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by RACHELLE GARBARINE [ from The New York Times ]
Along the side streets between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn, new condominiums are rising. The buildings are not only expanding the stock of housing in the neighborhood but also pushing its residential boundaries westward, a process expected to extend to largely commercial stretches of Fourth Avenue under a recent rezoning.
Four projects between the avenues will add 150 condos by the end of the year, said Peter Noonan, a vice president at the Brooklyn office of the Corcoran Group real estate company. Continued… |
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by JESSE WALKER
[ from
Reason Online ]
Want to buy a ghost? Someone called teajay101 just sold one on eBay. His sale site included the tale of how he had stumbled on an abandoned cemetery in the early '80s. He found a rotting wooden box that he thought would contain a fortune; instead, there were two jars and an old journal. "The jars had some strange writing and symbols on them," he writes. "While getting the jars out of the ground, I dropped one and it broke. A black mist of something seeped out of it....That night I had my first visit from what I can only describe as 'The Black Thing.'" Continued…
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