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Who you gonna call? Another firehouse. Tribeca’s famed “Ghostbusters” firehouse is going to close soon for ren-

ovations. Hollywood probably won’t care about the temporary loss of the setting of its 1984 blockbuster and sequel, but for neighbors, it’ll mean longer emergency response times for

quite some time.A firefighter with the Ladder 8

company at 14 N. Moore St. told a Downtown Express photographer that the house will soon close for about three years, and the company is not sure yet where it will go.

Jim Long, a fire department spokes-person, said Ladder 8 will be relocated to another house, but it’s not yet decid-

ed where. He said the F.D.N.Y. has to evaluate rebids to do the work before it knows when it will begin, how long it will take, and how much the project will cost.

“It’ll be a gut renovation,” he said in a phone interview. “A large part of the work is to replace the floor so it can

Tribeca’s ‘Ghostbusters’ firehouse to close for ‘gut renovation’

Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess

The Ladder 8 firehouse was a popular place stop last Saturday for the F.D.N.Y.’s 150th anniversary celebration across the city. The house, used in “Ghostbusters,” is expected to close for perhaps three years.

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IS BEEKMANSAFER AFTERHIT & RUN?

BY JOSH ROGERS AND DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC

The hit and run driver who smashed into a pedestrian on a sidewalk near Spruce Street School last month has not been

brought to justice, but she seems to have made her mark Downtown nonetheless.

Beekman St. now seems less dan-gerous with traffic lights at the intersection of Nassau and stepped up enforcement.

“I feel a lot safer,” parent Elena Brower said last week outside the school, referring to the new traffic signals that replaced stop signs.

But the changes are not some-thing that can quickly quell the fears of parents who have been wor-rying about the street’s safety since the school opened four years ago, particularly since there is still a lot of nearby construction.

Beekman is “like the Wild West,”


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SENATOR HIP-HOPWe’re pretty sure when Jay-Z drops

his next single, he won’t have State Sen. Daniel Squadron rapping with him, but we have to think Mr. Beyonce appreciated the senator’s homage to him this week as Squadron argued against a bill that they both oppose.

The bill allows ticket re-sellers like StubHub to continue to rake in profits from charitable concerts without any of the money going to charities like 9/11 families, which Jay-Z supported.

Squadron on the floor of the Senate Tuesday rapped somewhat to the rhythm of Jay-Z’s “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”: “Thanks for comin’ out this afternoon/ You coulda been anywhere in the world, but you decided to come to session…H to the izz-O, T to the icket/ On charity

shows/ Sizellers say stick it/ Of ticket scalping, you wouldn’t believe/ How many charities have been cheated, funds diverted like thieves...Now’s the time, Mr. President, I vote N to the izz-O.”

Squadron also recited “We shouldn’t scalp the tickets” to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” but we think his heart is really with Hip-Hop. His fans — Squadron’s that is, not Joel’s — may recall his extended 2011 prose tribute, on the Senate floor to MCA, who at the time was recently deceased and was a.k.a. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

Think we’re kidding? Check the video clips at downtownexpress.com.

WHIM OR A PRAYER?It remains a mystery how the Battery

Park City Authority decides permits for the ballfields in the neighborhood. We tried asking Robin Forst, vice president for external relations, repeatedly and in many different ways what guidelines the authority uses for the process. That got us nowhere — we were told there were no published or written guidelines.

Apparently the decision could be made on a whim or a prayer for all anyone knows.

We filed a Freedom of Information

request for any written communica-tions about the ballfield permits or any indication of how the decisions are made — since the B.P.C.A. decided to change the process by opening up the coveted fields to the whole city. It took 12 days not the required five, for them to even acknowledge our request.

Then they sent us an application to apply. No thanks, we don’t want to compete with Downtown Little League.

Committee member Jeffrey Mihok asked Forst Tuesday night at Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee meeting if the B.P.C.A. had reconsidered the opening up of the permit process — a huge concern for the community that fought to build and then Astroturf the ballfields for year-long use. Forst responded that they had met with the Downtown Soccer League and “We hear you” — but that question, like the permit process itself, remained unanswered.

HIGH LIFEWhen Russian B-baller Andrei

Kirilenko played for the Brooklyn Nets, he and his family lived Downtown at New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce St. — not coincidentally, we think, developer Bruce Ratner owns the Nets and the

building. But now that Kirilenko is playing back in Russia, his old 5-bed-room penthouse with spectacular views is back on the rental market, at a mere $45,000 a month.

The apartment, which has only had Kirilenko as a tenant, includes a guest suite for a nanny or visitors.

These may not be drawing cards for the next renter, but in case it’s only slightly out of your price range con-sider: an excellent public K-8, Spruce Street School, is on the ground floor; and the building is about to begin its own CitiBike-like bike share program with we suspect higher-quality bicycles.

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BY JOSH ROGERS It was 40 or 50 small steps for man,

and though it won’t be remembered as “a giant leap for mankind,” it did make a little World Trade Center history.

Yves Guelat, a Swiss businessman on his way to a meeting at one World Financial Center, ended up being the first to traverse the newly opened sidewalk on the north side of Liberty St. May 5, 2015 just before 10 a.m.

“It was a pleasure to do so,” he told Downtown Express, after he found out why two photographers were tak-ing pictures of him near 4 W.T.C.

The Port Authority’s Steve Plate, who is in charge of W.T.C. con-struction, and his colleague Glenn Guzi used just their hands rather than ceremonial scissors to remove the tape blocking the sidewalk. Within seconds, Guelat, Stephanie Adams, a business colleague from Boston, and several others passed through as if it had always been open.

The W.T.C.’s PATH station will expand on Thursday, May 7 when Platform B opens, said Plate, who’s been directly involved with W.T.C. rebuilding since 9/11. He said it will put the station back to pre-9/11 capac-ity. New entrances at 4 W.T.C. and the 2 W.T.C. site are expected to open soon, perhaps next month, although the complete opening of $4 billion expanded station is still a ways off.

At Liberty on Tuesday, Plate said, “We’re really close to being finished. It’s part of connecting the site back into the fabric of this great city.”

Erica Dumas, a Port spokesperson,

said the day before that “this is an early open-ing” for the north side of Liberty, which has been closed since 9/11, nearly 14 years ago.

“That’s great news,” Steven Abramson, who lives on the other side of Liberty, said a day before the opening. “We really get creamed on the south side of Liberty St... It’s still going to be a bottleneck, but I’ll be able to hop across the street and walk away.”

On Wedesday, he said neighbors have been telling him they notice an improvement.

Abramson and other residents on the block have said that the open-ing of part of Liberty St. last May, which coincided with the opening of the 9/11 Museum and less fettered access to the memorial plaza, led to a crush of tourists on the block.

The opening of 4 W.T.C. last October exacerbated the problem, Abramson said, because it prompted new security measures, including con-crete barriers on the southern side-walk.

Abramson said he had heard a few weeks ago that the sidewalk opening would come sometime next month, but last week during a walk through with him, members of Community Board 1 and other leaders, Port offi-

cials said the change would happen this week on an unspecified day.

He said it seems community per-sistence is paying off.

“I like to pressure them, on the

other hand, I like to do it in such a way that we can have a constructive dialogue,” he said. “I don’t want it to be like Congress where both sides butt heads and nothing gets done.”

World Trade Center sidewalk is liberated for walkers

Stephanie Adams and Yves Guelat, who walked the new sidewalk immediately after it opened.

Downtown Express photos by Josh Rogers

The Port Authority’s Steve Plate, just before he opened the Liberty St. sidewalk for pedestrians.


STRANGER SLASHES WOMANIt turned ugly when a woman

ignored a man who tried chatting her up at the Brooklyn Bridge station (J, Z 4,5,6) in the Civic Center on Sat., May 2 at around 6 p.m., police say.

The man, who was later described to police as around 35, 5’6” and 165 pounds, tried to engage the woman, 34, in conversation. When she ignored him, he spat at her — and she just laughed. But then he took out a sharp instrument and slashed her in the arm. He fled the station. The woman was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where she was treated and then released, police say.

TEEN GIRLS GRABS IPHONEA group of 14-year-old girls

snatched an iPhone 6 out of another woman’s hand while she was waiting for her train, police say.

The woman, 29, was waiting on Tues., Apr. 28 at midnight for a south-bound A or C train at the Fulton St. station in the Financial District. The

teenagers approached her and grabbed the smart phone, police say.

The Brooklyn woman could describe two of the girls — one was 5’6” with short hair in a bun and light-colored gray sweatpants, another was 5’3” with shoulder length hair. The girls fled toward the J, Z platform. The “Find my iPhone” app yielded no results.

ANOTHER FIDI GYM THEFTThe thefts keep coming at the Planet

Fitness at 25 Broadway in the Financial District — with the third one taking place on Tues., Apr. 28, police say.

In this latest incident, a man, 29, came back from working out at 9:30 a.m. to find the lock on his locker gone and his MacBook, worth $2,000, miss-ing, police say. Earlier in April, another man’s locker was ripped off with the thief cleaning out everything inside. In another incident, a woman who left her wallet unattended on a mat for a few minutes regretted that decision — someone grabbed the wallet and took out the cash and credit cards.

SAMARITAN TURNS THIEFIt seemed as if, for a moment, a strap-

hanger was helping out a fellow rider who had dropped his iPhone 6 on the track — but that kumbaya moment was ruined when the man who retrieved the phone refused to give it back, police say.

On Wed., Apr. 29 at 3:30 p.m., a Bronx man, 20, dropped his $800 smart-phone on the tracks near the uptown 4,5 platform at Bowling Green.

A man of about 20 got the phone off the track and refused to give it back to its owner, saying, “You have to pay me!”

The suspect’s friend got involved when the owner tried to detain the thief saying, “If you touch my friend, I’m gonna [mess] you up!” He then pushed and punched the phone owner — who sustained no injuries. A third suspect was also involved, but it is unclear how. They all fled the scene.

SUSPECT CAUGHT WITH $6After three women argued, one

stole $6 and took off, police say.It is unclear what the argument was

over, but it happened on Sun., May 3 at 5:15 p.m., police say. One of the women, 21, took the money out of the hand of the other woman, 20, who was there with her friend, also 20. Police canvassed the area and found her at 111 John St. with the cash and arrested her.

FOR THE LOVE OF SOCCERA Seaport resident went to a soc-

cer game at Yankee Stadium on Sun., May 3 during the day. When she came back to her neighborhood at 6 p.m., she went to make a purchase at the Duane Reade at 200 Water St., her wallet was gone, police say.

The woman, 28, remembers using her wallet when she brought food at the game. She told police that were unauthorized charges on her cards, but the bank had yet to specify where. The thief also got away with her passport.

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BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVICBrookfield Office Properties and their partners

unveiled plans for a shortened season at North Cove Marina Tuesday night — and reverberations from the former operator’s ousting were felt.

David Cheikin, senior vice president of leasing for Brookfield Office Properties, introduced the partners who will run the marina as well as the sailing school and club at Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee meeting May 5. Island Global Yachting will manage marina operations and Offshore Sailing School is in charge of the school and club. The marina is slated to open May 21.

Brookfield and I.G.Y. were named the marina’s operator at Battery Park City Authority’s January meeting, much to the consternation of many in the community, who backed Michael Fortenbaugh. Fortenbaugh had run a popular sailing school for kids for 20 years and had run the marina for 10.

Doris Colgate runs Offshore with her husband, Steve. The school, which was brought in after the bid was awarded, has been in business for over 50 years and has won a slew of awards.

Colgate said that there will be a sailing club, corporate and charity events and regattas. The youth sailing program will run June 22 through Aug. 10.

As of now, Offshore will have seven boats at the marina and 12 next season, she said. With 12 boats, it is possible to accommodate up to 300 children. There will be two sessions each day Monday through Friday. If a child does both sessions everyday, it will

cost around $600. Fifty percent of spaces will be scholarships for at-risk and underprivileged kids, she said.

When asked why there’ll only be seven boats this year, Colgate said, “We are limited by the agreement. They want to bring, rightfully so, the larger boats on the other three docks.”

“To the authority, it’s what we feared, why we didn’t want you to do this and it’s outrageous. Your program sounds great, but there used to be more boats than you could count and you’re talking about seven,” said Jeffrey Mihok, committee member. “Even the vendor you brought in is clearly annoyed by that.”

“I don’t think that’s fair,” said Cheikin, who said there’s half the number of docks in the marina because Fortenbaugh took them.

Pile remediation on the south end of the marina is also a factor. That work will be done from July to October.

There are 16 berths available and some may go to historic boats, said Simon Bryan, who is part of I.G.Y. and will be the manager of North Cove Marina.

“It doesn’t leave us much capacity for visiting boats,” Bryan said.

Cheikin said they like idea of party ships, although those boats “clearly will not be able to dominate” the marina.

“From our perspective what we like about it is — it brings people through the retail several times a day,” he said.

Tammy Meltzer, a committee member, said the community “has spoken quite loudly that North Cove Marina was not a great location for neither ferries or large party boats because there is extraordinary noise and sound that carries both north and south.”

Mihok said, “The community is fairly O.C.D. about not wanting party boats docking there.”

The future of the historic schooners Shearwater and the Ventura docking at the marina is also not clear as Brookfield Properties and the B.P.C.A. have yet to sign the contract.

When asked why — when the bid was awarded in January — neither Cheikin or the authority’s Robin Forst and Kevin McCabe would comment.

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BY L INCOLN ANDERSONOn Tues., May 19, the Museum of Jewish

Heritage will premiere a never-before-seen 1945 documentary directed by Alfred Hitchcock. However, unlike a typical film by the master of suspense, this isn’t a psychological thriller that will leave viewers wondering until the mystery is finally unraveled at the last minute.

Rather, the documentary was made with the opposite intent: to erase any mystery about what really happened in the Nazi death camps, to expose the unvarnished truth about the Holocaust.

It’s called “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.” In English and German, with English subtitles, it runs 88 minutes.

When the camps were liberated, extensive foot-age of them was shot by British, American and Russian military cameramen, as well as by news-reel cameramen.

This array of film, in turn, was used by the British Ministry of Information to create a docu-mentary that would condemn the Nazi regime and document the magnitude of its crimes. In short, it was meant to be the film to be shown to German prisoners of war and the German public to shame them into accepting the Allied occupation.

Sidney Bernstein, chief of the film division of the Psychological Warfare Division of the Allied Expeditionary Force, initiated the project and fought for its production. Hitchcock — who was

described by Bernstein as the film’s director — spent a month overseeing the editing. Ultimately, though, the film was shelved.

Now, seven decades later, England’s Imperial War Museum has digitally restored the documen-tary and assembled it for the first time exactly as Bernstein and Hitchcock originally intended.

Bruce Ratner is best known for his development prowess, including building New York by Gehry in Lower Manhattan, the New York Times building, and Barclays Center — home of the Brooklyn Nets, of which he is a part owner.

In addition to his development work, Ratner takes immense pride in being chairperson of the board of trustees of Battery Park City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, a position he has held for the past year. The opportunity for the Lower Manhattan museum to host the East Coast premiere of the for-gotten 1945 documentary is a great honor, he said.

“I would say it’s a major moment in Holocaust documentary,” he stated in a phone interview. “When the Russians reported on Auschwitz, it wasn’t believed. This film was meant to prove and show what the German people and what the Nazis had done — and then to tell the people of the world.

“It still shakes the soul, shakes the mind to see this film,” Ratner said. “The ‘Holocaust,’ the word, did not exist as we know it now until the 1970s. Had this documentary been shown at the time, it

would have accelerated understanding of the atroc-ities and extreme brutality of the Nazis.”

As for why the film, in the end, was left on the shelf, he said, there were a number of factors.

“It got delayed, in general, in the summer of 1945,” he said. “They didn’t have the Russian mate-rial from Auschwitz.”

But the film’s visceral impact and condemning message were also reasons why it was decided not to show it back then: In short, there was a fear of alienating the Germans and driving them toward the Soviets. Rebuilding became the focus, not de-Nazi-fication.

“You wanted to win them over, and it was felt that this would not do that,” Ratner explained. “Germany became the focal point of the Cold War.”

Ratner was born in 1945, and growing up, heard family members talking about the Holocaust. His family lost about 120 members across Germany and Eastern Europe in the war. Afterward, his father sponsored many survivors who came over to America.

In 1976, Ratner went to Poland to see Auschwitz for himself.

“It was communist,” he said. “Nobody visited Auschwitz in those days.”

The Nazis killed about 1 million Jews at the infamous killing camp. Other victims included

Hitchcock’s long-lost Nazi documentary

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Gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, dissidents and non-Jewish Poles and Russians.

“It’s inexplicable,” Ratner said. “That’s why it very much resonates today.”

While the Russians filmed Auschwitz, the British documented Bergen-Belsen, and the Yanks record-ed other sites. Other camps shown include Dachau, Buchenwald and Majdanek. In all, the film includes footage from 14 locations (10 camps and four sites of atrocity) discovered in Austria, Germany and Poland.

The combat cameramen who shot the footage used very simple cameras, Ratner noted, but “there were a lot of them.”

Although Bernstein called Hitchcock the director, a more apt description would be “treatment adviser,” according to a release by the Imperial War Museums, in that Hitchcock was not present for the actual filming or the creation of the rough-cut.

The documentary bears a

Hitchcock hallmark, Ratner said, namely, long, wide shots that show the scenes in their full context.

“That was done to prove it wasn’t staged,” he explained.

The movie also uses symbolism to evoke the camps’ horrors.

“Hitchcock was always about sym-bolism,” Ratner noted. “It’s not like the 15-minute newsreels of the day. It’s done with a certain degree of artistry and care.”

Five rough-cut reels of the film were originally completed, but a planned sixth reel was never made — until now. To create the new, digital version, the restorers went back to the original footage — a total of 100 reels of film — and followed the 1945 film team’s instructions. There is also a new soundtrack, with a narrator reading the original script, plus new sound effects added.

Ratner has seen five of the film’s six reels. Asked how graphic it is, he admitted, “It’s very hard to watch.”

For now, the plan is to show the long-lost documentary on only one night, Tues., May 19, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, at 36 Battery

Place, at 7:30 p.m.“They want to be very careful

about how this is being released,” Ratner said.

Tickets for the premiere are avail-able at mjhnyc.org, or by calling 646-437-4202. Ticket prices are $25, $15 for members and $10 for students.

Image courtesy of Imperial War Museums

A still from Alfred Hitchcock’s documentary film, “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,” which will be shown in Battery Park City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage this month. The April, 1945 image shows Jewish children at the Bergen-Belsen camp after the British liberated them.

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The police saw her running by a nearby park, streets and the marina for about an hour before she was cornered — where she was con-tained, darted and secured. She was taken to the Center for Animal Care and Control in East Harlem. Police say no one was harmed in the cap-turing of this coyote.

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Dr. Edward Rogoff has been selected to lead the LIU Brooklyn School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences. Dr. Rogoff is the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Educator of the Year award, given by The United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He joins LIU Brooklyn from Baruch College, where he directed the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Rogoff founded the CUNY Center for Student Entrepreneurship and was instrumental in developing nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate Entrepreneurship programs.

“The LIU community is privileged to have Dr. Rogoff join our University,” said Dr. Kimberly R. Cline, president of LIU. “A leader in business curriculum development and an experienced entrepreneur, he has a deep understanding of New York City, national, and global business landscapes. Dr. Rogoff’s vision for the University’s business-focused academic programming reaffi rms LIU’s growing reputation as a leading experiential

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a rising university rife with opportunity and a palpable spirit of entrepreneurial thinking,” said Dr. Rogoff. “I look forward to working with the esteemed faculty at LIU Brooklyn to bring the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences to new levels of achievement. My approach has always been to teach students to be business leaders, not to teach students about business leadership.”

“I see the rapid change in technology, fi nancial systems, and entrepreneurship support systems as new demands on business education and great opportunities for LIU with its current curriculum in these areas, strong faculty, and involvement with many of the leading businesses in these sectors,” said Rogoff. “We need to keep evolving to meet these needs and anticipate the coming demands on business schools,” he said.

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Dr. Edward Rogoff is the author of two books, The Entrepreneurial Conversation and Bankable Business Plans, and his work has been published in The New York Times, The Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, and Forbes. He holds a B.A., M.B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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said Ashley Duncan, who has three children at the school. “If [cars] can’t make the turn, they just jump the curb. It’s a real big danger.”

That’s exactly what happened April 13 outside the school.

Video viewed by Downtown Express shows the driver backing up several times in order to be able to make the turn onto the sidewalk and head west past a traffic jam.

The driver, who police believe is a woman, apparently didn’t realize she had pinned a pedestrian to the wall, badly injuring the victim’s leg and cut-ting her face.

The video was taken by Terence McDonagh, project executive of New Line Structures, Inc., which is working with Pace University on constructing a new dorm at 33 Beekman St. He said he was not authorized to release it to the press.

Captain Mark Iocco, the First Precinct’s commanding officer, said the same car was involved in an accident in Brooklyn about 30 minutes after that incident. The car was pulling into a park-ing spot and hit an elderly lady, he said at last week’s meeting of the First Precinct Community Council. The elderly woman couldn’t identify her, and could only con-firm that the driver was a female, he said.

“Right now she’s a suspect,” said Iocco.

There are four witnesses that the police have spoken to, but none of them could see through the tinted windows of the car. The police are looking to speak with one more witness, a jogger who may have seen through the windows and

gotten a good look, but he hasn’t been found yet, said Iocco.

The suspect has filed an insurance claim. The police are working with the insurance company and they are “inves-tigating her up and down,” said Iocco.

Meeting attendees pressed him to question her, but he said. “We could bring her in as a suspect … but if she says ‘I want a lawyer’ — this is going to go nowhere.

“We want to have a solid case when we bring this to the D.A. We can’t bring it the D.A. with holes all over it.”

But even if she is charged, it would only be for a misdemeanor, according to officers in the precinct’s community affairs office.

Meanwhile on the street, the new traffic signals, which city officials insist were not installed because of the hit and run, are helping. The Dept. of Transportation approved the signals last year, but delayed the installa-tion because of the construction of The Beekman hotel at 5 Beekman St. The construction is nearly complete, allowing the installation, but there are still construction -related lane closures nearby on Nassau St. and the Pace project.

Liz Chen, a Spruce parent, said that ironically, when the K-8 school opened, safety measures were put in east of the school, but now more students will be coming from the west along Beekman because of a rezoning prompted by the new Peck Slip School.

Beekman traffic has been a problem since police closed part of Park Row for security reasons Chen said.

“It’s been bumper to bumper since 9/11,” she added.

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New restaurant Vbar Seaport may be opening May 15 or sooner, Enrico Ciotti, founder of Vbar & Company, told Downtown Express recently. The third restaurant for the group, at 212 Front St., will be open all day. The menu is focused on seafood with a Mediterranean vibe. “We don’t like to rubberstamp” our restaurants, said Ciotti. The first Vbar opened in 2000 in the Greenwich Village followed by the second in 2010 on St. Marks Place.

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New traffic signals have been put in at the intersection of Beekman and Nassau Sts.

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Construction of a hotel at 5 Beekman and a dorm at 33 have made the street more unsafe, parents and community leaders say.

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Vbar Seaport opening soonWhile Shakespeare Downtown’s free

performances of “Romeo and Juliet” at Castle Clinton have been canceled for this summer; Bard lovers should fret not, for the New York Classical Theatre is performing “Measure for Measure” outside the grounds of the historic Castle.

Now in its 16th season of free out-door productions, New York Classical Theatre is performing “Measure for Measure” from July 4 to August 9, Tuesdays through Sundays from 7 to 9 p.m. as well as at Brooklyn Bridge Park for some August dates. The company is also putting on “Taming of the Shrew” at Teardrop Park in Battery Park City. Go to www.newyorkclassical.org for

more information.Shakespeare Downtown (www.

shakespearedowntown.org) has post-poned “Romeo and Juliet” until June of next year. Funding was the issue for the young non-profit Shakespeare Downtown, which needed $35,000 to put on the play at Castle Clinton, Billie Andersson, the company’s artistic direc-tor, told us last month.

Andersson started an Indiegogo campaign that raised $5,155 and said in a Thurs., Apr. 30 email, “The only way we could do the play this year is by making extreme compromises. By next year, we hope the extra time will allow us to put on the best production we possibly can.”

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support the apparatus.”Modern, heavier fire trucks are par-

ticularly tough on older firehouses. Long said the electricity and plumbing will also be upgraded.

The N. Moore firehouse opened in 1905 and was originally a wide dou-ble-truck house, but in 1914, the house was cut in half to make room for the widening of Varick St. Ladder 8, which

began on Franklin St. in 1865, was slat-ed to be closed permanently in 2011, but pressure from the City Council saved it along with 19 other houses on the chopping block.

The house last year served as a makeshift memorial for actor Harold Ramis, the “Ghostbusters” star.

On 9/11, the company rushed to the burning Twin Towers, where Ladder 8’s Lieutenant Vincent Halloran was killed.

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Above, a memorial for Harold Ramis last year. The narrow firehouse includes the “Ghostbusters” logo, above right.


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BY JANEL BLADOWYay! It’s May! After this winter, I

didn’t think it would ever come. But our great neighborhood is shaking off the doldrums and blooming again. All the pots, beds and gardens from Dover to Wall, East River to Nassau are planted, flowering and colorful. Worth the walk around the hood.

A GRAND OPENING…. South Street Seaport Museum kicked off its 2015 season in style with politicos, pundits and even a new president! Captain Jonathan Boulware, who has been at the helm of this rocky ship since 2013 as interim president (hey guys, update the website to acknowledge his new title,) was officially named executive director. And he looked as happy as a clam at his first official event on April 25 as he launched the gangplanks to open the historic ships on Pier 16. We’ll catch up with him in the next month to recount a fish tale or two.

ON THE MOVE… Over the week-end Save Our Seaport (S.O.S.) and

the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (M.W.A.) joined forces with the Municipal Art Society (MAS) – phew! I have acronymitis! – to celebrate the leg-acy of urban activist Jane Jacobs with a walking tour through the Seaport.

Nearly 100 history buffs and Seaport fans joined leaders Margaret Flanagan and Roland Lewis on sever-al free treks, titled “Towering Masts to Towers: A Conversation about the Past, Present and Future of the Seaport.”

The talk touched on hot topics, from the first Dutch settlers through current, controversial development plans. A little political activism and history lesson along with a pep step or two made for an enlightening time outdoors enjoying our community.

“To me, the [event] showcased the motivation behind Jane’s Walk – getting people out walking in, looking at and talking about neighborhoods,” said historian Susan De Vries. “Save Our Seaport members …stressed that the Seaport is also OUR neighbor-hood as New Yorkers. Walks like

this, especially when held on a beau-tiful night in an atmospheric neigh-borhood, inspire conversation and, hopefully, participation in the life and future of our city.”

Flanagan, also maritime operations manager of the Waterfront Alliance commented to Seaport Report about the adventure: “Jane’s Walkers in the Seaport compared our local plans to create a successful community-driv-en waterfront, highlighting maritime heritage and markets, to cities like Vancouver and Seattle. We dug deeper into the goals behind the establish-ment of the Seaport historic district, and into the factors behind its current re-development.”

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BROADWAY AND BALLET… Why travel Uptown? Catch two superstars of Broadway and a ballet diva’s troupe in your own backyard. A Broadway legend in her own time Patti LuPone, two-time Tony Award Winner for Evita and Gypsy, performs on Saturday evening, May 5, in the Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St. In “Far Away Places,” she “shares her penchant for wanderlust” by taking the audience on “a musical jour-ney.”

The songbird is joined by a five-piece band to belt out the best by Sondheim, Porter, Piaf, Willie Nelson and the Bee Gees. Also coming this month…the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet performs Don Quixote four times the following week. The series winds up the month with

another Broadway biggie, Ben Vereen, who offers a festival of song and dance from his Broadway shows (Pippin, Wicked and more) with a three-piece band. Info: schimmel.pace.edu/events or call the box office 212 346-1715.

MEETING POSTPONED… No annu-al meeting of Southbridge Towers this Saturday. The co-op’s board of directors have moved it to June 29. An election for a new board of directors will take place the day before. All residents who hit the road for summer, take note.

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BY L INCOLN ANDERSON Standing on one of the new

Whitney Museum of American Art’s outdoor terraces, one can take in the whole sweep of the surround-ing neighborhood. According to the museum, this was the intent: to have the terraces face inward toward the city, as opposed to outward toward the Hudson River.

From the museum’s terrac-es, one can visually track how the Meatpacking District has evolved. Just to the north is the Standard Hotel, completed in 2009, perched on a massive trestle, straddling the High Line below. The elevated park opened the same year and immediate-ly became one of the city’s top tourist attractions.

On a recent Sunday, the High Line was teeming with people swirl-ing about below tree boughs bloom-ing with white and purple petals — almost like some sort of wildly busy Jackson Pollock painting when viewed from the Whitney’s terraces above.

Over on Washington St., a former row of meat lockers — with for-gotten names like Lamb Unlimited and Diamond Meats — has been transformed into an office building sporting a twisting black metal lattice and grass lawns. It’s the new home of the cutting-edge cell-phone giant Samsung.

Now, rising majestically at the center of it all, is the new $422 million Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum. which opened to the public on Fri., May 1.

First Lady Michelle Obama was at the preview ceremony the day before with Mayor Bill de Blasio and others.

“I took a brief tour and I fell in love with the building,” Obama said. “This was the most beautiful freight elevator I’ve ever ridden on. Just about every space in this building is magnificent.”

Robert Hurst, the museum’s co-chairperson, noted, “Rarely does one have the opportunity to build a museum from the ground up in New York... This defining location places the Whitney among the city’s cultural icons.”

Piano, the architect who created the massive “floating ship,” spoke over the occasional din of traffic from the nearby West Side Highway.

“Mama mia!… What a joy. Welcome to the brand-new piazza,” he said. “Some like to call it the lobby. I’m Italian, I call it the piazza. It’s a place of meeting — it’s a place of city life.”

The piazza is specifically the 8,500-square-foot public

plaza beneath the muse-um’s dramatic cantilevered entranceway.

“I wanted to make it fly,” Piano said of the design

of the 220,000-square-foot building, which sits on enor-

mous support poles, suspended over the glass-enclosed first floor, as if on air. However, Piano quipped, “It’s 28,000 tons — so it doesn’t fly.

“Art is freedom,” he said. “Especially American art — a bit wild.”

As a result, the building must mir-ror that feeling, he said: “It’s got to be brave, flying...a bit unpolite.”

The museum’s 18,000-square-foot fifth floor is the largest column-free museum exhibition space in New York.

“I love making buildings, but I especially like making buildings for public use,” Piano said. “Art and beauty make us better people. Beauty

builds curiosity and desire. I’m pretty sure that beauty will save the world.

“Thank you for coming,” he con-cluded. “The building is yours.”

Adam Weinberg, the Whitney’s director, said, “People are calling the building ‘generous’ — airy, open, light, but comfortable and warm.”

Mayor de Blasio said “This is an

extraordinary day for New York City, for this nation, for art,” he said.

Eighty-four years and four loca-tions later, the museum has returned to the neighborhood where it all began.

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From left, Whitney Director Adam Weinberg, Michelle Obama, Mayor de Blasio at the Whitney Museum on April 30.


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But some Albany and City Hall politicians, like Mayor Bill de Blasio, want to turn back the clock to old policies that failed in the past. They want stricter rent laws, and they want to freeze rents while raising property taxes and water and sewer rates.

That would push affordable housing right back into the 1970’s and 80’s. We need to move forward, not backwards.

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This is what happens when the 25,000 landlords of 1 million rent-stabilized apartments have the financial resources to make repairs and improvements. They re-invest the rent in their buildings and our neighborhoods. They provide work to small

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artist, art patron, collector and member of one of America’s wealthiest families, started the museum back during the Great Depression. Back then it was known as the Whitney Studio Club and was located in her apartment on MacDougal Alley. She would hold salons there.

The mayor said, “Our first lady knows that the arts are essential to the development of our young people.”

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Obama recalled, she didn’t think places like the Whitney were for her. Too many children today feel that way, she said.

Even a little exposure can go a long way. “One visit, one performance, one touch — and

who knows? — you can change a life,” Obama said. “You can find the next Edward Hopper — or who knows? — the next Barack Obama.”

The museum includes a wall-length painting by Lee Krasner done right after her husband, Jackson Pollock’s, death; plus “Calder’s Circus,” a diorama of small wire sculptures of big-top performers by Alexander Calder, with which he would do live per-formances; as well as Willem de Kooning’s famous-ly frenetic “Woman and Bicycle”; Jean-Michel Basquiat’s cynical “Hollywood Africans”; and an in-your-face nude by Carroll Dunham, father of

Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame.Works by Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keefe and

Thomas Hart Benton hang near those of other art-ists whose names are unfamiliar to most.

The museum’s top floors can all be accessed by exterior stairways. Walking down the sleek metal-grate steps, one has the feeing of climbing down through a great clipper ship’s rigging. It also provides a nice breath of fresh air and a visual recharge after viewing each floor’s artworks.

The work is arranged chronologically, becoming more contemporary as you descend. Particularly poignant, in the ’60s section, in light of the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end, is Howard Lester’s video installation “One Week in Vietnam,” which rapidly flashes the names and photos of all the U.S. soldiers killed during a single week, while the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love” plays along.

Even the bookstore / gift shop, on the first floor, has an open feeling: It has no walls.

The museum was open for free for members the Sunday before the public unveiling.

“Oh, it’s wonderful,” said Harriette Silverberg Natkins, an Upper West Sider, after visiting the museum. “Have you been to the other Whitney? This one lets the art breathe.”

Standing on the plaza out front, Karen Groner, a designer from Bank St., said, “It’s visually beau-tiful inside. All three elevators are different. Each

floor sort of has a different window configuration. And I love the wooden floors... And I think the plaza is going to be a zoo all summer.”

Will, however, the Whitney be a bit too dynam-ic? The place’s V.I.P. grand opening April 24 brought a reported crowd of 3,000 partiers to celebrate Downtown’s new art mecca. It was so packed, some people were reportedly worried about the safety of the art on the wall, according to the Post’s Page Six. Among the boldface names rubbing shoulders were artists Julian Schnabel and Kiki Smith and actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Dakota Fanning.

“I was there Friday night,” said Elaine Young, a member of Community Board 2 who lives on Jane St., a block away from the new museum. “There were probably 7,000 people. I said, ‘How is this different from a club?’ There was a bar on the ground floor and at least two or three bars on the other floors… I had a Scotch.

“One thing the neighborhood is very weary of — they’re going to have a lot of events,” she noted. “All these terraces they have, we don’t want to see rock bands on them blaring on Friday night.”

Last Friday night, however, she said, around 11 p.m., a D.J. on one of the balconies was



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An e-mail was promptly fired off to a top Whitney community-relations official and, within 10 minutes, the throbbing tone had faded away.

Young said she and fellow Village activist Zach Winestine “negotiated a very complicated State Liquor Authority agree-ment” with the Whitney, under which Danny Meyer’s ground-floor restaurant will close at midnight Sunday to Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, with only six events with ampli-fied sound on the terraces per year. The State Liquor Authority approved the stipulations, Young noted.

Although Young said they’ll “have to be very careful about use of the terraces,” over all, she’s bullish on the new museum.

“There’s always people who say it’s too much traffic, too much noise,” she said. “I think the Whitney brings a glow to the neighborhood.”

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BY VICTORIA GRANTHAMWe planned meticulously… or so we

thought. When my husband and I decided to take our two kids to Disney for the first time this spring we did the requisite research, polled friends with kids the same age, mapped out the day-by-day agenda on the “My Experience” website, down-loaded the app, posted to the HRPMamas board for advice from veteran park goers and more. I asked so many questions that one friend ordered me a book for Disney first timers and mailed it to our apartment. (A very nice gesture, but the subtle/not so subtle stop asking me so many darn questions message was received.)

We strategized about the best time of year to go and decided on mid-April — post-Easter and post-spring break— based on the number of Mickey ears on one obsessive fan’s website. The fewer ears (and people) the better.

Before we left I told my five-year-old that Walt Disney World’s alternate name is The Happiest Place on Earth. He promptly responded with, “How can that be? Does Disney control people’s feelings?” Hmmm. Astute question! After reading an article about Disney’s ubiq-uitous technology — big data via small wristbands — I was a little wary and a lot curious myself.

In spite of our collective low-grade skepticism, we were giddy with anticipa-tion before we left. A whole week off! The Magic Kingdom! Epcot! Even our two-year-old got in on the action. “Mickey Mouf! Poofy!” he shouted excitedly on

a loop. (Translation: “Mickey Mouse! Goofy! Get my butt on a plane already!”)

The night before we left I asked my husband — who’d booked the flights— which airport we were flying from. “Newark,” he responded without hesita-tion. I felt no need to fact check. Mistake number one. When we arrived at Newark an hour before our flight, the kind airline representative gave us a pity-filled look and informed us that we were about 35 miles off course since our plane was scheduled to depart from J.F.K. Huh. I heard there are people who do this, but never thought it would be us.

When we finally arrived in Orlando (8 hours later), we were exhausted and took what we thought would be the path of least resistance. We signed up for the luggage service so my husband could relinquish his bag hauling duties. We filed onto the Magical Express bus: a misnomer if there ever were one. It made seven stops before pulling up to our hotel and the luggage service took six hours instead of the promised three. We got our belongings after we were asleep.

Though we got off to a rocky start (and there was more rockiness, to be sure — note to self: don’t take toddlers on the Pirates of the Caribbean unless you want to address the resulting P.T.S.D.), the story of our trip to the Happiest Place on Earth

has a happy ending. Eventually we got in the groove and re-adjusted our plans that we’d apparently made for the Stepford version of our family rather than the actu-al version. For example, the fantasy of us arriving at the park the minute it opened and beating all the other slow pokes was never going to happen with a family full of late risers — we just had to acknowledge and embrace reality.

For me the lesson learned is that the more idealized and anticipated a thing is – it’ll be so grand! The vacation to end all vacations! – the more it’s bound to disappoint. Ultimately we had a fantastic trip and my kids are lobbying for us to relocate to Orlando permanently. But for me the best moments were the small ones: when our two-year-old identified a duck as a pigeon. (Whoops.) When my older son took his brother’s hand and the two of them ran across the lush green grass in front of the hotel, linked together and laughing. When my baby said, “I did that!” proudly after riding his first junior rollercoaster. When the boys learned to jump into the pool together in tandem and celebrated with high fives and exaggerated dance moves afterward.

All this to say that I think I’m realizing that Kurt Vonnegut had it right when he wrote, “Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”

Victoria Grantham, a writer and com-munications professional, is raising her family in Tribeca.

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BY LEKNORE SKENAZYMother’s Day is usually marked by

burned toast, dandelion bouquets and crayon drawings of mommies and chil-dren with hearts all around them.

It is a great day.This Mother’s Day, I’ll be giving a talk

at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on how come mommies feel so worried all the time. Not that moms haven’t always been worried for their kids. Of course we have. Jewish moms (like me) are famous for it. In fact, the old joke is, “Did you hear about the Jewish telegram? ‘START WORRYING. DETAILS TO FOLLOW.’ ”

But for the past 20 or 30 years, worries have come to almost define the job of par-enting. We worry about what our kids are eating, watching, reading, wearing, learn-ing, not learning, saying, thinking, texting, sexting (well, maybe that one’s valid), doing and not doing. Not to mention what is in their goodie bag. We worry even under circumstances when most of our own mothers would have breathed a sigh of relief: “Ah, they’re outside for a few hours. Now I can get some work done.” Or, “Now he’s down for a nap. Phew.”

What has made us so nervous?I boil it down to four big cultural

shifts:1) The Media. Of course it is easy to

blame the media, because the media are

to blame. My mom could not have named 10 kidnapped children off the top of her head. Today’s moms usually can, and not because there are more “sickos” around, or even more crime. Crime is at a 50-year low. It is that we hear about everything from everywhere all the time now.

When I was on Nancy Grace recently, she showed heart-stopping clips of Adam Walsh (murdered in Florida, 1981), Etan Patz (disappeared in New York, 1979) and Elizabeth Smart (kidnapped in Salt Lake City in 2002), as if to say, “See! These things are happening. All. The. Time.” Even though we’re talking three cases separated by decades and thousands of miles. Not flashed on the screen was the fact that tens of millions of children were not kidnapped when they walked to the bus stop.

Pretty much whatever we see on television is there because it is the scariest of the scary and the rarest of the rare. If we publicized every time a child died in a car crash in this same hammering way, no one would ever put their kids in the car again.

2) We live in litigious times, and this outlook is catching. We, too, have started looking at life the way trial law-yers do: Is that playground absolutely safe? Well, no. Nothing is. But thanks to the litigious belief that if something isn’t 100 percent safe, then it is dan-gerous, we get situations like the one in Richland, Washington, where the school district decided to remove the swings from all its playgrounds.

3) Thanks to the expert culture we live in, parents are constantly being told what they’re doing wrong. There are experts on everything now, includ-ing (I kid you not) how to write a non-upsetting letter to your kid at camp. As if there is one right way to keep kids safe and sound. Please! But hear enough warnings and you start to feel you are endangering your kid if you let him do anything on which you haven’t done Ph.D.-level research.

4) The marketplace knows there is no easier dollar to extract than the one from the wallet of a worried parent. And so we have a whole aisle of the baby store filled with pivoting, infrared monitors that sweep the nursery at night, as if checking for terrorists in the caves of Yemen. (If there actually are caves in Yemen. You get the idea). Suddenly, just putting your child to sleep in her room seems like it is too

dangerous to do without backup.So this Mother’s Day, the gift I would

give all moms is the gift of chill. Our kids are not in constant danger, no matter what the media, the marketplace and the experts (aside from me) are saying.

If you can make it to the museum for my lecture, great. If not — no hard feelings! And if you want to try something else that might help you relax, consider participating in “Take Our Children to the Park…and Let Them Walk Home By Themselves” day on Sat., May 9.

The idea is to bring your kids, ages 7 or 8 and up, to your local park and let them play and walk home unsupervised. This may sound nerve-racking, but once you do it and see your happy kids bounding home, the fear gets replaced by pride and joy.

At 10 that Saturday morning, I’ll be at the Ancient Playground at 85th St. and Fifth Ave. in Central Park, offering encouragement.

Lenore Skenazy will be speaking at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place at First Place, on Mother’s Day, Sun., May 10, at 2:30 p.m. Admission: $15. For information, call 646-437-4202 or e-mail [email protected] . She is founder of the book and blog “Free-Range Kids.”

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Thurs., May 7 – Wed., May 13ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING

RULES ARE IN EFFECT ALL WEEKHappy Mother’s Day! If you’re cel-

ebrating Mother’s Day Downtown this weekend, check out the festivals and closures below to be sure you’ll give the gift of avoiding major slowdowns.

One New York-bound lane of the Holland Tunnel will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday. During the same duration, the New York-bound south tube of the Lincoln Tunnel will also close. Watch for major slowdowns into Lower Manhattan and on Canal St.

All Manhattan-bound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge will close overnight 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and midnight Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday.

On West St./Route 9A, two south-bound lanes will close between W 23rd and Bank Sts. 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. We

dnesday through Friday, 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. Saturday, 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday, and 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Monday and Tuesday.

The National Alliance for Mental Illness Walk will take place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The route: Fulton St. between South and Gold Sts., Gold St. between Fulton and Spruce St., Spruce St. between Gold St. and Park Row, Park Row between Spruce St., and the Brooklyn Bridge, Chambers St. between Centre St. and Broadway, Broadway between Chambers and Barclays St., Spruce St. between Park Row and Gold St., Gold St. between Spruce and Fulton Sts.

The Romanian Day Festival will close Whitehall St. between Morris and Stone Sts. and Broadway between Liberty St. and Battery Pl. noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.

The Washington Market School Block Party will close Duane St. between

Church St. and West Broadway 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The Old-Timer’s Stick Ball Game will close Rutgers St. between Cherry and Madison Sts. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

The Celebrate Spring festi-val will close Hudson St. between Chambers and Reade Sts. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

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Dear Transit Sam,Is there a law concerning student

drivers driving on streets where parks with multiple exits/entrances are located? I thought there was something about parks with 5 exits/entrances.

Eileen, New York

Dear Eileen, Yes: Statute 4-07 (f) (1) of the

Vehicle and Traffic Law states “Any operator with a learner’s permit shall not operate a motor vehicle in any park, on any play street, or along any block in which there is an entrance to a public playground or park.” So, student drivers should not drive adjacent to any parks, regardless of the number of entrances.

Transit Sam

Email your traffic, transit and parking questions to [email protected]. Follow me on Twitter @GridlockSam and check GridlockSam.com for the latest in traffic news.

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Chef – Pavlos XenopoulosThe Greek

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What are you serving at Taste of Tribe-ca and why?

This year we will be serving a spring-celebration selection that will consist of a triangle spinach pie, an oven baked lemon potato and a small serving of tzatziki. A classic vegetari-an combination that is refreshing and fulfilling, celebrating the coming of this long-awaited spring.

Who cooked the first meal you loved and what do you remember about it?

The first food that I remember fond-ly was prepared by my mother. It was a nice piece of pastitsio; its heaping lay-

ers of béchamel sauce with pasta and ground beef captured my taste buds and my imagination. I was five years old then, and ever since this memory has filled me with the joy of love-filled, well-made food.

For amateur chefs, what knife and which pot or pan do you think would help them the most?

I believe that for an amateur chef, it’s all about the basics. For me, the ba-sics are a chef’s knife, a stainless steel pan with a thick bottom to disseminate the temperature better and a three to five quart stainless steel pot.

What would you make if you only had 15 minutes to prepare a meal?

I would make one of the most clas-sic, easy taverna dishes that are so pop-ular all around Greece because of its simplicity and tastefulness. Spetsofai is prepared after simmering a village sausage in olive oil by adding fresh col-orful peppers, onion, fresh tomato and finishing it with some wine. A classic, easily prepared dish that is one of my favorite creations for The Greek.

Is there a packaged food that is a guilty pleasure for you?

My most guilty pleasure is for sure the Petit-Beurre papadopoulou, which has been the omnipresent, child-hood-staple cookie for every Greek person. It’s a versatile cookie that can be enjoyed both with your morning cof-fee or end up at the bottom of the feta cheesecake crumbled.

Chef – Paul GioeSmith & Mills

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Dish served?Oysters and a few mignonettes and

condiments to pair with them. Down-town N.Y.C. was built on oysters, and we love paying homage to that. Our cooks’ uniforms allude to the Ameri-can worker, and oysters were originally that type of food. They’ve only recently become a luxury item.

First meal?Of course, my mother. She taught

me how to cook. Two fried eggs with

onions and fried sweet plantains. So simple, but my earliest memory of food. And while eggs are the simplest food to cook, they can be the most difficult to get right.

Knife and pot or pan?I love Japanese knives, like Shun.

Get an 8-inch chef’s knife and a pair-ing knife. That’s all you need! Get a Le Creuset Dutch oven. It only gets better with age, and you can use it for so many dishes. It’s worth the investment.

15-minute meal?Grilled squid with a bagnet vert over

some mizuna. As much as I love eggs, seafood owns my heart. The freshness of the herbs in bagnet vert can breathe life into any dish, and I love anything that’s bitter, which in this case is the mizuna.

Guilty pleasure?Nutella! I hide it from my wife.

Chef – SeijiNinja New York

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Dish Served?Crème brûlée topped with raspber-

ry sorbet. You will enjoy the texture of caramelized sugar on top. Currently, it is very popular in our restaurant.

First meal?It was at the Michelin 3-star restau-

rant Buerehiesel in Strasbourg, France. They were Chef Antoine Westermann’s dishes. I asked a sommelier about wine pairing for dishes and they were so great. I still remember how they tasted.

Knife and pot or pan?I recommend a Japanese brand

called Misono UX10. I have tried va-rieties of brands but it is one of the top three. As for the pan, Staub’s pico cocotte. It is a French brand. With this one, it will bring extra fineness to your cooking.

Guilty pleasure?Yes, there is this Greek supermarket

by my apartment; they carry this deli-cious chocolate wafer.

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They learned a lot from mom over the years and now they have chosen to pass down some of that knowledge to us, such as which cookware will serve us best in our quest for culinary perfection. But do not be too intimidated – even professionals have their guilty pleasures. Read more chefs’ answers at Down-townExpress.com.

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Chef – Michael CariglioThe Butterfly

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Dish served?We are serving hummus with house-

made flatbread and beer cheese with house-made rosemary crackers. I wanted to provide something that would highlight general manager Rob Cryan’s drinks.

First meal?Pizza is my favorite food — I could

literally eat it every day of the week! My family has owned and operated Lorenzo’s Pizzeria in Ohio for over 35 years. It was

the first thing I remember eating, and the reason why I’m a chef. I love that I also get to continue my family’s heritage by mak-ing pizzas at Nicoletta in the East Village.

Knife and pot or pan?A dull $300 knife is going to work just as well as a dull $10 knife. Either buy cheap ones and replace them often or buy a nice one and learn to sharpen it or have it pro-fessionally sharpened. We have an amaz-ing knife store right here in Tribeca called Korin. I highly recommend checking it out.

I recommend a 10-inch All Clad sauté pan, they will last you the rest of your life if you take care of them. You can make everything from a killer grilled cheese to pan-roasted steaks and fish. My wife and I have a whole set and it has really changed the quality of our meal prep at home.

15-minute meal?You can make a killer cacio e pepe

pasta in 15 minutes. Lots of garlic, black pepper and pecorino romano.

Guilty pleasure?Can’t beat a frozen White Castle

cheeseburger at 3 a.m. Don’t know what I’m doing up at 3 a.m., but if I’m awake I can crush a whole box, easily.

Chef – Phil DixonDirty Bird To Go

155 Chambers Street212-964-3284

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Dish served?Fried chicken sliders because they are

Dirty Bird in a bite.

First meal?Mom cooked it. It was a traditional

El Paso stew called chile Colorado. She would start it in the morning and the house would fill up with the smell of roasting chilies and stewing beef. You would really work up an appetite by the time it was ready. It was best served with handmade flour tortillas, right off the skillet.

Knife and pot or pan?I would start them off with a regular

workhorse chef knife, with a long and wide blade and a plastic handle. Your first knife is going to take a beating, but once you are more skilled you can up-grade to a fancy one. Invest in a good, thick (the thickness must follow up the edges too) polished steel pan like All Clad makes. Never teflon or nonstick! If you use a steel pan correctly and get it really hot before you use it, stuff won’t

stick. Nonstick is only for eggs.

15-minute meal?Grilled chicken tacos with fresh salsa.

Guilty pleasure?Ramen noodles.

Chef – Madeline LancianiDuane Park Patisserie

179 Duane Street212-274-8447

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Dish served?I am serving a warm molten chocolate

cake with bittersweet chocolate sauce.

First meal?My mother cooked the best codfish

cakes and a Portuguese soup called caldo verde. It was delicious.

Knife and pot or pan?10 or 12-inch chef’s knife. 12 or 14-

inch cast iron skillet.

15-minute meal?A very tasty one! Probably fish.

Guilty pleasure?Mikesell’s potato chips from Cincinna-

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BASKETBALL CLINIC Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City; www.bpcparks.org/event; Mondays, 3:30–5:30 pm,; Free. Staffers teach children of all ages the basics of the sport. No classes May 25, September 7 and October 12.

SOCCER CLINICNelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City; bpcparks.org; Tuesdays, 2:30–3:15 pm; 3:30–4:15 pm and 4:30–5:30 pm,;

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ARTS AND CRAFTSPavilion at Union Square Park, West 14th St. and Union Square East; nycgov-parks.org; Tuesdays, 3 pm to 5 pm,; Free. Children explore new topics through arts and crafts. YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENINGNelson A Rockefeller Park (Children’s Garden), Battery Park City; (212) 267–9700; http;//www.bpcparks.org; Tuesdays, 3:15 – 3:45 pm,; Free. Little ones 3 to 5 years old learn about simple gardening projects. Space limited first come, first served.

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PLAYTIMETeardrop Park, Battery Park City; bpcparks.org; Wednesdays, 3:30–5:30 pm,; Free. Staffers teach children the value of play and create fun projects in drawing, sculpt-ing and murals. For children 5 and older.

ART TIME: Nelson A Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City; (212) 267–9700; http;//www.bpcparks.org; Thursdays, 10:30 am–noon,; Free. Young artists are introduced to paper, clay, paint and other supplies.

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FAR, FAR AWAY: Children’s Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St. at Hudson Street; (212) 274–0986; www.cmany.org; 10 am–4 pm; Free with museum admission. The exhibit considers the possibility of alternate worlds,dreamscapes and imag-ined landscapes– places where adventures occur and fantasy takes over. The exhibit is open through Sept. 6. Opening day features fun activities of art-making work-shops and much more.

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BY PUMA PERLThe Guerrilla Girls are not ready

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Celebrating three decades of fem-inist art, activism and protest, they continue to expand their vision — and they ARE a vision, continuing the tra-dition of masked avengers by expos-ing the dirty underside of cultural and artistic inequalities. They are warriors who don gorilla masks (and, occasionally, miniskirts and heels) to educate the public through a blend of outrageous humor and action.

There has been little change in the art world since an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art first kicked off their outrage in 1984. Presented as the “most significant contemporary art in the world,” it was comprised of 169 white men and 13 white women.

Fact: In 1985, there was exactly one woman represented in single person exhibitions at four major New York City museums — the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan, the Modern and the Whitney. In 2015, there were a total of five women. In 1985, in 18

of the major art galleries, no more than 10 percent of the shows included women. Some galleries showed none at all. In 2014, that number jumped all the way to a high of 20 percent; some galleries still showed none.

I learned all of this and more through a visit to the current exhibit at Abrons Arts Center, which is part of the Henry Street Settlement. Titled “Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls Birthday Party, 30 Years and Still Counting,” the retrospective will continue through May17.

This is the first New York City exhibit that displays all of the post-ers that have been used throughout the years. It includes guided tours of the timeline, videos, and a blow-out birthday celebration on May 15. Additionally, New Yorkers can expect surprise visits all over town from the Girls — who, with the help of support-ers, will be slapping up stickers around East Village and Chelsea art galleries and joining with other activist groups to expose corruption in the art world.

On May 1, they participated in the May Day demonstrations that

shut down the Guggenheim Museum. In collaboration with the activists who operate the Illuminator (a cargo van equipped with audio and video equipment), they have projected images bearing their message onto the Whitney and various art galleries. Guerrilla style, naturally.

One of the most interesting aspects of the guided tour, primarily conducted by Guerrilla Girls founding members Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz (with an assist from newer member Zubeida Agha), is the ways in which the targets and vision have broadened over the years. Triggered by the inequalities of the art world, they have expanded into addressing sexism, racism, oppression and corruption in film, politics, health care, education and anywhere ineq-uities exist — which, of course, is everywhere. Part of the 2015 mission is drawing attention to the poorly paid employees of museums and the ownership of art by the richest of the rich (a current hashtag is #poorlittle-billionaires).

Studying the timeline, the visitor becomes aware of technical growth

and the ways in which communica-tion and the building of community have been impacted, especially for those increasingly few of us who remember mimeograph machines and heading out at night with a bunch of posters and a tub of glue, throwing them up on any available surface. Today, supporters are encouraged to post photos on Instagram showing the locations where they have placed the stickers distributed by the Guerrilla Girls, who are internationally recog-nized.

The exhibit includes a wall of notes written to them, both support-ive and enraged, as well as the oppor-tunity for guests to post up their own messages. An 18-year-old girl writes of “urgent needs for guerilla action here in Pakistan!” A 14-year-old gay teenager tells of picking up the book “Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers” at age 11, and finding the courage to come out. Naturally, there are fair amounts of letters demonizing them as “stupid, lesbian, feminazis”

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Attempts at attacking the Guerrilla Girls personally are doomed to fail, due to the cloak of anonymity — not only in the form of the gorilla masks that are worn in public, but in the early choice that was made not to reveal individual identities. Although there were realistic concerns about the outcomes of targeting power-ful individuals, the ways in which the anonymity resonates have more to do with keeping the focus on the issues and avoiding the external appointment of leaders, stars or, as is most often the case with groups of females, preoccupations with looks and personalities that result in over-

shadowing the message.What has evolved over the years

is a group of women, some consis-tent, some shifting (there have been over 100 Guerrilla Girls to date)

who have become the art. There is a shared sensibility, warmth and friendliness, and a sly humor hap-pening behind those heavy masks, as well as a uniform possession of

the history and the mission. The task is serious but the actions and educational techniques are great fun. When asked whether there was a goal to become obsolete, Kahlo replied, with a laugh, “Hope not.”

So far, in 2015, there have been Guerrilla Girl gigs in Austria, Spain, California, Georgia and Texas, with more to come. In September of 2016, they will be back in the New York area, at Stonybrook University. They write no proposals, accept no grants, have no funding stream and are indebted to nobody. I asked Kahlo how they kept going and she stated that basically it is the kindness of strangers — people are moved by the message and offer support and requests for exhibitions and other types of gigs. She described its begin-nings as a “mom and mom” store — selling materials, gradually expand-


Waging ‘Guerrilla’ war in world gone bananas

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Anonymity keeps the focus on issues and avoids the external appointment of leaders.


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The Guerrilla Girls initially began and added members through word of mouth in artistic circles. Since they are now appearing all over the world, I asked Kahlo and Kollwitz how one becomes a Guerrilla Girl. They smirked behind the gorilla teeth. “Hazing,” said Kathe. “A lot of bananas,” added Kahlo. Thinking back, I have to laugh at that question too, since the answer is so obvi-ous. Guerrilla Girls share a spirit of rebellion with the world. Through the empowerment of education and hilarity, they encourage others to take a stand and to refuse to accept the unacceptable, to pay it forward and pass it on. Become a Guerrilla Girl of the mind and body — and

who knows? You may someday be a Guerrilla Girl, too.

The Guerrilla Girls will continue to appear on the streets of New York throughout their stay here. Catch up with their actions on Facebook or Twitter, and learn more about them at guerrillagirls.com. For a schedule of activities related to the current exhibit at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St.), visit abron-sartscenter.org/galleries/guerrilla-girls-not-ready-to.html.

Puma Perl’s next Pandemonium pro-duction will partner with AH Presents and take place on Friday, May 22 at Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Ave. A (at Sixth St.). Bands and performers include The Pin-Ups, Red Gretchen, The Lord Calverts, Puma Perl and Friends and Danny’s Devil Blues. No admission, no cover, all ages, 7 p.m.–1 a.m.

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Just leaving the house without a small fry or juice box would more than qualify for an evening of therapeutic relief — but a Pen Parentis Literary Salon gives par-ents who write the chance to meet other likeminded authors and access resources to help them become prolific (or at least productive). Their May 12 gathering will be an especially swanky one, given that it takes place in an elegant private library on the top floor of the original home of the New York Times.

The guests are best-selling author Sarah Pekkanen, Pulitzer Prize nominee Charles McNair, Amazon #1 Women’s Fiction pick author Amy Scheibe, and triple-threat writing phenomenon Liz Rosenberg. Wine-fueled schmoozing pre-cedes the readings, after which there will be a Q&A moderated by Pen Parentis founder M. M. De Voe and its new Salons curator, novelist Christina Chiu. Purchase books to be signed (or at least read), and proceeds will go to Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. This is the Salon’s season-closer. It returns, monthly, begin-

ning on Sept. 8 — with Ed Lin, Jack Miller and Tim O’Mara already booked for the night’s “Crime Fiction” theme.

Tues., May 12, 7 p.m. on the 16th floor of 41 Park Row (btw. Spruce & Nassau Sts.). Free and open to the (21+) public. RSVP strongly suggested via penparentis.org. Twitter: @penpa-rentis. Yeah, they’re on Facebook too (facebook.com/penparentis).

Season’s final Salon

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Amazon #1 Women’s Fiction pick author Amy Scheibe reads, signs books and answers your questions at May 12’s Pen Parentis Literary Salon.


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