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BY HELAINA N HOVITZIt’s 6:15 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday

and even the most notorious restau-rants in the city are empty — some haven’t bothered to open. Everyone is watching the Super Bowl with friends and family, gathered at bars or relax-ing at home — but there’s still a line outside the NYC Rescue Mission at 90 Lafayette Street. The hungry and homeless men who have nowhere else to go will realize once inside that they, too, will get to celebrate the big game at the place they’ll call home for the night.

SOUPerBowl Week, a seven-day event that pairs soup kitchens with

some of the city’s best chefs, was initially a fundraising event launched by Michael Colameco, host of WOR’s Food Talk and Colameco’s Food Show on PBS. After volunteering at the Mission in 2007, he began mak-ing public service announcements for SOUPerBowl week and directing dona-tions to the Mission.

A year later, Mayor Michael Bloomberg caught on, and offi cially declared the week before Sunday’s big game SOUPerBowl week citywide. “The mission is always edifying, but not always festive,” explained Joe Little, the mission’s community rela-tions manager. “This week, chefs sent

soup, chowder, chili and gumbo, and helped make the entire week celebra-tory and warm.”

These chefs included Tribeca’s own David Bouley, Vikas Khanna, Fox Sportscaster Duke Castiglione, Al Yeganeh, the man behind the Seinfeld “Soup Nazi” Ron Silver of Bubby’s restaurant. Wade Burch, winner of Food Network’s Chopped and Head Chef of Southwest NY in Battery Park City brought chili so hot and spicy that the guys were still sweating it off on Monday.

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Local pols looking for rabbit luckThe Chinese Lunar New Year Festival was held last Sunday. According to the Chinese Zodiac, the rabbit is the luckiest of the symbols.

BY ALINE REYNOLDSThe lines in front of

Lower Manhattan elemen-tary schools are once again forming, the same way they have been for the last two years. Kindergarten registra-tion for the 2011-12 school year is already creating angst among Downtown parents who are itching to know where their child will be going to school next fall.

Pre-registration, which began on January 10, is a good forecaster for next year’s enrollment at the Lower Manhattan elemen-tary schools, which have already received more applications than they have seats.

P.S. 234 is once again proving to be an extremely popular choice for Lower Manhattan families. The school has received 163 applicants for 125 seats one month into pre-registration, causing its administrators to

resort to a lottery for the third year in a row.

Public schools citywide are mandated by the New York City Department of Education to arbitrarily admit students in these situations, since they aren’t allowed to admit them on a first-come, first-serve basis, according to D.O.E. Spokesperson Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld.

“If a school has more applicants than more zoned spots for during pre-reg-istration period,” he said, “they have a responsibility to determine which pre-reg-istered zoned students are getting an offer, and which pre-registered zoned stu-dents they waitlist on a ran-dom basis.”

Magdalena Lenski, the school’s parent coordinator, said the stress level among parents this year is lower compared to three years ago, when administrators

Lines, lotteries signal same old song for elementary schools

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Squadron named “Champ” by United Neighborhood Houses

Photo courtesy of NYS Senator Squadron’s offi ce

Senator Squadron is standing with Chester Lee (left), president of the board of directors of Chinese American Planning Council, and David Chen (center), executive director of C.P.C. C.P.C. was one of the recipients of the funds; other recipients include the Educational Alliance, Grand Street Settlement in Chinatown, Hamilton-Madison House, Henry Street Settlement, and University Settlement.

Last week NY State Senator Daniel Squadron was recognized by United Neighborhood Houses, a non-profi t orga-nization that promotes and advocates for settlement housing communities throughout New York City.

As the inaugural recipient of the Settlement House Champion Award, Squadron was honored specifi cally for his role in securing $9 million in state funding for settlement house programs and for his overall dedica-tion to the issue since he arrived on the scene in Albany two years ago.

The roots of his advocacy on behalf of these communities, 38 of which exist as members of U.N.H., can be traced to their high concentration in the district Squadron represents — primarily Lower Manhattan and a small portion of Brooklyn.

The settlement housing model focuses on vulnerable populations including young chil-dren, senior citizens, homeless individuals,

or people suffering from mental illness. Each settlement house community has programs specifi cally designed to nurture individuals from a young age through adulthood and into old age by providing services geared to their specifi c needs.

“We thought Senator Squadron to be an extraordinary example of commitment tenacity and generosity when it came to these communities,” said UNH executive director Nancy Wackstein.

“We didn’t even need to lobby for this money,” said Wackstein. “Senator Squadron’s efforts were assisted greatly by Assembly Speaker Silver. Their districts overlap and they both share the commitment to he cause.”

Senator Squadron together with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spearheaded the ini-tiative over the past two years.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDSOn the morning of the second day of the

Chinese New Year, community activists and politicians weren’t celebrating at a restau-rant or a park. Instead, they were huddled outside in the cold, announcing a new state law intended to streamline the intercity bus pick-up and drop-off system in Chinatown and around the city.

The bill, if passed, would implement a citywide permit system for private buses that now chaotically pick up and unload passen-gers onto city streets. The new requirement would mean safer conditions for pedestrians and result in fewer fi nes for bus drivers, according to its proponents.

“Right now, the streets of Chinatown are like the Wild West,” said NY State Senator Daniel Squadron at a press conference held last Friday at Canal and Allen Streets in Chinatown.

Buses today, Squadron noted, can stop anywhere, double-park, and aimlessly circle around city blocks to avoid the cops; while sidewalks overfl ow with anxious passengers who often don’t know where they’re being picked up.

“The fact is,” Squadron said, “we love having low-cost buses. We love the fact that we have an industry that’s growing and that’s

centered in the Chinatown community. But it has to grow and thrive in a way that works for the community.”

“[Permits] would allow the legitimate bus companies to have a process they can depend on and that riders can depend on,” said NYC Councilmember Margaret Chin, who also spoke at the press event.

“Both from a customer point of view and the provider point of view, you want a certain reliability,” echoed Wellington Chen, execu-tive director of the Chinatown Partnership. Bus drivers, he said, would prefer to have a dependable way of dropping off passengers than risk paying fi nes.

At a Chinese New Year’s celebration in Sara D. Roosevelt Park last Thursday, a gentleman asked Chen if he knew where a bus coming into the city would drop off his relative.

“I didn’t know, and [the gentleman’s rela-tive] didn’t have a cell phone,” Chen said.

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New Ferry Service The East River will soon have 24-hour ferry

service, according to a recent NY1 report. The ferries, which are scheduled to

be operating by June, will be run by NY Waterway, a family-owned business that has the largest ferry and excursion fl eet in NY Harbor, according to its website. The boats will make stops at several waterfront points between Long Island City and Brooklyn, including Pier 11 on the Lower East Side.

During peak hours, the ferries will arrive at each stop every 20 minutes. Fares, which would vary based on the length of a pas-senger’s trip, will range from three dollars to three-dollars-and-fi fty-cents.

They will not replace the NY Water Taxi ferries, which will continue to make a hand-ful of trips along the East River each day.

Canal Street Vendors Illegal vendors along Canal Street are

becoming combative toward New York Police Department offi cers trying to catch them breaking the law.

The sellers are more regularly contesting their arrests, according to Captain Edward Winski,

commanding offi cer of the fi rst precinct. “They fi ght with us, and then they run,”

he told Downtown community members at a recent First Precinct Community Council meeting.

Winski said that the increasing aggres-siveness by the vendors is likely an outcome of heightened crackdown by the NYPD and the Manhattan District Attorney’s offi ce that has resulted in more arrests, confi scations and jail time.

The NYPD has put 1,605 unlawful ven-dors behind bars and took nearly $50,000, 24,675 handbags, 8,748 DVDs and 6,619 watches, according to Winski.

The newly renovated Pussycat Lounge is reportedly reopening next year, according to the NY State Liquor Authority. Robert Kremer, the owner of the nearly half-centu-ry-old topless lounge on Greenwich Street, informed the S.L.A. about his plans to reopen the bar soon, after repairs to the building’s interior are fi nished.

New York City shuttered the bar last October, saying the building at 96 Greenwich Street was unsafe for occupancy. Contractors were hired to start fi xing the building in November.

Community Board 1 approved the renewal

of the lounge’s liquor license at the Financial District Committee meeting last Wednesday.

Ro Sheffe, chair of the Financial District Committee, said the bar has been a good neighbor overall, and has caused very few disturbances in the community.

Deutsche Bank trial set to begin next month

The trial of three John Galt construction employees accused of neglecting to restore water supply to the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street will begin next month, according to reports. It is set for March 21 at the Manhattan Supreme Court.

Abatement manager Mitchell Alvo, 58, Salvatore DePaola, a foreman, and Jeffrey Melofchik, a site safety manager, are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, according to reports.

Their failure to fi x a faulty standpipe purportedly resulted in fi refi ghters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino trying to extinguish a fi re in August 2007. They both

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C.B. 1MEETINGSA schedule of this week’s upcoming

Community Board 1 committee meet-ings is below. Unless otherwise noted, all committee meetings are held at the board offi ce, located at 49-51 Chambers St., room 709 at 6 p.m.

ON WED., FEB. 9: C.B. 1’s Tribeca Transportation and Parking Regulations Sub-Committee will meet at 5 p.m.

C.B. 1’s Tribeca Committee and the Arts and Entertainment Committee will hold a combined meeting.

ON THURS., FEB. 10: C.B. 1’s Landmarks Committee will meet.

ON MON., FEB. 14: C.B. 1’s WTC Redevelopment Committee will meet in the State Assembly Hearing Room at 250 Broadway, 19th Floor.

ON TUES., FEB. 15: C.B. 1’s Seaport/ Civic Center Committee will meet.

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Downtown fi re victimFire in a 10th fl oor apartment at 77 Columbia St. in the

Masaryk Towers on Wednesday morning Feb. 2 critically injured a 97-year-old woman who was pulled from the blaze by a neighbor.

The neighbor, Wanda Camacho, 53, opened her door around 5:30 a.m. to fi nd smoke pouring into the hall from the apartment of her neighbor, Wei Chee Hu, who was sitting immobile at a coffee table. Camacho dragged Hu out of the fi re and into her own apartment where they remained until fi refi ghters arrived.

Hu was taken to the burn center of New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition. Camacho was treated for smoke inhalation at Beth Israel Hospital and 11 other resi-dents of the fl oor were treated for minor injuries.

Subway attackAn off-duty woman transit worker was attacked in the

East Broadway F train station at Essex St. at 6:15 p.m. Fri. Feb. 4. and knocked onto the tracks by a deranged man who also fought with another man who had come to her rescue. The attacker chased the victim, Sabrina Scott, around the sta-tion, repeatedly asking, “Are you scared of me?” and grappled with the man who responded to her cries for help, according to reports. Scott, however, was knocked onto the tracks dur-ing the fracas and fell unconscious but her rescuer managed to bring her back onto the platform. The attacker, described only as a skinny Hispanic man in his 40s with a shaved head, fl ed. And the rescuer, described as a tall black man wearing headphones and a baseball cap, also disappeared.

DWI fender-benderPolice charged a motorist with driving while intoxicated

after a two-car accident on the southbound FDR Dr. at Clinton St. around 7:10 a.m. Sun. Feb. 6. The suspect, Rodney Gripper, 43, of the Bronx, was identifi ed as an off-duty transit employee. He was freed on his own recognizance pending an April 6 court appearance.

Robbers try boutiquePolice arrested one of two men who grabbed a woman

working at the Emile Lafaurie boutique at 199 Prince St. around 4 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 2 and tried to drag her to the basement and bind her hands. Albert Anderson, 48 was charged with robbery but his accomplice, identifi ed as Anthony Gilman, 49, escaped, police said.

Foils phone snatchA Queens man, 58 was walking on Canal St. between

Wooster and Greene Sts around 1 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 3 when a stranger punched him in the chest and grabbed his cell phone from his coat pocket. The victim grabbed the phone back and police grabbed the suspect, Rumako Manwaring, 28, and charged him with robbery.

CDs hard sellThree strangers stopped a man, 19, on Broadway in

Soho around 4 p.m. Sun., Feb. 6 and sold him two CDs for $100, police said. The strangers followed the customer to the corner of Spring and Thompson Sts. and shouted, “Hey, take our phone number and let us know how you like

the CDs.” When the customer tool out his cell phone, one of the trio grabbed it and another told him, “Give me your wallet. I have a knife and I’ll poke you.” The three fl ed with the victim’s cell phone and his wallet with $2,000 in cash, police said.

Gallery theftTwo men walked into Pom Gallery, 133 Greene St.

around 3:25 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5 and after one of them engaged the attendant with questions, both walked out. The atten-dant told police that he discovered his digital camera had been stolen from his desk.

Rabbits hole enteredA woman working at Rabbits Café, 142 Sullivan St.,

told police she was in the rear of the place around 11:50 p.m. Sat., Feb.5 after the place was closed and spotted a man leaving the place. She discovered that her handbag, which she left on a counter in the front, had been stolen.

Wallet liftedA woman told police that she discovered her wallet with

her Taiwan passport, $170 in cash, and credit cards were gone from her backpack when she emerged from the Prince St. subway station at Broadway around 2:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5. The victim, 43, said she had bought a MetroCard with cash from the wallet a short time earlier.

Dancing the night awayA woman, 19, visiting from Greenville, S.C., put her bag on

the fl oor by her table at the Canal Room, 285 Broadway near Reade St. around 2 a.m. Sun. when she went to the dance fl oor. She discovered 10 minutes later that it had been stolen along with her South Carolina driver’s license and credit cards.

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are not responsible for the fi refi ghters’ deaths, since the city previously approved the construction work on the site.

Charter School scouts out studentsInnovate Manhattan Charter School is starting to recruit

students this month, even though plans for them to move

into the Tweed Courthouse have not been fi nalized by the New York City Department of Education.

The school will host a series of information sessions at such Downtown venues as University Settlement and the Downtown Community Center, according to its website, innovatemanhattancharterschool.org.

The next open house is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2 at the Downtown Community Center.

The D.O.E. has not yet signed off on its plans to assign the school to the site, though a spokesperson there recently acknowl-edged that it is one of the main candidates for the space.

The thought of a charter school moving into Tweed has perturbed the Downtown education community, who is strongly urging the D.O.E. to open up a new district middle school there instead.

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Road Runners’ half marathon draws B.P.C. ireBY TERESE LOEB KREUZER

The plans for a half marathon that is sched-uled to bring 10,000 runners plus spectators and support personnel into Battery Park City on March 20 met a chilly reception from Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee at its monthly meeting on February 1. The event, now in its sixth year, is sponsored by New York Road Runners.

“While I think the Half Marathon is wonder-ful and the Road Runners do a great job, this is not something I would support,” said commit-tee member Anthony Notaro. “I would recom-mend that this committee turn this down.” This view was echoed by others on the committee.

As it did last year, the course for the race will start in Central Park and then go through Times Square and 42nd Street, where the run-ners will head to West Street and a fi nish line just north of Chambers Street. Then the runners are slated to head west on Chambers Street into Battery Park City. They would be directed to River Terrace, and from there to North Cove, where there would be post-race ceremonies and refreshments.

Preparations for the Battery Park City seg-ment of the race would begin on Friday night, March 18, when some equipment would be installed along North End Avenue. “No park-ing” signs would go up on North End Avenue, Chambers Street between West Street and River Terrace and on River Terrace starting at midnight on Saturday, March 19. The streets

would not reopen until 5 p.m. on March 20. Cars would be towed from North End Avenue beginning at 10 a.m. on March 19, from Chambers Street beginning at noon, and from River Terrace beginning at 1 p.m.

“You are literally closing off that entire

neighborhood,” said Notaro to Philip Santora, N.Y.R.R.’s Senior Manager for Volunteers and Community Outreach, who presented the Road Runners’ race plans to the Battery Park City Committee.

Santora said that people from New York

Road Runners would come down to the neigh-borhood prior to the event to let residents know what would be happening.

“Notice is better than no notice,” said com-mittee co-chair Jeff Galloway, “but basically all that does is let people know that they should evacuate their homes for the weekend.”

Because the Half Marathon goes through several neighborhoods and the jurisdictions of Community Boards 4 and 5 as well as that of Community Board 1, New York Road Runners was not required to get approval for its plans from any of these community boards. Santora’s presentation was strictly informa-tional. Approvals for the race were arranged by Road Runners with the Mayor’s Offi ce for Special Events, with the N.Y.P.D. and with other City agencies.

B.P.C. Committee member George Calderaro, who lives in the northern part of Battery Park City, said in a telephone interview that he heard anguished complaints last year from Battery Park City residents, who said that their lives and tranquility had been disrupted by the half marathon. “Our comments last year that this shouldn’t happen again went unheeded,” said Calderaro. “[Road Runners] did come to the meeting, which is good, I guess – just to say that they’re going to do the same thing all over again.”

Calderaro said that he questioned the

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BY ALBERT AMATEAU Preservation advocates gathered in front

of 35 Cooper Square on Friday afternoon demanding that the Landmarks Preservation Commission protect the early-19th-century, Federal-style building by giving it landmark designation.

L.P.C., however, has said the building has been too altered by the addition of a brownstone coating to its facade to qualify as architecturally eligible for historic des-ignation.

For the past decade, the building was the location of Cooper 35 Asian Pub — a bar popular with New York University and Cooper Union students. Last November, 35 Cooper Square and its adjoining space at the corner of E. Sixth St. were purchased for $8.5 million by Bhatia Development, an organization that intends to demolish the building. Indeed, the Asian Pub served its last drink on Saturday night Jan. 22 and closed for good.

Last Friday’s rally, led by David Mulkins, chairperson of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, or BAN, included Assemblymember Deborah Glick and state Senator Tom Duane, as well as preserva-tion leaders Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, and Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

“This is one of the most signifi cant buildings on this street,” said Mulkins. “If we lose this building, Cooper Square loses a much earlier sense of its history,” he added. Mulkins referred to the recently built 20-story Cooper Square Hotel across E. Sixth St. from the site, saying, “If we have this kind of out-of-scale, out-of-context development, we will destroy the sense of place that we get in these historic neighborhoods.” He noted that the Bowery was one of the world’s most renowned

neighborhoods.“The Bowery that has been known over

the centuries is vanishing before our eyes,” Bankoff said. “At this point we have to say, Stop.

“The Landmarks Preservation Commission said this building cannot be designated because it has been altered,” he went on. “Of course it was altered, it’s more than 100 years old.”

Demonstrators waved signs saying, “Build Memories, Not Luxury Hotels,” and displayed photos showing the neighbor-hood as it was at the turn of the last century. Carolyn Ratcliffe, an East Village preservationist, carried a poster reminding passersby that the poet Diane diPrima and the singer Liza Minnelli once lived in the building.

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Carolyn Ratcliffe quoted poet Diane diPrima, a former 35 Cooper Square resident, on her sign.

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David Mulkins, BAN chairperson, right, led Friday’s rally. Also speaking were, to his left, Simeon Bankoff of H.D.C. and Assemblymember Deborah Glick.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUEdgar Tafel, who apprenticed with Frank

Lloyd Wright and designed St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church Community House, died Jan. 18 in his Greenwich Village home at age 98.

Tafel was a resident of E. 11th St. between Fifth Ave. and University Place, where he worked and lived for more than 40 years. He was a member of the committee for the 1970 redesign of Washington Square Park, said Norman Rosenfeld, a friend and neighbor who also served on the Washington Square architectural committee with him.

Born March 12, 1912, to Russian immi-grants, Edgar A. Tafel graduated from Manhattan’s Walden School and attended New York University, but left at 20 to study architec-ture at Taliesin, Wright’s Wisconsin colony.

As a Wright apprentice, he worked on Fallingwater, the private house cantilevered over Bear Run Creek in Pennsylvania, and the Johnson Wax Building, since demolished, in Racine, Wis., as well as Wingspread, home of Herbert F. Johnson, the company’s president, near Racine.

Although a senior apprentice to Wright, Tafel resisted the master designer’s autocrat-ic rule and left in 1941 to work in a Chicago architectural fi rm. During World War II he served in Army photo intelligence in India.

Tafel returned to Manhattan after the war, qualifi ed as an architect and designed 80 houses, 35 religious buildings and three col-lege campuses, among many other projects. In 1960 he designed the First Presbyterian

Community House, on W. 12th St. near Fifth Ave. He later designed St. John’s in the Village, on Waverly Place at W. 11th St.

Another project of his was the Protestant chapel, since demolished, at Kennedy International Airport, and the fi ne-arts building and a residential complex at State University of New York, Geneseo.

Tafel authored “Apprentice to Genius: Years With Frank Lloyd Wright,” published in 1979, and also “About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright,” published in 1993.

His fi rst marriage ended in divorce and his second wife died in 1951, according to Robert Silman, an architectural engineer and close friend of Tafel. A cousin, Joan Scott, survives. A memorial will be held on Feb. 17 at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.

Edgar Tafel, 98; Worked with Wright

Edgar Tafel.

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‘Blackout’ response to girl’s letterTwo weeks ago, Martha Eckl-Lindenberg, above left, a third-grader at P.S. 364 (The

Earth School), at Sixth St. and Avenue B, wrote and hand-delivered a letter to the offi ce of Cathie Black, the Department of Education’s new schools chancellor, inviting her to an anti-charter school rally held last Thursday at City Hall. The letter read:

“New York City public school students, parents and teachers cordial-ly invite you to hear our objections to the D.O.E.’s disastrous policies that are destroying our schools. Come to hear our Real Reforms that can actually improve learning in our schools!”

Black never wrote back to or contacted Eckl-Lindenberg or her school to inform them that she was not going to attend.

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Jim Power, 62, “The Mosaic Man,” who transformed lampposts all over the neigh-borhood with tile mosaics, urged demon-strators to employ direct action to preserve the area. Power was also incensed about the city’s proposed alterations that would close Astor Place between Lafayette St. and Fourth Ave., which he fears would elimi-nate lampposts with his mosaics.

Glick, who sent a letter to L.P.C. Chairperson Robert Tierney urging him to reconsider his fi nding that the building does not qualify for landmark protection, told the Friday crowd that, “We are at a critical point. There is a tipping point at which this area will no longer have a connection to the past.” Glick pledged not to give up her efforts to save the building, which dates back to 1825.

Duane, whose district includes the building, said, “There is so little left of our beloved Village, of the history we’re proud of. To risk losing a piece of that, even just one building, is tragic.”

Last fall, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez also sent a letter to Tierney urg-ing landmark protection for the building, located on a site once owned by a member of the Stuyvesant family.

The original address of 35 Cooper Square

was 391 Bowery, according to a research paper that Sally Young, a BAN member, sent to L.P.C. The original two-and-a-half-story building, with a gambrel roof, twin dormers and large end chimneys, had a ground-fl oor storefront with a brick arch and decorative cast-iron pilasters added around 1876. The crushed-brownstone stucco covering the Flemish-bond brick facade was likely added around the same time.

Owned by the Stuyvesant family, it was fi rst occupied by a John Snider. By 1867, Herbert Marshall sold liquor out of the ground fl oor, continuing until 1876. In 1900 the building apparently operated as a hotel. In the second half of the 20th cen-tury, a painter, J. Forrest Vey, whose works are in the Whitney Museum of American Art, lived in the building. In the 1960’s, tenants like diPrima and Minnelli began renting upstairs rooms in the building. Poet diPrima and her then husband, Alan Marlowe, ran a few seasons of the New York Poets Theatre from 35 Cooper Square. Claude Brown, author of “Manchild in the Promised Land,” also lived there. In 1970, Stanley Sobossek, a painter, ran a bar on the ground fl oor.

In 1976, a woman named Hesae owned a restaurant known by that name at 35 Cooper Square until 1990. She returned around 2000 and ran Cooper 35 Asian Pub until last Saturday.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 10amThe Gospel, Times, Journal, and YouDiscuss newspaper editorials and the Gospel. Led by the Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones. Meets every Sunday.74 Trinity Pl, 3rd Fl

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1pmFilm: Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New OrleansFaubourg Tremé is home to civil rights struggles, the first black-owned daily, and music. Executive producers: Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Nelson. 74 Trinity Pl, 2nd Fl, Parlor

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THROUGH MARCH 31 Daily During Church HoursArt Exhibit: Writes of PassageFeaturing the art of Ryan Roa Presented in conjunction with Phenomena ProjectTrinity Museum, inside Trinity Church

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In Tompkins Square Park, a red-tailed hawk, dubbed by some the Hipster Hawk, was dining alfresco on a pigeon that it had caught in midair.

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Avenues: the world school debuts grand planBY SCOTT STIFFLER

Any student navigating the first day of school knows that appearances count — and first impressions can last forever. So when organizers of a filled-to-capac-ity February 1 luncheon/launch event observed that the room’s circular tables and white linen aesthetic reminded them of a wedding reception, they weren’t far off the mark. A good reception, followed by a lasting union, is precisely what they were aiming for.

Invited community members, parents and education advocates (including Joel Klein, former NYC schools chancellor; Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp; and City University of New York chancel-lor Matthew Goldstein) politely listened and occasionally nodded affirmation as leaders of Avenues: The World School put forth their plan for fall 2012. That’s the preordained time by which 259 Tenth Avenue (a former warehouse, which dates back to 1928 and bears the mark of renowned architect Cass Gilbert) will make its debut as the Avenues’ flagship campus.

Presented as “A new school with global ambitions whose Chelsea loca-tion will be a template for things to come,” Avenues will school its students in the shadow of the High Line and mere steps from Chelsea Piers. Organizers

frequently referenced a mutually ben-eficial relationship between the school and these two neighborhood institu-tions — also foreseeing synergy between artistically inclined students and local galleries. As for the school itself, a series

of renderings portrayed a space whose 10 floors and 215,000 square feet have been refitted to flood every classroom with natural light. Those classrooms will be populated by teachers whose annual pay/benefits package totals $110,000. In

the coming weeks, information sessions will be held for NYC parents who wish to apply for early enrollment. Students who begin their Avenues education dur-ing the 2012-2013 school year will rep-resent 12 grades — from nursery school to 9th. Grades 10, 11 and 12 will be added over the following three years. Avenues’ first graduating class will be in spring 2016.

“As the first truly global network of pre-K-12 schools, Avenues is uniquely equipped to prepare students to excel in the highly competitive and networked 21st-century world.”

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EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITORWhere’s the real Park51

Last May, Daisy Khan, who heads the American Society for Muslim Advancement, approached a C.B.1 committee about appearing at its upcoming meeting to share plans for an Islamic community center.

The wording on the meeting’s agenda stated that the presentation would be made by the Cordoba Initiative, an established organization focused on interfaith relations whose founder was Khan’s husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, an internationally recognized religious scholar and Imam.

Nine months later, that original presentation seems like a mischaracterization at best. At worst it seems like noth-ing more than the jump-off point for a public relations spin campaign. The message we applauded and the project this community has become as murky and muddled as the Hudson after a good dredging.

Since that fi rst introduction to our community in early May of last year, the project has been called by three dif-ferent names, has had two different spiritual leaders, two different blogs and now a Facebook page that is serving as the major method of promoting the project’s mission. And disturbingly, it is becoming harder and harder for the con-stituency that supported this project from day one, includ-ing the press, to communicate with the shifting leadership of this increasingly muddled organization.

This paper interviewed Rauf in early December and it was then that we began to question his motives about the project he had for so long been the face of. During that interview, he brought up for the fi rst time his notion of the Cordoba Movement, that in his own words had taken root right here in Lower Manhattan.

We were surprised, to say the least, when the rift that is all but crystal clear now, began to materialize between Rauf and Sharif El-Gamal, the President of SoHo Properties who is spearheading the development of the project. Rauf hired his own publicists, and El-Gamal, his. The project soon adopted a new nickname: Park51, also the name of a mysterious nonprofi t that, according to SoHo Properties, would run the future community center. The group, con-sisting of El-Gamal and others, began holding “public information sessions” at their Downtown offi ces which, strangely enough, were not open to the press.

The aim was to clarify the goals of the project. But their myriad attempts to demystify things only led to more confusion. Rauf and El-Gamal seemed to be contradict-ing rather than reinforcing each others’ apparent shared vision when publicly describing the project, as tensions between them have become increasingly apparent.

“The Cordoba Movement and the Cordoba Initiative are separate nonprofi t entities from Park51 with different mis-sions and leadership,” El-Gamal said in a press release.

Sharif also recently announced that neither Rauf nor Khan would be speaking on behalf of Park51, nor would they be raising funds for the project.

Weren’t “Cordoba” and “Park51” one in the same last spring? Wait, no – wasn’t the original name of the project “Cordoba House”? Were Khan’s and Rauf’s philosophies not the inspiration for the proposed community center?

Enter a new spiritual advisor, Iman Adhami, who espous-es some controversial views on homosexuality very much at odds with the original vision that embraced openness and inclusion. Days later, Iman Adhami exits the project.

We embraced this project from the very beginning, as did our Community Board, most of our elected lead-ers, and the Lower Manhattan community. It would be a shame if the very cause we rallied behind turns out to be something altogether different.

And while we hope that this is not the case, and we understand that all non-profi ts encounter growing pains, we implore the real people behind Park51 to step forward once again and show the same level of transparency and openness to dialogue and inclusion that impressed and inspired us.

Festival critics are snobs

To The Editor:Re “Effort to shorten San Gennaro Fest

falls short” (news article, Jan. 27):The San Gennaro Feast was forced to

accept vendors of other backgrounds than Italian and Italian foods and merchandise by the city of New York. That decision was out of our hands. As for public drunkenness, there is absolutely no alcohol sold at any of the stands during the feast. Restaurants with liquor permits are allowed to sell alcohol within the confi nes of their stands, which they pay handsomely for. If any of these patrons happen to act stupidly and raucously once they leave these establishments, how is San Gennaro responsible for that?

I’m sure Nicolas Dutko from Tartinery has seen more than a fair share of stupid behavior from drunken patrons who got that way after drinking at his establishment. Is he going to blame San Gennaro for that during May, June, July and August when the bars and res-taurants along Mulberry St. are jampacked? For Mr. Dutko to say that “the people are very rude that come” to the feast is showing his stupidity and his biased attitude. How in the name of God can anyone make a public statement like that? Who is he to paint every-one who visits the feast with the same brush? Are all those hundreds of thousands of people rude, yet all the people patronizing his estab-lishment perfectly mannerly and respectful of others? Who is he kidding?

Many of us have dealt with snobs like this who think they are better than the rest of us. That attitude alone speaks volumes about how delusional they are regarding their own importance. And by the way, why is he in business if not to make money? Why is it O.K. for him but not for the vendors of the San Gennaro Feast? As for the boutiques

who blame the feast for their lack of busi-ness and customers during San Gennaro, how do they explain their empty stores throughout the rest of the year? Why are their businesses empty for 351 days when there is no feast?

Julie Dickson from Fox & Boy hair salon speaks about the feast and “the dangerous element it attracts.” Really, Julie, you’re embar-rassing yourself. San Gennaro is one of the most well-known and beloved feasts that exists today. It is a secret to no one that it takes over Mulberry St. for 11 days every September. Rather than have these elitist snobs move in, then try to force us to change for them, why can’t they be good neighbors and respect an 85-year-old neighborhood tradition that they knew existed before they ever moved their families and/or their businesses to the area? I, for one, am a lifelong Little Italy resident.

One more thing I’m curious about: Are any of these boutiques participating in the upcom-ing February Fashion Week since there is no feast around to get in their way? Just asking.

Emily DePaloDePalo is a board member, Figli di San Gennaro

The Feast of ‘San Generic’

To The Editor:Re “Effort to shorten San Gennaro Fest

falls short” (news article, Jan. 27):They say the feast is for everyone. That’s

the problem. A generic street fair should not get a permit for 11 days. If they made it authentic and local, they might get more support. I haven’t heard Italian spoken in Little Italy since I was a kid.

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On Saturday, about 500 Egyptian and Egyptian-American demonstrators rallied across from the United Nations, denouncing President Mubarak’s regime and call-ing for him to resign immediately. Some painted small Egyptian fl ags or the word “Egypt” — in red, white and black — on their faces.


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BY WICKHAM BOYLEJessie Sholl is a hyper-clean, nearly elfi n,

41-year-old woman who for nearly a decade has lived in the West Village between great bookstores: Three Lives and Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks. I met her at a dinner party, also in the West Village, and when I saw that her book was about to debut, I asked if she would indulge me in an interview to discuss this very brave memoir. She suggested Joe on Waverly.

So in the penultimate week of 2010, I peddled my trusty 1968 Raleigh up Sixth Ave. to hear how Ms. Sholl found the cour-age and words to pen this beautiful memoir, billed as the fi rst by the child of a compulsive hoarder.

W.B.: This book is so kind and loving toward your mother, yet I was in a rage at her by the time you and your long-suffering husband were infected with scabies for the second time. How did you fi nd that enlight-ened approach?

J.S.: The biggest thing that helped me was that the more research I did into the condition of hoarding, the more I came to recognize it as a disease. When I saw it as an illness I didn’t give her a free pass, but, because she has a mental illness, it put her behavior into a different context.

Also, when I began to talk to her in depth about the book — to which she gave her blessing — I began to see the depth of her horrifi c upbringing. And of course my own therapy helped.

I didn’t want to write a “bad mommy” or “Oh, poor me,” self-pitying memoir. So

deciding on this direction gave me the push to regard the good things I got from her as well as the fear, fi lth and shame. I am a minimalist about having stuff. I consider myself a purger. I go overboard about cleaning when people are coming over, but — unfortunately — not always. I don’t want folks to think, “Oh, look at those dirty glasses on the table, she is on the slide to become just like her mother.”

You also describe in detail many things that happened in your childhood. For me, as the adult child of an alcoholic and a chronic suicide attempter, I know that denial is and was my drug of choice. This means I have intense, but spotty memories of childhood. I could not provide an arc the way you do. Did you always have this clarity of memory or did it come as you wrote?

I decided I wanted to write about this. I told my husband, the wonderful writ-er David Farley, stories for years, and he encouraged me to write them down. I talked with my agent and I wrote a proposal and she was a huge help at putting the tales in order. Everyone would be surprised at how many memories emerge once you begin writ-ing. It may not be linear at fi rst, but you can reorder and create a timeline after the fact. Writing this was very important to me and it was always my hope that it would be a way for others to unlock shame and live more transparent lives.

This book is about hoarding but you allude a few times to the similarity between A.C.O.A.’s (adult children of alcoholics), and you clearly state that being able to

come clean, if you will, with friends was so liberating.

Yes, I have to say that many of my friends or colleagues have said, “Oh, my Mom was a hoarder,” or an aunt was, so I hope it is freeing in that sense to be able to talk about it. No one is just a hoarder. This condition announces many other problems. Hoarding is a kind of blindness. A “normal” person knows to call a repairperson if the refrigera-tor breaks. But a hoarder has deep shame about the state of their home, and thus

doesn’t call, and this only exacerbates the mess. Many hoarders live in great danger, amid health challenges and the very real pos-sibility that fi res will start and the fi refi ghters will be unable to fi nd their way through the mess. There is also a version of hoarding that involves adopting and often mistreating animals. People have homes or apartments fi lled with fi lthy animals, who are in great distress. My husband and I adopted a small dog that we named Abraham Lincoln, and it felt good to save someone from that life.

How did you come to this project, and are there any things you wanted to write but discarded as too diffi cult either for you or your family? You don’t have to disclose what, but just if that was the case?

I started as a fi ction writer and got my M.F.A. at The New School, and I had been working on a novel for young adults. I began writing health articles as a “day job” and this gave me an entree to think about my own past and to research. I had this “Ah ha” moment as I was doing research when I saw that my mother’s hoarding was also an extreme type of brain malfunction, and I started researching it. When I saw that it was a disease and talked to my mother about the book project, it freed me to be able to use any story, all the stories, as a way to tell where I came from, but also to free others who have held onto this dirty secret.

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BY DEBORAH GLICKAs someone who has spent nearly my

entire adult life in Greenwich Village, I was crestfallen when St. Vincent’s shut its doors. Not only was the hospital the center for our community’s physical health, it also has been the lifeblood for many small local business-es. Now the health needs of our community have been severely diminished, and the local stores that give our neighborhood its charac-ter are withering in silence.

My connection to small businesses goes back many years. During my formative years, my family ran a print shop in the Far West Village, when operations like Superior Ink actually manufactured ink on the premises and weren’t condominiums. I saw fi rsthand how much work it takes to make a small business successful and how few resources exist to assist mom-and-pop operations. Unfortunately, this fact remains as true today as it did then. The city invites small

businesses to open their doors but then does little to help them be successful. It’s hard enough to make it in New York City as it is; so imagine the effect when a 3,500-person operation, like St. Vincent’s, suddenly shuts its doors. The wake of such a closure has been harsh and swift.

The closing of St. Vincent’s has been a devastating blow to the Village and just as devastating for the businesses that depended on St. Vincent’s for sur-vival. Many businesses have already closed, while others are struggling to survive. To help confront this prob-lem, my office invited the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Community Board 2, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, Borough President Scott Stringer, state Senator Tom Duane and Council Speaker Christine Quinn to par-ticipate in a Valentine’s-themed shop-ping extravaganza on this Sat., Feb. 12,

entitled, “Love the Village,” with the goal of supporting businesses that have been adversely impacted. The event will kick off at 10 a.m. on the northwest corner of Seventh Ave. and Greenwich Ave., across the street from Roasting Plant Coffee. On the weekend before Valentine’s Day, we want to show local businesses how big our hearts in the Village really are.

“Love the Village” will be a daylong shopping extravaganza that will encour-age the public to engage with businesses in the immediate vicinity of St. Vincent’s. Participants will be given a map of busi-nesses on Greenwich Ave., Sixth Ave. and Seventh Ave. and, after shopping at these businesses, they will have an opportunity to exchange their receipts (that value at least $10) for raffl e tickets on the fi rst fl oor of the Lesbian and Gay Center, at 208 W. 13th St. between Seventh Ave. and Greenwich Ave. between 10 a.m. and 3

p.m. Multiple raffl es will be held through-out the day with the chance to win prizes donated by local businesses. To show Valentine’s Day appreciation, giveaways will include locally designed “Love the Village” T-shirts for the fi rst 100 people to participate.

Although a one-day event may not save a business that is teetering on the edge, it may help introduce people to businesses that they might pass every day without ever entering. If we do want our neighbor-hood to be more Jane Jacobs than Marc Jacobs, a good fi rst step is by stepping foot inside an independently owned local busi-ness. I look forward to seeing all of you on Feb. 12. Now, more than ever, we need to come together as a community and help those businesses that are in need.

Glick is assemblymember for the 66th District.

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BY ALBERT AMATEAUJohn Krevey, a waterfront entrepreneur

and activist who brought historic ships to Chelsea and ran the popular gathering place Pier 66 Maritime, died on Friday, February 4 at the age of 62 while on vaca-tion with his son in Santo Domingo.

The cause appeared to be a heart attack and came as a surprise to his devastated family, friends and colleagues.

The Working Harbor Committee — a not-for-profit civic association honored Krevey last September for helping to revi-talize the formerly decaying North River waterfront.

“He was the waterfront before the waterfront was cool,” said his friend and colleague John Doswell.

Krevey was one of the earliest mem-bers of Friends of Hudson River Park, the civic group advocating for the five-mile-long waterfront park. He was a member of the Friends’ board of directors until last year.

An electrical contractor by profession, Krevey ran his company, R-2 Electric, from rented space on Pier 63 at 23rd Street for more than 30 years. A life-long enthusiast for historic ships, he bought the decom-missioned U.S. Lightship Frying Pan —

which was lying in the mud in Chesapeake Bay in the early 80s. At great expense and with a group of a half-dozen like-minded enthusiasts, Krevey got the ship afloat,

installed a truck diesel engine and started a legendary coastwise sea voyage to the Hudson River in 1983. They encountered storms, engine failures and short rations before they brought the limping vessel

into the Hudson.The Frying Pan had several berths over

the next few years: among them at Pier 25 in Lower Manhattan, Chelsea Piers, and the Intrepid Pier at 46th Street. The

ship was even moored in the middle of the river at one point. In 1995, Krevey acquired an old railroad barge that had been used to ferry railroad cars across from New Jersey to Manhattan and tied it up on the north end of Pier 63.

With Frying Pan as an attraction, Krevey turned the 350-foot-long barge into a public access boat landing, Pier 63 Maritime — with a small bar and restaurant that became a neighborhood gathering place where boat owners could tie up.

In 2000, Krevey and friends put in a bid to buy the John J. Harvey, a decom-missioned fireboat, from the city. The Harvey found a home at Pier 63 Maritime. On September 11, 2001, the vessel helped evacuate Battery Park City residents dur-ing the World Trade Center attacks and then, under radio direction from FDNY, trained its powerful functioning water pumps on the blazing towers.

Four years ago, when the Hudson River Park Trust acquired Pier 63, Krevey was able to convince the Trust to designate the former railroad float bridge at 26th Street as the new site for the barge. It became Pier 66 Maritime.

Plans for Pier 66 Maritime are uncer-tain at this point.

Krevey leaves his wife, Angela, son Kyle and daughter Kyra. Funeral arrange-ments are pending.

Entrepreneur Krevey brought historic ships to City

With Frying Pan as an attraction, Krevey turned the 350-foot-long barge into a public access boat landing, Pier 63 Maritime — with a small bar and restaurant that became a neighborhood gathering place where boat owners could tie up. Captain John Krevey: Honored on Sept.

21, 2010 by the Working Harbor Committee.

OBITUARY



A confetti-fi lled SundayHours before confetti started falling

from the rafters of Cowboy Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday, revelers in Chinatown were blasting it into the air to mark the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit.

Children and adults alike used confetti cannons to shoot tiny bits of paper into the sky while drums and cymbals provided the soundtrack to the annual Chinese Lunar Year Festival parade. The New Year offi cial-

ly began last Thursday and the celebration stretches for two weeks.

This year’s Chinese Zodiac symbol is the Rabbit and is said to be the luckiest symbol of all. United States Senator Chuck Schumer was the parade’s Grand Marshall and was joined by U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, NY State Senator Daniel Squadron, NYC Councilmember Margaret Chin and NYC Comptroller John Liu, among others.


BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER

VALENTINE WORKSHOP: The B.P.C. Parks Conservancy’s conference room was jammed on Saturday as 120 people trans-formed construction paper, doilies, colored beads and dried fl owers into tokens of their affection.

“I love my mom because she is the best in the world,” a girl wrote in red Magic Marker on pink paper. “I know you’re always there for me.”

“It’s Valentine’s Day and everything’s red,” another girl wrote — the start of a verse about the “redness” of it all, ending with “red, red everything, red except me” — then she changed to blue ink to write, “I’m blue because I didn’t get a valentine from you.”

The Conservancy’s Valentine Workshop started in 1999. Its founder, Abby Ehrlich, director of Parks Programming for the Conservancy, noted that there had been a different theme each year.

“One year the theme was the “Book of Love,” said Ehrlich. “We made small val-entine books with guest book artists from a small press in Tribeca. Another year we had a Valentine Tea. We drank tea and sewed sachets with tea, herbs and dried fl owers.”

This year the theme was “Green Valentines,” all of which were made with recycled materials.

“Many people followed our suggestion and brought in their own photographs and small mementos - ticket stubs, match book covers — to include in their ‘Tiny Treasures,’ the project’s sub-theme,” said Ehrlich.

Battery Park City resident Jeff Mihok and his daughter Lola sucked on red, heart-shaped lollipops as they made a valentine for someone whose name they refused to disclose so as not to ruin the surprise.

George Calderaro, who also lives in B.P.C., made valentines for the people who had sent him Christmas cards. “I didn’t get around to sending cards at Christmas or New Year’s,” he said, “so I’m sending valen-tines now to make up for it.”

There were valentines for best friends, valentines for moms and dads and a val-entine made by Miani Jean-Charles for her student teacher, Ms. Greenberg, who had recently completed her student teaching at the young girl’s school. “I miss her so much,” said Jean-Charles.

Jean-Charles attended the workshop with a group from St. Catherine of Genoa Church on West 153rd Street.

CARNEGIE HALL RECITAL: On February 5, the elegant, ivory-and-gold jewel box at Carnegie Hall known as Weill Recital Hall played host to 28 young musicians from the Tri-state area who had earned Certifi cates of Excellence from The Royal Conservatory, a music accreditation program based in Toronto, Canada. Each performed a short piece and received an award. Among the certifi cate recipients was B.P.C.‘s own Sarah Yoon, 11, who scored the top mark in New York State for her Grade 7 piano examination.

This was the third time that Yoon had played at Weill Recital Hall, and her fourth award from The Royal Conservatory. Nevertheless, she said she felt nervous at fi rst and then “focused more on the music.”

Yoon and her twin sister, Stephanie, have been taking piano lessons since they were fi ve years old. The girls said that it had been their mother’s idea that they take piano lessons. “Music should be a part of everybody’s lives and piano is a great way to learn music,” said Michelle Yoon. “It’s a basic necessity. I studied music for a few years when I was growing up and then I gave up. Later, I blamed my parents.”

There will be no giving up for the twins. “When it’s close to the exam, the girls prac-tice two hours a day,” said Michelle, “but before that, it’s like an hour — hopefully three times a week.”

Judy Woo, who has been the girls’ only piano teacher, said that this year both Sarah and Stephanie have been playing Bach inven-tions, plus sonatinas, modern pieces and technical studies.

Woo explained that The Royal Conservatory exam system was originally British “and many of the colonies had used the same system, so a lot of the parents and grandparents of the kids who played today had gone through the system.” Woo, who grew up in Vancouver, Canada, went through The Royal Conservatory system herself. “When I started teaching here in New York, I couldn’t fi nd teaching materials that I liked,” she said, “so I brought these books over from Canada. Soon after, they started the system here.”

To earn a certifi cate, said Woo, “students

are marked on three contrasting pieces from different periods, two studies, technique, ear training and sight reading. The whole idea is that you become a well-rounded musician, playing from different eras and being able to read music.” The students are also tested on theory.

Both girls are students at the Anderson School, a public school for gifted and talented students on West 77th Street. Asked if she wanted to be a professional musician when she was older, Sarah said she wasn’t yet sure.

“I’m only 11!”

POETRY CLASSES: Poets House in B.P.C. is offering poetry-writing classes for experienced poets as well as for beginners. A series of two-day master classes over the next few months are for writers who are not new to poetry writing. Applications are required so that the teacher can choose the best writ-ers for the class. The next master class will be on March 5 and 6 with Kevin Young, author of seven volumes of poetry and editor of “The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing.” Applications for this class are due by February 11. The fee for the class is $375. To apply, send three poems accompanied by a cover sheet with your name, address, e-mail address and phone number to ATTN: Classes, Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. No names or addresses should appear on the poems themselves.

In addition to the Master Classes, Poets House is offering six-week Open Enrollment classes for which there is no application. There are three upcoming sessions. A work-shop with Priscilla Becker focuses on in-class writing (February 22-March 29); Christopher Schmidt teaches “Writing Between the Lines” (February 23-March 30) and Jill Magi teaches “Text, Image, Theme & Between” (February 24-March 31). Open Enrollment classes cost $295. For more information or to enroll call (212) 431-7920 or go to www.poetshouse.org.

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Downtown Express photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer

Some of the scores of valentines that were created at the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy’s Valentine Workshop on Feb. 5.

Battery Park City residents Michelle and Ken Yoon with their twin daughters, Sarah and Stephanie, 11, and Judy Woo, who teaches piano to both girls. Sarah had just played in a recital at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, Feb. 5.


Protestors in Times Sq. tell Mubarak to get out nowTimes Square was busting at the seams on

Friday, as hundreds of Egyptian-American protest-ers gathered to support those in Egypt who are calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately.

Braving rain and chilly temperatures, Egyptians and Americans alike descended on 42nd Street, carrying Egyptian fl ags and signs that read “Down with Mubarak “ and “Mubarak must go.”

Prior to the protest, Mubarak had announced that he would not be running for re-election. However, many of his decriers want assurance that Mubarak’s allies in the government won’t step in after he leaves.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration is also in talks with the Egyptian government and the military to come up with a plan, in which a transitional government would peacefully replace Mubarak immediately.

The protest comes as the uprising in Egypt intensifi es, as Friday marked the “day of leaving,” in which over a 100,000 Egyptians gathered in Cairo to send a forceful message to Mubarak.

The demonstration in Times Square also con-tinued to the United Nations building on East 44th Street, as protesters argued for “real democ-racy” in the confl ict-ridden country.

Speakers from organizations, such as the Alliance of Egyptian-Americans were present, representing the large community of Egyptians in the tri-state area.

— Jhaneel Lockhart

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Not the typical Super Bowl Sunday for some

The mission has always celebrated the big game with a party, which mainly con-sisted of hot dogs and wings, but Little knew that in order to launch their own official SOUPerBowl week, they would need to get a big name on board; more specifically, they needed someone who was “big” in the Downtown community. The first name that came to mind was David Bouley.

“Once other chefs heard that he was on board, they jumped on, too,” Little explained. “He has a history of commu-nity activism, so they could tell it was a real trustworthy cause. He set the bar, so chef after chef said, ‘Of course, we’ll sponsor a night.’”

The Soup-Super double entendre eas-ily grabs the attention of perspective volunteers, which Little said is crucial in getting people involved.

“People want to give, but get caught up in their every day, especially elected officials, anchors, all the usual people with megaphones, and they don’t know when to do it,” Little said. “They need a hook.”

The event falls in the middle of the time gap between their big Thanksgiving and Mother’s Day banquets, during what is generally a quiet time of year for vol-unteer organizations. It’s also a very cold time of year, and this winter has been one of their roughest, for reasons that span far beyond the snow.

The mission opens its door to an aver-age of 400 people daily, and has been picking up the slack ever since John Heuss House closed its 42 Beaver Street shelter last year. Unlike most men’s recovery missions, it doubles as a drop-in center for transient men, women, and children. Twenty-five beds are reserved for men in the mission’s twelve-step recovery pro-gram. While there was no shortage of food during the game, there was a short-age of something else: beer.

In fact, there wasn’t any at all. The entire building is an alcohol-free zone.

“It’s almost counter-cultural to have a game without beer, but it’s a problem for many of our residents and transient guests,” said Little. “We need to maintain a clean, sober setting.”

Mission resident Tom Knight has been in the program for four months and was watching big game sober for the first time in — well, he can’t remember. His family got him “into drinking” and refused to support his decision to quit, so he moved into the Mission and began the twelve-step recovery program.

Knight is now almost halfway through the ten-month program, which includes educational and vocational classes as well as spiritual counseling, and requires com-plete sobriety.

“It’s different, but it’s no big deal,” Knight said with a smile that exuded a certain humble confidence. “I can do it.”

Colameco’s decision to start a fund-raising initiative for the mission came after he spent an afternoon serving food, clearing tables, and realizing that poverty and hunger don’t just have one face — especially in New York.

“Words like ‘needy’ always get thrown around, and certain ethnic and racial ste-reotypes come to mind, but you’d be sur-prised to see how many elderly Chinese people were there, even kids in their 20’s. Some looked like they had barely gradu-ated high school,” Colameco said.

On Monday, Al Yeganeh, the man who inspired Seinfeld’s “Soup-Nazi” character, sent chicken noodle soup over to the mis-sion. He may have a reputation for being edgy — even downright mean — but the owner of the national Original Soup Man chains has a history of ushering the home-less and the poor people to the front of the line and serving them for free.

FOX Sportscaster Duke Castiglione helped serve on Wednesday, and was reportedly very “sweet with the guys,” circulating and weeding out the Steelers fans the Packers fans. The spirit of the day made it easier for him to bond with the guys. For most men, he said, talking sports is like talking about the weather: it’s something they all have in common.

“We talked a lot of football, but they also wanted to talk a little Mets and Yankees,” Castiglione said. “The guys were real knowledgeable and came up to talk to me, and it was all very relaxed.”

Castiglione was long overdue to volun-teer, according to his wife, Kiki, who vol-unteers regularly and has always encour-aged Duke to do the same. He’s glad he finally did.

“We served 205 meals, men were com-ing up one after the other. A lot of people need help. The mission is always looking for volunteers, and welcomes you with

open arms. I’d encourage anybody to go down there,” Castiglione said. “It’s not a high-pressure situation. They made me feel at home. I’ll definitely be back, and my wife will probably come with me.”

Vikas Khanna, who was welcomed into the shelter ten years ago on Christmas day, has been bringing soup and brownies over from his successful restaurant Junoon for the past five years. After arriving in New York from India in 2002, one of his first jobs was in a Downtown restaurant. He showed up on Christmas to start his shift only to find that the restaurant was closed. He had just enough money on him for the subway, but wouldn’t have been able to get to work the next day. Khanna wandered the neighborhood and found the mission, where he found a hearty meal and found refuge from the cold.

Khanna was unable to attend on Sunday, but restaurant representative Andrew Blackmore brought his famous lentil and spinach soup with him — along with a large dose of reality.

“On one side of the country, you have people paying a million dollars for a thirty-second advertising spot, and on the other, there’s a line of people waiting in the cold who need soup,” said Blackmore, who was flagged by his two children, Rutger, 7, and Morgan, 14, also volun-teering. “You can’t depend on a govern-ment that’s running out of money. It’s up to every day people, average citizens, to create and build community.”

The Downtown community can always depend on Bubby’s restaurant in Tribeca to donate money to their local schools; but when the eatery decided to stay open for the first time on Thanksgiving to fundraise, they gave a generous-and unso-licited-donation to the Mission. Owner Ron Silver stepped up again last Friday and donated his famous chicken gumbo,

which Miss Black New Jersey USA 2011, Nicole Stanley, was happy to help serve up — and then some.

“Nicole worked even harder than expected, serving, cleaning tables, and essentially mopping up at end of Friday dinner,” said Little.

“Don’t worry,” Little added, “the men were complete gentlemen around her.”

Some of the most noteworthy people gathered in the chapel to watch the big game Sunday weren’t just volunteers-they were residents who have been working diligently to get back on their feet for the past year. The mission claims that spiri-tual counseling has the power to change these men in ten months — that is, if they want to change themselves.

“I spent the last twenty five years running from God, but I found him,” explained Tyler Williams, 46, who spent twenty years in and out of prison. After almost three decades of substance abuse and numerous unsuccessful attempts at recovery, someone referred him to the mission. Williams believes that the mis-sion has given him the tools he needs to maintain his new lifestyle.

Williams is pictured on the cover of the mission’s bi-monthly newsletter embracing his six-year-old son, with whom he was reunited for the fi rst time in fi ve years on Christmas Eve. He found the baby’s moth-er on Facebook while using the mission’s computer, and has seen him three times a week spoken to him every day since.

“He’s so smart,” Williams said with pride as he stared at the photo on the front page. “I’m blessed to be in his life now. He’s such a smart boy.”

Williams watched the Super Bowl sober on Sunday for the first time in 25 years, and his dedication has clearly paid off: he graduates from the program on Thursday.

He and the eight other men that arrived around the same time in May have prom-ised to stay in touch after graduation, but know that Sunday’s party may well have been the last time they would all be together in the same room. None of the graduates know exactly what to expect after Thursday, but the mission will assist them with their job search and have already given the men the skills they need to start and maintain a new life.

And as the party continued in the chapel, cold, hungry men in dusty clothes filed into the mission’s entrance asking for jeans and a shower. Before halftime, a fight broke out and an unruly guest was ejected. By the end of the game, the room was full of excitement, but all of the men watching the big game were painfully aware that they were seated in plastic chairs, in rows of ten, watching on a small projector in a shelter where quotes from the Bible lined the walls.

But for men in the crowd like Tyler, something else was present in the room: hope that they would be hosting next year’s party in their own homes, celebrat-ing another sober Super Bowl.


Downtown Express photos by Helaina N. Hovitz

There was plenty of chicken wings, fries and, of course, soup to go around at the SOUPerBowl party last Sunday at the NYC Rescue Mission.


Touting regulations for Chinatown busessaid, would “hold the bus operators account-able for their actions, including fi nes for violating these regulations.”

The permit would cost the bus companies a maximum of $275 annually. The elected offi cials purposely kept the fee low, they said, so companies wouldn’t have to adjust ticket prices in order to afford permits.

The politicians didn’t specify a time-line of the bill, but said they would like it passed “as quickly as possible.” Chin said she’s confi dent that the City Council will approve the law, since Speaker Christine Quinn is very supportive of it.

Oversight of intercity long distance buses has been a priority for Community Board 3 for several years, according to David Crane, chair of the board’s trans-portation committee. Recently, more and more Chinatown residents have expressed concerns to the board about congestion, pollution and safety surrounding the fren-zied bus system.

“The bus companies need regulations that provide ways for them to comply with the law, to operate safely, and coexist on our congested streets,” said Crane.

Eastern Coach, a bus company that shuttles passengers between New York, Washington and Philadelphia, accrues

about $30,000 in parking fi nes each year from idling or parking illegally. “Now, we have no [legal] space on the street,” said President David Wang.

The company’s bus drivers frantical-ly scramble to avoid the traffi c police, according to Wang, causing a precarious situation for pedestrians.

“When the drivers see the cops, they get so scared, they try to pull out,” Wang said, sometimes even during passenger pick-ups.

Cops tend to issue parking tickets arbi-trarily, according to Jimmy Cheng, presi-dent of the United Fujianese American Association, a nationwide nonprofi t based on East Broadway that has garnered com-munity support for the bus law in the past few years.

Wilson Yau, who owns a discount store in Chinatown, agreed that today’s unregu-lated system is not working, neither for passengers nor the bus companies. “If the government controls the spot[s], gives the license, and separates the buses,” he said, “they’re much easier to control.”

Passengers now, he added, have a hard time deciphering the street signs that indi-cate which bus stops at a given stop.

Approximately 20 intercity bus compa-nies currently operate in Chinatown, accord-ing to Chin’s offi ce. They would all require permits if the law is passed.

“Dark” and “romantic”, this “white-tablecloth” TriBeCa Northern italian piles on the antipasti and other “delicious” “old-world” delights served “with flair” by “over-the-top” waiters; just “hold your breath when the bill comes” — and “decide the tip” before downing the gratis “housemade grappa.”

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State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (at podium) was among the local politicians touting proposed regulations for Chinatown buses at a press conference last Friday.


B.P.C. not thrilled with half marathon

reason for the race. “This is not like the Lupus Walk, for example, where 100 percent of the proceeds go to the char-ity,” he said. “I’m pretty sure there will be vitamin drinks and commercial sponsors of this run.”

Several Battery Park City Committee members wondered why the walk-off for the race had to go through Battery Park City. Committee member Bill Love suggested that the runners just head north when the race ended, with post-race events on Pier 25 or Pier 40.

In a telephone interview, Peter Ciaccia, Senior Vice President of Event Development and Production for New York Road Runners, said that would not be an option. He said that runners would be coming down West Street, whose southbound lanes will be closed off for the race. If runners who had fi nished headed north to the Hudson River Park piers, the two groups would intersect.

Ciaccia said that the Half Marathon would be good for Battery Park City businesses. “Our business team is working with various restaurants. We recommend that the runners go to one of these restaurants. The businesses appreciate it,” he said.

Although Philip Santora is scheduled to appear before the Battery Park City Committee again on March 1 for further discussion about the race, Ciaccia indicated that nothing could be changed at this point.

“We have to work very closely with the City agencies on this because it affects much more than just one area,” Ciaccia said. “To move the fi nish line would be a little diffi cult. But we are certainly not against looking at other options. To say today that we can make that change might be a little diffi cult. But we are exploring some other options for the New York City Half Marathon at future dates.”


This participant in last year’s half-marathon might not get the same chance in 2012.


Avenues: Chelsea home of fi rst world school

Hotchkiss School); and head of the early learning center Nancy Schulman (director of the 92nd St. Y’s Nursery School since 1990).

At the luncheon, C.E.O. Chris Whittle (who founded Edison School — now Edison Learning — in 1992 with Schmidt) equated the 2012 launch of Avenues to Victor Hugo’s declaration that “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

Reached by phone later in the day, Whittle spoke about the kind of student, and person, Avenues intends to nur-ture. “We believe that increasingly, life is going to get more and more international. Schooling is getting more international, and so your capabilities to navigate in other cultures are going to be helpful — whether you’re in the art world or banking.”

Whittle also emphasized the impor-tance of fluency in at least two, preferably three, languages. Avenues will require all of its students to make an early decision to study either Spanish or Mandarin. With an eye on things to come, Whittle pointed out, “America is destined to become the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world in relatively short order.” As for

the reason behind their other second language of choice, Whittle stated, “The most spoken language in the world is Mandarin.” Currently, those who speak it are studying English at a rate 30 times that of those who are learning Mandarin. This discrepancy, Whittle noted at the luncheon, has immense cultural and eco-nomic implications.

Also referenced when Whittle invoked Victor Hugo was the implication that by preparing students to compete in an increasingly global market, the Avenues graduate will be primed to collaborate with those on the five continents they will have set foot on before they enter col-lege. Beginning in Middle School, Whittle assured, “Each student will be encouraged to participate in overseas learning experi-ences, with particular emphasis on China,

India, Latin America, Africa and Europe.” Those experiences will take place in the 20 or more planned independent schools which Avenues says will open over the next decade — in cities such as Shanghai, London, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Abu Dhabi and Sydney. All Avenue students, Whittle stressed, will benefit from highly individualized instruction and a consis-tent educational philosophy regardless of which campus they’re at. “We need new models of schools,” said Whittle, “that break away from the centuries-old paradigm.”

But before Avenues realizes its grand global ambitions, it must first success-fully get the Chelsea campus up and running — and, in the process, become the good neighbor it promises to be. At least one group sure to be impacted, Friends of the High Line, is optimistic. Joshua David, the organization’s co-founder, told Chelsea Now that “Avenues has been a good neighbor to the High Line, and the school’s leadership is eager to become active and engaged mem-bers of this community.” As for basing their first, and flagship, campus in the shadow of the High Line, David said, “As we understand it, the proposed design is respectful of the building’s original design by Cass Gilbert and relates well to the West Chelsea Historic District.”

One week after the luncheon, Chelsea Now spoke with attendee Kathy Shea — executive director of the Parents League of New York (parentsleague.org). Shea spoke glowingly of the school’s plans, but did so with caution in both her choice of words and tone. “I thought it was a fabulous concept,” recalled Shea — who was particularly welcoming to Avenues’ standard of fluency in at least two languages.

She hesitated, though, when asked for her thoughts on the impact that time spent abroad might have on education and the family dynamic. “I think ideally, it sounds wonderful,” said Shea — who declined to elaborate further. One conse-quence she eagerly speculated on was the immediate impact, in 2012, that Avenues will have on the neighborhood: “It’s in an area of the city that needs more schools. There’s a growing population in that part of town. It should be a welcome addition to the community.”

Avenues has not yet set its tuition for the 2012-13 school year, but it will be consistent with other K-12 indepen-dent schools in New York, which they say average around $35,000. At least $4 million has been budgeted for financial assistance, and about 10 percent of the student body will receive some form of that assistance.


‘We need new models of schools that break away from the centuries-old paradigm.’


introduced the system to the school. “You don’t have the panic as you had in that

fi rst year,” she said. “I’m not sure if it’s because now they know there’ll be a lottery,” which is “kind of a matter of course at this point.”

Besides, Lenski noted, not everyone who applies and gets in accepts the seat, since many parents end up enrolling their children in gifted and talented programs or private schools.

P.S. 234, which opened in 1988, fi rst started holding lotteries in 2008, when the number of kindergarten applicants surpassed the school’s capacity.

Despite the calmness that Lenski described, however, parents of pre-schoolers in the neigh-borhood are worried that their children may not be the school’s lucky picks. The thought of Tribeca resident Silke Steinberg’s four-and-a-half-year-old son, Alexander, not getting into P.S. 234, for example, is making her very upset.

In addition to hearing praise from neighbors about the school, Steinberg said she has a good gut feeling about it. “It’s such a great school and community,” she said, “and the academic levels are totally up to par.”

It’s only fair, she argued, that Alexander get preference over youngsters that are new to the area, she said. The family has been living in the neighborhood since 2003. “We’re loyal Downtown residents – I defi nitely think there

should be a way to put that into consideration,” said Steinberg.

Only zoned siblings, however, get priority in public school lotteries, according to the D.O.E.

Silke has fi lled out an application for P.S. 150 (The Tribeca Learning Center) and P.S. 276. She is also considering the private school route.

Despite the back-up plans, though, she is still very determined to win a seat for Alexander at P.S. 234.

“We’re not going to give up. If they’re not going to give us a spot right away, we’re going to wait until September,” she said, even if it means having to forfeit a down-payment at a different school.

Tribeca resident Betty Huber has also heard great things about P.S. 234. She was “extreme-ly impressed” by the school’s principal, Lisa Ripperger, during a recent tour of the school, and feels comfortable with the city’s public school system, having herself gone through it as a youth.

Just as importantly, she said, “we’d like our child to go to a school with his neighbors. “We really want him to have a sense of his com-munity.”

The family has foregone sending out applica-tions to private schools elsewhere in Manhattan, Huber said, since they wouldn’t want their son, Thomas, to have to make the daily trek to school by bus or subway.

Shino Tanikawa, president of Community Education Council District Two, said the

C.E.C. is “very concerned” about overcrowd-ing in P.S. 234. “It was the hardest hit because [of] the way the school was zoned [last year],” she said.

P.S./I.S. 276 in Battery Park City is also contending with an excess number of kinder-garten applications. The school, which now has four kindergarten sections that hold a total of 100 youths, is contemplating opening up a fi fth section to accommodate all students that desire a seat in next year’s kindergarten class. Approximately 70 have applied so far, according to Erica Weldon, the school’s parent coordinator.

Adding new sections to the grades is a col-laborative decision between the school and the D.O.E., according to Rosenfeld.

“If a zoned school, for instance, has roughly 25 more zoned applicants than they currently have seats for, they would reach [out] to us, and we’d take a look at the space they have,” he said. “If we come to an agreement with them that they have room for an extra kindergarten section… we’ll partner with them and create an additional section.”

As the school expands into a full elementary and middle school, though, P.S./I.S. 276 will begin to run out of room for a surplus of kin-dergarteners.

“If we have more than four each year, it’s going to be a problem,” Weldon said.

Terri Ruyter, the school’s principal, said she is not worried. “It’s a zero sum game,” she said, since some families who apply in the spring

ultimately choose to send their kids to gifted and talented programs or private schools come September. Others, she said, move out of the district altogether before and during the school year.

“It doesn’t do us well to panic about things we don’t have control over in the future,” said Ruyter, noting that the wait list last year even-tually disappeared. “I have a lot of confi dence things will shake out just fi ne this year.”

P.S. 89, which accepts students pre-K to fi fth grade, has received 60 applications so far for 65 available slots — a pretty similar count to this time last spring, according to Parent Coordinator Connie Schraft. “We always take a few more than we’re slotted to,” she said, “because there are so many people who move or go to a gifted-and-talented or private school,” she said.

If the school has to hold a lottery, it will, Schraft said, but, either way, the administration isn’t concerned about overcrowding.

“I think it worked last year, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work this year.”

Kindergarten pre-registration ends March 4, and registration will take place the week of March 21. The D.O.E. will notify families of their seat assignments on or before April 15.

In the meantime, the D.O.E. indicated, par-ents will just have to be patient.

“We understand the anxiety of parents,” said Rosenfeld, “and just like last year, we’ll work to provide every single child on a waitlist with a quality seat at a local school.”

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DOWNTOWN SUMMER DAY CAMP EARLY REGISTRA-TION Spring’s not even in the air yet—but before you know it, summer will be just around the corner. Get the jump on the always-popular Downtown Summer Day Camp by registering by Feb. 28 for Early Bird Rates. For slightly less early birds, there will be Open Houses on March 7 and April 5. Summer is just around the corner, and now your child can enjoy the same enriching activities that country day camps offer without the stress of traveling out of the city every day on a bus. The summer camp combines a daily program at their facilities, with special events to give children an exciting and varied camp experience. Now in its 20th summer, Downtown Day Camp proudly boasts that they provide “simply the most enjoyable summer experience available — and all in a nearby, safe, caring environment.” This year, there’s a new swimming pool — plus art rooms, a multi-media lab, a dance studio, a gym, classrooms and more. There’s also karate, musical performances, pier barbecues, a camp carnival and special events. The camp day is from 9am-5pm with early and late hours as well. Downtown Day Camp takes place at 120 Warren St. For registration and info, call 212-766-1104, x250 or visit downtowndaycamps.com.

THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE MUSEUM The Junior Officers Discovery Zone is an exhibit designed for ages 2-10. It’s divided into four areas (Police Academy; the Park and Precinct; Emergency Services Unit; and a Multi-Purpose Area), each with interactive and imaginary play experiences for children to understand the role of police officers in our community — by, among other things, driv-ing and taking care of a police car. For older children, there’s a crime scene observation activity that will challenge them to remember relevant parts of city street scenes; a physical challenge similar to those at the Police Academy; and a model Emergency Services Unit vehicle where children can climb in, use the steering wheel and lights, hear radio calls with police codes and see some of the actual equipment carried by The Emergency Services Unit. At 100 Old Slip. For info, call 212-480-3100 or visit www.nycpm.org. Hours: Mon. through Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Admission: $8 ($5 for students, seniors and children. Free for children under 2.

DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER For info on swim les-sons, basketball, gym class, karate and more, call 212-766-1104. Visit manhattanyouth.org. The Downtown Community Center is located at 120 Warren St.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS Explore painting, collage and sculpture through self-guided arts projects. Open art stations are ongoing throughout the afternoon — giving children the oppor-tunity to experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper and found objects. Young minds can be great minds — and great minds, as they say, often think alike. See for yourself when you view “Art Within Reach: from the WPA to the Present” — on display now through June 5. This intergenerational exhibit connects the artistic and intellectual dots between those who grew up in NYC during the Great Depression and those who are growing up in the city today. Museum hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-5pm; Thurs., 12-6pm (Pay as You Wish, from 4-6pm). Admission: $10. At the Children’s Museum of the Arts (182 Lafayette St. btw. Broome & Grand). Call 212- 274-0986 or visit cmany.org. For group tours, call 212-274-0986, exten-sion 31.

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS AT THE SCHOLASTIC STORE Every Saturday at 3pm, Scholastic’s in-store activities are designed to get kids reading, thinking, talking, creating and moving. The Scholastic Store is located at 557 Broadway (btw. Prince & Spring). Store hours are Mon.-Sat., 10am-7pm, and Sun., 11am-6pm. For info about store events, call 212-343-6166. Visit scholastic.com.

BOOKS OF WONDER & CUPCAKE CAFÉ Literate kids and cup-cake enthusiasts of all ages mingle at the space shared by Books of Wonder and Cupcake Café. The Café has sweet stuff all day, every day (they’ve got some of the best icing in town) — while the bookstore has story time Sundays at Noon (appropriate for ages 3-7). There’s simply nothing better than being able to depend on a weekly story followed by a massive sugar rush. Life is good! Books of Wonder is located at 18th St. (btw. Fifth & Sixth Aves.). Call 212-989-3270 or visit booksofwonder.com. Cupcake Café, at the same address, can be reached at 212-465-1530 or visit cupcakecafe.com.

POETS HOUSE The Poets House “Tiny Poets Time” program offers children ages 1-3 and their parents a chance to enter the world of rhyme — through readings, group activities and interactive performances. Thursdays at 10am (at 10 River Terrace and Murray St.). Call 212-431-7920 or visit poetshouse.org.

ANGELINA BALLERINA: THE MUSICAL Everyone at the Cam-embert Academy is all aflutter because a special guest is coming to visit. Angelina and her friends are excited to show off their hip-hop, modern dance, Irish jig and ballet skills — but will Angelina get that moment in the spotlight she’s hoping for? Based on characters from the PBS series, this show is appropriate for ages 3-12. Through Feb. 19, Sat. at 1pm & 3pm and Sun. at 1pm. At the Union Square The-atre (100 E. 17th St. btw. Union Square East and Irving Place). For tickets ($39.50-$65), call 1-800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. Also visit angelinathemusical.com.

DEAR EDWINA This heartwarming show about the joys and frus-trations of growing up has our spunky heroine (advice-giver extraor-

dinaire Edwina Spoonable) sharing her wisdom on everything from setting the table to making new friends. That it’s done through clev-er, catchy and poignant songs makes the experience enjoyable and engaging for kids who know what Edwina’s going through as well as adults who remember what it was like. Through Feb. 25 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th St.). For tickets ($39), call 212-239-6200. For groups of 10 or more, call 646-747-7400. Visit dearedwina.com for additional details and full schedule.

GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW: THE NEXT GENERATION Three

years into its run, the Gazillion Bubble Show welcomes creator Fan Yang’s 20-year-old son into the family business. We’re prom-ised that “Bubble Super-Star” Deni Yang will elevate this already spectacular experience to new heights of bubble blowing artistry). The open-ended run plays Fri. at 7 p.m., Sat. at 11am, 2pm and 4:30pm and Sun. at noon and 3pm. 75 minutes, no intermission. For tickets ($44.50 to $89.50), call 212-239-6200 or visit www.telecharge.com. Visit gazillionbubbleshow.com.

PRESCHOOL PLAY AND STORIES & SONGS A new session of “Preschool Play” has been added: This program invites walk-ing toddlers to join other children, parents, and caregivers for fun interactive play, art and theme days. Thursdays, through March 24, from 1:30-3:30pm. The fee is $175 for 10 weeks (siblings: $100). At “Stories & Songs,” a variety of musicians teach and perform child-friendly music. Movement, dancing and rhythm instruments add to the fun. Mondays, through April 25 (except 1/17 and 2/21) as well as on Wednesdays, through April 13. Space is still available in 40-min-ute classes: the 9:30-10:10am class for children 6-14 months — and the 12 noon-12:40pm class for mixed ages (6 months to 3.5 years). There is a $231 fee for 14 weeks (20% discount for siblings). Both events take place in the Meeting Room at the Verdesian (211 North End Ave., btw. Warren & Murray, in Battery Park City). For info or to register, call 212-267-9700, ext. 366 or 348. Visit bpcparks.org.

THE FESTIVAL OF THE VEGETABLES Once upon a time, composer/librettist Michael Kosch and choreographer/costume designer Rachael Kosch created a suite of savory vignettes designed for children and their families. Sometime later (the pres-ent day to be exact), “The Festival of the Vegetables” has returned for its fifth annual production. Metropolitan Playhouse presents, proudly we’re assured, this music-dance-poetry-theater piece in which a troupe of dancers and actors (ages 5 to 45) perform a series of lighthearted poems and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. It is set in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of veg-etable adventures — each story introduced by a couple of bum-bling yet eloquent produce clerks. Vegetable-people of all variet-ies jump and whirl in a whimsical salad. Duncan Broccoli dances a Scottish reel; King Potato holds vegetable court; lithe String Bean Fiddler twirls and trills; Colonel Corn stalks the scary SpinWitch; Arugula weds ravishing Radish; and Rotund Rutabaga perches on pointe. If your kids won’t eat their vegetables after this show, maybe they’ll at least appreciate the entertainment value supplied by all that stuff that grows in the ground, helps you grow and is very, very, very good for you! Sats. and Suns., 11am, Feb. 6-20. At the Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. 4th St., btw. Aves. A & B). Tick-ets are $10 for children 12 and under; $15 for adults. For reserva-tions, call 212-995-5302 or visit metropolitanplayhouse.org.

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CLICK, CLACK, MOOTheatreworks USA is about to unleash

a barnyard full of singing, dancing animals. “Click, Clack, Moo” sees Farmer Brown get-ting more than he bargained for when his cows come upon an old typewriter, load it up with some paper and begin to air their complaints. It’s not long before the farm animals go on strike. Will a chicken cross the road — and the picket line? Find out when this quirky musical (complete with oversized props, colorful cos-tumes and sing-along songs) takes to the stage. Sun., Feb. 13, 3pm at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers St.). Tickets are

$25 but with the purchase of a 10Club mem-bership (a $140 10-ticket package), you’ll save more than $100 and also receive a discount with several of their neighborhood partners just by showing the membership card. The TPAC season continues with “Charlotte’s Web” on Sun., March 6 at 3pm; Bo Eason’s semi-autobi-ographical “Runt of the Litter” on Sat., March 12 at 1:30pm; the Dallas Children’s Theatre presentation of “Giggle, Giggle Quack” on Sat., March 26 at 1:30pm; and the Tall Stories of London production “Room on the Broom” at 1:30pm on Sat., April 16. For more info visit tribecapac.org.

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Barnstormers: Putting the Moo in “Moo-sical theater.”


BY STEPHANIE BUHMANNWhen I walked into the Tribeca home and studio of folk

artist Malcah Zeldis, my immediate impression was that I had physically entered a storybook. A large selection of paintings covered the walls with vibrantly colored narratives that enveloped me as I surveyed the space.

At nearly 80 years old, Zeldis appears young and engag-ing. She speaks vividly about her life and how it has con-tinuously infi ltrated her work. In conversation, years and decades fl y by easily — and in a couple of hours we cover much ground. We touch on Zeldis’ upbringing in Detroit, her Russian-Jewish heritage, as well as on her life as a young wife and mother on a kibbutz in Israel (where she lived from 1948 to 1958). As we get more familiar, she mentions her painful divorce a few years after her family had settled back in the United States and ponders how in retrospect she feels that her work had enabled her to fi ll the void that the loss of her marital bond had left.

The night of our visit, she had just completed a small canvas featuring Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd and was happy to share it. The small portrait was inspired by the work of William Mumler — a spirit photographer in the mid-1900s who, like Zeldis, portrayed Mary Todd as she is embraced

by the ghost of her deceased husband. Rather than eerie, the scene is peaceful, showing the mourning sitter with the faint-est touch of a smile. Zeldis does not usually work from photo-graphs and her interest in this particular subject went beyond Mumler’s original. She had read Mary Todd’s biography and knew much about her struggles and illnesses, talking about her with compassion. All of the people Zeldis has painted over the years have moved her deeply. In that sense, her work is free of superfi cialities. The level of her emotional response requires a deep knowledge of her subjects.

On the 30th fl oor with views of the city, Zeldis lives sur-rounded by her works. Sparked by different memories and stories, her paintings manifest as intimate illustrations of her experiences, dreams and eclectic interests. Zeldis’ work was begun primarily for her own enjoyment. She never imagined having a career as an artist, and yet she has always experi-enced an inner need for expressing herself creatively.

When her work fi nally began to gain professional atten-tion (without her actively seeking any), she was so shocked that she stopped painting. The realization that others were suddenly looking at her work took away from her natural and carefree approach. She began to fear that the work suf-fered from her trying to make too many conscious decisions. Since shedding these concerns and picking up where she had

left off, Zeldis has created a body of work that nobody could deem inauthentic. It is her story told in her language to her-self fi rst — but accessible to others. Her work possesses the unique ability to allow many to fi nd themselves in it.

Born in 1931 in the Bronx, Malcah Zeldis looks back at decades’ worth of work. Her preferences of palette and compositional density might have changed (her earlier works were darker and more spacious), but her approach and manner have remained consistent. In recent years, she has added three-dimensional works to her practice, working on fi gurines made of found materials. Her oeuvre falls under the genre of contemporary folk art, implying that Zeldis is com-pletely self-taught and remains outside of any mainstream art movements. Her style evokes a sense of naïve simplicity, which conveys a purity of feeling.

While Zeldis remains outside of the buzzing art scene, she hardly suffers from a lack of recognition. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Terra Museum of Art in Chicago, the New York State Historical Society, the Yeshiva University Museum and the Katonah Museum of Art, among others. In addition, she has illustrated sev-eral children’s books (some in collaboration with her daughter) on Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Abraham Lincoln, for example. A Jewish Celebrations calendar for 2011 can be bought in stores and online.

Most importantly, Zeldis’ work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the American Folk Art Museum, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of Folk Art in Vermont, the Akron Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, as well as the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, to only name a few. This past fall, Zeldis had a well-received solo

exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York and, until February 25, her work is featured at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Back in her studio, Zeldis always works while sitting down. She starts by drawing on a white surface — usually canvas or board, which she subsequently colorizes with oil paint (or gouache if working on paper).

Her subjects range from biblical and social themes, to family celebrations, everyday events and portraits of people who have had an emotional impact on her. The latter can in particular include her mother — who was an accomplished ballet dancer in Russia but had to give up her passion when she married — as well as her brother who was deemed fatally ill as a child and was hence forced to spend most of his childhood in bed. As a result, elegant dancers frequently appear in Zeldis’ composi-tions, and she has worked on many baseball scenes, which hark back to memories of her brother, with whom she could not play but would join in listening to baseball games.

One touching painting shows Zeldis and her bedridden brother, who is wearing a baseball cap. They are listening intently to the radio, while above them, in an almost surreal-ist bubble of the imagination, a baseball game unfolds inside a packed stadium. The contrast between the two children and the jubilant crowd is heart-wrenching and yet, there is a clear sense of hope and beauty in this intimate moment, revealing the bond between two siblings.

However, Zeldis’ childhood memories are by no means all happy ones. Her parents had lost children before she and her brother were born and her father, a window washer, struggled to make ends meet. He was a Sunday painter fascinated with

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Malcah Zeldis: “Peaceable Kingdom.” 1999. Oil on canvas.


As a New Yorker, Zeldis has not shied away from addressing such a delicate subject as September 11 or the political climate surrounding it. She has painted several tough compositions, featuring the day itself, as well as abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib.


Flemish realism, but was a strict father and remained unimpressed by his daughter’s artistic aspirations. It is sad to think that neither her father nor her husband ever encouraged Zeldis to paint (she avoided making the same mistake with her own children; her daughter Yona Zeldis McDonough is an established writer and her son David Zeldis is an accomplished artist). Despite the hardships, there are simple details that did enchant her as a child, and they con-tinue to weave through her work. A birdbath and an arch made of rose bushes, both beloved features in her mother’s lush garden, appear frequently and function as a visual Talisman of sorts.

Besides members of her family, Zeldis devotes much of her attention to prominent fi g-ures of the 20th century. Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Gandhi and Beethoven, for example are people she admires and they have become profound staples in her work. All of them appear repeat-edly, at times alone and then together, joining in a montage-like accumulation of admirable accomplishments. But Zeldis does not sim-ply engage in the act of idolization. Instead, she depicts them as her trusted and admired friends. In a work entitled “Homage to Anne Frank” (2004) Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Gandhi and others join Zeldis’ alter ego (depicted with a painter’s pal-

ette in hand) around a grand piano, on which Beethoven is just about to play. The scene is astonishingly familiar and casual, letting it appear like a warm Sunday tea party.

Zeldis also extensively explores the dark sides of humanity, its horrid wars and crimes. But even when depicting historic fi gures or shocking events, such as the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Zeldis’ works sub-consciously always reveal much of herself. They manifest as a meditation on her emotional

response to the subject, which was chosen con-sciously, but captured while lost in thought.

As a New Yorker, Zeldis has not shied away from addressing such a delicate subject as September 11 or the political climate sur-rounding it. She has painted several tough compositions, featuring the day itself, as well as abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the execution of Daniel Pearl, for example. The paintings are forthright and do not lack in unconcealed brutality. They all pose one

blatant question: of what horrors is human-ity actually capable?

While some of Zeldis’ works might provide us with a kind of charming escapism, works like these show her as a critical and sensitive com-mentator of her time. She is at once a dreamer and a realist. Continuing to trespass across boundaries, Zeldis does not intend to tie herself to a specifi c timeline and continues to travel seamlessly between current and past events, be they rooted in reality or her imagination.

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Malcah Zeldis: “Thanksgiving Dinner.” 1972. Oil on canvas.


On the 30th fl oor with views of the city, Zeldis lives surrounded by her works. Sparked by different memories and stories, her paintings manifest as intimate illustrations of her experiences, dreams and eclectic interests.


Hot property in the Baltics lands at La MaMaState violence collides with secret violence against loved ones

BY JERRY TALLMERAliide speaks. She is a weather-worn

woman of 70, looking back on when she was a girl of 20 in this same house in what was then Soviet-occupied Estonia. Her lover, Hans, in those days of her youth — her sister Ingel’s husband, an Estonian who’d fought the Russians and lost — is still asleep in his hideaway in the basement behind a heavy chest of drawers, when the Stalinist security thugs come looking for him.

ALIIDE: Hans didn’t even wake up when they came to get us, agreed to go quietly. We didn’t want him to know. We’d been woken by the dogs barking even before they came to the door and we knew exactly what it meant. By the time they knocked we were standing in the kitchen all ready to go.

It was our first time and they took us straight to headquarters — to the Town Hall. Me, Ingel and Linda [the 10-year-old]. There was a young boy with them, a boy from the village. He couldn’t look at us. We’d been in the same school. In the cellar of the Town Hall there were two naked lamps [light bulbs] hanging from the ceiling. A soldier was eating bread and drinking vodka. Knocking back his glass. Wiping his mouth on his sleeve the way the Russians do. He

offered us some. We declined.

SOLDIER 1 (voice only): We know that you know the whereabouts of Hans….

SOLDIER 2 (voice only): You have such a charming daughter.

ALIIDE: We said we didn’t know anything about Hans….

SOLDIER 2 (voice only): What’s your daughter’s name?…The girl’s almost a woman….

And that’s where the nightmare begins.It’s all in the skillful telling, old Aliide

talking about the days of — remembering the days of — young Aliide, a woman who will survive in the face of anything, at the cost of anything and anybody. All this in a jolting piece of theater that’s by a young woman who herself has hit the ripe old age of 33.

Her name is Sofi Oksanen. She was born in Finland to a Finnish father and an Estonian mother. Her play is called “Purge” (“Puhdistus”), and it’s a very hot prop-erty indeed in the Baltic countries of Eastern Europe and elsewhere abroad. Its author liked it so much — was so fascinated by its characters, who wouldn’t leave her alone — that she then further explored it as a novel, which in itself has turned into a best-seller. Some share of play and novel, comes out of the memories of Oksanen’s Estonian grand-mother.

This I learn from another remarkable young-minded woman, Zishan Ugurlu — the Turkish-born director of the English-language version of this play (translated by Eva Buchwald) that runs February 10-20 at the late Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa E.T.C.

La MaMa regulars will surely remember actress Ugurlu from her 2004 performance as Helen of Troy in Andre Serban’s staging of “The Trojan Women.” Well, now she is not only the director of “Purge” and of the Actors Without Borders resident company that’s staging it, but also the set designer and the person who persuaded Oksanen to

have the play come to New York.“Instead of a conscious and naturalistic

set,” Ugurlu said over some blueberry pan-cakes last week, “I’m trying for a set that is both conscious and subconscious — the landscape of Aliide’s body and soul.”

And some body and soul this is. The Aliide of “Purge,” I hazarded, has much in common with Bertolt Brecht’s eternal survi-vor, Mother Courage.

“Why yes!” exclaimed Ugurlu, who per-haps had been too busy to think of that. She sees Aliide also as a Medea-like fi gure, “living on the edge; at the last moment she betrays everything and everybody, her husband, her sister, her granddaughter. At one point she becomes a sandwich in bed between her husband, Martin, and her lover, Hans, her sister’s husband.

“It’s like a thriller,” said the director. “Like a Hitchcock movie.” She took a breath before saying, “I love this play for the issues it deals with — sex, politics, and power.”

Also as it happens, rape, torture murder, and other such Stalinist and non-Stalinist pleasantries.

“Torture,” said Ugurlu. “Everybody does it on one level or another. We do violence against our loved ones on an almost uncon-scious level. And then the violence of the state collides with the secret violence against loved ones. The discourse of Aliide’s hus-band Martin is almost like the discourse of Stalin. ‘You are my comrade.’ ‘You are my Motherland.’”

MARTIN: All right, all right,

Aliide. You did the right thing. You did your duty. You acted as a progres-sive, socially aware person should act. That’s a noble thing. Your driving force is your devotion to your com-munity, to your Motherland. That’s admirable. You are guided by natu-ral class instinct. That’s what I fi rst admired in you. The very fi rst time I saw you at the party meeting. I sensed at once, there’s something special about that girl!…Finally when I saw you sitting in the corner, reading your Lenin — you looked like a picture or a painting — I could tell you had what it takes to rise above the class you were born into….

Stop! Stop! Can’t someone please stop him? I’d betray the crashing bore myself, if only to stop him. Of course I’d have to marry him fi rst.

Fortunately for this production, the role of Martin is being carried by the distin-guished Finnish movie actor Peter Franzén. The Aliide — old Aliide — is Jillian Lindig. Young Aliide is Maren Bush. Grant Neale is Hans.

Ugurlu says she owes everything to Ellen Stewart for bringing her here seven years ago, giving her a place to live, work to do, getting her a Green Card.

The English of this young artist from Istanbul is not only quite good but quite colorful.

“That too is thanks to Ellen,” says Ugurlu.

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PURGEWritten by Sofi Oksanen

English translation by Eva Buchwald

Directed by Zishan Ugurlu

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Maren Bush with Peter Franzén.


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LANTERN FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONThere’s more to celebrate than the

fact that the days are getting longer. The H.T. Chen & Dancers’ “Lantern Festival Celebration” will lighten your mind and spirit by providing food for thought (plus refreshments for the physical body). Appropriate for the whole family, the dances will range from the long-unseen romantic duet “Nocturne” to H.T. Chen’s “Big Brother” (performed by long-time Company dancer Renouard Gee) to the Chinese Lion Dance-inspired “Heart of Grace.” Also scheduled to be performed is “Warriors of Light” — a piece from Chinese Opera, which concerns the jour-ney towards enlightenment. So brave the tail end of winter and get to know (or rediscover) what the Chen Dance Center has been doing right — and doing very well — since 1988. Thurs. through Fri., Feb. 17-19. Pre-show activities at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. At the Chen Dance Center (70 Mulberry St., corner of Mulberry & Bayard). For tickets ($15; $10 for stu-dents/seniors), call 212-349-0126. Seating is limited; reservations required.

CHALLAH BAKING WORKSHOPThe Jewish Women’s Circle’s “Challah

Baking Workshop” (sponsored by Chabad of Battery Park City) will give you all the tech-niques and tips you need in order to make your own delicious homemade challah. Bring along your daughter and friends, and have fun — and never rely on store-bought again! Suggested donation: $18. Wed., Feb. 16, 7pm. For details, or to RSVP, email [email protected]. Visit chabadbpc.com

A SERIES OF REVEALSWhen Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects

(creators of the Steampunk Haunted House) walks past an empty storefront, he doesn’t press his nose up against the glass and dream of the day when the space will be selling $5 foot-long subs or overpriced designer duds.

Quite some time ago, he had the foresight to envision an evolving art installation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass.” That dream is now a reality, albeit a twisted and ever-morphing one (appro-priate, considering Carroll’s propensity for images and ideas that are as silly and surreal as they are dark and disturbing). The ever-unfolding life-size dioramas are on view through March 18, at One New York Plaza Art Space (concourse level). Mon. through Fri., 7am–7pm. Visit artsbrookfi eldproper-ties.com and thirdrailprojects.com.

CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION The Chinese year 4709 (Year of the

Rabbit) began on February 3 — marking

the start of a two-week celebration dis-tinguished by fi reworks, festive food and dancing. The Pacifi c College of Oriental Medicine (the country’s largest college of acupuncture and Oriental medicine) invites you to learn about the Chinese New Year by attending a series of health-minded events. Throughout the day, there will be massage demos and lectures, free acupuncture and a workshop on Qi Gong (a thousand-year-old martial art that combines deep breathing with postures and movements that allow the body to naturally and automatically release hormones that relieve stress). At 2:30pm, the documentary “9000 Needles” screens. It chronicles Devin Dearth’s journey into health with the help of a mixture of Eastern

and Western Medicine — after suffering a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed on his right side. Visit 9000needles.com for more info on the fi lm. By the time your day is done, you’ll be looking forward to 2012 — when you’ll know by experience why the Chinese say “Gung Hey Fat Choy” instead of “Happy New Year.” Sat., Feb. 12, 12pm-3pm at The Pacifi c College of Oriental Medicine (915 Broadway at 21st St., 5th fl oor). Admission and participation is free. RSVP is requested. Contact cneipris@paci-fi ccollege.edu or call 212-982-3456 x226. For questions, call x229. Visit pacifi ccol-lege.edu.

APOLLO AND OTHER BRONZE GODSThank the gods that someone — spe-

cifi cally, Gallery 300 — has managed to fi ll that vacant ground level storefront on 22nd Street and Eighth Avenue with something considerably more visually compelling than brown paper on the windows. Currently, the work of sculptor Sabin Howard (a NYC native) is on display — in a collec-tion of stunningly rendered bronze statues whose muscular, in-motion bodies seem as if they’re about to burst from within the venue’s large wrap-around corner-to-street windows. “Apollo and other Bronze Gods,” a retrospective of 20 large bronze fi gures, is accompanied by his latest life-size bronze sculpture — 2010’s “Apollo.” It’s his third life-size work (a companion to 2006’s “Aphrodite” and a successor to 2005’s Hermes, both of which are on display). Smaller-scale sculptures on view “Anger,” “Man” and “Eros” (2000-2001). “My work is an alchemy of form and ener-gy,” says Howard. “It speaks a universal narrative of what it means to be human.” FREE. Through March 31, at Gallery 300 (300 W. 22nd St.). Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri., 4-8pm; Sat./Sun., 12:30–8pm and by appointment. Call 917-327-5714 or visit gallery300.net. For info on the artist, visit sabinhoward.com.

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H.T. Chen & Dancers, in the Lantern Festival Celebration.

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Good gods, y’all: See “Apollo and other bronze Gods.”

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Curiouser and curiouser: See “A Series of Reveals.”

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to be in love, every day is Valentine’s Day — so good for you. But if you’re not the type to wear your heart on your sleeve by gifting that signifi cant other with grand and frequent ges-tures, pulling out all the stops for this annual articulation of love is a no-brainer.

This year, in addition to lavishing them with the usual fl owers and candy, think about employing some of these unique options. In the end, the effort you take just might equal the love you make. As for our single readers: Suck it up and let your coupled friends have their day in the sun — and remember, there’s no shame in sending fl owers to yourself. We all deserve love! FREE KETTLEBELL KICKBOXING

What’s hotter than a couple that can kick ass? Not much. But before you channel the bad mojo of your relationship issues into swift acts of vigilante justice, take a deep breath and consider a truly calming, centered way to express your anger and sharpen your skills. Anderson’s Martial Arts has your back. Their Valentine’s Week Fitness special kicks off on February 14th. Couples can sign up for their free private training or join a class solo dur-

ing through February 20. On Valentine’s Day, they’re offering a free two-hour Self Defense Seminar for women. From 7-8pm, Dasha Libin debuts her new fusion fitness class: Kettlebell Kickboxing. The workout combines the combative moves and quick-ness of mixed martial arts and with the strength and muscle training that comes with Russian kettlebells. After the class, Libin will be on hand to answer questions and advise you on matters of personal fit-ness goals. At Anderson’s Martial Arts & Fitness Center (394 Broadway, at Canal. Third floor). To sign up, call 212-766-6622 or email [email protected]. Visit andersonsmartialarts.com.

FREE TANGO LESSONS & DANCINGReturn those tickets to Buenos Aires and

save yourself a trip to the airport. Arts World Financial Center has a better way to get a con-sensual pat-down — courtesy of free tango les-sons and dancing the night away to the sounds of the Hector Del Curto Tango Orchestra at the Winter Garden. The 10-musician ensem-ble will transform the glass-vaulted atrium into a grand dancing ballroom. From 7pm to 9pm, couples will fuse at the hip to the jazzy, festive rhythms inspired by the traditional Argentinean style. A group instructor will

provide tango lessons from 6pm to 7pm for those looking to brush up on their footwork. FREE. Mon., Feb. 14. At the World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey St.). For info, call 212-945-0505 or visit artsworldfi -nancialcenter.com. Also visit hectordelcurto.com. Got plans for the evening? Get a little afternoon delight with “The Winter Garden Milonga: Free Lunchtime Tango Performances and Lessons” — from 12-2pm on Feb. 14 (same address and contact info as the evening event).

LOVE IN THE PARLORS: A VALENTINE IN CONCERT

The Merchant’s House Museum — NYC’s only family home preserved intact from the mid-19th-century — offers an authentic frozen-in-time glimpse into the customs, morals and mindset of old New York. Their “Love in the Parlors” Valentine’s Day concert recreates the 19th-century tradition of “salon music” with vocal chamber works performed in an inti-mate parlor setting. The compositions, which address themes of love in all of its triumphs and failings, were chosen from repertoire written between 1801-1900. The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society (MHM’s arts group in residence since 2004) provides the vocal tal-ent. Mon., Feb.14, at 7pm (snow date Thurs., Feb. 17). At the Merchant’s House Museum (29 E. Fourth St. btw. Lafayette & Bowery). Tickets are $25 ($20 for students/seniors, $15 for MHM members). Reservations required. Call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/events.

Stretch out the warm and fuzzy spirit of Valentine’s Day for the entire month by attending “19th-Century Valentines: Confections of Affection.” On view through February 28, the exhibit features exam-

ples of ornate and lace handmade paper Valentine cards from the Museum’s collec-tion as well as early manufactured cards. MHM is open Thurs. through Mon., 12-5pm.Admission is $10 ($5 for seniors/students).

FUNDRAISER AT THE COWGIRL SEAHORSE RESTAURANT

Just say “Cowgirl Seahorse Restaurant,” and you’re already having a good time. So let those good times roll for a good cause — when you attend their Valentine’s Day Fundraiser to benefi t the Avon Breast Cancer Foundation. $50 (half of which goes to the Foundation) gets you a 6-course prix fi xe dinner. On the menu: artichoke heart fritters, creamy fi sh chowder, mango-goat cheese salad, surf & turf, a glass of cham-pagne, mini heart-shaped strawberry short-cake and a special gourmet cupcake — plus music from The Crusty Gentlemen. At the Cowgirl Seahorse Restaurant (259 Front St., corner of Front & Dover). For reservations, call 212-608-7873.

DINNER AT THE BAILEYIf you still haven’t made dinner reser-

vations for February 14, know that The Bailey Pub & Brasserie has already put the fi nishing touches on their plan for the ultimate Valentine’s Day dinner. It’s a $55 pre-fi x 3-course meal including choice of appetizer, entrée and dessert. Menu items include Seared Diver Scallops, Pan Seared Wild Striped Bass and Tahitian Vanilla Panna Cotta. There featured cocktail for the evening: The Champagne Charlie — a rich mixture of Stoli Raspberry, Champagne and Pureed Raspberry. The Bailey Pub & Brasserie (52 William St., 1 block North of Wall St.). For reservations, call 212-859-2200. Visit www.thebaileynyc.com.

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On the menu: Champagne, love and good times. See “The Bailey.”

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The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society. L to R: Rosalind Gnatt, Dayle Vander Sande, Anthony Bellov, Jane Rady. See “Love in the Parlors.”

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