Getting out of Lower Manhattan and cruising the Greater New York blogosphere …

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Historic taverns of the Old Post Road in Inwood [My Inwood]

More uptown stories: Tweeting a Caddy car chase in Washington Heights! [The Streets Where We Live]

Bronx Flavor featured in the Times. [via BoogieDowner]

Carroll Gardens Basil Wars have ended. [Lost City]

When Beer Gardens Ruled Queens [Queens Courier via Queens Crap]

Biking the Staten Island Greenbelt: Where are the bikes? [SI Notebook]

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Bonus: Free Camping in City Parks: Ranger Kathy added: “You’ll see a lot of crabs and ocean life [in Pelham Bay]. But, for
instance, if you did family camping at a Brooklyn park, it would
definitely focus on bats. There are a lot of bats in Brooklyn.”  [NYTimes