All six firefighters on the truck were hospitalized after the accident at an intersection in the Jamaica section of Queens.

Published by amNY.com on April 19, 2008.

Saturday, April 19, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., at Harlem’s Green Festival at the Plaza — Harlem State Office Building, at 163 West 125th Street. To learn more about Earth Day in Harlem visit http://www.weact.org/.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 19, 2008.

This month, Con Edison will work to renew its commitment to the environment by distributing free compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs at environmental events in Brooklyn and Harlem, sponsoring green events throughout New York City, and urging customers to “think green.”

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 19, 2008.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in New York on Friday, turning his attention beyond the challenges faced by the Roman Catholic Church: He addressed the United Nations, stressing the importance of human rights; offered Passover greetings at an Upper East Side synagogue; and met with other Christian leaders.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in New York on Friday, turning his attention beyond the challenges faced by the Roman Catholic Church: He addressed the United Nations, stressing the importance of human rights; offered Passover greetings at an Upper East Side synagogue; and met with other Christian leaders.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

On Friday afternoon, Benedict met with local Jewish clergy at the Park East Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation on the Upper East Side founded in 1890. It was the first papal visit to a synagogue in this country; only two other visits have ever been recorded, both in Europe.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and business travel specialist, was stopped in Central Park for violating the park curfew and was found to have a small bag of methamphetamine.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

The Yorkville that the German-born Pope Benedict XVI was scheduled to visit on Friday bears almost no resemblance to the German enclave that existed before.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Police believe the assailants might belong to a volunteer community group known as Crown Heights Shmira Patrol based on interviews with residents.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Police believe the assailants might belong to a volunteer community group known as Crown Heights Shmira Patrol based on interviews with residents.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

As Pope Benedict XVI completes his visit to the United States today with a Mass at Yankee Stadium, in a borough that has been home to generations of Latinos, he does so facing something of a growing challenge to the church’s immigrant ranks.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Mr. Kelly, who fell from the 23rd floor to a balcony on the 14th floor of a 30-story condominium known as the Laurel, at 400 East 67th Street, had his entire safety system — the harness, a D-ring attached to his nylon strap, and the entire length of the safety strap — on his body when he fell. That came as a shock because the strap was supposed to have been tied off on a metal girder and set in concrete, making it all but impossible to pull from its mooring.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Ms. Rivera turns 57 on Sunday, and she was hoping — somehow — that someone would answer her birthday wish and give her a ticket to the pope’s Mass at Yankee Stadium. “I want to see him,” she said.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

But few things were more curious than what was staged on Friday evening, at the south end of Union Square near East 14th Street. More than a thousand people, most of them young, gathered for a dance party without audible music, known as a silent rave.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Ms. Rivera turns 57 on Sunday, and she was hoping — somehow — that someone would answer her birthday wish and give her a ticket to the pope’s Mass at Yankee Stadium. “I want to see him,” she said.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

THE Hasidic enclave of South Williamsburg is a good place to be a shoe repairman.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

The phone rang loudly. The phone at Dovid’s Shoe Repair is rigged so that a call sets off a ringer attached to the wall.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

DISCUSSIONS of the reading material at the main branch of the New York Public Library are unlikely to focus on the words carved into its walls.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

“There are at least three families with six places of recognition within the building,” Mr. LeClerc said, adding that it was nearly impossible to enter a room of the sprawling building in Midtown without stepping over a dedication carved into the floor or beneath a benefactor’s name written above a doorway.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

The donor is Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone Group, a Wall Street firm, who on March 11 announced his gift of $100 million.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

In the mid-1990s, when the commission declined to approve placing the name of the developer Samuel J. LeFrak on the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, his plan to donate $10 million to the museum foundered.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

But on April 10, Community Board 5 voted to recommend rejecting the library’s proposal to carve the name of a major new donor, for whom the building will be named, on pedestals flanking the Fifth Avenue entrance.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Rosemary Cain said she has been praying for years that someone who has the ability to change hearts and minds would come forward and have the human remains removed from the World Trade Center site and the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island.

Published by amNY.com on April 19, 2008.

Instead, Brown went shopping in Harlem, had some soul food and was driven to her childhood home in Brooklyn in a white Rolls Royce Phantom. Her mother, Judith Marchand, presented her with smiley-face balloons and the two hugged outside the family's home in the Prospect Heights neighborhood. A VH1 crew captured the reunion for an upcoming reality show.

Published by amNY.com on April 19, 2008.

Harlem’s only high school football team, the Hellfighters, are a long way from Friday Night Lights. The bleachers are empty, practice space scarce, and the Board of Education bureaucracy ruthless, but under the perseverance of coach Duke Fergerson, the Hellfighters are fighting to overcome it all, one touchdown at a time.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 19, 2008.

CNN'S claim that reporter Richard Quest is one of the network's most recognizable correspondents must be true - he caught the attention of the NYPD in Central Park Friday and was busted for drug possession, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

"Feels good, feels good, feels good," she said, climbing out of a white Rolls-Royce Phantom and running up the stoop of her family's Prospect Heights home into her mother's arms.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

During a stop on 125th St., she greeted fans who approached her car, picked up some new handbags and stopped for fried chicken at Amy Ruth's.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Pope Benedict visits with Rabbi Arthur Schneier at Park East Synagogue.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Russell Rutter, 18, who lives on the upper East Side and handed the Pope the matzo, said, "He seemed very warm." And 9-year-old Sharone Karten, who sang in the choir, said he was shocked when the Pope shook his hand.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Michael Martin, 61, first struck about 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Gravesend Park in the Borough Park neighborhood after following an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother into the restroom.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Martin found his next victim two hours later in the Digilio Playground in Parkville, cops said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

He attends St. Gabriel School in Riverdale and was selected for the honor because of his high grades, fascination with social studies and excellence in baseball, chess and playing the flute.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

The victims were hanging out in front of a Unity Plaza building in East New York about noon when a gunman rolled up in a burgundy sedan, witnesses said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Shaw chaired a commission that recommended charging $8 to drive below 60th St. It largely would have affected drivers who do not currently pay to enter lower Manhattan because they use free East River bridges. The goals included reducing traffic and generating funds to improve the mass transit system.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Engine 275 was en route to a South Jamaica apartment fire, heading west on 111th Ave., when it crossed into the intersection of 155th St. at 9:45 a.m., FDNY officials said.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

At the Catholic Goods Center off Arthur Avenue in the Bronx the other day, they were all sold out of Pope Benedict XVI holy cards. Copies of the photo of Benedict displayed in the store window were selling briskly.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to visit an American synagogue Friday, bringing greetings for the Passover holiday and accepting gifts of matzo and a seder plate. Benedict, 81, stopped briefly at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, near the Vatican residence.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Michael Martin, 61, of Stamford, was nabbed and held by good-Samaritan park-goers at DiGilio Playground at Avenue F and McDonald Avenue at 4:30 Thursday afternoon, after he followed an 8-year-old girl into the restroom and she began to cry, cops said.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Police believe Martin assaulted two other young children a few hours earlier in a bathroom at nearby Gravesend Park.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

"I read The Post every day," exclaimed the rapper, seen here after her 1 p.m. release, emerging from a Roll-Royce to greet fans in East Elmhurst, Queens.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

The Bloomberg administration's revised rezoning plan for Coney Island's seaside area keeps condos and time-share hotels out of the amusement district, city officials confirmed yesterday.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

The Port Authority took it on the chin yesterday, with officials inside the agency blaming overwhelming bureaucracy for the major security lapse that allowed confidential blueprints of the planned Freedom Tower to be tossed out on the street to be found by a homeless man.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Philip Realmuto's body was found at the intersection of Avenue C and McDonald Avenue in Kensington at 10:15 p.m. Thursday, and passers-by first thought he'd been struck by a passing car, police said.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Realmuto had no criminal record. His MySpace page says he worked as an electrician for Amtrak at Penn Station in the maintenance-of-way department.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

The owners of Patsy's Italian Restaurant on West 56th Street, with a clientele that spans from the Rat Pack to the Sopranos, are bringing their pedigree to the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort in June.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

The top floor of the four-story brick building on Hudson Street between Horatio and Jane streets - which was once the scene for MTV's "Real World" - went up in flames at 5:30 p.m., witnesses said.

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Sources said Charles was walking near the corner of President Street and Albany Avenue when a Jewish man asked, "What are you looking at?"

Published by New York Post on April 19, 2008.

Authorities say the first attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Gravesend Park.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 19, 2008.

Then, just two hours later, Martin is said to have attacked another 8-year-old girl inside a bathroom at a playground in the Kensington section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 19, 2008.

The Pearl Oyster Bar is in the West Village;

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 19, 2008.

Ed's Lobster Bar is in SoHo. McFarland once served as Charles' sous-chef.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 19, 2008.

Pope Benedict today celebrated the third anniversary of his ascension to the papacy with a Mass for the Catholic clergy inside St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Rudy Giuliani waits in line to receive communion during the Pope's Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral - despite the fact that his marriage outside the church prohibits him from doing so.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

NEW YORK -- Pope Benedict XVI prepared to lead Mass Saturday morning for priests and deacons at St. Patrick's Cathedral, as thousands of people gathered in the heart of Manhattan to catch a glimpse of the pontiff

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

Police said that the Stamford resident followed an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl into a public restroom Thursday at Gravesend Park and sexually assaulted both of them. When the children began crying, the man fled.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

Quest is a correspondent for CNN International, known for reports on business travel. He hosts "CNN Business Traveler" and "Quest." Quest's attorney says his client didn't know Central Park had a curfew.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

Her mother, Judith Marchand, presented her with smiley-face balloons and the two hugged outside the family's home in the Prospect Heights neighborhood.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

The Pearl Oyster Bar is in the West Village; Ed's Lobster Bar is in SoHo. McFarland once served as Charles' sous-chef.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

The Pearl Oyster Bar is in the West Village; Ed's Lobster Bar is in SoHo. McFarland once served as Charles' sous-chef.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

All six firefighters on the truck were hospitalized after the accident at an intersection in the Jamaica section of Queens.

Published by WNBC on April 19, 2008.

The fifth annual Wedding Salon New York opens its doors at Gotham Hall Monday in a luxurious showcase featuring the best in bridal.

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

"I saw the article and I loved the concept and, a few days later, I had a wedding in New York City," said Eric. "I pitched the idea to the bride because she was very free-spirited and liked modern pictures. So while her husband was checking into the Ritz, we went to the fountain in Battery Park, and she was all about it, started playing around in the water. It was great. Her husband wound up carrying her into the Ritz soaking wet."

Published by New York Daily News on April 19, 2008.

Her mother, Judith Marchand, presented her with smiley-face balloons and the two hugged outside the family's home in the Prospect Heights neighborhood. A VH1 crew captured the reunion for an upcoming reality show.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 19, 2008.

The NYPD said the Stamford resident followed an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl into a public restroom on Thursday at Gravesend Park and sexually assaulted both of them. When the children began crying, the suspect fled.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 19, 2008.

The chef, Rebecca Charles of Pearl Oyster Bar, had accused her former assistant, Edward McFarland, of copying “each and every element” of her restaurant, including the white marble bar, the color scheme and the Caesar salad recipe when he and his partners opened Ed’s Lobster Bar in SoHo.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

The chef, Rebecca Charles of Pearl Oyster Bar, had accused her former assistant, Edward McFarland, of copying “each and every element” of her restaurant, including the white marble bar, the color scheme and the Caesar salad recipe when he and his partners opened Ed’s Lobster Bar in SoHo.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

Their roots will settle in the grounds of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the sprawling complexes that stretch for almost 10 blocks northeast of 14th Street near the East River, in one of the largest landscaping overhauls in Manhattan’s history.

Published by New York Times on April 19, 2008.

These increases were driven by brisk sales in new developments in these locations including 15 Central Park West on the Upper West Side. The highest average sale prices were in Soho ($2,304,000) and Tribeca ($2,224,000) reflecting the generally larger units located in these areas.

Published by nycblogestate.com on April 19, 2008.