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Editorial
Developers
need an education about a window’s value
Is a window worth $1
million?
In New York City, views
and light come and go with the whims of developers
and the real estate market. A splendid vista one
day can be obliterated in a matter of months,
if not weeks, by a new building springing up.
It’s one of the negative aspects of living
in the city. It’s hard to describe the mix
of feelings when a new high-rise apartment or
office building that wasn’t there before
is suddenly there, wiping out one’s view.
Notebook
Remembrance
of places past: revisiting my Village
By Patricia Fieldsteel
I have now lived in Provence for
a year. One year ago, I left New York and the West Village,
the only real home I’d ever known. I have no plans
to return. “My” New York is forever frozen at
6:30 p.m. July 16, 2002, when I entered the Holland Tunnel
for Newark and points beyond. The day was sunny and warm
with a slight breeze, a typical New York summer day.
No
night for melon; bring on the brie and fire
By Alphie McCourt
If you live in New York and you
can walk or talk or sing or dance, multiply, divide, draw
or chisel, you are expected to make some kind of observation
on the recent Blackout. You must have a story. Carla told
me hers.
News in briefs
Police
blotter
Architecture
center opens on LaGuardia
Noted scholar
Appadurai named provost at New School University
Lower
East Side Greenmarket opens
Officials
rally against Section 8 cuts
P.S. 41 auditorium
to get makeover
‘60/40’
rule not stripped from books
Board
2 opposes 14-story Noho project
60
years ago in The Villager
9/11
memorial is planned
Obituary
Arthur
Kinoy, civil rights attorney, founded law center in Noho,
82
Arthur Kinoy, one of the civil
rights lawyers who defended the Chicago Seven in 1969 and
a founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights whose
headquarters are in Noho, died Sept. 19 at his home in Montclair,
N.J., at the age of 82.
Picture Story
Meet
The Chefs brings out flavor of South Village
The second annual Meet The Chefs
event, a tasting showcase for some 33 restaurants in the South
Village, was held on Sat., Sept. 20. The food fete organized
by the Carmine St. Block Association, is a benefit for three
local schools in the area, Our Lady of Pompeii, P.S. 41 and
the Downing Street Preschool.
Sports
They’re
going to Disneyworld! DUSC wins regional
The familiar “Got Milk”
campaign sponsors a nationwide soccer tournament to find the
best small-field soccer teams in the country. The “Got
Milk 3v3 Soccer Tournament” starts in local neighborhoods
and sends the winners onto eight regional tournaments across
America.
Pier
40 soccer field helps young booters reach next level
The fact that players from the Downtown
United Soccer Club are now competing at the highest level
in tournaments throughout the Northeast is not a coincidence.
Albert Scholz, head of recreation for DUSC, said that the
rooftop soccer field on Pier 40, as well as the Battery Park
City playing fields, have really helped young local players
improve their skills to the point where they’re as good
as kids from suburban areas.
Children's
Activities
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Villager photo by Ramin Talaie
Former Mayor Ed Koch in his Midtown office
What’s
he doin’? Koch backs Bush
By Lincoln Anderson
When he was mayor, Ed Koch’s signature question was “How’m
I doin’?” But now that Hizzoner
is saying he’s backing President Bush for reelection, many
are bound to wonder, “What’s he doin’?”
Wolfowitz
enters hostile territory
By Ed Gold
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, considered by
many the architect of our policy in Iraq, was not exactly in friendly
territory Sunday in Greenwich Village at New School University’s
Tishman Auditorium when he suggested that the U.S. was making great
strides as “liberator” in that now-occupied and beleaguered
nation.
By Megha Bahree
What’s more important —
to breathe easily and avoid cancer and respiratory problems;
or be able to stay in business and earn a living? This debate
arose last week when Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia
Fields called a hearing to assess the impact of the smoking
ban that was imposed on New York City six months ago.
West
Chelsea plan includes high-rises
By Albert Amateau
City Planning Commission Chairperson Amanda Burden and her
staff last week presented the city’s plan for the future
of West Chelsea to nearly 100 people who attended a Community
Board 4 forum.
By Ashley Winchester
Winemaker Norman Schapiro stands over his small market stall,
quietly singing in Yiddish while surveying his wares. “Wine
so thick you can cut it with a knife,” he translates.
Pier
57’s construction was an engineering marvel
By John Doswell
On Sept. 29, 1947, Pier 57, a Grace Line Pier on the North
River between 15th and 16th Sts., caught fire. The fire
started underneath the pier in the creosote-soaked piles.
It was suspected that a tugboat had discharged some hot
coals just prior.
P.G.
Wodehouse play at the Connelly
By Jerry Tallmer
You wouldn’t think that a serious young director like
Carl Forsman could go for a silly-ass play like P. G. Wodehouse’s
“Good Morning, Bill” — and you’d be
wrong.
Play
by S.N. Behrman revived at the Bank Street Theater
By Davida Singer
Last year, the Piccadillo Theater
Company hit pay dirt with their revival of “The Shanghai
Gesture”, a lurid melodrama from the 1920’s. The
production was such a smash, Artistic Director Dan Wackerman
quickly started plans to remount it, but hit a major snag
this summer when problems arose around the play’s rights.
koch
on film
Lost in Translation (-) This
flick received universal Hosannas to the Highest with one
exception — me. It is hype, pure
hype. There is no comparison to the movie it allegedly resembles,
Brief Encounter. That movie of over fifty years ago, starring
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, still resonates with great
meaning when its name surfaces. Camp (+)This is at
best a pleasant film, enjoyable but definitely not a blockbuster.
It is a combination of the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland
films which had the two putting on a show at school. This
has the kids putting a show on at camp and the kids are
no longer corn fed and off the farm, as Garland and Rooney
might have been.
Jez
Butterworth discusses latest play at the Atlantic
By Jerry Tallmer
It would be nice to say that Jez Butterworth
looks like a pirate and writes like an angel, except that
the angel has to be Mephistopheles, his pink cherubic face
surrounded top, bottom, and all sides by masses of coal-black
hair.
Storyteller
to tell Jewish tales in B.P.C.
By Tracy Montgomery
It was a beautiful sunny Saturday in Central Park. A parade
was marching up Fifth Avenue and streams of people were
walking, skating and running by each other
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