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    Doesn't Curbed.com have several tags to real...

    Doesn't Curbed.com have several tags to real estate websites featuring "affordable" apartments?
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    He was, to me, the first superstar. Brubeck...

    He was, to me, the first superstar. Brubeck entered my head when I was about 14 with the convoluted "Blue Rondo a la Turk", and he's stayed with me since. His early experimentation with chord...
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    Things are looking grim. Again, good luck.

    Things are looking grim.
    Again, good luck.
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    Hurricane Sandy--THE Perfect Storm?

    Good luck to all you in the path of this monster. It brushed the Florida Coast today and brought huge (6-10 ft) waves to the shore, seriously eroding the beaches in a few areas.The East Coast...
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    Thanks for your concern. Everyone, which...

    Thanks for your concern.
    Everyone, which includes my son, my sister, my cousin(s), grandkids, daughter, brother and assorted best friends have all been bathed in Debby's rain, some more than...
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    Tropical Storm Debby--

    She ain't over yet. She's still sitting close to the coast, generating incredible rain, and probably won't be finished with Florida for another couple of days.

    In an historic vein, there have...
  7. Florida--Miami, anyway -- is sooo like New York...

    Florida--Miami, anyway -- is sooo like New York...
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    Wow--Donna Summer and a Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, gone...

    Wow--Donna Summer and a Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, gone in the same week.

    I guess all the Baby Boomer/Disco '60s music greats are reaching some kind of a demographic plateau and they are starting to...
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    Thanks for the info on the Wright house. It's...

    Thanks for the info on the Wright house. It's comforting to know that it's in good condition again.

    Many of Wright's early residential efforts are being restored and saved, as a new generation of...
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    I'm happy to see some Rochester fans on this...

    I'm happy to see some Rochester fans on this board.
    Back in the Hippie '60s, I also lived just off Park Ave, in an attic apartment carved out of an 1800's mansion on Argyle St, and I loved the...
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    McKim, Meade, White Tower Threatened, Doomed

    Where I grew up-- about five hours from Midtown Manhattan-- the canyon of 10-15 story buildings that lined our Main Street was impressive, imposing and drenched in history. Among the principal...
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    Welcome to New York

    Now that the tower is capped and presented in it's final form (minus, of course, the antenna), now that the makeover of the site is somewhat complete and after watching the thing rise from a pit to...
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    The 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire,...

    The 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8-9, 1871, has just passed as well.
    What a nightmare THAT must have been!
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    Right after writing the Spike Lee post, I found...

    Right after writing the Spike Lee post, I found this out: the old couple who were driven from their home have hired the firm of Morgan and Morgan, who's slogan "FOR the People" is broadcast many...
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    Still, Lofter, Zimmerman did have an absolute...

    Still, Lofter, Zimmerman did have an absolute right to be where he was that night as well. He is a two-year resident and owns his personal piece of Florida within his gated community, he drives the...
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    He probably had a security code or maybe an...

    He probably had a security code or maybe an electronic card. The security in that subdivision has been described as "poor" by some of the residents I saw interviewed, and that is not all that...
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    Here's another little tidbit--the movie director...

    Here's another little tidbit--the movie director Spike Lee, in an effort to utilize social media and stir up a few flames, created a tweet disclosing the home address of George Zimmerman and sent it...
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    Zippy-- Again, thanks for your vague,...

    Zippy--

    Again, thanks for your vague, misdirected comments.
    MY comments had everything to do with the local--and ultimately, national-- news outlets endlessly drumming the same alleged facts...
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    Zippy "The story, [which} should have been...

    Zippy

    "The story, [which} should have been buried..?", as you pointed out in a lightly sarcastic manner, was really smothered by the passage of time and the endless creation of ever newer stories...
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    When I lived in Greenwich Village in the late...

    When I lived in Greenwich Village in the late '60s, there was a nutcase who went around setting fires in the vestibules of apartments and brownstones. A lot of the places had open front doors --most...
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    All the local news outlets on my cable feed are...

    All the local news outlets on my cable feed are Orlando stations, so just hours after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin there were a few moments devoted to it on the 11 o'clock shows--with a...
  22. Thread: Tebow-ny

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    Sorry, edd--I never caught your post and didn't...

    Sorry, edd--I never caught your post and didn't mean to jump your post.
    I'm so enthusiastic about young Tim that I just started blindly creating threads about him...
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    Tebow-ny

    Just like that, my favorite NFL guy has become legitimate fodder for New York--based interweb conversation.

    After a surprising half-season with Denver, where Tim Tebow won almost every game he...
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    Lofter--I agree, "Hugo" is an excellent movie. I...

    Lofter--I agree, "Hugo" is an excellent movie. I saw it AFTER I read your post, and I was drawn into those extended tracks.
    It was an actual STORY, not a string of over-the-top action sequences;...
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    "Everyone Goes To Rick's" I have to give an...

    "Everyone Goes To Rick's"

    I have to give an honorable mention to "Casablanca", my absolute favorite movie and a powerful piece of cinema history that has been the Numero Uno on my personal top 10...
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