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Dawn Lim / November 2, 2010 7:23 pm

On the cookie trail with 38-year-incumbent Frank Padavan

The Republican incumbent, Frank Padavan, was just beaten by his Democratic challenger Tony Aveller after 38 years in the seat, giving a boost to the narrow victory of Dems in Albany's State Senate

Dawn Lim / October 23, 2010 4:17 pm

LIRR taking this weekend — and first week of Nov. — off

Long Island Rail Road commuters should expect severely reduced services -- with just a third its trains operational on 10 out of 11 lines -- during tests this weekend

Dawn Lim / October 14, 2010 1:19 pm

The Toxic Photograph: To shoot or not to shoot

Associated Press and the New York Post didn't assign a photographer for the Florida Koran burning that didn't happen. To shoot or not to shoot, that is the question.

Dawn Lim / October 11, 2010 2:00 am

The Bat Mobile Returns

The hipsters of Astoria may be too cool for Hollywood, but the rest of the neighborhood meets the larger-than-life world of showbiz with rapture

Dawn Lim / September 20, 2010 6:04 pm

Mozzarepas at the street fair (Eat that, Mayor Bloomberg!)

Mozzarepas, funnel cakes and the world's best onion choppers! Mayor Bloomberg may want fewer street fairs in the city to cut police costs, but the fair business was defiantly robust on Labor Day.

Dawn Lim / September 15, 2010 12:39 pm

Bloomberg: Voting machines were “a royal screw-up”

"Adopting a new technology, like believing in the fairness of the electoral process, requires a certain leap of faith." On Primary Day, they proved, in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's words, “a royal screw-up.”

Dawn Lim / September 12, 2010 7:27 pm

Photographing the ninth anniversary of 9/11 as a non-American

A photographer who is not American thinks about what it means to photograph the anniversary of 9/11.

Dawn Lim / September 2, 2010 3:04 pm

Morning rush in Astoria at 6 a.m.

Weekday mornings are for rushed rituals and coffees-to-go. Do you smell the bagels on your way to work?

Dawn Lim / September 1, 2010 2:38 pm

Top ten pictures from the summer

Protests against the Arizona immigration law, Genting's $380 million bet on Ozone Park, 100 degree heatwaves, and the civil settlement for the Sean Bell shooting

Dawn Lim / August 26, 2010 4:49 pm

Personalities: The Belle of 38th Street

In summer, Electra "Babe" Grisafi, 73, sits out on her porch, sharing edible treats and gossip with neighbors. "I am the mayor of 38th street," the bright-eyed woman declares