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Editorial
Will Pier 40 interim plan be the final plan?
Two months ago, Robert Balachandran, president and C.E.O. of the Hudson River Park Trust, told the Trust’s board of directors that the Trust’s staff would present designs for an interim reuse plan of Pier 40 “in a month or so.” The Trust’s board will meet next Thursday and we expect the plan for the pier will be publicly unveiled then.
Give the Bottom Line some time
The Bottom Line has been a remarkable cultural presence at W. Fourth and Mercer Sts. for almost 30 years.
Talking Point
Clark’s entry could shake up the presidential race
By Ed Gold
If, as appears imminent, General Wesley Clark, the nice-guy, much-be-medalled war hero, business consultant, TV commentator and Rhodes scholar, decides to enter the Democratic Party presidential primary free-for-all, he will have to be less polite than he was at New York University’s Kimmel Center two weeks ago.
News in briefs
Police blotter
Lawsuit over Cooper plan dismissed
N.Y.U. opens large performing arts space on park; dance will be featured
Signs of life in Union Sq.
Sixth Precinct remembers heroes of 9/11
‘No police state!’
Wind-swept ship finds safety at Pier 63
Mayor signs Adopt-a-Park bill
Artwork bears witness at P.S. 20
Obituary
Richard Cardinali, lifelong Villager who ran a deli on Sullivan St., 87
Richard Cardinali, a lifelong Villager who ran a family-owned delicatessen on Sullivan St. for many years, died at home on Mon. Sept. 1 of heart disease at the age of 87.
Picture Story
Try this, Madonna
It’s known that models eat yogurt, but models “yoga vogueing” on the Lower East Side last Sunday was something new entirely.
Sports
Children's Activities
Running to remember
The annual Let Freedom Run four-mile “fun run” was held on Sat., Sept. 13. The route was from Pier 84 at W. 44th St. to Battery Park along the West Side Highway, the southbound side of which was closed to car traffic to accommodate the runners. The event, to commemorate 9/11, benefits the Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund, a charity that assists the families of fallen New York City firefighters, police officers, Port Authority police and E.M.S. personnel.
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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Grace, 7, lit a candle at a memorial at Union Sq. last Thursday night.
9/11, two years later
“Today, again, we are a city that mourns,” Mayor Mike Bloomberg said on the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Bloomberg addressed a city that has never stopped grieving for the 3,016 people who lost their lives in three cities on that clear blue morning two years ago.
Union Sq. N. redesign is taking shape
By Albert Amateau
Union Sq. Park community advocates came together last week to consider the latest concept for the long-awaited reconstruction of the north end of the historic and heavily used park and public space.
Bottom Line faces eviction by N.Y.U.
By Lincoln Anderson
One of New York City’s best-known live-music venues, the Bottom Line is facing eviction for being in rent arrears to its landlord, New York University.
Major forum to consider West Chelsea’s future
By Albert Amateau
The future is about to unfold for the West Chelsea manufacturing district between 10th and 11th Aves. from 16th to 30th Sts., where art galleries have flourished for the past 10 years among warehouses under the derelict High Line.
Trust adds safety fence around Pier 51 playground
By Elizabeth O’Brien with lincoln anderson
Parents say the new children’s water playground on the Jane St. Pier has safety hazards that force them to remain on high alert as their children play. But that could change when the Hudson River Park Trust installs a new fence around the playground over the next week.
Villager, Amateau dubbed H.D.C. Friend From Media
By Lincoln Anderson
One of the city’s leading preservation advocacy organizations, the Historic Districts Council, presented its Grassroots Preservation Awards last Wednesday night in the Parish House courtyard at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery at E. 10th St. and Second Ave.
New Ninth C.O. is already familiar with precinct
By Albert Amateau
Captain James McCarthy, former commanding officer of the Fifth Police Precinct, took over command of the Ninth Precinct in the East Village just 11 days before the Aug. 14 blackout of 2003.
Pier 57 is seen as a cultural and educational site
By Albert Amateau
The Hudson River Park Trust has begun the process of transforming Pier 57 on the Chelsea waterfront from a city bus depot to a cultural and educational center for the five-mile-long riverfront park currently under construction.
Two years later, Soho sculptures still in limbo
By Ashley Winchester
In the late 1960s, artist Bob Bolles installed several of his welded works in a then-abandoned traffic triangle at the intersection of Watts and Broome Sts.
New building will block P.S. 42 classroom window
By Albert Amateau
The lawyer for parents of children at P.S. 42 on the Lower East Side has gone to court to halt construction of an adjacent seven-story building that would block one of the windows of a fifth-floor classroom in the school.
Village writer’s family saga mixes
Hollywood celebrity and scandal
By Roslyn Kramer
We all know the magic of Hollywood is a flea-bitten cliche. But West Village author Sheila Weller gives a refreshing spin on that well-worn theme in her new book, “Dancing at Ciro’s: A Family’s Love, Loss and Scandal on the Sunset Strip.”
koch on film
“The Center of the World - New York” (+)This final chapter of the story of New York, three hours long, was shown at a private screening this past weekend sponsored by the New York Historical Society and shown in the auditorium of the Museum of Natural History, and shown again to the public on September 8 on PBS Channel 13. “The Other Side of the Bed” (-) Silly and juvenile. The author of the screenplay, David Serrano, tried to do what Dennis Potter did in “Pennies from Heaven” and “The Singing Detective.” Potter was a genius and through song and dance introduced, in a whole new way, the unconscious and surreal into his plots.
Twyla Tharp/downtown folks revive 60’s spirit
By Susan Phillips
Celebrating community and retro-fashion, 100 ordinary folk danced with Twyla Tharp on a Battery Park stage last Tuesday night to a packed crowd. The performance, titled “The One Hundreds,” sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, revived a work Tharp created during her farmer-hippie days in the 1960’s.
Sensitive film focuses on aging baby-boomers
By Danielle Stein
Ah, to be young, thin, naked and in love – all on the Colorado River. Rob Moss’s footage of his summer rafting trip with hippie friends in 1978 looks the epitome of counterculture bliss. No obligations, no itinerary; just sex, drugs and freedom.
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