M22 saved, but FiDi will lose M train
By Julie Shapiro
The M22 bus will keep running between Battery Park City and the Lower East Side, thanks to a last-minute reprieve from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but Downtown will still see other bus and subway cuts.
Hero auxiliaries remembered
On Sunday afternoon March 14, Auxiliary Police Officers Nicholas Pekearo and Eugene Marshalik were remembered at an intimate memorial held on the third anniversary of their deaths.
Silver and Squadron shoot for revamp of Gulick Park
By Julie Shapiro
Taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather Friday morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senator Daniel Squadron shot some hoops on the Lower East Side while announcing their hopes to redo a rundown park.
Poetry club helps ailing writer
By Cary Abrams
The Bowery Poetry Club was crowded on Saturday evening March 6 with fans and friends celebrating Downtown legend, cultural icon Tuli Kupferberg. Kupferberg, 86, is blind after suffering two strokes, and the event raised more than $800, which will assist with his care since he requires a full-time attendant.
Rezoning opponents join effort to shape new Chinatown plan
By Albert Amateau
The Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which for the past two years has opposed city-supported zoning initiatives, last week decided to join the Chinatown Working Group in the community-led effort to craft a plan for future development in the two neighborhoods.
Making puppets for Planet Earth
‘I love rock ’n’ roll’
Scene of the crime
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News
B.P.C. money for deficits now, housing later
More W.T.C. risk for Silverstein, but bigger potential payday
Spring, the season of Progress
Do laugh, he’s challenging Schumer
By Lincoln Anderson
Randy Credico, a comedian turned drug activist, wants to give Senator Chuck Schumer a primary election challenge — something Schumer notably didn’t face in his 2004 re-election.
Kindergarten rejection letters sent out at P.S. 234
City blasts Townley over P.S. 234 rent flap
$118 million high school lease
‘Their spirit is in us’; Museum center work starts
By Albert Amateau
Officials and friends of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum celebrated the groundbreaking last Thursday for a new visitors and education center at the corner of Delancey and Orchard Sts.
Downtowners play their own version of March Madness
Jamming at Claremont with jazz greats
By Julie Shapiro
Professional jazz saxophonist Patience Higgins put a difficult question to a group of middle school musicians at Claremont Prep recently: What is jazz?
Turf fight brewing between Asphalt Green and local groups
By Julie Shapiro
A battle is brewing over the Battery Park City ballfields, setting a new community center against an existing one.
N.Y.U. eyes Gov. Isle
Goldman’s hired guns also work for the N.Y.P.D.
By Julie Shapiro
They look like police officers and they act like police officers — but the off-duty cops guarding Goldman Sachs’ new headquarters are being paid by Goldman, not the city.
Trump tower is set to open
Fun run Downtown
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How to spend the rest of the 9/11 funds
By Julie Menin
Eight and a half years ago, in the aftermath of 9/11, there were fears that residents and workers would flee Lower Manhattan and the population would plummet.
Just imagine: professional playground players this summer
By Adrian Benepe
Summer is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to get outside and enjoy the many new green spaces opening right in your neighborhood.
Work at the W.T.C.
A new chapter in Battery Park City life
More parks coming to Battery Park City
Helping solve Downtown’s construction problems
Building a train station
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ARTS DOWNTOWN
Trav S.D. on Downtown Theater
BY TRAV S.D.
March fizzled; April’s all about burlesque!
Support Your Local Cinema!
By Scott stiffler
Upcoming flicks at area movie houses .
Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
Not your Camus’ ‘Caligula’
Michael Wolff reveals his jazz passions
BY STEVEN SNYDER
Teacher still learning, performer still finding new grooves.
Gallery Listings
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