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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Furleigh Park</title>
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		<title>Mafia Slaying Site to Become Museum?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2010/06/04/mafia-slaying-site-to-become-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On first glance, the house at 719 South Decator Street, in the Elwyn Heights section of the city, doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that remarkable. It&#8217;s just another in a string of large brick twin houses that populate the neighborhood. However, the mere mention of the address is apt to flip a switch in those with a longish memory of the seedier aspects of the City&#8217;s history. In 1979, organized crime boss Lorento &#8220;Lorry Boy&#8221; Scafia was slain on its marble steps while enjoying a glass of lemonade on a hot August evening. The ensuing mob war raged into the next decade, resulting in several more slayings and a couple of car bombings, finally calming down in late 1980. After the August 28 murder of &#8220;Lorry Boy,&#8221; Mrs. Scafia and their three children moved out of the house and the city, finally settling in Orlando, Florida. They retained ownership of the house, which was unoccupied for thirty years, except for a distant cousin who lived there briefly while attending Watson University in the mid-90s. When Mrs. Scafia passed away last June, the children decided it was finally time to sell the house. All in all, the slaying and its aftermath [...]]]></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 Permanence of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All large cities feature that staple of stand-up comedy, the retail storefront which seems to change hands every few weeks, and our own is no exception. The left-center unit of the Pioneer Square strip mall, currently S.E. Huang&#8217;s Kenpo-Karaterie, was a Spanish-language tax preparation service catering to the South Street area&#8217;s large Ecuadorian population as recently as last November- and, in the summer of 2006, it was a boutique specializing in salsa-related merchandise. Lot 47 in the Galleria at Woldman Heights is particularly infamous in this regard; in the last three years alone, it has been a Wittman&#8217;s, a Sunglass Hut, a Gap for Seniors, a Dobbins Farm Dairy outlet store, and a shop where one could commission tailor-made potato chip varieties. Perhaps more curious, however, is the diametric opposite of this phenomenon: the retail store that has remained exactly the same, regardless of market forces or consumer trends, defying all known rules of shopping for astonishing periods of time. There is no more stubborn an example in the city than that of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service, which has occupied the same spot at 2704 West 31st Avenue since 1911. Located on the ground floor of what was once a [...]]]></description>
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