Then the Web site has this line: "Fast forward. Tap into the pulse of NYC's hottest neighborhood." Tempo is on Second Avenue and 23rd Street.

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

Then the Web site has this line: "Fast forward. Tap into the pulse of NYC's hottest neighborhood." Tempo is Second Avenue and 23rd Street.

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

Kathleen Kelly said her daughter's surgery in July made it impossible to commute from her 82nd St. upper West Side apartment to the 23rd St. East Side Baruch College Campus High School, where she was placed. Beacon is on W. 61st St.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

A group of rent-stabilized tenants are fighting to keep their East Village neighborhood affordable by turning down buyout offers of up to $125,000 apiece from a pair of real-estate barons.

Published by New York Times 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.

But Hector and legions of other restaurant workers in the East Village are finding not just medical help, but a good dose of compassion. He is a doctor, and his name is David Ores. But to his patients, he's just Dr. Dave.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 30, 2008.

Climbers: Three different men scaled the outside of the Midtown headquarters of The New York Times to call attention to various causes.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Last December, bearded designer Rogan Gregory and his partner Scott Hahn were invited to a Christmas party at the Midtown home of nonegenarian labor lawyer and free subway advocate Theodore Kheel. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, as was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. ("It was definitely a bit of an older crowd," recalled Mr. Hahn.)

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

While it may be becoming less expensive to rent an apartment in Manhattan, some brokers are hesitant to go as far as to label this a renters’ market. “It’s difficult to call it that,” says Sepp Seitz, a Halstead broker active in midtown west and Chelsea. “If you look at rents here, they are incredibly higher than elsewhere. There is still low inventory, and what is renting is going very quickly.”

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

“I think it’s dangerous,” said Vicki Lee, who nonetheless sat with two friends eating lunch at a cafe table on the esplanade just south of 38th Street. Ms. Lee, a clothing designer at a Midtown fashion company, was careful to sit so that she could keep an eye on the traffic heading downtown.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

As if New York wasn’t stimulating enough already, the city has provided a new kind of thrill right in the heart of Midtown: an esplanade carved into Broadway where people can sit and relax as cars and trucks whiz by.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

“My parents were barred from Stuyvesant Town,” recalled Mr. Wright, whose father, Judge Bruce Wright, was a young lawyer at the time. “My mother went down there and they said, ‘No blacks allowed.’ So they came here.”

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

This was not supposed to happen at Riverton, which like Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan and the Parkchester in the Bronx, was built by Metropolitan Life in the late 1940s for returning veterans.

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

The neighborhoods that counted the most conditions last month range from leafy Bellerose, Queens, to boisterous Inwood, Manhattan. Those with the fewest included midtown and Gramercy Park in Manhattan; Crown Heights in Brooklyn; Kingsbridge and Riverdale in the Bronx and Astoria in Queens.

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

On July 31, 2008, at 255 East 18th Street, Mr. Abson approached Norma Ford, 75, from behind, choked her and threw her to the floor and stole her bag.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

New Stuyvesant Town/Cooper Village watchdog blog The Stuyvesant Town Report, written by an apparently anonymous Stuy Town tenant, chronicles a recent visit by landlord Rob Speyer:

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

New Stuyvesant Town/Cooper Village watchdog blog The Stuyvesant Town Report, written by an apparently anonymous Stuy Town tenant, chronicles a recent visit by landlord Rob Speyer:

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

“Mayor Bloomberg, if he wants to run for mayor a third time, I think it’s a great idea,” Mr. Paterson said in a question-and-answer session with reporters from his office in Midtown Manhattan. “There was a time he wanted to run for president. That wouldn’t have been a bad idea, either.”

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

On June 27, Mr. Abson grabbed Martha Limage, 77, from behind, choked her, and slammed her against a wall at 309 East 19th Street. When she fell, he stole her purse, cellphone and money, the complaint said.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

In all, the robber has struck 30 times -- seven total in Queens, 22 in Brooklyn, and one in Midtown Manhattan -- and has met success in all but two of the robberies.

Published by SI Live on August 20, 2008.

Hundreds of friends planned to attend a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village. With Chamberlain's body in a Manhattan morgue, a rose-filled casket on a makeshift altar was to hold objects reflecting a life both thrilling and sad.

Published by New York Daily News on August 18, 2008.

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.

Hundreds of friends planned to attend a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village. With Chamberlain's body in a Manhattan morgue, a rose-filled casket on a makeshift altar was to hold objects reflecting a life both thrilling and sad.

Published by amNY.com on August 16, 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.

Ken Roller, 27, of midtown, was waiting for his usual large coffee with skimmed milk when he spotted the cash sitting on a Daily News box attached to the cart.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 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 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.

IRVING REDUX As first reported in the Web log strongbuzz.com, chef John Schaeffer has left his post as executive chef of Irving Mill (116 E. 16th St., between Union Square East and Irving Place, 212-254-1600). A replacement has not been named.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

A professor of public policy at Baruch College, Douglas Muzzio, said the endorsements reflect the mayor's personal relationship with the candidates receiving his support. Each candidate has prominently backed at least one of the mayor's top legislative priorities.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

The Bank of America building is a 2.1 million square foot, 54-story crystalline skyscraper located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

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

New York City officials say a glass panel being installed at a skyscraper under construction in midtown Manhattan has fallen more than 50 stories.

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.

According to Ung, 8coupons.com boasted 60,000 unique users in July, up from 30,000 users in June, which in turn was up from around 20,000 in May. Ung wouldn’t discuss how much money her company has generated, but by the looks of things she’s doing well: She quit her day job and the company has moved from her home to a Midtown office.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

Candace Bushnell's NBC show Lipstick Jungle has set up shop in the Flatiron district-right outside the Observer offices!--for the day, occupying two blocks of Broadway between 19th and 21st streets. Some helpful production assistants told us they were filming a "club scene" featuring stars Lindsay Price (dressed in what another Observer reporter likened to a "blue medieval beer wench" costume) and Andrew McCarthy inside Strata, a multilevel nightspot under whose awning we like to smoke.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

A developer’s at least three-year-old plan for a 61-story Shangri-La hotel and condo project in midtown east is expected to sail through two City Council committees on Aug. 13, paving the way for the entire Council to approve the project the following day and for development to finally begin sometime thereafter.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

Faith Hope Consolo, who runs the retail leasing and sales division of Prudential Douglas Elliman, said even some of the biggest banks are still interested in adding branches in Harlem and other neighborhoods that aren't as well-served as midtown.

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.

“He took a lot of pressure,” said Ray LaManna, a former Bronx priest and longtime friend of Monsignor Harris’s who now teaches business at Baruch College.

Published by New York Times on August 9, 2008.

"You need the hand to design today," says Ginsberg, who did the interior stonework in Ian Schrager's Gramercy Park Hotel. "That's what's lacking today. Everything is so cookie-cutter. I build things."

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.

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.

This truism is the operating principle of what is indisputably the best Italian wine shop in New York City, Italian Wine Merchants, located at 108 E. 16th St., just off Union Square.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 7, 2008.

...East 86th Street, 520 East 72nd Street, 305 East 40th Street, 225 East 36th Street, 305 East 24th Street, 10 West 15th Street and Three Sheridan Square...

Published by The Real Deal on August 7, 2008.

The super-skinny actress also showed off a stomach curve in a black and white striped top on Aug. 1, which made an appearance again under Holmes' patterned dress on Sunday as she cruised the streets of Midtown.

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

Per usual, the stats were mixed -- with rent dipping in Midtown, increasing in Midtown South, and a mixed bag Downtown. See below:

Published by The New York Observer on August 6, 2008.

Per usual, the stats were mixed -- with rent dipping in Midtown, increasing in Midtown South, and a mixed bag Downtown. See below:

Published by The New York Observer 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.

Meanwhile, officials at the Department of Education are agreeing to build a "war room" to tackle the crowding issue in Manhattan's Community School District 2, a particularly coveted — and strained — school district that covers the Upper East Side and parts of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, including TriBeCa.

Published by New York Sun on August 6, 2008.

He clawed his way to power with a daring hit on rivals outside a Midtown steakhouse in 1985.

Published by WNBC on August 5, 2008.