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  • Had he taken them from his own small garden, overgrown, in need of tilling, the only thing still blooming in his postage-stamp backyard?

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • The musician has been a fixture of the neighborhood since the late 1970s, cultivating a multifaceted career that has taken him from postage-stamp performance spaces to European concert halls.

    The 'East Village Nosferatu' Haunts Brooklyn Steve Dollar 2011

  • The fascination that inspired Warhol's postage-stamp portraiture and Elton John's outpourings retains its grip.

    In praise of ... Marilyn Monroe | Editorial 2011

  • In those days, the postage-stamp lawns were manicured, and a Sears above-ground swimming pool was all it took to make you the most popular kid on the block.

    Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

  • Junior reduced the image to its original postage-stamp size and moved the cursor to her next photo, clicked it up to full size, this one posed in girlie-magazine fashion.

    RUBYRED AND PARSHOOTER Howard Giordano 2011

  • Jesus eased his black Chevy Tahoe through a neighborhood of tidy brick and clapboard houses, postage-stamp lawns and chain-link fences.

    Illegal immigrants risk deportation by driving without licenses Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • Jesus eased his black Chevy Tahoe through a neighborhood of tidy brick and clapboard houses, postage-stamp lawns and chain-link fences.

    Illegal immigrants risk deportation by driving without licenses Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • In those days, the postage-stamp lawns were manicured, and a Sears above-ground swimming pool was all it took to make you the most popular kid on the block.

    Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

  • Jesus eased his black Chevy Tahoe through a neighborhood of tidy brick and clapboard houses, postage-stamp lawns and chain-link fences.

    Illegal immigrants risk deportation by driving without licenses Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • In those days, the postage-stamp lawns were manicured, and a Sears above-ground swimming pool was all it took to make you the most popular kid on the block.

    Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited Susan Schindehette 2011

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