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Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Flamboyant Fund-Raiser

HuffPost New York Blogs

Elena Kess is wearing 6-inch lizard-skin stilettos the color of a moonless midnight. She's so high off the ground that she's tiptoeing rather than walking across 30th Avenue. »

Julie Menin And That New Voting Bloc… Women

Capitol Confidential

ICYMI, here's Julie Menin, Community Board 1 chief, TV commentator and possible future Manhattan Borough President in a clip from last night's edition of The Daily Show, helping Jason Jones, Tad Devine and a cast of the "new and powerful voting bloc" k... »

Thank God This Astoria Driving School Reality Show Is Fake, Probably

Animal

A&E’s Last Chance Driving School debuts this Saturday night and I’m scared. This Sven dude says he can get “anyone to pass a road test” and if any of the show’s “real” people are “really” driving out there, invest in a full body foam suit, now. Expect ... »

One Dead After Two Are Hit By Trains In Separate Incidents

Gothamist

One person is dead and another was left in critical condition after both were hit by subway trains in separate incidents early this morning. Police say that a 24-year-old drunk man somehow got onto the elevated tracks at Broadway and 31st Street statio... »

Weekend work impacting 14 subway lines

Second Ave. Sagas

Happy Friday. The map is here. From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, March 26, uptown 4 trains run express from Brooklyn Bridge to 14th Street-Union Square, then local to 125th Stre... »

Bowne House - when will it be fixed?

Queens Crap

"Hello Crapster:I enjoyed your post about the Mott House entitled, "How the Bloomberg administration destroyed an extremely important piece of Queens history." Queens is at the butt end of the LPC list of priorities. However this has nothing to do with... »

Reforms to Parking Minimums on the Table for Many NYC Neighborhoods

Streetsblog New York City

Much of New York City could see parking minimums reduced or eliminated thanks to reforms being pursued by the Department of City Planning. This map shows Streetsblog's rough approximation of the community districts that could be affected by the changes... »

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Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Flamboyant Fund-Raiser

HuffPost New York Blogs

Elena Kess is wearing 6-inch lizard-skin stilettos the color of a moonless midnight. She's so high off the ground that she's tiptoeing rather than walking across 30th Avenue. »

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