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	<description>A Blog About All Things Brooklyn &#38; Beyond Me</description>
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		<title>RAVAGED GREEN</title>
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This photo, taken Tuesday, shows the damage Green-Wood Cemetery sustained after this weekend&#8217;s storm, said to have been &#8220;one of the  worst in recent years,&#8221; according to Phil Abrahamson, spokesperson for  the Parks Department. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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		<title>TO BRAKE OR NOT TO BRAKE&#8230;</title>
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emergency brake from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
Most subway riders haven’t a clue when it comes to a train’s emergency break.  The confusion begins with the first line of instructions alongside the brake itself: “Emergency Instructions… Do Not Pull The Emergency Break….” Does that mean that the brake should never be pulled, in or out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/to-brake-or-not-to-brake/</link>
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		<title>STORMING WEEKEND</title>
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We’ve experienced (and still are experiencing) a turbulent weekend here in NYC. A nor’easter, of exceptional sound and fury signifying everything, ravished the NYC area with winds gusting at over 60 mph, toppling trees and power lines. Power was knocked out for 126,000 residents in the five boroughs while commuters were left stranded due to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/storming-weekend/</link>
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		<title>HOLD YOUR HORSES</title>
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Manhattan’s carriage horse industry is being faced with two alternatives: substantial modifications or costly restrictions for an industry on the verge of complete obsolescence. The other day, members of Teamsters Union Local 553 and animal rights activists exchanged heated words and related contentiousness at a hearing before the City Council’s Consumer Affairs Committee. While one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/hold-your-horses/</link>
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		<title>SQUARED PEAS</title>
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Wearing futuristicly stylized attire, Fergie and her Black Eyed  Peas took over Times Square in New York City last night (March 10,  2010) performing a surprise concert.  The music event was scheduled to  promote the launch of Samsung&#8217;s new 3D TV&#8217;s which are available this  week.  Starpulse.com reported that though the concert was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/squared-peas/</link>
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		<title>THE NOISY QUIET</title>
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You could have knocked me over with a whisper when I learned that Midtown, Manhattan (of all places) was the quietest part of town…well, select parts of it at least. Whether this is based in fact or delirium, phenomenon or pure irony, is unknown to current science and logic. The bizarre fact is that complaints, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/the-noisy-quiet/</link>
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		<title>CHARITABLY TEXTING</title>
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The Brooklyn Public Library is going the way of high-tech fund-raising, similar to that used to fund Haitian earthquake victims. “Support Our Shelves” will accept tax-deductible donations of $10 via text messages at “books” 50555; the donation charged to the donor’s cellphone bill.
“It should make a difference on two fronts,” said Jason Carey, a library [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/charitably-texting/</link>
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		<title>ONCE WAS ENOUGH</title>
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NYC’s oldest living resident has witnessed much history that has come and gone and faded off into infinity…she is 111 years old. Her name is Jane Gilsenan and she was born on Amsterdam Avenue and 98th Street in Manhattan on May 8, 1898; the very year that the City of New York emerged with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/once-was-enough/</link>
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		<title>SEA DOG</title>
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&#8220;Sailor Pondering&#8221;
Source: epc, Flickr

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		<title>AIN&#8217;T NO REAL DOG</title>
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Nothing Like the Real Thing
This bike-guarding “pooch” didn’t pass a reality check outside the Clark  Pet Shop, 57 Clark St., Brooklyn Heights, this past weekend. Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/aint-no-real-dog/</link>
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		<title>CAB-SHARE DISPARITY</title>
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Most New Yorkers do not like to share anything: be it money, time, information…or, especially, their taxi ride. The Share-a-Cab program (still in its beta phase) was yet another good idea, in a long list of good ideas, which might have looked good on paper but couldn’t fly in the real world.
In this day and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/cab-share-disparity/</link>
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		<title>HEY JUDING IN TIMES SQUARE</title>
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Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.
Video: &#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; Subway Sing-a-long
Reader Scott caught this moment on tape at around 10:30 last night in the Times Square subway station—it&#8217;s sort of similar to the &#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; sing-a-long that went down during the Newark kissing bandit/security breach episode. Maybe the Beatles song is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/hey-juding-in-times-square/</link>
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		<title>GAYNOR&#8217;S FATAL VOYAGES</title>
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William Jay Gaynor served as Mayor of New York City from 1910 to 1913. He is among this city’s plethora of former mayors who are now mostly forgotten, even though a bust of the mayor sits in Cadman Plaza. In his day, his brief yet impressive term was notable for unprecedented reform; an initial set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/gaynors-fatal-voyages/</link>
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		<title>SWINGIN&#8217; IN BROOKLYN</title>
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Galapagos Arts Space Presents &#8220;&#8216;Swingin&#8217; At Jack&#8217;s&#8217;&#8221;
BROOKLYN — The year is 1947 and Jack’s gin joint is the hottest place in  town. The saucy French maitre-d orders you to take your seat as the  flirty cigarette girls try to sell you a jujubee along with your  cigarette. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/swingin-in-brooklyn/</link>
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		<title>CHILD&#8217;S PLAY IN THE TOWER</title>
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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating employees at the  John F. Kennedy International Airport air-traffic control tower for  apparently allowing at least two school-age children to transmit  directions to pilots.
Some happy-go-lucky people consider this to be a rather &#8220;cute&#8221; or &#8220;harmless&#8221; bit of fun. It was, in fact, neither cute nor harmless and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/childs-play-in-the-tower/</link>
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		<title>WATCH THE SKIES, EVERYWHERE!</title>
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It’s always been suspected that many New Yorkers were somewhat odd. Now there may be justification for these suspicions: not only that many New Yorkers are somewhat odd…some may be from another planet. We may have reached our close encounters of the third kind in the form of our next door neighbor or merely in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/watch-the-skies-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>RELIC OF THE FDNY</title>
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[Letter]:
My father and I have been doing research over the past few months on  an old  Brooklyn fire badge that was recovered by a relic hunter near  Port Hudson,  Louisiana, and this research has led me to you. I acquired  this badge and was able  to identify the owner via a badge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/03/relic-of-the-fdny/</link>
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		<title>SPECTRALLY HISTORICAL</title>
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Of the estimated 300 Federal houses in NYC, the Merchant House is the most genuine and best-preserved. Built by Robert Brewster in 1832, the red-brick and white-marble row house is situated at 29 East Fourth Street in Manhattan; the Tredwell family lived there for nearly 100 years. In 1936, after extensive repair and renovation, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/spectrally-historical/</link>
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		<title>FROSTY EPILOGUE</title>
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The snow has come and gone&#8230;we&#8217;re now looking forward to Spring.
Photo: ColorMeKatie

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		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/frosty-epilogue/</link>
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		<title>BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE</title>
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Thank you, Anthony Wiener. It&#8217;s about time that a MAN rose up and slammed it to these stonewalling thugs&#8230;corporate lackeys that they are.

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		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/blows-against-the-empire/</link>
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		<title>HOT DOG HOAX</title>
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Over the past couple days, an amazing tale unfolded on the tweet-waves of Twitter and on the cyber-waves of cyberspace. From deep within the currently under-demolition ruins of hot dog pioneer Charles Feltman’s famed restaurant, one of his hot dogs had allegedly been discovered. The ancient dog was determined to have been approximately 140-years-old (WAY [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/hot-dog-hoax/</link>
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		<title>FROSTY DAZE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Snow comes down over the Brooklyn Bridge, as blizzard hits New  York City.

Predictions for today&#8217;s storm were so dire  that officials canceled school and grounded flights hours before the  first flakes even fell, sending the city into emergency mode as the  behemoth blizzard inched closer to Gotham.
&#8220;This will probably shut down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/frosty-daze/</link>
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		<title>LOIS LANE AFFLUENCE</title>
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Ten Gracie Square is one of Manhattan’s Good Buildings: a benchmark of the ultra grandest in grand elegance for those maintaining crème de la crème existences. There are only 42 such residences in the borough (most of them being on Fifth and Park Avenues), where the very richest, if not always the very famous, play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/lois-lane-affluence/</link>
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		<title>BURGERS UNDER THE BRIDGE</title>
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One Front Street is offering homemade fruit-infused vodka shots, burger  sliders, and other specials for $1 every Wednesday through Sunday in the month of March, according to a story by The  Brooklyn Paper.
Dumbo, NYC


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		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/burgers-under-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>THIS TOWN&#8217;S IN TATTERS</title>
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  A retrospective on the New York City of the 1970s/ 1980s, when the town cast a &#8220;gloriously gritty&#8221; ambiance, is always good for a bittersweet sort of nostalgia. But we were younger then and hungover from the Sixties; it all seemed like an all-encompassing Theatre of the Absurd.
Take a look at the Gothamist&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/this-towns-in-tatters/</link>
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		<title>NOW CUT THAT OUT, LOZIER!!!</title>
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Image via Wikipedia



You’d probably be somewhat surprised (or, perhaps, somewhat delighted) to learn that in 1824 half of Manhattan Island was on the verge of falling into the sea. This rather disappointing and dismal news was heralded by a man called Lozier, something of a savant factotum, first circulated among the city&#8217;s merchants and eventually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/now-cut-that-out-lozier/</link>
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		<title>THE MAESTRO&#8217;S &#8220;AMERICA FOREVER&#8221;</title>
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This audio is a rare recording of Giacomo Puccini&#8217;s voice; it&#8217;s perhaps the only one ever to have existed. Recorded on February 21, 1907, while Puccini was visiting New York City to supervise production of three of his operas at the MET, it&#8217;s titled La voce di Puccini (&#8220;Voice of Puccini&#8221;) and was recorded by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/the-maestros-america-forever/</link>
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		<title>TO SHAKE &amp; QUAKE AGAIN?</title>
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On the afternoon of August 10, 1884, a relatively minor earthquake hit New York City. Estimated to have been 4.9 to 5.5 in magnitude, with its epicenter off the coast of Coney Island or Far Rockaway, the quake lasted for about 10 seconds but caused little damage. Nonetheless, it was felt as far south as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/to-shake-quake-again/</link>
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		<title>CRUISING THE MOB SCENES</title>
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An enterprising soul by the name of John (Cha Cha) Ciarcia is, dare I say it, “making you an offer you can’t refuse”: A bus tour of this city’s most famous and beloved gangland sites. Starting next month, The New York City Mob Tour  will guide you through the best in former Mafioso stomping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/cruising-the-mob-scenes/</link>
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		<title>SAY IT AIN&#8217;T SO, DARTH</title>
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Who could have guessed that Darth Vader, the famed Conqueror of the Universe, simply minding his own business, would ever come to this: down-and-out in impoverishment&#8217;s all-devouring black hole. Cash-strapped to build a &#8220;Deth [sic] Star&#8221; that he could call &#8220;home,&#8221; a veteran of many glorious slaughters,  now homeless, now jobless&#8230; and, horror of horror, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/7581/</link>
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		<title>HIGH-SPIRITED THEOLOGY</title>
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An Irish pub in Brooklyn is blending the spiritual with the convivial and drafts of beer with drifts of religion. Since the New Testament reveals that Jesus imbibed the grape and that Paul also tooted the vine, it should be your religious prerogative to become high-spirited as well…according to “Theology on Tap.”
Beginning this month, Father [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/high-spirited-theology/</link>
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		<title>GOOBYE, NOO YAWK</title>
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The famous and oftentimes ridiculed lingua franca of this city, the NooYawk accent, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. In common usage throughout the last century, from the sidewalks of the Bowery to the screenplays of Hollywood films set here, this was New York City&#8217;s distinctive sound: an R-less manner of speech, similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/goobye-noo-yawk/</link>
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		<title>ARTISTIC ICE</title>
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An ice sculpture of a heart was brought to life in  Times Square on Friday, just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend.
Designed by architect brothers Robert and Granger Moorhead, the blocks  of ice are calibrated to absorb and magnify the lights of the  illuminated chaos of Times Square.
The architects say on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/artistic-ice/</link>
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		<title>PROJECTING A RISING CITY</title>
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When he died in 1943, Eugene de Salignac was entirely forgotten. He was born in Boston in 1861, a descendant of French nobility, and, after a failed marriage, started working for the City of New York as the official photographer for the Department of Bridges; a position he would hold from 1906 to 1934. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/projecting-a-rising-city/</link>
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		<title>PALIN&#8217;S FADING STAR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin&#8211;savior to some, imbecile to most, phenomenal curiosity to everyone—may have reason to reconsider her plans for a grandiose future. Current polls reveal that her ratings are declining at a greater rate than ever before; a one- night stand appeal that&#8217;s losing its lustre.
A considerable 55% of Americans view her in a generally unfavorable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/palins-fading-star/</link>
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		<title>BLIZZARDIZING TODAY</title>
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Schoolchildren who had the day off along with Brooklynites of every age  took to Prospect Park to enjoy the snowy weather on Wednesday.
Very picturesque&#8230;until the inevitable slush and ice and resulting misfortune set in. NYC received about 12-inches of snow and, even as I write, the storm is tapering off and moving on.
In our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/blizzardizing-today/</link>
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		<title>MAD PEN</title>
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In an effort to reimburse victims of the Prince of Thieves, the government has finally sold one of Bernie Madoff’s erstwhile properties here in New York City. His Manhattan penthouse (photo gallery), originally listed at a spine-tingling $9.9 million clams, then reduced to an equally hair-raising $8.9 million bucks, has ultimately sold for an undisclosed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/mad-pen/</link>
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		<title>DRIVING AROUND TOWN: NYC 1929</title>
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Featuring the incomparable Harold Lloyd&#8230;teaming up with Babe Ruth.
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		<title>WILEY COYOTE IN NYC</title>
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An unfamiliar coyote has been spotted in Manhattan by an unidentified man walking his more urbanized dog. At around 6:45pm last night, he saw the prairie wolf (quite a long way from the nearest prairie) at the entrance to Central Park on 7th Avenue and Central Park South. According to the man, the coyote approached [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/wiley-coyote-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>DOG LEGENDARY</title>
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The hot dog, crude delicacy of unknown origin that is, is one of New York City’s most essential novelties; in fact, it reflects this city’s essential ambiguity more than any other food item. Served in a bun, typically crowned with mustard and sauerkraut, the dog is a connoisseur’s delight for the common man and woman; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/dog-legendary/</link>
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		<title>THE QUEEN, THE CROWNS, THE MOB</title>
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Brooklyn while not always unwavering in its sanctity is impressively rich in its churches. In addition to being called the “City of Trees” and “City of Homes,” it’s also been called the “City of Churches;” lately, it’s more inclusively referred to as the Borough of Homes and Churches.” Most of these churches are Roman Catholic, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/the-queen-the-crowns-the-mob/</link>
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		<title>OLDE CONEY MOMENT</title>
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SUMMARY Section of Coney Island amusement area with Scoota Boats entrance (sign above: &#8220;Motor boats&#8221;) and several pedestrians in foreground and Virginia Reel and Wonder Wheel in background.
Flickr: Brooklyn Public Library Collection

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		<title>AN EVIL PAPER CHASE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often very easy to ignore many displays of racial and religious intolerance, casually writing these off as the works of a few misguided minds giving form and expression to their exuberant perversity. As long as no physical harm is inflicted, no considerable damage to property done, most acts of bigotry are quickly dismissed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/02/an-evil-paper-chase/</link>
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		<title>ALL HAIL CHUCK</title>
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Staten Island Chuck, that prognosticating ground hog of dubious fame and earthbound fortune, will be at it again. This Groundhog Day (Feb. 2), Chuck, like all true-blue if less notable (insofar as smug New Yorkers are concerned) groundhogs in America and Canada, will reemerge from his earthy hole for his annual moment of fame.
All eyes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/all-hail-chuck/</link>
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		<title>HIP TO HELP</title>
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Hipsters, that urbane set of groovy renegades, may be facing a sudden and untimely extinction. The New York Press questions if the cool and aloof look of hipsters may be out and a new look may be in…that of “helpsters.”
The peculiar neologism, helpsters, defines an up-and-coming, trendsetting breed combining the cool of hipsters with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/hip-to-help/</link>
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		<title>LOVE THAT CHICK-EN</title>
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Subway riders on NYC&#8217;s IRT No. 6 train were entertained with quite a unique and original spectacle the other day. In a venue where originality in strange and unusual presentations is difficult to arrange (the competition is so intense), some feverishly ambitious individuals still strive for the best. Take this chicken-loving gentleman and his feathery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/love-that-chick-en/</link>
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		<title>CONTRASTS</title>
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When the American photographer Berenice  Abbott returned to New York in 1929 after nearly a decade in France,  she found a city transformed by modern life. After the Works Progress  Administration was established a few years later, she was hired to  document the city, producing a large number of often dramatically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/contrasts/</link>
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		<title>PROFESSIONAL MENDICANCY</title>
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An article in the Brooklyn Eagle of January 26, 1901 reported that police officials believed that “professional mendicancy” was responsible for an upsurge of beggars in New York City. In sync with the xenophobic mood of the time, city officials blamed the “wholesale immigration of professional mendicants [italics mine] from Europe” for a new, assertively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/professional-mendicancy/</link>
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		<title>IT WENT BANG!</title>
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We&#8217;re always hearing about manhole  explosions, but have you ever seen one? One captivated duo caught  an exploding one on 29th Street, noting: &#8220;Firefighters closed down the  street and moved a car parked within 20 feet of manhole cover.&#8221; Gothamist
Just another day in the city&#8230;with a modest bang: business as usual and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/it-went-bang/</link>
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		<title>TRASHING THE TROLLEY</title>
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Alongside its varying and tortuous infrastructure, New York City is laden with diverse reminders of its past. Historical relics and curiosities are constantly being unearthed from aging streets or within crumbling walls by construction workers renovating a city so indurate to unceasing renovation. Over the rapidly evolving passage of time, the new was often replaced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2010/01/trashing-the-trolley/</link>
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