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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
At the annual Fulton Houses Holiday Party last Friday, resident Myisha Richardson, 6, whispered her Christmas wish to Santa’s helper Jessica Oney. More than 300 people, including NYPD officers and employees from General Theological Seminary, attended the event. MORE
Operation Santa brings out the holiday spirit in New Yorkers
By Shuka Kalantari
When the first week of December rolls around, Jacqueline Borges gets in her car for her two-hour drive to the post office.
T’was the night Whitlock, Jr., read
Transit union comes out against MTA fare hike
By Jefferson Siegel
On Monday morning, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor Elliot Spitzer and a host of officials unveiled a sign in the Times Sq. subway station to mark the beginning of work on the No. 7 train, union officials spoke out against part of the plan at City Hall.
Memorial for Ali Forney
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Thirty-day policy on hotel stays ignored by Marriott
By Chris Lombardi
As legislators, city officials and the corporate housing industry argue about what constitutes an “illegal hotel,” new evidence obtained by Chelsea Now indicates that one of the major players in the industry may not even be playing by its own rules.
Pier 40 plans reconsidered as deadline nears
By Josh Rogers
There are new details about all three plans for Pier 40’s future.
Moynihan Station project laid bare at scope hearing
By Chris Lombardi
The new “Extended Moynihan Project” was laid bare at a scoping hearing last Thursday at the James A. Farley Building, eliciting both praise and concern from local legislators and advocates while representatives for the project’s developers listened in.
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Arts & Entertainment
Never the Twain shall meet
By Scott Harrah
“A new comedy by Mark Twain,” the ads for this show have proclaimed, but that’s a bit of a misnomer. Of course, Twain has been dead for nearly a century, but this 1898 comedy has never been produced until now. Discovered in a Twain archive in California in 2002 by Stanford University professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, “Is He Dead?” is the type of play with mistaken identities, bawdy humor, and cross dressing that was the comedic realm of 17th century French playwright Claude Boyer and countless British farces of the 1890s such as “Charley’s Aunt.” What really makes the show worthwhile is the exuberant, madcap performance of Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz, who breathes lots of comic oxygen into this funny yet dated work.
The rebirth of the New Museum
By Kelly Kingman
Walking up to the new New Museum’s entrance is a surprise on this gritty stretch of the Bowery. The cantilevered building — the first museum in the city to be built from the ground up below Houston — stands out like a luminous white prism amidst a line of restaurant supply shops. The location signals a shift east for the arts community, anchoring a growing number of galleries on the Lower East Side.
Koch on Film
The battle between science and superstition
By Scott Harrah
Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of a Species,” written in the 1800s, is still one of most controversial books of all time because the scientist’s Theory of Evolution goes against Judeo-Christian beliefs in “creationism” and the notion that humanity began in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. When the book was originally written in Victorian-era England, Darwin received unprecedented criticism and claims of blasphemy from virtually all religions in the world, but it is his family — and the harrowing grief and social ostracism they experienced at the time — that form the basis of “Trumpery,” a fascinating bio-drama about the British icon of biology.
A play made for the screen
By Nicole Davis
The days before television may be hard to imagine for those of us weaned on cable, but Aaron Sorkin tries to give us a clear picture in “The Farnsworth Invention,” about media mogul David Sarnoff and how he wrested control of TV from its true inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth.
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