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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

  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 Drive extends by one hour in the morning. Now you only have to watch for traffic between 8 and 10 a.m. [Streetsblog] Chelsea: Chelsea Hotel residents

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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

  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 Greene: Will the Ingersoll Houses go co-op? [Brownstoner] Long Island City: If the

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• Botanical Fight: Who's Got the Greenest Block in Brooklyn?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Dumbo, Greenpoint, Kensington, Long Island City, Williamsburg

  Botanic Garden. [Gothamist] Bushwick: New condos on Wyckoff Avenue are cheaper than much of the market, but that's because the closest subway stop is Dekalb Avenue on the L. [Brownstoner] Dumbo: The grand opening of the Pearl Street Triangle is tomorrow at 12:30. Check out the benches, chairs, and potted trees. [Dumbo NYC] Greenpoint: What was

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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

  [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 burrows. [Blog Chelsea] Cobble Hill: The home of the Independence Community

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• Shopping: New York's Women Are Enslaved To Kim France

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Jezebel, Kim France, Lucky Magazine, Shopping, West Bushwick

  Boutiques! They're in, New York mag tells us this week. Generally found in such areas as the West Village, Cobble Hill, and Williamsburg, these usually woman-owned mini-stores cater to a particular...

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• Manhattan Mini-Storage Ads Go Over Line, West Side Highway

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Chelsea, Flushing, Gowanus, Kensington, Lower Manhattan, Williamsburg

  Bushwick: It’s hard out there in the 'shwick … for a gay, twentysomething yuppie when he's waiting for the hood to gentrify so he can cash in on your property and leave. [BushwickBK] Chelsea: Manhattan Mini-Storage's ads can sometimes be annoying, but how excellent is it that this flagrantly pro-choice one, hangin' large over the West

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• Buttoned-Up Gowanus? Now That's a Theoretical Rendering.

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Gowanus, Harlem, Prospect Heights, Tribeca, West Village, Willets Point

  Bushwick: Hoo-boy. We're worried that this very outspoken gentrifying gay blogger — "The Ghetto Gauntlet"? "Shitbag bodegas"? — is cruising for a serious, Bushwick-style bruising. [Bushwick] Gowanus: Only more shocking than this rendering of a massive glass tower planned for Third Avenue and 6th Street is its imagining that, in the

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• All Peeping Toms to Third Avenue, Stat

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Downtown Brooklyn, East Village, Williamsburg

  melon. [West Bronx Blog] Bushwick: In which a softhearted, London-bound alternababe holds a yard sale but ends up giving away half the items — including a doll's head — to the local kids. [BushwickBK] Coney Island: They'll be protesting at Astroland on Sunday, the last day of the season, to demand that Coney megadeveloper Joe

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• Rooms to Rent in the Chelsea Hotel! Sort Of.

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Sunnyside, Williamsburg

  Bushwick: Oh, God: Now the Offensive Gay Gentrifier is writing offensive haiku. ("Oh, the bodega/So many on each corner/Like ghetto Starbucks…") [BushwickBK] Chelsea: Once again, new management is advertising rooms at the storied Chelsea Hotel for the low price of $119 a night. "Subject to availability," that is. So are they really

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• The Plague Years: Bedbug Population Explodes At Bushwick Hipster Ground Zero

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Bedbugs, Bushwick, Eww, Hipsters, Mckibbin, The Plague Years

  We declare the infamous hipster loft building at 255 McKibbin Street to be an official no-go zone. Over on the building's MySpace—the building has a MySpace!—the tales of bedbug woe...

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• Not Your Development Du Jour: The Affluenza

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Bushwick, Brooklyn Williamsburg, Real Estate Miscellany

  A tipster spotted this genius piece of work on the corner of Graham Avenue and Grand Street in Williamsburg. Don't worry, we called and left a message. We don't want to miss out on this amazing investment opportunity! But is it a Karl Fischer?

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• 'Signs of Slowdown' in New Development Deals?

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Bushwick, Brooklyn Williamsburg, Manhattan East Harlem, Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Rent

  this 24-unit Williamsburg/Bushwick building was on fire? Maybe not. In addition to the $10,000 down payment, the developer will pick up the closing costs. Any other buyers' deals out there that you know of? Don't be afraid to share. · Market Tilts to Buyers of Real Estate

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• 'Post' Suspiciously Favorable of Astoria

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Park Slope, Roosevelt Island, Upper West Side

  hood? [NYP via Queens Crap] Bushwick: Anyone who shells out $668,000 for a unit in the hood's first Scarano building will enjoy funky radiators, the rumble of the nearby M train and exactly zero amenities. [BushwickBK] Greenpoint: The soon-to-open Gutter, the first bowling alley in Brooklyn in 50 years, looks right out of 1975. Cool!

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• Bushwick Building Has a MySpace Page for Its Bedbugs

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Bushwick, City Life

  building at 248 McKibben in Bushwick. Is it the fact that the loft building has a MySpace page? Or that the page is currently full of news about bedbugs in the building instead of weekend parties? Well, let's just say it came to our attention thanks to the latter. Here's a bit about the bedbugs:Our building is experiencing a MAJOR bedbug

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• New York Takes Aim at Surging Market, Again

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Bed Stuy, Brooklyn Bushwick, Market Analysis, Real Estate Miscellany

  goes to both Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, with some unkind words for hipster Brooklyn and LIC/Astoria as well. Better luck next year, dudes! · Real Estate Report 2007 [NYM] · Neighborhood Watch [NYM] · In the Market

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