Gertrude Berg refused. That took some courage andsome clout. Gertrude Berg had both.

Learn a little something at the museum store and buya little something. Museum members get 20 percent offfrom now to Dec. 15, plus through Dec. 15, the PickmanMuseum Shop is offering free ground shipping for onlineand phone orders. Phone: (646) 437-4213. www.pickman-museumshop.com The museum is open Sunday-Tuesdayand Thursday 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m.- 8p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)and the eve of Jewish holidays. Closed Saturdays, Jewishholidays, and Thanksgiving Day. The Museum of JewishHeritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is at 36Battery Place.

Rosalie Josephs Stockings With Care: Battery Park City

resident Rosalie Joseph is known in this community andelsewhere for helping people in need and not just withmoney. Her charitable work is infused with compassionand empathy. At this time of year, she devotes herself toStockings With Care, a charity that she co-founded 19years ago to grant the gift wishes of children in crisiswhile preserving the dignity of the family and honoring theindividuality of the child. As Joseph explained, I usedto volunteer at Coalition for the Homeless holiday parties.Children would grab a gift from a pile. It was impersonal. Ithad nothing to do with who the child was and the parentsdignity was compromised. Stockings With Care, on theother hand, gets childrens wish lists from five social serviceagencies and pairs the children with secret Santas, whobuy what the child desires. The gifts are wrapped by Josephand volunteers and given to the childs parent to present onChristmas morning.

All the kids know that somehow Santa found them,Joseph said, or that their parent managed to get themsomething special for the holiday.

Though it costs between $50 and $100 to be a Santa,some people who want to do this sign on with friends andshare the expense. Stockings With Care gets wish lists fromaround 2,000 children each year, but not all of them haveSantas.

We always run a few hundred short, said Joseph,so donations of money to Stockings With Care are alsowelcome, enabling Josephs volunteers to go shopping forthese children. Stockings With Care wraps and presentsbetween 4,500 and 5,000 gifts each holiday season.

This does as much for the donors as it does for thekids, Ms Joseph commented. They tell us that it fills themwith joy. They wake up on Christmas morning thinkingabout their child opening their gifts.

The kids, who range in age from infants to teens, askfor all the usual: toys, games, music, stuffed animals andpractical things like clothes. One year, a child asked for dogfood so that the family wouldnt have to give away its dog.Stockings With Care provided a years supply of dog food.

For more information on how to become a Santa, or todonate or volunteer for Stockings With Care, go to http://www.stockingswithcare.org/.

THANKSGIVING: As noted in previous Battery ParkCity Beat columns, Steamers Landing and SouthWest NYin Battery Park City will be open on Thanksgiving Day fromnoon to 9 p.m. as will Merchants Caf just across WestStreet at 90 Washington St. And as also previously noted,SouthWest NY will have a community table, with seating at4 p.m. so that people who might otherwise be dining aloneon Thanksgiving Day can enjoy a meal with neighbors. (Call212-945-0528 for more information or reservations. Theprice at the community table for a three-course dinner is$25.95 plus tax and tip, and it includes tea, coffee, soda anda glass of house wine.) Here are some other Thanksgivingdining options near Battery Park City: Battery Gardens(inside Battery Park, opposite 17 State St.). Three-courseThanksgiving menu includes deserts. Reservations required.$60. (212) 809-5508. SHO Shaun Hergatt, 40 Broad St.(inside the Setai). Three-course meal with seating from 1:30p.m.-7 p.m. Reservations required. $79 (adults); $39.50for children (12 and under). (212) 809-3993. Harrys Cafe& Steak, One Hanover Square. Four-course Thanksgivingmenu served from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Reservations recom-mended. $58 (adults); $25 (children). (212) 785-9200. Wall& Water, 75 Wall St. (in the Andaz Wall Street Hotel). Fourcourses served from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. including a Raw Bar.Reservations required. $65. (212) 699-1700. CosmopolitanCaf, 125 Chambers St. Three-course meal served from 11a.m. to 10 p.m. with a choice of appetizers and dessertsand a main course including traditional roast turkey din-ner. Reservations. (212) 766-3787. $30. Around the cornerat 95 West Broadway, the Cosmo Caf will be open forbreakfast, lunch, desserts and coffee starting at 7 a.m. andwill serve a Thanksgiving dinner in a crepe for $9.50 alongwith the usual menu. By the way, the Downtown AlliancesConnection bus service that links the South Street Seaportwith Broadway at City Hall will not run on Thanksgiving.


Downtown Express photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer

Hannukah (the Festival of Lights) starts on Dec. 1 and runs for eight days. The shop in the Museum of Jewish

Heritage at 36 Battery Place carries menorahs ranging in price from $20 to $350. This Noahs Ark menorah is

$50.


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Delegation goes to D.C. for final Zadroga push

Now he takes 14 medications a day and is on permanentdisability.

Ive lost count of how many trips Ive been on to Washington, Sanchez said. This is Jacks sixth trip. Hewanted to be with me today.

Sanchez complimented the display of tenacity from theentire New York Congressional team Carolyn Maloney,Congressman Jerry Nadler, Anthony Weiner, King not onlyhas their leadership helped save my life, but they have inspiredme to go out there and be in the front line once again for themen and women who are sick and dying.

Several people on the bus said that although they weresick themselves, they were there to speak for those whowere too sick to make the trip or who had already died from9/11-related illnesses. Almost 1,000 people have already died,with new deaths each month.

Frank Crichlow, who just turned 46, said he was at theWorld Trade Center site from beginning to end. I was doingsearch and rescue, body retrieval, medical support youname it, I was doing it, he said. Crichlow, who used to be aconstruction worker, was a volunteer. Now he has asthma andnasal problems, and though he said he still can work, he addsI dont know about later on. In addition to his health, hiswork at the World Trade Center site cost him his family. Heis divorced. A big part of it is because of what happened,he said. After I went down to help on September 11, I didntreturn home for a month. I had nightmares. After awhile, I just shut everybody out. I talk to counselors now but I geta sense that they dont understand. The people who workedat the World Trade Center meet as a group four times a year.That helps. Weve all become like one big family. Weve lost a

lot of friends but we gained a lot at the same time.Despite what his service has cost him, Crichlow said he

would do it again in a heartbeat. We have people on thefrontlines fighting to protect us, he said. Somebody has totake care of home. I have relatives and friends and people Iknow who are fighting overseas. Quite a few. I dont considermyself a brave man. I just consider it a human thing to do.

It was still raining, approaching a downpour, when thebuses got to Washington nearly five hours after leaving NewYork. The group split up into teams with the agenda of visitingevery Senatorial office, speaking to someone as highly placedas possible about the Zadroga bill, and leaving literatureexplaining whats at stake.

All were asking is that our government do the rightthing, said John Devlin, one of the spokesmen for the groupin the office of Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico.) Im aconstruction guy a tradesman. Im not a hero every day likethe firemen and the cops. When I stand here, Im standing torepresent the union tradesmen the normal guy that wentdown there.

Devlin said he traveled with an operating engineer, Local15 and an emergency responder.

We went down because no one else could do the construc-tion part of it. If it wasnt for us, that job would still be goingon today. I was down there 10 months, seven days a week, 12hours a day. Now I have level four, inoperable throat cancerand cancer on the tongue and both lymph nodes. Ive had 33radiations and eight chemotherapy [treatments], four surger-ies. Im still learning how to eat. Im not here for myself. Imhere for the brothers and sisters that arent capable of cominghere and the ones that are going to get sick later that dontthink they are.

The group trudged from office to office for hours. Sometimesthey were only able to talk to receptionists. Sometimes a legis-

lative aide invited them to sit down in a conference room andmake their case for the Zadroga bill.

Lives depend on it, literally, said Glen Klein, whoworks with the Fealgood Foundation. There have beenclose to 1,000 deaths since 9/11 burly guys, firefighters,cops, construction workers in their 30s, 40s, early 50s.Civilians who lived around the area and were healthy havegotten sick. Children have asthma now. We really needsupport. If this bill doesnt get passed by December 31, wedont think it will ever get passed.

At 2:30 p.m., the lobbying group stopped their peti-tioning to attend a press conference where Sen. KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) sponsor of the bill in the Senate, Sen.Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other politicians and unionrepresentatives spoke. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,who had come to Washington to do his own lobbying, wasalso at the podium.

Nine years ago no one could have imagined that our nationwould ignore its duty to the 9/11 heroes, Sen. Gillibrandsaid. Sen. Schumer compared their service to members of themilitary. Just like soliders, these people volunteered, rushedto danger, risked their lives for our freedom and for the great-er good, he said. Since when does America turn its back onpeople like that? We will not rest until we find the other hand-ful of votes that we need to give us the 60 votes.

As of November 23, the 60 votes still are not there. The sup-porters of the bill believe that they have 59 in their camp, includ-ing 56 Democratic senators, two independents and Mark Kirk,Republican of Illinois, who was elected to fill the seat vacated byBarack Obama.

Going home, some of the people on the bus expressedtheir desperation. They are ill, they are likely to die youngand if the Zadroga bill doesnt pass, they have nowhere elseto turn.


W.T.C. workers in early September.Silverstein made a brief appearance at the site while the rav-

enous workers scarfed down the food to thank the tradesmenand women for their hard work. You went back onto the site[after 9/11], and did rescue and recovery, without regard foryour own safety and your own well-being, Silverstein said.

He praised the workers for the completion of 7 W.T.C. in2006, saying that 4 W.T.C. must be handled with the sameperseverance and hard work. By the end of 2013, you guysand gals are going to have this place finished, he said. Onlywith your help can it happen, and only with your determina-tion will it happen.

But the project was the last thing on the workers mindsduring their much-needed break. Its time for putting workaside, for everyone to come together and say, lets breakbread as a unit, said Tishman Project Superintendent FrankHussey, one of the original workers of the W.T.C. redevelop-ment. Were all brothers and sisters at the end of the day.

Interspersed throughout the male-dominated crowd wereactual fathers, sons and nephews that were enjoying a pre-Thanksgiving family meal together.

THE RODRIGUES CLANNine members of the Rodrigues clan sat together at one

of the rectangular white-cloth tables on the street-level con-crete base of 4 W.T.C.

They all work for Roger and Sons Concrete Corporation,a small family business that Portuguese immigrant AcacioRodrigues founded in the 1970s. One-hundred-and-fifty oftheir men and women are erecting the concrete walls of thesite, forming the skeleton of the tower, according to Acacios

grandson, 34-year-old Antonio A. Rodrigues.Rodriguess grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from

Portugal in 1954. Once his sons were done with schooling,he got into business with them, and it just started growingand growing and growing, said Rodrigues, now the generalsuperintendent of the company.

Rodrigues, Sr. died a proud grandfather in 2009, twomonths after his company was hired for its largest project todate at the W.T.C.

Rdorigues, Jr.s uncle and president of the company,Antonio Rodrigues, said the project will certainly be afeather in the companys cap. I had goose bumps, beingon a site like this, he said. Its an amazing amount ofpeople around every day so you know youre part ofsomething big.

The family members are all working towards the samegoal: completing the skeleton of the 975-foot constructiontower by mid-2012.

Working with colleagues as a closely-knit team, Rodrigues,Jr., will be the key to getting the job done. Nine of us cantput this building up, he said. We need the various tradesand workers, and as long as were employing people, weknow their lives are better on the backside.

MUNOZ AND RIVERAConstruction worker 28-year-old Joshua Riveras father,

45-year-old Frank Munoz, is also his direct supervisor. Theywork alongside each other six days a week, ten hours a dayat 4 W.T.C.

Rivera and Munoz know when to stay away from eachother, particularly when theyre frustrated about something.But they usually chat on work breaks about their dailygrinds, and about the family. I get to find out more aboutmy grandson, Munoz said, chuckling.

Munoz admitted that he egged on his son to choose thisconstruction project over others. He keeps a close eye onRivera to make sure hes up to snuff. You want your reputa-tion to go a lot longer, Munoz said.

Rivera doesnt seem to mind working for his dad. Youwork harder when you work for your pop. His name followsyou, Rivera said. Theres more motivation to keep every-thing going.

An unlikely Thanksgiving festContinued from page 1

Downtown Express photo by Aline Reynolds

Antonio Rodrigues, Jr. (left) chats with his uncle andboss, Antonio Rodrigues, Sr.


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Hope for SPURAAfter decades of inertia at the Seward Park Urban

Renewal Area, on the Lower East Side south of the

Williamsburg Bridge, the makings of a viable develop-ment scheme are taking shape. Where six blocks havelain vacant, occupied by open-air parking lots, there arenow visions of housing and commercial development,and much-needed jobs and economic development.

It must be stressed that what exists are only guide-lines not a plan. But Community Board 3, which hasbeen spearheading this process for the past several years,is indeed now working toward a final plan.

The guidelines were presented Nov. 16 at C.B.3s Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private HousingCommittee. Basically, they call for a mixed-use project,with equal parts housing and commercial and retaildevelopment. There would be 800 to 1,000 units of

housing. Under one possible scenario, the mix couldinclude 40 percent market-rate, 30 percent moderate andmiddle-income, 20 percent low-income and 10 percentsenior housing and assisted-living units.

On the commercial side, no retail spaces would be largerthan 30,000 square feet, effectively banning big-box stores,though a supermarket of larger size would be allowed. Amovie theater and parking space would also be included.

The layout wouldnt be towers in the park whichleaves much to desire in terms of a feeling of livability but, would incorporate open space.

In addition, although they werent in the original1965 renewal plan, C.B. 3 is also including in its rede-velopment concept the four Essex St. Market buildings,

between Stanton and Houston Sts.Leading the C.B. 3 committee on the renewal area issue

is David McWater, the boards former chair. It was McWaterwho initiated the community-led, contextual rezoning plan forthe East Village and Lower East Side that was approved bythe city two years ago, which put height caps on new develop-ment. Hes confident the SPURA plan will also win approval.

Next month, the SPURA guidelines will be fleshed outmore at C.B. 3, and its hoped the board will vote on the con-cept in January. But theres still far to go. The city will need todo an environmental impact statement (E.I.S.) for the sites,then a uniform land-use procedure (ULURP), then issuerequests for proposals (R.F.P.s) from developers for the 10sites. This could take three years, and of course constructionwould be phased in over many years. McWater stressed itsimportant to get things completed before Mayor Bloombergleaves office. Whatever consensus has been painstakinglybuilt over the past two years could evaporate.

The urban renewal plan has expired. But McWatersaid the city will give priority to former renewal-arearesidents who seek to return and get affordable housing,if their income levels meet requirements.

Seven years ago, the city proposed a SPURA plan with amix of housing, including 400 low- and middle-income units.That plan was scrapped due to vehement community opposi-tion. This current process, has been community driven.

The key will be to get local elected officials onboard,namely Councilmember Margaret Chin and AssemblySpeaker Sheldon Silver. While many residents of the GrandSt. co-ops, where Silver lives, have historically resisteddevelopment of SPURA, opposing affordable housing, theco-ops residential mix has been changing. Theres a newsentiment for movement on these eyesore blocks.

Now that a new, consensus plan is coming into focus,its incumbent on Chin and Silver to engage and supportthe process. If not, a golden opportunity will be lost. Inthat sense, its a risk not to back the sensible mixed-useconsensus that is emerging now. Now is the time for Chinand Silver to help shepherd this long paralyzed project,creating a legacy to be proud of.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hudson Square is not myth

To the Editor,

Perhaps its because the holiday season israpidly approaching, but when I read BettinaGoldbergs letter regarding Hudson SquareI thought of a letter received by The Sun in1897 from a young girl named Virginia.

So with all due respect to the brilliant edi-tors of The Sun who so powerfully assured the8-year-old girl, Yes, Virginia, there is a SantaClaus, it seems appropriate to say, yes, Ms.Goldberg, there is a place known as HudsonSquare. It exists as certain as the creative energythat flows through the minds and souls of thepeople who work here, in the synergistic rela-tionships developed among the companies based

here, and in the light-filled streets characterizedby the warmth and charm of a small town.

And in the months and years ahead, asthe neighborhood continues to progress,soon the streets will have a look and feel thatdistinctly defines Hudson Square, as well.

Ellen BaerPresidentThe Hudson Square Connection

Let them do their jobs

To the Editor, What the heck is wrong with City

Hall? There are four departments thatare a vital part of every city (especial-ly New York City) that shouldnt betouched: the Fire Department, the Police

Department, the Sanitation Department,and the Department of Education. TheFire Department is here to save peoplefrom fires and emergencies. The PoliceDepartment is here to protect people fromthe lunatics who prey on our elderly andchildren. The Sanitation Department ishere to keep our city clean and preventbad odors and disease from garbage. Andour Department of Education teachers arehere to teach our children so that they canlive a better life in the future.

I dont know how they can grade teach-ers. The teacher could be one of the best

but if a kid cant learn like other kidsor doesnt want to learn, why blame theteacher? If a parent doesnt want to orcannot help their kid with schoolwork,why blame the teacher for that? Would itbe right to lay off or take away hours fromour people who work in City Hall? Thiscity should stop wasting money on bicycleand bus lanes. They spent millions of dol-lars so that people could have their pizzaand Chinese food delivered in 10 minutesinstead of 15 minutes. This is ManhattanIsland, not London. They should startusing their heads for something other than

a hat rack. The people that I mentioned in

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Guerilla advertising, or just a lieLast week there was an example of brave small business marketing in Tribeca.

At the Terroir Bar, a sidewalk tent sign tried to lure customers with what had to

be false advertising. Unless of course there was indeed someone inside bearingthe same name as out 44th President of the United States.



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TALKING POINT

BY DANIEL MELTZER

We are still at war in Vietnam (excuseme, Afghanistan); the Dems have taken ashellacking in the election, and the politicsare smarmier than ever; unemployment isstill pushing 10 percent and the checks arerunning (or have run) out for many; the localmurder and MetroCard rates are rising; forthe second year in a row Social Security isnt

and may not for years to come; Season 4 ofMad Men has ended with another cliff-hanger, nobody knows when Season 5 willappear, support groups are forming to dealwith withdrawal issues; and Manhattanitesare squaring offover what?

Bike lanes.Lines have been drawn in axle grease

and thick, white, street-corner crossingpaint. On the Upper West Side, for one,opposing factions have formed over thehard-fought Columbus Ave. bike lanethat was green-lighted in the spring byCommunity Board 7. The lane, whichwill run, or pedal, for starters, betweenW. 96th and 77th Sts., has generated gal-lons of ink and toner and tons of pixels innewspapers and on Web sites, as well asnumerous cubic feet of overheated air on

the airwaves and across cyberspace.I am on record saying I think the

Columbus lane was a bad idea, wasapproved too quickly, and that it wouldlikely cause trouble. I believe it still is,was, and has. (Dont wave that bicyclepump at me unless you intend to use it.)

The mayor, the City Council, a flotillaof cyclists and none other than our gen-erally right-on Borough President ScottStringer our most proactive and com-munity-conscious B.P. in recent memory,

defender of renters, mom-and-pop stores,good community causes in general, andpromoter of progress have all beenenthusiastically supporting the project,the strip of exclusive real estate for thepedal-pumpers, from the get-go.

For starters, the bike path narrowscar and truck lanes by as much as 2 feeteach on the often-congested Columbus.And few cyclists are reported to be usingthe new amenity provided them. In addi-tion, there are complaints that bad bikerbehavior continues to annoy and some-times endanger pedestrians ignoring

red lights, going the wrong way, riding onthe sidewalks as before while driversand walkers are disrespecting the cyclistsby getting in their way, by cutting themoff or walking or standing in front of themat intersections. And yet, the powers thatbe, as they are known, still think this isa good idea. Maybe not as good as theythought it was before, but still the wayto go.

A key problem, it would seem, andStringer seems to concur, is that theredont really seem to be enough enforce-

able laws governing bike riders, few forwhich they can be legally stopped orticketed. But if there were, and someonegot too many summonses, what could theauthorities do take away their feet?

Bikes and cyclists arent licensed.Should they be? Should they have to passa pedaling exam? Should they be regis-tered and carry numbered plates so theycan be traced after an incident? The goodthing about licenses, of course, is thatthey can be suspended or revoked.

Also, the environmental argument infavor of the lanes is weak. It is doubtfulthat bikers are would-be motorists. Theymore likely would be transit riders, thussubtracting from the M.T.A., which keepsraising the fares.

B.P. Stringer (no connection with the oilcompany), while still backing the program,justly conceded recently to Brian Lehrer on WNYC that perhaps this was a bit hastilydone, that the lanes were created beforeclear-cut rules and regs for their use hadbeen established. Hes wisely calling for thecodifying of actionable offenses by the CityCouncil to ensure safety for all concerned,if also more work for the N.Y.P.D. and thecourts.

Lets hope the Council will put this

on a fast track, stop and look both waysbefore moving forward, and before some-one gets hurt or all-out war is declared.

As the sage and ageless Elmer Fuddmight say; Wabbit, what we have here isa wheel pwoblem.

these departments also have bills to payand mouths to feed. Leave them alone andlet them do their jobs.

George Marmo

Borrowed ideas

To the Editor,Last issues opinion piece, Welcome

to Disneyeland Tribeca by TomGoodkind reads like an update of my

piece Saying Goodbye to Funkiness onTribecas Piers. (Downtown ExpressOct 21-27, 2005) Goodkind recyclesmuch of my original analysis regardingwhat made Pier 25 unique and repeatsmany of my predictions about thenew pier, which has recently reopened. While no one can recreate my distinc-tive and clean writing style, I could nothelp but feel that my ideas had beenborrowed.

Kate Walter

The U.S. must come to the aid of its 9/11 heroesBY U.S. SENATOR KIRSTEN

GILLIBRAND (D-NY)On Sept. 11, 2001, when thousands of

innocent men and women lost their lives,tens of thousands more came to theirassistance. We as a nation saw greateracts of heroism than we could haveimagined: First-responders from all overNew York and all over the country cameto Ground Zero to save innocent lives,provide proper burial for lives that werelost, and assist in the enormous effort toclean up and recover from that devastat-ing attack on our nation.

Tragically, in the nine years since the

attack, more than 30,000 responders andsurvivors from across the country havehad to receive medical treatment due totheir exposure to Ground Zero toxins andare waiting for Congress to pass legisla-tion to ensure that they can continue toget the care they need. Approximately

16,600 individuals from Manhattan are

enrolled in the WTC Health Registry.Our 9/11 heroes didnt think twice that

day. Bound by duty, a love of our nation andtheir fellow Americans, they joined hand-in-hand with heroes from every corner ofAmerica to come to our rescue.

Now, its long past time we came totheirs. Nine years ago, no one could haveimagined that our nation would ignoreour duty to the 9/11 heroes. Nine yearsago, no one could have imagined that ourcountry would leave these heroes behind.

But over all these years, the JamesZadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation

Act, the bill that can bring care to thosewhove fallen ill, has been tied up by poli-tics as usual in Congress.

This should not be a partisan fight. Wehave an undeniable, moral obligation toprovide our 9/11 heroes with all the carethey need.

In September, the bill passed the U.S.

House of Representatives. Its time tokeep our promise to them, and pass thisbill in the U.S. Senate during the lameduck session of Congress. We cant affordto wait any longer. Weve already lost toomany of our heroes and loved ones to thetoxins of Ground Zero. And were losingmore each day.

Im urging my colleagues on both sidesof the aisle to do what they know is right,and support this legislation.

The men and women who livedthrough and came to our rescue on 9/11were not Democrats or Republicans or

Independents. They were Americans firstand foremost, and so were the peoplethey saved. Its time for us in Congress tohonor their sacrifices by coming togetheras Americans, and keeping our promise toprovide them with the care they need tosave their lives.

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Gillibrand, 9/11 Health Supporters Call

On U.S. Senate to Pass James Zadroga

9/11 Health And Compensation Act

The peddling of pedaling and those pesky pedestrians


Dont wave that bicycle

pump at me unless you

intend to use it.


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On Saturday afternoon tourists in front of the FederalReserve building on Liberty Street must have been confused or at least theyll have a good story when they return home. Aprotest was held simulating a breadline, common during theGreat Depression, and over 35 people turned out in vintage

garb to bring attention to the new generation of 99ers.The moniker describes those who lost their UnemploymentInsurance benefits after not being able find work in the99-week period after they lost their jobs. The end of Novemberwill mark the end of U.I. benefits for todays workers.

Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess

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Ed Gold remembered

alma mater and where he was editor of The

Spectator daily campus newspaper andN.Y.U. School of Law. The Columbia bequestwill fund a scholarship for students fromabroad to study journalism, in the hope thatthey will return to their countries and spreadfreedom and understanding through journal-ism and the power of free speech. The N.Y.U.bequest will establish a fund to develop com-munity lawyers and legal services.

Quinn and Councilmember Margaret Chinissued a Council proclamation honoring Goldfor his outstanding service and contributionsto New York City. Quinn presented the proc-lamation to Lynne Brown, N.Y.U. senior vice

president, and Janine Jacquet, associate deanof Columbia Journalism School.

The proclamation to Gold stated, in part:For more than 60 years, he promoted goodgovernment to make government institutionsand the Democratic Party more responsiveto community and individual concerns.

It also noted that for the last 43 years,Gold served in many leadership positions onGreenwich Villages C.B. 2, recently fillingthe roles of elder statesman, historian andvoice of reason with a balanced perspectiveand a great sense of humor. He also oversawthe distribution of 1.6 million dollars to

a broad range of community groups thatresulted from a benefit he helped win afterthe federal post office on Christopher Streetwas transferred to a private developer.

Also, the proclamation continued, Goldrepresented the community on a range ofissues, such as supporting limits on the num-ber of liquor-license approvals.

Friend Judge Stanley Sklar recalled thatwhen Gold went out to Saltaire, Fire Island,he didnt jog or go to the beach, but spentall his time visiting and strategizing withother Democratic politicos who were alsovacationing in summer houses there.

The ocean that Ed liked was the one thathe could see from Sarah and Victor Kovnersdeck, Sklar noted. Sarah Kovner went onto serve in the Clinton administration andVictor Kovner became head of the citys LawDepartment in the Dinkins administration.

Borough President Stringer said, I was a

reader of Ed Golds articles in The Villagerand I used to love his way with words andsense of outrage over issues in the city. Hewasnt happy with a lot that was going on

he wrote about it in The Villager.Stringer said his young staffers relished

meeting Gold for lunch at Joe Jr. and beingregaled by his old stories.

You cant replace him, Stringer said.You cant get another Ed Gold. But you aregoing to get people to raise their game to ahigher level. Thats the legacy of Ed Gold.

Ron Schneider, a former CommunitySchool District 2 president and a closefriend, said he and Gold were such loyalJoe Jr. patrons that they were bestowed withhonorary Joe Jr. caps. Gold would wear hiswhen traveling outside the city, Schneider

said, and when asked what Joe Jr. was wouldreply, Its an important coffee shop.

Schneider said he didnt have the nerveto tell Gold when he was in the hospital thatJoe Jr. had closed.

When Schneider finally did break the newsto him, he said, I cant describe to you thelook on his face. It was as if he had lost his bestfriend in a way, he had. In one of his lastcolumns in The Villager, he said he hoped thespace would stay empty forever it still is.

Current C.B. 2 Chairperson Jo Hamiltonsaid Golds encouraging her to run for the postgave her the confidence to do it. She praised

Golds commitment to the community boardand to giving the community a voice.

He loved the community board, shesaid. He was a leader on our board becauseof who he was. He had a fair mind. He wasalways eloquent and often persuasive. Welistened because Ed knew what he was talk-ing about. If you could convince him that acause was worthy, you knew you had a goodchance of getting C.B. 2s support.

Other speakers at the memorial includedhis cousin Elizabeth Ropers; Miriam Bockman,the first female Manhattan Democratic Countyleader; Arthur Stoliar, the first chairperson of

the planning board that was the predecessor toC.B. 2; and Charles Persell, former chairper-son of the Village Nursing Home.

Afterward, recorded by a video camera,people gave more memories of Gold that willbe compiled into a video memorial that wil l beposted on the Web site www.Ed-Gold.com .

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CHANUKAH WONDERLAND What happens for eight

consecutive nights, is different each time and offers sizzling

latkes, delicious donuts, menorah lighting, chocolate Chanu-

kah gelt and prizes galore? The answers not exactly a brain

teaser, given that this is a Chanukah (Hanukkah?) listing. But

one things for sure the fact that this particular celebra-

tion is jam-packed with fun (and maybe some jam for those

latkes?) is a no-brainer. Chanukah Wonderland is My Little

Schools gift to you. Dec. 1 through Dec. 8. Locations, times,

prices vary. For event details and registration, visit www.

mylittleschoolnyc.com.

COMMUNITY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION ON THE

L.E.S. What do you expect for nothing? How about dreidel

games, storytelling, songs and a menorah lighting? Thats

what youll get, for FREE, at this Hanukkah celebration for

the Lower East Side community! Join friends, neighbors and

classmates for a fun, meaningful kickoff to this years Festi-

val of Lights. Play dreidel for gelt, and take part in storytell-

ing and songs before promenading from the historic Mazer

Theater to event sponor The Educationa l Alliance for a

festive first lighting of the menorah. This event is FREE and

open to the public (perfect for families with kids of all ages).

Wed., Dec. 1, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 197 E. Broadway (btw.

Clinton & Jefferson). For info, visit www.edalliance.org or

call 646-395-4245.

HANUKKAH CELEBRATION AND OPEN HOUSE The Edu-

cational Alliance Preschool hosts this FREE Hanukkah event

for Kids & Families. Come celebrate Hanukkah and learn about

Educational Alliance programs for toddlers and preschoolers.

Festivities will include Hanukkah arts & crafts, dancing, sing-a-

longs, storytelling, dreidel games, kosher refreshments, tours

of the Preschool and more. This years celebration will also

feature the premiere screening of a new series called Shalom

Sesame (from the creators of Sesame Street). Chanukah:

The Missing Menorahfinds that super-special blue monster

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