Today's Fresh Blogs...

• A Higher Level of Cleanliness in Washington Heights

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Kew Gardens, Little Neck, Washington Heights

  Brooklyn Heights: An 1844 train tunnel, rediscovered in 1980, is now open to tours, via a manhole at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue. [NewYorkology] Chelsea: Health clinic's trash is a rat magnet. Yum! Medical waste! [Blog Chelsea] Clinton Hill: Pratt students, not the projects on DeKalb Avenue, are the source of filthy sidewalks on Kent Avenue.

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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

  Now you only have to watch for traffic between 8 and 10 a.m. [Streetsblog] Chelsea: Chelsea Hotel residents got a note saying that BD Hotels was "no longer the managing agent." An elaborate hoax or what? [Hotel Chelsea Blog] Clinton Hill: Someone's trying to flip a heinous Green Avenue building for a ridiculous $1.4 million. [Brownstoner]

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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

  Coney Island: The clowns have been sent. Cole Brothers Circus is on the old go-kart tracks through August 5. [Gowanus Lounge] East Village: Duane Reade finally has Harry Potter. There's no need to go without. [East Village Idiot] Jackson Heights: Mayor Bloomberg runs afoul of locals complaining about traffic, noise, and sanitation gripes. [FoxNews

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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

  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 post office is

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• Hunting for Yuppies in Greenpoint

  Published: August 3, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, East Village, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Kensington, Manhattan, Queens, Soho

  Corona: Is this the hot new Queens nabe? Is there a truly hot Queens nabe? [OuterB] East Village: So the new marketers of Stuy Town are spinning the open lawns there as "a park." But say some they’re not, technically. Ouch. [Atlantic Yards Report] Gowanus: Swank new condos are slated for the canal. How Venice — stench included.

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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

  Bedford-Stuyvesant: With the real library closed (endlessly…) for renovations, a host for the "Free Children's Library of Bed-Stuy" is sought. [BedStuyBlog] Coney Island: While Coney's amusement-park future remains up in the air, live animals are thrown through the air at the nearby, sketchy Sea Rise housing projects. [Brooklyn Eagle via

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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

  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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• It's Hard Out Here for a Mascot

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Flatbush, Harlem, Manhattan, Midtown East, Williamsburg

  Brooklyn Heights: Yet another Montague Street restaurant mascot has been vandalized … and it sure looks creepy lying on the ground. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Chelsea: Um: Cool air was being force-fed into the Episcopal seminary here during shooting of a new TV show about an immortal detective yesterday. Huh? [Blog Chelsea] Clinton Hill: A

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• They Didn't Have Google Maps During the Last Tornado

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, East Village, Forest Hills, Gowanus, Riverdale, South Slope

  Bay Ridge: How close were you to the tornado? Check this map to find out. [McBrooklyn] Coney Island: Astroland rides are off the market, for now. [Bloomberg via Kinetic Carnival] East Village: St. Mark's Hotel is still the best one in the city for a cheap quickie. Yikes. [Gridskipper] Forest Hills: There's photographic proof that Trader Joe's is

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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: If only the kids around here could reference MC Hammer correctly. [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

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• Now, Your Commute to Trader Joe's Is Shorter, Safer From West Nile

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Trader Joe S, West Nile

  Chelsea: Another driving-related fatality rocks the intersection of 23rd Street and Ninth Avenue [Ingrid Spangler] Dumbo: Fast construction is complete on the former twelve-car parking lot near the corner of Front and Pearl. It's now the lovely little Pearl Street Triangle Plaza. [Brooklyn Eagle] Forest Hills: You too can get to Trader Joe's!

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• Ice Cream Is Always Better With Terrace Sprinkles on Top

  Published: August 14, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bruce Ratner

  Brooklyn Heights: A chunk of a balcony on Montague Street fell off and landed right near the bench outside Haagen-Dazs. Top that vanilla-bean cone with some period detail, indeed. [McBrooklyn] Chelsea: What are those glowing orange footprints on Seventh Avenue below 23rd Street? A local artist’s protest against global warming — duh!

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• In a Bold Move, McCarren Pool to Replace Hipsters With Water

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Mccarren Pool, Midwood, Red Hook, Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  Astoria: If you really want to nab those graffiti thugs up on your roof, it's better to call the cops before you tell the thugs you're about to do so. Live and learn. [Astorians] Brooklyn Heights: With Henry Street scoring a perfect 100 on this Website in terms of its walkability to various amenities, residents there must be feeling very smug

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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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• Underground Railroad Landmarks to Become Underground Garage

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:17 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Chelsea, Coney Island, Downtown Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Harlem, Lower East Side, Soho

  Chelsea: This lost cat should be easily identified based on this accurate and lifelike illustration. Or, wait, is that a kangaroo? [Blog Chelsea] Coney Island: Was someone cyber-posing as a circus executive to undermine the Cole Brothers big top that came here recently? [Gowanus Lounge] Downtown Brooklyn: It's increasingly likely that those

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