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• Cue the Violins in Park Slope and Kensington

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Coney Island, East Village, Jackson Heights, Kensington, Park Slope, Union Square, Williamsburg

  [East Village Idiot] Jackson Heights: Mayor Bloomberg runs afoul of locals complaining about traffic, noise, and sanitation gripes. [FoxNews via QueensCrap] Kensington: Talk about a virtual inferiority complex: Locals here lament that their Wikipedia page is not as nice as Park Slope’s. Cue violins, please. [KensingtonBlog] Park

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• Here We Go Again: Mike to Get His Traffic Money, If Albany Agrees

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Arabic, Bollywood, Congestion Pricing, Education, Jackson Heights, Mike Bloomberg, Newark, Shootings, Taxis, Traffic

  the gap in super-multiculti Jackson Heights, chillaxin' together at Bollywood flicks. Awww, don't you love how New York can do that? [Newsday]

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• Beware of Moped Gangs

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:17 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, East River, Jackson Heights, Park Slope, Red Hook, Roosevelt Island

  do it with art? [Gothamist] Jackson Heights: New ad campaign: equal opportunity appaller. [Curbed] Park Slope: Moped gangs in the Slope! If only we were joking. [Daily Slope] Red Hook: The planned giant IKEA will stomp out a Civil War–era shipyard. Also, taste. [NYDN] Roosevelt Island: OpenHouseNewYork will allow people into the scary

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• Jackson Heights: The Musical! Wait, That Sounds Familiar…

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Cobble Hill, Elmhurst, Hell S Kitchen, Jackson Heights, Morningside Heights, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  New York via Chelsea Now] Jackson Heights: Stay tuned for Jackson Heights: The Musical! Hey, wait a minute, that Washington Heights show hasn't even opened on Broadway yet! [Queens Crap via NYDN] Morningside Heights: Creatures including a camel, two llamas, some goats, a Chinese goose, a fourteen-pound rabbit, a porcupine, and a hermit crab

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• Bed-Stuy Fires Back at the 'Shwick!

  Published: November 20, 2007, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Coney Island, Jackson Heights, Roosevelt Island, Soho, South Brother Island

  novel. [Gowanus Lounge] Jackson Heights: The hood's got a new bulletin board! Where else will you learn where to get the area's best pizza, Mexican cocoa power, and $5-or-under eyebrow threading? [Jackson Heights Life]Roosevelt Island: If Louis Kahn's FDR memorial is built at the southern tip of the island, it will ruin the panoramic view of

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• Helping the ‘Chicken and Rice Man’ of Queens

  Published: November 29, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, From The City Room, Immigration, Queens, Day Laborers, Jackson Heights, Philanthropy

  Readers are stepping forward to help the subject of a profile in The City section on Sunday, a man who feeds the hungry and nearly homeless day laborers of Jackson Heights, Queens.

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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

  night. [Uptown Flavor] Jackson Heights: The Latinos are mad that the Indians get all the publicity around here. [Jackson Heights Life] Port Authority: Amid yesterday's gusts, glass panes fell from the new Times building, injuring a pedestrian. Could global climate chaos combined with lots of new glass shacks add up to … TOTAL

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• The Army Occupies East 103rd Street; Residents Displeased

  Published: February 11, 2008, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bronx, East Harlem, Jackson Heights, Prospect Heights, Ridgewood, Times Square, West Village

  shorts. [NY Latino Journal] Jackson Heights: Starbucks is here! Gentrification officially begins! [Curbed] Northwest Bronx: So many parks are being repaired here that there's no place for the massive youth baseball league to play this spring! [Norwood News]Prospect Heights: After cops recently stopped a videographer from shooting the Atlantic

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• Take a Walk Down Tin Pan Alley, Er, 28th Street

  Published: February 14, 2008, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, East Village, Flatiron, Gowanus, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  the miasma! [Gowanus Lounge]Jackson Heights: Jackers may love their hood, but they want to make something clear: One café does not a "new Paris" make! It's not even the new London! How about…the new Jackson Heights? [JH Life] Long Island City: Rumors swirl that celebs like Clay Aiken, Plácido Domingo, and big-name D.J. Danny

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• Meet Mr. Pea--Er, Jack Heights

  Published: February 20, 2008, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Jackson Heights

  very own mascot. On Feb. 15, Jackson Heights brokerage MPC Properties LLC unveiled Jack Heights, a new (attempted) mascot for the budding neighborhood that is once again on the rise as a Mecca for young urbanites looking for a space to call home," according to a company press release. Jack Heights bears a startling resemblance to

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• Small Loans, Significant Impact

  Published: March 10, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Small, Loans, Significant, Impact, Grameen Bank Ltd, Muhammad Yunus, Ritu Chattree, Queens County, Financial Times Ltd, Jenny Guante, Bangladesh, Alethia Mendez, Jackson Heights, Michael Chu, Socorro Diaz, Dominican Republic, Harvard University, U S Federal Reserve, United

  NEW YORK -- "Se oras!" calls the banker, summoning her borrowers to attention at their first loan-repayment meeting.

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• Will Bangladeshi-Style Microlending Work in Queens?

  Published: April 29, 2008, 10:01 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Housing Economy, People Neighborhoods, Immigration, Labor, Queens, Banking, Grameen America, Immigrants, Jackson Heights

  A Nobel laureate brings his business model of microfinancing from Bangladesh to Jackson Heights.

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• On the Bowery, New Hotel Tower Physically Squeezes Landmarked Home

  Published: May 1, 2008, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bowery, Clinton, Coney Island, Cooper Square, Flushing, Harlem, Jackson Heights, Noho, Real Estate

  the rezone. [NYDN] Jackson Heights: An unsigned, stunningly homophobic letter against openly gay City Council candidate Charles Ober has stunned countless locals who received it...and brought Ober's opponent to his side in a show of solidarity. [ABC Local] NoHo: Wow, a low-key, starchitect-free redo is actually happening at 45 Bond

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• Aww, What Cute Little Paws and Ears! (Tastes Like Chicken)

  Published: May 2, 2008, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, People Neighborhoods, Parks And Recreation, Queens, Business, Cuy, Food, Guinea Pigs, Jackson Heights, Pets, Restaurants, Street Vendors

  The South American delicacy, cuy, or roasted guinea pig, is served from certain vending carts in Queens, and available at nearby restaurants and groceries. The accompanying video may not be appreciated by the most fervent animal lovers.

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• Heather Mills Is Moving to the West Village

  Published: June 16, 2008, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Barack Obama, Downtown Brooklyn, East Village, Enrique Norten, Heather Mills, Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens, Paul Mccarteney, Red Hook, West Village

  artsy stuff. [Brownstoner]Jackson Heights: This is the city's parking-ticket capital, with more than 20,000 tickets written here so far. But tickets overall in the city are down 13 percent from last year. [NYDN via Streetsblog]Kew Gardens: Men over 50, this is the place to come tomorrow if you want a prostate screening from Queens beep Helen

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