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The Albany fight for gay marriage
“Promise made, promise kept” is the pithy comment State Senator Tom Duane made when Governor Eliot Spitzer introduced his bill to enact marriage equality for same-sex couples a few weeks ago.
Steps to folly
While some aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer dither like Hamlet over the fate of the “Survivors’ Stairway,” the governor’s people at the Port Authority are making great progress at the World Trade Center site. Two things were clear from our visit to the site last week — construction is proceeding rapidly and the stairway is in the way. If it’s not yet slowing down the work, that will happen very soon.
The Penny Post
In conclusion...
By Andrei Codrescu
College campuses all over the country have now heard commencement speeches from every public person, from Bob Barker to myself. Bob Barker told graduates in Missouri that “Let’s Make a Deal” is a cult among the young because the set hasn’t changed since the ‘70s
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For Rudy, gay is a drag
By Andy Humm
Rudy Giuliani is continuing an emerging pattern of abandoning his previous support for gay rights, recently attacking New Hampshire for enacting a civil union law for same-sex couples because it “goes too far” and is “the equivalent of marriage.”
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Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert Anthony Shorris, the Port Authority’s executive director, said a JPMorgan Chase tower at the W.T.C. would not “mess up the park” planned near Liberty St. Look out below! Billions worth of building down at the W.T.C. NEWS Southbridge privatizers win control of the board By Josh Rogers Residents of Southbridge Towers in favor of privatizing the middle class housing complex won control of the board of directors May 1.  Hospital marks 150 years with new sign and C.E.O.By Skye H. McFarlane It was a celebration of the old and new at New York Downtown Hospital Tuesday, as the hospital showed off a new street sign and new leadership while honoring the hospital’s 150-year-old legacy. Back to the future of L.E.S.; District plan revives By Alyssa Giachino Neighborhood preservationists are revving their engines again on the Lower East Side, this time with a broader coalition of support, reviving a proposal to designate a historic district that ran into determined opposition last year. A Downtown parent in charge of W.T.C. redevelopment Anthony Shorris may live in Greenwich Village, he may be running one of the area’s most powerful agencies, but he didn’t call in any political chits to get his son Michael a coveted slot in Tribeca’s P.S. 234. Downtown Alliance president steps down after 2 years By Skye H. McFarlane The voice of the Downtown business community will soon have to find a new mouthpiece. Eric Deutsch, the popular and oft-quoted president of the Downtown Alliance, is resigning his post to accept a job developing real estate in the private sector. College names temporary president Metropolitan College of New York, located at 75 Varick St., has just appointed Joan Straumanis interim president while it searches for a long-term replacement for Stephen Greenwald, who has been president of the college since 1999.
Today you are no longer a puppy
 Local boy inspires Downtown generosity for cystic fibrosisBy Jennifer Milne On a sunny Monday morning, Stanley Zolek runs around his Battery Park City apartment, grinning, like a normal 3-year-old. He brings his mom, Dawn Zolek, a box of cereal to eat, but she tells him he needs a bowl from the kitchen. On his toddle back to the kitchen, Stanley coughs. THEATER
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Joey Semz, 31, graffitist who turned to folk music By Randi Hoffman Joey Semz, 31, a prolific Lower East Side graffiti artist and musician, died unexpectedly at his parents’ home in Staten Island on April 7.
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$is one of six new performances about the relationship between women and wealth. View all six of them at “Word of Mouth,” a multi-disciplinary festival at the World Financial Center through May 19. Above: Khris Lewin (man) and KK Moggie (woman) in a scene from “Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$.”
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