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the battery park city broadsheet
January 19, 2011 - February 3, 2011
Volume 15 Number 2
NEW SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR
MAKES DOWNTOWN DEBUT
Jokes about Birth Control as Fix for
School Crowding, Compares Decisions on
Help for Schools to ‘Sophie’s Choice’
By Matthew Fenton
C
athie Black, the new schools
chancellor, was officially introduced
to Lower Manhattan parents on
January 13, at a meeting of
Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver’s
School Crowding Task Force.
During the session, Ms. Black, who
now heads the Department of
Education (DOE) listened as a succession of education leaders detailed
the crisis of capacity facing
Downtown schools. Mr. Silver
began for advocating forcefully that
Millennium High School be
allowed to expand into space at 26
Broadway (DOE is considering
relocating a high school from the
Upper East Side to this space—see
story at right), that the Spruce Street
School open a middle school as
promised (DOE is considering capping it at grade five), that the incubator space in Tweed Court House
continue as a kindergarten (DOE
wants to use it for a new charter
school), and that plans for a new
school at Peck Slip be finalized
immediately.
Community Board 1 (CB1)
chair Julie Menin traced the roots of
the current crisis to the days following the terror attacks of September
11, 2001, when the revitalization of
Lower Manhattan was a top priority
for government officials. “Families
were encouraged to move into this
neighborhood,” she recalled. “Developers were given enormous
financial incentives. But there was
no planning by DOE to handle the
enormous demand for new school
seats that these policies created.”
Tricia Joyce, a CB1 member
who also serves on P.S. 234’s
Overcrowding Committee, noted
that, “there are more than 13,000
new apartments Downtown since
9/11. This is an impossible situation,
and it will not be resolved by shipping our kids to other neighborhoods,” one solution reportedly
under consideration by DOE officials. Ms. Joyce added that she
hoped Ms. Black would come up
with more creative solutions than
her predecessor, Joel Klein.
Tom Moore, co-president of the
P.T.A. at Millennium High School
described how students there are
forced to take classes in the hallways.
Ms. Black, who listened more
than she spoke at the meeting,
responded that parents in every one
of the 28 schools she has visited since
taking over at DOE are just as passionate about their communities and
their children. She described the
painful decisions necessary to allocate scarce resources to some of these
communities and not others as akin
to “Sophie’s Choice,” a reference to
the novel and film in which a mother is forced to decide which of her
children will die in a concentration
camp.
When Eric Greenleaf, who
serves on P.S. 234’s Overcrowding
Committee, cited statistics showing
that Downtown schools will be short
as many as 1,000 seats in a few years,
based on a 46 percent increase in
Lower Manhattan birth rates
between 2005 and 2009, Ms. Black
jokingly responded, “could we just
have some birth control? It would
help a lot.” Some of the community
leaders present later said they found
the remark offensive, and Ms. Black
called Ms. Menin a few days later to
apologize.
WHOSE SPACE
IS IT ANYWAY?
DOWNTOWN PARENTS
WANT EXTRA SPACE
AT 26 BROADWAY FOR
MILLENNIUM EXPANSION,
NOT UPTOWN SCHOOL
RELOCATION
CONNIE
FISHMAN
LEAVES HRPT
Park Trust
President, who
Presided Over Era
of Development,
Departs for YMCA
By Matthew Fenton
By Dianne Renzulli
I
mpassioned parents, faculty and
students of Richard R. Green High
School of Teaching on East 88th
Street turned out in force in January
for a Department of Education
(DOE) hearing on that school’s proposed move downtown to 26
Broadway. Their enthusiasm was
countered by a smaller contingent of
Downtown residents, who joined
New York State Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver’s representative, parents from Millennium High School
(MHS) and representatives from the
two schools that currently share the
space—all of whom emphatically
oppose the DOE’s proposal, and
want the space used for an expansion of MHS instead.
At present, 26 Broadway is
shared between two schools that
moved to the space in 2010: the
Urban Assembly School of Business
for Young Women, which moved last
year from the East Village, and the
Lower Manhattan Community
Middle School (formerly Greenwich
Village Middle School). An incoming high school would share common facilities with these two
schools, such as the auditorium,
lunch room and gymnasium, and
roughly double its current occupancy to between 1,265 and 1,350 students in the 2011-2012 school year.
Advocates of the DOE’s
Richard R. Green proposal spoke
about the need for space. Dakwan
Benson, a junior at Richard R.
Green, said “I want to talk about
narrow hallways. We need a bigger
space because everybody is bumping
into people two or
three times, and
every time we open
lockers we bump
into each other and
people fall down.”
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onnie Fishman, the Hudson
river Park Trust (HRPT) president
who guided development of the west
side waterfront’s signature recreation and greenspace for seven years
is leaving to oversee real estate for
the YMCA of Greater New York.
Ms. Fishman presided over the completion of some 80 percent of the
panned, five-mile park, which
stretches from 59th Street to Battery
Park. In 2010 alone, the HRPT
unveiled two long-awaited sections
of the park, in Tribeca (where Pier
25 opened to much fanfare last fall,
with a new playground, turf athletic
field, skate park, and miniature golf
course) and in Tribeca.
Bob Townley, who worked
closely with Ms. Fishman as chair of
the HRPT’s Community Advisory
Council, chair of Community Board
1’s Waterfront Committee, and executive director of Manhattan Youth
(which was designated this year by
the HRPT to manage Pier 25) told
the Broadsheet, “she has been a very
skilled leader who successfully
brought the park a long way during
difficult times. I give her tenure a big
thumbs up. I’m sorry to see her go,
and she will be missed, but I’m
delighted that she’s going to an
organization like the YMCA.”
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tan High School superintendent, the
Upper East Side school is at 149 percent of capacity in an elementary
school space that would be more
appropriate for to the overcrowded
P.S. 151.
In addition, advocates want to
see their students recognized for
their accomplishments, inspired by
the professional atmosphere of
Downtown, and groomed as teachers of tomorrow’s children. David
Raubvogel, principal of Richard R.
Green, said after the hearing that his
600 students can benefit from being
continued on page 3
PAIN IN
THE GRASS
SCHOOL FIELDS TASK
FORCE SEEKS MORE
PLAYING SPACE FOR
YOUTH SPORTS
DOWNTOWN
By Dianne Renzulli
T
he School Fields Task Force of
Community Board 1 (CB1) is planning to help local organizations
maximize the use of Downtown’s
green fields and indoor spaces for
youth sports. After-school recreation
is currently offered through schoolaffiliated programs, parent-run
leagues, and a wide array of other
organizations. All of these utilize
spaces variously overseen by the
Battery Park City Authority, Hudson
River Park Trust, the New York City
Parks Department, and New York
City Board of Education. This move
comes against a backdrop of higher
demand for youth sports from a burgeoning school-age population that
is itself on the rise. The number of
children entering Rookie Ball alone
is projected to more than double in
the next few years, from 120 in 2010
to 280 by 2014.
“We’re going to have a conversation with some of the providers to
find more efficiency in the space and
find more capital projects for field
use,” said said Mark Costello, chair
of the Task Force, which is part of
CB1’s Youth and Education Committee. “There are four or five
organizations—Manhattan Youth,
Pier 40, Downtown Little League,
Soccer League and Youth Football
Giants, and after-school programs at
M.A.T., PS 234, PS 89 and IS 289—
that serve an enormous footprint of
kids.” He added that, “the schools
are growing and so these needs are
growing. These are no longer
leagues that can accept every kid. We
had to stop accepting five year-olds
this year just because of space. Four
years ago, Downtown Little League
was the smallest little league in the
city and now it’s the largest. We had
1,000 kids in Little League and 1,200
in soccer this year.”
The committee applauded the
conversion of Battery Park City’s
ball fields to year-round, artificial
turf for summer 2011 and the
November 2010
opening of Pier 25
with a small active
recreation space,
also surfaced with
artificial turf. In
addition,
they
plan to include
DOWNTOWN
HOSPITAL
EXPANDS
SERVICES
New Wellness
Center, Surgical
Suites, and MRI
Unit, Plus Nursery
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facilities
By Dianne Renzulli
N
ew York Downtown Hospital
is debuting additional services this
year, the most significant of which is
a new adult Wellness Center that
opened in late-January. The Wellness Center will offer at a single
location both comprehensive women’s health services and preventive
medicine, cardiovascular and endocrinology services (among them
treatment for diabetes, thyroid disease and bone health) for all
patients. Chief Medical Officer Warren Licht, who came to the hospital
sixteen years ago from the WeillCornell Medical Center, describes it
as a unique opportunity in Lower
Manhattan—a place where a patient
can get all his or her health needs
met in one geographic location with
seamless access to ancillary tests.
A concierge will greet patients
entering the Wellness Center with a
log of all incoming appointments
and then usher the patient either to
Women’s Health Services (breast
health, OB/GYN and urogynecology) or toward the The Moody’s
Foundation Preventive Medicine
side. “We want this to be a serene
environment so that you can see
your physician in a stress-free setting,” explained Dr. Licht, who is
also an internist and the head of the
Preventive and Travel Medicine
Department that will now become
part of the Wellness Center. “It’s
about establishing a relationship
with your physician, not just going
in for a procedure.”
Each specialty in the Center
has been chosen because of its overlap with the other disciplines. In
addition, the Wellness Center is
located near the first-floor radiology
department, where many non-invasive ancillary tests will be performed.
Lower Manhattan organizations have contributed substantially
to the Center, whose total construction cost was $7 million. The
Moody’s Foundation donated funds
for the cardiovascular portion on the
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An indoor version of the acclaimed
Imagination Playground that
opened last summer on Burling Slip
is coming to Manhattan Youth’s
Community Center, on Warren
Street, in January. Conceived by
David Rockwell, the plan uses loose
parts (like crates, carts, and giant
foam blocks) to create a manipulable
environment in which children
become the authors of their own
play experience. Call the Community Center at 212-766-1104 for
more information.
The Smart Money
The Related Companies, the original builder and owner of 225 Rector
Place (once known as Parc Place,
now dubbed Rector Square) owns
the building once again. Related
sold the building to developer Yair
Levy for well over $100 million in
2007, at the top of the real estate
bubble. Mr. Levy’s company later
defaulted on its mortgage with
Anglo Irish Bank, which took over
the property in foreclosure. Related
took the building off the bank’s
hands in January for $82 million, or
an average of roughly $350,000 for
each of 232 units not sold by Mr.
Levy as condos. Related has already
filed with the State Attorney
General’s office to become the
building’s new sponsor.
Change of Address
Six small pieces of Battery Park City
history disappeared over the holidays. The buildings of Gateway
Plaza have always been known both
by their street addresses (345
through 395 South End Avenue)
and their homegrown designations
as 100 Gateway Plaza through 600
Gateway Plaza. But as of the New
Year, the “hundreds” labels have
been scraped off each lobby window,
and Gateway residents are down to
just one address each.
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Within the next few months,
the Wellness Center will have an
interactive website at www.downtownwellness.org that will allow
patients to access their on-line
patient records, schedule appointments and contact their physicians.
The records will be part of a single
electronic database shared by the
Weill-Cornell Medical Center, to
facilitate a smooth transition to that
facility for patients who require
advanced medical procedures,
beyond the diagnosis and tertiary
care that will be the primary focus at
the Wellness Center.
In addition to the Wellness
Center, New York Downtown
Hospital is planning other changes.
More than 100 former St. Vincent’s
Hospital physicians are registered at
the hospital so that they can refer
their patients for in-patient and
emergency room visits at New York
Downtown. Additionally, the entire
orthopedic department at St.
Vincent’s transferred to New York
Downtown Hospital in May, 2010.
And to accommodate the increased
need for operating rooms brought by
the addition of these physicians and
their patients, New York Downtown
Hospital has added two new surgical
suites on the third floor in the last
few months.
In other expanded services,
New York Downtown will be opening its redesigned nursery and
neonatal unit on the sixth floor on
January 28. These facilities are
located on the same floor as the
maternity ward. In 2010, the hospital delivered 2,800 babies, and that
number is expected to rise this year.
“We deliver more babies per occupied bed count than any other New
York City hospital,” said Dr. Licht.
The only service New York
Downtown expects to scale back in
2011 is the renal dialysis unit, which
the hospital opened in 1981. The
unit is closing in February, rather
than absorb the cost of building a
separate room required by new
medicare and medicaid regulations
that mandate isolation for patients
with certain chronic health conditions. In the meantime, the unit is
busy finding spaces for its 48
patients in nearby facilities. There
are more than 40 other dialysis facilities in the City, five of which are
close to Lower Manhattan, that provide similar services. The closest of
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Stuyvesant High School, began seriously studying yoga. “This made me
interested in the culture and history of India,” recalls Mr. Ryder, “so I wanted to travel there.” What began as an annual series of month-long pilgrimages—“one year I’d go to India, the next to Pakistan,” he remembers—eventually morphed into a yearly visit to Varanasi, the city on the banks of the
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Kevin Ryder in Varanasi with Alice Project students Yogi, Bachu Baba, Manish and Ashish
earn something resembling a living is to do the distasteful work of handling
corpses, gathering fuel to burn them, presiding over the funeral pyres, and
then transferring the charred remains to the nearby river.
“By the time I had been going to Varanasi for several years, I knew
about cremation and the young boys who worked the fires,” says Mr. Ryder.
“But then I saw a documentary, ‘Children of the Pyre,’ screened at the
Museum of Modern Art, and it brought me deeper into the experience. I
realized that these boys were living and working just a few minute’s walk
from where we stayed in Varanasi.”
Mr. Ryder next contacted the documentary’s director, Rajesh Jala. “We
agreed to meet in Varanasi,” he remembers, “and as we talked over the situation, I suggested we find a way to get these children into a good school. He
was completely for it—the last thing he wanted was to make a documentary
and then leave the kids. In fact, he wanted to do a follow-up documentary
to show what happens to the boys, and was in love with the idea of portraying this kind of happy ending.” As a filmmaker, however, Mr. Jala had no
way to finance an education for the children who had been the subjects of
his film.
Around the same time, Mr. Ryder made the acquaintance of a woman
staying in the same hotel, who was in Varanasi to visit a local school called
the Alice Project, where she was
sponsoring a girl from the community. As the woman related the change
in the girl’s life over several years, Mr.
Ryder recalls, “I was intrigued and
wanted to visit the school,” which is
located in the village of village of
Sarnath, just outside of Varanasi.
The Alice Project, named for
“Alice in Wonderland,” was founded
by Italian educator and social activist
Valentino Giacomin. “He’s a follower of the Dalai Lama,” explains Mr.
Ryder. “In a private audience with the
Dalai Lama, His Holiness asked
Valentino create a school in India.” In
1994, the Alice Project was the result.
Almost two decades later, the
school is certified up to college level
and—in addition to its normal academic project—teaches students
yoga and meditation from the time
they start school. Today, it hosts some
900 children (both boys and girls),
about 100 of whom board there. “They are
mostly kids from the countryside surrounding Sarnath,” Mr. Ryder says, “plus
poor students and orphans from around
northeastern India, who board there.” He
notes that the Dalai Lama has visited the
school twice, and laid the cornerstone for
latest addition, in 2006.
Captivated, Mr. Ryder began raising money to send more poor children
to the school. He calls his project Kashi Kids. “Kashi is the traditional name
for Varanasi,” he explains. “It costs about 3,000 rupees per month for students who board, which comes to about $70 per month to cover, room,
board, tuition, books, and uniform.”
But funding tuition for a Dalit boy doesn’t compensate his family for
the money that child would otherwise bring home from burning bodies. “So
we give the kids a supplement of one dollar per day, to help support their
families,” he says.
“It’s amazing how resilient these kids are,” Mr. Ryder marvels. “We had
the first group psychologically tested at the beginning of their stay with the
Alice Project, and then had them retested after one year. They are all doing
much better.” He notes, for example, that drawings they made at beginning
were lifeless and dark, “now are now full of life and hope, with trees that are
blossoming and people who are rooted in context instead of floating in
space.”
When impoverished children are first brought into the Alice Project,
“we arrange for private classes to bring them up to speed,” Mr. Ryder notes,
“but they are quickly integrated into the mainstream.” He adds that, “children who had been forced to function as miniature adults, with complete
autonomy, are now functioning as children and thriving.”
“Making the transition to limits and accountability is a big adjustment
for them” he admits, “but these kids had no previous experience with education and were never going to attend school at all without intervention like
this.” He notes that, “when we took the parents of the first group to visit the
school, they burst into tears.”
“The more funding we can get,” he says, “the closer we come to
expanding this opportunity to the entire Dalit community of Varanasi.” The
next phase in the project is to create a satellite school in Varanasi itself for
the sisters of the Kashi boys. “Parents have little interest in educating girls
because they are seen as a liability to begin with: the dowries they have to
pay to marry them off are huge,” Mr. Ryder explains.
But, he counters, “we convinced the parents, cold as it may sounds, that
they could turn girls into an asset with the dollar-a-day supplement we pay,
and then make the case that their daughters might be worth more as educated brides, meaning the girls would eventually have more leverage in dowry
negotiations.”
Thus far, Kashi Kids, funded by Mr. and Mrs. Ryder’s family and
friends, has sent seven boys to become Alice Project students. “Our next goal
is to sponsor the rest of the kids from these seven families for upcoming academic year,” he says. “After that, we’re hoping to expand this to the wider
Untouchable community in Varanasi of about 300 children.”
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“This is not a magic bullet,” he acknowledges, “but it makes a direct,
profound difference in the individual lives of these children.”
Mr. Ryder will be travelling to Varanasi again in February. Anybody
wishing to help sponsor more children at the Alice Project by contributing
to Kashi Kids, or just seeking more information, should contact Mr. Ryder
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will visit this fascinating and dynamic school one day and witness the profound difference their donations have made.”
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FIGHT OVER SCHOOL
SPACE AT 26 B’WAY
Downtown because “it will give
them a hands-on look at what it
means to be successful.”
Moreover, principal Raubvogel
stressed that although their attendance, college placement and suspension numbers are outperformed
by MHS, they deserve to be
Downtown: “We have the same
number of Advanced Placement
classes that Millennium has. You
heard about some of the phenomenal colleges that we get into. I’ve got
four times the number of special
education kids that they do. I felt it
was fair to get a space where our kids
could finally thrive. Right now
Millennium is not on the table, this
is the proposal and it will be voted
up or down.”
While Downtown advocates
agree that Richard R. Green
deserves to move to a more appropriate space, they oppose its relocation to 26 Broadway. Community
Board 1 (CB1) voted in September
to support MHS’s expansion into
the space, because the school is
high-performing and offers admissions preference to any Downtown
student who meets their admission
criteria. Moreover, Speaker Silver’s
School Overcrowding Task Force
was instrumental in convincing the
DOE to obtain the space at 26
Broadway for Downtown use.
Tricia Joyce, who serves on
CB1, the P.S. 234 Overcrowding
Committee and Mr. Silver’s
Overcrowding Task Force said “it
was beyond upsetting to me that
once again we’re talking about how
great some kids are and how much
other kids deserve to be somewhere
because of the poor planning of this
administration. She added that the
Lower Manhattan community was
“at 30,000 residents in 2001 and
we’re at 61,000 now. We’ve had to
fight for every single school seat.
Millennium was basically started on
a dare, and with love and attention
and care and the support of the community it took off.... This school is a
long-term promise that we’ve
worked on for 10 years.”
The DOE made no reference to
the need for Downtown seats in its
arguments. Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld,
deputy press secretary for the DOE,
said after the meeting that his
agency is favoring Richard R. Green
over MHS because the latter “has a
screen on their admissions process
for high performing students. What
we know is that we have a need for
unscreened seats and that’s why we
need to focus on bringing Richard
Green to this space.”
Richard R. Green accepts 50
percent of unscreened applicants
from all over New York City. When
asked if Richard R. Green could
change its application process to
include a district preference, Mr.
Zarin-Rosenfeld said the DOE has
the mechanism to make such a
change.
Speaker Silver said in a statement that MHS is willing to modify
its expansion proposal and become a
limited, unscreened school to satisfy
the DOE’s need. He suggested that
the DOE has other options for relocating Richard R. Green High
School, such as the recently closed
Norman Thomas High school on
East 33rd Street.
The public comment period is
still open and interested residents
can call 212-374-3466 or e-mail
D02proposal@schools.nyc.gov to register their opinions. The Panel for
Education Policy will meet at the
Brooklyn Technical High School at
6 p.m. on January 19th to vote on
the proposal.
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new exhibition, Vertical Urban Factory, is now open at the Skyscraper
Museum in Battery Park City. The show presents a history of city factory
designs, from early Modernist to contemporary industrial architecture. More
than 30 projects are featured, using over 200 photographs, diagrams, drawings and nine architectural models created for the exhibit using state-of-theart computer fabrication.
In addition, a series of films incorporates historical and contemporary
footage to immerse the gallery visitor in the factory environment, including
conveyor systems and other industrial processes.
Tracing the evolution of mass-production technologies and related
social issues, the exhibition evokes the architecture of city factories from three
perspectives: Modern, Contemporary, and New York.
The Modern Factories section examines key projects of this era, with an
emphasis on functional structure and vertical organization. A case in point is
Henry Ford’s Highland Park, in Detroit (Albert Kahn, 1910), site of the first
automated assembly line, and the Lingotto Fiat factory in Turin, Italy
(Giacomo Matte-Trucco, 1922), with its renowned rooftop testing track. Also
recreated for the exhibition is Buckminster Fuller’s little-known scheme for
a vertical cotton mill, designed with students from North Carolina State
University in 1952.
The Contemporary Factories section looks at the broad spectrum of factory design today, including flexible factories, usually housed in industrial
loft spaces; sustainable factories, which demonstrate the viability of ecologi-
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CB1 SEARCHES FOR
MORE PLAY SPACE
Asphalt Green in discussions as that
group moves ahead with plans to
manage the new Battery Park City
community center, slated to open in
early 2012.
Paul Goldstein, representing
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver, supported the Task Force’s
efforts by noting that his office will
work to facilitate the Manhattan
Academy of Technology’s application for weekday afternoon permits
in the fall at Verizon/Murry
Bergtraum Field.
As well as finding field space,
Mr. Costello and the Task Force plan
to do outreach to Pace University,
the Borough of Manhattan
Community College, St. John’s
University and Claremont High
School for possible use of their
indoor gym space for other overcrowded programs. The full board
will have a chance
to vote on a resolution to support
these efforts on
January 25th.
Henry Ford’s Highland Park, site of the first automated assembly line
cal industrial systems; and a category called spectacle factories, which are
used as marketing tools, such as the Volkswagen “Transparent Factory” in
Dresden, Germany (Henn Architects).
Returning to the era when New York was America’s greatest manufacturing city, the New York section focuses on the wide range of factories con-
IT HAPPENED
structed here, from masonry workshops and concrete warehouses, to the
cast-iron loft buildings of Soho and Tribeca, and the steel-framed skyscraper
factories that published New
York’s major newspapers,
The New York Times, the
World, and the Daily News.
In a look ahead at the
impact of globalization on
transforming former industrial centers such as New
York, the show also covers
the reintegration of factories
into the urban fabric, and the
potential for new niche markets, sustainable production,
and smaller-scale processing
to adapt to a changing industrial base. Now, over a century after the first large factories began to dominate our
cities, the exhibition poses
Buckminster Fuller’s never-built idea for
the question: Can factories
a vertical cotton mill, from 1952
present sustainable solutions for future self-sufficient cities?
Guest-curator Nina Rappaport, an architectural historian, critic and
author, explains her vision for the show: “The exhibition demonstrates how
urban manufacturing presents exciting design challenges for architects and
urban designers who must tackle issues of integrated systems and programs,
providing solutions that garner environmental benefits and job opportunities. If entrepreneurs and urban planners reconsider the potential for building vertically in cities, this will in turn reinforce and reinvest in a natural
feedback loop leading to a new sustainable urban industrial paradigm.”
An annotated timeline of industry and its architecture was created for
the exhibition by MGMT Design, the art directors of the exhibition, and central to the show are sections of refurbished roller conveyors repurposed by
Studio Tractor Architects, on which photographs, drawings, and architectural models are displayed. The films were made by documentary filmmaker
Eric Breitbart.
In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum will present a series of programs, including panel discussions, gallery tours, factory tours, and film
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t’s January—time to ring out
the old and ring in the new, time
for resolutions and fresh starts.
That’s what Abraham Merchant
of Merchants Hospitality has done
with Steamers Landing, a Battery
Park City, Hudson Riverfront
restaurant. This past July, Merchants purchased Steamers Landing from Jan Fried and John
Calder, founders and operators for
22 years. Merchant tweaked the
menu, prices and décor but continued to operate the restaurant as
it was originally conceived for
through the end of 2010. But then
the old Steamers Landing closed
on January 2. The new Merchants
River House opened for dinner on
January 17, and began serving
lunch January 18.
The cuisine no longer focuses on seafood. Expect regional
American cuisine with most appetizers under $8 and entrees in the
$14 to $21 range.
New menu items include
burgers, sandwiches, Sicilian-style
pizza, herb rotisserie chicken, flatiron steak, salads and pasta. Fish
has not been banned as grilled
North Atlantic Salmon and fish &
chips make nightly appearances.
Kid-friendly fare includes mac &
cheese and chicken fingers.
In the newly redecorated
space, the venerable nautical
touches are gone. Instead, patrons
will see blue-checkered tablecloths, a copper-topped bar, new
lighting, darker woods and fresh
wallpaper.
“Steamers Landing seemed
more like a Nantucket bistro,”
says Mr. Merchant. “We’re converting it to more of an American
Bistro.”
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In the week before the Winter Garden concert described at right,
KCO music director Gary Fagin, above left, brought the show on
the road to P.S. 89 and I.S. 289. Above, bass player Jeff Carney
shows kids how easy it is to play the washtub bass.
“I’ve got plans to shape, skies to scrape!” Gary Fagin, founder and music director of
Lower Manhattan’s Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, casts an approving glance at
tenor Rinde Eckert, singing in the world premiere of “Robert Moses Astride New York”
at the Winter Garden on January 15. The excerpt from Mr. Fagin’s work in progress
was part of the Visions & Voices concert that also starred the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
singing a medley of American songs. In the final piece of the medley, Mr. Eckert joined
the children to sing James Taylor’s “Shed a
Little Light,” a tribute to Martin Luther
King, Jr. that spoke of the “ties between
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Volume 15 Number 2
40° 42.75’ N, 74° 01.06’ W
RiverWatch
Arrivals &
Departures
Cruise Ships in the Harbor
Many ships pass Battery Park City on their way to and
from the midtown passenger ship terminal. Others may
be seen on their way to or from docks in Brooklyn and
Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for
passing the Colgate Clock and are based on sighting
histories, published schedules and intuition.
they are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves,
hurricanes and the whims of upper management.
Robert Simko
A Royal Sendoff
Thursday, January 13: Under cover of darkness, the new Queen Elizabeth
slipped into Pier 88 at 6:00 a.m., next to her sister ship, Queen Victoria.
The much larger dowager, the Queen Mary 2 arrived in Brooklyn’s Red
Hook at around the same time. Later, in a dockside press conference,
George Fertitta of NYC&Co and Seth Pinsky, president of the City’s
Economic Development Corporation, welcomed Cunard’s newest Queen to
New York. At 6:30 that evening, in a sea of blue police boat lights, all three
gathered off the Battery, then sailed away under spectacular fireworks. The
predominant color seemed to Cunard’s signature shade of Orange.
Robert Simko
Calendar
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WED
19
Toddler Story Time
Story time for children ages 18 to 36 months.
Free. 10:30am. Battery Park City Library, 175
North End Avenue. 212-790-3499.
www.nypl.org
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Toddler play group for children 18 months to
3 years old. Stories, arts and crafts, music,
and free play provide an interactive and
engaging time for your child. Call for monthly
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Street. 212-748-8786. www.seany.org
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Teen Advisory Group
Make your voice heard at your library! Tell
us what's hot and what's not. Help us plan
teen programs and learn how you can volunteer! For ages 12-18. Free. 4pm. Battery Park
City Library, 175 North End Avenue. 212-7903499. www.nypl.org
Is Nuclear Power a Plausible
Long-term Option for New York
State?
New York State aims to reduce the state’s
greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from 1990
levels by the year 2050. The State Climate
Action Council has issued a Climate Action
Plan interim report that details how this goal
might be achieved. $20, $10. 6pm-8pm. New
York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade
Center. www.nyas.org
FRI
Free Friday at Seaport Museum
New York with the New York
Packet
The New York Packet Singers entertain and
delight the whole family with sea shanties
and songs of tall-ships. Come sing along!
Free. 6pm-8pm. 12 Fulton Street. 212-7488786. www.seany.org
SAT
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In the Loop
Join this knitting and crocheting club, led by
designer Ina Braun of Tante Sophie Knitting
Studio, to create garments for charitable
organizations. Free. 12pm-2pm. Winter
Garden. www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com
North of Invention: A Festival of
Canadian Poetry
Leading Canadian poets at the cutting edge of
contemporary practice address the history of
sound poetry and performance, multilingualism, activism and other topics. First day of a
two-day event. $10, $7. 2pm-7pm. Poets
House, 10 River Terrace. www.poetshouse.org
Traditional Social with the
Thunderbird Indian Singers and
Dancers
Join the Thunderbird Indian Dancers and
Singers, directed by Louis Mofsie
(Hopi/Winnebago) in an evening of traditional social dancing. Bring your family and enjoy
the festivities. Free. 7pm-10pm. National
Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling
Green. www.americanindian.si.edu
SUN
23
The Hatseller and the Monkeys
Teresa Jimbiciti (Shuar) will speak to museum
visitors (in Spanish, translation available)
about Shuar culture in the Infinity of Nations
Friday, Jan 21 Norwegian Gem
Saturday, Jan 22 Norwegian Gem
Norwegian Jewel
Sunday, Jan 23 Norwegian Jewel
Friday, Jan 28 Explorer of the Seas
Tuesday, Feb 1 Norwegian Gem
Wednesday, Feb 2 Norwegian Jewel
Thursday, Feb 6 Explorer of the Seas
OUTBOUND
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NOTES
Cruise to Nowhere
To San Juan
Cruise to Nowhere
To St. Thomas
To Labadee
To San Juan
To St. Thomas
To Labadee
~ Robert Simko
Food, Our Bodies, and
Ourselves
Harvard's Steven Shapin brings a science historian's perspective to bear on present-day
Celebrate the New Year for Trees with Play Me
a Story, the musical storytelling duo, who will
perform an interactive Tu B’Shevat story with
handmade props and costumes, magical
sounds from the forest, and original Klezmerstyle music. $10, $7, $5. 2:30pm. Museum of
Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 36 Battery Place. www.mjhnyc.org
Teresa Jimbiciti (Shuar) will speak to museum
visitors (in Spanish, translation available)
about Shuar culture in the Infinity of Nations
exhibition. Free. 10am-12pm, 1pm-3pm.
National Museum of the American Indian, One
Bowling Green. www.americanindian.si.edu
SAT
29
From Grime to Green
Explore the possibilities for greening New
York City! Kids will explore contemporary and
future factories in our "Vertical Urban
Factory" exhibition and work together to
investigate how to make future factories
healthy and sustainable. $5. 10:15am11:45am. Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery
Place. www.skyscraper.org
North of Invention: A Festival of
Canadian Poetry
Leading Canadian poets at the cutting edge of
contemporary practice address the history of
sound poetry and performance, multilingualism, activism and other topics. Second day of
a two-day event. $10, $7. 2pm-6pm. Poets
House, 10 River Terrace. www.poetshouse.org
MON
INBOUND
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strange links between neurology and behavior, this book unveils a wealth of clues into
the deepest mysteries of the human brain.
z$25, $20. 6:30pm-8pm. New York Academy
of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center.
The Transcendental Thread in
American Poetry: A Seminar
with Daniela Gioseffi
Poet and editor Daniela Gioseffi traces transcendentalist themes in American poetry, from
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to
Langston Hughes, June Jordan and Mary
Oliver. $10, $7. 2pm-4:30pm. Poets House, 10
River Terrace. www.poetshouse.org
24
Picture Book Time
Book time for children ages 3 to 5. Free. 4pm.
Battery Park City Library, 175 North End
Avenue. 212-790-3499. www.nypl.org
Robert Simko
TUE
25
Computer Café
You want extra computer time? We've got it!
Get help with schoolwork, chat with friends,
play games, or work on Teen Advisory Group's
web projects. Your computer or ours! For
ages 12-18. Free. 4pm. Battery Park City
Library, 175 North End Avenue. 212-790-3499.
www.nypl.org
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exhibition. Free. 10am-12pm, 1pm-3pm.
National Museum of the American Indian, One
Bowling Green. www.americanindian.si.edu
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3 years old. Stories, arts and crafts, music,
and free play provide an interactive and
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Street. 212-748-8786. www.seany.org
You Are What You Eat: The Long
History of Knowing about Our
Gallery Talk
with Teresa
thinking about our food, our relationship to
scientific expertise, and our place in nature.
$25, $20. 6:30pm-8pm. New York Academy of
Sciences, 7 World Trade Center. www.nyas.org
Walking Israel
Author Martin Fletcher, NBC Tel Aviv Bureau
Chief interviewed by Andrea Mitchell, NBC
News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and
host, MNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Report. In the
summer of 2008, Fletcher spent two weeks
trekking along the 110-mile coast of Israel.
$12, $10, $7. 7pm. Museum of Jewish
Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
36 Battery Place. www.mjhnyc.org
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Gallery Talk with Teresa
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Teresa Jimbiciti (Shuar) will speak to museum
visitors (in Spanish, translation available)
about Shuar culture in the Infinity of Nations
exhibition. Also 1pm to 3pm. Free. 10am12pm. National Museum of the American
Indian, One Bowling Green. www.americanindian.si.edu
Concert at One
Alexandra Le, Piano. $5 suggested donation.
1pm. Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall
Street
www.trinitywallstreet.org
Amazonian Jewelry Workshop
Teresa Jimbiciti (Shuar) will lead this workshop (in Spanish, translation available) on
the art of seed jewelry. All seeds were handpicked by Teresa in the Ecuadorian Amazon
region. Reservations required. Free. 6pm-8pm.
National Museum of the American Indian, One
Bowling Green. 212-514-3716. www.americanindian.si.edu
FRI
28
Gallery Talk with Teresa
Jimbiciti
SUN
30
The Jewish Experience in
Hungarian Cinema
First two films in a three-week-long film series
from January 30 through February 13 featuring Academy Award-winning films and other
important works. Today at 1pm see
"Confidence," the 1980 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film. 1pm. Museum of
Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 36 Battery Place. www.mjhnyc.org
WED
2
Seaport Museum New York
Gallery Tour
Tour the Seaport Museum NY exhibitions. Free
with admission ($15, $12, $10). 1pm, 2pm,
2:30pm. 12 Fulton Street. www.seany.org
THU
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The Tell-Tale Brain
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking
case studies, the eminent neurologist V. S.
Ramachandran offers unprecedented insight
into the evolution of the uniquely human
brain. His new book, The Tell-Tale Brain is a
"neuroscientist's quest for what makes us
human." V.S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard
Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work,
Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery
of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling
and extreme case studies can teach us about
normal brain function and how it evolved.
Synesthesia becomes a window into the brain
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