EDITORIAL
Hats off to Gov. Spitzer for gay marriage bill
 “Promise made, promise kept” is the pithy comment State Senator Tom Duane offered in response to the April 27 introduction by Governor Eliot Spitzer of his program bill to enact marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Letters to the Editor

Talking Point
High Line: Corporate plaza or avenue in the sky?
By Ed Hamilton
When Joshua David of Friends of the High Line read my piece in BlogChelsea.com  (Jan. 2, 2007) in which I called the High Line project a big corporate giveaway, he invited me pay him a visit in order to discuss the project.

Police Blotter

Mikhaela Reid

Health and Fitness
Getting your body back for summer
Each year, as spring weather finally arrives in New York City, something very predictable happens: People tell me how their New Year’s resolutions fell through sometime in February and ask if it’s too late to get in shape for summer.
Volume 1, Number 33 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | May 4 - 10, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Joshua Bright

Designers with a mission: Ruth Gottesman, manager of The Alpha Workshops, with its executive director and founder Kenneth Wampler. The Chelsea-based decorative arts studio trains and exclusively employs people with HIV and AIDS.

Chelsea tenant forum sizes up the market
By Chris Lombardi
Tenant advocate Benjamin Dulchin looked across the room at the Hudson Guild Elliott Chelsea Center and longed openly for the good old days of the Giuliani era.

HKNA enviro lawsuit vs. Bloomberg moves to court
By Chris Lombardi
Last Friday, the case of Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association v. Bloomberg et al began its path to a federal courtroom. The lawsuit, in which HKNA alleges that the city and state violated the federal Clean Air Act by mandating more parking spaces as it rezoned Hudson Yards, had been blocked for two years while both the city and state tried to have it dismissed.

Show and ‘tell’ brings James Baldwin to Chelsea
By Marsha Lebedev Bernstein
Actor and playwright Calvin Levels ambles to center stage in a packed Chelsea auditorium, playing the part of author and activist James Baldwin. With his black-suited back to the audience, Levels surveys the living room set before him as a recording of Baldwin’s voice set to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is pumped into the auditorium. A projected black and white portrait of Baldwin hovers before him.

Third in a series on the Hotel Chelsea—past and present
Haunting the Hotel Halls
Linda Troeller has been photographing life inside the Hotel Chelsea since she moved there in 1994.

NEWS
Alpha Workshops supplies AIDS advocacy by design
By Stephanie Murg
Next time you’re in Gracie Mansion, look down. That dazzling checkerboard marble floor in the entryway of one of Manhattan’s oldest wood structures? It’s not the work of craftsmen from George Washington’s time.

Owner - occupancy threatens to oust tenants
By Barry Paddock
When cab driver and amateur jazz musician Miguel Munoz says, “My apartment is an extension of myself,” he really means it. Munoz, 45, has lived in his Chelsea apartment since he was 5 years old, and has lived on his block even longer than that.

Rally weds immigration, garment-district fights
By Chris Lombardi
Bruce Raynor, president of the nation’s garment workers union, looked out over Seventh Avenue at the statue on 39th Street.

Legal eagles set their sights on security cameras
By Lindsay Beyerstein
Legal experts joined City Councilmem-ber Alan Gerson and political reporter Sandra Endo to discuss the proliferation of security cameras in New York City at a panel discussion in Lower Manhattan hosted by the New York County Lawyers’ Association last Wednesday.

Chelsea dog owners bark about Waterside Park
By Julie Shapiro
Last Thursday, 13 dog owners backed Noreen Doyle into a corner—literally.
Doyle, executive vice president of the Hudson River Park Trust, was a guest speaker at the Chelsea Waterside Park Association’s annual meeting, held at St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, on W. 22nd St.

On the Record
Offering a haven for abused and neglected children
By David Gibbons
Bill Baccaglini, Jr. throws the drive of a hungry corporate executive, the savvy of a veteran civil servant and the straight talk of a rising politician behind his job as executive director of The New York Foundling, a Chelsea-based organization that is among New York’s oldest and largest private child-welfare agencies.

On the Street
Bringing affordable Internet access to all New Yorkers
By lawrence lerner
For many people in Manhattan, Internet access is a reflex—the simplest way to get in touch with someone, or to find a job, apartment or the answer to a question. For others, mainly the elderly, low-income households or small businesses in the outer-boroughs, fast, affordable Net access remains elusive.
Arts & Entertainment
The new love that dare not speak its name
By Vivienne Leheny
It’s a terrible thing — dangerous and romantic — to be swept up by a love affair and carried past the perimeter of our natural element. What happens if our essential truth is in conflict with the desperate need for a particular lover?

With roots in the High Line Park, a festival springs up
By Lee Ann Westover
Set atop a ruined railroad that runs above the west side of Chelsea, the High Line Park will feature greenery and river views where there was once only rust and refuse.

Koch on Film

To Ab and Ab not
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Have you noticed? There is an “upward spike in abstract painting” reported Roberta Smith last week in the Times, and the galleries are full of spots, splashes, drips and drizzles that remain resolutely non-referential. Departing from pure abstraction, much of the work does reference objects, from calligraphy to flowers to Fragonard.

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Courtesy David Zwirner, New York
Extreme and Provocativeare adjectives that describe the paintings of Lisa Yuskavage, a New York-based artist who will discuss her work at The New School on May 3 at 6:30 p.m. Above: “Biting the Red Thing,” 2004-2005, oil on linen.

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