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Hudson River Park: A name that works
The name Hudson River Park has always been just fine with everybody. It perfectly describes and locates the 5-mile-long Lower West Side waterfront park between Chambers and W. 59th Sts. But on Monday The New York Sun reported that Governor Eliot Spitzer in his State of the State address on Wednesday will propose renaming the park after George Pataki, who was governor for the 12 years before Spitzer.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOTEBOOK
What fresh hell is this?
By Andrei Codrescu
I’ve been to South Florida enough and written about it enough times to think that there isn’t another thing I can say about it. I know that Miami doesn’t look like the TV show “CSI,” because they use special lenses. I know that South Beach is one big meat market where muscles and behinds are traded as casually as snorting coke off a car key—a Lexus, most likely. I’ve seen long-legged models strut before cameras at twilight like underfed spiders soon to be squashed on magazine covers. I’ve seen poor Israeli youngsters selling souvenirs and waitressing for their wunderjahre, before going home for military service.
Youth and cigarettes; Maybe TRUTH should butt out
By Kristen V. Brown
All of us in my generation grew up knowing that smoking was bad for us. I watched my mother and grandmother devour hundreds, maybe thousands, of peppermints for years, trying to fend off a nicotine fit with a sweet tooth. My father still “quits” smoking about every six weeks.
ON THE STREET
ON THE RECORD
The last holdout of Little Spain
By Alyssa Galella
While you’re eating at El Faro, a landmark Spanish restaurant in the West Village, expect to see a lot of Japanese tourists, whether they’re taking photos in the cobblestone street outside the brick establishment or taking in a meal of tapas.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Luis Enrique rolls and manufactures cigars at Chelsea’s La Rosa Cubana cigar factory. For more on Chelsea’s cigar shops and factories, MORE
 A plan to save ‘layers of history’ around new Penn Station
By Chris Lombardi
Last December, as Anna Hayes Levin of Community Board 4 entered the Farley Post Office to give the board’s comments on the new Extended Moynihan Station, she noticed that the church across the street was swathed in scaffolding, in what looked suspiciously like a demolition.
N.Y.P.D. looks to regulate environmental detectors
By Julie Shapiro
A far-reaching bill before the City Council would make it illegal to possess a biological, chemical or radiological detector without a permit from the New York Police Department.
 Village pigeon club is more than a flight of fancy
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The Greenwich Village Pigeon Club use lighters printed with their logo as their business card because “lighters change hands more than anything else.”
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NEWS
St. Vincent’s starts operating; Plans are at L.P.C.
By Albert Amateau
St. Vincent’s Hospital has filed applications with the Landmarks Preservation Commission for approval of plans for a new hospital building and the Rudin Development’s residential redevelopment of the hospital’s current main campus.
PeaceWorks specializes in good business and good deeds
By Stephanie Schroeder
During the holiday season just passed, “showing good will toward all men (and women)” no doubt became a hackneyed phrase, as it does year in and year out. But one Chelsea company actually practices what the scripture preaches.
Cyclists say city must shift gears on street safety
By Jefferson Siegel
A somber procession made its way through four boroughs on Sunday as bicyclists participated in the Third Annual Memorial Ride and Walk to honor New York City cyclists and pedestrians killed in 2007.
Library feels it can still stack up in Internet age
By Phil Schillaci Kropoth
Once upon a time, Jefferson Market Branch Library had all the answers. Within the building’s beautiful Victorian architecture and stained glass windows, the only sounds were that of pages being turned by curious a readers blowing through an encyclopedia or a reference book.
A Film Is ‘Born’ at IFC Center
 The smell of cigar smoke permeates Chelsea
By Erin Carlyle
On a recent Thursday afternoon, Rudy Martinez lit a dark, thick Dominican cigar like an expert and puffed. Martinez, 64, has been smoking for 51 years—since he was 13 years old and in the Dominican Republic. But on this particular day, Martinez enjoyed his Dominican cigar in a small shop in New York.
Trainer recalls getting personal with Linda Stein
By Bonnie Rosenstock
When Morena Sáenz heard the news about the brutal slaying of Linda Stein on Oct. 30 of last year, she was shocked, upset and couldn’t sleep. To Sáenz, who was Stein’s personal trainer for the better part of 15 years, Stein was a dedicated student, a steadfast friend and her biggest art patron.
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Arts & Entertainment
Kock On Film
By Ed Kock
“The Orphanage” (+) If you like scary films, you will enjoy this one. When I saw it, several people in the audience shouted “watch out” when a ghostly figure appeared.
“There Will Be Blood” (+) This film received rave reviews from many critics. In her New York Times review, Manohla Dargis described the movie, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as an “epic American nightmare.” She said “it tells a story of greed and envy of biblical proportions,” and that it adds up to “two and a half mesmerizing hours.”
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Susan WernerThe contemporary gospel singer and guitarist plays as part of the Naked Soul series of acoustic music. Musicians performing in the series all share a common thread and will draw upon the universal themes inherent in Himalayan art – spirituality, peace, tolerance, wisdom, and compassion. Jan. 11 at 7pm. Happy hour 6-7. $30 members, $35 non-members. RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART, 150 W. 17th St. (7th Ave). 212.620.5000 x 344, rmanyc.org.
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