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

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

LOCATION: Intersection of Mulberry and Hester Streets

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.