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 Volume 73, Number 19 | September. 10 - 16, 2003 |
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Villager photo by Ramin Talaie
Keen Berger tallied primary election votes at her Bedford St. home last night shortly before she and her supporters declared victory.  Berger wins leader primary By Lincoln Anderson In the two most competitive primary elections in Downtown Manhatttan, Keen Berger won handily in the race for Greenwich Village female Democratic district leader, while Housing Court Judge Shlomo Hagler won in a race among four Democratic candidates for a Civil Court judge vacancy in the Second Municipal Court District. Landmarks designates the Market By Albert Amateau The Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday voted unanimously to designate the Gansevoort Market Historic District, where meat wholesalers, clubs, restaurants, art galleries and high-end retailers co-exist in the low-rise neighborhood between 14th and Gansevoort Sts. Gerson romps against challenger By Josh Rogers Councilmember Alan Gerson won a landslide victory in the Democratic primary to defend his seat Tuesday, defeating challenger Pete Gleason 81 percent to 19, based on unofficial Board of Elections returns from 100 percent of the election districts. Two years later, 9/11 is quieter By Josh Rogers There won’t be bagpipers marching to Lower Manhattan from all over the city, President Bush will not be coming and few streets will be closed. But not too many people seem to mind that this year’s ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack will be more understated than a year ago. Many supporters, a few protesters as Harvey Milk opens By Lincoln Anderson Every few minutes, another student came walking down Astor Pl., a United Federation of Teachers union member at his or her arm, providing security. The students were gay, some, transgendered, cross-dressed as women. Firefighters find keeping busy helps ease pain of loss By Lincoln Anderson Three-hundred forty-three firefighters died on 9/11. While the wounds aren’t as fresh as at last year’s anniversary, they will never vanish. Local residents design Suffolk County 9/11 memorial Choosing from hundreds of concepts submitted, Suffolk County recently selected for its 9/11 memorial “Gardens of Remembrance,” a collaborative design by Barry David Berger of Barry David Berger+Associates, an industrial design firm on King St. in Greenwich Village, and Barry Silberstang and Nicholas Agneta of Silberstang Architects, NYC, of W. 26th St. in Chelsea. Start of Abingdon Sq. renovation comes suddenly By Elizabeth O’Brien Some Villagers cheered and others mourned when they learned workers began preparing Abingdon Sq. Park for renovation on Monday. Adult businesses east and west use 60/40 loophole By Lincoln Anderson A new topless club on E. Houston St. and new adult store on Seventh Ave. S. both are taking advantage of a loophole in the city’s adult-use zoning laws. Project in Parson’s student’s name helps to heal By Ashley Winchester On Mon., Sept. 15 in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, author and actress Mariel Hemingway will serve as the emcee at a benefit reading for the Rita Project, a nonprofit organization devoted to using the arts to help bring an end to suicide. HOWL! festival aims for two weekends next year By Megha Bahree For Robert Pritchard and Sara Delphine the Howl! festival was a winner. Their role in the festival — conducting an “East Village Safari” — was successful enough for them to convert it into a regular event through the rest of the year. “Lots of people showed up as a result of the Howl! Web site,” Pritchard said.  Play from Fringe Festival brought back to the Connelly Theater By Jerry Tallmer The brothers Grimm were pretty grim, but not so grim as to keep their evil witch alive for 400 years by having her replenish herself with the carved-out or hacked-off vitals — eyes, hands, heart, brain, intestines, sex organs, uteri — of boy and girl children who’ve wandered off into the woods. Little lost kids like Hansel and Gretel, for instance. Women and “Choice Making” at Here By Davida Singer Pushing the envelope of musical theater, two new plays, “Anna Bella Eema” by Lisa D’Amour and Alma Rogers’ “belly: three shorts”, open this week in rotating rep at HERE. Koch on film By Ed. Koch “Thirteen” (+) This movie, allegedly depicting the lives of children living in dysfunctional families, is a kick in the belly. The 13-year-old adolescents under the microscope of the camera’s eye live in California and are in the seventh grade. “Le Divorce” (-) A Merchant-Ivory film which ends up as a total bore: sophisticated bore. It lacks everything. The acting — and it has a huge cast of usually excellent actors including Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Stephen Fry, Kate Hudson, Sam Waterston and Bebe Neuwirth — all of whom fail to create any sense of drama or reality.
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