The December 22nd, 1955 cover of The Bay Ridge Home Reporter with the headline “Happy Christmas To All! No Bad News Today”
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New Atlantic Yards housing plan takes shape, with taller towers, higher income levels
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Demystifying NYC Community Boards
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NYC Macys Santa 12/07/2025
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South Brooklyn has long had a Scandinavian influence and that influence was ever-present during the holiday season in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Seeking NY Interview Subjects About Darkness/Winter in the City
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Lawmakers propose prison time for demonstrations outside of places of worship after anti-Israel protest outside of UES Synagogue.
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NYC’s Civil Service System Is Broken. Here’s What Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Do To Fix It.
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Are there any good Men’s Grooming Consultant / Hair Consultant
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Yellow Cab Scam Averted
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NYC Sample Sales!!!
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Two Questions for Co-Op Owners….
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The Christmas Day, 1959 cover of The Bay Ridge Home Reporter, which was then published by J. Frank Griffin from 8117 3rd Avenue (Bay Ridge). The cover features four-year-old Elaine Perez just before joining the choir to sing Christmas carols at Church of the Good Shepherd, 7420 4th Avenue.
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Orthodox Jewish Man Sentenced to 103 Years for Sex Abuse May Go Free
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Got Accepted to My First Community Board Art Show! 🥳🥲
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In Support of an official State-wide Neighborhood Watch defending our Bill of Rights
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[WSJ] Blackstone Executive, Three Others Dead After Shooting Spree in Midtown Office
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Two Roomies Seeking September Sublet! Hello! We are two roomies moving to New York from...
The best streets in Manhattan aren’t dominated by traffic — they’re designed for people.
Here’s a great example from the Lower East Side: a local-access street that reduces thru-traffic,...
OMNY website restored the Trip History and Charge History sections of the site after being on hiatus following privacy concerns. But the Trip History page now does not list the location where the an OMNY-compatible card has been tapped
Following an exposé by Joseph Cox of 404media, the MTA disabled these two pages on...
The Grand View Hotel along Shore Road in Brooklyn, near roughly 95th Street, ca. 1890. It was built in 1886 and destroyed by fire in January of 1893
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Casting Fun NYC Pairs for a Silly Game Show Filming in LIC – No Experience Needed
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Panel on MTA Metro-North Railroad’s Heritage Series at the Transit Museum on 8/21
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The B Train, riding over the West End Elevated Line, Bklyn, passes Loew’s Oriental movie theater at 1832 86th Street — 08/02/1981, photo by Doug Grotjahn from the collection of Joe Testagrose. The theater closed in 1995 and the 1st floor interior was completely gutted. Marshalls clothing moved.
Designed by Harrison G. Wiseman, Loew’s Oriental in Bensonhurst opened on October 13th, 1927 with...
Another horse carriage passed away. How do we pass RYDER’S LAW?
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Video 7 August 2025 – Busathon
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