Who deserves shoes?
On Sunday, in a microcosmic moment of the war in Iraq, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old Iraqi TV correspondent, flung first one, then the other, of his shoes at President Bush. As he hurled his first piece of footwear, al-Zaidi yelled in Arabic that Bush was a “dog.” The second shoe, he shouted, was “from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!”
Letters to the Editor
In Pictures
For the water tank that has everything
Neighborhood sign?
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Downtown Express photo by J.B. Nicholas
The city Dept. of Transportation says the extended sidewalk, or bus bulbs, on lower Broadway have made bus travel as quick as cars, but officials are not sure if they speeded up bus times or merely slowed down car travel by taking away a lane.
City tells Downtown skeptics the Broadway bus lane ‘seems’ to work
By Julie Shapiro
Anne McDonough stood on a strip of concrete along lower Broadway, between the sidewalk and the street, with an exasperated look on her face.
New Lower Manhattan school looks less likely
Lower Manhattan has a reduced chance of getting new school seats in the Department of Education’s next capital plan, based on new details about the plan the D.O.E. released this week.
Pols and residents in hot pursuit of ‘wild ones’
By Albert Amateau
The City Council had a final hearing
last week on a bill drafted by Council-member Alan Gerson and endorsed by the New York Police Department that would allow the city to seize parked motorcycles that have the potential to violate the city noise code.
Puddles turn to ponds in The Battery
December weather left mini-floods along Battery Place on Monday, with puddles reaching 100 feet long and 15 feet wide.
South Ferry station almost ready to open
By Julie Shapiro
The glittering South Ferry subway station will open next month, replacing an older station whose quirks will soon be only a memory.
M.T.A. says ‘N’ could be for no late night service
By Julie Shapiro
A neighborhood accustomed to subway outages may be in for another one: Starting in the first half of next year, trains may not run late at night on the N/R/W line between City Hall and Brooklyn.
Squadron: There’s a better way to close M.T.A. budget
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School with E.S.L. students ranked with nation’s elite
By Julie Shapiro
A small, largely unknown high school on Grand St. is attracting national attention.
Firehouse cuts explained
Angry Community Board 1 members got a sympathetic ear, not an adversary, when they spoke against the Fire Department’s impending cuts Tuesday night.
Panel rules Port owes Silverstein millions
By Julie Shapiro
The Port Authority had to pay Silverstein Properties more than $20 million in penalties after failing to deliver pieces of the World Trade Center site.
C.B.1 makes peace with Cordato’s bar
With an eye toward fair legal practices — and a touch of the Christmas spirit — Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee did not stand in the way of a liquor license renewal at Cordato’s, a deli and bar at 94½ Greenwich St.
Board 3 opposes Chatham Square plan
Community Board 3 on Tuesday passed a revised resolution rejecting the proposed Chatham Sq./Park Row redesign project, at least for the time being.
20 years later, H.I.V. Center still has its doors open
By DUNCAN OSBORNE
Matt Baney joined Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in 1992. He remembers when the prospects for an H.I.V.-positive person were grim and healthcare providers had little to offer such individuals.
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ARTS DOWNTOWN
Eden in the flesh
By JERRY TALLMER
It was the morning after the opening, and the raves were in, but already Martha Clarke was on the cell phone, talking with Rob Besserer, a remarkable actor/dancer who was central to the original “Garden of Earthly Delights” in 1984-87 and is now a bit older than he was then. She was begging him to step in, now, for an actor who had been knocked out by the sciatica that struck mid-performance the night before.
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In focus behind the camera
BY ELENA MANCINI
“Annie Leibovitz at Work,” a newly published retrospective of the iconic photographer’s 40-year career, is equal parts text and images. She got her start in 1970, when one of her photos of Vietnam anti-war rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley was used for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, which subsequently offered her a job.
White picket malaise
By ELENA MANCINI
“Prostitution is the perfect example of the double standard. It’s illegal to sell your body if you’re poor but when you’re rich—when you’re rich it’s perfectly acceptable. We just call it being a wife,” |
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