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28 September 2006

Singer Mowing Machine

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Read today in the "Power Plays" blog in the Village Voice about the skullduggery of developer Gregg Singer, who's been a busy ...

A Tale of Two Pizzas

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Midwood and East Harlem. Unless you live there or have a very specific errand to run, they're not neighborhoods you regularly make a bee...
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27 September 2006

Evil Has a Name

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Thanks goes out today to the New York Times, which has provided me at long last with the names of the villians who tore down McHale's ba...

Meatpacking District, Sans Meat

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The Meatpacking District has never been my "scene," as they say. In my 18 years in New York, that social mileau has always been ab...
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25 September 2006

It's Called Saturation

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Oh, my God, there's still hope for a good life in New York, isn't there? What am I talking about? Starbucks franchises are closing, ...
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Good Idea—Now Try It Over Here

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According to the fine folk at Curbed, Corcoran broker Wendy Maitland is throwing a celebrity-ridden—Julianne Moore, Matt Dillon, Marisa Tome...
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Egan the Destroyer

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A helpful reader informs Lost City that Cardinal Egan and the Archdiocese of New York are not only trying to demolish St. Brigid in the East...
21 September 2006

Domino to Fall?

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There's a campaign on right now to save the hulking old Domino Sugar Factory in Williamburg, which was built back in 1884, and ceased pr...
20 September 2006

Forgotten By Whom?

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In this week's Time Out New York, with the cover story "Forgotten New York," the editors list in a sidebar a collection of pas...
19 September 2006

The Book Mart and the Billionaires

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An article in the New York Times today about the dire straits the Gotham Book Mart has gotten into made this reader's head spin. Only in...
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Brooks of Sheffield
New York City, New York
I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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