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Tenants of one Brooklyn building struggling to get heat in bitterly cold temperatures finally get relief after getting help from "NY1 For You." NY1's Susan Jhun filed this follow up report.

These days when renter Tracy Berkley comes home he can take off his jacket without freezing.

"I no longer have to get up three or four times a night to check my space heater or run the shower for twenty minutes to heat the bathroom up," Berkley says.

That's a luxury for the Brooklyn tenant who we first told you about last week. Berkley had been living without any heat since November when a fire broke the building's boiler, leaving the asthmatic renter in the cold, using any means to stay warm.

"I've got the oven on and I've got the electric heaters on and I've got blankets," Berkley says.

Berkley told us a new boiler was installed after the fire and turned on briefly but since then he said the building manager refused to turn the heat back on.

We contacted the manager for the building and he told us even though a new boiler was installed and heat could be provided, the pipe line size was not big enough for the boiler, cooking gas and hot water heater.

He said he knew it was cold and that's why he was encouraging tenants to move out.

We contacted the Department of Housing Preservation & Development and National Grid, and the two agencies came out immediately to work to get the heat back on.

"I am so grateful for NY1. I'm grateful to have heat," Berkley says.

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I am finally getting around to posting on our front walkway and stairs. I had to dig deep in the archives to find some of the before pictures and I'm almost too tired to even write about it after seeing all the work we had to do.

This is the view of the valley below with Mt. Adams in the background.

The view from the porch.

Putting in the hardscape was definitely an huge undertaking. I personally had no idea that there was so much involved in creating features as simple as walkways.

We started with this, a few concrete stones and some old wood beams. This was our fancy front steps and walkway for about a year after we renovated the house (this photo was taken in 2009).

After much deliberation, and some math on Mike's part, we decided to create the stairs with concrete and then adhere pavers over the concrete to create a stone look.

Mike started building the stairs by creating a form for the concrete. This was a lot of work as he had to dig down fairly deep into clay soil so that the stairs had a firm concrete base.

After the concrete was poured and cured, Mike adhered the pavers to create the look of stone steps.

As we completed the stairs, it was time to build the walkway.

This involved a lot more digging into our clay soil which is like concrete when it is dry, and softens a couple inches at a time with lots of water applied to it. So this was a fair amount of hard work. I know because I attempted to help out, but gave up when I couldn't even get the shovel two inches into the ground.

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Volkswagen has today announced that the order books are open for two new up! models - the Street up and Club up!

First deliveries will arrive in the UK in March 2015 and prices range from 11,995 for the Street up! (1.0-litre, 3-door, 5-speed manual) and rise to 12,370 for the top of the range Club up! (1.0-litre, 5-door, 5-speed manual).

Both the Street up! and Club up! are powered by a 1.0-litre 3-cylinder petrol engine which returns a combined fuel consumption figure of 60.1mpg and emits 108 g/km of CO2.

They are based on the VW High up! trim which includes as standard - front fog lights, heated front seats and a Maps & More portable infotainment device.

In addition the Street up! model features standard Pure White, Black Pearl or Reflex Silver paint, 65 per cent tinted glass from the B-pillar back, body coloured bumpers with chrome moulding on the front fog lights, 16-inch Upsilon alloy wheels, Street badging, decals on side, bonnet, boot and roof, wing mirrors in silver (except for the Reflex Silver models on which they are black), scuff plates with yellow stripe, black roof lining, carpet mats and unique Street cloth upholstery and finally a leather steering wheel with up! logo.

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Mayor invites activist for tree talk

Kota Kinabalu: Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir has invited environmental activist Dr CY Vun to discuss views on ways to preserve trees in the City.

Madingkir said while he is not an agriculturist, he is a nature lover and appreciates the presence of trees in his surroundings.

He headed the committee that set up the Tenom Agriculture Park (Taman Pertanian) while serving as Permanent Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry in 1996. The park impressed former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir who described it as among the best he had ever visited.

"Together with a team of botanists and agriculturists, including well known botanist Tony Lamb, we created the Taman Pertanian," he said.

Vun had earlier described Madingkir as perhaps among the worst of the three Mayors the city has had so far when it comes to tree-cutting. His remarks followed the cutting of five trees a stone's throw from the City hall headquarters and doubted City hall's version that the trees had to be removed because they had been poisoned by unscrupulous quarters.

City Hall said the cut trees would be replaced with new shady ones.

The Mayor said he was surprised why Vun was comparing winter season and spring time to Sabah when there was only one season here, except for the monsoon or rainy season.

He said the removal of dying and damaged trees in the City was done after much consideration and the physical condition of the tree itself.

"Before removing any tree, our Landscape Department team will conduct physical inspections on the said tree, according to the Tree Risk Assessment Guidelines of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and the National Landscape Department," he said.

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Lebanon A proposal to remove more than 30 acres of trees from airport property along Poverty Lane is set to receive another look by the City Council tonight.

Residents submitted letters to councilors in November and December, urging them to revisit the pending tree-clearing project. Among the objections raised are concerns about the effect on property values, impacts on wildlife habitat , and potential increases in noise and light from the airport and nearby Interstate 89. They have also questioned the need for the tree clearing.

After initially rejecting the project which in addition to denuding 33 acres of trees will include removing 38 obstruction lights, replacing them with two 110-foot slow flashing beacons, and moving a fence the council approved the $1.2 million project in phases in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Ninety percent of the work is set to be paid for through federal funds, with the state and city each contributing 5 percent.

Though councilors set tonights meeting to discuss the issue, there is no indication they intend to change course. They have said the project is necessary to improve visibility for pilots along the southern side of the east-west runway, northwest of Poverty Lane and south of Interstate 89, and to comply with federal regulations and requirements by the citys insurer.

People who do this for a living at the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) say this is a risk, Mayor Georgia Tuttle said of the trees in a phone interview Tuesday. When a pilot flies into an airport with fog, storm or rain, they have to have more than a narrow landing zone.

In a memo included in the councils packet for tonights meeting, Airport Manager Rick Dyment said that the city committed to comply with FAA safety guidelines when it entered into an agreement with the federal government to operate and maintain the airport in 1941. Subsequently, the city has agreed to 39 FAA grant assurances tied to federal funds.

Dyment particularly pointed to FAA grant assurance No. 20, which requires that the airport take appropriate action to assure that such terminal airspace as is required to protect instrument and visual operations to the airport ... will be adequately cleared and protected by removing, lowering, relocating, marking, or lighting or otherwise mitigating existing airport hazards and by preventing the establishment or creation of future airport hazards.

FAA spokesman Jim Peters said in an email that the tree removal project is in accordance with federal regulations and will help to ensure the safety of the airport.

Federal air safety regulations require airports to identify and mitigate obstructions that may impact airport operations, Peters wrote. The obstruction removal project will enhance the safety of Lebanon Municipal Airport by removing obstructions.

With the support of federal funds, the city completed an obstruction study in 2009, which identified some of the hills and trees surrounding the airport as interfering with safe landings and takeoffs. It would be totally unrealistic to remove all obstructions, Dyment said in an interview on Tuesday.

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