Extra, Extra

-- The Caribbean Day Parade is tomorrow-- it starts at 11am on Eastern Parkway. But check this out: "the really cool kids will be lining up to watch predawn procession known as J'Ouvert that kicks off at 2 a.m."
-- Banksy punks Paris Hilton's new CD in the UK-- but apparently he didn't do any in NYC on his recent visit.
-- The NYPD is now 17% women, but surprise, surprise-- they only hold 12% of the supervisory positions.
-- Photos of the World Trade Center 1970-1986.
-- Agassi ended his career with a loss to Benjamin Becker: "the end came with Agassi looking like what he'd become — a 36-year-old man with a bad back, ready for retirement."
-- Note to Paris Hilton: lay off the eyeliner!
-- Apparently Astoria is the last great real estate value in New York City. If you prefer Italian to Greek, consider checking out the Little Italy's in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
-- According to NY1, the owners of the cars that got crushed in Inwood will get paid for them-- including the removal.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on September 3, 2006 6:32 PM

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archie12

Yes, stay out of Queens. You might as well be living in New Jersey or Long Island - pretty lame.

Astorian

That's right. Nothing to see in Astoria. Move along folks. Train takes forever, it's smelly, they have fights at the pool. Nothing to see here. Keep moving. You didn't hear anything.

fishtalez

oh my god! there's not an exactly proportionate ratio of women in supervisory positions to women in the police?? first of all, that's fucking shocking to me! second, something needs to be done. there's obviously no reason it's like this other than blatant discrimination.

MissPinkKate

Hehe, that article is quite old, which makes me hap-hap-happy- stupid yuppies haven't taken over my neighborhood yet!

douglas

the best part of the article about astoria is the reference to the possibility of NYC winning the 2012 Olympic bid.

Laura B

Astoria might be prime real estate in terms of (more) affordable housing, but I'd be shocked if it gentrified to the extent that Williamsburg has. There are far too many thriving local business which cater to the current residents, thus reflecting the spectrum of ethnicities, economic/social classes and tastes in our neighborhood. Astoria also lacks the vast stretches of abandoned or empty industrial spaces which attracted artists (and the resulting hipness which attracted wealthier tenants) to Williamsburg or L.I.C.

Rodney P. Sweetchops

Actually, there are more people of Italian descent than Greek in Astoria. However, the Greeks are more recent immigrants so it's more obvious.