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Gowanus is a neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.
Gowanus is a neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.
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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: City Living among old and new
Special to amNewYorkAs the F or G train transitions to the elevated tracks after leaving the Carroll Street station, the first thing many straphangers notice are the unusually expansive gardens sprawling out in front of the surrounding brownstones. Fenced in by iron gates,...Tags: Homes, Rentals, House Building, Condos and Houses, Manhattan (New York City)
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New York real estate: South Slope
Special to amNewYorkMost people don't differentiate between the two areas straddling Ninth Street; to them it's all Park Slope, with its trendy restaurants, abundant stoop sales, prominent gay community and proliferation of young families. But North Slope and South Slope...Tags: Rentals, Theater, Condos and Houses, Manhattan (New York City), Cobble Hill
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Painted turtle angers B'klyn neighborhood
dfreedlander@am-ny.comA box turtle that has for years crawled through backyards in Williamsburg was discovered last week painted a sickly orange, with neighbors blaming construction workers next door with ample time and spray paint on their hands. Photos of the poor turtle,...Tags: Williamsburg (Virginia), Natural Resources, Wildlife
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Bloomberg reshapes city, despite high profile setbacks
dfreedlander@am-ny.comHis congestion pricing plan is in shambles. His Olympic dream of a West Side stadium long-ago evaporated. But six years after he was sworn in on the steps of City Hall near the smoldering hole in the heart of lower Manhattan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has...Tags: Red Hook, Michael Bloomberg, New York University, Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan (New York City)
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Otterness: Private studio of the very public artist
lauren.johnston@newsday.comSubway commuters who pass through the 14th Street and 8th Avenue station are well-acquainted with Tom Otterness, even if the name doesn't ring a bell right away. Otterness is one of the city's most prolific creators of public art and more than 100 of his...Tags: Marlborough, Macy's, Transportation, Manhattan (New York City), Holidays
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Best beer gardens
Special to amNewYorkBetween 1820 and 1860, 1.5 million immigrants arrived in America from Germany, bringing with them their own cultural traditions -- among them outdoor beer gardens. Unlike the bars in Irish neighborhoods, the German beer gardens catered to whole...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Astoria, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Holidays, Distilling and Brewing Industry
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A four-hour commute--if he's lucky
jsilverman@am-ny.comStaten Island is only a few miles south of Manhattan, but the two boroughs can feel a world apart. Few know this better than Jonathan Acierno, who spends upward of an hour on an "express" bus commuting across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and through the...Tags: New York University, Manhattan (New York City), Grand Central Terminal, Commuting
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Carroll Gardens
Special to amNewYorkWalk through Carroll Gardens and you will encounter neighbors calling to each other from across streets, young couples pushing strollers and an affable sense that it's a neighborhood where everyone belongs. "I know everybody," says long-time resident...Tags: Homes, Rentals, Condos and Houses, Manhattan (New York City), Cobble Hill
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Red Hook
Special to amNewYorkOnce a forgotten, crime-ridden corner of South Brooklyn, Red Hook has slowly become a destination for the artsy and adventurous -- those who are attracted to the quiet, the smell of sea water and the views of the Statue of Liberty. Unlike most city...Tags: Floral Design, Manhattan (New York City), Waterway and Maritime Transportation, Christianity, Baptist
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Movie review: 'Half Nelson'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) No halves about it: "Half Nelson" is a wholly absorbing and delicately shaded portrait of an educator played by Ryan Gosling, a young man harboring an offstage secret. Dan Dunne teaches 13- and 14-year-olds history in an...Tags: Film Festivals, Health and Safety at School, Central Intelligence Agency, Movies, Drug Trafficking
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Strike halts work at WTC, other sites
amNewYork Staff WriterThousands of indispensable crane, backhoe and other heavy equipment operators were no-shows at construction sites across the city Wednesday, halting work on everything from the Freedom Tower to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. "The work stoppage...Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Ceremonies, Local Authority, New York, New York Times
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Great sidewalk cafes
Eat out -- and we mean, really out. As in , on the sidewalk. Here are a dozen of our favorite places to get a meal al fresco.
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Bar Pitti. Right next door to the celeb hangout Da Silvano, Bar Pitti's casual atmosphere draws its own crowd of...Tags: Tribeca, Transportation, Road Transportation, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Cobble Hill
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