The city is spending $1 million to fix thebluestone sidewalks around City Hall after Mayor Bloomberg watched several people - including two staffers - slip and fall on rainy days.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

John Buzzard, a 15-year-old honor student at Brooklyn's Xaverian High School, collapsed and died Jan. 18 from undiagnosed heart and brain ailments...

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

...collapsed and died Jan. 18 from undiagnosed heart and brain ailments during a touch/tackle football game in Dyker Heights.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Seventeen-year-old Joe Costales, a wrestler at Staten Island's McKee High School, suffered a massive heart attack and fell into a coma in October during a whiffle ball game - one week after getting a clean bill of health to join the school's wrestling team.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Johnson, who's from Brownsville, Brooklyn, had been out of lockup and in a shelter for only 15 days before the subway bust. He had on his electronic ankle monitoring bracelet when nabbed, cops said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Johnson was busted Wednesday after allegedly rubbing against a woman on a northbound No. 6 train. He insisted he was only trying to exit when an NYPD transit team sprung into action after following him from the E. 28th St. station.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Jaffa-based dealer, agreed in 2003 to sell the artifact for $110,000 to Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, who operates the Living Torah Museum on 41st St. in Borough Park, according to a complaint the dealer filed in Brooklyn Federal Court. The men are not related.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The Staten Island widow is one of 24 people selected to accompany Pope Benedict on the first papal visit to Ground Zero.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Pope Benedict arrives in New York Friday and will celebrate Mass on Sunday for 57,000 faithful at Yankee Stadium.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The cardinal's comments followed yesterday's 10:15 a.m. Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. In his homily, Egan called Pope Benedict's trip "an opportunity for a blessing."

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The 5:26 p.m. accident happened when the driver of a speeding Lexus - whose brakes may have failed - lost control on 34th St. near Madison Ave., cops said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The auto mechanic turned entrepreneur is legally blind. Last May, he opened a shop of his own, FGO Motor Services, in the Park Stratton section of the Bronx.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

A 71-year-old Brooklyn grandmother died after being hit by two cars while she crossed Eastern Parkway on her way home from church, police and relatives said Sunday.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Bell, a 23-year-old father of two, was killed on Nov. 25, 2006, near the Kalua Cabaret, a topless bar in Jamaica, Queens, where he'd just had his bachelor party - and where the undercover detectives were doing a prostitution sting.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The unidentified worker fell from the 23rd floor of the glassy, soon-to-be opened Laurel Condominiums and landed on a 14th-floor balcony at about 10:32 a.m., cops said.Construction workers huddled quietly in solemn groups at the site at 400 E. 67th St. where studio apartments are selling for just under $1 million.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

The man is accused of following his 25-year-old victim into her SoHo apartment building at about 5:30 a.m., police said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Twin Cafe Caterers in lower Manhattan posted a letter on its deli cooler: "Due to the huge increase of the gas, the electricity, the water and all the other utilities, we had to raise the prices a little bit." It went on to say that all its food prices have risen, too.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

Monday’s New York Post reported a story that is quite familiar to Brooklyn Paper readers: That Bruce Ratner’s $4-billion Atlantic Yards project is floating on more than $2.1 billion in taxpayer subsidies.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on April 14, 2008.

Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park. She is also the editor in chief of Next American City magazine, a quarterly examination of urban issues, community activism, culture and politics. She was a freelance architecture and design writer for Architectural Record, Art + Auction, Plenty and other magazines. Ms. Lind edited “Designing the Hamptons: Portraits of Interiors” (Edizioni Press, 2006) and founded the short-lived magazine, Work. She received her B.A. in English from Cornell and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia. Ms. Lind was born and raised in Manhattan, lived in Fort Greene for three years, and moved to Philadelphia this month.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

A worker fell seven stories to his death this morning while installing windows on the 23rd-floor of an Upper East Side condominium under construction, after the nylon safety strap connecting him to the building failed, officials said.

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 2008.

The Buildings Department has issued a stop-work order at the site of the 31-story Costas Kondyls-designed Laurel Condiminium building at 400 East 67th Street and has initiated an investigation into the cause of the accident.

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 2008.

Three hundred employees from AOL's Corporate and Programming branch, formerly based in Virginia, are moving today into the 105-year-old, Daniel Burnham-designed building at 770 Broadway, which once housed the Wanamaker Department Store. Mr. Burnham also designed the Flatiron Building.

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 2008.

"And don't forget, converts are more committed than nonconverts," Egan said after delivering his homily on Sunday at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Published by amNY.com on April 14, 2008.

A smiling J.K. Rowling stepped out of a car and strode into a lower Manhattan courthouse early Monday for the start of her lawsuit against a publisher.

Published by amNY.com on April 14, 2008.

The rabbi operates the Living Torah Museum where the artifact is on exhibit. He says he is not interested in "renting" it.

Published by amNY.com on April 14, 2008.

Seven years after helping his two brothers and their dad carry the body of a fourth brother, Jimmy, from the wreckage at Ground Zero, firefighter Thomas Riches will get to pray there with Pope Benedict XVI during a small ceremony on Sunday.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Private developers will soon get another crack at turning Governors Island into a major attraction.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

And while other major Big Apple projects - like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and the redevelopment of Ground Zero - have stalled because of a weakening economy, Schick said he doesn't expect that to happen with Governors Island because it offers "the best views" of the New York skyline anywhere.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

And while other major Big Apple projects - like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and the redevelopment of Ground Zero - have stalled because of a weakening economy, Schick said he doesn't expect that to happen with Governors Island because it offers "the best views" of the New York skyline anywhere.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

But the rabbi, Shaul Shimon Deutsch, who runs the Living Torah Museum in Borough Park, says he stopped payment on the $110,000 relic only because the dealer forgot to mention to him that the Israeli Antiquities Authority expected it to be returned after five years.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

The cops will be ready to patrol several neighborhoods, including the area around the Queens County Courthouse in Kew Gardens, where the three undercover detectives are on trial in the death of Bell, authorities said.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

* Increased police presence near club Kalua, the seedy strip joint in Jamaica where the shooting occurred. Liverpool Street has been the site of frequent candlelight vigils held by Bell's family and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

The defense team has argued that Isnora heard Guzman yell out for a gun during a heated exchange between Bell, his friends and another person outside the club Kalua, where the 23-year-old had his bachelor party. There was no gun found in Bell's car.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

The PS 72 sixth-grader, Maria Herrera, also told a guidance counselor in October 2006 that she wanted to kill herself, her mother, Mercedes Herrera, told The Post.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Nezilla Augustin was rushing across Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue by St. Mathew's Catholic Church at around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday when she was hit.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn is boosted by so many sweetheart deals that the public stands to pay for more than half the cost of his controversial $4 billion plan, a Post analysis found.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

A Jewish community group handed out 200 tons of free groceries to needy Hasidic families in Williamsburg yesterday to help them prepare for Passover.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

State Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) said the open-campus policy leads to accidents because students often speed or drive recklessly to get their lunch and return to class on time.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Ayrton "Gary" dos Santos has held court at John Lennon's memorial - located across from the legendary musician's former home at The Dakota - for more than 15 years.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Atlantic Yards is estimated to cost $4 billion.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Bell, 23, was killed on Nov. 25, 2006 - hours before his wedding - near Club Kalua, a seedy strip joint in Jamaica where the 23-year-old bachelor had just had his bachelor party.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

Emergency crews are at the scene at 66th Street and First Avenue.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

A $250 million renovation is in the works for the Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System's Upper West Side nursing home. Three weeks ago, the nursing home filed a certificate of need with the state's Department of Health to demolish two of its existing five buildings, and to construct a 150-foot "green" facility on West 106 Street.

Published by New York Sun on April 14, 2008.

Village Care of New York in Greenwich Village is also among those planning major changes. It recently entered the "demolition phase" of construction for a $37.5 million building on Houston Street that will have 105 beds — down from 200 — as well as 64 rehabilitation slots.

Published by New York Sun on April 14, 2008.

Chelsea Frazier was found lying next to the car near the intersection of Barrett and Torry avenues in Soundview shortly after 4 p.m.

Published by New York Post on April 14, 2008.

After the chain broke up at 1 p.m., demonstrators congregated at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, jangling tambourines, waving pickets, and chanting in unison.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 14, 2008.

More than two-thirds of the renters in buildings facing foreclosure last year lived in Brooklyn and Queens. Bedford Stuyvesant accounted for 1,500 such households and East New York had more than 1,100. In Queens, Jamaica led the way with more than 900 renter households living in buildings in foreclosure.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 14, 2008.

More than two-thirds of the renters in buildings facing foreclosure last year lived in Brooklyn and Queens. Bedford Stuyvesant accounted for 1,500 such households and East New York had more than 1,100. In Queens, Jamaica led the way with more than 900 renter households living in buildings in foreclosure.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 14, 2008.

Petty Officer Angelia (An juh LEE uh) Rorison says the ferry was leaving the north side of Liberty Island when it ran aground.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 14, 2008.

He apparently fell from the 23rd floor to a 14th floor balcony. The accident occurred at East 67th Street near First Avenue.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 14, 2008.

A 14-month-old boy is being cared for by relatives this morning-- after his mother was shot to death right in front of him in the Bronx.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 14, 2008.

Authorities say the incident happened around 5:30 a.m. Sunday in SoHo. Police say a 25-year-old woman entered her Sullivan Street apartment and was followed by the suspect, described as a black male in his 20s.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 14, 2008.

But Melanie and her award-winning partner Tony Meredith are teaching a true reality class, real people from every walk of life, who take a half-hour class with Tony and Melanie twice a week. The experience is harmonious rhythm for the mind and body. It's called Dance Times Square.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 14, 2008.

He later told NYPD detectives he had also robbed a Sovereign Bank in the East Village in June and again in November - making off with about $118,000.

Published by New York Daily News on April 14, 2008.

After the chain broke up at 1 p.m., demonstrators congregated at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, jangling tambourines, waving pickets, and chanting in unison.

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 2008.

A male employee at an Upper West Side group home is charged with raping one of the mentally ill male residents and assaulting a fellow employee, according to police.

Published by WNBC on April 14, 2008.

It allegedly happened Friday night in a residence on West 92nd street near Amsterdam Avenue.

Published by WNBC on April 14, 2008.

The incident happened at 67th Street and 1st Avenue at a building called The Laurel.

Published by WNBC on April 14, 2008.

A man fell to his death at a construction site on the Upper East side on Monday.

Published by WNBC on April 14, 2008.

The Daily News had an article yesterday about how many Brooklynites are terrified of safety conditions (or lack thereof) at construction sites. Some choice takeaways: -Many of the sites shut down in last month's sweep were in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

The Daily News had an article yesterday about how many Brooklynites are terrified of safety conditions (or lack thereof) at construction sites. Some choice takeaways: -Many of the sites shut down in last month's sweep were in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

For the past several months, a Community Board 6 committee has been considering a local business owner's application to get a liquor license for a bar he wants to open on Hoyt and Union.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

We're not having the best of the luck with the weather at The Flea, but luckily we're more than making up for it with media coverage. (To be fair, it hasn't actually rained yet, but it's come pretty darn close both Sundays to date.) The Sunday Styles section of The Times devoted its cover yesterday to photographs of a number of vendors who were on hand for opening day.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

Neighbors are no doubt eager to see something built on this Kensington lot at Caton Avenue and 5th Street, supposedly complete with approved plans for luxury condos. City records indicate work was started on the property in 2003, but demolition didn't move very fast—two years later, a partially demolished building still existed on the seemingly abandoned and unsecured construction site.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

In what we're interpreting as a remarkable show of transparency, Billy Stein, the developer of 360 Smith Street/Oliver House Condominiums, has launched a website to detail progress on his development. The site, which can be found here, says its goal is "to provide you with up-to-date status of what is happening at the construction site."

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

What's a garden worth? That question will be implicitly answered by the sales process of this ground-floor unit at 415 St. John's Place in Prospect Heights. The apartment itself—a two-bedroom, one-bath affair—is quite nice, but it's asking $645,000 and is only about 900 square feet.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

A couple houses we've discussed recently were on the receiving end of some price cuts at the end of last week: 155 Warren Street, the swanky Cobble Hill manse with carriage house, and 150 Bond Street, the corner house with garage in Boerum Hill.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

A couple houses we've discussed recently were on the receiving end of some price cuts at the end of last week: 155 Warren Street, the swanky Cobble Hill manse with carriage house, and 150 Bond Street, the corner house with garage in Boerum Hill.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

About a year and a half ago Gowanus Lounge reported that the Indian restaurant Baluchi's, formerly of Smith Street, was opening a new location in the Slope, on 5th Avenue between 2nd and 3rd streets. While the news was true, there's been precious little progress on the restaurant space, and we'd lately come to accept the fact that it was probably never going to happen. Not the case, according to the owner, who toured us around the future eatery last week.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

Saturday was the perfect day for a bike ride around the Gowanus Canal, and we weren't the only one with the idea. Once Brooklyn's industrial backbone, the street life over the weekend was decidedly residential—bikes, couples pushing strollers or snapping pictures, hipsters carrying lattes, dog walkers, and ball games were all regular sights.

Published by Brownstoner on April 14, 2008.

The officers said on that cold night at the Kalua club back in 2006 they believed Bell or one of his friends might have had a gun, and only opened fire after the men allegedly ignored orders to stop.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 14, 2008.

The site is located at 400 East 67th St., just off of First Avenue. The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 14, 2008.

Investigators said it was around 5:30 a.m. when a man followed a 25-year-old woman into her apartment near Sullivan and Spring Streets. According to police, when she opened the door, the man forced his way in, pushing the victim onto her bed and chocking her.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 14, 2008.

It's behind only Harry Macklowe's massive spread four floors down at the newly renovated hotel, and slightly beats the even $45 million that scary hedge fund guru Dan Loeb just paid for his 15 Central Park West penthouse.

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 2008.

Exquisite townhouse located in the landmark district of Hamilton Heights... More details

Published by The New York Observer on April 14, 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. Even back when I became a regular, before the city had so unapologetically traded its tattered edges for the relentless sheen of gentrification, his barbershop was a humble anachronism, somewhere too quietly perfect to last.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

His name is handed like a gift from man to man, admitting them to a little relic of the SoHo of old.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Karen Kennedy with her designer, Richard W. Gold. Ms. Kennedy is combining two apartments on the Upper West Side.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Even high-end rentals are going fast. In just the three weeks since it arrived on the market, a four-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West, advertised for $55,000 a month, has gone to contract. The broker, Roberta Golubock with Sotheby’s International Realty, said she showed the apartment to eight financially qualified prospects.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Even high-end rentals are going fast. In just the three weeks since it arrived on the market, a four-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West, advertised for $55,000 a month, has gone to contract. The broker, Roberta Golubock with Sotheby’s International Realty, said she showed the apartment to eight financially qualified prospects.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Some New Yorkers defend their spending as investments or gifts to themselves. In August, Karen Borkowsky and Robert Kennedy, a partner in a law firm, were married at the Rainbow Room.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

It was a vision to make Robert Moses proud, calling for office towers along 11th Avenue, skyscrapers soaring over the railyards, a Parisian-style boulevard lined with trees, an expanded Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and a 1.1-mile extension of the No. 7 subway line — not to mention an elegant new Penn Station ringed by office towers.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

The Penn Station plan, spearheaded by Stephen M. Ross of Related Companies and Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust, calls for rebuilding Pennsylvania Station and moving Madison Square Garden one block west to the nearly vacant Farley post office building, which would also serve as an annex to what would be called Moynihan Station.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Mr. Yaro and others, including Lynne B. Sagalyn, a professor of real estate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, have argued that the administration and its former development czar, Daniel L. Doctoroff, were mistaken to expect commercial development to leap from Eighth Avenue to the railyards.

Published by New York Times on April 14, 2008.

Frazier was shot while she was behind the wheel of a new Toyota Camry on Barrett Avenue in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 14, 2008.

On my way to Dolce Italia Bakery this weekend, I noticed a quaint little soap shop on the corner of 36th Street and Ditmars called The Little Soap Shop--whadda ya know! While I've never noticed it before, its welcoming outdoor display of soaps and oils caught my eye.

Published by Joey in Astoria on April 14, 2008.