Editorial
Congress must fund 9/11 health programs
Like far too many other self-sacrificing men and women who searched for bodies at the World Trade Center site in 2001 and 2002, Police Officer Cesar Borja, 52, developed an illness that almost certainly was related to the toxic chemicals released into the air as a result of the collapse of the Twin Towers.

Letters to the editor

Talking point
Is General Theological Seminary even relevant today?
By Tim Gay
Some people say I might be a little biased about the roles that religion and spirituality play in the total community.

Mikhaela Reid

The Buzz

Police Blotter

Scene


In Briefs
How much for that art book in the window?

Acts of random kindness come to Union Square

Color spectacular adorns the Highline


Obituaries
Norman Buchbinder, 84, a leader in two local BID’s
By Lincoln Anderson
Norman Buchbinder, a principal in Buchbinder & Warren real estate management and brokerage company, died Jan. 20 at his Upper West Side home at a
ge 84. He had been in failing health.

Health & Fitness
New Year’s resolutions
By Greg Rothman, MS PT
You swore you’d get in shape this year, but what happened to those New Year’s resolutions that you were so passionate about on January 2? We all begin the year with great intentions, but by the end of January, our trail to self-improvement turns as cold as the weather.

Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 18, February 2 - 8, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Geoff Smith

Gallerist Moti Hasson, beside a work by Paul Pagk in Hasson’s new gallery at 535 W. 25th St.

Moti Hasson moves up, opens storefront gallery in Chelsea
By Stephanie Murg
A little over two years ago, Moti Hasson woke up and didn’t want to go to work. He decided that he would rather start an art gallery. Today, he is at the helm of a shimmering new 4,000-square-foot, street-level space in Chelsea that just opened a group show headlined by breakout star Shinique Smith.


Washington Square enviro suits cite trees, dust, hawk
By Lincoln Anderson
The lawsuits keep on mounting against the embattled Washington Square Park renovation plan, threatening to further stall or kill it. Two new lawsuits take aim at the $16 million project on environmental grounds.

Locals are living longer despite boozing, obesity, lead poisoning
By Albert Amateau
New York City residents are living longer, deaths related to H.I.V. have dropped sharply in the past 10 years, and fewer people use tobacco, but obesity has become a growing health problem.

An open-and-shut case in stabbing involving teens at The Door
By Priya Idiculla
with Albert Amateau
A 16-year-old student from The Door, a Hudson Square alternative school, stabbed another teen from the school on Wed., Jan. 24, on Grand St. and West Broadway around noon, according to police.

NEWS

Two visions proffered for single regional rail plan
By Chris Lombardi
George Haikalis, a member of Com-munity Board 5’s Transportation Com-mittee, gave a shy smile under his white beard as he looked across the room on Wednesday night. “We are at a unique moment,” he said quietly. “We have two new governors who can join hands to make this a priority.”

High school is rocked by Trump’s pile driving
By Brooke Edwards
Since last month, more than 1,000 students and staff at Chelsea Career and Technical High School have had to choose between sweating in overheated classrooms or opening their windows to the constant pounding of a pile driver and the smell of diesel fumes.

South Village preservation plan eyes gay history
By Paul Schindler
“Witness the Scenes in ‘the Slide’ as the Herald Describes Them to You, and Straightway Begin Your Work of Reform.”

AIDS activist and health researcher stays influential
By Christopher Murray
Spencer Cox founded the Medius Institute in 2005. A one-man think tank on issues related to gay men’s health and wellness, he has produced a series of well-reasoned, sensible policy papers on challenges facing queer men after 25 years of coping with AIDS.


Arts & Entertainment

Where Ibsen meets Ntozake Shange
By Vivienne Leheny
The ambitious little Hudson Guild Theatre Company seems to prize the offbeat. How else to explain it’s twinning of two radically different plays by groundbreaking playwrights working 100 years apart? Last Friday, the Guild began presenting Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” in rotating repertory with Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” Unlikely double-bill partners, yes; but very much in line with Hudson Guild’s spirit.

Koch on Film
“Seraphim Falls” (-) This pretentious western film set in 1868 seeks to convey some highbrow message.  I was put off by the movie, and the message escaped me.

Talking shop with Josée Bienvenu
By Shane McAdams
A few weeks ago, I went on an art world tour of Los Angeles.


Out of the shadows
By Andrey Henkin
Most documentaries follow one of two formulas: someone starting from nothing who gets everything or someone starting from nothing who gets everything and then loses it all. Neither scenario really addresses the complexities of the life of composer Billy Strayhorn.

The working subject
By Rachel Youens
Portraiture is experiencing a comeback, which makes John Sonsini’s timely portraits of Latino day laborers doubly relevant. Through his visceral, painterly approach to his subjects — working men who stand rooted in space, looking out at us — Sonsini crosses racial and class divisions in the pristine, high-ceilinged Cheim & Read gallery, foregrounding his subjects’ individuality against the backdrop of their immigrant status.

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Visual Arts Press
Mark Paris, “Day Laborers,” 2006, from “The American Dream: Migrant Workers in America Today,” at the Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts through Mar. 8.

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