Just hours before their contract was due to expire, union workers at the flagship store reached a tentative agreement with Bloomingdale's management.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 30, 2008.

An influential group of former Verizon Communications Inc. employees is seeking to strip Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg of his position as chairman of the board.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 30, 2008.

The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point, a smaller move than the aggressive easing it undertook earlier this year.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 30, 2008.

The median home price in the Hamptons, which includes Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Amagansett and Sagaponack, fell to $882,500 during the first quarter, down 7.1% from fourth quarter 2007, according to a report prepared by appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc. for Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 30, 2008.

Alice Demirjian is about to make a few small-town dreams come true. As the director of the fashion marketing department at Parsons The New School for Design, she’s bringing one of the city’s best fashion schools to computers across the country.

Published by Crain's New York Business on April 30, 2008.

"They don't maintain it," William McKeever, 75, said recently after struggling up the stairs near the escalator at 875 Third Ave. with his cane.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

Central Synagogue Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein calls the sacred scroll "an extraordinary symbol of rebirth."

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store and its workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a potential strike.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

The New York Power Authority has approved a contract for the construction of a new natural gas-fueled generating plant in Astoria, Queens, that would supply power to the city's schools, public housing, hospitals and subways.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

The service disruption is due to signal and power cable damage caused by a small manhole fire east of the Christopher Street Station earlier today. There were no injuries.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

The plan to turn 125th Street into a 24-hour commercial and retail hub overwhelmingly passed the City Council Wednesday, but not before opponents heckled council members and tried to interrupt the vote on the rezoning plan.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

A City College spokesman says a woman was briefly held hostage at gunpoint by a male student on the Harlem campus before he was arrested.

Published by amNY.com on April 30, 2008.

A Willets Point business association has parted ways with an influential housing advocacy group, claiming it exploited them to wage an affordable housing battle with the city.

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

Here’s Peter Vallone Jr. describing a yelling match he had with Michael Bloomberg outside City Hall just now over Bloomberg’s plan to open another power plant in Astoria.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Here’s Peter Vallone Jr. describing a yelling match he had with Michael Bloomberg outside City Hall just now over Bloomberg’s plan to open another power plant in Astoria.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The City Council is expected to approve a modified plan to rezone 125th Street to allow for denser residential and commercial development today, but the rezoning’s most vocal opponents are not giving up the fight.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The 43-year-old victim, Louie Antonelli, was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital after coming out of a Spanish restaurant at 280 Broadway. He is not likely to die. He has since been transported to Richmond University Hospital where he is in critical but stable condition.

Published by WNBC on April 30, 2008.

He was reportedly shot outside the El Sabor Tropical Restaurant. Police say he was found on a side alley at 280 Broadway with a black Yukon nearby.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

The back story of how a Torah got from the fetid barracks of Auschwitz to the ark of the Central Synagogue at Lexington Avenue and 55th Street is one the pastor of the Lutheran church down the street sums up as simply “miraculous.”

Published by New York Times on April 30, 2008.

We've got good news for the die-hard fashionistas who had been plotting a lunch-time run on Bloomingdale's today before a possible strike tomorrow. It's been averted (for the time being at least)!

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The remark came during a Q&A with reporters following her announcement that legislation would be passed later today in order to rezone Harlem and create a permanent office of long-term sustainability.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Kimberly Peirce, the director of Stop Loss and Boys Don't Cry, will receive the Andrew Sarris Award during the Columbia University Film Festival on May 9 at the McGraw-Hill Theater. The award honors service and artistic achievement of Columbia alums and the recipient is selected by the school's film students. Ms. Peirce graduated in 1996.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Here’s a shot of Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson seconds before Christine Quinn ordered the balcony cleared of the boisterous protesters who were yelling about the Harlem rezoning the Council was about to pass.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

A month after the state declared Tishman Speyer winner of the bid to develop the West Side rail yards, the details of an agreement are close, but unfinished, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority acknowledged today at its board meeting.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

A month after the state declared Tishman Speyer winner of the bid to develop the West Side rail yards, the details of an agreement are close, but unfinished, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority acknowledged today at its board meeting.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Rumors have been circulating for days about the looming departure of Glennon Travis, controversial manager of the embattled Chelsea Hotel.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The City Council is expected to pass a major rezoning of 125th Street this afternoon, opening up Harlem’s historic main thoroughfare to substantial levels of new development.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Fifteen minutes ago was the deadline for developers to bid on one of Manhattan's prime trophy properties -- 1301 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the Credit Lyonnais Building, at the corner of 52nd Street.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the original CNBC report that Rupert Murdoch was interested in buying Dow Jones at $60 per share. And one year later, nothing seems to have calmed down at the Wall Street Journal.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The Media Mob has learned that "institutional advancement" has struck again at Thirteen-WNET, New York's flagship PBS station.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

But it was Jordan's bizarre reachings toward his daughter - sometimes in person, like when he showed up at her Greenwich Village doorstep, or at a movie shoot on Wooster Street - that the family found most disturbing.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Producers are giving Park Slope the star treatment with a pilot by the same executives who brought "Sex and the City," starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and "Melrose Place" to TV.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Crowbar in hand, Hoang Lee, 31, allegedly strolled into Midtown Community Court at 314 W. 54th St. Saturday and broke into the court officers' lounge where the ammo was stored, police said. An officer's badge was also swiped. The building is home to the American Theater of Actors, which was staging a performance of Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon" the evening of the burglary.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

One of the most expensive stations in the city was also in Brooklyn - the Exxon station at Stillwell Avenue and 86th Street, where gas was $3.95 a gallon.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

This is officially the lowest price in Brooklyn," he said, after settling on a Gulf station on Coney Island and Foster avenues that charged $3.69. According to gasbuddy.com, he may be right.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

At the Exxon station on Second Avenue at East First Street in Manhattan, the owner said her $3.89 price had caused business to drop off by 15 percent.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

A shortage of food and funds is straining the city's Food Bank program, at a time the economic downturn is causing even middle-class New Yorkers to sign up for help.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Many are being turned away from the programs because there aren't enough supplies to keep up with the increasing demand, officials said. "Sometimes, we have to turn people away because there just isn't enough food," said executive director Marcia Rowe-Riddick, of Child Development Support Corp.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Cops thought Guzman was armed because Gescard Isnora, another plainclothes detective acquitted of manslaughter in the case last week, had heard Bell's friend say, "Yo, go get my gun." The comment was overheard during a dispute outside a nearby strip club in Jamaica moments earlier.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Louis Antonelli, 43, had just stepped out of the El Sabor Tropical restaurant and was putting food in the back of his SUV when the pair approached him at Broadway and Castleton Avenue at about 7 p.m. and opened fire, police said.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Louis Antonelli, 43, had just stepped out of the El Sabor Tropical restaurant and was putting food in the back of his SUV when the pair approached him at Broadway and Castleton Avenue at about 7 p.m. and opened fire, police said.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

Antonelli, of Grasmere, was rushed to Richmond University Hospital, where he was in stable condition, said his wife, Jennifer.

Published by New York Post on April 30, 2008.

A state appeals court on Tuesday upheld a jury's verdict that the Port Authority was chiefly to blame for the 1993 terrorist bombing at the twin towers.

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

JFK Airport and Jamaica, Queens, to lower Manhattan.

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

JFK Airport and Jamaica, Queens, to lower Manhattan.

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

"I'm not really disappointed," the 23-year-old Canarsie resident said. "I went on the show for the experience and to connect with people and that's what I did. I'm happy with how far I made it."

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

Jordan, 37, is accused of stalking the 6-foot blond for two years - first with e-mails and phone calls, then turning up at her trailer during a SoHo movie shoot and ringing the doorbell of her Greenwich Village home.

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

Jordan, 37, is accused of stalking the 6-foot blond for two years - first with e-mails and phone calls, then turning up at her trailer during a SoHo movie shoot and ringing the doorbell of her Greenwich Village home.

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

Louis Antonelli, 43, was in stable condition at Richmond University Medical Center after the 7 p.m. attack near ElSabor Tropical, a Spanish restaurant about 3 miles from his home in Grasmere.

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

Developers now have an extra month to prepare their bids for one of the last soft sites in Times Square—303 West 42nd Street.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

The site is actually a combination of two properties—303 West 42nd, a 12-story apartment and office building; and 300 West 43rd Street, the Times Square Arts Center.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was one of 14 Council members who steered $260,000 to the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a nonprofit that supports a city school for gay and lesbian students.

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

King Manor Association of Long Island maintains a museum in Jamaica, Queens, commemorating Rufus King, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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

Council member Helen Foster disclosed that her mother has been a trustee at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. The hospital got $127,000 in Council funds last year.

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

Council member David Weprin disclosed that his wife works for LaGuardia Community College. He co-sponsored - with Council member Eric Gioia - $125,000 for the college's archives, and sole-sponsored $25,000 for the school.

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

Gioia sponsored $50,000 in member items for the Queens Museum of Art in the last two years.

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

On Friday, April 25, Redbelt, a riveting David Mamet cops-and-con-men drama set in the world of professional jujitsu, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The cool table at the after-party, held at the Honey nightclub on West 14th Street, included Mr. Mamet and his wife, actress and chanteuse Rebecca Pidgeon; author Salman Rushdie;the actors Joe Mantegna and Ricky Jay, who are in the movie; and comic genius, novelist and playwright Steve Martin, wearing a fedora.

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

At around 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28, writer Carl Bernstein was mingling at the cocktail hour before the PEN Literary Awards at the Museum of Natural History, Coca Cola in hand, looking very healthy. “I ride a bike and listen to a lot of music,” he said. “I mostly listen to classical but also rock. I just listened to the new R.E.M.” His younger son Max is a rock musician and blogs about it on The Huffington Post. “Everyone should go check it out.”

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

On Monday, April 28, in the subterranean auditorium of the New York Public Library, Vanity Fair hosted a cocktail hour and convocation of experts grandly titled “Redesigning the World: A Green Way to the Future.”

Published by The New York Observer on April 30, 2008.

I am standing in Union Square Park, in front of a block-long construction fence that envelops its northern end, pondering City Hall's latest naked attempt to privatize public land.

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Tisserie ...

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Tisserie, Republic ...

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Tisserie, Republic, Heartland Brewery ...

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Tisserie ... and the Blue Water Grill.

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Union Square Cafe and Cafe Society ...

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Union Square Cafe ... and Toastie's.

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Maoz Vegetarian Restaurant, Trevi's Deli ...

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

Everywhere you turn there are restaurants on the streets around the park. There are Maoz Vegetarian Restaurant, Trevi's Deli ...

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

"There's been a 40% decrease in business over the last three months," said Fakir, manager of Fakir Travel in Boerum Hill. "Rising gas prices are killing us."

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

Gunn was helping position an I-beam between the second and third floors ofthe future East Drive Science Park building on E. 29th St. just before the 8:30 a.m. accident, a cityBuildings Department spokesman said.

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

Sharpton, who organized the meeting at the W. 43rd St. headquarters of the Service Employees International Union, vowed to stage citywide protests after the three cops were acquitted Friday.

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

The victim was standing in front of a Hertz-Rent-A-Car on E. 40th St. and was trying to flag a cab just before 8 a.m., police officials said.

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

Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store and its workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a potential strike.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

Police say George Attaberry, a manager of Grayz restaurant, was attacked on the corner of Second Avenue and East 40th Street just before 8 a.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store and its workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a potential strike.

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

Officials say a fire and smoky condition at the Christopher Street train station in lower Manhattan have forced the evacuation of passengers aboard a PATH train. No injuries have been reported.

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

Police say the 43-year-old man was found by officers who were responding at about 7 p.m. Tuesday to shots fired at 280 Broadway in the West New Brighton section.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

Louis Antonelli, 43, was shot twice in the chest outside the El Sabor Tropical restaurant in the West Brighton section of Staten Island as he walked to his car at around 7 pm. The victim, also the father of a newborn girl was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he is listed in critical but stable condition.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

A group plans to rally today at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan to protest the Sean Bell verdict.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

The New York Power Authority has approved a contract for the construction of a new natural gas-fueled generating plant in Astoria, Queens, that would supply power to the city's schools, public housing, hospitals and subways.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

Central Synagogue Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein calls the sacred scroll "an extraordinary symbol of rebirth."

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store and its workers have reached a tentative agreement.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

"Even though our youth already breathe the poison spewing from five power plants, which provide 80% of New York City's power, the callous bureaucrats at the NPA have decided to stick another dagger in the lungs of the children in northwest Queens," Council Member Peter Vallone Jr., who represents Astoria, where the plant is to be built, said in a statement. "It is an indefensible decision, and I demand a state investigation of the awarding of this contract."

Published by New York Sun on April 30, 2008.

Officials say passengers aboard a PATH train have been evacuated due to a smoky condition at the Christopher Street station in lower Manhattan. There are no injuries.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

Central Synagogue Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein calls the sacred scroll "an extraordinary symbol of rebirth."

Published by WNBC on April 30, 2008.

Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store and its workers have reached a tentative agreement.

Published by WNBC on April 30, 2008.

Authorities said the condition was caused by a fire under the rear of a train at the Christopher Street Station at Hudson Street. The fire started just after noon and was out at around 12:35 p.m.

Published by WNBC on April 30, 2008.

One student is being interviewed by police after a gun scare at The City College of New York in Harlem.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

Many residents had put up fierce opposition for months to the proposal to rezone Harlem's 125th Street district. The new plan allows for condominiums, more performing arts space and a 21-story office tower near Harlem's Metro North station.

Published by WNBC on April 30, 2008.

A jilted lover sparked a gun scare on the City College campus in Harlem this afternoon, screaming suicide threats at his ex-girlfriend in an office, cops said.

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

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying three suspects wanted for a robbery that happened in a Lower East Side subway station.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

Many residents had put up fierce opposition for months to the proposal to rezone Harlem's 125th Street district. The new plan allows for condominiums, more performing arts space and a 21-story office tower near Harlem's Metro North station.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

He says the price increase would help offset higher labor and product costs. He says the increase is also in line with prices charged at Penn Station.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 30, 2008.

There was a gun scare Wednesday on the campus of the City College of New York.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on April 30, 2008.

HELPING HAND: Baby Buggy is working with St. Anthony's Head Start to help 174 Bronx families.

Published by NYCity News Service on April 30, 2008.

Kingsbridge Armory Rally at City Hall Thursday at ...

Published by West Bronx Blog on April 30, 2008.

Outrage in Highbridge over Bell Verdict

Published by West Bronx Blog on April 30, 2008.

Here's an interesting solution for the House of Detention on Atlantic that doesn't involve supersizing the facility: Comptroller Bill Thompson says the city should sell the property, according to an article in today's Daily News . Thompson wrote a letter to Mayor Bloomberg that says selling the facility, which has been closed since '03, will bring cash to the city and prevent a reopened jail from damaging Downtown Brooklyn's economy.

Published by Brownstoner on April 30, 2008.

When it comes to curb cutting—and now price cutting—the owner of 174 Clinton Avenue doesn't mess around. Taking advantage of the 100-foot commercial overlay from nearby Myrtle Avenue and the fact that the house falls just outside the Clinton Hill Historic District, the owner (who's also developing the lot behind this house) was able to get permits to convert the front of the ground floor of the historic brownstone into a garage and to cut the curb for a driveway entrance.

Published by Brownstoner on April 30, 2008.

Remember that silly article a few weeks ago about how the "Sex and the City" gang might live in Brooklyn if the show was being filmed today? Turns out it wasn't so far-fetched, according to a piece in the Post that says Darren Star, SATC's creator, is shopping around a show about well-off gal-pals who live in Park Slope.

Published by Brownstoner on April 30, 2008.