By Steven Snyder
Editorial
Scaling back the memorial and improving the plan Cutting the skyrocketing costs of the World Trade Center memorial can also solve many other problems in the current redevelopment plan. The changes will meet several demands of 9/11 family leaders who have criticized the design, restore the cultural center that has been virtually cut out of the site and will make the government subsidies needed to build the Freedom Tower less onerous.
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Just another New Orleans day
I’ve been slinking around like a cat (with glasses) to see what’s what in New Orleans. In the morning, the Mexican workmen in the courtyard started work with good cheer, talking to each other in normal but happy voices. Happy about what? Happy that they had jobs, that they were a team, that the sky was clear and it wasn’t too hot, that they had gotten a good night’s sleep, that their consciences were clear. Talking Point
These past few weeks we have seen throngs of immigrants take to the streets, parks and avenues protesting their rights to remain hard working contributors to the American dream. Even conservative estimates put the figure at upwards of a million for those who demonstrated in L.A., N.Y.C., Chicago and cities in between. Editorial Picture
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Spring youth fair
Legal awards
Pot pulp
Look ma, no tee — youngest Downtowners swing at moving ball
This season, the Downtown Little League’s youngest players have thrown away the tees and are facing live pitching so they have changed their division’s name from T-Ball to Rookie Ball. They along with the rest of the Downtowners enjoyed last weekend’s great weather. New York City unveiled the most comprehensive hurricane evacuation plan in the United States this week, creating a framework to evacuate 2.5 million people from flood-risk neighborhoods in the city, including Lower Manhattan. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver held a five-hour public hearing last Friday about a bill to drastically limit the number of new liquor licenses in neighborhoods oversaturated by bars and lounges. Memorial pedestrians won’t be stalled, officials say
The World Trade Center memorial might be going nowhere fast, but the pedestrians milling about the memorial plaza at lunchtime in 2015 will have no trouble going anywhere, a study shows.
Women’s Museum optimistic before a skeptical C.B. 1
Officials with the proposed Museum of Women’s History said last week that construction will not begin at the south end of Battery Park City for three years, which will be 11 years after the museum was first proposed. They also told members of Community Board 1’s B.P.C. committee that fundraising for the $150 million cost hasn’t yet begun. Maya Lin speaks on her Chinatown museum project
Famed architect Maya Lin said her design for the Museum of Chinese in the Americas new location will expose more of a century-old building in Chinatown while adding modern elements to the structure at 150 Lafayette St. Tribecans try to block project on environmental grounds
Local residents and elected officials asked the city to halt the demolition of a stand of North Tribeca buildings, fearing they might be contaminated with World Trade Center dust.
World-class sailors drop anchor in B.P.C.
Fighting head winds, rough seas and lobster pots, the seven sailing ships in the round-the-world sailing endurance known as the Volvo Ocean Race, slipped into Battery Park City’s North Cove Marina Tuesday morning just as most New Yorkers were getting off to work. Long-overdue Soho library may open at summer’s end
Nearly two years after ground was broken for the first Soho library branch, opening day is on the horizon. Workers are refacing masonry, painting walls and welding metal awnings in preparation for the big day, which the New York Public Library has said will be in late summer. ‘Audio Ballerinas’ strike a noisy pose
If you think nails on a chalkboard makes your teeth cringe, try amplifying a metal rake screeching across a concrete floor. Even watching five graceful dancers perform such a task atop the 55 Water Street courtyard Monday afternoon was a bit of a painful experience.Youth/ Sports
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Call to crack down on liquor licenses
