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CONEY ISLAND'S LAST RIDE? THE BULLDOZER!
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Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you
The season's first visitors to Coney Island can already see that the batting cages and the go-karts along Still well Avenue are gone, as is a miniature golf course that went up just a few years ago. From the base of the Wonder Wheel on West 12th Street all the way to the bus lot behind Nathan's, bulldozers have cut a large swath, leaving little more than barren asphalt and a few stray tires surrounded by a plywood fence.
It looks like a construction site. And that's ...
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Friday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...plea bargain that allows him to escape prison and rejoin his family in the United States. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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Sunday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...people near Bologna _ the worst civilian massacre in Italy during World War II. The 10 receive life sentences for murder, while seven others are acquitted. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680);
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Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth Century France.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...operated on the fringes of the Catholic Church. In chapter 3 Paige explores texts written by Jean de Labadie, Antoinette Bourignon, and Jeanne Guyon. Such early forms of autobiography function, Paige argues, 'positively, as tales of their...
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Monday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...years in prison for loaning $1,000 to a founder of the illegal China Democracy Party. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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Sunday, Jan. 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...an undisclosed number of followers to labor camps during an 18-month-old crackdown. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book o fEsdras (4 Exra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...and in this he includes the Rosicrucians and various mystics or pietists such as Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and Antoinette Bourignon. An intriguing aspect of Hamilton's study is his exposition of the influential role of Second Esdras within...
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