I just found The Hill, a new blog covering news and events in Murray Hill. Finally! I have always wanted something like this to happen. I hope to see hyper-local blogs like The Hill sprout up all over the city. By hyper-local I mean blogs that focus on a particular neighborhood or area, rather than a city-wide approach.

The Hill’s post Billiards at the First Block details the events surrounding the propsed conversion of Woods Pharmacy to a Pool Hall.

This proposed use has created quite a stir with the residents here in Murray Hill. Many have voiced their opposition at the public meetings or just to themselves and neighbors in private. Their main argument is that particular area of the neighborhood, being so visible, does not need, nor does anyone want, a dark, seedy pool hall, attracting unsavory characters at all hours of the night.

And who knew the retail strip of Edgewood that welcomes people to the neighborhood had such an awesome name, The First Block?

Can The Hill hang in there? Will The Hill end up in the blog graveyard? Only time will tell.

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