Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

How do you spell dissatisfaction?
Members of New Jersey Labor Against the War and the New Jersey Impeach Now Coalition held up large letters calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at a Democratic candidate forum held on Sunday at the Hudson Guild Fulton Center. They were aiming their directive at Congressman Jerrold Nadler. MORE

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Hudson Yards still a public resource, committee tells MTA
By Chris Lombardi
You’re a public authority. Now act like it.
That’s what the Hudson Yards Community Advisory Committee told the MTA last Thursday, in its official response to developers’ proposals for the Hudson Rail Yards. In its “open letter” to the MTA, the HYCAC charged that all five proposals envisioned the opposite of a healthy urban community: unimaginably dense development that lacks both public infrastructure and inclusive affordable housing.

Chicago thespian lights up Broadway in “Mamma Mia”
By Yvonne Villarreal
As Courtney Reed ascended the subway stairs into the heart of Times Square during her first trip to New York City in December 2006, she marveled at the bustling streets, with taxis swerving in and out of lanes, the densely packed tourists shuffling along the sidewalks and towering billboards clustered along the sides of buildings.

Neighbors howl over hotel on hidden historic site
By Albert Amateau
A hidden four-story Federal building on W. 13th St. that neighbors say dates from the 1790s could be one of the oldest buildings in the Village. But neighbors fear that a developer is about to acquire the property and replace the old building with a 16-story hotel.

NEWS
Worker killed in Trump condo collapse
By Patrick Hedlund
One worker was killed and at least two others suffered serious injuries after a portion of the Trump Soho condo-hotel at the corner of Spring and Varick Sts. collapsed during construction Monday afternoon.

Bayard Rustin film sees the light of day again
By Chris Lombardi
“We are all one. And if we don’t know it, we will learn the hard way.”
On Tuesday night, that sentence boomed across a party on West 17th Street, delivered in a high-pitched, aristocratic voice that seemed to match the décor of the floor-through apartment, the grand piano, the champagne glasses. Applauding was a true cross-section of Chelsea, from its host, Deutsche Bank attorney Philip Gallo, to retired teacher Millie Glaberman, a member of Community Board 4.

Galleries to move into former Dia Foundation space
By Patrick Hedlund
While the Dia Art Foundation has already fled its massive West 22nd Street digs, the renowned building will retain its existence as art space with the announcement this week that it would be converted to high-end galleries.

Penn South painter perseveres through thick and thin
By Edward Rueda
Art helped sustain local painter Eva Deutsch Costabel through her darkest times. During World War II, when Nazi soldiers took over her house in Yugoslavia at gunpoint, Costabel could only take away one knapsack but included her watercolors, pencils and ink. Later, when she was taken to a concentration camp, Costabel used those art supplies to make greeting cards for her fellow inmates.

Anti-war groups dog Nadler on Bush impeachment
By Jefferson Siegel
Anti-war groups from New York City and New Jersey descended on a Democratic candidate forum Sunday afternoon at the Hudson Guild Fulton Center to press Congressman Jerold Nadler to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.