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Editorial
‘Mass eviction’ rule needs to be clarified
Hundreds of renters flooded E. Third St. between Second and First Aves. on Saturday to show solidarity with the tenants of 47 E. Third St. Landlords Alistair and Catherine Economakis are trying to use the owner-occupancy provision to empty the 15-unit, five-story tenement and make it a private mansion. Although occupancy evictions on this scale are unusual, it continues to be a problem all over Lower Manhattan, particularly in Tribeca.
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By Andrei Codrescu
Barbara got us from Logan in Boston and drove us to Portsmouth, N.H., on historic Highway 1, studded with Dunkin’ Donuts on both sides of the road, a burger joint with life-sized plastic cows in front, muffler places, and so on, until we were in the Live Free or Die state, a motto that, Barbara explained, means no state sales or income taxes.
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By Angela Benfield
After jettisoning the perfect Mr. Wrong, I was ready, at the ripe young age of 39, to throw in the towel on finding even a slightly unperfect Mr. Right. Then, a good friend, one with a shiny new beau, encouraged me to get modern and try online dating.
‘Mass eviction’ rule needs to be clarified
Hundreds of renters flooded E. Third St. between Second and First Aves. on Saturday to show solidarity with the tenants of 47 E. Third St. Landlords Alistair and Catherine Economakis are trying to use the owner-occupancy provision to empty the 15-unit, five-story tenement and make it a private mansion. Although occupancy evictions on this scale are unusual, it continues to be a problem all over Lower Manhattan, particularly in Tribeca.
The Penny Post
Portsmouth journal
By Andrei Codrescu
Barbara got us from Logan in Boston and drove us to Portsmouth, N.H., on historic Highway 1, studded with Dunkin’ Donuts on both sides of the road, a burger joint with life-sized plastic cows in front, muffler places, and so on, until we were in the Live Free or Die state, a motto that, Barbara explained, means no state sales or income taxes.
Letters to the editor
Under Cover
Police Blotter
Downtown Notebook
For WNYC archivist, it’s a painstaking labor of love
By Richard Pyatt
He is not trying to formulate the theory of relativity, but with his head crowned by a dense flaring growth of gray hair, archivist Andy Lanset easily brings to mind the popular image of Einstein. Lanset’s connection with space and time, however, is much more down to earth.
118 online dates, for those keeping score at home
By Angela Benfield
After jettisoning the perfect Mr. Wrong, I was ready, at the ripe young age of 39, to throw in the towel on finding even a slightly unperfect Mr. Right. Then, a good friend, one with a shiny new beau, encouraged me to get modern and try online dating.
Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess
High wire work
No weekend rest for workers at the World Trade Center site Saturday.
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Downtown Express photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio
Don’t the Patriots play football? NEWS City’s red tape leads to eviction orders, I.P.N. tenants say By Chris Bragg When Charles Messina turned in paperwork to renew his middle-income housing subsidy a year ago, he said he made a mistake: Believing the city wanted him to report only his 2005 income, he didn’t report $4,000 his cousin, who lives in the same apartment, had earned in 2006. C.B. 1 gets a kick out of indoor turf plan By Skye H. McFarlane For veterans of the Battery Park City turf wars, it may have come as a shock to hear Battery Park City Authority representative Leticia Remauro utter the words “turf field” and “win-win proposal” in the same breath.  Spitzer names new leaders of the L.M.D.C.By Josh Rogers It’s not your old governor’s L.M.D.C. Gov. Eliot Spitzer named two new leaders of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. Monday and made it clear the days of Pataki, when the city had something approaching veto power over big decisions, are over. Will canoes, not Subarus, be needed on Downtown’s streets?  Finale is a bitter tonic as indie music club closesBy Jefferson Siegel Tonic, the Lower East Side music venue, gave its last show Saturday but did not go gently into the night. After nine years, the avant jazz/indie/new music club became another victim of rising rents. ARTS Veber’s ‘Valet’ a funny nut to crack By Rania Richardson French writer/director Francis Veber found inspiration in the tiny pignoli, the nut used in classic pesto, when he conjured the name François Pignon. Veber regularly uses the name for the hopeless lead character in his films, including the side-splitting “The Dinner Game” (1998), “The Closet” (2001), and his hilarious new farce, “The Valet.”  The importance of being fantastically skilledBy Jerry Tallmer “Ho-ho!” the guy directly behind me shouted at the top of his lungs as the ten automatons — like jurors in a box, on the Union Square stage — fell backward at the tick of a tock, only to spring back in view with their heads in metal buckets that a moment later metamorphosed into rapid then slo-mo then fast/slow syncopated drums. Artists space shrinks as studios go condo in Tribeca By Sandra Larriva The building at 443 Greenwich Street is a highly coveted piece of real estate, but to the artists occupying it, its value is not a monetary one. Since 1991, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program has provided accomplished visual artists rent-free studios in the building’s 7th floor for the length of one year.  O’Neill’s ‘Moon’ rises againBy Scott Harrah Eugene O’Neill was never known for writing lighthearted fare, and “A Moon for the Misbegotten” is one of his most serious and difficult plays to watch.
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City speeds up W.T.C. arts under Port pressure
By Skye H. McFarlane As the chair of Community Board 1’s World Trade Center Committee, Catherine McVay Hughes has spent many a Monday night leaning into a microphone to ask rebuilding officials what is going on with the Performing Arts Center planned for the World Trade Center site. To date, she has gotten few answers.  Sushi & omelettes at 3 a.m.By Josh Rogers The 13-year effort to turn Wall St. into a 24-7 neighborhood reached a milestone Saturday when an all-night restaurant opened in the Financial District. City issues new stop work order on Tribeca project By Brooke Edwards Northern Tribeca is rife with controversial development projects currently underway within blocks of each other, and 415 Washington St. is no exception. Maikish, Downtown’s construction commander, resigns Charles Maikish announced on Tuesday he would resign as Downtown’s construction czar after two years on the job. Friend to sailors City stops to plant flowers in Peck Slip plan By Skye H. McFarlane Though two big regulatory hurdles still lie ahead, park advocates and preservationists appear to have reached an agreement on the redesign of Peck Slip.  Play ball! Season begins with parade, speeches and baseballBy Josh Rogers Marchers walking away from, not toward, City Hall, politicians’ baseball jokes, and the ping of the bat were the unmistakable signs that the Downtown Little League opened another season.
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The other man in black By Todd Simmons In the entertainment industry, people seem to be fascinated by the idea of a recluse. Perhaps it’s our reluctance to accept that in a business propelled by a publicity machine in constant motion, an artist would go out of their way to remain anonymous. Sports Junior Minors Upper Yankees vs. Nationals On Saturday, just hours before the weekend nor’easter pelted the city with rain, the Downtown Little League Yankees hosted the Nationals for a Junior Minors Upper division tilt at Baruch Field. The vital force of Roscoe Lee Browne By Jerry Tallmer When dead people die, I once (angrily, condescendingly) wrote at a body-blow moment of loss, it is sad but inevitable. Life goes on. But when death strikes down the truly alive — those halo’d gift-givers whose 24/7 open-ended assignment on this planet is to inject vitality and meaning into all the rest of us — the blackness becomes unbearable. |
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