Long Island

Jul
26
Valley Stream Livery Cab Driver Shot In East NY

Valley Stream Livery Cab Driver Shot In East NY

EAST NEW YORK – A 29-year-old livery cab driver from Long Island was shot dead early this morning in Brooklyn. At
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Jul
21
Meet The Mets? Islanders Thinking About Switching From Kings (County) And Heading To Queens

Meet The Mets? Islanders Thinking About Switching From Kings (County) And Heading To Queens

Casey Cizikas of the New York Islanders. (Photo via ny_islanders [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCSt4hkkwxU/?taken-by=ny_islanders&
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Jul
19
Gold Coast Bank Is Opening First NYC Branch In Fort Greene

Gold Coast Bank Is Opening First NYC Branch In Fort Greene

(Courtesy Instagram/Kmurrrs [https://www.instagram.com/p/BDNxCJuo0bc/])The Giovanni is starting to fashion its retail frontage, and Gold
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Oct
16
Flashback Friday: Tercentenary Parade At Grand Army Plaza

Flashback Friday: Tercentenary Parade At Grand Army Plaza

Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/tercentenary-parade-folder-iii-2]A very different kind of parade took place in 1936,
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Feb
02
Voice Your Opinion On The Cross Harbor Freight Program Tomorrow, February 3  1

Voice Your Opinion On The Cross Harbor Freight Program Tomorrow, February 3 1

Image via the Port Authority [http://www.panynj.gov/about/CHFP_draft_Tier_1_EIS/05_Transportation.pdf] Tomorrow, February
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Jul
23
Seven Story Condo/Commercial Building Coming To Waverly & Fulton

Seven Story Condo/Commercial Building Coming To Waverly & Fulton

Add this to the list of buildings going up on and around Fulton Street [/16/work-starts-at-535-classon-resumes-at-1035-fulton-following-stop-work-order-new-renderings-more-nearby/] –development firm Orange Management
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Apr
30

Our Buildings: The Broken Angel House

What makes a neighborhood? People, pets and the stories that make up our days. But we also have our buildings,
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Mar
13
#ThrowbackThursday: Set Fire to the Snow

#ThrowbackThursday: Set Fire to the Snow

A bonfire on Fulton Street under the elevated train melts snow after the Great Blizzard of 1888. (Photo by Adrian
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Nov
26

Attention Holiday Travelers: MTA Service Plans In Place For Four-Day Weekend

The beloved, old Penn Station. Source: Shorpy. Click to see a larger versionThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has let us
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Oct
01

The Day: Board Meetings, Books and Mayor Bloomberg Cuts a Ribbon

If you’ve got a book due back to the library, keep on reading. The Brooklyn Library’s Clinton Hill
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