Editorial
It’s WIMBY, not NIMBY, on waste transfer station
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver put it aptly last month when, describing the marine transfer station Mayor Bloomberg seems determined to site on Gansevoort Peninsula, he called it a WIMBY.
Letters to the Editor
Police Blotter
NEWS BRIEF
Hunger museum for B.P.C.
Assurances on B.P.C. library
Hot dog fight
Vesuvio opening pushed to the end of the month
TALKING POINT
Silver blocks the road to traffic’s promised land
By Charles Komanoff
I’m not a Zionist, but if I were I’d be giving thanks that Sheldon Silver wasn’t running the U.N. in 1947 when it voted to ratify the creation of Israel.
THE PENNY POST
Fiction and truth
By Andrei Codrescu
John Irving, the American novelist, offers an apology for Gunther Grass, the German novelist, in the New York Times Book Review.
EDITORIAL PICTURE
Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess
Pornographic view?
The stage setup last week for The New Pornographers’ free indie rock concert in Battery Park last week provided an interesting, but G-rated perspective of Downtown on Independence Day.
SPORTS
 Judo dojo lands on its feet as a student gives back
By Lucas Mann
Last fall, it seemed that yet another small business would disappear from Downtown Manhattan as a long lease finally expired.
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Hipster island
The military families who once lived on Governors Island probably never imagined that years later, the island would be inhabited by faeries, superheroes, cyclists and performance artists. Roughly 2,000 people — twice the island’s typical number of Sunday visitors — took the free, 7-minute ferry last weekend to enjoy Figment, organized by veterans of the free-wheeling Burning Man festival.
Mayor still races to ram traffic plan through Assembly jam
By Josh Rogers
Despite many Assembly Democrats opposing the mayor’s traffic pricing plan, Mike Bloomberg said Tuesday that he was optimistic about the prospects of it passing Albany July 16.
Cortlandt straphangers will wait another few years for reopening
The Cortlandt St. N/R station will be closed indefinitely, a representative from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told Community Board 1 Monday night.
Paradise is not lost, W.T.C. architect tells C.B. 1
By Skye H. McFarlane
Liberty Park will be a paradise after all, architect A. Eugene Kohn has decided.
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NEWS
Downtown braces, as Fulton’s street work is set to begin July 23
By Skye H. McFarlane
The denizens of Fulton St. are largely in agreement — the new Fulton St., with its safe sidewalks, attractive plantings and fixed-up utilities, will be a dream. But the locals are waiting to see whether their nerves and their businesses will survive the reality of a two-year construction blitz, scheduled to begin on July 23.
 Battery building developers picked for hotel, gourmet market
By Jennifer Milne
The city picked developers Tuesday for a $110-million plan to try and transform the landmark Battery Maritime Building into a gourmet food market, hotel and restaurants.
Maiden Lane gets a few plants, art to follow
By Jennifer Milne
The revitalization of Downtown’s Maiden Lane may be well underway, but it’s not close to being finished. On a walk down the street Friday evening, there were trash bags piled on the sidewalk in several locations and soapy water running down the pavement.
Pickle panic as rival Guss cukes duke in sour fight
By Audrey Tempelsman
On July 16, Andrew Leibowitz, principal of the United Pickle empire, and Patricia Fairhurst, owner of Orchard St.’s tiny Guss’ Pickles, return to court to battle over the city’s most controversial cucumbers. Both claim legal ownership of the world-renowned Guss’ Pickles brand.
Viva Juana! Vladeck Houses senior turns 106
By Jennifer Milne
Juana Yulfo peered through her pale blue eyes at the photographer who was taking her birthday portrait. She folded her thin hands across her lap and cocked her head slightly to the side.
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VILLAGER ART & LIFESTYLE
FILM
Woody Allen’s New York love song
By WILL McKINLEY
If you’re going to see Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” which begins a weeklong run on Friday at Film Forum, please don’t be late. Because you don’t want to miss the first four minutes.
Grover’s Corners, where time and memory intersect
By JERRY TALLMER
How young they all were! It’s almost Thornton Wilder’s extraordinary ambition — “to see through the two ends of the telescope at the same time” – come to pass before our eyes.
Welcome to Herzog’s jungle
By Steven Snyder
There’s a moment in “Rescue Dawn” that, when viewed through the lens of war stories and tales of human endurance, is nothing short of sublime.
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Danny Boyle’s sun salutation
By Rania Richardson
We’re committed to science. The audacious, breathtaking pull of science,” said director Danny Boyle, in town last month to promote his new outer space thriller “Sunshine,” about a mission to reignite the dying sun.
VISUAL
Putting native artists on the map
By Laura Silver
Maps are all about compromises and omissions. Draw them to scale and you are likely to forfeit the intricacies that define a place. Emphasize the major thoroughfares and you risk eclipsing a neighborhood’s nuances. Focus on city blocks and topography is likely to be overlooked.
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Two residents who live near the former Deutsche Bank building, Pat Moore, a Community Board 1 member, and Dave Stanke, a Downtown Express columnist, talk about their concerns living near the skyscraper's dismantling and the construction as well as their thoughts on the Survivors' Stairway and other issues related to the World Trade Center site with hosts Josh Rogers and Skye H. McFarlane. Recorded June 4, 2007.
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