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In New York, An Exhibition Strives to Save the Garment District and Local Clothing Manufacturing (Event)

Image via Design Trust As New York City considers plans to rezone the Garment District in Manhattan, Made in Midtown will show how local garment manufacturing is an integral part of the city’s economy. Findings from the study, a collaboration between urban planning non-profit Design Trust and the Council… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Inhabitat: ICFF 2010

The annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair showcasing the hottest new interior furnishings and products from around the globe is always a treat for us and, surprisingly, the 2010 show was even more kickass than years past despite a sleepy economy. We spotted so many fab furniture finds from eye catching newsboxes turned into terrariums and aquariums to a stylish

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Would You Drive 5.4 Miles Less A Day to End Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

Members of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La.–part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill, May 23, 2010. Photo: US Coast Guard via flickr. With fingers and toes crossed, for the moment at least, it appears that BP’s ‘top kill’ is working and the month-long gusher of oil may be coming to an end . So, how do get to a place as a nation where we don… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC Event: Shop Haute Green Fashion Labels at EcoSalon Shops

Lara Miller, Study NY. Credit: Meaghan O’Neill; Doucette Duvall. Credit: Doucette Duvall Fellow eco-fashionaistas over at EcoSalon are hosting their very own pop up shop and green fashion tweet-up for one night only next week at Green Spaces in New York City. EcoSalon’s Editor in Chief Sara Ost and Fashion Editor Amy DuFault have gathered a bevy of green fashion designers– Lara Miller ,

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More Than 20 People Passed As Homeless New York Man Bled To Death [Sad]

Last Sunday, 32 year-old Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed while coming to the aid of a woman being attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. He bled to death on a Queens sidewalk as almost 25 pedestrians walked by. More

Katie Holmes Steps Out In Queens

Katie Holmes leaves a production meeting and visits Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.

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Mariska Hargitay Is Fearless

Mariska Hargitay was hard at work filming Law & Order: SVU when we spotted her wearing a necklace that says “fearlessness.” Do you think that it’s hers or part of her character’s costume?

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Michelle Trachtenberg, Is That Really You?

Michelle Trachtenberg arrived on set to film Gossip Girl today and um, what’s the deal with the hair/wig? Is she supposed to look like Avril Lavigne ?

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America Ferrera Brings "Ugly Betty’ To London, Sort Of

A merica Ferrera films scenes with co-stars Becki Newton and Anna Ortiz for Ugly Betty in New York City. The cast filmed in downtown Manhattan on a street that they transformed to look like London.

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Snooki — Protect the Poof

Filed under: Jersey Shore When the glass roof shattered at a Purim party in New York City, and glass rained down from the sky, all Snooki was worried about was her poof. Snooki, her guido BF, and her guido BFF Vinny were all in good spirits after leaving the party. And to the … Permalink

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