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UPDATE: Still recovering from heart surgery -- ForgottenTours suspended till further notice; I had hoped to have had two so far in 2009. Muddling through.

BREAKING: $2M secured for restoration of St. Saviour's Church

6/22. One public project and one public project alone has managed to evade the overall malaise brought on by construction costs and public opposition, warranted or otherwise -- a project that sailed through mostly unopposed, since it was destined to enhance neighborhood where market forces unleashed a major upgrade from light manufacturing as well as slaughtering and meatpacking...

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Forgotten NY tours about 6-8 times a year; tours are announced a couple of weeks ahead of time on this FNY home page. Keep checking for times and dates! Will resume touring when your webmaster's health sufficiently improves.

6/12. Walking the 5 bridges connecting Manhattan and south Bronx

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6/15. Court Street old-world Brooklyn

4/9. West Coast sundown on Wawona Street

2/16. Ancient lamps of Roslyn, NY

6/29. Barbed-wire views on swanky North 4th

6/30. Holy and not holy on North 5th

6/29. Founded in 1983 by Coney Island USA, the not-for-profit arts organization that also produces the Coney island Circus Sideshow, the Mermaid Parade pays homage to Coney Island's forgotten Mardi Gras which lasted from 1903 to 1954, and draws from a host of other sources resulting in a wonderful and wacky event that is unique to Coney Island. This year the ichthyic shenanigans were somewhat drenched by downpours, but water is mermaids' natural habitat.

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SAVING ST. SAVIOUR'S

The latest in the fight to save Maspeth's 160-year old church

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY: the battle so far, by Christina

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With the West Side Freight Railroad set to reopn as a high-concept public space on June 9, 2009, here's a look at the "High Line" in its former guise as an abandoned freight railroad.

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