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Laundry Room Libraries

The New York Times | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Recycling, Recycling Books, Laundry, Libraries, Books, Apartments, Book Clubs, Green Living, Reading, New York City, Books News

My old neighbors in Washington Heights were marvels of resourcefulness, natural born recyclers inspired by thrift, as opposed to love of the environme...

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15 Central Park West Residents Got Private Viewing Of Thanksgiving Day Parade

nytimes.com | CLYDE HABERMAN | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York

Read More: New York, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 61st Street Blocked, Macy's Parade, New York City, New York News

On Thanksgiving morning, a public street was effectively privatized. At 62nd Street and Central Park West, a police barricade prevented people who gat...

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Metal Roll-Down Security Gates Banned

nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Council Bans Roll-Down Gates for Stores, New York City Council, New York, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, New York News

Citing high rates of graffiti, the City Council voted unanimously on Monday to gradually ban the use of roll-down metal security gates, a move that wo...

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Token Booth Clerks Help With Small-Change MetroCards

nydailynews.com | By Kate Nocera and Pete Donohue | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Metrocard, New York Subway, New York, Metrocard Small Change, New York Mta, New York City, New York News

Token booth clerks are giving a helping hand to straphangers stuck with MetroCards with small-change balances....

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Bike Lanes On Bedford Ave To Be Removed

Gothamist | [18] | | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Bike Culture, Bedford Ave Bike Lanes Removed, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Williamsburg Brooklyn, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn New York, New York, New York City, New York News

Gothamist has learned that the Department of Transportation is planning to remove a 14-block section of the Bedford Avenue cycling route "as part of o...

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Fake Badges Often Used By Real New York Cops

nytimes.com | RAY RIVERA | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Police, Nypd, NYPD Wear Fake Badges, Police, Police Officers, New York City, New York, New York Police Wear Fake Badges, New York News

In New York, a city that has become almost synonymous with high security, where office employees wear picture IDs and surveillance cameras are on the ...

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Hollywood vs. New York: Four Decades Of NYC Destruction On Film (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Movies, Hollywood vs. New York, New York Films, Video, Nyc, New York City, New York Destroyed, New York News

New York and Los Angeles have been locked in battle since the first jaded Manhattanite moved West in search of sunny skies, fertile earth, and probabl...

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Food Stamps In New York

David Jones | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Working Poor, New York City News, Food Pantry, Food Stamp Recipients, Food Stamps, New York City, New York News
David Jones

Our food stamp policy is a holdover from the Giuliani's belief that benefits create dependency. The racist undertones of this policy -- given who is poor in this city -- are too obvious to ignore.

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AM New York's Best Picks for Cyber Monday

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: New York-New York, New York City, Home News

am New York has assembled a list of Web sites to help shoppers back at work today in New York City navigate "today's madness," which we have pa...

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Women With AIDS In NYC: Killing Them Softly

Chris Norwood | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Money, Women, Ryan White, Politics, Deaths, Health, Aids, New York City, Crisis, Michael Bloomberg, World AIDS Day, New York News
Chris Norwood

Why, after a decade of decreasing deaths, has New York's progress in reducing women's mortality stumbled so badly? Following the money gives a dismaying answer: the Bloomberg administration.

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Things to do this week in NYC Nov 28-Dec 5: Museums

City Guide. | City Guide | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home

Read More: New York-New York, Guggenheim, New York City, Home News

Some of the world's most impressive museums and exhibits are in New York?including the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and...

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HOME FOR THANKSGIVING

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Brent Arnold, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Love, Brothers and Sisters, Death, Family, Tennessee, Interior Design, New York City, Living News
Beth Arnold

GROWING UP IN Arkansas, we relished our Thanksgiving turkeys. Mother roasted them until the skin was crispy brown, and even the white meat was juicy. ...

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Swimming With the Sewage: The Disturbing Reality of the City's Sewage System

John Petro | Posted 12.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Waste-Water, New York Times, Sewer-Systems, Chicago, New York City, Mayor Daley, Green Roofs, New York News
John Petro

On Monday the New York Times brought us some nasty details about the city's sewer system. New York City has a combined sewer system, meaning that both...

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NYC Airports Crack Down On Unlicensed Airport Taxis

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Unlicensed Cabs, New-York-City-Airports, New York Crack Down on Unlicensed Taxis, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — With the holiday travel season gearing up, authorities are cracking down on the swarms of unlicensed taxi drivers who hustle passenge...

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Seven Charged With Falsifying Building Documents

nytimes.com | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Construction Company Owners Arrested, Construction Companies Falsified Documents, Crime, New York City, Contracting Company Arrests, New York News

Federal and local authorities arrested seven people on Tuesday, on charges they falsified testing documents at four New York City area construction pr...

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Peter Cocker, Ex-NYPD, Held Superintendent Hostage Over School's Swine Flu Policy

AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Ken Mitchell, Nypd Officer Admits to Kidnapping, Nypd Officer Holds Superintendent at Gunpoint, Peter Cocker, Crime, Swine Flu, Peter Cocker Charged, New York City, New York News

NEW CITY, N.Y. — A former New York City police officer has admitted he held a suburban school superintendent at gunpoint in June. Peter Cocker ...

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9/11 Text Messages Released: Wikileaks Publishes Intercepted Government Pager Texts As They Were Sent

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Msnbc, Terrorism, 9/11, Washington DC, 9/11 Record, Intercepted Messages, Messages From 9/11, Wikileaks, 9/11 Events, Journalism, New York City, Dc, Government Issued Pagers, Open Government, Wikileaks 9/11, 9/11 Series of Events, Pagers, World Trade Center, Text Message Pagers, 9 11 Text Messages, 9/11 Text Messages, 9/11 Texts, 911 Text Messages, 911 Texts, 9/11 Text, 911 Text Message, 911 Text, Text Messages From 9/11, 911 Text Messaging, Politics News

Government employees sent more than 500,000 text pager messages In the hours before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At 3 a.m. (...

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Rev. Aaron Cote, Pedophile Priest, Found Living Near Catholic High School

nydailynews.com | Lore Croghan and Corky Siemaszko | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Pedophile Priest, Catholic School, Pedophilia, New York, New York City, Pedophile Priest Lives Near High School, Aaron Cote, New York News

Rev. Aaron Cote, an unrepentant pedophile priest on probation for molesting a 14-year-old altar boy, is living right around the corner from an East Si...

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New York City on the Brink: The Truth Behind "The Darkness"

Jason Pinter | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Publishing, Huffpost Books, Crime, Books, Thriller, Mysteries, New Books, Drugs, New York, New York City, Books News
Jason Pinter

With unemployment skyrocketing, the city facing a $5 billion gap, with fewer cops on the streets and more people needing to do whatever it takes to survive, New York City is a powder keg.

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Video: Modern Day Gold Rush Underway

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: New York-New York, New York City, Home News

The dollar's drop has been a bonanza for gold investors, helping drive the precious metal to one record high after another. CNBC's Scott Cohn heads to...

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Gerardo Sanchez, Alleged D Train Killer, Acted Crazy Before Slashing

nypost.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Subway, Gerardo Sanchez, Crime, New York City, D Train Killer, New York News

The seething straphanger who slashed a subway rider to death in front of petrified passengers was unprovoked and belligerent from the moment he steppe...

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Food Emergencies Up 21 Percent Over Last Year In New York

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Coalition Against Hunger, Soup Kitchens, Hunger, Poverty, Food Banks, Food Emergencies, New York, New York City, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — The recession may be easing, but the urgent need to feed New York's hungry is still sharp. The number of people seeking emergenc...

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New York Subway Performers Project: Help Capture and Map The City's Street Talent (VIDEO)

Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Larry Wright, Video, Subway, Busking, Dance, Subway Performers, Mta, New York City, Eyes and Ears, Nyc Subway News, New York News

While subway systems outside of New York might be cleaner and break down less often -- and let's be honest, most of them do -- few are as filled with ...

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Bronx Fire Claims Seven Homes

nypost.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Bronx Fire, Bronx New York, Bronx, New York City, New York News

More than 30 people were left homeless last night when fire swept through a row of houses in The Bronx....

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Extell Breaks Its Deal With The Upper West Side

Marta Hallowell | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Nrdc, Riverside-Park, Upper West Side, Natural Resources Defense Council, Overbuilding, Real Estate, New York City, Paul Elston, Rspc, Extell, New York News
Marta Hallowell

The developer Extell is quietly pushing for big changes to its Riverside Center project, enclosed by 59th and 61st Streets, West End Avenue and Riverside Boulevard.

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