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Volume 73, Number 24 | October 15 - 21, 2003
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Inside
Scoopy's notebook
The local "411" on people, politics, gossip, business openings.
Editorial
Trust should revive the Pier 40 process
Following an action-packed week of events, it’s not entirely clear if the Hudson River Park Trust intends to issue a new request for proposals for developers for Pier 40.
Talking Point
The Stepford presidency: Bush as frat-boy robot
By JERRY TALLMER
East Side, West Side, I am a New York City boy, Manhattan born and bred. What did I know from cars as a kid? That people who did not live in New York City had them. People like my high school and college friend and classmate Billy Lowenthal, who did live in New York, in Manhattan, at 1010 Fifth Avenue (with windows magnificently overlooking Fifth Avenue parades), but who also had a summer place in the Adirondacks. That is to say, his family had a house on a lake in the Adirondacks, and they owned one or more cars, which Billy learned to drive early.
Notebook
Losing my edge — and do I really want it back?
By Jenny Klion
I’m worried that I’m losing my edge. Almost three years after the fact, I think I’ve finally succumbed to the lifestyle of being a single mom, one in a breed of women who, according to the mighty John Leguizamo, is always tired, broke and unable to get a date. Could my reluctant quasi-resignation to single parenthood be a sign that I’m actually maturing, or am I just becoming soft — no pun intended, maybe — with age?
News in briefs
Police blotter
Penn South election set for Oct. 26
Bricks fall from Westbeth
Actress posts on the Web
Variance sought for new condo
project at Canal and Watts Sts.
Obituary
Bill Bennett, Tribeca’s music dreammaker, 49, dies
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Bill Bennett, owner of Off Wall Street Jam, a Tribeca studio space that gave busy executives room to release their inner rock star, died on Oct. 7 of head injuries sustained in a car crash on Sept. 26 in the East Village. He was 49 and lived in Murray Hill
Picture Story
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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Rockettes get a kick out of P.S. 134 kids
Radio City Rockettes Danielle Matthews, left, and Lisa Lewis led some aspiring dancers from Miss Kim Long’s fourth-grade class in high kicks on Tuesday at P.S. 134 on E. Broadway. They also discussed their professional experience. The visit was part of the JP Morgan Chase Celebrates Kids program.
Did lawsuit threat force Trust to restart process on Pier 40?
By Lincoln Anderson
The Friends of Hudson River Park weren’t so friendly last week and the get-tough approach just may have had the desired effect.
Architecture center draws in the public
By Jessica Mintz
the Center for Architecture, the new home of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, designed to shatter the private-club image of the AIA and draw the public into direct dialogue with urban architecture.
N.Y.U.’s Engle is Nobel winner for economics
Robert Engle, who holds the Michael Armellino Professorship in Management of Financial Services at New York University’s Stern School of Business, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in economics last week for his work in developing statistical applications for forecasting economic growth, interest rates and stock prices.
N.Y.U. reacts to second Bobst leap within a month
By Rebecca Sun, Neil Parmar, Erin Walsh and Albert Amateau
The suicides of two students in less than four weeks have brought New York University to national attention and have forced the school’s administration to address its treatment of suicide, both preventively and in the aftermath.
Sandhogs start tunneling below Lower West Side
By Josh Rogers
New York City’s third water tunnel is now penetrating the very depths of Chelsea and will reach the West Village within the next few months.
Such a phallic description has perhaps never been more appropriate than for the tunnel – a 50-year, 60-mile, $6 billion project where currently only men work.
Noho residents shaken, stirred by Bond variance
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Noho residents who fear that a proposed 14-story residential tower on Bond St. will dwarf their historic low-rise neighborhood turned out in force last week to protest the development at a city hearing.
Residents and businesses reel off complaints about film shoots
By Jessica Mintz
On-location film shoots in the Village have long lost their luster. It’s a feeling that has even found its way to Broadway: In the musical “Rent,” a cynical star sings, “Maybe it’s not the moon at all? I hear that Spike Lee’s shooting down the street.
Meat Market hotel tower is branded a Trojan horse
By Albert Amateau
Even as the Gansevoort Market Historic District was moving toward final approval, preservationists and elected officials this week protested at the site of a proposed high-rise hotel on the western edge of the Meat Market that was excluded from the historic district.
New Hudson Park dog run gets some ruff reviews
By Ashley Winchester
A dog run that opened last May in the Hudson River Park has met with mixed reviews among its many users. The new run includes a rectangular running area, a large circular bench on the narrow end of the run and a washable paved surface.
Beckett Play at Chelsea’s Center Stage
By JERRY TALLMER
In April of 1956 the following words appeared in a new weekly newspaper called The Village Voice: “So here we are with ‘Waiting for Godot’ . . . [T]he bandwagon has formed and it is rolling. I am aboard it, without shame . . . “
koch on film
By Ed Koch
“The Station Agent” (+)
This is a remarkable film with a story that is more suggestive than solid and one that is never fully resolved. It captures your mind and emotions from the opening frame to the last...
“To Be and to Have” (+)
Absolutely sublime. But, as HG said after the crawl at the end of the film, “It didn’t belong in a movie house at $10.00 bucks a ticket; it belonged on Public Television.” Yes and no...
Californians bring “reality theater” to Belt Theatre
By Davida Singer
Reality theater is what The Civilians, a quirky, new downtown company, are all about? Formed in 2001, the troupe of writers, directors, actors and designers set out to create original work from real life through investigation into people’s lives, and their first full production, “Canard Canard Goose?” was such a smash, it earned them Time Out New York’s distinction as one of 25 up-and-comers of the local theater scene.
David Parsons Opens Skirball Center at NYU
By Doris Diether
October 2, the start of cold weather, saw the opening of the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at the NYU Kimmel Center on the south side of Washington Square Park. Jack H. Skirball, for whom the theater is named, was a rabbi in Ohio and Indiana before becoming a motion picture producer and entrepreneur in Los Angeles for more than 50 years. His film credits include Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt.” His Skirball Foundation also established the a Center for New Media and Film at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Sciences, the Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at the NYU Medical School.
DANCE CALENDAR- Oct. 13-29
Sokol plays mom of gay son
By JERRY TALLMER
Just at Thanksgiving dinner, 25-year-old George Angell lobbed a small bomb onto the dining room table. “Mom, Dad, I’m gay,” he cheerily announced. His father managed to get out the words: “Pass the potatoes,” before running off to hide in the coat closet.
Food
Mud offers coffee fans a break from usual grind
By Jenna Greditor
Wake up and smell the coffee. The familiar orange Mudtruck on Astor Pl. — where two Starbucks loom — now has an official stomping ground, the Mudspot. While the metal, suspended “MUD” sign on Second Ave. and Ninth St. — where yet a third Starbucks dwells — leads Villagers to the aroma of rich coffee, it’s the brick-walled interior chock full of orange shams, curtains and sunflowers extending to an outdoor garden that entices them to stay.
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