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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 21
THE NEWSPAPER OF LOWER MANHATTAN
BRUSH STROKES AND BODY SHOTS, PG. 30
OCTOBER 5 - 11, 2011
9/11 Memorial, Silver host first ‘community evening’ BY ALINE REYNOLDS Downtown residents’ wish to have their own ceremony at the National Sept. 11 Memorial for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was never granted. Instead they were given what some community members feel is an equally good opportunity for reflection: special access to the memorial on the first
Sunday of every month. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver invited an estimated 2,000 Lower Manhattan residents to the memorial’s first “Community Evening” on Sunday, Oct. 2. Starting at 4 p.m. only people who produced identification proving they lived in a Lower Manhattan zip code, were allowed into the
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Residents say ‘no’ to proposed rezoning Downtown Express photo by Cynthia Magnus
It’s been over two weeks since the Occupy Wall Street protestors first showed up at Zuccotti Park. Last week, some of them attended Community Board 1’s full board meeting in an effort to start a dialogue with local residents.
Protestors, C.B. 1 have dialogue BY CYNTHIA MAGNUS “I think we established a dialogue,” said Pat Moore, chair of Community Board 1’s Quality of Life Committee, about an informal meeting held on
October 3 with some members of the Occupy Wall Street group who are camped in Zuccotti Park. The purpose was to discuss ways in which relations between the Downtown community
and the protesters might be eased. At the C.B.1 full board meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Financial District
Mandell is opening a new pre-school in Tribeca/ Battery Park City. Probably best to line up now.
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS When Tribeca resident Matthew Foster moved to the community in 2008, he never dreamed he’d have to send his two young children to a public school outside of the neighborhood. “I live in this community, and I want to send my kids to school in this community,” said Foster. The rezoning plan proposed by the city’s
Department of Education, however, would assign Foster’s kids to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village once they reach kindergarten. “I don’t think it’s a good idea at all,” said Foster at a hearing held at P.S. 234 on Tuesday night. “I had to look up P.S. 3 on a map. I have no idea about that school.” Foster is one of a number of neighborhood fami-
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