1. Williamsburg: Huge bust at hipster drug den 7 hours ago   permalink

Www.brooklynpaper.com

Cops busted a Williamsburg super and two others on Wednesday for running hipster drug den out of defunct bar and hiding their stash in a sauna. Narcotics investigators seized more than $800,000 and 18 kilos of cocaine from the second-floor apartment above the former site of the Laila Lounge on N. Seventh Street between Wythe and Berry streets, ...

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ANNE BARNARD / NYT > N.Y.
Friday Links Fire Reveals Illegal Homes Hide in Plain Sight   —  The story of a deadly fire in Woodside, Queens, illustrates how dangerous, illegal apartments remain common.
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WILLIAM / NYT > N.Y.
City Building Agency May Farm Out Tests   —  After deficiencies were exposed last year, the agency is looking to private firms to run construction license exams.
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2. Contorted Hazel 2 hours ago   permalink

Contorted Hazel
Ilonasgarden.com

Preeminent for winter interest, the Contorted Hazel, Contorted Filbert, or ‘Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick’ all add up to the same beautifully twisted, gnarled branches standing out in the bleak wintertime views. All of these common names refer to one tree, “Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’“.

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3. President’s Environmental Youth Awards Recognize Green Student Leaders 2 hours ago   permalink

President’s Environmental Youth Awards Recognize Green Student Leaders
Sustainablog.org

How many of the environmental education initiatives that you know of were started by teachers, parents, or non-profit organizations? That’s typical: from artistic approaches to rainwater harvesting to solar boat building, most efforts at teaching kids about environmental issues start with adults. But students often come up with their own ...

4. Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Coming Along 1 hour ago   permalink

Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Coming Along
Gabby / Brownstoner

All the construction netting on the Fifth Avenue Committee's supportive housing project on 5th Avenue and 16th street has come down, and it's now possible to see progress on the corner of the structure. The rendering above shows how it's supposed to turn out. Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Gets Its Brick On [Brownstoner] Development Watch: ...

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Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Coming Along StreetLevel: South, New 5th Avenue Bar, Opens   —  South, the new bar in the former Vin Rouge space on 5th Avenue between 17th and 18th streets, has opened. According to BlackBook , South is run by the same people who own the Brooklyn Ice House in Red Hook and has half a dozen beers on tap. StreetLevel: New South Slope Bar on Tap [Brownstoner] GMAP

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Development Watch: 575 5th Avenue Coming Along Checking In On 660 Bergen Street   —  Things have been going pretty well over at 660 Bergen Street, the 16-unit Karl Fischer-designed condo development in Prospect Heights. When we took its temperature back in March, six apartments were in contract. And now? 12 are either closed or in contract, leaving just four still up for grabs. Probably not coincidentally, they are all first- ...

5. A-Rod still looking high and dry for Manhattan condo 3 hours ago   permalink

A-Rod still looking high and dry for Manhattan condo
Www.nydailynews.com

Alex Rodriguez has looked at so many condominiums by now, he knows more about New York luxury real estate than most brokers. We hear the Yankee slugger checked out 57 Irving, the same Gramercy Park-area condo we reported on a few weeks ago with the in-apartment steam room the size of most small bedrooms. It's highly likely A-Rod sneaked peeks at ...

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6. Giving thanks for the Garden State … and how New Jersey got its nickname – newjerseynewsroom.com 3 hours ago   permalink

Gardening Diva / Just My Garden

Giving thanks for the Garden State … and how New Jersey got its nickname newjerseynewsroom.com BY ERIC MODEL It's so present on a daily basis — right there on our license plates and on our road signs: The words " Garden State. … and more »

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Giving thanks for the Garden State … and how New Jersey got its nickname – newjerseynewsroom.com Giving thanks for the Garden State ... and how New Jersey got its nickname   —  It's so present on a daily basis — right there on our license plates and on our road signs: The words "Garden State." We seem to take our state slogan for granted. Also, to some it sounds so absurdly out of place that it does not to even deserve to be considered even for a moment.

Gardening Diva / Just My Garden
Giving thanks for the Garden State … and how New Jersey got its nickname – newjerseynewsroom.com Speaking of the garden – Baltimore Sun   —  Baltimore Sun Speaking of the garden Baltimore Sun Now she will be writing about those gardens – and yours – here on Garden Variety. Susan isn't an expert gardener , but she wasn't an expert mother, either. … and more »

7. Mindful play 3 hours ago   permalink

Mindful play
Carolinescrayons.blogspot.com

Mindful play is what musicians do (and need to remember to do all the time, especially when playing concerts). The mechanical work of preparing for concerts is the thing that allows musicians to be at play "in the moment" (or in the series of moments that makes up a concert). We just have to trust in ourselves, and let go of all the ...

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8. Seattle as North America's First Carbon-Neutral City 1 hour ago   permalink

Seattle as North America's First Carbon-Neutral City
Alex Steffen / Worldchanging

Alex SteffenLast week, I stood on the stage at Seattle's Town Hall and called on Seattle to become North America's first carbon-neutral city, dropping its per...

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Seattletimes.nwsource.com
Seattle Schools go to neighborhood system   —  Seattle Public Schools has officially returned to a neighborhood-based system of assigning students to schools, similar to one it abandoned about 30 years ago in the name of racial integration.

9. U.S. Military Wary About Offshore Wind Power Off Coast of Maryland 47 minutes ago   permalink

U.S. Military Wary About Offshore Wind Power Off Coast of Maryland
TreeHugger

Photo: Wikipedia , CC Maryland Offshore Wind Development Martin O'Malley, the governor of Maryland, would like to see offshore wind power developed off the cost of his state, but the U.S. military has expressed fears that the turbines could "disrupt flight and weapon test ranges, as well as erroneously appear on radar as unidentifiable aircraft."

10. Curbed Hamptons: The Hamptons' Most Important Sales of the Decade, The Country's Best Home For A Round of ... 59 minutes ago   permalink

Sara / Curbed NY

[Fancy a round of golf ? Let's go out back.] 1) In addition to a best Hamptons houses of the decade list, our Curbed Hamptons counterparts have put together a roundup of the decade's 10 most important real estate deals. It's got everything: flips, Kennedy connections, and some of the most expensive houses in America. 2) Bridgehampton's Three ...

11. Neighborhood Names: Making a Case for Frederick Douglass Blvd. as Harlem's Gold Coast 1 hour ago   permalink

Neighborhood Names: Making a Case for Frederick Douglass Blvd. as Harlem's Gold Coast
Joey / Curbed NY

Blog Harlem Condo Life uses the occasion of the opening of The Douglass (formerly called The Savannah , right ) to anoint Frederick Douglass Boulevard as Harlem's Gold Coast . (And really, every neighborhood needs a Gold Coast, right?) In addition to the Douglass at #2110, there's 2280 FDB , Livmor , the Aloft and plenty of other new stuff ...

12. Condo 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.streeteasy.com

10'4" Ceilings -Belgian oak chevron wood flooring -Mahogany framed windows -Unobstructed southern light -Niles stereo systm -Gas fireplace -Built-in electronic shades -2 Walk-in dressing room/closet off Master suite -Baths: Dornbracht and Duravit fixtures -2 full gourmet, dine-in kitchens -Wine tasting and storage room -Wolf, LaCornuFe and ...

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13. Sleeping With The Vampires: The Vancouver house that appears as... 2 hours ago   permalink

Sleeping With The Vampires: The Vancouver house that appears as...
Sara / Curbed NY

The Vancouver house that appears as bloodsucking boyfriend Edward Cullen's family home in the Twilight films is on the market for $3.298 million. The five-bedroom home was renovated in 2001 and has 20-foot living room ceilings and an outdoor pool. Go to it, Twihards! If anyone can provoke a bidding war these days, it will be you. [Luxist]

14. HB 1180 - 2009-10 2 hours ago   permalink

Apps.leg.wa.gov

Representatives Dickerson, Hudgins, Campbell, Dunshee, Pedersen, Hunt, Rolfes, Appleton, Moeller, Kagi, Van De Wege, Hunter, Cody, Chase, Green, Morrell, Pettigrew, White, Williams, Simpson, Kenney

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15. U.S. pledges $275 mln for tropical forests in 2010 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.reuters.com

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States pledged $275 million to rainforest protection on Thursday, at an event hosted by Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in London.

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16. Construction Watch: New Renderings of Norman Foster's Bowery Building Revealed 2 hours ago   permalink

Pete / Curbed NY

[Renderings by dbox via Foster + Partners.] The Sperone Westwater Gallery from British starchitect Norman Foster has started to rise above the street, and Foster + Partners are showing off the goods in fuller detail on their website—including the gigantic red elevator that has everybody talking . The Lower East Side building at 257 Bowery ...

17. Open House Picks: Six Months Later 3 hours ago   permalink

Brownstoner / Brownstoner

Six months ago it was Memorial Day weekend and there were not enough open houses to make doing an Open House Picks post worth. Therefore, there's no Six Months Later post to run today! Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]

18. Christmas 2009: Top 10 plant presents 3 hours ago   permalink

Christmas 2009: Top 10 plant presents
Gardening

A living present will retain its charm even when the holiday season is over

19. Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips 3 hours ago   permalink

Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips
Content.usatoday.com

Search  Google for "Black Friday" or "Black Friday Sales" and brace yourself  for a stampede of  information befitting America's second most popular holiday.

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20. Mortgage Rate Update 4 hours ago   permalink

Mortgage Rate Update
Rhonda Porter / Rain City Guide

Underwriting guidelines continue to get tougher.  This week FHA tightened her belts on streamline refinances and over th