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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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Cops: Queens man peddled $80K of stolen bras
A New York man is accused of selling $80,000 worth of stolen Victoria's Secret bras on Internet auction sites over the last two years. Prosecutors say 41-year-old Queens resident George Tutaya was arraigned Tuesday on charges of criminal possession of...Tags: eBay Incorporated, New York, Prosecution, Auction Service
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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: Lower East Side, Isabelle Huppert, Manhattan (New York City), Imperial and Royal Matters
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August 11: Kind of no-fault divorce, in defense of gunmen, don't clone pets, small business taxes
Take home a pet, not a clone I think that it is highly insensitive to clone a dog when shelters are packed with healthy, wonderful dogs who are being killed by the millions every year \. You cannot Xerox a dog any more than you can a human. As a dog...Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Small Businesses, Family, Lower House, Divorce
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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: Television Industry, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), New York
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What comics say about Carlin
deborah.morris@newsday.comBrilliant. Intelligent. Sage-like. Those were just some of the words comedic colleagues used to describe Geoerge Carlin. His sharpand often biting observations on society, politics and culture sometimes shocked a nation -- and shaped generations of...Tags: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Long Island, Freedom of the Press, Lenny Bruce
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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: Tribeca, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Upper West Side
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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: Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Bars, Police, Bay Ridge
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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: Long Island, Family, Nassau County, Police Investigations, Long Island Expressway
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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: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Rape, Woodhaven, Road Transportation, Crimes
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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: Long Island, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Woodhaven, Long Island City, Music Theater
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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: Stony Brook University, Long Island, Earthquakes, Disasters, William Murphy
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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: Subway Transportation Industry, North Fork, Lincoln, Bronx (New York City), Subway Transportation
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