"They offered me $120,000," said Carolyn Chamberlain, 65, a secretary who pays $400 for her two-bedroom apartment in the six-story, prewar building at 176 E. 3rd St.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

A group of rent-stabilized tenants are fighting to keep their East Village neighborhood affordable by turning down buyout offers of up to $125,000 apiece from a pair of real-estate barons.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

For new residents, Roosevelt Island is an urban suburbia, a landscaped refuge from cramped quarters in Chelsea, the Upper East Side or the East Village.

Published by The New York Observer on September 1, 2008.

STREET FEST The fifth annual HOWL! Festival opens in Tompkins Square Park for a week of hip-hop acts, poetry slams, face painting, silent raves and more in the East Village. (Free, 5 p.m., Seventh St. and Avenue A, www.howlfestival.com)

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

Brian Ferrera, of Ladder 18 on the lower East Side, told his supervisors in February he was enlisting with the Marines and would need a leave of absence, Department of Investigation officials said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 30, 2008.