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• Columbia University: And All Ye Who Enter Morningside Heights Shall Be Pure Of Hearts And Of Service To Our Young Students. "With the exception of a few buildings, Broadway's storefronts are owned by Columbia and University affiliates between 111th and 123rd streets. On Amsterdam, Columbia owns the majority of storefronts between 115th and 122nd...In 2006, a store owner told the Spectator that the University requires proprietors to submit business proposals and comply with certain stipulations in exchange for their favorable rental terms...'Columbia considers a variety of local needs before making a decision on the type of business that can become a business tenant. Beyond that, we do not comment on our negotiations.'" <The Bwog>
  
  
• Washington Heights resident not blowing smoke, documents neighborhood air quality violations on his blog, becoming the lead in neighborhood's quest to remedy an egregious environmental problem under their noses. Exposing an oft overlooked side to urban living uptown, photographing the thick black smoke that pours out of 671 West 162nd, while other residents converse in the comments about what steps they can take, no doubt aware that people power will move the issue. "Officials and politicians? Not even footnotes in this story, which is about the aggregation of capital and the relentless rise of the metropolis."
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• Some great fall shots of Upper Manhattan <Paz's New York Minute>
  
• Undiscovered Beach in Manhattan? <NY Daily Photo>
  
• Antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins are associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay fever and eczema in preschoolers, New York researchers say. <UPI.com>
  

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Morningside park waterfall in Harlem

• Harvard For Harlem Families <Harlem World Magazine>
• Columbia Contemplates Cutbacks Due to Financial Crisis <Daily Intel>
• A blog devoted to the dogs of Washington Heights and their people. (!!)
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• "Aggressive, cheesy and overpowering - just like its inspiration - "Paolo" is not suitable if you're going out on a hit." <NY Post>
  
• Harlem Flo (floral atelier) A great little addition to the up and coming new businesses on Frederick Douglass Blvd. <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• The Abyssinian Baptist Church Men’s Ministry Presents Jazz at Abyssinian
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MTA/DOT/Port Authority Collectibles

Those in pursuit of the finest collectibles from the MTA can visit the MTA's online site for collectibles and memorabilia or Billy's Antiques and Props on Houston St. as NYC The Blog recently pointed out.

Or...while wearing track pants and a hoodie, you can accidentally stumble into an engineering job fair held by Columbia University, requiring "business attire ONLY" and a student I.D.

NY State DOT was present. The City of Portland, NYC DOT, The MTA, The Port Authority of NY/NJ, U.S. Dept of Commerce, U.S. Patent Office, MTA Capital Construction, The LIRR, and other companies including banks, technology concerns, and more. Each table had little gifts for the job prospects, such as a holographic bookmark from NYS DOT, little white foam hats from MTA Capital Construction, lip balm from the NYC DOT, and other neat items. While visiting the table set up by the LIRR, I attempted to convince the woman to give me the foam rail car on the table, but she explained that was for them, not to be given away.

"Are you here for a job?" she asked suspiciously.

I told her I would like one of those jobs where I can retire at 50 with full pension and disability. She looked at me perplexed, and clearly didn't know what I was referencing. I like to believe that 10 minutes later she thought about it and, recalling my witty humor, chuckled, slapped her knee, and was like, "oh!"

The Buzz On Matt Drudge Is He Has Lost His Ability To Shape The Days Big News. Yah, Because I've Stolen His Thunder

The Anatomy of a news story in NYC, from blog buzz to mainstream press in less than 24 hours. Columbia University Students create a new erotic magazine.

After spying it on a posting dated Oct.17 on College on the Record, NYC The Blog links C-Spot, A new erotic magazine by Columbia University students, on Oct.21.

NYC The Blog sends out email tips out to NY Press, Gawker, Gothamist, etc...that morning. It appears on each site hours later(NSFW), as well as elsewhere.

Completing it's journey to a story worthy of dead trees and plundered planets, the NY Post prints the story the next morning. Has the story reached it's final destination?

p.s. Mr. O'reilly even though the magazine was not my creation, I'd be happy to come on your show and play the role of naive, sex crazed, liberal ivy league college student while you scream and yell at me. That would be exciting and I would like that.

UPDATE: Related, from Gawker, "The Post is now officially a blog on paper"'

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Looking North past 125 St From the elevated train line at the 123 Subway stop

• Columbia Students Release New Erotic Magazine <College on the Record>
  
• Thursday October 30th, the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center will be hosting the Halloween Children's Festival <Exodus Foundation>
  
• W.Harlem nightclubs are fly <NYTimes>
  
• "...West Harlem residents expressed concern that evictions and rent hikes would continue to worsen in the face of economic downturn and Columbia’s expansion into Manhattanville." <Columbia Spectator>
  
• John Kelley from the BBC visits the Dance Theater of Harlem <Talking America>
  
• Mulling over the new Target coming to E.Harlem <Geo/Graphi/Culture>
  
• Recollections of growing up in E.Harlem in 1940's <The History Box>
  
• ModSquad Bike Shop Sign is Up in Harlem <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• A Harlem man was gunned down early Saturday on a basketball court a few blocks from his home at 102nd St,. <Daily News>
• The First Line of Defence. Marker honors the 225th anniversary of The Battle of Harlem Heights fought on September 16, 1776, during the Revolutionary War <HMBD>
• Man in Harlem hit by SUV, dragged by clueless driver <Daily News>
• What happens when a secular Jew walks from Harlem to Ground Zero in a burqa?
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