Friends attended a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village.

Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.

LiMandri, the city's first deputy building commissioner for the last three years, has headed the department since Patricia Lancaster was pressured out in April, following a string of deadly construction accidents and the spectacular collapse of an East Side construction crane.

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

The rabbi said he and his board had negotiated air rights to the East Village property with the Kushner Cos. real estate organization, which owns, develops and manages various types of properties in the Northeast.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 15, 2008.

This much can be agreed on: An Orthodox congregation established by Eastern European Jews in 1888 occupies a lovely but crumbling neo-Classical building with a two-story Victorian Gothic interior at 415 East Sixth Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, on the Lower East Side — a neighborhood where real estate prices have been soaring, placing pressure on owners of old buildings to sell their property to developers for retail and commercial uses.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The Justice Department contends that a 361-unit building on the Lower East Side has common areas that are inaccessible to the disabled.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The 361-unit rental building is on the Lower East Side.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 2008.

A hearing by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The hearing combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The lawsuit filed against AvalonBay Communities alleges that the Alexandria, Va.-based real estate firm violated the terms of the Fair Housing Act in its design and construction of the Avalon Chrystie Place. The 361-unit rental building is on the Lower East Side.

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

Andrew Berman, executive director of the historic preservation society, said that “buildings like this — at once humble and grand — really speak to the profound aspirations of the generations of immigrants who came through the Lower East Side, and the impact they had and continue to have upon our city and country.”

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

she’s been spotted walking in Soho in black shorts and a flannel shirt, hair tousled, Barack Obama Rolling Stone cover visible; in a white T-shirt dress, walking with Dave Ransone, the tattooed bartender of the Rusty Knot and East Village bar Black and White;

Published by The New York Observer on August 13, 2008.

The lawsuit concerns the design and construction of Avalon Chrystie Place, at 229 Chrystie Place, below Houston Street, on the boundary between SoHo and the East Village.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

But residents like Maria Ramos say the re-zoning plan would only benefit the wealthy and that people like herself won't be able to afford living in the Lower East Side.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 13, 2008.

The exhibit will feature an interactive map of musically significant Manhattan locations like Studio 54 and the landmarked Chelsea Hotel, whose guests and residents have included many famous artists and musicians including the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious. The front awning and cash register of the recently closed club CBGB will be on display.

Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.

Public comment also will extend to the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning and the Hunter's Point South Plan.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

The Department of City Planning listened to testimony about the zoning plan which would allow high-rises to be built from E. 13th St. to just below Delancey and from Columbia Street to Bowery.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 13, 2008.

LOCKS OF LOVE After months of renovations, previews, and service experiments, the Redhead (349 E. 13th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-533-6212) is serving dinner five nights a week, Tuesday through Saturday.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

she’s been spotted walking in Soho in black shorts and a flannel shirt, hair tousled, Barack Obama Rolling Stone cover visible; in a white T-shirt dress, walking with Dave Ransone, the tattooed bartender of the Rusty Knot and East Village bar Black and White

Published by The New York Observer on August 13, 2008.

Public comment also will extend to the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning and the Hunter's Point South Plan.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

“She clearly seems to be into that scene right now, but we should applaud her!” said the music writer. “It speaks well of her that she’d rather hang out in Lower East Side dive bars than lunch at the Ivy.”

Published by The New York Observer on August 13, 2008.

LATEST BUZZ Apiary (60 Third Ave., between 10th and 11th streets, 212-254-0888) has been testing its food on family and friends this week and is scheduled to open tomorrow.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

At Death & Co., there's gussied-up comfort food like jalapeño short ribs and fish and chips. But at most other classic cocktail lounges, there's nothing to eat (or nothing worth eating). The focus is on the cocktails, which makes sense. But bar snacking is a tradition at least as time-honored as the Ramos Gin Fizz.

Published by Village Voice on August 12, 2008.

“It’s good advertisement for the place and it brings in a lot more business,” said Rudy Farran, owner of Snacklicious Cinderella Falafel, which will serve eight-cent falafels and hold a falafel-eating contest at its East Village shop on Aug. 31. Nearly 800 people showed up in a two-hour span

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

“It’s good advertisement for the place and it brings in a lot more business,” said Rudy Farran, owner of Snacklicious Cinderella Falafel, which will serve eight-cent falafels and hold a falafel-eating contest at its East Village shop on Aug. 31. Nearly 800 people showed up in a two-hour span when Farran partnered with 8coupons on a similar event last year.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

His endorsement of the plan, issued today, comes as the City Planning Commission gears up for a mega-hearing Wednesday, with throngs of community members expected to deliver testimony on proposed rezonings of the Lower East Side, the planned middle income-intensive Hunters Point South development near Long Island City, and the proposed redevelopment of Willets Point by Shea Stadium.

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

The rezoning has received criticism from some in Chinatown who are upset about being left out of its boundaries and others who wanted the Bowery included. However, given that it does not allow for that much new development, it does not seem to be the controversy magnet that some other rezoning plans are, and has mostly won support from the community board and other groups in the area.

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

He pleaded guilty yesterday to drug charges and was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison, longer than he served for killing Jennifer Levin in Central Park. Chambers, 41, the so-called "preppy killer," admitted yesterday to selling cocaine to undercover officers from the East Side apartment he shared with longtime girlfriend Shawn Kovell. He also pleaded guilty to assaulting Officer Dragos Chitu, one of the cops who arrested the couple last October.

Published by amNY.com on August 11, 2008.

Chambers, who served 15 years behind bars for the infamous 1986 "rough sex murder" of Jennifer Levin, today pleaded guilty to selling cocaine out of an East Side apartment.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

The districts Kavanagh and Connor represent overlap on the lower East Side, and the assemblyman said the two have "always been cordial." Connor backed Sylvia Friedman, the incumbent assemblywoman whom Kavanagh toppled in a 2006 primary, as did most elected Dems.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., who just got engaged to model Agyness Deyn, is reportedly selling his East Village apartment and decamping to Brooklyn. [P6]

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

Cadet Zachary West did indeed see trauma on his first call. A man had apparently fallen, and when West arrived on the scene on Manhattan's East Side, there was plenty of blood on the victim and the ground.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 10, 2008.

While special interest groups in Chinatown battle internally over the plan, most East Village and Lower East Side residents look forward to the pending changes.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

While special interest groups in Chinatown battle internally over the plan, most East Village and Lower East Side residents look forward to the pending changes.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

Statuesque social darling and Alberta Ferretti publicist Annelise Peterson has been exercising her inner rock star this summer, spending her weekends writing and recording ballads in a dank, makeshift recording studio in the East Village. And according to her producer and co-writer Kenyon Phillips, the girl can sing.

Published by The New York Observer on August 8, 2008.

The New York tour finale was intentional; the band wanted to call it quits in the same city of their first U.S. gig 30 years ago, in the far smaller—though no less famous—CBGB's nightclub, now closed.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 8, 2008.

While special interest groups in Chinatown battle internally over the plan, most East Village and Lower East Side residents look forward to the pending changes.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

He threw some crumbs on the ground in front of him and almost immediately, a flock of pigeons was at his feet. Then, with a quick thrust of his right arm, he seized one of the birds.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.

The main organizer of the anti-rezoning protests, Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, has pointed to Census data to argue that the area proposed for rezoning is disproportionately white and that its boundaries were drawn to exclude many Latino and Asian residents.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.

Twice a day, the great-grandmother gingerly steps across the lawn at Tompkins Square Park searching for lucky clovers, which she hands out to cops and firefighters to honor their service.

Published by New York Daily News on August 6, 2008.

Hildegard Ford is known to most as the Four-Leaf Clover Lady of the East Village - and she tries her best to spread the good luck to the city's Finest and Bravest.

Published by New York Daily News on August 6, 2008.

AROUND THE WORLD, AT HOME JoeDoe (45 E. 1st St., between First and Second avenues, 212-780-0262), a 30-seat restaurant by chef Joe Dobias, is opening softly for a preview of sorts, serving food but no alcohol tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday between 6 and 10 p.m. Mr. Dobias is touting the food as "American," and the menu is a bit of a melting pot.

Published by New York Sun on August 6, 2008.

In a lawsuit filed late last month in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, 14 investors alleged that local Chinatown businessman Foster J.P. Liao and two companies promised to build the Eastern Giant Dragon Theme Park in Guilin city, south of Beijing, in time for the opening of the Beijing Olympics.

Published by amNY.com on August 5, 2008.

"I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious Christadora House. It's a hot July evening, and Rosen is holding a one-man counterprotest outside the home of one of his main detractors, a crusty squatters'-rights activist named Jerry "the Peddler" Wade.

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

It's the 20th anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park riots, and I'm sitting at the Pick Me Up Café on East 9th and Avenue A with Sakamaki, who has just published Tompkins Square Park, a book of his stunning photographs of the neighborhood from those days of revolutionary mayhem. It's a beautiful afternoon, and the café, though artfully time-worn and downmarket, is full of fresh faces, a far cry from the louche denizens of these streets in the years when Sakamaki first lived here.

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

"I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious Christadora House. It's a hot July evening, and Rosen is holding a one-man counterprotest outside the home of one of his main detractors, a crusty squatters'-rights activist named Jerry "the Peddler" Wade.

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

Although the first Chinese Olympics are thousands of miles away, they are reinforcing divisions within Manhattan's Chinatown.

Published by New York Sun on August 5, 2008.

A book of photography documents a lost time and place: Tompkins Square Park in the 1980s.

Published by New York Times on August 5, 2008.

"I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious Christadora House. It's a hot July evening, and Rosen is holding a one-man counterprotest outside the home of one of his main detractors, a crusty squatters'-rights activist named Jerry "the Peddler" Wade.

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

Residents are calling the Community Board 6 office to say that the buses are idling, taking up parking spaces and creating congestion near the Smith–Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue F-train stations — where they wait for passengers to ferry to IKEA’s Beard Street store in Red Hook.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 4, 2008.

On July 22, just a couple of weeks shy of the 20-year anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park riots, the Parks Department opened a $150,000 dog run, complete with a canine paddling pool, in what was once a refuge for the homeless and all manner of fringe groups.

Published by The New York Observer on August 4, 2008.