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South Slope Gets Its Own Tower of Toys
A ‘Retirement Home for Well-Loved Stuffies’ (not scruffles, mind you) has taken up residence near a tree in this hood. Plus, everything else in our daily borough roundup!
Posted 08/21/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Ikea Buses in Brooklyn: The Battle Is on the Streets and on the Blogs
That story, plus Oprah's bounty in Harlem, shopping-mall smackdown in the Bronx, and a strange beep coming from the South Slope in today's neighborhood notes.
Posted 06/25/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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The Long Arm of the Law Even Reaches Into Subway Bathrooms
Getting all colonial in Union Square, watching crabs rut in Marine Park, letting go of fancy F-train plans in the Slope, and busting the gays in Forest Hills. All that and more in our week's-end boroughs report.
Posted 06/06/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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CBGB's Gallery, at Least, Will Be Spared the Shame of Conversion
Was Karl Lagerfeld really in Harlem? Will CBGB's Gallery really be saved from becoming a bank? Our daily neighborhood news roundup.
Posted 03/20/08 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 City Takes On the Squirrel House
Cobble Hill: Whether that house on Kane Street where the old lady lives is infested with rats or squirrels is now a moot point — the city's ordered her to vacate, and trusty NY1 is on the story! [Lost NYC] Greenwich Village: The Department of Buildings is bitter because the developer of the units that went up over landmark Circle in the Square theater lied and said they'd be used for dorms. They're not, meaning no zoning breaks. Meaning pare down those hideous balconies! [Villager] Lower Manhattan: Also bitter are Seaport locals, who laughed in the face of moguls last night who offered them community use of the Fulton Market floor where the "Bodies" exhibit is in exchange for development. Looks like they want waaaay more public space than that. [Downtown Express]
Posted 02/15/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Bed-Stuy Invades Bushwick
Bushwick: Have Bedford-Stuyvesant landlords pushed the media to join them in identifying Bed-Stuy locales as part of trendier Bushwick? This blogger says that this fire really took place in the Stuy, but that's not how the news reported it. [BushwickBK] Chelsea: The old-school drunks still gather at the old-school Peter McManus Cafe, but after 7 p.m., THE KIDS arrive. Beware! [Vanishing NY] Clinton: Folks from the 34th St. Partnership are trying to build a bike parking lot (isn't that crazy!) on 33rd Street between Eighth and Ninth. If you have the $200,000 they need to pay for it, let them know. [Gothamist]
Posted 01/17/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Missing the Old ‘Treats’ of the Meatpacking District
Chelsea: It used to be the tranny hookers on 14th Street who advertised as "Not too fancy, always delicious!" Now it's just the Treats Truck. [Vanishing New York] Crown Heights: If the Slope's old armory gets to become a swank new athletic center, why not the one here? That's what council member Tish James wants to know… [Brownstoner] Dumbo: Remember 2005, when it wasn't completely certain the neighborhood was going the way of a bourgeois, sanitized, amenity-rich enclave? Seems so long ago… [DumboNYC] Hell's Kitchen: Time Out New York learns that the hood ain't just for thugs and tramps anymore, scoring it higher than the East and West Village. [Hell's Kitchen NYC] Park Slope: OMG, the new debit-card machines at the food co-op actually work. That's so awesome! [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn] South Slope: What would this fifties family think if they knew that the home they vacated to make room for the Prospect Expressway is now the site of a dumpy unused park? That's a shondah. [Icky in Brooklyn] Upper East Side: What we love most about this high-profile battle between a laundromat and a customer is that the launderer apparently changed his name from Todd Ofsink to Todd Layne. Isn't having "sink" in your name a good thing for a launderer? [78thand2nd]
Posted 10/11/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Domino Sugar Factory: Double Your Hipster, Double Your Fun?
Greenpoint: Got a crack problem? Call the Crack Pros! [Newyorkshitty] Highbridge: After it demolished Macombs Dam Park to make way for the new Yankee Stadium, the city put up a replacement — but it's not easy to get to and pretty nasty once you get there. [VV via West Bronx Blog] Murray Hill: Looks like the SUNY-Binghamton biz-major girls with the blowouts finally have their very own East Side bar(f) guide. [East Village Idiot] South Slope: That Enrique Norten condo slated for Fourth Avenue and 6th Street won't happen after all … but another Norten proceeds apace nearby on Carroll. [Brownstoner] Upper East Side: Buttercream or vanilla-bean icing on that wedding cake? Roasted cod at Café D'Alsace? This poor UES gal faces hard choices that make Sophie's look silly. [Sex and the Upper East Side] West Village: Thanks to a new street plaza, you can lounge in the meatpacking district without spending $20 on a drink … if you don't mind mainlining car-exhaust fumes. [Streetsblog] Williamsburg: Redevelopment of the Domino Sugar plant could double the population within a quarter-mile radius. Twice the pseudo-hipsters, twice the fun! [Gowanus Lounge]
Posted 09/27/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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They Didn't Have Google Maps During the Last Tornado
Bay Ridge: How close were you to the tornado? Check this map to find out. [McBrooklyn] Coney Island: Astroland rides are off the market, for now. [Bloomberg via Kinetic Carnival] East Village: St. Mark's Hotel is still the best one in the city for a cheap quickie. Yikes. [Gridskipper] Forest Hills: There's photographic proof that Trader Joe's is really coming. [Forest Hills 72] Gowanus: Put down $15 million for a warehouse on Third Avenue now, and just wait for zoning laws to go your way. [Brownstoner] Riverdale: Will a Starbucks open here, too? [HuntGrunt] South Slope: The shoddy building at 18-20 Jackson Place finally collapsed! [Gowanus Lounge]
Posted 08/09/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Will Little West 12th Go a Little British?
Bedford-Stuyvesant: The local little league team will play on the White House lawn July 15 as part of a Jackie Robinson tribute. [Bed-Stuy Blog] Bushwick: When you move into this hood, the so-called welcome wagon is a napkin full of trash dumped at your door. [BushwickBK] Long Island City: Nespresso, a division of Nestle, will move its HQ into Court Square Place, the new blue glass building near the Citibank Tower. But … will they move in Quik? [OuterB] Lower East Side: It'll get very fancy on old Delancey indeed when H&M opens its latest branch there, which is today's hot retail rumor. [Curbed] South Slope: Snarks are saying that this new building on Fourth and Baltic is so ugly they yearn for the gas station that used to be here. Ouch, mama! [Gowanus Lounge] West Village: At least one British expat thinks it's disingenuous that a "grassroots" campaign to rename part of the hood "Little Britain" is being backed by corporate giant Virgin Atlantic. [Englishman in New York]
Posted 07/10/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Bad Ad Placement in Times Square?
Coney Island: Thor Equities ditches the residential portion of its redevelopment plans. Hotels instead. [Curbed] Greenpoint: Free mattress available, if you want the bedbugs that come with it. [Newyorkshitty] Long Island City: This Saturday would be a good time to recycle your air conditioner. [LICNYC] South Slope: City grants "after-hours" work permits and the neighborhood suffers. [In My Backyard] Times Square: Is putting a Target ad two-thirds of the way up on a high-rise really a good decision? [Copyranter] Williamsburg: The city's most festive turtles live in McCarren Park. [A Brooklyn Life]
Posted 06/18/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Don't Mess With Bill Moyers's View
Red Hook: The shady demolition of the Revere Sugar Factory is making the neighbors furious. [Gowanus Lounge] Brooklyn Heights: Want a Mexican restaurant? It's yours for only $389,000. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Chinatown: Some major street changes are in place, including a buffered bike lane on Grand Street, making it safer to eat sticky pork buns while cycling. [Streetsblog] Clinton Hill: Looks like the topiary-stealing first reported two weeks ago by Brooklyn Record continues. Who's the sticky-fingered horticulturalist? [Clinton Hill Blog] South Slope: Developer Gregory Rigas has been quietly been buying up — and not so quietly demolishing — mucho property on Fourth Avenue between Prospect Avenue and 16th Street. [Brownstoner] Upper West Side: Bill Moyers leads a pack of angry rich people against the New-York Historical Society's plan for a high-rise condo off Central Park West and 76th Street. [Curbed]
Posted 02/01/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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