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Melissa Ielpi, left, and her mother, Ann Ielpi, watched a video at the New School of the collapse of the World Trade Center. Ann’s son, Jonathan, a fireman with Squad 288 in Queens, was killed on 9/11.<more>

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As families grieve, 9/11 panel grills Fire, Police Departments
By Josh Rogers
Charles Wolf cried yesterday.
Wolf, a Village resident whose wife was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, has been to dozens, if not hundreds of public meetings over the last two and a half years to discuss things like the 9/11 memorial and Lower Manhattan redevelopment issues.

Bar owner wants a shot; runs to be C.B. 3 chair
By Lincoln Anderson
A bar owner and leading nightlife advocate is squaring off against an art appraiser in the race for chairperson of the Lower East Side’s Community Board 3.

Trust trims proposals for Pier 57 down to 4
By Albert Amateau
The Hudson River Park Trust expects to select a development team this summer to transform Pier 57, the former city bus depot on the Hudson River, into a cultural destination, according to Noreen Doyle, executive vice president of the state and city agency building the 5-mile-long riverfront park.

Consumer Affairs puts the hooks to a Market nightclub
By Albert Amateau
After months of neighborhood complaints about excessive noise and serving alcohol to underage patrons, the Department of Consumer Affairs on Friday padlocked PM, a nightclub in the Gansevoort Market District.

Pace adjuncts vote to unionize
By Elizabeth O’brien
Pace University adjuncts prevailed in their attempts to unionize on Tuesday, voting 308 to 165 in favor of representation by the New York State United Teachers —American Federation of Teachers.

Trial date nearing for Downtown radical attorney
By Mary Reinholz
Jury selection for the trial of embattled Downtown criminal defense lawyer Lynne Stewart was pushed back two days to May 19 after attorneys for her former client, convicted Egyptian terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, asserted attorney-client privilege.

Purple reign in the park, as class of ’04 graduates
By Lincoln Anderson
Washington Sq. Park was a sea of purple last Thursday as more than 15,000 members of New York University’s class of 2004 — including 6,000 undergraduate seniors — received their sheepskins. Filling the park’s central plaza at the university’s 172nd commencement, they were joined under a broiling sun by 13,000 guests, faculty and staff.

Whole Foods, Sam’s Wines coming to E. Houston?
There have recently been reports that a deal is in the works for a mega-Whole Foods store and/or a Sam’s Wines & Spirits store at the Avalon Chrystie Place development being built on E. Houston St. at the Bowery.

Argentine madres see parallels in harsh drug laws
By Roslyn Kramer
Four courageous women, survivors of Argentina’s murderous dictatorships that blanketed much of the 20th century, were in New York recently, representing the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.

Hey, water taxi! Aqua hacks now serving Village
By Albert Amateau
A new cabstand began serving passengers in the Village on Mother’s Day weekend. Not on a street but in the water at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park.

Feuding artists paint different stories, then rumble
By Lincoln Anderson
Tensions over the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Center came to a boil last Thursday at a meeting of Community Board 3’s Housing Committee, as members of the building’s two feuding artists factions came to blows.

Keeping their heritage alive
By John Arbucci
At first, it seemed difficult enough. Take two men who barely know each other, put them in charge of a family-owned business, and have them breathe new life into a company that hadn’t changed much in 50 years.

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Obituary
Olean For, a gardener who gave tough love, was 83
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Olean For, the founder of the All People’s Garden on the Lower East Side and a beloved neighborhood fixture, died on May 9 at Beth Israel Hospital. The cause was pneumonia, said her sister, Irene Ho. She was 83 years old.

Doris B. Nash, 83, Board 2 member
Doris B. Nash, a member of Greenwich Village’s Community Board 2 since 1992 and a former social worker, died at home in the West Village early last Sunday evening. She was 83.

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The horrendous days New Yorkers will never forget
By Jerry Tallmer
On a clear, cold, windy Saturday afternoon in March a United Press reporter named William G. Shepherd phoned in a story from where he was watching a burning building in New York City.

An athletic sister-act
By Davida Singer
n the past five years, the ubiquitous Wau Wau Sisters (pronounced vow vow), Tanya Gagne and Adrienne Truscott, have developed a cult following with their mad mix of circus, burlesque, comedy and music, wowing downtown audiences at Joe’s Pub, P.S. 122, CBGB’s, Bowery Poetry Club, The Knitting Factory and Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space.

Koch On Film
By Ed Koch
“The Agronomist” (+) This documentary depicts the life of journalist Jean Dominique who was born in 1931 and assassinated in Haiti in 2000. He became a political activist in the 60’s and bought Radio Haiti Internaationale during the reign of Francois Duvalier, known as Papa Doc. Lengthy interviews of Dominique are shown in which he passes judgment on the political scene.
“The Punisher” (-) This film is based on a Marvel Comic figure. Even though it received poor reviews by other critics, I went to see it because some of the material sounded interesting, and I usually enjoy watching John Travolta on screen.

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