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Leasing building could save MTA $100M
msweeney@am-ny.comWhen they look at its nearly vacant building at Jay and Willoughby streets in Downtown Brooklyn, some critics of the MTA see an opportunity to help fund the cash-strapped agency. With another possible fare hike looming as the agency faces soaring...Tags: Transportation, Public Finance, David A. Paterson, Subway Transportation Industry, State Budgets
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Downtown's mainstay
Remember those dismissive jabs from New Yorkers about Los Angeles not having a downtown?
No more. Anyone who mentions rolled-up sidewalks has not walked Broadway on a weekend, when crowds and a mix of sounds and smells stir memories of Lower Manhattan or...Tags: Los Angeles, Theater, Broadway, New York, Music
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2 kayakers saved after capsizing in East River
deborah.morris@newsday.com, rocco.parascandola@newsday.comNew York Harbor Police plucked two kayakers from the East River Friday after they capsized near the Brooklyn Bridge installment of the New York City Waterfalls public art exhibit. Bert Rosenblatt, 36, of Brooklyn, was found clinging to the top of a half-...Tags: Police, New York, Brooklyn Bridge
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Naked man rescued from Hudson River
msweeney@am-ny.comA naked man clinging to a log was pulled from the Hudson River Monday afternoon, a fire department spokesman said. The man was spotted floating on the log between two piers near Harrison Street shortly before 3 p.m. An alert observer called 911 and a...Tags: Fires, New York
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Historic Brooklyn F Train stop to get facelift
msweeney@am-ny.comThe Art Deco F station at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Park Slope will soon be given an overdue facelift that includes a new copper roof and an aluminum panel exterior. Work on the station, which is among more than three dozen on the National...Tags: Coney Island, New York City Transit, Manhattan, Park Slope
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Protests in NYC Over the Sean Bell Verdict
andrew.strickler@newsday.comIn the most widespread show of dissent since the acquittal of three police officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell, protesters gathered Wednesday in "pray ins" at six locations in New York City. At shortly after 4:30 p.m., seven or eight people were...Tags: Law Enforcement, Herbert Daughtry, New York, NAACP, Injuries
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Preteens head for the hair salon
New York Times News ServiceNew York Times News Service Lexi James, 11, a 6th grader in Hope Mills, N.C., had been asking for a hair treatment, any hair treatment, ever since her older sister, now 13, first had her hair chemically straightened by her mother three years ago....Tags: Jamie Lynn Spears, Personal Service, Teen-agers, Government, New York Times
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Lawrence's 'Migration' settles in D.C. museum
Special to The SunIn 1941, 23-year-old Harlem-based artist Jacob Lawrence completed a haunting series of paintings depicting the mass migration of African-Americans that occurred between the two world wars when almost 1 million moved from the rural South to the...Tags: Langston Hughes, New York, Walker Evans, Lawrence, Minority Groups
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MTA shatters Fulton Street dome plan
MNaanes@am-ny.comThe complex that could have been like a downtown Grand Central Terminal just got a lot less grand. The glass dome building set to gloriously top the Fulton Street Transit Center might be replaced with merely a street-level plaza because of booming...Tags: Transportation, Grand Central Terminal, New York, Subway Transportation, Manhattan
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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: Armed Forces, Grand Central Terminal, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Madison Square Garden, Glenn Miller
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