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Sandy's Wrath: Much of Manhattan is in the Dark and Subway Tunnels Are Filled With Water Amid Historic Flooding. The Big Question: How Bad is the Damage From Epic Storm?
Historic Hurricane Sandy slammed the tri-state area Monday, leaving millions without power in the region, the lower Manhattan skyline darkened, sea water rushing into subway and car tunnels, and Hudson River water spilling deep into Manhattan streets.
It...Tags: Howard Beach, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Travel, Weather, Chris Christie
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In All of it's Glory
Our Town CorrespondentShuffling feet and scuffed shoes. Suitcases and purses. Tourists with accents. Snack stands. Hats. Glasses. iPhones. Tickets. Travelers. I was one of them. The transit station was crowded last Saturday as a close friend and I prepared to make our way...Tags: John Lennon, Times Square, Manhattan (New York City), New York City
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A night with Broadway's Phyllis Newman -- talking Texas!
Liz Smith"TOURISM DESTROYS the object it loves," said travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. My friends who were in London over the last few weeks complained by email that it rained on them for 11 straight days. But now they are back in New York at the height of the...Tags: Education, World War II (1939-1945), Liz Smith, White House, Phyllis Newman
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Florida travel calendar for October
Check out festivals and events in October across the state.
View events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 12: Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, Walt Disney World. The...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Bob Seger, Beverage Industry, Science and Technology, Palm Beach Gardens
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FBI says New York bomb suspect considered Baltimore target
A man accused of plotting to attack the Federal Reserve in New York considered striking a lightly guarded military installation in Baltimore, according to authorities. Quazi Mohammad Reswanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national, was...
Tags: Defense Equipment, Central Bank, Punishment, Emergency Incidents, Federal Reserve
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Barbra, back -- as if she never said goodbye
Liz Smith"QUIET PLEASE, There's a lady on stage." That song was written as a poignant, posthumous tribute to Judy Garland, by her onetime son-in-law, Peter Allen. It was a rather mournful examination of life upon the wicked stage. And yet the title, at least,...Tags: Katharine Hepburn, New York Public Library, Pneumonia, Donna Summer, New York City
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The Central Park Five
VarietyThe American justice system -- and American society -- are indicted for institutionalized racism in gripping investigative docu "The Central Park Five," from co-directors Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon. Mixing a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, David Dinkins, Ken Burns, PBS (tv network)
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Baltimore's new waterfront
Baltimore's reservoirs soon will no longer be needed to store the city's supply of drinking water. To meet a 2006 federal water safety rule to protect drinking water from contaminants, the city plans to install underground tanks to replace its...
Tags: Company Privatization, Water, Druid Hill, Environmental Issues, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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How do Warren and Annette keep love alive? Cobb salad and coconut chocolate cake (Really)
Liz Smith"OH, AND can I have a Cobb salad to go?" That was Warren Beatty at the Beverly Hills Hotel Coffee Shop recently, having breakfast with one of his kids -- at the usual L.A. breakfast time ... noon. And he was ordering that Cobb salad to go for his...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Rhea Perlman, Liz Smith, Salads, Margot Fonteyn
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The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance
For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal — and controversial — role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. She was in turns appalled by Vechten's...
Tags: Fine Artists, Politics, Cultural Development, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Review: Romance powers Mark Helprin's 'In Sunlight and in Shadow'
-------------------- In Sunlight and in Shadow A Novel Mark Helprin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 720 pp., $28 -------------------- It's been 17 years since Mark Helprin's last novel, "Memoir from Antproof Case," and he's lost none of his gift for...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Ellis Island, Manhattan (New York City)
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Bobby V.: You Knew From The Start It Would End Badly
The Hartford CourantMany great ideas have sprung from our town since Adriaen Block arrived on the Connecticut River in 1614. Larry Lucchino's idea to bring Ben Cherington along to meet Bobby Valentine at the Hartford Club last Nov. 3 wasn't one of them. It was, let New...Tags: Mike Aviles, Sports, Spring Training, Will Middlebrooks, Baseball
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