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BY JULIE SHAPIROClaremont Prep’s $30

million expansion is back on track after the school fi nal-ized a lease this week for 200,000 square feet at 25 Broadway.

Claremont will use the space for middle and high school classes starting in the fall of 2010, said Michael Koffl er, C.E.O. of Met Schools, Claremont’s parent company.

Koffl er made a similar announcement in March, saying the school had leased space for its expansion at 100 Church St., but Claremont opted out of that deal because the 25 Broadway space was better, Koffl er said. A major tipping point was 25 Broadway’s location, just steps from Claremont’s Broad St. home.

“You walk right out our door, cross Bowling Green, and there you are,” Koffl er said. “It’s a wonderful build-ing, it’s close by, and the staff is really thrilled.”

Claremont was able to back out of the 100 Church St. lease because owner The Sapir Organization took a long time to get their bank to sign off on the deal, Koffl er said.

The asking rent at 25 Broadway was $39 per square foot, compared to $40 at 100 Church. Koffl er said he paid very close to the asking rent at 25 Broadway, which is owned by the Wolfson Group. Wolfson and Sapir could not immediately be reached for comment.

Claremont had detailed architectural plans and ren-

25 Broadway makes the grade for private school’s expansion

BY JULIE SHAPIRO Ashia Johns goes to work every day

wearing a white hard hat on her head and a fl ashy white-gold diamond ring on her left hand.

The hard hat keeps her safe as she builds the new Goldman Sachs head-quarters Downtown. The engagement ring look-alike, which Johns bought for herself, also keeps her safe — from the attentions of the dozens of men she works with.

“I wear the ring as a decoy,” Johns said, laughing as she ate lunch on the edge of the construction site on a recent afternoon. “They don’t really bother me,” she said of her male co-workers. “I just use [the ring] to throw them off.”

Johns, 35, is one of the rare women who choose carpentry as a career. For every 65 male carpenters, there is only one female carpenter, according to a 2008 U.S. Dept. of Labor study. Other

trades are even more skewed toward men — in the same 2008 study, the most unbalanced of all professions in the country was bricklaying, which boasted only one woman for every 230 men.

On the whole, women represent 2.5 percent of the total workers in the construction and excavation industry, up from 2.1 percent 20 years ago, the

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STILL IN THE RACEArthur Gregory, a City Council candidate, started a

phone conversation with us recently by saying, “In case you heard the rumors, I did not drop out of the race.”

We actually hadn’t heard that rumor yet, but it quickly became clear why it had sprung up. Gregory waited until 10 minutes before the midnight deadline last Wednesday night to fi le his petitions with the Board of Elections, so other can-didates fi gured he was a no-show. He also has not registered any campaign contributions with the city.

Gregory said he likes being the last person to do some-thing — for example, he claims that he was the last person in Manhattan to vote for Obama on election night. As for the lack of campaign contributions, Gregory says he has about $35,000 in undeposited checks. He didn’t want to take people’s money until he was sure he would qualify for the ballot, he said.

Gregory admits that he was considering dropping out because he has to have surgery on his ankle, but that can wait until after the primary. If he had dropped out, he would have given his vote to incumbent Alan Gerson, he said.

The fi ve-way race is still without a clear overall frontrun-ner this week — at least in terms of the candidates’ petition signatures and quarterly fundraising stats.

Margaret Chin is leading the way in fundraising, hav-ing brought in nearly $114,000 so far. But PJ Kim is close behind, with just over $91,000, and he has more money still in the bank than Chin, about $41,000 compared to her $37,000, their campaigns said. The city’s generous matching funds make small fundraising differences nearly irrelevant.

Gerson has raised $54,000 and his campaign manager would not say how much he has left. Another candidate, Pete Gleason, has raised $37,500 and has about $11,000 left, his campaign said.

None of the candidates challenged the others’ petition signatures, though many of them privately questioned each other’s numbers. Gerson indisputably came in with the most, a total of 7,100 and far more than the 900 needed. Kim said he had just under 5,500, Chin’s campaign said she had nearly 4,700, Gleason’s campaign said 4,500 and Gregory said he would up with nearly 1,600.

THREESOME NOW A TWOSOMEWhile the First District City Council battle rages on, a less

well-known race got a little simpler this week when Adam Silvera stopped campaigning for Democratic district leader and endorsed fellow candidate Paul Newell.

Silvera has been district leader for 16 years, but he said he’s ready to try something new.

“It shouldn’t be a life term,” Silvera told UnderCover. “There should be movement, opening up the opportunity for other people.”

District leader is an unpaid position and doesn’t usu-ally engender so much interest, but this year Silvera found himself facing not one but two opponents. First

there was Avram Turkel, a strong advocate of incumbent Councilmember Alan Gerson. (Silvera supports Gerson challenger Pete Gleason.)

Then Newell joined the fray last month. Also a Gleason supporter, Newell had made an unsuccessful bid last year to topple Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver.

Silvera said he made the decision not to run while on the trail collecting petition signatures, and he said in some ways he felt relieved to be done.

Turkel and Newell, the remaining candidates, both shied away from criticizing each other in the press, but after Silvera challenged the signatures Turkel collected, Turkel is challenging Newell’s. Turkel said he collected just over 900 signatures and Newell said he got about 1,200. They each needed 500.

VACANT LOTGood news for the people who are tired of staring at the

garbage-heaped vacant lot at Greenwich and W. Thames Sts.: It could soon be cleaned up and home to construction trailers.

Pat Moore, a Cedar St. resident, has been railing against the lot for months, calling it an eyesore totally out of keeping with the neighborhood just south of the World Trade Center site. A gap in the lot’s fence is wide enough for people to squeeze through, and the lot is fi lled with empty beer bottles, discarded fast-food wrappers and even some threadbare items of clothing.

The city was apparently having trouble getting the owner to fi x up the lot, but now it looks like Bovis Lend Lease, which is managing the work at the Deutsche Bank build-ing, wants to use the site for construction trailers. John De Libero, spokesperson for the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., said Bovis is in negotiations to take over the site for the next six months.

When Moore heard, she was happy, but not thrilled. “So, it’ll be a trailer park,” she said.

SCAFFOLDING SALE There are plenty of recession specials popping up at shops

all around the city, but here’s one that was new to us: A value mart on Chambers St. is advertising a “Super Scaffolding Sale,” using signs dangling from said scaffolding to boast discounts of 25 percent or more.

The scaffolding covering the RHX Super Value, and much of its block on Chambers St. between Church St. and Broadway, went up a couple months ago, partially hiding the store from view. Sale specials at the store include bottled water for 19 cents and rolling suitcases for $19.99.

KEY ST. JAMES PERFORMANCEThis year’s July 25 celebration of the Feast of St. James

won’t be limited to a feast for the appetite; locally renowned organist Jonathan B. Hall will perform in Lower Manhattan for the day’s ceremonies.

Hall, who was a former dean of the American Guild of Organists and is one of the premier organists in the metropolitan area, will play a special concert at 8 p.m. that day in honor of the holiday. He will also play the 11 a.m. Mass the next day. He will be joined by saxophonist William Powers.

The performances will take place at St. James Church, located at 32 James St. Sunday’s festivities will also include other musical performances, a fl ea market and food, avail-able on James St., which will be closed to traffi c.

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BY JULIE SHAPIRO After years of enduring the seemingly

endless construction on Fulton St., Aleks Misyuk thought he finally had some good news.

Several months ago, city representa-tives told him that his business, My Optician at 88 Fulton St., would receive a grant to improve its storefront.

“They said there’s no way you will not be approved,” Misyuk said. “It was hard for me to believe in that — there’s nothing free in this country. But they were coming in one day after another, very energetic. It was hard not to believe in that after a while.”

However, when Misyuk filled out an application and submitted it, the answer came back quickly: He was not currently eligible because his landlord had out-standing violations on the property.

“You said you want to help out business owners,” Misyuk said angrily, referring to the city. “I am a small guy. You said you want to do something in particular for my store — why don’t you do that?”

Janel Patterson, spokesperson for the city’s Economic Development Corp., said in an e-mail that the city is trying to con-tact Misyuk’s landlord and hopes to work with the building’s commercial tenants to find a solution. Patterson said that while buildings with warrants, liens and viola-tions are not automatically disqualified from the program, any problems must be cleared up before the city begins work on the property.

The $15 million Fulton Nassau Crossroads Program offers free design, engineering and construction manage-ment, along with up to $275,000 for construction, to buildings on Fulton and Nassau Sts. The idea behind the pro-gram, funded by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., is to improve the storefronts along the major Seaport retail corridors that have undergone a lot of recent construction. The city has approved about 50 businesses so far and is still taking applications.

Several business owners who are receiving grants lauded the program this week, but it is unclear whether Misyuk will ever benefit from it.

Thurcon Properties, the owner of Misyuk’s building, has received more than half a dozen violations from the Dept. of Buildings over the past three years for failing to maintain the elevator. As a result of the repeated violations, Thurcon owes more than $20,000 to the city, according to D.O.B.’s online records.

Thurcon did not return calls for com-ment.

Misyuk did not criticize his landlord, but rather said the city should find a way to still give him the grant money, which he was promised. City representatives told him the only way he would not get a grant was if he owed taxes or was a criminal, Misyuk said.

Misyuk has long thought his storefront needed work, and before he had even

heard of the city program, he had already taken out a private loan of $20,000 to renovate it. But once city representatives told him he was virtually guaranteed a grant through the facade-improvement program, he spent the money on advertis-ing and other costs instead.

“I wasted my loan,” Misyuk said this week, and now he cannot afford to take out another one to do the storefront work he had planned. He estimates that he needs $12,000, which falls well within the lowest tier of the city’s program. Misyuk hopes an all-glass storefront would attract more customers into his shop, which has suffered during two years of water-main construction on Fulton St.

John Fratta, chairperson of Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee, was sur-prised to hear of Misyuk’s difficulties.

“That’s outrageous,” Fratta said.

“That’s unbelievable, that they will leave that storefront unrenovated… The mon-ey’s not going to the landlord, the money is going to the storeowner.”

The city’s program has three tiers, representing varying levels of funding and scopes of work. The lowest level, which Misyuk applied for, gives business owners up to $15,000 for basic improvements to their storefronts. The upper tiers are for more extensive work, possibly covering the entire building, and require owners to contribute some money as well.

Those who have been approved for the program said it is coming not a moment too soon.

Alex Cardinali, who owns the Ruben’s Empanadas on Fulton St., said he lost 40 percent of his sales since the water-main construction started two years ago, and the only way he’s able to stay open is by using profits from his other three Ruben’s locations to pay the bills.

With up to $15,000 from the city, Cardinali will buy a new electric gate, repaint his storefront and replace the air-condition-ing unit. He said he could not afford to make the improvements on his own.

“People are optimistic — for a change,” Cardinali said of some of his neighbors, who are also receiving grants. “We’ve been suffering for the past two years.”

The city’s program also offers consult-ing that is particularly helpful for owners of landmarked buildings.

Andy Kettler, an owner of the land-

marked 127 Fulton St., qualified for all three tiers of the city program, which means he will receive hundreds of thou-sands of dollars worth of work, though he has to match a portion of it. The grants will allow him to restore the long-vacant storefront to its 1893 condition, and also to clean the entire facade.

“It’s working out great for us,” Kettler said. He hopes the work will begin this fall and finish in the spring, and that he’ll finally be able to attract a ground-floor retail tenant to the space.

Sadia Brangan just heard this week that her Nassau St. eyebrow salon, Thread, was approved for the program. The store has been draped in scaffolding since she opened it almost two years ago, and a pre-vious owner’s sign still lurks behind that scaffolding, Brangan said. She hopes the scaffolding will come down soon, so she can use her grant to put up her own sign and get a new security gate.

Brangan said the city’s program has the power to transform the hodgepodge retail corridors into a more visually appealing place to shop, like Soho or the Lower East Side. The more businesses take advantage of the program, the greater the impact could be, she said.

“When you walk down Nassau St., you don’t have a trendy feel,” Brangan said. “It would help us more if other businesses updated their look.”

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Aleks Misyuk in front of his Fulton St. store.

‘When you walk down Nassau St., you don’t have a trendy feel.’

Sadia Brangan,

Thread eyebrow salon


Downtown murder arrest

Police on Thursday arrested Joseph Pabon, 25, the elevator operator at 2 Rector St., and charged him with the first-degree murder on July 7 of Eridania Rodriguez, 46, a cleaning woman at the office building.

Pabon, whom police had been follow-ing since July 11 when the victim’s body was found in a 12th-floor air duct in the Downtown building, pleaded not guilty and was being held without bail pending trial.

The arrest on July 17 came after the results of tests showed evidence of Pabon’s DNA under the victim’s fingernails, according to law enforcement authori-ties. And both Pabon’s and the victim’s DNA were found on work gloves found at the scene. When Pabon was first ques-tioned after the victim, a mother of three children, disappeared on July 7, he had bruises and scratches on his arm that his lawyer, Mario Galluci, said were from yard work at Pabon’s Staten Island residence.

Pabon had been arrested in April for beating his girlfriend and throwing a bowl-ing ball through her car window, accord-ing to daily press reports. In addition, Pabon’s former wife had obtained orders of protection against him. According to a New York Post article, Pabon’s father, Neftali, 71, pleaded guilty in 2003 to rap-ing his son’s then 14-year-old girlfriend and was put on 10 years probation.

Rodriguez’s body was found fully clothed except for her shoes, with tape over most of her head. The city’s medical examiner said asphyxiation was the cause of death.

Tribeca burglar

Police arrested Dana Frontis, 45, on Thurs., July 16, and charged him with the June 19 burglary of a building at 88 Leonard St. Surveillance camera tapes

recorded Frontis entering and leaving the building fi ve times on that day carrying out bags of items stolen from three apartments. Frontis is also suspected in a June 17 bur-glary of apartments in The Saranac, at 95 Worth St., where he posed as a messenger, according to reports. He is also a suspect in the June 25 burglary of 111 Worth St. during which he was dressed as a construc-tion worker. Frontis, a Brooklyn resident, is being held in lieu of bail pending an Oct. 1 court appearance.

Rude awakening

Giuseppe Tuosto, 46, surrendered to police at the Sixth Precinct on Mon., July 20, after his former girlfriend fi led charges that he assaulted her in her Horatio St. apartment on Tues., July 14. The victim, 32, told police she had run into Tuosto the night before, exchanged greetings and later went home with a friend of Tuosto’s. The woman and her guest both fell asleep on a couch, according to reports. The victim told police that Tuosto got into her apart-ment near West St. while she was asleep, punched and kicked her and then left.

Tuosto, a partner in Via dei Mille, a res-taurant on West Broadway at Broome St., pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was freed pending a July 24 court appear-ance.

Kiefer ducks charge

The misdemeanor assault charge against Kiefer Sutherland, the actor who plays Jack Bauer on the TV program “24,” accusing him of head-butting a fashion designer at a May 5 event in a club at The SubMercer bar at Prince and Mercer Sts., was dropped on Tuesday, said a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney. Sutherland had apologized and reached a settlement with the victim, Jack McCollough.

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On Mon., July 20, Kyle Shaw, left, accused of bombing a Starbucks, left Manhattan Criminal Court, at 100 Centre St., accompanied by his father, after a bond hearing.

POLICE BLOTTER

BY JULIE SHAPIROA falling chunk of concrete stopped

work in part of the Deutsche Bank building Wednesday morning.

The piece of concrete, measuring 3 feet by 3 feet by 10 inches, fell from the second story of the building into a pit on the site as workers were removing the building’s facade, according to the city Dept. of Buildings and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which owns the building.

No one was hurt, but D.O.B. issued a violation to contractor Bovis Lend Lease for failure to safeguard public and property, said Tony Sclafani, D.O.B. spokesperson.

It is unclear why the piece of concrete fell. It landed near the base of the tower crane on the north side of the site, in an area that is fenced off as a protective mea-sure, said John De Libero, spokesperson for L.M.D.C. Sclafani confi rmed that the concrete fell in a place “workers are not typi-

cally gathered.” D.O.B. only stopped work on the north

side of the site. Facade removal there can-not resume until the site safety manager prepares a report and engineers conduct a survey of the building to look for similarly dangerous conditions, Sclafani said.

De Libero said Bovis would propose safety enhancements to D.O.B. on Thursday. He was not sure when work on the north side of the site would restart, but he said the project was still adhering to its most recent schedule.

The Deutsche Bank building, contami-nated on 9/11, is being cleaned so it can be demolished. Though the project has been delayed many times, demolition is sup-posed to start at the beginning of August and fi nish six months later. The building has been under close regulatory scrutiny since a 2007 fi re in the building killed two fi refi ghters.

Piece of Deutsche Bank dropsoff, causing a partial work stop

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BY JULIE SHAPIRO Despite the city’s best efforts to wring

money out of Pier A, the redevelopment proj-ect likely will not turn a profi t, the Battery Park City Authority said this week.

The authority took over the development of the dilapidated historic pier building last year, after the project sat idle in a private developer’s hands for nearly a decade. The idea was for the authority to repair the building and its substructure using $30 million from the city. Then, the authority would lease the refurbished space and hopefully recoup the city’s investment.

Now, it looks unlikely that Pier A will make enough money for the city to break even, said Alexandra Altman, executive vice president of B.P.C.A.

When Altman spoke at the authority’s monthly board meeting Tuesday morning, Charles Urstadt, vice chairperson of the board, sounded alarmed.

“We should tell [the city] how much they’re going to lose on this thing,” Urstadt said.

“I think they probably know,” replied Jim Cavanaugh, president of the authority. The city has seen the same numbers as the author-ity, he said.

The city has been adamant from the begin-ning that the project must make money. When the city leased the pier to the authority last year, the city gave the authority a tough-to-meet $30 million budget, which was based on

fi gures from years ago and did not account for infl ation or rising construction costs.

The city’s Economic Development Corp. has also insisted that a restaurant and cater-ing company anchor the space, Altman said. The authority had spoken to several cul-tural institutions about using Pier A, but that would confl ict with E.D.C.’s vision, Cavanaugh said.

Janel Patterson, E.D.C. spokesperson, did not respond directly to the fi nancial concerns, but released a statement saying, “E.D.C.’s goal for Pier A has always been to preserve this important maritime landmark and cre-ate a new, fi rst-class destination in Lower Manhattan. Given Battery Park City’s record of successfully developing and maintaining public property, its involvement gives us great confi dence in its ability to restore the pier in the appropriate manner.”

Jeanne Giordano, the authority’s retail con-sultant, also said a restaurant/retail combina-tion would have the best chance of generating revenue at the site, Altman said. But others questioned whether the pier, which juts out into the harbor where Battery Park meets Battery Park City, gets enough traffi c to sup-port a restaurant, especially in the winter.

“Putting a restaurant in here is certainly not a slam dunk,” said Robert Mueller, an authority board member. “I’m not trying to be a soothsayer of doom — it’s just not an easy place to put anything.”

And even a successful restaurant and cater-ing hall could have trouble paying the kind of rent the city would need to break even, Altman said. Each year, the city will have to pay off about $1.5 million of the debt it took on to renovate Pier A, Urstadt estimated. That

means Pier A’s 34,000 square feet would have to rent for about $45 per square foot, which is an unrealistic fi gure, the authority said.

The authority is currently repairing the 123-year-old landmarked pier. The underwa-ter work is complete, and the next step is to replace the concrete deck on the fi rst fl oor, which has deteriorated. The authority expects to have the core and shell of the building ready to turn over to a tenant in April 2011. The ten-ant would then build out the space.

This winter, the authority will develop a

request for proposals for tenants, which will likely be released in the spring, Altman said.

The National Park Service was considering using Pier A to screen tourists for Ellis and Liberty islands but decided earlier this year not to do so.

Despite the city’s focus on generating rev-enue, some Battery Park City residents hoped a nonprofi t organization could use at least some of Pier A.

“It’s wonderful spot, it’s historic, so it should have some sort of cultural element,” said Anthony Notaro, a member of Community Board 1’s B.P.C. Committee. Notaro added that any retail should be geared toward residents.

Barry Skolnick, another member of the B.P.C. Committee, would like to see a museum or performing arts center at Pier A, rather than a restaurant and catering establishment.

“I don’t like to think that money governs everything in New York,” he said. “It’s a shame.”

If a catering hall does end up at Pier A, Skolnick hopes the community could use the space part of the time as a compromise.

Not everyone was displeased at the idea of a restaurant.

“That sounds good to me,” said Bill Love, another community board member. “We always need better restaurants in Battery Park City.”

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derings for 100 Church St., but those all had to be redone for 25 Broadway, the former Cunard building, because the fl oors are “H”-shaped, Koffl er said. Despite the need to redesign the school, Koffl er said it would defi nitely open by fall 2010, as planned. He did not release renderings of the space.

Claremont already has an elementary and middle school at 41 Broad St. and will start a high school there with a ninth-grade class this fall. The elementary school will remain in the 125,000 square feet on Broad St., while the middle school and fl edgling high school will move to 25 Broadway.

Claremont, Lower Manhattan’s only nonsectarian private school, had just 54 students when it opened in 2005. The expan-sion will eventually bring the school’s two locations to a total of more than 1,600 students, Koffl er said. Tuition at Claremont ranges from $20,000 to $30,000, depending on the child’s age.

At 25 Broadway, Claremont will occupy a block of space on the 19th through 22nd fl oors of the building, along with space on the fi rst fl oor and in the basement. The school will have a four-lane, 25-meter pool, much bigger than the one the Church St. space would have allowed. There will be one gym when the space opens in 2010, and another gym will open up in 2017 when more space becomes available, Koffl er said. The school will also have 10,000 square feet of outdoor space.

The school will have a separate entrance on Morris St., a small side street.

Koffl er described the high-tech features that will go into the new building, like a digital library, but one of the things he’s most excited about is already in place: the sprawling views of the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor.

“It’s like you’re looking at a geography lesson every time you look out the window,” Koffl er said. “It’s just a beautiful space.”

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Claremont Prep will be expanding into 25 Broadway, at right, where it will occupy space on the 19th to 22nd fl oors.

‘Putting a restaurant in here is certainly not a slam dunk.’

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BY JULIE SHAPIRO An ice rink is coming to Battery Park City

this winter. The 17,000-square-foot rink, more than

twice the size of the one that opened in South Street Seaport last winter, will go in the B.P.C. ballfi elds during the months the fi elds are usually closed.

“We would like to extend the useful life of the fi elds,” said Stephanie Gelb, vice president of planning and design for the Battery Park City Authority. The goal is a community-oriented skating rink, “as if it’s a local pond,” Gelb said.

The authority is close to signing a deal with Rink Management Services Corp. to build the temporary rink on the fi elds each winter for the next six years. The rink will be of regulation National Hockey League size, approximately 200 feet by 85 feet. It will also have a 9-foot-wide skating path that will break off from the rink and meander around the northern part of the ballfi elds. Only one other rink in the country has a path like that, said Tom Hillgrove, president of R.M.S.

“It’s extremely unique, even for New York,” Hillgrove said.

The rink will be open seven days a week, starting sometime in December and running through late January or early February. The authority is still discussing hours and fees with R.M.S., but admission will be about $10, with skate rental at $3, the authority said. Skating and hockey lessons will cost about $15 a session.

The authority’s board voted Tuesday to give R.M.S. the contract.

Jeff Mihok, a B.P.C. resident, said he is looking forward to taking his children skat-ing at the rink. He suggested a discounted rate for residents or a seasonal membership pass, options the authority is considering.

“I’m really happy to hear they’re going to make that happen,” Mihok said. “To have that space not used for fi ve months of the year is crazy.”

The authority tried to bring an ice rink in for last winter but wasn’t able to pick an operator in time. The other operator that applied for the contract would have cre-ated a much more expensive, tourist-focused rink, which Gelb said had “a lot more glitz

to it” and would not have been compatible with the community.

R.M.S. will pay the authority a minimum of $60,000 per year to rent the space and will pay more if the rink does well, Gelb said. In addition to building the rink, R.M.S. will bring in trailers and put up tents for concessions.

The revenue from the rink will offset the costs of some utility work the authority has to do at the fi elds. The authority plans to spend about $700,000 on the work, which includes removing an electrical panel and a shed from the fi elds’ south side, opening up more space for the local sports leagues to use.

Tom Merrill, president of Downtown Little League, said he has long been advocat-ing for the authority to make those changes, which will provide room for batting cages and a place for pitchers to warm up.

“Every inch of space down there counts,” Merrill said.

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Another block in the wall: Water work rolls alongWork on the bulkhead, or seawall, between Stuyvesant High School and Pier 25 continues, as part of the construction of the Hudson River Park’s Tribeca section. The Hudson River Park Trust hopes to fi nish work on the entire section by the end of next year.


BY JARED T. MILLERAs she stood below palm trees in the

Winter Garden at the World Financial Center last Friday, Ina Braun could barely contain her joy at the sight of more than a dozen knitters completing projects they would donate to charity. But the New Jersey knitting teacher’s journey to the Financial Center, for the knitting club In The Loop, began in a more humble fashion: She was just trying to get rid of some yarn.

“It was actually a very serendipitous kind of thing,” said Braun, who runs a knitting studio in Boonton, N.J., about the beginnings of In The Loop. “I said, ‘Hey, I have three garbage bags of yarn — can we do something with it?’ And that’s how the whole adventure started.”

In that conversation, Braun was speak-ing on the phone with Karen Kitchen, co-founder of In The Loop and program director at arts>World Financial Center. Kitchen had been soliciting donations for yarn via her In The Loop blog, when Braun contacted her. Kitchen participated in “The Big Draw,” a 2007 arts>World Financial Center event that allowed con-tributions to an artist’s installation in the form of knit scarves, and was looking for a way to bring a community of knitters together at the World Financial Center. Through the event, she realized that the interest was there — but when Kitchen

met Braun, the group began to gain momentum.

“She’s incredibly enthusiastic, and a great teacher,” said Kitchen. Braun now attends the monthly sessions and offers assistance to members of the group; last Friday, those knitting at her table watched with rapt attention as she showed them how to finish a stitch on a blanket.

“I’m just absolutely passionate about teaching it,” said Braun. “I really believe there is a shortcoming of people learning to know intuitively what knitting and cro-cheting is all about.”

In The Loop allows Braun to translate what she does in her small studio — in the form of simpler, focused projects — for a large group of knitters at each month’s event. Each month has a new project as its theme; Friday’s event had the knitters finishing blankets they had started during their time away from the Financial Center. The events give knitters a chance to finish their projects as well as learn new tech-niques and patterns. Kitchen, who was unable to attend Friday’s event, is instru-mental in securing the group’s corporate sponsors, soliciting donations, and the overall planning of each event.

Though In The Loop certainly has an educational focus, the group’s proj-ects also double as charitable donations. The group donated last month’s knitted “chemo caps” to Gilda’s Club, a char-

ity on W. Houston St. that serves cancer patients. This month’s blankets will go to Baby Buggy, another New York City char-ity that aids families in need with supplies for newborns and young children. Because many In The Loop members knit multiple

projects, Kitchen hoped to produce 50 knitted garments for each charity; so far, she and In The Loop members have con-sistently met that goal.

“They’re going to be thrilled,” said Braun, of the charities, “to know that a group of people has come together over a period of months and contributed in that way — because there’s nothing like a hand-knit piece.”

The group’s Brown Bag socials draw a diverse crowd. Though many knitters present at Friday’s event had been knitting for most of their lives, several younger attendees had come for their first project and Braun’s detailed instruction. Making

the trek to the Financial Center from other areas of the city was not uncommon; but one woman present at Friday’s event had to travel a bit farther than simply taking the subway downtown.

“I’ve been to New York a number of times, and I’ve done all the tourist stuff,” said Safia Weeks, 33, who was visit-ing from England. She said she recently started knitting, and found out about the event via the group’s blog. “This is my first project, and I just finished. I’m really proud.”

But the group has something to offer more experienced knitters as well — tips and ideas from others at their level.

“You have so many resources in other people that can help you,” said Maura Templeton, 56, who works for A.I.G. and said she had been knitting for almost 50 years. “You like to talk about what you’re doing, and different techniques that you’ve picked up.”’

As she watched the knitters finish their projects, Braun remarked on how the focus of the blanket project bolstered the skills of In The Loop’s members, and taught them techniques they could use in personal projects of their own. But Weeks explained that the joy of In The Loop is rooted in something much simpler.

“I think that if you can actually do a hobby, and do something good at the same time, why not?” Weeks said.


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Dear Transit Sam, I’m wondering if you have any ideas about

how to make the N.Y.C. subway system more family friendly. I’ve attached a photo of a child on a crowded subway car surrounded by oblivi-ous adults drinking hot coffee and listening to music. In addition, rush-hour crowds blocking car doors often make it hard for parents with baby carriages to even enter the train and

always make it hard for passengers to maneuver in general. My suggestion is to designate a spe-cial car for families, bicycles and big packages only. This would drastically improve the quality of riding the subway for all subway riders.

Evelyn, via mail

Dear Evelyn,Poor kid! I did pass your suggestion

along to N.Y.C. Transit, and I have to concur with their assessment; that hav-ing a designated subway car is just not feasible in our massive system. However, the agency does its best to accommodate its variety of riders through “priority seating.” These “priority seats” must be given up when asked to do so by elderly passengers, disabled customers, pregnant women and others whose special needs may not be so evident. N.Y.C. Transit spokesperson James Anyansi also adds, “They have ongoing campaigns alerting customers to the use of priority seating and also requesting that customers give up regular, unmarked seats to the elderly or disabled as a courtesy. Also, our newer subway cars have flip-up seats in four of the eight or 10-car trains to accommodate wheelchairs.” So next time, let’s save that poor little guy a seat!

Transit Sam

Dear Transit Sam, I know cars are prohibited from parking

in a crosswalk. Do the stop lines painted in the street mean anything as far as park-ing? I’ve defi nitely seen cars parked past the stop line but before the crosswalk lines that have tickets on the windshield. Can you clarify?

Ted, Lower East Side

Dear Ted, Stop the ticketing, I repeat, stop the ticket-

ing! The stop lines (or bar) only apply to mov-ing vehicles and do not defi ne a crosswalk, which I also stated in another letter a few weeks back. The N.Y.C. traffi c rules allow vehicles to park up to the pedestrian cross-walk, marked or unmarked. The city Dept. of Transportation has been installing more stop lines, several feet before crosswalks, to ensure motorists don’t block the crosswalk and to increase safety for both parties. Thus, it’s pos-sible, signs permitting of course, to be legally parked between the stop line and crosswalk.

Another community that has had prob-lems in recent months was the Riverdale section of the Bronx, where scores of readers wrote me saying they were being erroneously cited for parking in a crosswalk when they were parked between the stop bar and cross-walk. (I believe things have improved.) If the wrongful citations continue, we’ll make sure N.Y.P.D. gets it right. Keep me posted.

Transit Sam

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More than 50 city arts organizations will receive a total of $2.4 million in federal stimulus money, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler announced last week.

Many of the groups have Lower Manhattan roots or have done pro-grams Downtown, including Dance New Amsterdam, Creative Time and the Joyce Theater, which will all get $50,000. The money, granted through the National

Endowment for the Arts, is intended to preserve jobs at nonprofit arts groups, which are struggling with the recession and may otherwise be forced to do lay-offs.

“It’s always essential to support the arts in our communities,” Nadler said in a statement, “but these stimulus funds are particularly significant right now for the retention of thousands of local jobs.”

In the fi rst session the State Senate held after reuniting, the legislators released from limbo a slew of bills that had been waiting for their stamp of approval.

Among them was an extension of the Lower Manhattan commercial incentives, put in place in 2007 to aid in the post-9/11 recovery of the neighborhood’s businesses. Under the bill, businesses below Canal St. will be eligible for reduced rents and sales tax exemptions for equipment purchased for an additional four years, through June 2013. Eligibility for the sales tax exemption will

last another two years, through September 2015, at the World Trade Center and the World Financial Center and in Battery Park City.

The Assembly passed the commer-cial incentive extension bill in June, and the Senate finally took it up at 12:30 a.m. June 10, shortly after the leader-ship impasse was resolved. Sen. Daniel Squadron sponsored the bill in the Senate and Speaker Sheldon Silver sponsored it in the Assembly. Gov. David Paterson signed it this week.

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BY JARED T. MILLERA new plaza near the entrance to the

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel may be on its way, according to an announcement by the Downtown Alliance business improvement district last Wednesday.

The plan, which involves the expan-sion of the existing Edgar St. plaza, would be funded as part of the New York City Plaza Program. The program, established by the city Dept. of Transportation, allo-cates funding for transforming underused streets into public plazas in neighborhoods lacking open spaces for pedestrians. As part of the Downtown Alliance BID’s proposal to D.O.T., the new plaza would expand into two lanes of traffi c on Edgar St., a four-lane road.

Proponents of the plan say the extra lanes of the 63-foot-long street are rarely used, or are used as parking space. The proposal was announced at the Community Board

1 Planning Committee meeting last week. Though the committee voted to write a letter of support for the Alliance’s plan, the plaza’s construction is dependent upon D.O.T.’s decision to award funding. D.O.T. is still reviewing the plan, and will likely announce the decision by October.

“As the community evolves further and gains a more residential neighborhood feel, the need for a heart and center becomes more and more important,” said Christopher Reynolds, assistant vice president of planning for the Downtown Alliance. “The potential for that plaza to serve that role becomes more and more heightened.”

Edgar St. is wedged between Greenwich St. and Trinity Place, and is situated next to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority parking garage. The street is primarily used for traffi c in and out of the garage, Reynolds said. As part of the proposal to D.O.T., the Downtown Alliance must secure the sup-port of the surrounding community. C.B. 1’s Planning Committee is already on board.

Currently, the Edgar St. plaza is sparsely landscaped, with shrubs and benches lining the perimeter. The majority of the plaza is concrete, allowing for the fl ow of pedestrian traffi c through the area. NYCwireless, a

nonprofi t group that advocates for wide-spread wireless Internet access, hopes to install Wi-Fi capabilities for the plaza if the proposal is approved, said Bruce Brodoff, spokesperson for the Alliance.

If D.O.T. approves the proposal, planning and design work will commence in the fall and construction will conclude by the middle of 2012, according to the Downtown Alliance’s preliminary timeline. The Downtown Alliance will be responsible for future maintenance of the redesigned plaza.

“It certainly could be much nicer than it is now. And it will be,” said John Foss, co-chairperson of C.B.1’s Planning Committee, explaining that he supported the idea of expanding the plaza into the underused lanes of Edgar St. “Anytime there’s outdoor space we can improve, I think that benefi ts everyone.”

Ryan Hoffecker, 29, who works nearby at One Liberty Plaza, was sitting in Edgar St. plaza as he checked his BlackBerry last Friday. He said he supported the idea of expanding the current space.

“It’d be nice to have more green, less con-crete,” said Hoffecker, noting that he rarely sees cars in Edgar St.’s extra lanes. “Green is always better in the city.”

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Dept. of Labor said. In Lower Manhattan, where so much con-

struction has fl ooded the neighborhood that the city and state created a command center to keep track of it all, the numbers do not appear to be much different, though no one collects the statistics. Women at several large construc-tion sites said they work with hundreds of men but just a handful of women.

The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center runs several programs to attract women and minorities to work sites Downtown, including classes and job place-ment assistance.

“It’s not a man’s world anymore,” said Beverly Bobb, who manages the command center’s equal-opportunity programs. “If a woman can do it, why not?”

While Bobb said women remain very much in the minority and occasionally face harassment or poor work conditions, those who spoke to Downtown Express this month did not describe an atmosphere of negativity or discrimination. The biggest challenges of the job come not from their minority status but from the job itself, the women said.

Arlene Fisher, a surveyor at One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, said the most diffi cult thing she has to do is navi-gate the red tape associated with rebuilding ground zero.

“It’s different than any of the other jobs I’ve worked on,” Fisher said. “The chain of command is longer than normal… It takes 10 times as long to get anything done.”

Fisher, 39, spoke of her male co-workers with affection and a trace of condescension.

“Believe it or not, the guys on construction sites have good manners,” she said. Her one problem is that “They just don’t listen,” she said. “But most of the guys are well-trained,” she added. “They don’t like to see me get mad.”

Fisher, who is divorced and has two young children, started working in construction nine years ago after growing frustrated with her low-paying job as a special-education teacher. Now she spends most days outside, and on a recent afternoon she was using a laser to measure whether a concrete wall around the Freedom Tower’s core was perfectly straight and exactly where it was supposed to be.

Fisher and others described the salary — an average of nearly $50,000 a year for a full-fl edged union member, plus benefi ts, according to a women’s advocacy group — as the biggest perk of the job.

The promise of good money drew Estelle St. Clair into a carpenters’ union in 1999, when she was out of work and had a 5-year-old son to care for.

“I did it at fi rst for the income, but now a lot of the work fascinates me,” said St. Clair, who is building Tower 4 at the World Trade Center site. “Looking at the massive struc-tures in New York, it makes you interested in how they get done, start to fi nish.”

On a recent morning, St. Clair, 35, strode across Tower 4’s partially completed fl oors with a pink bandana beneath her hardhat

and the remnants of pink polish on her fi n-gernails. St. Clair spoke with pride as she pointed out the recently poured concrete and the rows of steel reinforcements, then she worked with several men to build a structure that would support a new concrete fl oor for the next level up.

When St. Clair was fi rst starting out in construction, some guys told her they wouldn’t work with concrete, because it was too dangerous. St. Clair was a little nervous, too, and she had to master her fear of heights so she could build skyscrapers.

“You’re outside in the fresh air, and there are new things to do every day,” St. Clair said. “Sometimes it’s a little scary.” She paused. “I love it,” she said.

St. Clair got so comfortable with being high up off the ground that on her last proj-ect, the Bank of America tower in Midtown, her supervisor had to remind her whenever she got too close to the edge of the building — she was so absorbed in her work that she barely noticed.

As for the men she works with, St. Clair said she rarely has problems.

“Sometimes at fi rst, on a new job, they’ll say, ‘Can we ask her to do this? Is she willing?’” St. Clair said. “But once they see you jump in and you try, everyone loosens up some.”

Tanya Ridley, a metal lather and the only other female hard hat at Tower 4, said her favorite part of the job is its hands-on usefulness.

“You work hard, you get dirty, you know it’s worth it,” she said, grinning.

Ridley, 32, said she doesn’t mind being one of the only women on the site, and the men she works with don’t seem to mind either.

“If I’m not as strong as they are physically, I’m willing to work hard to get it done, just like anyone else,” she said.

Ridley initially worked as a secretary and a receptionist after high school, unaware that construction was even an option. Women are funneled into college, the military or low-pay-ing, unrewarding jobs like home healthcare, she said, when the building trades might be a better fi t.

Ridley may never have broken into con-struction at all, but two years ago she heard about a Chelsea group called Nontraditional Employment for Women.

NEW runs six-week training programs designed to launch women into careers in construction and other building, transporta-tion and energy trades. Participants brush up on math skills, learn to read blueprints and practice toting 63-pound buckets up fl ights of stairs. NEW trained nearly 500 women last year, most of them lower-income minorities, and has been encouraging women to work in construction since 1978. Ridley did the pro-gram in 2007 and said it gave her the skills

she needed to get a union job. “Things are changing,” said Kathleen

Culhane, vice president of programs at NEW. “Doors are opening like never before… . Today, it’s not such a rarity to see not only one woman but a handful of women on a job site, working in construction.”

On a Friday afternoon last month, NEW held a graduation for 12 women who had just completed the six-week program. The brief but boisterously heartfelt ceremony took place on the third fl oor of NEW’s W. 20th St. building, beneath posters reading “Celebrate Men Working With Women” and images of NEW’s logo, which looks like the symbol for “female” with a hammer instead of the “T.”

As each woman’s name was called to receive a completion certifi cate, the others cheered, making up for the lack of friends and family members in the very small audience.

(Before the ceremony started, one of the NEW leaders asked if any of the women were waiting on a guest. “It’s just us,” one of the students replied. Pointing to her fellow gradu-ates, she added, “My guest is right here.”)

After impromptu speeches that left nearly everyone in tears, the graduates ate pizza and refl ected on the demanding six weeks behind them and their plans for the future.

Taja Brown, 28, hopes to join a union so she can continue working in construction but get paid better wages. When she was 19, she helped her father fi x up a house, and she fell in love with the work. Since then, she’s been getting jobs wherever she can.

“I like the looks I get in Home Depot,” Brown said, especially when she’s picking out an unusual tool or material. “People stare, like, ‘What do you know about that?’”

Brown once picked up a customer that way — a man saw her looking at tools in the tiling section, and she wound up tiling his entire basement. Brown has gotten some tiling jobs partly because she’s female, since customers expect her to be more detailed and precise, she said.

“But a lot of people assume I can’t do it,” Brown added. “I like to show them and prove them wrong.”

There is no typical NEW student. Other members of the graduating class included Cerise Bunch, a freckled 40-year-old woman from the Bronx, and Ruth Zuniga, a 20-year-old from Spanish Harlem. Bunch has an engi-neering degree but can’t fi nd a job, so she decided to give the blue-collar industry a shot. She hopes to work for Con Edison or the Fire Dept. Zuniga had to complete her G.E.D. so she could apply to NEW, and now she wants to work as a bricklayer.

One of the only parents to attend the gradu-ation was Stephanie Spencer, whose daughter Rashida Johnson, 26, had just completed the program. Johnson graduated collage and had worked in public relations but was laid off, her mother said.

“It’s wonderful that she’s getting a chance to go out there in the world and compete with guys,” Spencer said. “Women coming into con-struction, electrical, plumbing work — this is the last frontier, so good for them.”

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Estelle St. Clair, a carpenter, building the structure to hold up molds for concrete pouring at Tower 4 at the World Trade Center site.

‘You’re outside in the fresh air, and there are new things to do every day. Sometimes it’s a little scary. I love it.’

Estelle St. Clair


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Enjoy trees while you can

To The Editor:As part of the Route 9A/West St.

Promenade construction, it was recently announced that, concerning the grove of mature trees along West St. north of West Thames St., “All the trees will come down.” (news story, “West Thames Park work is a go,” July 10 – 16).

A while ago, it was almost funny that a basketball court, playground, gardens, and playing fi eld would be destroyed in order to build a basketball court, play-ground, gardens, and playing fi eld. But now, it has been announced that mature trees will all be removed in order to build a park with trees. When ques-tioned, we’re told, “There’s no way to save them.” Ridiculous. Of course, there is a way to save those trees — design the new park to accommodate the trees. Let the trees dictate the layout of the park. This is what is done in communities less progressive and less in need of trees than New York City.

Go stand at West Thames St. or on the east end of Rector Place and enjoy the grove of large trees while you still can. What a sad time for Battery Park City.

Jim Watson

Lederman’s legacy

To The Editor:Re “Art of the deal” (letter, by Robert

Lederman, July 17 – 23):I always fi nd it interesting when

Robert Lederman attacks someone else for not being a friend of street artists. Although I have serious issues with some of Councilperson Gerson’s ideas for street artists, and have spoken out strongly against facets of his proposed street-vend-ing legislation, it is Mr. Lederman’s philos-ophy that I feel has had the most negative impact on the street-art scene.

Consider the lowly state of formally well-known public artist areas, such as West Broadway in Soho. Only give fi ve to seven years ago West Broadway was bus-tling with travelers from all over the world who made a point of coming to Soho to visit fi ne artists who publicly display their own original artwork on the weekends. As this public art scene had evolved, some fi ne artists began to unite as a way to represent their issues politically and to promote who they were and where they could be found.

However Mr. Lederman fought every attempt by these fi ne artists to come together. He is “president for life” of his own group and he guards his position with great jealousy. His method to retain control was, as it has always been, to use relent-less mendacity and grossly false charges against members of the artist cooperative. This, in turn, caused paranoia in the ranks

and, as a result of their amplifi ed fear, many fi ne artists then jumped onto the Lederman bandwagon as a way to fend off threatened new legislation proposed by Mr. Gerson.

Mr. Lederman’s plan called for fi ne art-ists to join forces with the legion of vendors who sell cheap, often illegally copied art reproductions and imitation jewelry, there-by blurring the line defi ning who fi ne artists actually are. This negative strategy proved to work against artists. Knowledgeable travelers and collectors simply have taken West Broadway and other formerly well-known artist areas off of their itineraries because the scene has become so polluted with cheap reproduction art and knockoff merchandise that it is to be avoided. The result is that few, if any, public fi ne artists can support their families anymore. That is the Lederman legacy.

Of course the economy has sunk to a new low, which has had a very negative effect on artists as well. However, the cooperative plan gave fi ne artists tools to deal with the economic downturn and recourses to which they now have no access. Without this plan, artists simply sit idly by while waiting for Mr. Lederman to fi ght Mr. Gerson over proposed legislation that appears to be going nowhere. At the same time, vendors of cheap reproduc-tions sell briskly in areas where fi ne artists used to display their own artwork. What a shame for us all.

Lawrence White

Mayor’s ‘shell game’

To The Editor:Re “Mad as Hell, Mayor...” (Seaport

Report, July 17-23):As we have long predicted, the tem-

porary alleviation of placard parking problems in Chinatown would result in the problem moving into surrounding neighborhoods. The Bloomberg admin-istration is playing a sort of “automobile shell game” with the residents of Lower Manhattan. And the problem will move from neighborhood to neighborhood unless and until the root of the problem is addressed: the uncontrolled awarding of parking privileges as a “perk” to city employees and affiliates.

Lower Manhattan residents must make government-issued parking reform one of the top issues for mayoral candidates in this election year. We must demand the elimination of the archaic and corrupt system of awarding paper parking plac-ards and replace it with a modern, paper-less, traceable parking-reservation system that we have presented in the Downtown Express previously. We must insist on the use of car-sharing programs using Zipcar-like technology, similar to that being used

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORA job well done

Just a few years ago, Community Board 2 was an example of everything that possibly could be wrong with a community board. The volunteer, 50-member body was bitterly divided between business owners and residents, and the hostility was palpable and unconstructive. A low point came when it was revealed that the leading candi-date for chairperson had hidden from his fellow board members a confl ict-of-interest ruling about himself for almost a year and a half.

Of course, the problems start from the top. The Manhattan borough president then was C. Virginia Fields. She courted the business community in her bid to run for mayor, which was reflected in the com-munity board’s makeup, as the number of appointees who were business owners grew. Although C.B. 2 — which includes Greenwich Village, Soho, Noho, Hudson Square, Little Italy and the Meat Market — probably had an anti-business bias before, Fields swung the pendulum too far the other way.

Since Scott Stringer took office as borough presi-dent at the start of 2006, however, C.B. 2 has shaped up dramatically. One of Stringer’s campaign planks was community board reform — and a major inspira-tion for that position was the mess at C.B. 2. He set up a blue-ribbon screening panel to vet new appli-cants and members seeking reappointment, and his office did outreach to find qualified applicants and to increase the boards’ diversity and representation. He also redressed the business-versus-residents imbal-ance that had grown on C.B. 2 by appointing more community members to the board.

However, it was really under Brad Hoylman as chairperson during the past two years that C.B. 2 made its impressive turnaround — to the point where, today, as opposed to a feuding board, C.B. 2 is a model of a well-functioning one.

Hoylman stepped down last month following the board’s unofficial two-year term limit for chair-person. During his tenure, he ran the board with aplomb, intelligence, a deft touch and respect.

It’s not surprising that Stringer had tapped Hoylman to be part of a team to help him craft his improved process for screening new board applicants. Hoylman also made sure his own board members became more familiar with what constitutes conflict of interest, so as not to repeat the problems of the past.

Whether managing huge, contentious meetings on issues like the St. Vincent’s Hospital rebuilding proj-ect or overseeing the public review of important New York University projects, such as the co-generation initiative or the Provincetown Playhouse project, Hoylman was steady, fair, sensible and engaged.

Ultimately, C.B. 2 under his leadership showed, as he put it, that community boards “can be effective, can be credible, can make a difference.” Our thanks to Hoylman for all his good work on the behalf of the community, because, under him, the board really did “make a difference.” What transpired at C.B. 2 holds lessons for Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1 and all the city’s community boards.

In addition, C.B. 2’s new district manager, Bob Gormley — with his no-nonsense professionalism — has helped overhaul the board’s climate.

Jo Hamilton, the board’s new chairperson, an ally of Hoylman’s and an impressive activist in her own right, has now taken the reins at C.B. 2. We know that her interest is first and foremost in the com-munity, and we wish her great success in her new leadership position. In Hoylman, she’s learned from one of the best.

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in Washington, D.C, to reduce the number of government cars on our streets.

Most important, we must ask our-selves if we want to give a mayor who has ignored these problems for eight years, and who has given himself an exemption from the voter-mandated two-term limit, another opportunity to wreak havoc on our quality of life and economic vitality in Lower Manhattan. The best thing to do when confronted with someone offering you a “shell game” is to walk away. Let’s walk away from any mayor who would play such games with us.

Jeanie ChinJan LeeJohn OstChin, Lee and Ost are members, Civic Center Residents Coalition

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The way it was when Cronkite took off his glassesMEMORIAL

BY JERRY TALLMER One thing I’ve learned about Walter

Cronkite in the hours since he left us last Friday at 92. He hated his eyeglasses, as I do mine. In almost every and any occasion, but most notably the moment he had to inform the world of the death of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the fi rst thing he did was to remove his eyeglasses, start talk-ing, and then after a few seconds, put them back on.

Of course on that bad day in 1963 the world also saw Cronkite blink away a couple of tears as he fought — without visibly showing it — for control. But many, many, many times when there were no tears at all — the moment in 1969 that a man fi rst walked on the moon, or all those spurts of explosive or absurd drama at one or another Republican or Democratic convention — the fi rst thing you saw Uncle Walter do was remove his eyeglasses just as he started talking.

They probably irritated him behind the ears, as mine often do me.

The most trusted man in America — who was it fi rst called him that? Probably (and

sardonically) Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, in either case, the most mistrusted man (pre-Bush) in America.

But that’s what Cronkite was, and this in the era when there were only three big national and worldwide television outlets — NBC, ABC and CBS — with CBS by far the leader (for me) in quality and truth, in a tradition that fl owed all the way from Edward R. Murrow on the roofs of burning London, to Archie Bunker and Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart and Maud, to the “CBS Nightly News” and its one-thousand-percent reliable anchor man, whom we knew would never knowingly serve us any bullshit whatsoever through all the wars and cataclysms and lies and disasters and brutalities and ballyhoo, home and abroad.

I learned something else about Walter Cronkite as people on the tube talked about him over this past weekend. He was the grandson of one dentist, son of another and nephew of yet another. So the world lost a good dentist when it acquired a great news-man.

There was, however, one thing I already

knew about Cronkite that not everybody else had ever seen: He was, or could be, in private, a bit of a clown.

This came out on the day, years ago, that I went to interview Mrs. Walter Cronkite — Betsy Cronkite — in their town house, I disremember where, but probably the Upper East Side. Mr. Cronkite himself did not sit in. Suddenly, at the end of a gracious and vivacious hour — gracious and vivacious on her part — there was a halloo from someone somewhere far upstairs: the most trusted man in America himself.

Cronkite, like John F. Kennedy — like all the Kennedys — was a passionate sailboat man. Now, from far upstairs, three or four fl ights upstairs, I heard the skipper bellow to his crew, i.e. to the lady I was interview-ing: “Ahoy, down there! Are we shipshape and ready to cast off?” — or something very much like that.

Mrs. Cronkite looked at me and giggled or blushed or maybe neither.

“He puts on his captain’s hat and does that every day,” she said with a Candida-type half-shrug, half-smile.

Now, all these years later, I’m led to

believe that the most trusted man in America had taken his eyeglasses off as he leaned over a railing three fl ights up and hollered: “Ahoy, down there! Is everything shipshape?”

Because that’s the way it is, or was, once upon a time. A better time.

* * *

It was only after I had written the above that I heard of the death of Frank McCourt, at 79, this past Sunday, July 19, 2009.

So the cold and drizzle and mists and downpours of Limerick fi nally got you, Frank, all these years and miles later. I am desperately sorry. If there is anyone alive who never heard of the author of “Angela’s Ashes” and “’Tis” and “Teacher Man,” be it merely known that Frank McCourt, like Walter Cronkite, was a man you could trust — absolutely — whether as writer, or teacher, or playmaker, or actor (with and without brothers Malachy and Alphie), or just plain heartfelt, sensitive, tough-fi bered Irish-American. He was a kind of music all his own, and to the bone. Wherever you are, Frank, play on.

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Yankee stars salute Little League A’s star ThomasYankee superstars Joba Chamberlain, Andy Pettitte and Alex Rodriguez came to J.J. Walker Field in Greenwich Village on Tuesday as part of the Yankees’ fi rst annual HOPE Week to salute Thomas Ellenson and his Greenwich Village Little League Athletics teammates. Ellenson, who has cerebral palsy, always leads the A’s onto the fi eld in his motorized wheelchair before their games, and uses a special device his dad invented called a Tango, which allows him to speak, to read the lineup, as well as play the “Charge!” tune to fi re up the team. The Yankees also led skills clinics for the A’s during their J.J. Walker visit. Above, back row, from left, Chamberlain, Pettitte, Rodriguez and Kevin Long, the Yanks’ hitting coach; front row, from left, dad Richard Ellenson, Thomas and Cameron Breen, Thomas’s cousin.


BY PATRICK HEDLUND

RISE OF THE MACHINES

Nearly 100 illegal cash machines encroach onto sidewalk space in the East Village and Lower East Side, creating a public blight and increasing the risk of crime, according to a recent survey by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

The citywide survey found 258 unregu-lated sidewalk A.T.M.’s located throughout Manhattan, most of which are owned by companies that contract with nearby retail stores to place them on sidewalks near busy stretches.

Stringer has urged the city to adopt regulations to discourage the proliferation of such stand-alone A.T.M.’s, decrying their intrusion into public space and the potential threat they pose to user safety.

“The last thing our crowded sidewalks need is competition for space from these illegal machines,” Stringer said in a state-ment. “But this is more than just a nui-sance. The exploding number of sidewalk A.T.M.’s need to be covered by the same consumer protections that apply to bank A.T.M.’s. Otherwise we’re asking for ris-ing incidences of street crime and identity theft.”

The survey showed that more than 85 percent of the bank-unaffi liated street A.T.M.’s lacked visible surveillance cam-eras and more than 40 percent had been vandalized with graffi ti. Additionally, the average charge for withdrawing money was nearly 8 percent higher than at indoor A.T.M.’s surveyed.

“Community Board 3 has an active street life and densely populated side-walks,” added Susan Stetzer, district man-ager of C.B. 3, in Stringer’s statement. “Illegal A.T.M.’s do not serve our com-munity — they create potential criminal/safety problems, they are covered with graffi ti, and they take up valuable sidewalk space.”

According to the Borough President’s Offi ce, retail stores are only permitted to display merchandise for sale within 3 feet of the store. The city Department of Transportation currently regulates the A.T.M.’s, and Stringer called for all of the machines to be licensed to “force the own-ers to meet reasonable standards of safety and cleanliness.”

The East Village-based blog EV Grieve also complained about the preponderance of A.T.M.’s back in March, photograph-ing six cash machines along one block of

Avenue B alone. Sara Renaud, a Prince St. resident,

complained of seeing two A.T.M.’s sprout on her street between Elizabeth St. and the Bowery in recent months. She said that the infl ux of nightlife establishments in the area has led to an increase in the machines’ presence Downtown.

“This is a beautiful little neighbor-hood, it used to have class,” said Renaud, who recently started a petition seeking to limit the number of free-standing street A.T.M.’s. “It’s like Vegas — it’s just out of control.”

She also reported that a mugger recent-ly targeted someone on her block, leading Renaud to speculate that card-swiping patrons have become easy marks for criminals.

“If I was a mugger,” she added, “that’s where I’d hang out.”

SUMMER RENTAL CHILL

Rental prices in Tribeca, one of the most expensive and sought-after neighbor-hoods in the city, took a tumble during the last month, while rents in the Financial District showed uncharacteristic gains, according a monthly market report from the Real Estate Group New York.

The July report, covering one of the most active rental months of the year, showed that average Tribeca rents for studio and one- and two-bedroom apart-ments in both doorman and non-doorman buildings slipped by 2.77 percent over all since last month. The decrease was attributable to a more than 12 percent drop in the average price of non-doorman studios in the neighborhood, as well as a 5.26 percent fall for non-doorman one-bedrooms.

All unit types in the Financial District experienced a modest 0.95 percent increase, a figure bolstered by a 9.93 percent jump in the average price of non-doorman two-bedrooms and a 4.07 percent spike for non-doorman one-bed-rooms.

Other notable changes included a near-ly 9 percent drop in the average price of doorman studios in Soho, as well as 7.15 percent dip for non-doorman two-bedrooms in the neighborhood. However, Soho did post gains for non-doorman studios (up 9.03 percent) and doorman two-bedrooms (up 7.74 percent).

On the Lower East Side, noticeable decreases were felt in the price of non-doorman studios (down 7.75 percent) and non-doorman two-bedrooms (down 6.58 percent), while increases occurred at doorman two-bedrooms (up 6.89 per-cent) and doorman one-bedrooms (up 6.52 percent).

Prices in Battery Park City remained steady month over month.

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Juniors still standing after three teams make tourneyJUNIORS

Having fi elded summer tournament teams in three quali-fying age groups for the fi rst time in its history, Downtown Little League is now down to one surviving squad. That team, the 13 and 14-year-old Juniors under Coach Norman Kleiman, advanced out of District 23 after a forfeit by Inwood Little League on July 9. The Juniors squad will face a Long island champion on Saturday in Rockaway.

MAJORSWestside Little League vs. Downtown Little League

Downtown Little League’s 12-year-old Majors team was eliminated from the district tournament after losing by a score of 5-4 in extra innings to Westside Little League on July 12, at Marcus Garvey Field in Harlem.

After giving up a pair of runs in the fi rst two innings, starting pitcher Robbie Martino settled down and pitched four strong innings for the Downtowners. Behind 2-0, D.L.L. scratched one run across in the third inning and then took a 3-2 lead in the fourth when Will Merrill doubled to drive in Sean McGowan and Louis Moreschi.

In the bottom of the fourth, Moreschi’s defense in centerfi eld single-handedly preserved D.L.L.’s lead. He made a pair of tough catches on sinking line drives and threw out a runner who failed to tag up after the second catch for an inning-ending double play.

A tiring Martino walked the fi rst two batters he faced in the fi fth and was replaced by McGowan. D.L.L.’s ace extinguished the rally to hold the lead by striking out the two batters he faced and tagging out a Westside runner at the plate who tried to score on a wild pitch.

McGowan retired the fi rst batters he faced in the sixth, but with D.L.L. one out from victory and behind in the count 2-1 to the third batter of the inning, he reached his allotted pitch count limit.

McGowan was replaced by Merrill, who walked the inherited and subsequent batters. After the runners advanced to second and third, Westside tied the game when D.L.L.’s catcher over-threw the pitcher on a throw back to the mound. Manager Scott Noga called time out and summoned his players around the mound to settle his team down and, on the very next pitch, the fi nal inning of regular play ended with the score tied when the Westside batter grounded to Martino at second base.

D.L.L. recaptured the lead in the top of the seventh. With McGowan at fi rst base, Brian Burns hit a double off of the top of the right fi eld fence that just missed being a home run. McGowan raced home from fi rst for the go-ahead run, but the missed home run proved to be a harbinger of things to come. After advancing to third, Burns was gunned down at the plate by Westside’s second baseman when he tried to score on Martino’s grounder and the game moved to the bottom of the seventh with D.L.L. ahead by only 4-3.

Merrill struck out Westside’s leadoff hitter and after he suc-cessfully fi elded a bunt attempt by their second batter, Downtown was again one out away from victory. But Westside’s third batter hit a hard grounder to the shortstop, which the usually reliable McGowan was unable to fi eld. The error kept the inning alive for Westside’s cleanup hitter, who homered over the right fi eld fence breaking the hearts of the D.L.L. players and families and sparking a magical run of comeback victories for Westside that ultimately took them to the district championship game.

MINORSStuyvesant Little League vs. Downtown Little League

The seven returning members of last year’s D.L.L. team were perhaps still reeling from last year’s painful losses to the mighty Stuyvesant team, but the team soldiered on during a game July 12 at Cooney Grauer Field in the Bronx.

Despite losing the coin toss, the team was awarded the home advantage by the Stuyvesant coach; a clever move, as the Mets dominated against Jackson Vertucci on a very pain-ful fi rst inning for the Downtown team. Will Higgins made it to fi rst when Valentino Rosa couldn’t hold onto the throw from third. Sean Jennings cranked a double, moving Higgins to third. Rocky Rockefeller singled and drove in run No. 1 when Kai Glick’s throw was late to fi rst from short. John Myles and Henry Schaeffer each took a base on balls, walk-ing in run No. 2. Bryce Andrews’ hit to centerfi eld must have gotten lost in the glare of the sun, as Michael Bogdanos was unable to stop it, and another run scored. Henry Kessler was hit by a pitch, bringing in another runner. Max Goldstein’s fl y to the mound was gloved by Vertucci for the fi rst out. Luke Kelly’s blast to left fi eld got past Downtown’s Nicky Leong, and two more runs scored, and once more, Vertucci faced the top of Stuyvesant’s order.

Higgins made it to fi rst in a close play, scoring run nine. Jennings went down looking for a much-needed out two, but Rockefeller walked. Myles hit another shot to left fi eld, bring-ing in the 10th run. Schaeffer’s grounder to Spencer Kiehl at third was handled perfectly for out three. Tyler Rohan waited patiently in right fi eld, but he was the only defender not to handle the ball from the 14 Stuyvesant batters.

Down 10-0, the Downtown team needed to score at least one run to stay in the game, but it was not meant to be in the fi rst inning. Glick and Valentino Rosa were unable to con-nect with the pitches thrown by Stuyvesant’s Myles. Kiehl took a base on balls, but was stranded there when Bogdanos succumbed to strikes. The Downtown team was able to shut out their opponent in a well-played top of the second, though. Although Andrews took a base on balls after a full count, Kessler’s fl are to Kiehl was caught for out one, and his quick throw back to fi rst nabbed Andrews in an exciting double play. Goldstein walked, and Kelly blasted another to left fi eld, this time for a double. Leong was able to slide on his knees to catch Higgins’ fl y to left for out three.

In the bottom of the inning, the Downtown team struggled to close the gap. Vertucci’s grounder to second resulted in out one, but Leong’s crank to right fi eld brought him to fi rst for Downtown’s fi rst hit. Douglass Stapler’s grounder went through the infi elders and into right fi eld, bringing him to fi rst. Rohan’s walk loaded the bases, and James Borrelli’s base on balls walked in run No. 1 for Downtown. But Glick struck out and Rosa’s grounder was fi elded for out three, and the score was now 10-1.

In the top of the third, now against Jonathan Sandella on the mound, Jennings led off with a line drive to left fi eld that was handled well by Leong for out one. Rockefeller hit to

right fi eld, and Devin Minnihan gloved that for the second out. Myles once again blasted one to the outfi eld, this time to center, where Bogdanos could not move fast enough to grab it out of the air. Myles landed on second, and moved to third when Nathaniel Kue smashed one to left fi eld. Leong threw home, and Stapler threw back to Sandella on the mound, a smart play that saved a run. But Andrews walked to load the bases, and when sub Conor Niegowski was hit by a pitch, the Mets had 11. Goldstein’s grounder to Borrelli at second ended the carnage.

The Downtown team had their best offensive inning in the third. Kiehl’s hard grounder to short had him safe at fi rst on an overthrow that ended up out of bounds. During the next two at-bats, which ended in strikeouts for Bogdanos and Sandella, Kiehl stole second. Leong walked and stole, making it easy for Stapler’s bomb to left fi eld to score both runners easily. Minnihan’s punch to left center gave him a R.B.I. single, and Borrelli took another base on balls, but Glick’s strikeout ended the inning at three more runs for Downtown.

In the top of the fourth, Sandella walked Kelly, Higgins and Jennings, loading the bases with no outs for Rockefeller. His single scored Kelly. Myles got on base as but Kiehl’s dead-on throw nailed Higgins at home. Kue walked, and when Andrews sent the ball fl ying into centerfi eld, Bogdanos tried to throw home from centerfi eld but was not in time and Rockefeller scored. Stapler whipped the ball to fi rst to try to nab Andrews, and Jennings was sent home in another aggres-sive base-running move. But Dante Secada-Oz sent the ball home and nabbed Jennings for out three.

In the bottom of the inning, Secada-Oz, now facing Andrews on the mound, led off with a walk. Kiehl’s grounder to short was thrown to second, nailing the runner for out one. Bogdanos grounded to second, and Kiehl was forced out. Sandella went down looking, and the score remained 13-4.

Downtown did their best to hold them in the fi fth, but Sandella walked Niegowski and then Goldstein to start the inning. Kelly’s line drive was scooped out of the air by Glick for out one, but Higgins drove in Niegowski on a sacrifi ce play that brought Stuyvesant to 14. Jennings’ hit to Borrelli at second made for out three, but the damage had been done. The Stuyvesant team was now ahead 14-4, and Downtown needed a run to avoid the 10-run mercy rule.

But it was not to be. Leong grounded to third base for out one, Rosa struck out and Minnihan’s pop fl y was caught by Kue at fi rst base. The fi nal score was 14-4, Stuyvesant.

The Stuyvesant game left the Downtown team with a 1-1 record in the double-elimination tournament, but Downtown lost again last weekend and is now out of the tournament.

The Downtown Little League Minors tournament team won their opener, but were eliminated after losing the next two games.


Aaron Eng-Achson and his second-grade E.S.L. class from P.S. 42 spent this spring learning about landmarks. To teach the children how new landmarks get created, Eng-Achson brought his class to the Landmarks Preservation Commission last month.

Before the visit, the students wrote persuasive pieces to L.P.C. Chairperson Bob Tierney, hoping to convince him that Confucius Plaza, a 760-unit limited-equity co-op and the tallest building in Chinatown, deserves landmark status. The students gave archi-tectural, historical, aesthetic, moral, and economic reasons why Confucius Plaza is important to the Chinese community and to the New York City community at large.

“I would like for you to make Confucius Plaza a landmark because it gave elderly people a clean, safe place to live,” wrote Lila Chen, one of Eng-Achson’s students. “It is over 30 years old. It is one of a kind landmark. It is the tallest building in Chinatown. It is fl at and semi-circle.”

In addition to teaching his students about landmarks, Eng-Achson hoped to teach them about being active in their com-munity, regardless of the fact that they are young and are still learning English.

“They were very impressed with my 7-year-olds,” Eng-Achson said of the commissioners.

The L.P.C. is reviewing the students’ request, a spokesperson said.

The mission to landmark Confucius Plaza has special mean-ing for Eng-Achson, because his father, Allan Eng-Achson, advocated for the building in the 1970s as a way to maintain Chinatown as an affordable residential community.

Before visiting the L.P.C. June 23, the P.S. 42 students spent fi ve months discussing the meaning of landmarks and their implications for their local community. Their study focused on landmarks around the city but particularly in Chinatown, near their school on Hester St.

Students make case for landmarking Confucius Plaza

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BODY BUILDINGS Children learn about the different shapes of skyscrapers and then use poster-paper and their silhouette to make their very own building! Ages 5+. Registration is required by Friday at 5 PM. Suggested donation is $5 per child. July 25. 10.30-11.30 A.M. The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place. 212-945-6324 skyscraper.org.

BEGINNER TENNIS LESSONS Group sessions with an experienced instructor will emphasize the fundamentals of the game of tennis. For beginner kids ages 6-12 - 6 sessions- $150. Saturdays, July 25 through August 29. 10:30 to 11:30 AM. For beginner teens/adults over 13- 6 sessions – Members: $210, Non-members: $240. 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Community Center at Stuyvesant High School 345 Chambers Street. To register call 646.210.4292. ccshs.org.

CHILDREN’S BASKETBALL Children can play with adjustable height hoops, plus participate in fun drills to improve skills. Free. Mondays and Fridays through October 30 (except holiday week-ends) 3.30-4.30 P.M. for 5-6 year olds, 4.30-5.30 P.M. for 7&older. Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan (access: Chambers Street) 212-267-9700 bpcparks.org.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS (CMA) Chil-dren can explore painting, collage, and sculpture through self-guided art projects. Open art stations are on-going throughout the afternoon, giving children the opportunity to experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper, and found objects. Admission $10. Wednesday through Sun-day, 12-5 P.M., Thursday 12-6 P.M. Children’s Museum of the Arts, 182 Lafayette Street, (212) 274-0986 cmany.org. DANCE IN THE PARK: FAMILY MOVEMENT WORKSHOP WITH THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPA-NY) Participants, children and their families create their own dances based on their observations of movement, time and their surroundings. Everyone is encouraged to participate. For children ages 6 and up. Free. August 1,2-4 P.M. Reservation requested-email your name to [email protected]. Rockefeller Park. 212-242-0800 rivertorivernyc.com.

DOWNTOWN SUMMER DAY CAMP Enjoy the same enriching activities that country day camps offer without the stress of traveling out of the city every day on a bus. Camp combines a daily program with special events to give your chil-dren an exciting and varied camp experience. Kids K-6th grade. For rates and to register go to downtowndaycamp.com or call 212-766-1104 x250.

FUN FOR KIDS AT THE NYC POLICE MUSEUM Kids can test out the sirens used in an NYPD patrol car, take their friend’s “mug shot” in a police line-up and see what life is like on the other side of the bars in a real jail cell and a lot more. Adults $7, children (6-18): $5.00, children under 6: free. New York City Police Muse-um, 100 Old Slip. 212-480-3100 nycpolicemuseum.org.

GO FLY A KITE Manhattan Youth and Governor’s Island are inviting everyone for kite-flying, open spaces and lots of fun. August 7, 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Governor’s Island Picnic Area. For ferry schedules visit govisland.com.

GLOBAL STORY HOUR) Through weekly stories, participants learn about new countries and cultures, participate in interac-tive activities, and learn how to make a difference. Every Friday at 3:30pm. Action Center to End World Hunger, 6 River Terrace, Battery Park City. 212-537-0511 actioncenter.org.

GREEN ADVENTURE Find out what it means to be green. Come to understand the carbon footprint, the green house effect and how to fix the damage done to the environment. Learn about solar energy, hybrid transportation and recycling. This program, led by Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Programming Leader Ellen McCarthy is intended for young people entering 6-8 grades. $525. Pre-registration required. Mondays-Fridays, Through July 24. 10 A.M.-2 P.M. Nelson A. Rockefeller Park (South Lawn) Access: Chambers Street. 212-267-9700 ext. 366 bpcparks.com

KIDS STORYTIME Storyteller Yvonne Brooks leads a storytime with arts and crafts for kids ages 3 - 7, every Saturday at 12 P.M in the children’s section. Baby storytime with storyteller Stewart Dawes takes place on Friday at 4:00 PM for ages younger than 2. McNally Jackson Booksellers, 52 Prince Street, (between Lafay-ette and Mulberry) 212.274.1160 mcnallyjackson.com.

KIDS PROGRAMS Put your children’s energy to good use through art, basketball, chess, cycling, exploration, gardening, and music among other activities. Days, materials fees, and park locations vary. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Two South

End Ave. 212-262-9700, bcparks.org.

MOVIES FOR KIDS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN Special screenings for the kids are shown through August 30, 2009, 10:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., daily. Films shown: The Legend of Quillwork Girl and her Seven Star Broth-ers, Letter from an Apache and others. National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

PRESCHOOL DAY CAMP Children 18 months to 5 years old are invited on a quest for summer fun! This summer’s theme is Safari. Kids will learn about the jungle, do safari searches for animals, plan a ‘trip’ to far away places, and engage in a lot of imaginative play. Flexible schedules including half days, full days and day care options are offered. Limited space is still available through August 21st.The Educational Alliance, 197 East Broad-way (between Jefferson & Clinton Streets) For more information call 646-395-4250 or email [email protected] .

TEEN PROGRAMS Save teenagers from the boredom blues through classes on art, babysitter training, CPR, and environmen-tal activism. Days, materials fees, and park locations vary Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Two South End Ave. 212-262-9700, bcparks.org

PRESCHOOL PLAY AND ART join other toddlers, parents and caregivers for interactive play on a grassy lawn. Toys, books and equipment provided. Free. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, through October 27 (except September 7 and October 12) 10 A.M- 12 P.M. Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park.212-267-9700 bpcparks.org.

SUMMER ART COLONIES The Children’s Museum of the Arts will run a Summer Art Colony on Governors Island and the CMA facility at 182 Lafayette Street in Soho for children ages 6 to 14. The two-week day camp sessions, led by professional artists, will run though September 4. CMA’s Summer Art Colonies allow children to spend their summers exploring nearly every art form in the fine, performing and media arts. The classes are structured to allow full immersion into art. For more information call 212-627-5766 or visit cmany.org.

STORYTIME AT BABYLICIOUS Children ages 3 to 4 are wel-come to participate in free storytime with songs, stories and lots of fun. Free. Every Tuesday, 9.30 A.M. Babylicious, 51 Hudson Street (between Duane and Jay Street) 212-406-7440 babyli-ciousnyc.com.

STORYTIME AT BARNES AND NOBLE Bring your child for an afternoon of stories. Recurring event-check times at barnesandno-ble.com. 97 Warren Street. 212-587-5389 barnesandnoble.com.

TODDLER PLAY GROUP) Story time, play time and fun educational activities are all part of the Community Toddler Play Group for parents with their children. Foster your toddler’s imagination through history, science and maritime-themed activities using interactive materials and engaging book readings.$7 per child, free to family members, Every Wednesday. 1-2:30 P.M., South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Ful-ton St, 212.748.8786, southstreetseaportmuseum.org.

TEEN ENTREPRENEUR BOOT CAMP) It’s a program that gives teens the exciting learning experience that they need to succeed later in life. For more information, please go to teenen-trepreneurbootcamp.org.

TEEN VOLLEYBALL All teens are welcome and no previous experi-ence necessary. referee/scorekeeper and ball Provided. Presented by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Saturdays, 4:30-6:30 pm. Commu-nity Center at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St., 646-210-4292.

SUMMER CAMPS AT THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE ART SCHOOL Top-Quality, Affordable Choices for Summer Fun. For dates and rates go to edalliance.org.

SUMMER FAMILY CONCERT SERIES Everyone is invited to this free musical event for the whole family. July 30- Baby Soda Jazz Band. 6.30 P.M. Washington Market Park, (Greenwich & Duane Streets) Rain location: Downtown Community Center - Warren Street (between Greenwich and West Streets). wash-ingtonmarketpark.org.

YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM-SUMMER ART CLASSES The program provides affordable art classes for kids and teens. Stu-dents are able to experience creating art in a professional art school. Class size is limited to 12 students so individual attention is maximized. All art supplies are included. For ages 10 to 14 and 15 to 19. Meetings twice a week for 6 weeks. $220 per 12-ses-sion course. Through August 14, 2009. Educational Alliance Art School. 197 East Broadway between Jefferson and Clinton Streets. Call Lee Vasu 646-395-4237 edalliance.org/artschool.

YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING This gardening program is for children 3-5 years old. It includes simple gardening projects appropriate for preschoolers. Free. Tuesdays through October 27. 3.15-3.45 P.M. Space limited-first come, first served. The Children’s Garden, Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City (access: Chambers Street) 212-267-9700 ext 348. bpcparks.org.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR EVENT IN THE DOWN-TOWN EXPRESS KIDS LISTINGS?) Listings requests may be e-mailed to [email protected]. Please provide the date, time, location, price and a description of the event. Information may also be mailed to 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-1548. Requests must be received two weeks before the event is to be published. Questions? Call 646-452-2507.

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WONDERMAREThrough August 8At Apexart291 Church Street(212) 431-5270 or www.apexart.org

In “Wondermare,” Susan McIntosh and Albert Wilking present a world as un-settling as it is dizzyingly colorful. Costumes and animal-inspired masks are mixed in with a selection of fi lms made in collaboration with various artists. There is no checklist for the eclectic works on display, leaving the impres-sion that this exhibition was conceived as a “Gesamtkunstwerk” (according to the cura-tors’ belief that ours is “a world out of bal-ance” if not a “house of cards on the brink of a catastrophe.”).

While “Wondermare’s” aesthetic is some-what neo-pop punk, its context is based on Lewis Caroll’s classic “Alice in Wonderland.” Many of the fantastical costumes and fl ickering images on multiple screens were inspired by one of Alice’s most famous remarks: “I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet— and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can have happened to me!”

“Wondermare” is exactly that place — located on the other end of the rabbit hole; a place that is surreal, at times nightmarish, and which tastes of the insane. The press release informs us that it is meant to refl ect the adult world and the various rites that lead to obtain-ing “a civilized persona.” As an interactive exhibition, “Wondermare” aims to provide an opportunity for the audience to re-consider their own passage to adulthood.

We are asked in which of the “Alice in Wonderland” characters we can detect our childhood selves. Were you “Alice, a naïve child/woman who wraps herself in consumer goods,” the curators wonder, “or maybe you are the Mad Hatter, the bad boy enabler who gloriously advocates addictive destruction…?”

We are encouraged to have our individual answers fi lmed in front of a green screen. A different background and context will later be added to the footage, enabling us to become the stars of our own fi lm narrative.

Though the exhibition feels disjunc-tive and its ambitions could be more clear-ly articulated, it is important to note that “Wondermare” is a work in progress — a conceptual organism that will only discov-er its true potential through the audience’s willingness to participate.

BLACK ACID CO-OP (JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN)Through August 15 At Deitch Projects 18 Wooster Street(212) 343-7300 or www.deitch.com

This is the third collaborative project from

New York-based artists Justin Lowe and Jonah

Freeman. As was the case in last year’s “Hello Meth Lab In The Sun” (with Alexandre Singh) — their critically acclaimed installation at Ballroom Marfa in Texas — the structure of “Black Acid Co-op” is based on an eclectic assemblage of rooms.

At Deitch, the installation’s expanse is no less impressive than in Marfa, encompassing the gallery’s main space and basement. It is inspired by the illegal drug featured in the exhibition title, which as the urban diction-ary informs us is “not an acid/pcp combo, but a type of very, very dirty LSD crystal.”

With this at its core, “Black Acid Co-Op” translates as an underground, laby-rinthine infrastructure which the viewers can enter and navigate as they please. Each room is a microcosm of sorts and devoted to another sub-culture involved with the production, trade or consumption of the drug. Through this diversifi cation, Lowe and Freeman comment on the close ties and interlocking realities between the counter-culture and industrial society.

Here, questions of community, ritual, and modern psychosis are compressed and offered as one packaged experience. Upon entering this world dense in information, everyone will be able to fi nd something to relate to, be awed and appalled by.

One room contains a Chinatown bazaar in which familiar details are mixed in with sur-real undertones. T-Shirts with pornographic imagery are on view and the “store’s” counter glass cases are fi lled with plants, crystals and roots of varying size. From here, a fl ight of stairs leads up to a homebrew drug lab where sloppy containers and cigarette butts charac-terize a rather psychotic atmosphere. There’s a bathroom, smelly carpet, nooks, crannies and a hovering sense of anxiety. A cracked wall leads into a pristine museum style gallery — or is it someone’s luxurious salon? Different artworks line the walls, and a few ragged sculptures (which are shown in traditional display cases) are particularly interesting. The fl oor is covered with a bright red carpet, a stark contrast to the white walls, evoking an anticipation or gore which reminds one of fi lmmaker David Lynch’s use of imagery to communicate ominious foretelling.

Each turn offers another story to invade, another scenario to soak up. There is a dark room in which a single overhead light reveals walls scarred by black peeling paint; another that might have housed a commune, a univer-sity library, and even a pirate radio station.

While transitioning from room to room and from one reality to another, “Black Acid Co-Op” unfolds like a strange narrative. The different rooms become fi lm sequences or chapters in a bizarre book. Viewers fi nd themselves immersed in an infectious jour-ney which has the characteristics of a strange dream or drug trip. As it reveals itself layer-by-layer, “Black Acid Co-Op” leaves us pondering if we are mere onlookers or actual protagonists.

Four complex, collaborative Downtown projectsSurreal concepts encourage imagination, contemplation

Photo courtesy of Vivien Lewit

Still image from footage on display (Wondermare)

Continued on page 24Photo courtesy of Deitch Projects

One of the strange “Black Acid Co-Op” rooms


Four complex, collaborative Downtown projects

JÚLIUS KOLLER & JI’Í KOVANDAThrough August 16 At Ludlow 3838 Ludlow Street (between Grand and Hester(212) 228-6848 or www.ludlow38.org

The oeuvres of Slovakian artist Július

Koller (1939-2007) and Czech artist Ji’í Kovanda (B. 1953) have much in common. Both conceptually investigate questions of existentialism and problems of modern com-munication.

Despite the fact that they were born a generation apart, Koller, as well as Kovanda, lived for years under a regime that did not allow true artistic freedom. Since the 1960s, when living in Bratislava, Koller had been devoted to the development of conceptual tools that would maintain a sense of inde-pendence in Communist Czechoslovakia. Especially the “Prague Spring” in 1968 — a brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that ended when the Soviet Union and members of its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt the reforms. This inspired Koller to contemplate the utopian potential of free thought. His work is a per-sonal, witty and at times ironic response to a system, in which culture was defi ned by an

institutional art devoted to Socialist Realist ideals outlined by Moscow.

While Koller’s output has been vast, it was not until fairly recently that his actions, objects, texts and an extensive ref-erential archive have gained more attention. Through the curatorial effort of Tobi Maier, Ludlow 38 offers an important introduction to Koller’s concept of the world. Text cards and works on paper are exhibited, many of which reveal Koller’s interest in signs, such as the question mark, or wordplay. “Escape of a Geo-graphical Object 2 (U.F.O.),” 1986, is one of many works focusing on U.F.O.s, which to Koller could also stand for Univerzálna Futurologická Organizácia (Universal Futurological Organization), Univerzálny Filozofi cky Ornament (Universal Philosophical Ornament) or Underground Fantastic Organization.

Whereas much of Koller’s oeuvre consists of simple notes, diagrams, and conceptual paintings, Ji’í Kovanda’s métier is perfor-mance art. He stages actions (inspired by daily routines) as well as the role of the indi-vidual in the public domain. They take place in both public and private spaces — and often do not even involve an audience. In an elegant installation of primarily black and white photographs, we are able to study excerpts from Kovanda’s body of work. Bearing titles such as “carry some water from the river in my cupped hands and release it a few meters

downriver…,” these images reveal the beauti-ful simplicity of the inherent gestures. Though Kovanda does not regard his work as politi-cal, it does amount to a unique comment on socially accepted routines and the so-called order of things. His work is Romantic, poetic, and truly inspirational.

THE COLUMNS HELD US UPThrough August 1 At Artists Space38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor(212) 226-3970 or www.artistsspace.org

This complex, collaborative project brings together a group of artists work-ing in different media—and marks a unique collaboration between two institu-tions: New York’s Artists Space and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul.

As one of the fi rst alternative exhibition spaces in the city (founded in 1972), Artists Space has long been devoted to the sup-port of artistic experimentation and dialog in contemporary culture. For July, it has invited Platform (whose own space is cur-rently closed for renovation) to take over its SOHO space and organize an exhibition as well as a series of events.

Curated by Vasif Kortun and November Paynter, “The columns held us up” pays hom-

age to both institutions’ fundamental approach to collaboration and diversity of artistic expres-sion. In addition to being an exhibition venue, Platform also provides artist residencies. The exhibited works are primarily by New York based and international artists, who have par-ticipated in the program in Istanbul.

Many of the works focus on complex everyday systems. A multimedia installation by collaborators Can Altay and Jeremiah Day, for example, explores how these systems can be spun into narratives. By documenting the production of stuffed mussels (a well-known street delicacy in Istanbul), Atlay and Day succeed in revealing an unusual facet of a local industry, but they while painting a por-trait of the city at large.

Another fascinating work is by Bulgarian-born, New York-based artist Daniel Bozhkov. By hosting a site for storytellers which traces the journey of a family jewel engraved with an Ottoman Persian poem, Bozhkov creates an unusual document of the object’s mean-ings gathered along the way.

Other works in the exhibition include videos “Telematch Suburb” by Wael Shawky, a series of photographs by Corey McCorkle, a slide installation by Christodoulos Panayiotou, and an installation entitled “Kara-kum” by the late Hüseyin Alptekin.

Concurrent with the exhibition, Artists Space will accept book donations for Platform Garanti’s library through July.

Photo by John Berens, courtesy of Ludlow 38

Installation shot, Koller & Kovanda

Photo by Adam Reich

From “The columns held us up”

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CLASSESI N T R O D U C T O RY A R T W O R K -SHOPS Are you thinking about taking an art class, but not sure what you want to take? Try out a class before commit-ting to a full course and make artwork to take home (pottery, cartooning, draw-ing and photographs). $15 per workshop The Educational Alliance Art School 197 East Broadway 212-780-2300 x 428 edalliance.org/artschool.

ADULT FITNESS PROGRAM Yoga classes are available at 9:15A.M. on Mondays, Zumba at 7P.M. on Mondays and Thursdays and Total Body Workout on Tuesdays at 9A.M. Free trial classes. Downtown Community Center, 120 War-ren St., manhattanyouth.org.

DANCE AND PILATES These ballet, jazz, tango, hip-hop, and modern dance classes, offered for all levels, are ongo-ing. $16/class, discounts available. Ongoing. Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway (entrance at 53 Chambers St.) 2nd Floor. 212-279-4200. dnadance.org.

TABLE TENNIS TRAINING PRO-GRAM No matter what your level is, you’ll find get table tennis training designed to imrove your skills. This venue brings players of all ages togeth-er — where they can enjoy the sport and build new friendships. Mon.-Fri., 10A.M.-1P.M. $100 a year for people ages 6-15 and 50 and older, $200 for others. American Asian Cultural Center of Tribeca, 384 Broadway, lower level. 646-772-2922.

N E W B E G I N N I N G S C H A I R YOGA Trinity Church’s Seniors Group meets for one hour of gentle yoga (done while seated). 10-11A.M. Ongoing. Trin-ity Church, Broadway at Wall St. 212-602-0747, trinitywallstreet.org.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR FIRST-TIME MOTHERS Join parenting experts, Drs. Ann Chanler and Nancy Carroll-Freeman, and other new mothers to voice your thoughts and feelings and find support and encouragement. $25 per group. Thursdays 10-11 A.M. Tribeca Pediatrics, 46 Warren Street. 212-219-9984.

WEIGHTWATCHERS These weekly meetings are designed to help motivate and keep you focused. Stop dieting and start living! From $9 per week. Tuesday afternoons at 3.30pm. Doors open from 3.00pm for weigh in. Caring Community Room, Level 2, 310 Greenwich St. Entry at side of building next to Washington Market Park.646-673-5096.

THEATERART OF MEMORY Four librarians

create elaborate scenarios that explore history and illusion from a feminine perspective. $18. July 30-31. For show times, go online to 3ldnyc.org. 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street. 212-645-0374.

BABES IN TOYLAND This musical is a part of the Ice Factory 2009 Fes-tival of new works. $15. Through July 25. SoHo Think Tank, Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster St, 212-966-4844 sohothink-tank.org.

SUMMER SOLO SERIES SoHo Play-house presents one-night only perfor-mances of acclaimed solo shows. $35. Through August 4, 8 P.M. 15 Vandam St (between 6th Ave and Varick) 212-691-1555. sohoplayhouse.com.

DANCE SITELINES: A SPACE FUNK INVA-SION BY NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE Nicholas Leichter Dance and Monstah Black will bring the energy of funk music, culture, fashion, and dance to The Seaport’s historic cobblestone district. Free. July 27-29, 6:00PM. July 30, 1:00PM. South Street Seaport, at Fulton and Front Streets. lmcc.net/sitelines.

EVENING STARS-MERCE CUN-NINGHAM DANCE COMPANY This event, featuring a unique combina-tion of new material and movement from past and current repertory of the dance company, was designed specifically for Rockefeller Park. Free. August 1- 6 P.M., August 2, 2 P.M., 6 P.M. Rockefeller Park. 212-242-0800 rivertorivernyc.com.

EVENTSBRAZILIAN MOVIE FESTIVAL-CINE FEST PETROBRAS BRASIL-NY This Festival presents many of Brazilian cin-ema’s top films. $10 per movie. August 2-7. Tickets are on sale at ticketweb.com. Tribeca Cinemas. Information: 646-827-9333 brazilianfilmfestival.com.

FREE HEARING SCREENINGS AT THE LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEARING Every Wed. from 12-2P.M. and every Thurs. from 4-6P.M. Call or email to schedule an appointment. LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEARING, 50 Broadway, 6th Fl. 917-305-7766, [email protected].

P U B L I C S A I L S A B O A R D 1 8 8 5 SCHOONER “PIONEER.” Enjoy spectacular views of the New York Harbor from the deck of the historic ship. Tuesdays-Fridays: 3-5PM, 4-6PM and 7 -9PM, Saturdays-Sundays : 1-3PM, 4-6PM, 7-9PM. Prices: 4-6PM

and 7-9PM sails: Adults $35, Student/Seniors $30m Children 12 and under $25. 1-3PM and 3-5PM sails: Adults $25, Student/Seniors $20, Children 12 and under $15. Members receive $5 discount. Reservations suggested. South Street Seaport. Pier 16. 212-748-8786 southstreetseaportmuseum.org.

STONE CARVING WORKSHOP This free two-day carving workshop is offerend by The Sculptors Guild. July 25-26. Governors Island. Go to sculp-torsguild.org for information on reser-vations.

T H I S W O R L D A N D N E A R E R ONES An artistic event held during the summer on Governors Island, “This World” features 19 artworks by inter-national contemporary artists. Free. Fridays, 11-4P.M., Saturdays and Sun-days 12-6P.M. on Governor’s Island. The Governors Island Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan. creativ-etime.org.

COMEDY NIGHTS AT THE VIL-LAGE LANTERN Every night there’s a different comedic flavor at this local joint. Enjoy Pauly’s Candy Store” 9 P.M. on Mondays or “Friday Night Fun-nies” 9 P.M. on Fridays. List of events available online. The Village Lantern, 167 Bleeker St. (Sullivan/Thompson) 212.260.7993 villagelantern.com.

L IKE2LAUGH’S SUNDAY SOI-REE Comics new to the scene are

given the opportunity to showcase their talent. Free. Every Sunday, 7 P.M. Botanica, 47 E Houston St. 212-343-7251.

EXHIBITSJOHN LENNON-THE NEW YORK CITY YEARS Rare, original and nev-er-before-seen artifacts of John Len-non are on display for the public at this rocking exhibition. $24.50, students with ID $19.50. Buy tickets at muse-umtix.com or 866.9ROCKNY. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, 76 Mer-cer Street rockannex.com.

BLACK&WHITE WORKS A diverse range of black & white artworks in varying media is the focus of this exhibition.Through July 31.Ronald

Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, 212.226.3232 feldmangallery.com.

POLICING A CHANGED CITY The exhibi t ion documents how NYPD uses technological progress and new methods of gathering information and outreach to serve and protect the peo-ple after the tragedy of 9/11. Adults: $7.00,seniors: $5.00, children (6-18): $5.00, members and children under 6: free. New York City Police Museum, 100 Old Slip. 212-480-3100 nycpolice-museum.org.

BLACK ACID CO-OP Labeled the “moniker for a counter-culture enclave embedded in the metropolis, “this artistic display is the third collabora-tive project of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Through August 15. Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street. deitch-

projects.com.

BEAUTY SURROUNDS US Visitors can see a unique display including an elaborate Quechua girl’s dance outfit, a Northwest Coast chief’s staff with carved animal figures and crests, Seminole turtle shell dance leggings, a conch shell trumpet from pre-Colum-bian Mexico, and an Inupiak (Eskimo) ivory cribbage board. Two interactive media stations show visitors in-depth descriptions of each object. Ongoing through March 2010. National Muse-um of the American Indian, One Bowl-ing Green, 212-514-3700, nmai.si.edu.

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK Visit Manhattan’s oldest surviving building, 54 Pearl Street which has witnessed nearly 300 years of the city’s history. Ongoing. $4, $3 seniors and children under 18, and free to children under six. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St. 212-425-1776, frauncestavernmu-seum.com.

WISER THAN GOD This collection (a snarky rebuttal to a nearbly gallery show entitled “Younger Than Jesus”) presents worldwide working artists born in or before 1926. Through July 31. BLT Gallery, 270 Bowery, 2nd Floor. 212 260 4129 billyleethompson.com.

MARINE ECOLOGY ABOARD 1885 SCHOONER “PIONEER” Learn about the creatures that inhabit the local harbor estuary, harbor water quality, and what is being done to maintain this valuable ecosystem. $30 adults / $25 students & seniors / $20 children 12 and under / Members receive a $5 discount. South Street Seaport, Pier 16 (Programs Afloat) 212-748-8786 southstreetseaportmuseum.org.

W O M A N O F L E T T E R S : I R È N E NÉMIROVSKY AND SUITE FRAN-ÇAISE This exhibit examines the life, work, and legacy of this enthralling,

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often controversial, literary figure. Now extended through August 30. $12 adults, $10 seniors, $7 students, chil-dren under 12 free. Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place 646-437-4202, mjhnyc.org.

AVEDON-A COLLECTION OF FASH-ION PHOTOGRAPHS Shown in memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort, this extraordinary tribute is dedicated to the best in fashion pho-tography. Through August 28. Stanley & Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway. 212-966-6223 stanleywise.com.

AM I BY WILL LEMON Presenting conceptual modern mysticism through icons, symbols and objects, the art-ist treats art as an alchemical device. Through August 8. Fuse Gallery, 93 2nd Ave. (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F) 212-777-7988 or fusegallerynyc.com.

CLAIRE SHERMAN AND MARIA E. PINERES AT DCKT CONTEM-PORARY Two solo exhibitions: new paintings by Claire Sherman and new needlepoint works by Maria E. Pineres. Through August 22. DCKT Contempo-rary, 195 Bowery. 212.741.9955 dckt-contemporary.com.

M I D - 1 9 T H C E N T U RY U N D E R -WEAR Take a peek at rarely seen ‘unmentionables’ of the 1850s and 60s, including a lady’s chemise, corset, drawers, stockings, and cage crinoline.

$8 General, $5 Students & Over 65. Exhibition opens July 9th. Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street. merchantshouse.com.

THE GLOBAL POLIS-INTERACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES Are you inter-ested in how today’s giant cities came into existence? This exhibition is for you. It addresses the ideas of architec-ture, planning and design. Entrance to the Galleries is free. Through August 29. Monday through Friday, 9am to 8pm, Saturday, 11am to 5pm. AIA The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place(between Bleecker and W 3rd Sts), 212-683-0023 cfa.aiany.org.

TOY SOLDIERS The h is tory o f these miniature but mighty fighters is presented in this unique exhibi-t ion. Vis i tors wi l l be able to see inch-high Aztecs and conquistadors, Indians encircled by a stagecoach, bands marching, knights jousting, and doughboys fighting mock battles. Free. Ongoing. The Forbes Galleries, 62 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. forbesgalleries.com 212-206-5548.

WOMEN OF WALL STREET The exhibition showcases notable women in the world of f inance and Wall Street throughout history. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street, 212.908.4110 financialhistory.org.

T H I S W O R L D A N D N E A R E R ONES This artistic event wil l be held during the summer on Governors Island. 19 artworks by international

contemporary artists will be present-ed. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Fridays 11-4 P.M., Satur-days and Sundays 12-6 P.M. Governor’s Island (The Governors Island Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan) creativetime.org.

MUSIC HUDSON SQUARE MUSIC AND WINE FESTIVAL-AFTER-WORK NYC BACKYARD BBQ A free neigh-borhood celebration of music, food, and wine. Free. Tuesday evenings at 5 P.M. Through August 11. Entrance on Spring Street between Varick and Hudson (parking lot) citywinery.com/hudsonbbq.

FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL ON GOV-ERNORS ISLAND Judy Collins will perform on Governor’s Island as part of Trinity Wall Street’s free ‘Folks on the Island’ concert program. Free. July 26, 2 PM. Governor’s Island, the lawn on Colonel’s Row. Free ferries to Gover-nors Island will leave every hour, on the hour, starting at 10A.M. from the Battery Maritime Building in lower Manhattan. For more information go to folksontheisland.com.

KING BRITT SUN RA-LECTRIC: SATURN NEVER SLEEPS This musi-cal experience combines electronic and acoustic sounds with a visual per-formance. Free. July 28, 9 P.M. World Financial Center Winter Garden.200

Vesey St. 212-417-7050 artsworldfi-nancialcenter.com.

FIONA BOYES A fair-haired woman sings the blues at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. Free. July 30. 12.30-1.30 P.M. World Financial Cen-ter Winter Garden.200 Vesey St. Call 212-417-7050 or visit artsworldfinan-cialcenter.com.

BOO BOO COUSINS Mixing hip hop, soul and rock, this artist has mastered a sound of his own. Free. July 29, 8 P.M. 92Ytribeca, 200 Hudson Street. 212.601.1000 92ytribeca.org.

SEAPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL Free shows on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport. No reservations or tickets necessary. Shows start at 6 P.M. Fri-day, July 24-Black Moth, Super Rain-bow, Blank Dogs and Dan Friel. Friday, July 31-Polvo Obits. Friday, August 7- Casiokids, The Wave Pictures and Slow Club. Pier 17, South Street Sea-port. seaportmusicfestival.com.

READINGS AND TALKS

DOUGLAS MARTIN The author of “Once You Go Back” will read excerpts from his novel and sign books. July 30, 7:00P.M. McNally Jackson Booksellers, 52 Prince St, (between Lafayette and Mulberry) 212.274.1160 mcnallyjackson.com.

L O V E I S A F O U R L E T T E R WORD Launch Reading from a contem-porary collection of true stories of seduc-tion, heartbreak, and regret. July 29, 7 P.M. Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby Street 212-334-3324. housing-works.org. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twit-ter: An Introduction Networking on the Web is becoming an important require-ment for many jobs and businesses. If you’ve hesitated to get involved, this talk by Marci Alboher and Sarah Milstein is for you. Get an overview of the most

common social networking tools, and learn which ones make sense for you. $16, Jul 29, 12:00pm-1:00pm 92YTribe-ca, 200 Hudson Street, 212.601.1000 92ytribeca.org.

FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN AND TWIT-TER: AN INTRODUCTION Networking on the Web is becoming an important requirement for many jobs and business-es. If you’ve hesitated to get involved, this talk by Marci Alboher and Sarah Milstein is for you. Get an overview of the most common social network-ing tools, and learn which ones make sense for you. $16, Jul 29, 12:00pm-1:00pm 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street, 212.601.1000 92ytribeca.org.

TOURS FE D E R A L R E S E R V E B A N K O F NEW YORK TOUR Visitors are able to tour the Fed’s gold vault and learn about the Federal Reserve’s central banking funct ions. F ree. Federal Reserve Bank of NY. 33 Liberty Street 212.720.6130 newyorkfed.org.

P U B L I C A R T W A L K I N G TOURS LMCC offers a ser ies of three self-guided audio tours explor-ing public art downtown. Titled “Art and Security,” “Art and the Body,” and “Monuments and Memory,” the 45-minute tours are narrated by Perry Garvin and William Smith. Download the free tours to your IPod or other MP3 player and start walking. lmcc.net.

TRIBUTE WTC 9/11 Walking tours of Ground Zero . Dai ly. V IS ITORS CENTER, 120 Liberty St. For hours and info, visit tributewtc.org.

W A L L S T R E E T W A L K I N G TOUR This free 90-minute guided walking tour weaves together the history, events, architecture and people of downtown. Thurs. and Sat. at noon. Meet at the steps of the National Museum of the American

Indian. One Bowling Green, Alliance for Downtown NY, 212-606-4064, downtownny.com.

1625: DUTCH NEW YORK Walk along the shoreline of 1625 as we visit sites – and some extant remains – of the original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, now New York. Visit architectural digs, Stone Street, the shortest lane in Manhattan, the edge of Fort Amsterdam, and more. $20; $15 seniors and students. Aug. 8 and Sept. 5. Runs approx. 90 mins. Meet at One Bowling Green, on steps of National Museum of the American Indian 646-573-9509.

SOHO ARTS WALK Exper ience SoHo’s art scene like never before with a walk down famous cobble-stone streets that were once the stomping grounds of such greats as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Bas-quiat. Free admission into galleries. The third Thursday of every month through September. sohoartswalk.com.

M U S E U M A T E L D R I D G E STREET These guided tours, led by historian-trained docents, tell the story of the 1887 landmark syna-gogue — and illuminate the experi-ence of the East European Jewish immigrants who settled on the Lower East Side in the late 19th century. Sun. -Thurs . , 10 A.M.-4 P.M. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $6 children. Muse-um Of Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge St. 212-219-0888, eldridgestreet.org.

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