Put Your City On; Welcome To Greenpoint; Select Bus Debuts; More!

• Rumor has it Fox is entertaining a pilot for a TV show called: Welcome to Greenpoint. [Young Manhattanite]
• Select Bus Service Debuts on Manhattan’s Busiest Bus Route [Streetsblog]
• Video from the storm last night as it hovered over the Lower East Side [Gammablog]
• Cab Driver Slips And Falls On Wet Road, Fatally Struck By Truck [WPIX]
  Frank Gehry's IAC Building Turns Into the Incredible Hulk [Curbed]
  

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Put Your City On: Gimme Coffee Expands To Brooklyn; Pretzel Crisps Wants Attention; Bike Lanes Used For More Than Bikes; More!

A resident of Hell's Kitchen provides his stretch of 56th Street with an outdoor garden for the publics' enjoyment

• NoLiTa's Gimme Coffee, one of the best espresso's in Manhattan, is opening a shop in Williamsburg [@GimmeCoffee]
• Pretzel Crisps draws another round of cards from the deck [@Krucoff]
• NYU Files Landmarks Application for Tallest Building in the Village [GVSHP]
• Breaking: Bike Lanes used however people see fit, whether on a bike or not [DNAinfo]
• Incarcerated Teens: An Interview with the School Librarians of Passages Academy [NYPL]
  St. Vincent's Hospital closing was a 'significant disaster,' says Bellevue chief [Daily News]
  [New Pedestrian Safety Measures at Canal & East Broadway [The Lo-Down]

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Put Your City On: Lourdes Leon Enjoys Her Mother's Music; New Roosevelt Tram Arrives; SoHo No Like Canal Street; More!

Hitting it right at the skate park on East 12th Street

• Madonna's daughter Lourdes catches her theatrical set construction teacher at La Guardia High School rocking out to Ray of Light [Zorica] 
• The affluent residents of SoHo struggle with life on Canal Street [Curbed]
• Sources Say New Jersey Gov. Christie to Pull Plug on Hudson River Tunnel [WNYC]
• New Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin Docked In Station, Attached To Carriage Track And Taking Test Rides Over East River [Roosevelt Islander]
• After a two-decade process, the Museum at Eldridge Street will unveil the conclusion of its restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue [WSJ Greater New York]

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Put Your City On: Raptors Take Over Central Park; Car-Free Streets; More!

Demetrius Oliver's Jupiter, a 25-by-75-foot photographic banner on a billboard adjacent to the High Line at West 18th Street and 10th Avenue on view until today, October 6, to correspond with a complete lunar cycle

• Why Some Polling Places Were Tardy on Primary Day [City Room]
• Raptor Fest 2010: Escape to New York City [Animal Tourism]
• A Car-Free Street Grows in Queens [Streetsblog]
• Vandam St Between Hudson St and Varick St [NYC Grid]

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Put Your City On: Perfect City; Scandal At Hermes; More!

Lower Manhattan as seen from the Manhattan Bridge

• How Much For a TriBeCa Corner Building? [Curbed]
• Perfect City is a two-part documentary which focuses on the physical spaces in New York that helped fuel the Abstract Expressionist movement [WNYC]
• The Strangeness of Living in New York [Mr. Bellers Neighborhood]
• Scandal! Shoppers hoping for upscale bargains at an Hermes sample sale two weeks ago were disappointed by shoddy merchandise and outrageous prices [DNAinfo]

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Put Your City On: South Bronx Poorest District In Nation; Scandal Inside Park Slope Food Coop; More!

Constructed in the 1800s to protect against hostility towards Catholics, the brick wall surrounding St. Patrick's Old Cathedral on Mott Street received a thorough cleaning last week. 

• You've heard the latest on the most expensive zip codes in Manhattan, but what of the poorest? Over a quarter of a million people live below poverty thresholds in the South Bronx, the poorest district in the nation. [NY Daily News]
• Great video of a "seasoned crew" replacing pipe under East Houston [Gammablog] 
• NYC to change 250,000 street signs around borough at a cost of $110.00 each [DNAinfo] 
• LES: An Endangered Place – Screening, Discussion Next Week [The Lo-Down]
• Scandal inside the Park Slope Food Coop [Naparstek]

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Put Your City On: Cheap Opera Tickets; MTA Services Columbia; East Village Is Rich; More!

Hells Kitchen, seen from 56th Street and 10th Avenure

• MTA Gives Columbia University Special Shuttle to Football Field Amid Construction [DNAinfo]
• The East Village is one of the 25 most expensive places to live in the United States [NY Daily News]
• Win tickets to The New Yorker Festival [Time Out New York]
• How to get cheap tickets to the MET and NYC Opera [Newyorkology]

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Put Your City On: Real Hipsters, Gentrification In East Harlem; History In The Sidewalks; More!

• Behold the hipster, the stylishly disaffected breed of twentysomethings whose fog of twee whimsy envelopes Williamsburg and the East Village. [Psychology Today]
  
• Most of the evictions that City Marshal Oren Varnai conducts aren't dangerous; they're simply "uncomfortable." [City Limits] 
• Protesters Fight Gentrification of El Barrio [DNAinfo]
• Historical footnotes in the sidewalks of Tribeca [Tribeca Citizen]
• Videos from the streets of Dumbo Arts Festival 2010 [Gammablog]

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Put Your City On: Bees Fight; LLC's Make The Perfect Gift; Delivery Truck Madness; Hike Across GWB; More!

Old St Patrick's Convent and Girls' School on the corner on Prince Street and Mott streets closed in June

• Years Pass, But Question Remains: Is NYC Denying Welfare? [City Limits]
  
• Delivery trucks bring headaches for Hudson Heights neighbors [Manhattan Times]
• Flight of the Honeybees [City Room] 
• 14th St. tree pits are a hit [The Villager]
• 10 Tips on How to Avoid Renting an Illegal Death Trap [Curbed]
• Brian Lehrer sets up an LLC as an individual in 11 minutes [WNYC]
• You don't have to go away to get away, right? Hike across the GWB to the Pallisades. [Harlem Hybrid] 

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Put Your City On: Welcome To NYC; Hudson Square Or Soho?; Team Cedar Grove; More!

A message for dog owners in Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side. Please educate yourself.

• Welcome to New York City [ANIMAL]
• Museum at Eldridge Documents Installation of Kiki Smith Window [The Lo-Down]
• The 48th Annual New York Film Festival opens Friday [WNYC]
• #TeamCedarGroveBeachClub [The Village Voice]
• Harlem's go-to blog redesigns [Uptown Flavor]
• SoHo or Hudson Square? [Downtown Express]

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Put Your City On: Duck Yoga; Harlem Nutcrackers; Bike Zealots; More

Weekend mornings in the East Village find even street furniture splayed out on the sidewalk

• Back from a little break and our sponsors remain. Visit Notify NYC and enter to win one of five Ready New York Go Bags.
• Art Trio Sticks It to Opponents and Supporters of Park51 [Hyper Allergic via ANIMAL] 
• In Harlem, Nutcracker Drink Is Popular but Risky [The New York Times]
• Duck Yoga – Central Park [GammaBlog]
• 20 Concerts You Can't Miss [WQXR]
• NYC Bike Zealot Triumph [Restless]

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Put Your City On: Michael Antonio Installation; Food Cart Wars; Public Works: More!

Washington Square Park fountain continues to be a very popular place this summer

Michael Antonio Installation on Ludlow Street [Gammablog]
• Showdown: Food cart vs. food truck at Union Square [EV Grieve]
• Two Blocks From Ground Zero: Scenes of Everyday Life [WNYC]
  
• Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center to Be Replaced by Century 21? [Racked]
• Four New York State Prisons Among Nation's Most Sexually Abusive [City Limits]
• NYCDOT will re-engineer 60 miles of streets for greater pedestrian safety [NYC DOT]
• A prototype for a new public bench at 16th Street and 10th Avenue gives Chelsea residents a new place to sit. [DNAinfo]

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Put Your City On: Zipped & Cuffed; Erasing Graffiti; Tribeca Building Illegally Deregulated; More!

Soho streets on a Sunday morning

• 74th St Between Roosevelt Ave and 37th Ave [NYC Grid]
  On the Street....Zipped & Cuffed, New York [The Sartorialist]
• Using Private Eyes to Keep Track of Tenants [The New York Times]
• Tribeca Complex Actually Was Illegally Deregulated, Judge Says [Curbed] 
• 13 Hurt in Suspicious Bedford-Stuyvesant Fire, and the NY Scanner Twitter account reports NYPD looking for 3 suspects [The New York Times]
• Extranenous Barry McGee Tags Removed from Building Wall Above Deitch Canvas [Bowery Boogie] 

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Put Your City On: Remixing American Apparel Ads; Bombing the Deitch Wall; More!

Enjoying the fountain in Washington Square Park

• American Apparel "counter-advertising" on Houston and Allen Streets [Gammablog]
• The History of New York Public Transportation: Recap [The Bowery Boys] 
• Allen Street Mall-terations Two Weeks from Completion [Bowery Boogie]
• New York Time Machine [WSJ Greater New York]
• TWIST aka Barry Mcgee and crew bombed the newly prepped Deitch wall on Houston Street and Bowery [ANIMAL]

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Put Your City On: Obnoxious Ads; Secret Tree Houses; Young Death; A+; More!

A turtle relaxes in the pond at the Liz Christy Community Garden on Houston and Bowery

• Work under way at the Deitch wall [EV Grieve] 
• No More Rita’s Leather Fair at 143 Orchard [Bowery Boogie] 
• Secrets of the Village's Amazing Treehouse Revealed! [Curbed]  
• "Obnoxious" Sidewalk Marketing Campaign Roils NYers [WPIX]
• Teenager 22 Stories to Her Death From Herald Square Apartment Building [DNAinfo]
• ‘A’ Grades Have Gone to Almost Half the Restaurants With Full Inspections [Diner's Journal]

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Put Your City On: Residents VS Zynga; Smithosian Promotes Pro-pollution; Bike Sharing; More!

 
A guerilla Peta campaign? No, advertising for a past art show on an art gallery's exterior walls, which inhabits the old La Freida Meats on Washington Street

• Is the Smithsonian Promoting a Pro-pollution Corporate Agenda? [Hyperallergic]
• UPDATE: East Village vs Zynga Campaign, 'Clean Up!' [East Village Feed]
• Roosevelt Island Aims to Pioneer Bike-Sharing in NYC [Streetsblog] 
• A retrospective of the horrendous Shepard Fairey advertisement on Deitch Wall [EV Grieve]

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Put Your City On: Zynga Litters All Over; Union Square Pedestrian Plaza; NYPL Cutting Hours; More!

Looking north from Nolita to Soho, Noho, Greenwich Village and Midtown

• Union Square getting a new pedestrian plaza [Curbed]
• There are 11,000 tropical wood planks in the Brooklyn Bridge boardwalk [City Room]
• New York Public Library Cuts Hours Across City [DNAinfo]
• Zynga, the SF-based game developer, litters all over the city! [East Village Feed]

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Put Your City On: Summer In The City; Missing Parrots; New Bike Lanes; More!

Beware: Bed Bugs on Bowery and Catherine Street

• Mystery Surrounds Disappearance of WaHi Quaker Parrots [DNAinfo]
• Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Discovered on Columbus Ave [Bowery Boogie]
• Karl Lagerfeld on Orchard Street, Redux [Tugster]
• Summer in the City, NYC [The Sartorialist]

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Put Your City On: NYC Forms Like Voltron; Secret Peach Groves; Burlesque On A Boat; More!

Red Hook Community Farm

• Greater New York: How Five Boroughs Became One City [WNYC] 
• The Secret, Dreamy Peach Grove of New York City [Matthew Gallaway for The Awl]
• Photos from the burlesque show on a boat in New York Harbor near Redhook [Tugster]
• Pretzel Crisps follows through on intent to change offensive ads [EV Grieve] [Previously]
• California charged man in scheme to bribe a Harlem hospital official [Empire State News]

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Put Your City On: Street Corn; Residents At 2229 Creston Ave Need Help; Marco Mural Done; More!

The humongous Caribbean Princess cruise ship sits in the waters outside Red Hook last weekend

• Riverside Park Eyeasses are all grown up [Urban Hawks] 
• Bronx Tenants Speak Out Against Negligent Landlord [NY1]
• Marco’s Gateway to the Lower East Side Mural gets painted over [Bowery Boogie]  
• What They’re Saying About Protected Bike Lanes in East Harlem [Streetsblog]
• 14 Traffic Cameras Vandalized On Long Island [CBS New York]
• Street corn grows in Washington Heights [Gothamist]

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