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Editorial
Bridge tolls’ time will come
Mayor Mike Bloomberg did New Yorkers a favor last week when he declined to put the final nail in the coffin of the idea of tolling the East River bridges. After his spokesperson said the idea was pretty much dead in the river, Bloomberg, according to New York Newsday, said, “Nothing is off the table…. You always want to have the administration look at all possibilities.”
Letters to the editor
Second thoughts
By RICHMOND JONES
Editorial cartoon
By IRA BLUTREICH
Reporter’s notebook
No Krauts or Ivan this time — no donuts either
By Alphie McCourt
“In the interest of peace in the city,” I said. “Don’t disappear. You are an important man.” “What do you mean,” said Achmed. (Achmed sells bagels, donuts, Danish and coffee from a stand on Eighth Ave. in the 20s.)
“I mean,” said I, “that on the day of September 11th you disappeared, you took off, you and all the other vendors around here. Bereft we were, starving, without coffee and not even a hint of a donut.”
Squares and the city, a dynamic relationship
By Albert Amateau
For a view of what Washington Sq. Park was like on a hot July afternoon in 1935, with people wading in the central fountain and double-decker buses driving through the square, nostalgic Villagers should venture Uptown to the Arsenal in Central Park at Fifth Ave. and 64th St.
News in brief
Police blotter
Forward building is up for sale
Study: Ferries pollute more than cars, buses
Forum to address W.T.C. rebuilding impact
Free ‘Macbeth’ at amphitheater
Health
Native Americans walk all over diabetes in Noho
By Roslyn Kramer
Our fast-food, all-you-can-eat society is experiencing some spectacularly unhealthy side effects, and nowhere is this better known than at the American Indian Community House on Broadway near Houston St. Native American communities are in the throes of a Type 2 diabetes epidemic, the result of huge changes in Indian lifestyle and diet.
Theater workshops
TADA! Children’s Theater is offering two, week-long musical theater workshops at Pace University this summer July 7 -11, and July 14- 18. Children will rehearse and perform music from Broadway selections and original TADA! shows and will be taught by the company’s musical director, Andrew Markus, and director/chorographer Cindy Thole.
West Side 9-and-10-year-olds beat G.V. Little Leaguers, 14-2
By Peter Gale
The West Side Little League handed the Greenwich Village 9-and-10-year-old tournament team its second loss on Tues., July 8, in Kingsbridge. The Villagers have now been eliminated from the district tournament.
Marketing
The Meat Market
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Villager photo by Ramin Talaie
Howl! performers and organizers, from left, Phil Hartman, Robert Prichard, Scott Lifshutz, Carmen Pietri-Diaz, Thomas Bannister and Bob Rosenthal.
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Howl! festival hopes to jolt East Village art scene to life
By Megha Bahree
“The East Village is about more than places to get drunk in and streets to vomit on,” Philip Hartman, filmmaker and owner of Two Boots Pizza, said. “It’s not too late, but it’s almost too late.”
A waterfall at the W.T.C.?
 By Josh Rogers
How about building a waterfall almost as tall as Niagara Falls at the World Trade Center site?
The idea perhaps sounds like just one of the thousands, if not millions, of ideas that have been proposed by architects and lay people and posted on Web sites, e-mailed to news organizations or discussed in barrooms all over the world since the 9/11 attack.
Diving for treasure in the trash
By Brett C Vermilyea
The skies opened up an hour before, the rain racing down in tubfuls, leaving the quickening evening Mississippi humid. At right about that time peculiar to Manhattan when the skies are still blue but the streets black, an odd collection of 50 or so people gathered near the Washington Sq. Arch, standing over their odd collection of 50 or so bikes, looking around expectantly.
Silver Palace waiters win $500,000 settlement
By Mary Reinholz
A group of Chinatown workers who had been engaged in long-term demonstrations and legal battles against bosses at the now bankrupt New Silver Palace restaurant has won a settlement from their former employers amounting to nearly $500,000 for lost wages, misappropriated tips and other labor violations, according to lawyers on both sides of the dispute.
A stitch in time, union label marks 100 years
By Sascha Brodsky
The world has changed a lot in the century since the local garment worker’s union was founded, but union members from 1903 would be instantly familiar with their counterparts of the current era.
E. 11th residents prepare for Con Ed street work
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Residents of E. 11th St. have braced themselves for disruption as Con Edison gears up for a major installation project from First Ave. to Avenue C.
Arts Club president’s brother caught in tax crime
By Albert Amateau
John T. James, a longtime resident of the National Arts Club in the landmarked Samuel Tilden mansion on Gramercy Park S., pleaded guilty last week to evading taxes on jewelry he bought and sold by illegally using the club’s tax-exempt number.
ArtBots: the Rise of the Other Machines
By Wickham Boyle
This summer the movie Terminator takes on, as the hype will tell you, THE RISE OF THE MACHINES. Well, maybe machine uprising is a summer of 03 kinda thang, cause baby the machines are on the rise at EYEBEAM Gallery on West 21. ROBOT was a four day festival that ran from July 12 to the 15 and featured robots beyond the imaginings of science fiction. Many of these robots and their creators can be reached by e-mail sites and so the curious reader can take the summer of machines into his or her own hands.
Billy Joel grapples with the past
By Jerry Tallmer
His (and ex-wife Christie Brinkley’s) daughter is Alexa, age 17, who goes to school on Long Island and, says her father, “is a songwriter herself, as a matter of fact a much better songwriter than I was at that age, and a better pianist, and a singer with a beautiful voice.”
Trio of Talents: bandleader, drummer and composer
 By Sean Fitzell
At stage left, drummer Susie Ibarra is poised behind her drum-kit so that she can clearly see the band and give them cues during a gig. She sits with straight posture, moving around the kit with fluid, minimal motions. This meditative appearance and economy of motion often belies the technicality of the rhythms and music she plays. Ibarra presides over shows seemingly without effort.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
“Terminator 3” (-)What a stinker. This film will vie with the others that opened during the last several weeks for “worst of the year.”. I liked “Terminator l” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad machine sent back from the future to prevent the birth of a child who would lead the human race against the machines that had conquered the world. “Swimming Pool” (+) The film is excellent and unusual. Detective story novelist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) is staying at a house in France owned by her editor, John Bosload (Charles Dance), hoping to write a novel of a different genre. John’s daughter, Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), drops in unexpectedly and has several one-night stands with local studs.
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Bars/Clubs
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| ATTEMPTING THE PERFECT CIRCLE Several artists have been selected by George Billis Gallery, located at 511 West 25th Street, to participate in “Round” their summer show featuring all things circular. |
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Comedy/Restaurants
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