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Neighborhood Watch - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer

Neighborhood Watch - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer
Steven Bridge  |  by nymag.com. All rights reserved. 4.03 | 21:29

Astoria: The 121-year-old waterfront Sohmer Piano factory has been landmarked (despite the unlikely opposition of the community board) and will soon house 70 apartments. [ via ]
Dumbo: Residents sickened by the area s rampant condo-ization can now seek palliatives at a pharmacy coming to the first floor of the massive new J Condo. [ ]
Harlem: Call it luxury lockdown.

Jail turned condo 10 Mount Morris Park West is near-ready for its inmates mdash; uh, residents. [ ]
Manhattan: Blame the traffic congestion on free or cheap parking in the city. [ ]
Tribeca: Jewish alterna-singles to descend on the land of JFK Jr.

and Bubby s when Makor moves to Hudson and Canal this fall. [ via ]
Upper West Side: The revolution will come with a schmear of cream cheese mdash; when the area secedes from the city, that is. [ via ]
Not the raccoon in question.

Photo: istockphotos.com

Chelsea: When you buy into "the most coveted new address" in "New York City's most desired neighborhood," hot babes in fishnets await you on your couch. [ ]
East Harlem: Were you one of the two white thirtysomethings wearing scrubs who brought that injured raccoon to the 110th Street animal shelter Tuesday?

Well, you better call the Health Department, because that little mofo was rabid! [ ]
Prospect Heights: Those long-sought financials for the Atlantic Yards project are finally out. Now just try to understand them.

[ ]
Sunnyside Gardens: Residents want to turn the pretty area into a landmarked historic district, but their state senator opposes the idea. [ via Queens Gazette]*
Sunset Park: A high-rise threatens to obscure the view of Lady Liberty from one of the highest points in Brooklyn and residents are fuming about it. [ via ]
*Correction: An earlier version of this story suggested that Sunnyside Garden residents opposed the area's historic designation while their state senator supported it.

Also, the original item was found in the Queens Gazette, not the Queens Courier.
Brooklyn Heights: At St. Francis College last night, they were hootin' down plans to finance Brooklyn Bridge Park with luxury condos, restaurants, and office space on the 70-acre site.

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Harlem: You and poochie can make new friends this Saturday when you help move a big pile of wood chips at the soon-to-be-rehabbed St. Nicholas Park dog run. [ via ]
Lower Manhattan: Plans for Santiago Calatrava's much-hyped tower of "stackable" condo cubes for 80 South Street are reportedly "still alive.

" [ via ]
Midtown East: For whatever reason, the Rite Aid in Grand Central is selling cereal for $1.79 a box. Even the kind that usually costs $6.

Run, before the Cap'n Crunch is gone!. [ ]
Prospect Heights: Those "temporary" parking lots planned for Atlantic Yards already aren't very popular.

Could they actually last up to twenty years? [ ]
Soho: In a refreshing change of paint, uh, pace, the latest street-art defacing comes not from the hardworking Splasher, but from Katsu! [ via ]
Brooklyn Heights: Looks like the popular eatery Le Petit Marche (there's no "e" on Petit, people, it's masculin!

) is getting a fancy face-lift. [ ]
Fort Greene: The landmarks commish last month gave the nod to the Carlton Mews Project mdash; which, remarkably, everyone seems to love. [ ]
Harlem: Now that H H bagels are at Saurin Parke Caf it requires 24-hour police surveillance.

[ ]
Hell's Kitchen: After two pedestrians were killed and one injured by vehicles on Ninth Avenue, it's Manhattan's latest "Boulevard of Death." [ ]
Park Slope: You think all those Saabs and Volvos cruising Seventh Avenue are just out wildin'? Nah, they're looking for parking because, a new study finds, there isn't any.

[ ]
West Village: Longstanding and beloved bistro Florent, the last bohemian holdout of the newly flashy meatpacking district, is now taking credit cards. Sacre bleu! [ ]
Woodside: The upzoning of Queens Boulevard has led to ugly, cheap buildings too tall for the area.

[ ]
Carroll Gardens: If you want to work at the local beer garden, prepare to submit a self-promoting essay with your app. SATs optional. [ ]
Flatiron: Madison Square Park's mdash; home to those petite but perfect burgers mdash; reopens March 21.

Better start queuing up now. [ ]
Harlem: St. Nicholas and 135th is getting a Subway sub shop, plus the Frederick Douglass Furniture store.

What's next, Harriet Tubman Light Fixtures? [ ]
Hell's Kitchen: Rustic chic or red flag? Some balconies on an ugly mid-century high-rise have been propped up with timber la Swiss Family Robinson.

[ ]
Lower East Side: Residents seek revenge on Microsoft after the software maker blasted music from a promo SUV on Ludlow Street at 3 a.m. Sunday.

[ ]
Williamsburg: The street-art-defacing Splasher strikes again, this time in white, and seemingly with particular animus against artists Swoon and Faile. [ ]
Woodhaven: From parks to carousels to band shells, step back in time in this Queens burg. [ via ]
Coney Island: Chief circus freak lauds Bloomberg for saying that luxury high-rises don t fit Coney s future.

[ ]
Lower Manhattan: The Fulton Fish Market and Sharper Image were only the start of changes to South Street Seaport. Pier 17 s up next. [ ]
Springfield Gardens: Southeastern Queens residents take to the streets to blast overdevelopment, including homes made of foam?

[ via ]
West Village: Restaurateur Keith McNally joins the street protest over a massive billboard soon to dominate the meatpacking district. [ ]
Williamsburg: McCarren Pool will host nine free concerts this summer, complete with Slip 'n Slide and dodgeball pit. Pasty hipsters, bring sunblock.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: Whoever thought that a bar-hopping query would be so charged with race and class drama? [ ]
Clinton: Thanks to Renzo Piano's eco-swank Times tower, the legendarily scuzzy Port Authority district is now safe for top-line businesses. [ ]
Gowanus: Park Slopesters want the Whole Foods megastore coming to 3rd Street and Third Avenue to swap its planned rooftop parking deck for solar panels.

[ ]
Harlem: A new luxury condo from architects Feder Stia will soon cantilever boldly over the 116th Street mosque where Malcolm X once held court. [ via ]
Nolita: Sure, the billboard on Houston and Lafayette is for a clothing line, but what if "Come as you are" was the new neighborhood tagline? [ ]
Prospect Heights: Come vent!

Forest City Ratner, developer of Atlantic Yards, has opened a "community liaison" office. [ via ]
These chickens are not from Brooklyn, but could be soon!Photo: iStockphoto.

com

Battery Park: This funky glass carousel thingy could serve as a spot that links park visitors to the Coney Island aquarium via a ferry. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Why go to a food co-op or the farmers' market when you can raise chickens right behind your own brownstone? [ ]
East Village: A first peek inside (and through the windows of) the Bowery Hotel, where rooms start (for now) at $245.

[ via ]
Gowanus: Oh, boy! It's the four-part lecture on the history of the canal we've all been waiting for. [ ]
Morningside Heights: Columbia students use clever street art to strike back at their school's real-estate takeover of the area.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: Have you met Sydney, Hudson, Jenny BiBabe, and Dakota on MySpace? They're the new condos that want to be friends with you. [ ]
Clinton Hill: What the hell is this Legos-meets-Mondrian thing that s sprouted up on Reuben north of Myrtle?

[ ]
East Village: Apparently only the "big" L-stations get those train arrival-time signs. So much for Third Avenue. [ ]
Flatbush: Seems like this ain t the only Brooklyn hood the city has failed to provide with those free, .

[ via ]
Harlem: If only had stuck it out another month or so. She could have picked up H H bagels at the Saurin Park Caf . [ ]
Maspeth: A local weekly s coverage of the endangered St.

Saviour s has got readers accusing it of bias and conflicts of interest. [ ]
West Village: Sure, it s in a gorgeous Bing Bing building, has its own terrace, and was featured in a design mag. But (gulp) $2 million for a studio?

? [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Will a bank, national chain store, or real-estate office replace Bleach House, the Dickensiansly named, now-defunct launderette on Court Street? [ ]
Chinatown: Party like it's 4705!

That's right, the Chinese New Year kicked off this weekend. Welcome to the Year of the Pig. [ ]
Coney Island: The PR firm for development giant Thor Equities has released another homemade-looking "newsletter" about future Coney fun which yet again makes no mention of Thor's planned condo towers for the area.

[ ]
Greenpoint: From the looks of the floor plan, it seems like the Polish movie house turned Burger King at 910 Manhattan Avenue is due to become Greenpoint's first Starbucks. Rejoice or recoil? [ ]
West Village: When special people like Sarah Jessica Parker, Lucy Lawless, or Christine Quinn need to pick up a package, they do it at Something Special, a mailbox-rental place on Macdougal and Houston.

[ ]
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Does Head Over Heels Caf actually exist, or does it just have terrible business practices? [ ]
Chelsea: Mullen's Pub is gone, done in by rent increases. [ ]
Greenpoint: Give the neighborhood some T-shirt love, and show everyone how much you love the terminal market.

[ ]
Lower East Side: Monster Track 2007 starts at 3 p.m. at Sarah D.

Roosevelt Park; cheer on a slew of bikers without brakes. [ ]
Park Slope: Police warn Tea Loungers of nefarious terrorists who plot using the hangout's free wi-fi. [ ]
Richmond Hill: Residents are livid over plans to build low-income housing on land only recently revealed to be contaminated.

[ ]
Williamsburg: New moms rave about the midwife program at Woodhull Medical Center. They even liked the food! [ via ]
Bushwick: Christian anarchists squat with no heat, lights, or water.

Rent made it seem much more fun. [ ]
Chelsea: Atop David Barton Gym in the old 23rd Street YMCA building, the penthouse is still unoccupied, its price sagging from $7.4 to $7.

2 mil. [ ]
Greenwich Village: Who's that grinning from the toilet in the floor plan of this $645,000, on-the-market Fourth Avenue loft? Could it be Satan?

[ ]
Harlem: Talk about mighty Aphrodite. Yet another Aphrodite Cleaners is opening at 113th and Frederick Douglass, within blocks of three others. No wonder locals are calling the chain "the Starbucks of Harlem.

" [ ]
Park Slope: Book-industry thuggery? Adam's Books on Bergen Street has been reshingled Unnameable Books after owner Adam (duh) was visited by a violent goon who may or may not have been from the (slightly defensive?) Adams Book Company.

[ ]
Woodside: Hey, is that a new residence at 65th Place or with all that metal cladding, is it a live-in Brinks Truck? [ ]
Streamline your life with this tiny closet.Photo: Craigslist

Chelsea: Tourists find Hotel Chelsea to be old and shabby.

Well, yeah. [ via ]
Cobble Hill: Who says you can t go (to his) home again? Walk to Cobble Hill Park and peer into the dank basement flat that once housed young scribe Thomas Wolfe.

[ ]
Dumbo: Angry phone calls succeed in putting the temporary kibosh on improper asbestos removal at 205 Water Street. [ ]
East Village: Chic lofted living (right) can be yours for just $1,700 a month! Walk-in closet (for dwarves) included.

[ via ]
Gowanus: City enviro-honchos have released a cleanup plan for the parcel of toxic soup known as Public Place mdash; and locals will sound off on the parcel s future at a meeting on February 22. [ ]
Jackson Heights: Next Tuesday, get a free stack o flapjacks at the Northern Boulevard IHOP when you make a donation to a children s charity. [ ]
Dumbo: Vinegar Hill's new Vista condo seems nearly ready for prime time and it looks a helluva lot like fellow VH condo newbie the Nexus.

[ ]
Fort Greene: Uh, is that soon-to-open business in the old Blimpie's spot on Lafayette and South Elliott a chain bakery or a what? [ ]
Harlem: The Upper West Side's Animal General hospital wants to bring its pet-care services into Harlem but it needs to find 1,700 square feet there to do it. Plus, a new BBQ place comes to 145th Street!

[ and ]
Maspeth: Did the city and state deny St. Saviour's Church landmark status even when they knew there might be human remains on the site? So claims the hoppin'-mad Juniper Park Civic Association.

[ ]
Times Square: Less than three months after they first appeared, the shared-bike-lane markers (or "sharrows," as they're called) on Seventh Avenue are fading away. Bikers, beware! [ ]
Tribeca: Bikini basketball and naked dudes with puppies are just some of the lifestyle perks you can expect if you move (for $800,000 a studio) into Andr Balazs' forthcoming Kubla-condo Beaver House.

[ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Neighbors complain about the Clinton Street Barber Shop's ugly sign. But is it all that bad? [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Buon gusto!

After an extended close, the fave bakery Monteleone's is once again open for business. Get your cheesecake! [ ]
Cobble Hill: Postmodern luxury living comes to quaint Tiffany Place behold the sold-out Tiffany Tower.

[ ]
Coney Island: Cyclone views! Looks like the city may be edging toward a deal with megadeveloper Thor Equities to allow high-rise residential units in the famed amusement district. [ via ]
Harlem: Lots of smoke (and photos) but only minor injuries in the fire on Lenox and 116th.

[ ]
Lower East Side: Get a glimpse of the "urban salvage" aesthetic of the new Bowery Hotel. [ via ]
Williamsburg: It probably won't win any design awards, but the Northside Pier residential tower continues its climb into the sky, with workers pouring concrete for floor twenty this past weekend. [ ]
Fort Greene: Happy birthday, Tillie's!

The pioneering boho caf on DeKalb is marking its tenth anniversary with a month of events showcasing Brooklyn-based music, arts, and writing. [ ]
Harlem: Rumors are flying that the (refreshingly contextual) Gateway II condo project at 114th and Frederick Douglass may unravel, leaving early buyers in the lurch. [ via ]
Jamaica: The city's proposal to build up the Hillside Avenue commercial strip is causing a stir among local pols and residents.

[ via ]
Long Island City: If you come, they will build it: a better bike route over the 59th Street Bridge. The MTA wants your input on improved cycling in (and out) of Queens. [ ]
Prospect Heights: When the Atlantic Yards ndash;themed "Footprints" exhibition opens February 13 at the Brooklyn Public Library, one work mdash; depicting Ratner's project as a giant looming toilet bowl mdash; will not be on display.

Censorship? [ via ]
Red Hook: At the dangerous intersection of Van Brunt and Dikeman en route to the Fairway, a mysterious "traffic-stopper" sculpture was removed last weekend almost as soon as it appeared. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Even after the suspect of a bank robbery yesterday was shot by police and hauled into an ambulance, his iPod earbud never fell out of his left ear.

We can't wait for that to show up in an Apple commerical. [ ]
Chelsea: Community Board 4 voted down General Theological Seminar's plans to build a fifteen-story luxury condo building on its pretty Ninth Avenue property. [ ]
Fort Greene: Days before Mayor Bloomberg announces , John Martinez, 46, falls to his death working on the rising Forte Condo, reportedly due to a lack of precautions.

[ ]
Fresh Meadows: A mere $1.3 mil will get you this brand-new brick box on 185 Fifth Street. And the ire of neighbors whose driveway is cluttered with your leftover bricks.

[ ]
Midtown: Quick! Before the rates change. Book a room at the brand-new, boutique-y Hotel 373 on Fifth and 35th starting at $134 a night.

[ ]
Red Hook: Archeologists are overseeing Ikea's construction at Graving Dock No. 2 on Beard Street. They haven't made it over to Graving Dock No.

1, which Ikea is filling in to use as a parking lot. [ ]
*Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Bill Moyers had protested luxury condos at General Theological Seminary. He actually high-rise construction on the Upper West Side.


Coney Island: The eviction of the boardwalk's beloved Lola Staar boutique is making mom-and-pops shake even those friendly to megadeveloper Thor. [ ]
Dumbo: The local improvement district wants you to help convince the MTA that there should be a better bus route through Dumbo! [ ]
Greenpoint: On her regular walk to photograph the local street turd, Newyorkshitty's Miss Heather discovers an ice-cream shop coming to 97 Commercial Street.

[ ]
Lower East Side: The Splasher, that anonymous defacer of street art, strikes again, this time all over beloved images on Ludlow Street. [ ]
Upper West Side: What's up with the old Metro Theater on 99th and Broadway? The vintage marquee is intact, but it reads "Store for Rent," and construction vehicles have been hauling away debris.

[ ]
Williamsburg: The MTA fan plant on North 7th, which usually only rumbles loudly to life for a few hours at night, has been wheezing for several days on end. What mysteries lie within? [ ]
Astoria: More and more folks are discovering the quiet charms of Hallets Cove, the East River tributary just a short walk from Vernon Boulevard.

[ via ]
City Hall: Ever wanted to know what the old City Hall subway station looked like? Prettier than most others. And that's why it's closed.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: Looks like the raccoons that have been plaguing outer Queens are now encroaching on Kings County, too. At least they're not buying up all the brownstones. [ ]
Dumbo: Avant-tots, rejoice!

A bunch of "old German hippies" will design a super-cool playground for the southern end of the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park. [ ]
Inwood: The kids are climbing the walls at Intermediate School 52! Or is it just a really cool artist-student collaboration?

[ via ]
Sunset Park: Locals force a stop-work order at 420 42nd Street, a site whose plans were "self-certified" by the twelve-story tower's architect. But will it last? [ ]
Mothers stroll with their children.

Photo: istockphoto.com

Bensonhurst: Beware the black mayonnaise! Dredging under Gravesend Bay for a new waste-transfer facility may unearth toxic gunk that could poison the waters off Southern Brooklyn.

[ ]
Greenpoint: Creating a Moscow on Newtown Creek look, those sleek, new onion domes on the area s northern edge are actually tanks for part of a high-tech new wastewater treatment facility. [ ]
Greenwich Village: The West 12th Street townhouse that Meryl Streep sold to Johnson Johnson heiress Libet Johnson last year for $9.1 million is back on the market for the audacious asking price of $15.

9M. [ ]
Park Slope: Even Barnes Noble employees (with kids, anyway) are bitching about new stroller rules at the bookseller s scene-y Slope branch. What s next?

No sippy cups at the Co-op? [ ]
Red Hook: Will it be new piers or plush condos for the Red Hook waterfront? Locals applaud remarks from the new Port Authority czar suggesting the former.

[ via ]
Springfield Gardens: Hey, wait a minute ...

why does this new, supposedly two-family home in Queens have six doors? Neighbors want to know. [ via ]
Upper East Side: Take advantage of First Fridays more efficiently by knowing where the coat check is and going to the bathroom before you leave the house.

[ ]
Astoria: Got some genius idea for something fun to do in the waterfront park? Don't hold your breath for a MacArthur but apply for one of these mini-grants to bring your brainstorm to life. [ ]
Bay Ridge: Looks like knowing the future really confers the business edge: These days, fortune-tellers are the only storefronts hanging in there.

[ ]
Bedford-Stuyvesant: An entrepreneur's poll of what new businesses are needed has unleashed a flood of pleas for nice groceries and wi-fi enabled caf s. What new digs would you like to see in Bed-Stuy? [ via ]
Crown Heights: Gentrification chatter!

Everybody's buzzing that Starbucks and Washington Mutual are poised to supplant fried-chicken joints on gritty Eastern Parkway. [ ]
Dumbo: Not in my light-industrial backyard! Locals pressure city to landmark the area before old brick is dwarfed by shiny new glass towers.

[ ]
Harlem: Hancock Place Apartments are under construction, and 44 rental units will be for households making at or below 60 percent of the area's median income. So that's, at most, $37,680 for a family of four. [ ]
Upper East Side: Pauper literati, get your asses over to that used bookstore on Lex between East 89th and 90th Streets.

They're closing, and last night they had tables groaning with free books! [ ]
Red Hook: The shady demolition of the Revere Sugar Factory is making the neighbors furious. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Want a Mexican restaurant?

It's yours for only $389,000. [ ]
Chinatown: Some major street changes are in place, including a buffered bike lane on Grand Street, making it safer to eat sticky pork buns while cycling. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Looks like the topiary-stealing first reported two weeks ago by continues.

Who's the sticky-fingered horticulturalist? [ ]
South Slope: Developer Gregory Rigas has been quietly been buying up mdash; and not so quietly demolishing mdash; mucho property on Fourth Avenue between Prospect Avenue and 16th Street. [ ]
Upper West Side: Bill Moyers leads a pack of angry rich people against the New-York Historical Society's plan for a high-rise condo off Central Park West and 76th Street.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: Lots of abandoned homes up for sale mdash;for first-time homebuyers, that is, not folks looking to trade their tiny co-op for a spacious fixer-upper. [ ]
Harlem: That empty lot at 1405 Fifth Avenue will soon be low- and middle-income housing. [ ]
Prospect Heights: Turns out there are still five privately owned acres smack in the path of Atlantic Yards.

[ ]
Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Would expanding the historic district help prevent new development eyesores? [ ]
West Village: Which fashion label will grace the N.J.

Turnpike size billboard being affixed to the Gansevoort Hotel? [ ]
Williamsburg: Catch the last show at Northsix before the space closes to magically transform into the Music Hall of Williamsburg. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Our compelling bocce coverage continues!

Brigate Bocce almost beat the Old Dirty Barristers in the opening week of 's winter bocce league, but then they didn't. [ ]
Chelsea: Apparently unable to save his landmark mural Venus from being blocked by an imminent condo tower, artist Knox Martin will now save whales with a new mural downtown. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Bank of America is throwing a grand-opening party to convince you that it's just like all the other homegrown, mom-and-pop storefronts on Myrtle Avenue.

[ ]
East Harlem: Attention, "Sophiscated [sic] Bohemians"! Prudential Douglas Elliman has a brand-new luxury tower that captures the "soul and lifestyle" of "the 'New' East Harlem." [ ]
South Slope: The illegal demolition at 574 Fourth Avenue continues, according to the Concerned (and video-enabled) Citizens of Greenwood Heights.

[ ]
Tribeca: Could entrenched Tribecans actually not want newbies flooding into all those rising new towers? The residents of 49 Vestry suggest as much. [ ]
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Who's this mysterious "Michael," whose handwritten notes left on doorsteps offer to pay for Brooklyn homes in cash?

[ ]
Carroll Gardens: Is the sky falling? Nah, it's just corrugated steel from a condo conversion crashing down near neighbors' windows. [ ]
Chelsea: On the 23rd Street strip that once hosted New York's flagship Krispy Kreme, the newish Burgers Cupcakes complete with giant, spinning cupcake draws mixed nabe reviews.

[ via ]
Chelsea: Will landmark 1971 Knox Martin mural Venus be eclipsed by a sleek new Jean Nouvel condo tower? [ ]
Clinton Hill: Is Pratt planning to destroy these beautiful, boarded-up townhouses on Willoughby Street? [ ]
Prospect Heights: With stakes raised by Sunday Times coverage, the backlash against the street art ndash;defacing "Splasher" intensifies.

[ ]
Red Hook: There are good places to eat in a neighborhood that's "not just for crackheads anymore." [ via ]
Brooklyn Heights: Local resident and restaurant owner Gianluca Martorelli launches mag and Website compiling area s eateries. [ via ]
Chelsea: Della Valle Bernheimer s futuristically fabulous High Line snuggling 245 Tenth Avenue development is ready for takers, complete with snazzy Website.

[ via ]
Coney Island: New mailers going out to residents talk up the "future of Coney Island" but neglect to mention high rises or Thor Equities. [ ]
Midtown: Are Mickey and pals staging an offensive old-time minstrel show atop the Disney Store entrance or do they just need a scrubbing? [ ]
Park Slope: Let there be light!

Half a mil earmarked so that everything is (better) illuminated at Grand Army Plaza. [ ]
Times Square: Hotel Carter and New York Inn, two of the cheapest stays in the city, also among Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels in the country. Old Times Square lives!

[ via ]
Kanye West's new apartment. Photo: dezeen

Brooklyn Heights: It's either a yoga center with an aggressive marketing plan or a cult. You decide.

[ ]
Gowanus: Demolition starts on land owned by the Toll Brothers. What happened to that mixed-use development? [ via ]
Greenpoint: Why should bodega phone cards be dull when they could be completely offensive?

[ via ]
Midtown: Kanye West's new apartment (above), designed by Claudio Silvestrin, is beautiful. But where's the master bath? [ via ]
Nolita: Sheetrock shipment arrives at 11 Spring Street.

Just in time to cover up all that nasty interior artwork so the place can go condo. [ ]
Sunset Park: Expect a major ruckus as this pretty nabe of three-story homes wakes up to a new ten-story, view-wrecking, context-snubbing leviathan. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Attention all potential butchers, bakers, and, um, ice-cream makers: Some folks want to help you open the Myrtle Avenue shop of your (and their) dreams.

[ ]
Dumbo: Sounds like there's some improper asbestos removal going on amid the demolition of a nineteenth-century warehouse at 205 Water Street. Councilman Yassky, are you listening? [ ]
Greenpoint: Mm-mm-mm!

Who'll be the lucky new owner of this old gem (complete with mucho parking space) at 155 Freeman Street? [ ]
Park Slope: Willie lives! Dearly departed black lab of longtime Slope couple becomes namesake for their soon-to-open Fifth Avenue hot-doggery.

[ ]
Times Square: You'll never again have to go to this tourist-infested zone to ogle the semiotics of the latter-day free market. This blogger shot every ad in Times Square! [ via ]
Upper East Side: Yearning for nights at the sorority house?

Move up here. [ ]
Williamsburg: A price may soon be put on the head of "The Splasher," who leaves behind pseudo-intellectual manifestos to explain his (her?) destruction of street art.

[ ]
Bed-Stuy: Ungainly-Monster-Sandwich Alert: Five-story Karl Fischer rises like bully behemoth between two tiny lil houses on Monroe Street. [ ]
Crown Heights: CHers are already sotto voce ing about the imminent opening of Secrets, a West Indian cum American eatery and bar on Nostrand Avenue. [ via ]
Greenpoint: You didn't ask for it, but here it is a geostatistical breakdown of dog droppings on and around DuPont Street.

And it looks like the area behind the Dupont Street Senior Center is, uh, the Hot Zone. [ ]
Harlem: Luxury on high, God down below: A planned tower for Fifth Avenue at 120th Street will have a church on the first four floors and both affordable and market-rate residential units on the 26 stories above. [ ]
Red Hook: Ahoy, ye geeks!

PortSide New York's maritime mascot is in dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Follow every moment on the boat's new blog. [ via ]
Williamsburg: Realtor's second "Homebuying for Hipsters" seminar tomorrow night elicits equal parts grudging appreciation and repulsed cringes from "hipsters" in question.

[ ]
A new fitness center for Coney Island's beach.Photo: Kinetic Carnival
Carroll Gardens: Starting in February, you can find Smith and Vine at its new location, 268 Smith Street. [ ]
Chelsea: How should the lovely General Theological Seminary develop its property at 175 Ninth Avenue?

Comment at the community-board meeting tonight. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Want to open a wine shop? Cheese shop?

Coffee shop? Bookshop? There's some retail space available on Greene Avenue.

[ ]
Coney Island: It's nice to see new stuff on the beach (above), but why is it always fitness related? [ ]
Union Square: It doesn't matter that she can't really sing. When Neysa belts out old Madonna songs on the L-train platform, people bob their heads and smile.

[ ]
Williamsburg: Hipster music mecca McCarren Pool among roster of city pools to be considered next week at public hearing for landmark status. Beirut and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, step up and testify! [ ]
Chelsea: Biker bar Red Rock West mdash; a loud, white-trash holdout in an overprecious art zone mdash; was seized for nonpayment of taxes.

[ via ]
Dumbo: Everything you wanted to know and much more about the refurb of the Jane's Carousel, a nabe icon. [ ]
Greenwich Village: White powder once again found near nose of towering British supermodel on Houston Street. [ ]
Jamaica: City officials want to rezone parts of the Queens neighborhood to attract investment; locals say it's too crowded already.

[ via ]
Lower East Side: Libation, among first joints to bring yuppies and Eurotrash to Ludlow Street, to close, with $5.5 mil asking price for building. [ ]
Lower Manhattan: It's like Stonehenge, sort of: A 50-foot-tall, floating, lime green M M Statue of Liberty aligned with real statue this morning.

[ ]
Park Slope: "You hate me, you really hate me!" Atlantic Yards starchitect Frank Gehry inverts Sally Field shtick in volley with a protester. [ ]
Dumbo: Those three empty townhouses on Old Fulton Street between Water and Front Streets are finally on the block for $7.

5 million. [ ]
Gowanus: Sulfur and cyanide and SVOC s mdash; oh, my! New plan catalogs the nasty goop that lies beneath the nabe.

[ ]
Greenpoint: Borscht meets bling at the Polish hip-hop festival Friday. [ ]
Midtown: The Bryant Park skating rink is closing and just as it gets cold! but there are still other places you can take your skates.

[ ]
Park Slope: Writer Adarro Minton hits the identity-politics jackpot with story collection Gay, Black, Crippled, Fat. He reads from it tonight at the Old Stone House. [ ]
West Village: 2086: A Beer Odyssey.

The Bedford Street building housing Chumley's is up for sale, but the venerable pub's lease lasts nearly another 80 years. [ ]
Williamsburg: It's a shonda: Built-in-a-fortnight shul just stands there buck naked. [ ]
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Fledgling Bed-Stuy Bushwick landlord launches (highly f**ckin' profane) blog.

[ via ]
Dumbo: Just in time for coldest winter week thus far, the barge swimming pool due to open this summer is spotted on Pier 2. [ ]
Flushing: Butt-ugly new housing flushes Queens nabe's charm right down the toilet. [ via ]
Lower East Side: Whole Foods makes its workers gather petition signatures to get permission for a liquor store next door to its imminent new Bowery branch.

[ ]
Park Slope: There's finally a name for the no-man's-land at the juncture of Park Slope, Red Hook, and Carroll Gardens at the F train's Smith-9th stop. It's the Notary District! [ ]
Upper East Side: Landmarks committee to Sir Norman and Aby Rosen: Take that 30-foot glass tower off that art gallery!

[ ]
Clinton Hill: The son of the owners of the Broken Angel home says new developers will help keep his parents' vision intact mdash; and add an arts center on the lot next door! [ and ]
Midtown: Catch media artist film Sleepwalkers (with Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton, no less) on MoMA's walls tonight. [ ]
Park Slope: High-tech activists in Greenwood have started filming potentially illegal demolitions and posting them on YouTube.

[ ]
Upper West Side: Amid a Ben Stiller inspired frenzy, sleepover nights at the Museum of Natural History are sold out through summer except girls' night on April 28. Come on, girls, embrace your inner geek! [ ]
Williamsburg: Former Lower East Side hipster stalwart Luna Lounge resurrects itself on Metropolitan Avenue.

[ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Who's that portly older gent who snaps at folks when they step around his little bichon? [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Video stores (above) are dropping like flies mdash; or repurposing to stay alive. [ ]
Clinton Hill:The nabe's Myrtle Avenue gets its own event-listing blog, marking edgy, can't-miss moments like a Bank of America opening.

[ via ]
East Village: Luxury-tower sales offices face off on lower Broadway. [ ]
Park Slope: Slopers worry that old-school sports bar Snooky's may be history. [ ]
Williamsburg: Former Old Dutch Mustard building owner makes nostalgic site visit.

[ ]
Brooklyn Heights: A restaurant owner accuses his former partner of anti-Semitism. Their restaurant was Kosher. Rim shot!

[ ]
Hell's Kitchen: Conjure your inner urban planner on Saturday afternoon by suggesting new designs for too-busy intersections. [ ]
Midtown East: Gotham Book Mart has gone fishing for good. Now it's for sale.

[ ]
West Chelsea: Call your dealer! Sol and Crobar will reopen this weekend. [ ]
Williamsburg: The four condo towers of "The Edge" will start construction in February.

If you weren't already sure it's , it is. [ via ]
Boerum Hill: A construction project gives the whole area the DTs. [ ]
Chelsea: The area's highest building is going up on Sixth Avenue.

Expect to buy condos there in 2008. [ ]
Dumbo: J Condo invites local artists to submit work to be shown in the building. [ via ]
Greenpoint: Tenants, get stoked!

There's a vigil tonight against landlord harassment at 6:30 at 202 Franklin Street, near Huron Street. [ ]
Park Slope: Are families on the outs? Two new condos have mostly studios and one-bedrooms.

[ ]
Chelsea: Time to rally against the demolition of the Hotel Pennsylvania. [ ]
Crown Heights: The Empire Rolling Rink will have to go if Costco takes over the block. [ ]
East Village: Chase bank is taking over the 2nd Avenue Deli's old spot.

You knew it would be a bank. [ ]
Fort Greene: As an extra inconvenience for anyone with a job, the Pratt post office on Myrtle Avenue doesn't open till 9:30. [ ]
Harlem: The spreads north; blogger moves following unpleasant run-in with crazy guy.

[ ]
Park Slope: The Park Slope Armory should be a community center by September, with athletic and recreational facilities. [ ]
Chelsea: Serena's out and Star Lounge is in underneath the Chelsea Hotel. Owner Charles Ferri promises a more "elitist crowd.

" Sounds fun! [ ]
Fort Greene: Liquors restaurant isn't reopening in the spring, or ever. [ ]
Midtown East: On a date but haven't sealed the deal?

Wow her with a late-night trip to the Empire State Building. [ ]
Prospect Heights: Warm weather rouses mosquitoes. Do they spray for West Nile Virus in January?

[ via ]
Soho: Donald Trump will love the new Department of Sanitation garage on Spring Street and West Street. [ ]
Williamsburg: The new, unnamed space on North 6th Street and Wythe will have a media lounge in the storefront and a performance space out back. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: The Heights Players are doing Gemini, sadly without Danny Aiello and Kathleen Turner.

[ ]
Dumbo: ModernTots furniture store is that latest example of family infestation. Is no part of Brooklyn safe? [ ]
East Village: Liz Christy Garden, the city's oldest community plot, has reopened to the public with a new lush look.

[ ]
Park Slope: Don't worry, Blue Apron Foods will reopen in a couple of weeks as Grab. [ ]
Red Hook: The Revere Sugar Plant might come down but not without a fight from the rats. [ ]
Times Square: Come spring, our tour buses will no longer feel inferior to Boston's duck boats.

Thanks, New York Splash Tours! [ ]
Williamsburg: Spelling bee tonight at Pete's Candy Store made more palatable by being a benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Barely.

[ ]
Brooklyn Heights: The mysterious sign maker who guided visitors to the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway has outed herself. Thanks, Roslyn Beck. [ ]
East Village: When Jane Jacobs and New Urbanism collide, you get New Yorbanism and buildings like "Sculpture for Living" at Astor Place.

[ via ]
Gowanus: Once the Whole Foods opens, expect 1,000 people a day to show up at Third Avenue and 3rd Street. [ ]
Greenwood Heights: If you're a developer missing some permits, the Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights are gonna getcha. [ via ]
Harlem: Food from the meat truck on 132nd and Lenox may be a little too authentic for city dwellers, unless you want your apartment to smell like a barn.

[ ]
Park Slope: The campaign begins to get writers crime victims Doug and Barbara Rushkoff to stay in Brooklyn. [ via ]
188 Suffolk St. gets a good wash.

Photo: Trevor Little
Brooklyn Heights: Fishs Eddy is closing, but not until they sell everything in the store for 75 percent off. [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Brooklyn Yoga canceled its early-morning class. Where else to do the cobbler's pose at dawn?

[ ]
Far Rockaway: Next time your cell phone dies at JFK, charge it in the terminal and thank Samsung. [ ]
Flatiron: Crayola-makers Binney and Smith have left the city for good. [ via ]
Lower East Side: It's amazing what a little power washing can do.

[ via ]
Prospect Lefferts Gardens: What does rent control look like? Photos of Patio Gardens. [ via ]
The Bronx: It's about time for a Web video series about bodegas.

[ via ]
Carroll Gardens: Renaissance Pharmacy closed over the weekend, leaving you with few options that don't rhyme with CVS. [ ]
Fort Greene: Take your Christmas tree to Fort Greene Park this week and go home with a bag of mulch. (BYO bag.

) [ ]
Gowanus: Wannabe scared off by a few toxic fumes. Bah! [ ]
Park Slope: The Rushkoffs are leaving?

Will the Jonathans flee the neighborhood next? [ via ]
Prospect Heights: What's the best way to get home from JFK? It might just be the Air Train.

[ via ]
Long Island City: Use this photo map to see what the area looks like without actually having to ride the 7 Train. [ via ]
Manhattan: Appeal to your inner agoraphobic in 2007 and observe the city with these 50 Webcams. [ ]
Park Slope: We're the fourth-best eco-neighborhood in the country.

Take that, Chicago. [ via ]
Prospect Heights: Brooklyn Heights can have bocce. After all, we have dioramas!

[ ]
Upper East Side: Prospect Heights isn't regressing far enough. We've upped the stakes with dodgeball. [ ]
Williamsburg: Celebrate the new year by falling into a sinkhole on North 11th Street.

[ ]
Brooklyn Heights: Within a year, there will be clear signage for the Brooklyn Bridge footpath. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Does actor Daniel London actually live here, or are we just spreading rumors? [ ]
Gowanus: The toxic plume that started here is now gentrifying Park Slope.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: Bruce Ratner is watching you with 29 CCTV cameras. [ ]
This door at the Hotel Chelsea may soon be black. Photo: Hotel Chelsea Blog
Bay Ridge: At least someone is happy about Atlantic Yards.

[ ]
Chelsea: The doors of the Chelsea Hotel (right) are slowly changing into a boring black. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Chicken and waffles comes to the neighborhood, but the fries aren't so good. [ ]
Dumbo: Reject the Swedes and shop at BoConcept, the Danish furniture store opening at 79 Front Street on Friday.

[ ]
Gowanus: The Empty Vessel Project sells the boat for a buck; new owners want "alternative weddings." [ ]
Midtown West: In case you're new, beat out the Amtrak amateurs at Penn Station by looking for your track listing on the monitors downstairs. [ via ]
Williamsburg: Rumor has it that Galapagos might close soon, too.

[ ]
The first of 3,300 new bus shelters.Photo: Curbed
Brooklyn: What was your worst meal in the borough this year? Complain away!

[ ]
Chelsea: Trying to catch the east-bound crosstown bus at 23rd and Fifth? Well, you can't anymore. [ via ]
Clinton Hill: How did that hideous building get on Lefferts Place?

[ ]
Dumbo: Coming soon to Jay Street: a much-needed, independent pharmacy. [ ]
Gowanus: Looking for as few windows as possible and a dreary concrete fa ade? There's a new building on Bond Street just for you.

[ ]
Kew Gardens: The first new bus shelter (above) was unveiled yesterday, about six months after it was conceived. Bureaucracy rules! [ via ]
I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar.

Photo: I Heart Brooklyn Girls
#8226 Brooklyn:Get the borough man in your life a Brooklyn Girls calendar (right). But only if he likes white girls. [ via ]
#8226 Chelsea: The Limelight is resurrected as retail space.

So instead of a "drug supermarket," it will just be an actual market. [ ]
#8226 Clinton Hill: Find all the bars, restaurants, and stores on this new neighborhood map. [ ]
#8226 Coney Island: Will Big Apple Circus get a permanent performance space on the boardwalk?

[ via ]
#8226 Fort Greene: If the weekend's "Merry Gridlock" event protesting Atlantic Yards is any indication of the traffic from Atlantic Yards, we're screwed. Good thing the vote is delayed till next year. [ ]
#8226 Williamsburg: Ride your bike to the Bedford Avenue L station.

With wider sidewalks and new bike racks, there will be plenty of room. [ ]
Jace Mural at Houston and Bowery.Photo: Razor Apple
Brooklyn Heights: We promised an update: Boccelism beat the Old Dirty Barristers to be champeens of the Bocce League fall season.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: It seems the Pratt Area Community Council believes residents want an Applebee's on the corner of Clinton and Fulton. Eatin' bad in the neighborhood! [ ]
Gowanus: Looking for the World War II rescue boat known as the Empty Vessel Project?

Now it's moored between the Carroll Street and Union Street bridges. [ ]
Lower East Side: If you missed the show at 11 Spring Street, there's still a Jace mural (above) at Houston and Bowery. [ ]
Midtown: It's Santacon!

And if a pack of Santas storming Times Square, Central Park, and the subway don't put you in a festive mood, nothing will. [ ]
West Village: Shopsin's shutters, but look for a smaller, less stressful booth in the Essex Street Market in a few months. [ ]
Williamsburg: Things got a little stabby at Kellogg's Diner over the weekend.

[ ]
In Greenpoint, the decorations match the neighborhood.Photo: New York Shitty
Canarsie: Home of the new Canarsie History Museum! [ ]
Greenpoint: Christmas decorations, 'Point-style (right).

You should have seen the cr che. [ ]
Park Slope: Need another reason to mock the Slope? Festivus Party.

Go. [ ]
Red Hook: The waterfront tries on the nuclear-wasteland look. Strictly temporarily, of course.

[ ]
Union Square: A resounding "no" to a seasonal (in the Shake Shack sense, not the Per Se sense) restaurant. [ ]
What 11 Spring Street looked like yesterday.Photo: Gothamist
Brooklyn Heights: Join a pack of revelers on Saturday night and carol around the neighborhood.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: All this time we had our very own Boiler Room? [ via ]
Crown Heights: Seen all that New York has to offer? Then it's time for a Hasidic walking tour.

[ ]
Dumbo: Foragers Market is hosting a holiday party. With everything 10 percent off, maybe you can afford to shop there. Oh, and free champagne.

[ ]
Nolita: Visit 11 Spring Street this weekend for a last look at the graffiti before it goes condo. [ ]
Red Hook: Plans to redevelop the waterfront inspire an afternoon protest. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: A pedestrian was killed this morning on Henry Street near Montague.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: This holiday season, help Todd Lester save an endangered artist. [ ]
Greenpoint: If you start thanking government officials for efficient service, Marty Markowitz may call your house. So be careful.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: Tip your cabbie at least $3 if coming home from Manhattan. [ ]
Prospect Lefferts Garden: According to CompStat, this place isn't nearly as deadly as Brooklyn blog readers seem to think it is. [ ]
Upper East Side: What's the best sports bar for the football novice?

[ ]
Chelsea: See NYC-themed gingerbread creations (CBGB, Empire State Building) at Chelsea Market. [ ]
Clinton Hill: No. 70 Lefferts Place was designated today by the Landmark Preservation Commission.

Hooray! [ ]
Dumbo: Hey D.J.

's, there's a holiday sale at Halcyon on Wednesday. For everyone else: free beer! [ ]
Long Island City: Cops love it when artists put up unauthorized installations.

No, really, they do. [ via ]
Park Slope: What's with all the yellow signs that say "Sit Here"? More public art?

[ ]
Red Hook: No need to be jealous of Long Island City. You can have your own fake beach. [ ]
The closed stacks of the New York Public Library.

Photo: NewYorkology
Astoria: Shooting on location is On 31st Street, coming soon to Greek TV. [ via ]
Brooklyn Heights: Brigate Bocce got the boot in the first round of the New York Fall Bocce Playoffs. We'll keep you updated.

[ ]
Chelsea: Burgers Cupcakes waits till after dark to erect a new awning on its 23rd Street location. [ ]
Fort Greene: Are hedge-fund managers actually invading, or is that a real-estate urban legend? [ ]
Harlem: New condo buildings bring with them new dry cleaners.

[ ]
Midtown: Inside the closed stacks (right) of the New York Public Library. [ ]
Red Hook: The Revere Sugar factory is going down, but slowly at first. [ ]
Boerum Hill: Atlantic Yards' next sin?

Illuminated billboards that are fifteen stories tall. [ ]
Chelsea: The High Line might not make it north of 30th Street after all. [ ]
Park Slope: Park Slope Towers is really a dorm, not a condo building.

[ ]
Upper East Side: Meet the Gael Pub Quizmaster, David Jacobson. [ ]
West Village: On Saturday, join the memorial ride for Eric Ng, a 22-year-old bicyclist who was killed December 1 by a drunk driver on the West Side bike path. [ ]
Williamsburg: Parks Department placates angry residents by promising to diversify McCarren Park Pool concerts with Colombian and Polish music.

[ via ]
Chelsea: The Hotel Chelsea gets festive in the lobby. Or at least more so than the Allerton. [ ]
Coney Island: So which is worse, Thor Equities or Forest City Ratner?

[ ]
Flatbush: With Yvette Clarke on her way to Washington, the fiasco to fill her City Council seat begins. [ ]
Flatiron: No more feeling inferior to every other area of Manhattan with an H M. But we'll miss Daffy's.

[ ]
Park Slope: This place has questionable Christmas trees, at best. [ via ]
Sunset Park: How long will one man's fight against litter last? [ via ]
Christmas lights in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Photo: DumboNYC
Bushwick: Goodbye, Enequist Chemical Factory. We look forward to breathing your toxic dust long into the future. [ ] Dumbo: Marty Markowitz turns on the first borough-sanctioned light display (above) in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

[ ] Greenpoint: Cautionary note: Don't ask a blogger to feed your cat while you're away. You just might find pictures of your filthy apartment online, with commentary. [ ] Long Island City: Condo construction displaces more artists, but at least now there's a ceramics sale.

[ ] Tribeca: Buster's Garage appeals to the liquor control board by talking up the bitchin' $10 happy hour. [ via ] Dumbo: Biking across the bridge is like pedaling through a field of wildflowers. With ice at the bottom.

[ ]
Clinton Hill: Brand new townhouses ditch stoops for Rocky steps. [ ]
Prospect Heights: Is the neighborhood so hot that houses are suddenly appearing on the market without the owner's knowledge? [ via ]
Staten Island: A walk through Richmond Terrace, from the ferry to the bar.

[ ]
West Village: NYU students learn to live like real New Yorkers, with mice. [ ]
Astoria: You've hung out in Astoria Park. Now help take care of it.

[ ]
Chelsea: What are they building in there? Find out at public forums tonight and Thursday on neighborhood redevelopment plans. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Still looking for a scotch pine, but there are plenty of places to get a tree.

[ ]
Flatiron: Farewell, Shake Shack. We can't wait to eat you again. [ ]
Lower East Side: Experience the awfulness of the hipster gym and work out at Ludlow Fitness.

[ ]
Park Slope: A shopping guide to Fifth and Seventh Avenues gives you one less reason to visit Manhattan. [ ]
Wall Street: Rich? Rushed?

Get to Newark airport in eight minutes for only $159. [ ]
Morrisania: A century ago, South Bronx firefighters had it easy. [ ]
Prospect Heights: City takes steps to prevent tenants from moving into Robert Scarano's crappy buildings.

[ ]
Sunset Park: Mom from Park Slope beat neighborhood roosters, no question. [ ]
Upper West Side: What's the point of living here if you don't enjoy the CNN-obstructed view? [ ]
Clinton Hill: Living in a storefront means big windows and your very own pull-down gate.

[ ]
Dyker Heights: You've never heard of this neighborhood, but you've gotta see the Christmas lights. [ ]
Harlem: Finally, white people have a place to turn for answers about neighborhood real estate. [ ]
Park Slope: Mail carriers no longer making it to the top of brownstone steps; issues of McSweeney's lost to the elements.

[ ]
Boerum Hill: There are twelve units left in the Smith; expect a fancy grocery store in the retail space. Will that make up for jailhouse views? [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Schnack heard the screams for highly processed flour and answered: White buns are back.

[ ]
Chelsea: A Jaguar ad plastered to the old McBurney Y makes us yearn for the days when the neighborhood's billboards were all PSAs. [ ]
Coney Island: With the sell-off of Astroland, New York's favorite crappy beach might be the new Atlantic Yards. [ ]
Midtown: When you see Christopher Meloni at the gym, do you think SVU or Oz?

[ ]
Sunset Park: Neighborhood tree lighting conveniently scheduled for a time when no one can go. [ ]
Brooklyn: Do all your holiday shopping in the borough. [ ]
Dumbo: Water Taxi service starts from Fulton Ferry; ride to Wall Street for $2 for a limited time.

[ ]
Greenpoint: Just off Manhattan Avenue, someone made art out of used Air Jordans. [ ]
Cobble Hill: Commuters continue to dump garbage in broken trash can. [ ]
Upper East Side: Did you miss Stephin Merritt at the 92nd Street Y?

Pop in "69 Love Songs" and read what he said. [ ]
Brooklyn Heights: A tree may grow here, but apparently grass doesn't. [ via ]
East Village: Cooper Union students respond to impending demolition of the Hewitt building with apropos typeface.

[ ]
Kensington: Don't be jealous of South Slope. There are plenty of permit-less contractors for everyone. [ ]
Maspeth: It's not like you forgot about this neighborhood.

You had no idea it existed. [ ]
Prospect Park: It's above 60 degrees today, so it must be time to turn on the Christmas lights at Grand Army Plaza. [ ]
West Village: Expect the mother of all beg-a-thons when WNYC moves into new digs.

[ ]
Brooklyn: Is there a doctor in the borough? [ ]
Prospect Park: Skate off the tryptophan at Wollman Rink, which opens for the season on Thursday. [ via ]
Red Hook: Two ugly houses across the street from the projects are still vacant?

This real-estate market is downright chilly. [ ]
Wall Street: Learn Esperanto on Wednesdays. If you want.

[ ]
East Village: If real-estate agents can make up neighborhood names like BoCoCa, how about Manwood? [ ]
Park Slope: The Atlantic listed the 100 most influential Americans, and not one of them represented the Greater Park Slope Community. Outrageous.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: Residents get antsy about the type of people who will move into Richard Meier's One Prospect Park Tower now that it's listed with Corcoran. [ ]
Red Hook: People stuck in the past want to preserve Civil War history instead of letting Ikea pave a parking lot over it. [ ]
Staten Island: Happy 42nd Birthday, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge!

You make getting off this island so much easier. [ ]
Times Square: There are only a few shopping days left to taunt David Blaine. Hurry.

[ ]
Carroll Gardens: Take your lactose intolerance to Giardini's. [ ]
East Village: Unless you borrow shorts, the Russian Turkish Baths aren't sketchy at all. [ ]
Park Slope: Everywhere else has rats, but the Slope gets raccoons.

[ via ]
Staten Island: Brooklynites do field-study research, report back to the rest of us. [ ]
Times Square: Will the stairway to TKTS heaven be finished in time to ditch our relatives there? [ ]
Williamsburg: Condos at McCarren Park Mews are affordable if you don't mind the oily film.

[ ]
#8226 Ellis Island: Creepy photos of busted old hospital make you happy to enter the country through JFK. [ ]
#8226 Gowanus: Whole Foods broke ground yesterday. As of spring 2008, you'll never have to go to Manhattan again.

[ ]
#8226 Long Island City: With a $22 million redevelopment infusion, Queens Plaza will be a much more attractive place for strip clubs and recently released Rikers inmates. [ ]
#8226 Prospect Heights: In the sixties, rent was less than $150 a month and the smokes were 28 cents a pack. [ via ]
#8226 Tribeca: 92nd Street Y heads downtown, perhaps backed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.

[ ]
East Village: Landlord sues tenants for not letting loud, dust-covered construction workers tromp through his apartment and build an overpriced penthouse. [ ]
Fort Greene: We must all sacrifice imported dates in this time of war. [ ]
Hunts Point: Why go to Rikers when you can go to your neighborhood jail?

[ ]
Ozone Park: Plan to make Aqueduct Racetrack even more depressing is deterred by the delay of video slot machines. [ ]
Prospect Heights: The substitute mail carrier won't even ring once. [ via ]
Upper East Side: A New York City public high school gets its act together, so it must be time to relocate.

[ ]
Upper East Side: Woody Allen doesn't have any problems with performances spaces; he'd just prefer that they not be in his neighborhood. [ ]
Bensonhurst: Irate teacher sets an example by punching out bus window. [ ]
Lower East Side: Clinton and Delancey Streets have new bike-route stencils.

Now share space with annoying hipsters and annoying cars. [ ]
Midtown: While searching frantically for the traffic light, you have the sudden urge to drink Enviga. [ ]
Staten Island: Stuck in traffic on your way home tonight?

Come up with a three-minute invective to sputter at the City Council's Committee on Transportation public hearing. [ ]
Upper East Side: Don't worry, rent-stabilized residents: By the time the Second Avenue subway forces you to relocate, you'll be dead. [ ]
Carroll Gardens: Indie nerds and porn lovers successfully close Blockbuster Video on Court Street.

[ ]
City Hall: At a Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally this morning, those pushy walkers and bicyclers demanded fewer cars. [ ]
Clinton Hill: Buy a little piece of Brooklyn and help bring the Broken Angel up to code. [ via ]
East Village: "Hot Dog" returns to Avenue A.

This time she's almost sober. [ ]
Long Island City: All those new condo owners will need hospital beds. [ ]
Dumbo: In our version of The Straight Story, the old man on the tractor is a Jehovah's Witness.

[ ]
Lower East Side: Queens of the Stone Age will break in a new, giant restaurant-theater, the Box, tonight. [ ]
Morningside Heights: Columbia Business School will move to Manhattanville campus and take 25 to 30 years to complete. [ ]
Park Slope: New FAO Schwartz may be within Bugaboo-pushing distance.

[ via ]
Times Square: Photographic proof why New York is a city of singles. [ ]
Boerum Hill: For those keeping score at home, that's 583 car crashes on Atlantic Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and the river since January 2005. [ ]
East Village: blogger Jim returns from Scranton to find his neighbors filching his online style.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: If a 95-year-old bakery can't get landmark status, none of us can. [ ]
Soho: Following the close of disreputable bar, the Falls, the space is reincarnated as an Indian restaurant. Better luck to Midnight Cafe II.

[ ]
UWS: Metropolitan Montessori School saves energy by switching over to wind power. No word on whether this will make annual tuition dip to $20,000. [ ]
Williamsburg: Beatles covers for your own little hipster-in-training.

Yikes. [ ]
Brooklyn: Area man throws cat out window, gets arrested. Honestly, who throws a cat?

[ ]
Chelsea: After renting an unheated, bathroom-less space in an attempt ride to Larry Gagosian's coattails across the street, artist Hubert Waldroup closes up shop without selling a painting. [ ]
Greenpoint: Ladies and gentlemen, Greenpoint is gentrifying. (Is this news?

) [ ]
Lower East Side: There's no eruv a boundary within which certain things usually forbidden to orthodox Jews on Shabbat are allowed on the Lower East Side. Should there be one? Maybe.

[ ]
Park Slope: New kiddie boutique makes it that much easier to scar kids for life dressing them in psychedelic, cuddly, fluffy getups. [ ]
Upper West Side: It's not quite Stuy Town, but it's still a big deal: The Apthorp has sold for $425 million. Strangely, the new owners plan to keep it rental.

[ ]
Boerum Hill: City replaces stop signs with traffic light at one intersection, and neighbors aren't pleased. [ ]
Boerum Hill: Who you gonna call? Well, don't bother with the police, if you live on a block stuck between two precincts.

[ ]
East Village and Lower East Side: Work continues on East River Park, with 6th Street running track reopened and overall project set for final completion in 2008. [ ]
Fort Greene: There's a new church coming, but don't tell the local prostitutes. [ ]
Harlem: There's some weird architecture an old-school front porch, a very new-school modern thing on East 128th Street townhouses.

[ ]
Lower East Side: Proposed neighborhood-friendly LES rezoning may not be as neighborhood-friendly as it's cracked up to be. [ ]
Lower East Side: Thanks to construction-detritus pulverized Styrofoam, you can play in the snow even when it's 60-plus degrees out. [ via ]
Carroll Gardens: Volunteers MoveOn into vacant Carroll Gardens apartment, using it to call voters round the country.

[ ]
Kensington: City drags its feet in building playground, kids sad. [ ]
Lower East Side: Cronkite Pizzeria and Wine Bar helps hipsters indulge their inner child and their repressed adult by serving up cotton candy and affordable wine. [ ]
Park Slope: Sharing is caring, and drivers and bikers will soon be splitting Fifth Avenue.

[ ]
Prospect Heights: From ghetto to glorious: New bodega management patches hole in wall and actually stocks what its customers want, which is beer and cigarettes.

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