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Editorial
Garbage plan trashes Hudson Square’s future
When one mentions Hudson Square, many people, including even most New Yorkers, are at a loss. This unique neighborhood, located between Greenwich Village, Soho and Tribeca, was formerly known as the Printing District. But its new name, Hudson Square, is taking hold. This Downtown neighborhood is undergoing rapid change, which is why we have chosen this week to devote a special section highlighting Hudson Square’s attributes, as well as the challenges facing its future.
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Letters to the Editor
Police Blotter
THE PENNY POST
Good old-fashioned crime
By Andrei Codrescu
I wonder if crooks sit around being nostalgic about the good ole days, back when you could rob a house or a bank with a gun and an attitude, or get payoffs in white envelopes at the local pub, run numbers for everyone in the neighborhood, commit a little fraud there, a bit of blackmail here, and drive around in a big car with two muscle-boys named Zack and Boris.
News Briefs
Setting sail on a two-hour tour
Sports
Downtown Soccer League action
Downtown Soccer League games were canceled Saturday because of Yom Kippur, but there was a full schedule Sunday.
Giant teams prove there’s no place like home
Tribeca hoedown
YOUTH
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Millionaires move to save Pier 40 By Lincoln Anderson When the Pier 40 Working Group proposed a few months ago that public funds — instead of monies generated by large-scale private development on Pier 40 — be used to maintain Hudson River Park, Henry Stern, a member of the Hudson River Park Trust’s board of trustees, blasted the idea as “socialist.” REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK |
NEWS
 Morgy’s Deutsche probe will not stop at crimesBy Josh Rogers Any officials guilty of wrongdoing, but not crimes, in the deadly Aug. 18 Deutsche Bank fire, will be rebuked by District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a source briefed on the investigation said.
Dogs not 2B displaced for school plans P.S. 234 pushing for covered path to annex Kane teases whether he’ll drop burlesque club idea |
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DOWNTOWN ART & LIFESTYLE  The love life of Sasha WolfBy Kelly Kingman Don’t let her cool, born-and-bred New Yorker façade fool you: Sasha Wolf is a romantic who has dedicated herself to a labor of love. After years of holding photography exhibitions in her apartment, the independent curator opened an eponymous gallery last week in a former garage on Tribeca’s Leonard Street — the result of two years of arduous fund-raising and a thorough renovation. A mentor is worth a 1,000 words By Jane Warshaw “Have a lot of different mentors so you don’t drive one person crazy and hang out with people who will tell you the truth, even if it’s harsh.”  A foodie memoir to savorBy Jaime Jordan Phoebe Damrosch’s foodie memoir, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (William Morrow), is the kind of book that you try to read slowly, because you want it to last. Part tell-all account of the opening of Thomas Keller’s renowned restaurant, Per Se, and part love story, Service Included offers a behind the scenes chronicle of the experience of the first female captain at one of New York’s four-star restaurants. |
 ‘Feast of Love’ slightly full of itselfBy Steven Snyder For a movie titled “Feast of Love,” there is a conspicuous absence of love in the lives of its central characters. Directed by Robert Benton, who from 1979’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” up through 2003’s “The Human Stain” has chased stories of emotional trauma and turmoil, “Feast of Love” is a movie about supposedly happy people who realize they are anything but.  Beckett, bootless, not waiting for GiacomettiBy Jerry Tallmer Bert Lahr, who claimed, or pretended, not to understand one word of a play he was starring in, the 1956 Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” would I think have burst out laughing if he’d lived long enough — he died in 1967 — to take in the American premiere of Thomas Kilroy’s intense, pressure-cooked “The Shape of Metal” at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters. |
Neighbors sue city over Houston St. safety
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SPECIAL SECTION
Discovering Hudson Square
Hudson Square, a neighborhood which some residents think doesn’t exist, actually has its origins from two centuries ago as we report in this special section.
Ink is not dry as Hudson Square defines itself
By Patrick Hedlund
Over the many decades it spent struggling to secure an identity, the neighborhood of Hudson Square has always meant different things to different people.
The Square’s lines are not straightforward
By Josh Rogers
I work in Hudson Sq. or at least I say I do. But I don’t actually say it — mainly because many New Yorkers have never heard of it, and some that have don’t believe it exists.
Weisbrod makes his BID for Trinity & Hudson Square
By Josh Rogers
Transform a commercial area into a mixed-use neighborhood with more residents.
Nabe fights plan to dump garbage trucks
By Patrick Hedlund
When Nancy Miller envisions the construction of a proposed sanitation facility in Hudson Square.
Architects brainstorm ways to add park space
By Patrick Hedlund
The future of Manhattan’s West Side lies in an area some still can’t find on a map, and it contains some of the most developable land on the island, though many might have trouble recognizing the neighborhood’s name.
Extra! Extra! Media firms move to Hudson Square
By Patrick Hedlund
While the days of Hudson Square as a hub for the city’s printing industry have faded like yesterday’s news, a crop of new media companies has begun setting up shop in the neighborhood to breath new life into the former publishing center.
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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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