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Trinity Church Debuts Free Afterschool Program with Sports, Academic Help, and More
A new, free afterschool program has been launched by Trinity Youth, the outreach arm of Trinity Church that focuses on middle- and high-school students. The program will offer everything from basketball and mindfulness to test prep and use of a teaching kitchen. All activities, which are free and open to students in grades six through 12, will be hosted in the teens-only space on the fifth floor of Trinity Commons (the new community building behind Trinity Church), located at 76 Trinity Place.
“The Trinity Youth Afterschool reflects Trinity Church’s dedication to the young people in our community,” explains Rev. Matt Welsch, priest and director for Youth & Community Care at Trinity. “We’re hoping to help facilitate the kind of flourishing that’s only possible in diverse communities rooted in love.”
Trinity Youth strives to practice “radical welcome” by including not only parishioners and students from Trinity’s school partnerships, but youth from throughout Lower Manhattan and across New York City, and the inclusion all people regardless of background, beliefs, or experience.
“We’re looking forward to building wrap-around support for young people and their networks of care, including schools, parents, and friends,” adds Jennifer Chinn, Trinity’s director of Youth & Community Partnerships. “The afterschool is really a third space, where young people have the freedom to explore and learn and be their wild and authentic selves. That is what we are called to be.”
Trinity Youth Afterschool is open Monday through Friday during the school year (following the City’s public school calendar). Within Trinity Commons, the Youth Lounge and the Quiet Study Space are open throughout the afternoon for homework, relaxing with friends, and connecting. In addition, the Afterschool Program offers classes in academic support, athletics, and the arts.
“The excitement is palpable, and our hopes are high,” reflects Trinity’s Vicar, Rev. Michael A. Bird. “Walking alongside the youth of our neighborhood, and helping them thrive, is central to our mission and focus. An enormous amount of planning and energy has gone into this moment.”
The Afterschool Program’s current schedule includes access to the Trinity Youth Lounge and Homework Space each weekday afternoon (from 2:30 to 6:00 pm), and a volleyball skills clinic on Mondays (from 4:30 to 6:00 pm). Tuesdays offer practice by the Step & Dance Team from 3:00 to 4:00 pm and Test Prep (from 3:00 to 5:00 pm). On Wednesdays, there is a Mindfulness session from 3:00 to 4:00 pm. Wednesdays and Thursdays also feature open basketball in the new, regulation-sized gymnasium from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. Thursdays bring Make Your Mark art classes from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, and Homework Help from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. And Fridays offer Open Gym from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.
Historic, Publicly Owned Battery Maritime Building Has Reopened, But Only for Paying Customers
Community Board 1 (CB1) is raising questions about the use of what was supposed to be public space at the Battery Maritime Building, located at Ten South Street.
The publicly owned structure, located next to the Staten Island Ferry, is a landmarked Beaux Art ferry terminal built in 1909. It served for three decades as the gateway for boats taking passengers across the East River, but after commuters and vehicles gained direct access to Manhattan with the advent of bridges, tunnels, and subways, ferry usage declined and the building fell into disrepair.
BPCA Chair Will Depart to Serve as Next American Ambassador to Greece
Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) chairman George Tsunis has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next American Ambassador to Greece, after being nominated to that post by President Joe Biden in October.
This development follows a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, in which Mr. Tsunis won praise from Senators on both sides of the aisle for his performance. To read more…
1. Community District 1 Demographics Update – Presentation by James Wilson-Schutter, Fund for the City of New York Community Planning Fellow
2. Officially Empaneling the Co-Naming Task Force & Public Restroom Working Group – Discussion
3. Comprehensive Resiliency Project Coordination to Preserve Open Space and Quality of Life – Discussion & Resolution
4. Committee Highlights
7PM
Jazz at the Poster Museum
Grammy Award-winning drummer Robby Ameen has lived in Tribeca since the early 90s and has established a recording and touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon, while maintaining a more than 30-year relationship with Latin icon Ruben Blades as a member of Los Seis del Solar. He and his band are back live at Philip Williams Posters, at 52 Warren Street. $20, $10 students; with complimentary wine. For reservations, 212-513-0313 or robbyameen@gmail.com
From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession—to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.
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News Analysis & Opinion: Stop Driving Us Out of Our Homes
Why Parity Is a Parody of Affordability
If you live in Battery Park City, you likely received a letter in the mail recently from the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), spreading a false narrative about how the Authority is “keeping Battery Park City affordable.” The truth is that the BPCA appears to be doing everything in its power to create and preserve luxury housing, along with a token number of low-income rental apartments. This is forcing out moderate- and middle-income homeowners and renters—who have built Battery Park City into the vibrant, thriving community it is today. And it is worth noting that 40 percent of owner-occupied homes in Battery Park City fall into the moderate- and middle-income categories. To read more…
Esplanade or Espla-Nada?
City Says Planned Improvements to East River Waterfront Are On Hold
The February 22 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1) included an update about long-planned improvements to the East River Esplanade, some of which are being cancelled.
Paul Goldstein, the chair of CB1’s Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee, said, “we got a report from Economic Development Corporation [EDC] regarding some of their waterfront assets and projects that are ongoing—or not.” (The EDC is a not-profit corporation controlled by City government, which oversees development of assets, such as publicly owned property.)
“Unfortunately, a lot this project is not moving ahead for a variety of reasons,” Mr. Goldstein explained, “the biggest one being that the City is focusing much more on resiliency, and they don’t want to go ahead with improvements that may interfere with that.” To read more…
Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets
Tribeca Greenmarket
Greenwich Street & Chambers Street
Every Wednesday & Saturday, 8am-3pm
Food Scrap Collection: Saturdays, 8am-1pm
Open Saturdays and Wednesdays year round
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Green Greenmarket at Bowling Green
Broadway & Whitehall St
Open Tuesday and Thursdays, year-round
Market Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Compost Program: 8 a.m. – 11 a.m.
The Bowling Green Greenmarket brings fresh offerings from local farms to Lower Manhattan’s historic Bowling Green plaza. Twice a week year-round stop by to load up on the season’s freshest fruit, crisp vegetables, beautiful plants, and freshly baked loaves of bread, quiches, and pot pies.
Fulton Street cobblestones between South and Front Sts. across from McNally Jackson Bookstore.
Locally grown produce from Rogowski Farm, Breezy Hill Orchard, and other farmers and small-batch specialty food products, sold directly by their producers. Producers vary from week to week.
SNAP/EBT/P-EBT, Debit/Credit, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks accepted at all farmers markets.
Today in History
March 17
“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”
― Louis Kahn
45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
1762 – First St Patrick’s Day parade in NYC
1776 – British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1836 – Texas abolishes slavery
1854 – First park land purchased by Worcester, Massachusetts
1898 – First practical submarine first submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 – Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne
1957 – Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1963 – Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1991 – NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
2008 – New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
Births
1834 – Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1874 – Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1944 – John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
Anniversaries
1905 – Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, and given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
1955 – Erotic writer Anaïs Nin marries actor Rupert Pole at Quartzsite, Arizona, while still married to her first husband
1967 – Novelist Alice Walker (23) weds civil rights lawyer Melvyn Leventhal in New York City
Divorces
2008 – Musician Paul McCartney (65) divorces former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills (40) on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour
Deaths
180 – Antonius Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, dies at 58
1853 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, dies at 49
1956 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 58
1974 – Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at 73
