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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:29 am

Manhattan News

Local news for Manhattan, NY continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

2 hrs ago | The Journal News

White Plains agency gives 2 housing developments extra time

A city agency headed by Mayor Joseph Delfino voted yesterday to allow two developers who would build a total of 627 rental and assisted-living units more time to start their projects after both warned that the ...

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10 hrs ago | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

Milestone for tunnel linking LIRR, Grand Central

NEW YORK - One hundred forty feet below Grand Central Terminal, in a muddy, slippery tunnel filled with mind-boggling machinery, a recommendation graffitied onto the wall advises passersby to watch their butts.

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Fri Jul 18, 2008

Green Buildings NYC

NBBJ Earns Manhattan's Ninth LEED-CI Rating at 2 Rector Street

Global architecture firm NBBJ recently earned a LEED Silver rating from USGBC for its new New York City offices at 2 Rector Street downtown.

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Cape Breton Post

Reserve Mines Women Made Fabulous Manhattan Debut

This past weekend my mother and her friends visited Cheticamp, a summer trip they like to make that has slowly cemented itself as an annual pilgrammage to be performed without fail each year.

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HotelChatter

New York: Wyndham Hotels To Populate Manhattan

The other day we got a question from a reader regarding a possible Wyndham Hotel opening in Manhattan: I don't know how old this news is.

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Thu Jul 17, 2008

WINS-AM New York

Giant Drill Carves New Tunnel Beneath NYC Streets

A huge, granite-eating machine that spent the past eight months chewing a mile-long tunnel beneath a busy Manhattan office district is getting a rest, of sorts, after completing its journey to Grand Central ...

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BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

National Yiddish Theatre Moves to New Offices

Propelled by a surge of support on several fronts, the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene is moving this week to new office space in midtown Manhattan.

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Related Topix: New York, NY, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

Empire State News

Eight indicted on narcotics charges

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau Wednesday announced the indictment of eight people on several counts of felony narcotics charges stemming from an investigation, known as "Operation Snoop," into ...

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Related Topix: Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY, Drugs

NY1

Lower East Side Residents Protest Alleged Racist Rezoning

July 15, 2008 Residents of the Lower East Side called on Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Tuesday to turn down what they consider a racist rezoning plan.

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Related Topix: Manhattan School of Music, Manhattan College, New York, NY, American College, American University, American University of Puerto Rico

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Philly.com

Be$t way to NY? Fuel-proof your summer

With gas at $4.15 a gallon and Manhattan parking nearly as expensive as a Broadway show ticket, what's the smartest way to travel to the Big Apple? Our eight volunteers tested a range of options: From a gas- ...

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Related Topix: Levittown, NY, New York, NY

1010Wins

Actors Oppose Greenwich Village Hospital Plans

Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have said they oppose a huge hospital development in Manhattan's historic Greenwich Village.

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Playbill

It's a Dog Day Afternoon Beginning July 16 at Off-Broadway's Studio Theatre

Dog Day Afternoon , a new play based on the events that inspired Sidney Lumet's film of the same name, makes its world premiere July 16 at The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row Theatres.

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Tue Jul 15, 2008

Village Voice

Manhattan BP Hotseat for Chinatown/LES Rezoning Plan

A coalition of groups opposing the proposed rezoning of the Lower East Side held a trilingual press conference and protest outside Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's Office today, delivering a ...

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Related Topix: Lee University, Manhattan School of Music, Manhattan College, New York, NY, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: NY Times Reviews Recent Jazz Concerts

Full reviews of recent jazz concerts BILLY BANG SEXTET As a violinist and composer, Mr.

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Related Topix: Billy Bang, Jazz, Joanne Brackeen, New York, NY

WABC

You can expect from street closures in Manhattan on Tuesday.

You can expect from street closures in Manhattan on Tuesday because of the All Star Parade.

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Mon Jul 14, 2008

WNBC New York Channel 4

Woman Stabbed In Chelsea

Police are looking for the ass... NY Region Sizzles Heat Wave As the region sizzles, several... Transforming Summer Casual To ... Sue Simmons Reports Fashion experts suggest wearin... Patriotism, Tennis Come ...

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Related Topix: Kings County, NY, New York, NY, Brooklyn, NY

NY1

Manhattan's Hidden Treasures: Inwood Farmhouse Is A Revolutionary War-Era Time Capsule

July 14, 2008 As NY1 kicks off its week-long coverage of Manhattan's best-kept secrets, Borough Reporter Rebecca Spitz starts with a Dutch colonial farmhouse in the northern-most neighborhood of Inwood.

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Earthlink

Weirdness a fringe benefit at Midtown fest

Kicking off tonight and running through Aug. 3, this year's Midtown International Theatre Festival boasts more than 50 productions, many of them rivaling the Fringe for sheer weirdness.

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Related Topix: New York, NY, Crime Movies, A Shot in the Dark, Drama, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies

Newsday.com

Residents fight Tudor City development

Fearful that their urban Eden will be buried under darkness and dirt, residents of bucolic Tudor City announced a lawsuit Wednesday to block one of the city's largest development projects.

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Related Topix: Harlem (New York, NY), New York, NY

Sun Jul 13, 2008

NY Daily News

U.W.S. brownstone fire injures 5

The fire sent up a 30-story plume of smoke. Five firefighters received minor injuries battling a big blaze in an Upper West Side brownstone today.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, New York, NY

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