A Higher Level of Cleanliness in Washington HeightsBrooklyn Heights: An 1844 train tunnel, rediscovered in 1980, is now open to tours, via a manhole at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue. [NewYorkology]
Chelsea: Health clinic’s trash is a rat magnet. Yum! Medical waste! [Blog Chelsea]
Clinton Hill: Pratt students, not the projects on DeKalb Avenue, are the source of filthy sidewalks on Kent Avenue. [Brownstoner]
Kew Gardens: Queens beep Helen Marshall wants a grimy statue of a zaftig naked dude taken down because she thinks it’s sexist. [NYS via Queens Crap]
Little Neck/Douglaston: Tired of trust falls? Alley Pond Park has a huge ropes course. [Gothamist]
Washington Heights: Sounds awesome, but exactly how much does the Grand Ba Ba, “ascended master of cleaning,” cost? [Copyranter]
neighborhood watch
New Park Confuses Williamsburg ResidentsChelsea: Cat litter in the toilets at the Chelsea Hotel is a common-enough problem to write a sign about. [Living with Legends]
East Village: Secret plans have surfaced to turn Stuy Town into a super-sleek eco-paradise! [Curbed]
Greenpoint: Around these parts, some prefer vinyl siding for their façades, others prefer … needlepoint? [Newyorkshitty]
Little Neck: Mayor Bloomberg and friends were booed at the Memorial Day parade here. [Queens Crap]
Midtown: Should the congestion-pricing border start at 59th Street? That’s what an uptown pol suggests. [Streetsblog]
Prospect Park: Neighbors want the redesigned Wollman Rink to turn into a pool in the summer. [Across the Park]
Williamsburg: If a park opens and no one is around to use it [Brownstoner]