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• All the World's a Duane Reade

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Coney Island, Dumbo, Flushing, Greenpoint, Manhattan, Park Slope, Queens, Upper West Side

  Street at Pearl. [DumboNYC] Flushing: There are big puddles all over Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which are leading to swarms of mosquitoes, which are terrorizing people. [Queens Tribune via Queens Crap] Greenpoint: There's no better way to undermine your attempt to build a period-looking brownstone than by sticking balconies on it. Real

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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

  enraged? [Gothamist] Flushing: Brace yourself for a big, shiny new development here with a Home Depot, Target, and million-dollar condos for folks who, according to the developer, are "upscale, middle-income and multiethnic" … all at once! [OuterB] Gowanus: State enviro-honchos and Keyspan have reached an agreement on cleaning up

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• Jelena Jankovic won't play mixed doubles with Jamie Murray at the US Open

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Us Open, Jelena Jankovic, Murray's, Mixed, Jamie, Doubles, Love, Understands, Flushing, Meadows

  on her singles at Flushing Meadows. Jankovic has made the right decision, but the world will miss all the fun and laughter that the Serbian-British pair brings. Jamie is certainly very disappointed. The doubles specialist was hoping that Jelena would accept his invitation, but still, he can understand her: He loves to play with me,

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• Tennis Shoes

  Published: August 27, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Photo Op, Flushing, Roger Federer, Sports, Tennis, Us Open

  Photo: AFP/Getty Images The U.S. Open started today. Roger Federer, the No. 1 seed, played Scoville Jenkins, an American. Federer won in straight sets. These are his shoes. We can only imagine what parts of Federer the AFP will be offering by the time this thing ends, in two weeks.

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• Children Banned From Hotel Chelsea Lobby

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Flushing, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Prospect Heights, Times Square, Upper West Side

  [Living with Legends] Flushing: Angry residents have stopped the LIRR from cutting down trees along the rail line, which they did to keep wet, slip-slidey leaves off the tracks. [Queens Chronicle via Queens Crap] Greenpoint: It's getting ugly between outspoken hood blogger Miss Heather and commenters who appear to be linked to 110 Green

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• Death Penalty Blocked Again in Wendy’s Killings

  Published: October 23, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Crime Public Safety, Courts Law, Queens, Courts, Death Penalty, Flushing

  The New York State Court of Appeals refused again to reinstate the state death penalty, meaning life without parole for the killer of five people at a Wendy's in Queens in 2000.

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• Apple flushing podcasting?

  Published: October 23, 2007, 9:38 pm

  Tags: Trends, Podcasting, Profit, Limited, Screen, Resolution, Apple, Flushing, The, Office The, Itunes, Store, Ipod, Touch, Began, Wondering, Conspiracy, Theory, Sense, Kick, Section Anyway

  wondering– is Apple flushing podcasting? I mean, they definitely don’t profit off it, so with limited screen resolution on the Touch, it makes sense that they’d kick it off. But is this telling us something more? I’d love to know what you

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• This Day In America October 23

  Published: October 23, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage News, Killed, Beirut, Airport, Truck, Simultaneous, Meadow, Flushing, Paratroopers

  time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow. On Today's date in 1983, 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers. Today Soccer great Pele is 67. Today Author Michael Crichton is 65. Today Parodist and Cult Hero

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• The Coen Brothers Pony Up for the Heights

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Ditmas Park, Downtown Brooklyn, Flushing, Williamsburg

  down after all. [McBrooklyn]Flushing: A chain of Korean brothels has been busted. Fine, fine, just don't take away the kimchee. [Queens Crap] No Man's Land: What else do you call Sixth Avenue in the Twenties and Thirties? At any rate, La Rosa Cubana Cigars still sells hand-rolleds you can puff while contemplating the awful glass towers closing

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• Cobble Hill Shall Only Remain Yea High

  Published: October 25, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Cobble Hill, Coney Island, Flushing, Gowanus, Lower East Side, Red Hook, University Heights, West Chelsea

  bulldozers roll in. [NYDN] Flushing: Yeah, we know this blog features hideous new architecture around Queens every day, but these specimens are particularly heinous. What's that thing atop the building in the first picture, a big brick handle? [Queens Crap]Gowanus/Red Hook: Smith-9th Street F train station users, weep. The stop will close for

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• How Is Bloomberg Like Pope John XXIII?

  Published: November 1, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Government Politics, City Hall, Land Use And Planning, Chelsea, Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City, Michael R Bloomberg, Planning Commission

  That's one comparison that was made at a Manhattan Institute conference on New York City's future.

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• Used kitty litter can protect kids from accidental overdose

  Published: November 6, 2007, 7:31 am

  Tags: Drug Disposal, Drugdisposal, Flushing Old Medications, Flushingoldmedications, Getting Rid Of Old Prescriptions, Gettingridofoldprescriptions, Kitty Litter, Kittylitter, New Use For Kitty Litter, Newuseforkittylitter, Organizing Medicine Cabinet, Organizingmedicinec

  has amassed? Years of flushing old medications down the toilet has resulted in antibiotics, hormones, and other drugs being found in waterways and has been linked to abnormalities in fish, so that method is out. Toss it in the trash and you run the risk of your children, pets, or a drug abuser coming across it. The new recommended

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• You Aren't the Only Person Who Comes Home to Find Random People Smoking in Your Stairwell

  Published: December 5, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Clinton Hill, East Village, Flatbush, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Port Authority

  now. [Vanishing New York] Flushing: Local Quaker farmers demand freedom of worship! Well, they did in 1657. But the tatty document in which they listed their demands, called "The religious Magna Carta of the New World," is on display up in here. [NYT]Flatbush: Locals are aiming to prevent the area's Victorians from being razed to make room for

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• Queens Chronicle - Remonstrance Welcomed As Beacon Of Democracy by Liz Rhodes

  Published: December 14, 2007, 2:28 am

  Tags: Helen Marshall, Congressman Gary Ackerman, Queens, Flushing, History, Queens Chronicle

  state, not just to those in Flushing. And we have never turned down a request to bring it to Flushing. This is the fourth time it's been returned to Flushing on a temporary basis.Penelope Bowne Parryman, representing the descendants, noted that the signers were remarkable for being unremarkable. She called the Remonstrance the first

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• Going Green in Queens '08 - A Free Environmental, Educational & Networking Event - Saturday March 8th...

  Published: February 26, 2008, 5:59 am

  Tags: Parks, Queens, Flushing Meadow, Trees, Queens Coalition For Parks And Green Spaces

  Going Green in Queens '08Saturday, March 8th10:00am 2:00pmNew York Hall of Science at Flushing Meadow Park47-01 111 StreetQueens, NY 11368* Free parking available or free shuttle bus service provided from 111th

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