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• Eliot Spitzer Has Reached Acceptance

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, City Council, Crime, Ed Koch, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Florida, Memorials, Mike Bloomberg, New York Post, Queens, Sex, The New York Times

  I accept it." [amNY]• Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher told a grand jury to call him an adulterer and not a rapist; he left a 52-year-old woman injured after a tryst in his district office. [NYDN] • 9/11 families filed for a permit to hold their own ceremony for the attacks' sixth anniversary after the city balked at their

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• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Adds Eleven New Tracks

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:17 pm

  Tags: Activision, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games, Afi, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Dragonforce, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero Iii, Guitar Hero Iii Legends Of Rock, Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden, Jade Puget, Legends Of Rock, Queens Of The Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Pep

  rockers AFI, Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer and the Strokes. It is always nice to have master tracks playing in the background while you try your damnedest to hit that blue button with your ill-flexing pinky finger. Nothing sounds worse when you are trying to impress your boyfriend with your faux-axe

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• Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:49 pm

  Tags: Parking, Livable Streets, Urban Design, Air Quality, Commuting, Transportation Policy, Queens, Street Films, Car Culture, Traffic Enforcement, Pedestrian Safety, Public Health, Quality Of Life, Congestion Pricing

  73rd St. in Jackson Heights, Queens on a Saturday evening at about 6 pm. Will writes: We put together the video because we wanted to show how visceral the problem is on a daily basis. The problem of traffic congestion has so many side effects that are difficult to communicate in words or still images. Also, most residents would cite noise as the

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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

  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

  are terrorizing people. [Queens Tribune via Queens Crap] Greenpoint: There's no better way to undermine your attempt to build a period-looking brownstone than by sticking balconies on it. Real classy, Bridge Realty. [Newyorkshitty] Midtown West: God help us, it's finally happened: two Duane Reades, right across the street from each other.

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• The Deluge

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Photo Op, Queens, Rain, Weather

  Photo: Polaris Polaris sent over some more storm-damage pics late yesterday afternoon, including this one of a dude climbing for dear life away from his abandoned, submerged car in Maspeth. Wow. Earlier: Further Adventures in Decrepit Infrastructure: MTA-in-the-Rain Edition A Brooklyn Cyclone?

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• What Up, G?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Transportation Policy, Transit, Queens, Brooklyn

  officials from Brooklyn and Queens, including, Queens Civic Congress, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, Regional Plan Association, GWAPP, North Brooklyn Greens, Fort Greene Association, Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Stabilization Task Force, and Assemblyman Joe Lentol. Photo: Triborough on FlickrShare this

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• Stump the King - King of Queens

  Published: August 20, 2007, 4:24 am

  Tags: Balls Of Fury, Coopers, King Of Queens, Kingofqueens, Patton Oswalt, Spence

  name of the bar from King of Queens?" Well, Kathy, the short answer is yes, yes I can. The long answer, however is only slightly longer. At the risk of name-dropping, I decided that the fastest way to get the answer to this question would be to call my friend Patton Oswalt. I always like to point out that even though Patton has become a full

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• Water Quality At Douglaston Beach Among The City's Worst

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:37 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Queens

  According to a new report, Douglas Manor Beach is one of the city's worst when it comes to beach water quality.

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• Queens, Then & Now: Waterfront Development Has Been Decades In The Making

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Queens

  State and city officials dubbed it Queens West in the 1980s, but long-time New Yorkers still call it Hunters Point or Long Island City.

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• Towleroad Guide to the Tube #163

  Published: August 21, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Chris Dodd, Drag Queens, Jodie Foster, News, Rihanna, Television, Towleroad Guide To The Tube

  AS THE WORLD TURNS: Daytime TV's first gay teen kiss. UGLY BETTY: Behind the scenes of the new season promo. CHRIS DODD: If you've ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during one of his conversations... BRITNEY HOUSTON: NYC 'pop princess' offers her rendition of Rihanna's "Umbrella". Check out our previous guides to the

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• News: Cruising, Tomkat, Bette Midler, Drag Awards, Iowa

  Published: August 22, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Bette Midler, Brad Pitt, Canada, Drag Queens, Film, Hawaii, Iowa, Lance Bass, News, Pedro Andrade, Real Estate, T R Knight, Tom Cruise, Virginia

  Bette Midler fined for tree slaughter on Hawaii property. Attorney: "The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there. It's unfortunate that a mistake was made." Virginia Beach house owned by gay pornstar killers Harlow

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• From chimneys to condos

  Published: August 25, 2007, 4:51 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Queens

  It’s four towering chimneys once cast shadows on the industrial waterfront of Long Island City. They are now gone and, in their place, luxury condos are being built at the former Hunters Point power plant.

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• Catch Queens of the Stone Age on tour this fall

  Published: August 24, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: Hard Rock, Tours, Daft Punk, Josh Homme, Queens Of The Stone Age

  When i get to talk about Queens of the Stone Age, It’s just so easy to write and to lay my words on ‘paper’, I mean there’s no secret I love this band to the death (not really, it’s just a figure of speech), their music has influenced my musical taste in a unimaginable degree, I could even go to such lengths and say

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• Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Urban Design, Carnage, Community Boards, Queens, Public Health, Car Culture, Pedestrian Safety, Bicycling

  to simplify a dangerous Queens intersection where a school teacher was killed last December. Here we go again. As we recently saw on 9th Street in Park Slope and 91st Street on the Upper East Side, yet another "complete streets" project is coming under fire from community leaders, this time in Queens.

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