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Greenpoint Subdivided: Do You Live in Garbagetown or Sewagetown?
Quick, someone bandage that bleeding Lady of Mercy in the Bronx, mourn the Purchase Building in Dumbo, and scold that greedy Long Island City sweatshop! So much to do in today's boroughs report!
Posted 07/24/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Bedbugs Threaten Boerum Hill Bastille Day
'Real World' rumors hit Carroll Gardens, strange "vocational" lions hit Staten Island, the "Beaver Butler" hits the financial district, and more, in today's boroughs report.
Posted 07/15/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Cool Nuns Will Build Houses for Environment, Old People
Generous nuns heed the earth in Bedford Park, an anti-Greek wind blows in the East Village, and sulfurous yet minty odor pervades Long Island City, all in the final boroughs roundup of this awesomely sunny July week!
Posted 07/11/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Can Regina Spektor Make Murray Hill Cool?
Regina Spektor moves into Murray Hill, Carroll Gardens' Ivy League hipster types strike back against last week's maudlin anti-yuppie video, and a celeb hip-hop stylist's body turns up in the Bronx. Plus, news from Red Hook, Long Island City, Dumbo, and Coney in today's boroughs roundup.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Avenue A's Most Famous Appendage Perks Up
Say hello to "The Collection" in Carroll Gardens, a possible good-bye to notorious Club Kalua in Jamaica, and plain old "WTF?" to a Staten Island kid who won't give up his Confederate-flag T-shirt. That and more in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 05/19/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Brighton Beach Baths: Too Good for Manhattanites?
Is the city really dumping trash in a Ridgewood wetland? How could we have missed the Sinatra tribute in Williamsburg? And how would you get by without your daily boroughs report?
Posted 05/15/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Notorious B.I.G. Biopic Returns to Bed-Stuy
The Long Island City sculptor behind last night's 'Gossip Girl' art, a possible hotel for part of Williamsburg's Domino plant, misplaced political graffiti in Bushwick, and more in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 04/22/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Long Island City Gets a Breakdown
Naked butts in Prospect Heights, Pope dreams in Mott Haven, and a touching tale of man and squirrel out of Prospect Park. What other fun-size borough bites await in our daily Neighborhood Watch?
Posted 04/17/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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John Varvatos's CBGB Store Mildly Protested
Thought you knew all of New York's quirky neighborhood names? What about New Dorp? We thought not.
Posted 04/10/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Rising Rents Aren’t the Only Things You’ll Have to Swallow in Coney Island
They're downing coat hangers in Coney, resenting the gentry in Fort Greene, and freezing the teardowns in Prospect Heights. That and more in our daily borough news report.
Posted 04/08/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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First Crane Raising Since Midtown Disaster Draws a Crowd
Help Moby get a buyer of his Upper West Side penthouse past his co-op board and you may win $75,000! That and more in today's reports from hoods around town.
Posted 03/31/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Brooklyn Heights Residents Are Always Bringing It Back to Poop
Brooklyn Heights: This post is about the neighborhood's best dog walker, and those who try to pull it off-message and make it about dog poop instead will be frowned upon, okay??? [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Carroll Gardens: Robert Scarano's 342 Bond Street building not only aesthetically attacks locals with its bunker-like façade, now it's literally attacking them: Its guard dogs reportedly escaped and mauled one couple's adorable little puppy (see pic). [Gowanus Lounge] Clinton Hill:The Broken Angel building became the center of controversy when its quirky turret was torn down a few years ago, and then again when the owners decided to convert it into condos. Now, it's the subject of a legal smackdown between its documentarian and her cinematographer. [NYDN]
Posted 03/19/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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That Amazing House From ‘Moonstruck’ Is Still Up for Grabs, Only Now It's Cheaper!
Brooklyn Heights: The sale price of the Cranberry Street house where they filmed Moonstruck has dropped from $5 million to $3.95 million since early 2006. That's still très Cher! [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Coney Island: Astroland opens Sunday … possibly, for the second year in a row now, for its last season before major Coney development begins. [amNY] East New York: It's "the new Harlem," did you know that? So if you're bitter you didn't buy uptown twenty years ago, you'll want to buy here, where cribs are going for up to $300,000. [NYDN]
Posted 03/14/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Spitzer’s Departure Bad for Moynihan Station, Too!
Cobble Hill: Just as young parents here suffer the creeping feeling that their edgy youthful coolness is slipping away between their fingers, along comes an Urban Outfitters to profit off all their insecurities! [Cobble Hill Blog] Clinton: Spitzer's resignation may put a further drag on the development of Hudson Yards and Moynihan Station, already slowed by the credit crisis. [Crain's NY] East Village: Lest you think Trader Joe's mania was dropping off, please note that the line to get in was back this weekend. No frozen organic brown rice for you, little low-income vegan! [East Village Idiot]
Posted 03/13/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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The G Train to Get 50 Percent Less Hateable in 2008
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Wait a minute. Is this entire building just a carefully executed, giant beer bong? [Newyorkshitty] Dumbo: This hood's waterfront is getting rezoned. What does it mean for you and your view? [DumboNYC] Long Island City: The G train might be 50 percent more useful? Stop the world, we wanna get off! [Clinton Hill Blog]
Posted 03/04/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Take a Walk Down Tin Pan Alley, Er, 28th Street
East Village: Right across from its iconic 1859 building, Cooper Union wants to build a corrugated, spiky new thing by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. Um…yeah, we'll skip the stupid, vaguely racist sushi joke. [NYO] Flatiron: The next time you walk down nondescript 28th between Broadway and Sixth, sing out "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" or "In the Good Old Summertime" to commemorate that the block was once the famed Tin Pan Alley. There's no plaque or anything that denotes as much. And that's a sad song. [Lost NYC] Gowanus: Take a look at the residential-retail complex the Toll Brothers would like to build along the canal. Nothing like mixed-use magic alongside the miasma! [Gowanus Lounge]
Posted 02/14/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Developer’s Dreams Deferred in Long Island City
Long Island City won't be transitioning from Next Big Thing to Big Thing quite as quickly as some were planning. In August 2006, Alan and Stuart Suna, the brothers who run Silvercup Studios near the Queensboro Bridge, unveiled city-approved plans for Silvercup West: a new soundstage and offices and 1,000 apartments (150 priced for people of moderate means), plus retail, a gym, and an esplanade on the waterfront, all designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Richard Rogers and set to begin construction in 2008. But it's taken a year, Silvercup CEO Alan Suna says, to get permission to enter the site and test the soil around a power plant the team will have to clear. And now that the builders have gotten into the dirt, they've discovered that the bedrock was not where they expected it to be. Is there something toxic in there? Nobody will say. So when will we get this handsome new neighborhood? “We really can't give a target date at this point,” says Silvercup spokesperson Cara Marino Gentile. Adds Rogers spokesperson Paul Stelmaszczyk, “We are not currently working on any adjustments to the design.” That’s the sound of a project stalling out. LIC loft-dwellers have a little more time, it seems, to relish that pioneer spirit. —Alec Appelbaum
Posted 02/08/08 in Daily Intel : Developing
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Flatbush to Rise?
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Guess which dark lord lives in this sleekly hideous black fortress? It's your dad, Luke Skywalker! [Newyorkshitty] East Village: Big-time developer Ben Shaoul thinks the East Village will always be "gritty and inexpensive and arty," even though he's renting $7,500 marble-bedecked apartments here. [NYO] Flatbush: Look for some major redevelopment on shabby Flatbush Avenue, where the Pintchik family, long the owners of the local hardware store, own about $100 million in property and are readying to class it up to the level of Park Slope or Cobble Hill. [NYS]
Posted 02/07/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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It’s Raining Cristal! Oh, Wait
Bay Ridge: The congregation of a pretty 108-year-old stone church here wants it torn down to make room for condos and a smaller house of faith, but preservationists and bloggers are trying to stop them. [RightInBayRidge] East Village: There's a super-deluxe penthouse atop the Bowery Hotel for rent for $30,000 a month. And whoever wrote this e-mail pitch apparently thinks it's okay for would-be renters to "piss Cristal off the balcony." [Curbed] Forest Hills: If you want nice local businesses like Laytner's to survive over skeevy stores, you have to shop local, instead of paying slightly less at the big chains. And here's the receipt to prove it. [Forest Hills 72]
Posted 01/24/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Battery Pier: A Beautiful Disaster?
Battery Park: Are we weird because all the decrepit buildings the city wants to renovate — like this pier with a Victorian clock tower — we think are beautiful just as they are? Yeah, we're probably weird. [NYT via Curbed] Greenpoint: It was difficult to visit friends yesterday at this crazy-ass apartment because "the buzzards" weren't working. Well, it was a holiday, after all. [Newyorkshitty] Harlem: The Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that if MLK were to walk through Harlem today, he might not like what he saw. You mean his dream didn't include "the gentrification people"? [NYS]
Posted 01/22/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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