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• BHAs 100th Birthday, and More Brooklyn Briefs

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 474
  - The Brooklyn Heights Association announces 100th anniversary festivities and launches new website. Brooklyn Heights Blog - Community Board 10 considers a proposal to ask police to not ticket parents who are dropping off their kids at school. Brooklyn Eagle - Doors finally open at Union Market on Court Street. ...
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• Brooklyn Goes To War: Culver L Company

  
  Who Walk In Brooklyn — Authority: 109
  War Lust In Brooklyn Two super patriots, one 12 and the other 15, were in jail today because their efforts on behalf of the safety of the U.S. involved a slight disregard for the law. Radio Patrolmen Edward Murphy and Edgar Lavole were riding along at 3 a.m. today when they saw Robert Dier, the 15-year-old, ...
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• Vote on Martys $64M potato chip put on hold

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 564
  From the NY Post : The city’s Design Commission today opted to hold off a key vote for Coney Island’s $64 million amphitheater project after irate opponents gave commissioners an earful over the controversial plan. The taxpayer-funded, 8,000-seat amphitheater plan for Asser Levy Park is a pet project of ...
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• World in Focus Photo Contest: Merit Prize Winner

  
  Intelligent Travel Blog — Authority: 562
  Our World in Focus Photo Contest winners are currently featured in our January/February issue, and werehighlighting each of the winning photos here on the blog. Merit award winner Kari Smith , of Brooklyn, New York used a Holga camera to take this nostalgic shot of two kids in an inflatable pool. Full details below. ...
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• Have You Considered Joining The Polar Bear Club?

  
  Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — Authority: 643
  If you really want to start afresh in 2010, consider heading down to Coney Island on New Year’s Day and joining up with The Polar Bears. The Polar Bear Club is definitely New York City’s most exclusive club–mostly because you have to be completely crazy to join. Founded in 1903, the Polar Bears convene every ...
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• CurbedWire: City Makes Coney Land Deal Official, Marc Jacobs Rental Bill

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 683
  CONEY ISLAND— Finally, peace in our times. The city closed on its purchase of 6.9 acres of land in the Coney Island amusement district from nemesis/womens fashion maven/land speculator Joe Sitt, of Thor Equities. Sitt retains about six acres of Coney Island land to develop as he sees fit once the city gets the ...
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• BILLIE, IN BETTER LIGHT

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  I’m glad that a number of my readers found the nearly-prurient Carl Van Vechten photographs of Billie Holiday equally disturbing.  I needed to put something in their place.  Earl Hines told Whitney Balliett in a New Yorker Profile, “Sunshine always opens out,” his way of saying that good fortune eventually ...
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• Coney Island Hospital Recruits Blood Donors Online

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 141
  Coney Island Hospital has partnered with Takes All Types, a non-profit that uses social networking to encourage the internet generation to join the ranks of blood donors.Takes All Types takes the concept of viral marketing and grassroots campaigning and transforms it into a system for alerting local blood donors when ...
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• SICK AS A DOG, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?

  
  Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog — Authority: 471
  …..cause you really ain’t that young………..  I have a nasty chest cold today and feel like shit so I’m hoping the Mets keep their trade hand pat as I’d hate for them to pull off a blockbuster today like getting Albert Puljos and Adam Wainright for Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez and Tony Bernazard’s ...
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• SICK AS A DOG, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?

  
  Pro Baseball Central | Part of the Sportsday Radio Network — Authority: 130
  …..cause you really ain’t that young………..    I have a nasty chest cold today and feel like shit so I’m hoping the Mets keep their trade hand pat as I’d hate for them to pull off a blockbuster today like getting Albert Puljos and Adam Wainright for Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez and Tony ...
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• Atomische : Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2008 / 2008

  
  atomische § tumblr — Authority: 578
  Atomische  : Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2008 / 2008
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• Walgreens Posts Extended Hours

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 141
  Remember all that Walgreens coverage we brought you this past summer and fall? Well, here’s a little more for you.Starting Saturday, December 19, the Coney Island Avenue and Avenue W location will remain open an extra two hours every day – to close at midnight – until Christmas Eve, on which it will close early ...
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• Just Like Everyone Needs a Coney Island Photograph

  
  Bryan Formhals — Authority: 117
  I went to Coney Island once this summer and wasn’t really into it. I prefer Venice Beach which is equally as cheesy but the surrounding neighborhood is kind of interesting to get lost in for an afternoon.  And really, that light and the Pacific as the sun goes down just can’t be beat. ...
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• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Coney Islands of the Mind: CHRIST CLIMBED DOWN – A Poem

  
  TruthHugger — Authority: 548
  Christ Climbed Down Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti, famous for running the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, wrote this poem in the 1950s and published it in his book: A Coney Island of the Mind, Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A New Directions Book , Copyright 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. ...
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• Local Leaders Criticize DOT Proposal For C.I. Ave

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 141
  Local leaders  are looking for ways to put the brakes on what they say are dangerous and complicated changes around the Coney Island Avenue Belt Parkway overpass being proposed following a Department of Transportation study.The changes are part of the Coney Island/Gravesend Sustainable Development Transportation ...
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• Boardwalk Stories

  
  Buzzine — Authority: 506
  Nostalgia…the old days. Boardwalk Stories brings to memory childhood days on the boardwalk…at least for those of us over 50. For me, it was days in the early ’30s at Coney Island with wool swim suits that sagged and got itchy when they were heavy with salt water. For Bernstein, it’s the ’50s and the ...
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• Atomische : Coney Island (For Rent) / 2008

  
  atomische § tumblr — Authority: 578
  Atomische  : Coney Island (For Rent) / 2008
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• Karaoke at Coney Island

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 141
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• Coney Island redevelopment plan attracts 50 amusement park companies from seven countries

  
  Going Coastal — Authority: 116
  It’s the scramble for Coney Island.The competition to build a new amusement park at the faded seaside mecca has reached a fever pitch as a who’s who of amusement operators work to put together proposals by a Dec. 18 deadline.“How often do you get somebody that says [heres a] world-class location, on a beach, on ...
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• Warren Lincoln Travis ~ The Human Link!

  
  Oldtime Strongman Training — Authority: 132
  Warren Lincoln Travis ~ The Human Link! Heres a classic shot of Warren Lincoln Travis performing the classic strength feat "The Human Link". Although out of the frame, travis actually has a pair of horses looped over each elbow, and its all he can do to stop from being torn limb from limb!
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