City Tunes in to TV Tourism
New York's cachet as the home of shows from "Seinfeld" to "Gossip Girls" helped drive a record 48 million visitors to the city last year.
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via Queens West Villager
Salvaging the Art of Recycling
Materials for the Arts – the city's largest non-profit municipal reuse program – offers artists thousands of items that otherwise would have been headed for the trash.
Board Game Store Roles the Dice
Brooklyn's Twenty Sided Store sells board games, but dedicates much of its space to tables for gaming events.
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Dog Waste Could Brighten Parks
An NYU student is applying for grant to put machines into dog parks that would turn animal waste into energy to power lamps.
via New York Daily News
Neighborhood Plagued by Dirty Parks
Parks in a swath of Brooklyn that includes Canarsie and Flatlands have earned the city's lowest cleanliness marks for the last three years, records show.
via New York Daily News
Concern Over Lead-Tainted Medicines
Officials blame banned supplements popular with South Asian immigrants for two recent non-fatal lead poisoning cases. But experts fear the problem could be more widespread.
via Mott Haven Herald
Bronx Gym Fights For Life
John's Boxing Gym – once more famously known as Jerome's Gym – is on the ropes, facing eviction after three decades.
via New York Daily News
Big Hopes for Bronx’s Little Italy
Some Arthur Avenue merchant are seeking improvements to help the strip become "the Soho of the Bronx."