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Editorial
Market and High Line both hang in the balance
As the Meat Market continues to morph into an increasingly high-end dining, shopping and entertainment district, the pressure for developers to seek residential conversions of the area’s manufacturing zoning will only mount.
Put Diether back on zoning committee
Doris Diether’s removal as vice chairperson of Community Board 2’s zoning committee under new board chairperson Jim Smith is a shame. Diether, known for good reason as the board’s “zoning maven,” knows the city’s zoning code backwards and forwards.
Letters to the editor
Second thoughts
By RICHMOND JONES
Editorial cartoon
By IRA BLUTREICH
Talking point
Davis was V.I.D. guest speaker
A little under two weeks before he was killed by a onetime political rival at City Hall, James Davis was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Village Independent Democrats club.
Notebook
After the shooting, scary hours for Downtown parents
By Jane Flanagan
A tragedy last week at City Hall. A popular Brooklyn councilmember’s life cut in half, his family grieving and his constituents mourning the loss of one of their most prominent voices.
A savage is it? Revisiting Limerick and its food
By Alphie McCourt
In 1966 I finished my two years of service in the U.S. Army. A year later, in 1967, I took my G.I. Bill benefit and returned to Ireland to study at University College, Dublin, with the idea of becoming a barrister. The G.I. Bill paid me $130 a month and I supplemented my income by returning to New York, during summer and Christmas vacations, to work in a restaurant.
News in brief
Police blotter
Shakespeare in the park, Lower East Side style
Stores support toy-gun control
Chinatown Head Start says stop the bars
Gerson pledges his SUPPORT for tolls
Lance-less race Downtown
Friends not fond of Pier 40 lawsuit
Hagler blasts Bluth petition challenge
Media frenzy in wake of shooting
Food
‘New Leshko’s’ closes; end of pierogis
By Albert Amateau
Leshko’s, the former pierogi palace on Avenue A that morphed into a less-ethnic diner two years ago, is morphing again, this time into an upscale Latin American restaurant and bar.
Restauranteurs move to East Village with seafood fare
By Francis r. Angelino
Jimmy Bradley and Danny Abrams, successful restaurateurs in Chelsea and Tribeca, recently opened the Mermaid Inn in the East Village. It is an all-seafood restaurant, with very simple recipes and fish of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Couple realizes dream of vegetarian/organic wine restaurant
By Tien-Shun Lee
Sitting by the buttery black leather seats against the wall of her East Village vegetarian restaurant, “Counter,” Deborah Gavito recalled the days when she used to sneak 50-pound bags of flour up to her West Village apartment for the homemade bakery business she ran on the sly.
Sports
Children's activities
Authentic Chelsea schooner is the real McAhoy
Hoisting the gaff sail on the Adirondack Schooner tour boat, which sails out of Chelsea Piers, were crewmembers Sarah Greer, in light-colored shorts, and Bonnie Aldinger. More than an average cruise down the river to the Statue of Liberty, the Adirondack Schooner offers an authentic sailing experience if the wind is right. Its design was based on historic pilot schooners of the late 19th century, fast boats that competed to service clipper ships.
Handball hotshot
John “Rookie” Wright, left, 30, and John Necakron, 29, played handball at the Carmine Recreation Center on Clarkson St. and Seventh Ave. S. on July 19.
Picture story
Murder in the Council, fear and panic at City Hall
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Villager photo by Ramin Talaie
Seven thousand City Hall visitors viewed the body of Councilmember James Davis Monday.
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Another side of James Davis
By Elizabeth O’Brien
I remember the first time I met James E. Davis. It was August of 2001, and Davis was stumping on a sweltering morning at the subway station around the corner from my apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. It must have been about 90 degrees, but the unflagging Davis wore a dark suit and a Cheshire Cat grin as he pumped my hand and asked for my support in the upcoming City Council race.
High Line reuse picks up steam
By Albert Amateau
The conversion of the High Line into a 1.5-mile-long park between the Gansevoort Market and the Javits Convention Center, derided as a romantic folly two years ago, appeared last week to be a serious possibility, if not a sure thing.
Harwayne retires as schools head
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Parents and community members expressed surprise and disappointment at the news last Friday that Shelley Harwayne, the former head of local school District 2, would immediately retire her new post as superintendent of Region 9.
Where councilmembers were during shooting
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Local lawmakers described a scene of horror and uncertainty inside City Hall last Wednesday as a political opponent fatally shot Councilmember James E. Davis of Brooklyn before the assailant was shot and killed by a police officer in the Council chamber.
As gunfire rang out, Lopez sprung into action
By Lincoln Anderson
On the left shoulder of her light-blue suit, Councilmember Margarita Lopez had a faded red blotch. It looked like perhaps lipstick that had been smeared. But it was blood.
Board 2 addresses Soho/Noho zoning
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Community Board 2 passed a resolution last week that would impose strict requirements on developers who ask the city for permission to build outside the designated uses of empty lots in the Soho and Noho historic districts.
Trust serves up tennis, nixes ‘live aboards;’
By Lincoln Anderson
A plan for interim recreational uses for Pier 40 will be presented to the Hudson River Park Trust’s board of directors in “a month or so,” reported Robert Balachandran, the Trust’s president, at the agency’s board meeting last Thursday.
Dapolito remembered by community board colleagues
By Lincoln Anderson
Friends and colleagues offered fond tributes and shared memories of Tony Dapolito at Community Board 2’s full board meeting last Thursday night. Known as the unofficial “Mayor of Greenwich Village,” Dapolito served 12 times as chairperson of the Village’s C.B. 2 and was the city’s longest-serving community board member. He died July 2, a day before his 83rd birthday.
‘Saunterer’ sits down to write about the feat
By Albert Amateau
It’s 32 miles around the shoreline of Manhattan and Cy Adler knows every inch of it. Teacher, writer and environmentalist, Adler is the founder of Shorewalkers, Inc., a not-for-profit walking and environmental group dedicated to exploring the metropolitan area shoreline on foot.
Assault is seen as part of East Village crime spike
By Megha Bahree
Betty Knapp, 46, has a busy week ahead of her. She has three appointments with surgeons and one with the Police Department. All because she told a homeless person to move from the doorstep of the store she works in and got punched in the face.
Hundreds rally Downtown to ‘can the smoking ban’
By Elizabeth o’brien
Bar owners and employees rallied outside City Hall last Thursday on the first day of the state’s smoking ban, protesting a law that they said was squeezing their profits and suffocating the city’s nightlife.
W.T.C. plan is criticized at environmental hearing
By Josh Rogers
Many opponents and supporters of the selected plan for the World Trade Center site agreed that there was too much office bulk in the proposal, last week at the first meeting to discuss the environmental impact statement for the $10 billion project.
OBITUARY
Myron W. Surmach, 71, owned Ukrainian gift shop
Myron W. Surmach, owner of Surma, the Ukrainian book and gift shop at 11 E. Seventh St., died at home on July 4 of a heart attack at the age of 71.
Karen Finley on Liza and 9/11
By Jerry Tallmer
In a club called Fez, in a basement under the Time Cafe, corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Sts., Liza Minnelli in a golden-tasseled gown is gasping and deep-breathing and whooping and swooping and exclaiming: “It was such a beautiful day for a tragedy!”
Theater for the New City: spoofing local and national issues
By Jerry Tallmer
It’s time to reserve your milk crate for 2 p.m. this coming Saturday, Aug. 2, on East 10th Street between First and Second Avenues, nearer to First. The one you sit on.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
“The Embalmer” + The style of this film, particularly the camera work and bleakness of scenes, reminded me of the Italian movies made after World War II like “The Bicycle Thief.” Johnny English + This film is a spoof on the great James Bond 007 series. The production - acting and script - are thoroughly British and enjoying it requires a taste for British humor, e.g., slapstick, pratfalls and toilet humor.
Jazz man Michael Blake: artist in residence
By Sean Fitzell
An aged, upright piano, covered with sheet music and compact discs, occupies one side of the room. Across the small room is a computer, also covered with music paper, and a tenor saxophone stands in the corner. This is where saxophonist and composer Michael Blake has been busy writing new music and preparing arrangements for an upcoming series of concerts.
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