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The Newsletter of Borough of Manhattan Community College
BMCC students
rise to the occasion
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Spring/Summer 2010
The
Haitian
EARTHduring and after
QUAKE
In This Issue:
Music Man
Jazz musician Emmanuel
Mendoza returns to BMCC with
a clearer sense of purpose.
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Success Goes Underground
MTA Civil Engineer Mohamed
Hoque looks back on Bangladesh
and his start at BMCC.
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Does Mauby Really Work?
Kwame Amin tests a folk
remedy from Haiti–and wins
a science prize.
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(Stories on page 4)
Common
Knowled
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Why Innovation Matters
A
Items of interest to the BMCC Com mu
Senator Charles
Schumer Inspires
lthough healthcare reform has been President
Graduates at 45th
Obama’s top priority, it was hardly surprising that he devoted a
Commencement
portion of his recent State of the Union address to education in
Keynote Speaker
America. “The idea is simple,” he said. “Instead of funding the
Charles Schumer, U.S.
status quo, we only invest in reform—reform that raises student
Senator from New York,
achievement; inspires students to excel in math and science; and
announced a “class gift”
turns around failing schools.”
to the graduates, ex-
But meaningful reform, the President might have added, can
plaining that in this
only come through innovation—and that applies at every stage of
economy, middle-class
the educational process. “In this economy, a high school diploma
students need financial
no longer guarantees a good job,” he said. “That’s why I urge the
aid, too.
Senate to follow the House and pass a bill that will revitalize our
“So two years ago I
community colleges, which are a pathway to the children of so
wrote a law,” he said, refer-
many working families.”
ring to a college tuition
At BMCC, we’ve long viewed innovation as a precondition
of educational excellence. In my state of the college remarks this
year, I noted that we are continually looking for ways to expand
tax credit in the federal economic
tion, through ‘giving back’, and
stimulus package, “so you or your
‘paying it forward’.”
parents who pay for tuition can take
our curricular offerings—to make them more responsive to our
students’ needs and aspirations and to prepare them for the challenges they will face in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Thus, each year brings new course offerings and imaginative
to set the pace for the nation’s community colleges in
developing and implement-
and former chairman of the
of college. But only if your family
BMCC Foundation, and one who
income is below $200,000 a year.”
has set a profound example of
ored with the Presidential Medal,
note, assured graduates that “the
and over 2,700 graduates were
answers to life’s questions are
awarded Associate degrees.
through education and explora-
and research and in our use
of cutting-edge instructional
“giving back,” himself, was hon-
Pérez, on a more philosophical
within you. You’ll discover them
ing new models of teaching
Raymond O’Keefe, founder
$500 off your taxes for each year
BMCC President Antonio
new curricular programs. At the same time, we are determined
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technology.
Innovation, said Apple
computer visionary Steve
BMCC Administration
Jobs, “is what distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” In
Antonio Pérez
PRESIDENT
the education arena, innovation also distinguishes between prog-
Sadie C. Bragg
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
F O R A C A D E M I C A F FA I R S
ress and stagnation—and between success and failure. Nowhere
G. Scott Anderson
is that more true than in our nation’s community colleges. It’s a
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Senator Charles Schumer
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ons
edge
resources, or CPRs.
eventually moved to New York to
“A key component
live with his father, who was pur-
to Ostrom’s work,” writes
suing a Masters degree in Math.
Thompson, “is an inter-
Flying unaccompanied, the
om munity
10-year-old landed in New York
disciplinary approach; her
in August 1997, and started sixth
research and publications
grade in Washington Heights the
on CPRs draw from con-
next day. “I spoke virtually no Eng-
servation biology, ecology,
lish,” he says. “Even so, it was fun.”
psychology, and economics,
among others.”
Ambaye’s language skills
soared, and so did his dancing
Altogether, 12 CUNY
Kimberly Thompson
skills, leading to a scholarship at
undergraduates—out of
the Alvin Ailey American Dance
BMCC Student Wins
101 applicants—received awards
School summer camp. Today, he’s
Grand Prize in CUNY-
for their essays based on 2009
Ambaye had never even seen a
enrolled at BMCC, and establish-
wide Nobel Science
Nobel prize-winning work in
swimming pool. Born in 1986 in
ing records in the men’s back-
Challenge
a refugee camp in Sudan—where
stroke and individual medley, on
BMCC science major Kimberly
chemistry, physiology and medi-
his family had relocated while
the BMCC swim team.
Thompson won first place in
First, second and third prizes in
the economics category of the
each category included an Apple
2009 CUNY Nobel Science Chal-
iMac Computer, a Dell Mini 10
Swimming to America
Until he was 12, Haftom
civil war ravaged their home province of Humera, Ethiopia—he
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lenge—as well as $5,000
cine, physics, and economics.
Netbook, and an Amazon Kindle.
Kimberly Thompson was
as an overall Grand
Prizewinner.
Thompson—
announced as the surprise Grand
Prizewinner at the end of the
the contest’s only
ceremony, elation alternating with
awardee from a
stunned disbelief as she posed
CUNY community
holding the giant, sweepstakes-
college—wrote her
award-winning essay on
style CUNY check made out for
$5,000.
“I plan to put it toward
the Nobel-prizewinning work of
Elinor Ostrom, who proposed
school,” she said.
eight basic tenets relating to sus-
Haftom Ambaye
tainable common-pool (shared)
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Foundation News: BMCC Scholarship Fund Holds Spring Gala
Gala on the Hudson
BMCC’s 22nd Annual Scholarship Gala, held at The Lighthouse at Chelsea
Piers on Manhattan’s West Side, raised over $435,000 in funds supporting the
BMCC Scholarship program. u Honorees were Robert J. Mueller, Retired Senior
Officer, The Bank of New York Mellon, and Jessica Schell, Senior Vice President for Digital Strategy and Business Development at NBC Universal. Master
of Ceremonies and CBS correspondent Jim Axelrod introduced the speakers,
Robert J. Mueller
including BMCC President Antonio Per´ez. “BMCC’s mission is to make higher
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education accessible to all with the ambition to attain it,” he said. “Most BMCC
students are the first in their families to attend college. Our mission to provide
a step-up to these students is critical, because jobs requiring associate degrees are growing twice as fast as those requiring no college experience.”
u The event brought together over 330 attendees, and featured a reception, silent
auction and dinner.
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Jessica Schell
COVER STORY
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THE
HAI
TIAN
EARTHQUAKE
Stephen Faustin’s Haitian Odyssey
B
Faustin turned the car around, headed to his family’s home in the Bour-
orn in the U.S. but raised in Haiti, Stephen Faustin gradu-
ated from BMCC with a degree in engineering science, and is now taking
don section of Port-au-Prince, a few kilometers from the quake’s epicenter,
additional courses at his alma mater. He returns to Haiti every year to visit
and found the structure intact—but the building next door was gone.
“My two sisters who lived in Haiti, my cousins and goddaughters, had
family and people he grew up with, and on a recent visit, the afternoon of
Tuesday, January 12, he drove to meet a friend—and headed right into the
all gotten out and were safe,” he says. But two people were unaccounted
earthquake’s destruction.
for—his father, and Mamí, who had cared for him as a child. “She was like a
mother to me,” he says.
“We could see streets swaying and buckling,” Faustin says. “Buildings
Faustin formed a rescue party, frantically calling Mamí’s name into the
had collapsed and there was so much dust it was hard to see. People were
rubble. “We could hear people who were trapped crying for help,” he says.
walking in the streets, bleeding and dazed.”
And finally, they heard Mamí calling
Small Efforts Matter BMCC student does his part to rebuild Haiti.
Faustin and his friends continued
digging and extricated more people,
T
including a woman who died the next
support. u Smaller in scale, is the relief that’s been offered one person at a time—like that of BMCC Liberal Arts
York—but sadly, his aunt, stricken by
major Isaac Logan. u Born in Russia, Logan spent his first 10 years in an orphanage, was adopted by an American
the ordeal, died just a few days later.
he devastating January, 2010 earthquake in Haiti—which claimed over 230,000 lives and left a million people
homeless—drew a massive global response including rescue workers, humanitarian supplies, and monetary
day. After nearly two weeks, he and
his aunt boarded a flight back to New
and lived in Texas to the age of 17—when he made his way to New York, working in a restaurant, and completing
“The hardships faced by the
his GED. u Now in his second year at BMCC, Logan spent spring break in Haiti. u “I grew up in poverty,” he says.
Haitians now are beyond imagin-
“But I never went through anything on the magnitude of what the Haitians have faced. I wanted to reach out and let
ing,” he says. “I feel it’s important
them know there are people who care.” u Through Hands-On, a relief organization, Logan flew to Port-au-Prince,
that Americans continue to help the
paying his own airfare, then was driven by truck to Léogâne, a city of collapsed buildings, children and animals
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digging for food. u Logan, alongside other volunteers, dismantled a destroyed building with sledgehammers, and
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“Stephen, Stephen,” in a weak voice.
country through donations.”
Back in New York, Faustin is
trying to resume normal life. “I still
cleared debris with shovels and wheelbarrows. The week’s experience,
jump when I hear a subway rumble,
he says, “has made me grateful for the opportunities that have been
and sometimes wake up in the middle
given to me.” u After graduating from BMCC, Logan hopes to attend a
of the night,” he says. The sounds and
senior college, and major in international affairs. “It was overwhelming
images from his 2010 Haiti visit will
to think this tragedy took place so close to the U.S.,” Logan says. “I left
be with him always, he says. “But so
wishing I could have done more.” u Haiti relief efforts are far from over.
will the memories of a happy child-
For a list of ways to do your part, visit http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/haiti/
hood in a beautiful country.”
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B M C C
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S P O R T S
Bringing Hoop
Dreams to Life
“We use basketball as a vehicle for teaching life skills.”
BMCC men’s basketball coach Dan
teaching life skills,” he says. “Playing on this
Nigro is instructing sophomore Justin
team is about being on time, showing re-
Daniels, a 6’7” forward, on the finer points
spect to others, paying attention to details.
of free throws, lay-ups and jump shots.
If the players can conduct themselves this
way on a day-to-day basis, both academi-
“Keep your eye on the rim and your
shoulders straight—and make sure to
cally and athletically, it will stand them in
follow through,” he calls from the side-
good stead in the future.”
Adds freshman guard Justin Daniels,“I
lines. “That way you get the ball to rotate
and spin into the basket.”
love basketball. But I’m learn-
“
Nigro assumed the helm of
the Panthers in Fall 2009, after
successful stints with a number
ing a lot more than how to
play the game. I’m learning
about responsibility and how
In a sense,
of other college teams—includ-
to function independently.”
they’re under a
ing Division 1 squads—as well as
Nigro holds practices six
microscope
coaching at the high school level.
days a week, “and the players
are expected to arrive punc-
much more than
“What drew me here,” said
Nigro, “was BMCC’s commitment
tually, just as their professors
other students.
to team sports, as well as the great
expect them to show up on
”
resources. The facilities are among
the best in all of CUNY.”
“Our main goal for the season
was to stay competitive,” he says.
time for class—or an employer would expect them to
show up on time for a job,”
he notes. “We stay in close
The Panthers made the CUNY
touch with their instructors,
finals, and Nigro continues ex-
and require them to take
pecting the best. “We’d love to get
part in tutoring programs.”
Coach Dan Nigro
What it all comes down to,
into the regionals, which are statewide, and ultimately, the nationals.”
That won’t all happen overnight, he ac-
he adds, is that team members must meet
basic academic standards in order to keep
knowledges. In contrast to 4-year colleges,
playing. “In a sense, they’re under a micro-
the Panthers roster changes continually,
scope much more than other students.”
“since our players stay for only two years
at most.” Among this season’s standouts
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are Janel Cobb and Tony Vails, who have
Week” awards and are ranked among the
nation’s top college scorers and rebounders.
For now, says Nigro, skill development—both on and off the basketball
court—is a higher priority than trying to
win championships.
Eyandra Molina, a 5’6” guard from the
Bronx, was selected CUNYAC Player of the
Year, scoring 426 points and averaging 23.7
points per game, the second highest effort in
all of the National Junior College Athletic
Association (NJCAA). Tony Vails, a 6’2” guard
from Brooklyn, scoring 427 points and averaging
8
“We use basketball as a vehicle for
Players of the Year
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repeatedly garnered CUNY “Player of the
22.5 points per game this season, was selected
CUNYAC Player of the Week five times this season.
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BMCC
FAC U LT Y
Student: Emmanuel Mendoza
Lit Crit as Alien Encounter
“Students really latch on to it, to think about ‘what if?’”
“S
ome would argue that science fiction has to
Worlds collide
S
exton notes that in the time he’s taught science fic-
have science in it, that it makes an attempt to explain
tion at BMCC, “students really latch on to it, to think
the unexplainable,” says Professor Danny Sexton, who
about ‘what if?’”
teaches Introduction to Science Fiction. “My defini-
In “Mad Moon,” future and past worlds meet in two
tion is a bit broader, because I think good science
fiction comments on the past, and the present, and
characters, ‘Grant’ and ‘Lee’, and Sexton points out parallels
anticipates the future.”
with the Civil War. “That could be supported,” says a stu-
Sexton’s students grapple with their own definition
of the genre, reading stories ranging from H.G.
Wells’s “The Time Machine,” published 1895,
to Philip K. Dick’s 1968 classic, “Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?,” basis of the movie
Blade Runner.
A contemporary lens
“E
very alien seems the same,” asserts
one student. “There’s no possible
justification to envision a society, an entire
story. There are two opposite, opposing factions.”
“And in the end,” says another, “Grant
Good science
A student leaves BMCC
and returns—with a
clearer sense of who he is.
and Lee get married. It’s like the country
fiction comments
on the past,
coming together after the war.”
The class also debates whether a char-
“I
started teaching myself to play elec-
tric bass when I was five,” says Emmanuel
acter’s reality is an hallucination, noting that
Mendoza. “Later, I’d run home from school
the present, and
opiate plants grew on the planet. Others men-
and listen to records over and over—rock,
anticipates
tion the subjugation of aliens harvesting the
reggae, jazz, funk, Latin.”
the future.
species, as all just one culture.”
They’ve just read the 1949 Stanley
Weinbaum short story, “Mad Moon,” and reviews are
mixed. “It’s like how we look at immigrants,” another
student adds, “as being all the same.”
“Look at the word ‘alien’,” says Sexton. “Think of
the term ‘alienation’—where you feel separated and
isolated from other people.”
“
dent, “because they have a North Pole and a South Pole in the
Music Man
”
addictive ‘fervel’ leaves, and Sexton brings up
By age 18, Mendoza was playing gigs in
the concept of colonization, which triggers a
local bands—but when he enrolled in BMCC
student’s observation that “Grant has a fire gun
in 2006, he opted to major in business and
that annihilates the whole culture, and we’re
confine his musical activities to evenings
exploiting other cultures for their inflatable crops today.”
In the students’ analysis, past, present and future
and weekends—which didn’t happen.
“Working all day, then rehearsing
overlap. “I never saw the stuff I read in science fiction as
and playing gigs at night was just too
not being able to happen,” Sexton says. “I just saw it as
hard,” he says. Eventually, he left BMCC—
not happening now.”
but now he’s back, this time as a Liberal
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Arts major with a much clearer sense of
who he is and where he’s going.
“I’m taking courses in theory and global
music,” he says. “Once I graduate, I’d like to
audition for a jazz program, like the ones at
The New School or Julliard. I really want to get
a degree in music and make music my career.”
He’s well on his way. Two years ago, he
joined Judah Tribe, a well-regarded Reggae
band that has performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Jazz at Lincoln Center —
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and recently gave a benefit concert for Haitian earthquake relief.
“I’m thrilled to be back at BMCC and
working toward my dream,” says Mendoza.
“Music has enriched my life. It’s really the
only thing I want to do.”
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A LU M N I
I
N E W S
&
N OT E S
Success Goes
Underground
“I was not certain how far I could make it.”
B
MCC alum Mohamed
Hoque—a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Civil
three hours with my father to reach
the nearest town.”
Eventually, Hoque moved to
Today, Hoque is a Civil
don’t just teach them, I like to see
Engineer III with the MTA’s Civil/
them grow,” he says, “and fully
Structural Core Group. “Mostly,
realize their potential. I am there
Engineer who ensures the structural
Ohio, took ESL courses, then moved
we explore subsurface soil and rock
for them at every level, whether they
integrity of one of the world’s most
to New York, enrolling at BMCC. “I
conditions,” he says, “to see if it can
need a reference—or any kind of
extensive public transportation
was not certain how far I could make
support the building structures.”
assistance I can provide.”
systems—started his life walking dirt
it,” he says, “At BMCC, working
roads, with his father.
with a very cooperative faculty and
has also taught General Physics at
staff lifted my spirits up.”
BMCC, a subject that “enlightens
“I come from a village named
Katakhali,” says Hoque, “in the
After graduating from BMCC
For the last eight years, he
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students about the things around
southern district of Barisal, in
in 1994 with an Associate degree
us: the light, the magnets, the vari-
Bangladesh. When I grew up, it
in Engineering Science, Hoque
ous machinery and equipment, the
was pure rural with no electricity,
transferred to Polytechnic Univer-
loads, forces, speed, velocity—even
no paved roads, very few bridges or
sity, earning a Bachelor of Science in
the pitch and sound.”
brick houses. I remember, during
Civil Engineering, and a Master of
the rainy season, I used to travel on
Science in Transportation Planning
Hoque’s way of giving back to the
muddy and slippery roads for about
and Engineering.
school where he got his start. “I
Teaching future engineers is
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Keep in Touch
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Alumni Highlight: Sonia Gill
or 212-220-1251
When Sonia Gill was growing up in Guyana, she imagined becoming a teacher. Later, she
considered economics, and her strengths came to light during admissions testing at BMCC. “I had done
really well on a math exam,” she says, “and my advisor suggested I go for accounting.” u After earning
a licensed CPA, began her career at a Big Four accounting firm, and now works in investment banking.
“There are always new accounting rules to interpret,” she says. “It’s a profession that evolves over time.”
u On weekends, she teaches accounting at BMCC, sharing professional insights with students. Will the
field provide careers, as they envision? “I think accounting is an excellent profession,” says Gill. “There
are still positions, more so at the junior level. It’s a cycle, and it’s turning around.”
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an Associate in Accounting degree from BMCC, and a Bachelor in Accounting from Baruch College, Gill,
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Does Mauby Really Work?
Testing a folk remedy from Trinidad—and winning first prize in the process.
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n the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, people with high blood pressure
seek relief by eating a native plant called “mauby.” “Folk remedies are popular
there,” says Trinidad-born Kwame Amin, who graduated from BMCC with an
Associate in Science degree. u Supervised by BMCC Science Professor Brahmadeo Dewprashad, Amin tested the folk remedy’s medical validity, and confirmed a
study claiming hypertensive patients benefit from the plant’s chemical compounds.
u Testing mauby’s effects on blackworms, Amin noticed “a distinct lowering of their
pulse rate.” Eventually, those findings earned him a first-place showing—competing
against students from an array of 4-year and Ivy League schools—in the chemical sciences division of the prestigious Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. u Professor Dewprashad
holds us to extremely high standards,”
says Amin. “We wound up beating out some very tough
competition.”
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CommonsCalendar
Family Series
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Steve Songs. Steve Roslonek
appears on PBS Kids as
Events, exhibits, performances for the coming months.
the lovable music teacher, Mr. Steve and has
Jazz Special Event
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Uhuru Afrika: 50th Anniversary
Tribeca Dance
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Concert Celebration with Randy
Weston & His Orchestra. Weston’s
Iñaki Urlezaga, Ballet Concierto
tribute to African countries liberated
fuses Argentinean and classical
in 1960 features lyrics by Langs-
dance. Program A: Gala Vivat
ton Hughes. Nov. 13 @ 8 pm, $45
Argentina, Oct. 15 @ 8 p.m. and
orchestra, $35 mezzanine, $25 upper
Oct. 17 @ 3 p.m. Program B:
mezzanine. Students: $10 off mez-
Classical program, Oct. 16 @
zanine prices.
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $35, $45, $55
and $65.
Borough of Manhattan
Community College
been
Iñaki Urlezaga: Ballet Concierto.
Led by founder and choreographer
BMCC Tribeca PAC & Theatreworks USA. Dec. 12 @ 3 p.m.,
$25; 10 Club Members $14.
performing for families
Tribeca Spotlight
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Likeness to Lily. This Brooklyn
band features singer-songwriter
for over a decade. Oct.
Susan Oetgen, pianist Tony Mel-
23 @ 1:30 p.m., $25;
one, bass player Ian M. Rigg and
10 Club Members $14.
drummer Evan Pazner. Nov. 12 @ 8
p.m., $15.
Harold
and the
Purple Crayon.
Life-size puppets,
magic and music enJunie B. Jones
liven this Enchantment
Theatre Company production based on Crockett Johnson’s
stories of an adventurous boy. Nov. 20
@ 1:30 p.m., $25; 10 Club Members $14.
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Rana Santacruz. Called “Mexi-
can Bluegrass” or “Irish Mariachi,”
Santacruz’s music travels from Ireland, to Appalachia, New Orleans,
and Mexico. Dec.17 @ 8 p.m., $15.
Likeness to Lily
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199 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
Junie B. Jones. This funny, fastpaced musical about new friends,
new glasses and other first-grade
situations, is based on Barbara
Park’s stories and presented by
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CommonsCalendar: All events are presented
by the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (www.tribecapac.org).
For tickets call: 212-220-1460.