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Rego Park is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
Rego Park is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
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POLICE BEAT
Reports from county or village police, Oct. 26-Nov. 1. Cedarhurst A basement storage room at a Grove Avenue home was broken into Oct. 26 or 27; gifts from a bridal shower were stolen. Elmont A television set and a digital camera were stolen from a...Tags: Levittown, Assault, Crimes, Road Accidents, Nikon Corp
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Familiar Russian story gets an update, change of place
Tribune NewspapersGiven that Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is considered one of the finest novels ever written, it would take gargantuan chutzpah to write a "Karenina" for our time, wouldn't it? But that's just what Irina Reyn pulls off with her delicately nuanced first novel,...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Isabelle Huppert, Lower East Side, Imperial and Royal Matters, Upper East Side
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Review: 'What Happened to Anna K.'
Special to NewsdayWHAT HAPPENED TO ANNA K., by Irina Reyn. Touchstone, 242 pp., $24. Given that Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is considered one of the finest novels ever written, it would take gargantuan chutzpah to write a "Karenina" for our time, wouldn't it? But that's...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Isabelle Huppert, Lower East Side, Imperial and Royal Matters
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Floating ideas to save the SS United States ocean liner
rhoda.amon@newsday.comElaine Doyle remembers the first time she saw an ocean liner. It was 1952. She was 16 and had come from her home in Queens to see her grandfather off to his native Ireland. Tim Doyle was sailing on the second voyage of the SS United States, largest and...Tags: Melville, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Gary Cooper, Movies, Television Industry
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Eat cheap in NYC
Newsday Staff WriterEverybody has a favorite restaurant. But what everybody wants to know is: Where do you go for a meal on the cheap? Here are ten places where you can eat well, and not break the bank. MANHATTAN Kitchen22. Here and at the uptown sibling, Kitchen 82, uber-...Tags: Upper West Side, Tribeca, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Stripper charged in stabbing of B'klyn man
A strip club dancer was charged Tuesday with stabbing to death in a Bay Ridge hotel a man who helped get her a job, police said. Pamela Hanson, 20, of 673 Marcy Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, told detectives she killed David Diaz,...Tags: Police, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Bay Ridge, Bars and Clubs
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Children of slain parents search for answers
Newsday Staff WritersThe mystery deepened Wednesday, with no obvious motive or suspects, in the slayings of a popular Syosset couple who left behind two young sons and scores of family gathering on Long Island from as far as India to mourn their deaths. Both deeply...Tags: New Jersey, Manhattan (New York City), Middle Island, Family, Police
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Rego Park
Special to amNewYorkBefore it was the setting for scenes in Art Spiegelman's Maus or dubbed "Regostan" by The New York Times due to its prominent Central Asian community, Rego Park was occupied by Dutch farmers. In the 1920s, the Real Good Construction Co. began building up...Tags: Chess Playing, Manhattan (New York City), Imperial and Royal Matters, Crimes, Best Buy Company Incorporated
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Enormity of death toll hits home
STAFF WRITERDix Hills resident Sajid Hussein was back in his hometown of Madras, India, on Sunday visiting his parents when the tsunami crashed onto the coastline and devastated everything in its path. Hussein survived unscathed because he was inland, but four...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Stony Brook University, New York, Tsunamis, Disasters
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Best of Long Island and Queens
It's always good to start the year with a celebration. Here's the annual A-list of the top 50 restaurants in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens. They've been updated, with a memorable dish added from each one. You'll leave the table content. Cheers. AMERICAN...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Imperial and Royal Matters, Little Neck, Long Island City
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Home at last
STAFF WRITERHe said his name was Frank Singleton, but carried no identification. He couldn't remember where he was born. He'd been a farm worker for most of his adult life, living in labor camps from Florida to eastern Long Island, but had nothing to show for it....Tags: Elementary Schools, Holidays, Defense, Farms, New Jersey
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On LI, it's the grill of victory
STAFF WRITERMost big-league competitors get a good night's sleep before the Big Day, but barbecue guys are usually exhausted when they get the call to turn their entries in to the judges - because they've been up all night rubbing their ribs, brining their chickens,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Long Island, East Islip, Gardens and Parks, Imperial and Royal Matters
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