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With all of the world’s seemingly intractable problems, we at Community Media wanted to step back and take stock in our lives during this holiday season. We asked our editors, reporters, advertising reps, designers and office staff what they were grateful for this Thanksgiving. Here is what they said...

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New York is finally getting in gear on bike lanes
By Florent Morellet
Dear neighbors and fellow merchants, trust me, the sky is not falling yet. Like many other metropolises, our city has turned a corner and we have a great new dawn in front of us, but we need your help.

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Giovanni, Downtown restaurateur, 73, dies

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Downtown Express photos by Jefferson Siegel Dey St. as it looked in December 2001 with remnants of the Twin Towers in the background left, and the recently reopened street, right. Defying the shouts, city says full speed on Chatham Sq. Two-and-a-half hours into Tuesday night’s hearing on the redesign of Chatham Square, the Department of Transportation revealed that it wasn’t a public hearing at all. Bikers b eware: Tickets possible on closed down B.P.C. path By Josh Rogers The Battery Park City Authority is stepping up enforcement on the closed-off section of the West St. bikeway for at least a month. Ballfields’ safety plan is almost ready Milstein Properties says its safety plan to build two residential towers adjacent to the Battery Park City ballfields is close to being finalized and they expect to present it to Community Board 1 in January. Chinatown-Little Italy district gets state boost Victor Papa is on a mission to save Chinatown and Little Italy. Free legal advice for seniors	BREAKING NEWS Firefighter, preservationists are burning over island firehouse closing Fare hikes? How about free buses instead, plan asks YMCA, Asphalt Green make bids for B.P.C. A new day for Dey By Julie Shapiro John Chawki stood on Dey St. beside his yellow cab, pointing north, then south, then east, then west. Downtown Notebook Bikes and the city: An unsexy tale By Dara Lehon I am one of an estimated 131,000 group of people who ride a bicycle in New York City. Urstadt blocks B.P.C. condo deal, citing affordable housing concerns By Julie Shapiro Condo owners at the Regatta in Battery Park City will have to wait at least another month before finding out how much their monthly payments will go up next April.
ARTS DOWNTOWN Can you hear the blood tonight By WILL McKINLEY Thanks to the chaste bloodsuckers of “Twilight” and the randy rednecks of HBO’s “True Blood,” 2008 may well be remembered as the Year of the Vampire. But, for Dan Bianchi, the real Year of the Vampire happened half a century ago. Last exit to Williamsburg By David Todd The cover to “Bad Habits: A Love Story” promises fiction “in the tradition of the finest transgressive authors,” evoking the Kathy Acker/Jean Genet standard to which so many young punks have aspired. Under the cover lovers The fashion queens of Christopher St. By Laurie Mittelmann On Staten Island, 20 wigs crowd the public housing unit of transgender model and prostitute Shawn Rachel, 28. Jumping off	Putting LES galleries on the map By STACEY COBURN Gallery Bar owners Darin Rubell and Josh Boyd spend much of the day fielding phone calls. How’s he doing? By LORI ORTIZ Performance Space 122’s freewheeling spirit has only been fast-forwarded by its newish artistic director Vallejo Gantner. Martha Wainwright finds new confidence By ADRIENNE URBANSKI As the daughter of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright spent her childhood in the shadow of the spotlight. Under the spiegeltents, all the Seaport’s a stage Live from New York, it’s the public library

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