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Seminary has a historic opportunity to get it right
By Francis Morrone
The legislation for creating historic districts is premised on the belief that some streets or neighborhoods reach a stage of optimal habitability, and the law should seek to maintain this urban virtue in perpetuity.

P.S. 11 Fall Festival is a real scream
By Kathy Casey
Once again, the Fall Festival produced by the P.S. 11 Parent Teacher Association offered an abundance of pleasure for scores of young children — and some tall people, too. Despite the fickle weather on Sat. Oct. 28 (which was not nearly as bad as predicted), even the outdoor events went well.

Sports
En garde! Fencers carve out own space in Chelsea
By Judith Stiles
When Lowden Charles was a youngster, he never was Zorro for Halloween and never owned any toy swords. So in middle school when he was encouraged to play a sport, his mother and teachers were astonished when he started brandishing a saber and took up fencing.
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Chelsea Now photo by Randi Cecchine

Not a Christo art-wrapping project, the facade of the James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Ave., site of the planned Moynihan Station, is being cleaned by the Empire State Development Corporaion.

Lots of noise about noise at Duane town hall meeting
By Lawrence Lerner
Just how noisy is it in Chelsea these days?
According to many of the 100 people packed into the Hudson Guild’s Dan Carpenter Room for a town hall meeting on Chelsea nightlife on Monday, the neighborhood is plenty noisy, especially near the clubs in West Chelsea from the ungodly hours of midnight to 4 a.m.

Camera kids capture High Line and ’hood
By Lawrence Lerner
Corinne Stonebraker doesn’t usually let her 4-year-old brother, Jonas, play with her toys. But this summer, the budding 7-year-old photographer from Jackson Heights, Queens, was all too happy to let him ride her scooter as she snapped photos of him in various spots near the High Line.

NEWS
Waiting for Albany to deliver on the new Moynihan Station
By Randi Cecchine
The Moynihan Station project, a grand initiative to expand Penn Station into the James A. Farley Post Office and create a new gateway to New York City, has become a site of recent political dispute.

Trump Hotel’s on hold, but Trump Hole coming soon
By Lincoln Anderson
The Trump Hotel on the western edge of Soho isn’t being built yet — but the Trump Hole is.

Critical Mass shows no fear, but needs a few more lights
By Jefferson Siegel
Friday’s Critical Mass ride was one of the more popular of the year because of its Halloween theme. Cyclists arrived in an imaginative array of costumes, including witches, goblins, skeletons and zombies.

Hanging with Spoon Man and Deer Lady on Halloween
By Lawrence Lerner
On any other evening, Mike Sullivan might struggle to be noticed.

New improvement district around Madison Square Park
By Albert Amateau
The Flatiron 23rd St. Partnership began its daily sanitation operation on Nov. 1 to improve the cleanliness of streets in its new business improvement district between Third and Sixth Aves. from 21st to 28th Sts.

Arts & Entertainment

GALLERY SEEN
Channeling Wojnarowicz
Watching Sylvere Lotringer’s video interview of David Wojnarowicz at P.P.O.W.

A stage mother to die for
By Vivienne Leheny
Sandra Boynton loves chocolate. Her iconic Hippos — and pigs, dogs, and other round-eyed fuzzies that frolic across her greeting cards and children’s books — also love chocolate. Her son, Keith Boynton, does not: “It’s a bit of a family joke that when mom was pregnant with me, she consumed enough chocolate to last me a lifetime

Dancers caught in the rat race
By Sara G. Levin
Draped in a circus-like atmosphere, “Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment,” dresses up the old cliché of the rat race and reinterprets it within the context of a scientific experiment.

The Chelsea shuffle
Hulbert Waldroup thought he had a good idea. Across the street from the Gagosian Gallery, on 24th St. between 10th and 11th Aves., BJ’s auto-mechanic shop and parking garage was about to be torn down, and the small taxi deli next door had already moved out.

Koch on Film
“Babel” (-) & “Sweet Land” (-)

The Illusionist
Larson works his magic on another historic tale
By Orli Van Mourik
A month ago, if someone had asked me what the chances were that I would read and enjoy a book about the evolution of wireless telegraphy, I would have answered: slim to none.

Talking shop with Kim Foster
By Shane McAdams
From her early days in Soho on Crosby Street to her move to Chelsea in 1998, Kim Foster has garnered a reputation for exhibiting pared-down, elegant, mostly abstract works that remain challenging in spite of their raw visual appeal.

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