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Prospect Heights is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Prospect Heights is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Recipe: Linguini with shitake mushrooms and Manchego cheese
Bryan Calvert, owner and chef of Brooklyn's James Restaurant believes that Umami is a mysterious fifth flavor that is nature's gift for the adventurous. He created this simple pasta dish to showcase umami with the sweet earthiness from the shitakes and... -
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: Tourism and Leisure, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Defense, Religious Leaders, Greenwich Village
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Retired subway cars make a splash
MNaanes@am-ny.comSeventeen-ton retirees, some 600 of them, will soon be living out their golden years on the Jersey Shore, where they will see plenty of scuba diving and fishing. They are part of more than 1,600 stainless-steel passenger and work-crew subway cars that...Tags: Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Subway Transportation, Retirement
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Guide to gifts for women
jgordon@am-ny.comGifts are all about fantasy -- giving and receiving items you'd never buy for yourself but would love to have. Sometimes it's because of cost, but often it's that nagging notion that you don't really "need" another sweater, pair of boots, hat or piece...Tags: Music, Theater, Flatbush, H&M, New York
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Celeb trainer: Cardio kills, weights rule
Special to amNewYorkThanks to Jim Karas, author of "The Cardio-Free Diet," you will never find me on a treadmill. Ever. To think, I can lose weight, keep it off, and even change my body composition without ever hitting a Stairmaster again. Karas, a celebrity trainer,...Tags: Diet, Eating Disorders, Defense, Physical Fitness, New York
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What's it like to drive a cab?
MNaanes@am-ny.comIt's hard out there for a hack. While controversial GPS technology has kept the plight of some taxi drivers in the news recently, the daily grind always takes a toll. Taxi drivers deal with noise, pollution, rude passengers and stress on a daily basis,...Tags: Society, Government Health Care, New York, Private Health Care, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Sylvia's diners pan Bill O'Reilly
dfreedlander@am-ny.comThe primary concern Wednesday in the bustling dining room of Sylvia's Queen of Soul Food in Harlem was about the heaping plates of Southern fried chicken and grits, baked ham and sweet potato pie. When diners peeled themselves away from their plates to...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Al Sharpton, Elections, Television, New York
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Kensington
Special to amNewYorkBrooklyn's Kensington neighborhood is only just being discovered. A small, quiet community sandwiched between more popular neighborhoods of Windsor Terrace and Prospect Heights, Kensington is one of the most diverse corners of New York. Residents include...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Sales, Fort Hamilton, Death and Dying, Theft
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Sources: Foxy slugged neighbor with Blackberry
rocco.parascandola@newsday.comAdd another chapter to Foxy Brown's legal woes -- the controversial rapper has been charged with slugging a neighbor in a dispute over loud music, police sources said Wednesday. Brown, 31, who is nearly deaf and wears a special hearing device, got into...Tags: Prosecution, Police, Foxy Brown, Crimes, East New York
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Students measure up
STAFF WRITERScore one for the city's fourth- and eighth-graders - again. State test results released yesterday showed that city students improved their math scores from a year ago, even after significant jumps in 2003. Also, fewer students performed at Level 1 - the...Tags: Ozone Park, Bayside (Queens, New York), Weeksville, Bushwick, New Lots
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Hitting the trails
The boroughs offer hundreds of miles of paths and trails for biking.
(Eventually it will have 550 miles of on-street pathways and more than 300 miles of off-street greenways and paths). Just make sure you wear a bike helmet, bright reflective clothing...Tags: Natural Resources, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Natural Science, Bodies of Water
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Just what does $1M buy in NYC?
Nelson Wang is a freelance writer.Peter Zdanowicz and his wife, Jane Barratt, arrived from Hong Kong with plans to buy your average Manhattan apartment - now approaching seven figures in price - and no illusions about how far $1 million would go. Still they remember one particularly...Tags: West Village, Park Slope, Jamaica Estates, Homes, Forest Hills Gardens
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