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$355 FINGER LAKES WINE FESTIVAL July 13-14, See the largest showcase of New York State wines with 80 wineries paired with regional artisans, music, culinary classes and breweries all in one beautiful location. Tour the Corning Glass Center and enjoy a...Tags: Cruises, Organized Crime, Entertainment, Princess Cruises, Ronald Reagan
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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: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, 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: Automotive Equipment, Fiction, Lincoln Center, Manhattan (New York City), Public Transportation
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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...
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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: Radio, Great South Bay, Long Island, West Islip, Entertainment
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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, Atlantic Ocean, Beach Vacations, Nikon at Jones Beach, Ocean Parkway
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Democratic Party, Politics, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Washington Post, Southeast Asia
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New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books. Books in libraries, books in shops. Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It,"...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lewis Allen, Islam, Judaism, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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The Life of a City: A new documentary looks to urban planning to solve tomorrow's problems
If you're optimistic about our chances of tackling the big challenges facing humanity in the 21st century — poverty, overpopulation, the environment, the fair allocation of political power — then you're likely to feel good about the state of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Politics, Architecture, Public Transportation, Entertainment
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Search For Missing Prostitute Continues At Gilgo Beach
pix11.com | @colekirstinThe search for Long Island's serial killer continues to stymy cops. The FBI and Suffolk County Police Dept. (SCPD) have been analyzing aerial photos for months taken of miles along Long Island's south shore. Yet despite having searched virtually the...Tags: Nassau County, Sex Crimes, Prostitution, Criminals, Police Investigations
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