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  • Manhattan CB 2 Travertine Breaks 'Curse' at 19 Kenmare Street

    "I think we've broken the curse," said Dustin Cappelletto, co-owner of the forthcoming Travertine restaurant at 19 Kenmare Street, after a divided Community Board 2 narrowly voted 17 to 14 to support the eatery's liquor license during a contentious meeting on Thursday night.

    Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

  • Chinatown Shop Locally: General Tso’s Shopping Spree

    Chinatown, on the cusp of gentrification, is becoming a haven for unusual boutiques.

    Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

  • Little Italy Spotted on Staten Island: Kissin' cousins of giant redwoods

    He grew up in Little Italy, an incongruous bit of information that he enjoys telling people who wonder where he came from, knowing so much about trees.

    Published by SI Live on September 18, 2008.

  • Little Italy You're Very Walkable, New York. So What?

    Walk Score garnered media attention last July, when it ranked the walkability of the 40 largest cities in the United States and compiled a list of the country's 2,508 most walkable neighborhoods. Tribeca, Soho and Little Italy made the list; New York City as a whole came in second to San Francisco.

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

  • Chinatown The Box Feeling a Little Boxed In

    On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16, Randy Weiner, managing partner of the Box, was on the phone with the Transom, hours after a late-night District 3 Community Board meeting gone “horribly wrong.” The six-member board—which covers the Lower East Side and Chinatown—voted unanimously to deny the burlesque theater’s application to renew its liquor license (an official recommendation to the State Liquor Authority will not be ratified until the full board meeting on Sept. 23).

    Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

  • Chinatown A 9/11 Loss Some Can See From Their Window

    Even Ms. Gonzalez, 51, who eventually moved much closer to the financial district, to an apartment in Chinatown that looks into the heart of Lower Manhattan, has made her peace. “The function of the view in my current apartment,” she said, “it’s not a place to go for inspiration. It’s just a normal view and needing skylight. Just a normal view.”

    Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

  • Chinatown Connor-Squadron Numbers

    In Chinatown, Squadron lost only 6 out of 26 election districts. That’s a place that had voted for Connor over his 2006 challenger, Ken Diamondstone. That flip probably has something to do with the huge push by labor in that area, particular by U.N.I.T.E.H.E.R.E.

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

  • Chinatown Squadron and the Chinese-Language Press

    Daniel Squadron wants to bring much-needed change and reform to Albany, and achieve results for Chinatown and the people of the 25th State Senate District in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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

  • Little Italy Silver beats back foes in primary

    Speaking to a small group of supporters at a Little Italy restaurant, Newell said he was satisfied with his campaign.

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

  • Little Italy Italian American Museum opens in Little Italy

    It's a museum dedicated to Italian Americans. So where else would it be but Little Italy?

    Published by amNY.com on September 9, 2008.

  • Chinatown In Little Italy, a Former Bank Will Now Hold Immigrants’ Memories

    That area today has shrunk to little more than a tourist attraction. Dr. Scelsa estimates that fewer than 1,000 Italian-Americans live in Little Italy, which is dwarfed by sprawling Chinatown.

    Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

  • Little Italy In Little Italy, a Former Bank Will Now Hold Immigrants’ Memories

    The bank operated from 1882 to 1932, when the area that would become known as Little Italy had one of the largest populations of Italian-Americans in the United States.

    Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

  • 155 Mulberry Street In Little Italy, a Former Bank Will Now Hold Immigrants’ Memories

    The echoes of Italian accents filled the old bank at 155 Mulberry Street.

    Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

  • Italian American Museum In Little Italy, a Former Bank Will Now Hold Immigrants’ Memories

    Those days will be celebrated beginning on Tuesday at the opening of the newly relocated Italian American Museum, at the site of what was once Banca Stabile, a bank used by Italian immigrants who flocked to Lower Manhattan in search of a better life.

    Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

  • Chinatown Reflections on That Dreadful Tuesday

    I remember the weekend before. A friend was visiting. We went to Chinatown for dinner on Mulberry Street, then walked north to Little Italy, stumbling into the Feast of San Gennaro. My friend kept eating things, suddenly in street-food heaven. I remember him gnawing on a big brick of nougat.

    Published by New York Times on September 6, 2008.

  • Chinatown Baby boomlet tied to luck o' Chinese

    There was a baby boom in Chinatown last year, and city health officials are pointing a finger at a Golden Pig.

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

  • Little Italy The Local: Bensonhurst—From 'Little Italy to Little Odessa to Chinatown'

    Before the Italian-American exodus from Bensonhurst, only Italian food vendors participated in the annual 10-day Feast of Santa Rosalia--Brooklyn's version of Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival--in honor of the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily. But lately "The Feast," as it is dubbed by locals, has become less a nod to what was once Bensonhurst's most populous demographic group than a multi-ethnic smorgasbord.

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

  • Chinatown Key Deputies Oppose a 3rd Term for Bloomberg

    A group of Chinatown residents is suing the Police Department over plans to build a new command center in Lower Manhattan.

    Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

  • Chinatown NYC group to commemorate Katrina anniversary

    A march through the streets of the Lower East Side and Chinatown will follow. The march will end with a vigil outside 1 Police Plaza.

    Published by SI Live on August 29, 2008.

  • Chinatown Live, From New York, It's (an Animated) Chinatown!

    “The Year of the Fish” was shot in New York Chinatown and then illustrated through rotoscope animation.

    Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

  • Chinatown Chinatown's 'Glorious Flute' Facing an Unusual Primary Challenge

    For the first time in 22 years, Mr. Silver is running opposed in a primary for his district, which encompasses much of Lower Manhattan. Although leaders of large community organizations in Chinatown are pronouncing his victory a foregone conclusion, the neighborhood is becoming a political battlefield in the race.

    Published by New York Sun on August 25, 2008.

  • Mulberry and Hester Streets Manhattan August Events

    LOCATION: Intersection of Mulberry and Hester Streets

    Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

  • Little Italy Urban Studies | Competing: Where Everybody Knows Yao Ming

    Lately, Olympic fever has set in at a bar in Little Italy that has been a magnet for young Asians from Chinatown and points beyond.

    Published by New York Times on August 16, 2008.

  • Chinatown Urban Studies | Competing: Where Everybody Knows Yao Ming

    Lately, Olympic fever has set in at a bar in Little Italy that has been a magnet for young Asians from Chinatown and points beyond.

    Published by New York Times on August 16, 2008.

  • Chinatown Good Eating/Chinatown: Faster, Higher, Tastier

    If watching the coverage of the Olympics from Beijing leaves you craving Chinese food, authentic fare can be found at these restaurants in Chinatown.

    Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

  • Chinatown Rezoning Is Urged for Chinatown

    With the proposed rezoning of the Lower East Side under way, a coalition of Asian-Americans is urging the city to consider rezoning neighboring Chinatown, as well as protecting that district from any spillover development that may occur.

    Published by New York Sun on August 14, 2008.

  • Chinatown Stringer Conditionally Green Lights Lower East Side Rezoning

    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.

  • Chinatown Walk with NYC planner Amanda Burden

    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.

  • Chinatown A Bizarre Pigeon Abduction in Chinatown

    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.

  • Chinatown Some Chinese-Americans Sit Out Pro-Olympics Parade

    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.

  • Chinatown Investors: 'Giant Dragon' theme park a fairy tale

    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.

  • Chinatown Celebrating the Olympics, and Rallying for the Host

    Ms. Li and Mr. Qu, both 26 and graduate students at Columbia University, were part of a small crowd that gathered in the downpour on the edge of Chinatown to mark the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday.

    Published by New York Times on August 3, 2008.

  • Chinatown Chinatown: For Better (and Worse), the Film Crews Depart

    For 60 days starting on July 1, the city has forbidden vehicles for film productions to park in a several-block area in Chinatown.

    Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

  • Chinatown Hispanics and Catholic New York

    Here, Professor Stevens-Arroyo said, Father Varela founded the Church of the Transfiguration, on Mott Street in what is now Chinatown — “which as you recall is perilously close to what became Five Points,” the notorious immigrant slum at the center of the film “Gangs of New York.” Father Varela also got involved in the temperance movement.

    Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

  • Chinatown Revenge of the MetroCard Machines, Part II

    “Now, I have a shopaholic daughter who’s 15,” she added. “She’s off in Chinatown right now. Fake bags, you know it. Dolce & Gabbana.”

    Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

  • Chinatown Chinatown revitalization group extends life

    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.

  • Chinatown Gonzalez: LES rezone plan another Bloomberg boondoggle

    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.

  • Ferrara's Top bakeries frosted for being over new city limit

    The taboo fat was also found in a cannoli at Ferrara's in Little Italy, a chocolate cupcake at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, a croissant at Sarabeth's on the upper West Side and a strawberry cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn.

    Published by New York Daily News on July 5, 2008.

  • Chinatown Waterfall Tale: A Photographer, a Man and a Gun

    Mr. Raughton, who lives on Market Street in Chinatown, said he had been chronicling New York City street scenes since 2000.

    Published by New York Times on July 3, 2008.

  • Chinatown Charge Filed Against Chief of Truck Firm After Crash

    The president of a New Jersey company that owns the dump truck that crashed in Chinatown last week has been charged with unlicensed collection of trade waste.

    Published by New York Times on July 3, 2008.

  • Little Italy Rag & Bone Founder, Makeup Artisan Buy Chelsea Duplex for $4.42 M.

    The place is appropriate for a man who was pictured in Vogue this February frozen in midair next to Kate Bosworth after a posed jump in the Little Italy hipster lounge GoldBar: There’s an espresso maker in the kitchen downstairs, and a skylight and wood-burning fireplace in the 21.5-by-23-foot living room around the corner.

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

  • Mulberry Street Cigar Company Neighbors | Little Italy and Chinatown

    A statue of a Roman Catholic bishop in the window of the Mulberry Street Cigar Company in Little Italy frames a worker returning from a cigarette break to the basement of the Sun Say Kai restaurant at Baxter and Walker Streets in Chinatown a few blocks away.

    Published by New York Times on July 1, 2008.

  • Ferrara's NJ BAKERS' FAT CHANCE

    At Ferrara's, on Grand Street in Little Italy, Ernest Lepore said he could live with the ban.

    Published by New York Post on July 1, 2008.

  • Chinatown Free summer meals for NYC students

    M.S. 131 in Chinatown was chosen as the launch site for the Department of Education's summer meals program on Tuesday.

    Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 1, 2008.

  • Baxter and Walker Streets Neighbors | Little Italy and Chinatown

    A statue of a Roman Catholic bishop in the window of the Mulberry Street Cigar Company in Little Italy frames a worker returning from a cigarette break to the basement of the Sun Say Kai restaurant at Baxter and Walker Streets in Chinatown a few blocks away.

    Published by New York Times on July 1, 2008.

  • Chinatown A Small School Where Attention Yielded Results

    The Brooklyn district attorney’s office is seeking hate-crime charges against a Chinatown man, Victor Yau, 60, who attacked a Falun Gong practitioner with a steering-wheel locking device. [New York Post]

    Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

  • Chinatown Drunk driver kills her dreams

    Two days after graduating from high school, Julie Tsang left her parent's Chinatown apartment ready to celebrate a bright future.

    Published by New York Daily News on June 30, 2008.

  • Chinatown 'GONG' ASSAULT HATE CRIME: DA

    The Brooklyn DA is seeking hate-crime charges against a Chinatown man who attacked a Falun Gong practitioner with a steering-wheel locking device.

    Published by New York Post on June 30, 2008.

  • Chinatown Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

    Using 2000 census data, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which was recently formed, points out that while Community Board 3 is 28 percent white, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of that population sits in the rezoned area.

    Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

  • Manhattan CB 3 Lower East Side Rezoning, in Translation

    Using 2000 census data, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which was recently formed, points out that while Community Board 3 is 28 percent white, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of that population sits in the rezoned area.

    Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.