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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

  tower? [Bushwick BK] Central Park: Starting Monday, car-free time in the park on the West Drive extends by one hour in the morning. 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

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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

  page is not as nice as Park Slope’s. Cue violins, please. [KensingtonBlog] Park Slope: Whine of the Day from the Slope set? “Why did they reduce driving hours in Central Park and not our park? Whaaa!” [Gowanus Lounge] Union Square: Beware the hordes of student filmmakers in the park today. [The Weblicist of Manhattan]

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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

  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 McBrooklyn] Dumbo: Four West Coast street artists are putting up a pretty cool graffiti on Water Street at Pearl. [DumboNYC] Flushing: There are big puddles all over Flushing

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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

  $300 to $350 a month for parking spaces. [DumboNYC] Park Slope: The Fifth Avenue dog run has too many overexcited dogs. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn] Prospect Heights: The Buildings Department blamed water damage and Forest City Ratner for the Ward Baking Co. collapse. [NYDN] West Bronx: Neighbors proved a point to gangs and drug dealers

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• Ground Zero Claims Two More

  Published: August 20, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Deutsche Bank, Dogs, Environment, Fdny, Garbage, Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan, Noise, Park Slope, Pets

  system. The epicenter is Park Slope, which must mean something. [NYP]

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• Gentrification: Park Slopers Mourn Whorehouse Condo Conversion

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Gentrification, Hookers, Park Slope, Wtf

  Park Slope residents are saddened that a de facto brothel, a "by the hour" hotel, is being developed into expensive condos.When it was an hourly rate hotel, "it was a dingy place, yes, but added a...

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• Flatbush Farm's Greenmarket Tasting

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:30 pm

  Tags: Food Drink, Park Slope

  Sunday at Flatbush Farm in Park Slope from 4pm to 6pm in the bar(n). It's $40 per person with limited seating so reserve now if you're interested. Cocktails will include Rye with blackberries (or raspberries), mint and homemade ginger beer, Gin with peaches and homemade thyme syrup, and Aged Rum with honeydew melon and

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• Rampant Fowl Misidentification in Park Slope

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn, Columbia Street, Harlem, Park Slope, Staten Island

  — smart move! [NYS] Park Slope: Many have reported seeing feral chickens in the hood — but looking at a recent picture on Curbed, we have our own take: They're pheasants. No joke. [Curbed] Staten Island: A "tot" fell out of a second-story window on Tompkins Street. Since it was of the human, not tater, variety, there was much

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• Someone Is Already Stealing Christmas?

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Greenpoint, Maspeth, Park Slope, Williamsburg

  en route? [Queens Crap] Park Slope: You can almost forgive Slopesters for being so smugly bougie-boho when you see how they rally behind someone like Andy, the local fruit-truck guy who's temporarily away after having a stroke. Get better, Andy! [OTBKB] Williamsburg: An e-mail leaked out of a city-council member's office complains of oil

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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

  One Brooklyn Bridge Park slightly taller, slightly less yellow. Also, slightly expensive. [DumboNYC] East River: We wouldn't normally swim in the East River. But we might 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

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• Bud Light Rail

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:00 pm

  Tags: Park Slope

  a horsecar for Prospect Park. While the idea is fun, it seems like a horse cart would just be a quaint jaunt instead of a truly helpful bit of mass transit (a trolley, I'd be up for--and how about that trolley through Red Hook, eh?). Still, it's kind of fun to imagine an Anheuser Busch cart filled with a bunch of kids in the park.

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• Brooklyn Raccoons Fighting Back at Last

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Chelsea, Dumbo, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Harlem, Park Slope

  [Columbia Spectator] Park Slope: The park's geese, ducks, and raccoons are getting aggressive and biting residents. Maybe they're just stressed from trying to get their broods into the hood's top-ranked animal schools. [Gowanus Lounge]

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• Rooms to Rent in the Chelsea Hotel! Sort Of.

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Sunnyside, Williamsburg

  [Clinton Hill Blog] Park Slope: That raccoon that attacked a woman in the park recently? It and its kind apparently like fresh, raw fish. Hm — sushi-eating attack raccoons. [Gowanus Lounge] Sunnyside: It's the new Astoria! Or so some are saying, based on slightly cheaper rents in this Queens nabe. [OuterB] Williamsburg: At the

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• Sunset Park: This is What Gentrification Sounds Like

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:32 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Park Slope, Brooklyn Sunset Park, Real Estate Miscellany

  puts the spotlight on Sunset Park today, billing it as a cheaper alternative to somewhat nearby Park Slope, and focusing on all the development going on in the neighborhood. This includes 420 42nd Street, a controversial building that even has its own YouTube protest video (right). So the neighborhood is changing, and never is that more clear

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• For the Brooklyn Nabe With Everything: A Pink 3-Wheeled Car

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Boerum Hill Cobble Hill Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Park Slope, City Life

  Car Too [BK 11201] · Park Slope Now Has Mobile Greenhouses [Curbed] BONUS: If you're not down with weird cars, you can always check on the Cobble Hill Park problem with "large rats."

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