Once an uninteresting dining scene, Second Avenue in the East Village now offers a compelling variety in these restaurants, most of them no more than two years old.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

In a blog, barbed musings are aimed with unambiguous loathing at the management of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

In a blog, barbed musings are aimed with unambiguous loathing at the management of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

11 a.m. Carolyn Maloney, Tom Duane, Dick Gottfried, Brian Kavanagh, Dan Garodnick, and school parents call for an immediate action to relieve overcrowding, outside P.S. 116, at 210 East 33rd Street,

Published by The New York Observer on July 18, 2008.

Prosecutors say he steered subcontractors to his buddies at the F.J. Sciame Construction Co., a firm renowned for its work on the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Morgan Library.

Published by New York Post on July 18, 2008.

The Empire State Development Corporation today declared “blighted” a 17-acre swath of West Harlem where Columbia University is seeking to expand, a major step toward allowing the state to use eminent domain to acquire the property of two businesses that have declined to sell their land to the university.

Published by New York Times on July 17, 2008.

The state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, kicked of the public process for eminent domain for Columbia University's 17-acre West Harlem expansion today, starting a final chapter in the approvals for the contentious $7 billion initiative.

Published by The New York Observer on July 17, 2008.

All around her were dozens of Chinese and Hispanic residents of the lower East Side. They held up placards with words like: "Stop Racist Rezoning" and "Chinatown/Lower East Side Are Not For Sale."

Published by New York Daily News on July 16, 2008.

The Red Sox closer's All-Star experience took a turn for the worse Tuesday as his comments in the Daily News stirred up Yankees fans, who let him know their feelings during the All-Star red carpet parade in midtown.

Published by New York Daily News on July 16, 2008.

Every time Jonathan Gleich begins his long commute into Midtown Manhattan from Brighton Beach, he’s blazing a trail for equal rights for that most-discriminated-against segment of the commuting public: Segway riders.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

A midtown fortune-teller was indicted Tuesday on charges of cheating a Wyoming man out of $500,000 to rid his home of evil spirits.

Published by New York Daily News on July 16, 2008.

DO OVER L'Impero was renamed Convivio (45 Tudor City Place at 42nd Street, 212-599-5045) on Monday, and the restaurant's cuisine has changed from northern Italian to southern.

Published by New York Sun on July 16, 2008.

The report says city departments need to tell each other about pending abatement or demolition jobs. It also says the city should pursue legislation to issue violations to hundreds of properties owned by other governments. That would include the United Nations and the World Trade Center site.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 16, 2008.

A Holocaust denier, accused terrorist and proud member of the "axis of evil," Ahmadinejad has been a guest of the United Nations twice since being elected to power in 2005.

Published by New York Daily News on July 15, 2008.

Commuters should avoid trying to cross the parade route in midtown.

Published by WNBC on July 15, 2008.

The major landowner fighting Columbia University's expansion, Nick Sprayregen, today came out victorious over the state's Empire State Development Corporation today in an appellate court ruling on a case involving the Freedom of Information Law.

Published by The New York Observer on July 15, 2008.

This month, hosts in Manhattan’s party districts can send a text message to an ice truck sponsored by the company that markets Baileys Irish Cream, Smirnoff, and Captain Morgan to have ice delivered to their door (the truck will cover the East Village on July 19 and the West Village on July 26).

Published by New York Times on July 15, 2008.

Sixth Avenue busses will also be running a different route.Commuters should avoid trying to cross the parade route in midtown.

Published by WNBC on July 15, 2008.

A state appellate court on Tuesday upheld a decision ordering the Empire State Development Corporation to release documents regarding the expansion of Columbia University to a group that opposes the plans.

Published by New York Times on July 15, 2008.

A Holocaust denier, accused terrorist and proud member of the "axis of evil," Ahmadinejad has been a guest of the United Nations twice since being elected to power in 2005.

Published by New York Daily News on July 15, 2008.

The seven bills are the first of 13 to address the fatal crane collapses on 51st Street at Second Avenue on March 15 and at 91st Street and First Avenue on May 30. The bills were proposed by roughly a dozen Council members, including Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, who represents the Manhattan district where both accidents, which killed a total of nine people, occurred.

Published by The New York Observer on July 15, 2008.

Richard King, 39, was out of prison less than 48 hours on June 7 when he roughed up a Midtown pedestrian for cash and got shipped back to Rikers, according to court papers. He had already acquired a crack pipe, cops say.

Published by New York Post on July 14, 2008.

The city Buildings Department and FDNY have ordered Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village to stop installing pressurized walls to convert living rooms into extra bedrooms.

Published by New York Post on July 14, 2008.

12:30 p.m. Community members demand a stop to the East Village/LES Rezoning Plan before scheduled public hearing; in front of 1 Centre St.

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

The feds claim Topalian helped plot the 1980 car bombing of the Turkish Mission to the United Nations in New York, which badly injured three passers-by.

Published by New York Post on July 14, 2008.

In 2005, it was reported that six of the 11 candidates running for a City Council seat on Manhattan's Lower East Side faced challenges from the Coalition for a District Alternative, a political club that actively supported outgoing Councilmember Margarita Lopez and Rosie Mendez, her protégé who was seeking the seat (and won).

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells state television he'll attend the next United Nations General Assembly meeting expected to be held in New York in September.

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

Running Against Albany on Manhattan's Lower East Side (64th Assembly District): One of the state's most powerful men -- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- faces two political novices bidding for political history in his rapidly changing home district.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

The 25th District includes parts of the Lower East Side, Alphabet City, the Financial District, Tribeca, Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn. It is home to two of the largest and most controversial development projects in the city: the World Trade Center site and Atlantic Yards.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

Durels tells GlobeSt.com that SL consistently reinvests in its buildings. "Consequently the timing of these particular capital programs is driven by pending lease expirations at 810 Seventh and 711 Third avenues and a recent acquisition at 16 Court St." Durels explains that asking rents are $35 per sf to $40 per sf at 16 Court St., $65 per sf to $90 per sf at 810 Seventh Ave. and $65 per sf at 711 Third Ave.

Published by GlobeSt on July 14, 2008.

The Turtle Bay designer said the wheel of the bus smashed 20 bones in his right foot.

Published by New York Post on July 13, 2008.

Almost every day, a celebrated Manhattan architect and interior designer goes to a Midtown bus stop searching for a good Samaritan who saved him from possible amputation after a city bus crushed his right foot.

Published by New York Post on July 13, 2008.

Law-enforcement sources say the presumed insider has unlawfully entered as many as 16 residences at 247 E. 28th St.

Published by New York Post on July 12, 2008.

All week, Eve Armstrong and her boyfriend, Wayne Yeager, slept in their midtown office instead of their Washington Heights apartment.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 12, 2008.

The victim, who was headed north on First Avenue, was hit by a Ford Windstar driven by a 46-year-old woman along 49th Street at about 9 p.m.

Published by New York Post on July 12, 2008.

The wait is over for the new 3G iPhone Crowds of expectant buyers lined up outside the Apple Stores in Midtown, Chelsea and SoHo hours before the new phone went on sale Friday morning.

Published by WNBC on July 11, 2008.

An Abu Dhabi fund recently bought a large stake in the Chrysler Building.

Published by The New York Observer on July 11, 2008.

"I was smoking two packs a day, so right now I saved $600 over the last month," said Jeana Farelli, an artist from the Lower East Side who quit smoking 27 days ago.

Published by New York Post on July 11, 2008.

Mr. Fleck said he walks to his job at a midtown hotel and gets stares when he tells local residents that he doesn't have a car. Atlanta's Marta subway system has just two lines and fewer than 50 stops.

Published by New York Sun on July 11, 2008.

Delmonte continues that "the amount of available class A space in Midtown alone has increased by two million sf during the past 12 months. However, the increased availability of large blocks of space may finally mean more choices for Midtown tenants with space requirements of more than 200,000 sf."

Published by GlobeSt on July 10, 2008.

The brazen, daylight attack happened around 10:15 a.m. at a Zales store on 57th Street and Lexington Avenue.

Published by WNBC on July 10, 2008.

A Filipino woman says a former ambassador to the United Nations enslaved her for three months, after she was lured with a promise of help in finding work.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

A Filipino woman says a former ambassador to the United Nations enslaved her for three months, after she was lured with a promise of help in finding work.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

Obama stood side-by-side with his former rival at a midtown fundraiser. Clinton made it clear she wants democrats to unite.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 10, 2008.

The government of Abu Dhabi bought a 90 percent stake in the Chrysler Building for $800 million from German real estate investors and Tishman Speyer.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

Tishman Speyer and its partner, Travelers Group, bought the Chrysler Building, at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, and the adjoining Kent Building in 1997 for about $220 million from a consortium of banks and the estate of Jack Kent Cooke.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

The sale of a 90% stake in the iconic tower at 405 Lexington Ave. to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council follows by a few weeks Boston Properties’ $4-billion purchase of the General Motors building at 767 Fifth Ave. and Shorenstein’s $930-million acquisition of a controlling stake in two other Macklowe Properties office assets,

Published by GlobeSt on July 10, 2008.

The skyscraper at 405 Lexington Ave., the world's tallest building until 1931, was acquired tuesday by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council for an undisclosed price. Last month a Dubai fund, Boston Properties Inc., and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $2.8 billion for the General Motors Building.

Published by New York Sun on July 10, 2008.

An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a big stake in New York City's landmark Chrysler Building.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 9, 2008.

An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a big stake in New York City's landmark Chrysler Building.

Published by WNBC on July 9, 2008.