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...monarchs severed heads and placed them on sticks to line the wooden bridges over the River Thames. Streets blur with red and black--the red of double-decker buses and the black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter about their shop windows in the early morning dawn while the butcher hangs chickens with their heads down and eyes glassy. In the heat of summer, glass pint bottles full of milk stand on front steps waiting to be brought inside...
Lombardi's, 32 Spring St., between Mott and Mulberry Streets (941-7994): Little Italy has grown increasingly littler and less Italian over the years, but New York's oldest pizzeria shows no signs of flagging. Located near the upper end of Mulberry Street, where the feel is more neighborhood and less theme park, Lombardi's serves the best pizza in the city (a close runner-up is Patsy Grimaldi's, just under the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). For $12.50, a large basic pie (mozzarella, cheese, basil) feeds two. If the weather's warm enough...
When Lt. Robert Ames, who is in charge ofpatrol for the Riverside neighborhood, attended ameeting for residents in the first week of March,he said he had expected to hear complaints about arash of car break...
...neighborhood, which includes parts of theSquare, an upscale residential area, Mt. Auburnhospital, a large cemetery and parts of FreshPond, saw a spree of residential burglaries whichcaused house break-ins to rise 75 percent lastyear...
...member of my neighborhood, I haven'theard anything," she said...