SPORTS STILL HOT

Written by admin on February 19, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

For a bright spot amid the financial gloom, economists might want to look at sports teams for Manhattan kids. So far, it appears the plunging Dow has had little effect on parents’ willingness to shell out a few hundred bucks to enroll their kids in little league and other spring sports. For children in the
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NADLER: MORE STIMULUS

Written by admin on February 19, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

After weeks of tough negotiations, President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill into law on Feb. 17 in Denver, Colo. But liberal lawmakers, including Rep. Jerrold Nadler, have expressed concern that the final package, which has a $787 billion price tag, will only slow down the recession instead of reverse it. “I am very concerned
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FUR FOLLIES

Written by admin on February 19, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal and investigators from the Humane Society of the United States uncovered that major New York retailers, such as Bloomingdales, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, have carried garments with real animal fur that are not labeled—a violation of the 2007 state law the Assembly member authored. “It’s a very simple law,
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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOE TORRE?

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Joe Torre is a native New Yorker. And for a while there, like some of us, he was an unemployed New Yorker. His job may have been more glamorous and high profile than that of most who toil here, yet his story sounds familiar and may be similar to yours or someone you know: he
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ROMEO AND JULIET WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN TWIST

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Brad Rothschild did not usually work as a storyteller, but that was before he had a story to tell. Homeland, Rothschild’s first produced screenplay, follows the ill-fated love affair of an Israeli and a Palestinian while they both live abroad in Brooklyn. Directed by Michael Elderidge as a cross-ethnic take on Romeo and Juliet, the
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AN INSIDER’S VIEW OF ALICE TULLY TRANSFORMATION

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

The now-open box office of Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall is surrounded by the grinding of saws, shouts from construction workers and insistent hammering. But by Feb. 22, the only noise coming from lobby will be the hum of music, the buzz of patrons and the soft thud of velvet ropes being placed by performance
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FORGED SIGNATURES AND BOUNCED CHECKS

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Police said that over the course of a year, a woman forged her boyfriend’s signature on his company checks. On Jan. 24, the 29-year-old man, who lives on West 77th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, discovered that his girlfriend wrote fake checks totaling $28,450. The woman, 28, reportedly tried to reimburse the
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NAIL SALON ROBBED

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A man knocked over City Brows, a nail salon at 2202 Broadway between West 79th and 78th streets, on Jan. 25. Police said that a man walked in at 7:30 p.m. to scope out the place and left. Shortly later, he walked in again and told an employee to, “Give me money and open the
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THEFT THWARTED

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A woman attempted to cash a stolen $2,200 check at the Chase Bank at 2030 Broadway and West 70th Street. Police said that on Jan. 23 at 8:30 a.m., the manager notified the person who supposedly wrote the check. The 72-year-old woman told the manager she did not recognize the woman based on the description
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PRIZE POOCH

Written by admin on February 12, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Champion Kepley’s Showbiz Razzle Dazzle (who also answers to “Uli”) makes her way around the ring with handler Phoebe Booth during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. The bulldog, who’s ownership is shared by Joan L. Fisher and Robert D. Speiser from Manhattan, impressed judges enough to earn third place in
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