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Editorial
End-of-year thoughts
As the year draws to a close, we pause to reflect on some of the major local stories of 2009 and to look ahead to the new year and envision what we’d like to see happen with these ongoing issues that affect our neighborhoods so significantly.
Silent night and Frank won’t be calling this year
By Alphie McCourt
H.L. Mencken described a bar in a poor neighborhood as “a clean and well-lighted place.” For us, on Christmas morning, the church was all of that, and more. My father was forever gone and my two oldest brothers, Frank and Malachy, would soon emigrate.
Letters to the Editor
Scoopy's Notebook
TALKING POINTS
Musical Mezuzah Gate, or The Orrin Hatchberg Story
By Daniel Meltzer
So listen. Have you heard? Orrin Hatch wears a mezuzah. Emmis.* Around his neck on a chain under his shirt. It’s in the paper. Did you ever?
Ending the kindergarten shuffle, keeping continuity
By Daniel Squadron, Brian Kavanagh and Lisa Donlan
Unlike families in any other community school district in the city, families in District 1, which covers the Lower East Side and Chinatown, aren’t tied to catchment zones that dictate where their children go to school.
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