Then there's Louis Posner, 52, a Manhattan-based civil lawyer accused of owning the club, a 7,000-square-foot loft on the fifth floor of 344 W. 38th St. that featured live sex shows, big-screen porn movies and a suite of curtained "VIP" bedrooms.

Published by New York Post on July 19, 2008.

The lawyer, Louis Posner, ran the Hot Lap Dance Club out of a fifth-floor loft in Hell’s Kitchen, where the police said the wealthy clientele paid as much as $5,000 for sex with dancers in private rooms.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

Prominent tax lawyer Louis Posner; his wife, Betty; and 19 others were arrested on a variety of prostitution and money-laundering charges at The Hot Lap Dance Club, which the couple ran out of a velvet-heavy loft, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on July 19, 2008.

His accommodations included rooms in the Central Park Hotel on West 73rd Street and the Lincoln Center Hotel on West 64th - and as many as 50 at a time at the Encore Hotel on West 53rd Street. Many of his other apartments were in residential buildings, including the Belnord on West 87th Street.

Published by New York Post on July 18, 2008.

The following wetland areas will be treated: Chelsea East.

Published by SI Live on July 18, 2008.

He'd been on the lam as authorities hunted him for dressing as a firefighter and terrorizing a Chelsea woman for 13 hours on Halloween 2005.

Published by New York Post on July 18, 2008.

Ingrid Ospina, 27, was walking from her home in midtown to her job at a law firm when she unwittingly walked underneath a scaffold supporting workers doing facade work on 301 W. 45th St.

Published by New York Daily News on July 17, 2008.

Ingred Ospina, 27, had just left her home nearby and was walking to her job at a law office around 8:30 a.m. as the workers were using the bricks to make facade repairs at 301 W. 45th St.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

Thugs stabbed an unarmed off-duty cop outside a Chelsea club yesterday when he asked them to stop hurling insults at his girlfriend and other women.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

The world premiere of "The Dark Knight" on Monday night brought the cast and the parents of late Joker actor Heath Ledger to the AMC Loews Lincoln Square.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

Ingred Ospina, 27, had just left her home nearby and was walking to her job at a law office around 8:30 a.m. as the workers were using the bricks to make facade repairs at 301 W. 45th St.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

Sources tell WNBC the officer was walking down a street in Chelsea with his girlfriend and three other women when they were approached by a group of males.

Published by WNBC on July 16, 2008.

The sheer number of these rezonings - from Columbia University to Hudson Yards to Greenpoint-Williamsburg to Willets Point, boggles the mind.

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

Before joining Second Stage two years ago, Ms. Richard spent 20 years at the Roundabout, a theater that evolved from a space in the basement of a Chelsea supermarket to the former Selwyn Theater on West 42nd Street. “Everything I learned from Roundabout is coming in handy here,” she said. “It didn’t get easier.”

Published by New York Times on July 16, 2008.

The two actors live a block from the hospital and took turns commenting Tuesday during a six-hour public hearing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the plans by St. Vincent's Hospital for an extensive upgrade.

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

Mr. Ross, chairman of development giant the Related Companies, is seeking, once again, to fill the base of a planned 58-story, 1.2 million-square-foot hotel and residential building on 42nd Street and 10th Avenue with a theater, thereby taking advantage of a zoning code bonus that allows for a bigger tower overhead.

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

City Planning spokeswoman Rachaele Raynoff said via e-mail that based on concerns raised during the approval process, the department “decided that the portion of the proposed Hudson Yards text amendment dealing with the theater bonus merits further study and review.”

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

Ledger's family, including dad Kim Ledger and stepmom Iness Ledger, traveled from Perth, Australia, to join the actor's heavy-hearted co-stars at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square last night.

Published by New York Post on July 15, 2008.

Even swaths of densely liquor-licensed West Chelsea have recently been rezoned to allow for more housing, less hip-twisting.

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

Marguerite Bruno, the 87-year-old matriarch of Chez Napoléon, will open her 44-seat, white-tablecloth universe of French delicacies for Bastille Day.

Published by New York Times on July 14, 2008.

"That immediate area is desirable due to its proximity to midtown, but these West 40s properties are also marketed on the hope of an extended No. 7 subway line and the future plans for Hudson Yards."

Published by GlobeSt on July 11, 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.

"This is probably why I still can't find an apartment to buy that I can afford - and so I'll just stay in my rent-stabilized walkup that's too cramped, and buy my first home outside of New York as a weekend escape. We make a solid middle class income - north of 75K and south of 100K - and live in Hell's Kitchen. We'd like to buy something, but don't want to commute for more than 30 minutes to the Worldwide Plaza area where we work."

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

Riverbank West is located at 560 W. 43rd St. in the West 42nd Street corridor, a residential submarket comprised primarily of newly constructed luxury rental and condominium product.

Published by GlobeSt on July 11, 2008.

A career move spurred George Fleck, 32, to give up a $1,800 rent-controlled, studio apartment in Chelsea last year. For $1,300, he got a one-bedroom apartment with a balcony overlooking downtown Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

Published by New York Sun on July 11, 2008.

The New York Times is better off in the long-term paying down debt instead of maintaining its yearly dividend, which costs the company $133 million annually, Huber said in his note. The company has about $1.05 billion of debt, wrote Huber, who declined to comment for this story.

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

Sneha Philip, an internist at St. Vincent's Hospital on Staten Island, lived with her husband, Dr. Ronald Lieberman, in Battery Park City. She was last seen on the night of Sept. 10, 2001 on a security camera shopping at Century 21 across from the World Trade Center. She didn't go home that night.

Published by amNY.com on July 10, 2008.

The New York Times, after the third climber in five weeks used the ceramic rods on its year-old Eighth Ave. building as a staircase into the skyline.

Published by New York Daily News on July 10, 2008.

The New York Times finally began removing the lower nine feet of the distinctive ceramic bars surrounding its Eighth Avenue building yesterday after a third person in six weeks scaled the facade.

Published by New York Post on July 10, 2008.

The New York Times began removing dozens of the distinctive horizontal ceramic rods that sheathe its building hours after a man climbed up the side of the skyscraper.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

Responding to an e-mail from The News, Marie said Rodriguez frequently visited her Chelsea apartment a few years ago to lend a sympathetic ear "when I had just gone through a separation and divorce."

Published by New York Daily News on July 9, 2008.

The split decision by the Appellate Division, which was made public Tuesday, restores a 2005 ruling by a Manhattan Civil Court judge who ruled to evict Michael Tsitsires from the historic Windermere.

Published by New York Daily News on July 9, 2008.

A man scaled the side of The New York Times's 52-story headquarters early this morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said.

Published by New York Sun on July 9, 2008.

Sewell Chan at City Room is reporting that the ceramic rods at the base of Times Tower will be removed in order to prevent any more urban climbers from scaling the building. Chan sources it to a "law enforcement official" and says that rods that go as high as 9 feet from the bottom of the tower will be taken away. Last night, a third person climbed the tower in the past month.

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

The intersection at 40th Street and 8th Avenue was closed because of the incident.

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

Michael Tsitsires has had an apartment at The Windermere, at 400 W. 57th St., for 38 years - but he hasn't actually lived in it for at least the past decade because he prefers to sleep on the streets.

Published by New York Post on July 9, 2008.

One of the aesthetic and functional elements that had garnered worldwide attention for The Times’s building at 620 Eighth Avenue was being transformed in the name of security.

Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.

A man scaled the side of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said.

Published by Crain's New York Business on July 9, 2008.

The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, police said.

Published by WNBC on July 9, 2008.

A man scaled the side of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 9, 2008.

A man scaled the side of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said.

Published by amNY.com on July 9, 2008.

The climber was described by security guards in the New York Times building and onlookers as a man in his 20s. The police received a call at 1:23 a.m. on Wednesday alerting them that there was a person on the building at 620 Eighth Avenue.

Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.

Police say a man has scaled the side of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Manhattan for the third time in two months.

Published by SI Live on July 9, 2008.

The man on the phone said he was climbing The Times Building.

Published by New York Daily News on July 9, 2008.

Police say another man scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Manhattan early Wednesday morning.

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

Planning began for a new vocational high school where food and maritime trades would be joined. That was the embryo of today’s Park West Educational Campus at 525 West 50th Street.

Published by New York Times on July 8, 2008.

They had met at a pub on Kings Road in Chelsea called the Lord Nelson.

Published by New York Times on July 5, 2008.

Staten Island spray locations: Sections of Arlington, Chelsea, Old Place, Bloomfield (Corporate Park area), Fresh Kills, and Port Mobile.

Published by SI Live on July 4, 2008.

A Queens jury awarded a couple $19.6 million in their lawsuit against St. Vincent's Hospital, following the "botched" delivery of their baby boy, who now has cerebral palsy, the family's lawyer said yesterday.

Published by New York Post on July 2, 2008.

Although Port Authority officials publicly acknowledged the daunting problems on Monday, they were also eager to convey the sense that some progress was being made on the centerpiece, the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower, as well as on three other office towers, the transit hub and the foundations for the memorial.

Published by New York Times on July 1, 2008.