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To the Editor: Thank you for your detailed writeup about the security plans for the future World Trade Center (see followup article, page 13).

I attended last month’s meeting of Community Board 1 and listened to the concerns that residents and board members have about the security proposed around the World Trade Center.

As a family member of a victim of September 11th, I have similar concerns about the impact of the project on the space at Ground Zero (which is part of the “campus”).

Currently, even a normal personal memorial activity such as lighting a candle is prohibited Many other restrictions also now apply which have made my visits feel like a visit to a prison or a fortress, rather than what they should feel like— peaceful, reflective, as at a city park or a cemetery.

Shannon Wagner

To the Editor: I find it very curious that after all the meetings and presentations that anyone would be surprised that the World Trade Center “campus” would become a “fortress.”

What’s going to happen when opera lovers have to go through security checks in their limos or airport-type screening when entering the Performing Arts Center and miss the first act of “La Traviata?” That’s going to make for some unhappy campers.

Ah well, be careful what you wish for.

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To the Editor: Concerning the matter of reckless deliverymen on bikes discussed on this page in your March edition: The major problem as mentioned by one of your readers appears to be the lack of enforcement by the police department and the failure of transportation officials to issue strict guidelines to these bicycle deliverymen’s employers.

Understanding that many of these businesses exist on a narrow financial margin, I would suggest some rather modest safety features: 1. That all delivery bicycles be equipped with lights or other night vision devices.

2. That all bicycle deliverymen wear nighttime reflector vests.

3. That food delivery bicyclists be required to carry ID cards with their name as well as the name, address and telephone number of their employer.

4. For violations of any traffic regulations the employers should pay appropriate fines.

Anyone injured by one of these outof-control bicycle deliverypersons should sue the employer as well as the City of New York. Transportation officials have received numerous complaints concerning this problem yet have failed to initiate any effective corrective measures. When was the last time you saw a bicycle deliveryman being given a ticket for any traffic violation?

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To the Editor: Arthur Pantzer—Arty to all who knew him—was a Tribeca fixture before Tribeca was Tribeca. He died last month at 87 in Vermont, where he had moved in 1980 with his wife Joan, who survives him. That was the year he sold the two joined buildings at the southeast corner of West Broadway and Thomas Street that had been in Arty’s family since the 1930s. Yes, that corner, the one now home to one of the city’s legendary restaurants, the Odeon.

Arty and Joan presided over a very different kind of restaurant. Known as the Towers Cafeteria, it was founded by Arty’s father, Louis, in 1933 and catered to local workers. Arty ran the kitchen and staff and Joan was the cashier. Dark on weekends, it served breakfast and lunch and was closed by 4 p.m. (The word CAFETERIA, a piece of urban archeology, can still be seen in the original neon signage on the Thomas St. facade.)

About 15 years before the Odeon arrived, Arty and Joan, ever supportive of the creative types who were moving into neighborhood lofts, decided to invite artists into the building to live and work. In 1970 I was one such lucky artist, moving into a floor previously

occupied by a manufacturer of flocked wallpaper.

On any given day in the cafeteria, I might say hi to Richard Serra or Susan Rothenberg, just starting their careers and pushing their trays along the hot table line. Over there might be John Chamberlain—and isn’t that Chuck Close having a tuna sandwich with Philip Glass? Arty and Joan—and Mini, the restaurant cat—were friends to all of us. Arty was a true Tribeca pioneer in the best sense of the word. He will be missed.

John Willenbecher

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School Waitlists Stir Parent Anger Many zoned children await kindergarten seats at four schools in Lower Manhattan

BY CARL GLASSMAN

Now it’s not just Tribeca’s four-yearolds who are landing on Downtown kindergarten waitlists.

While the families of 38 children learned last month that they must wait in line for a seat at P.S. 234 in Tribeca, Battery Park City parents were getting the same news. As of late last month, there were 26 kids on hold for P.S. 89, and 27 for P.S. 276, a school that opened just two years ago.

Nine zoned children are waiting for a seat at the Peck Slip School, which doesn’t begin “incubating” in Tweed Courthouse until the fall.

Only one Downtown public school within the area covered by Community Board 1, P.S. 397, the Spruce Street School, is without a waitlist and its kindergarten classes are at capacity, according to Julie Lam, the school’s parent coordinator.

Parents of waitlisted children greeted the news with tears and outrage.

“My face fell. This can’t be happening,” Karen Behrens recalled thinking when she got the news that her daughter was number 23 on the waitlist for P.S. 276. Behrens said that first panic set in, then she began to cry. “It was the last thing I was expecting,” she said.

Anger over the waitlists surfaced at a meeting of the Community Education Council March 28 when a Department of Education official spoke to the panel, with several mothers of waitlisted children in the audience.

Drew Patterson from the Office of Portfolio Management told the group that he understood the parents’ frustration but said that it’s too soon to say how it will be resolved.

“We know we’re going to see some attrition and it’s going to make a difference,” he said. “We don’t yet know how big a difference that’s going to make and unfortunately it’s just going to take some time for that to shake out.”

“Waiting it out is not a solution, it’s not okay, it’s nothing!” exclaimed Kara DaSilva, whose child is on the waitlist for P.S. 89. “We can’t stand here and wait it out. Right now we need people to provide actual solutions.”

Facing mothers of children on the P.S. 276 waitlist, Patterson tried to assure them that their children would be guaranteed kindergarten seats. “I can’t guarantee it will be in 276,” he added.

“I’m not even sure you can guarantee it’s going to be in our community,” Karen Behrens shot back. “That’s unacceptable.”

P.S. 89 Principal Ronnie Najjar said she was surprised that there was a waitlist for her school because children in Battery Park City’s Gateway Plaza had recently been rezoned out of her catchment area and put into P.S. 276, in the

Above: Shannon McCue with daughter Isabelle in front of P.S. 276. Isabelle is last on the school’s kindergarten waitlist.

Left: Karen Behrens, whose child is also on the waitlist for P.S. 276, faced the DOE’s Drew Patterson last month at a Community Education Council meeting.

Behrens called it “unacceptable” that her child cannot attend her zoned school.

southern end of the neighborhood.

“I did not assure parents that this couldn’t happen,” Najjar said. “But I’m sure that on the tours I was saying we never had a waitlist in the past, and with the rezoning it’s unlikely.”

Najjar said she feels especially bad for zoned families in the school’s pre-k program who are not assured a kindergarten seat.

“They feel betrayed by the system and I completely understand their feelings,” she said. “They’re part of the PTA, they volunteer in their classrooms, their children go to music and dance and library. They’re in the program and then all of a sudden not to be feels a little unfair to me.”

Some parents on the P.S. 234 waitlist said they take some comfort in knowing that all 38 children who remained on the school’s list last year were admitted by the beginning of the school year.

“Last year they had as many people

on the waitlist and they all got in, so I’m sure it will work out,” said Anthony DiPietro, whose daughter Carmen is 19th in line for P.S. 234.

“I am really hopeful that we will be offering a seat to all of our zoned kids,” said Maggie Siena, the Peck Slip School’s incoming principal.

Siena and other principals anticipate that the list will shrink as some parents choose private school and others’ children are accepted into “gifted and talented” programs. “Everyone is having their kid tested because they want to keep their options open,” P.S. 234 Principal Lisa Ripperger said.

But where will the children go who are not absorbed into their zoned schools? “Alternate offers” are expected to be made in June and DOE officials have said that those offers will be to the closest school with available space.

They have mentioned P.S. 1 and P.S. 126 in Chinatown as schools that they con-

sider “underenrolled.” Last year, children on the P.S. 234 waitlist were assigned to P.S. 130 in Chinatown, causing an outcry among Tribeca parents. A similar protest arose last November when the DOE offered a zoning proposal, later rejected, that would have sent some Tribeca children to P.S. 1.

“It just shows how really pressing the whole situation is,” said Eric Greenleaf, the P.S. 234 parent whose demographic studies are often cited as predictors of an ever-growing school crowding crisis.

“These schools haven’t even been in business for the full six years and they’ve already filled up every elementary class and they already have a waitlist.”

Some parents on waitlists want to see additional kindergarten classes open in their zoned schools and they suggest making room by eliminating the pre-k classes.

“How do we get rid of our pre-k?” asked DaSilva, speaking at the CEC meeting. “Just get rid of it right now. We need it gone!”

P.S. 89 was one of the schools that added an extra kindergarten for this year but Najjar insists her school has to return to three classes in the fall.

“The ramifications of P.S. 89 having four kindergartens every year are serious,” she said. “We don’t have a facility that can sustain those classes through the years.”

—Additional reporting by Faith Paris

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APRIL 2012 THE TRIBECA TRIB After gathering in Zuccotti Park, a group calling themselves American Spring walk quietly down Broadway to hang a wreath on Charging Bull. Far right: No sooner had the wreath been placed on the bull than a police officer quickly removed it.

Quiet Protest Far from the Noisy Action Denied a permit to demonstrate at Hunger Memorial, OWS group takes an alternate route

BY JULIET HINDELL

On the sunny Saturday afternoon of St. Patrick’s Day, a small group of Occupy Wall Street supporters gathered quietly on the upper level of the Irish Hunger Memorial, offering potatoes in brown bags to tourists.

“Hi, would you like some potatoes to plant? They’re organic Irish potatoes,” offered Jessica Hall, one of the organizers of the event. Met with bemused looks and occasional takers, they had brought the potatoes as symbols of both Irish famine and rebirth. The potatoes came with some soil and instructions for planting.

It was a poignant and impromptu finale to a day filled with solemn ceremony and tense drama, a vivid counterpoint to the action at Zuccotti Park during the weekend, where 73 protesters had been arrested.

“It’s great to get here. This has been a very soulful and beautiful day, which is exactly how we planned it,” Hall said.

“We need to move on from shouting if we want to be taken seriously.”

Shouting and worse were what the Battery Park City Authority had feared when, earlier in the month, it denied the group a permit to hold a St. Patrick’s Day ceremony to be attended by an estimated 200 people at the memorial.

The rejection came on the heels of a nearly unanimous vote of Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee to deny the request. “It just doesn’t feel safe,” said Justine Cuccia, a public board member.

The committee said the group had not made adequate preparations, including mapping out a specific route and planning for crowd control on a day when it was expected that 2,000 visitors would come to the site. There were also concerns that some people might try to occupy the monument or its surroundings by pitching tents.

Not taking any chances, the authority posted a sign at the entrance to the memorial banning public demonstra-

to the roots of St. Patrick’s Day,” said the Rev. Robert Brashear of West Park Presbyterian Church. “We’re here today to bring an end to exploitation.”

Carrying the wreath and walking arm in arm, a group of about 30—far fewer than hoped—set off in silence down Broadway, with hundreds of other marchers carrying signs and chanting behind them. At the corner of Thames Street, the small group stopped when it realized that most of the marchers, chanting, “We are the 99 percent,” had peeled away from them at Wall Street and headed for the New York Stock Exchange.

“I’m frustrated with the lack of solidarity in this movement,” said one American Spring supporter who asked not to be identified. “We want to have a peaceful protest but they want to be rowdy and anarchic.”

Others sounded a note of tolerance towards their fellow demonstrators. Shen Tong, a veteran of Tiananmen Square protests in China, had been in late-night discussions with various groups of PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Above: In Battery Park, the group says a blessing over potatoes. Left: As the day of demonstrating ends Teddy Mayes says goodbye to Mary Caliendo at the Irish Hunger Memorial.

tions, sleeping and even drumming at the monument.

“Everyone has a preconceived notion of Occupy Wall Street being anarchist kids and they get all the attention,” said the Rev. Mary Caliendo, a Wiccan priest and co-organizer of the group. “We’re doing a lot of real work to help with real issues and our voices are never heard.”

Denied a permit to hold their ceremony at the memorial, the group issued its own “self permit” which announced that

it would march from Zuccotti Park to Battery Park, where it would hold a ritual “to bury hunger, greed and grief followed by a joyous rebirth and welcoming of a new season.”

Starting out in Zuccotti Park, the group had gathered in a circle around a large funeral wreath they had brought to symbolize the burial of oppression.

Using the OWS “people’s mic,” they invited everyone to join their peaceful and solemn procession.

“We’re here to remember the Irish famine, in which millions died and millions came to America. We want to return

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Calmer Nights Outside Sushi Place?

BY JESSICA TERRELL

Called to task by Community Board 1 for the drunken rowdiness fueled by an “all-you-can-eat-and-drink” special, the management of a Japanese eatery in Tribeca’s Independence Plaza appears to be calming the place down.

“It has definitely been quieter,” IPN Tenant Association President Diane Lapson said of Ashiya Sushi, at 374 Greenwich St. “I am cautiously optimistic.”

The restaurant had been blamed for many disturbances around IPN, especially on weekends when it offers unlimited beer and sake for two hours at a time with an all-you-can-eat sushi special.

Lapson, armed with a stack of Yelp reviews that raved about the restaurant’s flowing libations, had confronted restaurant owner Matthew Chen at a meeting of CB1’s Tribeca Committee earlier in the month.

“We have extremely drunk young people throwing up in the street, leaning on the other stores’ windows, screaming,” Lapson said. “It’s terrible.”

“I can be at my desk, editing, and I have to use headphones in my own apartment,” CB1 member and IPN resident Noel Jefferson chimed in. “It’s nervewracking.”

Owner Matthew Chen, speaking mostly through a translator, said it was the first he had heard of any such problems.

“This is a Japanese restaurant. The major [focus] is food, not the drink,” said

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Above: Ashiya Sushi on a recent weekend night. Right: Owner Matthew Chen, right, at CB1 meeting with his translator, James Jiang.

Chen’s friend and translator James Jiang.

“We want to cooperate with the board members.”

The restaurant’s liquor license had been renewed by the State Liquor Authority just days before the problems were raised at the committee meeting.

“We can’t compel you to do anything right now, but what we can tell you is, if this is not cleaned up, then the next time your liquor license comes around, you are going to have a very, very difficult time,” said Committee Chair Peter Braus. “We will make it our business to do everything we can to see that you will

not get a renewal.”

Since the committee meeting, the restaurant has made a number of changes, according to a spokesman, Leo Chen. He said he has cut the number of weekend reservations the restaurant accepts in half and has hired a security guard. Patrons are encouraged to exit quietly and leave quickly, he said.

“We apologize for the trouble,” Leo Chen said. “We are trying to do better.”

The restaurant’s owner is also considering selling the business, Leo Chen said. The business has two more years on its lease at IPN, but the owner has placed

A Man of Many Tribeca Eateries Seeks Approvals

BY JESSICA TERRELL

Matt Abramcyk, the man behind a slew of successful Tribeca eateries, went before Community Board 1 with requests for three of them: a liquor license for one new restaurant and sidewalk cafe licenses for two others. As often happens to restaurateurs who face the board, which is advisory to city agencies, he did not get all he wanted.

The owner of Smith & Mills, Tiny’s, Warren 77, and Super Linda is taking over 18-year-old Ivy’s Bistro, at Greenwich and North Moore Streets—next to his Smith & Mills—and retooling it into an oyster bar and fish restaurant. Abramcyk wanted the Tribeca Committee to grant him the same 4 a.m. closing that Ivy’s now enjoys. But the board members demurred.

“You have a quiet, decent crowd [at Ivy’s] and you’ve got a loud young crowd at Smith & Mills,” CB1 Tribeca Committee member Noel Jefferson said, referring to Abramcyk’s 450-square-foot restaurant next door. “So, I am afraid that if Smith & Mills is going to take over [Ivy’s] that large crowd will follow.”

“There haven’t been [complaints] in years and years,” Abramcyk insisted.

“The location is just a little bit up from Independence Plaza North,” added CB1 public member Jean Grillo, saying that people on the higher floors of the 39-story complex would hear more noise than

a listing for the business in a Chinese newspaper while he decides what to do.

“Maybe sell, maybe finish next two years,” Leo Chen said. The decision, he said, would be based on whether the restaurant could fix its relationship with its neighbors.

In the meantime, Matthew Chen, who was said to be in China at the end of the month, promised to return to the Tribeca Committee this month.

“I am hoping that they’ve gotten the message, because summer is coming and that’s when it gets really bad,” Lapson said.

those on the lower because of the way sound travels.

The board agreed to recommend 1 a.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends as the latest that the State Liquor Authority should grant.

Abramcyk fared better with his request to add an outdoor cafe to Tiny’s, 135 West Broadway, another diminutive restaurant and bar.

The location needs a sidewalk cafe to increase its seating and draw more customers in the summer, Abramcyk said.

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN “Everyone else on the block Matt Abramcyk argues for an approval before the Tribeca Committee. has [a sidewalk cafe],” Abramcyk Abramcyk said he mostly wanted the seating for said. “When it’s nice out, it’s very hard to attract people to come to Tiny’s because it’s kind of a warmer, daytime customers and agreed to go along with Peter Braus, the committee chair, and bring in the tables at 8 darker space.”

The board voted in favor of the application, which p.m.

That suggestion won the owner some support. (“I will add five tables, or a total of 10 seats.

Next up: A sidewalk cafe license for Smith & Mills don’t think they are asking for so much,” said committee member and restaurateur Peter Glazier.) But not where, Abramcyk noted, there are only 20 seats.

“I think it’s a bad precedent to start putting [side- enough.

More committee members agreed with Grillo that walk cafes] on residential side streets,” Grillo said.

“You have to give people a chance to have quiet side sidewalk seating doesn’t belong on side streets.

Abramcyk grimaced as his application failed, 5-3. streets.”

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The Daily Assault of Construction

No Relief for Residents Near Results Are Mixed Following Brooklyn Bridge Construction Complaints on John Street

PHOTOS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Sarah Hinkley stands at the window of her Pearl Street apartment overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, where work is causing sleepless nights for her and her neighbors.

Ray Fuzgilov outside his Daniella Hair Salon on John Street, where five projects are hurting business owners during the day and causing residents to lose sleep at night.

BY JESSICA TERRELL Halfway through the city’s four-year project repairing the Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl Street resident Sarah Hinkley has a set bedtime routine: First she switches on the air conditioner, then a fan over the stove and one by the bed. Finally, she pops in earplugs and hopes for the best.

“At night we hear the jackhammering, we hear the trucks backing up,” Hinkley said, looking out from her bedroom at the Brooklyn Bridge ramp on Frankfort Street. “We get woken up every night. And for my husband to get woken up, that’s huge. He's one of those guys who just sleeps through everything.”

The Department of Transportation’s work on the 129-year-old bridge, which was rated in 2007 as one of the city’s three bridges in poor condition, appears to pit the needs of drivers against those of residents. Most of the work is conducted at night in order to minimize the impact on traffic.

The work begins around 11 p.m. and ends about 6 a.m., with the loudest hours often at 2 and 3 a.m., residents say.

“Sleep deprivation is a torture tactic used in war,” Southbridge resident Helen Johnson said. “I can’t function without sleep.”

The DOT told residents at a packed meeting of Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee last month that it is doing what it can to limit the noise.

Construction crews are using small jackhammers with rubber muffles, erecting noise buffering fences and set the backup alarms on trucks to the minimum volume allowed by OSHA, said Sabrina Lau, the project’s community outreach worker.

But after two years of residents’ complaints—and facing another two years of the same—Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Sen. Daniel Squadron and

BY JESSICA TERRELL One morning late last month, stylists rather than customers sat in the five chairs of Daniella Hair Salon, with little to do. “It’s like a cemetery,” owner Ray Fuzgilov said, gazing out the window to the sidewalk.

Few pedestrians passed beneath the construction shed that darkened the front of his John Street shop. A truck beeped as it backed up in front of the salon, while the sound of jackhammers echoed from down the block.

“They block the street and nobody can pass. It doesn’t just impact me—it’s everyone on the block. It’s getting worse and worse,” Fuzgilov sighed.

For businesses like Fuzgilov’s, at 28 John St., and for residents who must bear the noise and dust from the nearconstant construction of five active projects, March seemed to bring both hope and disappointment. At a Community Board 1 meeting some 60 residents gathered to vent their complaints to city officials and others in charge of the projects.

As a result, night street closures, which eliminate the constant rattling of metal plates, and changes in early-morning deliveries and setup times by workers has brought some relief.

Still, those changes were little consolation to business owners like Fuzgilov or Brian Mclaughlin, owner of the Irish American Pub & Restaurant across the street at 17 John St. “I understand the need for construction, I understand the noise. I just can’t understand blocking off the sidewalk,” Mclaughlin said. “This is the Bermuda Triangle—nobody can get here.”

For Barbara Minsky, a John Street resident and organizer of a neighborhood group called John Street Noise, the worst disturbances still come from Con Edison’s ongoing work to repair a gas

Councilwoman Margaret Chin are all calling on the DOT cut back on the latenight work.

“Southbridge residents live literally just yards from where some of the loudest work is taking place,” elected officials wrote in a letter to Sadik-Khan.

“And because of the severity of the problem, we believe the DOT ought to modify its schedule in response to the very legitimate complaints of these residents.”

The request seems unlikely to be accommodated.

“What I can promise you is we will keep looking at the traffic numbers to see if there is any wiggle room,” the city DOT’s Manhattan Borough Commissioner, Luis Sanchez, told angry residents at the Seaport Committee meeting.

Even more disheartening for those residents was news, announced at the CB1 meeting last month, that construction noise in the Seaport is about to get worse.

“Upcoming work is right outside your door,” Lau told residents.

Work is beginning this month on the ramp that runs along Frankfort. That section of the project will last another 15 months, said Robert Collyer, the DOT’s deputy chief engineer for bridges.

“The situation is untenable,” Orlando Gonzalez, a resident of the nearby Frank Gehry building on Spruce Street told Collyer and his fellow project representatives. “It’s horrible now and it’s going to get worse?”

Hinckley said she has little hope that the situation will improve. Still, she plans to go door to door in the neighborhood with pamphlets this month, trying to bring even more pressure to bear on the city to halt the late-night work.

“It’s great the bridge is being fixed,” she said. “But this is a lot to make us live through.”

leak along the western portion of John.

Con Edison’s jackhammers run late and on the weekends, Minsky said.

“It's like having five screaming children,” John Street resident Barbara Minsky told the Trib. “You get two quiet, and the other three start screaming again. It never stops.”

Con Ed has given differing reports on how long its gas work will take to complete. Company representatives initially said the job would be finished by March 19, then the end of March.

Finally, that date was pushed back to the end of April.

And more work will be needed in the near future.

Con Ed will be digging up the street again to repair an electrical transformer sometime after the summer, and will also have to connect 24 John and the newly constructed Pace University dormitory to the gas main when those projects are completed.

“We are holding daily meetings to coordinate the John Street work and are determined to minimize any further inconvenience to the community,” Con Ed spokesman Allan Drury wrote in an email to the Trib. “We apologize for any inconvenience that has taken place, but the work is necessary to ensure the safety and reliability of our systems.”

All the complaints from John Street residents, as well as Seaport residents affected by Brooklyn Bridge repairs, have led Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to call on the Department of Buildings to cut back on issuing afterhours work permits.

Silver said there was a time, before the population boom Downtown, when after-hours work permits caused few problems because there were so few residents. “Today, however,” he wrote, “it is simply too disruptive to our residents’ quality of life.”

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WTC Security Plan Called Too Extreme

BY JESSICA TERRELL Create a citizens advisory committee. Reverse the direction of Cedar Street. Open a bike lane on Church and Trinity. By the end of last month, Community Board 1 had gathered a litany of requests for the NYPD to ease what it sees as a “fortress-like” security plan for the World Trade Center site.

But after a lengthy discussion at the full board meeting late last month, CB1 added a bold new proposal to the list: Do away with barricades.

“I am so tired of looking at barri-

now making permanent the barriers we’ve had since 9/11.”

According to the security plan, shown last month, every street adjacent to the site would be affected. The plan calls for screening at four entry points: Washington between Barclay and Vesey; West Broadway between Barclay and Vesey; and (for tour buses) Trinity Place and Liberty. At Liberty and West, cars and trucks would be more closely checked before entering the belowground Vehicle Security Center where they would undergo additional scrutiny.

Church Street between Vesey and Liberty would be divided down the middle, with traffic moving freely only along the two eastern lanes. “It provides increased standoff from [Towers 2, 3 and 4] to reduce the likelihood of a catastrophic event against those towers,” Lt. David Kelly of the NYPD’s Antiterrorism Bureau told the board CARL GLASSMAN SCREENING ZONE Mary Perillo, 130 Cedar St., says plan is bad for her building. members early in the CREDENTIALLING ZONE month. cades in our community,” Board MemKelly said that Greenwich Street BARRIER: DEFAULT UP ber John Fratta said. “It’s time we tell the won’t be a through street, but only open city, ‘There’s got to be a better way of to vehicles with business in the WTC BARRIER:-DEFAULT DOWN securing our community without shut- “campus,” as the site is being called.

BOLLARDS ting our streets down.’”

Residents and CB1 members said (CONTINUED ON PAGE 46) The full board voted unanimously in THE TRIBECA TRIB favor of a resolution calling on the NYPD to consider, among other requests, “an open-grid street plan alternative” without the checkpoints, bollards and barriers that would become permaFacing high taxi leasing fees, long hours, and more com- vehicles and office tenants could enroll for expedited access nent fixtures on nearby streets if the petition, the city’s 48,000 cab drivers count unfettered mobil- to the site. Drivers worry about how the plan will be implepolice plan is approved. ity as especially important. That’s why the a taxi union ral- mented and how frequently the cabs will be stopped.

“Every single plan that was present“If they take too much time, we lose the time for our busilied its members to a hearing last month to speak against the ed to us about what was going to be built ness,” said cab driver Mohan Singh, who added that the NYPD’s security plan for the redeveloped WTC site. at the site, basically from 2002…proRestricting vehicular access to the site could have a dev- experience takes a psychological toll as well. “It could make mised that these streets would be open to astating economic impact on cab drivers, the New York Taxi cab drivers very uncomfortable,” Tariq said. News about the through traffic,” board member Marc surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers by the NYPD has made Workers Alliance warned.

Ameruso said, echoing a commonly “Yes, cities should take security measures,” said NYTWA many drivers nervous, several drivers added, noting that at voiced sentiment that the security plan co-founder Javaid Tariq, “but think about how this will least half of yellow cab drivers are Muslim. betrays a promise made by the creators “It’s humiliating the way cab drivers are being treated,” [affect] cab drivers economically, and the public who live in of the site’s master plan. the area they serve.” one driver lamented, saying that cab trunks are searched at “The beauty of the master plan was it As part of the plan, police officials are considering a airports. “How many times will we have to go to the World was going to open things up,” board “Trusted Access Program” (TAP) in which taxis, delivery Trade Center in a day under this plan and be inspected?” member Jeff Galloway said. “This is

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Downtown Seders

If you’re looking for a seder, there are plenty Downtown. Chabad of Tribeca/Soho will offer two seders—the first on Friday, April 6, 7 p.m. at 75 Murray St., the second on Saturday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall restaurant, 131 Duane St. $75; $35 children 5 and up. Information at chabadoftribeca.com. 92YTribeca at 200 Hudson St. offers what it calls a “sophisticated and accessible” seder on Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m. $60 in advance at 92ytribeca.org; $75 at the door. And Chabad of Battery Park City will hold its seder at Poets House, 10 River Terr., on Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. $54; $25 for 3 and up.

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Easter Egg Hunt

Trinity Wall Street’s annual free Easter family event will take place on Sunday, April 24, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall Street. There will be an egg hunt for children under 6 beginning at 12:30 and scavenger hunts for older children throughout the afternoon. Other activities include photos with the Easter Bunny, games, crafts, a bonnet- and hatmaking workshop and a puppet parade.

Classic Performances

Vintage concert footage of jazz greats Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett and Ray Charles will be screened at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, 199 Chambers St. “Sing Me a Song of Jazz: New Discoveries” is the third installment in the center’s free performing arts film retrospective. Information: 212-220-1460, tribecapac.org.

Writers’ Talks

Pen Parentis is presenting a reading by three very different women authors: Ann Napolitano, who writes about life in the South; Deborah Copaken Kogan, memoirist of her years as a war photographer; and Tara Altebrando/McCarthy, who pens novels for both teens and adults. The free event is at Gild Hall, 15 Gold St., on Tuesday, April 10, from 7 to 9 p.m. penparentis.org.

New CSA Initiative

A group of parents at Spruce Street School have partnered with a Pennsylvania farm and a local delivery service to create a new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Participants pay to get organic fruits and vegetables delivered to them for 21 weeks, and a portion of proceeds goes to the school.

The signup deadline is April 21. Information: sprucestreetnyc.org or zoybean@gmail.com.

Local Bargains

Two-for-one admission to museums and discounts on restaurants, cleaning services and hotels are just some of the Downtown Alliance’s new “Downtown Deals” promotions of Lower Manhattan businesses. To find a deal, go to downtownny.com/downtown-deals.

Park Volunteers

The Battery Park City Parks Conservancy is beginning its search for summer volunteers. Opportunities range from tending the gardens to helping kids learn to fish. (Training for horticulture volunteers begins in early May.) To learn more, call 212-267-9700 or write to volunteers@bpcparks.org.

Free Plays

From the works of Anton Chekhov to the world premiere of contemporary playwright Sean Michael Welch’s “All An Act,” Pace University’s Actors Studio Drama School will present a varied month-long series of full-length and oneact plays directed, produced, and starring its drama students. Reservations are recommended for the performances, which are free and held at Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St. A schedule can be found at pace.edu/dyson.

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Developer to Reveal Plans for Leonard Street Site

BY CARL GLASSMAN Steven Schnall, the man who built a 10,000-square-foot swimming poolequipped mansion for his family at North Moore Street and West Broadway, is ready to build again.

Having sold the palatial digs for a tidy profit less than two years after moving in, Schnall purchased 11-15 Leonard Street, one of the few remaining development sites in Tribeca. This time, he plans to put up a seven-story building topped with a two-story penthouse.

In an interview with the Trib, Schnall said he will move his family of four into the 6,000-square-foot “maisonette” that will occupy the first two floors.

Each of the other non-penthouse floors will contain one 2,650-square-foot apartment, he said. Like his previous home, the building will have garage parking.

“We had a lot of fun building that house on North Moore Street,” said Schnall, 46, who is CEO and chairman of Quontic Bank. “It was a great project creatively and we learned a lot. So we’re doing it again.”

But first he needs the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Schnall is keeping the design, by Tribeca architect Wayne Turrett, under wraps until he presents it on April 12 to Community Board 1’s Landmarks Committee, which is advisory to the commission.

Schnall calls the building, with its

the block, towering over the buildings next to it,” said another resident who saw the plans. “So everybody’s pretty unhappy about that.”

They also are questioning what they believe could be a “distracting” glow through the channel glass of the facade.

Schnall said the use of glass is much like that of the Nolita Hotel on Kenmare Street, but with a “fair amount of insulation in the middle so it will CARL GLASSMAN mute the light signifiA pair of 1920s garages now occupy 11-15 Leonard Street. The new building is planned to have parking. cantly.” all-glass facade, “a semi-modern ap- the buildings, giving them an advance Schnall said he does not anticipate a proach with a traditional and historic look at renderings before they are shown battle with neighbors, who will only say feel” that he says he is confident will be this month to the community board. that they leave their options open. well received.

“We always knew something would “There’s really no fight at all,” he But for some residents on Franklin likely go up there. No real issue with it,” said. “We’ve been very transparent and and Leonard streets, whose light and said a resident who, like others who saw communicative with the neighbors. views will be diminished by the new the plans, spoke to the Trib on condition There is natural curiosity and expected building, aesthetics is not the only con- of anonymity. “We just want something concerns, but we’ve not been sued or sideration. that works, that is tasteful, that doesn’t anticipate we will be because there’s no Several buildings on those streets screw up the neighborhood.” basis for it.” have banded together and retained a Several residents said they found the The city approved a different buildlawyer to scrutinize the plans. building to be out of character with the ing for the site in 2008. But Chris Clark, Late last month, Schnall and his de- surrounding structures, in size and the developer of the project, shelved the velopment team took the unusual step of design. plans and sold the site to Schnall and his meeting privately with representatives of “It’s a huge building in the middle of partners in January for $10 million.

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REPORTED FROM THE 1ST PRECINCT

CHAMBERS & W. BROADWAY March 10…4:40 a.m.

A 28-year-old man fell asleep on a southbound #1 train. When he awoke at Chambers Street, he discovered his pocket had been cut open and that his keys and $36 had been stolen.

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A 15-year-old boy stopped in a Duane Reade drugstore on his way home and noticed a man watching him. When the teen left, the same man followed him into his building and into an elevator.

The man told the teen he had a gun and demanded the youth’s money and iPhone. The suspect fled with the iPhone.

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March 15…2:15 p.m.

J&R security guards nabbed a shoplifter attempting to make off with a $119 pair of headphones.

401 BROADWAY March 16…12 p.m.

A thief stole three bags valued at $1,715 from a consignment shop.

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March 16…5:44 p.m.

A man left his $1,400 camera in an unsecured locker at Crunch Fitness Center. When he returned, the camera was gone.

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March 19...12:30 a.m.

A customer at Fresco restaurant put her bag over the back of her chair while eating and a thief stole her wallet. More than $1,500 was charged to her credit cards.

MURRAY & NORTH END March 19...4 p.m.

A man parked his $10,000 Honda motorcycle on the street. When he returned, it was gone.

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March 20...2:03 p.m.

Police arrested a man at a Duane Reade who tried use a fake credit card to purchase five American Express gift cards valued at a total of $1,040 along with fabric softener, and a pencil.

270 GREENWICH March 21...1:15 p.m.

A thief swiped an unattended wallet that had been left on a Whole Foods table. It contained a $500 Costco gift card.

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March 21...5:50 p.m.

A restaurant customer placed her purse on a bar stool. When she walked away, a thief stole it.

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March 22...3:20 p.m.

A thief was caught on camera entering Blaue Gans restaurant from a side door and snatching a $300 Coach purse from the restaurant’s coat check.

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March 22...4:15 p.m.

A Starbucks customer left a bag containing a $100 camera and $150 iPod unattended. It was stolen.

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March 24...12:25 a.m.

A tourist from Kentucky was walking on Canal Street when someone snatched her bag and fled on foot.

VESTRY & HUDSON March 24...12:30 a.m.

A thief broke the passenger window of a car and stole a GPS, two purses, a wallet and an iPod Shuffle.

GREENWICH & HARRISON March 24...2 p.m.

A thief stole a 2009 white Toyota Camry valued at $18,000.

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March 26...1:14 a.m.

A woman was walking down Stone Street listening to music on her cell phone when a man snatched the phone out of her hand and ran off.

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March 26...4:30 p.m.

A thief approached a man inside the Church Street Post Office under the pretense of asking for directions, then stole his wallet. By the time the man left the post office and walked to his bank, the thief had made $2,600 in charges on his credit card at the Apple Store.

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The following is a partial and preliminary list of the board’s agendas. For updates, go to the CB 1 website. Meetings start at 6 p.m. and are held at 49–51 Chambers St., Rm. 709, unless otherwise noted. Call 212-442-5050 to confirm all dates. An ID is needed to enter the building.

4/3 BATTERY PARK CITY 6 PM Location: Battery Park City Authority, 1 World Financial Center, 24th floor • Application for a new sidewalk café license and alteration application for a liquor license for the sidewalk café for Blue Smoke 255 Vesey St. Resolution • Senator Squadron’s proposal for a reorganization of the BPCA structure. Discussion • Renewal of restaurant liquor license for The Grill Room, 2 World Financial Center The following notices have been received for BPCA permit requests: • National Multiple Sclerosis Society at Wagner Park, Sun., 4/29, 7 am—3 pm • New York Road Runners at the volleyball court, Mon., 5/21, 12 pm—10 pm • P.S. 89 at Rockefeller Park, Fri., 5/25, 9— 10:15 am • NYC Swim events at North Cove, Sat., 5/26, 11 am—8 pm • Scleroderma Foundation at Battery Park, Sun., 6/10, 10—11:30 am • NYC Pride at Rockefeller Park, Mon., 6/18, 10 am—8 pm • NYC Swim Events at North Cove, Sat., 6/23, 5 am—11 pm • NYC Swim Events, application for a vehicle permit at North Cove and South Cove from Fri., 8/3, at 12 pm—Sat., 8/4, at 11 pm • Update on capital projects in the Battery by Warrie Price, Battery Conservancy president • 54 Pine St. and 84 William St., applications for beer licenses for Taz • 83-85 Greenwich St., application for sidewalk cafe for Tajin • 6 Murray St., application for transfer of tavern liquor license and request for support for extension of hours of service for The Manhattan Proper. Resolution • 1 Liberty Plaza, application for renewal of liquor license for Flik. Resolution • 1 Wall Street Court, transfer of liquor license for Fino Ristorante.

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84-86 White St., application for special permit under section 13-561 of the Zoning Resolution to permit attended accessory parking garage with 22 spaces. Resolution • 78 Franklin St., application for Board of Standards and Appeals special permit of the zoning resolution for a new health club known as Aqua. Resolution • Street Activity Permit application by Judy Duffy for Beaujolais Nouveau Day, Thu., 11/15, West Broadway bet. Walker and White.

Resolution • Street activity permit application by CB1 (Mardi Gras Festival Productions, promoter), Fri., 8/10, West Broadway bet. Chambers and Barclay. Resolution • Street activity permit application by Real Stories Gallery Foundation, Sun., 7/1, F/O 36 Laight St. bet. Varick and Hudson. Resolution • 353 Greenwich St., renewal application for sidewalk café license for MaryAnn’s.

Resolution • 145 West Broadway, renewal application for sidewalk café license for the Odeon.

Resolution • 88-90 Reade St., application for restaurant wine and beer license for corp. to be formed.

Resolution • 450 Washington St., application for restaurant wine and beer license for Fika. Resolution • 273 Church St., application for restaurant liquor license for Paolo Meregalli. Resolution • 102 Franklin St., application for restaurant liquor license for All Good Things. Resolution • 275 Greenwich St., application for a restaurant liquor license for Chipolte Mexican Grill.

Resolution • 325 Broadway, application for beer only liquor license for Arome Café. Resolution • 353 Greenwich St., renewal application for restaurant liquor license for MaryAnn’s

4/12 LANDMARKS 52 Lispenard St., application for rooftop addition, facade restoration and storefront infill.

Report 78 Franklin St., application for new entry door and ADA ramp. Resolution 105 Chambers St., application for replacement of windows and facade restoration.

Resolution 11-15 Leonard St., application for seven-story building and two story bulkhead. Resolution 46 Laight St., application for new storefront.

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4/17 SEAPORT/CIVIC CENTER – 6 PM Location: South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., Level 5 • Street permit application for Summerfest by J & R Music World, Friday 6/15, to Sun., 6/17, 10 am—5 pm, on Park Row sidewalk bet. Ann and Beekman. Resolution • Street permit application for Musicfest by J & R Music World on Thu., 8/23, to Saturday, 8/25, 11 am—5 pm, on Park Row sidewalk bet. Ann and Beekman. Resolution • 25-27 Peck Slip, application for restaurant wine and beer license for Grandma’s House.

Resolution • Disseminating information to the public.

Age for Compulsory Education. Resolution

4/19 QUALITY OF LIFE

ects. Presentation by Michael Levine, director of planning and land use for CB1, and Matt Viggiano, director of land use and Planning for Councilmember Margaret Chin • Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed cuts to day care and after school programs. Presentation and resolution by Norah Yahya, policy analyst at United Neighborhood Houses and member of the Campaign for Children

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Redistricting Is Overtly Political Fact of Life Every decade the federal government counts everyone. It’s called the census.

And when the numbers are in, insiders divvy up the countryside and decide who will represent you for the next 10 years.

That’s called redistricting. When new lines are drawn, an unlucky voter may lose a favorite representative and may fail to find a single familiar name on the next ballot. ReJIM districting is STRATTON’S perhaps the most overtly political activity a legislature can ever do, because the political party in power exercises nearly total control over the new lines. In CITY Albany, the AsCHARRETTE sembly is under Democratic control, so Democrats draw their own new lines. The State Senate is Republican, so the G.O.P. holds sway. A Republican in the Assembly, or a Democrat in the State Senate, will have virtually nothing to say about the result.

By longtime convention, the Assembly and Senate will automatically vote in favor of each other’s redistricting, no matter how noxious. And it can get pretty sickening.

The game is called Gerrymandering.

Imagine an area with enough voters for three districts. Overall in this area, 60 percent of the voters choose party “A” most of the time, 40 percent choose party “B.” As the three districts are of equal size, approximately a third of the voters must be in each district.

But party “B” has control of the redistricting. So it carves out one district that contains almost no one who votes for “B.” That leaves only 27% of “A” voters (60% less 33%) to vote in the other two districts. Party “B” wins those two other seats narrowly. Party “A” wins only one seat, despite its substantial

representatives. Years of political vigilance have helped to keep most of the Tribeca and SoHo loft areas in the same voting districts.

The 64th Assembly District (soon to be renumbered as the 65th) is represented by the most powerful Democrat in the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, and includes most of Battery Park City, where Silver is strong.

Not unexpectedly, that liaison will remain for the next decade.

In the 2011 primary, a gaffe arose between Battery Park City leaders and those of the Village View housing complex in the East Village, where Silver is

Fashioned as “executive districts,” Assembly District lines are often the subject of local turf wars and change with the decade. These lines have not yet been written. majority in the total area.

This is how the State Senate remains Republican, despite majority Democratic turnouts in statewide voting. Some of those Gerrymandered districts are so bizarrely shaped that their maps are likened to a Rorschach test.

Randomly-drawn districts would eliminate Gerrymandering, but also important is to join similar neighborhoods together. Voters can then be certain they will get full attention from their

not so strong. Census results required Silver to cut away part of his district because of the rapid residential growth of Lower Manhattan.

Village View was neatly severed from the new district. When you are head of the Assembly, you get to choose.

On the State Senate side, the first redistricting proposal gave us a wildly different look.

The entire waterfront from Canal Street down into Battery Park City had

been ceded to the district north of us. My guess is that this was a slap at our representative, State Sen. Daniel Squadron, who has become an important waterfront spokesman. His district includes a wide swath of Brooklyn’s East River.

The entire G.O.P. plan drew so much outcry that it was sheepishly rewritten, this time adding more waterfront, and more Tribeca, to Squadron’s 66th.

Local political leadership in New York City is organized along Assembly District lines. Fashioned as “executive districts,” they are often the subject of local turf wars; and they, too, change with the decade. These important lines have not yet been written by the County Executive.

What is now Tribeca was part of a Gerrymander when I first got involved in local politics here in the late 1960’s.

Lower Manhattan was linked to northern Staten Island in the Assembly, in hopes that Dems could wrest a Republican seat from the only G.O.P. borough. It was Manhattan Democrats that ended that tactic.

Voting rights are under widespread attack in this country. New York State has been thought to be above that sort of thing, yet one of the most pernicious examples of voter manipulation, our Gerrymandered State Senate, remains intact.

Gerrymandering is grossly antidemocratic, even if Democrats sometimes do it.

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t opens, as usual, big and starry (with the Jason Segal-Emily Blunt comedy “The Five-Year Engagement”) and closes with a bang (Marvel Comics’ action-adventure “The Avengers.”)

But what is slated in between is the meaningful meat and potatoes of the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival. It’s the movies that mostly don’t make it to the multiplex, the cultural and creative smorgasbord of 90 narrative and documentary features that take festivalgoers on world journeys. Among the shorts alone, 25 countries are represented.

To build such a lineup along with their programming staff, the festival’s director of programming, Genna Terranova, and its new artistic director, Frederic Boyer, each watched nearly 1,000 movies. In an interview, they said they made their selections without trying for the kind of international diversity that the festival is known for.

“I think that happens naturally,” said Terranova, the former vice president for acquisitions at the Weinstein Company who joined the festival in 2007. “Because artists are working all over the world, the subjects they’re

telling are reflective of what is going on where they are. So you end up getting, by happenstance, this really great mix of subject matter.”

“It was quite impossible for us to choose a film by country and we didn’t want to have any quota,” said Boyer, formerly of the Cannes festival. “And also we didn’t want to choose the best film from each festival we attended. The idea is only to choose the film because they are quality films.”

As it happens, they said, the result is a more even mix of U.S. and international movies—a slate no longer dominated by American documentaries and foreign narratives. “We’re really happy with the balance,” Terranova said.

The Trib’s film summaries on the following pages give just a taste of what’s to come.

“It’s a discovery and a pleasure to see a film you don’t know a lot about,” said Boyer.

“But I hope the audience will trust us.”

TICKETS: $16 for night and weekend shows, $8 for matinees and late-night screenings. Downtown residents are eligible for $2 discount for evenings and weekend movies. For additional ticket and other information, go to tribecafilmfestival.org.

SIDESHOWS FAMILY STREET FEST SAT., APRIL 28, 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. Can a family festival have everything? This one, as usual, comes pretty close. Life-size puppets, acrobats, live music from pop to classical, art projects galore, sports events, chess games and great food served al fresco from Tribeca restaurants.

THE ‘DRIVE-IN’ The movies go outdoors with the annual free Drive-In at the World Financial Plaza. Activities and music start at 6 p.m. Movies begin at 8:15 p.m.

THUR., APRIL 19: JAWS Spielberg’s 1975 thriller tells the story of a giant man-eating shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer beach town—and the men who hunt it down.

FRI., APRIL 20: THE GOONIES Another oldie (1985), this family-friendly tale features a group of teens who, to save their neighborhood, go in search of long-lost pirate treasure.

SAT., APRIL 21: KNUCKLEBALL! A documentary takes a close look at the masters of this technique: Tim Wakefield, a Red Sox veteran, and Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey.

TALKS ON FILM Directors, actors, screenwriters and industry professionals will take the stage for dozens of conversations on everything from making a biographical documentary and the role of films in social change to the resurgence of sports-themed movies. Go to tribecafilmfestival.org for complete listings.

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reshly arrived and eager to please, compel, move, anger or amaze, the festival’s international fare this year has much to offer. In the dark comedy LA CHISPA DE LA VIDA, or AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT (Spain), publicist Jose Mota has fallen and he cannot get up. This, improbably, turns out to be the best break he has had in a long time. For once, the media are interested in his story. The longer he’s down—literally pinned to the ground in a bizarre accident—the longer he can milk the story, gaining celebrity for himself and riches for his family. Also from Spain is the sharp and funny LA SUERTE EN TUS MANOS (ALL IN). Here, we meet Uriel, a professional poker player who has been lucky as of late. But his life changes when he’s dealt a wild card—the rediscovery of an old flame.

It was love at first sight for Yann and Nadia in A BETTER LIFE (France, Canada). But second thoughts come suddenly to the couple when their risky restaurant venture in the French countryside flounders. Nadia flees west to Toronto, leaving behind not only the restaurant and her new love, but her son (from a previous relationship) in Yann’s care. The heart of the story is how this new pair can rebuild their lives together.

From Paris comes POLISSE, a raw, remarkably tense but at times unexpectedly comic tale of the working life of officers in the Parisian Child Protection Unit. The fictional work, shot in documentary style, creates an intimate portrayal of humans dealing with harsh realities and numbing bureaucracy every day.

Things are far lighter in 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (France). In this farce, a French family arrives in the city to visit their daughter and her new American boyfriend, Mingus (Chris Rock). The visitors bring with them racial insensitivity and sexual frankness that lead to a challenging but comical stay. Circumstances are more dire for another newly arrived family in STONES IN THE SUN (U.S.A., Haiti). They left Haiti during the 1980s, fleeing “TRISHNA” political violence. But asylum is not the same as rescue, and each must confront and learn to live with the past—and new future.

CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (POULET AUX PRUNES) (France, Germany, Belgium) is the magical tale of a man in search of his lost violin and love. Set in mid-century Tehran, the story is mostly live-action but includes animated set pieces that add to the film’s fairy-tale quality. TRISHNA (U.K.) retells Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” set against the backdrop of modern-day India. Here, young lovers who set out for Mumbai find their relationship threatened by family bonds back home. Hardly a love story, though the ironic title might suggest it, CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE WEDDING (U.K.) introduces us to reluctant bride-to-be Dolly (Felicity Jones) on her wedding day, in this story based on the 1932 novella by Julia Strachey.

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YOSSI (Israel) features the return of Evtan Fox, a Tribeca Film Festival Best Actor award winner, to the title role that won him acclaim in “Yossi & Jagger” in 2003. Yossi is a closeted gay man living in Tel Aviv who wants to come

hese days it takes little more than a cell phone camera and a computer to make a movie. The festival’s documentary offerings this year serve notice that times and technologies may have changed, but compelling cinema has not. The Internet has made the world a smaller, searchable place where it is possible for anyone, with some luck and talent, to be discovered and made big. And so it has for Arnel Pineda, a once poor, struggling singer from the streets of Manila who is now the lead singer of the American rock band Journey. DON'T STOP BELIEVIN’: EVERYMAN'S JOURNEY documents Pineda’s sudden fame after the band discovered him singing their tunes on YouTube. Things were not as easy for intrepid fans in search of Sixto Rodriguez, an early 1970s rock singer who flirted with but missed wide acclaim. In SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, a pair of filmmakers set out to learn what became of the Detroitborn Rodriguez, who improbably gained a following in South Africa some 40 years after his last record came out. The only mentions of Rodriguez online were disturbing rumors of his suicide onstage. The filmmakers’ eventual discovery of the real story is just as startling.

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out. Also from Israel is ROOM 514, an interrogation room dram film explores the issue of women in the military (her case is co its own as a taut procedural thriller.

ELLES (France, Poland, Germany) introduces us to Anne (Juliet begins to question her own bourgeois life while researching pro adventurous Brazilian brothers who join the government’s colo they encounter the Xingu Indians, the brothers switch allegianc the nightmarish tale of Komona, a teenage girl forced to join an comes POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO (Indonesia). Lana, abando among the animals. We follow her first ventures outside the ga

“EVOCATEUR: THE MORTON DOWNEY JR. MOVIE”

The truth is harder to come by in censored China. In HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE we meet a pair of citizen reporters who, armed with their digital cameras, laptops, curiosity and courage, are determined to chronicle the real news of the day. Just as digital technology has changed journalism, it has changed filmmaking. In SIDE BY SIDE, we hear from filmmakers (David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and many more) about how the industry and their works have adapted to the digital format, with diverting explorations of what is now possible in cinema and what has been lost in the process.

We meet a pair of middle-aged amateur filmmakers in JOURNEY TO PLANET X. They are obsessed with creating sci-fi movies. After making dozens of low-budget affairs, they’re ready to raise the bar (but still without a budget). The result is a funny and inspiring look at the lengths they are willing to go to fulfill their vision. BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY is further testament to the power of film, examining the

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They’re artistically ambitious, or small, quiet wonders, or just a tad too weird for a general audience. Perfect film fest fare, but bad for mainstream America. And that’s a shame, because this country really seems ready to see FIRST WINTER, a tale of hipster suffering.

The story follows a group of Brooklyn scenesters who strike out for the countryside in an effort to reconnect to the land. But the going gets tough when winter comes and “BABYGIRL” the electricity in the old barn goes out, leaving the gang to learn to survive on their wits alone. Enchantingly odd things happen in the beautifully animated CONSUMING SPIRITS involving dark secrets in a rural rustbelt town. Interesting, but hardly as enticing as the richly layered visuals that combine stop motion, multiplane cutouts, pencil drawings and other techniques. The film was created by hand and shot frame by frame over 15 years in animator Chris Sullivan’s basement. The trailer alone is a marvel worth looking up online.

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ma featuring Anna in the lead investigator’s role. The mplicated by an affair with her boss) but stands on

tte Binoche), a wife, mother and journalist who ostitution. XINGU (Brazil) is the true story of three onizing march inland during the 1940s. But when ces. WAR WITCH (Canada) takes us to the Congo for n army of child soldiers. Finally, from the Far East oned at a zoo as a child, is raised by zookeepers ates and into the wilder, human world.

Things get complicated in YOUR SISTER’S SISTER. First we meet Jack, who is mourning the loss of his brother. His brother’s former girlfriend, Iris, offers him her family’s cabin for the weekend to grieve alone. Then we meet Hannah, who is Iris’s sister and is unexpectedly staying at the cabin nursing a heartbreak of her own. A romance quickly ensues, though Hannah is gay. Cue Iris, who arrives to the cabin too late to get things back under control.

Closer to home is BABYGIRL, set in the Bronx. Here we meet teenager Lena, who is fed up with her mother’s string of loser boyfriends and tries to trip up the latest creep who comes calling. Nothing, it seems, is working out in FAIRHAVEN, where we meet Dave. Successful and self-assured, he returns to his small Massachusetts town for a funeral and reunites with childhood friends Jon and Sam. His now 30-something pals have not fared well.

One is dissatisfied with his life, realizing he may have peaked in high school. The other seems too satisfied living among the ruins of his early failures. The three amigos try their best to raise spirits by raising a few glasses and a little hell, but, alas, resentments and realities have a way of spoiling the reverie. Finally, there is THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN, a comic tale of awkward seduction. She’s a zookeeper, he’s a robot. Will they or won’t they? And how?

repercussions of a documentary made more than 40 years ago that exposed racial tensions in a Southern town. Director Raymond De Felitta (“City Island”) returns to the same town where his father, Frank, shot the 1965 documentary and finds that some wounds are slow to heal. Family secrets and a painful past are revealed THE FLAT follows filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger as he uncovers the story of his grandparents, who immigrated to Palestine from Germany in the 1930s. BAM150 explores the history of the 150-year-old Brooklyn performing arts center, including revealing interviews with artists. Heartbreaking and heroic, BURN introduces us to the overworked firefighters of Detroit who, despite their limited resources, are determined to save their city from a wave of arson. In DOWNEAST, residents of Gouldsboro, Maine, are facing the slower death of their community. The town’s largest employer, a sardine canning factory, has closed. An immigrant newcomer has ideas about opening a lobster plant, but locals are skeptical.

Meanwhile, the skeptics have taken over in THE REVISIONARIES, in Austin, Texas, where the 15-member State Board of Education wants to revise textbooks to include creationism. Their revisions would set the standard for science and history textbooks across the nation. The film is a dispatch from the front lines of the so-called culture wars.

Controversy and over-the-top confrontation made a shooting star of the late Morton Downey, Jr. EVOCATEUR: THE MORTON DOWNEY JR. MOVIE reintroduces America to the raging, chain-smoking television bully whose talk show pushed the envelope (and buttons) and made him a brief sensation in the late 1980s. SEXY BABY is a frank examination of how the sexualized culture of cyberspace has seeped into social media, the mainstream, and most startling, the heads of our children. The film gets personal, following the lives of a porn star, a plastic surgery patient, and a pre-teen girl in an effort to put a face on the changing sexual landscape. ONE NATION UNDER DOG explores a similarly complicated but gentler subject—the relationships Americans have with their dogs. Here, we meet a couple willing to spend big money to clone their beloved pet, a man willing to spend even more to defend his dogs in court, and rescuers and pet loss counselors who prove how much dog lovers will do for the pets they revere.

Gentler still, from Korea, is PLANET OF SNAIL, a one-of-a-kind love story that introduces us to Young-Chan. Deaf and blind, he can only communicate by touch. It is as if he lives alone on his own small planet. But then he meets Soon-Ho. She too is disabled and understands Young-Chan’s language, his isolation, and his pain. Together, they discover a new world.

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rom an icy mountain peak in Ecuador to a bus stop in Brooklyn, the 60 short narratives and documentaries in the festival this year whisk us away for a quick story about a place or people that we’ll feel lucky to meet, if only briefly. For one, there is the young man in TROTTEUR. He claims that he can outrun not only a horse but a train. His boast is put to the test in a stunning short film (one critic’s quick review: “Jesus, this is gorgeous”) that has the feel of an epic. Things are slower at a bus stop in Brooklyn, where Vincent has waited uneventfully most days. But now a stranger, Sal, has started showing up and become an unlikely friend in B61. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, cartoonists from The New Yorker are getting together weekly for lunch. We get a place at the table in EVERY TUESDAY: A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS. What inspires them? What’s funny? What’s not? How does the whole process work, exactly? This is your chance to find out. If you think that is a competitive bunch, wait till you meet the subjects of RUNG. Here, two women clamor to fill the single “EVERY TUESDAY: A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS” spot that has just opened up in a cathedral bell-ringing choir. The darkly comic tale follows them through auditions and tests of their own moral character as they find themselves increasingly desperate to win the job. It is unlikely that Baltazar Ushca, who for 53 years hauled ice by mule train from a glacier in Ecuador, will be replaced now that he has come down from the mountains for the last time in THE LAST ICE MERCHANT. The documentary portrait pulls back to offer a wider view of the villagers, whose lives are changing, too.

ALL THE LINES FLOW OUT follows the trail of water through modern Singapore as it wends through drains and canals. The resulting short is a strangely beautiful postcard about a simple place in a faraway city.

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o need for a bookie, bracket or fantasy team to make it interesting. The festival’s sports-themed films this year offer compelling documentaries that most anyone can follow. Consider BROKE, for example. In this thoughtful film we meet retired athletes (including, among others, Andre Rison, Bernie Kosar and Marvin Miller) who either through bad investments, freeloading friends or compulsive spending of their early riches found themselves broke when their sporting careers were over. BENJI is the story of a young, promising athlete who tragically never got a chance. The documentary recounts the story of Ben Wilson, who in 1984, at the age of 17, was the nation’s top high school basketball prospect. How good was he? “Magic Johnson, but with a jump shot,” Sports Illustrated declared. But only days after receiving a full scholarship to the University of Illinois, the Chicago youngster was gunned down during his school lunch break. The sorrow was felt far outside his South Side neighborhood. ON THE MAT takes us to a high school in Washington State, where members of the varsity wrestling team push themselves to their physical and psychological limits, not to make weight but to meet the expectations of the student body and community that want nothing less than a state championship every season. Meanwhile, a small rural town in Ethiopia is training Olympic champion long-distance runners. TOWN OF RUNNERS introduces us to a pair of teenage runners whose goal is a gold medal, of course, but also a brighter future. The mysterious knuckleball, featuring masters of the technique, is the subject of KNUCKLEBALL! The film deconstructs the difficult pitch, its history and effect on the game. Retired Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield and Mets’ R. A. Dickey offer a clinic on the technique prior to the screening (see page 23).

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30 ARTS, CRAFTS & PLAY MAKE A CORNHUSK DOLL Learn about cornhusk dolls and make one. Free. Thursdays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

NATIVE AMERICAN GAMES Learn about and play various games from Native cultures in North America.

Free. Fridays, 2 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

SEAPORT HISTORY The Seaport’s history plus a related craft project. Ages 6–9. Registration required. $15. Sat, 4/14 & 4/28, 10:30 am. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org.

NATIVE ALASKAN LIFE Listen to stories from Alaska and make a Yup’ik heartbeat necklace.

Free. Sat, 4/14, 1 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

BODY BUILDINGS Kids make a city skyline using their silhouettes. Registration required. $5. Sat, 4/21, 10:30 am. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org.

ARTS & CRAFTS Hands-on creative projects. Ages 5–12.

Free. Mon, 4/23, 4 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

ARCHIKIDS Kids learn about skyscrapers and build a model with an architect. Ages 9–13.

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RECESS MONKEY Three elementary school teachers sing lyrics inspired by their classes. $15; free under 2. Sun, 4/29, 11 am. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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EXHIBITS FLORIAN’S ART The art and poetry of children’s illustrator Douglas Florian. Free.

To Sat, 4/21. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

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DANCE THUNDERBIRD SOCIAL Native American social dances and drumming. Free. Sat, 4/21, 7 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1

Moving Visions Dance Studio Summer Programs EXPLORE Technique • EXPAND Creativity EMPOWER Children Through the Art of Dance

Imagination Through Movement Ages 3-6 July 9-20, 10:00-11:30 Classical Ballet Intensive beginning & intermediate Ages 5-18 July 9-August 10, 4:30-8:00 Contemporary Dance Camp Ages 7-11 August 6-17, 9:30-3:00 Mini Camp Ages 3-6 August 6-17, 1:00-3:00

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FILM NATIVE AMERICAN Short animated films.

Free. Daily, 10:30 am, 1 & 3 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

FINDING NEMO The children’s film, with pizza. Free. Fri, 4/20, 6 pm. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

MUSIC SING STORIES WITH LOU GALLO Songs based on children’s classics. Ages

3–6. Free. Fridays, 11 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

CELEBRATE EARTH Stories, songs and activities from cultures that express the interconnection of all life. Free. Thu, 4/12, 3:30 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

LITTLE MISS ANN Groovy family folk rock. $15; free under 2.

Sun, 4/15, 11 am. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

THE NIELDS Sisters perform folk songs about organic farms, superhero soup and caterpillars. $15; free under 2. Sun, 4/22, 11 am. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SPACE SCIENCE Demonstrations and talks about spacerelated science, rockets and space travel.

Ages 5–12. Registration required. Free.

Tuesdays, 4 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN BODY Kids learn about how the human body works, focusing on the respiratory and digestive systems. Ages 5–12. Registration required. Wednesdays, 4 pm.

BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS STUDIO TOURS Visit a studio that makes kids’ TV fare.

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SPRING RECESS: POLICE WEEK Science, history, arts and crafts and local outings related to police work. Ages 6– 10. Registration required. $240/4 days.

Mon, 4/9–Thu, 4/12, 9:30 am–4 pm.

NYC Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, nycpm.org.

NEW YORK CARES DAY Kids help waterfront parks by gardening, painting, cleaning and more. Registration required. $20. Sat, 4/21, 9:30 am–3 pm. newyorkcaresday.org.

STORIES & POETRY BABY STORYTIME Stories, songs and rhymes. For ages 0–18 months. Registration required. Free.

Mondays, 9:30 am; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:30 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave.; Thu, 4/5 & 4/12, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

READING ALOUD Stories for 3–5-year-olds. Free. Mondays, 4 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave.; Mondays, 4 pm. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

TODDLER STORYTIME Stories, songs, finger puppet plays and more. For ages 18–36 months. Registration required. Free. Wednesdays, 10:30 am. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave.; Thu, 4/19 & 4/26, 10:30 am. New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray St., nypl.org.

TINY POETS TIME Poetry reading for toddlers. Free.

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

CHILDREN’S STORYTIME An hour of stories for all ages. Free.

Saturdays, 11 am. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN Children’s author reads from his book “Monsters Eat Whiny Children.” Free. Sat, 4/7, 11 am. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

DOUGLAS FLORIAN Children’s poet reads from his books “Poem Runs” and “UnBEElievables.” Free.

Sun, 4/15, 11 am. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

POT OF GOLD Storyteller recounts three Irish folktales using costumes, props and music. Free.

Thu, 4/19, 3:30 pm. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

JOSH SELIG Author reads “Red & Yellow’s Noisy Night.” Free. Sat, 4/28, 11 am. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com.

THEATER ZORRO The adventures of the masked, caped hero. Ages 8–13. $25. Sun, 4/15, 3 pm.

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

THE LONELY PHONEBOOTH An uptown phone booth that used to help its neighbors tries to adjust to its new role with the advent of cell phones. $20.

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Since last month, Bonnet, 46, has been at the school, acclimating herself to the job she will take over in the fall from Maggie Siena, who is moving to the new Peck Slip School as its first principal.

Siena, who has known Bonnet for several years, says she will be an ideal successor, both because of her dedication to the arts and her experience leading a small school. (Both the Special Music School, where Bonnet was the academic director, and P.S. 150 have only one class per grade.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really experienced administrator,â&#x20AC;? Siena said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So in terms of the basics, like how to work with kids and teachers, I don't need to tell her anything.

She has a few things to teach me.â&#x20AC;?

Early on, Bonnetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future seemed headed for the stage, not the classroom.

For 10 years she sang with the Metropolitan Operaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chorus and continued to perform during her years at

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But her father, a professional actor, warned her about the struggles that lay ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve watched me as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grown up and there have been good times and bad times,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You love kids and you seem to have a penchant for it. I would encourage you to do the more secure thing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Much of Bonnetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching was in a middle school on the Upper West Side, though, as she put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taught everything from 2nd grade to 7th grade.â&#x20AC;?

The mother of a 5-year-old son, she lives with her husband, Stephan Bonnet, a restaurant manager, in Riverdale. Last month, she left a small, progressive public school in the Bronx where she had served a short stint as the assistant principal.

At a special morning gathering, P.S. 150 students had a chance to ask their principal-to-be some biographical questions.

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Film Festival Offers Family Fun by the Ton What’s most “Tribeca” (and Downtown) about the Tribeca Film Festival is not movies at all but the family events that go with it.

The annual fair on Greenwich Street will again spill over onto side streets, offering a seemingly infinite array of street performers, activities and stage shows. Then there are the outdoor movies at the World Financial Center, with their pre-screening activities, and a day of soccer at Pier 40 at Houston Street. It’s all free.

DRIVE-IN OUTDOOR SCREENINGS World Financial Center Plaza Seats available on first-come basis.

Doors open and activities begin at 6 p.m.

Screenings start at about 8:15 p.m.

JAWS Thur., April 19: Steven Spielberg’s classic. Before the show: trivia contests and live music.

THE GOONIES Fri., April 20: The adventures of Mikey, Mouth, Stef, Data, Chunk, and other characters in this classic. Before the show: “truffle shuffle” contest, prizes in the Tribeca Treasure Hunt. Live music from Afro-jazz pioneers NOMO. KNUCKLEBALL! Sat., April 21: Documentary about the controversial pitching style. Before the show: giveaways, baseball trivia contests and pitching clinics with pro knuckleballers R. A. Dickey of the Mets, former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield and ex-Yankee Jim Bouton.

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Left: Tens of thousands flock to Greenwich Street for the street fair. Above: At the fair, kids can learn about all kinds of sports.

SOCCER DAY Sat., April 21 Pier 40 at Houston St. 9 a.m.–6 p.m.

It’s all soccer, all day with youth clinics, skill demonstrations and workshops, plus benefit matches featuring former soccer pros and entertainment industry folks. Go to tribecafilm.com/soccerday for information.

FAMILY STREET FESTIVAL Sat., April 28 Greenwich St., Chambers to Hubert 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Dancers, stilt walkers, Broadway performers, face painters, puppet shows,

games, aerial acts, acrobats, contortionists and puppets. Want more? Cast members from “Ghost: the Musical,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” “Sister Act: The Musical,” “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” and other Broadway and OffBroadway shows will take the stage.

Less glitzy but loads of fun, kids can create art from recycled materials, make kites and play chess. More, and a map, at tribecafilm.com/family.

SPORTS DAY Sat., April 28 North Moore, bet. Greenwich and West 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Family Festival, with games, prize giveaways and guest appearances by pro athletes. Even Mr. Met will be on hand for autographs.

What’s your sport—or sport to learn more about? Basketball, football, tennis, ping pong, fencing, skateboarding, lacrosse, hockey, even bocce will be on the street with demonstrations and instruction.

And for extra thrills there will be some “Don’t-try-this-at-home” BMX aerial stunts and tricks.

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Hollander Passes the Creative Torch to His Dancers

BY CARL GLASSMAN The Tribeca-based Battery Dance Company takes the stage this month with all new works, but without the creative imprint of its founder, choreographer and guiding force, Jonathan Hollander.

With “Perceptual Motion,” on stage at 3LD Art + Technology Center, April 25 to 27, Hollander hands all creative control to his dancers. It will be a first for him since starting Battery Dance 36 years ago—and a rare thing in the dance world.

“If you look at modern dance companies, many or most of them are started by one person,” said Hollander, whose combined home and rehearsal space are in a loft at Broadway and White Street. “When that person takes their last breath or their last leap, the company doesn’t really have that much reason to go forward.”

Hollander is hardly abandoning what he has built, but he is allowing a shift in its identity. “Is this a company that’s all about Jonathan Hollander,” he said, “or is this a company that has a rationale for being beyond a single person?”

Before the company’s season last year, Battery Dance was largely about Hollander, who over the past 15 years

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL GLASSMAN

Robin Cantrell, foreground, with Carmen Nicole and Bafana Matea, rehearse a piece by Nicole that will be performed this month as part of “Perceptual Motion.” Inset: Jonathan Hollander, who founded Battery Dance Company 36 years ago in his former loft on Stone Street.

has taken his company to 54 countries as “cultural diplomats.” His dancers also work with students in the public schools.

Hollander said he wants to spend more time on issues that affect the arts and with his work with the Lower Manhattan Arts League, a group of arts organizations that provide mutual support. “It’s a question of how much can you overwork,” he said.

Last year, he let go creatively with an

evening of dance in which performers choreographed their own pieces but with Hollander’s choice of composer, and his choreography at the beginning and end.

In “Perceptual Motion,” each dancer interprets one of the five senses and, along with the company’s resident designer, Barry Steele, chooses his or her own costumes, music, video and more.

“A lot of people would assume they know what to expect from Battery

Dance,” said dancer Robin Cantrell. “But you have no idea what you’re about to see because it’s not Jonathan choreographing anymore. It’s five young, very new choreographers with very new experimental ideas.”

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TOAST Redux

Artist studio tour returns April 27-30

very year, for four days in April, that “old” Tribeca—the one known for its many artists—reveals itself anew.

Thanks to TOAST, an acronym for Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour, dozens of artists, some who have lived in the neighborhood for decades and others who are newcomers, open their studio doors to the public.

And thousands come. Now in its 16th year, TOAST attracts visitors from around the city and beyond: serious collectors, occasional art buyers, or just the curious.

The free event, which was started by volunteer artists and is still run by volunteers, will take place from April 27 to April 30. There is so much to see that a visitor could fill his or her program for all four days. Some 75 artists will participate.

“It’s great for the public,” says artist Shawn Washburn, the group’s president, “because it makes art less intimidating. It’s fun.” Some artists even serve refreshments.

Like all the artists, Washburn is in his painting studio to answer questions from visitors and listen to their response to his work. “People bring their own intention to a piece of art, their own baggage, for lack of a better word,” he says. “It’s always interesting to see what they see.”

Indeed, TOAST artists say they thoroughly enjoy the parade of visitors stepping into their usually quiet work spaces.

Nancy Pantirer, a painter and six-year TOAST veteran, says that she also likes the feedback, especially the positive remarks. It helps her, she says, “feel more sure of what I am doing.”

At the same time, she enjoys sharing the artist’s experience with her visitors. “The public sees the process,” Pantirer says, “the tools used in your space. It’s like going into an artist’s laboratory and learning the language of painting.”

This year, a half dozen artists have set up webcams in their spaces. “You will be able to be in one studio, and see what’s going on in real time in another studio,” says Washburn, who has installed a camera in his studio. “It’s an experiment. We’ll see if people like it.”

For a map, an online magazine about TOAST and examples of artists’ work, go to toastartwalk.com.

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ociologist and photographer Cathy Greenblat has been taking pictures of people with dementia for a decade.

Eighty of these moving images, taken around the world, are on display through April 28 at Pace University’s Schimmel Center for the Arts. “My goal is to help you to see that the person with dementia is still here, and not an empty shell,” Greenblat says in her just-published book, “Love, Loss, and Laughter: Seeing Alzheimer’s Differently,” in which these photos appear. The text accompanying the images below was written by Greenblat. The Shimmel Center for the Arts, at 3 Spruce St, is open Wed–Sat, 12–6 p.m. There will be free symposiums about Alzheimer’s and related diseases on Wednesday, April 25, at the Schimmel Center. Go to pace.edu/lovelosslaughter.

Alzheimer’s, In a Different Light Monaco Despite a 90-plus-years age difference, Marie-These and Frederica had a good time painting a kite together at the Speranza Center–Albert II Day Care. The Center has organized numerous intergenerational paint workshops where youngsters and their older partners work together and express their artistic talents. The kites they decorated were flown in Monaco on September 21, World Alzheimer’s Day. PHOTOS BY CATHY GREENBLAT

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The doors of this group home in suburban Kyoto are not locked, though there is careful supervision to ensure that residents do not leave the grounds unaccompanied. This woman loved going outdoors, breathing the fresh air, and admiring the bamboo garden next door. “Alzheimer’s patients don’t always need activities or group interactions,” a geriatrician told me. “Give them peaceful and beautiful places to live and rest.

Allow them time for meditation or simply being in communication with life and nature.”

Rachael remained very spirited despite her growing cognitive difficulties. She spent 15 minutes telling me the name and story of each of the “occupants” of her treasured box. At the end, she exclaimed “God bless America.” I had a good time with her. I could not have done this a few years ago, before I was taught by many wonderful caregivers how to let go of my reality and go into another’s. I wish I had known how to do this when my maternal grandparents lived with Alzheimer’s and I too often fell silent in their company.

The staff at this day-care center in Cochin, India, understands the need to find activities that are meaningful to the participants given both their backgrounds and present capabilities. This woman was a former mathematics teacher and likes to write numbers on paper or on the blackboard. For her, each line is a victory. The center purchased the blackboard to help her feel connected to the past and experience old pleasures. It was a good example of the power of individualized attention in a group setting.

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/CARRIAGE TRADE

Below: “Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C.” 1943 Right: “Tank driver, Ft. Knox, Ky.” 1942

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f you walk into Carriage Trade at 62 Walker St., you will see the walls lined with framed color photographs, much like any show of contemporary photography.

These photos, however, were all made in the 1930s and 1940s, an era we know almost exclusively from black and white photographs and films. Carriage Trade’s new show, “Color Photographs of the New Deal,” offers a refreshingly different vision—actually two visions—of that tumultuous time.

The front room features 76 photographs from the archive of the historical unit of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Formed in 1935 by Roy Stryker, the unit hired well-known photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange as well as a crew of novices, who together produced more than 100,000 images for the FSA file.

Their purpose was simple: to justify the existence of an agency which sought to help migrant farmers and which was then under virulent attack by Republicans in Congress. At the same time, however, Stryker sought to create a portrait of small-town America for posterity, a task at which he admirably succeeded.

After the United States entered World War II, the historical unit was transferred

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At Carriage Trade gallery, surprising views of an era we know in black and white

to the Office of War Information (OWI), and its emphasis shifted from depicting rural America to bolstering the war effort. When the unit closed in 1943, Stryker arranged for the file to be transferred to the Library of Congress.

With the recent scanning of the negatives in the file, its 1,600 color photographs (all produced after 1939) have come to light. The prints on view at the Walker Street gallery were made from online scans of these color slides and transparencies.

Gallery director Peter Scott has selected striking images that represent the full range of the file. It is thrilling to see in color an old southern shanty, boys playing ice hockey on a frozen pond, and a small-town street corner.

The images from the war years are more clearly propagandistic: a photograph of a tank driver is pure machismo, and one of a young woman polishing the

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“This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber…” 1942

canopy of a Navy bomber looks like an advertisement for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Especially noteworthy are the photographs of women who entered the work force during wartime. The pretty secretary applying lipstick in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., was one of thousands of young women who flooded the city to meet the demands of a newly expanded bureaucracy; and the railroad workers on lunch break, who like “Rosie the Riveter” filled the jobs of men sent overseas.

While these photographs can be enjoyed as works of art, Scott has provided a checklist, which includes the informative captions that Stryker required his photographers to write.

Although the exhibition in the front room offers more than sufficient reason to visit Carriage Trade, a second exhibition in the back room is a bonus.

In contrast with the government-

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“Street corner, Brockton, Mass.” 1941

sponsored message of the FSA/OWI, this smaller exhibit presents evidence of Depression-era labor protest: the marches and strikes that often ended in violent law enforcement suppression. Scott provocatively assembled these materials from contradictory sources: press clippings from the anti-labor New York Times, press photographs from the communist Daily Worker, and excerpts from memories collected by broadcaster and author Studs Terkel.

No doubt these beautifully installed, thoughtful exhibitions are meant to remind us of our own enduring recession and our Occupy protests. Perhaps they are also meant to remind us that, sadly, government sponsorship of the arts is now at an all-time low.

Color Photographs of the New Deal.

To April 29. Thursday–Sunday, 1–6 p.m.

Carriage Trade, 62 Walker St., 212-3432944, carriagetrade.org.

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“Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa.” 1943

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Best of the Best Competition 7 Indian

dance teams compete in a range of styles, including Bhangra, Rass and Bollywood. Sat, 4/7, 6:30 pm. $25–$50. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org. g

Tango Connection: The Mariela Franganillo Company Argentina’s top dancers and musicians perform traditional tango. Fri, 4/13 & Sat, 4/14, 7:30 pm. $30–$55. Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., pace.edu/schimmel.

and immigrant advocate as well as the story of immigrants’ struggles past and present. To December. $10; $7 seniors; $5 students; free under 12. Free Wed, 4–8 pm. Sun–Tue, Thu 10 am–5:45 pm; Wed 10 am–8 pm; Fri 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Checks and Balances: Presidents and American Finance Financial challenges faced

by American presidents both in the Oval Office and in their personal lives. To November.

Andrew Carnegie: Forging Philanthropy

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America through a Chinese Lens Chinese and Chinese-American photographers’ depictions of America. June 4, 1989: Media and Mobilization Beyond Tiananmen Square

Media coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests from Asian-American and Chinese-language periodicals. Thu, 4/26–Mon, 9/10. $7; $4 students, seniors, free children under 12 and on Thursdays. Mon & Fri 11 am–5 pm, Thu, 11 am– 9 pm, Sat & Sun 10 am–5 pm. Museum of Chi-

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Battery Dance Company: Perceptual Motion A compendium of five dacnes, inspired

g Arabized Solo performance featuring Arab music, folk dance and oration. Fri, 4/13, 9 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., alwanforthearts.org.

of the body. To Mon, 4/16. By appointment.

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, 14 Jay St., ecfa.com. g Yi Zhou Underworlds Rising. Sculptures and film inspired by Greek mythology. John O’Reilly I Stand and Look at Them Long and Long. Sculptures of animals in ambiguous states between sleep and death. To Fri, 4/27. Tue–Sat, 11 am–7 pm; Sun by appointment. RH Gallery, 137 Duane St., rhgallery.com. g Post Contemporary Art Works by artists that explore the fleeting nature and illusion of time. To Wed, 5/2. By appointment. Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard St, salomonarts.com.

EXHIBITIONS Darragh Park: Recent Acquisitions

Paintings of New York City neighborhoods from the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. To Sat, 4/21. Free.

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org.

g Caroline Cox ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky. Two juxtaposing installations, one made of white vegetable packaging on a black background and another of orange and blue acrylic balls. To Mon, 5/7. The Clocktower, 108 Leonard St., 13th Fl., artonair.org.

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Carl Beam Paintings, ceramics, constructions and video by the late Native American artist. To Sun, 4/22. Time Exposures:

Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century Works by prominent photogra-

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Consent Exploration of the public and private relationships Americans have with pornography, through video-recorded interviews with people who consume the product. To Sat, 5/12. apexart, 291 Church St., apexart.org.

phers taken of this New Mexican town. To Sun, 6/10. Small Spirits Dolls from more than 100 Native cultures throughout the Western hemisphere. To Thu, 7/19. IndiVisible: African-

Native American Lives in the Americas

Love, Loss and Laughter: Seeing Alzheimer’s Differently More than 80 photo-

graphs by sociologist Cathy Greenblat that demonstrate an emerging approach to dealing with individuals living with dementia. (See page 40.) To Sat, 4/28. Free. Wed–Sun, 12–6 pm.

Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce St., lovelossandlaughter.com. g

News Paper Spires: From Park Row to Times Square A look at some of the city’s first skyscrapers built as headquarters for large newspapers including the Times, Tribune and World. To Sun, 7/15. $5; $2.50 students, seniors.

Wed–Sun, 12–6 pm. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g Let My People Go! The Soviet Jewry Movement, 1967–1989 Exhibition about the

Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate but were denied the right to leave. To Sun, 8/5. Filming the Camps Rare footage taken by John Ford, George Stevens and Samuel Fuller of the liberation of Dachau. To Sun, 10/14. Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles Rare artifacts about the writer

Phillip Theis and Uccello Karnal.

Unconventional depictions of the human face and body. To Sun, 4/14. Daily 10 am–6 pm.

Tachi Gallery, 414 Washington St., tachigallery.com.

g New Chinese Currency: Ink, Landscape and the Body Group show featuring depictions

DJ Rekha spins classic and contemporary Bollywood hits, and instructors and students from Dhoonya Dance teach dance moves. Free.

Tue, 4/24, 7:30 pm. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com.

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Pouran Jinchi Dawn, Noon and Night.

Detailed mixed media designs on paper. To Sat, 4/14. Tue–Fri, 11 am–5 pm. Art Projects International, 434 Greenwich St., artprojects.com.

Culturestream: Bollywood Dance Party

Panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry.

To Fri, 8/31. Free. Fri–Wed, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–8 pm. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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g Thunderbird Social The Thunderbird Indian Singers and Dancers perform traditional Native American social dances, accompanied by drumming. Sat, 4/21, 7 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu.

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NYC beat cop is recruited by an elite cabal of assassins in this pulp thriller. Sat, 4/21, 9:30 pm. $10. See website for more films.

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

g Jessica Stoller Lend Me Your Eyes. Painted porcelain sculptures. To Sat, 4/7. Burton Machen Urban Evolution: Portraits Project.

Photographs of well-known people that were posted on buildings, then marked, altered and otherwise defaced by the public. Thu, 4/19–Sat, 5/19. Opening reception: Thu, 4/19, 6 pm. Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin St., hionasgallery.com.

by the five sense and choreographed by each of the comapny’s dancers. (See story page 36.)

Wed, 4/25 – Fri, 4/27, 7:30 pm. $20, students and seniors $15. 3LD Art + Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St., battery dance.org.

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A “Salute to Sonny Fortune” will come to Tribeca on Thursday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Musicians are George Cables, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Jeremy Pelt, Tessa Souter with Gene Bertoncini, and guest of honor Sonny Fortune. $40; students $37.50. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., tribecapac.org.

Display on Carnegie’s life and work, with a spotlight on his love of Scotland, his business life and his philanthropic activities. Opens Tue, 4/10. Tue–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g

African Burial Ground The story of the free

and enslaved men, women and children who lived and were buried Downtown. Ongoing. Free.

Tue–Sat, 9 am–4 pm. African Burial Ground Center and National Monument, 290 Broadway, africanburialground.gov. g

A Church for the New World History of the Episcopal parish from the 17th century to today, including photos and items related to St. Paul’s Chapel’s role in the 9/11 recovery effort.

Ongoing. Mon–Fri, 9 am–5:30 pm; Sat–Sun, 9 am–3:45 pm. The Trinity Museum, Broadway at Wall St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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Dialogue in the Dark Experience New York

City as if you were blind. Ongoing. $23.50;

nese in America, 215 Centre St., mocanyc.org.

FILM g Animation Celebration! Animated films for adults about Native American life. Daily, 10 am, 1 & 3 pm. All films are free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g Hawi Film about the daily life and struggles of Egyptian people prior to the revolution. Wed, 4/11, 7 pm. $10. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., alwanforthearts.org. g

Selection of upcoming films: PUNCH: Puppet Slam Ninety minutes of puppet cine-

ma, including shadows, hand puppets, rod puppets and more. Fri, 4/13, 7:30 pm. $13.

Demolition Man A super criminal who was frozen in 1996 unfreezes a generation later in a new world that does not know how to handle him. Thu, 4/19, 9 pm & Fri, 4/20, 9:45 pm. $10.

g Loretta Shapiro What You Get Is What You See. Paintings, drawings and photos of objects or scenes isolated from their usual context.

Wed, 4/4–Sat, 4/28. Opening reception: Wed, 4/4, 6:30 pm. Bond New York, 25 Hudson St. g

Stephan Gersh Insights. Regine Corngold Artists and Spaces. Peter Agron 12 Pictures on the Wall. Jorge Luis Montegudo Ninety Miles: An Intimate Journey. Christer Allevik Metropolis. Wed, 4/4–Sat, 4/28. Opening reception: Thu, 4/5, 6 pm. Wed–Sun 1–6 pm and by appointment. Soho Photo, 15 White St., sohophoto.com. g Carolina Sardi and John Ensor Substance and Form. Abstract works. Thu, 4/5–Wed, 5/2.

Mon–Fri 11 am–6 pm; Sat 12–6 pm; Sun 12–5 pm. Cheryl Hazan Mosaic Studio, 35 N. Moore St., cherylhazan.com. g Thomas Lail The World We Have Lost.

Xerography, paintings, works on paper and concrete sculptures exploring history and political thought. Thu, 4/5–Sat, 5/19. Opening reception: Thu, 4/5, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm.

Masters & Pelavin, 13 Jay St., masterspelavin.com. g Sylvan Lionni Lost in America. Photographs of everyday objects. Thu, 4/5–Sat, 5/12.

Kansas, 59 Franklin St., kansasgallery.com.

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Prolegomena Sat, 4/7–Sat, 4/28. Opening reception: Sat, 4/7, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 11 am–6 pm. Jack Hanley Gallery, 136 Watts St., jackhanley.com.

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Michael Ingui Abstract, colorful drawings.

Thu, 4/12–Thu, 5/3. Opening reception: Thu, 4/12, 6 pm. One Art Space, 23 Warren St., oneartspace.com.

g Rob Carter Faith in a Seed. Miniature replicas of the houses that Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau and Sir John Bennet Lawes lived in. Fri, 4/13–Sat, 6/23. Opening reception: Fri, 4/13, 6 pm. Tue–Sat, 12–6 pm. Art in General, 79 Walker St., artingeneral.org.

his works. Fri, 4/13, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Dutch Poets Today Panel of diverse young Dutch poets read original pieces that represent a cross-section of new poetic practices.

Sat, 4/14, 4 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors.

Italian American Poetry Festival Readings of works by Italian American poets of past and present. Fri, 4/27, 7 pm. Free. See website for more readings. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g

Ann Napolitano, Deborah Copaken Kogan and Tara Altebrando read their poetry

Politics, Print and Power.” 4/25. All readings: Wed, 6:30 pm, free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g

Susan Matt “Homesickness: An American

History.” Thu, 4/26, 6 pm. $10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

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The Tall Tower of Whitelaw Reid

Architecture historian discusses the 1875 New York Tribune Tower. 4/10. Structural Systems

of Early Skyscrapers: The Case for New York Talk with a structural engineer. 4/24. All talks: Tue, 6:30 pm, free. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl., skyscraper.org. g

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Slideshows: Costa Rica 4/3. Los Angeles, Belgium, Spain and New York City Architecture. 4/10. Australia, New Zealand

At the Intersection: Art, Money and Politics Art world professionals discuss the

entanglement of art and money, the semiotics of dissent and how it is represented in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Wed, 4/11, 7 pm. At Léman Preparatory School, 41 Broad St.

Arts and the World Trade Center: Past, Present and Future Talk on the history of arts

g Katharine Harvey Chandelier. Thousands of plastic containers are strung together to form an enormous symbol of opulence and the glut of plastic in consumerism. Sun, 4/15–Fri, 5/11.

World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com.

at the World Trade Center site, from “Art on the Beach” on the landfill to today’s programming.

At the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Preview Site, 20 Vesey St. All talks: free, registration required. lmcc.net.

Jeremy G. Landau Skyline Sentinels: New

g Selection of upcoming talks: Food for Movie Lovers Food historian discusses the meaning of

York Water Towers. Panoramic photographs.

Wed, 4/18–Fri, 6/29. Opening reception: Fri, 4/27, 6 pm. Warburg Realty, 100 Hudson St.

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan Using new interviews and

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food in various films. Thu, 4/12, 12 pm. $25.

material, discussion of the day John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Reagan. Lunch included. Wed, 4/18, 12 pm. $40. Friday Night Dinner Talk on the real-world implications of federal drug laws. Dinner included. Fri, 4/20, 7 pm. $35. The Rhetoric of Hillary Clinton Talk on the Secretary of State’s professional life and accomplishments. Fri, 4/27, 12 pm. $18. See website for more talks. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org.

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Scenes through a Cinema Lens Rare footage of jazz singers, including Ray Charles, Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan. Tue, 4/10, 7:30 pm. Free. The Brooklyn Women’s Chorus Community chorus performs South African freedom songs to works by contemporary American musicians. Fri, 4/13, 8 pm. $15.

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

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Nature and the City: What Good Is Urban Conservation? Talk on incorporating

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Marjolaine Lambert Violin and live electronics. Thu, 4/12. Houston Chamber Choir A capella. Fri, 4/13. Wanmu Percussion Trio Thu, 4/19. First Chair Quartet Violin, viola

nature into cities not only to improve quality of life for residents, but to rebuild biodiversity.

Mon, 4/16, 6:30 pm. $20; $10 students. Can Oysters Save the World? Presentation on the New York Harbor School’s efforts to restore the local oyster population to self-sustaining levels. Thu, 4/26, 7 pm. $25; $15 students. See website to register and for more talks. New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St., nyas.org.

and cello. Thu, 4/26. All concerts: 1 pm, free.

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Selected musical performances: Steven Feifke Septet, Colony and Adam Kromelow Trio Jazz bands. Sat, 4/14, 8 pm. $10. The Snow and Lucinda Black Bear Cinematic lit-

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Stanzas in Meditation: A Gertrude Stein Celebration Four textual scholars discuss their

erary pop. Sat, 4/21, 9 pm. $10. See website for more concerts. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g New Andalucîa: Flamenco Meets Arab Music Six musicians perform traditional fla-

menco music. Sat, 4/21, 9 pm. $20; $15 students, seniors. Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. 4th fl., alwanforthearts.org. g

Hip-Hop Reflections Jewish hip-hop artists

perform spoken word, beat box and improvisations. Wed, 4/25, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org. g

Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra

Original music, plus poetry written by students at Downtown public schools in celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day. Thu, 4/26, 6 pm. Free.

World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com.

Constance Rosenblum will read from her book, “Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx,” on Wed., April 18 at 6:30 pm at the Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Pl. The reading is free. RSVP to programs@skyscraper.org.

and prose. Tue, 4/10, 7 pm. Free. Libertine Library, Gild Hall, 15 Gold St., penparentis.org. g Poetic Justice: Celebrating Emma Lazarus Reading of Lazarus’ works about immi-

Evening Hour, 49 Fulton St., tuesdayeveninghour.com.

gration and exodus. Wed, 4/11, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Fred Weintraub “Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me: From the Man Behind a Half-Century of Music, Movies and Martial Arts.” Thu, 4/5.

Vinny Guadagnino “Control the Crazy: My Plan to Stop Stressing, Avoid Drama and Maintain Inner Cool.” Wed, 4/18. All readings: 6 pm, free. Barnes & Noble, 97 Warren St., bn.com. g Campbell Corner Poetry Contest 13th Anniversary Reading Readings by Dawn

McGuire and Jill Osier. Mon, 4/9, 7 pm. Free.

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Ghassan Zaqtan Palestinian poet reads and discusses

and Fiji 4/17. The 1939 New York World’s Fair 4/24. All talks: Tuesdays, 6 pm, $2. Tuesday

Brian McGreevy “Hemlock Grove.” Wed, 4/11, 7:30 pm. $15. 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.com.

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John Connolly, Liza Marklund, William Kent Krueger and M. J. Rose Mystery

authors read from their most recent books. Thu, 4/12, 6:30 pm. Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Karin Slaughter, Alafair Burke and Jim Fusilli Authors read selections from their stories. Tue, 4/24, 6 pm. All readings are free.

Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., mysteriousbookshop.com. g

James McGrath Morris “Pulitzer: A Life in

Private Equity Firms: Unaccountable Accountability and Anti-Social Behavior Talk on the social responsibilities of the accountancy establishment. Wed, 4/4, 12:30 pm. $5. The Life and Legacy of Andrew Carnegie Panel discussion and Q & A session, followed by a reception. Reservations required.

Tue, 4/10, 6 pm. $45. Victoria Bond on “Mrs. President, the Opera” Composer and conductor talks about her opera based on Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President in 1872. Tue, 4/17, 12:30 pm. $5. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g Irving Sandler Artist discusses the modernist figure. Thu, 4/5, 6:30 pm. Free. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St., nyaa.edu.

work using the Gertrude Stein archives at Yale University. Sat, 4/21, 1 pm. Free. Passwords: On Robert Frost Talk on the life and poetry of the rural patrician of New England literary life.

Wed, 4/25, 7 pm. $10; $7 students, seniors. See website for more talks. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g New York: Interior Design on the Cutting Edge Six interior designers featured in

the museum’s “Made in New York” exhibit talk about how their field is evolving stylistically, professionally and economically. Sat, 4/28, 12:30 pm. $25; $20 students, seniors. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St., seany.org. g

Emma Lazarus’ Double Life Biographer Esther Schor discusses the Jewish-American writer’s complicated life. Sun, 4/29, 2:30 pm.

Suggested donation. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., mjhnyc.org.

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Cage, Satie and a Cheap Imitation Four operas-in-progress. Sun, 4/1, 3 pm. You Better

Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce Actors play out the roles in their parents’ real stories behind their divorces, proving how little we know about our own family members. Sat, 4/7–Sun, 5/6. See website for dates and times.

All events: $35. The Flea Theater, 41 White St., theflea.org.

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Occupy Wall Street before the march. He felt the group had the same aims but different ideas about how to achieve them.

“It’s two cultures, not two groups,” said Tong. “There’s a ladder of engagement for the 99 percent.”

The silent procession continued to the Cunard Building, across the street from the iconic Charging Bull statue.

There were speeches, poetry and prayers while, nearby, three Battery Park City Authority officials looked on: Anne Fenton, executive assistant to authority president Gayle Horwitz; Matthew Monahan, the authority’s man in charge of public information; and Tessa Huxley, executive director of the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy.

“We’re just walking around,” said Fenton, who noted that the OWS website continued to say that a demonstration was planned for the memorial.

Hall and Caliendo crossed the street to hang their wreath on the bull’s horn. A police officer swiftly removed it and handed it back to the group. Tom Kenny, an OWS supporter, immediately put it back. The officer again took the wreath away, this time depositing it in the back seat of his patrol car. Kenny followed the policeman and for a moment the peaceful nature of the event appeared to be threatened.

“He told me he couldn’t quote the law but that he knows leaving a wreath on a bull would be illegal,” Kenny said

after a brief exchange with the officer. “It shouldn’t be the NYPD’s job to take the trash away.”

“They discarded it,” explained the officer. “So I took it down.”

The incident seemed quickly forgotten as the group headed to Battery Park, where they gathered in a circle around a basket of potatoes, symbolizing Ireland and prosperity for all. With some Irish music, incense and candles, the potatoes were blessed and distributed to the group.

Then some 10 members of the group left with their basket of potatoes, having decided to head for the Hunger Memorial, which was under guard by eight policemen on scooters.

One visitor atop the memorial, who gladly took a couple of the potatoes offered him, was James Killie, a Battery Park City resident. “I should plant them here but I’d probably get arrested,” he said, adding that he had no problem with the group protesting at the monument, “as long as it’s peaceful.”

Meanwhile, the day of quiet protest over, Caliendo hugged her fellow demonstrators and spoke with satisfaction about the way it had all turned out.

“I was relieved when the other group took off,” she said of the larger, louder contingent of OWS demonstrators.

“Eventually, we’re the ones with the longevity. And in the end it didn’t matter that we didn’t get a permit.”

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Lt. David Kelly, right, and the NYPD’s planning consultant Philip Habib explain the World Trade Center traffic security plan to CB1 members.

they fear the plan will hurt businesses, hamper access to residential buildings, and mar the neighborhood’s character.

CB1 can comment on the scope of environmental impacts that are being studied, and it can weigh in again when that study is complete. But it has little say over the final plan.

“We’ve been able to show on Community Board 1 that when we have an idea and we make a lot of noise—the 9/11 terror trials are a perfect example of it—we can get things done,” Board Chair Julie Menin said. “This is the time to try and change these plans.”

The board’s resolution calls on the NYPD to examine more than a dozen areas of community impact, such as pedestrian flow, access to the memorial, and noise and air pollution. And it asks the NYPD to form an advisory committee so that the community can raise its concerns as they arise during the study.

“If we wait for publication of the final draft Environmental Impact Statement, we have no idea what they will consider,” Michael Levine, CB1’s man in charge of land use and planning, told the board. “They could ignore everything we say.”

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The Vandal Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Noah Robbins read through the play by Hamish Linklater about the stories we tell ourselves to deal with loss. Dinner with the cast included. Reservations required. Tue, 4/3, 7 pm. $275. The Flea Theater at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., theflea.org.

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Selection of upcoming stage events: Everything’s Coming Up Moses Broadway musical Passover parody, retelling the Jews’ flight from Egypt with Moses as the original pushy stage mother. Wed, 4/4, 7:30 pm. $25. Mortified Participants share real artifacts from their teen angst years, including journals, letters, poems, movies and more. Thu, 4/12, 7 pm. $20. See website for more theater. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g

The Actors Studio Drama School Presents

Fifteen productions of selected plays and scenes by well-known playwrights, directed and acted by graduating students from Pace’s MFA program.

Reservations required. To Sat, 4/28.

Wednesdays–Fridays, 8 pm; Saturdays 3 & 8 pm.

Free. See website for details. Dance New Amsterdam, 53 Chambers St., pace.edu/asdrep.

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Tribute WTC 9/11 Tours of Ground Zero.

Daily 11 am, 1, and 3 pm, Sat hourly 11 am–3 pm. $10; free under 12. Visitors Center, 120 Liberty St., tributewtc.org. g

Wall Street Walking Tour Ninety minutes.

Meet at U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green.

Thursdays and Saturdays, 12 pm. Free. Downtown Alliance, downtownny.com. g

Tours of the Financial District: History of Wall Street Wed, 4/4, 11 am. Women of Wall Street Tue, 4/17, 11 am. All tours: 90 minutes. $15, meet at the museum. $15. Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St., moaf.org. g The Financial District Meet at Broadway and Wall St., Trinity Church. Thu, 4/5 & Mon, 4/16, 1 pm. Immigrant New York Visit sites associated with various immigrants. Meet at City Hall Park, Broadway at Chambers St. Fri, 4/6, 2 pm.

Historic Lower Manhattan Meet at the U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green. Sat, 4/7, 2 pm; Wed, 4/11 & Tue, 4/24, 1 pm. All tours: $15; $12 students, seniors. New York City Walking Tours, bigonion.com. g

Tribeca: New Diversity from an Industrial Past Tour and talk on the neighborhood’s history

and transition to what it is today. Wed, 4/18, 10:30 am. Lower Manhattan Architectural

Sat, 4/21, 11 am. Great Crashes of Wall Street Real estate, political and financial history of Wall Street with a focus on the collapses in 1929, 1907 and 1987. Meet at 1 Bowling Green.

Sat, 4/28, 11 am. All tours: $25. 92YTribeca, 92ytribeca.com.

Crafted from interviews with the cast members conducted with their own parents, Tales from My Parents’ Divorce is a heartbreaking and hilarious account of the parents’ marriages and their subsequent divorces. These delicate parent-child conversations have yielded unique insights into falling in love, falling out of love, and rebuilding a life after the complex experience of dividing a family.

g A Rebellious Brew Waterfront tour on New York’s version of Boston’s Tea Party in 1774. Sat, 4/21, 11 am. $15. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Peal St., frauncestavernmuseum.org.

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Beading Demonstration Artisan shows how to make a beaded octopus bag and beaded moccasins. Tuesdays, 2 pm & Thursdays, 5 pm. Free.

Meet the Artist: Jamie Okuma Native American artisan demonstrates her traditional doll-making style, beadwork techniques and contemporary mixed-media art. Wed, 4/25–Fri, 4/27, 10 am–12 pm & 1–3 pm. Free.

Beginners’ Bead Workshop Led by an artist.

Registration required. $25. Celebrate California and the Great Basin! Native American artists from California demonstrate their crafts. Sat, 4/28, 1–5 pm. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, nmai.si.edu. g

Capoeira Mucurumim Afro-Brazilian martial art. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30 pm. $10. Park51, 51 Park Pl., park51.org.

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Trinity Knitters Knit or crochet items for shutins, veterans, and others. Yarn, needles, patterns and instruction provided. Tue, 4/3 & Thu, 4/19, 5 pm. Free. Charlotte’s Place, 109 Greenwich St., trinitywallstreet.org.

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The Memory Palace Learn to write poetry based on memories. Wednesdays, 4/11–5/16, 6 pm. $295/6 classes. The Whole Poem Workshop on how to “re-see” early drafts of a poem, how to reconsider metaphoric subtext and more.

Thursdays, 4/12–5/24, 6 pm. $295/6 classes.

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, poetshouse.org. g

Greenmarket Greens: Spring Produce

Chef prepares dishes using in-season, local produce. Mon, 4/16 & Thu, 4/26, 6:30 pm. $15. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 92ytribeca.org. g

In the Loop Knit and crochet shawls and scarves for women fighting cancer who are staying at the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge.

Fri, 4/20, 12 pm. Free. World Financial Center Winter Garden, worldfinancialcenter.com. g Book Discussion Group Talk about “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. Tue, 4/24, 6:15 pm. College Financial Aid Workshop Guidance from a financial aid counselor. Wed, 4/25, 3 pm. All events are free. BPC Library, 175 N. End Ave., nypl.org.

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Sculpture Walking Tour: Animals in Stone

History of individual buildings and the sculptures that decorate them. Meet at 1 Bowling Green.

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