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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

  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 community-board meeting last night, it was all about the fate of the half-built Finger Building (just how tall should it be?)… that, and the faltering sewage system, that

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• More Fun Facts About Queens!

  Published: October 12, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Queens, Ridgewood, Sunnyside

  road in Queens. Woodside and Sunnyside host New York City's only St. Patrick's Day Parade open to gays and lesbians. Ground was broken on the Triborough Bridge the day after the 1929 stock market crash that sparked the Great Depression. Robert Moses Got Things Done! Cyndi Lauper grew up in Ozone Park. In the mid-19th century, Rockaway Beach

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• Bushwick: Now With Ice Caves!

  Published: October 30, 2007, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Ditmas Park, Hell S Kitchen, Sunnyside Gardens, Times Square

  From Hell's Kitchen] Sunnyside Gardens: It's official. This twenties-era Queens hood, one of the nation's first planned communities, has been landmarked. [amNY] Times Square: The Naked Cowboy says that the Bible is pro-nudity. [Gridskipper] Upper East Side: Some guy failed at stealing two candlesticks worth $52,000 from an antiques show

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• I’m burnin up for your love…

  Published: June 10, 2008, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Astoria, Black Out, Blackout, Coned, Consolidated Edison, Ditmars, Heat Wave, Heatwave, New York City, Nyc, Power, Sunnyside, Woodside

  and Astoria, parts of Sunnyside, and Woodside, experienced not only a heat wave but also a 9 day blackout!! Many of my neighbors and I were miserable during this blackout. The apartment I was living in during that time only experienced a brownout' this means that there was partial electricity coming into my apartment. I was lucky that

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• Con Ed Faces New Benchmark for Blackouts

  Published: June 19, 2008, 11:16 am

  Tags: Featured Box, People Neighborhoods, Environment, Utilities, Queens, Utility Player, Astoria, Blackouts, Con Ed, Electricity, Energy, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside

  Utility Player: Con Ed did not consider the nine-day blackout in western Queens two summers ago a major power failure at least in the strictest, legal sense. But that just changed.

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