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Erin and I are now the proud leasers of an apartment in New York City. We recently adopted our 2nd floor prewar walkup and couldn’t be more proud to rent such a fine place. I fell in love immediately and after a suitable period of courtship … Also, we are in a rent controlled building, which means that even if the real estate market recovers soon and rents return to what they have been in the past (or even more seeing as our neighborhood is “up and coming”) ours won’t …

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Joey Gallo was Kensington’s neighborhood“loan shark” too, and if you ever owed him any money, you better just pay up . Because Joey Gallo never believed in a “grace period”, no, that was for banks and charge cards and not “tough guys” from East … “Joseph “Joey” Gallo, also known as “Crazy Joe” and “Joe The Blond”, (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972) was a New York City gangster, gunman, and racketeer of the Profaci crime family (later known as the Colombo crime family). …

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While we have been busy here in Carroll Gardens fighting for a clean Gowanus Canal and for the contextual re-zoning of our lovely brownstone neighborhood, a much bigger fight has been going on against the Atlantic Yards project. … New York City and New York State have gone to court and won it’s use of eminent domain to clear businesses and the property where the new Nets stadium will be built by a group of private investors over a Long Island Railroad yard and the …

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Thanks to host families who open up their homes for a few weeks each summer, children growing up in New York City’s toughest neighborhoods have experienced the joys of Fresh Air experiences. Friendly Town host families are volunteers …

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Finding real estate or Manhattan apartments that are perfectly equipped with the right schools, an enticing neighborhood, and mortgage rates to suit your budget can be a challenging task. Make sure you ask the right questions and view …

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Foods of New York has been offering unique ‘on foot’ tours through New York City’s most delicious and historic neighborhoods since 1999. They provide a non-touristy experience and show you the specialty food shops and ethnic eateries …

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New York Hotel DealsThe New York Hotel Deals New York City Hotel Site is a deal finding website for hotel reservations in Manhattan. What follows are five. … People visiting NYC often need their hotel room to be in a specific neighbhorhood (like Chelsea) with New York Hotel Deals it’s simple to make use of the “Location Distance” tab on the hotel search results page to find hotels in any neighborhood in Manhattan. #3 Find A Hotel Near Any NYC Landmark …

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Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” wasn’t just big, it was New York City big. Big like an A-Rod line cannon-shot to left field. Big like a Yankee rent-a-pitcher’s starting salary. Even though it was about New York City, you could hear Alicia Keys’ chorus … Jay talks about all these different neighborhoods in New York, then the chorus is so big and hits you so hard. I have a real attachment to it.” There’s really only one way to sing it, she says. “It’s tough,” Kelly says. …

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Brochures, fliers and open houses have become all but required in New York City neighborhoods like Harlem, where many schools have shown lagging academic performance. Where parents once simply sent their children to the nearby school, …

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It comes from the neighborhood formerly known as Corlear’s Hook, just south of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Corlear’s Hook is the neighborhood of Old New York where prostitutes entertained gentleman callers. … important thing to focus on here is that culturally, the people of Amsterdam, and the people of New York, are not so completely different, and the laws that govern the free trade of sex and cannabis in the Netherlands, can absolutely work in New York City. …

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