NY Times - The City feedYorkville: Where Plugging in Means Paying Up
Many cafes and coffee shops around the city charge for wireless connections, but rare is the charge for electricity.
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Cornerville
If intersections are the city at its most intense, the places where the pulse of life quickens and unexpected things happen, New York is the richest city in the world.
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Holiday Break
Consider a detour to Long Island City, Queens, one subway stop from Grand Central Station, where there are inviting restaurants.
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Queens Boulevard: On a 12-Lane Road Riders With an Agenda
Cyclists are urging the installation of a protected bike lane on Queens Boulevard.
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Park Slope: Field of Deferred Dreams
A park destabilized by construction and closed in 2004 is finally going to reopen.
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East Village: Where Fans of the Saints Go Marching In
Since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August 2005, the Saints crowd at Bar None has grown steadily.
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Urban Studies: The United Nations of Chicken
Halal Live Meat and Poultry Market in Queens was opened to serve the Muslim community, but has unexpectedly come to draw a broad, polyglot clientele.
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Bronx Up Close: Food Fights on Friday, Salvation on Sunday
Surrounded by vending machines and a hallway of lockers, the New Day United Methodist Church held services at the Bronx High School of Science.
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The City Visible: Busting Loose Amid Wall Street’s Blues
The bear looms and there is financial disarray downtown. But the beat goes on.
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New York Observed: Little Victories
She challenged the dreaded “major capital improvement” — which passes a landlord’s costs for improving rental property to tenants — and she lived to tell the tale.
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Dispatches: A Second Chance for Students Left Behind
A recent court decision will give students who made mistakes at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn another try at an education.
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Letters to the Editor: Face-Off in Washington Square
Face-Off in washington square, a boy’s education and the art of the story.
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Good Eating | Union Square: In a Giving Mood
These restaurants by the holiday market at Union Square Park won’t hurt your budget.
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Staten Island Up Close: Two Boys, a Bean and a Very Big Deal
A school bus altercation among boys erupted into a snowballing series of events involving the police, the news media, criminal charges and a civil lawsuit.
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The City Visible: Smokey and the Truckers
Since the 1930s, truckers have favored the Clinton Diner, but many now avoid it because of an uptick in parking tickets on nearby streets.
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New York Observed: Suddenly, Street Wise
After years of having little sense of the city’s geography or his place within it, a boy lets go of his mother’s hand — not altogether to her delight.
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The Battle of Washington Square
A transformed park is poised to open, yet opponents of the redesign refuse to lay down their arms. Who really owns the city’s beloved public spaces?
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Dispatches: As a Hospital Awaits Its Fate, It Leaves Lives in the Balance
For neighbors, the uncertainties of life without Long Island College Hospital are deeply unsettling.
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