· City will demolish old Yankee Stadium for community ballfields [NYDN]
· Stringer sued by megalandlord he accused of evicting rent-stabilized tenants [TRD]
· Will big groups of Chinese tourists replace Japanese ones on tour buses? [NYT]
· This whole car-free streets thing is very Columbian in origin [NYT]
· Has city made 'first dents' in Iron Triangle land acquisition? [NYDN]
· Even the car washes can be super crappy in Queens [Queens Crap]
· Sad news: Ayveq, the Coney Island wanker walrus, is dead [Brooklyn Paper]
· Chatting with the hunger striking Coney Island mermaid [Kinetic Carnival]
· Real estate company removes 'intrusive banner' & Park Slope is relieved [GL]
· A cool mural at Columbia and Degraw in Red Hook [Fading Ad Blog]

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· Rent stabilized tenants are slightly unhappy about increases [NYT]
· Don't be squeamish, go buy that foreclosed vacation property [NYM]
· City doubled the number of after-hours construction permits it gave out [NYP]
· Should Central Park be allowed to go to the dogs? [NYM]
· Ditmars-Steinway in Astoria is a 'slice of Europe' in Queens [NYT]
· Relax, it's only 80,000 cubic yards of 'toxic-laden soil' in the Rockaways [NYDN]
· It's official: no cars on Saturday for a month on Bedford Ave. [GL]
· Do we really need an Ikea truck on the streets? [Lost City]
· Is Atlantic Yards 'this generation's Penn Station'? [AYR]

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· Seaport developers trying to get support via greenmarket? [Downtown Express]
· Surprise: unemployment in the city is starting to go up [NYT]
· Owner of building hit in (May) crane collapse suing for $100M [Sun]
· Two years & $2 million later, Bed-Stuy library reopens [NYT]
· Second indictment handed down in Brooklyn construction death [NYP]
· One of Brooklyn's 'last Dutch farmhouses' is up for landmarking [Brooklyn Eagle]
· Dumbo getting an Aztec-themed mural [Brooklyn Paper]
· Brooklyn College dorm makes a little, but not much, progress [Flatbush Pigeon]
· Average day in Park Slope: bank robbery, school lockdown, etc. [GL]
· Behold some of the architectural wonders of Bedford Ave. [Brownstoner]

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· Public housing complexes could lose their community centers [NYT]
· There's 75 percent support for capping property taxes [Crain's]
· Checking out the HL23 opening at the Museum of the City of New York [Archinect]
· New rules for worker harness safety at construction sites [NYT]
· City's left hand still planting trees, while right one wants to chop [Queens Crap]
· Trying to divine the Gowanus Whole Foods future from bags [GL]
· Burg phone pole on Roebling does crack. Was it construction-related? [Urbanite]
· Details about the call for an Atlantic Yards Development Trust [AYR]

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· Oh no: new building codes changes will kill 'airy stairs', other things [NYM]
· More detail on new bike route website [NYP]
· Are more Ghost Bikes in the city a good thing? [NYM]
· New Yorkers tired of MTA fare hikes, Yankees money requests [amNY]
· New York waters kill another whale [Sun]
· Some say parking sucks in Park Slope without alternate side regs [NYP]
· 'Small & Proud' on W. 82nd Street [Lost City]
· The Ikea Shuttle and Ikea Plaza make first appearances in Red Hook [GL]
· State lobbying IRS about 'loophole' for tax-free financing for Atlantic Yards [AYR]

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· Governor wants a 'far-reaching' audit of WTC budget and delays [NYP]
· Who lives in the brick carriage house on E. 19th Street? [NYT]
· Neighbors are 'wary' of plan for City Hall Park bike path [Tribeca Tribune]
· Check out the original Olmsted and Vaux plan for Central Park [NYT]
· Yankees want another $400M in tax exempt financing, give or take [NYDN]
· Adaptive reuse: Bronx pool hall morphs into...a church [Sun]
· Violent crime boomlet hitting parts of Williamsburg? [GL]
· Checking out the houses in Victorian Flatbush [Forgotten NY]
· Temporary rides are leaving Coney Island [Kinetic Carnival]

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· The real construction issue may be a shortage of skilled labor [NYO]
· City's quality of life ranking drops to 49 behind DC & Chicago [Sun]
· Careful, the city is in the middle of a big fire code crackdown [NYT]
· City's Economic Development Corp settles water bill for ten cents on dollar [NYP]
· Trying to find 'lifelines' for endangered mom & pop stores [Urbanite]
· Bed-Stuy has a soup kitchen with touch screen ordering [NYT]
· Look up and find hidden Clinton Hill art [Clinton Hill Chill]
· Work starts with big exposed piles of (toxic?) dirt at Bedford Ave. lot [GL]
· Amazing 'Riviera Suites' in Southern Brooklyn has big signs [GerritsenBeach.Net]

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· Uh, new building applications have actually gone up this year [NYO]
· Saying goodbye to the city's 'ugliest facade' [Urbanite]
· Neighborhood sadness looms: D-Day is approaching for OTB parlors [NYDN]
· Money maker: same sex marriages would generate $142M for city [Crain's]
· Lack of movement: why rental vacancy rates are staying low [NYO]
· The Bronx is losing its last independent book store [NYDN]
· Target hits Flatbush: some things change, some don't [Brooklyn Junction]
· To stoop or not to stoop? The Brooklyn question continues [GL]
· Thinking about gun violence in Clinton Hill [Clinton Hill Chill]

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· Toll Brothers reports third straight quarterly loss, $94M give or take [Bloomberg]
· Nasty FiDi heliport fight continues [NYT]
· Mercantile Library looks for hip new spot, perhaps technology [NYT]
· How to piss off preservationists: add a bulkhead and Fedders [Lost City]
· Queens landlord wants to clean up reputation for harassing tenants [NYDN]
· A taste of Cold War architecture right here in Queens [Queens Crap]
· Rumors of demise of Hartford Mark Twain house not be exaggerated [NYT]
· Park Slope church may grow glass thing on top after it sells [GL]
· Forest City Ratner throwing Brooklyn rally for...Forest City Ratner [AYR]

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· Fifth Street Lofts buyer trying DIY approach to flipping? [StreetEasy]
· Brearley School needs to buy property to make room for orchestras & robots [DI]
· Midtown's Donnell Library making way for that '21' club hotel thing [NYT]
· Scandal: Gowanus Music Club will meet in ... Prospect Heights! [GL]
· LIC's green L Haus looks like a 'fat parrot' [Restless]
· Vornado in the crosshairs (We think. We don't speak Spanish.) [HDC]

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· Brooklyn Bridge celebrates 125 years with lights and fireworks [NYDN]
· More detail on the possible return of the double-decker bus [NYP]
· Meet 'the Master of the MTA's Hudson Yard's Deal' [NYT]
· Sad faces at the Avenue B Toy Tower tear down [Villager]
· Port Authority OKs $20M study of $3B JFK renovation [Crains]
· Credit crunch solution: bank robbery, but take loan application with you [NYP]
· Affordable housing cut from Downtown Brooklyn development [Brooklyn Paper]
· Work on Burg's Grand Ferry Park is (sort of) moving along [GL]
· It's the 'Land of the Rising Fedders' [NYShitty]

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· Gov. lives in rent-controlled $1,250/month 2BR Harlem apartment [Sun]
· David Byrne's organ in the Battery Maritime Building [Downtown Express]
· Heads up: steel disc falls 22 stories at Deutsche Bank building [NYP]
· Gov. trying to decide which agency will control Moynihan Station [amNY]
· Port Authority trying to avoid paying Silverstein late fees [Sun]
· Residents getting hosed by 14.5% water and sewer hike [NYP]
· Number of jobs in city up by 1.1% last month, mostly in construction, retail [NYT]
· Narrow Carroll Gardens streets take another step toward being narrow [GL]
· What if they didn't demolish the Kent Avenue Power Plant? [WGPA]
· Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn finally getting beautified [110 Livingston]

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