Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, speaking at the General Theological Seminary on Ninth Ave. last Thursday evening.

NEWS
Gansevoort project will study traffic, public space
By Albert Amateau
The title is a mouthful and the project itself is ambitious.
The Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project, introduced at an Oct. 16 forum to an audience of Village and Chelsea community leaders, will take a comprehensive look at motor and pedestrian traffic in the area bounded by W. 16th and Gansevoort Sts. between Ninth Ave. and the Hudson River.

Saving flora from where freight cars once rumbled
By Albert Amateau
A perfect October afternoon — no clouds, little wind and cool temperature — brought out about 60 men and women to the still wild north end of the High Line to collect seeds from the wind-sown plants growing on the railroad viaduct for 25 years.

The News

By Lincoln Anderson
According to all parties involved, the developer of a new mixed-use building between Great Jones and Bond Sts. on Lafayette St. is close to reaching an agreement with Chuck Close and his fellow artist tenants in the adjacent building at 20 Bond St.

The making (and unmaking) of ‘The Marriage Bed’
By Vivienne Leheny
“I never wanted to think about all these things and I never have because they weren’t available to me. I contented myself with berating my heterosexual friends that got married because they betrayed me and the cause by doing something I was prevented from doing.”

Koch on film
By Ed Koch
“The Departed” (+) This script contains a few holes and relies in one case on an improbable, dying hood’s statement to clear up an important matter. But quibbles aside, “The Departed” is very exciting, filled with constant action, a few torrid love scenes and above all, a great cast.
“Little Children” (+) This is excellent film despite one small cavil, which I will detail later. 

Talking Shop with Denise Bibro Fine Art
By Shane McAdams
Denise Bibro is one of the rare gallerists who have endured long enough to bear witness to sweeping shifts in fashions and ideas in the art world and still be around to show off her battle scars.