Today's Fresh Blogs...

• 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

  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 post office is confused, you might get mail addressed to

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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

  [Kensington (Brooklyn)] Long Island City: The neighborhood has spawned a new MP3 download service. [LICNYC] Williamsburg: Some locals dispute recent media assertions that the city has been cracking down on rogue construction around here. [Gowanus Lounge]

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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

  projects. [Blog Chelsea] Long Island City: The guy who'd hold parking-lot spaces for folks in exchange for a cup of coffee, profiled recently in the Times, is being wedged out of that ad hoc job by — you guessed it — a condo. [Long Island City] Lower East Side: That mesh-y cladding for the new New Museum on the Bowery was

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• Trader Joe's Wants You … to Vaseline Your Teeth

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:46 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Dumbo, Forest Hills, Harlem, Long Island City, Melrose

  With HIV infections in the city's young gay men up a third since 2001, the biggest jump in that group is here and East Harlem. Come on, brothas and papis — and Chelsea boys too, for that matter — rock the cock sock! [NYS] Long Island City: Sounds like there's an itty-bitty park planned for that waterfront lot at the end of Vernon

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• Arris Loft's Phantom Menace

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: City Life, Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Miscellany

  any update on Long Island City on this here website, the post about the Amish Market coming to Rockrose's East Coast Phase 2 building broke out into a huge argument about the Arris Lofts. Specifically, there is some back-and-forth on whether or not hookers patrol the blocks near Arris, which is just a stiletto throw away from the 59th Street

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• Arris Lofts Amenities Watch: 'Coming Along'

  Published: September 14, 2007, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Development

  The Arris Lofts in Long Island City is the luxury development Curbed readers love to hate, but the UnBroker has been holed up inside Arris since July, so let's get his take on the matter: "coming along and will provide lots of enjoyment." Interesting. Above is the current state of the courtyard, and what it will hopefully one day look like, rock

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• Hipsters and Bushwick and Bedbugs, Oh My!

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:46 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Harlem, Long Island City, Park Slope, Soho, Upper West Side

  opens at month's end right alongside terrifically toxic Newtown Creek. [Newyorkshitty] Harlem: There's finally a veterinary clinic here. Word! Woof! Meow! [Harlem Fur] Long Island City: Dwellers in the new Arris condos who are disappointed by shoddy construction and a desolate neighborhood may be relieved to know there's one area amenity they

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• CurbedWire: Young Israel Destructoporn, Metal Shutter Houses Details, East 10th Street Luxury Hotel?

  Published: September 18, 2007, 6:23 pm

  Tags: Curbedwire, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan West Chelsea Far West Side, Queens Long Island City

  Why hello there. [J'sVNY] LONG ISLAND CITY—This sounds a wee bit shillish, but hey, we love that QueensWest: "I've just completed an application for East Coast 7 - Rock Rose's second phase in LIC - it's filling up fast ! I have to say, given the amenities (Indoor Pool, Gym, Screening Room, Steam Rooms, Saunas, Billiard Room), this place

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• Coen Brothers Un-Brooklyn the Heights

  Published: September 19, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Maspeth, Times Square, Williamsburg

  this scrappy hood. [NYDN] Long Island City: Did you know that the huge Citibank building here is actually the spire of a giant sundial? Neither did we. And even after reading this, we can't figure out how this thing works. [OuterB] Maspeth: Bloomberg's people will meet with folks here protesting to save a church, even though one of the

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• LIC's Crescent Club Shows Off Some New Looks

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:57 pm

  Tags: Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale

  us to the Crescent Club in Long Island City, and now a tipster alerts us that the sales office for the Karl Fischer/Andres Escobar condo building is open. There's also some fresh renderings of the Crescent Street building, including the backyard pool and putting green, which we see getting pretty crowded when the summer sun is blazing in the

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• Curbed Readers Comment: Hot Threads

  Published: September 28, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Curbed Readers Comment, Manhattan Meatpacking Mepa North, Manhattan Upper East Side, Queens Long Island City

  various neighborhoods in the city. I know the douchebag index of my neighborhood, once pretty low, is now intolerably high. But where are the neighborhoods with a low douchebag index?" 4) Investor Rant: 'Manhattan is One Big Joke' (50 Comments) "There are no neighborhoods in manhattan anymore? Aren't there more neighborhoods? What was the

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• Bubblemania Returns to Long Island City

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale

  Condo Market Still Hot...In Long Island City, At Least [A Fine Blog] · One Hunters Point and Hunters View Condominiums

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• QueensWest Stumbles Into Becoming Real Neighborhood

  Published: October 3, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Queens Long Island City, Retail

  the QueensWest portion of Long Island City today, and the focus is on the coming Amish Market, which may finally solve the area's grocery store problem if only the Amish Market was a better grocery store. But we digress. A Duane Reade is also opening, so the services may finally be catching up with the residential boom in this carved out

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• Toll Brothers' Love Shifts from Williamsburg to LIC?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Sold

  price differential between Long Island City and Williamsburg than we expected and, significantly, that there are many who prefer Long Island City over northern Brooklyn no matter what the price. My only issue with Long Island City is that I can't get my hands on another site."Williamsburg: Over before it really get started? Don't tell that to

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• Don't Worry, There Will Still Be Four Starbucks at Astor Place

  Published: October 4, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astor Place, Bedford Stuyvesant, Ditmas Park, Harlem, Long Island City, Sheepshead Bay, Williamsburg

  fair… [Uptown Flavor] Long Island City: The city thinks this burgeoning condo-tower haven is "poor" and "underdeveloped" enough to make it worth wooing colleges to move here. [NYS via Queens Crap] Sheepshead Bay: Um, not to sound peevish, but would someone please dredge the entrance to the bay before it gets any narrower? Pretty soon a

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