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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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| [OuterB] Brooklyn Heights: You might want to stay off that swank new 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 |
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| Last Day for High Bridge Survey |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 3:08 pm |
| Tags: Washington Heights, Walking, Parks, Urban Planning, The Bronx, Manhattan, Bicycling |
| In addition to the subway, the Metro-North, and the ferry, baseball spectators should have another non-auto option to get to the new Yankee Stadium: a restored car-free High Bridge. The High Bridge merits attention today not only due to the current parking controversy, but also because it's the last day of the Parks |
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| CurbedWire: Farley Scaffold, Closet Shower, Luquer Rising, More |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 6:30 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Boerum Hill Cobble Hill Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Park Slope, Curbedwire, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square |
| [CurbedWire Inbox] HUDSON HEIGHTS—Today's 76 Madison elevator-in-a-closet Floorplan Porn drew an email about a Hudson Heights $1.15M 3BR with a "closet shower." Specifically, "the second bathroom is made up of a shower literally built into a closet space (you actually opened the closet door and there was the inside of the shower; your |
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| It Happened One Weekend: Madison Ave. Re-do, Frenchie Goes FSBO, More |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 9:53 am |
| Tags: Manhattan Gramercy Flatiron District, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Murray Hill, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale, Real Estate Miscellany |
| Slope to the UWS to Hamilton Heights, charming us along the way and finishing up with a not-quite-happy ending. Just like real life! [The Hunt/Joyce |
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| Social Unrest on G Platform |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 3:32 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo, Greenpoint, Harlem, Prospect Heights, Washington Heights, Williamsburg |
| Spectator] Prospect Heights: The hood may get landmark status, which some locals hope will protect against the ripple effects of the massive ongoing Atlantic Yards development. [Atlantic Yards Report] Washington Heights: Police broke up a coke ring run out of a deli. God, imagine snorting blow with a slice of rolled-up salami… |
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| Four Washington Heights Apartment Buildings Up for Grabs |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 2:52 pm |
| Tags: Real Estate, Investment Sales, Washington Heights |
| apartment buildings in Washington Heights with 87 apartments total have gone on the sales market for an asking price of $11.25 million. The sellers have owned the five-story buildings at 575-587 West 177th Street for over 20 years, according to a broker with Marcus & Millichap, the firm handling the sale. Is it any wonder they'd want |
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| RIP Burgers and Cupcakes |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Chelsea, South Williamsburg, Washington Heights, West Bronx, Williamsburg |
| thinks. [Gowanus Lounge] Washington Heights: Apparently, on 181st Street, "abomination" and "promiscuous" are the new gay slurs. And they can kill! [Coypranter] West Bronx: Foreclosure numbers in the third quarter of this year (unsurprisingly) were the highest they've ever been in the borough. But the neighborhood may have a remedy. [West |
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| It Happened One Weekend: Actual Affordable Apartments! |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 8:18 am |
| Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Flatbush Kensington, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Soho, Queens Astoria Beyond, Real Estate For |
| Inwood, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Flatbush—and the place you're really not moving to—Riverdale. ['Even in New York, Affordable Apartments'/Vivian S. Toy] 2) Urban anthropologist Fred Kent chips in his two cents on some parts of our fair city and how to improve them. Washington Square Park: almost perfect. Brooklyn |
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| A Sunny Weekend at an Upper Manhattan Beach |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 10:04 am |
| Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, People Neighborhoods, Parks Recreation, Beaches, Bridges, Fish, Washington Heights |
| Enjoying the unusually warm October weather, families gathered over the weekend at the sandy beach near the George Washington Bridge. |
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| Anti Anti-Gentrification Rant of the Day in WaHi |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 2:50 pm |
| Tags: City Life, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Restaurants |
| previous shots at those in Washington Heights who are fearful of gentrification, but TGR absolutely goes off on anyone who would dare speak out about the OC Bakery and Cafe. Slipping on the sarcasm hat, TGR rants:Have you not been outraged as you approach the corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 159th Street by the sight of a rainbow-colored umbrella |
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| Anti Anti-Gentrification Rant of the Day in WaHi |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 2:50 pm |
| Tags: City Life, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Restaurants |
| previous shots at those in Washington Heights who are fearful of gentrification, but TGR absolutely goes off on anyone who would dare speak out about the OC Bakery and Cafe. Slipping on the sarcasm hat, TGR rants:Have you not been outraged as you approach the corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 159th Street by the sight of a rainbow-colored umbrella |
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| Introducing The Buyers (Uptown Edition) |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 1:59 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, The Buyers |
| on buying in Morningside Heights or vicinity. Away we go. We are a family of three who live in the Philadelphia suburbs and are planning a move to New York, but not immediately. We are, however, planning on buying in the next few months. The reason for our move? Our son, who is 15, is mentally disabled, will lose educational services when |
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| The Catch: No Banks Means No Banks |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 3:11 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Real Estate For Rent |
| 152nd Street in Hamilton Heights. Looks Good, Right?: While two bedrooms crammed into a 750-square-foot space may feel a little cramped, you can't argue with the price: $150,000. Sure, there are income restrictions, but the $81,800 limit for a single person means we're not just talking welfare cases here. How can this apartment possibly still |
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| CurbedWire: International Toy Center Kids, Big Rocks in Hudson Heights, Very Quiet at 'Nightmare on Grove' |
| Published: November 7, 2007, 5:30 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Bushwick, Curbedwire, Manhattan Gramercy Flatiron District, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights |
| [CurbedWire Staff] HUDSON HEIGHTS— Not one, but two emails have landed in the inbox today about rock demolition on 184th Street. Email Number One says, "There is some serious rock removal going on in the lot adjacent to the entrance to the 181st Street stop of the A train (@ 184th Street and Overlook Terrace)." Email Number Two adds the |
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