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		<title>Moving</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/02/23/moving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next week or so, The City Desk will be taking a break, as we move into our new home office. In the meantime, why not enjoy some older pieces you may have missed? :: The Main Avenue Tramway :: Why it is called ‘Black Friday&#8217; :: Christmastime in the City :: The Underground Winter Zoo :: New Years for the Three Hoboes :: The tiny homes of Samson Heights This is just a sampling, of course- By all means, click around, there&#8217;s more than enough to keep you occupied until late next week. - R. White]]></description>
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		<title>When the Moving Pictures Came to Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of the 20th century, before making the cross-country trek to Hollywood, the motion picture industry settled briefly in our fair city. During the early years of cinema, film companies were based on the east coast, centered in New York City. However, costs began to increase exponentially, due to both organized crime and Thomas Edison&#8217;s stranglehold on the industry. The rackets forced producers to pay exorbitant fees for location shooting (this in the days before studio lighting). And Thomas Edison jealously guarded access to his technology and film stock. Any film company wishing to produce nickelodeons in the tri-state area would be forced to make a pilgrimage to New Jersey to pay their respects (and a large monetary offering) to the “Wizard of Menlo Park” before they could begin shooting. Adding to the difficulty, the newly installed elevated subway trains shook the film studios every ten minutes, making steady photography an impossibility. Frustrated by the costs and difficulties of shooting in New York, independent producers began looking for alternative locations. After scouting several areas, Amalgamated Moving Picture Inc (AMP) and three smaller operators settled on our city. It was considered ideal because of its easy access to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briefs</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/04/briefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, You Never Knew It! Wimple and Bing, the City’s fifth-most-famous intersection, was almost known as Wimple and Porkpie! In 1903, due to inattentive aldermen, street-naming honors had devolved to the rascals of the Bottling District. A Mr. Elliott Lamb sought to name that “elm-festooned” promenade after Porkpie, his prize-winning mule. But on the way to file the papers, Porkpie dropped dead, most likely from Mulish Discomfiture. Lamb, fearing to speak the name of the deceased, was forced to substitute the name of his traveling companion, Bing (a bantam rooster). Had things worked out differently, just imagine how that old melody would go: “Please Meet Me at the Corner of Wimple and Porkpie!” - B. Grossblatt Pianist returned Russian pianist Vladimir Fiorello has been returned unharmed to the Royalton Hotel, the spot from which he mysteriously vanished nearly two weeks ago. Known for a series of award-winning Bach recordings released to polite applause in 1952 (Bach Tonight!, The Well-Tempered Clavier Well-Played, Bach Tonight! Part Two and Back to Bach), the pianist claims he was abducted by Clive Chance, general manager of the City Orchestra, in a ransom attempt that clearly failed given that no one realized Fiorello was even missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out you two pixies go- through the door, or out the window</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/26/out-you-two-pixies-go-through-the-door-or-out-the-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salon: All hail Pottersville! In Capra&#8217;s Tale of Two Cities, Pottersville is the Bad Place. It&#8217;s the demonic foil to Bedford Falls, the sweet, Norman Rockwell-like town in which George grows up. Named after the evil Mr. Potter, Pottersville is the setting for George&#8217;s brief, nightmarish trip through a world in which he never existed. In that alternative universe, Potter has triumphed, and we are intended to shudder in horror at the sinful city he has spawned &#8212; a kind of combo pack of Sodom, Gomorrah, Times Square in 1972, Tokyo&#8217;s hostess district, San Francisco&#8217;s Barbary Coast ca. 1884 and one of those demon-infested burgs dimly visible in the background of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. There&#8217;s just one problem: Pottersville rocks! (via)]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolis: &#8220;The Vanishing Class&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though this story focuses upon New York, the same thing is happening in cities across the country. In June the Brookings Institution released a study called “Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America.” It found that middle-income neighborhoods constituted 58 percent of all urban neighborhoods in 1970, but that the figure has now dropped to 41 percent. Poor people are now more likely to live surrounded by poor people, and rich people by rich people. Maybe that doesn’t sound noteworthy, but the Brookings researchers argue that middle-income neighborhoods are vital because they foster upward mobility. The report reinforced my gut reaction to the panel discussion, and it dovetails with abundant anecdotal evidence. The New York papers have been full of stories lately about how Metropolitan Life is trying to sell off Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, two massive developments built as housing for returning vets in the postwar era, long considered oases of middle-class life in Manhattan. The assumption is that a new owner will turn the 11,250 apartments into luxury condos, and it’s unlikely that anyone will build a middle-income enclave to replace it, at least not in Manhattan.]]></description>
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