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		<title>Food Truck Congestion Pricing</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/22/food-truck-congestion-pricing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of food trucks slowed traffic during afternoon rush hour last Thursday in a mass protest of the city’s new congestion-pricing scheme. The act of civil disobedience, coordinated by the Mobile Food Providers Alliance, delayed commuters on their way home from work by up to 90 minutes. At 5:30 p.m., at least 215 food trucks pulled onto the Riverside Parkway and drove 15 mph. The speed brought traffic to a standstill, and was symbolic of the new toll the trucks will have to pay on the city’s highways, starting Monday. The toll plan, which City Council passed two weeks ago, seeks to discourage the city’s taco trucks and other mobile restaurants from taking to the highways at peak traffic periods. Trucks that do so will be required to pay a $15 fee. At a press conference before the traffic protest, Elena Cardozo, who operates Luchita’s Mobile Taco Truck No. 1 and is a co-organizer of the alliance, called the fee “industrial discrimination.” But City Council President Martin Wernstrom, who has asked the city attorney to bring public endangerment charges against the group, says the pricing scheme only makes sense given the burgeoning number of food trucks in the city. “When [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Corridor]]></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>Go There: American Insurance Holiday Model Railroad</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/19/go-there-american-insurance-holiday-model-railroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cedric Rose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. The annual American Insurance Co. holiday model railroad display at Central Station has delighted kids since 1952. Each year, Warner Mendelsohn hunches over his soldering gun and recreates the city, in ever-increasing scope and staggering detail. More than eight hundred model train cars, locomotives, and automobiles follow two miles of track and miniature interstate highway, above which model aircraft circle. Though he retired from the insurance company thirteen years ago, it&#8217;s still Mendelsohn&#8217;s project. The display has not been without controversy, beginning in 1962 when American Insurance (now American Insurance Mutual, Ltd.) fired Mendelsohn for an alleged conflict of interest after he privately sold advertising on the sides of the model train cars, including American&#8217;s competitor, Provident Mutual Insurance, Ltd. So popular was the display at that time that Mendelsohn took in thousands in advertising revenue. Thanks to community pressure, American allowed Mendelsohn to stay on, provided he turn over the revenue to American. In 1972, a prankster called in a bomb threat to &#8220;the model Old City Hall&#8221;, police staked out the display. Several Black Cat firecrackers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Circles, Cameras, Stamps</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/08/17/friday-facts-circles-cameras-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Andrews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Road agent Peter Pascucci reports that construction crews will be working on the Canal Street rotary through the weekend. Motorists are reminded that, once completed, the rotary will be a traffic circle and no longer a roundabout. The changeover will occur at midnight, Sunday, after which entering vehicles no longer have to yield to rotary traffic but must obey all signs and traffic lights. High speed traffic should continue to use the right-hand lane if traveling east-west or north-south. Please be mindful of road crews and temporary signage. :: There are five police-surveillance cameras posted throughout the city, in the following areas: the McShaw-Crankshaft Housing Project plaza, the 33rd Street Public Gardens, the Jefferson High School courtyard, the eastern wall of the Star-Lite Mart at Hayford and Oxford and the Jack Dempsey Memorial Statue Gardens. :: The cameras, installed three months ago, have resulted in 17 arrests, 12 of which were for public urination, one of which was for usury. :: The anonymous guerrilla public-action squad People for the People are suspected of obstructing four of the five cameras, except for the one at the Jack Dempsey statue gardens, since it&#8217;s affixed on top of a 37-foot cubist statue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff Sullivan&#8217;s &#8220;Cylinder of Dominance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/09/stuff-sullivans-cylinder-of-dominance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[air rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council voted Friday to close a loophole in the City Charter that had allowed for one of the odder legal battles in recent history. By a 5-1 margin, council decided to bring the city’s air-rights definitions into conformance with state and federal standards. For years, the city’s disinclination to define where a property owner’s air rights end allowed – theoretically, it was thought – for a building of infinite height. City Hall watchers put the curious loophole up there with anachronistic laws regarding what time cows have to vacate downtown and which compass direction the city’s clock keeper must face while adjusting time pieces for daylight-saving time. One wag wrote in the 1970s, when the city was in the grip of soaring crime and unemployment, “Since we’ve gotten about as low as we can go, why not try to go equally as high? Come on, someone out there must want to build a skyscraper to the stars.” But the issue gained material importance only three years ago when local car salesman Eddie &#8220;Stuff&#8221; Sullivan claimed ownership of infinite space directly above his dealership at Center Highway and Count Road. The issue first came to light during a special Zoning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Legends: Secret Subway, Haunted Skyscraper</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/29/urban-legends-secret-subway-haunted-skyscraper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Corridor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every city has urban legends, and our city is no different. These stories grow over time, whispered in hushed tones in the corridors of power, retold to generations of passengers by gregarious cab drivers, or a vaguely remembered by an aging bartender at one of the city’s many watering holes. They may have been based on real events, such as the legend of the lost treasure of Old City Hall, but as they are told and retold, they become mythic, and if they are famous enough and strange enough, often become part of city history. Here is an overview of some of the most well-known urban legends to haunt our city—none are true, but they reflect the fears and excitement of bygone times. Secret Subway (1911) In the early part of the twentieth century, the city made an effort to connect downtown to the growing outer neighborhoods by engineering a new subway system to accompany the north-south line already in existence. The tracks began at the Central Depot (which before its demolition in 1968 sat across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall) and were planned to stretch out to the suburbs east and west of town. After several years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underground Winter Zoo</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/29/the-underground-winter-zoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is coming to the Pullman Zoo. Nowadays that doesn&#8217;t mean much. The gibbons and lemurs have moved to indoor enclosures, and many of the zoo&#8217;s other inhabitants&#8211; the bison, and llama&#8211; simply grow thicker coats. When Sheffield&#8217;s Vinyl Mfg. and many of the city&#8217;s other key industries closed down in the mid-80&#8242;s and took most of the city tax base with them, the zoo was one of the first institutions to feel the pinch of funding cuts. Even with the rebound of recent years, there hasn&#8217;t been much call to restore it, keeping it a shadow of its glory days. The elephants now roam a sanctuary in northwest Iowa and the other main attractions&#8211; the tigers and lions and white wolves whose statues still decorate the entrance&#8211; eventually went to the big cage in the sky and no money could be found to replace them. But back before the town came upon rough times, the winterization of the zoo was a project embraced by the entire community. No child of the 30&#8242;s can forget the Whitestone&#8217;s Department Store windows, during the Christmastime rush. When other retailers would pack their displays with Kris Cringle or Bob Cratchet, Whitestone&#8217;s live animal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Main Avenue Tramway</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/10/30/the-main-avenue-tramway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the history of civic planning, there have been countless grand ideas and concepts which have never been carried out for various reasons- expense, impracticality, that sort of thing. If one were to go through the planning archives of this city alone, you’d see many plans which never came to fruition- the Northwest Expressway, the Riverfront Monorail, the Reed-Hudson Building Zeppelin Terminal, the University Monorail System, the Harris Memorial Aquacadium, the Crosstown Underground Monorail and the South Wharton Weatherproof Plastidome 2000 (proposed in 1979, with a self-contained monorail circuit). One that slipped through the cracks was the Main Avenue Tramway first proposed in 1958 by the city’s planning department. The original concept was to close ten miles of Main Avenue to automobile traffic and convert it into a pedestrian mall, serviced by electric trams which would traverse its length in an almost endless circuit. Over the objections of some on the planning board (who wanted to install a monorail system instead of trams), it was agreed to implement the plan on five blocks of Main Avenue downtown on a trial basis. Federal funds were promised to get it off the ground and, on June 6, 1961, the Main Avenue Tramway [...]]]></description>
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