One brook trout erupted from the outlet pipe of a lobby fountain in a newly built Greenwich Village apartment house, which straddles the site of what was once another productive stream Minetta Brook.

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At Richard Meier's two 15-story luminescent glass towers rising along the edge of New York City's Greenwich Village overlooking the Hudson River, the minimum apartment size is one floor-1, 800 square feet in the north building, 3, 700 in the south building.

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Police said Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk at about 9:30 a.m.

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Some racks have been shortened or moved, including one in front of a Greenwich Village apartment house where owners sued the city over it.

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In Dallas, I moved into a tiny apartment with five buddies at a place called The Village.

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For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.

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John Roccosalva , a Greenwich Village resident who invited me and dozens of others of World Trade Center refugees to use the telephone in his apartment on a day when people were desperate to communicate with their loved ones.

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