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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Miles Link</title>
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		<title>Washed Up? Cranford Baths to be Remodeled</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/08/18/washed-up-cranford-baths-to-be-remodeled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Spaces, the city public parks action group, announced this week that the derelict Cranford Baths on the banks of the East Patterson River, a dozen miles north of the city center, will soon be converted into a public park and memorial space to open next year. The news comes as a relief to residents of nearby suburban Thorn Grove, who have long considered the Baths a dangerous eyesore: the shell of a colonial-style house, the former main office, borders acres of overgrown fields littered with rubbish. Other facilities on the grounds stand half-demolished, while the riverside baths sit stagnant, a temporary fence erected at the central causeway and nets stretched across the open water. A lack of access consistently discourages developers from buying up the site, which remains in the hands of the Thorn Grove Public Properties and Acquisitions Board for now. It is perhaps difficult to imagine after eight decades of decay, but the site&#8217;s current ill repute stands in stark contrast to its previous life as an illustrious health resort and public space at the turn of the last century. Local historian Brian Ramirez explains: &#8220;Bathers would approach the baths by an L-shaped causeway jutting out into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Escape of Alfonzo Salazar, Hoarder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefighters in Furleigh Park staged a daring rescue last Wednesday night of local legend and neighborhood oddity Alfonzo Salazar when his townhouse caught fire in the early morning hours. Mr. Salazar&#8217;s home was a monument to the practice of obsessive hoarding, with items of every conceivable size, shape, and type lining each wall, making excellent kindling for the ruinous inferno. Prior to the blaze, Mr. Salazar, 51, lived alone in his residence on Blackpool Terrace. He has not been employed for several years, though he claimed to be a professional welder in his police report. Other neighborhood residents describe him as seldom seen. &#8220;I would rate him somewhere in between harmless and snappish,&#8221; commented neighbor Lindsey Klein. &#8220;He always asks me for my old batteries.&#8221; Others said that he emerges only at night to visit the local convenience store and to rummage through trash put out for collection. Nearly all of Mr. Salazar&#8217;s Victorian-style townhouse was destroyed. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by a concerned neighbor but were delayed in reaching Mr. Salazar&#8217;s townhouse due to City Council President Otis Stevenson&#8217;s extensive motorcade, which had stopped for ice cream on Logan Boulevard. In a telephone interview, Chief Fire Inspector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Will and Testament of Rory Sheehan</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/16/the-last-will-and-testament-of-rory-sheehan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While clearing a block of turn-of-the-century townhouses for a drive-through fondue restaurant, workers in 1973 discovered an artifact from the city’s former days as a gangland paradise. Wedged in between a basement wall was a metal strong box containing the last will and testament of Rory Sheehan, the fearsome Roxboro neighborhood mob boss. The box contained the will, a photographic portrait of Sheehan with his characteristic scowl, and an Irish tricolor flag. The discovery of the will not only shed some light on the enigmatic boss but also set off a three year hunt for a store of buried treasure that captured the attention of anyone within reach of a pickaxe. Rory Sheehan was born in 1879 in Dublin and settled in the city in 1894 with his father. The young Rory first found work as a grocery delivery boy. On his route was Wallace &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky, the notorious state senator, who was working at the time in the DA&#8217;s office. Years later, &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky would settle a sweetheart deal in the construction of the Wyndham Hydroelectric Dam with a company within Sheehan&#8217;s crime syndicate. In celebration of the deal, Sheehan treated Kinsky to a night on Issacs Street, in [...]]]></description>
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