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EDITORIAL
Gansevoort traffic heading in right direction
A long-awaited improvement is taking place at the gateway to the Meatpacking District, at Ninth Ave. between 14th and 16th Sts. Department of Transportation construction crews are reworking what residents and community groups have long regarded as one of the most dangerous stretches in the city, improving pedestrian safety and rationalizing a confusing pattern of auto traffic that contributed to the death of an 82-year-old woman on Feb. 5, when she was hit by a truck while crossing 16th St. on the east side of Ninth Ave.
TALKING POINT
HUAC to Hudson Park: A brief history of socialism
By Henry J. Stern
It was with great surprise that I read the Chelsea Now story in the Aug. 10 issue, describing a public hearing which took place on May 3. The Page 1 headline read: “Sterns raises red specter on Pier 40 report”. The socialism to which the article referred was reminiscent of HUAC.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
POLICE BLOTTER
MIKHAELA REID
Critical look at Critical Mass by cop who covers it
By Jefferson Siegel
For the 10 years of Critical Mass in New York City, the police paid scant attention to the monthly bike ride. That changed with the Republican National Convention in August 2004, when hundreds of cyclists were among the 1,800 arrested that week.
HEALTHY
Treating modest gym injuries
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In last week’s column, I wrote about the simple things you can do to minimize the risk of injury when exercising: They include warming up, stretching, maintaining proper form and avoiding dangerous exercises. This week, we’ll look at what you should do in the event you do sustain an injury, looking at problems that do not require medical intervention. Next week, we’ll examine more serious injuries for which seeking medical attention is recommended.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel Left to right: Guy Tsfoni, emissary from Israel’s Givat Haviva Institute, stands with Hiam Simon and Linda Rubin, executive and associate director, respectively, of the Givat Haviva Foundation, at the foundation’s Chelsea office recently. Givat Haviva brings Arab and Jewish students together to help build bridges between the communities. By Natalie Huet Soothing 60 years of tensions between Israeli Jews and Arabs is neither easy nor insurmountable for the Givat Haviva Institute, which has been working for half a century to foster mutual understanding between the two communities in Israel.  Trying to trump Trump, Soho Alliance is getting set to sueBy Lincoln Anderson Donald Trump’s Soho condo-hotel project has already risen four stories, but neighborhood opponents are determined to keep it from ever reaching its full planned height of 42 stories. GTS gets long-awaited geothermal project underway By Jefferson Siegel As the city suffered through a brutal heat wave recently, one Chelsea institution was preparing to challenge global warming with the ultimate in energy recycling. Program helps immigrant farmers hatch their dreams By Alyssa Giachino Nestled in a gray egg carton, half a dozen pale green eggs, each of which naturally displays a different hue on the scale from yellow to blue, are the demure centerpiece of a small booth at the Union Square Greenmarket.
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NEWS
 Immigrant tenants an easy mark at the Hotel BreslinBy Chris Lombardi Last summer, as members of the soon-to-be Broadway Breslin Tenants Association first came together to share what they knew about management tactics at their building, they asked some of their fellow tenants whose English was limited to present written testimony of their experience in their own language.  Mystery toxin strikes pups at local dog runBy Lawrence Lerner It was a warm, sunny afternoon two Sundays ago when Jonathan Socha walked leisurely from the West Village to the Chelsea Waterside Park dog run with his trusted friend, Ty, by his side. IAC steps up with citywide community service day By Jefferson Siegel “With all the new housing and office development in Chelsea, people often lose sight that it’s a community that needs giving back.” This sentiment was offered by Chelsea resident Josh Sussman, 32, the general counsel of programming at IAC, a Chelsea-based Internet media conglomerate.  Pedicab drivers won’t roll over in face of new lawBy Jefferson Siegel The city’s 500 pedicab owners and operators are gearing up for the long haul. They’re readying for a protracted battle with the city against a new law that places severe restrictions on their livelihood. |
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Arts & Entertainment  The rama lama lama is goneBy Scott Harrah Can reality TV audiences truly select a star? They did when millions of viewers voted for music superstars Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood on “American Idol,” but later on, people also chose Taylor Hicks — a guy who may have had a homespun charm on TV, but who didn’t do so well when he recorded actual albums and went on tour.  Breathing ’80s AirBy Tiffany Wong About to embark on a new tour across the country, experimental rock band VHS or Beta is getting ready to drop its third and latest album “Bring on the Comets” August 28. Having arrived on Louisville’s indie-rock music scene 10 years ago, VHS or Beta has since traveled the world, on tour with the likes of the Scissor Sisters aand Duran Duran, losing one band member and picking up everything from French disco-houses influences to a powerful fan base in Colombia.  Landscape on the installation planBy Jeffrey Cyphers Wright In an age when information is relayed digitally and media can nullify and numb our experiences, what does it mean to recreate nature and instill a visceral or emotional response? Koch on film By Ed Koch “Rocket Science” (-) Avoid this movie like the plague. It is awful. I was looking for a film that would start about 7:30 p.m. so I could make it an early evening. By process of elimination, this picture won out. It would have been better if I had seen a later movie and left early. “Primo Levi’s Journey” (-) It was a beautiful, lazy Sunday afternoon when I decided to see a movie. I went to The Quad theater where all their shows begin at 1:00 p.m. I hadn’t decided which film to see, but since most of the people buying tickets were going to see “Primo Levi’s Journey,” I decided to see it as well.  Made-for-TV Stoppard finds a latter-day place on stageBy Jerry Tallmer The phone rang as I was sitting here waiting to speak with Tim Erickson, artistic director of the Boomerang Theatre Company, an Off-Off-Broadway unit that is about to open its tripartite fall season, one third of which (“Stoppard Goes Electric”) consists of three short television plays written in the 1960s by a Tom Stoppard not yet out of his 20s and something like a year away from astonishing the world with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” |
Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates
A Proposition for YouEmerging artists Dawin L. Petros and Bryan Jackson have works on display after having been chosen by established artists David Cabrera and Bruce Yonemoto. At Alexander Gray Associates through Sept. 8. Above: “Proposition 1: Mountain” (2007) by Dawit L. Petros
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