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St. Vincent’s plan’s huge consequences
St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers’ recent announcement that it is partnering with the Rudin family to develop a new main hospital building, while selling off most of its Greenwich Village campus for private development, has enormous implications for the both the city’s healthcare and our historic neighborhood.
Letters to the Editor
Talking Point
As my puppy looks down, it’s hard for me to look up
By Michele Herman
For 18 years I’ve lived on the westernmost block of 12th St. I always thought of my block, when I thought of it at all, the way I think of a supper of leftovers: It was cobbled together from humble, disparate parts, and it was perfectly satisfying.
Police Blotter
Mikhaela Reid
The Buzz
Scene
Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Fleet Week leafleting
This Memorial Day weekend, Vietnam veteran and Hell’s Kitchen resident Alan Stolzer, a member of the nonprofit advocacy group The Military Project, talked to sailors and distributed antiwar newspapers and DVDs at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue, as part of his group’s mission to encourage current servicemembers to openly oppose the Iraq War.
Health and Fitness
Getting your body back for summer, Q&A
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
Last week’s column was the last of a four-part series outlining a program to help readers get in shape for summer, a program designed to help you build lean muscle and burn body fat in a short period of time, and one that works for anyone who is in good health and able to follow the recommendations.
Visual Arts
John Ahearn &Rigoberto Torres Inhotim
By John Ranard
The work of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres recently at Alexander and Bonin—enamel-painted fiberglass sculptures created from plaster castings of real people—may seem tame by the standards of today’s postmodern artists. But there is more sophistication here than meets the eye.
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Chelsea Now photo by Lovella Calica Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War staged a Memorial Day “operation” in Manhattan this year to bring home the reality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. [STORY] Memorial Day means soup kitchen for far too many vets By Chris Lombardi Chelsea glowed on Memorial Day 2007. The weather was near-perfect, the air cleared by a morning storm. The mood on the streets was a sweet mix of festive and solemn. By Larry Littman Irma Ozer stood at a universal healthcare forum in Chelsea last Monday night, and in a quivering voice told the panel of speakers at the head of the room that she recently learned she had multiple sclerosis. She also learned that she was being excluded from long-term health coverage because of it.  Iraq vets make Memorial Day maneuvers in NYCBy Chris Lombardi As the doors of the packed N train slid shut on Sunday morning, and the car began to leave the Times Square station, a group of young men in one of the cars started to hoot, startling some of the tourists headed downtown.
By Josh Rogers Trip Dorkey rattled off four years worth of accomplishments as chairperson of the Hudson River Park Trust last week and said his goodbyes.  Bubblemania on pier — well, first night, at leastBy Jefferson Siegel It didn’t exude quite the electricity of Ed Sullivan’s classic introduction, “Ladies and gentlemen...The Beatles!” But there was excitement in the air, and on the pier, when a band named Cartel bounded from an SUV onto a stage on Pier 54 late last Thursday night. |
NEWS
St. Vincent’s building plan draws 2nd opinions
For the city’s quilters, a haven catches on in Chelsea |
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Arts & Entertainment A countrified Cinderella cleans up well By Scott Harrah There is just one reason why audiences should see this revival of the 1963 musical based on N. Richard Nash’s “The Rainmaker,” with songs by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (the duo that brought us the timeless classic “The Fantasticks”).  A design store (in theory) opens (not really) in ChelseaBy Stephanie Murg According to retailing’s most famous maxim, the customer is always right — that is, unless the store is Wrong. The Wrong Store opened on May 19, smack dab in the middle of the Chelsea art scene (259 Tenth Ave. near W. 25th St.). A Chelsea arts festival for the young at heart By Sandra Larriva The members of Penn South’s Program for Seniors will join forces this weekend to bring Art Launch VI, a multimedia intergenerational arts festival, to the Chelsea community. Now in its sixth year, the event will open on Friday with a multi-media exhibition and several live performances, and continue on Saturday with workshops, a poetry compilation, a dance performance, and more. Koch on Film By Ed Koch. “Steel City” (-) When I left the theater, I asked AS what he thought of the movie. He said, “It would be okay for TV.” I agree. We expect a lot less of television programs than we do of films that now cost $11.00 to see. “I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal” (+) This documentary on the life of Simon Wiesenthal, a wonderful man whom I have admired all of my adult life, is extremely well done and worth your presence.  Finding the common thread of heroismBy Jerry Tallmer A year ago, when he was burning up the Off-Broadway boards as a no-nonsense, by-the-book Marine colonel with an extramarital Achilles heel in John Patrick Shanley’s “Defiance,” Stephen Lang had said that no, he hadn’t met any of the eight men he would next be portraying — eight recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor — in his incoming “Beyond Glory,” and wouldn’t care to.
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Courtesy of The Kitchen
Caption: (the efflorescence of) Walteris Ralph Lemon’s multimedia exploration of the cultural history and future of the American South. The exhibition revolves around the artist’s long-standing collaborative relationship with Walter Carter, a 99-year old former sharecropper from Yazoo City, Mississippi. On view at The Kitchen through June 23. Above: Installation shot from “(the efflorescence of) Walter.”
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