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• New York asks Washington to pay for 9-11 terror trial

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  New York, Jan 8 (DPA) New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has asked the Obama administration to foot the bill for the planned trial of the 9-11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which he estimates at $216 million for the first year, media reports said Thursday.Sheikh Mohammed and four defendants will stand trial in a ...
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• The wisdom of the dead in Manhattan graveyards

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton, and dozens of ordinary 18th- and 19th-century New Yorkers sleep for eternity in the cemetery behind Trinity Church, at Broadway and Wall Street. And a few blocks up Broadway, off Fulton Street, more early residents are buried in the graveyard of St. Paul’s Chapel. Both are ...
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• DND OPENING NIGHT 2010

  
  Streetball, Sneakers, Bobbito, Nike Air Force, Jordans — Authority: 132
  Yesterday it went down in Bayside queens as the DnD tip off has commenced, The first game featured the defending champions TNP up against the Lower Manhattan Classic All Stars, it was a show from the opening tip as Brian Gardenhire took over early slicing and dicing the TNP guards to shreds. Brian had a [...]
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• 9/11 Trial Security In NYC Might Top $200 Million A Year

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 495
  Only days ago, the NYPD and Commissioner Ray Kelly said that the costs for a 9/11 trial at the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan would run $75 million. Today, the Daily News reports that the... Get the latest news, notes, and analysis from the NYC metro area and around the world.
  3 days ago

• Almost-forgotten Manhattan phone exchanges

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  Tucked among the battered old store signs in Chinatown are a few faded but still readable gems like this one. It sports the old-school phone exchange WO—for nearby Worth Street: An Ephemeral reader sent in this 1980s business card, featuring the old BR exchange for Bryant Park: Modern Leather Goods ...
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• WinterMarket 09: Heartlands Winter Wassail

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  Its easy to hate on Heartland Brewery. Ive certainly done it . Its touristy and, Brooklyn-brewed or not, the beer isnt fantastic. But they do put an effort in and I give them credit for that. They participated in the WinterMarket this year, just a block away from their Seaport location. To help battle the frigid ...
  6 days ago

• WinterMarket 09: Oysters

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  I typically love oysters, whether first thing in the morning or late into the evening. Sadly, the morning of the WinterMarket, I couldnt muster up the will to slurp down any of the ice cold bivalves on display. They do look gorgeous though, dont they?
  1 week ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
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• WinterMarket 09: Fleishers

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  This bucket of guts and goodies brought to you by Fleishers , the upstate butcher shop that has served as the training ground for many of the butchers that have been proselytizing the gospel of butchery in recent years. Bryan apprenticed there through the fall and has continued to work there over the last several ...
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• Celebrating New Year’s in old New York

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  The whole Times Square-ball drop thing didn’t start until 1904. Before then, the hip place to celebrate the holiday was at the base of  Trinity Church, on Wall Street and Broadway. Huge crowds would show up, something like 15,000 some years, looking to see and be seen as well as to hear the tolling of the bells to ...
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• WinterMarket 09: Porchetta

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  Sara Jenkins fantastic roast pork is what began my obsession with that rosemary and fennel scented lusciousness that is porchetta last year. So, it was wonderful to run into her booth at the Wintermarket on Sunday. My only disappointment was that the little porchetta sandwiches being served were not warm and ...
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• WinterMarket 09: Hot Pockets!

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  The most amazing thing I ate at the WinterMarket was the "Hot Pockets" being sold by Quality Meats. Discard all thoughts of the vile microwave pastries made infamous by Jim Gaffigan . No, these incredible creations are filled with a mix of shredded Duck Confit and cheese and then pressed in a sandwich ...
  1 week ago

• New Year’s Day dinner on the Bowery

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  Fried rabbit on toast, canned Oyster Bay asparagus, hot mince and pumpkin pie—these and other delicacies were on the menu at M.F. Lyons’ Dining Rooms on the Bowery for New Year’s Day dinner in 1906. And yep, those prices are in cents. I wonder what kind of residents showed up for this meal. “Mike” Lyons’ ...
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• P.T. Barnum’s “Living Curiosities”

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  Think of them as the cast of a reality show—so real they were actually on display 365 days a year at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. One of the most popular tourist attractions on the city, the museum was located on Ann Street and Broadway from 1841 to 1868. The “curiosities” were a revolving cast. In ...
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• The Day After Christmas

  
  About New York — Authority: 115
  Wet but not cold. The snow melting rapidly. My main blog is now here
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• Patti Smith: Dream of Life~ Punk Legend as Muse

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 118
  Patti Smith: Dream of Life~ Punk Legend as Muse A Legend as Muse: Patti Smith Fills Role By EDWARD WYATT LOS ANGELES — There was a time, a decade ago, Patti Smith said, that she did not want to make a film about herself. “To me the idea seems sort of conceited,” she said in an interview. “I felt, even ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  2 weeks ago

• How New York invented Santa Claus

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  It’s not really a stretch for New Yorkers to claim the jolly, red-suited dude as one of our own. “Sinte Klaas” was the nickname Dutch settlers gave St. Nicholas, a serious figure depicted in bishop’s robes celebrated every December 6. Legend had it that St. Nicholas gave gifts to the poor, and he also ...
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• Is this the oldest photograph of New York?

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 527
  It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History , by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, it’s believed to date to May 1850. Looks like workers have torn up the street. On the far left, at 360 Broadway, is a building advertising carriages, and a ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 weeks ago

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