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• Users Guide: Midtown East

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Asking For It, Clips, Midtown East, Murray Hell, Murray Hill, Top, Users Guide

  newVideoPlayer("ug_midtown_east_gawker.flv", 475, 376); There's a lot to unpack in Midtown East. A bunch of neighborhoods rolled into one, the area stretches from Gramercy Park in the south to the...

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• CurbedWire: Windsor Court Eats, Upper East Side Demo, Hurricane Worries

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Curbedwire, Manhattan Murray Hill, Manhattan Upper East Side

  of Sarah Swain/flickr] MURRAY HILL—From the inbox comes news of both development and food: "So I was walking through the Murray Hill area last evening and noticed a substantial construction project taking place on the northeast corner of 31st and lex. The infamous dormitory - Windsor Court Apartments - which occupies the north side of

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• Floorplan Porn: Elevator in the Closet at 76 Madison

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Murray Hill, Real Estate For Sale

  If you've ever wondered what a closet with a little something extra would be like, we bring you one of the penthouses at 76 Madison. It was brought to our attention by a tipster, who noticed that its most defining feature, one of the elevators:There's nothing especially exceptional about the layout except it has a in elevator that services the

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• It Happened One Weekend: Madison Ave. Re-do, Frenchie Goes FSBO, More

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Manhattan Gramercy Flatiron District, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Murray Hill, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale, Real Estate Miscellany

  1) If you want a taste of how ridiculous the luxury market has become, twenty years after Morgan Court—the ugly 32-story sliver building on Madison and 36th Street (right, via PropShark)—first went rental after selling just enough apartments to get the offering plan approved, the owner is now trying to sell off all the remaining sponsor

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• Murray Hill: From Deer to Drunks

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:55 pm

  Tags: Photo Op, Murray Hill, The New Yorker

  wild turkeys roving around Murray Hill. The New Yorker's Website today has some very cool computer-generated images of Manhattan circa 1609, to go with a long story that you will probably never get around to reading on the Wildlife Conservation Society's effort to figure out what Manhattan might have looked like in the days before skyscrapers

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• Domino Sugar Factory: Double Your Hipster, Double Your Fun?

  Published: September 27, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Greenpoint, Highbridge, Murray Hill, South Slope, Upper East Side, West Village, Williamsburg

  [VV via West Bronx Blog] Murray Hill: Looks like the SUNY-Binghamton biz-major girls with the blowouts finally have their very own East Side bar(f) guide. [East Village Idiot] South Slope: That Enrique Norten condo slated for Fourth Avenue and 6th Street won't happen after all … but another Norten proceeds apace nearby on Carroll.

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• CurbedWire: W Sales, Murray Hill's Bright Future, Return of Duffield Dump

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Curbedwire, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Murray Hill

  [CurbedWire Inbox] MURRAY HILL—Usually we wouldn't put up such a shameless plug, but broker Janet Finkel won us over with this email: "Please check out my website. I am a broker that specializes in a very exciting area of nyc: murray hill. this midtown east neighborhood is going to be one of the most exciting new neighborhoods in

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• Nosh In My Backyard! Veteran Deli Eyes Newcomer

  Published: October 16, 2007, 6:22 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Murray Hill, Sarge Amp 039 S, Second Avenue Deli

  known as Curry Hill. You come here for the food and because you know [the place], said Mr. Failla, a 30-year-old stand-up comic and regular patron since the age of 15, as he finished off a plate of fried kreplach on Monday night. He said he comes for the gritty vibe ( You feel like you're in Old New York, he

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• Jasper: The Building Murray Hill Has Been Waiting For

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:29 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Murray Hill, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale

  listings at Jasper—the Murray Hill office-building-turned-luxury-condo brought to you by developer PHH Realty, architect Ismael Leyva and CORE Marketing Group—have hit the market. We needed a refresher because as far as new one-name condo buildings go, it's Yves or bust with us, so we hit up Jasper's website. Um, holy shit? Awful music

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• Will Trader Joe's Be Haunted?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Cobble Hill, East Village, Elmhurst, Gramercy, Greenpoint, Murray Hill, Trader Joe S, Williamsburg

  [Newyorkshitty] Murray Hill: Curbed checks out the new office-building-cum-condo-development on 32nd Street and its sexy/creepy Website. "Did they lift this rendering directly from The Devil's Advocate?" they wonder. [Curbed] Williamsburg: You gotta love that this new cell block of a hotel, just feet from the BQE, is called Le

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• Weekend Open House Tour: Gramurray Starter Homes

  Published: October 19, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Gramercy Flatiron District, Manhattan Murray Hill, Real Estate For Sale

  their New York lives: Murray Hill. Woo boy, the prices shot up in a hurry. The good news about the following listings: they're all super close to one another, leaving you fresh for a nice Sunday afternoon in the park or some crap like that. Location: 330 Third Avenue btwn 24th/25th Size: 600sf co-op Price: $382,500 ($859 maint.) Pitch:

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• Murray Hill Corned-Beef Clash Could Go On All Night

  Published: October 22, 2007, 12:33 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Food, Murray Hill, Sarge Amp 039 S, Second Avenue Deli

  for bragging rights as Murray Hill's top matzo-ball-soup maker heats up! As The Observer reported last week, the new Second Avenue Deli is moving in just four blocks south of another historic (albeit less storied) Jewish deli, Sarge's, which already operates around the clock. "It will be interesting," one Sarge's server told this

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• Murray Hill Renamed 'Park Avenue South' Despite the Fact That There Already is a Park Avenue South

  Published: October 30, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Manhattan Murray Hill, Neighborhood Names

  They say it's to add sex appeal, but we thought Murray Hill already had sex appeal? Or has date rape suddenly become unappealing? · Sexy Hill [IntoTheBox.tv]

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• Second Avenue Deli Not Opening Next Week--Maybe Next Month

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Murray Hill, Retail, Second Avenue Deli

  A spokesperson for the Lebewohl family called The Observer this morning to clarify that -- contrary to yesterday's Real Deal article -- the Second Avenue Deli is not opening next week on 33rd Street near Third Avenue. NY1 follows up today with some additional details about the hallowed eatery's new digs: The finishing touches for the new kitchen

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• Downtown is Wherever They Want it to Be

  Published: November 14, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Murray Hill, Real Estate Development

  building that will save Murray Hill. It's also a lightning rod for haters who despise the neighborhood and its fraterni-friendly nature. Just have a gander at this email: "Is this website a joke? Since when is East 34th Street considered 'downtown?' Also, the floor plans for the 'E' units have awkward baseball-diamond shaped bedrooms and

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