Word: hudsons
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...capital letters from now on). You may have seen us on TV recently: we?re not far from the former World Trade Center. How not-close? Well, these days, anyone who lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview in The Guardian, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein said that the explosions ?happened six blocks away from our offices in Tribeca.? Since the Miramax...
...pretending that Manhattan is Manhattan Beach, the al fresco diners at Steamer?s Landing. Stop to admire the imposing bandshell of the World Financial Center?s Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot of land nearly 400 years ago. Sit on a bench, stare out at the river and watch the history of American exploration, immigration and commerce surge...
...smart food and delicious pretensions. A lot of movies have been shot here: our local fire house (now festooned with funeral flowers) was the setting for ?Ghostbusters,? and if you look closely at any number of independent films, you?ll see the back alley of my apartment house on Hudson Street...
...that any bad news today must be connected with Islamic terrorists, I had the feeling that the people walking past me were as wrapped up as I was in the spectacle of post-Sept. 11 anxiety. Then I caught sight of three girls, maybe third graders, running exultantly up Hudson Street, their arms raised high, grins stretched wide, singing, ?We won! We won! We won! We won!? Who, I wondered, could dare to be happy these days, and why? In reply to my quizzical look, one of the girls ad libbed a coda to the song...
...Across the Hudson, Democrat Jim McGreevey holds a double-digit lead over Republican Bret Schundler in the race for New Jersey governor. Schundler, a former mayor of Jersey City, is leaning heavily on claims that his opponent will raise taxes. McGreevey, the current mayor of Woodbridge, hopes to appeal to left-leaning and centrist voters by portraying Schundler as an anti-choice, pro-gun conservative...