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"HSM: Get in the Picture" at Jones, Robert Moses
The TV ZoneYou heard about this spin-off/another-surefire-way-to-exploit-"HSM" reality show based on "High School Musical?" It's called ???High School Musical: Get in the Picture.??? Hosted by Nick Lachey, it's one of those comp series that's looking for the...Tags: Education, Music, Religious Leaders, Getty Images Inc., Theater
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Walter O'Malley's blame in Dodgers move is complex
WatchdogInteresting book excerpt in SI regarding Robert Moses' involvement in the Dodgers' relocation to Brooklyn, although much of this ground was covered in an HBO documentary a couple of years back. That night Ralph Branca memorably rose to defend Walter......Tags: New York Mets, Sports, Major League Baseball, Brooklyn Nets, Baseball
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The Steel and Concrete Broker returns to LI, in spirit
Spin CycleYes, we know this is just a publicity gimmick from Gary Lewi, the guy from Rubenstein. But in a world of e-mail deluges that compete for your shrinking attention, no Long Island observer could resist eyeballing this half-macabre announcement:......Tags: Clubs and Associations, Coney Island, Lifestyle and Leisure, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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The Reading Life: Gordon Matta-Clark's 'Conical Intersect'
Jacket CopyWhat was he up to? That's the question at the center of any consideration of Gordon Matta-Clark, an architecture student-turned-installation artist who died of cancer in 1978, when he was just 35. Matta-Clark doesn't have the name recognition of... -
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Developer plans bait shop, restaurant for Poquoson marina
Poquoson developer Robert Moses plans to improve the marina at Messick Point with better boat slips, a bait and tackle shop and new restaurant. Moses, who runs the former city-operated marina as Port Messick Marina, said the bait shop is scheduled to...
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Margaret M. Moses 10/05/1913 - 03/18/2013
Rose Margaret McBride was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, the second of three daughters of father James Guyn McBride and mother Ruth Burnham McBride. Though her given name was Rose, she was always called Margaret, as her Aunt Rose McBride, her namesake,...
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And for Bloomberg's next NYC trick, making cigarettes disappear
At this rate, New York City is going to run out of vices before it sees another mayor. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced new city legislation that would force retail stores to keep cigarettes out of customers' sight, hidden behind curtains or...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Human Rights, New York City
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Jeff Speck's 'Walkable City' a recipe for vibrant street life
-------------------- Walkable City How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Jeff Speck Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 296 pp., $27 -------------------- If you grew up, as I did, in a pedestrian city, much of Jeff Speck's "Walkable City: How...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Manhattan (New York City), Lincoln Center, Lincoln, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Save the Mechanic
Robert Moses told Baltimore to put a highway through Mount Vernon Square. Aren't you glad Baltimore did not listen? William Donald Schaefer and every public official in Maryland wanted to put an interstate highway through Fell's Point that would have run...
Tags: Mount Vernon, William Donald Schaefer, Harbor East, Highway Transportation, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Divers Find Body Of Missing Boater Involved In Crash Off Long Island Saturday
Staff ReporterIt took more than eight hours but they finally found him. A Suffolk County police diver found the body of Christopher Mannino, 39, of West Islip, Saturday afternoon in the Great South Bay. He was discovered about 1:30 p.m., after he was thrown from a...Tags: Entertainment, West Islip, Great South Bay, Hatteras, Long Island
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Long Island's Jones Beach An East Coast Favorite
The Hartford CourantWANTAGH, N.Y. — It's hard to say what it is exactly that makes one beach nicer than another. Is it the sand? The water? The size of the waves? Nearby attractions, such as a boardwalk or gift shops? Whatever it is, Jones Beach on Long Island's south...Tags: Long Island Expressway, Jones Beach State Park, Trips and Vacations, Beach Vacations, Travel
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