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The Parkchester housing development in the Bronx was built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company–the same insurance giant that originally developed Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village, and Riverton Houses in Manhattan. Constructed from 1938 to 1942, this “city within a city” still thrives today and contains many artistic flourishes that distinguish it from its Manhattan [...]

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Bedbugs and You

As bedbugs continue on their inevitable march toward the complete domination of our fair city, the Museum of the City of New York offers concerned citizens a primer on our new overlords. Next week, the panel taking part in “Plague!: Bed Bug Myths and Realities” will examine how bedbugs have proliferated (since the ban on [...]

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Despite Weak Economy, Retail Chains Expand in NYC

The Center for an Urban Future’s third annual ranking of national retail chains in New York City found that despite the floundering economy, chain stores have expanded 4.1% overall in the city. The largest percentage of expansion occurred in Brooklyn (5.3%), while Manhattan housed the largest number of chain stores (2,746), followed by Queens (1,479), [...]

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DOE Can Release Names in Teacher Data Reports

Today State Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern ruled that the Department of Education can publicly release rating reports on 12,000 of the city’s teachers. The United Federation of Teachers had fought to have the names of individual teachers redacted from the reports, which were requested under the Freedom of Information Law by five city news [...]

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Help Keep Pat’s Papers Afloat

Although the official “SOS Week” for Pat Kiernan’s website has ended, it’s up to you to keep on clicking. Most know Kiernan as the NY1 morning anchor who delivers the news with a glorious placidity that could have only been honed in his native Canada. He’s become an indispensable part of the morning routine for [...]

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Robert Moses: The Musical?

“His life and his whole persona is just outsize and almost mythic. It’s perfect for portrayal in musical theater…I try to portray the inner man…It’s not black and white — it’s nuanced…His life is just so full of ‘On this hand…but on the other hand…’” That’s how New York composer Gary Fagin described the musical [...]

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Union Square Gets the Big Boards

The MTA’s plan to install train arrival countdown clocks in the stations along the system’s numbered lines by mid-2011 is moving along. Late in December, it announced that it exceeded its goal of bringing the clocks to 75 stations by the end of 2010, and in fact, installed them in 100 stations. At the Union [...]

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