The NY Times has a "tour" of voting blocs throughout the City.The problems (and the fun) start when those blocs don't vote the way they're "supposed to."
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- Parolee responsible for car break-in spree
- Seeking uses for vacant Far Rockaway land
- Shafran not conceding to Vallone
- Underground dining becoming more popular
- Remembering the fallen of 9/11
- Inside the 9/11 Museum
- 2013 Primary election results
- Lever machines busted across borough
- GOP war gets down and dirty
- Avella & civic leaders rally against BSA application
- Thinking of voting for Quinn & Stringer? Think ag...
- All thanks to Everly Brown
- 19th CD parishioner lists given to pro-Vallone PAC
- Have fun in the voting booth tomorrow!
- Homeless cause havoc in Briarwood
- CUNY mural saved by...Joe Lhota?
- Who's protecting Tommy Huang?
- Is this the skinniest house in Queens?
- City can't find anyone to build LIC library
- Will someone please turn on the lights?
- Trash piled high and deep outside Queens schools
- Greenpoint residents suing city and developer
- DeBlasio would be Bloomberg 2.0
- Here's the latest article about how LIC is "up and...
- The burden is on Amanda to push through last-minut...
- A guide to pandering
- Developers pushing for faster ride to LGA
- LPC to hold hearing on aluminum house
- Just when you thought they couldn't stoop any lowe...
- Comrie concerned about Cosmos
- Candidates want to be anybody but Bloomberg
- Potential safety problem identified in Rockaway
- Kiss the South Street Seaport goodbye
- Everything old is new again
- Corona Plaza to actually become a plaza
- Some want Forest Park to have its own precinct
- LIC loses more character
- No one has the guts to clean up the entrails
- History of the Unisphere
- Brand new library in Glen Oaks
- Avella denounces Vallone mailer
- Lopez could represent Ridgewood on Council
- State pols make a mint
- Lots of outside money in council and mayoral races
- At Forest Park, safety continues to be a joke
- Someone took "Stars and Stripes Forever" a little ...
- Paul Vallone's many faux pas on citywide TV
- When city-installed street furniture blocks the si...
- How does the Machine screw over Willets Point? Le...
- Quinn not forgiven for extending term limits
- DeBlasio tried to help slumlord in return for camp...
- MTA Police are rolling in dough
- Senior housing facility opens at former Fineson Ce...
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