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® express VOLUME 22, NUMBER 11 THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN JULY 24 - 30, 2009 25 Broadway makes the grade for private school’s expansion

BY JULIE SHAPIRO “You walk right out our Claremont Prep’s $30 door, cross Bowling Green, million expansion is back on and there you are,” Koffl er track after the school fi nal- said. “It’s a wonderful build- ized a lease this week for ing, it’s close by, and the 200,000 square feet at 25 staff is really thrilled.” Broadway. Claremont was able to Claremont will use the back out of the 100 Church space for middle and high St. lease because owner The school classes starting in the Sapir Organization took a fall of 2010, said Michael long time to get their bank Koffl er, C.E.O. of Met Schools, to sign off on the deal, Claremont’s parent company. Koffl er said. Koffl er made a similar The asking rent at 25 announcement in March, Broadway was $39 per square saying the school had leased foot, compared to $40 at space for its expansion at 100 100 Church. Koffl er said he Church St., but Claremont paid very close to the asking opted out of that deal rent at 25 Broadway, which because the 25 Broadway is owned by the Wolfson space was better, Koffl er Group. Wolfson and Sapir said. A major tipping point could not immediately be was 25 Broadway’s location, reached for comment. just steps from Claremont’s Claremont had detailed Broad St. home. architectural plans and ren-

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Photo by Joe Woolhead Tanya Ridley, a metal lather, hoists a rod of rebar at Tower 4 at the World Trade Center site. Rosie the Riveter redux: Women work it at W.T.C.

BY JULIE SHAPIRO “I wear the ring as a decoy,” Johns trades are even more skewed toward Ashia Johns goes to work every day said, laughing as she ate lunch on men — in the same 2008 study, the wearing a white hard hat on her head the edge of the construction site on a most unbalanced of all professions in and a fl ashy white-gold diamond ring recent afternoon. “They don’t really the country was bricklaying, which on her left hand. bother me,” she said of her male co- boasted only one woman for every 230 The hard hat keeps her safe as she workers. “I just use [the ring] to throw men. builds the new Goldman Sachs head- them off.” On the whole, women represent quarters Downtown. The engagement Johns, 35, is one of the rare women 2.5 percent of the total workers in the ring look-alike, which Johns bought who choose carpentry as a career. For construction and excavation industry, for herself, also keeps her safe — from every 65 male carpenters, there is only up from 2.1 percent 20 years ago, the Knitters get In The Loop the attentions of the dozens of men she one female carpenter, according to a PAGE 10 works with. 2008 U.S. Dept. of Labor study. Other Continued on page 14 2 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express NEWS ...... 1-15, 18-19 NDER Transit Sam ...... 9 Ucover Mixed Use ...... 18 there was Avram Turkel, a strong advocate of incumbent STILL IN THE RACE Councilmember Alan Gerson. (Silvera supports Gerson EDITORIAL PAGES ...... 16-17 Arthur Gregory, a City Council candidate, started a challenger Pete Gleason.) phone conversation with us recently by saying, “In case you Then Newell joined the fray last month. Also a Gleason heard the rumors, I did not drop out of the race.” supporter, Newell had made an unsuccessful bid last year to YOUTH ...... 20-22 We actually hadn’t heard that rumor yet, but it quickly topple Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver. became clear why it had sprung up. Gregory waited until 10 Silvera said he made the decision not to run while on the minutes before the midnight deadline last Wednesday night trail collecting petition signatures, and he said in some ways ARTS ...... 23-26 to fi le his petitions with the Board of Elections, so other can- he felt relieved to be done. didates fi gured he was a no-show. He also has not registered Turkel and Newell, the remaining candidates, both shied any campaign contributions with the city. away from criticizing each other in the press, but after Silvera Listings ...... 25-26 Gregory said he likes being the last person to do some- challenged the signatures Turkel collected, Turkel is challenging thing — for example, he claims that he was the last person Newell’s. Turkel said he collected just over 900 signatures and in Manhattan to vote for Obama on election night. As for Newell said he got about 1,200. They each needed 500. CLASSIFIEDS ...... 27 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. VACANT LOT Gregory admits that he was considering dropping out Good news for the people who are tired of staring at the C.B. 1 because he has to have surgery on his ankle, but that can wait garbage-heaped vacant lot at Greenwich and W. Thames Sts.: It until after the primary. If he had dropped out, he would have could soon be cleaned up and home to construction trailers. MEETINGS given his vote to incumbent Alan Gerson, he said. Pat Moore, a Cedar St. resident, has been railing against the The fi ve-way race is still without a clear overall frontrun- lot for months, calling it an eyesore totally out of keeping with the ner this week — at least in terms of the candidates’ petition neighborhood just south of the World Trade Center site. A gap The upcoming week’s schedule of Community signatures and quarterly fundraising stats. in the lot’s fence is wide enough for people to squeeze through, Board 1 meetings is below. Margaret Chin is leading the way in fundraising, hav- and the lot is fi lled with empty beer bottles, discarded fast-food ing brought in nearly $114,000 so far. But PJ Kim is close wrappers and even some threadbare items of clothing. ON TUES., JULY 28: The Community Board 1 behind, with just over $91,000, and he has more money The city was apparently having trouble getting the owner monthly meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the Museum still in the bank than Chin, about $41,000 compared to her to fi x up the lot, but now it looks like Bovis Lend Lease, of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. $37,000, their campaigns said. The city’s generous matching which is managing the work at the Deutsche Bank build- funds make small fundraising differences nearly irrelevant. ing, wants to use the site for construction trailers. John De Gerson has raised $54,000 and his campaign manager Libero, spokesperson for the Lower Manhattan Development would not say how much he has left. Another candidate, Pete Corp., said Bovis is in negotiations to take over the site for Gleason, has raised $37,500 and has about $11,000 left, his the next six months. SEND YOUR campaign said. When Moore heard, she was happy, but not thrilled. “So, None of the candidates challenged the others’ petition it’ll be a trailer park,” she said. signatures, though many of them privately questioned each Letter to 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 SCAFFOLDING SALE the Editor 4,700, Gleason’s campaign said 4,500 and Gregory said he There are plenty of recession specials popping up at shops EWS OWNTOWN XPRESS COM would up with nearly 1,600. all around the city, but here’s one that was new to us: A value N @D E . mart on Chambers St. is advertising a “Super Scaffolding Sale,” using signs dangling from said scaffolding to boast 145 SIXTH AVENUE, NYC, NY 10013 discounts of 25 percent or more. THREESOME NOW A TWOSOME The scaffolding covering the RHX Super Value, and PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR PHONE NUMBER While the First District City Council battle rages on, a less much of its block on Chambers St. between Church St. and well-known race got a little simpler this week when Adam Broadway, went up a couple months ago, partially hiding the FOR CONFIRMATION PURPOSES ONLY Silvera stopped campaigning for Democratic district leader store from view. Sale specials at the store include bottled and endorsed fellow candidate Paul Newell. water for 19 cents and rolling suitcases for $19.99. 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 KEY ST. JAMES PERFORMANCE other people.” This year’s July 25 celebration of the Feast of St. James District leader is an unpaid position and doesn’t usu- won’t be limited to a feast for the appetite; locally renowned ally engender so much interest, but this year Silvera organist Jonathan B. Hall will perform in Lower Manhattan found himself facing not one but two opponents. First 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. Read the Archives The performances will take place at St. James Church, located at 32 James St. Sunday’s festivities will also include www.DOWNTOWNEXPRESS.com other musical performances, a fl ea market and food, avail- able on James St., which will be closed to traffi c. downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 3 Faced with construction, merchants want facade funds

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 Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller cleared up before the city begins work on Aleks Misyuk in front of his Fulton St. store. the property. The $15 million Fulton Nassau heard of the city program, he had already “That’s unbelievable, that they will leave marked 127 Fulton St., qualified for all Crossroads Program offers free design, taken out a private loan of $20,000 to that storefront unrenovated… The mon- three tiers of the city program, which engineering and construction manage- renovate it. But once city representatives ey’s not going to the landlord, the money means he will receive hundreds of thou- ment, along with up to $275,000 for told him he was virtually guaranteed a is going to the storeowner.” sands of dollars worth of work, though he construction, to buildings on Fulton and grant through the facade-improvement The city’s program has three tiers, has to match a portion of it. The grants Nassau Sts. The idea behind the pro- program, he spent the money on advertis- representing varying levels of funding and will allow him to restore the long-vacant gram, funded by the Lower Manhattan ing and other costs instead. scopes of work. The lowest level, which storefront to its 1893 condition, and also Development Corp., is to improve the Misyuk applied for, gives business owners to clean the entire facade. storefronts along the major Seaport up to $15,000 for basic improvements to “It’s working out great for us,” Kettler retail corridors that have undergone a their storefronts. The upper tiers are for said. He hopes the work will begin this lot of recent construction. The city has ‘When you walk down more extensive work, possibly covering fall and finish in the spring, and that he’ll approved about 50 businesses so far and the entire building, and require owners to finally be able to attract a ground-floor is still taking applications. Nassau St., you don’t have contribute some money as well. retail tenant to the space. Several business owners who are Those who have been approved for the Sadia Brangan just heard this week that receiving grants lauded the program this a trendy feel.’ program said it is coming not a moment her Nassau St. eyebrow salon, Thread, week, but it is unclear whether Misyuk too soon. was approved for the program. The store will ever benefit from it. Sadia Brangan, Alex Cardinali, who owns the Ruben’s has been draped in scaffolding since she Thurcon Properties, the owner of Empanadas on Fulton St., said he lost 40 opened it almost two years ago, and a pre- Misyuk’s building, has received more than Thread eyebrow salon percent of his sales since the water-main vious owner’s sign still lurks behind that half a dozen violations from the Dept. construction started two years ago, and scaffolding, Brangan said. She hopes the of Buildings over the past three years the only way he’s able to stay open is by scaffolding will come down soon, so she for failing to maintain the elevator. As a using profits from his other three Ruben’s can use her grant to put up her own sign result of the repeated violations, Thurcon “I wasted my loan,” Misyuk said this locations to pay the bills. and get a new security gate. owes more than $20,000 to the city, week, and now he cannot afford to take With up to $15,000 from the city, Brangan said the city’s program has the according to D.O.B.’s online records. out another one to do the storefront work Cardinali will buy a new electric gate, repaint power to transform the hodgepodge retail Thurcon did not return calls for com- he had planned. He estimates that he his storefront and replace the air-condition- corridors into a more visually appealing ment. needs $12,000, which falls well within the ing unit. He said he could not afford to make place to shop, like Soho or the Lower East Misyuk did not criticize his landlord, lowest tier of the city’s program. Misyuk the improvements on his own. Side. The more businesses take advantage but rather said the city should find a way hopes an all-glass storefront would attract “People are optimistic — for a change,” of the program, the greater the impact to still give him the grant money, which he more customers into his shop, which has Cardinali said of some of his neighbors, could be, she said. was promised. City representatives told suffered during two years of water-main who are also receiving grants. “We’ve “When you walk down Nassau St., you him the only way he would not get a grant construction on Fulton St. been suffering for the past two years.” don’t have a trendy feel,” Brangan said. was if he owed taxes or was a criminal, John Fratta, chairperson of Community The city’s program also offers consult- “It would help us more if other businesses Misyuk said. Board 1’s Seaport Committee, was sur- ing that is particularly helpful for owners updated their look.” Misyuk has long thought his storefront prised to hear of Misyuk’s difficulties. of landmarked buildings. needed work, and before he had even “That’s outrageous,” Fratta said. Andy Kettler, an owner of the land- [email protected] 4 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express POLICE BLOTTER

recorded Frontis entering and leaving the Downtown murder arrest building fi ve times on that day carrying out bags of items stolen from three apartments. Police on Thursday arrested Joseph Frontis is also suspected in a June 17 bur- Pabon, 25, the elevator operator at 2 glary of apartments in The Saranac, at 95 Rector St., and charged him with the Worth St., where he posed as a messenger, first-degree murder on July 7 of Eridania according to reports. He is also a suspect Rodriguez, 46, a cleaning woman at the in the June 25 burglary of 111 Worth St. office building. during which he was dressed as a construc- Pabon, whom police had been follow- tion worker. Frontis, a Brooklyn resident, is ing since July 11 when the victim’s body being held in lieu of bail pending an Oct. 1 was found in a 12th-floor air duct in the court appearance. Downtown building, pleaded not guilty and was being held without bail pending trial. The arrest on July 17 came after the Rude awakening results of tests showed evidence of Pabon’s DNA under the victim’s fingernails, Giuseppe Tuosto, 46, surrendered to according to law enforcement authori- police at the Sixth Precinct on Mon., July ties. And both Pabon’s and the victim’s 20, after his former girlfriend fi led charges DNA were found on work gloves found that he assaulted her in her Horatio St. at the scene. When Pabon was first ques- apartment on Tues., July 14. The victim, tioned after the victim, a mother of three 32, told police she had run into Tuosto the children, disappeared on July 7, he had night before, exchanged greetings and later bruises and scratches on his arm that his went home with a friend of Tuosto’s. The lawyer, Mario Galluci, said were from yard woman and her guest both fell asleep on work at Pabon’s Staten Island residence. a couch, according to reports. The victim Pabon had been arrested in April for told police that Tuosto got into her apart- beating his girlfriend and throwing a bowl- ment near West St. while she was asleep, Downtown Express photo by J.B. Nicholas ing ball through her car window, accord- punched and kicked her and then left. On Mon., July 20, Kyle Shaw, left, accused of bombing a Starbucks, left Manhattan ing to daily press reports. In addition, Tuosto, a partner in Via dei Mille, a res- Criminal Court, at 100 Centre St., accompanied by his father, after a bond hearing. Pabon’s former wife had obtained orders taurant on West Broadway at Broome St., of protection against him. According to pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and a New York Post article, Pabon’s father, was freed pending a July 24 court appear- Neftali, 71, pleaded guilty in 2003 to rap- ance. ing his son’s then 14-year-old girlfriend Piece of Deutsche Bank drops and was put on 10 years probation. Rodriguez’s body was found fully Kiefer ducks charge clothed except for her shoes, with tape off, causing a partial work stop over most of her head. The city’s medical examiner said asphyxiation was the cause The misdemeanor assault charge against BY JULIE SHAPIRO cally gathered.” of death. Kiefer Sutherland, the actor who plays Jack A falling chunk of concrete stopped D.O.B. only stopped work on the north Bauer on the TV program “24,” accusing work in part of the Deutsche Bank building side of the site. Facade removal there can- him of head-butting a fashion designer at Wednesday morning. not resume until the site safety manager a May 5 event in a club at The SubMercer The piece of concrete, measuring 3 feet prepares a report and engineers conduct a bar at Prince and Mercer Sts., was dropped by 3 feet by 10 inches, fell from the second survey of the building to look for similarly Tribeca burglar on Tuesday, said a spokesperson for the story of the building into a pit on the site as dangerous conditions, Sclafani said. Manhattan district attorney. Sutherland had workers were removing the building’s facade, De Libero said Bovis would propose Police arrested Dana Frontis, 45, on apologized and reached a settlement with according to the city Dept. of Buildings and safety enhancements to D.O.B. on Thursday. Thurs., July 16, and charged him with the victim, Jack McCollough. the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., He was not sure when work on the north the June 19 burglary of a building at which owns the building. side of the site would restart, but he said the 88 Leonard St. Surveillance camera tapes — Albert Amateau No one was hurt, but D.O.B. issued a project was still adhering to its most recent violation to contractor Bovis Lend Lease for schedule. failure to safeguard public and property, said The Deutsche Bank building, contami- Tony Sclafani, D.O.B. spokesperson. nated on 9/11, is being cleaned so it can be It is unclear why the piece of concrete demolished. Though the project has been fell. It landed near the base of the tower delayed many times, demolition is sup- crane on the north side of the site, in an posed to start at the beginning of August area that is fenced off as a protective mea- and fi nish six months later. The building sure, said John De Libero, spokesperson has been under close regulatory scrutiny for L.M.D.C. Sclafani confi rmed that the since a 2007 fi re in the building killed two concrete fell in a place “workers are not typi- fi refi ghters.

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+.- 6 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express It appears Pier A actually now will not be profi table

BY JULIE SHAPIRO fi gures from years ago and did not account for And even a successful restaurant and cater- request for proposals for tenants, which will Despite the city’s best efforts to wring infl ation or rising construction costs. ing hall could have trouble paying the kind likely be released in the spring, Altman said. money out of Pier A, the redevelopment proj- The city’s Economic Development Corp. of rent the city would need to break even, The National Park Service was considering ect likely will not turn a profi t, the Battery Park has also insisted that a restaurant and cater- Altman said. Each year, the city will have to using Pier A to screen tourists for Ellis and City Authority said this week. ing company anchor the space, Altman said. pay off about $1.5 million of the debt it took Liberty islands but decided earlier this year The authority took over the development The authority had spoken to several cul- on to renovate Pier A, Urstadt estimated. That not to do so. of the dilapidated historic pier building last tural institutions about using Pier A, but Despite the city’s focus on generating rev- year, after the project sat idle in a private that would confl ict with E.D.C.’s vision, enue, some Battery Park City residents hoped developer’s hands for nearly a decade. The idea Cavanaugh said. a nonprofi t organization could use at least was for the authority to repair the building Janel Patterson, E.D.C. spokesperson, did ‘Putting a restaurant in some of Pier A. and its substructure using $30 million from not respond directly to the fi nancial concerns, “It’s wonderful spot, it’s historic, so it the city. Then, the authority would lease the but released a statement saying, “E.D.C.’s here is certainly not should have some sort of cultural element,” refurbished space and hopefully recoup the goal for Pier A has always been to preserve said Anthony Notaro, a member of Community city’s investment. this important maritime landmark and cre- a slam dunk.’ Board 1’s B.P.C. Committee. Notaro added that Now, it looks unlikely that Pier A will make ate a new, fi rst-class destination in Lower any retail should be geared toward residents. enough money for the city to break even, said Manhattan. Given Battery Park City’s record Robert Mueller, Barry Skolnick, another member of the Alexandra Altman, executive vice president of of successfully developing and maintaining B.P.C. Committee, would like to see a museum B.P.C.A. public property, its involvement gives us great B.P.C.A. board member or performing arts center at Pier A, rather than When Altman spoke at the authority’s confi dence in its ability to restore the pier in a restaurant and catering establishment. monthly board meeting Tuesday morning, the appropriate manner.” “I don’t like to think that money governs Charles Urstadt, vice chairperson of the board, Jeanne Giordano, the authority’s retail con- everything in New York,” he said. “It’s a sounded alarmed. sultant, also said a restaurant/retail combina- means Pier A’s 34,000 square feet would have shame.” “We should tell [the city] how much they’re tion would have the best chance of generating to rent for about $45 per square foot, which is If a catering hall does end up at Pier A, going to lose on this thing,” Urstadt said. revenue at the site, Altman said. But others an unrealistic fi gure, the authority said. Skolnick hopes the community could use the “I think they probably know,” replied Jim questioned whether the pier, which juts out The authority is currently repairing the space part of the time as a compromise. Cavanaugh, president of the authority. The into the harbor where Battery Park meets 123-year-old landmarked pier. The underwa- Not everyone was displeased at the idea of city has seen the same numbers as the author- Battery Park City, gets enough traffi c to sup- ter work is complete, and the next step is to a restaurant. ity, he said. port a restaurant, especially in the winter. replace the concrete deck on the fi rst fl oor, “That sounds good to me,” said Bill Love, The city has been adamant from the begin- “Putting a restaurant in here is certainly which has deteriorated. The authority expects another community board member. “We ning that the project must make money. When not a slam dunk,” said Robert Mueller, an to have the core and shell of the building ready always need better restaurants in Battery Park the city leased the pier to the authority last authority board member. “I’m not trying to be to turn over to a tenant in April 2011. The ten- City.” year, the city gave the authority a tough-to- a soothsayer of doom — it’s just not an easy ant would then build out the space. meet $30 million budget, which was based on place to put anything.” This winter, the authority will develop a [email protected] 25 Broadway makes the grade for Claremont expansion

Continued from page 1 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.” Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller Claremont Prep will be expanding into 25 Broadway, at right, where it will occupy space on the 19th to 22nd [email protected] fl oors. downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 7 Experience the Harbor. Tours daily from South Street Seaport

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BY JULIE SHAPIRO An ice rink is coming to Battery Park City this winter. Skating The 17,000-square-foot rink, more than Path 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. Rink 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. A schematic rendering showing the new “It’s extremely unique, even for New seasonal ice rink and path planned for York,” Hillgrove said. the Battery Park City ballfi elds. The rink will be open seven days a week, starting sometime in December and running to it” and would not have been compatible through late January or early February. The with the community. authority is still discussing hours and fees R.M.S. will pay the authority a minimum with R.M.S., but admission will be about of $60,000 per year to rent the space and $10, with skate rental at $3, the authority will pay more if the rink does well, Gelb said. Skating and hockey lessons will cost said. In addition to building the rink, R.M.S. about $15 a session. will bring in trailers and put up tents for The authority’s board voted Tuesday to concessions. give R.M.S. the contract. The revenue from the rink will offset the Jeff Mihok, a B.P.C. resident, said he is costs of some utility work the authority has to looking forward to taking his children skat- do at the fi elds. The authority plans to spend ing at the rink. He suggested a discounted about $700,000 on the work, which includes $1.95 rate for residents or a seasonal membership removing an electrical panel and a shed from EACH pass, options the authority is considering. the fi elds’ south side, opening up more space “I’m really happy to hear they’re going for the local sports leagues to use. to make that happen,” Mihok said. “To have Tom Merrill, president of Downtown that space not used for fi ve months of the Little League, said he has long been advocat- year is crazy.” ing for the authority to make those changes, The authority tried to bring an ice rink which will provide room for batting cages in for last winter but wasn’t able to pick an and a place for pitchers to warm up. operator in time. The other operator that “Every inch of space down there counts,” applied for the contract would have cre- Merrill said. ated a much more expensive, tourist-focused rink, which Gelb said had “a lot more glitz [email protected]

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Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller Ina Braun leads a knitting session at the World Financial Center. The Financial Center gets In The Loop with knitters

BY JARED T. MILLER met Braun, the group began to gain ity on W. Houston St. that serves cancer the trek to the Financial Center from other As she stood below palm trees in the momentum. patients. This month’s blankets will go to areas of the city was not uncommon; but Winter Garden at the World Financial “She’s incredibly enthusiastic, and a Baby Buggy, another New York City char- one woman present at Friday’s event had Center last Friday, Ina Braun could barely great teacher,” said Kitchen. Braun now ity that aids families in need with supplies to travel a bit farther than simply taking contain her joy at the sight of more than attends the monthly sessions and offers for newborns and young children. Because the subway downtown. a dozen knitters completing projects they assistance to members of the group; last many In The Loop members knit multiple “I’ve been to New York a number of would donate to charity. But the New Friday, those knitting at her table watched times, and I’ve done all the tourist stuff,” Jersey knitting teacher’s journey to the with rapt attention as she showed them said Safia Weeks, 33, who was visit- Financial Center, for the knitting club how to finish a stitch on a blanket. ing from England. She said she recently In The Loop, began in a more humble “I’m just absolutely passionate about Though the group has started knitting, and found out about the fashion: She was just trying to get rid of teaching it,” said Braun. “I really believe event via the group’s blog. “This is my some yarn. there is a shortcoming of people learning an educational focus, first project, and I just finished. I’m really “It was actually a very serendipitous to know intuitively what knitting and cro- proud.” kind of thing,” said Braun, who runs a cheting is all about.” its projects double as But the group has something to offer knitting studio in Boonton, N.J., about the In The Loop allows Braun to translate more experienced knitters as well — tips beginnings of In The Loop. “I said, ‘Hey, I what she does in her small studio — in the charitable donations. and ideas from others at their level. have three garbage bags of yarn — can we form of simpler, focused projects — for “You have so many resources in other do something with it?’ And that’s how the a large group of knitters at each month’s people that can help you,” said Maura whole adventure started.” event. Each month has a new project as projects, Kitchen hoped to produce 50 Templeton, 56, who works for A.I.G. In that conversation, Braun was speak- its theme; Friday’s event had the knitters knitted garments for each charity; so far, and said she had been knitting for almost ing on the phone with Karen Kitchen, finishing blankets they had started during she and In The Loop members have con- 50 years. “You like to talk about what co-founder of In The Loop and program their time away from the Financial Center. sistently met that goal. you’re doing, and different techniques director at arts>World Financial Center. The events give knitters a chance to finish “They’re going to be thrilled,” said that you’ve picked up.”’ Kitchen had been soliciting donations their projects as well as learn new tech- Braun, of the charities, “to know that a As she watched the knitters finish for yarn via her In The Loop blog, when niques and patterns. Kitchen, who was group of people has come together over their projects, Braun remarked on how Braun contacted her. Kitchen participated unable to attend Friday’s event, is instru- a period of months and contributed in the focus of the blanket project bolstered in “The Big Draw,” a 2007 arts>World mental in securing the group’s corporate that way — because there’s nothing like a the skills of In The Loop’s members, and Financial Center event that allowed con- sponsors, soliciting donations, and the hand-knit piece.” taught them techniques they could use in tributions to an artist’s installation in the overall planning of each event. The group’s Brown Bag socials draw personal projects of their own. But Weeks form of knit scarves, and was looking for Though In The Loop certainly has a diverse crowd. Though many knitters explained that the joy of In The Loop is a way to bring a community of knitters an educational focus, the group’s proj- present at Friday’s event had been knitting rooted in something much simpler. together at the World Financial Center. ects also double as charitable donations. for most of their lives, several younger “I think that if you can actually do Through the event, she realized that the The group donated last month’s knitted attendees had come for their first project a hobby, and do something good at the interest was there — but when Kitchen “chemo caps” to Gilda’s Club, a char- and Braun’s detailed instruction. Making same time, why not?” Weeks said. downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 11

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Dear Transit Sam, always make it hard for passengers to maneuver along to N.Y.C. Transit, and I have to Dear Ted, in general. My suggestion is to designate a spe- concur with their assessment; that hav- I’m wondering if you have any ideas about cial car for families, bicycles and big packages ing a designated subway car is just not Stop the ticketing, I repeat, stop the ticket- how to make the N.Y.C. subway system more only. This would drastically improve the quality feasible in our massive system. However, ing! The stop lines (or bar) only apply to mov- family friendly. I’ve attached a photo of a child of riding the subway for all subway riders. the agency does its best to accommodate ing vehicles and do not defi ne a crosswalk, on a crowded subway car surrounded by oblivi- its variety of riders through “priority which I also stated in another letter a few ous adults drinking hot coffee and listening to Evelyn, via mail seating.” These “priority seats” must be weeks back. The N.Y.C. traffi c rules allow music. In addition, rush-hour crowds blocking given up when asked to do so by elderly vehicles to park up to the pedestrian cross- car doors often make it hard for parents with Dear Evelyn, passengers, disabled customers, pregnant walk, marked or unmarked. The city Dept. of baby carriages to even enter the train and Poor kid! I did pass your suggestion women and others whose special needs Transportation has been installing more stop may not be so evident. N.Y.C. Transit lines, several feet before crosswalks, to ensure spokesperson James Anyansi also adds, motorists don’t block the crosswalk and to “They have ongoing campaigns alerting increase safety for both parties. Thus, it’s pos- Speaker Sheldon Silver customers to the use of priority seating sible, signs permitting of course, to be legally and also requesting that customers give parked between the stop line and crosswalk. I am proud to support these wonderful summer programs! up regular, unmarked seats to the elderly Another community that has had prob- or disabled as a courtesy. Also, our newer lems in recent months was the Riverdale subway cars have flip-up seats in four of section of the Bronx, where scores of readers the eight or 10-car trains to accommodate wrote me saying they were being erroneously wheelchairs.” So next time, let’s save that cited for parking in a crosswalk when they poor little guy a seat! were parked between the stop bar and cross-

walk. (I believe things have improved.) If the Transit Sam wrongful citations continue, we’ll make sure N.Y.P.D. gets it right. Keep me posted.

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I know cars are prohibited from parking in a crosswalk. Do the stop lines painted Sam Schwartz, a former fi rst deputy com- in the street mean anything as far as park- missioner of city transportation, is president ing? I’ve defi nitely seen cars parked past and C.E.O. of Sam Schwartz Engineering, the stop line but before the crosswalk lines a traffi c engineering consulting fi rm to pri- that have tickets on the windshield. Can you vate and public entities including the Port clarify? Authority at the World Trade Center site. Bike Around Downtown - a free bike rental program. Biking is a great way E-mail your questions to TransitSam@ to enjoy the sights and sounds of our beautiful, historic Lower Manhattan Ted, Lower East Side DowntownExpress.com community. Bikes for children and adults are available for pick up at the South Street Seaport. To pre-register and learn more visit www.downtownny.com/bikearound. Nadler nets millions for the arts Governors Island - remains one of Lower Manhattan’s outdoor treasures where residents can enjoy bike riding, picnicking, concerts, art festivals and More than 50 city arts organizations Endowment for the Arts, is intended to more. A record number of Lower Manhattan residents visited Governors will receive a total of $2.4 million in preserve jobs at nonprofit arts groups, Island last summer. I urge you to enjoy this beautiful gem yourself this federal stimulus money, U.S. Rep. Jerrold which are struggling with the recession summer. Nadler announced last week. and may otherwise be forced to do lay- http://www.nps.gov/gois/planyourvisit/events.htm Many of the groups have Lower offs. Manhattan roots or have done pro- “It’s always essential to support the For more information, grams Downtown, including Dance New arts in our communities,” Nadler said in please call Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Office at 212-312-1420 Amsterdam, Creative Time and the Joyce a statement, “but these stimulus funds are Theater, which will all get $50,000. The particularly significant right now for the money, granted through the National retention of thousands of local jobs.” Senate passes business-aid bill

In the fi rst session the State Senate held last another two years, through September after reuniting, the legislators released from 2015, at the World Trade Center and the limbo a slew of bills that had been waiting World Financial Center and in Battery Park for their stamp of approval. City. Among them was an extension of the The Assembly passed the commer- Lower Manhattan commercial incentives, cial incentive extension bill in June, and put in place in 2007 to aid in the post-9/11 the Senate finally took it up at 12:30 recovery of the neighborhood’s businesses. a.m. June 10, shortly after the leader- Under the bill, businesses below Canal St. ship impasse was resolved. Sen. Daniel will be eligible for reduced rents and sales Squadron sponsored the bill in the Senate tax exemptions for equipment purchased for and Speaker Sheldon Silver sponsored an additional four years, through June 2013. it in the Assembly. Gov. David Paterson Eligibility for the sales tax exemption will signed it this week. downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 13 Underused lanes should be pedestrian space, BID says

BY JARED T. MILLER A 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

Edgar St. plaza is sparsely landscaped, with shrubs and benches lining the perimeter. Downtown Express photo by Jared T. Miller A new proposal calls for expanding the existing Edgar St. plaza, in left foreground, into Edgar St. where two men are seen walk- ing, above. 1 Planning Committee meeting last week. nonprofi t group that advocates for wide- Though the committee voted to write a letter spread wireless Internet access, hopes to of support for the Alliance’s plan, the plaza’s install Wi-Fi capabilities for the plaza if the WATER TAXI construction is dependent upon D.O.T.’s proposal is approved, said Bruce Brodoff, decision to award funding. D.O.T. is still spokesperson for the Alliance. reviewing the plan, and will likely announce If D.O.T. approves the proposal, planning the decision by October. and design work will commence in the fall and BEACH “As the community evolves further and construction will conclude by the middle of SOUTH STREET SEAPORT gains a more residential neighborhood feel, 2012, according to the Downtown Alliance’s NORTH SIDE OF PIER 17 the need for a heart and center becomes preliminary timeline. The Downtown Alliance more and more important,” said Christopher will be responsible for future maintenance of Reynolds, assistant vice president of planning the redesigned plaza. for the Downtown Alliance. “The potential “It certainly could be much nicer than it EAT IT THURSDAYS for that plaza to serve that role becomes is now. And it will be,” said John Foss, co- Victor Franco Presents* more and more heightened.” chairperson of C.B.1’s Planning Committee, RAW Edgar St. is wedged between Greenwich explaining that he supported the idea of FRIDAYS St. and Trinity Place, and is situated next expanding the plaza into the underused HAPPY Melting Pot Global to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority lanes of Edgar St. “Anytime there’s outdoor 6pm-2am* parking garage. The street is primarily used space we can improve, I think that benefi ts HOUR for traffi c in and out of the garage, Reynolds everyone.” $.50 Raw Bar & $3 off all SATURDAYS said. As part of the proposal to D.O.T., the Ryan Hoffecker, 29, who works nearby beer, wine and cocktails. Nicky Siano & More Downtown Alliance must secure the sup- at One Liberty Plaza, was sitting in Edgar Wed - Fri 4pm to 6pm port of the surrounding community. C.B. 1’s St. plaza as he checked his BlackBerry last SUNDAYS Planning Committee is already on board. Friday. He said he supported the idea of WEDNESDAYS Brunch 11am-4pm Pulse Currently, the Edgar St. plaza is sparsely expanding the current space. landscaped, with shrubs and benches lining “It’d be nice to have more green, less con- Salsa with DJ Eddie 87 Twilight Beach Party the perimeter. The majority of the plaza is crete,” said Hoffecker, noting that he rarely Batiz 6pm-2am* 4pm-2am concrete, allowing for the fl ow of pedestrian sees cars in Edgar St.’s extra lanes. “Green is * FREE BEFORE 8PM traffi c through the area. NYCwireless, a always better in the city.” food. fun. sand. HarborExperience.com www. 866.982.2542 SOUTH STREET SEAPORT

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she needed to get a union job. Continued from page 1 “Things are changing,” said Kathleen Culhane, vice president of programs at NEW. Dept. of Labor said. “Doors are opening like never before… . In Lower Manhattan, where so much con- Today, it’s not such a rarity to see not only one struction has fl ooded the neighborhood that woman but a handful of women on a job site, the city and state created a command center to working in construction.” keep track of it all, the numbers do not appear On a Friday afternoon last month, NEW to be much different, though no one collects held a graduation for 12 women who had the statistics. Women at several large construc- just completed the six-week program. The tion sites said they work with hundreds of men brief but boisterously heartfelt ceremony took but just a handful of women. place on the third fl oor of NEW’s W. 20th St. The Lower Manhattan Construction building, beneath posters reading “Celebrate Command Center runs several programs to Men Working With Women” and images of attract women and minorities to work sites NEW’s logo, which looks like the symbol for Downtown, including classes and job place- “female” with a hammer instead of the “T.” ment assistance. As each woman’s name was called to “It’s not a man’s world anymore,” said receive a completion certifi cate, the others Beverly Bobb, who manages the command cheered, making up for the lack of friends and center’s equal-opportunity programs. “If a family members in the very small audience. woman can do it, why not?” (Before the ceremony started, one of the While Bobb said women remain very NEW leaders asked if any of the women were much in the minority and occasionally face waiting on a guest. “It’s just us,” one of the harassment or poor work conditions, those students replied. Pointing to her fellow gradu- who spoke to Downtown Express this month ates, she added, “My guest is right here.”) did not describe an atmosphere of negativity After impromptu speeches that left nearly or discrimination. The biggest challenges of everyone in tears, the graduates ate pizza and the job come not from their minority status refl ected on the demanding six weeks behind but from the job itself, the women said. them and their plans for the future. Photo by Joe Woolhead Arlene Fisher, a surveyor at One World Taja Brown, 28, hopes to join a union so Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, said the Estelle St. Clair, a carpenter, building the structure to hold up molds for concrete she can continue working in construction but most diffi cult thing she has to do is navi- pouring at Tower 4 at the World Trade Center site. get paid better wages. When she was 19, she gate the red tape associated with rebuilding helped her father fi x up a house, and she fell ground zero. and the remnants of pink polish on her fi n- As for the men she works with, St. Clair in love with the work. Since then, she’s been “It’s different than any of the other jobs gernails. St. Clair spoke with pride as she said she rarely has problems. getting jobs wherever she can. I’ve worked on,” Fisher said. “The chain of pointed out the recently poured concrete and “Sometimes at fi rst, on a new job, they’ll say, “I like the looks I get in Home Depot,” command is longer than normal… It takes 10 the rows of steel reinforcements, then she ‘Can we ask her to do this? Is she willing?’” St. Brown said, especially when she’s picking out times as long to get anything done.” worked with several men to build a structure Clair said. “But once they see you jump in and an unusual tool or material. “People stare, Fisher, 39, spoke of her male co-workers that would support a new concrete fl oor for you try, everyone loosens up some.” like, ‘What do you know about that?’” with affection and a trace of condescension. the next level up. Tanya Ridley, a metal lather and the Brown once picked up a customer that “Believe it or not, the guys on construction only other female hard hat at Tower 4, said way — a man saw her looking at tools in sites have good manners,” she said. Her one her favorite part of the job is its hands-on the tiling section, and she wound up tiling problem is that “They just don’t listen,” she usefulness. his entire basement. Brown has gotten some said. “But most of the guys are well-trained,” ‘You’re outside in the “You work hard, you get dirty, you know tiling jobs partly because she’s female, since she added. “They don’t like to see me get it’s worth it,” she said, grinning. customers expect her to be more detailed mad.” fresh air, and there are Ridley, 32, said she doesn’t mind being one and precise, she said. Fisher, who is divorced and has two young of the only women on the site, and the men “But a lot of people assume I can’t do children, started working in construction nine new things to do every she works with don’t seem to mind either. it,” Brown added. “I like to show them and years ago after growing frustrated with her “If I’m not as strong as they are physically, prove them wrong.” low-paying job as a special-education teacher. day. Sometimes it’s a little I’m willing to work hard to get it done, just There is no typical NEW student. Other Now she spends most days outside, and on like anyone else,” she said. members of the graduating class included a recent afternoon she was using a laser to scary. I love it.’ Ridley initially worked as a secretary and Cerise Bunch, a freckled 40-year-old woman measure whether a concrete wall around the a receptionist after high school, unaware that from the Bronx, and Ruth Zuniga, a 20-year- Freedom Tower’s core was perfectly straight Estelle St. Clair construction was even an option. Women are old from Spanish Harlem. Bunch has an engi- and exactly where it was supposed to be. funneled into college, the military or low-pay- neering degree but can’t fi nd a job, so she Fisher and others described the salary ing, unrewarding jobs like home healthcare, decided to give the blue-collar industry a shot. — an average of nearly $50,000 a year for When St. Clair was fi rst starting out she said, when the building trades might be She hopes to work for Con Edison or the Fire a full-fl edged union member, plus benefi ts, in construction, some guys told her they a better fi t. Dept. Zuniga had to complete her G.E.D. so according to a women’s advocacy group — as wouldn’t work with concrete, because it was Ridley may never have broken into con- she could apply to NEW, and now she wants to the biggest perk of the job. too dangerous. St. Clair was a little nervous, struction at all, but two years ago she heard work as a bricklayer. The promise of good money drew Estelle too, and she had to master her fear of heights about a Chelsea group called Nontraditional One of the only parents to attend the gradu- St. Clair into a carpenters’ union in 1999, so she could build skyscrapers. Employment for Women. ation was Stephanie Spencer, whose daughter when she was out of work and had a 5-year- “You’re outside in the fresh air, and there NEW runs six-week training programs Rashida Johnson, 26, had just completed the old son to care for. are new things to do every day,” St. Clair said. designed to launch women into careers in program. Johnson graduated collage and had “I did it at fi rst for the income, but now a “Sometimes it’s a little scary.” She paused. “I construction and other building, transporta- worked in public relations but was laid off, her lot of the work fascinates me,” said St. Clair, love it,” she said. tion and energy trades. Participants brush up mother said. who is building Tower 4 at the World Trade St. Clair got so comfortable with being on math skills, learn to read blueprints and “It’s wonderful that she’s getting a chance Center site. “Looking at the massive struc- high up off the ground that on her last proj- practice toting 63-pound buckets up fl ights to go out there in the world and compete with tures in New York, it makes you interested in ect, the Bank of America tower in Midtown, of stairs. NEW trained nearly 500 women last guys,” Spencer said. “Women coming into con- how they get done, start to fi nish.” her supervisor had to remind her whenever year, most of them lower-income minorities, struction, electrical, plumbing work — this is On a recent morning, St. Clair, 35, strode she got too close to the edge of the building and has been encouraging women to work in the last frontier, so good for them.” across Tower 4’s partially completed fl oors — she was so absorbed in her work that she construction since 1978. Ridley did the pro- with a pink bandana beneath her hardhat barely noticed. gram in 2007 and said it gave her the skills [email protected] downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 15 16 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PUBLISHER & EDITOR Enjoy trees while you can John W. Sutter A job well done and, as a result of their amplifi ed fear, ASSOCIATE EDITOR many fi ne artists then jumped onto the Josh Rogers Just a few years ago, Community Board 2 was an To The Editor: Lederman bandwagon as a way to fend example of everything that possibly could be wrong with As part of the Route 9A/West St. off threatened new legislation proposed by ARTS EDITOR Scott Stiffl er a community board. The volunteer, 50-member body was Promenade construction, it was recently Mr. Gerson. bitterly divided between business owners and residents, announced that, concerning the grove Mr. Lederman’s plan called for fi ne art- REPORTERS and the hostility was palpable and unconstructive. A low of mature trees along West St. north of ists to join forces with the legion of vendors Albert Amateau Lincoln Anderson point came when it was revealed that the leading candi- West Thames St., “All the trees will come who sell cheap, often illegally copied art Patrick Hedlund date for chairperson had hidden from his fellow board down.” (news story, “West Thames Park reproductions and imitation jewelry, there- Julie Shapiro members a confl ict-of-interest ruling about himself for work is a go,” July 10 – 16). by blurring the line defi ning who fi ne artists almost a year and a half. A while ago, it was almost funny that actually are. This negative strategy proved SR. V.P. OF SALES AND MARKETING Of course, the problems start from the top. The a basketball court, playground, gardens, to work against artists. Knowledgeable Francesco Regini Manhattan borough president then was C. Virginia and playing fi eld would be destroyed in travelers and collectors simply have taken Fields. She courted the business community in her order to build a basketball court, play- West Broadway and other formerly well- SR. MARKETING CONSULTANT Jason Sherwood bid to run for mayor, which was reflected in the com- ground, gardens, and playing fi eld. But known artist areas off of their itineraries munity board’s makeup, as the number of appointees now, it has been announced that mature because the scene has become so polluted ADVERTISING SALES who were business owners grew. Although C.B. 2 trees will all be removed in order to with cheap reproduction art and knockoff Allison Greaker Danielle Zupanovich — which includes Greenwich Village, Soho, Noho, build a park with trees. When ques- merchandise that it is to be avoided. The Hudson Square, Little Italy and the Meat Market tioned, we’re told, “There’s no way to result is that few, if any, public fi ne artists RETAIL AD MANAGER — probably had an anti-business bias before, Fields save them.” Ridiculous. Of course, there can support their families anymore. That is Colin Gregory swung the pendulum too far the other way. is a way to save those trees — design the the Lederman legacy. OFFICE MANAGER Since Scott Stringer took office as borough presi- new park to accommodate the trees. Let Of course the economy has sunk to a David Jaffe dent at the start of 2006, however, C.B. 2 has shaped the trees dictate the layout of the park. new low, which has had a very negative ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR up dramatically. One of Stringer’s campaign planks This is what is done in communities less effect on artists as well. However, the Troy Masters was community board reform — and a major inspira- progressive and less in need of trees than cooperative plan gave fi ne artists tools ART DIRECTOR tion for that position was the mess at C.B. 2. He set New York City. to deal with the economic downturn and Mark Hasselberger up a blue-ribbon screening panel to vet new appli- Go stand at West Thames St. or on recourses to which they now have no

GRAPHIC DESIGNER cants and members seeking reappointment, and his the east end of Rector Place and enjoy access. Without this plan, artists simply sit Jamie Paakkonen office did outreach to find qualified applicants and to the grove of large trees while you still idly by while waiting for Mr. Lederman to increase the boards’ diversity and representation. He can. What a sad time for Battery Park fi ght Mr. Gerson over proposed legislation DISTRIBUTION & CIRCULATION Cheryl Williamson also redressed the business-versus-residents imbal- City. that appears to be going nowhere. At the ance that had grown on C.B. 2 by appointing more same time, vendors of cheap reproduc- CONTRIBUTORS community members to the board. Jim Watson tions sell briskly in areas where fi ne artists Frank R. Angelino Wickham Boyle However, it was really under Brad Hoylman as used to display their own artwork. What a Tim Lavin chairperson during the past two years that C.B. shame for us all. David Stanke 2 made its impressive turnaround — to the point Jerry Tallmer where, today, as opposed to a feuding board, C.B. 2 Lederman’s legacy Lawrence White PHOTOGRAPHERS is a model of a well-functioning one. Lorenzo Ciniglio Hoylman stepped down last month following To The Editor: Milo Hess the board’s unofficial two-year term limit for chair- Re “Art of the deal” (letter, by Robert Corky Lee person. During his tenure, he ran the board with Lederman, July 17 – 23): Mayor’s ‘shell game’ Elisabeth Robert aplomb, intelligence, a deft touch and respect. I always fi nd it interesting when Jefferson Siegel It’s not surprising that Stringer had tapped Hoylman Robert Lederman attacks someone else To The Editor: to be part of a team to help him craft his improved for not being a friend of street artists. Re “Mad as Hell, Mayor...” (Seaport process for screening new board applicants. Hoylman Although I have serious issues with some Report, July 17-23): Published by also made sure his own board members became more of Councilperson Gerson’s ideas for street As we have long predicted, the tem- COMMUNITY MEDIA, LLC familiar with what constitutes conflict of interest, so artists, and have spoken out strongly porary alleviation of placard parking as not to repeat the problems of the past. against facets of his proposed street-vend- problems in Chinatown would result in 145 Sixth Ave., NY, NY 10013 Phone: (212) 229-1890 Whether managing huge, contentious meetings on ing legislation, it is Mr. Lederman’s philos- the problem moving into surrounding Fax: (212) 229-2790 issues like the St. Vincent’s Hospital rebuilding proj- ophy that I feel has had the most negative neighborhoods. The Bloomberg admin- On-line: www.downtownexpress.com ect or overseeing the public review of important New impact on the street-art scene. istration is playing a sort of “automobile E-mail: [email protected] York University projects, such as the co-generation Consider the lowly state of formally shell game” with the residents of Lower initiative or the Provincetown Playhouse project, well-known public artist areas, such as Manhattan. And the problem will move

TM Gay CityNEWS Hoylman was steady, fair, sensible and engaged. West Broadway in Soho. Only give fi ve to from neighborhood to neighborhood Ultimately, C.B. 2 under his leadership showed, as seven years ago West Broadway was bus- unless and until the root of the problem he put it, that community boards “can be effective, tling with travelers from all over the world is addressed: the uncontrolled awarding Downtown Express is published every week by can be credible, can make a difference.” Our thanks who made a point of coming to Soho to of parking privileges as a “perk” to city Community Media LLC, 145 Sixth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10013 (212) 229-1890. The entire to Hoylman for all his good work on the behalf of the visit fi ne artists who publicly display their employees and affiliates. contents of the newspaper, including advertising, are copyrighted and no part may be reproduced community, because, under him, the board really did own original artwork on the weekends. Lower Manhattan residents must make without the express permission of the publisher - “make a difference.” What transpired at C.B. 2 holds As this public art scene had evolved, government-issued parking reform one of © 2009 Community Media LLC. lessons for Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1 and some fi ne artists began to unite as a way the top issues for mayoral candidates in PUBLISHER’S LIABILITY FOR ERROR The Publisher shall not be liable for slight all the city’s community boards. to represent their issues politically and to this election year. We must demand the changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an advertisement. The In addition, C.B. 2’s new district manager, Bob promote who they were and where they elimination of the archaic and corrupt publisher’s liability for other errors or omissions in connection with an advertisement is strictly Gormley — with his no-nonsense professionalism — could be found. system of awarding paper parking plac- limited to publication of the advertisement in any has helped overhaul the board’s climate. However Mr. Lederman fought every ards and replace it with a modern, paper- subsequent issue. Jo Hamilton, the board’s new chairperson, an ally attempt by these fi ne artists to come less, traceable parking-reservation system Member of the New York Press of Hoylman’s and an impressive activist in her own together. He is “president for life” of his that we have presented in the Downtown Association right, has now taken the reins at C.B. 2. We know own group and he guards his position with Express previously. We must insist on the

Member of the that her interest is first and foremost in the com- great jealousy. His method to retain control use of car-sharing programs using Zipcar- National munity, and we wish her great success in her new was, as it has always been, to use relent- like technology, similar to that being used Newspaper leadership position. In Hoylman, she’s learned from less mendacity and grossly false charges Association one of the best. against members of the artist cooperative. Continued on page 17 © 2009 Community Media, LLC This, in turn, caused paranoia in the ranks downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 17 MEMORIAL The way it was when Cronkite took off his glasses

BY JERRY TALLMER sardonically) Lyndon Johnson or Richard knew about Cronkite that not everybody believe that the most trusted man in America One thing I’ve learned about Walter Nixon, in either case, the most mistrusted else had ever seen: He was, or could be, in had taken his eyeglasses off as he leaned over Cronkite in the hours since he left us last man (pre-Bush) in America. private, a bit of a clown. a railing three fl ights up and hollered: “Ahoy, Friday at 92. He hated his eyeglasses, as I do But that’s what Cronkite was, and this This came out on the day, years ago, that down there! Is everything shipshape?” mine. In almost every and any occasion, but in the era when there were only three big I went to interview Mrs. Walter Cronkite Because that’s the way it is, or was, once most notably the moment he had to inform national and worldwide television outlets — Betsy Cronkite — in their town house, I upon a time. A better time. the world of the death of John F. Kennedy — NBC, ABC and CBS — with CBS by far disremember where, but probably the Upper on November 22, 1963, the fi rst thing he the leader (for me) in quality and truth, East Side. Mr. Cronkite himself did not sit * * * did was to remove his eyeglasses, start talk- in a tradition that fl owed all the way from in. Suddenly, at the end of a gracious and ing, and then after a few seconds, put them Edward R. Murrow on the roofs of burning vivacious hour — gracious and vivacious on It was only after I had written the above back on. London, to Archie Bunker and Mary Tyler her part — there was a halloo from someone that I heard of the death of Frank McCourt, Of course on that bad day in 1963 Moore and Bob Newhart and Maud, to the somewhere far upstairs: the most trusted at 79, this past Sunday, July 19, 2009. the world also saw Cronkite blink away “CBS Nightly News” and its one-thousand- man in America himself. So the cold and drizzle and mists and a couple of tears as he fought — without percent reliable anchor man, whom we Cronkite, like John F. Kennedy — like all downpours of Limerick fi nally got you, visibly showing it — for control. But many, knew would never knowingly serve us the Kennedys — was a passionate sailboat Frank, all these years and miles later. I am many, many times when there were no any bullshit whatsoever through all the man. Now, from far upstairs, three or four desperately sorry. If there is anyone alive tears at all — the moment in 1969 that a wars and cataclysms and lies and disasters fl ights upstairs, I heard the skipper bellow who never heard of the author of “Angela’s man fi rst walked on the moon, or all those and brutalities and ballyhoo, home and to his crew, i.e. to the lady I was interview- Ashes” and “’Tis” and “Teacher Man,” be spurts of explosive or absurd drama at abroad. ing: “Ahoy, down there! Are we shipshape it merely known that Frank McCourt, like one or another Republican or Democratic I learned something else about Walter and ready to cast off?” — or something very Walter Cronkite, was a man you could convention — the fi rst thing you saw Uncle Cronkite as people on the tube talked about much like that. trust — absolutely — whether as writer, or Walter do was remove his eyeglasses just as him over this past weekend. He was the Mrs. Cronkite looked at me and giggled teacher, or playmaker, or actor (with and he started talking. grandson of one dentist, son of another and or blushed or maybe neither. without brothers Malachy and Alphie), or They probably irritated him behind the nephew of yet another. So the world lost a “He puts on his captain’s hat and does just plain heartfelt, sensitive, tough-fi bered ears, as mine often do me. good dentist when it acquired a great news- that every day,” she said with a Candida-type Irish-American. He was a kind of music all The most trusted man in America — who man. half-shrug, half-smile. his own, and to the bone. Wherever you are, was it fi rst called him that? Probably (and There was, however, one thing I already Now, all these years later, I’m led to Frank, play on. LETTERS Continued from page 16 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 Chin Jan Lee John Ost Chin, Lee and Ost are members, Civic Center Residents Coalition

Letters policy Downtown Express welcomes letters to Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert The Editor. They must include the writer’s fi rst and last name, a phone number for confi rmation purposes only, and any Yankee stars salute Little League A’s star Thomas affi liation that relates directly to the letter’s Yankee superstars Joba Chamberlain, Andy Pettitte and Alex Rodriguez came to J.J. Walker Field in Greenwich Village on subject matter. Letters should be less than Tuesday as part of the Yankees’ fi rst annual HOPE Week to salute Thomas Ellenson and his Greenwich Village Little League 300 words. Downtown Express reserves Athletics teammates. Ellenson, who has cerebral palsy, always leads the A’s onto the fi eld in his motorized wheelchair before the right to edit letters for space, clarity, their games, and uses a special device his dad invented called a Tango, which allows him to speak, to read the lineup, as civility or libel reasons. Letters should be 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 e-mailed to [email protected] visit. Above, back row, from left, Chamberlain, Pettitte, Rodriguez and Kevin Long, the Yanks’ hitting coach; front row, from or can be mailed to 145 Sixth Ave., N.Y., left, dad Richard Ellenson, Thomas and Cameron Breen, Thomas’s cousin. N.Y. 10013. 18 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express

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 &MIXED USE 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’ BY PATRICK HEDLUND presence Downtown. “This is a beautiful little neighbor- hood, it used to have class,” said Renaud, RISE OF THE MACHINES who recently started a petition seeking to limit the number of free-standing street Nearly 100 illegal cash machines A.T.M.’s. “It’s like Vegas — it’s just out of encroach onto sidewalk space in the East control.” Village and Lower East Side, creating She also reported that a mugger recent- a public blight and increasing the risk ly targeted someone on her block, leading of crime, according to a recent survey Renaud to speculate that card-swiping patrons by Manhattan Borough President Scott have become easy marks for criminals. Stringer. “If I was a mugger,” she added, “that’s The citywide survey found 258 unregu- where I’d hang out.” lated sidewalk A.T.M.’s located throughout Manhattan, most of which are owned by companies that contract with nearby retail SUMMER RENTAL CHILL stores to place them on sidewalks near busy stretches. Rental prices in Tribeca, one of the Stringer has urged the city to adopt most expensive and sought-after neighbor- regulations to discourage the proliferation hoods in the city, took a tumble during the of such stand-alone A.T.M.’s, decrying last month, while rents in the Financial their intrusion into public space and the District showed uncharacteristic gains, potential threat they pose to user safety. according a monthly market report from “The last thing our crowded sidewalks the Real Estate Group New York. need is competition for space from these The July report, covering one of the illegal machines,” Stringer said in a state- most active rental months of the year, ment. “But this is more than just a nui- showed that average Tribeca rents for sance. The exploding number of sidewalk studio and one- and two-bedroom apart- A.T.M.’s need to be covered by the same ments in both doorman and non-doorman consumer protections that apply to bank buildings slipped by 2.77 percent over A.T.M.’s. Otherwise we’re asking for ris- all since last month. The decrease was ing incidences of street crime and identity attributable to a more than 12 percent theft.” drop in the average price of non-doorman The survey showed that more than studios in the neighborhood, as well as a 85 percent of the bank-unaffi liated street 5.26 percent fall for non-doorman one- A.T.M.’s lacked visible surveillance cam- bedrooms. THE BANKING ALTERNATIVE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY SINCE 1971 eras and more than 40 percent had been All unit types in the Financial District Downtowns Premier Financial Service Centers • “5 Convenient Locations Downtown” vandalized with graffi ti. 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Downtown Express photo by Tequila Minsky City Hall Park’s best spot when the weather’s hot The weather was steamy and sticky last Friday, so who could blame these two workers if they didn’t appear to be rushing things as they serviced or cleaned the City Hall Park fountain? When a photographer chanced upon them, the men were standing in their waders as the water cascaded down around them.

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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.

MAJORS Westside 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 The Downtown Little League Minors tournament team won their opener, but were eliminated after losing the next and Louis Moreschi. two games. 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 Despite losing the coin toss, the team was awarded the right fi eld, and Devin Minnihan gloved that for the second catches on sinking line drives and threw out a runner who failed home advantage by the Stuyvesant coach; a clever move, as out. Myles once again blasted one to the outfi eld, this time to to tag up after the second catch for an inning-ending double the Mets dominated against Jackson Vertucci on a very pain- center, where Bogdanos could not move fast enough to grab play. ful fi rst inning for the Downtown team. Will Higgins made it out of the air. Myles landed on second, and moved to third A tiring Martino walked the fi rst two batters he faced in the it to fi rst when Valentino Rosa couldn’t hold onto the throw when Nathaniel Kue smashed one to left fi eld. Leong threw fi fth and was replaced by McGowan. D.L.L.’s ace extinguished from third. Sean Jennings cranked a double, moving Higgins home, and Stapler threw back to Sandella on the mound, a the rally to hold the lead by striking out the two batters he faced to third. Rocky Rockefeller singled and drove in run No. 1 smart play that saved a run. But Andrews walked to load the and tagging out a Westside runner at the plate who tried to score when Kai Glick’s throw was late to fi rst from short. John bases, and when sub Conor Niegowski was hit by a pitch, the on a wild pitch. Myles and Henry Schaeffer each took a base on balls, walk- Mets had 11. Goldstein’s grounder to Borrelli at second ended McGowan retired the fi rst batters he faced in the sixth, but ing in run No. 2. Bryce Andrews’ hit to centerfi eld must have the carnage. with D.L.L. one out from victory and behind in the count 2-1 gotten lost in the glare of the sun, as Michael Bogdanos was The Downtown team had their best offensive inning in the to the third batter of the inning, he reached his allotted pitch unable to stop it, and another run scored. Henry Kessler was third. Kiehl’s hard grounder to short had him safe at fi rst on an count limit. hit by a pitch, bringing in another runner. Max Goldstein’s fl y overthrow that ended up out of bounds. During the next two at- McGowan was replaced by Merrill, who walked the inherited to the mound was gloved by Vertucci for the fi rst out. Luke bats, which ended in strikeouts for Bogdanos and Sandella, Kiehl and subsequent batters. After the runners advanced to second Kelly’s blast to left fi eld got past Downtown’s Nicky Leong, stole second. Leong walked and stole, making it easy for Stapler’s and third, Westside tied the game when D.L.L.’s catcher over- and two more runs scored, and once more, Vertucci faced bomb to left fi eld to score both runners easily. Minnihan’s punch threw the pitcher on a throw back to the mound. Manager Scott the top of Stuyvesant’s order. to left center gave him a R.B.I. single, and Borrelli took another Noga called time out and summoned his players around the Higgins made it to fi rst in a close play, scoring run nine. base on balls, but Glick’s strikeout ended the inning at three mound to settle his team down and, on the very next pitch, the Jennings went down looking for a much-needed out two, but more runs for Downtown. fi nal inning of regular play ended with the score tied when the Rockefeller walked. Myles hit another shot to left fi eld, bring- In the top of the fourth, Sandella walked Kelly, Higgins Westside batter grounded to Martino at second base. ing in the 10th run. Schaeffer’s grounder to Spencer Kiehl at and Jennings, loading the bases with no outs for Rockefeller. D.L.L. recaptured the lead in the top of the seventh. With third was handled perfectly for out three. Tyler Rohan waited His single scored Kelly. Myles got on base as but Kiehl’s McGowan at fi rst base, Brian Burns hit a double off of the patiently in right fi eld, but he was the only defender not to dead-on throw nailed Higgins at home. Kue walked, and top of the right fi eld fence that just missed being a home run. handle the ball from the 14 Stuyvesant batters. when Andrews sent the ball fl ying into centerfi eld, Bogdanos McGowan raced home from fi rst for the go-ahead run, but Down 10-0, the Downtown team needed to score at least tried to throw home from centerfi eld but was not in time and the missed home run proved to be a harbinger of things to one run to stay in the game, but it was not meant to be in the Rockefeller scored. Stapler whipped the ball to fi rst to try to come. After advancing to third, Burns was gunned down at the fi rst inning. Glick and Valentino Rosa were unable to con- nab Andrews, and Jennings was sent home in another aggres- plate by Westside’s second baseman when he tried to score on nect with the pitches thrown by Stuyvesant’s Myles. Kiehl sive base-running move. But Dante Secada-Oz sent the ball Martino’s grounder and the game moved to the bottom of the took a base on balls, but was stranded there when Bogdanos home and nabbed Jennings for out three. seventh with D.L.L. ahead by only 4-3. succumbed to strikes. The Downtown team was able to In the bottom of the inning, Secada-Oz, now facing Andrews Merrill struck out Westside’s leadoff hitter and after he suc- shut out their opponent in a well-played top of the second, on the mound, led off with a walk. Kiehl’s grounder to short cessfully fi elded a bunt attempt by their second batter, Downtown though. Although Andrews took a base on balls after a full was thrown to second, nailing the runner for out one. Bogdanos was again one out away from victory. But Westside’s third batter count, Kessler’s fl are to Kiehl was caught for out one, and grounded to second, and Kiehl was forced out. Sandella went hit a hard grounder to the shortstop, which the usually reliable his quick throw back to fi rst nabbed Andrews in an exciting down looking, and the score remained 13-4. McGowan was unable to fi eld. The error kept the inning alive double play. Goldstein walked, and Kelly blasted another to Downtown did their best to hold them in the fi fth, but for Westside’s cleanup hitter, who homered over the right fi eld left fi eld, this time for a double. Leong was able to slide on Sandella walked Niegowski and then Goldstein to start the fence breaking the hearts of the D.L.L. players and families his knees to catch Higgins’ fl y to left for out three. inning. Kelly’s line drive was scooped out of the air by Glick and sparking a magical run of comeback victories for Westside In the bottom of the inning, the Downtown team struggled for out one, but Higgins drove in Niegowski on a sacrifi ce that ultimately took them to the district championship game. to close the gap. Vertucci’s grounder to second resulted in out play that brought Stuyvesant to 14. Jennings’ hit to Borrelli one, but Leong’s crank to right fi eld brought him to fi rst for at second made for out three, but the damage had been done. Downtown’s fi rst hit. Douglass Stapler’s grounder went through The Stuyvesant team was now ahead 14-4, and Downtown MINORS the infi elders and into right fi eld, bringing him to fi rst. Rohan’s needed a run to avoid the 10-run mercy rule. Stuyvesant Little League vs. Downtown Little League walk loaded the bases, and James Borrelli’s base on balls walked But it was not to be. Leong grounded to third base for out in run No. 1 for Downtown. 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SUMMER CAMPS AT THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE ART BEGINNER TENNIS LESSONS Group sessions with an SCHOOL Top-Quality, Affordable Choices for Summer Fun. For experienced instructor will emphasize the fundamentals of the dates and rates go to edalliance.org. game of tennis. For beginner kids ages 6-12 - 6 sessions- $150. GO FLY A KITE Manhattan Youth and Governor’s Island are Saturdays, July 25 through August 29. 10:30 to 11:30 AM. For inviting everyone for kite-flying, open spaces and lots of fun. SUMMER FAMILY CONCERT SERIES Everyone is invited to beginner teens/adults over 13- 6 sessions – Members: $210, August 7, 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Governor’s Island Picnic Area. For this free musical event for the whole family. July 30- Baby Soda Non-members: $240. 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Community Center ferry schedules visit govisland.com. Jazz Band. 6.30 P.M. Washington Market Park, (Greenwich & at Stuyvesant High School 345 Chambers Street. To register call Duane Streets) Rain location: Downtown Community Center 646.210.4292. ccshs.org. GLOBAL STORY HOUR) Through weekly stories, participants - Warren Street (between Greenwich and West Streets). wash- learn about new countries and cultures, participate in interac- ingtonmarketpark.org. CHILDREN’S BASKETBALL Children can play with adjustable tive activities, and learn how to make a difference. Every Friday height hoops, plus participate in fun drills to improve skills. Free. at 3:30pm. Action Center to End World Hunger, 6 River Terrace, YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM-SUMMER ART CLASSES The Mondays and Fridays through October 30 (except holiday week- Battery Park City. 212-537-0511 actioncenter.org. program provides affordable art classes for kids and teens. Stu- ends) 3.30-4.30 P.M. for 5-6 year olds, 4.30-5.30 P.M. for 7&older. dents are able to experience creating art in a professional art Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan GREEN ADVENTURE Find out what it means to be green. school. Class size is limited to 12 students so individual attention (access: Chambers Street) 212-267-9700 bpcparks.org. Come to understand the carbon footprint, the green house effect is maximized. All art supplies are included. For ages 10 to 14 and and how to fix the damage done to the environment. Learn about 15 to 19. Meetings twice a week for 6 weeks. $220 per 12-ses- CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS (CMA) Chil- solar energy, hybrid transportation and recycling. This program, sion course. Through August 14, 2009. Educational Alliance dren can explore painting, collage, and sculpture through led by Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Programming Leader Art School. 197 East Broadway between Jefferson and Clinton self-guided art projects. Open art stations are on-going Ellen McCarthy is intended for young people entering 6-8 grades. Streets. Call Lee Vasu 646-395-4237 edalliance.org/artschool. throughout the afternoon, giving children the opportunity to $525. Pre-registration required. Mondays-Fridays, Through July SUMMER ART COLONIES The Children’s Museum of the Arts experiment with materials such as paint, clay, fabric, paper, 24. 10 A.M.-2 P.M. Nelson A. Rockefeller Park (South Lawn) will run a Summer Art Colony on Governors Island and the CMA YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING This gardening program is and found objects. Admission $10. Wednesday through Sun- Access: Chambers Street. 212-267-9700 ext. 366 bpcparks.com facility at 182 Lafayette Street in Soho for children ages 6 to 14. for children 3-5 years old. It includes simple gardening projects day, 12-5 P.M., Thursday 12-6 P.M. Children’s Museum of The two-week day camp sessions, led by professional artists, appropriate for preschoolers. Free. Tuesdays through October the Arts, 182 Lafayette Street, (212) 274-0986 cmany.org. 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BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN Freeman. As was the case in last year’s “Hello Meth Lab In The Sun” (with Alexandre Singh) WONDERMARE — their critically acclaimed installation at Through August 8 Ballroom Marfa in Texas — the structure of At Apexart “Black Acid Co-op” is based on an eclectic 291 Church Street assemblage of rooms. (212) 431-5270 or www.apexart.org At Deitch, the installation’s expanse is no less impressive than in Marfa, encompassing In “Wondermare,” Susan McIntosh and the gallery’s main space and basement. It is Albert Wilking present a world as un-settling inspired by the illegal drug featured in the as it is dizzyingly colorful. Costumes and exhibition title, which as the urban diction- animal-inspired masks are mixed in with a ary informs us is “not an acid/pcp combo, selection of fi lms made in collaboration with but a type of very, very dirty LSD crystal.” various artists. There is no checklist for the With this at its core, “Black Acid eclectic works on display, leaving the impres- Co-Op” translates as an underground, laby- sion that this exhibition was conceived as a rinthine infrastructure which the viewers “Gesamtkunstwerk” (according to the cura- can enter and navigate as they please. Each tors’ belief that ours is “a world out of bal- room is a microcosm of sorts and devoted ance” if not a “house of cards on the brink of a to another sub-culture involved with the catastrophe.”). production, trade or consumption of the While “Wondermare’s” aesthetic is some- drug. Through this diversifi cation, Lowe what neo-pop punk, its context is based on Lewis and Freeman comment on the close ties and Caroll’s classic “Alice in Wonderland.” Many of interlocking realities between the counter- the fantastical costumes and fl ickering images culture and industrial society. on multiple screens were inspired by one of Here, questions of community, ritual, Alice’s most famous remarks: “I almost wish I and modern psychosis are compressed and hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet— offered as one packaged experience. Upon and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort entering this world dense in information, of life! I do wonder what can have happened everyone will be able to fi nd something to to me!” relate to, be awed and appalled by. “Wondermare” is exactly that place — One room contains a Chinatown bazaar in located on the other end of the rabbit hole; a which familiar details are mixed in with sur- place that is surreal, at times nightmarish, and real undertones. T-Shirts with pornographic which tastes of the insane. The press release imagery are on view and the “store’s” counter informs us that it is meant to refl ect the adult glass cases are fi lled with plants, crystals and world and the various rites that lead to obtain- roots of varying size. From here, a fl ight of ing “a civilized persona.” As an interactive stairs leads up to a homebrew drug lab where Photo courtesy of Vivien Lewit exhibition, “Wondermare” aims to provide an sloppy containers and cigarette butts charac- Still image from footage on display (Wondermare) opportunity for the audience to re-consider terize a rather psychotic atmosphere. There’s a their own passage to adulthood. bathroom, smelly carpet, nooks, crannies and We are asked in which of the “Alice in a hovering sense of anxiety. A cracked wall Wonderland” characters we can detect our leads into a pristine museum style gallery — childhood selves. Were you “Alice, a naïve or is it someone’s luxurious salon? Different child/woman who wraps herself in consumer artworks line the walls, and a few ragged goods,” the curators wonder, “or maybe you sculptures (which are shown in traditional are the Mad Hatter, the bad boy enabler who display cases) are particularly interesting. gloriously advocates addictive destruction…?” The fl oor is covered with a bright red carpet, We are encouraged to have our individual a stark contrast to the white walls, evoking answers fi lmed in front of a green screen. A an anticipation or gore which reminds one of different background and context will later be fi lmmaker David Lynch’s use of imagery to added to the footage, enabling us to become communicate ominious foretelling. the stars of our own fi lm narrative. Each turn offers another story to invade, Though the exhibition feels disjunc- another scenario to soak up. There is a dark tive and its ambitions could be more clear- room in which a single overhead light reveals ly articulated, it is important to note that walls scarred by black peeling paint; another “Wondermare” is a work in progress — a that might have housed a commune, a univer- conceptual organism that will only discov- sity library, and even a pirate radio station. er its true potential through the audience’s While transitioning from room to room willingness to participate. and from one reality to another, “Black Acid Co-Op” unfolds like a strange narrative. The different rooms become fi lm sequences BLACK ACID CO-OP (JUSTIN LOWE or chapters in a bizarre book. Viewers fi nd AND JONAH FREEMAN) themselves immersed in an infectious jour- Through August 15 ney which has the characteristics of a strange At Deitch Projects dream or drug trip. As it reveals itself 18 Wooster Street layer-by-layer, “Black Acid Co-Op” leaves us (212) 343-7300 or www.deitch.com pondering if we are mere onlookers or actual protagonists. This is the third collaborative project from Photo courtesy of Deitch Projects New York-based artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Continued on page 24 One of the strange “Black Acid Co-Op” rooms 24 July 24 - 30, 2009 downtown express Four complex, collaborative Downtown projects

institutional art devoted to Socialist Realist Continued from page 23 ideals outlined by Moscow. While Koller’s output has been vast, JÚLIUS KOLLER & JI’Í KOVANDA it was not until fairly recently that his Through August 16 actions, objects, texts and an extensive ref- At Ludlow 38 erential archive have gained more attention. 38 Ludlow Street Through the curatorial effort of Tobi Maier, (between Grand and Hester Ludlow 38 offers an important introduction (212) 228-6848 or www.ludlow38.org to Koller’s concept of the world. Text cards and works on paper are exhibited, many of The oeuvres of Slovakian artist Július which reveal Koller’s interest in signs, such Koller (1939-2007) and Czech artist Ji’í as the question mark, or wordplay. “Escape Kovanda (B. 1953) have much in common. of a Geo-graphical Object 2 (U.F.O.),” 1986, Both conceptually investigate questions of is one of many works focusing on U.F.O.s, existentialism and problems of modern com- which to Koller could also stand for munication. Univerzálna Futurologická Organizácia Despite the fact that they were born a (Universal Futurological Organization), generation apart, Koller, as well as Kovanda, Univerzálny Filozofi cky Ornament (Universal lived for years under a regime that did not Philosophical Ornament) or Underground allow true artistic freedom. Since the 1960s, Fantastic Organization. when living in Bratislava, Koller had been Whereas much of Koller’s oeuvre consists Photo by John Berens, courtesy of Ludlow 38 devoted to the development of conceptual of simple notes, diagrams, and conceptual Installation shot, Koller & Kovanda tools that would maintain a sense of inde- paintings, Ji’í Kovanda’s métier is perfor- pendence in Communist Czechoslovakia. mance art. He stages actions (inspired by Especially the “Prague Spring” in 1968 — a daily routines) as well as the role of the indi- brief period of political liberalization in vidual in the public domain. They take place Czechoslovakia that ended when the Soviet in both public and private spaces — and often Union and members of its Warsaw Pact allies do not even involve an audience. In an elegant invaded the country to halt the reforms. This installation of primarily black and white inspired Koller to contemplate the utopian photographs, we are able to study excerpts potential of free thought. His work is a per- from Kovanda’s body of work. Bearing titles sonal, witty and at times ironic response to such as “carry some water from the river in a system, in which culture was defi ned by an my cupped hands and release it a few meters

Photo by Adam Reich From “The columns held us up”

downriver…,” these images reveal the beauti- age to both institutions’ fundamental approach ful simplicity of the inherent gestures. Though to collaboration and diversity of artistic expres- Kovanda does not regard his work as politi- sion. In addition to being an exhibition venue, cal, it does amount to a unique comment on Platform also provides artist residencies. The socially accepted routines and the so-called exhibited works are primarily by New York order of things. His work is Romantic, poetic, based and international artists, who have par- and truly inspirational. ticipated in the program in Istanbul. -X´WRSX Many of the works focus on complex everyday systems. A multimedia installation THE COLUMNS HELD US UP by collaborators Can Altay and Jeremiah Day, Through August 1 for example, explores how these systems can At Artists Space be spun into narratives. By documenting the NYWX 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor production of stuffed mussels (a well-known (212) 226-3970 or www.artistsspace.org street delicacy in Istanbul), Atlay and Day succeed in revealing an unusual facet of a This complex, collaborative project local industry, but they while painting a por- WSGGIV brings together a group of artists work- trait of the city at large. +38,%1+-607%'%()1=MWXLISRP] ing in different media—and marks a Another fascinating work is by Bulgarian- GSQTIXMXMZIWSGGIVGPYFJSGYWMRKWSPIP] unique collaboration between two institu- born, New York-based artist Daniel Bozhkov. SRXLIRIIHWSJJIQEPITPE]IVW tions: New York’s Artists Space and the By hosting a site for storytellers which traces ;IEVIVIGSKRM^IHPIEHIVWMR=SYXL7SGGIV)HYGEXMSR Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, the journey of a family jewel engraved with (IZIPSTQIRX[MXLE0MGIRWIH4VSJIWWMSREP'SEGLMRK Istanbul. an Ottoman Persian poem, Bozhkov creates WXEJJVITVIWIRXMRKSZIVGSYRXVMIW As one of the fi rst alternative exhibition an unusual document of the object’s mean- spaces in the city (founded in 1972), Artists ings gathered along the way. ;IJSGYWSRHIZIPSTMRKTPE]IVWXSQIIXXLIJYXYVI Space has long been devoted to the sup- Other works in the exhibition include HIQERHWSJXLIKEQISJJIVMRKSTTSVXYRMXMIWJSVEPP port of artistic experimentation and dialog videos “Telematch Suburb” by Wael Shawky, GLMPHVIRXSPIEVRERHTPE]XLIKEQIXSXLILMKLIWX in contemporary culture. For July, it has a series of photographs by Corey McCorkle, TSWWMFPIPIZIP invited Platform (whose own space is cur- a slide installation by Christodoulos rently closed for renovation) to take over its Panayiotou, and an installation entitled 7MKRYTF]7ITXIQFIVWX SOHO space and organize an exhibition as “Kara-kum” by the late Hüseyin Alptekin. *SVQSVIMRJSVQEXMSR[[[KSXLEQKMVPWSVKSVGEPP well as a series of events. Concurrent with the exhibition, Artists Curated by Vasif Kortun and November Space will accept book donations for Œ(S[RXS[R9RMXIH7SGGIV'PYF%PPVMKLXWVIWIVZIH Paynter, “The columns held us up” pays hom- Platform Garanti’s library through July. downtown express July 24 - 30, 2009 25 THE LISTINGS

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