"We do care, we do listen and in the past few years more and more kids have been paying attention to the media and the politics," said 17-year-old Stephanie Nino, a student at Urban Assembly Media High School in Manhattan.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The 16-year-old Manhattan Hunter College High School for Science student said her first objective would be to clean up drugs in her neighborhood.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Last week at West Village speakeasy Little Branch, a hostess furiously banged on the door of the bar's bathroom in a frenzy, saying: "Two men just can't be in the bathroom!"

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

She's often surprised by the cost of mundane tasks, like laundry, in her Brownsville neighborhood. Detergent is expensive, softener is expensive, the cost of the machines at the laundermat is pricey.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

David and Odilis live with their son, Jeremy, and Odilis' 16-year-old sister in Westchester Square. David makes about $40,000, plus bonuses, as a doorman in Chelsea.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

David and Odilis live with their son, Jeremy, and Odilis' 16-year-old sister in Westchester Square. David makes about $40,000, plus bonuses, as a doorman in Chelsea.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The Floreses had saved $30,000 as a down payment on a house, but instead opened Eastchester Flowers last July.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The Rosario family's upper West Side co-op comes with a parking space - and it's a good thing, because they don't use the car much these days.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The Colyers, an African-American family from Queens, live in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. They have three sons: Khalil, 13; Khamari, 2, and Khalif, 10 months.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Husband William, 47, works in the freezer department at Fresh Direct's Long Island City processing plant.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Site of a planned four-story condo at 1175 44th St. has been subject to a stop-work order.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The citywide sweep - 305 Brooklyn sites were inspected, and violations were found at 87 - came after a series of high-profile scaffold accidents this winter, including a scaffold collapse in heavy winds in Clinton Hill that killed a construction worker.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Midwood residents feel the same way. Even though the Buildings Department shut down 1921 Ocean Ave. for nine days because the scaffolding's footing and anchors "were not sound and rigid," complaints about the construction site continue to pore in.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Assemblyman James Brennan (D-Park Slope), who has battled the Buildings Department, said he welcomed the latest sweep, but wasn't surprised that nearly 14% of the surveyed sites were so dangerous they were shut down.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Many of the sites that were shut down are in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, which has seen the borough's largest spike in new construction.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Many of the sites that were shut down are in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, which has seen the borough's largest spike in new construction.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Other shuttered sites include 1175 44th St. in Borough Park - a four-story condo that is still under a stop-work order after inspectors found its scaffolding improperly attached to the building and anchored to the ground.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Other shuttered sites include 349 16th St. in Windsor Terrace - another four-story site that was shut down for a day because its scaffold lacked safety footings and wasn't securely attached.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Working Families, which just lost a bid to hike income taxes 1% on people making more than $1 million a year - despite support from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) - plans a rally at City Hall on Tuesday to push the new idea while the city hammers out a budget.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Mayor Bloomberg threatened in October to ban city school kids from touring the United Nations building unless it fixed hundreds of fire and safety violations by March.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

You talk today about Jeffery Moss, a 23-year-old young man from San Antonio, who went to Morehouse College as a Robinson Scholar, who is now working for the Citi company, as a Financial Center Manager in Starrett City, in Brooklyn, of course.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

And even an old second baseman out of the Tilden Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn such as Willie Randolph could manage a baseball team in the city of New York.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

And the day, as important as there has ever been in baseball, ends with Robinson and his wife Rachel and their son taking the subway back to the McAlpin Hotel on 34th and 6th. In the morning, mother and son had taken a $5 cab ride to the game over the Manhattan Bridge and into history.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The session will be held at the Trinidad and Tobago Consulate, 475 Fifth Ave., fourth floor (between 40th and 41st Sts.) in Manhattan on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Call Andrea Chambers-Wilson at (212) 682-7272 for information.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Both events will be held at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. The event will close with an award dinner gala and showcase on Saturday at Glen Terrace, 5313 Avenue N in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Both events will be held at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. The event will close with an award dinner gala and showcase on Saturday at Glen Terrace, 5313 Avenue N in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Fire marshals are investigating the blaze at P.S. 143. The cause is under investigation but fire officials say it's suspicious.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

But his scam was always the same: Promise a low price, but triple or quadruple it after the van was packed and it was too late to cancel the job. If people didn't pay, he held their possessions hostage in his Greenpoint, Brooklyn, warehouse.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

The estimate for Timberli Heath and Earl Munroe's move to Jacksonville, Fla., from Far Rockaway, Queens, was $1,500. But the price was jacked up to $6,800. They couldn't pay - and everything they owned was locked up for a year and a half. When they finally got their possessions back, a $3,000 entertainment center was destroyed, baby pictures were gone and their children's clothes were covered with mold.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Thieves broke into a small branch of Sovereign Bank, on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, Queens, over Easter weekend. But the biggest victim may not have been the bank.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Mamajuana, a somberly elegant Dominican-Spanish bar and restaurant in Washington Heights where a skirt steak goes for $22, is popular with politicians, local celebrities and even the occasional New York Yankee. And it hopes to become even more popular.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Mrs. Asen is one of more than 200 elderly residents of the Upper West Side who took part in a yearlong study about pedestrian safety in their neighborhood, where 13 percent of the population is over 65. Armed with maps and disposable cameras, a small armada of those men and women were dispatched to document specific dangers on their streets.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Muchabout LifeStyle, the new clothing store, says hip. The shoes are displayed in illuminated boxes. Jeans are laid out on red lacquered shelves.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

It’s not the sort of thing you see a lot of in Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn neighborhood that in many respects seems to be a throwback to the 1970s Soviet Union, the homeland of many who immigrated here.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Now, Mr. Jones is in the midst of his final rehearsals for the play’s latest staging, and he is having that feeling again. Mr. Jones has performed in theaters around the city and the country, but his latest site is different: It is the Audubon Ballroom, where, 43 years ago, Malcolm X was assassinated in front of hundreds of people.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

My office is between the Javits Center and Madison Square Garden. When there is an event at either, local parking lots more than double their rates. Is this legal?

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

My office is between the Javits Center and Madison Square Garden. When there is an event at either, local parking lots more than double their rates. Is this legal?

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

On West 90th Street between Columbus Avenue and Amsterdam, on the edge of the Stephen Wise Towers playground, there is a mural that looks like a three-dimensional graffiti tag. I live near there, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what it says. Can you fill me in?

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Begin at the foot of the island, where the harbor stretches out to the open sea, and where the first Europeans settled. As you stroll around, you come upon the solid foundations of the city's religious faiths in the brick and mortar of its earliest churches: Trinity, with its quiet, shady graveyard, a masterpiece amid the frenetic business of Wall Street. A few blocks north, Old St. Peter's - the city's oldest Catholic parish, founded in 1785 - sits at the corner of Barclay and Church. In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, tucked away off Chatham Square, is the graveyard once a part of Shearith Israel, the only Jewish congregation in New York City between 1654 and 1825.

Published by amNY.com on April 13, 2008.

Fire marshals are investigating the blaze at P.S. 143.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 13, 2008.

He also was a president of the Westchester Board of Rabbis.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 13, 2008.

After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the remaining concrete Sunday and pulled it out.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 13, 2008.

A pair of hardhats working at the new Yankee Stadium dropped a dime on the location of a buried Red Sox jersey.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

"It seems that everyone's going through housing problems around here," said Desiree Figueroa, whose 172 Blackford Ave. townhouse was seized by Option One Mortgage and sold last week.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

The city and its Ground Zero contractors have become embroiled in an explosive rift over who's responsible to pay 9/11 workers sickened during the World Trade Center cleanup, The Post has learned.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

A coalition of animal-rights and business activists are pitching city politicians a plan to replace Central Park's horse and buggies with "green" replicas of the Ford Model T and other antique cars.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

A Yorktown congregation is reeling after three Westchester teenage girls allegedly broke into its synagogue and wrecked the place - ripping a Torah, trampling the Israeli flag and throwing paint on the floors and walls.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

Members of the Mohegan Park Jewish Center at 1688 Decatur Road, along with County Executive Andrew Spano, are set to rally today at 2 p.m. against the hateful act.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

They are among the 750 applicants who have responded to the department's Big Apple marketing blitz during the past few weeks, which included a billboard on the West Side Highway near 54th Street and fliers distributed around the city.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

Superintendent Roger McFarland, 41, allegedly caught the 33-year-old victim, Shamod Murray, relieving himself in the Lenox Avenue building's lobby at 8:05 p.m. Friday.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

The NYPD said Friday it was investigating whether Torres twice robbed a Sovereign Bank on Avenue A, once in June 2007 before he entered the Police Academy, and once in November, a month before he graduated.

Published by New York Post on April 13, 2008.

The 21-year-old then told NYPD detectives that he had robbed a Sovereign Bank branch in the East Village in June and again in November - making off with about $118,000, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 13, 2008.

Tony Colbert, the Irish-born part owner of Tir Na Nog on Eighth Avenue near West 33rd Street, estimated that the bar’s Knicks crowd had declined by 60 percent as a result of the team’s struggles in the past five or six years.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through two-feet of concrete Sunday and pulled it out.

Published by WNBC on April 13, 2008.

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins’s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings. In 1991, there were 107 murders recorded in the 75th Precinct, which includes Cypress Hills; last year, there were 33. Residents of Cypress, as many call it, now relish being able to sit on the benches outside their apartment buildings during the day, something that was once unimaginable.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins’s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings. In 1991, there were 107 murders recorded in the 75th Precinct, which includes Cypress Hills; last year, there were 33. Residents of Cypress, as many call it, now relish being able to sit on the benches outside their apartment buildings during the day, something that was once unimaginable.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

No. The man in question is Rocco, my barber, and he snips away in a narrow, old-school storefront on Spring Street in SoHo.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The place where he works is a holdover from the pre-Old Navy SoHo, in more ways than one: There are people over the age of 22 inside, and it’s the first barbershop I’ve been in since Tommy’s that offers Playboy as reading material. Even though by now I am old enough, the scars from a politically correct alma mater linger, so I am still hesitant to pick up a copy.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Re “Dressed for Dinner” (The City Visible, April 6), about Alix Smith’s portraits of fellow Upper East Siders dressed as they would be for work or dinner out:

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The Dumbo Improvement District is looking for a new executive director.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

For others, drink is the answer. “People spend more on alcohol when times get tough,” says Frank Badillo, senior economist for consulting firm TNS Retail Forward. At Bar Sepia in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, owner Delissa Reynolds says customers have packed into her bar not only for the drink, but also for a sense of community.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

To be sure, if the recession is deep, even the winners' gains could be wiped out. Customers who opt for supermarkets over restaurants could start trading down within those grocery stores. A $30 bottle of olive oil could turn into a $10 one. Already, stores in neighborhoods such as Jamaica, Queens, which have been hard hit by foreclosures, are feeling a pinch. Sales at World Wide 99-Cent on Jamaica Avenue have been sliced in half since January, says owner Debbie Lachman. And rising rents and operating costs could offset any gains.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

It's a mouthful, and it's not a school, but Accademia di Vino is a welcoming repository of delicious Italian food and wine. Tasty small plates, for the most part, and hundreds of wines surround guests in an exciting, wine cellar-like setting.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

Veteran restaurateur-wine buff Anthony Mazzola is the man who finally solved the location's challenge. To transfer some magic from his Upper West Side hit 'Cesca, he gave a Vespa to its chef, Kevin Garcia, so he can work both sides of town with ease.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

The Bloomberg administration has an impressive record on land use planning. All 80 of the rezoning plans it has presented to the City Council—including some that were highly controversial—have won approval. But City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden says none of them has posed as many challenges as the proposal to rezone 125th Street in Harlem, part of a plan to encourage development and create as many as 9,000 much-needed jobs in the area.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

“They are trying to turn Harlem into some bourgeois neighborhood,” says Philip Bulgar, a manager at Manna's Soul Food & Salad Bar, a buffet-style eatery at the corner of West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. “This isn't SoHo. This isn't the Upper East Side.”

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

Two years after it opened, a sophisticated mall in the heart of working-class Glendale, Queens, is struggling to draw the hordes of shoppers that its developers envisioned. To lure more traffic to The Shops at Atlas Park, the owner is offering an incentive: cold, hard cash.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 13, 2008.

Firefighters said they are unclear what started the blaze at P.S. 143, but add that they believe the fire was suspicious.

Published by WNBC on April 13, 2008.

The dismal performance of the New York Knicks has hurt the fan-fueled business of Irish pubs near Madison Square Garden, according to the Sunday Times. But there may yet be a pot of gold at the end of the faded rainbow for these retailers of rose-colored glasses near the Knicks' home court:

Published by The New York Observer on April 13, 2008.

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins’s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

“It’s hard to get a girl when you live here, to tell a girl you’re from East New York and live in the Cypress Hills projects,” he said, laughing.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

No. The man in question is Rocco, my barber, and he snips away in a narrow, old-school storefront on Spring Street in SoHo

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

A new clothing store in Brighton Beach is targeting upscale newcomers to the neighborhood.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Final rehearsals are under way for the first play to be put on in Harlem’s Audon Ballroom, where 43 years ago, Malcolm X was assassinated in front of an audience of hundreds.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

These restaurants on Orchard Street, the historic hub of the Lower East Side, have at least two things in common: pint-size dining rooms and reasonable prices.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Nezilia Augustin was hit by a car traveling eastbound on Eastern Parkway while she was crossing at an intersection. Police say a second car then hit Augustin at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday.

Published by WNBC on April 13, 2008.

IN 1991, the high crime rate at the Cypress Hills Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, made it the perfect setting for Mayor David Dinkins to announce a crackdown on illegal guns. It was a little too perfect, in fact. As the mayor spoke, shots rang out a block and a half away. People in the crowd screamed, some started to run and others ducked for cover. No one was injured, but the story added another chapter to the rough reputation of Cypress Hills.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins’s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings. In 1991, there were 107 murders recorded in the 75th Precinct, which includes Cypress Hills; last year, there were 33. Residents of Cypress, as many call it, now relish being able to sit on the benches outside their apartment buildings during the day, something that was once unimaginable.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins’s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The monumental failures of the New York Knicks have hurt business at many of the Irish pubs near Madison Square Garden.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

A new clothing store in Brighton Beach is targeting upscale newcomers to the neighborhood.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Final rehearsals are under way for the first play to be put on in Harlem’s Audon Ballroom, where 43 years ago, Malcolm X was assassinated in front of an audience of hundreds.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

My office is between the Javits Center and Madison Square Garden. When there is an event at either, local parking lots more than double their rates. Is this legal?

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

My office is between the Javits Center and Madison Square Garden. When there is an event at either, local parking lots more than double their rates. Is this legal?

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

These restaurants on Orchard Street, the historic hub of the Lower East Side, have at least two things in common: pint-size dining rooms and reasonable prices.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

Drugs and guns have loosened their grip on Cypress Hills Houses, but for the ordinary people who live there, the everyday drama is still about making do.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

The monumental failures of the New York Knicks have hurt business at many of the Irish pubs near Madison Square Garden.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

When Tino Hernandez looks back, he dwells not on the drugs and the crime in his old Lower East Side neighborhood, but on the stability of the Jacob Riis Houses that he knew as a teenager.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

For several years in the 1960s, he lived with his father in a red brick building at 108 Avenue D, part of the sprawling public housing complex named for the photojournalist who wrote “How the Other Half Lives.”

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

“This is less about Tino and more about the growing deficit for public housing and the sources of that deficit,” said David R. Jones, president of the Community Service Society, a nonprofit antipoverty group. “Tino, to his credit, has finessed this relatively well.”

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

A SoHo storefront offers DNA analysis to gauge the risk of contracting one of 18 conditions, including breast cancer, a heart attack and Alzheimer’s disease.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

A patient admissions representative at of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was charged with stealing and selling nearly 50,000 patient files.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.

A Harlem apartment building superintendent and two friends were arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of a Brooklyn man on Friday night.

Published by New York Times on April 13, 2008.