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COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011

The 20 Greatest Downtown Movies

Your resource for life in Downtown New York

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NYU’s Office of Government and Community Affairs is here for you!

NYU’s Office of Government and Community Affairs 25 West Fourth Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10012-1119 community.affairs@nyu.edu 212.998.2400

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

3 If you walk around our office you will find that most of the editors, reporters, and sales reps keep a copy of The Downtown Express Community Handbook within grabbing distance. They find it to be a vital resource guide that they use frequently.

But of course we do not publish the handbook for ourselves. It is our hope that you, as a member of the greater Downtown community, will also see it as an invaluable resource. It is full of essential information that can enable residents to take control of their lives, whether it is finding the address of a public official, identifying an organization that needs your help, or finding an organization that can help you.

The handbook also includes advertisements for our local stores and businesses, who help to make our neighborhoods viable and livable.

They will much appreciate any business you can direct their way.

In this year’s handbook, we feature Downtown New York’s top 20 movies, by Professor Stephen Wolf*.

Surely no city in the world has served as a setting for more movies than has New York , this entry-way, this battleground between human forces, this city of dreams. Except for having enough room, downtown Manhattan has an excess of nearly everything, not the least of which are great movies. The earliest is this collection is a silent film released in 1931; the most recent, an Academy Award winning documentary. There’s a film about a poet, a rock star, an aerialist extraordinaire, firefighters, high-rollers, down-and-outers, dreamers, voyeurs, lovers, and a ghost. As a young Harvey Keitel said in Mean Streets after his buddy ripped off two kids from the suburbs, “Let’s go to the movies.”

This handbook is for you, our readers, and we hope it will be a useful resource and problem solver for you. If for some reason we have neglected to list your organization, we’re happy to add it to our next edition.

CONTENTS AIDS Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Assistance Resources . . . . . . . . . 6 Business Associations . . . . . . . . 6 Colleges & Universities . . . . . . 13 Courts & Legal Services . . . . . . 14 Cultural Organizations . . . . . . 14 Day Care & Nursery Schools . . 18 Greenmarket Farmers Markets . 23 Health Services . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Legal & Financial Institutions . . . 26 Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Museums & Attractions . . . . . . 28 Parks and Open Spaces . . . . . 31 Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Political Organizations . . . . . . 33

John W. Sutter Publisher

Post Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

* Stephen Wolf moved from the Midwest to New York’s Lower East Side in 1977 after having repeatedly watched perhaps too many Robert De Niro movies. A feature writer for the Villager, Stephen is also the editor of I Speak of the City: Poems of New York (Columbia University Press), the most extensive poetry anthology ever assembled about New York City.

As a service to Downtown Manhattan, The Villager Community Handbook is published by Community Media, LLC, publisher of Downtown Express, The Villager, Gay City News, and Chelsea Now.

E ditor & P ublisher : John W. Sutter P roduction : Mark Hasselberger, Jamie Paakkonen A dvertising : Francesco Regini, Colin Gregory, Allison Greaker, Scott E. Levine, Michael Slagle, Jason Sherwood, Julio Tumbaco, Julius Harrison F or listings and reservations for ad space

for our

2012

edition , please call

212-229-1890 x 2496 T he V illager , S t ., F irst F loor , NYC 10013

or write to the publisher at

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www . downtownexpress . com • www . thevillager . com • www . gaycitynews . com • www . chelseanow . com

New York State . . . . . . . . . . . 35 New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 City Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Recreational . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Religious Institutions . . . . . . . . . 37 School Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Senior Citizen’s Services . . . . . 51 Sightseeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Social Services . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Community Handbook 2011

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WHO TO CALL

A Quick Reference

to

Handy Numbers

Police, Fire, Ambulance - Emergency Only......................911 If 911 is busy Voice...................dial “0” (operator) and ask for help TTY..............................................dial 711 (NY Relay)

Poison Control Hotline (24 hours).......................... 340-4494

NYC Govt. Information and Non-Emergency Services.....311

Sexual Assault Violence Intervention...................... 423-2140

Noise, Water, Hydrant Complaints (Dept. of Environmental Protection)..............718-DEP-HELP

Subway and Bus Passenger Information.........718-330-1234

Animal Care Center and Control (stray animals).. 722-3620

Tourism Information.............................................. 803-2247

ATF....................................................................... 466-5150 Child Abuse Hotline.......................................800-342-3720

Rape Crisis Intervention Program........................... 423-2143 Sanitation Information........................................... 219-8090

Taxi Complaints......................................................221-TAXI Towed Away Cars........................................... TOW-AWAY Traffic and Street Complaints................................. CALL-DOT

Crime Victims Hotline............................................ 577-7777

Unemployment Insurance...............................888-209-8124

FBI........................................................................ 384-1000

U.S. Coast Guard................................................. 668-7936

Fire Department (non-emergency)......................... 999-2222

U.S. Customs.................................................800-697-3662

Housing Authority Emergency Repair.................... 289-8000

U.S. Secret Service................................................ 637-3662

Parking Regulations (Dept. of Transportation)........ CALL-DOT

Voter Information.................................................. 886-3800 (All phone numbers have 212 area code unless otherwise noted)

Parks Events.......................................................... 360-3456 Pest Control (Dept. of Health)................................ 442-9666

WHERE IT IS Unbeknowns t t o s o m e l i f e t i m e New Yorkers , t h e r e i s a c t u a l l y a for mula to es t i m a t e t h e n u m b e r e d cross street t o ma n y M a n h a t t a n a d dresses from t h e a v e n u e a d d r e s s e s.

In order to e s t i m a t e t h e s t r e e t , t a k e the address n u m b e r, c a n c e l t h e last digit, di v i d e b y t w o a n d t h e n add or subtra c t t h e a v e n u e ’s m a g i c nu mber whic h is lis t ed b elow.

For example, 523 3r d Av e. : Ca n cel the “3” to g e t 5 2 , t h e n d i v i d e by two to ge t 2 6 , t h e n a d d t h e magic nu mber f or T h ir d Av e. , t en , to get 36 . So 5 2 3 T h i r d Av e. i s near 3 6 th St .

Avenue A............................... Add 3 Avenue B................................ Add 3 Avenue C............................... Add 3 Avenue D............................... Add 3 1st Ave.................................. .Add 3 2nd Ave................................. Add 3 3rd Ave............. ...................Add 10 4th Ave............... ...................Add 8 6th Ave................................Sub. 12 8th Ave........................... .......Add 9 9th Ave....................... .........Add 13 10th Ave.................... ..........Add 14 11th Ave.................... ..........Add 15

Formulas

for

E s t i m at i n g S t r e e t A d d r e s s e s

Amsterdam Ave...............Add 59

For 1310 to 1494, cancel last fig-

Audobon Ave.... .........Add 165

ure of building number. For 1310,

Columbus Ave.... ..........Add 60

subtract 20 and for every additional

Convent Ave....... ........Add 127

20 street numbers, increase deduc-

Edgecomb Ave................Add 134 Ft. Washington Ave........Add 158 Lenox Ave............... .....Add 10 Lexington Ave....... ........Add 22 Madison Ave....... .........Add 27

tion by 1.

7th Ave 1 to 1800................. ....Add 12 Above 1800............... ..Add 20 Broa dway.........Building numbers from 1

Manhattan Ave.............Add 100

to 754 are on named streets south of

Park Ave............... .......Add 34

8th St.

Park Ave. So....... ...........Add 8

756 to 846........ .....Subtract 29

Pleasant Ave... ...........Add 101

847 to 953........... ..Subtract 25

St. Nicholas Ave.... .....Add 110

Above 953.......... ...Subtract 31

Wadsworth Ave...........Add 173

Cent ral Park West............Cancel last fig-

West End Ave...... ........Add 59 York Ave............................ ....Add 4 There are special instructions for estimating the cross streets for these avenues: 5th Ave 63 to 108................. ....Add 11 109 to 200................ ...Add 13 201 to 400................ ...Add 16 401 to 600................ ...Add 18 601 to 775............... ....Add 20 776 to 1286....Cancel last figure of building number and subtract 18.

(DO NOT divide number by 2).

ure and add 60.

River side Dr.... Cancel last figure and: Up to 567................. ....Add 72 568 and up............... ...Add 78

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WHEN TO PARK As if parking i n t h i s c i t y w e r e n ’t complicated e n o u g h , t h r o u g h o u t the year the r ules c h a n g e f or h olidays and reli g i o u s o b s e r v a n c e s , some well-kno w n , s o m e o b s c u r e.

The following i s a l i s t o f d a y s t h e Alternate-Side P a r k i n g R u l e s a r e suspended .

The asterisked e n t r i e s m a r k m a j o r legal holidays w h en s t op p in g , standing and p a r k i n g a r e p e r m i t t e d in legal spaces . T h is d oes n ot a p ply to areas w h e r e t h e r u l e s a r e i n effect seven d a y s a w e e k , i.e. “ N o Standing Any t i m e ” o r “ N o p a r k i n g 7 am to 1 0 am in c lud in g Sun d a y. ”

ZIP CODES Cooper............................... 10003 Bowling Green.................... 10004 Wall Street......................... 10005 Church Street...................... 10007 Peter Stuyvesant.................. 10009 Old Chelsea..................... 100011 Prince................................. 10012 Canal Street........................ 10013 Village............................... 10014 Peck Slip............................ 10038

D at e s

to

Remember

Independence Day 2012 .July 4, Wed

Simchas Torah.......... October 21, Fri

Feast of Assumption. August 15, Mon

Diwali....... October 26-30, Wed-Sun

Labor Day*........... September 5, Mon

All Saints Day......... November 1, Tues

Idul-Fitr......................August 31, Wed

Election Day...........November 8, Tues

Rosh Hashanah....... September 28-30, Wed-Fri

Veterans Day(Observed)..... November 11, Fri

Succoth......................October 12-19, Wed-Wed

Thanksgiving Day*....... November 24, Thurs

Yom Kippur.......... October 7-8 Fri-Sat

Immaculate Conception.....Dec. 8, Sun

Columbus Day ........ October 10, Mon

Christmas Day*..... December 25, Sun

Shemini Atzereth... October 20, Thurs

Idul-Adha.......................Nov 6, Sun.

Downtown Post Offices & Zip Codes

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COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011

The Downtown Express Listings

AIDS Services AIDS Hotline National: 800-342-2437 State: 800-TALK-HIV

AIDS Service Center 41 E. 11th St., 5th fl.

New York, NY 10003 212-645-0875 fax:212-645-0705 www.ascny.org

Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS 400 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-334-7940 800-274-2429 apicha@apicha.org www.apicha.org

Bailey House 180 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 212-337-3000 www.baileyhouse.org

Beth Israel Medical Center 1st Ave. at 17th St. New York, NY 10003 General Information: 212420-2995 www.bethisraelny.org www.wehealnewyork.org

Body Positive 19 Fulton St. #308b New York, NY 10038 212-566-7333 www.bodypos.org info@bodypos.org

Downtown Health Center 150 Essex St. New York, NY 10002 212-477-1120 fax: 212-477-8957 www.chnnyc.org

Gay Men’s Health Crisis 129 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011 212-807-6655 119 W. 24th St. New York, NY 10011 212-367-1000

God’s Love We Deliver

Office of Gay & Lesbian Health

166 6th Ave. New York, NY 10012 212-294-8102

40 Worth St. Box 67 New York, NY 10013 212-676-1500 fax: 212-676-1510

HIV Law Project 15 Maiden Ln., 18th fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-577-3001 fax: 212-577-3192 www.hivlawprojects.org info@hivlawprojects.org

Assistance Resources

Housing Works

150 William St., 18th Fl. New York, NY 10038 877-KIDS-NYC www.nyc.gov/html/acs

594 Broadway #700 New York, NY 10014 212- 206-9902 212- 645-8111 www.housingworks.org

Latino Commission on AIDS 24 West 25th St., 9th Floor New York, NY 10010 212-675-3288 fax: 212-675-3466 www.latinoaids.org

Legal Action Center HIV/AIDS Services Project 153 Waverly Place New York, NY, 10014 212-243-1313 fax: 212-675-0286 www.lac.org

Lower East Side Service Center 46 E. Broadway, 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10002 212-343-3681 www.lec.org

Multi-SocialServices of the Chinese American Planning Council 165 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10012 212-431-7800

NYC Commission on Human Rights AIDS Discrimination Unit 40 Rector Street, 10th Floor New York, NY 10006 (212) 306-5070 www.nyc.gov/html/cchr

Administration for Children’s Services

Agenda for Children Tomorrow 2 Washington St., 20th Fl. New York, NY 10004 212-487-8284 fax: 212-487-8581 actnet1@earthlink.net www.actnyc.org American Red Cross New York Delegation to the UN International Federation 800 2nd Ave., Suite 355, 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10017 212-338-0161 fax: 212-338-9832 www.ifrc.org

Child Abuse and Neglect Reports General Pulic Hotline: 800342-3720 Mandated Reporter Hotline: 1-800-635-1522

Counseling Support & Stress Debriefing 212-366-8035 www.fegs.org

Federal Emergency Management Agency 26 Federal Plaza Suite 1337 New York, NY 10278-0002 212-680-3609 General Information: 800621-FEMA www.fema.gov

F.E.G.S. 315 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013

212-366-8038 Employment Services: 212366-8550

Foster and Adoptive Parent Hotline 212-676-WISH

Juvenile Justice Dept.

212-925-7779 www.nyc.gov/nycdjj

New York State Crime Victims Board 55 Hanson Place, 10th Fl. Brooklyn, NY 11217 800-247-8035 cvbinfo@cvb.state.ny.us

New York State Office of Children and Family Services 163 W. 125th St. New York, NY 10027 212-961-4121 fax: 212-961-4109 www.ocfs.state.ny.us

Safe Horizons 2 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10007 212-577-7777 800-621-HOPE www.safehorizon.org

Youthline 800-246-4646

BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS Alliance for Downtown New York 120 Broadway, #3340 New York, NY 10271 212-566-6700 fax: 212-566-6707 contactus@downtownNYcom www.downtownNYcom

Asian American Business Development Center 80 Wall St. New York, NY 10005 212-966-0100 fax: 212-966-2786 www.aabdc.com

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Coming Attractions Surely no city in the world has served as setting for more movies than has New York, this entry-way, this battleground between human forces, this city of dreams.

Besides, movies began here on the afternoon of May11, 1896, when William Heise set up in Herald Square a new invention of his employer Thomas Alva Edison that exposed not one photograph plate but one after another, 16 times per second, capturing the most common of street-scenes and fascinating audiences with these “actualities” of life in our city.

Except for having enough room, downtown Manhattan has an excess of nearly everything, not the least are great movies.

The earliest film on The Villager Directory list is a silent film released in 1931; the most recent is a 2008 Academy Awardwinning documentary. Two films were written by the film’s director and star, and two directors have two films each on the list. One film’s a musical, three tell of the immigrant experience, three star downtown’s most noted actor Robert DeNiro, and four are about gangsters though only two occur in Little Italy. There’s a film about a poet, a rock star, an aerialist extraordinaire, firefighters, high-rollers, down-andouters, dreamers, voyeurs, lovers, even a ghost, and so a young Harvey Keitel said in “Mean Streets” after his buddy ripped off two kids from the suburbs, “Let’s go to the movies.”

COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011

9 Bowling Green Association 11 Broadway New York, NY 10004 212-344-1145

Business Outreach Center 70 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10012 212-571-1690 fax: 212-571-1686 www.bocnet.org

Chinese Staff and Workers Association 55 Chrystie St., Ste. 201 New York, NY 10002 212-334-2333 (mail only) P.O. Box 130401 New York. NY 10013 cswa@cswa.org www.cswa.org

DowntownLower Manhattan Association 120 Broadway, Ste. 3340 New York, NY 10271 212-406-9100 fax: 212-566-6707 www.downtownNY.com conatctus@downtownNY.com

Economic Development Corporation 110 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-619-5000 www.nycedc.com

Italy-America Chamber of Commerce 730 5th Ave., Ste. 600 New York, NY 10019 212-459-0044 fax: 212-459-0090 Info@italchamber.org www.italchamber.org

Lower East Side Business Improvement District 54 Orchard St. New York, NY 10002 212-226-9010 fax: 212-226-8161 les@lowereastsideNYorg www.lowereastsideNYorg

Manhattan Chamber

of Commerce 1375 Broadway, 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10018 212-479-7772 fax: 212-473-8074 info@manhattancc.org www.manhattancc.org

Renaissance Economic Development Corp.

1 Pike St. New York, NY 10002 212-964-6022 fax: 212-964-6003 www.renaissance-NYorg info@renaissance-NYorg

TriBeCa Organization 205 Hudson Street, 2 fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-966-0063 fax: 212-966-0276 infotribeca.org www.tribeca.org

Unmuzzled OX Foundation Ltd. Publisher 105 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-7170

access

Community Health Center provides quality Primary and Specialty Health Care Services to community members.

Specialty services include:

• • • • • • •

Medical Exams Psychiatry Neuropsychology Neurology Podiatry Audiology Women’s Health

• • • • • •

Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech Therapy HIV Care Chemical Dependency Treatment General Dentistry (Spring 2011)

access

is open Monday through Friday, and the first Saturday of each month. We offer evening and early morning appointments for added convenience, walk-in patients are always welcome. Most insurances accepted, including Medicaid and Medicare. Sliding fee scale payments are available to eligible individuals with no insurance. Staff is multilingual.

access

is conveniently located at 83 Maiden Lane, 6th Floor between William and Gold Streets in the Financial District. To make an appointment, please call 212.895.3410.

For more info, visit www.accessCHC.org

Wall Street Rising 55 Exchange Pl., Ste. 401 New York, NY 10005 212-509-0300 lnfo@wallstreetrlsing.org www.wallstreetrising.org

American Guild of Variety Artists 184 Fifth Ave, 6th fl.

New York, NY 10010 212-675-1003 fax: 212-633-0097

Battery Park City Day Nursery Where loving and learning go hand in hand Nursery School • Sept. - June Summer • July - Aug. Nursery School • Program Pre-K • Summer

Register Now Now!

Register • For Children 1-5 Years American • Legion For Children 1-5• Years A boon to Mothers and Fathers Half & Full Day Programs 179 Sullivan St., #A with career commitments • 10012 Hours 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

New York, NY • Excellent Staff/Child Ratios CALL FOR A VISIT 212-674-9517 • Half & Full Day Programs • NAEYC Accredited 212-945-0088 • Early Childhood teachers Asian American Federation of New • Sunny rooms, plus backyard 2 blocks 2south CALL FOR A VISIT blocks south of the York of WorldWorld Financial Center • Excellent staff/child ratios 212-945-0088 Financial Center 120 Wall St., 3 fl. between Albany & Rector Place New York, NY 10005 215 South End Ave., Battery Park City, NY 10280 212-344-5878 215 SOUTH END AVENUE,www.bpcdaynursery.com BATTERY PARK CITY, NY 10280 Fax: 212-344-5636 www.bpcdaynursery.com www.aafNYorg

10 Asian Americans for Equality 108 Norfolk St. New York, NY 10002 212-919-8381 fax: 212-979-8386 lnfo@aafe.org www.aafeorg

Bailey House 180 Christopher St. New York, NY 10001 212-633-2500 fax: 212-633-2932 info@baileyhouse.org www.baileyhouse.org

The Battery Conservancy 1 New York Plaza New York, NY 10004 212-344-3491 fax: 212-344-3496 lnfo@thebattery.org www.thebattery.org

Battery Park City Authority 1 World Financial Center New York, NY 10281 212-417-2000 fax: 212-417-2001 www.batteryparkcity.org

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy 2 South End Ave. New York, NY 10280 212-267-9700 fax: 212-267-9707 info@bpcparks.org www.bpcparks.org

Bowery Residents’ Committee, Inc 324 Lafayette St., 5th fl New York, NY 10002 212-803-5700 fax: 212-533-1893 www.bowrescom.org info@bowrescom.org

Boy Scouts of America 350 Fifth Ave. (Empire State Building) New York, NY 10118 212-242-1100 fax: 212-242-3630 info@bsa-gnyc.org

Boys Club of New York 287 E. 10th St. New York, NY 10009

COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011 212-533-2550 fax: 212-505-6631 gmiddleton@harriman.bcny. org www.bcny.org

Catholic Alumni Club 83 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 212-243-6513 www.caci.org/cac/newyorkcac.html

Chinatown Planning Council 165 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10013 212-941-0030 fax: 212-226-5351

www.citizensunion.org

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence 46 Hester St. New York, NY 10002 212-473-6485 www.caaav.org

Clean Air Campaign, Inc. 250 W. 57th St. New York, NY 10107 212-582-2578

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence

Center for an Urban Future

Chinatown Justice Project Office 191 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10009 212-473-6485 www.caaav.org

120 Wall Street, 20th floor New York, NY 10005 212-479-3341 www.nycfuture.org

Community Resource Exchange

Center For Downtown New York At Pace University 1 Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 212-346-1025

Chinese American Planning Council 365 Broadway, 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-941-0030 www.cpc-nyc.org

Chinese Progressive Association 83 Canal St., #304-5 New York, NY 10002 212-274-1891 fax: 212-274-1891 cpanyc@att.net http://www.aafny.org

Citizens Jury Project 351 W. 54th St. New York, NY 10019 212-541-6741 fax: 212-541-7301 chabin@moderncourts.org www.juryproject.org

Citizens Union 299 Broadway, Suite 700 New York, NY 10038 212-227-0342 fax: 212-227-0345 info@citizensunion.org

42 Broadway, 20th Fl. New York, NY 10004 212-894-3394 fax: 212-616-4994 info@crenyc.org www.crenyc.org

Doctors of the World 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 607 New York, NY 10038 212- 226-9890 Hotline: 212-774-1410 info@dowusa.org www.doctorsoftheworld.org

Educational Alliance at Lillian Wald Center 34 Avenue D New York, NY 10009 212-780-2300

Educational Alliance 197 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300

Educational Alliance / Emanu-El Midtown Y 344 E. 14th St. New York, NY 10003 212-780-0800 www.edalliance.org

Girl Scout Council of Greater New York 43 W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 212-645-3000

fax: 212-645-4599 info@gscgny.org www.gscgny.org

Greenthumb/New York City Dept. of Parks 49 Chambers St. #1020 New York, NY 10007 212-788-8052

Health Right International (formerly Doctors of the World) 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 607 New York, NY 10038 212-785-0202 / 212-226-9890 info@dowusa.org

Henry Street Settlement 265 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-766-9200 info@henrystreet.org www.henrystreet.org

Hudson River Park Trust Pier 40 W. Houston St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10014 212-627-2020 fax: 212-627-2021 Maintenance and Operations, Permits and Public Programs 212-627-2020 fax: 212-627-9224 Recreation Center Office: 212-414-9384 www.hudsonriverpark.org

Lower East Side Conservancy 235 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-233-6037 fax: 212-385-2693 LESConservancy@aol.com www.nycjewishtours.org

The Lower East Side Girls Club 56 E. 1st St. New York, NY 10003 212-982-1633 fax: 212-982-1639 www.girlsclub.org

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COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011

Gangs of New York Despite its violent excesses and historical inaccuracies, “Gangs of New York” is an intense, colorful recreation of an infamous part of the city in one of its darkest times.

Released in 2002, directed by Martin Scorcese from a screenplay by Jay Cooks and inspired by Herbert Asbury’s informal history of the underworld, “The Gangs of New York,” the film opens in 1846 but focuses primarily on events in 1863. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Amsterdam Vallon, determined to avenge the death of his father (Liam Nesson) at the bloody hands of Bill “The Butcher” Cutting (played brilliantly by Daniel Day-Lewis.) Based on a real person named Bill Poole (who died eight years before the events dramatized in the movie), Cutting rules the neighborhood of the Five Points — five streets that lead into an open area known as Paradise Square.

Daniel Day-Lewis is at his best; he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor (though lost the Academy Award to Adrian Brody’s performance in The Pianist). DayLewis is sinister, witty, dapper and totally deadly, ruling the Five Points through the fear he instills even in his own gang.

And there are many gangs — the film soon evolves into a fight between the Natives (those born here) and an Irish gang called the Dead Rabbits. But there’s

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also the Swamp Angels, the Pug Uglies, the Bowery Boys, as well as thieves, beggars, he-shes, gin mills, the waterfront, Chinatown — all of it recreated for a New York fan to love, and looking like Jacob Riss photographs come to life in color.

In addition to Day-Lewis’ great performance, Jim Broadbent does a remarkable job portraying New York’s most famous corrupt politician and Tammany Hall leader William “Boss” Tweed: “The appearance of law must be upheld,” he says, “especially when it’s being broken.”

The film rushes to its climax with the Draft

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Pier, Park & Playground Association

New York Public Interest Research Group

40 River Rd. New York, NY 10044 (212) 989-3764 park@pier40.org www.pier40.org

9 Murray St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-349-6460 fax: 212-349-1366 nyprig@nypirg.org www.nypirg.org

Partnership for New York City 1 Battery Park Plaza, 5th fl.

New York, NY 10004 212-493-7400 info@nycp.org www.nycp.org

Riots, the city’s worst three days of violence after President Lincoln initiated the nation’s first Conscription Act. The Navy never fired into Manhattan (though gunboats were prepared to defend Wall Street) and the movie greatly underplays the viciousness done to the city’s AfricanAmericans, but this uneven film has Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance and visuals of a time and place of old New York. The Five Points was leveled and built over more than a century ago, but it lives in much New York literature and this bumpy, bloody — and at times brilliant — film.

Project Ezra 465 Grand St., 4th Fl. New York, NY 10002 212-982-4124 fax: 212-677-9134 codirector.projectezra@ verizon.net www.projectezra.org

Project Renewal, Inc. 200 Varick St., 9th Fl.

New York, NY 10014 212-620-0340 fax: 212-243-4868 www.projectrenewal.org

The River Project Pier 40, West St. & Houston St. 2nd Floor New York, NY 10014 212-233-3030 www.riverproject.org

Safe Space 295 Lafayette St., Suite 920 New York, NY 10012 212-226-3536 fax: 212-226-1918 safespace@safespacenyc.org www.safespacenyc.org

downtown express Center for Children and Families ccf@kidsuccess.org www.kidsuccess.org

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Baruch College 17 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10010 646-312-1000 fax: 212-802-6825 www.baruch.cuNYedu.

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Brookedale Center 55 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-790-0200 www.cardozo.yu.edu

Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers St. New York. NY 10007 212-220-8000 www.bmcc.cuNYedu

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies 16 W. 10th St. New York, NY 10011 212-260-7050 www.cmps.edu

City College Center for Worker Education 25 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-925-6625 www.ccNYccNYedu/cwe

Cooper Union 30 Cooper Sq. New York, NY 10003 212-353-41 00 www.cooper.edu

Empire State College 325 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 212-647-7800 www.esc.edu

Hebrew Union College at The Brookdale Center

13 1 W. 4th St. New York, NY 10012 212-674-5300 fax: 211-388-1720 www.huc.edu

Metropolitan College of New York 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013 212-643-1234 fax 212-343-B470 www.metropolitan.edu

New School University 66 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10011 21 2-229-5600 www.nsu.newschool.edu

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St. New York, NY 10013 212-966-0300 fax: 212-966-3217 www.nyaa.edu

New York Law School Office of Admissions 57 Worth St. New York, NY 10013 212-431-2100 fax: 212-966-1521 admissions@nyls.edu

New York University 25 W. 4th St., 1st fl.

New York, NY 10012 212-998-4636 www.nyu.edu

Pace University l Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 212-346-1200 800-874-PACE www.pace.edu

Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing 310 East 22nd St., New York, NY 10010 212-6l4~6llO fax: 212-614-6109 www.futurenurseNYorg.

Ryan-NENA Community Health Center

The Best in Family Health Care Right in the Lower East Side!

Comprehensive Services: • Adult Medicine • Geriatrics • Pediatrics • Women’s Health • Dental • HIV Care • Mental Health • Eye Care • Specialists • WIC Program

If you are uninsured, we offer: • Affordable sliding fee scale • Low cost pharmacy plan

Pratt Institute of Manhattan 144 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-647-7199 www.pratt.edu

Accepted Health Plans:

• Medicaid • Medicare • Child Health Plus • Family Health Plus • Family Planning Benefit Program • HealthPlus • HealthFirst • Fidelis • MetroPlus • WellCare • Affinity • ADAP • 1199/SEIU • Cigna • HIP • Aetna • And more in the future

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A satellite of the William F. Ryan Community Health Center

279 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 (212) 477-8500

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St. Johns University

Defense Education

www.3leggeddog.org

Manhattan Campus 101 Murray St. New York, NY 10007 Office of admissions: 212-962-4111 www.new.stjohns.edu

99 Hudson St., 15th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-965-2200 www.naacpldf.org

AIA & Center for Architecture

School of Visual Arts

111 Centre St. New York, NY 10013 212-791-6000

209 E. 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 212-592-2000 fax: 212-725-3587

COURTS AND LEGAL SERVICES Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 99 Hudson St., 12th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-966-5932 fax: 212-9664303 info@aaldef.org www.aaldef.org

Attorney General of New York 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271 212-416-8000 fax: 212-416-8393 www.oagstate.NYus/home. html

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund 120 Wall St., #1500 New York, NY 10005 212-809-8585 fax: 212-509-0055 lambdalegal@lamdalegal.org info@lambdalegal.org www.lambdalegal.org

Lawyers Alliance for New York 171 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 212-219-1800 fax: 212-941-7458 www.laNYorg

MFY Legal Services 299 Broadway, 4th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-417-3700 fax: 212-417-3891 www.mfy.org

NAACP Legal

New York City Civil Court Information

New York City Law Dept. Corporation Counsel 100 Church St. New York, NY 10007 212-788-0303 fax: 212-788-0367 www.nycgov/html/law/home. html

New York County District Attorney’s Office 1 Hogan Pl. New York, NY 10013 212-335-9000

New York Surrogate Court 31 Chambers St. New York, NY 10007 646-386-5000 www.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/ surrogates/index.html

New York State Trial Lawyers Association 132 Nassau St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-349-5890 fax: 212-608-2310 info@nystla.org www.nystla.org

United States Department of Justice Community Relations Services 26 Federal Plaza, #36-118 New York, NY 10278 212-264-0700 fax: 212-264-2143 www.usdoj.gov

536 LaGuardia Pl. New York, NY 10012 212-683-0023 fax: 212-696-5022 info@aiaNYorg www.aiaNYorg

Access Theatre 380 Broadway, 4th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-966-1047 www.accesstheater.com

Aesthetic Realism Foundation 141 Greene St. New York, NY 10012 212-777-4490 fax: 212-777-4426 www.aestheticrealism.org

American Guild of Variety Artists 184 Fifth Ave., 6th fl.

New York, NY 10010 212-675-1003 fax: 212-633-0097

American Indian Community House 11 Broadway, 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10014-1303 212-59841100 fax: 212-598-4909 www.aich.org

Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts 172 Norfolk St. New York, NY 10002 212-529-7194 fax: 212-529-1864 www.orensanz.org

ARChive of Contemporary Music 54 White St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-6967 fax: 212-226-6540

Art Start

CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS

721 East 6th St. New York, NY 10009 212-460-0019 www.art-start.org

3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group

Ascension Music Chorus & Orchestta

80 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10006 212-645-0374

12 West 11th St. New York, NY 10011 212-358-1469

Asian American Art Center 111 Norfolk St. New York, NY 10002 212-233-2154 fax: 212-766-1287 aaacinfo@artspiral.org www.artasianamerica.org

The Battery Conservancy 1 New York Plaza Concourse New York, NY 10004 212-344-3491 info@thebattery.org www.thebattery.org

Battery Dance Company 380 Broadway, 5th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-219-3910 fax: 212-219-3911 www.batterydance.org

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy 2 South End Ave. New York, NY 10280 212-267-9700 ino@bpcparks.org www.bpcparks.org

Bleecker St. Opera 45 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10003 917-228-8200 fax: 212-228-8201 www.bleeckerstreetopera.org

Center for Traditional Music & Dance 32 Broadway, Ste. 1314 New York, NY 10004 212-571-1555 fax: 212-571-9052 traditions@ctmd.org www.ctmd.org

Chamber Music America 305 7th Ave., 5th fl.

New York, NY 10001 212-242-2022 fax: 212-242-7955 www.chamber-music.org

Chen Dance Center 70 Mulberry St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-349-0126 fax: 212-349-0494 infu@htchendance.org www.htchendance.org

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Cherry Lane Theater

www.dancinginthestreets.org

38 Commerce St. New York, NY 10014 212-989-2020

Downtown Arts Projects

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc. 456 Broadway, 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-431-9740 fax: 212-431-9789 inf0@gallery456.org www.gallery456.org

Chinese American Planning Council, Inc. 150 Elizabeth St. New York, NY 10012 212-941-0920 fax: 212-966-8581 cpc150hr@hotmail.com www.cpc-nyc.org

Chinatown Summer Day Camp 40 Division St. New York, NY 10002 212-925-9780 fax: 212-925-4259

Coalition for Asian American Children and Families 50 Broad St., 18th fl.

New York, NY 10004 212-809-4675 fax: 212-785-4601 cacf@cacf.org www.cacf.org

Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway, 2nd fl.

212-625-8369 fax: 212-625-8313 info@dnadance.org www.dnadance.org

Dance Theater Workshop 219 W. 19th St. New York, NY 10011 212-691-6500 fax: 212-633-1974 www.dancetheaterworkshop. org

Dancing in the Streets 545 8th Ave., Ste. 85E New York, NY 10018 212-625-3505 fax: 212-625-3510 info@dancinginthestreets.org

212-777-1767 www.genefrankel.com

Friends of New Music

114 Fulton St. New York, NY 10038 212-243-5050 fax: 212-741-9339 info@downtownarts.org www.downtownarts.org

474 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10013 212-925-8534 director@friendsofnewmusic. org www.friendsofnewmusic.org

Downtown Community TV

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

87 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10013 212-966-4510 fax: 212-226-3053 web@dctvNYorg www.dctvNYorg

Drawing Center 35 Wooster St. New York, NY 10013 212-219-2166 fax: 212-966-2976 info@drawingcenter.org www.drawingcenter.org

The Educational Alliance 197 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300 fax: 212-080-1225

Educational Alliance Arts School 197 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 646-395-4235

Eldridge Street Project Inc. 12 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-219-0888 www.eldridgestreet.org

Engine 27 173 Franklin St. New York, NY 10013 212-431-7466 fax: 212-431-7403 info@engine27.org www.engine27.org

The Flea Theatre 41 White St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-0051 www.theflea.org

Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond St. New York, NY 10012

596 Broadway, Ste. 602 New York, NY 10012 212-431-1130 info@harvestworks.org www.harvestworks.org

Henry Street Settlement 265 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-760-9800 Fax 212-760-9801 www.henrystreet.org

Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-598-0400 fax: 212-505-8320 www.henreystreet.org

Hudson Guild John Lovejoy Elliott Center 441 W. 26th St. New York, NY 10001 212-760-9800 fax: 212-268-9983 hguild@hudsonguild.org www.hudsonguild.org

Indochina Sino-American Community Center 170 Forsyth St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10003 212-226-0317 fax: 212-925-0327 isacenrer@netzero.net

Japanese Folk Dance Institute 568 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-982-6952 www.japanesefolkdanc.org

Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-242-0800 info@joyce.org www.joyce.org

Kampo Cultural Center 31 Bond St. New York, NY 10012 212-228-3063 fax: 212-674-6788 www.kampo.com

Lower East Side Jewish Conservacy 235 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-374-4100 fax: 212-385-2693 louritobiascohen@nycjewishtours.org

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 125 Malden Ln., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-219-9401 fax: 212-219-2058 info@lmcc.net www.lmcc.net

Lucille Lortel Theater 121 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 212-924-8782

Manhattan Childrens Theater 52 White St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-4085 www.mctNYorg

Mela Foundation 275 Church St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-925-8270 fax: 212-226-7802 mail@melafoundation.org www.melafoundation.org

Merce Cunningham Studio 55 Bethune St. New York, NY 10014 212-691-9751 info@merce.org www.merce.org

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City Lights

This one’s a stretch for Downtown movies but one I’m taking even if I tear a ligament. Certainly “City Lights” occurs in New York, and in the original movie poster from 1931 “The Little Tramp” is silhouetted against the towering backdrop of an art nouveau Manhattan skyline. It’s the 1920s as we hear a clarinet’s opening notes, then later a good Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” imitation; the cars are fancy, the clothes stylish. “A Comedy Romance in Pantomime” is how this little treasure pro-

Minetta Lane Theater

motes itself, although ‘talkies’ had been fascinating audiences for several years by then. Written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Virginia Cherrill as the blind Flower Girl, this film is simply told, each scene filled with humor and tenderness. Chaplin first portrayed the Little Tramp in the 1921 film “The Kid”; in 1935 he played this endearing, noble character for the last time in his film “Modern Problems.” Despite the Little Tramp’s constant good cheer and politeness to all, there is

1 New York, NY 10013 212-226-7624 newdancealliance@nyc.rr.com www.el.net/nda

18 Minetta Ln. New York, NY 10003 212-420-8000

New School Concerts

Mulberry Street Theatre

55 W. 13th St. New York, NY 10014 212-229-5873

70 Mulberry St, 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-691-6969 info@htchendance.org www.htchendance.org

Music from China 170 Park Row, #12D New York, NY 10038 212-941-8733 fax: 212-625-8586 muschina@echonyc.com www.musicfromchina.org

New York Artists Equity Association 498 Broome St. New York, NY 10013 212-941-0130 fax: 212-941-0138 reginas@anNYorg www.anNYorg

New Dance Alliance

The New York Chinese Cultural Center & Dance China, New York

182 Duane St.

390 Broadway, 2nd fl.

always deep pathos in him as well, which is why the story of the blind flower girl is so touching; she too has sorrow in her affliction despite her lovely, smiling face.

There are two storylines in “City Lights” which appear to be set in a version of Gramercy Park: the Tramp’s relationship with a millionaire who, when drunk, loves the Little Tramp but can’t remember him when sober, and the blind flower girl who thinks the Little Tramp is wealthy. Moved by her situation and beauty, the Little Tramp both aids her at her modest home and is determined to make money for an operation that promises sight. If you haven’t seen this movie I will not spoil the ending. Tthough referred to by many movie-lovers as the most heart-wrenching scene in American cinema, what is most remarkable about the film is the slapstick, so utterly simple and brilliant, that sChaplin brings to every scene. This type of comedy cannot be explained, and the film — free on Youtube and only 87 minutes long — embodies the spirit of the city: not the arrogance and insensitivity of the rich and powerful, not the mighty structures rising above us, but the kindness and generosity of those of us living here.

New York, NY 10013 212-334-3764 fax: 212-334-3768 info@chinesedance.org wwwchinesedance.org

New York Council for the Humanities 150 Broadway #1700 New York, NY 10038 212-233-1131 fax: 212-233-4607 nych@nyhumanities.org www.nyhumanities.org

New York Documentary Center, Inc. 159 Maiden Ln. New York, NY 10038 212-668-1100 mail@docfest.org www.docfest.org

New York Foundation for the Arts 155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Fl. New York, NY 10013 212-366-6900 fax: 212-366-1778 nyfainfo@nyfa.org

New York Gay & Lesbian Experimental Film Festival 79 Pine St., #132 New York, NY 10005 212-742-8880 fax: 212-742-8882 info@mixnyc.org www.mixnyc.org

downtown express New York State Council on the Arts 175 Varick St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10014 212-627-4455 fax: 212-620-5911 www.nysca.org

Organization of Independent Artists 419 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10003 347-405-2422 www.oia-NYorg

Paul Taylor Dance Company 551 Grand St. New York, NY 10012 212-431-6673 fax: 212-966-5673 sf@ptdc.org www.ptdc.org

17 New York, NY 10014 212-233-3030 info@riverproject.org www.riverproject.org

Roulette lntermedium 228 W. Broadway Concerts at 20 Greene St. New York, NY 10013 212-219-B242 fax: 212-219-8773 info@roulette.org www.roulette.org

Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-255-7740

Shooting Star Theatre

Peridance Center

(Montauk Theatre Productions & RAACA’s Seaport Salon) 40 Peck Slip New York, NY 10038 718-852-7773 www.shootingstartheatre.org

126 East 13th St. New York, NY 10003 212-505-0886

Soho Repertory Theatre

Pen & Brush Club 16 East 10th St. New York, NY 10003 212-475-3669

Process Studio Theatre 257 Church St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-1124

Public Theater, Joe’s Pub & New York Shakespeare Festival 425 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10003 212-260-2400 fax: 212-539-8650 www.publictheater.org

Renaissance Chinese Opera Society 22 Chatham Sq. New York, NY 10038 212-619-7470

Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-4770

The River Project Pier 40 at West St. & Houston, 2nd fl.

86 Franklin St., 4th fl.

New York, New York 10013 212-941-8632 fax: 212-941-7148 sohorep@sohorep.org www.sohorep.org

Spring Studio 64 Spring St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-7240

The Swiss Institute 495 Broadway New York, NY 10012 212-925-2035

Tribeca Film Center 375 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10013 212-941-4000 contactus@tribecafilm.com www.tribecafilmfestival.org/ index.html

Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour (T.O.A.S.T.) 111 Franklin St. New York, NY 10013 212-479-7317 www.toastartwalk.com

SINCE 1993, we have made it our mission to provide safe and attractive streets throughout the Central Village, and to promote its history and diverse retail base.

Come take a free walking tour and stop by to visit one of over 400 unique shops and restaurants along Sixth Avenue, University Place, 8th Street and St. Mark’s Place.

We love our neighborhood, and know you do, too! To learn more about local events and to search our business directory, visit us online at villagealliance.org Village Alliance 8 East 8th Street (212) 777-2173

18 TriBeCa Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St., #110C New York, NY 10007 212-220-1459 fax: 212-732-2482 www.tribecapac.org

Trinity Choir Broadway at Wall St. 212-902-0800

WBAI 120 Wall St., 10th fl.

New York, NY 10005 212-209-2800 fax: 212-747-1698 www.wbai.org

WNYC 1 Centre St., 24th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-669-3333 newsroom fax: 212-659-3828 business fax: 212-669-3312 listenerservices@wnyc.org wnyc.org

Washington Square Music Festival P.O. BOX 1066 Village Station, NY 10014 845-292-8967 or 212-255-4460 www.washingtonmusicfestival.org

Workhouse Publicity 133 W. 25th St., #3W New York, NY 10001 212-645-8006 FAX: 212-645-1950 info@workhousepr.com www.workhousepr.com

World Financial Center Arts and Events Information World Financial Center 200 Liberty St., lobby level New York, NY 10281 212-945-2600 FAX: 212-945-3392 info@worldfinancialcenter. com www.worldfinancialcenter. com

DAY CARE & NURSERY SCHOOLS Action for Progress

COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011 255 E. Houston St. New York, NY 10002 212-475-4340 fax: 212-677-5377

Battery Park City Day Nursery 215 South End Ave. New York, NY 10280 212-945-0088 fax: 212-786-1673 info@bpcdaynursery.com www.bpcdaynursery.com

Battery Park Synagogue 385 South End Ave. New York City, NY 10280 212-432-7022 www.bpsynagogue.org

BMCC Early Childhood Center and Family Child Care Network 199 Chambers St., New York, NY 10007 212-220-8250 www.bmcc.cuNYedu

Baxter Street School Age Day Care Center - PS 130 143 Baxter St. New York, NY 10013 212-431-8574 fax: 212-226-9695

Bellevue Educare Child Care Center, Inc. 462 First Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-679-2393 fax: 212-679-7366

Buckle My Shoe Nursery School 214 Church St. New York, NY 10013 212-374-1489 www.bucklemyshoe.org.

Buckle My Shoe Nursery School 230 West 13th St. New York, NY 10011 212-807-0518 www.bucklemyShoe.org

Cardinal Spellman Head Start 137 E. 2nd St. New York, NY 10009 212-677-7766

fax: 212-505-5900

Chelsea Day School

Chinatown Headstart

319 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-675-8541 fax: 212-675-8385

180 Mott St. New York, NY 10012 212-226-5000 fax: 212-274-8570

Childcare Centers Daycare and & Head Start

Chinatown Methodist Center

60 Catherine St. New York, NY 10038 212-962-3408 fax: 212-571-6167

Chi1dren’s Day Care Center 35-37 Division St. New York, NY 10002 212-431-3645 fax: 212-431-3893 3537daycare@aol.com

Children’s International Workshop 17 E. 16th St., New York, NY 10003 212-691-8964 fax: 212-691-5802 www.childrensinternationalworkshop.com

Children’s Tumbling 9-15 Murray St. New York City, NY 10007 212-233-3418 Suellennyc@mindspring.com www.childrentumbling.com

Children’s International Workshop 17 E. 16th St. New York, NY 10003 212-691-8964 fax: 212-691-5802 www.childrensinternationalworkshop.com

Children’s Workshop 610 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009 212-844-4900 fax: 212-614-9462

Chinatown Day Care Center 35 Division St. New York, NY 10002 212-431-3845 fax: 212-431-3893 3537daycare@aol.com

69 Madison St. New York, NY 10002 212-349-2703 chinesemethodistcentercorp@ yahoo.com

Chung Pak Day Care Center 125 Walker St. New York, NY 10013 212-343-9630 fax: 212-941-7629

Church St. School for Music and Art 74 Warren St. NEW York, NY 10007 212-571-7290 fax: 212-571-7292 info@churchstreetschool.org www.churchstreetschool.org

Coalition for Human Housing Day Care 60 Essex St. New York, NY 10002 212-677-6990 fax: 212-475-7288

Confucius Plaza School Age Day Care Center PS 124 40 Division St. New York. NY 10002 212-925-4325 fax: 212-274-0897

CPC Jacob Riis Child Care Center 108 Avenue D New York, NY 10009 212-533-2450 90 Avenue D New York, NY 10009 212-674-7540

Dewitt Church Headstart 123 Ridge St., #101 New York, NY 10002 212-505-8050

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Dewitt Church Headstart

Escuela Day Care Center

280 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002 212-254-3070

18 Avenue D New York, NY 10009 212-982-6650

Downtown Little School

Fedkids Childcare Center/Imagine Early Learning Centers, LLC

15 Dutch St. New York, NY 10038 212-791-1300 info@downtownlittleschool. com www.downtownlittleschool. com

Education Alliance 107 Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300 fax: 212-979-1225 info@edalliance.org www.edalliance.org

Educational Alliance at Lillian Wald Center 12 Avenue D New York, NY 10009 212-780-5617 fax: 212-780-5615 www.edalliance.org

26 Federal Plaza New York, NY 10278 212-264-4277 fax: 212-264-8322 www.imagineelc.com

First Avenue School Age Day Care Center PS 19 185 First Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-533-267O

First Presbyterian Church nursery school 12 West 12th St. New York, NY 10011 212-691-3432 fax: 212-229-4770 fpcns@aol.com www.fpcns.org

Graham Windham Finest Care Day Care Center 1 Police Plaza New York, NY 10035 212-571-2491 fax; 212-587-3940

Little Star of Broome Street Day Care Center 151 Broome St. New York, NY 10002 212-673-2680 fax: 212-777-7971 cwiggins@cpcfnyc.org

Grand Street Settlement Head Start

Montessori School of Manhattan

294 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 212-777-0656 fax: 212-475-1230

Hamilton-Madison House 50 Madison St. New York, NY 10038 212-349-5724 fax: 212-571-6167 www.hmhonline.com

55 Beach St. New York, NY 10013 212-334-0400 MontessoriManh@aol.com www.montessorimanhattan.com

Nazareth Day Nursery 214 W. 15th St. New York, NY 10011 212-243-1881

Language Lunch 356 Broadway, Ste. A-13 New York, NY 10013 212-226-9926 fax: 212-226-3945 info@languagelunch.com www.languagelunch.com

Park Preschool 275 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10007 212-571-6191 fax: 212-732-5256

NYU Langone Medical at Trinity Center is proud to participate in the re-growth of the

downtown community by providing outstanding medical care Multi-specialty Physician Services: • Cardiology • Dermatology • Gastroenterology • Pulmonary Medicine • Internal Medicine • Sports Medicine • Otolaryngology • Podiatry • Gynecology • Facial Plastics

We invite you to learn more about us by calling 212-263-9700 or visiting us online at www.NYUTrinityCenter.org

Comprehensive testing including: • Echo/Stress Echo Testing • Exercise Stress Testing • Holter and Event Monitoring • Digital X-ray • EKG • Colonoscopy • Endoscopy • Bronchoscopy • Pulmonary Function Testing • Medical and Cosmetic Dermatology

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Pike Street School Age Day Care Center - PS 2 122 Henry St., Rm. 109 New York, NY 10002 212-587-0912 fax: 212-253-7110

Puerto Rican Council Day Care 180 Suffolk St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-6730 fax: 212-253-7110

Trinity Parish Preschool 68 Trinity Pl. New York, NY 10006 212-602-0829 fax: 212-602-9601 www.trinintywallstreet.org

University Plaza Nursery 110 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10012 212-677-3916 fax: 212-471-1700

Village Community School 272 West 10th St. New York, NY 10014 212-691-5146 fax: 212-691-9767 www.vcsnyc.org

Washington Market School 55 Hudson St. and 134 Duane St. New York, NY 10013 212-233-2176 fax at Hudson St.: 212-2400681 fax at Duane St.: 646-2199708 www.washingtonmarketschool.org

West Village Nursery School 73 Horatio St. New York, NY 10014 212-243-5986 fax: 212-243-6151 www.westvillagenurseryschool.com

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Advocates for

Children 151 W. 30th St., 5th fl.

New York, NY 10001 212-947-9779 info@advocatesforchildren. org www.advocatesforchildren.org

American Language Institute 48 Cooper Sq., Rm. 200 New York, NY 10003 212-998-7040 fax: 212-995-4135 a1i@nyu.edu www.scps.nyu.edu/ali

Art Institute of New York 75 Varick St., 16th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-226-5500 fax: 212-625-6065

Biz Kids NY, INC. Pier 40 West & Houston Sts. New York, NY 10014 646-336-9101 www.bizkidsNYorg

The Center for Book Arts 28 W. 27th St., 3rd fl.

New York. NY 10001 212-481-9853 fax: 212-481-9853 info@centerforbookarts.org www.centerforbookarts.org

Center for English Studies, Incorporated 330 Seventh Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-629-7300 fax: 212-736-7950 infousa@embassyces.com www.embassyces.com

Children‘s Aid Society - Greenwich Village Center 219 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 212-254-3074 www.childrensaidsociety.org

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Dead End Kids In 1935, a group of young actors from New York appeared as a petty gang of street urchins in Broadway’s production of “Dead End”. Written by Sidney Kingsley about slum life and its relationship to crime, the play was later bought by Samuel Goldwyn who planned to turn into a movie.

Unable to find Hollywood actors who could play the young New York gang as well as the original cast, Goldwyn brought the actors to Hollywood to star in the 1937 film “Dead End”, script by Lillian Hellman and with Humphrey Bogart as the mobster Baby Face Martin. The young actors from New York became known as the Dead End Kids, led by Tommy (Billy Halop), with Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Grocery), T.B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly).

Known later as the East Side Boys, then the Bowery Boys, the group made the films “Crime School” and “Angels withDirty Faces” in the next few years with Warner Brothers after Goldwyn sold their contract owing to the rowdy and often dangerous antics of the young actors. Two years later, Warner Brothers dropped the young men for similar reasons. But those first three films immortalized the young actors and established the stereotypic New York street punk who

Church Street School for Music & Art 74 Warren St. New York, NY 10007 212-571-7290 fax: 212-571-7292 info@churchstreetschool.org www.churchstreetschool.org

Cooper Square Committee 61 E. 4th St. New York, NY 10003 212-228-8210 fax: 646-602-2260 coopersqie@msn.com coopersquarecomm@aol.com

Cornelia Connelly Center for Education 220 E. 4th St. New York, NY 10009

“don’t wanna woyk” and “knows dis guy on touty-toyd street.” Perhaps their most enduring film was “Angels with Dirty Faces,” released in 1938 and directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and starring James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan who, just released from prison, returns to his old neighborhood. Himself born on the Lower East Side, Cagney is both playful and tough with the Dead End Kids, who see the mobster as their idol. But Rocky is convicted of murder, and before being sent to the electric chair he’s asked by his boyhood friend, the

neighborhood priest played by Pat O’Brien, to “turn yellow” so the boys will no longer idolize him. Though Cagney scornfully refuses, the scene where he’s led screaming and kicking into death is Cagney at his best, and it earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

“Tell us Fadda, did Rocky really die yellow?” the gang asks, and, though knowing otherwise, O’Brien tells the boys he has, and so hopefully changing their wayward path.

212-982-2287 fax: 212-982-0547 kmorcat@connellycenter.org www.holychild.com

New York, NY 10003 212-620-4230 library@fdncenten.org www.fdncenter.org

Educational Solutions, Inc.

French Culinary Institute

99 University Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-674-2988 edusol99.aol.com http://membersaolr.com/ edusol99

462 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-219-8890 fax: 212-219-9292 www.frenchculinary.com

Emanu-El Midtown Y Educational Alliance 344 E.14th St. New York, NY 10003 212-780-0800 www.edalliance.org

Foundation Center 79 Fifth Ave.

Gene Frankel Theater Workshop 24 Bond St. New York, NY 10012 212-777-1767 fax: 212-777-4373 info@genefrankel.com www.genefrankel.com

Greenwich House Music School

46 Barrow St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-4770 fax: 212-366-9621 www.gharts.com.

The Guitar Salon 45 Grove St. New York, NY 10014 212-675-3236 fax: 212-367-9757 www.theguirarsalon.com

Himalayan Institute Yoga Science 78 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-243-5995 fax: 212-243-7591 humso@aol.com www.hinyc.org

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Institute of Audio Research

fax: 212-741-8339 www.ymcanyc.org

64 University Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-677-7580 Or 212-777-8550 fax: 212-677-6540 iarny@ao1.com www.audioschool.com

Mentoring USA

Jewish Community Project

Natural Gourmet Cookery School

146 Duane St. New York, NY 10007 212-334-3522 alex@jcpdowntown.org www.jcpdowntown.org

Joe Solomon’s Bass Workshop 1133 Broadway New York, NY 10001 212-741-2839

Koko School of Sumi 64 MacDougal St. New York, NY 10012 212-673-5190

L‘Ecole, Restaurant of the French Culinary Institute 462 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-219-3300

Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute Inc. 115 E. 15th St. New York, NY 10003 212-533-5500 fax: 212-473-1727 www.newyork-strasberg.com

Legal Language Services 18 John St. Suite 300 New York, NY 10038 212-766-4187 fax: 212-349-0964 www.alsintl.com/legal.htm

Manhattan Graphics Center, Inc. 481 Washington St. New York, NY 10013 212-219-8783 manhattangraphicscenter.org

5 Hanover Sq., 17th fl.

New York, NY 10004 212-400-8294 fax: 212-400-8278 musa@mentoringusa.org www.mentoringusa.org

48 W. 21st St. New York, NY 10010 212-645-5170 fax: 212-989-1493 info@naturalgourmetschool. com www.naturalgourmetschool. com

New York Academy of Art, Inc. 111 Franklin St. New York, NY 10014 212-966-0300 fax: 212-966-3217 www.nyaa.edu

New York Career Institute 11 Park Place, 4th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-962-0002 fax: 212-385-7574 info@nyci.com www.nyci.com

New York Food & Hotel Management School 154 W. 14th St., 11th fl.

New York, NY 10011 212-675-6655 fax: 212-463-9194 nyfood@hotmail.com www.nyfoodandhotelschool. com

New York Speech Improvement Service 253 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 212-242-8435 samspeech@aoI.com www.nyspeech.com

McBurney YMCA

New York Stock Exchange NYSE Euronext

125 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-741-9210

11 Wall St. New York, NY 10005 212-656-3000

www.nyse.com

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture 8 W. 8th St. New York, NY 10011 212-673-6466 fax: 212-777-0996 www.nyss.org

Our Planet Management Institute (OPMI) 116 John St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-269-4000 fax: 212-269-9070 www.nyse.com

Partnership with Children 299 Broadway Ste. 1300 New York, NY 10007 212-689-9500 info@partnershipwithchildrennyc.org www.partnershipwithchildrennyc.org

Peridance Center/ PeriChild Program 126 E. 13th St. New York, NY 10003 212-505-0886 fax: 212-674-2230 info@peridance.com www.peridance.com

Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing 310 E. 22nd St. New York, NY 10010 212-614-6110 www.wehealnewyork.org

Reach Out & Read of Greater New York 30 E. 33rd St. New York, NY 10016 646-237-0103 info@reachoutandreadnyc.org www.reachoutandreadnyc.org

Russian Language Services 18 John St., #300 New York, NY 10038 212-766-4192 fax: 212-349-0964 www.alsintl.com

Sally Johnson Studios

25 W. 23rd St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10010 212-463-7962 fax: 212-463-7847 sjohnsonstudio@aol.com

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center 243 W. 24th St. New York, NY 10011 212-255-4560 fax: 212-727-7392 newyork@sivananda.org www.sivananda.org

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 200 Park Ave. S. #1116 New York, NY 10003 212-529-0505 fax: 212-473-1342 mail@skowheganart.org www.skowheganart.org

Spring Studio 64 Spring St. New York, NY 10012 212-226-7240 springstudio@earthlink.net www.springstudiosoho.com

Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting 31 W. 27th St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10001 212-689-0087 fax: 212-689-6110 info@stellaadler.com www.stellaadler.com

Support Center for Non-Profit Management 305 Seventh Ave., 11th fl.

New York, NY 1 0001 212-924-6744 fax: 212-924-9544 info@supportctr.org www.supportcenteronline.org

Teamsters Education Center 235 E. 11th St. New York, NY 10011 212-807-0550 fax: 212-675-3566

downtown express Third Street Music School Settlement 235 E. 14th St. New York, NY 10003 212-777-3240 fax: 212-477-1808 info@thirdstreetmusicschool. org www.thirdstreetmusicschool. org

GREENMARKET FARMERS MARKETS Bowling Green Broadway & Battery Place Tuesday & Thursday 8AM 5PM Year Round

City Hall Park Broadway & Chamber Sts. Tuesday and Friday June 1 through December 31

Grand St. Chrystie St. to Forsyth St. Sundays July - November

Liberty Park Liberty St. bet. Church & Broadway Tuesday & Thursday 8AM 5PM September-November

Lower East Side Broome St. bet. Essex & Ludlow Sunday 8AM - 5PM September to November

South Street Seaport Fulton St. bet. Water & Pearl Sts. Tuesday 8AM - 5PM Late May to November

St. Mark’s Church E. 10th St.& 2nd Ave. Tuesday 8AM - 7PM Year Round

Tompkins Square East 7th St. & Ave. A Sunday, 8AM - 6PM July 4-December

Tribeca Greenwich St. bet. Chambers & Duane Wednesday & Saturday 8AM - 3PM

23 Year Round chelseavil@ao1.com. www.chelseamd.com

Health Services AIDS Hotline 212-447-8200

Baruch Houses Child Health Clinic 280 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 212-673-5990

Beth Israel Medical Center First Ave. at 16th St. New York, NY 10003 General Information: 212420-2000 Emergency: 212-420-2840 www.bethisraelny.org www.wehealnewyork.org

Bigelow Co. Pharmacy 414 6th Avenue New York, NY 10011 212-533-2700 fax: 212-228-8140

Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation 542 E. 5th St. New York, NY 10009 212-358-3000 fax: 212-358-6249

Cabrini Medical Center 227 E. 19th St. New York, NY 10003 General Information: 212995-6000 Emergency: 212-995-6620 www.cabrininy.org

Center for Village Care of New York 154 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 General information: 212-337-5600 Public affairs: 212-337-5528 fax: 212-366-5528 www.vcny.org

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Ghost

Released in 1990, directed by Jerry Zucker and written by Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost is a romantic fantasy nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

It stars Patrick Swayze as Sam, a banker who’s murdered in an apparent hold-up, Demi Moore as his lover Molly, a talented potter, and Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown, a con-artist posing as a medium who helps Sam communicate with Molly even after his death: for this role Whoopi won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The loving couple lives in SoHo, and though they have a tender, sensuous relationship it may not be possible to watch their famous scene at the potter’s wheel without thinking of Leslie Nielson’s spoof of it. Still, with the soulful, melancholy Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” playing and Sam’s attempt to save Molly from his killer who is also hired to kill her, this is a touching love story, well acted and with exciting scenes in the subways where Swayze encounters a poltergeist wonderfully played by Vincent Schiavelli. The murderer — for this was no random hit but actually planned

by Sam’s ‘friend’ to kill Sam and then

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center 268 Canal St. & 125 Walker St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-379-6988 fax. 212-379-6929 www.cbwchc.org

Chelsea Village Medical Office 314 West 14th St. New York, NY 10014 212-929-9009 fax: 212-242-6057 chelseavil@aol.com www.chelseamd.com

Community Healthcare Network Downtown Health Center 150 Essex St.

Molly to cover a bank scam — is played

by Rick Aviles, a former Lower East Sider, stand-up comic, and host of It’s Showtime at the Apollo from 1987 until 1991. Some of us may have seen Rick perform on the streets before he landed minor roles in Carlito’s Way as well as The Godfather 3, but he died in 1995 from AIDS contracted through heroin abuse.

Filled with magic, other-worldly light, devils dragging both the hit man and

Sam’s ‘friend’ presumably to hell after their deaths, and of course a ghost, this film is particularly touching since we know that Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and People magazine’s 1991 “Sexist Man Alive,” would die of pancreatic cancer in 2009. In a list of “20 Downtown Movies” that might be a little ‘guy movies’ heavy, this New York love story is for couples.

Community Health

New York, NY 10002 212-477-8957 fax: 212-477-8957 www.chnNYorg

General information: 212238-7000 Walk-In Clinic: 212-238-7126 Outpatient: 212-238-7601

Department of Public Health

Hospital for Joint Diseases

New York, NY 10011

PHONE: 311 www.nyc.gov/health

301 E. 17th St. New York, NY 10003 General Information: 212598-6000 Physician Referral: 212-5986727 Emergency: 212-598-7600 Outpatient: 212-598-6321 www.hjd.edu

www.callen-lorde.org

Immunization Clinic Information

NYU Downtown

Downtown Women Ob-Gyn Associates, LLP 568 Broadway, Ste. 304 New York, NY 10012 212-966-7600 fax: 212-925-8736 www.downtownwomenobgyn. com

Gouverneur Diagnostic Treatment Center/ Nursing Facility 227 Madison St. New York, 10002

2 Lafayette St., 19th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-676-2273

Michael CallenAudre Lorde

Center 356 W. 18th St. 212-271-7200

National Down Syndrome Society 666 Broadway New York, NY 10003 212-460-9330

Hospital 170 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-312-5651 www.downtownhospital.org

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New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

Poison Control Center

310 E. 14th St. New York, NY 10003 General information: 212-9794000 Ear and Eye Clinics: 212-9794192 Personnel: 212-979-4275 www.nyee.edu

212-340-4494 toll free: 800-222-1222

New York Foundling Hospital 590 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10011 2l2-633-9300 fax: 212-886-4098 www.nyfoundling.org

Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center 540 E. 13th St. New York, NY 10009 212-387-7400

RYAN-NENA Community Health Center Health & Education Adolescent Program

550 First Ave. New York, NY 10016 212-263-6028

279 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10009 212-477-8500 fax: 212-473-4970

Phillips Ambulatory Care Center

Tribeca Medical Center

NYU Medical Center

Beth Israel 10 Union Sq. E. New York, NY 10003 212-844-8100 www.wehealnewyork.org

303 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10013 212-233-4320 fax: 212-608-3016 www.tribecamedical.com

United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Inc.

102 N. End Ave., New York, NY 10282 212-945-0100

80 Maiden Ln. New York, NY 10038 212-683-6700 www.ucpnyc.org

The Greenwich Hotel

Village Apothecary 346 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10014 212-807-7566 fax: 212-924-6221 www.villageapothecary.com

HOTELS Best Western Seaport Inn 33 Peck Slip New York, NY 10038 212-766-6600 www.seaportinn.com

Cosmopolitan Hotel 95 W. Broadway New York, NY 10007 212-566-1900 fax: 212-566-6019 www.cosmohotel.com

Embassy Suites

377 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10013 212-941-8900 thegreenwichhotel.com

Holiday Inn Wall Street 15 Gold St. New York, NY 10038 212-232-7700 fax: 212-425-0330 www.holidayinnwsd.com

Millenium Hilton 55 Church St. New York, NY 10007 212-693-2001 fax: 212-571-2316 www.newyorkmillenium.com

New York Marriott World Financial 85 West St. New York, NY 10006 212-385-4900

Because There’s So Much to See and Do in New York… he New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is one of the recognized leaders in eye, ear, nose and throat care. Serving New York since 1820, we have more than 500 affiliated physicians throughout the tri-state area and we are part of all major health plans, HMOs and PPOs. America’s first specialty hospital, with: � Board certified specialists in: n Ophthalmology n Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery n Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery � Related areas such as the Ear Institute, Hearing Aid Dispensary, Orthoptics, Sleep Center, Facial Paralysis & Rehabilitation, Institute for Voice and Swallowing, Allergy and Pain Management � All forms of Laser Vision Correction � Beautiful Ambulatory “Same Day” Surgery Center � Specialized Services for Children/Adults/Senior Citizens � For extra convenience if you live or work downtown, we have satellite offices for n Ear-Nose-Throat care in the Wall St. area: 65 Broadway, 212-514-6933, in Chinatown: 128-138 Mott St., 212-343-8399 n Eye and Ear-Nose-Throat care in Tribeca: 77 Worth Street, 212-966-3901

For information call 1-800-449-HOPE (4673) TTY 212-979-4358 (For Hearing Impaired)

The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary 310 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003

www.nyee.edu

26 The Ritz Carlton 2 West St. New York, NY 10004 212-344-0800 fax: 212-344-3801 www.ritzcarlton.com

TriBeCa Grand 2 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 212-519-6600 fax: 212-519-6700 www.tribecagrand.com

Wall Street Inn 9 S. William St. New York, NY 10004 212-747-1 500 fax: 212-747-1900 www.thewallstreetinn.com

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS The Association of the Bar of NYC 42 W. 44th St. New York, NY 10036 212-626-7373 fax: 212-575-5676

COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011 lrs@nycbar.org www.wnycban.org

Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty St. New York, NY 10045 212-720-5000 fax: 212-720-7459 www.newyorkfed.org

NYC Dept. of Small Business Services 311

New York Mercantile Exchange, World Financial Center 1 North End Ave. New York, NY 10282 212-299-2000 www.nymex.com

New York State Dept. of Insurance 25 Beaver St. New York, NY 10004 212-480-6400 www.ins.state.NYus

New York Stock Exchange 11 Wall St.

Start Here. Go Anywhere.

New York, NY 10005 212-656-3000 www.nyse.com

HANDICAPPED & DISABLED SERVICES American Foundation for the Blind 11 Penn Plaza, #300 New York, NY 10001 212-502-7600 fax: 212-502-7777 www.afb.org

Barrier Free Living 270 E. 2nd St. New York, NY 10009 212-677-6668 fax: 212-539-1526

Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York 841 Broadway, #301 New York, NY 10003 212-674-2300

info@cidNYorg www.cidNYorg

Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped 20 Exchange Pl. New York, NY 10005 212-825-5710 fax: 212-825-7143

FEDCAP 211 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-727-4200 fax: 212-727-4374 info@fedcap.org www.fedcap.org

League for the Hard of Hearing 50 Broadway, 6th fl.

New York, NY 10010 917-305-7700 fax: 917-305-7588 postmaster@lhh.org www.lhh.org

Borough of Manhattan Community College

877-NOW-BMCC www.bmcc.cuny.edu

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Rear Window Look next time at Hitchcock’s masterpiece thriller “Rear Window” from a New York point of view. Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes took the short story “It Had to be Murder” by William Irish and set it in Greenwich Village, or at least a 1954 Hollywood stage-set version of the Village.

With all the shades open to apartments facing not across a street but a yard, the film is like watching a dozen films at once while the main story unfolds: a possible murder witnessed by a professional photographer (Jimmy Stewart) forced by a broken leg to sit in a wheel chair six weeks. At first he merely gazes out the window to avoid the trouble between him and his girlfriend (Grace Kelly) but soon, like so many of us, he’s hooked at looking into other windows, into other lives. It’s a New York tradition, ritual, fantasy, need, vice, wonder.

“That’s a secret, private world you’re looking into out there,” scowls friend detective Wendall Corey.

One couple sleeps on the fire escape, the pathetic Miss Lonelyhearts (names given by Stewart) dresses herself pretty, putters with make-up, sets the table and pours wine for two, then cries alone. A dog is lowered by basket to use the yard (my top-floor neighbor used to send hers to the roof). There’s Miss Torso, the dancer prancing, posing, practicing in her underwear (abundant, ample though still alluring 1950s underwear), and the suspected murderer himself (Raymond Burr) who

thankfully also keeps the shades open.

Even when the shades are closed they’re still not shut as we can see right through the slates.

The views into the windows are often typical New York visions: a party of young people, girls in party dresses, guys in shirt and tie. Jazz plays, and at another window a man composes classical music on the piano. Sometimes during the day we hear a woman practicing an opera, at times the music from the street resembles an Italian feast. Occasionally we hear car horns; there is glass broken once but no sirens, no trucks, and, — ah, the old days — no buses with air-brakes.

The backs of the buildings look nothing like the Village but actually seem a com-

Manhattan Occupational Training Center, PS 721M

New York Society for the Deaf

250 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10014 212-675-7926

212-366-0066

Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities 100 Gold St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-788-2830 fax: 212-341-9843

315 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 fax: 212-366-8144

United Cerebral Palsy of New York 80 Maiden Ln., 8th fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-683-6700 fax: 212-685-8394 www.ucpnyc.org

posite of many styles all mixed into one back yard. A small opening between the buildings provides a slice of the street which too looks nothing like New York.

Even the only taxi is more brown than yellow. The suspect’s address is 125 W. 9th Street, which doesn’t exist. But no matter: this is a voyeuristic movie-lover’s movie, with movies within movies, and we get even deeper into the people’s lives when Stewart puts down the binoculars for his telephoto lens. Yet despite that impossible conglomeration of apartments or that no one in New York ever, even at night, closes the shades, what’s most remarkable is that gorgeous Grace Kelly could ever fall for dear, ordinary Jimmy Stewart.

Visions Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired 500 Greenwich St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-625-1616 fax: 212-219-4078 info@visionsvcb.org visionsvcb.org

YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities 320 W. 13th St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10014 212-645-1616

LIBRARIES ARChive of Contemporary Music 54 White St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-6967 arcmusic@inch.com www.arcmusic.org

Bahai Center & Library 53 E. 11th St. New York, NY 10003 212-674-8998 fax: 212-674-6840 secretariat@bahainyc.org www.bahainyc.org

28 Hampden Booth Theatre Library

COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2011 www.nypl.org

www.nps.gov/afbg

Muhlenberg Branch Library

American Numismatic Society

Municipal Archives of the City of New York

209 W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10011 212-924-1585 www.nypl.org

31 Chambers St. -New York, NY 10007 ww-w.nyc.gov/html/records/ html/about/visiting.shtml

NY Public Library Mulberry Street Branch

75 Varick St., 11th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-571-4470 fax: 212-571-4479 wwwnumismatic.org

16 Gramercy Park S. New York, NY 10003 212-228-1861

Poets House, Inc. 72 Spring St., Room 301 New York, NY 10012 212-431-7920 www.poetshouse.org

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Chatham Square Library 33 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-964-6598 www.nypl.org

Early Childhood Information Center Library 66 Leroy St. New York, NY 10014 212-929-0815 www.nypl.org

Epiphany Branch Library 228 E. 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 212-679-2645 www.nypl.org

Hamilton Fish Park Branch Library 415 E. Houston St. New York, NY 10002 212-673-2290 www.nypl.org

Hudson Park Branch Library 66 Leroy St. New York, NY 10014 212-243-6876 www.nypl.org

Anne Frank Center USA

10 Jersey St. New York, NY 10012 212-966-3424 Branch@nypl.org www.nypl.org

38 Crosby St., 5th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-431-7993 fax: 212-431-8375 www.annefrank.com

New York Public Library

Art Gate Center

New Amsterdam Branch 9 Murray SL 3rd FI. New York, NY 10007 212-732-8186 www.nyp|.org

New York Public Library Ottendorfer Branch 135 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-674-0947 www.nypl.org

New York Public Library Seward Park Branch 192 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-477-6770 www.nypl.org

Tompkins Square Library 331 E. 10th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-4747 www.nypl.org

70 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10013 212-349-0126 fax: 212-349-0494 info@htchendance.org www.htchendance.org

Art in General 79 Walker St. New York, NY 10013 212-219-0473 fax: 212-219-0511 www.artingeneral.org

Asian American Art Center 26 Bowery, 3rd fl.

New York. NY 10013 212-233-2154 fax: 212-766-1287 aartsctr@aol.com www.artspiral.org

Castle Clinton National Monument Battery Park New York, NY 10004 212-344-7220 www.nps.gov/carl

Charging Bull at Bowling Green

MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS

Broadway at Whitehall St.

Access Theatre

182 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10013 212-941-9198 info@cmaNYorg www.cmaNYorg

380 Broadway, 4th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-966-1047

Jefferson Market Library

African Burial Ground National Monument

425 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-243-4334

290 Broadway New York, NY 10007 212-637-2019

Children’s Museum of The Arts

Chinese American Arts Council 456 Broadway, 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-431-9740

fax: 212-431-9789 www.gallery456.org

Clocktower Gallery 108 Leonard St. New York, NY 10013 212-233-1096

Eldridge Street Project Inc. 12 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-219-0888 fax: 212-9664782 www.eldridgestreet.org

Ellis lsland Immigration Museum Ellis island (Ticket Booth/Ferry at Castle Clinton in Battery Park) 212-363-3200 www.nps.gov/elis

Federal Hall National Memorial 26 Wall St. New York, NY 10005 212-825-6888 www.nps.gov/feha

Fraunces Tavern Museum 54 Pearl St. New York, NY 10004 212-425-1778 fax: 212-509-3467 www.frauncestavernmuseum. org

Governorgogue and Museum 280 Broome St. New York, NY 10002 212-431-1619 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 72 Cooper Station New York, NY 10276 www.kkjsm.org

Governor‘s Island Nat’l Monument Preservation New York Harbor 212-440-2200 www.nps.gov

downtown express Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum 280 Broome St. New York, NY 10002 212-431-1619 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 72 Cooper Station New York, NY 10276

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Lower East Side Tenement Museum 108 Orchard St. New York, NY 10002 212-431-0233 lestm@tenement.org www.tenement.org

29 American Financial History 26 Broadway, Rm. 947 New York, NY 10004 212-908-4110 fax: 212-9084601 www.financialhistory.org

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Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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New York City Fire Museum

New York Unearthed Archaeology Museum

278 Spring St. New York, NY 10013 212-691-1303 director@nycfiremuseum.org www.nycfiremuseum.org

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

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235 Broadway New York, NY 10002

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207 Front St. New York, NY 10004 212-748-8628 www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org

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The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Pl. New York, NY 10280 212-968-1961 admin@skyscraper.org www.skyscraper.org

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Godfather 2 Released in 1974 following the huge success of The Godfather two years before, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola and Mario Puzo, this film is both a sequel and prequel, telling the story of Michael’s growing power while going backwards in time following young Vito Corleone’s arrival in New York and his rise on the Lower East Side. The scenes on the ship carrying young Vito to America — the passengers from steerage gaze in silent, reverential awe as they sail past the Statue of Liberty while The Godfather theme swells — and through the inspection halls of Ellis Island are magnificent, but best are those scenes shot on the Lower East Side and set in the first decades of the 20th Century.

Young Vito is played elegantly by Robert DeNiro whose work on this film won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the film also won for Best Picture and was the first film ever to have a ‘Part 2’ in the title). We’re with Vito in a small, crowded theater seeing a sentimental play, with him on the teeming, crammed street, in the grocery store where he works, in

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his apartment with windows in the walls between the rooms. We see his meeting and friendship with Clemenza (played

by Bruno Kirby), and the scenes on the roof-tops, the Italian feast, and DeNiro sitting with his wife and young children (baby Michael in his arms) while someone beside him plays and sings The Godfather theme are some of the most beautiful footage ever shot of old New York. Most of the time, these scenes are spoken in Sicilian except, chronologically, the first

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The Ukrainian Museum

South Street Seaport Museum Pier 16, 207 Front St. New York, NY 10038 212-748-8600 www.southstseapon.org

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222 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10003 212-228-0110 www.ukrainianmuseum.org

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time Vito utters the famous, “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

Although much of The Godfather 2 occurs in Sicily, Nevada, even Cuba, a good portion of this three-hour epic is shot on the Lower East Side with detail, historical accuracy, and genuine beauty, and though we shake our heads in mutual dismay at the goofy Folker films DeNiro is doing now, his performance here combining tenderness and calm with deadly power is one of the most memorable in American cinema.

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NEIGHBORHOOD Chinese ASSOCIATIONS Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development 50 Broad St., Ste. 1125 New York, NY 10004 212-747-1117 fax: 212-747-1114 www.anhd.org

Canal Park Conservancy Jana Haimsohn 530 Canal St. New York, NY 10013

Consolidated Benevolent Association 62 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-6280 fax: 212-431-5883

Friends of City Hall Park 373 Broadway #E1 New York, NY 10013 212-431-8480 cityhallpark@earthlink.net

downtown express Friends of Duane Park 55 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013 212-227-5843 www.duanepark.org

Friends of Finn Square 6 Varick St., #7A New York, NY 10013 212-966-1899

Friends of Hudson Square 512 Greenwich St., 1st fl.

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Gompers Houses 50 Pitt St. New York, NY 10002 212-982-0990

Independence Plaza Association Diana Lapson inof@IPNTA.org

Tribeca Association Carole DeSaram 434 Greenwich St., #4F New York, NY 10013 814-576-7472 desaram50@earthlink.net

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Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Plaza Coenties Slip at Water St.

Washington Market Park Chambers & Greenwich Sts.

GREENSTREETS Time Landscape Garden, LaGuardia Pl., Houston St., Bleecker St., 7th Ave., Leroy St., Bedford St. W. Houston St. & 6th Ave. (North Side) Houston St. between Elizabeth & Mott Sts. Houston St. between Mott & Mulberry Sts. Horatio St. & W. 4 St. & 8th Ave. Broome St. & Thompson St. & Watts St. Christopher St. & Waverly Pl. 6th Ave., Christopher St. & Greenwich Ave. 7th Ave. S., Bedford St. & Morton St. 8th Ave., West 4th St., Jane St.

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Little Italy Merchants Association, Inc 109 Mulberry St., New York, NY 10013 T. 212-302-0551 F. 917-237-0041 The Little Italy Merchants Association (LIMA), Created in 1999, is an organization composed of 50 local businesses, including restaurants, cafes and gift shops, located on Mulberry, Grand, Hester, and Broome Streets in Lower Manhattan’s historic Little Italy neighborhood.

S.P.Q.R. 133is responsible Mulberry The organization for operating the annual 18-week Spring/Summer PedestrianStreet Mall

along Mulberry Street between Canal and Broome Streets every weekend between early May and late September. During mall hours, no vehicular traffic (except for emergency vehicles) or parking is allowed on Mulberry Street , and local restaurants and cafes with city permits are allowed to serve dinners at sidewalk tables in front of their establishments. LIMA also produces the annual three-week “Christmas in Little Italy” celebration every December, transforming Mulberry Street into a winter wonderland with festive lights, decorations, parades and tree lighting ceremonies that attract thousands of visitors and tourists.

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Abington Sq., Hudson St., W. 12th St., 9th Ave. - Saturdays Tompkins Sq., E. 7th-E. 10th Sts., Ave. A to Ave. B Sundays Union Square, Union Sq. E., Union Sq. W., E. 17th St. Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. City Hall Park, Broadway & Chambers St. - Tues. & Fri., June 1-Dec. 31 Grand St. , Chrystie St. to Forsyth St. - Sunday, July 11-Nov. 21 St. Mark’s Church, E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave. - Tuesday, May 4 to Dec, 21.

Stuyvesant Town, E.18th-E. 19th Sts., First to Second Ave. - Sunday, June 6 to Nov. Tribeca Market, Greenwich St. between Chambers & Duane Sts. - Wed., Apr. 7 to Dec. 22.

Zuccotti Park Plaza in front of 120 Broadway @ Liberty St. - Tues. & Thurs., Apr. 6 to Dec. 23.

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and with other local business and trade organizations in Lower Manhattan, as well as with city and state tourism agencies, explores ways to create additional economic opportunities in the area.

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Hester Street Shot in black and white, which provides a documentary feel, and spoken almost entirely in Yiddish with sub-titles, Hester Street is a small, beautiful movie about a young Jewish immigrant woman’s struggles, compromises, gains, loses and eventual adjustment to New York and America at the end the 19th century. Written and directed by Joan Micklin Silva (who also directed Crossing Delancey about modern-day Jewish match-making and features the Essex Street pickle stand), the film is based on Abraham Cahan’s novel Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto published in 1896, the same year in which the film is set. Though Cahan’s novel focuses primarily on the arrival in New York and the assimilation and Americanization of Yekl who, in his fervor to leave the past behind, changes his name to Jake, Hester Street is really more concerned with Gitl, his wife, who is much more traditional and resistant to change despite her husband’s

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Troop A. Mounted Police 19 Varick St. New York, NY 212-334-0641

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nagging insistence she give up her shawls, her head covering and Yiddish. Gitl is tenderly yet powerfully played by Carol Kane; having appeared in Carnal Knowledge, as well as Dog Day Afternoon and Annie Hall, she is probably best known

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for her successful years on Broadway as Madame Morrible in Wicked.

This is a low-budget film; its scenes on Ellis Island, though realistic and detailed, have not the size and scope Coppola could accomplish in similar scenes in The Godfather 2. But what Hester Street lacks in expense it makes up for in compassion, depth, subtlety and detail. The scenes of the streets on the Lower East Side, its shops, apartments, clothes, manners, and the penetrating study of the film’s characters make this a small epic, however contradictory that may be. Although Gitl is eventually abandoned by her husband, she is brave, strong, at times heroic as she realizes her own potential, and the adjustments she makes in the New World are inspiring, especially to women who will see her story to be as much about one woman’s true liberation from convention and stereotype as it is about freedom from the prejudice and ghettos of Poland.

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New York City Independence Party

208 West 13th St. New York, NY 10011 212-620-7310 info@glid.org www.glid.org.

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Harry S. Truman Democratic Club 551 Grand St., Suite 1 New York, NY 10002 212-349-7140 fax: 212-387-8017 snackplay@aol.com

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New York County Republican Committee

Sons of the Revolution 54 Pearl St. New York, NY 10004 212-425-1776 fax: 212-509-3467 www.sonsoftherevolution.org

Village lndependent Democrats

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Paradise Alley Released in 1978, Paradise Alley opens on a Hell’s Kitchen rooftop at night just after World War Two. There’s to be a foot race between the Rat and the film’s central character/hero-of-sorts, Cosmo Carboni. The race covers ten rooftops, with leaps between the gaps of the buildings; at the end, five bucks for the winner.

Shot in slow motion with a good Tom Waits impersonator singing, we watch the race head-on as well as from between the gaps, but at the last leap the Rat falls, catching himself on a clothesline, and though Cosmo wins the race, the prize is nailed several times to the wall and he can only retrieve pieces of it.

Written, directed and starring Sylvester Stallone following his colossal 1976 success with Rocky, Paradise Alley follows the three Carboni brothers and their desire to leave the crowded slum. Lenny, the oldest brother played by Armand Assante, is a bitter, wounded veteran working as an undertaker. With a leather jacket and pork pie hat, Stallone plays middle brother Cosmo, the fast-talking hustler and con-artist, and Lee Canalito plays the youngest brother Victor, a gentle giant who carries blocks of ice up tenement stairs. Although all three want out of Hell’s Kitchen, Cosmo’s various plans to

do so fail until he finally hits on the idea of turning Victor into a professional wrestler known as Kid Salami.

Echoing films such as Rod Serling’s 1962 Requiem for a Heavyweight and the more recent The Wrestler, and with Terry Funk, a real professional wrestler cast as Frankie the Thumper, this film is wonderfully acted, with marvelous visuals of the streets of Hell’s Kitchen and a cameo of Tom Waits, appropriately named Mumbles, on the piano in a smoky bar.

But best is Stallone’s character, filled with humor, wit, street-smarts and tenderness,

all pouring out of him in an avalanche of words. Rocky won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and though its story is more involving and inspirational than Paradise Alley, we are reminded what a truly talented writer Stallone was, especially when he first came on the scene. Paradise Alley must be seen for the relationships of the three brothers, the great footage of the roof-tops and street corners, apartments and ice-house brilliantly photographed by Laszlo Kovacs, and primarily for Stallone’s wonderfully wordy, clever, funny, tender, inventive script.

downtown express Senator Kristen Gillibrand New York City Office: 780 Third Ave., Ste. 2601 New York, New York 10017 212-688-6262 fax (212) 688-7444 http://gillibrand.senate.gov/

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Representative Carolyn B. Maloney 1651 Third Ave., Ste. 311 New York, NY 10128 212-860-0606 fax: 212-860-0704 www.maloney.house.gov/

Representative Jerrold Nadler 201 Varick St., Ste. 669 New York, NY 10014 212-367-7350 fax: 212-367-7356 jerroldnadler@mail.house.gov www.house.gov/nadler

Representative Nydia Velazquez 173 Ave. B New York, NY 10009 212-673-3997 www.house.gov/Velazquez

NEW YORK STATE Governor David A. Paterson State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 518-474-7516 www.NYgov/governor

NEW YORK STATE SENATE Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver 250 Broadway, Ste. 2300 New York, NY 10007 212-312-1400 fax: 212-312-1418 speaker@assembly.state.NYus http://assembly.state.NYus/ mem/?ad=064

Assemblymember Deborah Glick 853 Broadway, Ste. 2120 New York, NY 10003 212-674-5153 glickd@assembly.state.NYus http://assembly.state.NYus

35 Assemblymember Richard N. Gottfried 242 W. 27th St. New York, NY 10001 212-807-7900 gottfrr@assembly.state.NYus http://assembly.state.NYus/ mem/?ad=075

Assemblymember Brian P. Kavanagh 237 First Ave., Rm. 407 New York, NY 10003 212-979-9696 kavanaghb@assembly.state.NYus http://assembly.state.NYus/ mem/?ad=74

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Man on Wire Surely the 45 minutes that Philippe Petit walked on a steel cable less than an inch thick between the still unfinished Twin Towers are New York’s most magical moments, and we can share a portion of that wonder with the man who did it in Man on Wire, the 2008 Academy Award winner for best documentary. Directed

by James Marsh and based on Philippe’s own memoir of the same title (though once called Reaching for the Clouds before the success of this film), it stars the reallife characters themselves: Annie Allix, Philippe’s girlfriend then and interviewed now, looking beautiful in both while the passing of time is evident in all of us. So too for Jean-Louis Blondeau, Philippe’s deepest, most dedicated confidant and co-hort. As with Annie we see Jean-Louis then and now, still trim, tender, passionate though with white hair. Perhaps the film’s most touching moments are when JeanLouis, more than a quarter century later, is moved to the edge of tears and silence by the recollection of “the coup.”

That was the name of the event to those planning it, and the movie unfolds like a spy

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thriller even though, like with Titanic or the Iliad, we know the ending: the big boat’s going down, Troy falls, and on August 7, 1974, a young man walked a wire connecting the Twin Towers. Never is September 11, 2001 mentioned, but there is something haunting in the many views we have of it, for the film, like Philippe himself, has a passionate connection to the Towers, an “intimate relation” he says: “In a sense, I

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married them.” Most engaging and remarkable is Philippe himself, who narrates the movie, telling us the story with energy and humor, without hubris or conceit. He is the city itself, dreaming and striving and sacrificing, and though he has aged as much as the others, he still teaches circus skills. The film’s last, inspiring shots are of Philippe — in his sixth decade, still walking a wire, his eyes uplifted to the sky.

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Community Center at Stuyvesant High School

Al Smith Recreation Center 80 Catherine St. New York, NY 10038 212-285-0300 fax: 212-285-0302

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy 2 South End Ave. New York, NY 10280 212-267-9700 fax: 212-267-9707 info@bbcparks.org www.bpcparks.org Ballfields Permits: 646-210-4571

Chinatown YMCA

345 Chambers St. New York, NY 10282 646-210-4292 www.ccshs.org

Educational Alliance 197 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300 fax: 212-979-1225 www.edalliance.org

14 St. Y-Sol Goldman YM-YWHA 344 E. 14th St. New York, NY 10003 212-780-0800 www.edalliance.org

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New York, NY 10014 212-627-2020 fax: 212-627-2021 Park Enforcement Patrol 212-242-6427 www.hudsonriverpark.com

McBurney YMCA 125 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-741-9210 www.ymca.org.com

New York Chinese Community Center 62 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-6280 fax: 212-431-5883

Parks Department / Arsenal Central Park 830 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10021 212-360-8111 www.nycgovparks.org

Tony Dapolito Recreation Center 1 Clarkson St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-5228 www.nycparks.org

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS Abounding Grace 393 E. 8th St. New York, NY 10009 212-614-0370 Services at: P.S. 34 12th St. & Ave. D. New York, NY 10009

Agudath Israel of America 42 Broadway New York, NY 10038 212-797-9000 fax: 646-254-1600

Assafa Islamic Center 172 Allen St. New York, NY 10002 212-253-1053

Bahai Faith 53 E. 11th St. New York, NY 10003

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Battery Park Synagogue 385 South End Ave., Apt. 1D New York, NY 10280 212-432-7022

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Bethel Chinese Assembly of God 77 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-226-1156

Bialystoker Synagogue 7-11 Bialystoker Pl. New York, NY 10002 212-475-0165 fax: 212-420-8660 www.bialystoker.org

The Brotherhood Synagogue 2B Gramercy Park S. New York, NY 10003 212-674-5750 fax: 212-505-6707 www.brotherhoodsynagogue. org

Catholic Center at New York University 58 Washington Sq. S. New York, NY 10012 212-674-7236 fax: 212-473-2971 www.nyu.edu/pages/catholic. center

Catholic Medical Mission Board 10 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 212-242-7757 info@cmmb.org wvwv.cmmb.org

Chabad on Washington Square 27 Washington Sq. N. New York, NY 10011 212-674-1950

Chinese Conservative Baptist Church 103 Madison St. New York, NY 10002 212-962-6040 www.nyccbc.org

Chinese Evangelist Mission Church 97 Madison St. New York, NY 10002 212-571-1083

Adult medicine Contraception (birth control) Emergency contraception (plan B) GYN exams HIV counseling and testing Male exams Prenatal care Pediatric care STD counseling and testing Make an Appointment Today!

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Christian City Church 332 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10014 212-267-6264

Christian Science Church 171 MacDougal St. New York, NY 10011 212-777-1717 Reading Room 212-777-0323

Christian Science Reading Room 130 Church St. New York, NY 10007 212-587-9530

Christ Lutheran Church 123 E. 15th St. New York, NY 10003 212-475-5906

Church of All Nations United Methodist 48 St. Marks Pl. New York, NY 10004 212-677-5940

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

39 Ascension 12 W. 11th St. New York, NY 10011 212-254-8620

Church of the Bible Crusaders 548 E. 13th St. New York, NY 10009 212-254-7257

Church of the Most Holy Crucifix 378 Broome St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-2556

Church of the Transfiguration 29 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-962-5157 fax: 212-962-5217 www.transfigurationnyc.org

Church of the Village 201 W. 13th St New York, NY 10011 212-243-5470

Civic Center Synagogue 49 White St. New York, NY 10013 212-966-7141 fax: 212-866-4968 www.civiccentersynsgogue. com

Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church:

144 W. 15th St. New York, NY 10011 212-367-8942

Corporate Office 45 John St., # 1000 New York, NY 10038 212-233-1960

Church of New York – Chinatown

Community Synagogue Center

139 Bowery New York, NY 10013 212-925-4880

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary 7 State St. New York, NY 10004 212-269-6865

Church of Saint Luke in the Fields 487 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 212-924-0562

Church of the

Accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs

325 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10003 212-473-3665

Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol 60 Norfolk St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-3330

Congregation Beth Simchat Torah 57 Bethune St. New York, NY 10014 212-929-9498 www.cbst.org

40 Worth St. NY, NY 10013

(212) 374-1489

230 West 13th St. NY, NY 10011

(212) 807-0518 www.bucklemyshoe.org

Celebrating 28 years, Buckle My Shoe Nursery School began in 1981with a developmental approach in early childhood. Our original small group, seven two-year olds (to be exact) has grown into two pre-schools comprising of 200 children. The Reggio Emilia philosophy embraces our view of young children and has become the current educational model that meets the “whole child.”

The Reggio approach focuses on the “whole child” through creative exploration and play, allowing the child's social, cognitive and reflective abilities to develop through art. Buckle My Shoe Nursery School has an atelier (art studio) along with a full time atelierista (art director) to guide the exploration of materials with children, parents and teachers.

This art curriculum helps weave relationships with friends, family and community in preparation for future life experiences.

The premise “children learn by doing”, is teaching our young children to care for their planet by recycling and reusing various resources.

The Reggio Emilia philosophy helps Buckle My Shoe Nursery School use its community as a resource tool to explore various ideas and develop a liaison between the children and their environment.

We are fortunate to be in one of the most resourceful and culturally diverse cities in the world.

Our children can express themselves and their experiences through language and art. Indeed, they do speak many languages and their art is a critical means of self-expression.

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Congregation Chasam Sopher

New York, NY 10009 212-673-0471

8 Clinton St. New York, NY 10002 212-777-5140

Epiphany RC Church Rectory

First Chinese Presbyterian Church

East Side Tabernacle

239 E. 21st St. New York, NY 10010 212-475-1966

61 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-964-0521 fax: 212-566-2974 www.firstpresnyc.org

Congregation Darech Amuno 53 Charles St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-6425

Conservative Synagogue 11 E. 11th St. New York, NY 10003 212-929-6954 csfae11@aol.com

Dewitt Reformed church 280 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-3341

East End Temple 245 E. 17th St. New York, NY 10010 212-427-6444

E. Seventh St. Baptist Church 205 E. 7th St.

254 E. 2nd St. New York, NY 10009 212-673-9815

Eastern State Buddhist Temple 64 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-966-6229

Eastern United States Taoists Associates

Episcopal Church of Our Saviour 48 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-233-2899 fax: 212-233-2765

Faith Evangelistic Ministries

1 Spring St. New York, NY 10012 212-966-8950

90 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-480-1930

Eldridge St. Synagogue

Finnish Lutheran Baptist Church

12 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-219-0888 www.eldridgestreet.org

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church 737 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-0431

81 Christopher St. New York, NY 10013 646-638-4195

First Chinese Baptist Church 21 Pell St. New York, NY 10013 212-267-6436

First Presbyterian Church 12 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10011 212-675-6150 www.firstpresnyc.org

Forefront Church 928 Broadway New York, NY 10010 212-388-1831

Gethesmane Garden Baptist Church 223 E. 7th St. New York, NY 10009 212-353-3403

Grace Church 802 Broadway New York, NY 10003 212-254-2000

Two great ways to explore the Lower East Side!

LES Third Thursdays is a night to discover the diverse art offerings of the Lower East Side. On the third Thursday of each month, area galleries roll out the red carpet, staying open late from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Over 30 galleries participate, and hundreds of visitors have taken advantage of this great way to get to know the hottest new art as well as the Lower East Side.

Our LES Neighborhood Guide features restaurants, boutiques, services, a detailed neighborhood map as well as tips and picks from MTV correspondent and LES resident SuChin Pak, plus freshoff-the-drawingboard sketches from renown LES fashion designers.

Not only does it give you the lowdown on everything the LES has to offer, but it’s free!

Upcoming Third Thursdays for 2011 are: May 19, June 16, July 21, September 15, and October 20.

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Mean Streets Roger Ebert declared Martin Scorcese’s 1973 Mean Streets “One of the source points of modern movies.” It was written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin while driving the streets of Little Italy in the early 1970s, parking the car and taking notes and writing scenes about what was occurring before them when something besides Mulberry Street was still Italian. This gritty, stylized film follows Charlie, a young man trying to rise in the neighborhood while forming his relationship to the city and the edges of the underworld, played by Harvey Keitel. His best friend is a local punk named Johnny Boy, played by Robert DeNiro, who won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor. This was Scorcese’s first feature film, and many of his

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Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church 507 E. 11th St. New York, NY 10009 212-254-5854

Greek Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist 143 E. 17th St. New York, NY 10003 212-473-0648

Greenwich Village Synagogue 53 Charles St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-6425

Heavenly Grace Buddhist Temple

most memorable moments in later, more polished and wellfinanced films appear in Mean Streets for the first time. Remember the camera following the back of robed and hooded

DeNiro as he moved through the stadium, down the aisle to the ring and the camera pulled back in Raging Bull? Or when Henry and Karen wound their way through the interior of

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Heritage Baptist Church 519 Eighth Ave. New York, NY 10016 212-947-5316 / 212-633-0382 Services @ Baruch College Campus/PD 55 East 25th St. New York, NY 10010

Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-807-6799 www.holyapostlesnyc.org

Immaculate Conception Church 414 E. 14th St. New York, NY 10009 212-254-0200

Interfaith Minister M. Zell Schwartzman 350 W. 24th St.

Japanese American United Church 255 7th Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-242-9444 nbrownell@jauc.org www.jauc.org

John Street United Methodist Church 44 John St. New York, NY 10038 212-269-0014

Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq. S. New York, NY 10012 212-477-0351 www.judson.org

Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum 280 Broome St. New York, NY 10002

the Copacabana in Goodfellas? In Mean Streets we follow Charlie through Tony’s club (an early version of the club in Goodfellas), Scorcese himself has a cameo (as he would in his later films), and always that great choice of music: here, Aretha Franklin’s “It’s in His Kiss,” and “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes, the Marvelette’s “Please Mister Postman,” and DeNiro walking into the club in slow motion to “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”

From the feasts in Little Italy throughout the summer to a scene with Keitel and DeNiro in the cemetery of the old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Prince Street, Mean Streets imaginatively yet realistically captures a time and place in New York while telling a powerful story of friendship, dreams and tragedy.

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Living Word Community Church 325 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-966-6070

Marble Collegiate Church 1 W. 29th St. New York, NY 10001 212-685-0706 fax: 212-685-0706 www.marble church.org

Middle Collegiate Church 50 East 7th St. New York, NY 10003 212-477-0666 www.middlechurch.org

Most Precious Blood Church 109 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-6427 fax: 212-226-1837

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Once Upon A Time in America

There are three versions of Once Upon a Time in America, but the one originally distributed in 1984 was so brutalized (cut by half) and the imaginative storyline so rearranged that its heartbroken director Sergio Leone never made another film. Still, the copy shown at the Cannes Film Festival that year is the one available on DVD, and though The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II (1974) set a nearly impossibly high standard for gangster films to follow, this poetic, epic, operatic story almost four hours long is in no film’s shadow.

During work on his Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Leone read The Hoods by Harry Grey, a novel about young Jewish gangsters on the Lower East Side, inspiring him to make this epic story and giving recognition to this ancient tribe’s gangsters; after all, there’s Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein, Hyman Roth and Moe Green. Covering fifty years in the lives of a group of friends and traveling both backwards and forwards in time, the film stars Robert

DeNiro in one of his finest but most unheralded roles. His young gangster of the 1920s recalls Jay Gatsby far more

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than a young Vito Corleone (also played by DeNiro), while his portrayal of an old man returning to his past and

New York in the 1960s was so convincing I was sure that my own Uncle Morrie was on the screen. James Woods costarts in the best work of his career, and the cast includes an irresistible Elizabeth McGovern. And in a film filled with enchantment –it begins and ends, for example, in a sensuous Chinatown opium den—the scenes of New York in the first decades of the 20th century, with these same characters played by other, younger actors (Scott Tiler, Rusty Jacobs, Jennifer Connelly), are some of the finest and enhanced by the magical musical score of Ennio Morricone which actually was being played during shooting of the film.

“You’ll never lose that stink of the streets,” a wealthy, young Woods (“Maxie”) says scornfully to his partner, an equally young and wealthy DeNiro (“Noodles”).

“I like the stink of the streets,” Noodles replies, “I like the smell of it, it makes me feel good, it opens up my lungs. Besides,” he adds with a smile, “it gives me a hardon.”

downtown express National Council of Young Isreal 111 John St., Ste. 450 New York, NY 10038 212-929-1525 mcyi@youngisrael.org www.youngisrael.org

43 New York, NY 10002 212-673-0900 oloschurch@yahoo.com

Our Lady of Victory Church

Nativity Church

60 William St. New York, NY 10005 212-422-5535

44 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-674-8590

Primitive Christian Church, Inc.

Neighood Church of Greenwich Village

209 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-673-7868

269 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10014 212-691-1770

Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)

New York Chinese Alliance Church 162 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-533-3808 www.nycac.org

15 Rutherford Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-777-8866 nyqmfriends@netscape,net

St. Andrews Church

New York Chinese Baptist Church

20 Cardinal Hayes Pl. New York, NY 10007 212-962-3972 fax: 212-962-1012

82 Walker St. New York, NY 10012 212-431-0377

St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church

New York Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection 59 E. 2nd St. New York, NY 10003 212-677-4664

Our Lady of Loreto Roman Catholic Church 25 Carmine St. New York, NY 212-989-6805

Our Lady of Pompeii Church 25 Carmine St. New York, NY 10014 212-989-6805

Our Lady of the Rosary Church Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Seton 7 State St. (South Ferry) New York, NY 10004 212-269-6865 www.setonshrine.com

Our Lady of Sorrows Rectory 213 Stanton St.

Orthodox Church

Trinity Church

155 Cedar St. New York, NY 10006 212-227-0773 www.SaintPatrickSaintPeterSaintTeresa.org

74 Trinity Place New York, NY 10006 212-602-0800 www.trinitywallstreet.org

Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral 263 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10012 212-226-8075

Saint Paul’s Chapel 209 Broadway at Wall St. New York, NY 10007 212-233-4164 fax: 212-233-4156 www.saitnpaulschapel.org

Saint Peter’s Roman Catholic Church 22 Barclay St. Mailing Address: 30 Vesey St., 7th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-233-8355

Saint Theresa’s Church

154 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 212-777-2755

141 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-233-0233 fax: 212-619-4538

Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church

Seamen’s Church Institute

290 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-673-5300 staugnyc@yahoo.com www.staugnyc.org

Saint Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church 27 Forsyth St. New York, NY 10002 212-226-0499

St. Joseph’s Church 364 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10014 212-741-1274

St. Joseph’s Church 5 Monroe St. New York, NY 10002 212-267-8376

Saint Mary’s Church 440 Grand St. Rectory: 28 Attorney St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-3266

Saint Nicholas Greek

241 Water St. New York, NY 10038 212-349-9090 www.seamenschurch.org

Subud New York 230 W. 29th St. New York, NY 10001 212-563-1196

Tenth Street Church of Christ 257 E. 10th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-4837

Transfiguration Catholic Church 29 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-962-5157 transfigurationnyc.org

Transworld Buddhist Association 7 E. Broadway New York, NY 10038 212-962-1223

Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish 602 East 9th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-5254

True Buddah Diamond Temple of New York 105 Washington St. New York, NY 10006 212-732-5264

True Light Lutheran Church 195 Worth St. New York, NY 10013 212-962-1482

Trust in God Baptist Church 5 Elizabeth St. New York, NY 10013 212-925-9835

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 820 Second Ave., 10th fl.

New York, NY 10017 212-533-7800

Unity Church of NY 119 W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10011 212-560-0756

Universal Church of Christ 56 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-677-6608

Village Church P.C.A. 232 W. 11th St. New York, NY 10014 212-725-2564

Village Temple 33 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10003 212-674-2340 www.villagetemple.org

Wall Street Synagogue 47 Beekman St. New York, NY 10038 212-227-7800

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SCHOOLS

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Academy of St. Joseph’s

Buckle My Shoe Learning Center

111 Washington Pl. New York, NY 10014 212-243-5420 fax: 212-414-4526 www.academyofsaintjoseph. org

230 W. 13th St. New York, NY 10011 212-807-0518 www.bucklemyshoe.org

Adelphi University

32 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10013 212-924-3900

75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013-1917 (212) 965-8342

Bayard Rustin Educational Complex

Serving Lunch & Dinner LUNCH • Mon. - Fri. 12 - 2:30

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81 Warren Street

Bet. Greenwich & W. Bway

Trinity Preschool and Nursery is…

• An Episcopal School offering a quality program for infant, toddler and preschool children • A year-round, full-day school with 5-, 3- or 2-day options • Located in the Wall Street area Tours conducted by appointment, call 212.602.0829 or visit trinitywallstreet.org/preschool

Member of Independent Schools Admissions Association of Greater New York (ISAAGNY), the National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES), and the Educational Records Bureau (ERB).

Beacon Center of Grand St. Settlement at JHS 22 145 Stanton St. New York, NY 10002 212-505-6338

Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law 55 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-790-0200

Berlitz Language Center 2 Rector St. New York, NY 10006 212-766-2388 fax: 212-964-8198 www.berlitz.com

Beth Jacob Parochial School 142 Broome St. New York, NY 10002 212-473-4500 fax: 212-460-5317

Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers St. New York, NY 10007 212-220-8000

Buckle My Shoe Learning Center 40 Worth St. New York, NY 10013 212-374-1489

Cambridge Univerity Press

Carsten Aveda Institute 22 E. 17th Street New York, NY 10003 212-675-4884

Chambers Pottery Inc. 153 Chambers St., Apt. 2 New York, NY 10007 212-619-7302 www.chamberspottery.com

Chelsea Vocational High School 131 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10013 212-925-1080 fax: 212-941-7934

Chinatown Headstart 180 Mott St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-5000

Chinese School of New York 62 Mott St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-226-3320

Church Street School For Music and Art 74 Warren St. New York, NY 10007 212-571-7290 fax: 212-571-7292 churchstreetschool@rcn.com www.churchstreetschool.org

City and Country School 146 W. 13th St. New York, NY 10011 212-242-7802 fax: 212-242-7996 www.cityandcountry.org

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Wall Street Except for the harbor surrounding us (which has long passed its glory days) the stock market may have been New York’s next step into greatness. Conceived by a young Alexander Hamilton who ensured that the financial capital of the new United States would remain here, Wall Street symbolizes a world of big spenders, speculators and investments far above most Americans baffled by what’s happening upon a seemingly coke-fused floor with terms as incomprehensible as those in medical dramas on TV. But we needn’t know anything about the terms or the game while watching Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, released in 1987 and set in 1985 during the junk bonds and insider trader scandals during a mad Bull Market under the Reagan greed which, like the crash in 1929, would later cost the country dearly.

Michael Douglas received an Academy Award as Best Actor

for his portrayal

of Gordon Gekko (there’s a name with double meaning, as is that of the young protégé he takes under his wing: Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen who, as in Stone’s Platoon, shows how a promising actor is lost to indulgence and easy, profitable acting jobs). A gruff, unhappy Darryl Hannah also appears as Gekko’s friend/ call girl passed on to Fox; she received

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the Rozzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.

Douglas is his arrogant, powerful, charming, totally-in-control best here, his style for the role based on his friend Pat Riley, then head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, though the character is that of Ivan Boesky who gave the “greed is good” speech long before it appeared in the movie. Screenwriters Stanley Weiser and Stone himself also provided a realistic feel for Downtown, from subways, crowds on the sidewalks, shots of the Trade Center, South Street Seaport, Lower Manhattan street scenes, and the film’s final shot of Sheen walking up the stairs of 60 Centre Street (where Barzini was gunned down in Godfather) to testify against Douglas.

What’s best — or worst — about the film

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Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art 51 Astor Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-353-4100

Corlears School 324 W. 15th St. New York, NY 10011 212-741-2800 fax: 212-807-1550 office@corlearsschool.org www.corlearsschool.org

seems to be how little has changed, how the same things in the film are still happening, only by other high rollers. Stone may have been trying to capture a certain time and place, but unhappily — and like all great art — he caught what seems to be a universal story Downtown, run by people making decisions over our 401k; and there are plenty of great lines besides the film’s most noted. “You see that building?” Gekko says as if spoken today by Trump, “I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it’s a day’s pay.”

Downtown Little School

212-477-1735 www.theearthschool.org

15 Dutch St. New York, NY 10038 212-791-1300

East River Child Care Center

Dual Language & Asian Studies High School 350 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-475-4097 fax: 212-674-1392

Earth School 600 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10009

570 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-254-7300 fax: 212-254-8963

East Side Community High School 420 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009 212-460-8467 www.eastside.newvisionsk12. org

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Next Stop, Greenwich Village Written and directed by Paul Mazursky and released in 1976, Next Stop, Greenwich Village is romantic, funny, tender, heartbreaking and inspiring all at once. Based very closely on the writer’s own life story, the film stars Lenny Baker as Larry Lipinsky, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn who leaves the old neighborhood, to his mother’s dismay, and rents an apartment in Greenwich Village in order to become an actor while supporting himself by working in a health food store. This is the Village of the early 1950s, and while not the Village’s great days of the 1920s, the decades after World War Two were some the of the Village’s best. New York had recently inherited from Paris the title of artistic capital of the world, and what Montmartre was to Paris, the Village was to New York. Mazursky does an admirable job in recreating these rich, essential years of the Village as the central character becomes involved with a group of Villagers, all young and struggling and on the edge like himself: Lois Smith plays Anita, always on the brink of suicide; Christopher Walken is a handsome seducer/poet; Antonio Fargas is an outrageous black ho-

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Educational Alliance 100 Attorney St. New York, NY 10002 212-477-1530

Empire State College 325 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 212-647-7800

French Culinary Institute 462 Broadway New York, NY 10013 212-219-8890

Friends Seminary School 222 E. 16th St. New York, NY 10003

mosexual, and Ellen Greene plays Sarah, Larry’s girlfriend trying to adjust to his change. They even throw a “rent party” as many struggling poets and painters did back then. Larry’s Jewish mother is played endearingly, tenderly, without the irritability often associated with such a role, by Shelley Winters.

After this film, Lenny Baker went on to the hit Broadway musical “I Love My Wife” before his untimely death of cancer

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Grace Church School 86 Fourth Ave. New York, NY 10003 212-475-5609 fax: 212-475-5015 www.gcschool.org

Greenwich Village Middle School 26 Broadway New York, NY 10006 212-691-7384 fax: 212-691-9489

Guardian Angel School 193 Tenth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-989-8280 fax: 212-352-1467

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when he was only 36. The film ends brilliantly with the central character, having landed a part as a juvenile delinquent in a Hollywood movie (Mazursky himself left the Village for Hollywood after being cast as “Stoker” in The Blackboard Jungle), walking the neighborhood streets while eating a slice of his mother’s strudel, having left home once before for the Village but now truly saying good-bye to Brooklyn.

Experience 19 Warren St. New York, NY 10007 212-227-7375 fax: 212-227-7395 www.handson4music.com

HB Studio 120 Bank St. New York, NY 10014 212-675-2370 fax: 212-675-2387 www.hbstudio.org

Henry Street Settlement 265 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-766-9200

Hetrick Martin Institute 2 Astor Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-477-1555

High School of Economics & Finance 100 Trinity Pl. New York, NY 10006 212-346-0708 fax: 212-346-0712

High School for Health Professions 345 E. 15th St. New York, NY 10003 212-780-9175 fax: 212-979-7261

High School for Leadership and Public Service 90 Trinity Pl. New York, NY 10006 212-346-0007 fax: 212-346-0612

Immaculate Conception School

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James Baldwin High School 351 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 212-627-0861

Joffrey Ballet School 434 Sixth Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-254-8520

Legacy School for Integrated Studies 34 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-645-1960

Liberty High School 250 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 212-691-0934 fax: 212-727-1369

Little Red School House 272 6th Ave. New York, NY 10012 212-477-5316 fax: 212-677-9159 www.lrei.org

Lorge School 353 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 212-929-8660 fax: 212-989-8249

Lower East Side School 145 Stanton St. New York, NY 10002 212-505-6366 fax: 212-260-0813

Manhattan Graphics Center 481 Washington St. New York, NY 10013 212-219-8783

McBurney YMCA 125 W. 14th St. New YOrk, NY 10011 212-741-9210 fax 212-741-8339 www.ymcanyc.org

Mentoring USA 5 Hanover Sq., 17th fl.

New York, NY 10004 212-400-8294 fax: 212-400-8278 musa@mentoringusa.com

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Mesivths Tisereth Jerusalem 145 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-964-2830 fax: 212-349-5213

Metropolitan College of New York 431 Canal St. New York, NY 10013 212-343-1234

Millennium High School 75 Broad St., 13th fl.

New York, NY 10004 212-825-9008 fax: 212-825-9095 02M418@nycoe.net

Murry Bergtraum High School 411 Pearl St. New York, NY 10038 212-964-9610 fax: 212-732-6622 www.bergtraum.org

Murray Street School of Dance 19 Murray St., 3rd fl.

New York, NY 10007 Office: 212-608-7681 Studio: 212-766-5883 www.murraystreetdance.com

Music Together in the City Rosanna Magarelli, director Various Downtown Locations 212-358-3801 www.musictogethernyc.com

Nativity Mission Center 204 Forsyth St. New York, NY 10012 212-477-2472 www.nativitymission.org

Natural Gourmet Cooking School 48 W. 21st St. New York, NY 10010 212-645-5170 fax: 212-989-1493 info@naturalgourmetschool. com naturalgourmetschool.com

Neighborhood School

121 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10009 212-387-0195 fax: 212-387-0198 www.theneighborhoodschool. org

New York Academy of Art, Inc. 111 Franklin St. New York, NY 10014 212-966-3217 www.nyaa.edu

New York Career Institute 11 Park Place, 4th fl.

New York, NY 10007 212-962-0002 fax: 212-385-7574 info@nyci.com www.nyci.com

New York Food & Hotel Management School 154 W. 14th St., 11th fl.

New York, NY 10011 212-675-6655 fax: 212-463-9194 nyfood@hotmail.com www.nyfoodandhotelschool. com

New York City Museum School 333 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 212-675-6206 fax: 212-675-6524

Notre Dame High School 327 W. 13th St. New York, NY 10014 212-620-5575 ntdamehs@adnysch.org

Our Lady of Pompeii School 240 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-4147 fax: 212-691-2361

Our Lady of Sorrows School 219 Stanton St. New York, NY 10002 212-473-0320 fax: 212-420-0285 mo38@adnysch.org

Pace High School 100 Hester St. New York, NY 10002-5202

212-334-4663 fax: 212-334-4919

Pratt Institute of Manhattan 144 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-647-7199

PS 1 Alfred E. Smith School 8 Henry St. New York, NY 10038 212-267-4133 fax: 212-267-4469

PS 2 Meyer London School 122 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-964-0350 fax: 212-608-4080

PS 3 Charrette School 490 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 212-691-1183 fax: 212-675-5306

PS 15 Roberto Clemente School 333 E. 4th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-8730 fax: 212-477-0931

P.S. 19 185 First Ave. New York, NY 10013 212-533-5340

PS 20 Anna Silver School 166 Essex St. New York, NY 10002 212-254-9577 fax: 212-254-3526

PS 33 Chelsea School 281 9th Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-244-6426 fax: 212-629-6893

PS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt School 730 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009 212-228-4433 fax: 212-353-1973

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Let’s Do Something Together TriniTy Wall STreeT

The Trinity Youth Chorus sings at a Sunday service.

is a historic episcopal parish in lower Manhattan, home to Trinity Church, St. Paul’s Chapel, the Trinity Choir, and Charlotte’s Place.

We invite you for daily worship services, education programs for all ages, music and arts events, volunteer opportunities, and more. all are welcome!

WOrSHiP SerViCeS Trinity Church Broadway at Wall St. Sunday: Holy Eucharist 9am & 11:15am Sunday school and childcare available.

Monday–Friday: Morning Prayer 8:15am, Eucharist 12:05pm, Evening Prayer 5:15pm

St. Paul’s Chapel Broadway & Fulton St. Sunday: Holy Eucharist 8am, 10am, and Compline 8pm Daily: Prayers for Peace 12:30pm A Brown Bag lunch is served on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Monday: Bach at One 1pm Watch live at trinitywallstreet.org

CHarlOTTe’S PlaCe 109 Greenwich St. btwn Rector and Carlisle Open daily for community, activities, and volunteer opportunities.

The rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, Rector The rev. Canon anne Mallonee, Vicar

trinitywallstreet.org

Hunting for Easter eggs in Trinity Churchyard.

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PS 41 Greenwich Village School

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212-674-3180 fax: 212-420-9018

212-966-7237 fax: 212-219-3069

PS 64 Robert Simon School

PS/IS 126 Manhattan Academy of Technology

600 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10009 212-673-6510 Fax: 212-979-3392

Jacob August Riis School 80 Catherine St. New York, NY 10038 212-962-2188 fax: 212-349-7342

PS/IS 89

116 W. 11th St. New York, NY 10011 212-675-2756 fax: 212-924-0910

201 Warren St. New York, NY 10282 212-571-5659 fax: 212-571-0739

PS 42 Benjamin Altman School

PS 110 Florence Nightingale School

71 Hester St. New York, NY 10002 212-226-8410 fax: 212-431-7384

285 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-2690 fax: 212-475-5835

PS 63 William McKinley School

PS 124 The Yung Wing School

121 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10009

40 Division St. New York, NY 10002

PS 130 Hernando DeSoto School 143 Baxter St. New York, NY 10013 212-226-8072 fax: 212-431-5524

PS 134 Henrietta Szold School 293 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-673-4470 fax: 212-475-6142

123 Ridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-677-4680 fax: 212-677-3907

PS 142 Amalia Castro School 100 Attorney St. New York, NY 10002 212-598-3800

PS 150 334 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10028 212-732-4392 fax: 212-766-5895

PS 184 327 Cherry St. New York, NY 10002 212-602-9700

PS 188 The Island School 442 E. Houston St. New York, NY 10002 212-677-5710 fax: 212-228-3007

PS 140 Nathan Straus

Moscow on the Hudson If, hypothetically, we could tell only one story that defined New York City surely it would be that of the battered, hopeful immigrant leaving the old world for the possibilities of the new. This has been written and dramatized for two centuries now, though these stories focus primarily on the weary and tempest-tossed passing through Ellis Island, but Paul Mazursky’s “Moscow on the Hudson” is a contemporary immigrant’s story, released in 1984 about a Russian saxophone player with a Russian circus who defects. Written by Mazursky and Leon Capetanos, the film stars Robin Williams in only his third movie role, but his performance is outstanding, quirky, funny, touching, even noble. A renowned impersonator, Williams is Vladimir Ivanoff, and his Russian accent is not only completely convincing but the film’s early scenes set in Russia are spoken in Russian with subtitles.

Nearly all the major characters in this modest film are minorities, thus showing the vast diversity found in our city: the

her because she’s looking for a “real American” to marry. The taxi driver is Korean, Ivanoff’s lawyer is Cuban, and even the news anchorwoman is Chinese. The film follows Ivanoff’s struggles to assimilate, find a job, a place to live, but also reveals his hardships, rejections, and a mugging in the hallway of his East 7th Street apartment where in anger and desperation he upbraids the country in general and New York in particular by crying that at least in Russia you knew who was the enemy.

Filmed with all the grit, threat and vitality of the East Village at a tough time in New York’s history, Moscow on the Hudson

security guard (Cleavant Derricks) who befriends Ivanoff is black, the girl Ivanoff falls for is Italian (actually she’s adorable, Cuban-born Maria Conchita Alonso as Lucia Lombardo) though she rejects his advances even after he shaves his beard for

quietly and without sentimentality tells one of New York’s most enduring stories and a testament to the hope this city still inspires in the many seeking that which people have always sought here: a better life.

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PS 190

Elementary School

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PS 196 Coalition Umbrella School 610 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009 212-982-0682

PS 234 Independence School 292 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10007 212-233-6034 fax: 212-374-1719

PS 361 The Children’s Workshop 610 E.12th St. New York, NY 10009 212-614-9531 fax: 212-614-9462

PS 363 Neighborhood School 121 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10009 212-387-0195

PS 721 M Manhattan Occupational Training Center 250 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10014 212-675-7926 fax: 212-255-3227

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PS 751 Manhattan School for Career Development 113 E. 4th St. New York, NY 10003 212-477-2090 fax: 212-228-7095

Saint Brigid School 185 E. 7th St. New York, NY 10009 212-677-5210 fax: 212-260-2262

St. Francis Xavier High School 30 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 212-924-7900

Saint George

Saint James Elementary School 37 Saint James Pl. New York, NY 10038 212-267-9289 fax: 212-227-0065 www.stjamesmanhattan.org

St. John’s University 101 Murray St. New York, NY 10013 212-962-4111

Saint Joseph School 1-3 Monroe St. New York, NY 10002 212-233-5152 fax: 212-267-4357

St. Vincent’s School of Nursing 158 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10014 212-620-1901

Seward Park High School 350 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-7000 fax: 212-982-8730

Stuyvesant High School 345 Chambers St. New York, NY 10007 212-312-4800

Taylor Business Institute 23 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 212-229-1963

The New School 66 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10011 212-229-5600

Tompkins Square Middle School MS 839 600 E. 6th St. New York, NY 10009 212-995-1430

Torah School 40 Exchange Pl. New York, NY 10005 212-248-6200 fax: 212-248-6202

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Tribeca Clay Works

BRC Senior Services

120 Warren St. New York, NY 10013 212-349-2009

30 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 212-533-2020

Trump University

Beth Abraham Health Services

40 Wall St. New York, NY 10038 212-248-1800 fax: 212-509-0407

University Middle School 220 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-962-7205 fax: 212-577-9785

University Settlement 189 Allen St. New York, NY 10013 212-473-8530

Vera Institute of Justice 233 Broadway New York, NY 10012 212-334-1300

Village Community School 272 W. 10th St. New York, NY 10014 212-691-5146 www.vcsnyc.org

Washington Irving High School 40 Irving Pl. New York, NY 10003 212-674-5000 fax: 212-673-9569

Xavier High School

375 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-260-3640 Fax: 212-260-4295

Betances Health Center 280 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-227-8401

CPC Open Door Aulander House 230 Grand St. New York, NY 10003 212-226-2111 fax: 212-431-9142

Cabrini Center for Nursing & Rehab.

253 South St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10002 212-233-8402 542 E. 5th St. New York, NY 10009 212-358-3000

Cancer Care 275 Seventh Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-712-8400 fax: 212-712-8400

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

30 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 212-924-7900

268 Canal St. New York, NY 10013 212-379-6988 Fax: 212-226-2289

SENIOR SERVICES

Chinatown Project Open Door Senior Center

Dept. for the Aging Various Departments Call 311

Asian Care Services Program Beth Israel Medical Services First Ave. & 16th St. New York, NY 10003 212-844-1281 fax: 212-844-1563

Speaker Sheldon Silver

115 Chrystie St., Basement New York, NY 10002 212-431-9026 fax: 212-431-9142 cpc115polint@hotmail.com

Chinatown Senior Citizen Center 70 Mulberry St. New York, NY 10013 212-233-8930 fax: 212-233-8932

Working hard to make our community the greatest place in the world to live, work, and raise a family If you need assistance or have questions, please call Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Office at 212-312-1420 silver@assemebly.state.ny.us

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Pinero

Except for how robust and handsomeBenjamin Bratt is compared to the rather scrawny subject of this film, Piñero is a most realistic, unromantic film about a writer, even down to the basic detail of the notebook in a back pocket. Written and directed by Leon Ichaso, the film explores both the creativity and destructive impulses of Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican-born Lower East Side street poet, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café (still thriving on E. 3rd Street), and the only person nominated for a Tony award who did hard time in prison. In flashbacks to the poet’s past, Miguel’s mother is played by Rita Moreno, and Manny Patinkin is Joseph Papp who in the mid-1970s first staged Pinero’s awardwinning play Short Eyes at the Public Theater, the play based on Piñero’s time in prison for drug-dealing and robbery.

The 2001 film is shot almost entirely on the Lower East Side, with some great rooftop footage of Bratt (Piñero) reciting poetry with power and flair, the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building visible in the hazy background. Some of the film’s most compelling scenes are of Bratt reciting Piñero’s poetry, with both a feel and

understanding of what we are hearing. Although showing Pinero’s own responsibility for his death of cirrhosis at 41 years old, the film also explores the legitimate conflict the writer had with a society still deep in discrimination towards the immigrant and native-born Latino community: the film dramatizes the fight Piñero had with Papp because young, up-and-coming Italian actors such as Robert DeNiro were cast in roles meant for Puerto Ricans. The film

ends most powerfully with a reenactment of the evening when friends and admirers of Piñero gathered in the backyard of the café to read Piñero’s renowned “A Lower East Side Poem” where he writes “I don’t wanna be buried in Puerto Rico/I don’t wanna rest in Long Island Cemetery/… so please when I die/ don’t take me far away/ keep me near by/ take my ashes and scatter them thru out/ the Lower East Side.” Which is what they did.

Chinese American Planning Council

New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300 x426

Grand St. Settlement Best Program

165 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-226-5351

Educational Alliance Social Day Care Program

72 Columbia St. New York, NY 10002 212-982-4171

City Hall Senior Center Adult Day Service 100 Gold St. New York, NY 10038 212-788-1537 fax: 212-788-5549

DeWitt Reformed Church 280 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-3341 fax: 212-505-2426

Educational Alliance Whittaher Senior Center 197 E. Broadway

465 Grand St., Basement New York, NY 10002 212-358-8489 x310 fax: 212-358-8494

FRIA Outreach 18 John St., Ste. 905 New York, NY 10038 212-732-5868

Friends in Deed 594 Broadway, Ste. 706 New York, NY 10012 212-925-2009 fax: 212-925-2688

Grand St. Settlement 80 Pitt St. New York, NY 10002 212-674-1740

Greenwich House Senior Center 17 Barrow St. New York, NY 10014 212-242-4140

Hudson Guild Senior Service 119 Ninth Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-964-6710

Indochina Sino American Community Center

Hamilton-Madison House

170 Forsyth St., 2nd fl.

50 Madison St. New York, NY 10038 212-349-3724 www.hmhonline.org

212-226-0317

Henry St. Settlement Home Care

For Services for the

301 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-254-4700 fax: 212-025-6158

New York, NY 10002 fax: 212-925-0327

JASA- Jewish Assn.

Aged 132 W. 31st St. New York, NY 10001 212-273-5200

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the

choir |trinity & Trinity Baroque Orchestra

Julian Wachner, Conductor

Known for its annual performance of G.F. Handel’s Messiah and other Baroque masterworks, the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra are one of New York’s most acclaimed professional vocal and instrumental ensembles.

In addition to offering a season of superb concerts, ranging from Baroque works to New Music, the Choir also can be heard at: • Sunday morning services at Trinity Church, 9am and 11:15am • Sunday evening Compline services at St. Paul’s Chapel, 8pm • Monday Bach at One services, featuring Bach cantatas and Schütz motets, at St. Paul’s Chapel, 1pm The Trinity Choir performs at Trinity Church.

• Community events in the surrounding neighborhoods • Festive Christmas and Easter services Concerts are recorded live for broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM and can be viewed online at trinitywallstreet.org.

Tickets and more information at: trinitywallstreet.org/tickets Follow the Trinity Choir on:

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John Paul II Friendship Senior Center

180 Mott St. New York, NY 10012 212-966-5460 fax: 212-966-3346

103 E. 7th St. New York, NY 10009 212-673-7704 fax: 212-477-6609

New York Downtown Hospital

LaGuardia Senior Center

170 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-312-5000

280 Cherry St. New York, NY 10002 212-732-3656 fax: 212-227-6410

Quest, CUNY/CWE Committee for Lifelong Learning 25 Broadway New York, NY 10004 www.questonline.org

McBurney YMCA Senior Center 125 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-912-2300

Ryan-NENA Community Helath Center

Mott Street Senior

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New York, NY 10001 212-477-8500

The Caring Community Independence Plaza 310 Greenwich St. New York, NY 10013 212-267-0499

The Caring Community Our Lady of Pompeii 25 Carmine St. New York, NY 10014 212-989-3620

The Caring Community

297 E. 3rd St.

20 Washington Sq. N. New York, NY 10011 212-777-3555

often tragic events were occurring in Alphabet City.

The film was shot both on a backstage in San Francisco as well as in New York, with Tompkins Square and roof-top scenes giving an actuality to the film despite how the backstage E. 11th Street looks little like the real thing. Meant to be a modern rendition of Puccini’s La boheme, its form owing much

to Hair, Larson’s score lacks the great music of that ‘60s rock opera (not to mention Puccini) but tells a story just as powerful, covering roughly a year, from Christmas Eve to the following New Year’s Eve, foreshadowed in the opening number “Season of Love” (525,600 minutes).

The dress rehearsal at the Workshop Theatre in January 1996 was a great success, but

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United Jewish Council Adult Luncheon Club Auslander House 15-17 Willet St. New York, NY 10002 212-677-4451

United Jewish Council Manhattan Coalition on Mental Health Issues of the Elderly 235 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-233-6037 (tel & fax)

Based almost entirely on the Broadway show, the film version of Rent was directed

by Chris Columbus in 2005, more than 15 years after the setting of Jonathan Larson’s story and music and nearly a decade since the show’s opening night at the New York Workshop Theatre on W. 42nd. With nearly the same cast that molded the play for months, Rent occurs primarily on E.11th Street and Avenue A in the late 1980s though the script about the loves and struggles of a group of friends (straights,

gays,

lesbians,

cross-dressers, heroin addicts, and those infected with HIV and AIDS) was set originally on the west side. But Jonathan Larson, himself a struggling composer

working

for

ten

years as a waiter at the Moondance Diner even while composing Rent, knew that –for his generation—more crucial and

that night 35-year-old Jonathan Larson, alone and making tea in his Greenwich Street walk-up while savoring his first taste of success, died of a heart aneurysm, never to know the colossal run at the Workshop Theatre would lead to a twelve year run on Broadway, the Pulitzer prize and Tony awards for best musical, book and score.

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The Bowery Directed by Raoul Walsh (who also directed High Sierra and White Heat) and released in 1933, The Bowery is an energetic, twisting, improbable and wonderfully entertaining view of New York’s most notorious avenue during one of the city’s most exciting decades: the late years of the 19th century. The cast includes Wallace Beery as a saloon owner named Chuck Connors, and his rival Steve Brodie, played by George Raft. In the same year that King Kong was released, Fay Wray plays Lucy Calhoun who, like Stephen Crane’s Maggie, is desperate and adrift in the city.

Other characters have outrageous names like Slick, Lumpy Hogan, Googy, and a young Jackie Cooper playing a street punk named Swipes McGurk.

Though everyone in the film is exaggerated, at times buffoonish, and the costumes are caricatures of the Gay Nineties style, this film recalls Three Penny Opera as it follows the lives, conflicts, loves and

University Settlement 189 Allen St. New York, NY 10002 212-473-8217 fax: 212-533-4759

Village Care of New York 154 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 212-337-5600 info@vcNYorg

Sightseeing Circle Line Tours Pier 83, W. 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 212-563-3200 infocl@circleline.com

hatchet and then burn Connor’s saloon, the heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan who throws one punch, and Beery’s character who enlists at the start of the Spanish-American War. Our brief, bloated struggle with Spain began in 1898, but shortly before Beery enlists, George Raft’s character Steve Brodie performs a ‘stunt’ that actually happened in New York only in 1886. And this is my favorite part of the film, for there truly was a New Yorker named

Steve

Brodie

who

staged and became famous for a leap from the Brooklyn dreams of con artists, thugs and those struggling to survive along the Bowery. Based on a novel by Michael Simmons and B. Rogow Solomon, the script

by James Gleason contains the prejudices of the day towards anyone who isn’t white. For instance, the rock Cooper throws through a Chinatown window starts a fire, consuming the block and killing many

people. When Beery upbraids Cooper for his action the kid replies, “They was just chinks,” then Beery smiles and musses the boy’s hair.

As in Scorcese’s Gangs of New York and with only a few more inaccuracies, this film attempts to give some historical context with enactments of Carrie Nation and her band of temperance women who

Bridge on July 23, 1886. In

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Alcoholism Council of New York

Gray Line Double Decker Bus Tours State St. Between Bridge/ Pearl Streets South St. Seaport between Fulton/ John Streets 212-445-0848 www.coachusa.com/newyorksightseeing

Harvard Experience New York Water Taxi Tours South St. Seaport New York, NY 10004 212-742-1969 www.harvardexperience.com

Pier 6, South St. New York, NY 10004 212-487-4777 www.libertyhelicopters.com

New York City Cultural Walking Tours 212-979-2388

Social Services Administration for Children’s Services 150 William St., 18th fl.

New York, NY 10038 212-341-0900

truth, Brodie staged the event ,though his own Bowery saloon had a painting over the bar as “proof” of his leap. In the film Raft intended tossing a dummy off the bridge but the dummy couldn’t be found, so he leaps for real, at least for real in this fun, preposterous view of old New York.

352 Park Ave. S., 8th fl.

New York, NY 10010 212-252-7001 fax: 212-252-7021 www.alcholism.org

American Lung Association 14 Wall St. New York, NY 10005 212-315-8700

Anne Frank Center 38 Crosby St., 5th fl.

New York, NY 10013 212-431-7993 Fax: 212-431-8375 www.annefrank.com

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Sid and Nancy

On the morning of October 12, 1978, NYPD investigated an apparent murder in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. A young woman had bled to death from a knife wound in her abdomen, while her boyfriend, high on heroin, lay muttering incoherently. He was arrested and taken through the lobby, then outside into a patrol car.

So begins Sid and Nancy, released in 1986, directed by Alex Cox, written

by Cox and Abbe Wool. Originally entitled Love Kills, the film follows the selfdestructive, so-called Romeo and Juliet of punk rock, a twisted love story about Sid Vicious, bass guitarist for the punk-rock group the Sex Pistols, and groupie-turnedgirlfriend Nancy Spungen. Sid is played brilliantly by Gary Oldman, his work in this film rating him in Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

Oldman transforms himself into Vicious, capturing not only the look but both Sid’s inner demons and fragility: Oldman even wore the actual chain and padlock Vicious often adorned. Spungen is played well by Chloe Webb, and though much of the film occurs in London, Vicious and the Sex Pistols had a deep connection to the punk-rock scene in New York in the late 1970s in such clubs as CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. It was never clear if Vicious killed Spungen, the bloody incident in the Chelsea erupting from an argument about Sid’s desire to kick heroin and return to England. The film does not try to capture

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Associated Black Charities 105 E. 22nd St., Ste. 915 New York, New York 10010 212-777-6060 Fax: 212-7777-7904 www.associatedblackcharities.org

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historic events as much as catch a mood between these doomed and desperate lovers, and the final scene is both tender and haunting: while out on bail, Vicious dances with some street kids, the skyline of lower Manhattan behind them, when a Checker taxi with no driver pulls up with

Spungen in the back seat. He joins her and the taxi speeds away.

Though not in the film, several months after Spungen’s death, while continually ranting that “I want to join Nancy” and “I didn’t keep my part of the bargain,” Vicious overdosed on heroin in a Greenwich Village apartment.

Area for Autistic Children

Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers

New York, NY 10013

25 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 212-645-5005

137 E. 2nd St. New York, NY 10009 212-475-3291

and

BRC Human Services Corporation

Center for Village Care of New York

212-226-8866

154 Christopher St. New York, NY 10014 212-337-5600

www.cbwchc.org

324 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 212-533-5700 Fax: 212-431-6187

BRC Project Rescue 317 Bowery New York, NY 10003 212-533-3780

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center 268 Canal St.

212-966-0228 125 Walker St., 2nd fl.

New York, NY 10013 Fax: 212-226-2289

Children’s Aid Society 219 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 212-254-3074

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Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence 46 Hester St. New York, NY 10012 212-473-6485

Committee for Hispanic Children & Families 110 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-206-1090

Council on Environment of New York City 51 Chambers St., Ste. 228 New York, NY 10007 212-788-7900 www.cenyc.org

Covenant House New York 460 W. 41st St. New York, NY 10036 Fax: 212-629 3756 www.covenanthousenyc.org

Educational Alliance 197 E. Broadway New York, NY 10002 212-780-2300 Fax: 212-979-1225 info@edalliance.org

Fedcap Rehab Services 211 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-727-4200

Gilda’s Club New York City 195 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10014 212-647-9700 Fax: 212-647-1151 www.gildasclubnyc.org

God’s Love We Deliver 166 6th Ave. New York, NY 10013 212-680-1425

Grand St. Settlement

59 Head Start 294 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 212-777-0656

Greenwich House, Inc. Division of Substance Abuse Services 122 W. 27th St. New York, NY 10001 212-691-2900 Fax: 212-675-2985 www.greenwichhouse.org

Habitat for Humanity 111 John St. New York, NY 10038 212-991-4000

Harm Reduction Coalition 22 W. 27th St. New York, NY 10001 212-683-2334

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center 596 Broadway, #602 New York, NY 10012 212-431-1130 Fax: 212-431-7693 Hanst@harvestworks.org www.harvestworks.org

Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand St. New York, NY 10002 212-598-0400 www.henrystreet.org

212-732-3033 griefandcare@aol.com www.inneractionplus.org

Hudson Guild 119 9th Ave. New York, NY 10001 212-924-6710

Immigrant Social Services Inc. 137 Henry St. New York, NY 10002 212-571-1840 fax:212-571-1848 www.issweb.org

InnerAction Plus P.O. Box 867 New York, NY 10274

Fax: 212-226-7592

Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services 60 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10013 212-349-2177

The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 80 8th Ave., #1501 New York, NY 10011

Labor Institute

212-741-0515

36 E.12th St. New York, NY, 10003 917-606-0511

NAAP72@aol.com www.naap.org

National Down Syndrome Society

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund

666 Broadway, #810

120 Wall St., Ste. 1500 New York, NY 10005 212-809-8585 Fax: 212-809-0055 lambdalegal@lambdalegal.org www.lambdalegal.org

NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund 99 Hudson St., 16th fl.

New York, NY 10013

New York, NY 10012 212-460-9330 Fax: 212-979-2873 www.ndss.org

National Hemophilia Foundation 116 W. 32nd St., 11th fl.

New York, NY 10001 212-328-3700 www.nownyc.org

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Washington Square Generally, a true adherence to a good novel makes a poor movie. Where novels can take many hours to read –some we’re with for weeks, a month—a film’s running time is usually well-constricted.

Fiction’s strength is internal, exploring a character’s heart and mind. Literary time is slow, the story told vertically, while films are horizontal, poor at internal explorations but great on characters in action. Yet one of the writers whose work seems to inspire good movies is Henry James, a New Yorker though we often don’t think of him as one. His 1880 novel Washington Square has been made twice into very fine films, the first in 1949 entitled The Heiress, directed by the great William Wyler. Olivia de Havilland, who won an

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childbirth. Amid this gloom is the charm of Maggie Smith as Catherine’s Aunt Lavinia, who captures stylish New York in 1850, not the 1880 when James wrote the novel. For part of the magic of the novel and both films is the beautiful recreation of New York before the Civil War, when Washington Square was the center of our most elegant society, before bohemians and NYU, when the Village was still distant estates

Academy award for her role as Catherine Sloper, plays a rather plain, shy girl dominated by an arrogant, sometimes brutal father who believes any young man interested in his daughter must actually be after her father’s money.

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Ugly and loathsome, the father is played by Albert Finney.

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along the Hudson. These films, each true in spirit though divergent in different ways from James’ novel, capture the spirit of the hypocrisy and injustice of its day but create a determined and enduring female character that offers our best actresses such richly layered parts to portray.

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National Orgainization of Woment New York Chapter 150 W. 28th St. #304 New York, NY 10001 212-627-9895 fax: 212-627-9861 www.nownyc.org

New York Asian Women’s Center P.O. Box 375 39 Bowery New York, NY 10002 212-732-5230 www.nyawc.org

New York City Department of Homeless Services 33 Beaver St. New York, NY 10004 212-361-8000

New York Foundling Hospital 590 6th Ave. New York, NY 10011 212-633-9300

New York Society

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Institute

Volunteers of

241 Water St.

America

New York, NY 100038

226 W. 20th St.

212-349-9090

New York, NY 10011

Parent to Parent

Fax: 212-349-8342

21-924-0907

75 Morton St. New York, NY 10014 212-741-5545

www.seamanschurch.org

Police Athletic League Inc.

Community

34 ½ E. 12th St. New York, NY 10003 212-477-9450

New York, NY 10011

Transportation

212-777-3555

Authority

and 25 Carmine St.

212-878-7000

New York, NY 10014

www.mta.info

212-989-3620

New York Waterway

The Sol Goodman

800-53-FERRY

161 William St. New York, NY 10038 212-223-5500

Project Renewal 8 E. 3rd St. New York, NY 10012 212-533-8400

Salvation Army 120 W. 14th St. New York, NY 10011 212-337-7200 Fax: 212-337-7299 www.salvationarmy-newyork. org

Seaman’s Church

The Caring 20 Washington Sq. N.

YM-YWHA of the 344 E. 14th St.

800-BOATRIDE

New York, NY 10003

Staten Island Ferry

212-780-0800

89 South St.

www.edalliance.org

New York, NY 10038

University

212-742-1969

Veterans Affairs

184 Eldridge St.

American Legion,

New York, NY 10002

Post 1212

212-475-3278

179 Sullivan St.

www.universitysettlement.org

New York, NY 10012

Visiting Neighbors

TEL 212 460-1200 FAX 212 420-8670

www.nywaterway.com

Seastreak

Speyer Hall

4 IRVING PLACE, ROOM�1320-S NEW YORK, NY 10003

Metropolitan

Educational Allience

Settlement Society

Proudly serving the neighborhood for 30 years, the Union Square Partnership is the leading advocate for the Union Square-14th Street community, working collaboratively with area residents, businesses, and cultural and academic institutions to ensure the district’s continued growth and success. Our mission is to enhance the neighborhood’s quality-of-life by creating a safer, cleaner and more enjoyable environment.

Transportation

212-674-9517

611 Broadway, #510

Dept. of Veteran’s

New York, NY 10012

Affairs

212-260-6200

800-827-1000

www.visitingneighbors.org

New York State Div.

Village Nursing

Of Veteran’s Affairs

Home

212-807-3162

607 Hudson St.

Paralyzed Veterans

New York, NY 10014

of America

212-337-9400

245 W. Houston St.

Village Temple Soup

New York, NY 10012

Kitchen

212-255-9078

33 E. 12th St.

Veterans Building

New York, NY 10003

346 Broadway

212-674-2340

New York, NY 10013

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Catholic War Veterans

Chinese Planning

212-962-0988

Council

Jewish War Veterans of The U.S.

Youth Employment

212-349-6640

Project

Grenwich House Children’s Saftey Project

Contact Juan Caraballo 212-966-5711

New York, NY 10002

fax: 212-366-4226

212-334-1302

www.greenwichhouse.org

United War Veterans Council of New York County

Community Center

Manhattan Children’s Theater

212-694-1467

345 Chambers St.

Vietnam Veterans of America

New York, NY 10282

212-766-4412

www.ccshs.org

Youth Chinese American Planning Council Manhattan Youth Services 150 Elizabeth St. New York, NY 10012 212-941-0920 x122

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646-210-4292

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New York, NY 10014 212-242-4140

212-267-3318

Canal St. A Line

27 Barrow St.

165 Eldridge St.

Montford Pint Marine Association

NYPD Explorer /

Project Reach 39 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002 212-966-4227

52 White St.

Fax: 212-966-4963

New York, NY 10013 212-266-4085

True Light Lutheran

Manhattan Youth Recreation & Resources, Inc.

Church

120 Warren St.

212-962-1482

195 Worth St. New York, NY 10013

Community

New York, NY 10007

Television Center

212-766-1104

United East Athletes

Fax: 212-766-3980

Association

www.manhattanyouth.org

70 Mulberry St., Rm. 201 New York, NY 10013

Fax: 212-366-4226

New York City Youth Line

www.greenwishhouse.org

800-246-4646

www.ueaa.org

87 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10014 212-966-4510

212-227-9452

C.O. BiGeLOw’S Nation’s Oldest Pharmacy Delivers Modern Health Care

For more than 150 years Bigelow’s, the nation’s oldest pharmacy, has been delivering the highest quality pharmaceutical and medical equipment and supplies.

The pharmacy (located at 414 6th Ave.) has been a Greenwich Village staple so long that Mark Twain can be found in its records.

Leader in Pharmaceutical Products Today Bigelow’s is in the forefront of medical care filling prescriptions 365 days a year. Six registered pharmacists are on hand to answer questions and fill patients’ needs. Bigelow’s stocks one of the widest range of pharmaceutical products including the most unusual and some still-effective formulas that are no longer generally available. Bigelow’s even makes special liquid compounds of prescription medications for patients who have a difficult time swallowing pills. Bigelow’s is an established leader in homeopathy — or “natural healing.” Bigelow’s stocks one of the largest inventories of self-treatment remedies as these remedies surge in popularity and being accepted by physicians. A comprehensive catalog of hundreds of homeopathic remedies is available from Bigelow’s.

Surgical and Home Care Products Bigelow’s offers a complete department of products for physicians and their patients.

The pharmacy is headquarters for diabetic blood monitors and supplies and offers free demonstrations and consultation with patients. Bigelow has a complete home care department including ostomy supplies, surgical walkers, commodes, appliances and durable medical equipment.

Bigelow’s circa 1895

We are open seven days a week, 365 days of the year and delivers via its Medicine Dropper Van every day. Store hours are Monday thru Friday: 7:30 AM - 9:00 PM. Saturday: 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM. Sunday and Holidays: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM.

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