The NYPD will have at the lower Manhattan site a special unit to patrol the area. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will have primary responsibility for security at the PATH train station there.

Published by New York Daily News on July 24, 2008.

"If Jason was black, there would be a thousand people protesting outside 1 Police Plaza. The mayor would be on television apologizing. But this isn't an Al Sharpton case."

Published by New York Daily News on July 24, 2008.

But just because Kaufman is out, doesn’t mean the manager of two Busy Chef locations, plus the upscale pizzeria Oven, the Blue Pig ice cream parlor and The Wine Bar at 50 Henry Street, is home free.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 24, 2008.

In classical WD-50 fashion, Dufresne pulled out a few of his many emulsifiers (a strain called A16M and another unappetizingly named gellan gum) to beat back the competition at yesterday’s Tofu Around the World Cook-off at the Astor Center in the East Village.

Published by amNY.com on July 23, 2008.

Nearly two years after a plane carrying Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle slammed into an East Side apartment tower, the lawsuits keep coming.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.

Interestingly, given the strong feelings on both sides, the candidates’ differences when it comes to ideology and actual policy positions seems to be very slight. In effort to position himself as the more progressive of the candidates in a district that includes Lower Manhattan and mostly white-liberal downtown Brooklyn, Squadron has attacked Connor for the timing of his vote on “luxury decontrol” laws.

Published by The New York Observer on July 22, 2008.

He was gritty, this kid Joe Miceli from the lower East Side, and I'm going to miss my friend at "Ring 8" meetings of the Veteran Boxers Association.

Published by New York Daily News on July 22, 2008.

Born on the lower East Side in 1923, Getty briefly worked in local theater but left the limelight to raise her two sons with her husband, Arthur Gettleman, in Queens.

Published by New York Daily News on July 22, 2008.

No. 4 riders say delays are worst between Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan and Union Square.

Published by New York Times on July 22, 2008.

The 30-state, seven-week bus tour organized by the Consumer Electronics Association, whose 2,300 members include Apple, Google, and Microsoft, begins today in Lower Manhattan and will include visits to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

Published by New York Sun on July 21, 2008.

One of the Bowery's last flophouses just got a new lease on life. The Sunshine Hotel, which has been featured in several documentaries for its mix of bleak conditions and eccentric personalities, will not be demolished to make way for condominiums, after all - at least not within the next three years.

Published by New York Post on July 21, 2008.

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.

Kaufman was a manager at four other nearby restaurants, and he used customers’ credit card numbers from those locations to make purchases at the Busy Chef at 60 Henry St., which is at Cranberry Street.

Published by Brooklyn Paper 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.

Dan Rather and his lawyers were back in a lower Manhattan courthouse yesterday for yet another round in Mr. Rather's ongoing $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers.

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

Among the most troubling conditions, the audit found, were a partially blocked exit at the Chinatown Senior Center; a poorly lighted stairway and a broken handrail at the Jackie Robinson Senior Center in Harlem...

Published by New York Times on July 17, 2008.

Set up more than two years ago to help rebuild Chinatown’s economy, the Partnership’s mission is still vital. A recent study showing that the community is still struggling seven years after the terrorist attack of September 11.

Published by Crain's New York Business on July 16, 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.

MENU PAGES The team behind Rayuela — the restaurant named after a novel by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar — has opened Macondo (157 E. Houston St., between Allen and Eldridge streets, 212-473-9900).

Published by New York Sun on July 16, 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.

"NYC Sound Tracks," an eight-episode series produced by Madison Square Garden Networks that had its debut Sunday, is holding open auditions in Foley Square.

Published by New York Sun on July 15, 2008.

More than a hundred demonstrators gathered in front of 1 Centre Street on Tuesday to protest a 111-block rezoning plan for the Lower East Side proposed by the Department of City Planning. The protesters contend the plan is racist.

Published by New York Times on July 15, 2008.

SINCE THE LATE '90s, the Bowery has been undergoing a vast luxury transformation. It’s evident in the massive hotels that have started to line the avenue from Canal Street, where the 18-story Wyndham is being built, all the way up to Sixth Street, where the 22-story Cooper Square Hotel is nearing completion; in the shiny New Museum of Contemporary Art...

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.

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 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.

"Maybe you can get a decent job at Exchange Place instead of going into Lower Manhattan," Zupan said. "Whether you can justify building a rail line for a large amount of money to do that is another matter."

Published by SI Live on July 14, 2008.

This year, Daniel Squadron, a 28-year-old political consultant and former aide to Sen. Charles Schumer, is trying to build on Diamondstone's near-success by unseating this elder of the New York Senate in a district that spans a swath of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Published by Gotham Gazette 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.

Brack Capital also purchased 187 Bowery for $7.55 million on June 30, and last year it bought 189 and 191 Bowery for a total of $14.2 million. It does not control the corner lot at Delancy Street.

Published by The Real Deal 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.

"Maybe you can get a decent job at Exchange Place instead of going into Lower Manhattan," Zupan said. "Whether you can justify building a rail line for a large amount of money to do that is another matter."

Published by SI Live on July 14, 2008.

 Brack Capital Real Estate paid $8 million for a 7,400-square-foot commercial townhouse at 185 Bowery, giving the company four adjacent lots near Spring Street in the Lower East Side restaurant supply district.

Published by The Real Deal on July 14, 2008.

Brack Capital also purchased 187 Bowery for $7.55 million on June 30, and last year it bought 189 and 191 Bowery for a total of $14.2 million. It does not control the corner lot at Delancy Street.

Published by The Real Deal 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.

11 a.m. Scott Stringer hosts Immigration Assistance Day event; Chinatown YMCA, 100 Hester St.

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

The protesters also plan to march on the upscale Bowery Wine Company, then man the barricades at the NYU dormitories on the Bowery.

Published by New York Post on July 11, 2008.

A veteran NYPD sergeant has been suspended and a captain transferred from a scandal-plagued unit after money disappeared from a lower Manhattan club during a raid, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Published by New York Post 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.

Exactly who is the "you" in the song, I asked Ms. Reynoso. She explained that the song was written more than 20 years ago by a South African to protest apartheid and that we should all agree that apartheid was something to protest. But, I told her, this is not South Africa. This is Lower Manhattan. The Go Project is funded in part by the Robin Hood Foundation, a charity led by wealthy hedge fund managers.

Published by New York Sun on July 11, 2008.

To demonstrate that it can work in New York, the Forum for Urban Design will begin a five day bike sharing program today. According to its executive director, Lisa Chamberlain, the organization has set up four locations in lower Manhattan where people can go, leave their credit card information, borrow a bike for 30 minutes, and return it to any of the locations.

Published by New York Sun on July 10, 2008.

Silver's spokesman Jonathan Rosen emails, "More than 100 volunteers from across Lower Manhattan collected nearly 8,000 signatures to keep Shelly Silver as their voice in Albany." He also said that the Silver campaign has no plans to challenge anyone else's petitions.

Published by The New York Observer on July 10, 2008.

Over the last three months, special teams of Internal Affairs officers have scoured congested streets in lower Manhattan and around government hubs in outer boroughs, searching for vehicles whose drivers abuse their parking-placard perks and slapping tickets on 2,488 cars.

Published by New York Post on July 10, 2008.

The Theater Development Fund, the nonprofit organization that runs the TKTS booths in Times Square and Lower Manhattan, today opened a third location, in a leased ground-level storefront at 1 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

"It was a lot of pain waiting," said the 55-year-old Paraguayan immigrant at a lower Manhattan press conference.

Published by New York Post on July 10, 2008.

Compulsory tours usually make me as sour as a Gus's pickle (still in business up the street at 85 Orchard), but since I love historic homes—those cunning kitchen appliances! The vintage clothes in the armoires!—I pretend to be a joiner.

Published by Village Voice on July 9, 2008.

Mr. Golisano also tempered speculation that he might back a primary challenger to Mr. Silver, who represents a Lower Manhattan district. Two such challengers — Paul Newell, a community activist, and Luke Henry, a lawyer — have emerged recently, but Mr. Golisano said he had not spoken to either one.

Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.

Noon. Supporters of the New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign call for independent investigation of 9/11; Foley Square, across from U.S. courthouse.

Published by The New York Observer on July 9, 2008.

The experiment last year, the New York Bike-Share Project, was run by a nonprofit group, the Forum for Urban Design. Twenty bicycles were available free, for up to 30 minutes, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bicycles could be dropped off at a handful of locations in and around Greenwich Village.

Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.

Grant is the brother of Rudy Fleming, who is serving life without parole for the Jan. 27, 2005, slaying of Nicole DuFresne, who had asked him after a Lower East Side robbery: "You got what you wanted. What are you going to do now, shoot us?"

Published by New York Post on July 9, 2008.