A Queens boulevard of broken dreams
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It was the mid-1990s and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff &#151; well-schooled in crack cocaine, dirty cash and body counts &#151; was tackling a new subject: pulp fiction.
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. â Itâs rarely a good sign whe
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ATHENS - They weren&#39;t our own tarnished heroes this time, they were bad actors in an overwritten Greek tragedy. But outside the Athens Hilton yesterday morning off the downtown boulevard called Vasillias Sofia, the scene was all too familiar. So were the ...
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Call it destiny, serendipity, karmic justice, whatever you will. But the planet has come around full circle since last October, when Tim Wakefield was sobbing in the Bronx amid the sad wreckage of yet another autumnal fantasy.
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In the world&#39;s gambling capital, a city built on the back of so many broken dreams, Danny Williams&#39;s mission to win the world heavyweight title ended in a painful, humiliating and bloody defeat at the Mandalay Bay Hotel where he was utterly outclassed by
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Blog: One of the most heavily trafficked subway lines in the city succumbs to soaring temperatures.
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Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens has broken ground for a $12 million renovation featuring geothermal energy and recycled rainwater.
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In the heart of the city, it's not easy to be a winner. Crime, drugs, and an atmosphere of failure, accentuated by the fumes from MBTA buses and urban redevelopment projects, make it easy, and some argue excusable, to not be the best you can be.
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Bob Glaudiniâs modest, quietly moving drama offers a needed corrective to flashier, more widely disseminated depictions of the meaner streets of Manhattan.
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You want some New York with your tropical breezes? Try the jackhammering, traffic-snarling mess that someday will be the Caribbean's first subway.
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Driving around a rapidly growing city on unfamiliar streets is not fun.
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Knicks fans from the Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley who have life-threatening ailments had their wishes come true at Madison Square Garden last Monday.
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"Broadway! It's the street of dreams," says Julie Andrews breathlessly, as though the phrase had just been coined. There follows a river of reality, grim and otherwise, but usually fun.
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Thousands of New Yorkâs pickiest music connoisseurs spent hours in line to witness what was basically a glorified drum circle.
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By Valryn Warren Staff Writer  RIVERSIDE -- Scott Douglas Davis stands in the street, staring like a man waking up from a bad dream to something worse -- workers boarding up his home.  "It's like a concrete block on my chest," he said. "I'm disabled, I can hardly walk.
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.