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Prospect Heights is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Prospect Heights is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Van Gogh, Chagall and Calder top blockbuster New York museum shows for fall
ehulme@am-ny.comIn the next few weeks, the art world wakes up from its long summerıs nap. Here are some of the exciting shows headed our way. MOMA 11 W 53rd St, 212-708-9400 Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night Sept. 21-Jan. 5 This ambitious retrospective looks back...Tags: Painting, Guggenheim Museum, Alexander Calder, Petroleum Industry, Libraries and Museums
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Recipe: Linguini with shitake mushrooms and Manchego cheese
Bryan Calvert, owner and chef of Brooklyn's James Restaurant believes that Umami is a mysterious fifth flavor that is nature's gift for the adventurous. He created this simple pasta dish to showcase umami with the sweet earthiness from the shitakes and... -
Endangered New York: 10 (more) to save
Special to amNewYorkAs the real-estate boom year of 2007 winds down, houses of worship, schools, historic residences, whole neighborhoods -- even the corner diner -- tenuously exist under the threat of the wrecking ball. Indeed, the changes are so breathtaking that the...Tags: History, George Washington, Greenpoint, Carroll Gardens, Madison Square Garden
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Guide to gifts for women
jgordon@am-ny.comGifts are all about fantasy -- giving and receiving items you'd never buy for yourself but would love to have. Sometimes it's because of cost, but often it's that nagging notion that you don't really "need" another sweater, pair of boots, hat or piece...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes, Music, Clothing Accessories, Gramercy
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Sylvia's diners pan Bill O'Reilly
dfreedlander@am-ny.comThe primary concern Wednesday in the bustling dining room of Sylvia's Queen of Soul Food in Harlem was about the heaping plates of Southern fried chicken and grits, baked ham and sweet potato pie. When diners peeled themselves away from their plates to...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Al Sharpton, Larry Smith, Elections, New York
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Sources: Foxy slugged neighbor with Blackberry
rocco.parascandola@newsday.comAdd another chapter to Foxy Brown's legal woes -- the controversial rapper has been charged with slugging a neighbor in a dispute over loud music, police sources said Wednesday. Brown, 31, who is nearly deaf and wears a special hearing device, got into...Tags: Foxy Brown, New York, Crimes, Prosecution, Police
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Retired subway cars make a splash
MNaanes@am-ny.comSeventeen-ton retirees, some 600 of them, will soon be living out their golden years on the Jersey Shore, where they will see plenty of scuba diving and fishing. They are part of more than 1,600 stainless-steel passenger and work-crew subway cars that...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Transportation, Retirement, New York City Transit, New York
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Celeb trainer: Cardio kills, weights rule
Special to amNewYorkThanks to Jim Karas, author of "The Cardio-Free Diet," you will never find me on a treadmill. Ever. To think, I can lose weight, keep it off, and even change my body composition without ever hitting a Stairmaster again. Karas, a celebrity trainer,...Tags: Armed Forces, Health Treatments, New York, Eating Disorders, Dieting
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What's it like to drive a cab?
MNaanes@am-ny.comIt's hard out there for a hack. While controversial GPS technology has kept the plight of some taxi drivers in the news recently, the daily grind always takes a toll. Taxi drivers deal with noise, pollution, rude passengers and stress on a daily basis,...Tags: Health Treatments, Society, New York, Brooklyn (New York City), Private Health Care
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Kensington
Special to amNewYorkBrooklyn's Kensington neighborhood is only just being discovered. A small, quiet community sandwiched between more popular neighborhoods of Windsor Terrace and Prospect Heights, Kensington is one of the most diverse corners of New York. Residents include...Tags: Coney Island, Crimes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill
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Just what does $1M buy in NYC?
Nelson Wang is a freelance writer.Peter Zdanowicz and his wife, Jane Barratt, arrived from Hong Kong with plans to buy your average Manhattan apartment - now approaching seven figures in price - and no illusions about how far $1 million would go. Still they remember one particularly...Tags: Park Slope, Real Estate Buyers, Forest Hills Gardens, Forest Hills, Homes
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Students measure up
STAFF WRITERScore one for the city's fourth- and eighth-graders - again. State test results released yesterday showed that city students improved their math scores from a year ago, even after significant jumps in 2003. Also, fewer students performed at Level 1 - the...Tags: Forest Hills, Lower East Side, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Glendale (Queens, New York), Highland Park (Brooklyn, New York)
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