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• Publication date: June 30, 2008 Clear

• Fort Greene A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  At the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 93 percent of the senior class — nearly all collegebound — collected their diplomas on Thursday, far higher than the city’s graduation rate of roughly 50 percent.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• World Trade Center A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  With plans for a performing arts space at the former World Trade Center site foundering, some Lower Manhattan advocates are seeking grant money to free up more space downtown for cultural activities. [New York Sun]

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Chinatown Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

  Using 2000 census data, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which was recently formed, points out that while Community Board 3 is 28 percent white, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of that population sits in the rezoned area.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Lower East Side Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

  Using 2000 census data, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which was recently formed, points out that while Community Board 3 is 28 percent white, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of that population sits in the rezoned area.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• 168th and Broadway Announcing Tonight's Flash Mob

  The New York Highlanders, as they were known before the team changed its name to the Yankees in 1913, played at Hilltop Park on 168th and Broadway, a field overlooking the Hudson River.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Grand Central Announcing Tonight's Flash Mob

  Perhaps not as unplanned and sudden as most flash mobs, one announced by a group of M.I.T. students traveling the country will take place tonight at 7 p.m. in Grand Central to support the rights of photographers. [Photography is Not a Crime]

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• 130 Liberty St. Higher Costs and Delays Expected at Ground Zero

  But construction on much of the site is affected by the long delayed demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• New York University Higher Costs and Delays Expected at Ground Zero

  “The World Trade Center site is so complex because of the infrastructure that runs underneath it and the requirements for rebuilding that no one should be surprised that the commercial development and the memorial will take longer than originally anticipated,” said Mitchell Moss, a professor of urban planning at New York University. “

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Upper East Side A Bon Jovi Concert (With a Slip-Up Over Troubled Waters)

  “He’s my neighbor, too,” Mr. Bloomberg said. (The mayor and Mr. Garfunkel both live on the Upper East Side.)

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• meatpacking district A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  Florent, the undistinguished but somehow unforgettable diner that ushered in the transformation of Manhattan’s meatpacking district, closed amid fanfare and heartbreak on Sunday night. (See related slide show.)

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• South Ozone Park A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  Gloria Hedges is still having trouble grasping that her companion, Andrew Seabrooks, a lifelong resident of South Ozone Park, was killed in Afghanistan, Susan Dominus writes in her Big City column.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Downtown Brooklyn A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  A rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn has enabled plans for a major expansion of the Fulton Mall, a retail district that business owners say has untapped potential. [Daily News]

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Fulton Mall A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  A rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn has enabled plans for a major expansion of the Fulton Mall, a retail district that business owners say has untapped potential. [Daily News]

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Chinatown A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

  The Brooklyn district attorney’s office is seeking hate-crime charges against a Chinatown man, Victor Yau, 60, who attacked a Falun Gong practitioner with a steering-wheel locking device. [New York Post]

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Manhattan CB 3 Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

  Using 2000 census data, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which was recently formed, points out that while Community Board 3 is 28 percent white, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of that population sits in the rezoned area.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

  Local Law 73 mandates that four city social services agencies — Administration for Children’s Services, Human Resources Administration (which handles and food stamps and other public assistance), the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, nd the Department for Homeless Services — offered fairly extensive translation services, including translating documents into six languages and having bilingual staff on hand.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Manhattan CB 1 Higher Costs and Delays Expected at Ground Zero

  Many planners, officials and local residents insist that the dates and budget numbers were unrealistic the day they were announced by the Port Authority and former governor George E. Pataki, who made the rebuilding of ground zero a cornerstone of his administration. Still, Julie Menin, chairwoman of Community Board 1, which covers the former World Trade Center, said she was dismayed by the latest news.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Morningside Park Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  The correspondent who, um, gushed about the Morningside Park example called it “a very natural looking falls and pond” and urged everyone see it because “it is a wonderful surprise.”

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Central Park Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  The listing was eccentric, ranging from the cheesy to the decorous to the memorable, including window-washer cascades, subway-pipe torrents, restaurant water walls and atrium water features as well as grand public works in Central Park.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Columbia University Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  Adrian Benepe, the city parks commissioner, called that one “majestic, with a 30-foot drop,” adding that the waterfall resulted from the ill-fated attempt of Columbia University to build a gymnasium in the park in the 1960s.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Hotel Torrent Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  W Times Square Hotel Torrent, 1567 Broadway, at 47th Street, Manhattan. This may lack the grandeur of the Bond Clothing Store Sign on Broadway (its 50,000-gallon waterfall was 27 feet high and 120 feet long and once occupied the block from West 44th to West 45th Streets starting in 1948). But only two blocks away from that vanished classic, visitors to the W Hotel can now wait for elevators under the glass bottom of a pool that diverts water down transparent walls in the lobby.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• 217 East 51st Street Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  Greenacre Park, 217 East 51st Street, between Second and Third Avenues, Manhattan. The mighty, roaring torrent in 6,360-square-foot Greenacre Park has been called a sister park to the better-known Paley Park.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• 645 Fifth Avenue Cascading Waters, Too Many of Them to Mention

  Olympic Tower Atrium Falls, 645 Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets, Manhattan. To the South of Paley Park is the three-tiered vertical channel of water in the Olympic Tower atrium, splashing down onto brown granite, and swirling in a foaming plunge pool.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Central Park A Bon Jovi Concert (With a Slip-Up Over Troubled Waters)

  The hard rock band Bon Jovi will give a free concert on July 12 to as many as 60,000 people on the Great Lawn of Central Park in honor of Major League Baseball’s 79th All-Star Game, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced at a news conference on Monday afternoon.

  Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

• Church Avenue and East 35th Street <i>On This Day in History: June 30 </i><br> ‘Is Anyone Here from Brooklyn?’

  ...another child. Red-headed Edythe was born on June 30, 1918, in a tenement at Church Avenue and East 35th Street in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Little Edythe was the cutest of the Marrener kids...

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

• 2568 Bedford Ave. <i>On This Day in History: June 30 </i><br> ‘Is Anyone Here from Brooklyn?’

  Edythe’s family moved to 2568 Bedford Ave. and she got herself a paper route delivering the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the first girl...

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

• 6 MetroTech Center <i> Brooklyn Today:</i> Monday, June 30, 2008

  The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Dibner Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 6 MetroTech Center.

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

• 80 DeKalb Avenue B’klyn 80/20 Developments, Mitchell-Lamas Get Funding

  • 80 DeKalb Avenue, an 80/20 project of Forest City Ratner Companies in Fort Greene, will receive $137 million in financing for a 34-story building with 365 units, 73 of which will be reserved for low-income tenants.

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

• 43 Herbert St. B’klyn 80/20 Developments, Mitchell-Lamas Get Funding

  • Greenpoint — $485,000 to finance the renovation of a former police precinct building into a three-story co-op with 14 units at 43 Herbert St. Additional financing will come from the HPD and the borough president.

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

• Mermaid Avenue and West 16th Street B’klyn 80/20 Developments, Mitchell-Lamas Get Funding

  • Coney Island — $425,000 to finance construction of 14 co-ops on several sites on Mermaid Avenue and West 16th Street.

  Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.