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EDITORIAL
City should not have to fight for light and air
Open light and air are two seemingly simple concepts of the citywide design blueprint that, when viewed from the street, make New York’s skyline appear one of a kind.
Letters to the Editor
Police Blotter
TALKING POINT
Holding back middle-schoolers not the solution
By Leonie Haimson
In his State of the City address last month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the New York City Department of Education will now extend the policy of holding back students on the basis of their test scores to eighth-graders, in addition to the third-, fifth- and seventh-graders who already face this prospect. This could mean the retention of an additional 18,000 students next year.
Mikhaela Reid
HEALTHY NOW
When you should eat fat, and not eat fruit
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In my first four columns this year, I’ve introduced strategies I’ve used to help hundreds of people reach their goals and attain their optimal fitness levels. In order to maximize the ability to build strong, lean bodies and burn stored body fat, people need to eat in a supportive way, build or maintain metabolically active muscle tissue, and do moderate amounts of the most effective type of cardiovascular exercise.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Early 20th century Edison wax cylinders, the first form of audio record used for play in phonographs, sit on a shelf in the antique electronics shop Waves LLC in Chelsea. Husband and wife Bruce and Charlotte Mager have run their operation for three decades—collecting everything from vintage radios and televisions to microphones—while earning top recognition in the antique field. GO TO STORY
Green in focus and form, a CB 4 task force is born
By Chris Lombardi
Lee Compton leaned forward across the conference table at the Community Board 4 office, with a glint in his eye. “I just thought of a way that we could be a kind of useful thorn in the side of government. What about asking NYCHA [the city Housing Authority] specifically what they’re doing to reduce energy?”
Meat Market icon Florent tries to avoid Marie’s fate
By Albert Amateau
Florent Morellet, a founder of a group whose efforts led to the 2003 designation of the Gansevoort Market Historic District, has been operating the restaurant that bears his name in the district’s heart for the past 23 years.
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NEWS
 Quinn’s State of the City statement heard clear
By Paul Schindler
“I want every New Yorker to hear me when I say: We are ready.”
Cyclists: DKNY knocked off our ‘ghost bike’ idea
By Jefferson Siegel
Just before the start of Fashion Week, dozens of neon-orange-painted bicycles appeared around the city chained to lampposts. Stenciled on each was the Web site address for the fashion company DKNY.
 Firm taking the LEED on green architecture
By Chris Lombardi
Architecture firm Cook+Fox has won numerous awards from the US Green Building Council for innovation and leadership in green design, especially for its flagship One Bryant Park building for Bank of America, which is slated to be the first office building to meet the “Platinum” standard for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
 Chelsea vintage electronics store preserves, prospers
By Charlotte Cowles
Charlotte Mager, proprietor of the antique electronics store Waves LLC in Chelsea, speaks with a deep, rich smoker’s voice and a thick New York accent redolent of 1950s talk radio. Surrounded by the lovingly polished antiques in her store, she lit up a cigarette and flashed a Cheshire Cat grin. “Yeah, I smoke in here,” she said.
Related: 49 or we’re outta here
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Arts & Entertainment
Lost but found
BY STEVEN SNYDER
It’s their bright blue uniforms that make the Egyptian visitors stand out, leading one Israeli after another to stare in astonishment. Tawfiq (Sasson Gabai) is the conductor of a formal Egyptian police band, a musical group that has traveled to Israel to celebrate the opening of an Arab Cultural Center in the town of Petah Tikva. Difficulties arise after an official escort stands the men up and they find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar country speaking a foreign language.
Koch on Film
Under the radar
BY TODD SIMMONS
The musician/filmmaker Theo Angell is an Oregonian who has been living and working under the Lower East Side radar for more than a decade now and recalls how eccentric it used to be. “My old landlord was a cantor and he had an entire apartment floor filled with live roosters.” Nobody was quite sure why. The rest of the building was mostly empty and Angell could crank up his music as loud as he wanted with no reprisal from the neighborhood junkies.
Super Nova
BY BRIAN MCCORMICK
The availability of new media technology has been reshaping live dance and performance for more than a generation now. Video, in particular, and digital technologies such as motion capture and 3D animation are increasingly integrated into a genre primarily focused on the living body. With few notable exceptions, this integration has fallen short, with the flesh being overwhelmed by the electronic signal — without intention.
The Puppini Sisters make a splash
BY LEE ANN WESTOVER
At Splash on West 17th Street, a recent Musical Monday hosted the fabulous mix of its vibrant gay core crowd, their straight girlfriends and European tourists. The bartenders (wearing naught but snug designer briefs) mixed their custom cocktails as the gregarious patrons sang along to “Dreamgirls” at top volume. At midnight, amidst an atmosphere charged with sex and sentimentality, the U.K.’s Puppini Sisters strode up onto the stage: Stephanie O’Brien with her violin, Kate Mullins with her melodica and Marcella Puppini with her accordion. They launched into their first tune, a swing version of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love.”
A forger faces a real dilemma
BY LEONARD QUART
Considering how many Holocaust documentaries and features have been produced by now, one might imagine the difficultly in coming up with a unique slant on the subject. The Austrian nominee for Best Foreign Language film, “The Counterfeiters,” is a true and singular story based on a concentration camp memoir by Adolf Burger, a professional printer and Communist.
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