A group of neighbors on Manhattan's upper west side took action when they noticed at least half a dozen dogs left inside a sweltering car with the windows closed.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Then A few blocks away on Rockaway near Glenmore Avenue police say a man driving a tan Maxima mowed her down and left her near death in the street.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

About 3,000 competitors participated in the triathlon, which consisted of the swim, a 40-kilometer bike ride along the Henry Hudson Parkway and a 10-kilometer run in Central Park.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Last summer CBS 2 HD showed you a heartbreaking home video of little Will Casson crying in pain. His feet were severely burned in an Upper East Side playground by the very mats meant to protect children when they fall.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

About 3,000 competitors participated in the triathlon, which consisted of the swim in the Hudson River, a 40-kilometer bike ride along the Henry Hudson Parkway, and a 10-kilometer run in Central Park.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Gomez was able to salvage $200 worth of groceries after picking up several bags of dry ice from Con Ed at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 48th Street.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

That spot is one of three hand-out locations in Sunset Park and Borough Park. Some people who came by did not want ice. They wanted answers.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

That spot is one of three hand-out locations in Sunset Park and Borough Park. Some people who came by did not want ice. They wanted answers.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Residents of Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park were asked to do Con Ed the favor of turning off non-essential electrical appliances.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Close to 90,000 customers in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods have been asked to stop using all non-essential electrical appliances, including air conditioning.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Close to 90,000 customers in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods have been asked to stop using all non-essential electrical appliances, including air conditioning.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Close to 90,000 customers in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods have been asked to stop using all non-essential electrical appliances, including air conditioning.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Close to 90,000 customers in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods have been asked to stop using all non-essential electrical appliances, including air conditioning.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

FEAST CHEAP Work up an appetite — it's NYC Restaurant Week — and there are two weeks of dining deals! More than 230 of the city's best restaurants, including Eleven Madison Park, Gramercy Tavern and Artisanal, whip up three-course prix fixe lunches for $24.07 and three-course prix fixe dinners for $35. (July 21-25 & July 28-Aug. 1, www.nycvisit.com)

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

FEAST CHEAP Work up an appetite — it's NYC Restaurant Week — and there are two weeks of dining deals! More than 230 of the city's best restaurants, including Eleven Madison Park, Gramercy Tavern and Artisanal, whip up three-course prix fixe lunches for $24.07 and three-course prix fixe dinners for $35. (July 21-25 & July 28-Aug. 1, www.nycvisit.com)

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

DERBY DRINKS Forget waiting for the first Saturday in May to feed your julep fix. The American Museum of Natural History hosts "Discover the Mint Julep: The Official Drink of the Kentucky Derby," where master mixologist Chris McMillian stirs his signature recipe while spinning the all-American cocktail's history at Linder Theater. ($20, 6:30 p.m., Central Park West, at 79th St., 212-769-5200)

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

But finally, last year, megadeveloper Stephen Ross built a two-story retail and office building at Third Ave. and E. 156th St., and renovated the parking garage next door.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

She'll get her wish if Related becomes a joint-venture partner with Blackacre Capital and Cypress Equities in a massive development planned nearby at a nearly empty, six-acre site at E. 149th St. and Bergen and Brook Aves.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Officials at the city Economic Development Corp. and execs at Related — which built the ritzy Time Warner Center and is now constructing the Gateway Center mall at the former Bronx Terminal Market — wouldn't discuss the proposed project. Regarding the Third Ave. project, Glenn Goldstein, the president of Related's retail division, did say he's in "advanced negotiations" with a casual restaurant about renting the last vacant space, on the ground floor of the garage.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Officials at the city Economic Development Corp. and execs at Related — which built the ritzy Time Warner Center and is now constructing the Gateway Center mall at the former Bronx Terminal Market — wouldn't discuss the proposed project. Regarding the Third Ave. project, Glenn Goldstein, the president of Related's retail division, did say he's in "advanced negotiations" with a casual restaurant about renting the last vacant space, on the ground floor of the garage.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Joseph Shamosh, the president of Youngland, owns a development site at the corner of Westchester and Bergen Aves. that's being marketed on real estate database CoStar.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

At 306 E. 149th St., Lorenzo is trying to lease 40,000 square feet of retail space for Atlantic Development Group, which plans to build stores and apartments.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Susan Kaufman is looking for one or more tenants for a vacant 8,000-square-foot building at 368 E. 149th, which her grandfather, vaudeville song-and-dance man Abraham Kaufman, built in the 1920s. His business partner was a circus sideshow performer known as Zip the Pinhead.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Walgreens took space on Third Ave. at E. 148th St., and eateries Subway and Little Caesars rented at the Orion, Procida Realty & Construction's Third Ave. condo development just north of Related's new building.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

The neighborhood's greenbelt includes Fort Tryon Park, home to the Cloisters, and Inwood Hill Park, the site of Peter Minuit's legendary $24 purchase of Manhattan.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

The neighborhood's greenbelt includes Fort Tryon Park, home to the Cloisters, and Inwood Hill Park, the site of Peter Minuit's legendary $24 purchase of Manhattan.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Instead, he did his apartment-hunting in Inwood, the hilly nabe at Manhattan's northern tip.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

He came to New York in 1999 and worked for celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo and later as the pastry chef at Ilo in the Bryant Park Hotel.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

He came to New York in 1999 and worked for celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo and later as the pastry chef at Ilo in the Bryant Park Hotel.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

A similar program at Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York, in Jamaica, Queens, helped 43-year-old Beverly Hailey hang on to her two-family home on 230th St. in Springfield Gardens. Hailey, a Medicaid service coordinator whose husband died 10 years ago, said unsteady rental income caused her to fall behind on her $4,400-a-month mortgage payments.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

"Throughout history, black churches have been the institutions that promoted redemption, revitalization and healing," said the Rev. Dennis Dillon, pastor of Brooklyn Christian Center. "The larger community looks to the church for answers [on everything] from civil rights, social services and the political arena."

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

A similar program at Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York, in Jamaica, Queens, helped 43-year-old Beverly Hailey hang on to her two-family home on 230th St. in Springfield Gardens. Hailey, a Medicaid service coordinator whose husband died 10 years ago, said unsteady rental income caused her to fall behind on her $4,400-a-month mortgage payments.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

The day-long event, co-sponsored by investment firm AXA Advisors, offered seminars on how to boost and repair credit, on foreclosure and bankruptcy, estate planning, identity theft prevention and reverse mortgages for seniors. Lawyers and real estate specialists also were on hand. At Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Bed-Stuy, Ameriprise Financial, AXA, HSBC, Merrill Lynch and New York Life are among the roster of businesses that assist its outreach program.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Lucille McEwen, chief exec of Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, agreed. The nonprofit represents 90 churches that advocate economic empowerment. The group's financial literacy efforts, which began five years ago, recently created personal finance workshops for French-speaking West African immigrants settling in Harlem and the Bronx.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Ruth Wade, who was known in drug circles as "Grandma," was living with the victim and his wife in their Stapleton apartment after she was evicted from her own place, prosecutors said.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Credit New York City cops for helping Paul McCartney and Billy Joel come together Friday night at the unforgettable final concert at Shea Stadium. McCartney flew into JFK on a British Airways flight that arrived at about 11:00 p.m.-- three hours after the show's start.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

In Fort Greene Park each Saturday, locals deposit vegetable scraps, fruit rinds and coffee grounds in six metal garbage cans placed alongside the Greenmarket. Volunteers transport the organic waste to three local community gardens where the leftovers decompose into nutrient-rich compost.

Published by amNY.com on July 20, 2008.

It's opening weekend for the food vendors at Red Hook Park, and the crowds are already waiting.

Published by amNY.com on July 20, 2008.

Despite a search involving divers, boats and helicopters, rescue crews were unable Saturday to locate a Queens girl who went missing Friday in the waters off Rockaway Beach.

Published by amNY.com on July 20, 2008.

The search for the teen, identified in published reports as Tiara Coaxum, 16, of Jamaica, began soon after she and another 16-year-old girl went swimming near Beach 116th Street about 3 p.m. Friday.

Published by amNY.com on July 20, 2008.

Organizers declined to identify the man because his family members, who live in Argentina, had not been notified. Bill Burke, the event’s race director, said rescuers pulled the man from the river about three-quarters of the way through the 0.93-mile swim portion, which ended at the 79th Street Boat Basin. The swim is the first of the event’s three phases, and is followed by a 24.8-mile bicycle ride and a 6.2-mile run.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

...Elevator Company the John Williams Ornamental Brass and Iron Works -- and the Reynolds Metal Company (521-537 W. 25th St.), a maker of tin foil wrappers and bottle caps that was founded by the nephew...

Published by nycblogestate.com on July 20, 2008.

Rebuilding the Half-Demolished 100 Clark Street, B...

Published by mcbrooklyn on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is reporting 1,120 customers without power in Brooklyn and another 1,076 in Bay Ridge.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope to discontinue their use of nonessential electrical appliances, including airconditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope to discontinue their use of nonessential electrical appliances, including airconditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope to discontinue their use of nonessential electrical appliances, including airconditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

The affected area includes approximately 89,000 customers, and is bounded by third and fourth Streets on the north, the Gowanus Canal on the west, and south and Fort Hamilton Parkway on the east.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Brown was crossing Rockaway Avenue westbound at Glenmore Avenue when she was struck by a tan Nissan Maxima traveling northbound on Rockaway Avenue.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

The vehicle was found parked and unoccupied a short time later on Park Place between East New York Avenue and Boyland Street.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

The earrings were recovered Thursday at the former Fresh Kills landfill, where trash is compacted and shipped out of state.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Eighteen-month-old William Casson was burned at Catbird Playground in Carl Schurz Park.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Manhattan prosecutors say the defendants worked for the Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street. They were arrested Thursday night on charges including promoting prostitution, money laundering and falsifying business records.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Four dancers from The Hot Lap Dance Club were arraigned Friday.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

The earrings were recovered Thursday at the site of the former Fresh Kills landfill.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Investigators removed evidence and say at 10:45 p.m. four men rang the doorbell at 291 Merrymount Street, telling the babysitter who answered the door that they were there to arrest the homeowner.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope to discontinue their use of non-essential electrical appliances, including air-conditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope to discontinue their use of non-essential electrical appliances, including air-conditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope to discontinue their use of non-essential electrical appliances, including air-conditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope to discontinue their use of non-essential electrical appliances, including air-conditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

The affected area includes approximately 89,000 customers, and is bounded by 3rd and 4th Streets on the north, the Gowanus Canal on the west, and south and Fort Hamilton Parkway on the east.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

There was a time, in the 1970s and ’80s that handguns were so coveted on the streets of Kings County, that the borough gave rise to a law enforcement legend known as the Brooklyn Bounce. If you were to throw a gun from a window in Bay Ridge or Bushwick, so the legend went, it would be eagerly grabbed before it had a chance to bounce more than once.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

On Saturday morning, the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, visited the Southern Baptist Church in East New York and said that he was optimistic about the program.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

At one of the churches, the Helping Hands Ministries in Brownsville, a line of people waited to enter the building.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

Kevin Joseph, a pastor at a church in Jamaica, Queens, turned in a .22-caliber pistol that his mother brought with her when she moved to New York from Florida.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

Fernando Martinez’s truck was one of many that returned to Red Hook Park in Brooklyn on Saturday after spending months trying to comply with city regulations.

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

“The mercado feel, the market feel, was a big factor that made the Red Hook vendors the iconic place it became,” said Cesar Fuentes, executive director of the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook, “Unfortunately, we were facing a system that didn’t see it our way.”

Published by New York Times on July 20, 2008.

Police are using dogs and helicopters to search for two men believed to have committed a push-in robbery at a home on the 200-block of Merrymount Street in the New Springville section of Staten Island.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

The black Honda, illuminated only by its running lights, roared down E. 43rd St. in East Flatbush about 1:20 a.m., police said. The car hit Rondell Grant just as he stepped beyond a double-parked car and into the street near his grandparents' home.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Debuting yesterday, the open-air flea market lured hundreds of bargain hunters into 96-degree heat to a formerly vacant lot in New Dorp.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

Lori Schiavone of Oakwood arrived at 9:15 a.m., scooping up six pairs of Puma sweat socks for $10 and a wash cloth for 50 cents.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

Target pulled out of a deal to build a store there after the borough president expressed concerns about traffic at the intersection of New Dorp Lane and Hylan Boulevard.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

The first on the Island in recent memory, it's located in a lot once home to Waldbaum's and Frank's Nursery & Crafts on New Dorp Lane at Old Mill Road.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

Usually, the 60-something New Dorp woman shops the Staten Island Mall, but she popped over to the new attraction out of curiosity. "So far," she said, "so good."

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

Ms. Wade was believed to have been sharing a third-floor apartment at 521 Van Duzer St. with the victim, Henry Showard, 44, and his wife.

Published by SI Live on July 20, 2008.

The utility is reporting power outages to approximately 2,000 customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope at this time.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The utility is reporting power outages to approximately 2,000 customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope at this time.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The utility is reporting power outages to approximately 2,000 customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope at this time.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The utility is reporting power outages to approximately 2,000 customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope at this time.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The affected area includes approximately 89,000 customers, and is bounded by 3rd and 4th Streets on the north, the Gowanus Canal on the west, and south and Fort Hamilton Parkway on the east.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Giuliani was largely absent from his firm, Giuliani Partners, while he was running for the Republican nomination for president.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Two times in one day, a young child was struck by a car that then left the scene in Brooklyn. Early Saturday, an 11-year-old boy was killed in Flatbush.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The alleged driver was caught a few hours later. The latest victim: a 9-year-old girl that was struck Saturday night in Brownsville.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The young girl was crossing Rockaway Avenue at Glenmore Avenue when she was struck by a tan Nissan Maxima.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

...Elevator Company the John Williams Ornamental Brass and Iron Works -- and the Reynolds Metal Company (521-537 W. 25th St.), a maker of tin foil wrappers and bottle caps that was founded by the nephew...

Published by Mitchell's Manhattan Real Estate Blog on July 20, 2008.

Cops said Nacirema, was running across Rockaway Ave. near Glenmore Ave. in Brownsville when she was struck at about 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

They call themselves Nixzmary Brown's Soldiers, and they plan to rally at City Hall Sunday to call attention to their cause.

Published by New York Daily News on July 20, 2008.

Marie is a fitness model who says she's spent time alone with A-Rod in her apartment in Chelsea.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

The Tottenville resident's buddies pulled him to shore and administered CPR, but he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

"Lou is a scumbag. I hope he burns in hell," said a source close to the Hot Lap Dance Club of Lou Posner, a successful tax lawyer who owns the members-only strip joint with his wife, Betty.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

A Staten Island jeweler found his wife's $20,000 diamond earrings, which had been inadvertently tossed in the trash, after digging through a mound of garbage at the Fresh Kills landfill. Haya Sharon, 56, dropped the three-carat gems, an anniversary present from her husband, Arie, into a jar of cleaning solution at their New Dorp store, Kukulina Jewels, last Saturday. A staffer, thinking it was empty, then tossed the opaque jar into the trash.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

"She was trying to help her," Armaza's mom, Rosa, told The Post yesterday from her home in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

The teenagers, who knew each other from Thomas Edison HS in Jamaica, were hanging out with a group of friends on the beach Friday as temperatures soared well into the 90s.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

Swamped by huge waves churned up by a hurricane, Carla Armaza desperately swam out to save her pal from being dragged out to sea. But the force of the surf off Rockaway Beach late Friday afternoon was too strong. She was choking on seawater, barely able to keep herself afloat as exhaustion set it.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

The family of a Brooklyn man who died at Kings County Hospital Center says the staff misidentified him - despite repeated pleas to fix the goof - and sent him to the morgue under the wrong name.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

B&T Officer Daniel Bell, 38, was working toll booth No. 3 on the Queens side of the Queens Midtown Tunnel when a driver pulled up in a black Mercedes and handed him five one-dollar bills. Three of them were crumpled in the driver's hand.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

His Giuliani Partners firm is creating a fund that invests in commercial and residential properties despite the sagging market, according to those close to the deal.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

Since Moore's murder, several clubs and lounges on the strip, including Crobar, Spirit, Pre:Post, BED and Scores West, closed for various reasons, but they've been replaced with new clubs, like Mansion and Suzy Wong.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

Since Moore's murder, several clubs and lounges on the strip, including Crobar, Spirit, Pre:Post, BED and Scores West, closed for various reasons, but they've been replaced with new clubs, like Mansion and Suzy Wong.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

Since Moore's murder, several clubs and lounges on the strip, including Crobar, Spirit, Pre:Post, BED and Scores West, closed for various reasons, but they've been replaced with new clubs, like Mansion and Suzy Wong.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.