THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN


Downtown Express photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio A rare peregrine falcon guards her chicks on the 14th floor of 55 Water St. Wednesday. Waterfront view is a chick magnet By JOSH ROGERS There’s a live Web site showing naked underage chicks Downtown, but it’s not likely to be blocked by parental filters. Silver: City puts new Fiterman building in doubt By JULIE SHAPIRO The city is not putting up its fair share to rebuild the damaged Fiterman Hall, local politicians say. Taste of Tribeca Foodies hungry for a good cause can bring their appetites — and their wallets — to the annual Taste of Tribeca this Saturday, a fundraiser benefiting P.S. 150 and P.S. 234. Sailing with Dennis Conner Setting sail like the pros is now possible in Lower Manhattan with two authentic Amercia’s Cup training boats provided by four-time America’s Cup winner Dennis Conner. Settling lawsuit but not all issues on Park Row By JULIE SHAPIRO After five years of arguments over the closure of Park Row, the city settled a lawsuit with Lower Manhattan residents. M.T.A’s magic number remains 30 For the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, answers on the Fulton St. Transit Center continue to be 30 days away.	NEWS Feds block 9/11 health care money By JULIE SHAPIRO The federal government is backing out of a requirement to treat Downtown residents, office workers and students for 9/11-related illnesses, saying it needs more time to study the problem. Music makes sense at Battery Bldg., Talking Head says By JULIE SHAPIRO David Byrne stood in the crumbling Great Hall on the second floor of the Battery Maritime Building and pointed out musical instruments. Franklin Cafe heads in for its last stop By SEBASTIAN KAHNERT After 15 years, the Franklin Station Cafe, a French and Malaysian bistro at 222 West Broadway, is closing — another falling domino in Tribeca’s affordable restaurant landscape. Alliance honors partners in gov’t The Downtown Alliance honored seven public servants who have been helpful to Lower Manhattan and the Alliance at its annual awards ceremony at Ketch Restaurant last week. Chinatown group blasts City’s East Side plans By HEATHER MURRAY Arthur Huh, a City Department of Planning district liaison, came to Community Board 3’s town hall meeting on the 197c East Village/Lower East Side Rezoning Plan on Monday prepared to showcase the plan’s highlights.
ARTS DOWNTOWN Noise fun at the No Fun Fest By David Todd One of the more impressive things about a good “noise” set is how intrusive traditional musical elements sound when they’re introduced to it. In the worlds of experimental musicians like ASTRO (Hiroshi Hasegawa) and Consumer Electronics (Philip Best), a conventional sense of music is subverted, and a proper melody or chord change can scrape the ear with its own brand of dissonance. Rebellion of the quiet By Adrienne Urbanski In the 70s and 80s, as punk music electrified New York, the No Wave movement was invading the film world, transferring the punk philosophy of extremism and experimentation to the celluloid.	18th century tale of seduction and intrigue By Scott Harrah One will not find a tale about debauchery, vice, lies, deceit, and upper class decadence as florid and poetic as Christopher Hampton’s 1986 adaptation of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Saving the world from Parkerization one sip at a time By Royal Young “Go into wine stores and ask why all their wines are manipulated. Walk out, tell them you can’t drink it,” advises Alice Feiring, author of the new memoir Art of the artificial By Stephanie Buhmann Over the past 40 years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has explored empowerment and freedom of speech in a wide range of media, including photography, film, sculpture, performance, and installation.

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