At this morning's Yigal Azrouel show in West Chelsea, attendees received gift bags stuffed with t-shirts, nail polish, and—this was new!—prophylactics. Sheathed in feminine floral packaging, the condoms (pictured above) were designed by Mr. Azrouel himself for condom manufacturer Proper Attire ("PROPER ATTIRE Required for entry," read the boxes). The color palette roughly complimented Mr. Azrouel's earth-toned runway looks.

Published by The New York Observer on September 5, 2008.

He told cops he met Pravia after the drunken student approached him in Union Square Park to buy drugs.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 3, 2008.

Overseeing operations in the kitchen is Michael Romanos, the star chef from Mr. Meyer's banner New York spot, the Union Square Cafe. Â

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 3, 2008.

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 3, 2008.

A 19-year-old Pace University student who was found dead in his Chelsea apartment with a sheet over his body and an electric cord wrapped around his neck, was last seen being helped into a taxicab early Saturday morning after a party, the police said on Monday. [NYT]

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

Detectives are interviewing a drug dealer who confessed to killing a Pace University student who was found dead in his Chelsea apartment with a cord around his neck and a plastic bag shoved down his throat, police sources said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.

The Pace University student found dead in his Chelsea apartment with an electric cord around his neck and a plastic bag in his mouth partied all night and made several after-hours calls to male friends before he died, law-enforcement sources said.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

A 22-year-old Queens man has confessed to killing a Pace University student, who was found strangled in his Chelsea apartment Sunday, police sources said today.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

CHELSEA (WABC) -- New York City police say they believe a college student was suffocated by a man he invited to his home. They are questioning the man and say they expect to charge him.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 2, 2008.

The man claimed Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Sunday looking for drugs and the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood. The man, is identified as Jeromie Cancel and police say he left sometime before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 2, 2008.

Carlos Campos, the men's wear designer known for his perfectly tailored suits, has announced that he will show his first women's wear collection on September 7 at the Altman building in Chelsea. But Mr. Campos, who was born in Honduras, doesn't plan to do it quietly: he will use only black models in his runway show.

Published by The New York Observer on September 2, 2008.

Cops were hunting Monday for friends a Pace University student called before he was found dead in his Chelsea apartment - a cord around his neck, a plastic bag shoved down his throat.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.

Police are looking for clues in the death of a Pace University honor student who was discovered dead in his Chelsea apartment, strangled with an electrical cord that was still wrapped around his neck.

Published by WNBC on September 2, 2008.

The unidentified suspect told cops that he choked and robbed victim Kevin Pravia, 19, after meeting him in Union Square at about 6 a.m. Sunday and accompanying him back to his home.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Thirty minutes later, Pravia was in Union Square looking to score drugs and crossed paths with the suspect, the drug dealer told cops.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.

The mystery fund joins a growing list of foreign investors taking stakes in Manhattan trophy properties. Earlier this summer, an Italian investment group bought a majority stake in the Flatiron Building and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council purchased a 75 percent stake in the Chrysler Building.

Published by The New York Observer on September 1, 2008.

For new residents, Roosevelt Island is an urban suburbia, a landscaped refuge from cramped quarters in Chelsea, the Upper East Side or the East Village.

Published by The New York Observer on September 1, 2008.

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Pravia was found lying in his bed after police were called to the scene by Mr. Pravia's roommate who discovered the body Sunday night. Mr. Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 1, 2008.

Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by amNY.com on September 1, 2008.

Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 1, 2008.

The downtown migration of the party crowd has provided a welcome respite for its former home: West Chelsea.

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

The 58-year-old photographer allegedly owes money for unpaid taxes, an aborted book project, and outstanding equipment rental fees. She's also at least a year overdue in paying for renovations to her Greenwich Village townhouse, according to the documents.

Published by New York Post on August 31, 2008.

It's a common sight in the club-heavy Meatpacking District, which has replaced Chelsea as the epicenter of the Manhattan party scene - and home to all the woes that follow.

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

"I need some waffle fries," said Adam Freed, a 23-year old investment banker from Chelsea, after taking his tiny swig and offering a decidedly mixed review.

Published by The New York Observer on August 30, 2008.

A man on his way to work heard the screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square — then went hand-to-hand with the robber, holding him for cops. “I was just in the right place at the right time,” said the worker, José Goncalves, 35, a Chelsea club manager from Bayside, Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

A man on his way to work heard the screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square — then went hand-to-hand with the robber, holding him for cops. “I was just in the right place at the right time,” said the worker, José Goncalves, 35, a Chelsea club manager from Bayside, Queens. [New York Post]

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

A man on his way to work heard the blood-curdling screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square - then went hand-to-hand with the hulking thief, holding him for cops.

Published by New York Post on August 29, 2008.

Fifteen-year-old weekend flea market the Antiques Garage will soon sell its last vintage Oriental rug in Chelsea.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 28, 2008.

A worker washing windows at an apartment building in Greenwich Village fell 12 stories to his death.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

A window worker has died after falling out of a Manhattan building. Police said the body of the 49-year-old contractor was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village.

Published by WNBC on August 27, 2008.

Police say the body of the 49-year-old Robert Domaszowec was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village. Police determined he had fallen from the 12th story.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 27, 2008.

Police say the body of the 49-year-old contractor was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village. Police determined he had fallen from the 12th story.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 27, 2008.

For now, Balulu goes to Union Square every Friday afternoon to hand out Chabad materials and to "bar-mitzvah" non-observant Jews. He and the boys usually set up shop beside an Amish cheese vendor at the weekly farmers' market.

Published by Village Voice on August 27, 2008.

On the second-to-last Sunday in August, an open house for a four-bedroom, $11,000-a-month apartment in Chelsea was canceled and two Upper West Side open houses, also for rentals, were largely empty, barring the presence of nervous brokers.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

“When I first got here, I’d go out in the city with people I worked with, and I felt I was missing something,” said Ms. Kasbeer, who moved to New York from Milan in 2006. I was going to clubs in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, things I wouldn’t do now.”

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

Twenty top model dogs sported the latest in canine duds during the third annual New York Pet Fashion Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.

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

There’s no question that eastern Chelsea’s restaurant scene has come into its own.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 2008.

With an unfamiliar mix of emotions, two dozen New Yorkers of Midwestern extraction gathered at a West Village bar to watch something none of them had ever hoped to see.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

In 2005, the NYCLU counted more than 4,000 street level cameras from the West Village down to Battery Park. The group also found that the 292 cameras along 125th Street in Central Harlem recorded nearly every movement on that busy street.

Published by amNY.com on August 22, 2008.

Trendy Chelsea nightspot 1OAK axed four minority employees in one week because the owner wanted sexy "white girls" serving his celebrity clientele, a federal lawsuit claims.

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

Cafe Figaro, a holdover from Greenwich Village's beatnik and folkie days, has finally closed.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Read some reviews of Le Figaro Cafe from the last years of its five-decade lifespan, and it can be hard to understand how it became a famous Greenwich Village destination, or even stayed in business as long as it did. Even in the place’s heyday, customers say, the food was nothing to write home about.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

The city's most famous rustications can be found on the Flatiron Building at 175 Fifth Ave., designed in 1903 by Daniel H. Burnham & Co.; the University Club at 1 W. 54th St., designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1899; York & Sawyer's Renaissance-palazzo fortress, which now is the Apple Bank Building at 2112 Broadway on the Upper West Side, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York building at 33 Liberty St. in the financial district.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

The Metropolitan Room hosts "Hope for India", a night of cabaret performances to raise funds for the people of north India's slums. The show features singers Suzanne Adams, Jeremiah Caleb, and Karen Mack. 7 p.m.; $20 plus a two-drink minimum. 34 W. 22nd St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves.( 212) 206-0440.

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

Core Group Marketing has been named the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Alma, developer Beck Street Capital's boutique condominium at 30 West 21st Street in Chelsea.

Published by The Real Deal on August 18, 2008.

Family and friends gathered at a Greenwich Village firehouse on Monday to remember firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino. The two men died in a fire on the 14th floor of the former Deutsche Bank tower.

Published by SI Live on August 18, 2008.

The party was called “Pandamonium 2008” and word of it was distributed on social networking sites and Twitter. Participants who signed up for updates were told to meet at Union Square at 8:30 for a “Costumed+Roving+Street+Party+Apocalypitc+Dance+Rock+Battle.”

Published by amNY.com on August 17, 2008.

Chamberlain is believed to have died July 25, but about a week passed before his landlord found him in his apartment in Manhattan's chic Chelsea neighborhood, said John Morton, a friend who worked with Chamberlain on the Web-based TV show, which ran from 1999 until 2000.

Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.