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09/05/10 Flickr user bitchcakesny From the Gothamist News Map: A shooting on Herkimer Place & Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, a stabbing at 3225 Olinville Avenue in the Bronx, and an all hands fire on 7967 Whitney Avenue in Queens. A man was struck and killed by a NJ Transit train in Bridgewater, NJ this afternoon. The Daily News is staking out the U.S. Open brawlers and can report that Joseph Pedeville has ...

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: A Jazz/Cultural Beachhead in Brooklyn: Sista's Place (Part One)

03/08/11 Some weeks back an invigorating, spirited Saturday evening was spent at Sista's Place, a cooperative black enterprise at 456 Nostrand Avenue (corner of Jefferson Avenue; by subway take A or C train to Nostrand Ave. stop) in Brooklyn. The occasion was an all-star band including trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, violinist Billy Bang, pianist D.D. Jackson, tubist Bob ...

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Melt Shop Brings Grilled Cheese to Midtown East; Artist Food Turns Into Art in Williamsburg

04/18/11 Bedford-Stuyvesant: Aicha, a new Senegalese restaurant, has hunkered down at 602 Nostrand Avenue. [ Chow ] East Village: Juice Press is working on its second location, this one on East 10th Street near Avenue A. [ EV Grieve ] Lower East Side: An Indian restaurant called Masala Twist will open tomorrow in the old Kung Fu Bing space at 189 East Houston Street. [ Bowery Boogie ] CV is leaving its ...

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