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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

  Astroturf in Cadman Plaza Park on hot sunny days, when the turf (allegedly) hits 125 degrees. Talk about smokin' grass! [McBrooklyn] Chelsea: Condo-in-progress the Caledonia will sport fancy glass sheathing to help distinguish it from the nearby projects. [Blog Chelsea] Long Island City: The guy who'd hold parking-lot spaces for folks in

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• Wait, We Kind of Want One of Those Full-Body Umbrellas

  Published: October 26, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Lower East Side, Red Hook, Rego Park

  housing! [Brownstoner] Rego Park: Trader Joe's finally opened today! And there was much rejoicing. [Queens Central]

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• Should Stuyvesant Heights Secede?

  Published: November 14, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bushwick, Chelsea, Coney Island, Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Rego Park, Upper West Side

  Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]Park Slope: The Pigeon Serial Killer Mystery intensifies, with Hitchcockian "piles of dead birds" horrifying Catholic schoolgirls. Also, the pigeons' top defender admits that she got the idea for her surveillance-camera signs from her old employer … Condé Nast! Evil upon evil! [Gowanus Lounge] Rego Park:

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• ABC News: Prints Tie Widow's Kin to Dentist Slaying

  Published: November 20, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Queens, Crime, Rego Park

  Read original... Police investigating the shooting death of an orthodontist at a Queens playground have arrested a relative of the victim's ex-wife. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday that Mikhail Malayev was arrested in Chamblee, Ga. and that his fingerprints matched those found on a homemade silencer used in the killing. An

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• Woman Killed on Queens Boulevard - Crimewatch! - Leader Observer

  Published: June 16, 2008, 2:28 am

  Tags: Leader Observer, Queens, Death, Accident, Rego Park

  The road known by the not-so-flattering nickname The Boulevard of Death has claimed another life, after a 76-year-old woman was struck and killed at the intersection of 70th Street and Queens Boulevard.Shortly before 2 p.m. on June 4, a pedestrian witnessed the accident and called 911. The woman was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, but she was

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• Jean Nouvel's Chelsea Tower Over Budget, Behind Schedule

  Published: August 20, 2008, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Chelsea, Kingsbridge, Park Slope, Real Estate, Rego Park, Riverdale, Sunset Park

  kinda did that, right? [NYO]Rego Park: Representative Anthony Weiner, prepping to run for mayor next year, set up a "mobile office" here to reach out to the people ... and promised that he would still throw phones in a fit of anger, even if it's only his cell phone. [NYDN] Riverdale: If they paved paradise to put up a parking lot so you could

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