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My best friend and I once ate lunch at the restaurant below her apartment. Not because of anything to do with the case, but because we were seeing a movie across the street, and because I got airline miles for eating there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/82-70+Austin+St,+Jamaica,+NY+11415/@40.709539,-73.8298802,3a,75y,221.02h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1se1IQq9kqV-ScjF9Wy7Ym6g!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?panoid=e1IQq9kqV-ScjF9Wy7Ym6g&cb_client=search.gws-prod.gps&w=86&h=86&yaw=221.0221&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c260bcb3238e25:0xd4fd82e5ee34433a!8m2!3d40.709375!4d-73.830072

One of the country’s most famously creepy houses is back in the news. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the notorious killer at the “Amityville Horror” house — a dwelling whose mystique continues to fascinate the public in the wake of a subsequent book and film franchise — died in prison Friday at 69. DeFeo, whose nickname was Butch, spread terror across Long Island following the gruesome 1974 slaying of his family at their home at 108 Ocean Ave. The home — its original address was 112 Ocean Ave. but was changed to 108 to deter tourists — was purchased by George and Kathy Lutz one year after the murders. But they ditched the property after only one month due to reported paranormal activity, which inspired a 1977 book and 1979 movie. On Nov. 13, 1974, DeFeo — who was 23 at the time — shot and killed his parents, Ronald and Louise DeFeo, both 43, and his two brothers and two sisters, ranging in age from 9 to 18. The house has been on the market four different times since the murders. It was last listed in June 2016 and sold in March 2017 for $605,000, according to property records. Built in 1925, the single-family home sits on a 10,900-square-foot lot. DeFeo Jr. was convicted in 1975 of six counts of second-degree murder and received six sentences of 25 years to life. He was serving his sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York, when he died. He had been transferred to Albany Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. An autopsy is underway. https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/inside-the-amityville-horror-house-today-long-islands-most-notorious-mansion/

Well, none of my (barely) middle class friends or I have ever had a card that wasn't made of plastic.

I wake up and remember I don't have rich people problems.

'Affordable' Housing: Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for six Units in Bed Stuy, Starting at $2,245 a month Monthly rents for the income-restricted apartments -- two one-bedrooms and four two-bedrooms -- are higher than for market-rate units in the building. Of the income-restricted apartments, there are two one-bedroom units and four two-bedroom units. Monthly rents start at $2,245 and top out at $2,710. Current market rate listings show available two-bedroom units asking $2,261 a month and three-bedroom units asking $2,705 a month, which is actually $449 and $5 less than the income-restricted two-bedroom units, respectively.

Because this thread was started about the first on-going gay male relationship (not one-shot patient storylines with characters never seen again), as opposed to the numerous lesbian relationships the show has had.

I'm just impressed that a high school student with only piano accompaniment can sound that good. And that song speaks to me... if I had to sing a song about how I've lived my life, it would be called I'm So Afraid Of Everything. I always let fear of failure stop me from trying anything scary or out of my comfort zone. So that song, sung by a high school student with the guts to be a performer, makes me sad and nostalgic for myself, but uplifted by her talent.

A Far Rockaway social worker was charged Thursday with grand larceny and identity theft after she allegedly stole nearly $150,000 from an elderly patient at a rehab center where she worked in 2019. Olivia Gordon, 28, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on March 11 on a host of charges, following allegations that she robbed a 90-year-old patient in her facility after getting access to her bank account, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Gordon, who’s from Hempstead, Long Island, was serving as the director of social services at a Far Rockaway rehabilitation and health care center in March 2019. That month, a 90-year-old woman was transferred to the facility after falling over and injuring herself inside her Brooklyn home. Upon her admittance to the facility, Gordon gained access to the woman’s bank account statements and other financial documents. Shortly after the woman was admitted, Gordon allegedly began taking money out of the woman’s account and transferring it into her own. In May 2019, Gordon made multiple withdraw’s from the patient’s account, including one of $106,148, according to the criminal complaint. Each withdraw from the elderly woman’s account corresponded with a payment made by Gordon a short time later, according to the DA. Late in June 2019, Gordon paid off a federal student loan with a single payment of $106,148, the charges state. Gordon also allegedly used the stolen cash to pay off several credit cards. But Gordon went further, attempting to make her self the legal heir to the woman’s nearly $1 million fortune upon her death, Katz said. On May 7, 2019, the company holding an annuity for the 90-year-old received a fax from Gordon claiming that she was the “caretaker/pseudo grandchild” of the woman, according to the authorities. Several days later, she allegedly sent a second fax requesting the company send her cash. The company denied the request after being unable to verify the claims with the 90-year-old. Gordon, who will return to court on May 4, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

I don't enjoy musicals on screen or on stage. Although I did enjoy my niece's high school production of On The Town. This isn't my niece; I just like her voice.

Khloe Kardashian's baby daddy:

We're even... I've never seen the film version.

Wasn't the big number 'Singing in the Rain'?

I've always called it Fairly Ridiculous University.

So that makes you ~175 years old? You seem rather spry and mentally alert for somebody of your (very) advanced years! ? Forget Liza (with a Z, not Lisa with an S). It's @WilliamM that deserves kudos and a gala celebration!

If it's a commandment, it should be 'Thou shalt not bump threads that don't interest you.' ????

I never suggested that every original poster to this thread was dead. I just asked @JoeMendoza if his intention was to keep resurrecting 20-year-old threads until he finds one where they all are.

And I was just commenting on the plethora of 20 year old threads I'd noticed @JoeMendoza had brought up. And I added this comment just so I could use the word plethora.

Couldn't you at least have given me a SPOILER ALERT before delivering such shocking (previously unknown) news?!?

Man says he lived in secret Veterans Stadium apartment For two years, Vietnam veteran Tom Garvey claims to have lived in a self-made apartment hidden inside Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium. Garvey, now 78, says he secretly refurbished an empty concession stand inside the former home of the Phillies and Eagles. “I was like a kid with a Willy Wonka golden ticket,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Garvey details his experiences — taking non-baseball hits in the dugout, halftime parties, and run-ins with Philly sports legends like Tug McGraw and Julius Erving — in his 188-page book, “The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir,” which was published in December. He said he worked at the stadium complex parking lots through a company owned by his uncles. Through that job, Garvey received an office at the Vet and keys to an obscure entrance to the stadium. Across from his office — out in left field — was an unused 60-foot-by-30-foot concession stand. Garvey tricked it out with all the comforts he could: a bed, sink, fridge, coffee maker and hot plate. Leftover AstroTurf made for a good carpet. Parties were a hit — including with the wives of Eagles players, who were waiting for their husbands. “We’d put music on the stereo and have a drink,” he said. “The husbands would join their wives and have a beer, and then the lot traffic would pull out and we’d get their cars and have dinner.” Garvey was careful about his secret digs, never taking or allowing photos, though the Inquirer corroborated his story with multiple people. Not that there weren’t clues he was getting a little too comfy within the confines of Veterans Stadium. A Phillies doubleheader, extended late into the night by rain, made for a puzzling scene for remaining fans. “There were less than 200 people scattered around,” he said. “They didn’t want to know why I was there in a bathrobe and flip flops, they just wanted to know where I got a hot cup of coffee because the concession stands closed hours ago.” As all good things do, Garvey’s time in his clandestine apartment came to an end in 1981 when his uncles’ contract with the stadium lots ended. The stadium was torn down in 2004, and along with it any tangible proof his secret hideout existed. That seems to be OK with Garvey, who got just what he needed from the apartment after returning from war. “I’d been so busy for so many years when I came home and this gave me the opportunity to put things in perspective,” he said of his time living in Veterans Stadium. “I found it to be healing. It was a place where I went inside myself and found some peace.”