Source: The Legendary Ranger via Wikimedia CommonsThe MTA asks you to heed these subway service advisories for the B/Q Line during this week’s commute: For Tuesday and Wednesday, December 11 and December 12, between 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m., Coney Island-bound Q trains run express
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We came across this incredible historic gem of a film this week, featuring the extraordinary training of the first female lifeguards of Manhattan Beach. The film, dug out of the public domain section of the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive (the wing housing the collection of U.S. cultural history)
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Source: Alina Zienowicz via WikimediaCouncilman Lew Fidler, the 41st Assembly Democrats and Toy Drive founder Bryan Lee are back [/fidler-and-41st-assembly-dems-hoping-for-biggest-toy-drive-ever/] with their 12th annual ‘Toys For Tots’ toy drive. The annual toy drive is throwing their Grand Finale Party on Thursday night, December 20 from 7:30 to 9:30
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Photo: Maria DanalakisSuperstorm Sandy crippled much of the New York’s infrastructure, stretching the deployment of emergency personnel and resources thin as whole sections of the city were left in the dark and rendered inoperable. New York’s hospitals are still dealing with the holes caused by Sandy’s disruption,
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Source: WilliamsAs we recently reported [/president-obama-approves-rockaways-pipeline-project/], the proposed construction of the Rockaways Pipeline Project crossed another hurdle towards reality when President Obama recently signed H.R. 2606, approving the measure that would connect a 3.17-mile natural gas line from the Atlantic Ocean underneath Jamaica Bay to a meter and
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Source: Lisa WillnerIn commemoration of World AIDS Day, which is held every December 1, Edward R. Murrow High School is displaying international AIDS Quilts all week to students. The displaying of the quilts has become something of a tradition at Murrow, having now entered their 19th consecutive year of display.
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Souce: nolastnameHas anyone else noticed a spate of stripped cars in the neighborhood? Apparently peeling an abandoned or junked car of all its undamaged parts is the latest rage in Sheepshead Bay. It seems that the mother of all misery, Superstorm Sandy, is likely to blame for the trend as
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Source: Matěj Baťha via Wikimedia CommonsThanksgiving is famous for drunken fights among family members simmering with resentments over failed marriages, political disagreements, or self indulgent slide shows, but rarely is any blood spilled because everyone is usually passed out by 5 p.m. from a combination of tryptophan and red
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Source: WilliamsIssuing what appears to be the final nail in the coffin for opponents of the proposed natural gas Rockaway Pipeline Project [/tag/gateway-pipeline/], President Obama signed the New York City Natural Gas Supply Enhancement Act (H.R. 2606) this past Tuesday. Obama’s signature paves the way for the
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Source: CDM via the New York Daily NewsIt would cost upwards of $10 billion and take nearly a decade to build, but politicians, engineers, and average citizens are starting to dream big when it comes to protecting New York City’s coastline from another storm surge disaster. A New York
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD79BVBGcRk?rel=0] According to a release by the New York Times [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/city-lifts-advisory-on-recreational-water-activities/] , the city environmental officials lifted an advisory on recreational water activity issued last month [/attention-boaters-recreational-water-advisory-for-nyc-waterways/] after Superstorm Sandy. The environmental advisory applied
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Source: JohnnyBarker / FlickrIn an exhaustive, and frankly depressing, report by the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/nyregion/call-that-kept-nursing-home-patients-in-sandys-path.html?pagewanted=1&ref=nyregion&_r=0] , the decision not to evacuate nursing homes in vulnerable flood zones by state and city officials, including the