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® express VOLUME 23, NUMBER 28 THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN NOVEMBER 24 - 30, 2010 Lobby for Zadroga; now or never BY TERESE LOEB of struggle, the Zadroga KREUZER Act passed the House of In the predawn darkness Representatives. Following of November 16, a small the Thanksgiving recess, it group of people huddled will come up for a vote in under umbrellas outside the the Senate, where 60 votes District Council 37 build- are needed to prevent a fi li- ing on Barclay Street in buster that would kill the Lower Manhattan, waiting bill, probably forever. It has for a bus to take them to 58 supporters. Washington, D.C. for yet The people on the bus, another round in the fi ght one of two chartered by for passage of the James the Fealgood Foundation, Zadroga 9/11 Health and included fi rst responders, Compensation Act. Lower Manhattan residents, The $7 billion bill is the members of 9/11 families number one priority for New and City Council Member York lawmakers these days Margaret Chin. Alex and would provide medi- Sanchez, 43, brought his cal monitoring and treat- nine-year-old son, Jack. ment to World Trade Center “I did clean-up work responders and to people on skyscrapers surround- who lived, worked and stud- ing the pit,” said Sanchez, Downtown Express Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer) ied in Lower Manhattan on describing himself as “cheap 9/11 and who might have labor.” been affected by toxins. It “I worked down there six Mr. Bloomberg goes to Washington would also reopen the 9/11 months, seven days a week, Victim Compensation Fund. 12 to 14 hour days,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 16, 2010 lobbying In September, after years Sanchez. for the Zadroga Act. He was joined by Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, who moved the bill through the House, and Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the senate Continued on page 12 sponsors of the bill. W.T.C. workers’ fi rst Thanksgiving on site Safe crossing via bridge,

BY ALINE REYNOLDS “Even to help a little, to Five hundred World make their day go easier, moving forward Trade Center construction brings satisfaction to my workers lined up for turkey day,” said Jordan Signorelli, BY ALINE REYNOLDS “I am so pleased that this subs, angus hamburgers and who was busy fl ipping burg- AND ANDREA RIQUIER bridge, which has been a top hot dogs last Friday after- ers on the grill before the The long-awaited and priority of mine, is now set noon during a break from workers arrived. much-needed West Thames to be built,” said Assembly work. Three large turkey sub- Street pedestrian bridge Speaker Sheldon Silver, the The feast, held on the marines were laid out on the moved one step closer to bridge’s chief advocate. ground fl oor of 4 W.T.C., adjacent buffet table, wait- becoming a reality this week. “With our successful was a pre-Thanksgiving ing to be devoured. Assemblyman Sheldon opening of the new P.S. 276 dinner provided by W.T.C. “You can see advance- Silver announced Monday this year, children and their developer Larry Silverstein. ment [on the W.T.C.] over that the Lower Manhattan parents will have a safe and The food was supplied by the last few months,” said Development Corporation reliable way to cross this Big Daddies caterers based Tom Kurtz, who served had allocated up to $20 mil- dangerous intersection.” in Massapequa, Long Island. lunch to a different group of lion to build the bridge. The need for a pedestrian hed hed hed hed hed hed Continued on page 12 Continued on page 6 2 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express

presents OWNTOWN D DIGEST ZUCCOTTIđ PARK GLASS CURTAIN APPEARS AT ONE panels at the rate of one fl oor per week,” đ đ WORLD TRADE CENTER Coleman said. The project is supposed to be đ Twelve thousand of the glass panels will completed by 2012. be installed between the 20th and 104st “The glass is what’s called a low E-coating, HOLIDAYđ fl oors of the tower, after the underlying fi re- which is energy effi cient and eco-friendly,” proofi ng of each fl oor’s steel core is complet- according to Steve Coleman, spokesperson đ ed. “Once the construction crews get into a LIGHTINGđ rhythm, we expect they will install the glass Continued on page 3 đ2010đ

featuring the CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR Photo courtesy of N.Y. Travel Bureau MUSIC AND ART A Hi-fi ve world record A new Guinness World Record was set on Tuesday when one intrepid soul gave 797 CHORISTERS high-fi ves in one hour to an assembled crowd, breaking the previous record of 429. The record-breaking corresponded to the fi fth anniversary of the Bodies exhibit at KICK OFF THE the South Street Seaport. HOLIDAYS DOWNTOWN L.M.D.C sets waterfront with a FESTIVE CONCERT, priorities, Pier 42 missing a warm cup of BY ALINE REYNOLDS But it does not include the redevelopment Downtown’s affordable housing stock of Pier 42, which currently consists of a park- CHOCOLATE & a TREAT! could increase and the East Side waterfront ing lot and a shed. New York State Senator could receive a facelift, if funding from the Daniel Squadron would like to see the pier Lower Manhattan Development Corporation transformed into a recreational green space materializes. for the local community. “It’s an iconic proj- The L.M.D.C. decided on distinct cat- ect to match the [P.A.C.] on the West Side,” egories for the allocation of approximately he said. “Without it, [the waterfront project] Tuesday, November 30 $200 million in grant money for Downtown won’t reach the full potential.” projects at its monthly board meeting on Construction of Pier 42, he added, would Monday, two months after it announced the create a “unifi ed Harbor park” for Lower at 5:15pm availability of the funds. Manhattan, connecting the Hudson River Ninety-nine million dollars will be allo- Park on the west side with the East River ZUCCOTTI PARK cated to the Performing Arts Center and $37 Park on the east side. million will fund the East River waterfront Squadron and U.S. Senator Charles (at Broadway & Liberty Street) esplanade. Schumer held a press conference on Sunday A total of $17 million would be directed at the Pier 42 site, at Montgomery Street and towards the walkway along the Battery the East River, to advocate for the allocation of Maritime Building, and to infrastructure $45 million in L.M.D.C. grant money, separate Sponsored by improvements between Piers 15 and 16 and from the $200 million, to go towards the trans- Catherine and Pike Slips on the Lower East formation of the pier into open park space. Side. It will also encompass a refurbishment Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin of the walkway near the Battery Maritime supports the Pier 42 overhaul, saying that Building in Bowling Green, according to it would foster short- and long-term job L.M.D.C. spokesperson John Delibero. creation and be on par with the West Side ArtsBrookfield.com The remaining $2 million of the $37 mil- waterfront. She confi rmed that the $45 mil- lion sum would “allow for at least the East lion would not come from the $200 million River Park Connector aspect of improve- ments in the area of Pier 42,” he said. Continued on page 9 downtown express November 24 - 30, 2010 3

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sessing child pornography. had been attached by a chain to her shoul- Watson had posted Craiglist ads looking der bag, was gone. She told police she later for a “nubile girl next door,” according to a discovered that someone had used her stolen POLICE BLOTTER Daily News item quoting the Westchester debit card to deposit $6,300 into her account Co. District Attorney. A plainclothes police and then had withdrawn $7,000. offi cer arrested Watson at an Elmsford, N.Y., identifi ed as Irving Walker, 40, for 13 bur- motel carrying pictures of “minor children in Guilty of murder glaries on the Lower East Side from Oct. sexually suggestive poses,” the Daily News Bag gone A Manhattan jury on Thurs., Nov. 18 12 to Nov.15. The suspect entered the front item said. He pleaded not guilty and was A Queens woman told police she went to found Jeromie Cancel, 24, guilty of the door of apartments on Madison St. between released on $5,000 bail. Watson was placed Uncle Mike’s bar at 57 Murray St. around August 2008 strangling murder of Kevin Rutgers and Catherine Sts.; East Broadway on administrative leave at Pace. 12:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 18 and put her bag Pravia, 19, a Pace University student, in between Pike and Rutgers Sts., and Eldridge on a chair while she was texting and then Pravia’s Chelsea apartment. and Forsyth Sts. between Hester and Grand shot some pool. She later discovered that The jury deliberated a day and a half after Sts., mostly during the early hours. Bar hopping her bag was gone but could not identify any the end of the trial that began Nov. 5 before The suspect often woke sleeping resi- Police arrested Jeffrey Lewis 54, on Sat. suspect in the crowded bar, police said. it rendered the guilty verdict. Cancel encoun- dents during the burglaries, police said. Nov. 13 after the owner of a bar at 64 Stone tered Pravia near Union Sq. Park and went Police described Walker as a 6-ft., 210-lb. St. found him leaving the place at 11:30 p.m. with the victim to his apartment at 239 W. black man whose last known address was with 10 bottles of liquor. Police found that Gone from Bouley 15th St. where he garroted Pravia with an elec- 2636 University Ave., Bronx. Lewis had been recorded on a video surveil- An employee at Bouley Restaurant, 163 tric cord, according to the charges. Pravia, He is suspected in the following bur- lance tape taking 10 cases of Red Bull from Duane St., told police on Wednesday after- an honors student in the Lubin School of glaries: 133 E. Broadway on Oct. 12; 33 an offi ce at 160 Pearl St. around 11:30 p.m. noon Nov. 17 that someone had stolen her Business at Pace’s campus near City Hall, had Catherine St. Oct. 14; 120 Madison St., Fri., Nov. 12. Lewis was being held in lieu of jacket and her wallet from her bag earlier that last been seen by friends getting into a cab at Oct. 18; 7 Monroe St., Oct. 22; 105 Henry bail pending a Dec. 8 court appearance. day. The victim discovered later that several Gold and Fulton Sts., after a party. St., Oct. 25; 114 Madison St., Oct. 26; and her jacket from work earlier unauthorized Cancel was arrested three days later after 122 Madison St., Nov. 3 at 2:10 a.m. and charges had been made on her debit card at a burglarizing his father’s home in Queens. 69 Eldridge St., at 5:10 a.m.; 201 Madison Robbed in BPC Duane Reade pharmacy and for a MetroCard. He told police at the time how he killed St. on Nov. 7; 113 Madison St. Nov. 11; 75 A Battery Park City man told police he was Pravia who was sleeping while a horror fi lm Madison St., Nov. 13; 215 Madison St., Nov. walking on the southwest corner of Northend was playing on television. Cancel’s lawyer, 14 and 74 Forsyth St., Nov. 15. Ave. and Murray St. around 1 a.m. Tues., Gone from locker Michael Alperstein tried but failed to have Nov. 16 when a mugger came from behind, A Brooklyn man told police he put his the confession excluded as evidence. State knocked him to the pavement and made off clothes in a locker at the Equinox fi tness cen- Supreme Court Justice Daniel Fitzgerald is Kid porn arrest with his duffl e bag with two cameras and light- ter, 14 Wall St. around 6 p.m. Fri., Nov. 19 to sentence Cancel on Fri., Dec. 10. David Watson, 62, former cultur- ing equipment with a total value of $1,800. and returned after his work out to fi nd that al events director at Pace University’s The victim, 63, could not describe his assailant someone stole his jeans, Tag Heuer watch Lower Manhattan campus, was charged in nor say how many attacked him. and his wallet with ID and credit cards. The LES burglar Westchester on Wed., Nov. 17 with promot- victim said he did not lock his locker. 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BY ALINE REYNOLDS ing to L.O.M.A. Board President Travis The New York Travel Advisory Bureau Noyes. L.O.M.A. is forming a new transpor- just released a map of Manhattan in its effort tation subcommittee to devise tactics to ease to brand Lower Manhattan as the “CanDo” the expected pedestrian traffi c. (Canal Street Down) district. The map will The new subcommittee will be com- include graphics and text about museums, prised of L.O.M.A. board members along theaters and other Downtown recreational with representatives from ferry companies, spots. taxi services and the city Department of Unlike its six other editions, the new Transportation. It will meet once a month map “has no advertising,” noted N.Y.T.A.B. and have a “very focused agenda,” accord- Chairman Clive Burrow, who spoke about ing to Noyes. “One of the issues being, with the Can Do initiative at the Lower Manhattan all these people coming Downtown, how Marketing Association’s board meeting last do we make sure these people understand Thursday morning. how to get around,” he said. They’ll also “We want [Downtown] to be a pri- have conversations with the American Bus mary destination, not a cast-off destination,” Association about streamlined parking and Burrow said. The map, he added, is a “clear, drop-offs around the World Trade Center. Downtown Photo by Aline Reynolds internationally graphic symbol of what we’re “Uncultivated” transportation, Burrow Councilmember Margaret Chin, with New York Travel Bureau Chairman Clive Burrow talking about.” said, could cause a potential divide between (right) discussing the new “CanDo” map last week. Burrows introduced the CanDo Map two residents and tourists. “We don’t want that weeks ago at the World Travel Market, an problem,” he said. “We have to come up Local elected offi cials fear that adding the “We have the potential for it to become international networking event for travel with solutions that benefi t the residents.” tourist attractions in the neighborhood and something that’s not good for the commu- businesses in London. N.Y. T.A.B. is doing At the same time, Burrow defended the the “CanDo” branding could lead to over- nity, and it slowly hurts our image, makes it a trial run of 150,000 CanDo Maps in the tourists as the economic backbone of Lower crowding. “If Lower Manhattan becomes less attractive to come down here… We can coming months, which will be distributed Manhattan. “There’s a good reason to like overrun, if it becomes a place where you solve that.” in Lower Manhattan hotels, museums and them because money will be coming into can’t get around… where the sidewalks City Councilmember Margaret Chin government buildings. the community,” he said, crediting the out- are unsafe and uncomfortable — that will said that the best means of transportation Downtown is anticipating an additional of-towners for subsidizing the neighbor- hurt all of us,” said State Senator Daniel Downtown is by foot. 10 million tourists over the next three years: hood’s theaters, museums, and other forms Squadron at the L.O.M.A. meeting. “We gotta fi nd a way to really [provide] the 9/11 Memorial is counting on fi ve million of entertainment. He praised Downtown’s Squadron said that Lower Manhattan is direction in terms of signage, so people can visitors next year, the 9/11 Museum expects 22 hotels for working together to come up gearing up for its second phase of revitaliza- really walk [around] our neighborhood,” she nearly three million visitors in 2012, and with creative ways to draw clients. The lat- tion, and that elected offi cials, companies said at the meeting. “There’s so many great another two million tourists are anticipated est addition is the Sheraton Tribeca, which and community leaders need to work togeth- things that people can fi nd and discover just at One World Trade Center in 2013, accord- opened last month on Canal Street. er to handle the upcoming infl ux of tourists. by walking.” 6 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express L.E.S. single moms honored by health services program

BY ALINE REYNOLDS Thirty-three-year-old Annette Cruz has been hospitalized for asthma eight times since 2008. She got it from inhaling the fumes as she transported fi refi ghters from Ground Zero to safety from on 9/11. Her three-year-old son, Ericsson, also has trouble breathing and other medical problems. Having a female nurse by her side made her job as a single, low-income mother a little easier. “She was like a sunlight coming in through the door, every time she walked in,” Cruz said. Her nurse, Johanna Goepel, taught her how to be patient when Ericsson acts up. For that and many other accomplishments, Cruz and others like her were hon- ored last Wednesday evening at the Visiting Nurse Service Headquarters Auditorium on the Upper East Side. Cruz gets the care for free thanks to the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a health services provider that offers low-income parents around the city homecare nurse visits a few times per month during and after pregnancy. Low- income, fi rst-time mothers and fathers around the city are eligible for the service. It’s part of a larger national program, the Nurse-Family Partnership, that began in the 1970s in upstate New York. Lisa Landau, director of the Nurse-Family Partnership program at the N.Y.C. Health Department, said toddlers are often neglected in such childhood development programs. “I think there’s been a focus on universal [kindergarten] and universal pre-k… we keep going down [in age], but not [from birth to three-years), when there’s a huge amount of Downtown Express photo by Aline Reynolds brain development,” explained Landau. Marleny Vargas’s two-and-a-half year old son, Leandro, graduated from the N.F.P. program last week. The department does outreach to hospitals, schools and homeless services around the city to attract client. It was The nurses also help the parents achieve personal aspira- out,” said Jacob Victory, vice president of the V.N.S.N.Y. introduced to New York City in 2003, serving more than tions. “Part of the program is to help our clients think of State Senator Daniel Squadron secured $7 million for 100 families on the Lower East Side since its inception there what they want to do long-term, and break down steps in the program since 2008, 80 percent of which is allocated to in 2007. order to make that goal,” said Visiting Nurse Service of New N.Y.C. services. “I need you to go out and spread the word,” “All N.F.P. clients graduate from the program when their York nurse Rebekah Bennett. he told the Lower East Side parents at the graduation event child turns two,” said Cheryl Baez, community relations She helped 20-year-old Celene Rodriguez acquire a teach- last Wednesday evening. coordinator at the Department of Health. The youngsters ing job at University Settlement, sitting beside her while she The N.F.P. program will also receive part of the $1.5 bil- and their families received silver lockets, a rose and a copy of followed up on her application. She hopes to send her two- lion earmarked for grants to home visitation services around the Dr. Seuss book, “Oh… The Places You Will Go.” year-old, Christopher, Jr. there starting next year. the country. “We’re aiming to garner as many of those funds Twenty-one-year-old Marleny Vargas, the event’s key- Bennett also taught Rodriguez and the child’s father, as we can get,” said Landau. note speaker, spoke to the need for more nurse services Christopher Sanchez, everything from breastfeeding to baby Downtown. “I come from a neighborhood where a lot of proofi ng their apartment. moms don’t know how to be moms,” she said. She and the other nurses feel grateful to share the fi rst Vargas juggles two jobs and schoolwork, crediting her few years of the child’s life with their parents. “What a gift it Safe crossing via bridge nurse for getting her through the fi rst few months of moth- is that all of these women let a complete stranger into their erhood. lives,” she said. “We become a part of their whole experience Continued from page 1 “Johanna helped me to plan how to manage having a baby of being a mom for the fi rst time.” and still continue college,” said Vargas. The program is still struggling to get the word out: only bridge became immediately clear following a traffi c routing Goepel also gave her client practical advice –to train about 15 percent of eligible L.E.S. family candidates now change along West Street in late 2006. Several pedestrian her son, Leandro, to eat regular food without choking, for receive the service. And though it has broadened its clientele safety managers were positioned and new crosswalks estab- example, and to read aloud to him. “She was somebody more by tenfold citywide since 2006, only 8.5 percent of all eligible lished, but those were always intended to be interim solu- than a nurse, she was like my friend – somebody I needed,” low-income families around the city get the domestic care. tions while funding for a bridge was sought. It is hoped that Vargas said. “It’s a relatively new program, and it just needs to be rolled a bridge will improve access to Battery Park City as well as improving safety. The funding was announced as part of a $37 million pot approved by L.M.D.C., which also included allocations for Now serves Breakfast! affordable housing and utility companies. The L.M.D.C.’s next step will be to designate an agency that will oversee the 2 Eggs on a Roll 99¢ design and construction of the bridge. “I want to thank all the members of our community who joined me in pressing for this much-needed bridge,” Silver said in a statement. Read the Archives 154 Church St (Corner of Church & Chambers) www. Mon to Fri - 6am to 10pm DOWNTOWNEXPRESS 212-374-1130 (P) 212-374-1132(F) .com downtown express November 24 - 30, 2010 7 Tribeca uneasy about the new next to the old

BY ALINE REYNOLDS and its heritage.” Contemporary architects refurbishing The former building at 187 Franklin Tribeca buildings often struggle with intro- was a one-story order repair shop created ducing their contemporary designs to a in 1923, when warehouses and factories primarily historic neighborhood. fi lled the block. The neighborhood was Most building renovations and addi- still zoned a manufacturing neighborhood tions in Tribeca are subject to approval at the time, and the intentions of the by the N.Y.C. Landmarks Preservation architects were vastly different then from Commission, since more than 75 percent what they are today. Many of the buildings of the neighborhood is landmarked; the on Franklin Street, which were mostly system poses certain constraints on archi- constructed at the turn of the 20th cen- tects. tury, have been preserved just as is. They “Part of the pleasure of the contem- can’t be replicated in their original forms, porary city is that it’s always changing,” however, because, “We just don’t have said Jeremy Edmiston, principal at System those techniques available to us anymore,” Architects, which works on Tribeca proj- Edmiston explained. ects. “The idea of a landmark district is Passersby last Friday afternoon gave the to save the history that we have and try new design mixed reviews. Brian Breire, to reanimate that history by renovating it who owns 186 Franklin Street, across the in a way that respects the existing archi- street from 187 Franklin, shuttered upon tecture.” Downtown Express photo by John Bayles initial glance at the new design. “I’m mad That was his mindset in redesigning Mixing the modern and the historic as it pertains to architecture in Tribeca is noth- because it’s unfamiliar to me,” he said. 187 Franklin Street, a three-story residen- ing new. Jill Hoffman, who lives diagonally tial building in the Tribeca West Historic across the street at 184 Franklin, grimaced District. The current 700-square-foot historic district.” that its new height would match the adja- at the illustration. “It might be very desir- space, created in the mid-90s, is cramped Edmiston contended that the neighbor- cent buildings. able, but it doesn’t seem to fi t in at all,” for the family of four that live in the build- hood wasn’t built to be “unmodern.” “The community is vibrant, and we she said. ing, so the owners hired an architect to “The mixture of the old and the new want our home to contribute to the neigh- Others seemed to embrace the design’s design a two-fl oor addition. really animates the neighborhood, really borhood,” said the couple that lives in 187 foreign look. “I don’t see anything wrong Edmiston also plans to overhaul the brings it to life,” he said. “The difference Franklin and requested anonymity. “The with it,” said Chris Carpentiere, a local building’s façade by installing modern, is what we’re all interested in, living in facade is designed to bring together both accountant. angled windows and curvy balconies. But the city.” functional and artistic elements in a man- Community Board 1 voted against the pro- He is confident that the design still ner that complements the neighborhood Continued on page 23 posal at last week’s landmarks committee, has a chance to win approval of the deeming it too contemporary. L.P.C., since it adheres to height and size “The issue we had was it was a very regulations. Though this would distin- modern, radical design,” said Roger Byrom, guish it from the other edifices on the chair of the Landmarks committee. “We block, Edmiston assured the building’s just felt that it wasn’t contextual for the brick exterior would be preserved, and Fighting to make Lower Manhattan Advisory Council not the greatest place to live, work, and happy with Black raise a family. The battle over the chancellorship of the have some education background,” said Sue New York City School system took another Dietrich, co-chair of the Council. “There’s turn last week, with a parent group sub- some concern that Ms. Black had less than mitting a resolution calling for a different Joel Klein did, but at least Joel Klein came appointee. up through the New York public schools and The Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council, taught there. We feel (Black) has not really a citywide organization made up of parent shown that she has any background. She representatives of each Community School has not gone to public schools, her children District, voted unanimously to pass a resolu- do not go to public schools.” tion that stated, in part, “We the members Dietrich said the resolution was sent by of the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council email to Mayor Bloomberg and to David respectfully request that the Mayor appoint Steiner, the state education commissioner. a Chancellor who meets the requirements Steiner is charged with determining whether for New York City Schools Chancellor with- Black should receive a waiver that would out having to have a waiver from the New allow her to serve as chancellor despite hav- York State Education Commissioner.” ing no education credentials. Mayor Michael Bloomberg named The resolution was not intended to sin- Cathleen Black to replace Joel Klein as gle out Black, Dietrich said, but rather chancellor on November 10, prompting to emphasize the Council’s preference for objections from parents, lawmakers, and someone with different qualifi cations. “As Assemblyman Shelly Silver those involved with school reform. Black parents we’ve felt for many years that we has had a successful career in publishing but haven’t been listened to,” she said. “We’ve If you need assistance, please contact my office at no previous experience in education. been frustrated that the parents’ voice is not (212) 312-1420 or email [email protected]. “In general, people feel that the per- heard.” son who runs the school system should — Andrea Riquier 8 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express

SMALL FIRM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM LMDC is accepting applications for the Small Firm Assistance Program which assists small retail businesses in lower Manhattan that have suffered business disruption as a result of publicly- funded construction projects. On September 1, 2010 LMDC added $1 million to the Program and extended it through December 31, 2015, so long as there are grant funds remaining. Some businesses previously capped at $25,000 are now eligible for up to $35,000. The Program is open to all small retail businesses on streets impacted by publicly-funded Photo by Lincoln Anderson At Ed Gold’s memorial, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, right, presented a construction including those located on second floors and above. Council proclamation honoring Gold to Lynne Brown of N.Y.U., center, and Janine Jacquet of Columbia Journalism School, left. For further details on eligibility or to download an application please consult the LMDC website at http://renewnyc.com/ Reformer, activist, journalist, ProjectsAndPrograms/small_firms.asp or contact the LMDC at 212-962-2300. Edward Gold is remembered BY LINCOLN ANDERSON another V.I.D. co-founder, recalled the heady With equal parts politics and good times of activism in the Village in the 1950’s humor — both of which were his hallmarks and ’60’s when she was a female Democratic — Community Board 2 elder statesman district leader. Ed Gold was memorialized at New York “We stopped the road through the park,” University’s School of Law’s Vanderbilt Hall she said, referring to Washington Square. on Washington Square South on Sunday. “We beat Robert Moses’ slum-clearance proj- Gold died on Sept. 9 at age 84. ect. We saved Jefferson Market Courthouse About 150 friends, community board col- so it could become a library.” leagues and political allies fi lled the school’s Gold, as a member of the fi rst public Greenberg Lounge to hear speakers share advisory board of the New York Public memories of Gold and the early Village Library, pushed through a change to allow Independent Democrats club, of which he donors to give their funds to the branch of was a co-founder; praise his important work their choice. FedEx, DHL, USPS, & Freight as a respected, veteran community board Gold, Greitzer and their fellow V.I.D. member; laud his skill as an incisive writer of members toppled the mighty Tammany opinion columns and articles for The Villager: Hall and Carmine DeSapio and propelled recall his “campaigning” vacations on Fire Ed Koch into offi ce, paving the way for Island; and, last but not least, tell of his him to eventually become New York City’s renowned tête-à-têtes at his “headquarters,” mayor.

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BY ALINE REYNOLDS a camera-based security system created in the early 1990s to trial was effective and transparent, with no security London loves to co-opt our culture. Examples include protect the city’s fi nancial district from bombings by the Irish problems in the heart of Manhattan,” Nadler said in a food, music and of course television. Now, the tide has Republican Army. It is costing the N.Y.P.D. approximately statement. turned and we’re taking a page from their book when it $201 million 90 percent of which is federally funded, and Holder recently said that Mohammed is supposed to comes to securing our streets. the rest subsidized by the N.Y.P.D. receive his court date and location soon. In the meantime, The New York Police Department is installing security The recent installment of the cameras coincides with a Menin and others are growing increasingly frustrated by cameras around Downtown as part of a Lower Manhattan heated debate about the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the delay. She has proposed alternative location sites, such initiative to catch signs of terrorism. the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has as the West Point Military Academy and elsewhere, to Nearly half of the 1,300 cameras have been scattered been held in detention, without charges, since spring 2008 conduct the trial. from Canal Street to Battery Park, river-to-river, outside of and the location of his trial has yet to be determined. “It’s unacceptable,” Menin said in a phone interview. “There fi nancial institutions, government agencies and other note- The trial would require heightened security measures, needs to be a decision now to uphold the rule of law.” worthy buildings. The 1.7-square-foot area is deemed to be such as checkpoints, that could total more than $200 mil- the primary target of overseas terrorists in New York City, lion per year, according to various reports. Browne would according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. not confi rm this number, however, nor would he comment “Many terrorist plots against New York City involved tar- on the specifi c role the L.M.S.I. has in implementing these gets in Lower Manhattan, including two successful attacks security measures. Pier funding uncertain on the World Trade Center and plots against the World Trade Community Board 1 chair Julie Menin and others are Center retaining wall, the [Port Authority Trans-Hudson pleading with the Obama Administration not to hold the trial Continued from page 2 service], the New York Stock Exchange, and the Brooklyn at the U.S. Courthouse in Foley Square, a decision that has Bridge,” Browne said. been tabled for over a year by the Obama administration. pot. “There are other additional pots of money that would be Many of the cameras monitoring the government agencies “I urge the administration to use the idea I championed used to fund that project,” she said, such as funds earmarked and fi nancial institutions were already in place -- the Lower of having a federal court judge preside over a federal, civil- for the Fulton Street development and a legal settlement with Manhattan Security Initiative team connected them to its ian trial at a military installation or other location that Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor hired for the demolition of center at 55 Broadway. “It was a matter of getting their feeds would have lower security costs and minimal impact to the 130 Liberty Street. and connecting them with the software that allows us to be surrounding neighborhood,” Menin wrote in a November 12 When asked about potential funding sources for the $45 alert to things rather than having people watch the cameras letter to the president. million, Delibro said, “I can’t answer that at this time.” all the time,” Browne explained. New York State Congressman Jerrold Nadler used the The $200 million allocation will undergo a 30-day public The devices will be programmed to automatically alert a recent trial of terrorist Ahmed Ghailani, who partook in comment period, which is a crucial step in the release of the police offi cer, for example, if a package is left untended for the 1998 Embassy bombings in East Africa, as proof that money, according to Menin. more than 30 seconds, or if a camera catches a vehicle head- federal civilian trials of this sort do not pose a security or “I want to make sure that the public has the ability to be ing in the wrong direction on a street. Browne noted that fi scal threat to Lower Manhattan. Ghailani is the fi rst former able to provide input on what the allocations should be, and license plate readers and radiation detection equipment are Guantanamo detainee to have undergone a civilian, rather that it be a truly transparent process,” said Menin. also hooked up to the center. than military, trial. Delibero refused to comment on when the public com- The L.M.S.I. is modeled after London’s “Ring of Steel,” “Despite the negative predictions by some, the ment period would take place.

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HANNUKAH GIFTS: The Pickman Museum Shop in the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Battery Place is not your usual museum store. Linger for a few minutes and you’re likely to fi nd yourself talking to other customers or to man- ager Warren Shalewitz about where you grew up, who you know, politics, the economy, games, food, books, World War II, Israel, or who knows what. The background music to these conversations comes from the store’s extensive collection of CD’s. Recently, “Jewish Soul” was playing — and if you stayed in the store long enough, you would have heard everything from Eddie Fisher singing “Oh, My Papa” to Jan Peerce’s rendering of “Kol Nidre.” The Pickman Museum Shop has a large selection of gifts for Hannukah, which starts on Dec. 1 and continues for eight days, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem 2,200 years ago when consecrated oil suffi cient for one day miraculously burned for eight. There are a variety of menorahs, of course, ranging from a battery-operated menorah with LED lights ($20) to a silver fi ligree menorah that can double as a Sabbath candleholder ($350). The store also stocks a large number of dreidels including some made of papier mâché by Muslim women in Kashmir ($10). (Dreidels are tops with Hebrew letters inscribed on each side that are used for a gambling game where the prize money is usually Hannukah gelt — foil- wrapped chocolates shaped like coins.) The museum’s most popular show this year has been Downtown Express photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer Project Mah Jongg, which runs through January 2, 2011. Hannukah (the Festival of Lights) starts on Dec. 1 and runs for eight days. The shop in the Museum of Jewish The shop has a number of gifts for mah jongg afi cionados Heritage at 36 Battery Place carries menorahs ranging in price from $20 to $350. This Noah’s Ark menorah is including a Project Mah Jongg set of playing pieces ($129 $50. plus an optional $15 for a case in which to keep them), china dessert plates decorated with pictures of mah jongg resident Rosalie Joseph is known in this community and For more information on how to become a Santa, or to tiles ($10) and jewelry crafted by Marlene Weisman Abadi elsewhere for helping people in need and not just with donate or volunteer for Stockings With Care, go to http:// of Brooklyn out of stray tiles from old mah jongg sets com- money. Her charitable work is infused with compassion www.stockingswithcare.org/. bined with colorful beads. Marlene’s Lost and Found line and empathy. At this time of year, she devotes herself to includes necklaces, bracelets, hair barrettes and pins rang- Stockings With Care, a charity that she co-founded 19 THANKSGIVING: As noted in previous Battery Park ing in cost from $27 to $130. years ago to “grant the gift wishes of children in crisis City Beat columns, Steamers Landing and SouthWest NY The store has a terrifi c assortment of books, CD’s while preserving the dignity of the family and honoring the in Battery Park City will be open on Thanksgiving Day from and DVD’s. One tantalizing item is called “The Ultimate individuality of the child.” As Joseph explained, “I used noon to 9 p.m. as will Merchants Café just across West Goldbergs,” — a six DVD set released this year of 71 to volunteer at Coalition for the Homeless holiday parties. Street at 90 Washington St. And as also previously noted, episodes of “The Goldbergs” plus 12 radio shows — all Children would grab a gift from a pile. It was impersonal. It SouthWest NY will have a community table, with seating at starring the incomparable Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg had nothing to do with who the child was and the parent’s 4 p.m. so that people who might otherwise be dining alone ($59.95). The show ran on CBS and NBC between 1949 and dignity was compromised.” Stockings With Care, on the on Thanksgiving Day can enjoy a meal with neighbors. (Call 1956, with an estimated 10 million viewers per episode. other hand, gets children’s wish lists from fi ve social service 212-945-0528 for more information or reservations. The Displayed next to the DVD set is a book about Gertrude agencies and pairs the children with “secret Santas,” who price at the community table for a three-course dinner is Berg by Glenn D. Smith, Jr. called “Something on My Own: buy what the child desires. The gifts are wrapped by Joseph $25.95 plus tax and tip, and it includes tea, coffee, soda and Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956.” and volunteers and given to the child’s parent to present on a glass of house wine.) Here are some other Thanksgiving (Syracuse University Press, $24.95) “Is it a good book?” Christmas morning. dining options near Battery Park City: Battery Gardens a customer asked Mr. Shalewitz. “Oh, yes!” he replied “All the kids know that somehow Santa found them,” (inside Battery Park, opposite 17 State St.). Three-course “Gertrude Berg was an interesting woman. She wasn’t just Joseph said, “or that their parent managed to get them Thanksgiving menu includes deserts. Reservations required. an actress. She was a writer and producer and active in pol- something special for the holiday.” $60. (212) 809-5508. SHO Shaun Hergatt, 40 Broad St. itics.” In 1950, he explained, when Berg’s co-star on “The Though it costs between $50 and $100 to be a Santa, (inside the Setai). Three-course meal with seating from 1:30 Goldbergs,” Philip Loeb, was targeted by the U.S. House some people who want to do this sign on with friends and p.m.-7 p.m. Reservations required. $79 (adults); $39.50 on Un-American Activities Committee as a Communist and share the expense. Stockings With Care gets wish lists from for children (12 and under). (212) 809-3993. Harry’s Cafe the show’s sponsor, General Foods, demanded that Loeb be around 2,000 children each year, but not all of them have & Steak, One Hanover Square. Four-course Thanksgiving fi red, Gertrude Berg refused. That took some courage and Santas. menu served from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Reservations recom- some clout. Gertrude Berg had both. “We always run a few hundred short,” said Joseph, mended. $58 (adults); $25 (children). (212) 785-9200. Wall Learn a little something at the museum store and buy so donations of money to Stockings With Care are also & Water, 75 Wall St. (in the Andaz Wall Street Hotel). Four a little something. Museum members get 20 percent off welcome, enabling Joseph’s volunteers to go shopping for courses served from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. including a Raw Bar. from now to Dec. 15, plus through Dec. 15, the Pickman these children. Stockings With Care wraps and presents Reservations required. $65. (212) 699-1700. Cosmopolitan Museum Shop is offering free ground shipping for online between 4,500 and 5,000 gifts each holiday season. Café, 125 Chambers St. Three-course meal served from 11 and phone orders. Phone: (646) 437-4213. www.pickman- “This does as much for the donors as it does for the a.m. to 10 p.m. with a choice of appetizers and desserts museumshop.com The museum is open Sunday-Tuesday kids,” Ms Joseph commented. “They tell us that it fi lls them and a main course including traditional roast turkey din- and Thursday 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m.- 8 with joy. They wake up on Christmas morning thinking ner. Reservations. (212) 766-3787. $30. Around the corner p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) about their child opening their gifts.” at 95 West Broadway, the Cosmo Café will be open for and the eve of Jewish holidays. Closed Saturdays, Jewish The kids, who range in age from infants to teens, ask breakfast, lunch, desserts and coffee starting at 7 a.m. and holidays, and Thanksgiving Day. The Museum of Jewish for all the usual: toys, games, music, stuffed animals — and will serve a Thanksgiving dinner in a crepe for $9.50 along Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is at 36 practical things like clothes. One year, a child asked for dog with the usual menu. By the way, the Downtown Alliance’s Battery Place. food so that the family wouldn’t have to give away its dog. Connection bus service that links the South Street Seaport Rosalie Joseph’s Stockings With Care: Battery Park City Stockings With Care provided a year’s supply of dog food. with Broadway at City Hall will not run on Thanksgiving. 12 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express An unlikely Thanksgiving fest

Continued from page 1 Rdorigues, Jr.’s uncle and president of the company, Antonio Rodrigues, said the project will certainly be a W.T.C. workers in early September. feather in the company’s cap. “I had goose bumps, being Silverstein made a brief appearance at the site while the rav- on a site like this,” he said. “It’s an amazing amount of enous workers scarfed down the food to thank the tradesmen people around every day… so you know you’re part of and women for their hard work. “You went back onto the site something big.” [after 9/11], and did rescue and recovery, without regard for The family members are all working towards the same your own safety and your own well-being,” Silverstein said. goal: completing the skeleton of the 975-foot construction He praised the workers for the completion of 7 W.T.C. in tower by mid-2012. 2006, saying that 4 W.T.C. must be handled with the same Working with colleagues as a closely-knit team, Rodrigues, perseverance and hard work. “By the end of 2013, you guys Jr., will be the key to getting the job done. “Nine of us can’t and gals are going to have this place fi nished,” he said. “Only put this building up,” he said. “We need the various trades with your help can it happen, and only with your determina- and workers, and as long as we’re employing people, we tion will it happen.” know their lives are better on the backside.” But the project was the last thing on the workers’ minds during their much-needed break. “It’s time for putting work MUNOZ AND RIVERA aside, for everyone to come together and say, ‘let’s break Construction worker 28-year-old Joshua Rivera’s father, bread as a unit,’” said Tishman Project Superintendent Frank 45-year-old Frank Munoz, is also his direct supervisor. They Hussey, one of the original workers of the W.T.C. redevelop- work alongside each other six days a week, ten hours a day ment. “We’re all brothers and sisters at the end of the day.” at 4 W.T.C. Interspersed throughout the male-dominated crowd were Rivera and Munoz know when to stay away from each actual fathers, sons and nephews that were enjoying a pre- Downtown Express photo by Aline Reynolds other, particularly when they’re frustrated about something. Thanksgiving family meal together. Antonio Rodrigues, Jr. (left) chats with his uncle and But they usually chat on work breaks about their daily boss, Antonio Rodrigues, Sr. grinds, and about the family. “I get to fi nd out more about THE RODRIGUES CLAN grandson, 34-year-old Antonio A. Rodrigues. my grandson,” Munoz said, chuckling. Nine members of the Rodrigues clan sat together at one Rodrigues’s grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Munoz admitted that he egged on his son to choose this of the rectangular white-cloth tables on the street-level con- Portugal in 1954. “Once his sons were done with schooling, construction project over others. He keeps a close eye on crete base of 4 W.T.C. he got into business with them, and it just started growing Rivera to make sure he’s up to snuff. “You want your reputa- They all work for Roger and Sons Concrete Corporation, and growing and growing,” said Rodrigues, now the general tion to go a lot longer,” Munoz said. a small family business that Portuguese immigrant Acacio superintendent of the company. Rivera doesn’t seem to mind working for his dad. “You Rodrigues founded in the 1970s. One-hundred-and-fi fty of Rodrigues, Sr. died a proud grandfather in 2009, two work harder when you work for your pop. His name follows their men and women are erecting the concrete walls of the months after his company was hired for its largest project to you,” Rivera said. “There’s more motivation to keep every- site, forming the skeleton of the tower, according to Acacio’s date at the W.T.C. thing going.” Delegation goes to D.C. for fi nal Zadroga push

lot of friends but we gained a lot at the same time.” lative aide invited them to sit down in a conference room and Continued from page 1 Despite what his service has cost him, Crichlow said he make their case for the Zadroga bill. “would do it again in a heartbeat. We have people on the “Lives depend on it, literally,” said Glen Klein, who Now he takes 14 medications a day and is on permanent frontlines fi ghting to protect us,” he said. “Somebody has to works with the Fealgood Foundation. “There have been disability. take care of home. I have relatives and friends and people I close to 1,000 deaths since 9/11 – burly guys, fi refi ghters, “I’ve lost count of how many trips I’ve been on to know who are fi ghting overseas. Quite a few. I don’t consider cops, construction workers – in their 30’s, 40’s, early 50’s. Washington,” Sanchez said. “This is Jack’s sixth trip. He myself a brave man. I just consider it a human thing to do.” Civilians who lived around the area and were healthy have wanted to be with me today.” It was still raining, approaching a downpour, when the gotten sick. Children have asthma now. We really need Sanchez complimented “the display of tenacity from the buses got to Washington nearly fi ve hours after leaving New support. If this bill doesn’t get passed by December 31, we entire New York Congressional team – Carolyn Maloney, York. The group split up into teams with the agenda of visiting don’t think it will ever get passed.” Congressman Jerry Nadler, Anthony Weiner, King – not only every Senatorial offi ce, speaking to someone as highly placed At 2:30 p.m., the lobbying group stopped their peti- has their leadership helped save my life, but they have inspired as possible about the Zadroga bill, and leaving literature tioning to attend a press conference where Sen. Kirsten me to go out there and be in the front line once again for the explaining what’s at stake. Gillibrand (D-NY) sponsor of the bill in the Senate, Sen. men and women who are sick and dying.” “All we’re asking is that our government do the right Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other politicians and union Several people on the bus said that although they were thing,” said John Devlin, one of the spokesmen for the group representatives spoke. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, sick themselves, they were there to speak for those who in the offi ce of Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico.) “I’m a who had come to Washington to do his own lobbying, was were too sick to make the trip or who had already died from construction guy – a tradesman. I’m not a hero every day like also at the podium. 9/11-related illnesses. Almost 1,000 people have already died, the fi remen and the cops. When I stand here, I’m standing to “Nine years ago no one could have imagined that our nation with new deaths each month. represent the union tradesmen – the normal guy that went would ignore its duty to the 9/11 heroes,” Sen. Gillibrand Frank Crichlow, who just turned 46, said he was at the down there.” said. Sen. Schumer compared their service to members of the World Trade Center site from beginning to end. “I was doing Devlin said he traveled with an operating engineer, Local military. “Just like soliders, these people volunteered, rushed search and rescue, body retrieval, medical support – you 15 and an emergency responder. to danger, risked their lives for our freedom and for the great- name it, I was doing it,” he said. Crichlow, who used to be a “We went down because no one else could do the construc- er good,” he said. “Since when does America turn its back on construction worker, was a volunteer. Now he has asthma and tion part of it. If it wasn’t for us, that job would still be going people like that? We will not rest until we fi nd the other hand- nasal problems, and though he said he still can work, he adds on today. I was down there 10 months, seven days a week, 12 ful of votes that we need to give us the 60 votes.” “I don’t know about later on.” In addition to his health, his hours a day. Now I have level four, inoperable throat cancer As of November 23, the 60 votes still are not there. The sup- work at the World Trade Center site cost him his family. He and cancer on the tongue and both lymph nodes. I’ve had 33 porters of the bill believe that they have 59 in their camp, includ- is divorced. “A big part of it is because of what happened,” radiations and eight chemotherapy [treatments], four surger- ing 56 Democratic senators, two independents and Mark Kirk, he said. “After I went down to help on September 11, I didn’t ies. I’m still learning how to eat. I’m not here for myself. I’m Republican of Illinois, who was elected to fi ll the seat vacated by return home for a month. I had nightmares. After awhile, I here for the brothers and sisters that aren’t capable of coming Barack Obama. just shut everybody out. I talk to counselors now but I get here and the ones that are going to get sick later that don’t Going home, some of the people on the bus expressed a sense that they don’t understand. The people who worked think they are.” their desperation. They are ill, they are likely to die young at the World Trade Center meet as a group four times a year. The group trudged from offi ce to offi ce for hours. Sometimes and if the Zadroga bill doesn’t pass, they have nowhere else That helps. We’ve all become like one big family. We’ve lost a they were only able to talk to receptionists. Sometimes a legis- to turn. downtown express November 24 - 30, 2010 13 14 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

PUBLISHER & EDITOR Hope for SPURA Hall? There are four departments that John W. Sutter Hudson Square is not myth are a vital part of every city (especial- After decades of inertia at the Seward Park Urban ly New York City) that shouldn’t be ASSOCIATE EDITOR Renewal Area, on the Lower East Side south of the To the Editor, touched: the Fire Department, the Police John Bayles Williamsburg Bridge, the makings of a viable develop- Perhaps it’s because the holiday season is Department, the Sanitation Department, ARTS EDITOR ment scheme are taking shape. Where six blocks have rapidly approaching, but when I read Bettina and the Department of Education. The Scott Stiffl er lain vacant, occupied by open-air parking lots, there are Goldberg’s letter regarding Hudson Square Fire Department is here to save people now visions of housing and commercial development, I thought of a letter received by The Sun in from fi res and emergencies. The Police REPORTERS and much-needed jobs and economic development. 1897 from a young girl named Virginia. Department is here to protect people from Aline Reynolds Albert Amateau It must be stressed that what exists are only guide- So with all due respect to the brilliant edi- the lunatics who prey on our elderly and Lincoln Anderson lines — not a plan. But Community Board 3, which has tors of The Sun who so powerfully assured the children. The Sanitation Department is been spearheading this process for the past several years, 8-year-old girl, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa here to keep our city clean and prevent SR. V.P. OF SALES is indeed now working toward a fi nal plan. Claus,” it seems appropriate to say, yes, Ms. bad odors and disease from garbage. And AND MARKETING The guidelines were presented Nov. 16 at C.B. Goldberg, there is a place known as Hudson our Department of Education teachers are Francesco Regini 3’s Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Square. It exists as certain as the creative energy here to teach our children so that they can SR. MARKETING CONSULTANT Committee. Basically, they call for a mixed-use project, that fl ows through the minds and souls of the live a better life in the future. Jason Sherwood with equal parts housing and commercial and retail people who work here, in the synergistic rela- I don’t know how they can grade teach- development. There would be 800 to 1,000 units of tionships developed among the companies based ers. The teacher could be one of the best ADVERTISING SALES Allison Greaker housing. Under one possible scenario, the mix could here, and in the light-fi lled streets characterized but if a kid can’t learn like other kids Julio Tumbaco include 40 percent market-rate, 30 percent moderate and by the warmth and charm of a small town. or doesn’t want to learn, why blame the middle-income, 20 percent low-income and 10 percent And in the months and years ahead, as teacher? If a parent doesn’t want to or RETAIL AD MANAGER senior housing and assisted-living units. the neighborhood continues to progress, cannot help their kid with schoolwork, Colin Gregory On the commercial side, no retail spaces would be larger soon the streets will have a look and feel that why blame the teacher for that? Would it than 30,000 square feet, effectively banning big-box stores, distinctly defi nes Hudson Square, as well. be right to lay off or take away hours from BUSINESS MANAGER / CONTROLLER Vera Musa though a supermarket of larger size would be allowed. A our people who work in City Hall? This movie theater and parking space would also be included. Ellen Baer city should stop wasting money on bicycle ART / PRODUCTION DIRECTOR The layout wouldn’t be “towers in the park” — which President and bus lanes. They spent millions of dol- Troy Masters leaves much to desire in terms of a feeling of livability — The Hudson Square Connection lars so that people could have their pizza but, would incorporate open space. and Chinese food delivered in 10 minutes ART DIRECTOR Mark Hasselberger In addition, although they weren’t in the original instead of 15 minutes. This is Manhattan 1965 renewal plan, C.B. 3 is also including in its rede- Island, not London. They should start GRAPHIC DESIGNER velopment concept the four Essex St. Market buildings, Let them do their jobs using their heads for something other than Jamie Paakkonen between Stanton and Houston Sts. a hat rack. The people that I mentioned in Leading the C.B. 3 committee on the renewal area issue To the Editor, CONTRIBUTORS Terese Loeb Kreuzer • David is David McWater, the board’s former chair. It was McWater What the heck is wrong with City Continued on page 15 Stanke • Jerry Tallmer who initiated the community-led, contextual rezoning plan for the East Village and Lower East Side that was approved by PHOTOGRAPHERS the city two years ago, which put height caps on new develop- Lorenzo Ciniglio • Milo Hess ment. He’s confi dent the SPURA plan will also win approval. Corky Lee • Elisabeth Robert Next month, the SPURA guidelines will be fl eshed out • Jefferson Siegel more at C.B. 3, and it’s hoped the board will vote on the con- INTERNS cept in January. But there’s still far to go. The city will need to Andrea Riquier do an environmental impact statement (E.I.S.) for the sites, then a uniform land-use procedure (ULURP), then issue requests for proposals (R.F.P.’s) from developers for the 10 Published by sites. This could take three years, and of course construction COMMUNITY MEDIA, LLC would be phased in over many years. McWater stressed it’s 145 Sixth Ave., NY, NY 10013 important to get things completed before Mayor Bloomberg Phone: (212) 229-1890 leaves offi ce. Whatever consensus has been painstakingly Fax: (212) 229-2790 built over the past two years could evaporate. On-line: www.downtownexpress.com The urban renewal plan has expired. But McWater E-mail: [email protected] said the city will give priority to former renewal-area residents who seek to return and get affordable housing,

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The development of SPURA, opposing affordable housing, the publisher’s liability for other errors or omissions in connection with an advertisement is strictly co-ops’ residential mix has been changing. There’s a new limited to publication of the advertisement in any sentiment for movement on these eyesore blocks. Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess subsequent issue. Now that a new, consensus plan is coming into focus, Member of the New York Press it’s incumbent on Chin and Silver to engage and support Association the process. If not, a golden opportunity will be lost. In Guerilla advertising, or just a lie Member of the that sense, it’s a risk not to back the sensible mixed-use Last week there was an example of brave small business marketing in Tribeca. National consensus that is emerging now. Now is the time for Chin At the Terroir Bar, a sidewalk tent sign tried to lure customers with what had to Newspaper and Silver to help shepherd this long paralyzed project, Association be false advertising. Unless of course there was indeed someone inside bearing creating a legacy to be proud of. the same name as out 44th President of the United States. © 2010 Community Media, LLC downtown express November 24 - 30, 2010 15 TALKING POINT The U.S. must come to the aid of its 9/11 heroes BY U.S. SENATOR KIRSTEN 16,600 individuals from Manhattan are In September, the bill passed the U.S. GILLIBRAND (D-NY) enrolled in the WTC Health Registry. House of Representatives. It’s time to On Sept. 11, 2001, when thousands of Our 9/11 heroes didn’t think twice that keep our promise to them, and pass this innocent men and women lost their lives, day. Bound by duty, a love of our nation and bill in the U.S. Senate during the lame tens of thousands more came to their their fellow Americans, they joined hand- duck session of Congress. We can’t afford assistance. We as a nation saw greater in-hand with heroes from every corner of to wait any longer. We’ve already lost too acts of heroism than we could have America to come to our rescue. many of our heroes and loved ones to the imagined: First-responders from all over Now, it’s long past time we came to toxins of Ground Zero. And we’re losing New York and all over the country came theirs. Nine years ago, no one could have more each day. to Ground Zero to save innocent lives, imagined that our nation would ignore I’m urging my colleagues on both sides provide proper burial for lives that were our duty to the 9/11 heroes. Nine years of the aisle to do what they know is right, lost, and assist in the enormous effort to ago, no one could have imagined that our and support this legislation. clean up and recover from that devastat- country would leave these heroes behind. The men and women who lived ing attack on our nation. But over all these years, the James through and came to our rescue on 9/11 Tragically, in the nine years since the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation were not Democrats or Republicans or attack, more than 30,000 responders and Act, the bill that can bring care to those Independents. They were Americans first survivors from across the country have who’ve fallen ill, has been tied up by poli- and foremost, and so were the people had to receive medical treatment due to tics as usual in Congress. they saved. It’s time for us in Congress to their exposure to Ground Zero toxins and This should not be a partisan fight. We honor their sacrifices by coming together are waiting for Congress to pass legisla- have an undeniable, moral obligation to Gillibrand, 9/11 Health Supporters Call as Americans, and keeping our promise to tion to ensure that they can continue to provide our 9/11 heroes with all the care On U.S. Senate to Pass James Zadroga provide them with the care they need to get the care they need. Approximately they need. 9/11 Health And Compensation Act save their lives. DOWNTOWN NOTEBOOK The peddling of pedaling and those pesky pedestrians BY DANIEL MELTZER the airwaves and across cyberspace. able laws governing bike riders, few for B.P. Stringer (no connection with the oil We are still at war in Vietnam (excuse I am on record saying I think the which they can be legally stopped or company), while still backing the program, me, Afghanistan); the Dems have taken a Columbus lane was a bad idea, was ticketed. But if there were, and someone justly conceded recently to Brian Lehrer on shellacking in the election, and the politics approved too quickly, and that it would got too many summonses, what could the WNYC that perhaps this was a bit hastily are smarmier than ever; unemployment is likely cause trouble. I believe it still is, authorities do — take away their feet? done, that the lanes were created before still pushing 10 percent and the checks are was, and has. (Don’t wave that bicycle Bikes and cyclists aren’t licensed. clear-cut rules and regs for their use had running (or have run) out for many; the local pump at me unless you intend to use it.) Should they be? Should they have to pass been established. He’s wisely calling for the murder and MetroCard rates are rising; for The mayor, the City Council, a flotilla a pedaling exam? Should they be regis- codifying of actionable offenses by the City the second year in a row Social Security isn’t of cyclists and none other than our gen- tered and carry numbered plates so they Council to ensure safety for all concerned, erally right-on Borough President Scott can be traced after an incident? The good if also more work for the N.Y.P.D. and the Stringer — our most proactive and com- thing about licenses, of course, is that courts. munity-conscious B.P. in recent memory, they can be suspended or revoked. Let’s hope the Council will put this Don’t wave that bicycle defender of renters, mom-and-pop stores, Also, the environmental argument in on a fast track, stop and look both ways good community causes in general, and favor of the lanes is weak. It is doubtful before moving forward, and before some- pump at me unless you promoter of progress — have all been that bikers are would-be motorists. They one gets hurt or all-out war is declared. enthusiastically supporting the project, more likely would be transit riders, thus As the sage and ageless Elmer Fudd intend to use it. the strip of exclusive real estate for the subtracting from the M.T.A., which keeps might say; “Wabbit, what we have here is pedal-pumpers, from the get-go. raising the fares. a wheel pwoblem.” For starters, the bike path narrows car and truck lanes by as much as 2 feet and may not for years to come; Season 4 of each on the often-congested Columbus. “Mad Men” has ended with another cliff- And few cyclists are reported to be using LETTERS TO THE EDITOR hanger, nobody knows when Season 5 will the new amenity provided them. In addi- appear, support groups are forming to deal tion, there are complaints that bad biker with withdrawal issues; and Manhattanites behavior continues to annoy and some- to Disneyeland Tribeca” by Tom are squaring off…over what? times endanger pedestrians — ignoring Continued from page 14 Goodkind reads like an update of my Bike lanes. red lights, going the wrong way, riding on piece “Saying Goodbye to Funkiness on Lines have been drawn in axle grease the sidewalks as before — while drivers these departments also have bills to pay Tribeca’s Piers.” (Downtown Express and thick, white, street-corner crossing and walkers are disrespecting the cyclists and mouths to feed. Leave them alone and Oct 21-27, 2005) Goodkind recycles paint. On the Upper West Side, for one, by “getting in their way,” by cutting them let them do their jobs. much of my original analysis regarding opposing factions have formed over the off or walking or standing in front of them what made Pier 25 unique and repeats hard-fought Columbus Ave. bike lane at intersections. And yet, the powers that George Marmo many of my predictions about the that was green-lighted in the spring by be, as they are known, still think this is new pier, which has recently reopened. Community Board 7. The lane, which a good idea. Maybe not as good as they While no one can recreate my distinc- will run, or pedal, for starters, between thought it was before, but still the way tive and clean writing style, I could not W. 96th and 77th Sts., has generated gal- to go. Borrowed ideas help but feel that my ideas had been lons of ink and toner and tons of pixels in A key problem, it would seem, and borrowed. newspapers and on Web sites, as well as Stringer seems to concur, is that there To the Editor, numerous cubic feet of overheated air on don’t really seem to be enough enforce- Last issue’s opinion piece, “Welcome Kate Walter 16 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express

Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess 21st Century Breadline On Saturday afternoon tourists in front of the Federal garb to bring attention to the new generation of “99ers.” Reserve building on Liberty Street must have been confused – The moniker describes those who lost their Unemployment or at least they’ll have a good story when they return home. A Insurance benefi ts after not being able fi nd work in the protest was held simulating a breadline, common during the 99-week period after they lost their jobs. The end of November Great Depression, and over 35 people turned out in vintage will mark the end of U.I. benefi ts for today’s workers. downtown express November 24 - 30, 2010 17 Ed Gold remembered

reader of Ed Gold’s articles in The Villager Continued from page 8 and I used to love his way with words and sense of outrage over issues in the city. He alma mater and where he was editor of The wasn’t happy with a lot that was going on — Spectator daily campus newspaper — and he wrote about it in The Villager.” N.Y.U. School of Law. The Columbia bequest Stringer said his young staffers relished will fund a scholarship for students from meeting Gold for lunch at Joe Jr. and being abroad to study journalism, in the hope that regaled by his old stories. they will return to their countries and spread “You can’t replace him,” Stringer said. freedom and understanding through journal- “You can’t get another Ed Gold. But you are ism and the power of free speech. The N.Y.U. going to get people to raise their game to a bequest will establish a fund to develop com- higher level. That’s the legacy of Ed Gold.” munity lawyers and legal services. Ron Schneider, a former Community Quinn and Councilmember Margaret Chin School District 2 president and a close issued a Council proclamation honoring Gold friend, said he and Gold were such loyal “for his outstanding service and contributions Joe Jr. patrons that they were bestowed with to New York City.” Quinn presented the proc- honorary Joe Jr. caps. Gold would wear his lamation to Lynne Brown, N.Y.U. senior vice when traveling outside the city, Schneider president, and Janine Jacquet, associate dean said, and when asked what Joe Jr. was would of Columbia Journalism School. reply, “It’s an important coffee shop.” The proclamation to Gold stated, in part: Schneider said he didn’t have the nerve “For more than 60 years, he promoted good to tell Gold when he was in the hospital that government to make government institutions Joe Jr. had closed. and the Democratic Party more responsive When Schneider fi nally did break the news to community and individual concerns.” to him, he said, “I can’t describe to you the It also noted that for the last 43 years, look on his face. It was as if he had lost his best Gold served in many leadership positions on friend — in a way, he had. In one of his last Greenwich Village’s C.B. 2, “recently fi lling columns in The Villager, he said he hoped the the roles of elder statesman, historian and space would stay empty forever — it still is.” voice of reason with a balanced perspective Current C.B. 2 Chairperson Jo Hamilton and a great sense of humor. He also oversaw said Gold’s encouraging her to run for the post the distribution of 1.6 million dollars to gave her the confi dence to do it. She praised a broad range of community groups that Gold’s commitment to the community board resulted from a benefi t he helped win after and to giving the community a voice. the federal post offi ce on Christopher Street “He loved the community board,” she was transferred to a private developer.” said. “He was a leader on our board because Also, the proclamation continued, Gold of who he was. He had a fair mind. He was represented the community on a range of always eloquent and often persuasive. We issues, such as supporting limits on the num- listened because Ed knew what he was talk- ber of liquor-license approvals. ing about. If you could convince him that a Adult and Friend Judge Stanley Sklar recalled that cause was worthy, you knew you had a good when Gold went out to Saltaire, Fire Island, chance of getting C.B. 2’s support.” he didn’t jog or go to the beach, but spent Other speakers at the memorial included Pediatric Dermatology all his time visiting and strategizing with his cousin Elizabeth Ropers; Miriam Bockman, other Democratic politicos who were also the fi rst female Manhattan Democratic County vacationing in summer houses there. leader; Arthur Stoliar, the fi rst chairperson of “The ocean that Ed liked was the one that the planning board that was the predecessor to Comprehensive Dermatologic Care he could see from Sarah and Victor Kovner’s C.B. 2; and Charles Persell, former chairper- deck,” Sklar noted. Sarah Kovner went on son of the Village Nursing Home. Skin Cancer Screening to serve in the Clinton administration and Afterward, recorded by a video camera, Victor Kovner became head of the city’s Law people gave more memories of Gold that will Botox / Perlane / Restylane Department in the Dinkins administration. be compiled into a video memorial that will be Borough President Stringer said, “I was a posted on the Web site www.Ed-Gold.com . Nathalie Q. Nguyen, M.D. NYU Assistant Clinical Professor Are you ready for the Holidays? Board Certified Dermatologist

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certain jolly fellow on temporary leave from the North Pole. This heartwarming show about the joys and frustrations of growing up. Has our spunky heroine, (advice-giver extraordi- YOUTH naire Edwina Spoonable) sharing he wisdom on everything from setting the table to making new friends. That it’s done through clever, catchy and poignant songs makes the experi- ence enjoyable and engaging for kids who know what Edwi- ACTIVITIES na’s going through as well as adults who remember what it was like. Dec. 17 through Feb. 25 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th St.). For tickets ($39), call 212-239-6200. For groups of CHANUKAH WONDERLAND What happens for eight HANUKKAH CELEBRATION AND OPEN HOUSE The Edu- ture for heroes of all ages is brought to you by The Metro- 10 or more, call 646-747-7400. Visit www.dearedwina.com consecutive nights, is different each time and offers sizzling cational Alliance Preschool hosts this FREE Hanukkah event politan Playhouse. The dynamic improv company Freestyle for additional details and full playing schedule. latkes, delicious donuts, menorah lighting, chocolate Chanu- for Kids & Families. Come celebrate Hanukkah and learn about Repertory Theatre (which has been known to bring audience kah gelt and prizes galore? The answer’s not exactly a brain Educational Alliance programs for toddlers and preschoolers. members on stage to become part of the action) leads this DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER Youth afterschool teaser, given that this is a Chanukah (Hanukkah?) listing. But Festivities will include Hanukkah arts & crafts, dancing, sing-a- family-friendly immersive experience in which you invent programs are happening NOW! For information on swim les- one thing’s for sure — the fact that this particular celebra- longs, storytelling, dreidel games, kosher refreshments, tours the plot, provide sound effects, become the scenery and play sons, basketball, gym class, Karate and more, call 212-766- tion is jam-packed with fun (and maybe some jam for those of the Preschool and more. This year’s celebration will also important characters. “Adventure Theater” is perfect for chil- 1104. Visit www.manhattanyouth.org. The Downtown Com- latkes?) is a no-brainer. “Chanukah Wonderland” is My Little feature the premiere screening of a new series called “Shalom dren ages 5-13. The details differ every time, but here’s the munity Center is located at 120 Warren St. School’s gift to you. Dec. 1 through Dec. 8. Locations, times, Sesame” (from the creators of Sesame Street). “Chanukah: plot in a nutshell: The inhabitants of a magical land desper- prices vary. For event details and registration, visit www. The Missing Menorah”finds that super-special blue monster ately need your help. A wicked leader has risen to power, and FIRST COMMUNITY MUSIC NIGHT Every Monday night, mylittleschoolnyc.com. Grover stressing when his special friend Anneliese van der Pol an emissary is sent to the mortal world to seek a hero powerful Manhattan Youth and Trinity Wall Street combine creative (of “That’s So Raven” fame) gets caught in a game of tag with enough to return peace, happiness and prosperity to the inhab- forces to bring you chamber music in a relaxed setting. COMMUNITY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION ON THE a chicken and loses her special menorah — just as Chanukah itants. Our Hero — played by a child chosen from the audi- Music lovers of all ages are invited to listen or get involved. L.E.S. What do you expect for nothing? How about dreidel is about to begin! This first-ever communal viewing of the film, ence — travels to the magical land, meets fabulous creatures, If you play violin, viola or cello (and can read music), bring games, storytelling, songs and a menorah lighting? That’s coordinated by the JCC Association, will be a special holiday makes powerful friends and faces great dangers. Meanwhile, your instrument along and join the seasoned pros of the Trin- what you’ll get, for FREE, at this Hanukkah celebration for treat for kids and parents alike. Sun., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1 the wicked leader is all too aware of our Hero’s presence and ity Chamber Players. Mondays, 7pm to 9pm, at the Great Hall the Lower East Side community! Join friends, neighbors and p.m. at The Educational Alliance Preschool (197 E. Broadway. is gleefully making plans for their ultimate meeting! Dec. 4 (in the Downtown Community Center, 120 Warren St.). Call classmates for a fun, meaningful kickoff to this year’s Festi- btw. Jefferson & Clinton Sts.). FREE. Appropriate for children through Dec. 12, 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, at Metropoli- 212-766-1104 or visit www.manhattanyouth.org. val of Lights. Play dreidel for gelt, and take part in storytell- age 6 and under. For info, call 646-395-4251 or visit www.edal- tan Playhouse ( 220 E. 4th St. btw. Aves. A & B). Tickets are $10 ing and songs before promenading from the historic Mazer liance.org/preschool. NOTE: The Preschool offers full day, half for children twelve, $12 for adults. To order, call 212-995-5302 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR EVENT LISTED IN THE Theater to event sponor The Educational Alliance — for a day, extended day and 2, 3, 5 day/week options. Financial aid or visit www. metropolitanplayhouse.org. DOWNTOWN EXPRESS? Listing requests may be sent festive first lighting of the menorah. This event is FREE and is available. To learn more and set up a tour, please call 646- to [email protected]. Please provide the date, open to the public (perfect for families with kids of all ages). 395-4250 or email [email protected]. Applications DEAR EDWINA After debuting in 2008, scoring two Drama time, location, price and a description of the event (at least Wed., Dec. 1, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 197 E. Broadway (btw. are due December 30th, 2010. The Preschool is located at 197 Desk nominations and enjoying a successful 2009 holiday three weeks in advance of the event date). Information may Clinton & Jefferson). For info, visit www.edalliance.org or E.Broadway on the Lower East Side. season run, the musical “Dear Edwina” is fast becoming a also be mailed to 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY call 646-395-4245. seasonal family-friendly tradition in league with visiting 10013-1548. Requests must be received three weeks before ADVENTURE THEATER! This interactive theatrical adven- the Macy’s windows and presenting a long wish list to a the event is to be published. Questions? Call 646-452-2497.

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#(52#(342%%43#(//,&/2-53)#!.$!24 0RESENTSTHEST!NNUAL ‘Merchant’ is ‘not so good’ ').'%2"2%!$(/53% of the punishing baptism of Shylock, in $ECORATING7ORKSHOPS Continued from page 19 the dark, like a mime show, complete with !S!CCLAIMEDBY4HE.EW9ORK4IMES splashing water. Pacino took his baptism organically to our own populace. and scuttled off, as did the play when From Pacino’s lips I heard every syl- all those Christian gentlefolk repaired to lable loud and clear. So much for those revel and romance at Belmont. I am sorry who deplore (a) method acting, (b) the to have to confess that, even if it con- late Lee Strasberg — Pacino’s beloved tains some of the most exquisite poetry mentor. in Shakespeare (“On such a night…”), The other male actors in this endeav- this whole courtship half of the play has or? Indifferent to indistinguishable. One always bored the socks off me. is the show’s Bassanio (David Harbour). I mean the Belmont subplot, caskets He’s the heavy who needs the dough, and all. Or is Shylock just a subplot? almost gets his buddy carved up for the Oy oy oy, there’s the rub. Over the sake of those 3,000 on-demand ducats years I have seen four Shylocks: Boris and then wins the girl who won the case, Tumarin, 1962 (at Off-Broadway’s no only to betray her in the next minute by longer existant Gate Theater); George C. giving away that ring she’d given him. Scott, also 1962, ripping a passion to tat- Another is that most obliging buddy, ters in Central Park; Dustin Hoffman on Antonio (Byron Jennings). In director Broadway, 1989 — methodical, reason- Daniel Sullivan’s staging, these two chaps able, businesslike; and now Al Pacino, spend an awful lot of time periodically 2010, at the Broadhurst. clenched in one another’s arms, staring It isn’t every day you get to see a into one another’s eyes. motion-picture superstar return to the &AMILY'INGERBREAD7ORKSHOPS !DULT'INGERBREAD7ORKSHOPS I’m fully aware that Shakespeare has living stage and do a very good job, like $ECEMBER       %VENTDONATEDBY4HE"UBBLE,OUNGE Bassanio more than once employ the three of the four above. Mr. Pacino, with 3ATURDAYS ATAND 7EST"ROADWAY 7HITE3TREET word “love” in passages like: his unmatchable nervous energy and his 3UNDAYS AT  AND $ECEMBERAND bred-in-the-bone sincerity, certainly gives celebrating20 To you, Antonio, us a Shylock to keep in the books. #ALLFORDETAILS#HAMPAGNE (ORSDOEUVRES years I owe the most, in money and in love, But the best “Merchant of Venice” AND-USICBY#HURCH3TREET3CHOOL&ACULTY And from your love I have a warranty — I’ve ever seen and savored was the one #ALL  TOHOLDASPACE To unburden all my plots and purposes directed by and starring Russian-born WWWCHURCHSTREETSCHOOLORG How to get clear of all the debts I owe... actor-teacher Boris Tumarin, at that little lost Off-Broadway theater back in 1962. One footnote. At the Broadhurst these Tumarin’s Shylock was a cold, austere, days and nights, Al Pacino is the shortest disdainful man of some intellect, looking male on stage. I imagine this was deliber- down with utter contempt on all these ate casting: the Little Jew, dashing here wastrel mercantile pleasure-seeking god- and there among these giant gentiles. less yahoos gambling away recklessly As for the ladies, Portia is a bifurcated with cargoes far at sea. It was the kind role (half merciless ingenious mercy- of performance and sheer conception that quoting lawyer, half idiot love-struck made you shiver. teensy-weensy) that has defeated more But the best Shylock that could ever be than one actress over the ages. I don’t imagined neither I nor you will ever get to know if it defeats Lily Rabe, because, if see. The son of a bitch died on us in 1977 I could hear every syllable of Pacino’s, I during tryouts in Philadelphia on the way could fully decipher not one of hers until in to Broadway with this confounding she exploded — over-exploded — as the drama. His name was Zero Mostel. trial of Antonio and/or Shylock begins. Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimen- For the rest, her unfortunate output was sions, senses…? Anyone who ever saw rather like duck quacks. Zero in full dimension as Leopold Bloom Unfortunate, too — I guess the word is or anyone else knows the answer to that. gratuitous — is the interjected acting-out I’m confident Al Pacino would agree. TRIBECA DENTAL For the Whole Family General Dentistry & CosmeticDentistry + Implants Bleaching + Orthodontics

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COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER back in time all year long — but from October through December, they’re especially busy. A variety of holiday- FOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY HANUKKAH ACTIVITIES, themed fare is coming soon. But before the calendar page SEE PAGE 18. turns to December, MHM hosts one last paranormal-centric event (which acknowledges its well-earned reputation as the CHITA RIVERA AT BIRDLAND most haunted house in Manhattan). For three years, para- Too bad the charismatic, won’t-coast-on-her-legacy Chita normal investigator Dan Sturges has been collecting startling Rivera is like Christmas — because we wish she’d come evidence which makes a convincing case that something around (to Birdland) more than once a year. Her most recent intriguing, strange and (so far) unexplained is happening concert there, in 2009, was a nearly 90-minute intermission- here. Is it the work of former Tredwell family residents and less lesson on how to work a crowd, sell a song and earn an servants reaching out from the fi nal frontier? The skeptical audience’s love and respect (even though it was hers for the Sturges won’t say — he does invite you to draw your own taking from the moment she set her tiny feet and toned gams conclusions after learning about his investigative techniques on the stage). Ever the seasoned pro, it’s likely this week’s and hearing recordings of disembodied voices and viewing two-night/four-show gig will deliver the same dishy pre-song photos containing orbs of light and a ghostly silhouette. patter that gave 2009’s performance its inside track appeal. Tues., Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at the Merchant’s House Museum (29 No word on the set list, but you’ll be telling the story for E. Fourth St. btw. Lafayette & Bowery). For reservations years to come if Rivera dips into last year’s repertoire and ($20 general admission, $10 for MHM members), call 212- blazes her way through the most articulate, relentless, practi- 777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/calendar. cally breathless interpretation we’re ever likely to see of the Jacques Brel song “Carousel.”At 8:30 p.m. & 11 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 26 & Sat., Nov. 27 — at Birdland (315 West 44th St. BLACK GOLD — THE PASSION OF ALEIJADINHO btw. 8th & 9th Aves.). Music charge: $40 side seating and Music, dance, mask work, puppetry, poetry and video $50 center seating ($10 food/drink minimum). For reserva- projections are used to tell the story of Antonio Francisco tions, call 212-581-3080. Visit www.BirdlandJazz.com. Lisboa (1738-1814) — Baroque sculptor of Brazil. “Black Gold” is the dramatic account of a man born a slave and freed at birth by his Portuguese father, a master builder of HOLIDAY RECORD & CD SALE churches. Winning Brazil’s Grand Prize at the age of 18, The ARChive of Contemporary Music’s Holiday Record Lisboa became the Michelangelo of his country. His life & CD sale helps support the ARChive — a not-for-profi t parallels the gold rush in the colonial cities and the devel- music library which collects, preserves and provides infor- opment of Brazil in arts, religion and politics, reaching for mation on popular music from 1950 to the present (they independence from the Portuguese and its own identity. Sat., keep two copies of all recordings released in America, and Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. at Shooting their collection numbers over two million sound recordings). Star Theatre in South Street Seaport (40 Peck Slip, 2 blocks There will be over 20,000 items for sale — but don’t worry north of Fulton St. btw. Front and South Sts.). Admission about depleting the permanent collection. The items are new $18.00. For reservations, directions, and further info: www. donations from record companies and collectors, and there’s ShootingStarTheatre.org or 646-825-1864. Also visit www. not a used, returned or defective product in the bunch. NYartists.org or call 212-242-6036. What you will fi nd, though, will be collectible LPs priced Photo courtesy of the Merchant’s House Museum below book value, hundreds of CDs priced at $1 to $5 each and cassettes 4 for $1.00. Not enough? There will also be Who’s that man in the mirror? See “Lecture” on this WALKING TOUR: MARK TWAIN’S NEW YORK many hard to fi nd 7” singles, shelves of new music books, page. This walking tour lets it be known that 100 years after African, Reggae & world-music releases, Classical LPs (most his death, (fi gurative) footprints remain in Manhattan made for 50¢ or LESS), videos, 60s psychedelic posters, and Sony intersperse Yiddish selections with songs like “Que Sera, by Samuel L. Clemens (better known as Mark Twain). Yule log DVDs (just released by Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey Sera,” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and even “Yankee “Mark Twain’s New York” reveals the specifi cs of the famed and Kenny Chesney, for $5 each). For the dis-en-vinyled, Doodle.” Sun., Dec. 12, 2:30 p.m., at the Museum of Jewish Missouri-born, Mississippi-bred author’s decades-long rela- ARChive’s newly-departed food stylist neighbors left behind Heritage (Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place). Tickets tionship with our decidedly northern town. Writer Peter “TONS of high-end and everyday kitchenware.” Support the are $18 ($15 for Museum and National Yiddish Book Center Salwen leads this tour of little-known Twain-related sites ARChive mission by becoming a member, and you’ll shop the Members). To order, call the Museum box offi ce at 646-437- peppered throughout lower Manhattan. Tickets are $20. The sale before the general public and be welcomed at their Dec. 4202 or visit www.mjhnyc.org. walk starts at Broadway and Spring St., on the Southeast 9 cocktail party. For membership details and other info, call corner (in front of the Gap store). Walks take place at 1 212-226-6967, visit www.arcmusic.org and check out their p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, through Nov. 28. The “Mark blog (arcmusic.wordpress.com). The sale takes place Sat., MONK IN MOTION: THREE C’S Twain’s New York” birthday tour happens at 1 p.m. on Tues., Dec. 11 through Sun. Dec. 19, daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Monk in Motion: The Next Face of Jazz” is a partner- Nov. 30 (Mark Twain’s 175th birthday!). For details, call At 54 White St. (3 blocks south of Canal, btw. Broadway & ship between BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center and 917-620-5371 or visit www.salwen.com/twain.pdf. Church. Take the 1 train to Franklin, or any train to Canal). the Thelonious Monk Institute that presents the top three winners from the renowned Annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Each concert features one INDIGO GIRLS AT J&R MUSIC WORLD ELEANOR REISSA CELEBRATES HANUKKAH winner and their combo from various parts of the world, J&R continues its relentless series of in-store events Humor, pathos and inclusiveness get equal sharing on demonstrating the versatility and variety of different jazz featuring big names. On Dec. 3 at 6 p.m., Indigo Girls will a bill headlined by Tony nominee and international artist styles. The “Three C’s” program showcases Cécile McLorin perform songs from — and autograph copies of — their new Eleanor Reissa — in her only NYC appearance this season. Salvant, Charenée Wade and Cyrille Aimée — who will per- album “Holly Happy Days.” At J&R Music World, 23 Park Hailed as one of the world’s most gifted interpreters of form three 7 p.m. solo concerts on Sat., Dec. 4, 11 and 18 Row. For more info, visit www.jr.com. Yiddish song, Reissa is accompanied by a band of musical respectively. Single tickets are $25 (students/seniors, $15). luminaries under the direction of Frank London (of the Those who purchase tickets to two performances can see Klezmatics). Marty Confurius on the upright bass, Rex the third presentation free. At BMCC Tribeca Performing FDNY PHOTO EXHIBITION Benincasa on percussion and drums, slide trombone player Arts Center, Theatre 2 (199 Chambers St. btw. Greenwich The FDNY is showcased through the work of New Orleans Brian Drye and pianist/accordion player Patrick Farrell bring & West St.). native, and photographer, Lilli M. 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The commissioners seemed to agree, giving the new Continued from page 7 design effusive praise at an L.P.C. hearing held last week. They concluded that the brick cladding of the new pent- “I don’t have an issue with it – they need to take house will blend well with the building’s overall façade and advantage of that air space,” said Gary Efterfield, who with the adjacent red brick buildings. They also applauded works at CitiGroup on Canal Street. the cubic design which, according to the motion, “is more Even celebrities, at the end of the day, must abide by the in keeping with the architectural character of the simple L.P.C. rules. Robert De Niro’s architects proposed a newly utilitarian structures than typically found on rooftops designed penthouse to his hotel at 377 Greenwich Street, throughout the historic district.” was approved by the L.P.C. last week. “It’s an appropriate change to the last element of this The current penthouse of the hotel, located just down important building,” said Chairman Robert Tierney. the block from 187 Franklin Street, actually breaks L.P.C. L.P. Commissioner Margery Perlmutter, who praised rules, even though it was approved by the commission in the project for its framing, said, “It’s something consis- 2004. Its mansard-style roofs, for example, detracted from tent with the kinds of things you see on rooftops in this the architectural character of the historic district, accord- district.” ing to the L.P.C. commissioners. L.P. commissioner Frederick Bland, who was previ- Lead architect Axel Vervoordt explained at the hear- ously skeptical about the project, said the “lyrical presen- ing how melding old and new designs is what Tribeca tation” eloquently tells the story of roofs of factories and architecture is all about. “It’s a new style of very basic Image courtesy of SYSTEMarchitects warehouses in the old Tribeca. The addition of the pergola architecture that belongs to as much the future as the The new, contemporary design of the residence at 187 and vines, he added, is an inspiring touch that adds a fl a- past,” Axel said. “In that process I think we’re respecting Franklin Street was opposed by Community Board 1’s vor of domesticity to the commercial building. “It’s visual the spirit of Tribeca.” landmarks committee evidence that it’s now living space.” 24 November 24 - 30, 2010 downtown express

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