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1 | 2 | NextT.O. A to Z: Is hot spot Ossington now becoming a battleground? 1 Citation By Adam McDowell and Mark Medley The Ossington Avenue strip between Dundas and Queen, once populated by dodgy Vietnamese-Canadian-frequented karaoke joints, has over the past two years exploded into a wild frontier of overprivileged, mostly white 18-to-35-year-olds noisily partying with the collusion of unscrupulous bar owners out to make a fast buck at the expense of long-time residents who can no longer get a decent sleep. Or so goes the story. This narrative is now so familiar and, technorati.com
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Pulse Detected In High End Condos 1 Citation EVEN in the face of sober economic times, the luxury condominium market on Long Island has been flaunting its charms. Home Quotes At the moment, the showiest example is here in Long Beach: the Aqua on the Ocean, a new 36-unit eight-story condominium on the Boardwalk overlooking the Atlantic at Lincoln Boulevard at the site that once held the Brighton Adult Home. The splashy new building features a lobby with a 25-foot-high water wall, Home Quotes an indoor-outdoor pool and gym, and a second, technorati.com
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Wasteland war is won with guerrilla tactics 1 Citation Joe Swift on guerilla gardening The green warriors whose direct action transformed a bomb site into an inner-city garden that a whole community can now enjoy. How I transformed concrete tubs into a flourishing garden ' I became a guerrilla gardener over a decade ago. My family had moved to a kind of North London San Andreas fault where gentrification meets desolation...', technorati.com
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Our city centres are turning into secure enclaves that erode trust 1 Citation Can we banish fear and loathing from the city? While the centres of our cities are turning into secure enclaves, high security is also becoming an ever bigger feature of the homes we live in. The real issue is that most people simply don?t know what is happening, presuming that because the streets have always been public, as far as they are aware, they will continue to be so., technorati.com
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Is Bed-Stuy's Bad Rep Still Valid? 1 Citation Female soldier of the National Revolutionary Army. I received this email today: I came across your blog a few weeks back. I am considering moving to Bed Stuy, specifically, the block where C-town supermarket is located. I am a Chinese girl in my late 20's and I will be living by myself. Would it be safe for me? Which part/streets in Bed Stuy should I avoid? Any info would be greatly appreciated. In the past, questions about the safety of our neighbourhood annoyed me to no end. I gene, technorati.com
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1 Citation Having accomplished my first year?s goal of getting a legitimate photograph of a lady?s breasts into the Portland Mercury?s news section I must now seek loftier heights as news editor over the remaining months. Yes: More nipples. Perhaps even a penis. Go? ALTERNATE REALITIES : Mayor Sam Adams is cleared of criminal wrongdoing but new details of the Breedlove scandal emerge. Editor Wm.Steven Humphrey chose the headline. I love it. CRY FOUL : Booed by neighbors, plans for a Lents ballpark ev, technorati.com
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1 Citation ?Realist ? posted a well-thought comment in response to my, evidently, glowingly optimistic view of our neighborhood. I am not attempting to dismiss his/her perspective to the masses, but rather to offer a glimmer of hope to those who may share such views of their neighborhood?it is troubling to hear anyone view their home negatively. The first ?reality? that Realist present is crime?evidenced by the highly visual episodes in the past year. Any transitional neighborhood has its share of cr, technorati.com
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New York?s High Line and The Psychology of Urban Spaces 1 Citation It seems like it?s been raining forever in New York, but recently, the showers stopped long enough for me to try out the city?s latest amenity: The High Line park running along Tenth Avenue. Rising 30 feet into the air, the park has been created out of an old railway trestle built in the 1930s to carry freight from the old Pennsylvania Yards on West 34th Street to the Meatpacking district laying 1.45 miles to the south. In its current configuration, the park, which takes its cues from a similar, technorati.com
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Bowery: Ready to Wear: Though outrage over such affairs was... 1 Citation Though outrage over such affairs was pretty much exhausted years ago, Lower East Side/East Village nostalgia bloggers might still want to note that Bowery gentrifier John Varvatos is now selling Bowery-branded T-shirts for the low low price of $98 a pop . Oddly, the shirts are not even being sold at Varvatos's Bowery boutique (where some old rock club once stood), but rather, at Barney's. , technorati.com
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Ignorant Doctor Race-Codes Subway Stops 1 Citation First the admirable part: Arun Wiita , a recently graduated MD-PhD, went to every single subway stop in New York City , took photos, and quickly described the surroundings over a two-week period for a project he calls The New York Subway Project. That takes patience, follow-through, and displays the level of curiosity we should expect from a doctor. Unfortunately, it?s the descriptions themselves that are pissing people off. In each location, Wiita?s method is more or less thus: note the con, technorati.com
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