Editorial
Pier 76 transfer station could be best option
The city’s Solid Waste Management Plan has met stiff opposition in Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. The plan — to go into effect gradually over the next 20 years — calls for a new marine transfer station for recyclable municipal and commercial waste at Gansevoort Peninsula and also an M.T.S. at Pier 99 at W. 59th St. for all of Manhattan’s commercial waste. The paper, plastic and metal would be barged to a Brooklyn recycling plant.


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Columbia protesters need to take Free Speech 101
By Ed Gold
Some allegedly liberal groups on the Columbia University campus are giving liberalism a bad name, allowing conservatives to goad them into ignoring the First Amendment.

Too long in the tanning bed

No, this ghoul, photographed on Monday on W. 15th St., was not staking out his position more than a week in advance to watch the Village Halloween Parade. He was handing out fliers for a Halloween costume store. (Chelsea Now photo by Milo Hess)

Shape of things to come

Chelsea Now photos by Jefferson Siegel
Resembling a ship in full sail, the new headquarters of IAC/InterActiveCorp, designed by Frank Gehry, is nearing completion by the West Side Highway between 18th and 19th Sts. across from Chelsea Piers.
Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 5 , Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2006

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

Architect Timothy P. Hartung, a partner in Polshek Partnership Architects, answers questions while pointing to a model of the seminary’s proposed Ninth Ave. tower.

Seminary prays new project design will convert its critics
By Lawrence Lerner
The General Theological Seminary unveiled a revision of its controversial 17-story Ninth Ave. tower proposal on Wednesday night in front of a fairly receptive crowd of 100 people at the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Chelsea.

Jack of all trades and jack-o’-lanterns make parade
By Lawrence Lerner
To sit around the kitchen table at Jeanne Fleming’s Red Hook, N.Y., farmhouse this time of year is to witness a theater of the absurd.

Vendors cook up some hot competition at St. Mark’s
By Jefferson Siegel
The next time you’re dashing out for a quick lunch, slow down when you pass the stainless steel carts of the street food vendors. You’re likely to get a better meal dining al fresco than you might expect.

NEWS
N.J. court rules that gay
couples have ‘same rights’
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD
In a long-awaited ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday announced by a unanimous vote that the failure of the state to provide same-sex couples with the same rights that opposite-sex couples can obtain under state law by marrying violates the equal protection requirements of the state Constitution.

Dia museum plan for High Line is dead in its tracks
By Albert Amateau
The Dia Art Foundation told the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs on Oct. 24 that it has dropped plans to build a museum on Gansevoort St. at the southern end of the High Line, which is being converted into a 1.4-mile elevated park.

Quinn shows she can be a principal too at P.S. 3
By Jefferson Siegel
Christine Quinn, City Council speaker, became Christine Quinn, school principal, last Thursday morning as the speaker paid a visit to P.S. 3 on Hudson St.

Supermodel’s new boutique offers a taste of Danish
BY MARCUS O. CARLSON
The supermodel was already one of his best customers in the early ’90s back home in Copenhagen.

Arts & Entertainment

Sex, lies, and a free t-shirt
By Will McKinley
Can you spot a liar? If so, George Carlin has a free t-shirt for you. Okay, it’s not really George Carlin. It’s Andy Christie, the Carlin look-alike and host of “The Liar Show” at The PIT, an improvisational comedy venue sandwiched between a Subway Restaurant and a porn shop on W. 29th Street.

The miseducation of Miss Jean Brodie
By Scott Harrah
“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” Jay Presson Allen’s classic stage adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel about an eccentric, delusional Scottish schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh, does not seem at all dated since it was first mounted in London with Vanessa Redgrave in the lead in 1966.

Talking Shop with Kathryn Markel Fine Art

Koch on Film
“Flags of Our Fathers” (+)
This film, directed by Clint Eastwood, tells the story of the U.S. Marines who captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese during World War II. “Running With Scissors” (-)
The dysfunctional families depicted in this film are among the worst I have seen on screen. A.O. Scott of The New York Times may have put his finger on the central truth about this movie when he called it, “an impressive scrapbook of well-observed, offbeat performances.

Ballet’s heavyweights return to City Center
By Susan Yung
American Ballet Theater kicked off its three-week fall season at City Center on Oct. 19 with a premiere by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo, titled “Glow – Stop,” set to music by Mozart and Philip Glass. Like his commission for New York City Ballet’s Diamond Project last spring, Elo’s new ballet displayed a fascination with speed and virtuosity.

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Rufus, a 6-month-old hound mix, is king of the hill at the Chelsea dog run on 23rd St., at least until his other dog friends show up.

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Green for Red
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photograph “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1999” sold recently at the Phillips, de Pury & Company auction house, at 450 W. 15th St, for $96,000. It is part of a series of historical portraits Sugimoto photographed from wax models. Sugimoto currently has an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (Ranard’s Picture Show for Chelsea Now)

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