The BroadsheetDAILY – 5/20/22 – Taste of Tribeca Offers Samples of Everything from Anejo to Zucker’s 

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A Bite-Sized Bacchanal

Taste of Tribeca Offers Samples of Everything from Anejo to Zucker’s

Above: The Taste of Tribeca food festival brings world-class cuisine outdoors, to fund arts and enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234 Below: The festival, located on Duane Street, between Hudson and Greenwich Streets, draws food devotees from around the New York area.

Taste of Tribeca, the annual food-fest that benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, will take over Duane Street tomorrow (Saturday, May 21, between Hudson and Greenwich Streets, from 11:30am to 3pm) with delectables from more than 60 local restaurants, including six (Bubby’s Tribeca, Bouley, Duane Park Patisserie, Gigino Trattoria, Tribeca Grill, and Walker’s) that have participated every year since the festival’s founding in 1994. Among the culinary draws will be gourmand favorites such as American Cut, Il Mulino, and the Palm.

Food tickets (called “Tasting Cards”) are priced at $55 if purchased in advance (at TasteofTribeca.com) or $65 on the day of the event, and provide six tastes from any of the participating restaurants. Those wishing to support the schools (where arts and enrichment programs are funded largely with proceeds from Taste of Tribeca) at a higher level can purchase premium reserved seating, priced at $700 for a table of four and $1000 for a table of six, which includes food tickets for each seat at the table. Premium seating also includes table service by personal food runners, staffed by student volunteers from local high schools, plus a designer t-shirt and gift bag from Taste of Tribeca sponsors for each guest at the table.

Live music will be provided by City Winery at the soundstage (Greenwich Street, near Harrison) with acts including Cynthia Sayer, the Church Street School for Music and Art, and the Tribattery Pops.

Guests are also encouraged to bring children, for family-friendly fun in the KidsZone (located in Duane Park), featuring arts and crafts with Craft Studio and Spotlight Kids, games with Cocoon, edible art with Cricket’s Candy, coding with The Coder School, and reading at Book Nook. There will also be performances by the Fashion Squad School, Dance with Miss Rachel, Arc Athletics, BB Skate Club, and Nicol Squash.

Slightly older youngsters can head to the Family Zone (at Greenwich and Duane Streets), where they’ll find STEAM and robotics projects from Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, art activities (including face painting and tote bag design), and tastings of spring vegetables. At the Sports Zone (further west, at Greenwich and Harrison Streets) Manhattan Youth, will offer clay-making and sports-themed carnival games for young athletes.

Matthew Fenton

Back to the Store of the Future

Renowned Discounter Announces Return to Storied Temple of Commerce

The family behind the iconic shopping brand, Century 21, has announced that the Platonic ideal of off-priced luxury retail will return to its longtime sanctuary at 25 Church Street (between Cortland and Dey Streets) in the spring of next year.

The Aliment of Surprise

Trinity Church Responds to Rising Local Hunger with Compassion Meals Program

Trinity Church has resurrected its Compassion Meals program, which provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner to those in need, on a rotating schedule, six days per week. The Church has always provided food help, reflects Lorelei Atalie Vargas, Trinity’s Chief Community Impact Officer. “But during the pandemic, when rates of food insecurity started to rise, we took a data-driven look at communities where food was a problem, particularly those where pantries had closed.” This translated into a huge jump in Trinity’s food assistance program, which distributed 15,000 meals through the Church’s Brown Bag Lunch program in 2019—a figure that jumped to 162,000 meals in 2020, and more than 230,000 last year.

Fleeing Heliopolis

Nadler Sponsors Legislation to Clip Wings of Whirlybirds

Congressman Jerry Nadler has introduced federal legislation to address safety and noise pollution concerns caused by non-essential helicopter flights over New York, which have emerged as chronic source of irritation for Lower Manhattan residents in recent years. At a Sunday press conference held alongside the East River’s 34th Street Heliport, Mr. Nadler (flanked by fellow Congress members Carolyn B. Maloney and Nydia Velazquez, who are co-sponsoring his proposed law), said, “for decades, New Yorkers have been plagued by excess helicopter noise and have had their lives put in danger by non-essential flights. Despite numerous requests by my colleagues and I, the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] has refused to sufficiently act to keep our skies and our City safe.”

CALENDAR

Friday, May 20

11am – 5pm

South Street Seaport Museum

On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, visit the exhibitions and the ships of the South Street Seaport Museum for free. At 12 Fulton Street, see “South Street and the Rise of New York” and “Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914,” and at Pier 16, explore the tall ship Wavertree and lightship Ambrose.

5:20pm

Demolition Brass Band

Piers 16/17

At 5:20 on May (the fifth month) 20th, enjoy a performance by Demolition Brass Band at the South Street Seaport waterfront. The significance of 5:20 and 5/20? New York City, a city of islands, has a total of 520 miles of waterfront. On this day, the NYC Department of City Planning celebrates waterfronts around the City with free walking tours and other entertainment. The Demolition Brass Band will perform songs related to themes found in the NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan. See the lineup of 5/20 events here.

6pm

South Cove

Artists Mary Miss and Shuli Sadé discuss South Cove and its relationship to nature. South Cove was conceived by Mary Miss, Stanton Eckstut, and Susan Child as an artwork that was also a public space. With Bird’s Eye View by Shuli Sadé, South Cove becomes a site for art as well as an artwork itself. Both artists will also discuss how they address environmental issues in their work.

7pm-8:30pm

Wagner Park

Singer/songwriter Terre Roche leads this weekly singing program with the beautiful backdrop of the setting sun in New York Harbor. For all singers, from beginners to seasoned crooners. Free

7:30pm

Pier 17

Concert.

Saturday, May 21

9am-12pm

City Hall Park

Volunteer with the Friends of City Hall Park to spruce up City Hall Park.

10am-12pm

South Cove

Paint in watercolor or use pastels and other drawing materials to capture the vistas of the Hudson River and the landscape of South Cove. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided. Free.

10am

Wagner Park

Join experienced anglers for catch-and-release fishing and learn about life in the Hudson River. Help observe and identify the fish caught and released. The day also includes an art project, a nature walk and a live performance of Sing with Suzi featuring Suzi Shelton and special guest The Culture Queen. Free.

10:30am

Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place

The American architect and sculptor Maya Lin became famous when, as a college student in 1981, her anonymous entry won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Learn about Maya through a read-aloud of Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey. Then, incorporating themes of nature and world peace, create collages of landscapes. Ages 7+. RSVP required. Free

11am-5pm

Governors Island

Tak­ing place along the tree-lined King Avenue, nes­tled between his­toric ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry build­ings, this idyl­lic mar­ket features a rotat­ing line­up of 30+ mak­ers, design­ers, artists, and small busi­ness­es, with hand­craft­ed jew­el­ry, art, appar­el, bath and body care, table­ware, home fur­nish­ings, arti­sanal pack­aged food and more.

11am-5pm

See May 20.

12pm

The Battery

This workshop will take place in the Piet Oudolf-designed perennial gardens throughout The Battery, with topics covering plant division, cut back, soil replenishment, weed control, and other basic care. After a hands-on plant division activity, participants will be invited to take the plants they divide home with them. Ages 13 and up. Free. Registration required.

12pm-4pm

Governors Island

The Bee Con­ser­van­cy is host­ing a fam­i­ly-friend­ly event at the Urban Farm on Gov­er­nors Island in part­ner­ship with Earth Mat­ter and GrowNYC, and spon­sored by Zarbee’s. Sign up for Session 1 (12pm-2pm) or Session 2 (2pm-4pm). Free.

1pm

Governors Island

Piano sex­tet Grand Band per­forms New York Keys fea­tur­ing works of four New York com­posers, includ­ing a world pre­mière by Grand Band mem­ber Eri­ka Dohi, and, for his 85th birth­day cel­e­bra­tion, an orig­i­nal arrange­ment of Philip Glass’s Part 9 from his ground­break­ing Music in Twelve Parts, Julius Eastman’s Gay Gueril­la and Paul Kerekes’s bloom. At 1pm and 3pm, in Nolan Park. Free.

3pm

94 Walker Street

Opening of artist Paul Pagk’s work at the Hionas Gallery.

7:30pm

Pier 17

Concert.

7:30pm

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street

Six dancers will revisit the old black and white silent movie era, with their signature mix of street style and club dance culture, such as waacking, locking and house dance. $30

Sunday, May 22

12pm

China Institute, 40 Rector Street

Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Music Ensemble in New York with two programs that will introduce Chinese orchestral music to the general public. 12pm-12:45pm: Introduction of Chinese Orchestra by Professor Jindong Cai. 1pm-2:30pm: observing music making with Chinese orchestra rehearsal.

3pm

Online and in person, Trinity Church

The choruses from Trinity and partner programs join forces in a spring concert with programming focused on spreading love, hope, and joy. Alumni of the Jazz House Kids program will be joining to accompany the choirs. Free.

8pm

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street

A riveting spectacle by the 40-performers-strong National Folklore Ensemble of Macedonia will take you on a mesmerizing journey through 2000 years of human history and culture. $45-$65

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Today in History

May 20

The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau, (May 21, 1844 – Sept. 2, 1910)

1293 – Earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan; 30,000 killed

1303 – Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella

1609 – Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe

1631 – Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under Earl Johann Tilly. Most inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War.

1704 – Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York

1830 – D. Hyde patents the fountain pen

1845 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All sailors are lost.

1867 – Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets

1882 – St. Gotthard railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens

1891 – First public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.

1892 – George Sampson patents the clothes dryer

1895 – First commercial movie performance, at 153 Broadway in NYC

1926 – Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927 – Pilot Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris in the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

1930 – First airplane catapulted from a dirigible

1932 – Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become the first woman fly solo nonstop across Atlantic

1956 – Hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane on the Bikini Atoll

1961 – White mob attacks “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama

1967 – 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 – BBC bans the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” because of drug references

1989 – China declares martial law in Beijing

1990 – Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs from space

1992 American rapper Tung Twista raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds

2013 – Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 billion

Births

1743 – Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian revolution

1759 – William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Washington, DC)

1844 – Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter

1851 – Emile Berliner, inventor (flat phonograph record)

1928 – Jack Kevorkian, controversial medical doctor

1944 – Joe Cocker, rock singer

1946 – Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], singer and actress

1972 – Busta Rhymes, rapper

Deaths

1503 – Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)

1506 – Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55

1834 – Marquis de Lafayette, military leader (b. 1757)

2000 – Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)

2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)

2019 – Niki Lauda, Formula One driver (b. 1949)

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