Lower East Side Girl power
Councilmember Margarita Lopez, in green shirt, marched with Lower East Side Girls Club members, who pulled out their Million Mom March banner for the event.
Naaay-borly police event
The police horses were a crowd favorite at the Fifth Police Precinct’s National Night Out Against Crime event last Tuesday evening at Columbus Park.
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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Here comes the judge candidate
District Leader David Reck, left, did some advance work for Frank Nervo, who is running for Civil Court judge, on the way into last Wednesday night’s candidates’ forum at the Baruch Houses at the east end of Houston St.
Critics issue a tough verdict at Chelsea Piers’ first review
By Albert Amateau
Waterfront community groups and elected officials are asking critical questions about Chelsea Piers Management’s lease from New York State of its popular sports and entertainment venue which, after 10 years, comes up for renewal next year.
Gerson: Petition fraud charges are ‘nonsense’
By Lincoln Anderson
A petition challenge in a district leader race on the Lower East Side has caused a larger ripple effect, after a Newsday article on Saturday reported that it could impact other races, including City Councilmember Alan Gerson’s reelection bid.
H.P.D.: Boys’Club site must be nonprofit
By Lincoln Anderson
The Boys’ Club of New York’s planned sale of its Milliken Clubhouse at E. Houston and Pitt Sts. must be approved by the city’s department of Housing Preservation and Development and the property must be developed for nonprofit, community facility or institutional uses.
13 Federal-style buildings are eyed as landmarks
By Albert Amateau
From the Village to the southern tip of Manhattan, there are 13 vestiges of the early 1800s in the form of Federal-style buildings that preservation advocates are hoping to save for future generations to enjoy.
East Side parents beat back school cuts
By Megha Bahree
It’s a case of being alert and swinging into action at the first threatening signs. And it works. Or rather, in the case of these 1,000 students it did. Up until last Wednesday, five schools in Community School District 1 were facing a nearly $1 million budget shortfall for the upcoming academic year.
Judge’s ruling provides ‘road map’ to reopen Park Row
By Josh Rogers
Mayor Mike Bloomberg said last week that the city doesn’t always strike the right balance between security and personal freedom and he indicated a willingness to look again at loosening the security protections near Police Headquarters and Park Row.
Civil Court hopefuls speak at the Baruch Houses
By Lincoln Anderson
Three of the four Democratic candidates for Civil Court judge in the Second Municipal Court District attended a forum at the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side last week in an effort to win over voters in the housing project, seen as an important voting bloc.
Students and interns enjoy N.Y.U. summer housing
By Suzanne Zionts
New York University houses students from all over the country in its summer housing program. And after taking a bite of the Big Apple, many are hungry for seconds.
Part of Sara D. Roosevelt Park gets early curfew
By Elizabeth O’Brien with Suzanne Zionts
Despite some community objection, a stretch of Sara Delano Roosevelt Park between Broome and Delancey Sts. will close after dark instead of at 1 a.m., according to the city Parks Department.
Smoke on the water: Ferries fume near playground
By Jane Flanagan
August is a popular month at Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City, where the breeze off the water and the playground sprinklers are a welcome relief from the heat. But this year some families are staying away. Others come reluctantly. The reason: the nearby ferry terminal.
How a Chelsea kid learned to love the High Line
By Josh Rogers
A few years ago, a colleague came back from a community board meeting saying there’s this new group that wants to save the elevated rail tracks near 10th Ave. in Chelsea. What a great story, I said. My interest in the tracks, called the High Line, grew with time as I’ve read this paper’s coverage — I even got to kick in an article of my own on a tight press day.
Gephardt hews to party themes, but doesn’t excite
By Ed Gold
Dick Gephardt paid a visit to the Village last week, once more reaching for the presidential brass ring that he first sought 15 years ago, and with results likely to be the same this time around.
We are here to stay, or: If you spell it, it’s yours
By Andrei Codrescu
The takeover of America by Central Europe and the Balkans is now complete, as an Austrian and a Greek battle for control of California. The battle of accents between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington is proof of that.
Catholic playwright in search of the truth
By Jerry Tallmer
When Timothy Nolan was growing up in Mahopac, New York, he and some of his peers were friends with a deacon at the local parish — a fellow in his 20s who was about to be ordained as a priest.
He eats light bulbs, fire and walks on glass
By Jerry Tallmer
Cr-r-r-unch. That’s the sound of a man biting into a light bulb — followed by a dozen or so more cr-r-r-unches as he calmly, methodically chews and apparently swallows all the rest of it.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
“Boys Life 4: Four Play” (-) The four short homoerotic stories depicted in this film, never sexually explicit or pornographic in language, are very flimsy. The same short-story format was used in the previous film in this series, but those stories were much more engrossing.
“Dirty Pretty Things” (+) This film, because of its subject matter, is totally absorbing from beginning to end. It provides an insight into the lives of legal and illegal immigrants living in London, some of whom, are seeking political asylum from their native countries.
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