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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 23

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OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2011

After a soldier’s death; community wants full investigation

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Occupying the center of the world Over 6,000 people invaded Times Square on Saturday as part of a worldwide call to action initiated by Occupy Wall Street. The movement is now in its second month.

BY ALINE REYNOLDS A criminal investigation is underway to trace the cause of the mysterious death of 19-year-old U.S. Army Private Danny Chen, whose body was found on Oct. 3 in a guard tower in Kandahar, Afghanistan with a gunshot wound to the head. The fatality was not combat related, according to U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command Spokesperson Christopher Grey. Speculations are therefore swirling that Chen, who was born and raised on the Lower East Side, was either shot by a fellow officer or that he committed suicide. Grey refused to comment on either speculation.

“We’re conducting a very thorough and in-depth investigation into Private Chen’s death,” Grey said. “It would be premature to discuss anything that happened, [in order] to protect the case.” Local elected officials and community organizations are now demanding a timely and comprehensive study of Chen’s death, which they believe might correlate with racial harassment the private purportedly experienced while overseas. “We want to know the truth of what happened to Danny Chen. No lies, no cover-ups, just the truth,” said Elizabeth OuYang, president of the New York branch of the Organization

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A month in, O.W.S. protestors and community trying to coexist BY CYNTHIA MAGNUS As Occupy Wall Street enters its second month, and demonstrators continue to reside in Zuccotti Park, elected officials, community stakeholders and the protestors are attempting to find ways to coexist. “This is a neighborhood of working class people, the same people you represent,” said Pat Moore, chair of Community Board 1’s Quality of Life Committee, at the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly in Zuccotti Park on Oct. 15. The topic of discussion was a reduction in the noise caused by the drum circle, which has disturbed area resi-

dents for up to twelve hours daily for almost a month. Moore told the assembly that she supports their movement, as do many of her neighbors. Moore, however, added, “But please give us some relief.” City Councilmember Margaret Chin said, “The single biggest issue is the drumming. So far, O.W.S. has been unable to limit the drumming. I know the drummers are a source of stress for the community and for people within O.W.S.” Chin said O.W.S. has agreed to limits on the drumming, and they have to follow through and enforce those rules. C.B. 1 Chair Julie Menin worked

with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, NYS Sen. Daniel Squadron and Chin, as well as other representatives and stakeholders, to develop a “good neighbor policy” with O.W.S. One of the challenges, according to Menin, was that the person initially responsible for relaying the concerns of the community board back to O.W.S. was not doing so — a problem that she said has now been resolved. “We are addressing proactively concerns as they are brought to us,” said Menin.

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Why they occupy Wall Street “occupiers” come from varied backgrounds and with many stories. Page 12

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OWNTOWN DIGEST

Federal funding for 9/11 Memorial

Brookfield increases its footprint

Hearings begin this week in Washington D.C on a proposed bill to establish federal funding for the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. The legislation would grant the memorial and museum $20 million in annual funding, which amounts to roughly one third of its operating budget. The federal government previously pitched in $250 million to help construct the memorial and museum. A Senate committee headed by Sen. Daniel K. Inouye from Hawaii will hold the first hearing on the proposed legislation. The bill also contains a provision that would allow the federal government to takeover the memorial and museum in the future.

Already the largest landlord in Lower Manhattan, Brookfield Office Properties will soon own even more office space in the neighborhood. According to reports, Bank of America has agreed to let Brookfield take their 49 percent stake in the 4 World Financial Center building. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bank of America would continue leasing the 750,000 square feet of office real estate in the building, space inherited when the bank bought out Merrill Lynch in September 2008.

New York Cares moving Downtown New York Cares is leaving its home on W. 29th Street and heading to Lower Manhattan. While the organization, which facilitates volunteer programs for public schools, nonprofits and various city agencies, is moving down in a geographical sense, it is moving up in terms of square feet. The organization currently occupies a little more than 11,000 square feet in their Midtown South location. Their new home, located at 65 Broadway, will give them 18,000 square feet of space and enable them to offer more training to more volunteers. The move is slated for spring 2012.

American Finance Museum hosts Wall St. Bourse The Wall Street Bourse, on display Fri., Oct. 21 and Sat., Oct. 22, will showcase global and domestic bank notes along with stock and bond certificates in a wide array of topics and subjects such as railroads, mining, autos, aviation, Internet and technology, telecommunications and navigation. There will also be autographs, coins, tokens and other ephemera tied to the history of finance. The Museum’s normal entrance fee is being waived for the show, so that the public will have complimentary access to the exhibit as well as to the museum’s gallery space. For more, information, contact 212758-8119 or e-mail vakhb3@aol.com.

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A schedule of this week’s upcoming Community Board 1 committee meetings is below. Unless otherwise noted, all committee meetings are held at the board office, located at 49-51 Chambers St., room 709 at 6 p.m. ON THURS., OCT. 20: The Quality of Life and Financial District Committees will host a joint meeting at 250 Broadway.

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ON MON., OCT. 24: The Housing Committee will meet. ON TUES., OCT. 25: The Executive Committee will meet at 5:30 at the Richard Harris Terrace (RHT) Room of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, at 199 Chambers St. The fullboard meeting will meet at 6:15 p.m. at the same location.

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POLICE BLOTTER Synagogue break-in Three suspects were arrested inside the historic Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue on Sun., Oct. 9 and charged with stealing copper memorial plates from the locked house of worship at 60 Norfolk St. Rabbi Mendel Greenbaum was checking on the building when he spotted the intruders and called police. Jose Cruz, 33, was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail; Ambioris Gonzalez, 23, was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail and Carlos Rodriguez, 39, was being held in lieu of $15,000 bail. Cruz was walking out of the building when he was arrested while the other two defendants were discovered under a table, police said. A defense lawyer said that Rodriguez was homeless and had walked in when he saw the door was open and that Gonzalez was sleeping in the building because his wife threw him out of their house in Brooklyn after an argument. The complaint filed with the Manhattan District Attorney charges the suspects with removing the copper memorial plates from the wall and stacking them, presumably ready o be taken away. The lock securing a chain on the front door of the synagogue had been cut and police said they found a bolt cutter, a crowbar and other tools in the building when the suspects were arrested. A menorah, scroll, ark, prayer book and other items used in worship were also damaged, the complaint says.

L.E.S. sexual assault

Delancey St. pulling a wheeled suitcase behind her around 7 a.m. Sun., Oct. 9 when a suspect approached her from behind and sexually assaulted her before she fought him off, police said. The suspect was described as a black man, between 20 and 22, 5’8” and a skinny build.

Bag snatch try Two suspects approached a Staten Island woman, 39, walking on Broadway at Worth St. around 3:15 p.m. Fri., Oct. 14, and one of them said, “Give me your bag,” police said. The thief began to pull the victim’s bag off her shoulder and pushed her to the ground. The accomplice pulled a box cutter and tried to cut the strap, but failed and the pair fled without taking anything. The victim sustained head neck and arm injuries.

SoHo burglary A woman, 51, left her home at 121 Wooster St. around 4:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 28 and returned at 9:30 p.m. to find her rear window open and the window bars kicked in, police said. Her jewelry box was rifled and items were stolen along with a laptop computer.

L.E.S. Lady thief

A woman in her 50s was walking on Attorney St. near

Katz’s Delicatessen on Houston at Ludlow St. and other eateries on the Lower East Side, police said. On Sept. 30, she was recorded on a surveillance tape while paying her bill and glancing back at the diners before hurrying out with a stolen bag. Described as a heavy-set black woman, between 40 and 50 years old, she is believed to have taken a bag from a patron of Clinton Baking Company earlier. She is also reported to have stolen a bag from a customer at Barramundi Bar, 67 Clinton St. Information on the suspect should be reported to Crime Stoppers 800-577-TIPS (8577).

Bergtraum student murder Three men were charged on Tues., Oct. 18 in connection with the Sept. 11 shooting death of Tayshana Murphy, a Harlem resident and senior basketball star at Murry Bergtraum High School in Lower Manhattan. Tyshawn Brockington, 21, and Robert Cartagena, 20, were indicted on charges of second degree murder, first degree burglary and criminal possession of a weapon. Terique Collins, 24, was charged with providing the murder weapon to Brockington and Cartagena. According to the indictment, Brockington and Cartagena were seen in possession of a gun near the Grant Houses and were overheard saying they were going to “smoke” someone from the Housing Authority complex. Murphy and one or two male friends fled when they saw the two suspects approaching and fled to the fourth floor of a building. She was heard to shout down a stairwell, “I’m not with them,” just before she was shot with three 9 mm bullets. Cartagena was identified in the indictment as the shooter.

Sticky dog walker

A female thief has been lifting bags from patrons at A man who falsely told a security guard at 15 Broad St. that he was a dog-walker went to the basement of the building poured glue on a table and the floor, police said. Gabriel Castillo, 23, was arrested after building security identified him as the suspect and he was charged with burglary.

Follow and slam A man employed at 200 Rector Pl. in Battery Park City told police that someone from the building followed him shouting when he left work at 9:40 a.m. Wed., Oct. 12. When the victim hailed a cab on West St. at Albany St., his adversary slammed the cab door on his foot, according to police.

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Port deal lets St. Nicholas Church rebuild BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER On Oct. 14 in the New York City office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a 10-year odyssey ended for tiny St. Nicholas Church that was destroyed on 9/11. Port Authority Executive Director Christopher Ward and Michael Jaharis, an official of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of America, signed an agreement giving the church title to land on the east end of Liberty Park, the former site of 130 Liberty St., in exchange for the church’s land at 155 Cedar St., where the Port is building a Vehicle Security Center for the World Trade Center site. Gov. Cuomo and Archbishop Demetrios witnessed the agreement. Ten minutes before the second of the Twin Towers was struck on 9/11, the church’s custodian had locked the door behind him and fled. The church, which was quartered in what had once been a mid-19th century row house at 155 Cedar St., was obliterated. Part of an airplane landing gear lay next to where it had been. The parishioners, some of them fourth and fifth generation descendants of the Greek immigrants who had founded St. Nicholas in 1916, regrouped in Brooklyn and began their struggle to get a place near the church’s former site on which to rebuild. After negotiations with the

Port Authority broke down, the church and the Archdiocese finally hired the firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to bring their case against the Port, the Lower

The lawsuit was a wakeup call. It forced people to pay attention. — John Kouloukoundis

Manhattan Development Corp., and several other defendants to the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. A suit was filed on Feb. 14, 2011 alleging “arrogance, bad faith and fraudulent conduct.” “It was with great reluctance that we employed Simpson Thacher,” said Father Mark Arey, a spokesman for the Archdiocese. “But we said, ‘OK, if this is what we have to do, this is what we have to do.’ The Port Authority had seized our land at 155 Cedar St. and had seized our land at 130 Liberty St., which is the land

we had agreed to swap it for, and we felt we had no recourse at that time.” John Kouloukoundis, President of St. Nicholas’ Parish Council, credits the lawsuit with changing the outcome of the struggle. “The federal judge was clearly alarmed at what the Port Authority had done and was requiring answers,” he said. “The lawsuit was a wake-up call. It forced people to pay attention. The Port Authority knew they had serious issues they would have to answer to. Gov. Cuomo took a personal interest in trying to find a mutually acceptable solution to getting St. Nicholas built.” The governor acted as a broker, getting the warring parties to agree to a four-month-long study led by engineering expert Peter Lehrer to determine whether structural issues could be resolved so that the church could be rebuilt at 130 Liberty St. without delaying other construction at the World Trade Center site. The answer came back, yes. At a cost of no more than $25 million, the Port Authority has agreed to build a platform and below-grade infrastructure so that the church can rebuild on top. The platform should be ready by 2013. The church that was destroyed was only 1,200 square feet. The new one will be 4,100 square feet. “We want it to be a space open to people of all faiths and

also to people who don’t believe in any particular religious faith,” said Father Arey. “If they want a space to enter that’s quiet and meditative, they will be able to do that. Our goal is to be part of the Downtown memorial space but also part of the Downtown community. The archbishop talked years ago — and I think he still feels this way — about having the church open 24/7. I think there’s a need for that.” Father Arey said that the money to rebuild the church had not yet been raised and an architect had not been selected because it was necessary first to know where the church would be built and how big it would be. He said that raising the money was “the least of our worries.” “This is a win-win for everybody,” Arey said of the agreement. “The Port Authority finally gets to take legal possession of the land they’ve had physical possession of. The church was never willing to contest the seizure of our property, because that would have meant we would have tried to put a halt to what was going on at Ground Zero — and that was never our intention.” “I’m thrilled that the church will resume its rightful place in the community,” said John Dellaportos, a parishioner and Battery Park City resident. “I’m incredibly grateful to Gov. Cuomo.”

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of Chinese Americans at an Oct. 17 press conference held at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association offices. Principals from P.S. 130, M.S. 131 and Pace High School, where Chen went to school, attended the event to show their solidarity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone found culpable for the death of Private Danny Chen must be held accountable,â&#x20AC;? said OuYang. The community representatives and politicians are requesting a meeting with U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh and Department of Defense Inspector General Gordon S. Heddell to discuss the growing trend of race-related crimes in the Army. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All these relatives, I remember at the funeral, surrounded me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Margaret, we demand answers,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Councilmember Margaret Chin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there was any wrongdoing or any mistreatment of Danny, we want to know.â&#x20AC;? Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 1,100 soldiers have committed suicide, including 301 last year alone, according to U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Danny wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to die this way,â&#x20AC;? said Velazquez. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anything, his death should not be in vain, and we could use this occasion to take any measure that will provide safety and security for our sons and daughters [in the military].â&#x20AC;? Army officials reportedly informed Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents that a group of fellow soldiers bullied him and that he was dragged out of bed and assaulted on one ocassion because he neglected to shut off a hot water heater in the soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s living quarters. Bruises covered the back of Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dead body, the officials told his parents, but it is unclear if the contusions were connected to this particular assault. Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents were surprised when they were told of the bullying. They said their son had never spoke of being racially taunted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never heard about any harrassment from anybody,â&#x20AC;? said Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Su Zhen Chen, who spoke with her son while he was deployed overseas in August. Despite the speculation, the Chens do not believe their son wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve committed suicide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he enjoyed the Army,â&#x20AC;? said Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Yan Tao Chen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ever since he was a little kid, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what he wanted to do. He wanted to join the police force after his service, so the Army was a means of getting there.â&#x20AC;? As the family honored their sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life at last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral service on Mulberry Street, dozens of Lower Manhattanites young and old who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know Chen personally congregated in front of the funeral home to pay their respects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It touched a nerve. I felt like I had to come down here,â&#x20AC;? said West Village resident Paul Cook, who waited outside the funeral home to catch a glimpse of the procession. Cook said the alleged way Chen died is troubling.â&#x20AC;&#x153;It infuriates you,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad enough to hear all the other things that happen to people over there.â&#x20AC;?

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Community members and war veterans gathered in Chinatown last Thurs., Oct. 13 to mourn the loss of Asian-American soldier and former Lower East Sider Danny Chen.

Several Vietnam and other war veterans stood in front of the funeral home to commemorate Chen, such as Len Williams, a former platoon leader in the Vietnam War. â&#x20AC;&#x153;War is stressful as isâ&#x20AC;Ś nobody wants to see somebody die as a result of hatred from somebody in their own unit,â&#x20AC;? said Williams. Williams said he never felt personally threatened by his fellow soldiers while on duty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure there were men that hated me,â&#x20AC;? said Williams, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I thought I had a good working relationship with my company.â&#x20AC;? Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family and friends, meanwhile, were grieving his loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a cool guy,â&#x20AC;? said a M.S. 131 classmate of Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who lives in his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment building at E. 4th Walk St. The teen, who requested anonymity, is also enlisted in the Army and will soon be sent overseas. As an Asian-American, the teen said he worries constantly about his own security. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always on your mind,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the minority, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to try to find your weakness. I always pray and hope for the best.â&#x20AC;? Raymond Dong, who said he was Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend, described Chen as easy-going. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew him since third grade,â&#x20AC;? said Dong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After school, we would go to the gym, eat and have fun. He liked to always make jokes.â&#x20AC;? Dong is also confident Chen didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit suicide, since he showed no signs of distress during a phone conversation he and Chen had a week prior to his death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He sounded really happy and stuff,â&#x20AC;? said Dong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He got bullied a few times [in school], but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never do anything like that.â&#x20AC;? Though too distraught to attend the Oct. 17 press conference, Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grieving parents said they feel comforted by the support of the community. When asked whether they regret their sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to join the Army, his father replied, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something he enjoyed, so I have no regrets.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no bitterness toward the Army,â&#x20AC;? said his mother, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I want to find out the facts, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never happen to someone else again.â&#x20AC;?

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Master printer Robert Warner demonstrates one of the hand-operated presses at the newly reopened Bowne & Co., Stationers at the Seaport.

Printer reopens, unafraid of the digital age BY ALINE REYNOLDS Fresh ink spilled onto paper posters and stationary cards last Friday, Oct. 14 at Bowne & Co., Stationers, the Seaport Museum’s cherished print shop that is now back in business. Master Printer Robert Warner eagerly welcomed in more than 100 visitors, who watched as he cranked out posters decorated with horses and lined with the slogan, “Bowne & Co., Stationers Back in Motion!” Warner is honored to continue the longstanding tradition of hand-operated printmaking, a form that is now going the way of the dinosaur in the face of digital technology. “It’s the way printing would have been done in the last 300 years, and it’s an important tradition to continue,” said Warner, as he attended to patron Andrea Chin, a longtime neighborhood resident who was purchasing a piece of stationary. “To see him working here is a wonderful experience. It’s nice to see handcrafted things done the old fashioned way,” said Chin. “You can see the printing quality and the designs are one-of-a-kind.” Printing at Bowne & Co. is indeed unique, according to Warner. “There are companies that’ll continue letter press,” he said, “but to have a printer in the back of a shop while the printer is talking to you is the rarest of occasions.” Last Friday Warner demonstrated to his customers how he produces the seasonal stationery on display using an Albion cast-iron press, which was introduced around 1820, and is operated by a hand lever. “My intention is to print things fresh for the shop on a daily basis,” said Warner, as he carefully rolled black ink onto a marble slab — a technique to keep the ink moist. “The idea was to print from the museum’s collection of plates and types,” explained Warner, who printed 300 greeting cards in

anticipation of the store’s grand re-opening. The entire process, including pre-printing preparations, typically takes one-to-two hours. Preparing the print material alone takes time, since there are several hundred combinations of fonts and plates to choose from. Warner purchases the paper from different paper mills around the world. “I thought to do a bit of time travel with all the things I’m printing today,” he said, having selected a wood engraving from the early 19th century, a wood type from the mid 19th century and a metal type from the early 20th century. Warner also uses treadle-operating presses, a more efficient printing method dating back to the mid-19th century that is powered by a foot pedal and was used by small printing shops for the better part of the 20th century. In a given work day, Warner produces up to 500 cards. At top speed, Warner said, the machines can churn out four prints per minute. “That was the rate of speed in the 1840s, when one person was feeding the printer, and the other one, inking,” said Warner. Falling victim to the museum’s financial difficulties, Bowne & Co. was forced to close in mid-February. The Seaport Museum’s gallery spaces, at 12 Fulton St., are set to open later this year or early next year. Warner, however, never fretted over the shop’s permanent closure. “I always had confidence it was an important collection that wouldn’t be parceled or sold off,” said Warner. Bowne & Co. was the Staples of its time when it opened back in 1775 on what is now known as Pearl Street, selling quills and pens, string, wire buttons, powder and other dry goods. Starting in the early 19th century, the business, which moved to 111 Water St., began

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Lower Manhattan is the city’s oldest—and also newest—neighborhood. It is where George Washington was inaugurated as President in 1789 and where the first Congress of the United States convened that same year. It is where the New York Stock Exchange has traded on almost every business day since 1817 and where narrow, winding, cobblestone streets laid out by the Dutch in the 1600s are the business address of some of the world’s dominant creative, philanthropic and—of course—financial institutions. And for 56,000 of us, it is home. I’ve lived south of Fulton Street for almost 30 years. This is where my husband and I bought our first apartment, where we brought our children home from the hospital, and where they went to school. We remember life here before there was a single all-night deli—back when the nearest movie theaters were in New Jersey and Battery Park City was mostly beach. We wanted to build a new kind of community, where people lived and worked. We wanted a place that was alive and active, clean and safe, local and authentic—amid 400 years of history and character—and we waited for restaurants and stores to match Lower Manhattan’s new dynamic. We loved our neighbors, pioneers all, but we longed for a neighborhood. Today we have one. The population of Lower Manhattan has boomed—from under 10,000 in the early ‘80s to 56,000 now. We’re one of the city’s fastestgrowing residential neighborhoods, with six new primary and secondary schools that have opened in the last two years alone. A recent Downtown Alliance survey found that a steady surge of newcomers is moving to Lower Manhattan for the quality of life, excellent housing stock, access to subways and other mass transit, and walkability. Thirty percent of our residents walk to work, and the average commute time for those who don’t is just 22 minutes, about half the citywide average.

As we did three decades ago, Lower Manhattan’s newer residents are putting down roots. Almost two-thirds have lived in the community for five years or more, and the overwhelming majority plan to live here for at least three more. Lower Manhattan today is home to more couples and households with children than singles and roommates. We believe that the number of households with children—already 25 percent — will only increase, because, in a recent survey, 40 percent of households without children indicated that they want to have children within the next three years. All of which is to say that Lower Manhattan is a new kind of central business district. A globally recognized business address and international tourist destination, it is also where more and more New Yorkers want to live and raise their families: a newfangled, old-fashioned neighborhood. Want to meet your neighbors? Put down real roots? Join the Downtown Alliance team and me at our Fall Community Planting Day on Saturday, October 22 from 10 AM to noon in Bowling Green Park, rain or shine. You bring family and friends, we’ll bring the plants and gardening tools, and together we will plant more than 4,000 tulips in New York City’s oldest park. Anyone who lives in, works in, or is visiting Lower Manhattan is welcome to drop by and help. This is a fun way to bring together one of the city’s newest residential communities in a park that dates back to 1733. It’s a great way to make Lower Manhattan greener and more beautiful. Fall Community Planting Day is co-sponsored by Con Edison, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York City Council Member Margaret Chin, Community Board 1, Whole Foods and Crumbs. See you there! Liz Berger is President of the Downtown Alliance.

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Port, Silverstein say W.T.C. construction is on track BY ALINE REYNOLDS Construction at the World Trade Center is forging ahead as planned. That was the message the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Silverstein Properties conveyed at the Community Board 1 W.T.C. Redevelopment Committee meeting on Monday, Oct. 17. “There was a great deal of coordination [involved] for the success of the opening of the 9/11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary,” said Quentin Brathwaite, the Port Authority’s assistant director of W.T.C. construction. “With those dates behind us, the Port Authority has continued its renewed focus to the perimeter of the site.” One W.T.C., which is slated to be topped out sometime next spring, is now 86 floors high. With close to 1,000 workers on the project, the building, Brathwaite said, has become a “city within a city.” “What’s really amazing is that the building is really commanding even more of a presence in the community,” said Brathwaite. “From almost every vantage point, you see the tower rising — not only from within Community Board 1, but as far west as New Jersey and as far east as Queens and Brooklyn.”

The Port Authority is completing foundation work in the area just north of Cedar Street for the future Vehicle Security Center, which is set to open in 2013. Installation of the steel for the V.S.C. is underway, as is the continued excavation of the 130 Liberty St. site. “The removal of the soil will lead to the construction activity where we will blast in the vicinity of the [Number One subway line] box,” said Brathwaite — an endeavor that will require a great deal of coordination with the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Meanwhile, below-grade work for the W.T.C. Transportation Hub is also underway without interruptions to the temporary PATH station, Brathwaite noted. The transit center, once completed, will be roughly the size of three football fields. The building’s interior is congruent architecturally with its glass-andsteel “wings” exterior, according to Brathwaite. “The choice of Santiago [Calatrava] as an architect for this project is so fitting,” he said, “because his building above grade really embodies the sense of freedom that’s associ-

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BY JANEL BLADOW October is a favorite time around the Seaport. Lots of spooky fun, ghoulish cravings and trickiest treats! BOATLOADS OF BLISS… Congrats to Kristen Byvoets and Michael “Mac” McIntyre, who tied the knot on Sept. 16. Seaport neighbors joined the happy Water Street couple along with their family and friends to sail from Battery Park for the ceremony and fun. They wound up at the Paris Café and partied into the night. Kristen is a rabid Ravens fan while Mac is a Patriots rooter, so this union is a real testament to true love! We all wish them a long and happy life. A DOG’S TALE… What pup isn’t up for an adventure? But the tale Spikey could tell might top “Lassie Come Home.” A couple weeks ago, long-time Financial District neighbors Danielle and Stephen Ching tied Spikey up outside (NO!) in Tribeca, while

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they picked up their son from school. When they returned, the harness was there, still tied up, but the little black-and-white pup was long gone. With the help of locals, tourists, shopkeepers and others on the street that afternoon, they patched together this story: Once out of his harness, Spikey ran his usual route down their FiDi home. Then somehow he managed to race his way north, up to the Brooklyn Bridge where he took the footpath across the famed bridge, and wound up in Brooklyn Heights where he was found. Thanks to the power of Facebook friends and the gang at Fetch Club, word was spread that Spikey was MIA. Shortly thereafter, he was reunited with his grateful and loving family. This story gets four paws up. CRAZY CRAFTY CREATURES… Calling all kids to head to the Cowgirl Seahorse, at Dover and Front Sts., for a Kid’s Party. From 4 – 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24, kids can craft Halloween projects from

scary masks to spooky pumpkins. Free popcorn and apple cider for the little ones. GET YOUR HALLOWEEN ON… It’s that time of year and the neighborhood trick and treat-sters will be making their annual rounds starting at FishBridge Park, then winding their way along Water Street down to Fulton and Beekman and back along Front St. For more than 20 years, the neighborhood has pulled out all the stops to make this its goreist fest ever. More than 100 children and their adults paraded in costumes from minifiremen to adult-sized Supermen throughout the hood, stopping at residential buildings and business establishments to pick up candy, cupcakes and a variety of other goodies. To volunteer to distribute posters, sign up treatgivers, help decorate the park Monday, Oct. 31, afternoon and/or clean it up the day after Tues., Nov. 1, contact Tami Kurtz-Juskiewicz at tamikj@gmail.com. The spook-a-licious fun begins at 6p.m.

And you won’t want to miss the howling hound-up at The Salty Paw on Halloween night… our furry four-footers will be dressed in their trickiest threads. Again this year, the gang paw-tied with the spookiest pooches in town, from 6 – 8 p.m. Bring yours to compete in the costume contest, or just come for the fun. Check their web site for details: www. thesaltypaw.com. NEIGHBORS MAKE NATIONAL NEWS… And speaking of the Paw, Amanda Byron Zink and crew were featured in the October issue of Pet Style News magazine. Their rousing article, “Small Fish in a Big Pond,” was awash with praise (their words) for the pet boutique and spa. Meanwhile, The New Amsterdam Market was grandly written up in September’s ‘Bon Appetite’ as part of a feature on a “new breed of markets where inspired chefs and food artisans are changing the way we eat out.” Our little hood rocks!

Wachner is Trinity Church’s new sound BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER A bastion of church music in Lower Manhattan, the list of Trinity Wall Street’s programming could formerly fit into one chalice: five evening concerts at Trinity Church between October and May, Sunday services and a sprinkling of midday concerts at Trinity (at Broadway and Wall Street) and its satellite, St. Paul’s Chapel at Broadway and Fulton. But since Julian Wachner, who just turned 42, arrived a year ago with the title Director of Music and the Arts, that cup runneth over. This year’s catalogue of Trinity Wall Street’s 2011-12 season is 40 pages long. Handel’s “Messiah” is a holdover from the old scheduling as are Thursday concerts at 1 p.m. that bring a variety of music and instrumentalists to Trinity Church, but much else is new. Wachner’s innovations include several multi-day festivals, Monday afternoon Bach performances in St. Paul’s by the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra and candle-lit Compline services of modern music in St. Paul’s at 8 p.m. on Sundays. “It’s very expensive for the professional choir and orchestra to put on a concert, so I restructured the budget,” Wachner explained. “I thought if we were to do a series of midday events with the Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra, we could probably do about eight of those for the cost of one evening concert and reach a wider audience and serve the purpose not only of providing beautiful music to Lower Manhattan, but also of touching people who are visiting. When I walked into St. Paul’s Chapel at one o’clock on a Monday, I saw there were already several hundred people walking around in there. So I proposed that we do Bach at One, and the powers that be said, ‘let’s give it a try.’ Within the first week, it was crazy successful. It’s a reallocation of resources.” Wachner said that Trinity’s “Messiah” was a keeper because it had always sold well. This year in December, it will be performed twice at Trinity Church and once at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center — another innovation. “The product here is so good, but I think the rest

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Julian Wachner (in back) conducting a rehearsal of the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra in St. Paul’s Chapel.

of the city doesn’t quite know what it is,” Wachner said, explaining the outing at Alice Tully. Though the schedule includes the work of many old masters such as Handel and Bach, Wachner, who is himself a composer as well as a conductor, is very interested in new music and in bringing contemporary music to the attention of a wider audience. On Friday, Oct. 14, for instance, he conducted “Songs for Eve” by Alice Parker at Trinity. Parker was an associate of Robert Shaw’s and a force in the evolution of church choral music. Her full-

length work for string quartet and vocal quartet was a touching meditation on what it means to be human, and aware. A cycle of poems by Archibald MacLeish, mostly from Eve’s point of view, provided the narrative. Parker, who is 85, was there to receive the audience’s applause. Between May 24 and June 3, 2012, Trinity will be presenting a Festival of New Music that will be performed at Trinity, St. Paul’s and at Carnegie Hall. It will include

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The world is watching

Single-minded Board

Lets Not Play Poker

One of the most common chants during last Saturday’s marches organized by Occupy Wall Street was, “The whole world is watching, the whole world is watching.” But the statement is more than just a chant. Indeed, people all over the world really are watching — on their televisions, their computers and their phones. And they are watching us: our demonstrators, our police, our neighborhood, our city and nation. We hope they continue to watch. We are proud to be the center of attention in a case like this. This country was founded as a reaction to censorship and the suppression of individuality. It eventually became a home for oppressed, poor and huddled masses from all over the world because of the freedom it offered and promised. While the O.W.S. protestors have already succeeded on one level, namely by taking a topic like the increasingly unequal of distribution of wealth and turning it into everyday, water-cooler talk, there is still a long road ahead. While we understand the rationale of a leaderless movement, in order for O.W.S. to keep marching toward their goal, responding to the local community’s concerns is a must. One need not be deemed the leader to accomplish this, but one must take responsibility for meeting with the stakeholders, elected officials and community members and then relaying their concerns to all of O.W.S. These concerns largely revolve around the notion of respect. O.W.S. proved they were earnest in their desire to keep the park clean by spending all of Thursday night and Friday morning scrubbing the park from top to bottom. But the one issue concerning sanitation that has yet to be addressed is finding space for the demonstrators to go to the restroom. We believe it is entirely appropriate for Brookfield Properties to step in, but not to clean the park. O.W.S. clearly is capable of that. Brookfield should allow three to five port-o-potties to be placed at strategic points within the square. We would bet that O.W.S., with the money they have raised over the last month, would gladly foot the bill. This weekend proved that non-violent protest does not have to turn violent. On Saturday, as the O.W.S. movement was on display in 900 different cities throughout the world, and when in some cases the protests went too far, New York City exemplified the right to peacefully assemble. Not too long ago another park captured the entire country’s attention and ignited a movement of its own and is now a part of this country’s history. Sadly, though, that park will always be remembered for the wrong reason — for evil, heinous actions committed in order to maintain the status quo. The extraordinary police brutality that transpired at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama in May of 1963 was broadcast nationwide and quickly came to symbolize a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan has the potential to be the same, and the possibility to be different: the same in that it could be seen as a public park with unbreakable ties to a movement called “Occupy Wall Street” that tied together cities and countries and continents; and different in terms of being a park where nonviolent protest did not escalate into violent behavior and possibly end up frozen in history by photographs and televised images. The whole world is watching, and all players in the O.W.S. saga need to step up their game. The demonstrators must continue to protest peacefully and their general assembly needs to redress quickly, and continually, the quality of life issues with the surrounding community. The N.Y.P.D. must show maximum restraint in their dealings with peaceful protesters. And Brookfield must continue to do the right thing.

To the editor: The Board of Directors of Southbridge Towers finally exposed itself by revealing its single-minded focus: to push forward its agenda to privatize this development that has thrived as a Mitchell-Lama co-op for 40 years. On October 6th the board passed a motion to have the shareholders vote on a resolution seeking to amend the term limit provisions of the By-Laws from two 3-year terms to three 3-year terms. Their rationale: “The board was hopeful that [the privatization plan] would be accepted in time for a final vote on reconstitution this fall. However, since we have not yet heard from the Attorney General… a vote this spring is more likely.” (S.B.T. President’s Report, October 2011.) In a personal letter (10/7/11) from the President of the board to the shareholders, the President urged us to vote “yes” for the amendment, stating: “we are finally nearing the finish line. It is urgent that we maintain continuity on the board at this time.” The President’s Report and the President’s personal letter to the shareholders name the only three officers of the board to whom this change of by-laws would apply. We may not be as close to the finish line as the board hopes. Unless and until it provides full and complete disclosure of all risks involved in privatizing and bases its financial forecasts on real life, present-day scenarios— as directed by law and by the Real Estate Finance Bureau of the Attorney General’s office—the plan will not be accepted for filing by the A.G. Thus far the Plan has been revised twice and will need at least one more revision because of the board’s continuing failure to provide the information and documentation requested by the A.G.’s office. Maintaining continuity solely to shepherd the privatization plan through to a vote by the shareholders reveals the single-minded focus of this Board of Directors; they offer no other explanation or rationale for changing the By-Laws. It will cost shareholders approximately $6,000 for printing and distributing notices and to contract Honest Ballot Association to conduct the election. The shareholders should not have to pay one cent to indulge the self serving interests of those who want to privatize S.B.T.

To the editor: Today I looked at my Southbridge Towers maintenance bill and thought to myself how low it is for my apartment in this neighborhood. Anyone living elsewhere would not believe it. Why would anyone, who has an income that is “Mitchell-Lama Acceptable”, and is in their right mind, risk losing this on the gamble of privatization, which sooner or later must fail, resulting in luxury level maintenance’s. Many don’t realize a good thing until they lose it. People in slums pay three times what I pay. Most of us did not move into Southbridge to obtain equity, which will get cooperators who want to live here for many years, nothing but huge increases in maintenance. Whatever happened to common sense, logic and being realistic? Let’s get out of our sponsor-induced stupor. Why is a Black Book, which is an acceptable reconstitution plan, nowhere in sight? Let our cooperators read the concerns of the Attorney General, which the board/sponsor does not what us to see. Information regarding progress of the Black Book should be disseminated by the board/sponsor, but has to be gotten using the Freedom of Information Law. What’s the problem? The financials in the offering plan are unacceptable vague platitudes. The truth has no agenda. The board of directors has a fiduciary responsibility to honestly look out for all the cooperators. Our board is the sponsor for privatization and says they are looking out for all, but there is an agenda, which is their obsessive desire to privatize at any price. Now they have proposed a three-term limit, for more time to move their agenda along. For forty years, we have done fine with two terms. This privatizing board has decided to spend $5,000-plus to rent voting machines for this purpose. We were not even asked if we wanted a vote. Too many will be hurt at the expense of others. Unfortunately, those who will be hurt have been convinced that they won’t be.

Roberta Singer

EVAN FORSCH

Steve Seifer

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ON THE SPOT WITH DIANA SWITAJ BY ALINE REYNOLDS Diana Switaj is a second-year student in Columbia University’s Masters in Urban Planning program and is the new Urban Fellow at Community Board 1. Switaj discusses her work for C.B.1, her career goals and offers her opinion on Occupy Wall Street and Blue Spoon’s roast beef and cheddar sandwich. What interested you in working at C.B. 1? I live not too far away in Brooklyn and know a lot of people that go to Pace University, so I’ve spent a lot of time in Lower Manhattan. It was always a neighborhood that interested me, because it is still a neighborhood that belongs to the employees rather than the residents. Even though there’s a significant a residential population, they’re not being represented: if you’re there past 7 p.m. on a weekday, for example, nothing is open. I kind of wanted to be on the side of planning that could help alleviate that, and I think the experience of finding out what very localized governments are like is incredibly important and valuable.

and media industries. The Manhattan Seniors project is kind of fluid — as it develops, I’ll be helping [the housing committee] get it off the ground and provide technical planning assistance to support the initiative. Have you done community board work previously? Yes. Last year, I worked with another community board on a ‘studio’ project. Every first-year planning student at Columbia does what they call a ‘studio’: the idea is to get hands-on planning experience and work with an actual client. Our group’s client was Community Board 11 in East Harlem. We were studying the Park Avenue corridor there, which is derelict and mostly consists of parking lots and vacant areas. The community board wanted to look at how we could change that and bring more vibrancy, retail and pedestrian traffic to the area. We made a policy recommendation that had a lot of zoning changes, transportation proposals and advice on how to implement green spaces.

you kind of have more sway. What are your thoughts on Occupy Wall Street? I really, really support the cause and I really, really support what they’re trying to do, but I think they’re going about it in a way that might be counterproductive. They’re causing a lot of problems along the way and losing the support of the local community. People have reached out and said, ‘you’re being too loud and disruptive,’ but it seems like that’s not really been taken that seriously by the protestors. It’s just not one of their primary concerns; their priorities are getting the attention of everybody on an international scale. They know they can’t make everyone happy and are ultimately driven by their purpose.

What C.B. 1 projects are you working on at the moment? There are three different projects I’m working on: the community amenities and facilities inventory, a small-business study and Manhattan Seniors. The inventory is something that’s been ongoing for the past four years with the previous fellows. It has to do with this idea that the community facilities in the area don’t reflect the needs of the residents. In combination with that, I’m also doing a small business study that has more to do with the recent media attention of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the return of global industries to Lower Manhattan and the shift from financial to creative

What are your career aspirations? Could you see yourself working full-time at a community board? I’m not really sure yet. In the future, I’d like to work at one of the various city agencies, like the Department of City Planning or Department of Transportation, rather than in local politics. The community board is just advisory. When you’re working for the city,

So, I take it that your current favorite Downtown hangout isn’t Zuccotti Park? It was, but no one can really access it at the moment! When I’m not in the office, I guess I’d say City Hall park, which is right across the street. I’ll grab lunch at Blue Spoon on Chambers Street and go and eat there. It’s a really beautiful park. What do you get at Blue Spoon Coffee Co.? I have their roast beef and cheddar sandwich. Every time I go, I get the same thing. They have good coffee there, too.

TALKING POINT For some, O.W.S. is about more than drum circles BY TIM FREEMAN Back in June, I reviewed Todd A. Harrison’s book, “The Other Side of Wall Street,” for this newspaper. I ended the review with this encapsulation about the book’s author and the future of Wall Street: “Harrison is an optimistic ray of hope in these economically depressing and uncertain times. With his professional acumen and moral compass highly tuned, Americans can sleep easier at night knowing people like him are at the center of the Wall Street machine, coaxing and guiding it back to health.” I had faith in Mr. Harrison after reading his memoir not only because of his twenty years of experience on Wall Street, but because he is a battle-scarred veteran of the trading rooms and floors. Harrison is a maven who has worked alongside such luminaries as Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, and he is a man who has had his moral rectitude molded by trials, tragedy and spiritual reevaluation. Coincidentally, there are legions of people out there who do not share my optimism. They do not have faith in people like Harrison and all the other Wall Street czars – and what is more, they blame Wall Street’s institutions for creating the current economic slump that is hampering the nation’s

productivity. These people are tired and fed up, and now they are speaking out. By now everybody is well aware that a movement of protesters calling itself Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in Lower Manhattan for the last month. The protesters are demanding corporate and political change, calling for an end to what they say is a symbiotic system of Wall Street greed influencing government policies. The protesters are made up of mostly twenty and thirty-somethings who tout signs that read, “Tax the Rich“ while chanting, “Wall Street is our street!“ Rallying against the power structure is nothing new for young adults; however the current economic crisis has placed younger people at an unfortunate disadvantage. Many of them are justifiably upset and worried. The economic downturn that began in 2008 has disproportionately impacted the lives of people who are just starting out, and many of these young people are having a harder time coping with the repetitive waves of joblessness and frozen growth that are stalling the country. A quick survey of the Occupy Wall Street protesters will turn up a desultory jeremiad of complaints, however, the basic gist of the argument coming from younger members of the movement is this: I went to college, I

worked hard, and I followed the rules so that I could be successful and happy, but instead I wound up poor and unemployed. Beyond the left wing, anti-corporate/ anti-establishment rhetoric of the protests, there is a deeper thread uniting the younger members of the Occupy Wall Street mobs. Young people look at each other today and they see rampant underemployment and, in too many cases, unemployment among their ranks. Ten years ago, the typical staring-out American household of couples between the ages of 27 and 35 owned a home, drove two vehicles, and already had a small cushion of savings and investments (keep in mind that this is a rough, unscientific sketch, however, I think most people will agree that it’s accurate). Today, there are just as many people in that age group that still live at home with their parents. They are unmarried, they drive hand-me-down cars, they earn insufficient wages working at part-time jobs, and they have no savings or investments to speak of. More than being about pushing an agenda, the O.W.S. protests are about young people coming together and addressing the persistent problems plaguing their generation. University of Wisconsin economist Tim Smeeding was quoted in a September 17 NPR article as saying, “I’m afraid we have

a lost generation out there of young people who aren’t well prepared, who can’t find work, and they’re never going to realize the American dream.” The problem Smeeding points out has far-reaching implications. Chronic underemployment and unemployment among twenty and thirty-somethings means that they lack vital purchasing power. They are not buying vehicles and homes, and they are not investing their money. Basically, they are not doing the essential things that drive the economy. Young people are rallying on Wall Street and in other cities because they want to call attention to their plight. They want the world to listen to them, and they want to be taken seriously. They feel let down – by institutions, by leaders, and by their fellow Americans. These are mostly good kids who tried to do the right thing but who were not rewarded accordingly. The younger O.W.S. protesters realize that their present dire situations pose a significant threat to their future stability and prosperity, and they realize that change has to happen now if it is going to happen at all. Change can’t wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow will be too late. The ship that carries the American Dream for these young people will have already sailed.

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principle. “As long as I don’t throw bombs, I can believe anything I want — it’s part of the First Amendment,” said Lesser. “I think it’s a terrible thing to invade that.” Lesser also sees a common denominator regarding the other protest movements and O.W.S. “The march against the Vietnam war involved many more people personally and immediately, in terms of the draft and so forth,” said Lesser. “But this seems to be a very individual, personal outpour of people with real objections and frustration at how the government is moving.” While his age prevents him from making daily visits to the encampment, Lesser checks the O.W.S. site daily to stay in the loop. “I certainly can’t sleep there,” said Lesser, “but if they have another interesting march, I’ll be there.”

NAME: GERSON LESSER AGE: 90 OCCUPATION: RETIRED GERIATRICS PHYSICIAN RESIDES: RIVERDALE, BRONX At the ripe old age of 90, World War II veteran Gerson Lesser is still very active, teaching clinical geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and participating in the O.W.S. movement, which he believes could eventually effect change by helping the public take back the economy from large corporations. “I came down [to Zuccotti Park and Times Square] because the country seems to be at an impasse, and money seems to be taking over the country rather than people,” said Lesser. “I’m not sure I know what to do, exactly — nor does anybody here — but something has to change.” The country’s economic system has considerably worsened since the 1970s, according to Lesser. “It’s pretty obvious that incomes have stabilized except for the very rich, and they may be going down in the middle class,” he said. Lesser is no stranger to activism. As a New York University undergraduate in the late 1930s, he demonstrated against the Spanish Civil War. In the 1963, Lesser assembled a Connecticut-based group to attend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech in to Washington, D.C. and journeyed back there a few years later to march around the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War. He was also a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit public health organization that in 1985 won the Nobel Peace Prize for informing the public of the dangers of the nuclear arms race and lobbying for its termination. During the McCarthy era in the early 1950s, Lesser nearly lost his lab research job at Coler-Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island when refusing to sign government-sponsored loyalty oaths proclaiming not to be a Communist. The act of defiance, he said, was a matter of

fund political campaigns. As a former Wall Street employee, Gacuca feels no personal conflict in joining the O.W.S. movement. He said he performed an “honest” job and felt immune to attacks from his fellow demonstrators. “Not everyone on Wall Street is a multimillionaire,” said Gacuca. “The industry depends just as much on the labor of everyday working folks. What we’re protesting is the system… that’s corrupting and that needs to be changed.” While Gacuca said he never personally witnessed shady dealings on Wall Street, he gained first-hand insight into that side of the business, such as unfettered bonuses for executives and the endless push for tax cuts by wealthy corporations. The corporations’ constant push for tax cuts is counterproductive, said Gacuca. Apart from tainting Wall Street’s reputation, he explained, the tax cuts squeeze middle class investors by leaving them with less disposable income. “This is an example of the industry failing hopelessly in that regard,” said Gacuca. “If I were still working on Wall Street and was in a position of making such decisions, I would have argued internally that it’s in fact against the interest of the industry.” This is in part why the public holds a more antagonistic view of Wall Street today than in the late 1990s, when Gacuca moved to America from Kenya. “Back then, people saw Wall Street as the protector of their money, I think,” he said. “It had greater trust from the public. Now, the public feels the industry has their [own] protectors among politicians.” While Gacuca realizes his current activism could jeopardize his candidacy for a future job on Wall Street, Gacuca is sticking it out because, he said, “I’m doing something that I truly believe in.”

NAME: KARANJA GACUCA OCCUPATION: FORMER WALL ST. RISK AND COMPLIANCE ANALYST AGE: 38 RESIDES: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN.

NAME: TYLER LURIE-SPICER AGE: 18 OCCUPATION: COLLEGE STUDENT RESIDES: PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN.

After working on Wall Street on and off for a decade, Gacuca was laid off from his last job on Sept. 30 and has since fully devoted his energy to the O.W.S. encampment. He volunteers on different working groups and joins the masses decrying the very street he used to work on. “I decided to join because they’re fighting for the values I believe in and agree with, including fighting for a more equitable society with a greater distribution of wealth and opportunity,” said Gacuca. Specifically, Gacuca would like to see a repeal of the George W. Bush tax cuts; an enactment of the “Buffett rule,” referencing billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s wish for upping the tax rate on millionaires; and a repeal of the January 2011 Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that allowed unlimited spending by corporations and unions to

Tyler Lurie-Spicer’s fi rst foray into activism was in the 6th grade, when his mother, Rebecca Lurie, took Tyler and a friend to Washington, D.C. to protest the Iraq war. Eight years later, Lurie-Spicer is part of one of the largest protest movements of his generation: Occupy Wall Street. Since the movement started, Lurie-Spicer has taken several days off from school to return home and volunteer in O.W.S.’s various working groups, hoping to spur change in government, the work force and society. Lurie-Spicer joined the movement because he sees inherent flaws in the country’s democratic and capitalistic systems. “The government is not run by the people anymore. It’s run by money,” he said. “Rich people have monopolized the power, and the government is supporting the powers that be, so it isn’t a fair marketplace.”

Conveniently, O.W.S. is fitting neatly into Lurie-Spicer’s school curriculum. He is studying the encampment for his political theory and economics classes and is monitoring the demonstrations for a course on student activism. He also has plans to recommend a new course to his teachers that would focus exclusively on O.W.S. “If we can get enough teachers to create a course around O.W.S., then we can use funding for the classes to get an apartment and actually come down for next semester… sort of like a study-abroad program,” said Lurie-Spicer. In the last week, the student has fully immersed himself in the movement, assisting in the clean-up effort at Zuccotti Park. Partaking in the clean-up was empowering to Lurie-Spicer. When Brookfield Properties, the owner of the park, early last Friday morning postponed a plan to clear the space so it could be cleaned, Lurie-Spicer said it signaled, “that [the protestors] have the power to control [Brookfield’s] decisions, no matter how much funding they have.” While he hasn’t yet decided on a career, Lurie-Spicer is considering law, particularly after observing the National Lawyers Guild’s role in protecting the rights of the O.W.S. demonstrators. He has worked summer shifts at the law firm, Virginia and Ambinder, whose offices face Zuccotti Park, and has also worked at Effective Alternative Reconciliation Services, a Bronx-based youth services organization. Lurie-Spicer is most inspired by his fellow occupiers. He compared O.W.S.’s General Assembly meetings to the democratic nature of Twitter and Facebook; just as anybody can call a “mic check,” any Facebook user can post a status update. “You sit in the General Assembly, and you see what consensus-building really looks like,” said Lurie-Spicer. “As a political theory student, it’s allowing me to envision a new way that the government and the world can work.”

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Community, O.W.S. attempt to coexist Continued from page 1 Another concern has been sanitation in and around the park. Building residents and business owners have complained about public urination among other nuisances. Adrian, who refused to give his last name, is a maintenance worker for nearby Capital Properties. He said he has always hosed Thames and Cedar Streets between Broadway and Trinity, and along Trinity up to the churchyard. Since the occupation, he said, those streets are dirtier and take longer to clean. “It is totally unacceptable,” Chin said, “that protesters have so far relied on facilities at local businesses, but primarily alleyways and streets. While I appreciate their plan to physically wash problem areas — like Liberty Street — this is not a long term solution.” Residents at 114 Liberty St. are among those in the community who are experiencing quality of life problems as a result of the occupation. Building resident Howard, who also refused to provide his last name, said, “These shouldn’t be negotiations. We have rights.” A previous regular park user, Howard said, “I want to be able to sit and play chess with my 13 year-old son in the park.” Chin said, “I agree with residents that, in essence, their right to use the park has

been taken away by the protesters. While pedestrians still have access to the park, I understand their reasons for not wanting to use it.” “Residents and local businesses can’t be asked to live this way, and all of the stakeholders must quickly find a solution that meets the needs of the community,” said Squadron. “While some O.W.S. representatives have been working with us in good faith to respond to concerns, at this point they cannot ensure compliance with the good neighbor policy.” A member of the O.W.S. media relations group, Bill Dobbs said, “Dialogue has been open and ongoing between O.W.S. and community members. That represents some progress.” Han Shan, a member of the O.W.S. community affairs group, said they established an email address and phone numbers that residents and local business owners can use to make complaints directly to O.W.S. If they are “legitimate,” said Shan, “they will be discussed by the group.” He said the contact information is available at the information tables in the park. Chin said, “I believe that both the protesters and Community Board 1 have negotiated their agreement in good faith. However, we just passed 30 days with little progress to show. Community board members have worked tirelessly to make an agreement

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Members of O.W.S. spent last Thursday scrubbing Zuccotti Park after Brookfield Properties told the demonstrators to clear the park so it could be cleaned on Friday.

stick. O.W.S. maintains they are working on a solution but they are running out of time. Their promises are falling short.” A public joint meeting of the C.B. 1 Quality of Life and Financial District Committees will be held on Thursday, Oct.

20, at 6 p.m., at 250 Broadway. C.B. 1 Vice-Chair Catherine McVayHughes said, “It will be an opportunity for people to talk about the impact [of O.W.S.] on the 9/11 community which includes residents, small business owners, and others.”

Zuccotti erupts after Brookfield postpones cleaning BY JOHN BAYLES A rumor started spreading like wildfire through the estimated 4,000 people standing in Zuccotti Park around 6:25 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14. But then one smartphone after another, confirmed the fact, via outlets such as twitter, facebook and CNN that there would be no cleaning, no “showdown,” no veiled attempt to evict the Occupy Wall Street protestors from the park at the anticipated “doomsday” hour of 7 a.m. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway released the following statement at 6:18 a.m. Friday morning. “Late last night, we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park — Brookfield Properties — that they are postponing their scheduled cleaning of the park, and for the time being withdrawing their request from earlier in the week for police assistance during their cleaning operation.” said Holloway. “Our position has been consistent throughout: the city’s role is to protect public health and safety, to enforce the law, and guarantee the rights of all New Yorkers,” the statement continued. “Brookfield believes they can work out an arrangement with the protesters that will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use; and that the situation is respectful of residents and businesses downtown, and we will continue to moni-

tor the situation.” It didn’t take long before the tone within the park became a jovial one, complete with celebratory chants and music. But the word “postponing” did cause some to scratch their heads. Some thought the “postponing” was another possible ploy and are still bracing for a possible confrontation with the city and Brookfield. Rob Miller, 38, who traveled from Los Angeles to Lower Manhattan four days earlier, said the announcement had the potential to “embolden” the movement and its members. But he knew better than to hang a “mission accomplished” from the trees. “If [Brookfield and the city] are trying a stalling tactic, they’ll come to find out it’s still not going to work,” said Miller. James Taylor, a member of the SEIU [Service Employees International Union] said the move was both a “stalling tactic and a political tactic.” He however did note that it was also the result of some people finally seeing the “humanity and civility” involved in the movement. “It’s not just a bunch of college kids or drop-outs or drug addicts, or whatever some people are making this out to be,” said Taylor. Asked if he would be leaving due to the announcement, Taylor smiled and said, “Oh no. We’ll be here all day long.”

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This Occupy Wall Street supporter happily altered his sign early Friday morning after hearing the news that the anticipated cleaning of Zuccotti Park had been postponed.

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Occupy Wall Street marches into the spotlight On Saturday, Oct. 15, the demonstrators that have been occupying Zuccotti Park for the last month took their message to the one place that promised maximum attention: Times Square. The day had been orchestrated as a world-

wide call to action. Demonstrations, under the O.W.S. moniker, were held in over 900 cities all over the globe. In Manhattan more than 6,000 supporters marched from Lower Manhattan to Washington Square and, at 5 p.m., descended upon Times Square.

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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER GO FISH: The white caps on the Hudson River were gleaming on the morning of Oct. 15 as Bill Fink, 85, helped youngsters reel in fish from the river. More than 20 years ago, Fink founded the Go Fish program for the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy to teach youngsters about catch-and-release fishing and about how to understand and care for New York City’s Hudson River eco-system. Under the aegis of the B.P.C. Parks Conservancy, Fink supervises public “Go Fish” programs at intervals between spring and fall and also serves as coordinator for the Conservancy’s marine education program that brings around 1,000 school kids a year from all five boroughs to B.P.C. to learn about Hudson River fish. Fink said that the southern end of Wagner Park, where he holds the Go Fish clinics, is a particularly good place to fish, because the Hudson River and the East

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River meet nearby and the Atlantic Ocean isn’t far away. Fish come to the seawall, he said, looking for food such as little fish, worms, and tiny mussels and clams that live in clumps of vegetation. On the “Go Fish” morning, Fink’s acolytes caught more than 35 fish — oyster toad fish, striped bass, sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, cunners, sculpin and white perch. Fink and his colleagues in the marine education program — like him, master fishermen — placed the fish in tanks for observation before returning them to the river. WEST THAMES PARK LAWN: After months of negotiations between the Battery Park City Authority, the Hudson River Park Trust and the New York State Department of Transportation over who should pay to resod the West Thames Park lawn and who should police and maintain it, the lawn already is looking mangy. “Kids come there from high schools on

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Bill Fink helps six-year-old Christian Holden pull a cunner from the Hudson River during last Saturday’s Go Fish event.

the other side of the West Side highway and play pick-up sports after school,” said Mark Costello, a Community Board 1 member who is also on the board of the Downtown Little League. “There’s no rule against it. The

problem is that that’s not what that lawn is built for. Last year, we also had adults coming over from Wall Street after work, and they would play and were very aggressive. I think the emphasis [for that lawn] should be on passive use and family play.” The guidelines for the park say, “No cleats, no using more than half the field per group and no aggressive play that may result in harm,” said Anne Fenton, a B.P.C.A. spokesperson. But, she added, “There’s only so much you can control in nature.” The B.P.C. Conservancy has been entrusted with caring for the lawn, and as of a few weeks ago, the H.R.P.T. and Battery Park City Parks Enforcement Patrols (P.E.P.) assumed joint jurisdiction for policing it. MOUNTAIN STAGE NEWSONG CONTEST FINALS: The 10th annual Mountain Stage NewSong Contest for singer/songwriters takes place at the Winter Garden on Thursday, Oct. 20. The semifinalists take the stage from noon to 2 p.m. The award round is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with 12 finalists performing their original material. The winner gets a chance to perform on NPR’s Mountain Stage and record an album with L.A.-based songwriter, producer and hit-maker Mikal Blue. Both events are free. Last year’s winner, Amber Rubarth, just released a new album and has been performing from New York to L.A.

Amber Rubarth, winner of last year’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, playing at the World Financial Center Winter Garden.

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Port, Silverstein give updates Continued from page 8 ated with the doves and wings in flight.” The transition from one subway platform to the next will be seamless, Brathwaite assured. “ With respect to Route 9a, the Port Authority plans to make an “appropriate detour” for the bicycle route that once aligned with the west side of the highway. “As we move closer to the end of the year,” said Brathwaite, “the Port will complete its construction of an underpass — which will be the east-west connector — then turn over ownership of the bike path and the remaining construction to Brookfield [Office] Properties.”

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ries high, and its below-grade mechanical system is 90 percent complete. The building will be finished in late 2013. Construction of Two W.T.C., meanwhile, is currently above grade and continuing on schedule, according to Williams. Phase one of the project, he said, is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2012. “Coordination is continuing every day in terms of structural and mechanical coordination [with the Transportation Hub], and in terms of making sure all the pieces of the puzzle fit,” said Williams. Tower Three is progressing equally well, Williams said, and is being built differently from Towers Two and Four. The building’s concrete core is being built out prior to the floors and steel framing. The tower’s concrete is now above grade, said Williams, and the second floor will be finished by the end of October. Tower Seven, meanwhile, which was completed in 2006, is now fully occupied by tenants, according to Williams, since the recent lease-signing by investment firm MSCI for the building’s 48th floor. “We’re very proud of that building — not only as a company, but as an anchor part of the W.T.C. site,” said Williams. “It shows that companies have come back down and want to have a place here in Lower Manhattan.”

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Trinity Church’s new sound symposia and two operas. Some events will be ticketed and some, free. Another innovation this year, said Wachner, is that on Nov. 21 and 22, “We are presenting Tenet, which is one of New York’s leading early music groups.” This will be the first time that Trinity has presented the work of another arts organization. Over the Christmas/New Year holiday, Wachner plans a Twelfth Night festival of early music that will include the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir performing Bach’s massive “Christmas Oratorio” also with performances by other music groups interspersed into the ambitious schedule. What might seem like a full-time job for someone less energetic actually takes only part of Wachner’s time. He just signed a five-year contract with the Washington Chorus and has a major piece called “Come, My Dark-Eyed One” that will be performed at the Kennedy Center in November. “It’s a secular piece for big chorus and big orchestra and soprano and bass soloists,” he said. “My music is being performed all over now, which is great.” Wachner lives in an apartment near St. Paul’s Chapel, chosen in part because

it enables him to get to his New York conducting appointments easily and then get to Penn Station, where he catches the train to Washington. He was born in California to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, (his mother, a concert pianist, still lives there), grew up in New York City, where he sang with the choir of St. Thomas Church and became an Episcopalian, and went to college at Boston University, where, at the age of 20, he became director of the music program at the Methodist chapel. For 10 years, he taught at McGill University in Montreal. A tenured professor, he is still technically on the faculty there — on an unpaid leave of absence. He says that he is able to juggle his complicated life because he has “a very good support staff.” At the moment, he just has one apartment — the one in Manhattan — though he contemplates getting another one in Washington. “I feel like I’ve come home here,” he said. “Most of my good friends are still in Montreal, but I also have a lot of good friends in Boston. Facebook is an amazing thing because you can maintain these virtual relationships with people. So much of my life has been spent on the road that just being able to be settled in one place feels kind of wonderful.”

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 10am Practicing the Presence of God: Through the Book of Common Prayer Explore how to feel God’s love in a complex world. This week: The Rev. Patrick Malloy, General Seminary. 74 Trinity Pl, 2nd Fl, Parish Hall MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1pm Bach at One The Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra present a weekly service of J.S. Bach’s music with poetry. St. Paul’s Chapel MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6-7pm Sing! Songs in a Sacred Space Sing fun and easy songs with others. All ages welcome and no singing experience required. This month’s theme: Mystery Night Songs. St. Paul’s Chapel TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 6pm O God My Heart is Ready: To Surrender Explore aspects of being ready to serve God and one another. This week: Sarah Sayeed, Interfaith Center of New York 74 Trinity Pl, 2nd Fl, Parlor

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craft. He is confident that the antiquated industry will continue to survive in the digital age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I do is beautiful and custom-made. What they do is mass-produced,â&#x20AC;? said Warner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christian Dior, then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Target. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calvin Klein, then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s K-Mart.â&#x20AC;?

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Fulton Youth of the Future, Friends of the High Line and NYC Council Speaker Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office have joined (dark?) forces to transform the High Line into a pumpkin patch. Purchase pumpkins to take home, or decorate them on the spot. Sat., Oct. 22, 12-4pm and Sun., Oct. 30, 12-4pm. On the High Line, in the Chelsea Market Passage (near W. 15th St.). For more fun atop the rails (or at least their skeletons), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Halloween Hi-Jinks on the High Lineâ&#x20AC;? happens on Sun., Oct. 30, from 12-3pm. Families are invited to dress in costume and join Friends of the High line for an afternoon of tricks and treats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the first-ever Halloween parade on the High Line. The ghoulish procession begins promptly at noon (at the Seating Steps, on at West 22nd St.). Puppet Master Ralph Lee will lead, as the parade travels south toward The Porch (the High Lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new open-air cafĂŠ, at West 15th St.). Following the parade, stay at The Porch to paint faces, dance

The most terrifying experience youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have at Books of Wonder this Halloween season is being denied a frosted treat from ground floor neighbor Cupcake CafĂŠâ&#x20AC;Śor is it? A moonlit graveyard full of authors will be reading from some creepy books that may already be giving someone you care about bad dreams. On Sat., Oct. 22, 12-2pm (for ages 11-14), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fantastic Fictionâ&#x20AC;? showcases seven creators of fiction whose teenage protagonists find themselves in extreme situations. The featured authors include Sarah Beth Durst â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose new book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drink, Slay, Loveâ&#x20AC;? tells the story of a teen vampire stabbed by a unicorn horn. Jon Skovron shares â&#x20AC;&#x153;Misfitâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the tale of 16-year-old half-demon Catholic school student Jael Thompson; and Gabrielle Zevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;All These Things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Doneâ&#x20AC;? takes readers on a trip to New York in the year 2083. Sun., Oct. 23, from 12-1pm (for ages 3-8), cast members of the Broadway hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;The

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HALLOWEEN PARADE AND EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE SCHOLASTIC STORE On Sat., Oct 29 at 3pm (for all ages), Clifford the Big Red Dog leads the annual Halloween Parade. Listen to scary (but not too spooky) tales and dance the day away to bewitching music. Costumes are encouragedâ&#x20AC;Śtreats are guaranteed. Then, on Sun., Oct. 30 from 5-7pm, the Halloween Extravaganza features storytelling, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Cat Scavenger Hunt,â&#x20AC;? pumpkin bowling, eyeball relays and cupcake decorating â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plus pizza, punch, snacks and goodies galore. The $20 per person ticket gets you a $5 in-store coupon. To RSVP, call 212-343-6166 or email thescholasticstore@scholastic.com. At 557 Broadway (btw. Prince and Spring Sts. Stroller Entrance: 130 Mercer St.).

Regular store hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-7pm and Sun., 11am-6pm. For info, call 212-3436166 or visit scholastic.com/sohostore.

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DOWNTOWNEXPRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Yiddish Theater will outlive us all As lecture revisits past, Folksbiene secures the present TALKS THE HEBREW ACTORS’ UNION AND SECOND AVENUE: CARETAKERS OF YIDDISH THEATER A lecture by David Freeland Thursday, October 27, 6:30-8pm At The Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division Streets) Free (reservations required) RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or 212-475-9585, ext 350

BY JERRRY TALLMER One day a thousand years ago (well, sixty years ago), my father figure, the great Charles Abrams, said: “Come with me. We’ll go to the East Side. I’ll show you where all the action was.” By East Side, Abrams — who lived with his wife and two daughters in a fine old brownstone on West 10th Street — meant what is now called the East Village. In particular, he meant the stretch of Second Avenue from 14th Street down to below Canal Street that had in the 1920s and ‘30s been the stronghold of New York’s Yiddishlanguage theater. It was a topic about which I knew nothing. But civil libertarian and urban housing warrior Abrams (1902-1970) — a man who might, standing at his fireplace, chortle Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Tit Willow” in Yiddish — had grown up with the Yiddish theater and its environs. “This is where you’d go at night after the show,” he said as we downed borscht and baked goods at Rattner’s (where the waiters were famous for abusing their customers) or the Lafayette with its marble-tiled floors, or, above all, at the Cafe Royal (Second Avenue and 12th Street), where in the old days you might expect to catch Fyvush Finkle or Menasha Skulnik or Molly Picon or Maurice Schwartz supping and schmoosing after a show. All of these people and many others would eventually make the leap to stardom on Broadway thanks to reviewers who’d ventured Downtown, just as would the critics who only a few years later would come down to the Village and discover Off-Broadway. “Watts Junior [the Post’s Richard Watts, Jr.] made me come Uptown,” Menasha Skulnik said to this journalist during his (Skulnik’s) 1965 stardom in “The Zulu and the Zayda,”

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Just walk on by: Pedestrians stroll, largely oblivious to Abe Lebewohl’s Yiddish Walk of Fame (Second Ave. and 10th St.).

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Faded, but not forgotten: Abraham Goldfaden’s star still shines.

four years after he’d arrived on Broadway in his late ‘60s in “The Fifth Season” (a comedy about the Garment District). It was at 189 Second Avenue, directly across from the Cafe Royal, that Maurice

Schwartz had planted his Yiddish Art Theatre — where he duked it out with his great rival twenty blocks south, Boris Thomashefsky, as Shylock and “Der Yiddisher Lear” and a whole array of other Yiddish-ized classics

from Shakespeare to Shaw to Wilde and beyond. I once came across a photograph of Maurice Schwartz. It was the handsomest male face I had ever seen, and for some years it was fastened to one of my walls next to Jeanne Moreau, Billie Holiday, Picasso and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But by then, the Cafe Royal was long gone (as was the Yiddish Art Theatre itself). In 1988 producer Joseph Papp, who loved, spoke and could charmingly sing in Yiddish, brought forth a show called “Café Crown” — a sort of memorial to that whole past. The Yiddish Art Theater premises at 189 Second Avenue would house through the years such worthy works as Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” and less worthy ones like Ken Tynan’s “Oh! Calcutta!” Today it is the locale of a multiplex movie house. When in the early 1960s the New York Post, not knowing what else to do with me, sent me — whose knowledge of Yiddish was limited to “schlep” and “schlemiel” and “mespuche” — to review Yiddish theater, that whole scene was already dying or dead. Or so I thought, so everyone thought. What shows still existed were limited to kitchen sink dramas or sweet sad little musicals, with the handful of elderly onlookers blurting out the Yiddish equivalents of “Watch out!” or “Oh no!” as each crooked business proposition or unwed pregnancy loomed on the horizon. But Yiddish theater in New York City was not dead. It has been carried on in recent years by the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, on West 29th Street (folksbiene.org) — under the direction of Zalmen Mlotek, a music man and conductor who learned his craft from none other than Leonard Bernstein. “We are the legacy of that whole [Yiddish theater] culture,” says Bronx-born Zalmen Mlotek. “The last and longest-running professional Yiddish theater company in this country. We’re carrying the torch.” “Folksbiene means ‘people’s theater,’” Mlotek points out. “That whole culture came into being as counterpoise to the shund” — the junk culture, the trash of the streets, that confronted the waves of immigrants flowing in past the lady with the uplifted torch. At 12 Eldridge Street, on the Lower East Side, there is a museum — The Museum at Eldridge Street, no less — where once there stood a synagogue that first opened its doors 125 years ago. There, on Thursday, October 27, from 6:30 to 8pm, researcher David Freeland will offer “a virtual tour” — i.e., a talk (admission free) on the territory and goings on from the Cafe Royal. on 12th Street (the “Sardi’s of Second Avenue”), down to the red brick structure on East 7th Street that was once the headquarters of

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Yiddish Theater lives Continued from page 22 the formidable, all-powerful Hebrew Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Union (HAU). Those 125 years at 12 Eldridge Street are also being celebrated in a whole series of events staring Sunday, November 13, with a cornerstone laying at 1pm followed by a social from 2-4pm. Midway between the HAU and the Cafe Royal is the corner of Second Avenue and 10th Street. It is there that for years, the famed Second Avenue Deli nourished a neighborhood (and everyone else) until its founder and owner, Abe Lebewohl, was shot dead as he was carrying the weekly payroll from the bank on March 4, 1996. He left behind him a lot of broken hearts and, in the sidewalk in front of his joint, some 50 copper plaques â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each bearing the name of some immortal of the New York Yiddish theater of the era youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading about here. Those well-worn plaques are pretty hard to read now, and what was once the Second Avenue Deli is now, ironically enough, a Chase bank. But you can still make out some of those names on Abe Lebewohlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yiddish Walk of Fame. Abraham Goldfaden! Ida Kaminska! Lillian Lux! Pesach Burstyn! Mike Burstyn! Paul Muni! Molly Picon! Joseph Buloff!

Fyvush Finkel, who, snooted by the HAU in his youth, had to go to Pittsburgh to win his union card. Dear old, wonderful old â&#x20AC;&#x153;Picket Fencesâ&#x20AC;? Fyvush, still alive and working to this day. Boris Thomashefsky! Maurice Schwartz! Jacob Adler!!! Oh my God, Jacob Adler, monarch of the whole mespuche â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who defiantly took his Yiddish-speaking Shylock to Broadway â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was brought there by Arthur Hopkins (while everyone else in the company spoke good high-flown Shakespearean English). Jacob Adler, whose son Luther Adler I saw on stage with my own eyes in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Boyâ&#x20AC;? (by Clifford Odets). Jacob Adler, whose daughter Stella Adler reshaped the whole future of American acting beginning with Marlon Brando. Luther and Stella Adler, brother and sister, who appeared together in the 1935 Group Theater premiere of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Awake and Sing.â&#x20AC;? Also by Odets, this theatrical event that changed everything is, when you look at it closely â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the daughter getting knocked up, the grandfather falling off the roof â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just a kitchen sink drama par excellence (with Marx and Stanislavski thrown in). Charlie Abrams, I want you to know that the Yiddish theater will outlive all of us. Meet you at the Royal after the show.

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Horrifying Halloween events with heart conditions.” Still reading? Then you’ve probably got the intestinal fortitude to witness the strange tale of Emily and her little brother Tim — whose trip to the circus is cut short by a costumed psychopath. When Emily wakes to find herself imprisoned in an abandoned facility, she discovers a group of strangers who are being used as test subjects in a twisted experiment. To escape, and find her missing brother, Emily must navigate the underground prison while confronting a shocking revelation about her dark past. Fri., Oct. 21-Mon., Oct. 31, at 7:30pm; Sat., Oct. 22, Fri., Oct. 28 and Sat., Oct. 29 at 7:30pm and 10pm. At The Zoo Theater at Triskelion Arts (118 North 11th St., 3rd Floor, Brooklyn; btw. Berry St. and Wythe Ave.). For $16 tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com (use promo code DARK9286) or call 800-838-3006. Visit jaggednightheatre.com

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DARK LIGHT Jagged Night Theatre’s horror play comes with an upfront warning that will either scare you away or draw you in: “Please note that this show contains explicit language, stage blood, staged violence, and gruesome or scary images. Not recommended for children or people

DRAGONS OF ZYNTH Move over, Kiss and Gwar — there’s a new band poised to perform a Halloween gig in full costume. Known for their discordant guitar tones, elastic vocals and fractured rhythms, Dragons of Zynth counts former costumed freakazoid David Bowie among their fans — as well as TV on the Radio’s David Sitek (who produced their debut album, “Coronation Thieves”). The Dragons are: twin brothers Aku (vocals, keyboards) and Akwetey (vocals, guitar) as well as J. Bizza (drums) and FonLin (bass). This gig at 92YTribeca’s mainstage venue will feature new songs from their forthcoming sophomore album. Sat., Oct. 29. Doors open at 8pm, show starts at 9pm show. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of. At 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.). For info, visit 92YTribeca. org or call 212-601-1000.

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STEAMPUNK HAUNTED HOUSE: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Zombies, chainsaw-wielding maniacs and bloodsucking children of the night have nothing on the lasting trauma to be had from a trip in Wonderland. For its third annual production, Steampunk Haunted House mines the psychodrama of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice stories. Audience members are admitted in small groups, suddenly separated, and thrust into a beautiful and terrifying dreamscape of elegance and clockwork horrors. The experience sprawls throughout the twisting hallways, looming balconies and labyrinthine cellars of Abrons Arts Center’s century-old Playhouse.

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WTCProgress world trade center news and updates

Continued from page 24 From Oct. 22-31. Tickets are sold in 15-minute intervals, and the experience lasts roughly 20 minutes. Arrive 30 minutes before the time slot you purchase. Advance purchase is recommended. All walk-up sales are first-come, first served. Online sales end two hours before the first haunted house tour of the evening. Student tickets will only be sold at the door as walk-up sales. No children under 8 admitted. Times and prices vary according to date. Special Tours on Oct. 26 (8:15-8:45pm), with Benefit Halloween Party ($50). For reservations and ticketing info, visit steampunkhauntedhouse.com. At Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St., at Pitt St.).

One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. Steel for the building has risen to the 82nd ﬂoor.

he Port Authority of NY and NJ is coordinating the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and is building the tallest of the towers, One World Trade Center. Designed by the architect David Childs, 1 WTC will feature 3.5 million square feet, comprised of offices, an observation deck, a worldclass event space, parking as well as a telecommunications mast. When completed, 1 WTC will contain 104 floors and reach 1,776 feet in height. This iconic building is already changing the New York City skyline. With steel erection climbing to the 82th floor and aluminum and glass curtain wall panel installation progressing through the 60th floor, the rising skyscraper is visible from all over New York City and New Jersey. The concrete floor slab has been poured to the 78th floor. The building’s amenities, coupled with below grade access to the PATH and New York City Transit subways, will continue to attract world-class tenants, such as anchor tenant and publishing giant Condé Nast, who signed a lease for the 21st through 40th floors in May 2011, and Vantone Industrial Co., Ltd., who signed a lease for the China Center to occupy the 64th through 69th floors in March 2009. For more information about the redevelopment of The World Trade Center visit the Port Authority’s Web site at WTCProgress.com. 쏆 www.WTCProgress.com paid advertisement

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82nd ﬂoor, 1,021’

64th - 69th ﬂoor, Vantone/China Center

GUTTERDRUNK: THE POE REVISIONS The Hyper Aware Theater Company’s new work takes you deep into the dark, hallucinatory mind of horror genre giant Edgar Allen Poe. Hopefully, you’ll find a way back into the land of sanity (unlike that unlucky fellow who crossed paths with the author’s infamous raven). “GUTTERDRUNK: The Poe Revisions” unites seven international playwrights whose original works reimagine some of Poe’s most (in)famous stories and poems — including “The Tell Tale Heart” and “Annabel Lee.” Adding to the jeepers creepers factor: “GUTTERDRUNK” will be presented (rain or shine) on the grounds, and in the basement, of the historic John Street Church. Audience members will illuminate the action with flashlights — revealing characters who’ve been buried alive, bricked behind walls, smothered and stabbed — until only a rattled and wasted Poe remains. Thurs., Oct. 20 through Sat., Oct. 22 at 8pm; Thurs., Sat. and Sun. (Oct. 27, 29, 30) at 8pm. At John Street Church (44 John St., at Nassau St.). For tickets ($18), call 800-838-3006 or visit brownpapertickets.com. Also visit hyperawaretheater. blogspot.com.

Photo Credit: Chad Heird

Seasonal Carrolls: Steampunk Haunted House’s Red Queen rules.

Me”). Hosted by Schaffer the Darklord, with performances by Amelia Bareparts, Apathy Angel, Franny Fluffer, Gemini Rising, Nasty Canasta, Tansy Tan Dora and Victoria Privates; go-go by Satanica. Specialty cocktails will be served all night. You’ll need them. Tues., Oct. 25, 9:30pm, at The Parkside Lounge (317 E. Houston St., at Attorney). Tickets are $10 in advance (brownpaperticket.com) and $15 at the door. 21+, 2-drink minimum. Visit parksidelounge. net and frannyfluffer.com.

THE PINK ROOM: FIRE WALK WITH ME

21st - 40th ﬂoor, Condé Nast

Street Level

Are you old enough to remember how young you were when “Twin Peaks” was torturing you with the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer? The rather horrifying thought that it’s been 21 years since VCRs were all aflutter in an attempt to ferret out the meaning of dancing midgets and buried lockets is what makes the return of burlesque performer Franny Fluffer’s monthly David Lynch tribute (“The Pink Room”) as sweet as a slice of cherry pie and a cup of damn good coffee. “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Burlesque.” You’ll think you’ve time traveled back to 1990, when you witness some of the Pink Room regulars dolled up as sexy sirens from the hit TV show — displaying the dark and adult nature of the R-rated prequel to the show (“Fire Walk With

Photo by Franny Fluffer

L to R: Gemini Rising (as Audrey Horne), Amelia Bareparts (as The Log Lady), Franny Fluffer (as Laura Palmer) and Tansy Tan Dora (as Donna Hayward).

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