Rothenberg, who produced the play "Fortune and Men's Eyes" in 1967, asked them to write short autobiographical essays. He was so moved by the results that he organized them into a script for a play called "The Castle." The play takes its title from the Fortune Society's imposing 1913 building at 140th Street and Riverside Drive that was Catholic girls' school until the 1970s.

Published by amNY.com on April 27, 2008.

The Reverend Al Sharpton led a rally in Harlem on Saturday amid calls for justice and protest in response to the acquittals of the three NYPD detectives who shot and killed Sean Bell.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 27, 2008.

It seems likely that he never expected to set foot in that space at 315 Bowery again or into the club's gallery space, located next door at 313 Bowery.

Published by Village Voice on April 27, 2008.

It seems likely that he never expected to set foot in that space at 315 Bowery again or into the club's gallery space, located next door at 313 Bowery.

Published by Village Voice on April 27, 2008.

Stormtroopers, Superman statues, and lots of awesome geeks at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 04.19.08

Published by Village Voice on April 27, 2008.

A flash-mob headphone rave took place Friday in Union Square, 04.18.08

Published by Village Voice on April 27, 2008.

A rare party for raw queers continues in Williamsburg, 03.29.08

Published by Village Voice on April 27, 2008.

If Fernandez spends five or ten minutes on the streets of Highbridge, he will quickly be greeted with a very different picture.

Published by West Bronx Blog on April 27, 2008.

This is precisely what happened this afternoon in front of the Rite Aid at the corner of Ogden Avenue and W. 165th Street.

Published by West Bronx Blog on April 27, 2008.

Member organizations of the Black Leadership Forum, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Nicole Paultre Bell gathered at the National Action Network's national headquarters in Harlem, N.Y.,

Published by WNBC on April 27, 2008.

New York Sen. Eric Adams, attorney Norman Siegel and members of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care urged creation of a permanent special office to investigate and litigate cases involving police shootings or allegations of police misconduct on Sunday.

Published by WNBC on April 27, 2008.

The tale of a small neighborhood transformed by a mass of shimmering glass is hardly unusual. What is unusual in Dutch Kills is the magnitude of the changes.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

FAR ROCKAWAY For Humble Bungalows, a Plan to Save the Sunshine

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

The al fresco dining season has begun, and sidewalk cafes, patios and gardens are opening up all over the city, including these in or near Madison Square Park.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

Last summer Nile produced a concert series at the Ross School and, as he says, "got caught up in their vibe."

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 27, 2008.

Siegel was joined at a news conference outside police headquarters by state Sen. Eric Adams, D-Brooklyn, and Marq Claxton, a retired police officer who, with Adams, co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 27, 2008.

Meanwhile, more than 200 people, including elected officials and civil rights leaders, gathered at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Manhattan to renew calls for U.S. Department of Justice officials to bring federal charges against the three officers.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 27, 2008.

The sixth annual event, sponsored by Operation Fairy Dust, involved more than 1,000 high school seniors and more than 2,000 dresses in a simulated showroom at the High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies in Chinatown.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

Mercedes Davis, 17, from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was awestruck by racks of colorful finery arranged by size and color, just as they would be in a high-end store.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

"There's no end of girls who need dresses," said Fairy Dust President Megan Kerrigan, 28, from Brooklyn, who founded the nonprofit with former classmate Rashia Bell while both were students at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

Councilwoman Maria Baez, a Democrat representing the Fordham and Kingsbridge sections, allocated $7,500 of her Fiscal Year 2008 discretionary funds to the 2401 Davidson Avenue Tenants Association, a group supposedly located in the six-story building she called home until 2005.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Councilwoman Maria Baez, a Democrat representing the Fordham and Kingsbridge sections, allocated $7,500 of her Fiscal Year 2008 discretionary funds to the 2401 Davidson Avenue Tenants Association, a group supposedly located in the six-story building she called home until 2005.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Councilwoman Maria Baez, a Democrat representing the Fordham and Kingsbridge sections, allocated $7,500 of her Fiscal Year 2008 discretionary funds to the 2401 Davidson Avenue Tenants Association, a group supposedly located in the six-story building she called home until 2005.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

The largest allocation was nearly $600,000 to the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a well-respected organization founded by powerhouse Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez, chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. The member item was sponsored by "the Brooklyn delegation."

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Banding together to tie up cases from lawmakers' firms was also discussed at an April 8 meeting of New York City judges at Enzo's Restaurant in The Bronx, one judge told The Post. There was no resolution on the plan that day, the source said.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

The Manhattan Democrat works for the high-profile firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specializes in asbestos and personal-injury lawsuits. The firm has about 2,200 cases pending across the state - 77 percent of which have lingered in the system longer than the court system's 30-month timetable for disposing of cases, according to the Office of Court Administrations Web site.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Tenants are being forced out of the Upper West Side's famed Apthorp apartments - and now BMWs and Bentleys are, too.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

On Oct. 13, just before a game with McKee-Staten Island Technical School, the Harlem players noticed the words "Ya n---a's SUCK from MSIT" scrawled on the visiting team's bench.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

The Hellfighters are made up of students from schools without football programs. They practice in city parks and travel to other schools for all games. The team's equipment was kept at its headquarters, at the Wadleigh School on 114th Street in Harlem.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

For 20 New York City high schoolers, ages 15 to 19, the Tribeca Film Festival was a deep-end-of-the-pool immersion into the modern film business.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

The shrieking blonde appears in the new video dressed in a red satin kimono, and standing in the suite of what appears to be her temporary home at the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Paultre-Bell received a standing ovation from hundreds attending a standing-room-only rally at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Cooperman, meanwhile, stayed mum inside his home in Kew Gardens, Queens, which was watched by cops in two unmarked cars.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Belinda Santiago was crossing Avenue U at 34th Street in Marine Park with three friends. One friend, a male, tried to stop his three female friends when he saw the car coming toward them on Avenue U.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

A massive $60.4 million maintenance project is scheduled for June 16 through September, as track workers make improvements to antiquated signals and switches on the railroad east of Queens Village.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

One weekend in particular will be a huge downer for beachgoers. The LIRR will suspend service on the Montauk branch east of Jamaica on Aug. 23 and 24.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Bus service will replace train service, including the popular "Cannonball," which leaves Hunters Point at 4:06 p.m. on Friday and makes Montauk by 6:38 p.m.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Rocky Robinson, co-founder of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps, said associates for the gangsta rapper, a Bed-Stuy native also known as Shamele Mackie, approached him last year and "said they wanted to do a video shoot about what we do in the community."

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Clothes, toys and other necessities are sorted and packaged at charity organization Baby Buggy in midtown.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

"There's always something coming from Baby Buggy," said Victoria Capiral, the supervisor and education director at St. Anthony's Head Start, a federally funded early education program at 1750 Mansion St.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

Several victims of the 22-storyhigh crane collapse have already sued, naming the city as a defendant. For example, the family of a Staten Island woman said in court papers they intend to seek $25 million.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

The families, all Hasidim from Crown Heights, paid developer Eliyahu Ezagui - one of their own - for the apartments before they were built at two sites: 770 Lefferts Ave. and 613 East New York Ave.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

The families, all Hasidim from Crown Heights, paid developer Eliyahu Ezagui - one of their own - for the apartments before they were built at two sites: 770 Lefferts Ave. and 613 East New York Ave.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

And the addresses he chose, 770 and 613, have religious significance: 770 Eastern Parkway is Lubavitcher world headquarters; 613 is the number of laws God gave Moses.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

Sharpton said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will meet Bell's family Monday  before walking from the Kalua Cabaret strip joint to the spot where Bell was killed and two friends were wounded in a fusillade of 50 shots from three detectives.

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

A SCORE of teenagers from Bedford-Stuyvesant were slumped in their swivel chairs Wednesday night when Noel Leader, a retired police sergeant. and Keith Sainten, a police detective who was off duty, asked for volunteers. A few eagerly raised their hands.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

The tale of a small neighborhood transformed by a mass of shimmering glass is hardly unusual. What is unusual in Dutch Kills is the magnitude of the changes.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

FAR ROCKAWAY. For Humble Bungalows, a Plan to Save the Sunshine

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

The al fresco dining season has begun, and sidewalk cafes, patios and gardens are opening up all over the city, including these in or near Madison Square Park.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

Her pictures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the International Center of Photography.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

“I was really depressed,” she said over lunch the other day at a Midtown cafe, as she nervously fidgeted with her hands. “I used to say, ‘All I need is one good thing to happen.’ ”

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

One day in the spring of 1968, she came upon a man in Central Park wearing overalls and sitting on a mule. He urged her to join the protest encampment called Resurrection City.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

She later trained her camera on the players in the ’70s art scene, capturing its decadence with a gimlet eye as she photographed happenings in SoHo, and Andy Warhol and Deborah Harry at Studio 54.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

er pictures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the International Center of Photography. Her series “Resurrection City,” documenting life in the shantytown erected in 1968 on the Washington Mall, is on view through May 24 at Higher Pictures, a gallery on Madison Avenue near 66th Street.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

Her pictures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the International Center of Photography.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

In his suit, filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court, Koch claims he bought five bottles of French wine from the Upper West Side rare-wine seller Acker Merrall & Condit in 2005 and 2006 for $77,925 - all since certified as fakes.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

"I knew I was getting some money back," said Julia Azcone , 24, a paralegal from Ridgewood, Queens who was buying her friend Ariel Diaz a $399 Play Station 3 yesterday for his birthday.

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

Insurance broker Kate Carey, 26, of Gramercy Park, said she was blowing her "free" money on a $300 Kate Spade workbag, "because the one I have is a piece of trash."

Published by New York Post on April 27, 2008.

When corporate executives began ordering $40 bottles of wine at Daniel, the posh Upper East Side eatery, earlier this year, Brett Traussi knew the local economy was turning sour.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 27, 2008.

Half a block north, the Waldorf-Astoria is grappling with the same problem. Demand is down for its 24 high-end executive conference rooms, which can serve events for up to 100 guests.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 27, 2008.

The irrepressible Alain Ducasse is again laying siege to Manhattan hearts and wallets. At Adour, named for a river near the chef's birthplace, the Gallic great's magic is more affordable—at least the food, not the beverages. And a recent dinner reveals the cart getting ahead of the horse.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 27, 2008.

Douglaston Development Principal Jeffrey Levine wants to keep putting up residential housing, but he turns down a project a week and hasn't yet sought a building permit for a planned 53-story condominium tower on the Upper West Side.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 27, 2008.

Helen Marshall might need another briefing on Willets Point.

Published by The New York Observer on April 27, 2008.

There was anger on the streets of Jamaica, Queens, where Sean Bell was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets in 2006 — both before and after a judge on Friday acquitted three detectives who had been charged in the shooting. But many black men and women in Jamaica and elsewhere in New York said their anger was tempered by the complicated case that unfolded in a city less racially divided than 10 years ago.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

In Harlem, Willie Rainey, 60, a Vietnam veteran and retired airport worker, said that he believed the detectives should have been found guilty, but that he saw the case through a prism not of race, but of police conduct. “It’s a lack of police training,” Mr. Rainey said. “It’s not about race when you have black killing black. We overplay the black card as an issue.”

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

Even near Liverpool Street and 94th Avenue in Jamaica, the very spot where Mr. Bell was killed, Kenneth Outlaw stood and spoke not only of the humanity of Mr. Bell but of the police as well. “A cop is a human being just like anyone else,” said Mr. Outlaw, 52. “If I had to be out here, facing the same dangers the cops face, I’d be scared to death too.”

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

New York controversies have a way of playing out along racial lines in a city that is diverse but often seems stratified. When Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was killed by the police in a blast of 41 shots in the doorway of a Bronx apartment building in 1999, his death became shorthand for excessive police force against minorities.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

There were those, however, who spoke of losing faith and trust in both law enforcement and the judicial system, and who saw the Bell case as a vivid example of how little has changed. “How many shots have to be fired for things to change?” asked Torell Marsalis, 35, of South Jamaica.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

Ms. Paultre Bell and Mr. Guzman spoke publicly on Saturday for the first time since a judge on Friday acquitted three detectives charged in the shooting of Mr. Bell in November 2006 outside a strip club in Jamaica, Queens, where he had celebrated his bachelor party.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

They were among more than 100 people — including Mr. Bell’s parents, William and Valerie Bell — who packed into the Harlem headquarters of the National Action Network, the organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, to denounce the verdict and the judge who handed it down.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

In Harlem, the relatively small protest started around 11:30 a.m., when a group of more than 100 people marched south on Lenox Avenue from 145th Street. They carried signs with the numerals 1 through 50 written on them.

Published by New York Times on April 27, 2008.

In Queens, the dropoff locations are Duch Travel, 221-09 Linden Blvd. ...

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

In Queens, the dropoff locations are ... HAUP, 221-05 Linden Blvd. ...

Published by New York Daily News on April 27, 2008.

In a verdict from the bench on Friday, a Queens supreme court judge exonerated three city police officers in the Nov. 26, 2006 shooting death of shooting death of Bell outside a night club where he had just left his bachelor party. Two friends were wounded in the volley of 50 shots by the undercover officers who said they thought they were in mortal danger.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 27, 2008.

What's Up with Club Body in Harlem?

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

Anyhow, in the interim I spent a great deal of time, more time than I’ve spent in my entire New York life, in Queens, mainly in Jamaica, Queens, getting to know Sean Bell’s family.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

I remember that November 2006 day so vividly, when word spread of the Sean Bell killing. And I remember the hastily assembled meetings by New York City’s de facto Black leadership-the ministers, the elected officials, the grassroots activists-at Local 1199 in midtown Manhattan where it was stated, with great earnestness and finality, that after all these years, we were going to put together a comprehensive response to police brutality and misconduct.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

It does not matter if the perpetrator is a White sister or brother, or a person of color, because the most vulnerable in our society feel the heat of it. Real talk: this tragedy would have never gone down on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan or in Brooklyn Heights.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

Harlem Hospital Restores Historic WPA Murals [Columbia News]

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

Admittedly most of the focus has been on the Condo and Co-op developments in Harlem, but those readers who are not yet in a position to purchase their little piece of Harlem can still attain the same luxury living available to their home-buying friends.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

Marble Court Apartments49 East 129th Street (btwn Madison and Park)

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

The Harlem Courthouse is located at the corner of East 121st Street and Sylvan Place.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

The firm of Thom & Wilson designed the courthouse. Arthur M. Thom & James W. Wilson were prolific residential architects, designing row houses on the Upper East Side and the fanciful Moorish style Hampton Apartments on Perry Street in Greenwich Village. In 1894, with John E. Schaarschmidt, they designed the Criminal Courthouse on Centre Street and Franklin, which is no longer standing.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.

Today, as the Harlem Justice Center, the building provides a variety of Civil Court functions, hearing Family, Housing and Small Claims matters.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on April 27, 2008.