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From Bunker to Incubator
New Arts Center on Governors Island Will Provide Studio Space and Cultural Programming
Lower Manhattan has a new cultural hub. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and the Trust for Governors Island have partnered to create the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, a 40,000-square foot studio space and education facility, housed within a restored 1870s ammunition warehouse — a relic from the days when the island was a military outpost.
The project, which cost $12 million and was more than a decade in development, houses open-plan artist studios, two floors of galleries, performance and rehearsal spaces and the Island’s first indoor cafe. The building, located a 90-second walk from the Governors Island ferry dock, will be open to visitors (from Thursday through Sunday, noon to 5:00 pm) during the park’s public season, which has been extended to October 31 this year.
The Arts Center will also host a year-round artist residency program, providing studio space for up to 20 individual artists, ensembles and choreographers, while also serving as a venue for cultural programming.
At the September 19 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the facility, Alicia Glen — the City’s former deputy mayor for housing and economic development, and the newly appointed chair of the Trust for Governors Island, said, “this is the fundamental gestalt of what Governors Island is about right now: a park and a place for the arts. We’ll keep it quirky and fabulous. Arts, culture and creativity have made Governors Island the special place it is today, and with LMCC’s Arts Center, they now have a permanent home.”
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer reflected that, “every building on Governors Island should be like this — a building with old bones turned into new bones. The current deputy mayor and former deputy mayor may not agree with me, but I believe every new building in the freakin’ City of New York should have art.” This remark, which drew appreciated laughter from the assembled crowd, may have been a reference to Ms. Brewer’s sometimes-contrarian stands in opposition to development projects favored by City Hall, and in particular to the reservations she has expressed about development plans for the rest of Governors Island.
State assembly member Yuh-Line Niou observed that, “Governors Island is a gem, not only of Lower Manhattan, but all of New York City. And this new Arts Center encouragers residents and tourists alike to come and explore this beautiful island, engaging with themes of ecology, sustainability, and resilience.” City Council member Margaret Chin predicted that, “LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island will further cement the status of Governors Island as a truly indispensable resource for all New Yorkers. The new center will not only serve as a vibrant space for visitors to experience art but will also provide a diverse array of artists with an opportunity to showcase their work and participate in New York’s art scene.”
Congressman Jerry Nadler said that, “this is an important milestone in the continued transformation of Governors Island from a sleepy little island into a place where New Yorkers can go to experience and enjoy our history, spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn, partake in recreational activities and after today enjoy a permanent arts complex in a former munitions warehouse.”
Matthew Fenton
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Click to watch monarch butterflies feeding on milkweed planted by the Battery Park City Authority to help them on their annual fall schlep from Canada to the mountains of Mexico.
The amazing migration of the monarchs has been seriously threatened by habitat loss, development, and pesticide use, and their numbers have declined substantially over the years.
In Lower Manhattan, weary monarchs have found respite in Hudson River Park, in Liberty Community Gardens, along the bike path of Battery Park City, and in the gardens of Battery Park — all places where kind-hearted gardeners have planted milkweed, the favored nourishment of the butterflies.
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Climate Science at
Brooklyn Bridge Beach
On Saturday, September 28, the Waterfront Alliance will host “Climate Science in the Sand” on Brooklyn Bridge Beach (on the East River waterfront beneath the FDR Drive, near Dover Street), from 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
In addition to offering rare public access to a shoreline that is normally closed, this educational family workshop will feature kid-friendly activities that showcase the past, present, and future of the local waterfront.
Admission is free and children (along with their parents) are encouraged to drop by for any part of the afternoon-long program, which will include measuring the low tide (at 2:49 pm) with a flood yardstick, testing the water temperature, and gauging the pH balance of the river.
There will also be talks about how warming waters and ocean acidification are affecting New York, and the world. (This program will proceed rain or shine. Closed-toed shoes are required for access to the beach.)
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Rapport to the Commissioner
CB1 Makes Exception to New Policy; Okays Naming Street for Former NYPD Commissioner
A public figure from the 1980s may soon be honored by having a street co-named in his memory, if Community Board 1 gets its way. The panel recommended over the summer that Benjamin Ward, New York’s first African-American police commissioner, be commemorated by rechristening one block of Baxter Street (between White and Walker Streets) as Benjamin Ward Way.
This comes on the heels of a controversial decision by CB1 in 2018 to decline such a request on behalf of James D. McNaughton, who, on August 2, 2005, at age 27, became the first New York City Police officer to be killed in action while serving in “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Matthew Fenton
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Storm-Proofing Confabs
The Battery Park City Authority and Community Board 1 will co-host a meeting on various aspects of resiliency measures being planned for the neighborhood.
On Tuesday, October 1, the topic will be the measures now being planned for the northern border of the community, behind Stuyvesant High School, and possibly extending into Tribeca.
This session will take place at the community room within 200 Rector Place, and will start at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and no R.S.V.P. is needed.
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The Naked Truth
The Pace University School for the Performing Arts will stage To Clothe the Naked, a rarely performed drama by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, from October 1 to 6, at the 3-Legged Dog theater (80 Greenwich Street, south of Rector Street).
The story, a blend of Pirandello’s trademark blend of heartbreak and unsentimentality, is the tale of a young girl-seduced, abused, and abandoned-who struggles to create an identity for herself.
Tickets for this Broadway-quality production are priced at less than a movie ($15 for adults; $5.00 for students).
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While They Were Sleeping
Battery Park City Resident Charged with Two Home Invasions, and Sexual Abuse
A Battery Park City resident has been arrested twice in the space of five days on charges arising from two separate (but related) incidents, in which he is alleged to have sexually assaulted one woman, and sexually menaced her roommate on another, prior occasion. In a story first reported by the New York Post, music industry executive Adam Lublin, a resident of the Tribeca Pointe building at 41 River Terrace was taken into custody on Monday after a woman who lives on his floor called police Sunday evening, charging that he had entered her unlocked apartment while she was asleep, and that she awoke to find him touching her vagina. She added that she had previously noticed multiple undergarments missing from her home in recent weeks.
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Battery Park City Day Nursery
33rd Annual Hayride & Family Fest
Hay Is for Horses
The Battery Park City Day Nursery will hold its 33rd annual Hayride and Fall Family Fest on Thursday, October 3.
Climb aboard the two horse-powered wagon and go for a ride around Rector Place. It’s from 4:00-6:30 and costs $5 for adults and children of the Nursery who have purchased a Fall Family Fest ticket and $7 for everyone else. 215 South End Avenue (between Albany and Rector Place)
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DAY IN HISTORY
September 27
1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1540 – The Jesuits receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1825 – The world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is opened.
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1962 – Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
Births
1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579)
1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (d. 1902)
1896 – Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (d. 1985)
1922 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer (d. 2010)
1929 – Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2004)
1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (d. 2008)
Deaths
1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705) Ichthyology also known as fish science, is the branch of biology devoted to the study of fish. This includes bony fishes (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha).
1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
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Flipped Again
Onetime Non-Profit Nursing Facility Sold to Anonymous Buyer for Five Times Original Price
If there is an Exhibit A in the case that the fevered speculation in Lower Manhattan real estate incubates perverse incentives it must be Rivington House — the onetime HIV/AIDS care facility that was bought by a real estate developer in 2014 for $28 million (a fraction of its market value), with the proviso that the building would continue to be dedicated to its decades-long use as a nursing home.
After purchasing the block-long, 150,000-square-foot structure (located at 45 Rivington Street, near the Williamsburg Bridge), the developer, the Allure Group, paid the City an additional $16 million to remove the deed restriction that limited the property to its legacy use of non-profit, residential healthcare.
Matthew Fenton
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Breaking It Down
Composting Catches on in Battery Park City
You’re probably heard of the farm-to-table movement. Thanks to the Battery Park City Authority’s compost initiative, there’s a burgeoning table-to-earth movement in this Lower Manhattan community.
What happens to the scraps after you’ve dropped them in the bin? How do your apple peels and corn husks turn into rich, beneficial compost?
The Broadsheet set out to investigate. To read more…
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Today’s Calendar
Friday September 27
10AM
Longines Global Champions Tour
Governors Island
The Longines Global Champions Tour is the world’s premier show jumping series, bringing together top ranked horses and riders.
For the first time Olympic, International and National Champions will compete at the stunning new venue of Governors Island, New York, for the thrilling finals of the 20-event circuit. On Governors Island. Today through the weekend.
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‘And the Little Children Shall Lead Them…’
Lower Manhattan Students Leave School to March in The Climate Strike
Today (Friday, September 20) elementary and high school students from throughout Lower Manhattan — and around the City — are expected to walk out of classes shortly before noon to attend Climate Strike NYC: A Call to Action. Matthew Fenton
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Death Came Calling at the Corner of Wall and Broad Streets, in Lower Manhattan’s First Major Terrorist Attack
As the noon hour approached on a fall Thursday morning in 1920, a horse-drawn wagon slowly made its way west down Wall Street toward “the Corner,” the high-powered intersection of Wall and Broad. Its driver came to a gentle stop in front of the Assay Office, where stockpiles of gold and silver were stored and tested for purity. But theft was not his motive.
John Simko
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RiverWatch
Cruise Ships in New York Harbor
Arrivals & Departures
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, 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.
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Friday, September 27
Adventure of the Seas
Inbound 5:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm; Maine/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Oceania Riviera Inbound 5:15 am; outbound 6:00 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City/Montreal
Saturday, September 28
AIDAluna
Inbound 7:15 am; in port overnight New England/Canadian Maritimes
Silver Wind Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 6:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City/Montreal
Sunday, September 29
Carnival Sunrise
Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; New England/Canada Canadian Maritimes/Maine
Scenic Eclipse Inbound 7 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5 pm; Poughkeepsie, NY/U.S. East Coast/Bahamas
Zuiderdam Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 8:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, 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.
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TONIGHT’S FILM ~ FIELD OF DREAMS
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If They Went Any Slower, They’d Slip Into Reverse
City Transportation Study Finds That Lower Manhattan Bus Service Is Among Most Sluggish in Five Boroughs
The annual New York City Mobility Report, produced by the City’s Department of Transportation, contains two data points that will come as no surprise residents of Lower Manhattan. The first of these is that the median speed for Downtown bus service ranks among the slowest of any community in the five boroughs. And the second is that this creeping pace is, if anything, getting creepier. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper
by John Simko
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