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‘Tribeca Housewives’? Many are the backbone of community

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William Grant, spiritual leader

To the Editor: Rev. William Grant passed away on April 16. He died surrounded by his wife, Cynthia, and close friends, at peace with himself, at peace with the world. He never despaired.

William Grant, the founder of the Tribeca Spiritual Center, was a great man who came into the Downtown community a year or two before 9/11. I still remember his words, “Don’t let hate have the last word.”

I also knew William from his wonderful work in Brooklyn, where he founded the media and education program New York WEB Center, at W.E.B. Du Bois High School.

His legacy CYNTHIA DE BEN William Grant there will go forward.

Over the years he also worked with homeless persons and with whoever needed his loving guidance. Rev. Grant was a fierce advocate for social justice and understanding. Others must now continue his work.

Bob Townley Executive Director, Manhattan Youth

To the Editor: The belief of Rev. Grant and the Tribeca Spiritual Center was that all religions could work and worship together. On Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Native American holidays we would celebrate each of those religion’s traditions. We celebrated religion in all forms and worshipped together. It was truly a unique, touching, eye-opening and loving experience. Rev. Grant always gave profound, deeply inspiring sermons. Our friend, our pastor, our advisor, our Reverend William Grant will be honored, missed, and loved by all of the lives he touched and will live on through each of us.

John Scott (VIEWS CONTINUES ON PAGE 39)

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To the Editor: The Grid is a great concept and I am sure this hard-working, intelligent and innovative group will grow and support the business community. (See April Trib.) But I just can’t let that comment go about the fallacy of a “knitting circle for all the housewives of Tribeca” and I am glad that The Grid is dispelling that tired attitude.

I am assuming that “Tribeca housewives” refers to women who don’t earn a salary. Historically and currently a significant group of these women (and men), along with their working (for salaries) neighbors, have been the backbone of our neighborhood. They have devoted their energies to supporting their working partners, rasing their own children as responsible citizens,

enhancing our schools with fundraising efforts, volunteering in our schools, patronizing local businesses, planting gardens, supporting community centers, serving on community and nonprofit boards, supporting those in need and much more. These women and men are intelligent, hardworking, and generous with their time—they do not deserve to be insulted.

And don’t get me started on the knitting circle thing. It is a creative endeavor with many benefits. Knitters make homemade clothing, gifts and artwork, and have a great tradition of knitting circles making beautiful handmade items for those in need.

I have tremendous respect for these neighbors and friends.

Annie Luce

Eight State Press awards go to Trib

The Tribeca Trib garnered eight Better Newspaper Contest awards last month— including first place for Best Web Site— at the New York Press Association’s annual convention.

Other first place awards to the Trib included Best Feature Photo for coverage of the Gelsey Photo of performers on the way to a Manhattan Youth afterKirkland Ballet school production of “The Nutcracker” taken by Carl Glassman.

Academy and Best place for Picture Story.

Sports Action Photo for pictures of the April Koral’s story on Ellis Island’s Downtown Giants playing flag football, recovery from Hurricane Sandy won both by Trib editor Carl Glassman. The third place in the feature writing catesecond-place honor for Photographer of gory.

“An awesome story of dedication the Year also went to Glassman. “Carl’s by a writer clearly dedicated to her prodigious storytelling abilities reach craft,” the judges wrote.

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Principals, teachers, parents and kids call state Common Core English exams ‘unfair’

BY CARL GLASSMAN Lower Manhattan principals, teachers, parents and children were among 32 Manhattan school communities that gathered before the start of classes last month to protest the recently administered state English exams.

In Tribeca, the protesters marched and chanted in front of P.S. 234, and at the steps to P.S. 150 they held signs aloft.

“Our kids deserve the best; We won’t accept this test,” read one. At P.S. 89 in Battery Park City they signed and sent more than 500 postcards to elected officials, and near the entrance to the Spruce Street School they stood by the dozens with Principal Nancy Harris, her placard reading: “We demand better tests.”

“Hey hey, ho ho. Unfair tests have got to go!” the demonstrators shouted near the entrance to P.S./I.S. 276 in southern Battery Park City. Among them was the school’s principal, Terri Ruyter, who said that even she found the third grade test difficult.

“The first time you look at it you think, ‘I’m just going to blow through this, right?’ Then you start reading the questions and you’re like, ‘Oh, Lordy!’”

Principals and teachers who saw the test, which was given to third- through eighth-graders over three days, said many of the questions were poorly constructed and ambiguous, placing unnecessary pressure on the children. Nearly all the educators reported seeing children break down in tears during the exam.

“There were things that were complicated without being challenging,” said Tara Loughran, who has taught fifth grade at P.S. 89 for 12 years. “And I’m sorry, but any time a child cries in my presence when they’re just trying to do their best, that’s really upsetting to me.”

Loughran said she found herself comforting and encouraging the test takers as she walked around the room. “I felt a little bit like a therapist,” she noted.

In interviews, children talked about having to go back and forth among different numbered paragraphs to find the right answer to a multiple-choice question, sometimes with seemingly no correct response. “It would be complicated,” said Saskia Penning, a P.S. 234 fifthgrader. “They would give you these four answers and sometimes you didn’t think any of them were right.”

P.S. 150 Principal Jenny Bonnet called the experience “particularly abusive” to third-graders. “It’s their first year of taking a test,” she said. “They’re nervous about it to begin with and then they have something like this in front of them.

It’s just not appropriate.”

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principal Ronnie Najjar, there was a third-grade passage that had a “significant” typo that changed the meaning of the sentence. “That right there was a huge, huge mistake,” she said. “That was very discouraging.”

A spokeswoman for NCS Pearson, the test maker, referred all questions to its client, the New York State Education Department. In an email, Jeanne Beattie, the department’s spokeswoman, defended the test, saying that it was “developed, edited and reviewed by New York State teachers. The assessments are challenging but fair, and they will provide valuable information for parents and teachers as we help students climb the ladder to success in college and careers.”

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Clockwise from top: Principal Lisa Ripperger leads 5th graders at her school’s protest; P.S. 89 Principal Ronnie Najjar helps collect signatures; P.S. 397 demonstrators near their school’s entrance; the P.S. 150 protest, at the foot of stairs leading to the school.

This is the second year that students in third through eighth grades have taken standardized state tests that are meant to show proficiency in literacy and math that are aligned with the Common Core standards. Both tests were produced by NCS Pearson, a company with a fiveyear, $32-million contract with New York State. There was criticism of last year’s tests, but educators said this was worse.

“I made it clear to parents that we’re not protesting against testing in general and we’re not against Common Core standards,” said Nancy Harris. “It’s specifically this test.”

Teachers and principals, however, are forbidden by the state to reveal questions that might show the test’s alleged unfairness, another source of frustration over the exam.

“What’s the test for if I can’t see what my daughter has done and what kind of

progress she’s made?” asked Anais Tekerian, mother of a P.S. 150 third-grader.

“If I can’t assess what these assessments are saying, that makes no sense to me.”

Because the questions will remain under wraps, educators say there will be little or no useful feedback on the children’s performance.

“This is not remotely about informing teachers or families about how to improve instruction or about giving parents accurate information about what they need to work on, or have mastery over,” said P.S. 234 Principal Lisa Ripperger, who helped organize the protests with Elizabeth Phillips, the leader of a demonstration at her Park Slope school.

Jeanne Beattie, the Education Department spokeswoman, told the Trib that the questions are embargoed because there would not be enough of them for use in future tests “without a significant

increase in field testing.” A quarter of the questions will be released in July, she said, and the data analysis will tell teachers “what was the most common mistake my students made on this question?

What can I do next year to help students resolve that misconception?”

But critics of the test insist that the exam is not a helpful tool and hope their protests bring scrutiny in Albany.

“People who are paying for it, like state education officials, need to hold the test makers more accountable,” Ripperger noted.

And for good reason, according to P.S. 89 fifth-grader Matt Moran, who summed up the protesters’ message. “I think it’s okay if you test us,” he said.

“But if you test us unfairly, it’s pointless.”

—Additional reporting by Juliet Hindell and Nathalie Rubens

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Andrew Frothingham and Lynn Raskin, two of the newer members of Friends of Greenwich Street, did some trimming last month. “People thank us for doing it,” Frothingham said.

BY CARL GLASSMAN For more than 10 years, a tiny, unheralded group of Tribeca residents have been keeping green a five-block stretch of Greenwich Street. Along the wide stretch of sidewalk outside Independence Plaza, between North Moore and Duane Streets, they have planted, watered and weeded the flower beds and planters.

They have also pruned and watered the many trees.

They are the Friends of Greenwich Street, and over the years they have earned the thanks of passersby but little in the way of help. Now, several of them say, they are giving up.

“The trees, all the plants really need care and there are very few of us who have been giving it,” said Elizabeth Allen, 79, who has been part of the group since 2003. “We’re pretty much burned out.”

Even the perennials in the double garden at the southwest corner of Harrison and Greenwich—for many years such a colorful showpiece that it was ceremonially named for its caretakers—will likely wither in the summer sun.

“I think it’s time to wind down now.

There are just too many issues that are causing problems,” said Joanne Capozzoli, 69, who painstakingly tended the garden with her husband Ron, 67. “And we’re getting older. It’s just too much work.”

Steve Boyce, the group’s president and driving force since 2003, said that most of the Friends—including himself—don’t have the “vim and vigor” for the job they once did.

“It doesn’t take a lot of people if they’re willing to do something every week,” he added.

Andrew Frothingham, who volunteers with is wife, Lynn Raskin, said the job is an ideal opportunity for families with younger kids who want to have some contact with nature. “It’s an education in itself,” he noted.

“Our neighborhood environment is

so phenomenally artificial and it has so many things generating CO2,” Frothingham said. “The chance to get some balance by caring for plants is just a wonderful thing.”

Boyce is asking anyone who is interested in taking on some of that responsibility to meet with him at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28 at Tribeca Pizzeria, 378 Greenwich St. They can also call him at 646-610-9986.

Friends of Greenwich Street was first formed in the 1990s by three Community Board members—Nancy Owens, Doug Sterner and the late John Petrarca—who had fought and won a battle to get the city to carry out a long-promised project, the Greening of Greenwich Street. That project, completed in 2000, included the narrowing of the wide street by half to slow the speeding traffic from Hubert to Chambers streets. It also added landscaping and benches to the barren sidewalk.

In an agreement with the city that expired long ago, Friends of Greenwich Street was responsible for maintaining the sidewalk, which for years since it was widened has been plagued by cracking and sinking.

The plantings got little day-to-day attention and by early 2003, when Boyce took over, along with most of today’s volunteers, the trees were dead or dying and the flower beds filled with weeds.

His group had new trees planted that now are fully grown and, as Boyce puts it, “shading lunchtime crowds and neighborly conversations.”

But without the attention of new “friends,” Boyce noted, those trees will not survive in the years ahead and the gardens could return to weeds. Hostile conditions on the promenade—the heat from Con Ed steam lines beneath the sidewalk and the windy nature of Greenwich Street—mean that they need additional watering.

“Kind of like what happened in ’03, we’re trying to see if there’s a way to pass the ball,” Boyce said, “to whomever is willing to take it.”

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Below and right: The Fulton Market Building, at the corner of Fulton and Front streets, as it has looked in recent years and as Howard Hughes Corp. and their architects had envisioned it. The second floor is slated to house a multiplex theater.

Bottom and bottom right: Remnants of the fish market stalls that had been part of the Fulton Fish Market since 1950. Rendering of the Fulton Market Building, with storefronts on the South Street side, that the developers proposed to replace the stall fronts with storefronts that would extend beyond the columns.

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Landmarks panel wants Howard Hughes architects to rethink Fulton Market plan

BY AMANDA WOODS Calling it mall-like and “white bread,” the Landmarks Preservation Commission came down hard on the South Street Seaport developer’s design plans for transforming the Fulton Market Building into a multiplex theater and retail complex.

The plans, by the Howard Hughes Corp. and SHoP Architects, call for adding storefronts with new signage as well as ground-floor lighting on the sprawling structure’s four sides, which face South, Fulton, Beekman and Front streets.

At a hearing late last month, the commissioners said they wanted to see a plan that is less uniform and more sensitive to the building’s history and signature “grit.”

They told architect Christopher Sharples to rework his design.

In addition to an eight-screen multiplex, the renovated three-story building will include only small stores and various “food establishments,” Chris Curry, Hughes Corp.’s senior executive vice president, told the commissioners.

“Mainly, this is about putting food, fun and fashion in the South Street Seaport,” Curry said. “That’s the main rea-

son for the work that’s being done to the building.”

But Michael Goldblum, a Landmarks commissioner, was unimpressed, calling the plans “institutional” and a “backhanded” attempt to capture the vitality of the area.

What is lost with the new design, he argued, is a sense of the Seaport’s roots that recall its signature noise and smells.

“It goes in the wrong direction,” he said. “It makes a compromised, tameddown version of a very active part of New York even more tamed.”

Commissioner Margery Perlmutter expressed concerns about the building’s canopy, a refurbished version of the existing one, which she argued would “sort of lie over [the storefronts] and have no purpose.”

But Sharples insisted that the canopy does, in fact, serve a purpose.

“On South Street, Beekman and Front, it shields you from the weather,” he explained. “What it does on Fulton is it brings a continuity to the building, because it basically wraps the whole way around.”

Perlmutter and other commissioners also did not like the four-foot installation spaces in the building’s second-floor windows. Because the second floor will house part of the multiplex, Perlmutter said it is hard to envision anything visually acceptable being placed in those windows.

“If we’re lucky, it will be posters of

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whatever’s showing,” she said. “And if we’re unlucky, they’ll be really old posters that are peeling off, and [theater staff] can’t figure out how to find that old trap door to get them off, and it’ll just look terrible.”

The commissioners also criticized what one of them described as the loss of the building’s “messy grittiness”—the remains of the 1950s market stalls on the building’s South Street side.

SHoP’s plans for that side of the building involve extending the recessed first floor—now containing stall fronts set back behind columns—and build it out to line up with the facade of the building’s upper floors.

With these changes, the row of gated stalls, concealing a now gutted interior, will be gone. A rendering displayed at the hearing showed shiny boutiques where for decades merchants peddled their clams and cod, black grouper and bluefish through the early morning hours.

“The garage doors were the last vestige of the fish stalls,” Goldblum said.

“That is the last physical remnant of the Seaport as a kind of sales prototype.”

The existing stalls are all that survived the demolition and rebuilding of the Fulton Market Building in 1983.

They became vacant when the Fulton Fish Market relocated to the Bronx in 2005.

A food, farmer and craft market, called the Fulton Stall Market, opened outside the gates in 2009 and closed this

past August.

The loss of the stalls was a sticking point for Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee, when the plan came before them for their advisory approval.

“Once that’s gone, all those scenes of fishmongers traveling back and forth and our understanding that that ever happened here will be totally gone,” said committee member Jason Friedman.

At that meeting, Hughes Corp.’s Curry argued that the stalls would not attract passersby or bring shoppers to and from the mall that the developer is rebuilding across the street on Pier 17.

Besides, he added, “They’ve been empty for years.”

“Right now, those rolling gates are in kind of a dingy, icky place, and if you can move the storefronts up to the street wall, you actually will have more activity on the street,” added Elizabeth Quasebarth, a preservation consultant hired by the Howard Hughes Corp.

Overall, though, the committee was far more generous in its appraisal of the design scheme, favoring the “long overdue” plan for its potential to bring life to the area, especially the three sides of Beekman, Front and South streets.

They voted 10-1 to support the overall proposal, along with the recommendation that the commission “ask the architects to make some more forceful indication of the prior usage there as fish stalls.”

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In advance of the National September 11 Memorial Museum’s ceremonial opening on May 21, the fencing will come down around much of the Memorial Plaza, making for easy access to the site and the lines of visitors at airport-like security a thing of the past.

And for the first time since Sept.

11, 2001, pedestrians will be able to cross West Street at street level between the World Trade Center site and Battery Park City.

Pedestrians will also be able to walk along Liberty Street, all the way from Broadway to West Street.

Fulton Street from Broadway, however, will remain closed.

Later in the year there will be changes to the fence line on Vesey Street at Church Street that will provide additional space for the masses of pedestrians in that area to pass through.

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BY CARL GLASSMAN It was the same worrisome message, but this time delivered to the chancellor.

At a meeting of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force last month, Downtown school advocates and elected officials had the ear of Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña for the first time.

As they had repeatedly spelled out to education officials at many of these meetings, members of the group ran through dire predictions of severe school overcrowding, and continued the familiar call for new schools.

The chancellor, seated next to Silver at the head of a long conference table, mostly just listened.

“I really want to hear from you,” she told the large group assembled before her. “What your priorities are and how we can help.”

What she heard first were the principals’ ritual spring announcements of kindergarten wait lists and enrollment figures at their Downtown schools.

A record number of kindergartners, in seven classes, are slated to attend Tribeca’s P.S. 234, said Principal Lisa Ripperger. Terri Ruyter noted that 50 zoned children are without seats at her P.S. 276 in Battery Park City. The Peck Slip School is becoming “very tight” in its temporary quarters in the Tweed Courthouse, said Principal Maggie Siena, with 25 of its projected 105

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Speaker Sheldon Silver and Chancellor Carmen Fariña at Silver’s task force meeting.

kindergartners coming from the wait list for P.S. 276.

Fariña tried to sound a note of optimism. “You’re going to see the wait lists kind of disappear over time,” she said.

What the chancellor was told, however, was that crowding will only grow worse, especially in the Financial Dist– rict, with its explosive growth of residential units, and a rate of child population increase that Community Board 1 maintains exceeds any other sector of New York City.

Fariña, a former Brooklyn school district superintendent, appeared to understand.

“I’ve seen DUMBO go from no families to all families,” she said. “I’ve certainly been living part of what you’re talking about, so I get it.”

Since last November—when school advocates learned that Lower Manhattan, below Canal Street, would get one 456seat school, not the 1,000 seats they expected—they have been calling for additional seats in the city’s five-year

school construction plan.

A letter in February from local elected officials to Fariña, appealing for help, was to no avail.

Now the chancellor was hearing, in person, the troubling long-term projections offered by task force member Eric Greenleaf.

By 2018, Greenleaf said, the elementary schools in Community Board 1— even with the addition of the new school, which has yet to be sited—will be short 1,350 seats.

“So please,” Greenleaf said, “we need more schools. That one school is appreciated, but it is nowhere near enough.”

Turning to face Fariña, Silver repeated the request. “We need another school in the budget so we can have it online in the 2017 and 2018 year,” he said.

“That’s the message you’re going to hear over and over again.”

“I do hear you,” Farina said in brief remarks. “When you fight for something you want to get some of the rewards, and I’m hearing 2017. I circled it.”

Following the meeting, Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes echoed the sentiments of others, who said the chancellor appeared at least to be “receptive” to their concerns.

“Now she’s hearing them directly from the parents and the elected officials,” McVay Hughes said. “That’s really important.”

Petitioning to ‘Build Schools Now’

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Wendy Chapman and Buxton Midyette, at left, along with Lisa Midyette (white coat) solicit petition signatures in front of P.S. 150 in Tribeca.

This time last year, P.S. 150 parents Lisa and Buxton Midyette and Wendy Chapman were among those fighting the Department of Education’s plan to close their Tribeca school and relocate the students to a newly opened one in Chelsea. They won and, buoyed by that victory they’ve taken on a far bigger—some might say quixotic—cause. But one meant to make a difference, they say, for children now in school and those too young to begin.

They started Build Schools Now, a petition drive they say is meant to support the efforts of elected officials, Community Board 1 and other Downtown school advocates who for years have been trying to convince the city that it is failing to keep up with the burgeoning child population

below Canal Street.

“This is a an issue that has occupied many groups for years and I think merits its own organization,” Buxton Midyette told a gathering of concerned parents last month.

Along with its online petitioning at buildschoolsnow.org, they have their clipboards out most anywhere that Downtown parents gather: in front of schools, at Little League opening day and street fairs and the upcoming Taste of Tribeca. By late last month they had gathered more than 800 signatures. And they have won the endorsements of the District 2 Community Education Council and three PTAs and continue to seek others.

“It’s going to take all of us to make it happen,” said Midyette.

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The frequent presence of moving vans in front of 22 River Terrace is a constant reminder that the building’s owner is emptying the property so he can convert it to condominiums.

Tenants Lament Loss of Home, Community KIM LANDMAN

Moving vans are constant reminder of unhappy, mass exodus from 22 River Terrace

BY AMANDA WOODS Nearly every day, moving vans jostle for space outside 22 River Terrace in Battery Park City, waiting for workers to haul out what is for some former tenants a decade or more of memory-laden possessions.

Esther Demeree is one of those tenants.

“I moved here from the Netherlands,” said Demeree, one of the original tenants in the 12-year-old, 324-unit building. “I’ve never been in any other building.”

Demeree said that she would have liked to have spent at least another decade in the apartment where she and her husband, Carl, are raising their two children. But her landlord, Centurion Real Estate Partners, is acting on a clause written into most of the tenants’ leases: the right to cancel a lease and give a tenant 90 days notice to move out.

Centurion bought the building for $255 million last year from Rockrose Development and plans to turn it into condos.

Adding to the distress of the Demerees, who must leave by June 30, is the scramble for housing. Their family is among 15 to 20 families with children in P.S. 89, many of whom have found themselves competing for relatively few vacant apartments in the neighborhood.

“The hard part about it is that all the buildings around us raised their rents just because this is happening,” Demeree said. “If you don’t take the place, someone else will.” (One agent told an apartment seeker that she was the fifth 22 River Terrace tenant to look at a nearby vacant unit.)

“Are we going to be in competition with all of our neighbors now?” said Christine Buckley, who, with her husband, Brian, and daughter Ava, has lived at 22 River Terrace for nine years.

The Buckleys were intent on staying in the neighborhood. Their daughter, Ava, 9, attends P.S. 89 and the couple are

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Above: Esther Demeree, at home with her two children, Lucas and Katja. Left: Christine and Brian Buckley and daughter Ava.

volunteer teachers at St. Joseph Chapel on Barclay Street. So they settled on another Battery Park City apartment, but have to pay 50 percent more for it.

Some tenants say the forced move will take them away from the sense of community and family friendliness that they have come to know at 22 River Terrace.

Julie, who declined to give her last name, has lived in the building for 12 years, and said losing an apartment is also about losing neighbors.

“We might not necessarily know everybody by name, but I know a lot of people,” she said, adding that her daughter, a third grader at P.S. 89, took it hard when she learned her family would have

to move.

“When we got that letter, she started crying,” her mother said.

“She’s very aware—she always wants to know where we’ve looked at apartments.”

“I’m explaining to my four-year-old, ‘This is the last weekend that you’re playing with CARL GLASSMAN friends in the hallway,’” said tenant Seth Kyle.

Many residents said that 90 days is not enough time to plan their next step, and some were angry that they didn’t have a chance to buy their apartments.

In December, Centurion circulated a draft document, known as a red herring, with the “insider” apartment prices. But it is not final until approved by the state Attorney General’s office, which could take six months, well after most tenants will have moved out.

“We just wanted the opportunity to purchase our apartment, which we are now not going to have,” Brian Buckley said. “We just think that whole thing is totally unfair.”

“A very, very small percentage of

people maybe will be able to get that,” he added.

At a Community Board 1 Battery Park City Committee meeting last month, Deborah Riegel, the attorney for Centurion, said the firm is completely within its legal perogative.

“Like it or not, it was their legal right to present the red herring,” Riegel said.

“It is also their legal right to vacate units in order to effect the business plan that they have for the building. That is not to say that the owner is not willing to work with the existing tenant.”

Various accommodations have been made for 75 tenants to date, according to John Tashjian, a principal of Centurion Real Estate Partners.

“We are immensely sympathetic to families with children in school and we have offered to extend leases through the end of the school year,” Tashjian said in a statement. “In addition to offering to extend leases, we have allowed a number of tenants to break their lease early without penalty if they have found an alternative lease prior to the end of their lease with us.”

Tashjian also pointed out that leases are not being terminated for tenants with leases that don’t expire until late this year or into 2015. If the red herring is accepted, they would be able to renew their leases or buy their apartments.

But some tenants say that although the owner is following the letter of the law, the treatment is unfair on a human level.

Some say they fault Rockrose for giving tenants new leases that they knew would likely be terminated by the buyer.

“Rockrose put this rider in their leases for their tenants who have been tenants for years, knowing exactly what was going to happen, that they were going to sell it and that the new owner would exercise that 90-day clause,” said Kim Landman, who has lived in 22 River Terrace for about a year with her husband, Charles Rosenbaum, and infant daughter.

“I get real estate ventures and making a profit,” Landman added. “But when you are in the business of housing families, there should be some consideration given for people’s lives.”

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The hub of 11 subway lines will also have 65,000 square feet of retail and other commercial space

Three hundred thousand people are expected to move daily through the Fulton Transit Center after its projected opening in June, and retail leasing giant Westfield Group is in charge of capturing a piece of their spending action.

It’s still not known what stores and restaurants will be moving into the $1.4 billion, 11-subway-line hub. But last month, Westfield Vice President George Giaquinto appeared before Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee to give a picture of the available commercial spaces at each level of the center and neighboring buildings that connect to it.

“We are working very quickly and hope to phase in through the fall and the first quarter of 2015 the majority of the retail that’s available,” Giaquinto said, adding that interest among retailers has been “overwhelming.”

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Bogardus Garden Party

The Friends of Bogardus Garden are hosting a free family event on Saturday, May 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Among the many activities will be face painting, tattoos, robot building (led by the Brooklyn Robot Foundry), arts and crafts, cookie decorating. Music will be performed by Tribattery Pops and the Wyatt brother/sister duo. Also on the bill is a dance performance by Miss Rachel and a demonstration by Modern Martial Arts. Bogardus Garden, Reade Street and West Broadway; information at bogardusgarden.org.

Taste of Tribeca

The 20th annual Taste of Tribeca will take place on Duane Street between Greenwich and Hudson on Saturday, May 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature signature items from dozens of local restaurants, familyfriendly activities in the Kids’ Zone, a self-guided tasting tour of local wine shops and live music from City Winery.

Tickets are $50 ($45, if purchased in advance) and include tastes from six participating restaurants. Proceeds from the Taste support arts and other enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234. For ticket packages go to tasteoftribeca.com.

For Mother’s Day

In honor of Mother’s Day, the Museum of Jewish Heritage and JCP (Jewish Community Project) will be sponsoring special events. On May 8, at 9:30 a.m., JCP is hosting “One Family, Two Paths: A Candid Mother–Daughter Conversation About Jewish Identity,” a breakfast with Champagne and with speakers Letty Cottin Pogrebin, cofounder of Ms. Magazine, and her daughter, author Abigail Pogrebin. The event is at Battery Garden, 1 Battery Place. Tickets are $85; email allison@jcpdowntown.org.

On Sunday, May 11, at 2:30 p.m., Rabbi Deborah Prinz will talk about her book “On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. The talk will be followed by a tasting of chocolates made with cocoa beans from Honduras, Ecuador, Tanzania and the Philippines. Tickets are $18; $15 for students and seniors, and are available at mjhnyc.org.

One Night, Fifty Plays

“The Mysteries,” playing this month at The Flea Theater, 41 White St., comprises 50 short plays written by 48 playwrights and performed by 54 actors. The new plays are based on stories from the Old and New Testaments and the enactment lasts nearly six hours with two intermissions, one for a vegan dinner, the other for dessert. Go to thefea.org for show schedules and ticket information. flea.org.

Community Awards

This year, the Downtown Community Center is honoring people who have made a difference in Lower Manhattan schools. The list includes Wendy Chapman, P.S. 150 PTA co-president and former long-time chair of Taste of Tribeca as well as Michael Clark, Derick Henry and James Willie (cleaners), Frank Diorio (fireman), Jose Velez (handyman) and David Digiacomo (engineer) who work at P.S./I.S. 89.

The ceremony and celebration, which takes place on Thursday, May 15, at 7 p.m., will include dinner and live music, and is a benefit for the Manhattan Youth’s nonprofit organization Lower Manhattan Families in Need. Tickets start at $150 and are available at manhattanyouth.org.

Tennis for Kids

The Friends of Washington Market Park are sponsoring free tennis clinics for children in May and June. Instructors from Super Duper Tennis, a kids’ tennis program, will teach the basics and lead drills and games on Tuesdays, 3–5 p.m.

The first hour is for children 7 and 8 years old; the second hour is for 9- and 10-year-olds.

No reservations are necessary, but space is limited to the first 20 children to arrive for each time slot. The park court is at Chambers and West streets.

Gaza Documentary

“Flying Paper” is the story of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip who try to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown.

The documentary, with English subtitles, will be shown Thursday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., 4th fl. Admission is $10; $5 for students and seniors. Information at alwanforthearts.org.

In the Loop

Once a month, knitters and crocheters meet at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place to make items for the Amethyst Women’s Project, which aids victims of domestic violence and sufferers of HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.

Participants are asked to bring a hook or needles, but yarn and patterns are provided. Sessions are led by fiber artist Ina Braun, who helps with basic skills.

This month’s group meets Friday, May 16, at 12 p.m. The Winter Garden is at 220 Vesey St. Details at brookfieldplaceny.com.

Health Festival

HealthCorps will be hosting its annual free Highway to Health Festival on Sunday, May 18, at 19 Fulton St., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be cooking competitions judged by celebrity chefs, live music, fitness demonstrations, health screenings and more. Information at healthcorps.org.

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50 FULTON STREET April 25, 1:30 p.m.

A thief made off with two platinum diamond rings worth a total of $16,500 from Seaport Jewelers. The man told the store owner that he was in town for a Nets game and wanted to buy a ring. As he tried on one ring, he picked up another and then fled the store into a waiting white Chevy Cruze.

95 PEARL STREET April 21, 8 p.m.

A woman hung her bag over the back of her chair while she ate dinner at Ulysses Bar. After finishing her meal, she discovered that her Samsung Galaxy cell phone and wallet containing debit cards and $120 were gone from her bag.

65 WEST BROADWAY April 17, 8:30 p.m.

A man put his bag down while he dined at Saleya Tribeca. When he was about to leave, he discovered that the bag was gone. The messenger bag contained an iPad Air, a laptop, chargers, designer glasses and leather gloves.

11 CLIFF STREET April 16, 8:30 p.m.

Three robbers wearing ski masks surrounded an 18-year-old as he was walking north on Cliff Street, threatened him with a small knife and demanded money.

The victim pulled out the wallet from his pocket and handed $169 to the muggers, who fled.

199 CHAMBERS STREET April 12, 4:20 p.m.

Someone stole a drawstring bag containing two iPhones, a Samsung Galaxy phone, a wallet, a debit card and a school identification card, which three teenage boys had placed on the ground while playing basketball at the Washington Market Park court. The boys said they noticed a man picking up the bag and putting it back down.

22 WATER STREET April 6, midnight A 27-year-old man who was arguing with his girlfriend in front of her apartment allegedly grabbed her phone, walked away, and texted a nude photo of the woman to all her contacts. After he returned, he reportedly threw her phone on the ground. He then pushed the woman into the apartment, causing her to cut her right foot, police said. The victim, 23, refused medical attention.

10 LIBERTY STREET April 4, 9 p.m.

An Infiniti Sedan was stolen from the parking garage where an Enterprise Car Rental employee had left it unlocked with the keys inside. Nearly a week later, police said they spotted James Black, 26, pulling the car out of a parking space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and arrested him. Police also discovered that Black’s driver’s license had been suspended because he reportedly failed to appear in court for a traffic summons.

Black was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle in the first degree, among other charges.

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AFTER 80 YEARS IN TRIBECA

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OF PEARL PAINT

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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

t’s like you’re going through your dying grandmother’s house,” Brooklyn artist Peter Bornstein, 61, said glumly as he walked out of Pearl Paint for the last time. “This is heartbreaking.” It was April 15, two days before the red gates would shut for good on the legendary art supply store at 308 Canal Street.

Like hundreds of others who had come to stock up during the store’s heavily discounted, truly final sale that week, Bornstein was there to roam the store for bargains. But also to say goodbye. “Pearl Paint was part of my life for many years. I don’t remember never coming here,” said the artist,4

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who snapped photos during his visit.

“It was a member of the family.”

In those last days, no one—not even the store staff—seemed to know for certain that this was the end. Only that Thursday, April 17, was the last day of the sale. One employee was heard to tell a customer brightly that she would be back at work on Friday.

For so many artists, there was the sense of disbelief.

“I’ll say a prayer and light a candle that you can stay in the area,” a customer said to one of the salesmen behind a counter.

“That would be nice,” the man replied.

“Everything is turning into a mall,” the customer said.

Claire Ferguson, an artist who has shopped at Pearl since she moved to Tribeca in 1974, was pulling a cart loaded with stretched canvases and other heavily discounted supplies.

“I did all these paintings on my body,” she recalled of her early years as an artist. “And I was shopping here all the time to get my supplies. The beautiful colors, the glitter. The store really shaped my art.”

The now-shuttered building, at 308 Canal, is up for sale, ending the store’s 50-year presence on the street and more than 80 years in the neighborhood. (Pearl Paint opened on Church Street in 1933, selling house paint.) In recent years, regulars said, shelves had not been well-stocked and lines of customers no longer snaked around the aisles waiting to pay.

“They were a very successful business and then to have them close like this, that’s unbelievable,” said Otto Neal, a sculptor, painter and printmaker who had been shopping at Pearl for “at least” 30 years. “Most all the artists I know shopped here.”

But as one longtime store worker put it, “So many things have changed in the world. Computers, the neighborhood, Amazon.” (A call for com-

ment to the Pearl headquarters in Oakland Park, Fla., was not returned.)

For all its remarkable variety of arts materials—from the gamut of supplies for serious painters and printmakers to the beads and bells, clothespins and crayons for craft hobbyists and kids—Pearl’s five floors stood as a fortress against the digital age.

Protractors, T-squares, letter stencils, indeed even paper, pens and erasers, took on a quaint charm.

Unchanging, too, were many of those who had worked at the store for years and now found themselves without jobs, or community.

“It’s devastating,” said a veteran salesman who did not want to be identified for fear of losing an employment reference. “They just broke up a whole family unit here, people I’ve been working with for years. The people running this place don’t even understand its history and the artists who shopped here?”

The salesman wiped away a tear.

“You going to let that all go?”

Pearl’s longtime staff (four workers had been there more than 20 years) were sought out for their expertise on the application of materials and the fine differences among products. Painter Janusz Gilewicz’s relationship with salesman Ken Colman on the second floor went back 16 years. Colman, who is 61, started on that fine arts floor 29 years ago.

“He’s absolutely the authority on this floor,” said Gilewicz, standing with the salesman on his last day. “He knows everything about the brushes, he knows everything about the paints, and he knows where it is located.”

Colman recalled the celebrities he has helped: Gene Wilder, Tony Bennett, Anthony Quinn, to name few, and the pride he takes in his work. “My job is to get my customers good quality at good prices and that’s what I did. And that’s why a lot of them keep coming back to me.”

Top: At the beginning of the week of closing, this couple entered a first floor with few customers. As word of the store’s big sale and possible closing spread, Pearl Paint became increasingly crowded. Above: Even a couple of days before the store closed, a worker stocked shelves.

Laura Lee, 27, a commercial digital artist who also draws and paints “to stay sane,” stopped by the second floor and greeted Colman like an old friend. She had brought beer to the store and was passing it out among the longtime workers whom she, and her artist mother Paula Lee before her, had come to know and rely on.

“They’ve actually taught me more than some of my art teachers,” Lee said.

As 7 p.m., the store’s closing time, drew near, lines grew longer at the registers. Long lines, the way it used to be at Pearl. But on the second floor, among the paint sets, pastels and tubes of acrylics, the hubbub seemed

far away as Lee and Colman said goodbye.

“You’ve helped me so much,” the young woman said with feeling. “Can I give you a hug?”

“Sure, I’d be very happy,” Colman replied, and the two embraced.

“That’s the first customer hug I’ve had today,” the salesman said with a smile.

When the hour of closing arrived, more than 30 shoppers were waiting in line for the first-floor cashier. And at the entrance, a store employee began turning away latecomers.

“Closed,” she shouted to them through a half-opened door. “We’re closed!”

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n his last day of work. “They just broke up a whole family unit here.”

ore closes on April 17 and Pearl Paint's last customers leave, loaded with bargains. Customers who arrived late asked desperately if the store would open the next day.

THE DAYS AFTER Far left: Artist Nico Smith has shopped at Pearl Paint since 1961. He arrived at the store two days after it closed, expecting to find it open. “They can’t,” he exclaimed. “It’s an institution!”

After it closed, the entrance to Pearl Paint became a makeshift memorial installation. Among the “pieces” on display were candles with individual letters that together spelled out “REST IN PEACE” and yellow tape strung about with the phrase “Gentrification in Progress.”

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Was this one of Tribeca’s original farmhouses?

BY OLIVER E. ALLEN t is true that in the picture, the tophatted gentleman standing next to the tree does not look like a farmer. In addition to his formal headgear he is even sporting a walking stick, an object that would be of marginal use in tilling the soil or handling livestock. Yet the acreage on which the man’s house is situated—land occupied by today’s Tribeca—seems ample, and the house itself has a distinctly rural look. Note the rudimentary open door at the top of the stairs, not to mention the window and wide door at the basement level, which suggest the presence of horses or cows.

Nor do the houses in the background have an urban look. And all those chickens being watched over by the daughter of the household—is this actually a farmhouse?

The picture itself provides no clue.

Printed in 1925 in a book that was part of a revived series called “Valentine’s Manual” (based on a 19th-century series issued for New York’s Common Council), the drawing is simply labeled “The old White House on Broadway near Walker Street, about 1830.” But further investigation reveals that the house was probably that of Henry White, a local landowner after whom White Street is named. Indeed that may be Mr. White himself surveying his domain.

If so, then his house would have been a holdover from the days before the American Revolution when all of Tribeca was farmland or partially cleared swampland. Although the island of Manhattan had been mostly wooded before Europeans arrived, the Native Americans who lived here before the Dutch had cleared much of it to raise crops, and the Dutch and later the English, elbowing out the Native Americans, simply took over the well-prepared acreage for farming.

Both the Dutch and the English rules made a habit of granting chunks of land to persons they deemed worthy, and so much of Manhattan was carved up into farm holdings, many of them quite large.

The entire western half of Tribeca, for example, was to become known as the King’s Farm, a huge tract inherited from the Dutch that England’s Queen Anne gave to Trinity Church in 1705 (and that over the years helped make Trinity one

paper ad in 1795 described a “new twostory house, brick front” on Broadway near Chambers and suggested that “it will suit a genteel private family who would wish to reside in the country.”

Around 1800 the city leveled the

could have imagined. One by one the farmlands of Lower Manhattan gave way to housing and commercial enterprises, and Henry White’s fine old house would have been an early victim. By 1850 the entire southern part of the island all the

of the wealthiest landlords in the city).

East and south of that parcel, Manhattan below the line of today’s Canal Street consisted at one time or another of some 16 plots or estates, many given over to farming. The land in the area of Broadway and Walker Street was also fine for agriculture and was held by a number of persons, including Henry White.

Even as late as 1800 the city had not grown this far north. Broadway ended just above Chambers Street at the foot of a hill located at Duane Street, and beyond that was open country. A news-

Duane Street hill and extended Broadway as far as the Canal Street area, but growth still was slow to come to the neighborhood. In 1806 a well-to-do New Yorker offered to give four acres of land at Canal and Broadway to a financially strapped Lutheran church. The church fathers turned him down because they felt the land was not worth the expense of fencing it.

Then the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, just before the date of this picture, suddenly caused New York to grow at an astonishing rate and the city began expanding northward faster than anyone

way to 14th Street was densely occupied by residential and commercial buildings.

As the decades passed and growth continued the number of farmers in the city dwindled: in 1890 New York had 2,800 working farms, but in 1950 the number had dropped to 308. Today there are only a handful left. Henry White would hardly have known what to make of it.

This article was originally printed in the Trib in November, 1999. For a complete history of the neighborhood, see “Tribeca: A Pictorial History” by Oliver E. Allen, available at amazon.com or Stella at 184 Duane St.

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Last summer a friend of mine became a parent coordinator. She had learned about the position from me; there was an email to District 2 parent coordinators, asking if anyone knew a qualified candidate.

Being a caring, patient, warm person, who raised two children, knows how to listen, is never judgmental, and genuinely wants to CONNIE help, my friend SCHRAFT was a natural for the job.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still not sure, though, if she thanks me or curses me for roping her into it.

While she had listened to me talk about my work for a SCHOOL decade, and TALK had spent time volunteering in New York City public schools, once she started the job, she had to quickly learn such esoteric Department of Education (DOE) acronyms as: OORS: The DOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online occurrence reporting system. Reports of injuries, accidents, fights, and other incidents must be recorded within 24 hours.

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When I attend professional development sessions with parent coordinators from around the city, I keep my mouth closed about how pleasant my job is, because often theirs are not.

Some coordinators are hidden away in tiny offices and never feel part of the school community. Some are in perpetual conflict with their bosses, the principals, who are reluctant to give them real responsibility and keep them busy with tasks no one else has time to do.

Then there is the parent piece. When the position was first established, parents assumed that the parent coordinator

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would be their advocateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is true; or even their employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is not true. Now, it is understood that a parent coordinatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allegiance must be to the school and the principal. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t insert my own opinions, but philosophically, I fit in, which is not the case with parent coordinators in every school.

My friend who is new at the job is learning to negotiate the sensitive areas.

She is figuring out where she stands on certain issues and protocols, and how she fits into the school community.

Last week she texted me after the kindergarten offer letters were mailed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rough day,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. She had spent the morning consoling parents of pre-K students who were not accepted into the kindergarten, even though they were already in the school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem fair,â&#x20AC;? she said.

I explained that while it was tough on those families, it was fair. Pre-K programs are a lottery, and those who receive a pre-K seat are fortunate. The families who are not accepted to pre-K pay thousands of dollars to private nursery schools, instead of enjoying a free public program. Once upon a time, admission to pre-K guaranteed admission to kindergarten, no questions asked.

Then the DOE realized that there were families who were not offered a seat in pre-K, and then denied admission to kindergarten, all by the vagaries of a lottery system. That didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem right.

After the system was overhauled and being in the pre-K no longer meant automatic admission to kindergarten. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d known that when I was talking to parents this morning,â&#x20AC;? my friend said.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to explain it next year.

But her willingness to listen and sympathize and offer a tissue to a crying parent is much more important. Every parent coordinator would agree with that.

Connie Schraft is P.S. 89â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent coordinator. For questions and comments, write to her at connie@tribecatrib.com.

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and new picture books. Tuesdays, 4 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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Modern Masters Kids learn about artists Marc Chagall (5/7), RenĂŠ Magritte (5/14) and Louise Nevelson (5/21), then practice using the mediums and techniques employed by them. Ages 6 and up.

Wednesdays, 4 pm. Free. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org

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Tiny Poets Time Poetry readings and related activities for toddlers.

Thursdays, 10 am. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Storytime Children with a parent or caregiver can hear readings of new and classic childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. Saturdays, 11 am.

Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

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Building Blocks A hands-on exploration of the various materials architects use to construct buildings. Kids then design their own skyscraper using what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned.

Ages 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8. Sat, 5/3, 10:30 am. $5.

Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

g Ink Experiments A Chinese calligraphy workshop that allows kids to explore various media, practice basic skills and create their own works of art. All materials are provided. Sat, 5/3, 11 am. $10. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

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Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Reading Hear the story â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, the Things My Mom Will Doâ&#x20AC;? by Marianne Richmond, then make a Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day card. Sat, 5/10, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

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he daily short animated films at the Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, are simple productions, but many of their themesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bravery, boasting, good vs. evilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hold powerful lessons for youngsters. The tales are from Canada, Bolivia and Hawaii (such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Maui Snared the Sun,â&#x20AC;? shown above). Entrance to the museum and movies is free. For a schedule, go to nmai.si.edu.

Geodesic Domes A workshop about a variety of domes from igloos to Buckminster Fullerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designs.

Learn about how their geometry helps them stand up, then build their own domed structure using craft materials. Ages 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. Sat, 5/17, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

g Sky High Scavenger Hunt Tour the exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sky High and the Logic of Luxury,â&#x20AC;? about highrise apartment buildings, then go on a scavenger hunt throughout the museum to find facts about skyscrapers, using photographs, videos and other materials for clues. Then make a postcard with illustrations of skyscrapers. Sat, 5/31, 10:30 am. $5. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

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Spy-beca! A scavenger hunt in Tribeca with prizes for kids, teens and families. Learn about the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past, present and future while looking for clues. Meet at Hudson and Reade streets. Sat, 5/3, 12:30 pm. Free. tribecatrust.org.

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rytime program, including readings of popular bedtime stories. Kids are encouraged to wear pajamas and bring a toy or stuffed animal to share for show-and-tell. Thu, 5/15, 6 pm. Free.

Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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Dance with Miss Rachel Children perform fairy tales such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thumbelina,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Red Riding Hoodâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Princess and the Peaâ&#x20AC;? in a recital, which caps off their year studying dance under Miss Rachel. Sat, 5/31, 10:30 & 2:30 pm. $20. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

Aloha Days A celebration of the culture and traditions of Native Hawaii, including interactive dance performances and workshops for kapa (bark cloth) printing, lei making and creating a kuikui nut bracelet. Sat, 5/17 & Sun, 5/18, 11 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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Family Yoga Class Kids learn yoga, play games, do art projects and sing songs. A healthy snack will be served. Yoga mats available. Fri, 5/23, 6 pm. Free. Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

g Put Down Roots A celebration of trees that includes live music, tree facts, a workshop on how to identify tree species and more. Kids will also be able to request a tree for their street from the city and will write â&#x20AC;&#x153;poetreeâ&#x20AC;? on plantable paper. Sat, 5/24, 11 am. Free. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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Toddler Storytime Picture books, finger-puppet plays and songs for ages 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;36 months.

Free. Mondays, 10:30 am. Battery Park City Library, 175 N. End Ave.; Thursdays, 10:30 & 11:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

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Picture Book Stories Librarian reads classic

g Asian Pacific Stories Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month by listening to stories such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mohala Mai â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;O Hau: How Hau Became Hauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ulaâ&#x20AC;? by Robert Lono Ikuwa, then learn about kapa (bark cloth) and make a bookmark using stamps. Sat, 5/10, 1 pm. Free.

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Dr. Seuss Reading Kids hear the classic, wacky childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, the Places Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Go!â&#x20AC;? by Dr. Seuss. Sat, 5/17, 11 am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

THEATER g Yellow Sneaker A musical puppet theater piece about caring for the environment, family, friendship and Jewish traditions. Up to age 3.

Sun, 5/4, 10:30 am. Free. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book is brought to life in an interactive musical. The story follows adventurers on their quest to find a bear. Sun, 5/11, 1:30 pm. $25. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

g Circus Incognitus Jamie Adkins, clown, juggler, balancing artist and more, performs circus stunts and comedy. Sun, 5/18, 1:30 pm. $25.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

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BY NATHALIE RUBENS Spoiled milk in the fridge? Can’t find the light bulbs? Photographs stuffed into shoeboxes?

Professional organizer Barbara Reich came to Tuesday Talks at Battery Park City’s Asphalt Green last month with big promises for the audience. By following her plan, not only could listeners bring order to their homes, but they would “feel better, more efficient, more productive and lighter.”

A former management consultant and mother of 14-year-old twins, Reich now owns her own business, helping clients find more happiness, she says, by organizing their homes.

Some of Reich’s “ten commandments,” as she calls them, for an orderly home sound familiar. But like all good suggestions, they deserve repeating.

Here is some advice from Reich’s her talk and her recently published book, “Secrets of an Organized Mom: From the Overflowing Closets to the Chaotic Play Area: A Room-by-Room Guide to Decluttering and Streamlining Your Home for a Happier Family.”

Tackle the things you find most unpleasant. “Everybody’s got something just lingering on their to-do list,” she told the audience. If you start with the tasks you hate, your anxiety level will drop “exponentially,” and your quality of life will soar.

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Just because you paid a lot for it… When trying to decide whether to throw something out, don’t think about how much you paid for it.

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Say “no” to giveaways. “Freebies are not your friends,” she says. That means no free tote bags, water bottles, mugs or t-shirts. “Do you really want to walk around advertising the merits of your bank?” she asks rhetorically.

like having it around.”

Use one kind of hanger, storage container, etc.

Reich believes that “visual clutter—when everything is “a jumble” and the eye doesn’t know where to go—can cause anxiety. The same hanger (also the same color), she notes, means that clothing will hang uniformly, and same storage bins stack more neatly. All of which makes for a calmer and more pleasing environment.

Make a decision and act on it.

Reich concedes that this is one of the most difficult of her “commandments.”

If you receive an invitation, respond immediately—and your ambivalence probably means you shouldn’t go. The same goes for unwanted items in your house. If you don’t like that lamp, don’t store it in your closet, get rid of it, without delay!

She is a strong believer in storing similar items together and labeling everything (she’s a big fan of the Brother P-touch label maker).

In the playroom, she says, get things off the floor. She even gives advice on how to organize your child’s toys— wooden blocks go on a bottom shelf organized by size, plastic dinosaurs and animals in labeled bins on shelves, of course.

In a section of her book, called “You Have My Permission,” Reich tells about an organizing seminar in which a man told her that his wife of 11 years did not want to give away a set of flatware they had received as a wedding gift and never used. She thought it would be “bad karma.” Right then and there, Reich texted her, assuring her that it was “okay” to let go.

So next time you see that so-not-youanymore dress in your closet that you haven’t worn in five years, remember this: Reich gives you permission.

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Five Downtown Parks Say,

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with free plantings, music and even a mini petting zoo EARTH DAY AT DUANE PARK Duane Park’s annual spring event is for the whole family and includes live Brazilian music, farm animals to pet, and flowers and herbs to pot and take home. It’s hosted by Friends of Duane Park. Sun, 5/11, 10 am–12 pm Free. At Duane St. between Hudson and Greenwich sts., duanepark.org.

SPRING PLANTING DAY All are invited to plant flowers and spruce up Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza. Tools and plantings will be provided. Kids can also have their faces painted and make a balloon animal. Light refreshments available. Sat, 5/17, 12–2 pm. Trinity

May, When the Park Fun Begins

Members of the Garden Club reaped their harvest of string beans from their garden plot in Battery Park City’s Rockefeller Park.

There’s a program for every kid’s fancy in the parks of Battery Park City

For children of all ages, May is the month that Battery Park City’s parks really come alive with activity.Here is a sampling. All activities are free unless otherwise indicated. Go to bpcparks.org for details. To register, call 212-2679700 ext 366 or email info@bpcparks.org.

PRESCHOOL PLAY AND ART Toddlers play, sing songs and hear stories. Toys, books and other play equipment are provided. For toddlers with an accompanying adult. Ages 2–4.

Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays (except 5/26), 10 am. Wagner Park near Battery Pl. BASKETBALL Kids 5 years and up learn to play basketball using adjustable height hoops and do fun drills to improve skills. Mondays (except 5/26), 3:30 pm: 5-6 year olds; 4:30 pm: 7 and up. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St. SOCCER Instructors teach children how to pass, shoot and dribble through games and fun drills. Tuesdays, 2:30 pm: 3- 4year-olds; 3:30 pm: 5- 7-year-olds; 4:30 pm: 8- 11-year-olds. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St. YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING Simple, age-appropriate gardening projects include planting seeds, watering the garden and picking and eating greens and vegetables from an organic garden.

Kids will also hear stories and do crafts.

Ages 3–5 with an accompanying adult.

Tuesdays, 3:15 pm. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St.

ART AND GAMES Kids play lawn games, such as Tug of War, Red Light/Green Light and Wiffle ball, and do art projects using clay, wood and other materials. All supplies are provided. Ages 5 and up. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 pm. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St. CHESS Learn to play the game with tips from an expert. All ability levels are welcome. Ages 5-15. Wednesdays, 3:30 pm.

Rockefeller Park near Chambers St. EXPLORERS’ CLUB Using magnifying lenses, binoculars, microscopes and field guides, kids examine the natural world and learn about plants, animals and the environment in Battery Park City’s parks. Concepts from botany, ecology, entomology, meteorology and ornithology will be taught. For first- to third-graders. Registration required. Mondays (except 5/26), 5/56/23. $240. Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 6 River Terrace.

GARDENING CLUB Kids develop gardening skills, prepare soil and garden beds, plant seedlings and bulbs, water, thin, weed, harvest, compost and learn other garden maintenance techniques. Registration required. Tuesdays, 4 pm. $130 for two months (May to June, July to August, September to October); $350 for the season. Rockefeller Park near Chambers St. SUNSET SINGING CIRCLE Sing rounds and folk songs accompanied by acoustic guitarist and folksinger Terre Roche. All ages welcome. Fridays

(except 5/23). Wagner Park near Battery Pl. GO FISH! FESTIVAL This event for the whole family offers an afternoon of catch-and-release fishing and educational programs about wildlife in the Hudson River ecosystem, plus art projects and a live musical performance by Tom Chapin. Bait and fishing rods are provided. Sat, 5/10, 10 am– 2 pm. Wagner Park near Battery Pl. STORIES FOR ALL AGES Storyteller Mary Ann Schmidt recites the tale of Wise Animals and a Heartless Giant, revealing how animals and Mother Nature are clever and resourceful creatures. Sat, 5/17, 11 am.

Teardrop Park near Warren St. The Go-Fish Festival in Wagner Park takes place on Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All fish are returned to the river.

Place and Edgar Street. Sponsored by the Downtown Alliance. downtownny.com.

FRIENDS OF TRIBECA PARK Plant, turn soil and get the park ready for a new season. Sat, 5/17, 10 am to 1 pm. Refreshments and coffee available. Gloves will be provided. Beach and West Broadway.

AT BOGARDUS GARDEN The Friends of Bogardus Garden event offers face painting, robot building, arts and crafts and cookie decorating. There will be music from the TriBattery Pops and the Wyatt brother/sister duo, and a martial arts demonstration. Sat, 5/18, 10:30 am–12:30 pm. Reade St. and West Broadway, bogardusgarden.org.

WASHINGTON MARKET PARK Clean out the garden beds and plant new bulbs and plants with help from the park gardener. Sat, 5/31, 11 am to 12 pm. Greenwich St. and Duane St., washingtonmarketpark.org.

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BY JULIET HINDELL Could the world premiere of “An Octoroon,” set on a cotton plantation in the 19th century, have opened at a more relevant time, when the subject of racism is in the headlines.

The woman at the center of “An Octoroon,” this intriguing and many-layered play now at Soho Rep, is one-eighth black, and as such she can’t marry the white man she loves and is in danger of being sold as a slave.

I got back from a performance of this intriguing and many layered play to find my family watching the first Los Angeles Clippers game post-Sterling. Perfect timing.

Layer one to peel away is that the writer, the prodigiously talented 29-yearold Branden Jacob-Jenkins, based it on an 1859 hit of the same name. The original, by Dion Boucicault, opened at a theater just north of Tribeca and it was so popular that seven companies toured with it around the country for years.

The first “Octoroon” tells the story of a debt-ridden plantation and the slaves who work there after the owner’s death.

George, a young artist, is set to inherit the place but he falls in love with Zoë, the beautiful octoroon of the title. An evil rival, the overseer M’Closky, has designs on Zoë too. All seems lost as one melodramatic development piles upon another. But justice is served in a twist that hinges on a Native American chief

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Chris Myers, Danny Wolohan, Amber Gray in a scene from “An Octoroon.”

played in the original by Boucicault himself, and what was then a newfangled contraption—a camera.

The updated “Octoroon” stays faithful in large part to this plot and includes a good dose of melodrama. But then it begins to get way more complicated. For a start, Chris Myers pulls off the daunting feat of playing three parts—the contemporary character of writer JacobsJenkins, the lovestruck George and his rival M’Closky. The latter two are white, so in a reversal of the original, Myers, who is African-American, dons white makeup. But as in the 1859 play, Ben

Horner appears in blackface to play a slave—back then African-Americans weren’t even allowed in the theater.

An excellent cellist, Lester St. Louis, plays the incidental score by Cesar Alvarez and it all somehow comes together under Sarah Benson’s pacy direction.

There’s a ditzy white socialite (Zoë Winters) and a giant Brer Rabbit played by the playwright. Large objects fall, there’s a blizzard of cotton balls, and it’s shocking and uproariously funny in turns. Funny? Aren’t we talking about slavery?

“I made the slaves sound like people I know,” said Jacob-Jenkins after a recent performance. “My great-grandfather was a sharecropper in Arkansas and I was interested in capturing what I imagine to be the boredom of being a slave.”

The three women slaves in the play may be bored but they’re anything but boring. Shyko Amos, Jocelyn Bioh and Marsha Stephanie Blake threaten to steal the show with their sassy, wisecracking, psychobabbling chorus. One moment, they are discussing how many times they have been bought and sold as property, the next they sound like they’re oversharing on a daytime talk show.

We are brought back to the tragic heart of this story and its resonance over the years by Amber Gray in her poignant performance as the virtuous but doomed Zoë who could “pass” as white except she’s not considered to be white.

Zoë says, “For every seven drops of red blood in my veins, one is black,” and she points to the bluish whites of her eyes as proof of her origins. It’s sobering to realize through recent events that some people are still obsessing about these differences.

Donald Sterling and his ilk should come to Tribeca to see this play.

“An Octoroon” by Branden JacobsJenkins, and directed by Sarah Benson, is at Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., through May 24. Running time is 2 hours 30 minutes. Tickets at sohorep.org.

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A LOVE POEM TO CUPCAKES And other verse from kids in the Poets House outreach program to Downtown schools

Last month students from P.S. 89, P.S. 276 and P.S. 1 gathered at Poets House in Battery Park City to celebrate the publication of their work in an anthology.

And the bravest of the bunch stood at the mic and read them.

“You’re doing exactly what the pros are doing,” poet Dave Johnson told a group of third-grade authors assembled for a reading. “They write and publish their poems and read them right here at Poets House.”

Johnson and Poets House Education Director Mike Romanos had worked with the kids in their schools. The theme: landmarks, both personal and monumental.

“With all the testing that was going on, it was a nice break and a nice way to introduce poetry in a genuine and realistic way,” said P.S. 1 teacher Helen Yu. Below, a sampling of their work.

LETTER TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER Dear World Trade Center, I love when your beautiful light light up at midnight.

Why are you so tall, and why do you light up in the night?

My dad might work in your building My favorite thing about you is that you are a triangle shape.

—Lilyka Visser, 2nd grade, P.S. 276 300 RECTOR PLACE Awesome, there are so many floors.

Awesome, the doorman is Spanish.

Awesome, in my apartment full of stuff.

Awesome, we have lots of stairs.

Awesome, we have a gym.

Done.

—Kaciann James, 2nd grade, P.S. 276 LETTER TO MRS. FINANCIAL CENTER Dear Mrs. Financial Center, I love that you have great stores and when will the construction stop?

My favorite thing about you is

Above: Dave Johnson adjusts the mic for a P.S. 276 second grader reading his poem from an anthology of student work. Below: Tian Rong Li, a P.S. 1 fourth-grader, reads his poem, “Ode to Central Park.” More than 240 children participated in the program. that every year you do construction.

It is like I am in cake land.

—Olivia Eliseo, 2nd grade, P.S. 276

Love pictures are everywhere in each chocolate.

BOWLING GREEN

—Maria Bravo, 2nd grade, P.S. 276

What beautiful flowers circling around.

What a big water rainbow in the middle of them.

What fun it could be during the warm sunny days of summer.

Time ongoing, the light and warmth.

What a beautiful sight in a big, open space just sitting there.

What a wonderful sight Bowling Green is!

—Siobhan Kramer, 2nd grade, P.S. 276 ODE TO THE HUDSON RIVER

CHINATOWN Wow, how everybody walks at any speed, fast or slow, no need to run, crowded streets filled with lots of everything

—Sofia Hom, 3rd grade, P.S. 89 PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

O Winter Garden!

You are my warm place.

—Jennifer Pillai, 2nd grade, P.S. 276

You are more awesome than the Winter Garden.

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You are like the biggest puddle in New York O Hudson River!

You are my puddle.

Love is in your shop.

It is as pretty as the light of the Empire State Building.

—Henry Ridge, 2nd grade, P.S. 276 ODE TO THE WINTER GARDEN O Winter Garden!

You are amazing!

O Winter Garden!

You are like a castle in the sky for everybody.

Love is in your cupcake.

Every cupcake is different like every person in the world.

Love screams in each cookie, like a giant heart.

Love your cakes.

They’re so realistic.

P.S. 1 The students like giant tides!

The giant room like living rooms.

The hallways like long tunnels.

The books on bookshelves, like never ending rivers.

The fabulous books take you on an adventure.

—Benny Wen, 4th grade, P.S. 1 SOUTH STREET SEAPORT What makes you keep on spending your money like you’re rich?

What gives you a cool ocean breeze?

What makes you hungrier than an unfed pig?

What gives you the feeling of rushing water?

What makes you never want to leave?

—Jolin Jang, 4th grade, P.S. 1

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Relative Strangeness: Rosmarie Waldrop with Nikolai Duffy Poet Rosmarie Waldrop will read and discuss her work with Duffy, author of “Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop.” Thu, 5/1, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

g Deborah R. Prinz Author and rabbi Prinz will talk about her book “The Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao” in celebration of Mother’s Day. The talk will be followed by a chocolate sampling. Sun, 5/11, 2:30 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors.

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Literary Salon Alexi Zantner (“The Lobster Kings”), Andre Dubus III (“House of Sand and Fog”) and Miranda Beverly-Whittemore (“Set Me Free”) will read their latest poetry and prose. Tue, 5/13, 7 pm. Free. Pen Parentis at the Andaz Hotel, 75 Wall St., penparentis.org.

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g Capital of Capital: Money, Banking and Power in New York City Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet Money, historian Julia Ott and economic history professor Youssef Cassis will talk about whether New York City is still the foremost capital of global finance. Wed, 5/21, 6:30 pm. $16.

Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

leeping Beauty” will be performed by students of the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet with choreography by Marius Petipa. The story follows a prince on his search for a princess who has been put under a curse by the wicked fairy godmother played by Eva Janiszewski, above. Fri., May 16, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 17, 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 18, 1:30 p.m. $25–$59. At Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St. Tickets at gelseykirklandacademyofclassicalballet.org.

g Matt Berman Creative director of “George” magazine discusses his career working with John F. Kennedy, Jr., in “JFK, Jr., George & Me.” The book also details the launch of the publication and his many interviews with celebrities from Barbra Streisand to Robert De Niro. Thu, 5/22, 6 pm.

Free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g

Reed Farrel Coleman The mystery writer will read from and talk about his latest publication, “The Hollow Girl: A Mae Prager Mystery,” about a man, depressed about the recent death of his girlfriend, who is visited by a mysterious, ghostly figure. Wed, 5/21, 7 pm. Free. Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com.

Mayo, a screening of the 1986 film about three silent film stars (Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Steve Martin) who are mistaken for real heros in a small Mexican town. Mon, 5/5, 7 pm. $15, includes complimentary hour-long vodka happy hour. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick St., tribecacinemas.com.

William W. Buzbee Law professor will talk about his book, “Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York City,” which explores the legal and political battles waged over Westway, the controversial multibillion-dollar highway conceived for the lower West Side of Manhattan during the 1970s and early 1980s. Thu, 5/22, 6:30 pm. Free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

g Dakota Conflict Produced by Twin Cities Public Television, this 56-minute documentary explores the causes, events and aftermath of the fierce fighting that broke out in Minnesota in 1862 between several bands of the Dakota and white European settlers over broken treaties and intrusion on Native lands and resources. Daily starting 5/19, 1 & 3 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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newsteps Five choreographers, Sheena Annalise, Mishi Castroverde, Caitlyn Johansen, Siobahn Lawless and Magic, present new works they have created with the help of a grant from the Center. The pieces include duets and solos using pointe and other classical dance techniques. Thu, 5/8–Sat, 5/10, 7:30 pm. $12; $10 students, seniors. Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry St., chendancecenter.org. g

From the Horse’s Mouth An all-male cast honors the late ballet dancer and director Frederic Franklin during his centenary year in a dance variety show with new dance and theatrical numbers. Fri, 5/30-Sun, 6/1, 7:30 pm. $25$40. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu.

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g Lisi Raskin “Recuperative Tactics” is a largescale, site-specific piece inspired by Raskin’s trip to Afghanistan in 2013. The artist uses the remnants of previous art projects, leftover materials and found objects to transform the gallery into a reconstruction of her memory of the country and how it has been ravaged by war. To Sat, 5/31.

Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.

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George Schneeman “A Painter and His Poets” is the first major retrospective of Schneeman’s collaborative paintings, collages, prints and books, with portraits of his poet friends, spanning 40 years. Schneeman’s playful, energetic, clear and likable art opened new possibilities in writing and art. To Sat, 9/20. Tue–Fri, 11 am–7 pm.

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

g Susan Bowen In “People Walking,” the photographer sat on the ground and took pictures of people walking at busy corners of New York City using a camera on a small tripod. Wed, 5/7–Sat, 5/31. Opening reception: Tue, 5/6, 6 pm. Wed– Sun, 1–6 pm. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com. g

2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition Artwork by graduating MFA students. Tue, 5/20–Fri, 6/6. Tue–Sat, 2–8 pm; Sun, 11 am–5 pm and by appointment.

New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu.

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by Avi Lubin presents works by seven artists that explore the role of art in science today. Thu, 5/22–Thu, 7/26. Opening reception: Wed, 5/21, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, and the National Archives’ work to preserve the materials. To Sun, 5/18. Sun–Tue & Thu, 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed, 10 am–8 pm; Fri, 10 am–5 pm. $12; $10 seniors; $7 students; free under 12. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g Commemorating Controversy: The DakotaU.S. War of 1862 Twelve panels on the 1862 conflict in Minnesota between Dakota akicitas (warriors) and the U.S. military and immigrant settlers that ended in the execution of 38 Dakota men. To Sun, 6/1. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

Oil & Water: Reinterpreting Ink Ink has been the primary medium of Chinese visual arts since ancient times, and is an integral part of calligraphy, poetry and painting. The ink paintings by Qiu Deshu, Wei Jia and Zhang Hontu continue the medium’s relevance in contemporary art. To Sun, 9/14. Tue–Wed & Fri–Sun, 11 am–6 pm; Thu, 11 am–9 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 12. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

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Lisa M. Zilker The Queens-based artist will display geometric works in “Conversations Between Blue and Red.” The grid-like paintings are integrated with organic and simple botanical shapes. To Thu, 6/12. Tribeca Synagogue, 49 White St., tribecasynagogue.org.

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The Fed at 100 An exploration of the complex inner workings of the nation’s central bank and the pivotal role the Federal Reserve has played throughout the history of American finance. To October. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. $8; $5 students, seniors; free under 6. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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g Defining Lines: Maps from the 1700s & Early 1800s These early maps give detailed depictions of an emerging nation. They include an engraved map of the Hudson and Mohawk

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Eleanor Winters Calligraphic paintings created in memory of the children of Paris who were deported to Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944.

To Fri, 6/20. Tuesdays–Saturdays, 10 am–5 pm.

Andrew Salgado “Variations of a Theme” features bold, large-scale figurative paintings of people against abstract backgrounds. Sat, 5/24–Wed, 7/16. Tue–Sat, 11:30 am–6 pm. One Art Space, 23 Warren St., oneartspace.com.

g Discovery and Recovery A detailing of the dramatic recovery of historic materials belonging to the Jewish community of Iraq from a flooded

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he four-piece Ebony Hillbillies band performs its bluegrass music with a fiddle, banjo, washboard and bass. Based in New York City, the band plays in subway stations as part of the MTA’s Music Under New York program. There will also be a dance caller and a chance to learn square dancing.

The free event, for all ages, takes place Saturday, May 17, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the end of Liberty Street in Battery Park City.

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River valleys as well as Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario, a map by John Silsbury, who created the first jigsaw puzzle as a way to teach children geography, and a pre-Revolution plan of New York City, with a bird’s-eye view of lower Manhattan Island, eastern New Jersey and western Brooklyn.

Ongoing. Daily, 12–5 pm. $7; $4 students, seniors, children; free under 5 and active military. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

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g Made in New York Jazz Competition Musicians from around New York City and the world play a variety of sub-genres of jazz in an effort to win the top title. Performances are both live and video recorded. Sat, 5/3, 8 pm. $40–$55. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g

Fathy Salama Egyptian producer, composer, arranger and pianist Fathy Salama will perform a hybrid of traditional and modern music from the Middle East that is influenced by contemporary European sounds. Sat, 5/3, 8 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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Illinois State University Concert Choir The choir plays choral pieces under the direction of Karyl Carlson. Thu, 5/15, 1 pm. Free. Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra In the program “Pieces de Résistance: Music Celebrating the Polish Spirit,” works by Karl Szymanowski, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wodjiech Kilar and more will be performed, featuring solos by violinist Shir Victoria Levy. Additional pieces by Chopin, Dvorak and Bach pay tribute to the music of pre-war Polish-Jewish life. Sun, 5/18, 2:30 pm. $18; $15 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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g A Renaissance Genius: Michelangelo in Rome

Art historian Seth Gopin talks about Michelangelo’s paintings and sculptures, as well as how he challenged the conventions of his time.

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Gopin explores the artist’s major contributions to art and history. Tue, 5/6, 12 pm. $22. Asphalt Green, 212 N. End Ave., asphaltgreenbpc.org. g By the Waters of Babylon: The Modern Iraqi Jewish Experience Iraqi emigres discuss the vibrant community they left behind that has almost disappeared. Wed, 5/7, 7 pm. $5. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Surfboard Carving Tom Pohaku Stone, Native Hawaiian and surfer, shows how traditional Hawaiian surfboards are carved from wood, and discusses the history and traditions of surfing among Native Pacific Islanders. Tue, 5/13–Sun, 5/18, 10 am & 2 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Finding Family: Using Fold3 National Archives staff will provide an overview of the Fold3 system using the archives collections. The program allows users to search military records and other historical documents, as well as share their own information, when they are doing genealogy research.

Registration required: newyork.archives@nara.gov.

Tue, 5/13, 12 pm. Free. National Archives, 1 Bowling Green, archives.gov/nyc. g Photo Slideshow Photographs by historian Allan Roberts of the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York City. Tue, 5/13, 6 pm. $2. Tuesday Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St. west wing rooms 2 and 3, tuesdayeveninghour.com. g The History of Securities Class Action Lawsuits and Their Impact on Investors and Markets Author Jim Newman talks about the 50year history of securities class action lawsuits in the U.S. and internationally, focusing on changes made to enhance recovery of investor losses and limit fraud. Wed, 5/14, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g

Person, Place, Thing Live Randy Cohen, the original writer of “The Ethicist” for the New York Times Magazine, will host a live recording of his radio show, “Person, Place, Thing,” in which he interviews guests about one person, place, or thing that they find meaningful. Reservations required: joe@poetshouse.org. Wed, 5/14, 7 pm. $30. Poets House, 10 River Terrace,

poetshouse.org. g An American Soldier Playwright David Henry Hwang and composer Huang Rui discuss their new opera production based on the life and death of Pvt. Danny Chen, a Chinese American soldier who grew up in Chinatown and was found dead in a guard tower in Afghanistan. Reservations required.

Thu, 5/15, 7 pm. $10; $5 students, seniors.

Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

When Science Bites Back A panel of researchers with expertise in animal societies and their survival strategies in extreme conditions will bring tales from the field, including from some of the most extreme environments in the world. Tue, 5/20, 7-8:30 p.m. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org.

g Stories from a Childhood in Hiding This program tells the stories of two of the thousands of Jewish children who were hidden during World War II, how they survived and their remarkable accomplishments later in life. A Q&A will follow.

Reservations required: info@annefrank.com. Sat, 5/31, 2 pm. Free. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Pl., annefrank.com.

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An Octoroon Written by Branden JacobsJenkins and directed by Sarah Benson, the play follows the goings-on at the late Judge Peyton’s plantation, Terrebonne, which is in financial ruins.

Peyton’s nephew George, heir to the estate, falls in love with Zoe, who has a black ancestor. (See review, page 32.) To Sun, 5/18. Tuesdays– Sundays, 7:30 pm; Saturdays, 3 & 7:30 pm. $35– $50. Soho Rep, 46 Walker St., sohorep.org. g The Mysteries Forty-eight playwrights and 54 actors tell the story of the Bible in a single six-hour night. To Sun, 5/25. Thursdays–Saturdays & Mondays, 6:30 pm; Sundays, 4:30 pm. $15–$75.

The Flea, 41 White St., theflea.org. g

Dear Armen Play by Lee Williams Boudakian inspired by the life of Armen Ohanian, an Armenian dancer and poet. Two performers integrate traditional Armenian dance, music and spoken word, following a young researcher, Garineh,

as she delves into Ohanian’s life and art. Along the way, she begins seeking answers to questions about her own sexuality, ethnicity and role as an artist. Wed, 5/7; Thu, 5/8; Sat, 5/10; Tue, 5/13; Thu, 5/15 & Fri, 5/16, 7:30 pm. $30; $25 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th Fl., alwanforthearts.org.

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The Gangs of New York Explore the legends of the Five Points and learn the real history of the area through visits to Paradise Square, “Murderer’s Alley,” the African Burial Ground and sites associated with Bill “the Butcher” Poole, Boss Tweed and the 1857 police riots. Meet at City Hall Park, Broadway and Chambers St. Sat, 5/3, 11 am; Wed, 5/14, 1 pm; Sat, 5/24, 11 am. $20; $15 students, seniors. Big Onion Walking Tours, bigonion.com.

g Chinatown: A Walk Through History Uncover the history of one of New York’s oldest immigrant neighborhoods. The tour examines how the neighborhood has changed and how it accommodated the large number of immigrants who made it their home. Meet at the museum. Sat, 5/3, 1 pm. $15; $12 students, seniors; free under 5. Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org. g

Talkin’ About Tribeca An exploration of the neighborhood’s history from the 1860s to the present. The guide will discuss the area’s former use as a wholesale and manufacturing hub and point out architecture of the past that survive today. Meet at Tribeca Grand Hotel, 2 Avenue of the Americas. Sat, 5/3 & Sun, 5/4, 1 & 3 pm. Free.

Municipal Arts Society, mas.org.

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Garden Tour: Wagner Park Tour the Wagner Park gardens with a Battery Park City Parks Conservancy horticulturist and learn its innovative organic methods. Meet at the brick building in the park. Wed, 5/14, 1 pm. Free. Wagner Park near Battery Pl., bpcparks.org.

g Wall Street Walking tour of the Financial District focusing on its history and the businesses and people that made it a major global financial center. Meet at the museum. Thu, 5/29, 11 am. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org.

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The TOAST walk brings artists and art lovers together for the 18th year

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uch has changed in the neighborhood since the first Tribeca Open Studio Tour, known as TOAST, was launched 18 years ago, and the area was more thickly populated with artists. Many of the studios, where a parade of art lovers, collectors and curious day-trippers trekked up long flights of creaky stairs to live-work spaces, have been converted into multimillion-dollar condos. Nevertheless, TOAST is still a joy. This year, some 50 artists will participate in the self-guided tour, and for those who thrill to the experience of visiting an artist’s studio, TOAST will be no less exciting.

As in past years, there is art for everyone’s taste—from the wonderfully calm landscapes of Peter Colquhoun to the shimmering strands of color by Irene Mamiye to the arresting portraits of women by Nora Sharpe Beyrent.

Shawn Washburn, president of TOAST and an artist himself, says the experience of going to an artist’s studio bears little resemblance to a visit to a museum or gallery.

“You are seeing the work in progress and it’s an opportunity for people to ask questions. What inspires the artist? What techniques do they use?” Washburn also notes that visitors on a studio tour have a rare view into where creativity takes place.

Brooklyn House by Noah Kinigstein

“For the artist,” he says, “the studio is like a sacred space.”

Work by all TOAST artists will be shown at One Art Space, 23 Warren St., for a week, beginning with a reception on March 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. For a map of studio locations, go to TOASTArtWalk.com. Artists’ studios are open Friday, May 9, 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, May 10, through Monday, May 12, 1 to 6 p.m.

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Remembering William Grant

To the Editor: Soon after 9/11, I thought of a song to commemorate my friend Marchieta who had led a group of her neighbors south along the Hudson River in Battery Park City park where boats from New Jersey ferried them to safety.

It went: “The water is wide, I cannot cross o’er. Neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat….”

Some time after that, at the Downtown Community Center, Bob Townley hosted a neighborhood 9/11 service. After many residents had shared their stories, William Grant came over and asked if I would sing at his church. Flattered, I accepted the invitation and managed to postpone appearing for several weeks, maybe even months.

When I did finally make it to Reverend Grant’s “church,” which he called the Tribeca Spiritual Center, I was surprised to find it in the basement of a senior residence, a gathering of a dozen or two souls from many paths, following their divergent ways to a greater good.

I, too, was searching for something that worked to improve my life, deepen my values, and enhance my compassion for others despite whatever obstacles fate threw in front of me.

There, every other Sunday, in that basement room, with Jews, Baptists, Muslims, Native Americans, Catholics, Sufis, Hindus, Buddhists, animists, and freethinkers, we celebrated what was good and shared a deeper communion that I have ever felt.

On the off weeks, I checked out other services in bigger churches, with church-like buildings, better choirs, organists, more members, beautiful floral displays, hymns in books, and stained glass.

But I would not leave the Tribeca Spiritual Center for any of those sur-

face trappings, because what William delivered was a consistent and practical guide to a deeper, more meaningful life.

Forgiveness, acceptance, charity.

We had wonderful music—from Broadway hit show tunes played by the composer himself to folk songs, like “The Water is Wide,” to spirituals performed by a member who was an opera singer. We listened to Christa Victoria’s amazing songs and Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror.”

When it wasn’t live music, it was carefully chosen and well amplified.

We had beautiful rituals of lighting candles, holding hands, readings from great texts, taking communion, handson birthday celebrations and prayer.

We had at least three ordained ministers at each service. We even had a coffee hour afterwards. And everyone played a role: deacon, reader, singer, greeter, because there were so few of us.

I brought in songs from Bonnie Raitt, the Beatles, the Eagles, Joan Osbourne, Pete Seeger, songs from my years in Samoa, and my own compositions. And I left with a practical step I could take each week to become a better person.

This past Thursday, with great sadness, we bid aloha to Reverend William Grant at the Downtown Community Center. What he taught us were the three feet of the stool of a balanced spiritual life: to meditate or pray, to read from great writings, and to journal.

And I left him with this Polynesian song that I translated: The things in my life that I hold dear, the flower behind my ear, the precious shell, the sweet smell spread over the ocean, the decoration I wear when I go roaming. E le mafai ona fa’agaluina.

We will always remember you, William.

Mafa Edwards

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BRILLIANTLY RENOV 1-FAMILY 2ICHARD . 2OTHBLOOM 7EST 6ILLAGE 'REEK 2EVIVAL TWNH COOL LOFT IN HOT FIDI FiDi. OVERLOOKING "LEECKER 'ARDENS &EATURES Sunny 1BR loft, mint condition, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s INCLUDE PASSENGER ELEV TOTAL SMART KITCHEN WINDOWS HIGH CEILING CUSTOM home technology and terraced south CLOSETS #ABINETRY HDWD mOORS SPA BATH

GARDEN - 7%"Â? pets OK, boutique bldg by 1 WTC and $AVID +ORNMEIER &ULTON #ENTER + 7%"Â?

READY FOR SPRING Downtown. 2ICHARD . 2OTHBLOOM Wonderful 3BR condo penthouse is bright and quiet, with wbfp and 2 private planted terraces. Mint condition, doorman bldg. Great Downtown LOCATION - 7%"Â? ,IZ $WORKIN VALUE AT TEMPO %AST S .EW LOFT WITH PARK VIEWS Lower "2 BATH OVER CEILS OPEN CHEF S KIT

East Side. Open, bright, 2BR, 2 bath condo, W/D, FS condo w/gym, garden, lounge w/ FULLY RENOV TEAK BUILT INS ARCHITECTURAL screening rm, rooftop, low monthlies, great GLASS -IELE APPLIANCES WALNUT mOORS NEIGHBORHOOD - 7%"Â?

W/D. 9.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings, views of Manhattan .ADA 2IZK HOUSE FOR ALL REASONS BRIDGE PETS OK - 7%"Â? GREAT CHELSEA 1BR Chelsea.

TriBeCa. Private garage in *OAN 4EAFORD 1BR condo in the Grand Chelsea, close to stunningly renovated 25 foot wide shopping, dining, and subways. Features CORNER TOWNHOUSE #ONlGURED WITH SPACIOUS RMS OPEN VIEWS BREAKFAST BAR

BEDROOMS ELEVATOR SUPERB ROOF OVERSIZED CLOSETS + 7%"Â?

GARDEN - 7%"Â? &ILIPACCHI &OUSSARD 4EAM 0AULA $EL .UNZIO 3HIRLEY ! -UELLER TRIBECA LOFT TREASURE 4RI"E#A 2ARE LIGHT lLLED ARTIST "2 BATH LOFT IN PRIME 4RI"E#A with protected S and W views, high CHARMING PREWAR 4 RM ONE-OF-A-KIND TRIBECA LOFT CEILINGS BRICK ARCHES AND FACTORY 4RI"E#A 3TUNNING LOFT WITH mOOR TO 'REENWICH 6ILLAGE 3UN lLLED DETAILS - 7%"Â? ceiling doors, exposed wood frames and picturesque views off 5th Aveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gold +ARESSE 'RENIER gigantic living and lounge areas. Also #OAST "EAUTIFUL DETAIL HIGH CEILS .ADINE !DAMSON features beautifully planted and furnished of frontage onto one of GVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prettiest +ELSEY (ALL STREETS &ULL SERVICE ELEGANT ESTABLISHED PATIO + MONTHLY 7%"Â? )ESTYN , *ONES #O OP - 7%"Â? !RABELLA 'REENE "UCKWORTH &ILIPACCHI &OUSSARD 4EAM

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TriBeCa

Rentals

TERRACES AND PARKING TriBeCa. Wonderful light from huge windows and 3 big private terraces MAKE THIS "2 CONDO A PERFECT HOME 7OOD BURNING lREPLACE AND GARAGE PARKING SPACES lNISH IT OFF + MONTHLY 7%"Â? ,IZ $WORKIN 2,400SF CORNER LOFT SoHo. "2 BATH LOFT WITH WINDOWS

fabulous light & street views, oversized X OPEN LIVING AREA CHEF S KIT MAPLE mRS EXPOSED BRICK 7 $ KEYED ELEVATOR + MONTHLY 7%"Â?

2UDI (ANJA 3IIM (ANJA 3BR AT 505 GREENWICH SoHo. (UGE 3& "2 BATH W OPEN KIT

HIGH CEILINGS LARGE mR TO CEIL WINDOWS

OPEN CITY VIEWS -"2 WITH SPA LIKE EN suite bath, WD & storage unit. FS condo. + MONTHLY 7%"Â?

7ILLIAM 'RANT *ILL -ANGONE LUX BOUTIQUE OFFICE SPACE 4RI"E#A "EAUTIFUL OPEN OFlCE SPACE WITH EXPOSED BRICK BEAMS SOUTHERN LIGHT

OFlCES AND VIEWS OF 4RI"E#A "UILDING has a banquet facility and restaurant. + MONTHLY 7%"Â? )ESTYN , *ONES &ILIPACCHI &OUSSARD 4EAM LIVE/WORK W/FRONTAGE 4RI"E#A 'ROUND mOOR UNIT WITH OF frontage on cobblestoned street. Features INCLUDE EXPOSED BRICK MODERN KITCHEN

NATURAL STONE lNISHES AND HIGH CEILINGS + MONTHLY 7%"Â? &ILIPACCHI &OUSSARD 4EAM )ESTYN , *ONES EXQUISITE LUXURY LOFT 4RI"E#A "E THE lRST TO LIVE IN THIS BRAND NEW "2 SPA BATH

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sunny south expos, open entertaining KIT HIGH CEIL ROOF TERRACE W GRILL GYM + MONTHLY 7%"Â?

2ICHARD . 2OTHBLOOM SUN-SPLASHED TRIBECA LOFT TriBeCa. 1BR, 1.5 bath loft with scenic PARK VIEWS IN HISTORIC DOORMAN BLDG &EATURES INCLUDE EXPOSED BRICK HDWD mOORS TERRACE AND AMPLE CLOSET SPACE + MONTHLY 7%"Â? )ESTYN , *ONES &ILIPACCHI &OUSSARD 4EAM LARGE 1BR CONDO SoHo. ,OCATED IN 'REENWICH A &3 LUXURY condo. 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; living area with open chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KITCHEN v CEILINGS mOOR TO CEILING WINDOWS 7 $ 3& GYM AND BIKE storage. $5.2K/monthly. WEB# 9591529.

7ILLIAM 'RANT *ILL -ANGONE BRAND NEW 1BR + OFFICE TriBeCa. Luxury brand new TriBeCa loft, SUNNY SOUTHERN EXPOS OPEN CHEF S KIT SPA BATH W #LAWFOOT TUB IN UNIT 7 $ HIGH CEILS HDWD mRS ROOF TERRACE GYM HR $- + MONTHLY 7%"Â?

2ICHARD . 2OTHBLOOM

Bill Roche

Brahna Yassky

Erin Boisson Aries

Frans Preidel

Gina Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe

Ginnie Gardiner

Gitu Ramani-Ruff

Mara Papasoff

Shirley A. Mueller

Sophie Ravet

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