Editorial
Film permit rules make a frightening picture
If the city’s proposed new film and photography permit rules are enacted, any group of two or more people that linger with a camera could be arrested for photographing without a permit. These new additions to the rules, which have nothing to do with security concerns, are unacceptable as written, probably unnecessary, and need to be sent back to the drawing board.
Gay marriage bill
When he ran for governor, Eliot Spitzer pledged to enact marriage equality legislation. On Tues., June 19, 85 members of the Assembly stood up in acknowledgment of the dignity and equality of same-sex marriage and passed Spitzer’s bill overwhelmingly.
The Penny Post
July, the breakup month
By Andrei Codrescu
July is the worst month for relationships. It beats April in cruelty and it has it all over December when people get holiday jitters. I’ve had friends break up in July over everything from the full moon (is it full yet?) to confessions of infidelity that happened 10 years before.
Letters to the editor
Under Cover
Police Blotter
Downtown Express photo by Ramin Talaie
Wall St., heal thyself
Filmmaker Michael Moore may have thought he was going into the belly of the beast last Thursday when he appeared outside the New York Stock Exchange in preparation for the release of his new documentary, “Sicko”, but he received pats on the back and cheers. He asked investors to divest from publicly traded health insurance companies.
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Downtown Express photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio
Assemblymember Richard Brodsky, left and former Councilmember Walter McCaffrey, who is now lobbying against the mayor's congestion pricing plan, came to City Hall Monday to criticize the proposal.
Mayor still races to ram traffic plan through Assembly jam
NEWS
 Restoring a place for prayers
By Lucas Mann
On Eldridge St., between Canal and Division Sts., every sign on every storefront, from the hair salon to the video store, has Chinese characters on it, except for one.
B.P.C. library, past due, dropped from city budget
By Anindita Dasgupta
Battery Park City’s decade-long battle to get a library suffered a setback at the end of last month when it was left out of the city budget.
 German cyclist rides cross-country for 9/11 families
By Jefferson Siegel
A German police officer recently completed a cross-country bicycle trip to raise awareness of support programs for the children and families of 9/11 victims. Robert Diener, 41, arrived at ground zero in New York last Tuesday on his Novarra touring bike, completing a 2,700 mile journey that started 40 days earlier in Colorado.
ARTS
 You only live twice
By Will McKinley
What if there was more than one you? That’s the thought-provoking premise of “Doppelganger,” the newest multimedia experiment at the 3LD Art and Technology Center.
‘10 Million Miles’ hits a few bumps on the way
By Rachel Fershleiser
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Chelsea’s Atlantic Theater Company is presenting a brand new musical, aimed at a younger and less showtune-oriented audience. Michael Mayer is directing, a well-known singer/songwriter did the score, and one actor and actress play all the secondary roles.
 A jewel in the lost and found department
By Jerry Tallmer
Hey, I lost my horizon.
No, I take that back. A horizon is just about the only thing not lost in the fascinatingly quirky “Gone Missing” that Steven Cosson and his gifted players, The Civilians, have brought for our delectation to the Barrow Street Theatre, not long ago known as Greenwich House.
‘The Bridge’ between life and death
By Steven Snyder
Back in August or September of 2006, a publicist made an unusual announcement to a smattering of film critics gathered in a small midtown screening room:
 Hotel planned for Artifacts site
By Alyssa Giachino
To some, Evan Blum is known as a pioneer of salvaging beautiful pieces of America’s architectural and decorative history — antique doorknobs, gargoyles, claw-foot tubs and marble columns — carefully
extracted from elegant homes to adorn the residences of today.
A hands-on kind of guy
Hotel planned for Artifacts site
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NEWS
Governors Isle not yet rocking, is playing folk
By Lee Ann Westover
Governors Island is 172 acres of history. In 1624 it was one of the first settlements of the Dutch West India Company; in 1800 it officially became a U.S. Army base and in 1988 hosted the summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Street closings and openings
Chambers St. will be closed between Hudson and Greenwich Sts. this weekend from 10 p.m. – 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center reports.
P.S. 89 yard will open to the public
Someday, children will be able to enjoy P.S./I.S. 89’s schoolyard every day.
Seaport museum discount
The South Street Seaport Museum is offering discounted admission for the month of July, thanks to NYC & Company, the city’s marketing and tourism organization.
Gerson on music club bill: It’s not over till the fat lady sings
By Audrey Tempelsman
When Tonic, the seminal Lower East Side experimental music club, closed in April, there were cries — once again — that the cultural apocalypse had come.
Program offers free bike rentals, Euro-style
By Lucas Mann
If you see a gang of bicyclers patrolling Manhattan on identical rides next week, do not be alarmed. These people will be the beneficiaries of The New York Bike-Share Project, occurring from July 7-11.
Pier review
 Butterflies and buds, not Buds, now in green space
By Lincoln Anderson
In early May, when Lynn Vaag began planting what she called her “pirate garden” in a forlorn strip of soil on Sullivan St., neighbors were skeptical.
Love and sweat in the air
 BOOK REVIEW
The writer you’d love to hate
By Rachel Fershleiser
I first became aware of New York writer/actress Cynthia Kaplan when I read her blurb on the back of Ann Leary’s memoir “An Innocent, A Broad.”
 SPORTS/YOUTH
Nets do a body good
Richie Zheng, 5, right, got a lift from Josh Boone of the New Jersey Nets as he dunked one in the I.S. 131 Hester St. playground last week.
Picked in pro baseball draft, he’ll first hit the books
By Lucas Mann
The 2007 Major League Baseball draft kicked off with its usual array of first-round studs from the usual array of places. The first overall pick stands 6 feet 6 inches and has been playing his baseball in sunny Nashville for Vanderbilt University.
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