EDITORIAL
Ecosystematic is the way to go
Three development stories affecting Downtown’s future are coinciding right now. It’s instructive to consider them in relationship to each other for insight on how best to proceed in shaping our community’s future.

Letters to the Editor

Talking Point
Farewell to Superior Inks and that old funky mix
By Kate Walter
I love my temporary river view now that I can see the Hudson from my desk. The large boxy obstruction is gone. That’s the only good thing I can say about the destruction of the Superior Inks building on the corner of Bethune and West Sts.

College Commencement speakers: Don’t get me started
By Andrei Codrescu
College campuses all over the country have now heard commencement speeches from every public person, from Bob Barker to myself. Bob Barker told graduates in Missouri that “Let’s Make a Deal” is a cult among the young because the set hasn’t changed since the ’70s. It’s one certainty in a wildly changing world, he assured them.

Police Blotter

The Buzz

In Briefs

Flatiron BID to hold first annual meeting

The Big Easy comes to New York City

Resplendent commencement at G.T.S.
Friends, trustees, students and faculty members of The General Theological Seminary gathered at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for the institution’s 185th Commencement Exercises.

Health and Fitness
Getting your body back for summer, Part 3
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
I mentioned in last week’s column that each spring, 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. This is the third in a four-column series designed to help you look good in that swimsuit with a time-compressed workout program.

Volume 1, Number 35 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | May 18 - 24, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

Architect and C.B. 5 board member Nancy Goshow stands on the roof of her office at West 25th St. between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. She and other small-business owners are feeling the pressure as Class B office space becomes an endangered species in Chelsea and the Garment District.

Small businesses squeezed as Class B office space dwindles
By Chris Lombardi
Maggie Cassidy, sales director at Venaca, a six-year-old software company specializing in digital assets management, speaks laughingly of her company’s former offices at 30 West 21st St. “It used to be a nightclub, so it wasn’t fit for people, it wasn’t fit for business,” she said of the building whose only other tenants were a social services agency and hundreds of non-paying mice.

Chelsea kids and cops continue dialogue
By Chris Lombardi
Jose Ramos, a 20-year-old young man in a light-blue shirt, stood facing 10th Precinct Captain Michael Patrillo. At six-foot-two, Ramos towered over the five-foot-seven officer.

Downtown mosque a haven for city’s Muslim cabbies
By Alyssa Giachino
In the predawn chill of a weekday in early spring, at an East Village mosque the entryway shelves were brimming with the shoes of worshipers. Favored footwear styles were sturdy tennis shoes and dusty work boots, most with well-worn heels.

Another Paltrow takes the spotlight
By Judith Stiles
Longtime Chelsea activist Lynn Paltrow chose a different path in life from her cousin, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, when she founded the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a national think tank and watchdog group that monitors laws and social services that affect pregnant women throughout the country.

NEWS
Hotel pushes ’hood’s buttons with MTV ‘phone-sex’ ad
By Lawrence Lerner
The Hotel Gansevoort added fuel to the fire surrounding its hotly debated billboard last Wednesday when it put up the second of two ads on the towering structure.

The time is right for dancing in the streets
By Sandra Larriva
On Saturday, more than 150 dance organizations and approximately 8,000 individual performers will join forces to parade from 32nd Street and Broadway all the way to Washington Square Park for the city’s first annual Dance Parade.

Preservation plan gaining momentum in L.E.S.
By Alyssa Giachino
Neighborhood preservationists are revving their engines again on the Lower East Side, this time with a broader coalition of support, reviving a proposal to designate a historic district that ran into determined opposition last year.

HOP throws in the towel on Pridefest
By Paul Schindler
Heritage of Pride, which organizes five major events annually during LGBT Pride Week, has officially cancelled plans for the Pridefest street festival that it has held for the past 15 years, due to the city’s denial of its permit application.

A Citysearch for Chelsea
 By Rebecca Cathcart
Picture Chelsea from a bird’s-eye view. The neighborhood, from 14th Street to roughly Penn Station and Sixth Avenue to the Hudson, is full of galleries and performance spaces.
Arts & Entertainment

An affair to remember
By Scott Harrah
“Lovemusik,” the new Broadway musical biography of composer Kurt Weill and his longtime lover Lotte Lenya, is in many ways akin to those breezy documentaries on dead celebrities like “Biography” or “The E True Hollywood Story.” It offers a semi-epic look at the composer’s life, but like the star-bio shows on TV, it is hard to decipher what’s fact and what’s speculation.

Outlaws at work
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Graffiti, cartoons and commix — watch out, the bad boys are back in town. R. Crumb is entirely self-taught. And Frank Z is an aerosol king from Brooklyn who hooked up with painter and installationist Kai Althoff from Cologne.

Lincoln’s Memorial
By Michael Ehrhardt
The challenge presented for a reviewer of Martin Duberman’s authoritative “The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein” remains a mere bagatelle compared to what must have been a genuinely daunting exercise for the biographer of such a protean subject.

Koch on Film
“28 Weeks Later” (-) This film, a sequel to the 2003 movie “28 Days Later,” is totally incomprehensible. In my review of the first picture, I stated, “I wasn’t scared nor was I amused” while watching it and called it “ridiculous.”
“Jindabyne” (+) I enjoyed this film which received near-universal positive reviews. Set in the town of Jindabyne, Australia, the movie begins with the murder of an Aborigine woman.

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Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York
Standing SteelThe Madison Square Park Conservancy’s free outdoor exhibition program presents “Conjoined,” “Defunct” and “Erratic,” three stainless steel tree sculptures by conceptual artist Roxy Paine, through December 31. Above: “Conjoined,” 2007.

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