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• A Higher Level of Cleanliness in Washington Heights

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Kew Gardens, Little Neck, Washington Heights

  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.

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• Red Hook's Deadly Nature

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Central Park, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Red Hook, Williamsburg

  Heights: Those who live on Joralemon Street are not pleased about the parade of swimmers on their way to the floating pool. [Brooklyn Eagle via Brooklyn Heights Blog] Bushwick: Is a developer surreptitiously buying up air rights to build a condo tower? [Bushwick BK] Central Park: Starting Monday, car-free time in the park on the West

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• From PJs to Condos in Fort Greene?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Long Island City, Red Hook, Union Square

  Heights: No parking at Love Lane Garage anymore. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle via Brooklyn Heights Blog] Bushwick: Can the neighborhood regain its status as the city's brewing capital? [BushwickBK] Chelsea: Chelsea Hotel residents are looking for any souvenirs or ephemera from the sixties, seventies, or eighties. [Hotel Chelsea Blog] Fort

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• Free Yoga at Brooklyn Bridge Park

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:09 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Heights, Sports

  Equinox Fitness, Brooklyn Heights are pleased to announce WAKE UP AND WIND DOWN BEACH YOGA at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach. The free yoga classes will be held Tuesdays at 9:00 am, Wednesdays at 7:00 pm, and Thursdays at 9:00am through August 30. Mats will be provided, and no reservations are necessary. Check out the website for info on yoga,

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• It's Hard Out Here for a Mascot

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Flatbush, Harlem, Manhattan, Midtown East, Williamsburg

  Heights: Yet another Montague Street restaurant mascot has been vandalized … and it sure looks creepy lying on the ground. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Chelsea: Um: Cool air was being force-fed into the Episcopal seminary here during shooting of a new TV show about an immortal detective yesterday. Huh? [Blog Chelsea] Clinton Hill: A

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• It's Grass, Not Garbage, That Attracts Rats in Chelsea

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Chelsea, Cobble Hill, Coney Island, Dumbo, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, West Bronx

  Heights: If only the kids around here could reference MC Hammer correctly. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Bushwick: Gentrification is forcing frustrated superintendents to gussy up their own threatening signs. [Newyorkshitty] Chelsea: Blame the rat infestation in the park on Ninth Avenue on the plant liriope. It provides excellent cover for

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• In a Bold Move, McCarren Pool to Replace Hipsters With Water

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Mccarren Pool, Midwood, Red Hook, Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  Live and learn. [Astorians] Brooklyn Heights: With Henry Street scoring a perfect 100 on this Website in terms of its walkability to various amenities, residents there must be feeling very smug today … as usual. [McBrooklyn] Midwood: A new condo designed for Orthodox Jews will have units as large as 1,700 square feet. Is that really big

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• Retail Deaths ‘Happen’ Sporadically, and So Do Subway Renovations

  Published: August 20, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Columbus Circle, Staten Island

  [Brownstoner] Brooklyn Heights: Uncommon Grounds coffee shop has closed for renovations – and will soon feature a full kitchen and expanded menu. They'll also host private coffee parties! That's so Brooklyn we could die. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Chelsea: The Noose, on 19th Street, is closing because its owner died. The gentleman

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• The City Smells Funny Again

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Noho, Staten Island, West Bronx

  Heights: There's a funny smell on Henry Street. Well, funnier than usual. [Brownstoner] Carroll Gardens: Congressman Bill de Blasio schedules a Town Hall meeting at the same time as a controversial Community Board Six meeting, so residents of Carroll Gardens can't go to both. Disgruntledness ensues. [Gowanus Lounge] Noho: New Great

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• Stay Off the Grass. No, Really.

  Published: August 27, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Long Island City, Lower East Side, Rego Park, Washington Heights

  not included.) [OuterB] Brooklyn Heights: You might want to stay off that swank new Astroturf in Cadman Plaza Park on hot sunny days, when the turf (allegedly) hits 125 degrees. Talk about smokin' grass! [McBrooklyn] Chelsea: Condo-in-progress the Caledonia will sport fancy glass sheathing to help distinguish it from the nearby projects.

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• Someone Is Already Stealing Christmas?

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Greenpoint, Maspeth, Park Slope, Williamsburg

  the sculptures. [OuterB] Brooklyn Heights: Jeez, you'd think that after all it took to schlep that floating pool to Brooklyn Bridge Park they could leave it there at least a few weeks longer than this weekend. But no. And the pool goes to the Bronx next summer. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Chelsea: Residents in and near the London Terrace

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• Report: Brooklyn's Priciest Condo Finds Famous Buyer?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 10:52 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights, Real Estate For Sale, Real Estate Sold

  million penthouse at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, has a report today that a contract on the 4,638-square-foot triplex currently rests in the hands of former New York Jet star Curtis Martin. As we're all well aware of, the current Brooklyn condo record is the $3.8 million paid for the penthouse at the Aurora in Williamsburg, an earth-shattering

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• Barge Pool Ditches Brooklyn Heights for Bayonne & Bronx

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:40 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights, City Life

  Martin may be into One Brooklyn Bridge Park for $7.25 million, but the Barge Pool swam away from the Brooklyn Heights waterfront yesterday to spend the winter in--say it ain't so--Bayonne, New Jersey. (It drew 72,000 people this summer, not counting the tens of thousand of people that showed up and left because the lines were

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• Herman Behr Mansion on Sale for $12 Million

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Greenpoint, Midtown East, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  nasty. [Bed-Stuy Blog] Brooklyn Heights: The Herman Behr Mansion on Pierrepont Street, which has housed a survivor of the Titanic, prostitutes, and Franciscans monks, is on sale for $12 million. [Brooklyn Eagle via McBrooklyn] Greenpoint: Acid-tongued blogger Miss Heather can't decide which she hates more: This Fedders-type eyesore on

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• Floorplan Antiporn: Bare Necessities in Brooklyn Heights

  Published: September 19, 2007, 3:59 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights, Real Estate For Rent

  OK, maybe we're wrong. This might be the best floorplan of all time. · Listing: $1299 NO FEE*Brooklyn Heights Beauty*STUDIO [CL] · Floorplan Antiporn: $11.5 Million Can't Buy Clarity on UES [Curbed]

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