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		<title>The Brothel Five Levels Below the Street</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/08/the-brothel-five-levels-below-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[RJ White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Central Depot, which sat across across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall from 1896 until its demolition in 1968, was a wonderful, massive gothic structure, covered in ornament and decoration which one doesn&#8217;t find much in today&#8217;s construction. It certainly isn&#8217;t found in its replacement, the City Centre Square building, a long rectangular affair, completed in 1972. Below the glass and brown brick-covered box, the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) has its Ludlow Plaza Station, the only remnant of the old depot. It&#8217;s one of the nicer stops in the subway system, with some of the old architectural details still showing through slight neglect mandated by tight budgets over the decades. Central Depot was the showpiece of the of the Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line, a regional railroad that did very well with both passenger and freight transport during this city&#8217;s booming industrial age. As such, the railroad&#8217;s offices were located on the upper five floors of the massive limestone edifice to transportation. The first two floors were dedicated to the grandly-designed passenger concourse and two levels of tracks were located below, which are now used for CSTA subway and regional light rail. But few know about the levels which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The City&#8217;s Modern Architecture Masterpieces Be Destroyed?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/20/will-the-citys-modern-architecture-masterpieces-be-destroyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1964 Plan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The start of the City&#8217;s modern preservation movement can be traced back to one date: August 19th, 1959. That’s the date that demolition started on Davis Hall, the historic structure that stood in the center of the City for more than a century.  With its massive marble columns, soaring vestibule and granite interior the building was considered too cold and old-fashioned for the re-imagined downtown.  City planners wanted to remake the city for the automobile and decided Davis Hall would have to go in order to make room for a four-lane highway and parking garage.  The building was largely auctioned off for scrap marble, but unfortunately the rest of the city&#8217;s &#8220;1964 Plan&#8221; (with the exception of the parking garage) never materialized.  The children’s museum and shopping center got bogged down in a decade-long permit fight and the former site of Davis Hall remained an empty pit for years. The public outcry over the demolition began almost immediately. Although it was too late for Davis Hall, many other historical structures have been protected, as preservationists have worked to save countless buildings from the bulldozer. However, that seems to be changing.  Many masterpieces of modern architecture are in danger of being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpe&#8217;s Marina and the Underground Railroad</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/16/carpes-marina-and-the-underground-railroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Andrews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a city that has hosted kings, presidents and many other world leaders, a visit from a cabinet secretary in an outgoing administration might seem like small potatoes. But Idaho’s Dirk Kempthorne, the current United States Secretary of the Interior, was here recently for a very special reason: to officially establish Carpe’s Marina as our city’s second entry in the National Register of Historic Places. Nuncio Carpenello first went into business on the east bank of Keets Harbor in July, 1858, only days after arriving from Salerno, Italy. Local residents were amused when the burly immigrant constructed scaffolding inside his small and rickety wooden shack so elaborate that it forced him to sleep with his feet outside the walls. For many weeks afterward they heard the constant pounding of hammers and creaking of boards. In mid-September the shack suddenly disappeared, and in its place was a 26-foot long, eight-foot wide boat moored just offshore. Carpenello had built the craft on his own, from the hull up. Soon &#8220;Nunce’s Ark&#8221; was a familiar sight, tooling around the harbor and navigating the tricky eddies of the Ostahanoc River. Large as it was, the &#8220;ark&#8221; drafted barely four inches deep, and could travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare City Documents Burned</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/11/rare-city-documents-burned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire Commissioner Gordon ‘Chick’ Hall reports that an electrical fire in the 4th Floor Records Room at Old City Hall early Saturday morning destroyed some of the city’s most irreplaceable historical treasures. The blaze was discovered by third-shift security guard Mona Chellis at approximately 2:45 am. Chellis believes the fire started some time around 2:30 am, but reports that she mistook the wisps of smoke flowing under the door for cigarette smoke from her fellow guard Gene Kruicewicz, who often used the secluded 4th floor room to take smoke-breaks (though the building has been smoke-free since September 2002). As she continued her rounds, however, Chellis heard Kruicewicz noisily trying to dislodge a Kit Kat from the vending machine in the employee break room. She quickly returned to the Records Room to discover a significant portion of the contents of a west wall shelving unit in flames. Chellis retrieved an extinguisher from a nearby stairwell, but found it non-functional. She then raced to the third floor, retrieved a working extinguisher, and was able to put out the fire some time before 3 am, at which time she radioed Kruicewicz to call the fire department. Units from the Grant Avenue fire station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Legacy Diner (Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/16/save-the-legacy-diner-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antique Row]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Little Kishnev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shek Baker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business is decidedly not booming Friday night at the Legacy. Even in mid-January, a forlorn plastic Christmas tree droops at one end of the establishment&#8217;s chipped, unvarnished wood bar, and a faded paper Santa Claus face stares through an unwashed window out onto an empty stretch of S. Kildare Ave. In the weak glow given off by the Legacy&#8217;s paltry collection of faux-tiffany lamps, three surly longtime regulars mingle uneasily with a handful of young hipsters while Salvatore, the idle short-order cook, lounges near the kitchen door taking drags off a limp cigarette. Improbably enough, this forsaken watering hole is embroiled in the city&#8217;s most controversial land-use fight in decades. Just in case you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;The Legacy what?&#8221; (and you probably are), here&#8217;s a quick primer on the city&#8217;s most dubiously historical saloon: Opened in 1909 on the bottom floor of the J. J. Cotton Building, the Legacy (then known as the Cotton Canteen) became the ad hoc cafeteria for employees of the Legacy Carriage Company, which ran horse-drawn cabs out of an adjacent garage until the animals were banned from city streets (along with mules and elephants) in 1931. As the rapidly declining livery district gave way to a [...]]]></description>
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