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Volume 19 Number 4
There Will
Be Joy in
MHS-ville
This Spring
LOWER MANHATTAN
HIGH SCHOOL SCORES
FUNDRAISING HOME RUN
FOR GIRLS’ SOFTBALL
TEAM
M
By Matthew Fenton
illennium High School, a selective public secondary school in the
Financial District that gives admissions preference to Lower Manhattan applicants, has succeeded in
record time with an unprecedented
campaign to raise funds in order to
launch a girls’ softball team this
spring. In less than three weeks, the
school has collected almost $10,000
in contributions, enough to self-fund
the team through its first season,
which begins in March. Along the
way, Millennium received a political
assist from State Senator Daniel
Squadron and financial backing from
New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital.
The saga began several months
ago, when Millennium athletic director Brian Friedman responded to
calls from female student athletes
and their parents by seeking permission to start a girls’ softball program.
Such a request goes to the Public
School Athletic League (PSAL), the
governing body for sports at public
high schools in the five boroughs of
New York City, which has formidable requirements for approving new
teams: facilities for play and practice,
a coaching staff in place, demonstrated interest from students and
support from the school’s administration.
Millennium meets all of these
prerequisites, but PSAL is also facing
a funding shortfall, which makes it almost impossible to approve new
teams, even at schools that match its
criteria. “They have a process every
year for schools to apply for new
teams,” explains coach Friedman.
“And just in the last few years they’ve
had many new requests, but no extra
budget. So our request was originally
denied, but I kept pushing.”
Coach Friedman’s determination
was borne, in part, of the fact that
Millennium is an emerging sports
powerhouse: “Our soccer and baseball teams just moved up to higher
division, and our basketball is competitive in its division,” he explains.
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PASSING THE
GAVEL
Sheldon Silver
Steps Down as
Speaker
W
By Matthew Fenton
hen a community’s patron
and defender becomes an embattled
defendant, a few words of reckoning
are in order. Sheldon Silver, who has
represented Lower Manhattan in the
New York State Assembly since
1977, and has been that body’s
Speaker since 1994, stepped down
from his leadership post as of February 2.
His tenure in the Assembly has
thus far spanned the administrations
of six governors, from both parties.
But from the day Mr. Silver became
Speaker 21 years ago, he was the un-
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By Matthew Fenton
questioned most powerful Democratic Party politician in New York
State. This was, in part, a matter of
longevity: During Mr. Silver’s years at
the helm of the Assembly, Mario
Cuomo, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer,
and David Paterson came and went,
but nothing that any governor of either party wanted got done without
Mr. Silver’s consent. (The same was
true for Andrew Cuomo, until Mr.
Silver’s resignation from the Speakership.)
This translated into enormous
benefits for his constituency, which
consists (roughly) of Lower Manhattan up to Vesey Street on the West
Side and as far north as Houston
Street on the East Side.
“He helped get five new schools
built, saved a sixth, built us a community center, saved another community center, and got many, many
other things this community desperately needed,” observes Paul Hovitz,
co-chair of the Youth and Education
Committee of Community Board 1
(CB1), who has known Mr. Silver for
22 years.
“He was indispensable in getting
P.S. 89/I.S. 289 built in Battery Park
ower Manhattan may be in danger of becoming the poor stepchild
of New York City disaster and resiliency planning. Out of $4.21 billion in federal Community Development Block Grants for Disaster
Relief (CDBG-DR) awarded to the
City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy,
only some $10 million (or less than
one-quarter of one percent) has been
allocated within the borders of Community Board 1, roughly the area
below a jagged line formed by Canal
Street on the West Side and the
Brooklyn Bridge on the East Side.
More recently, the City's Economic Development Corporation
(EDC) announced a “Neighborhood
Game Changer Investment Competition” for ideas to foster economic
growth in the five areas of the City
that were most severely affected by
Hurricane Sandy. When it announced
the competition, in June, 2013, the
EDC said, “it is expected that each
of the five impacted areas will be
awarded up to $18 million in Community Development Block Grants
for Disaster Relief, and more than
one award also may be made in each
area.” But when the results were
made public, Lower Manhattan received no awards and no funds.
In October, the City received its
third allocation of $994,056,000 of
CDBG-DR funding from the federal
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. The de Blasio administration released its plans for this
money (with no significant allocation
for Lower Manhattan) on December
19, and scheduled a hearing about
those plans for January 15. As CB1
chair Catherine McVay Hughes testified at the hearing, this schedule allowed only, “a short time for
preparation by those wishing to comment, especially considering the two
major holidays during this time.” Ms.
McVay Hughes also said that community leaders were, “disappointed
to learn that there was no opportunity for public comment at this, or
any previous public hearing on the
Proposed Action Plan,” because
“this is a critically important part of
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Winter Wanderings
NEWS &
COMMENT
Elected Officials
Lobby BPCA to Preserve Community
Programming at
North Cove
F
Help Design the Skyline
When is the last time a developer
asked the community what features
should be included in a new tower?
Trinity Church is redeveloping its
building at 74 Trinity Place, and is
inviting stakeholders (including local
residents) to participate in a series of
discussions about the vision for the
new structure. The first of these will
be held on Saturday (February 28) at
St. Paul’s Chapel (209 Broadway, at
By Matthew Fenton
ive elected officials representing
Lower Manhattan are lobbying the
Battery Park City Authority (BPCA)
to preserve at North Cove Marina
“community-based programming, including educational opportunities for
children and teenagers, that is accessible at every income level.”
This concern arises from the
BPCA’s decision in January to award
the contract to operate North Cove
Marina (which is legally mapped as
parkland) for the next ten years to
Brookfield Properties. That company, which owns the giant Brookfield Place retail and office complex
(located directly adjacent to North
Cove) has no experience operating
marinas, a deficit that it addressed by
making International Global Yachting (IGY), an operator of luxury anchorages for super yachts, a
subcontractor on its bid.
The BPCA chose Brookfield and
IGY over local resident and small
businessman Michael Fortenbaugh,
who has operated North Cove for
the past decade and was bidding for
the new contract. During his tenure
at the marina, Mr. Fortenbaugh created highly regarded public programs, such as a sailing school and
summer sailing camps for children
and teenagers, while also building a
widely lauded record of community
service, leadership, and activism.
The January 29 letter to BPCA
chairman Dennis Mehiel from State
Senator Daniel Squadron, U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Manhattan
Borough President Gale A. Brewer,
Assembly member Sheldon Silver,
and City Council member Margaret
S. Chin, says, “as we have communicated repeatedly, this communitybased programming is absolutely
essential at North Cove.”
The letter then goes on to cite
the programs created by Mr. Fortenbaugh as a model for what they expect to see the new operators offer:
“It is our understanding that the
Manhattan Sailing School offered a
number of popular public amenities,
including: junior sailing programs
with scholarships; communal sailing
allowing amateur sailors to board
vessels being operated by more experienced sailors; community access to
the Honorable William Wall—a twostory waterborne clubhouse; and
membership in a sailing club of
which many community members
took advantage. It is imperative that
these programs and level of accessibility be maintained by the new Ma-
“By March, the worst of the winter would be
over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin
to run and the world would wake into itself
again.”
—Neil Gaiman
Titular Tiff: Lingering at the Lower Manhattan site where George Washington began his first
term as president (Federal Hall, above), we contemplated the origin of the term, “Mr. President.” Soon after taking office, Washington presided over a debate about how he should be
addressed. The Constitutional Convention had considered, “Serene Highness,” “Elective
Highness,” and “Elective Majesty.” Washington’s vice president, John Adams, proposed, “His
Benign Highness” and “His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of
Their Liberties.” Adams’s rivals in the Senate responded by dubbing Adams “His Rotundity”
and “His Superfluous Excellency.” Washington (who secretly preferred being called, “the
General”) remained characteristically silent throughout, and in the end, the House of Representatives (which appears to have found the whole controversy slightly ridiculous) settled the
matter by deciding on the simple-but-elegant, “Mr. President.”
the corner of Vesey Street), from
10am to 4pm. The session will be
hosted by the Rev. Dr., William
Lupfer, Trinity’s new rector, and will
include architects from Pelli Clarke
Pelli, the project’s designers. For
more information (or to R.S.V.P. for
the February 28 session), please call
212-602-0736.
Small Is Beautiful
Ebb and Floe: The post-modern Rorschach Test above might be a greatly enlarged image of
a microscopic dust mite, a miniscule manatee or an artist’s rendering of what Governors Island will look like come the next Ice Age, or any other harbinger of unpleasantness that
neurotic New Yorkers choose to discern in the ephemeral ice of the Hudson River. Scientists
call this cognitive bias “pareidolia,” and it is as universal as recognizing the man in the
moon or seeing the face of Satan in photos of smoke from the burning World Trade Center
on September 11, 2001. A sturdier form of speculation, we thought, is the provenance of the
ice itself, which was likely born weeks ago along the upper reaches of what Henry Hudson
called “the North River,” then broke free and began its slow southward migration, and is
now hours from the open sea, where it is fated to deliquesce and disappear.
The Battery Park City Chamber, an
alliance of local small business owners, will be holding a meet-and-greet
cocktail hour at the Palm Tribeca
Restaurant (206 West Street, on the
corner of Warren Street) on Wednesday (March 4), starting at 7pm.
Conservancy Survey
The Battery Park City Parks Conservancy is asking for your guidance
about programming and events, as it
makes decisions for the coming year.
To make your voice heard, please
browse bpcparks.org/updates/parks-programming-survey/ and answer a few online questions about what you’d like
to see in the parks in 2015.
Different Pier, Same Date
The name “Valentine” comes from the Latin root “valens,” meaning “worthy.” The saint for
whom the day is dedicated was often overlooked in early Christian history, but gained a followed later, especially when England’s Henry VIII (that most romantic of uxoricides) ordered
that February 14 be observed as a holiday. Today, Americans spend an estimated $13.9 billion celebrating Valentine’s Day, and conceive and estimated 11,000 babies, which (surprisingly) makes the occasion roughly the 236th most popular date to impregnate.
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Summer Fun at
Prep
Léman Manhattan
The Art on Paper fair, originally
slated for Pier 26 in Tribeca, has been
relocated to Pier 36 (along the East
River waterfront, near Montgomery
Street), but will run as originally
scheduled, from March 5 to 8
(Thursday through Sunday). The fair
will exhibit work from more than 70
galleries, with all pieces in some way
comprised of (or inspired by) paper.
Among the artists whose work will
be on display are Wayne White, Mia
Pearlman, William Beckman, Michael
Scoggins, and Dave Eggers.
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LOWER MANHATTAN LOOKS BACK ON THE TENURE OF SHELDON SILVER
City in 1997,” recalls Mr. Hovitz. Then, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, “he helped raise $17 million in capital funds from corporate
donors to open Millennium High School in the Financial District. This was a
moment when the eyes of the nation and the world were on Lower Manhattan, and it was the first time that a community has raised this kind of money
to open a new school.”
A few years later, Mr. Hovitz remembers, “the developers of a new building near the Brooklyn Bridge had an agreement with Pace University, which
wanted to lease space there. But when Pace backed out, Shelly moved in, and
persuaded the Department of Education to take the space for a new school,
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which became Spruce Street.” Around the same time, Mr. Silver helped broker
a deal to take over a vacant site in Battery Park City (which the Pataki administration had earmarked for a Women’s Museum) for yet another new school,
which became P.S./I.S. 276.
More recently, Mr. Silver was instrumental in negotiating an agreement
between the federal government and the City’s Department of Education
(DOE) to take over the building that once housed the Peck Slip post office,
and convert it into a new school, as well. (The Peck Slip School is now slated
to open in September of this year.) And last year, Mr. Silver led a fight to stop
a DOE plan to move the highly regarded Tribeca school, P.S. 150, out of the
neighborhood.
“He helped build the Downtown Community Center,” says Bob Townley,
executive director of Manhattan Youth, which is headquartered in the Warren
Street facility that opened in 2008. (Last year, Mr. Silver also intervened to
stop a Battery Park City Authority plan to close another community center,
this one located in Stuyvesant High School.) “Shelly also built ballfields, parks,
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and hospitals,” Mr. Townley continues. “After September 11, he directed the
recovery of Lower Manhattan, securing grants for tenants and benefits for
homeowners, along with a thousand other things, large and small. I remember
in the days after September 11, Shelly got permission for Manhattan Youth
vans to pass through police check points and drive over the Battery Park City
Esplanade, so we could transport people to grocery stores.”
“After September 11,” adds Mr. Hovitz, “Shelly arranged for water and
food to be brought into Lower Manhattan, and then got portable electrical
generators trucked in. And he did the same things all over again after Hurricane Sandy.”
“He was a leader on affordable housing,” recalls Tom Goodkind, a Battery
Park City resident and member of CB1, who has been a principal advocate
in the struggle to preserve rent protections in Lower Manhattan. Three times,
in 1998, 2005, and 2009, Mr. Silver took part in negotiations that created (and
subsequently preserved) a form of rent protection for tenants in Gateway
Plaza, Battery Park City’s largest residential complex.
“In addition to the big issues, there were so many smaller things that it’s
easy to forget,” says Mr.
Hovitz. “Shelly singlehandedly stopped the
Bloomberg plan for
congestion
pricing,
which would have required Lower Manhattan residents to pay a
toll every time they
drove into or out of
their neighborhood,
and would have been a
disaster for everybody
who lives here. He
arranged for crossing
guards at dangerous intersections on West Street. He made grants to keep the
senior center at Southbridge Towers operating.”
“Downtown had one of the most powerful people in the State representing us,” Mr. Goodkind reflects. “For this, Sheldon Silver will be greatly missed.
For this, he will not be forgotten.”
“Downtown may never have another leader as helpful as Shelly Silver,”
says Mr. Townley. “He has a legacy that cannot be disputed.”
“The future of Lower Manhattan is going to be very different without
him as Speaker,” says Mr. Hovitz. “Losing Sheldon Silver is going to be a
body blow to this community.”
THERE WILL BE JOY IN MILLENNIUMVILLE, THIS SPRING...
“When I asked PSAL why we were turned part of our mission in Lower Manhattan,” explains Friedman. “So our work isn’t done, yet. But this is
down,” recalls coach Friedman, “they answered Michael Fosina, senior vice president and chief op- a great start. Getting what everybody wanted and
that it was about money.” At this point, Millen- erating officer at New York-Presbyterian/Lower making it happen by everybody having a hand in
nium parents turned to State Senator Daniel Manhattan. “After reading about Millennium High the process has been the best of all possible outSquadron, who intervened with PSAL. Although School’s fundraiser to launch a softball team, we comes. This makes all of us want to work hard,
it was not possible for the organization to allocate thought it was a great opportunity to help these because it shows that something incredible can
scarce funds to a new team at Millennium, Senator young people stay active and have fun. We wish happen if you really believe in it. This makes us all
Squadron persuaded PSAL to include a new team them luck in their first season!”
feel like we can get anything done here.”
if the Millennium school community could fund it
Senator Squadron says, “I’m thrilled to hear
In many ways, a girls’ softball program is a natthemselves.
ural for Millennium. The school is located
“They said self-funding was unprecein a neighborhood that is a hotbed of girls’
dented,” says coach Friedman, “but they
baseball talent: In 2014, two girls’ softball
would look into it. Then, they came back
squads field by Downtown Little League
and said they would approve it if we could
captured the State Champion titles in their
raise the money. PSAL wanted to see this
respective divisions. (Many of the girls
happen, but they didn’t have the refrom both teams are students at the
sources. So we had to make up that gap
school.) Millennium’s student population is
on our own.”
also 60 percent girls, and the school has
Millennium parents began soliciting
made an explicit goal of bringing itself into
contributions during the last week in Jancompliance with federal Title IX rules,
uary, through a webpage at crowdfunding
which mandate equality of opportunity in
portal GoFundMe.com. “The total cost for
girls’ sports.
a three-year program is a little more than
“We’re not Title IX-compliant right
$36,000,” explains coach Friedman. “The
now, because we have more opportunities
good news was that we didn’t need that
for boys than girls,” explains coach Friedmuch right away.” PSAL has agreed to
man. “For example, we currently have a
allow Millennium to launch its girls’ soft- Leading Ladies: The Millennium High School girls’ basketball team, the Lady boys baseball team, but no softball for girls.
Phoenixes (above), will soon be joined by a girls’ softball team, thanks to
ball program with just the money needed
And we wanted to fix that.” He notes that
financial support from New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital,
for the first season, which comes to about
having a girls’ softball team will bring Miland political backing from State Senator Daniel Squadron
$9,800. “The bad news was that we
lennium into compliance with one threshneeded the money for the first season almost im- that the young women of Millennium will have the old of the Title IX requirements: “We will then
mediately, because practice starts on March 1, and opportunity to step up to the plate, and I’ll be root- have an equal number of teams for both genders,”
games begin in April, which means that PSAL had ing for them. Now, going forward, we need to he explains. (Currently, Millennium fields girls’
to start figuring out schedules just a few days after make sure they can field a team every season. I’ll teams in fencing, swimming, volleyball, basketball,
we began raising money.”
keep working with Millennium’s administration, cross country, and table tennis.) “Add softball to
The Millennium community committed more parents, students, and the PSAL to make sure a our lineup will make us one of the few high
than half of the funds needed in less than a week. team is on the field for years to come.”
schools in New York City that offers the same
But even that display of generosity meant that
“We will have to raise another $26,000 to get number of opportunities to male and
Coach Friedman still had to raise $5,000 in a matter us through seasons two and three,” says coach female athletes.”
of days. It was at this point that New York-PresIT HAPPENED
byterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital stepped in.
After reading published reports about the school’s
campaign, the facility decided to contribute the remaining $5,000 to fund the first season.
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Theatre Vérité
NEW MUSICAL PREMIERES IN FINANCIAL DISTRICT’S
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By Matthew Fenton
ne Day,” a powerful new musical about the complicated lives of young people, will open the interaction with abusive peers is based on a reality that I lived with on a daily basis for years.
Thursday at Lower Manhattan’s 3-Legged Dog (3LD) Art and Technology Center. “It’s about all One of the ways I got through it was feeling horrible for these kids who were doing this to me,
the issues facing teenagers today, from bullying to drug abuse to sexual awakening,” says Michael because there was no way they could have been happy. I remember thinking that nobody that
cruel can possibly be enjoying life.” The empathy that Mr. Sottile brings to the song in this scene,
Sottile, who wrote the score and book for “One Day,” as well as co-directing.
“Growing Dimmer,” and the characters who populate it,
Mr. Sottile’s approach to writing “One Day” was factsuffuses the entire show.
based, rather than the product of his imagination. “All of
“We don’t offer answers,” he explains, “because raising
the stories are drawn between 300 and 400 diaries and jourthe questions is more important. But even when the show
nals, written by real teenagers, that I gathered over the last
moves in a dark direction, it never lets go of the light, and
decade,” he recalls. Some of these journals were submitted
always comes out hopeful on the other side.”
to him online, while “others came to me after I went to
The format of the production takes full advantage of
schools and asked guidance counselors to request students
technical capabilities at 3LD, which was consciously deto supply me with things they had written about their lives,
signed as a multimedia performance space. This is a sharp
along with permission to use the material, anonymously.”
contrast to more traditional theaters, which, for example,
This approach in some ways mirrors that of “A Chorus
require retrofitting for video screens. At 3LD, this translates
Line,” the classic 1970s musical that drew inspiration from
into the opportunity for online posts written by the charthe tape-recorded life stories of dozens of real-life Broadacters appearing on screens alongside as the stage as they
way dancers. But in the case of “One Day,” the material is
are typed. “We use social media as both a theme and a
deeper, and sometimes darker. “This is not a storybook muprism to capture all the complexity and nuance of the lives
sical,” Mr. Sottile observes, “but a collage of moments in
of teenagers,” notes Mr. Sottile.
multiple lives. It’s more like a conversation than a narrative.”
Swing Kids: Marcos Ramos leads the cast of “One Day,” with book and music with
“One Day,” which has been in previews at 3LD since
“The themes are universal, even when the situations are
Michael Sottile (who also co-directed), now at 3-Legged Dog
February 7, will continue its pre-opening run through
not,” he reflects. “For example, in a passage that looks at sexWednesday (Fabulary 18), then formally premiere on Thursual abuse, even people like me, who have not been victims,
can relate to the dilemma of a naive individual seeking love, but finding the wrong kind, with the day (February 19), beginning a limited engagement that is slated to continue through March 1.
“3LD is on the approach path to Broadway,” says Mr. Sottile, “and there are a number of possiwrong person.”
But while some vignettes spring from a process that is equal parts investigative and inventive, bilities for where the show could go next. But I’m hoping it stays here in New York for a while.”
3LD is located at 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Greenwich Streets). Performances
others are more purely autobiographical. “Most of the journals I used had passages about bullying,” reflects Mr. Sottile, “but about three quarters of the scene focused on this theme come from of “One Day” are scheduled for 7:00 pm on Mondays, and 8:00 pm on Wednesday through Sunmy life, growing up in West Hartford, Connecticut. I used it as a jumping off point material from day, along with matinees (at 3:00 pm) on Saturdays and Sundays. For more information or to purthe journal of a boy whose mother used to dress him as a girl, which didn’t happen to me. But chase tickets, browse www.OneDayTheMusical.com. To contact 3LD, please call 212-645-0374.
SHADES OF GREEN
Anchorage Argument: North Cove Marina, which is legally mapped as parkland, has
been the focus of recent controversy, as the Battery Park City Authority decided (in spite
of overwhelming opposition from the community and local elected officials) to take control
of the facility away from local resident and small businessman Michael Fortenbaugh in
order to award the contract to operate the yacht basin to Brookfield Properties, a
company with no experience in marina management, that also owns the nearby
Brookfield Place office and retail complex
rina operator.” The letter additionally notes the, “extremely strong community
interest in this issue,” which may be a reference to a campaign that included
multiple public meetings that drew hundreds of participants, a petition that
garnered more than 2,000 signatures, and a unanimous resolution from Community Board 1. The letter concludes, “we look forward to meeting with you
and your team at the earliest possible convenience.”
A spokesman for the BPCA said in a statement, “we received the letter
and look forward to meeting with the group.”
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he Battery Park City Authority (BPCA)
plans to resurface of 14,000-square-foot grass
lawn with artificial turf, to enable year-around
play. The field, in West Thames Park (between
Albany and West Thames Street, near the Rector Place pedestrian bridge), “gets a lot of use,
unorganized play,” said Authority president
Shari Hyman at the January 22 meeting of the
BPCA’s board. “We don’t issue permits there,
but many small children play soccer and t-ball,
so the wear and tear on grass is significant.”
Ms. Hyman added, “there has been some
comment from the community that in the
southern portion of Battery Park City, there
should be an area for open play that doesn’t
have to be closed during the season when the
grass is seeded. This would be the perfect place
to do that.”
She continued, “we’re seeking the board’s
approval to allocate some moneys from the
capital budget to place artificial turf on the
West Thames Park area with the intention of
making this a year-round open space for Battery Park City residents and the public to come
and play.”
Board member Martha Gallo asked, “is the
space big enough for a ball field,” and Ms.
Hyman replied, “it is not. We do not intend,”
to issue permits for organized team sports.”
She noted, also, “we get a lot of feedback that
there’s not a lot of green space in the southern
part of Battery Park City that’s open year
round. We’re trying to respond to that community request by coming up with a space that’s a
logical place for year-round play.”
The estimated cost of the project is approximately $425,000, which BPCA management plans to allocate from the Authority’s
general infrastructure funds. “We believe that
there will be some savings that becomes associated with it after the expenditure of capital
funds in that we won’t need the constant maintenance of that park,” Ms. Hyman observed.
There will be some maintenance, but the con-
stant seeding, mowing, planting is not going to
be as much of a process.”
Although the proposal has not yet been put
out to bid, BPCA management brought it before the Authority’s board in hope of expediting the project. “What we’re trying to do by
putting this on the agenda now is see if we can
logically get it done by mid-spring so that it can
then be enjoyed all year round,” Ms. Hyman explained.
BPCA chair Dennis Mehiel noted that the
expected savings in maintenance, “will be about
$70,000 a year. When we get into six-year paybacks, in the private sector, we don’t normally
get too excited about that. But in this case, our
cost of capital is about $8,000 on the $450,000
budget, we can pick up $70,000 in savings, so
we get an instant, very, very positive impact on
cash-flow on a current basis.”
“And once the $450,000 is earned back,”
Mr. Mehiel added, “we’re going to save a reasonable amount of money going forward and
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Ms. Gallo, the only member of the BPCA
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“as a resident of the south neighborhood, it
seems like a good idea.”
Board member Donald Capoccia asked
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy chief
Tessa Huxley, “am I right that this is going to
ease the Conservancy’s work load?” Ms. Huxley
replied, “I don’t think it’s clear until we see how
many dog walkers use it. We have a real dog
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the review process.”
Ms. McVay Hughes added that, “Lower Manhattan is in desperate need of immediate resiliency and hardening measures.
Existing plans for such measures, such as the Lower Manhattan
Multi-Purpose Levee, are long-term projects that will not effectively protect Lower Manhattan for several decades.” She noted
that even the small amount of money (approximately $1.5 million) allocated to study proposed resiliency measures within CB1
is for an area of the East River waterfront that, “does not include the tip of Lower Manhattan nor any portion along the
Hudson River. We support the allocation of funding for this feasibility study, but we request that the study be expanded to cover
the entire coastline of CB1, including the Battery and the West
side up to Canal Street.”
Ms. McVay Hughes has been joined by a phalanx of Lower
Manhattan leaders in fighting to redress this imbalance. The
group, which includes State Senator Daniel Squadron, City
Council member Margaret Chin, and Downtown Alliance president Jessica Lappin met February 6 at City Hall with de Blasio
Administration officials.
“We are clearly one of the neighborhoods that was hardest
hit and we should be right up there when it comes to both shortterm and long-term planning and implementation,” Ms. Lappin
says. “So I raised a little bit of a fuss.”
“The goal is two-fold,” Ms. Lappin observes. “First to determine can we do in the short term, three to five years, to protect us from another massive storm. And second, longer term,
in the ten-to-20 year range, to ask what are we doing in a bigpicture fashion to protect Lower Manhattan.”
Ms. Lappin adds, “this is critical not only because we're the
fourth-largest central business district in the nation, but also because of the infrastructure we have here. The subway lines all
come together in Lower Manhattan, Verizon is headquartered
here, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is here. So anything that happens here affects the whole City.”
Senator Squadron says, “I've been pushing, along with my
colleagues, the Community Board, and the Downtown Alliance,
to make sure Lower Manhattan gets the resiliency funding it
needs. Our continued conversations with the City, including last
week's meeting, are part of moving that forward. There's no
question that Hurricanes Sandy and Irene showed that Lower
Manhattan is one of the most vulnerable parts of the City, even
though it lies in the center of the harbor. That's why this effort
West Street, as seen looking north from the Rector Place
pedestrian bridge, during Hurricane Sandy
with the City, my colleagues and the Downtown Alliance is so
important.”
City Council member Margaret Chin says, “alongside my
local elected colleagues, I've made it clear to the de Blasio administration that the safety and security of our growing Lower
Manhattan community requires a strong focus on storm resiliency, so our residents and businesses can be prepared for another Hurricane Sandy. By meeting directly with the Mayor's
staff, we sent an even stronger message to the administration regarding the fundamental importance of this issue.”
“It is almost two years, dozens of meetings and presentations later, and it is time to move from words to implementation
of real solutions to protect Lower Manhattan from extreme climate change events,” says Ms. McVay Hughes. “The City's commitment at this junction will be judged on how much money
they plan to invest and how quickly. Extreme weather events do
not wait for a City budget allocation -- Mother Nature has her
own timetable.”
Among the concerns raised by this group are the possibility
that some storm-readiness measures underway elsewhere in
Manhattan may have the unintended affect of increasing the
danger to Downtown. “It is especially important to study how
partially implemented resiliency measures, such as Phase 1 of
the 'BIG U' proposal,” says Ms. McVay Hughes, in reference to
a project that would create a storm barrier to deflect East River
flood waters, “which only goes from Montgomery Street to East
23rd Street, would redirect water into adjacent threatened areas,
including CB1.”
The groundwork created by engineering analyses, feasibility
studies, and environmental reviews may become critically important, says Ms. Lappin, because, “when money becomes available from the State or the federal government, you have to be
ready to move.” Ms. Lappin added, “if you're not prepared,
you're never going to get funding.”
The next step in the struggle to secure for Lower Manhattan
a fair share of preparedness funding may shift to Albany, where
the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo is poised to
announce allocations for as much as $25 million in support for
studies of proposed storm-readiness measures.
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LETTERS
To the Editor:
I’d like to offer a hearty congratulations and heartfelt thanks to Coach
Brian Friedman of Millennium High
School for the work he did to correct
the gender imbalance in the athletics
department at his school. When he
recognized that the majority of slots
in school teams were set aside for
boys in a school that is 60 percent female, he went above and beyond to
create a girls softball team to address
some of that imbalance. He is to be
lauded for taking the initiative and
organizing a fundraising drive to raise
the $9,800 needed when the school
district told him another team wasn’t
in the budget.
Unfortunately the administration
has told Coach Friedman that the
newly created softball team must
continue to raise nearly $10,000/year
in order to stay on the field. I think
the administration is looking at the
problem the wrong way. Millennium’s athletics budget has been unfairly divided, favoring boys teams at
the expense of girls teams for years.
Failure to raise the $10,000/year
needed to begin to correct that imbalance should not result in cutting a
girls team but instead should result in
cutting a boys team. This would have
a number of positive effects:
First, it would teach a valuable
lesson about discrimination and who
should shoulder the burden of correcting it. Currently, the discriminated against party is being asked to
raise the money or face the consequences.
Second, it would engage a far
broader slice of the community in
raising the money needed or agitating
for a larger budget from the city.
Finally, it would lead to a fairer
outcome should the effort fail in the
future. Ideally every child at Millennium should be offered a chance to
compete. But if we as a society
choose to fund school athletic programs, we should not compound this
wrong by spending what money we
have in a discriminatory fashion.
Good luck to the new girls softball team, and to all our student athletes.
Andrew Greenblatt,
Father of a 4th Grader
To the Editor:
Wednesday’s article of the BroadsheetDAILY titled “Plaza Sweet” highlighted a prime example of
Downtown Alliance’s diligence and
dedication to enhancing the quality
of life in Lower Manhattan. With a
legacy of strong leadership, the Alliance has proved to be a staunch advocate for Downtown development
for the past 20 years.
As mentioned in Wednesday’s
piece, one of the most appreciated
services offered by the Alliance has
been the Downtown Connection
Bus, which allows the public to navigate Lower Manhattan free of
charge throughout the entire week.
With approximately half of the Connection bus stops within Battery Park
City, this method of transportation is
of particularly high value to our
neighborhood’s residents. While unmentioned in the article, the Battery
Park City Authority annually provides over $600,000 to the Alliance
to ensure Battery Park City residents
and visitors continue to be served.
Our partnership with the Alliance on
the Downtown Connection is just
one example of the Authority’s commitment to quality of life enhancements for its residents and we are
proud to have found such a strong
partner in the Alliance.
—Shari C. Hyman
President and
Chief Operating Officer
The Battery Park City Authority
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February 18 - March 3, 2015
Volume 19 Number 4
EYES TO THE SKY
February 18 – March 4, 2015
Arrivals &
Departures
SPECTACULAR MEETING OF PLANETS, CRESCENT MOON
Cruise Ships in the Harbor
Evening twilight begins around 6pm and there are exhilarating celestial
events in both the east and west. These phenomena are so special that
inviting a child along to observe the sky shortly after sundown, especially
from the 18th – 23rd, would reward both adult and child. Of these dates
the 20th and 21st are not to be missed.
Brilliant planet Venus shines above the west-southwest skyline and, as
twilight deepens, diminutive orange-gold planet Mars, tiny by contrast, appears above Venus until the 21st. The distance between them is narrowing
everyday. The two planets continue to move closer together each evening,
culminating on Friday, the 20th, when a waxing, eyelash crescent moon
joins the pair the day before their closest approach. The dance continues
through the 23rd. Mars and Venus appear side by side then switch positions
in good do-si-do fashion. Venus gradually separates from Mars, ascending
higher in the evening sky.
At nightfall the planet reveals to us why it is named for the goddess of
love and beauty. It is the brightest celestial object after the sun and moon.
All the while it can even be seen from indoors if you have a west-facing
window and clear view to the horizon. Venus is known as the Evening Star
and the Morning Star; it is not an all-nighter, rather it follows sunset or
precedes sunrise in a predictable rhythm. Currently, as Evening Star, Venus
is visible for about two hours, disappearing into the western horizon shortly
after nightfall.
CALENDAR
WED 18
The Search for the
White Rose
To mark the 72nd anniversary of the arrests and subsequent executions of Sophie
and Hans Scholl, The Anne Frank Center
USA will screen Peter Logue’s film about the
White Rose resistance movement. This short
documentary focuses on retelling the story
of the small group of German students who
formed a clandestine resistance against the
Nazis. Through interviews with scholars and
current University of Munich students, The
Search for the White Rose explores the
legacy of the movement for a new generation of German students, asking how such
stories of resistance have helped shape
their sense of German identity. Followed by
a Q&A with the film maker. $8, $5.
6:30pm. Anne Frank Center, 44 Park Place.
212 431 7993. www.annefrank.com
Cultural Presentation
Meet a Cultural Interpreter (a Native American educator) and learn about materials
from throughout the Americas. Free. 2pm4pm. Smithsonian's National Museum of
the American Indian, One Bowling Green.
www.americanindian.si.edu
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.
INBOUND OUTBOUND
Turning opposite, to the east, we see the steady light of Jupiter at its
most luminous for the year. To Jupiter’s right notice the brightest true star
seen from Earth, aptly named Sirius, which is Greek for “scorcher”. On
March 2nd a robust gibbous moon travels beside Jupiter all night.
Judy Isacoff
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Please confirm information with each individual venue. Details may have changed since we compiled this calendar listing.
4:15pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery
Place. 646-437-4202. www.mjhnyc.org
Adventures in
Wanderlust
Discussion about travels in Ethiopia. Tribeca
branch of the New York Public Library, 9
Murray St. Free. 12:30pm. www.nypl.org
Silent Films/Live Music:
Blancanieves
Jack Kleinsinger's
Highlights in Jazz
42nd Anniversary Gala, featuring Catherine
Russell, Dan Levinson, Bria Skonberg, Nicki
Parrott, Gordon Webster. $45, $40. 8pm.
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street. www.tribecapac.org
FRI
20
George Washington
Award-winning silent hit based on the
Birthday Ball
“Snow White” fairy tale, written and directed by acclaimed Spanish director Pablo
Berger in 2012. Alfonso Vilallonga’s original soundtrack will be performed by the
composer himself along with the acclaimed
new-music ensemble Wordless Music Orchestra. Set in a romantic version of 1920’s
Andalusia, the silent black-and-white fantasy swept the 2013 Gaudí awards (known
as the Spanish Oscars) winning Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best
Catalan-Language Film, among others, and
was one of the year’s most popular films in
Spain. Running time is approximately 1
hour 45 min. Winter Garden. Free. 8pm.
www.artsbrookfield.com
Annual event to benefit Fraunces Tavern
Museum. For information about ticket price
and time, please call 212-425-1776.
Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl Street.
www.frauncestavernmuseum.org
Lunchtime Knitting Circle
Are you interested in learning how to knit,
or would you like to share skills and ideas
with others? Bring your own needles, yarn
and projects for an informal and friendly
knitting circle for all skill levels. Limited assistance will be available. Tribeca branch
of the New York Public Library, 9 Murray
Street. Free. 12:15pm. www.nypl.org
Silent Films/Live Music:
Blancanieves
exhibitions of art and artifacts as they relate to the historic site and the American
Revolution. Free with admission ($7, $4).
2pm. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl
Street. 212-425-1776. www.frauncestavernmuseum.org
Emma Lazarus and Me
Kids, bring your parents and grandparents
for an afternoon of stories. Hear tales of
Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on
the base of the Statue of Liberty, before taking a mini-tour of the Museum and recording your own family’s story. For ages 8 to
10. $5. 2pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place. 646-437-4202. www.mjhnyc.org
TUE 24
Museum of Jewish
Heritage Storytime
Drop-in story hour series for children ages
0 to 4 and their caregivers. Free. 3:30pm-
films by the legendary Man Ray, and then
created original scores for these performances. Their curated soundscape will
breathe new life into these vintage shorts,
adding a modern twist. Four films by Man
Ray: Retour a la Raison (1923) Emak Bakia
(1926) Les Mysteres Du Chateau Du De
(1929) L’Etoile De Mer (1928). Running
time is approximately 1 hour. Winter Garden. Free. 8pm. www.artsbrookfield.com
SUN 22
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Guided Tour
Guided by a museum docent, find out about
New York City history as it relates to Colonial America, the Revolutionary War, and
the Early Republic. See the museum's collection and interpretation of the landmarked 1719 building along with varied
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Plan. $10. 6:30pm. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl Street. 212-425-1776.
www.frauncestavernmuseum.org
Open Computer Lab
Bring your technology questions and get
one-on-one assistance! Laptops will be provided. (Se habla español). Tribeca branch
of the New York Public Library, 9 Murray
Street. Free. 2pm. www.nypl.org
FRI
27
Cultural Presentation
Meet a Cultural Interpreter (a Native American educator) and learn about materials
from throughout the Americas. Free. 2pm4pm. Smithsonian's National Museum of
the American Indian, One Bowling Green.
www.americanindian.si.edu
The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How
One Building Broke the SAT 28
World's Toughest Tycoons Tax Preparation AssisBook talk. A story of naked, unregulated tance
capitalism, of the sometimes bloody freefor all of the free market, The Liars Ball is
tale of brilliant and enormously ambitious
billionaires fighting bare-knuckled to get
what they want. Free. 6:30pm. Skyscraper
Museum, 39 Battery Place. www.skyscraper.org
Silent hit based on the “Snow White” fairy
The Art of Storytelling: THU 19
Cherokee Stories with Silent Films/Live Music: tale, written and directed by acclaimed
Spanish director Pablo Berger in 2012. See
Four films by Man Ray
Robert Lewis
February 18 for more. Free. 8pm. Winter Mary Pilon on "The .
This experience will delight all ages as The avant-rock band SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch
Monopolists"
and Carter Logan) handpicked four silent Garden. www.artsbrookfield.com
Cherokee storyteller Robert Lewis reveals
his culture through personal knowledge
and family stories, language and history.
Free. 10:30am, 11:30am and 1pm. Also
February 19 and 20. Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, One
Bowling Green. www.americanindian.si.edu
Wednesday, Feb 18Norwegian Gem
9:15a
4:30p Eastern Caribbean
Friday, Feb 20
Quantum of the Seas 6:15a(Bayonne)4:30p Eastern Caribbean
Sunday, Feb 22 Norwegian Breakaway 7:15a
3:30p Southern Caribbean
Friday, Feb 27
Norwegian Gem
9:15a
4:30p Eastern Caribbean
Sunday, Mar 1
Norwegian Breakaway7:15a
3:30p Bahamas
Quantum of the Seas 6:15a(Bayonne)4:30p Southern Caribbean
Sunday, Mar 8
Norwegian Breakaway7:15a
3:30p Bahamas
In The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the
Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board
Game (Bloomsbury, February 17, 2015),
award-winning journalist Mary Pilon reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly
came into existence, the reinvention of its
history, the lost female originator of the
game and one man’s lifelong obsession to
tell the true story about the game’s questionable origins. Talk will be followed by
Q&A and book signing. $5 tickets include
Museum admission. Museum members and
students are admitted free. Feel free to
bring your lunch. $5. 12:30pm-1:30pm.
Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall
Street. 212.908.4110. www.moaf.org
THU 26
Mapping
Manhattan
from the Revolutionary
War to 1811
More than 400 years of history unfold in
the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents 65 full-color maps of
America’s oldest city. This talk will focus on
the fortified city from the late 18th century
to the street grid of the Commissioners’
Returns are prepared by AARP volunteers
certified by the IRS. Most returns are filed
electronically (e-filed) at no cost to you.
Check web site for a list of important documents that you must bring with you. Tribeca
branch of the New York Public Library, 9
Murray Street. Free. 10:30am. (212) 7328186. www.nypl.org
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by award-winning children’s book illustrator and writer,
Eric Carle, retold on stage in black light.
The tale follows the wonderful adventures
of a very tiny and very hungry caterpillar
that progresses through an amazing variety
of foods towards his metamorphosis into a
beautiful butterfly. Children will delight in
the antics of Little Cloud. High up in a beautiful sky, Little Cloud slips away from the
rest and transforms itself into various
shapes-a sheep, an airplane, a shark and
more. Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia.
Ages 3 & up. $25. 1:30pm. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street.
www.tribecapac.org
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