A firm called Endland LLC has purchased two 26-story apartment buildings at 251 Cherry Street on the Lower East Side for $170.8 million, according to city records.

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

The place: 151, 151 Rivington St.

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

A Marc by Marc Jacobs store may open in the East Village.

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

Hundreds of police and security officials will be shutting down streets across the East Side as more than 130 world leaders begin arriving in New York this weekend for the United Nations General Assembly.

Published by WNBC on September 19, 2008.

A purveyor of door hardware in the Lower East Side, who gave only his first name, Henry, 43, said he had seen problems with subprime lending long ago. “I never understood,” he said. “I didn’t think I was sophisticated enough, but apparently I was. I thought it was just my old-world way of thinking.”

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

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

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Ms. Sapozhnikova was a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology three years ago when, coming home from a party one night, she was handed a business card for a company of stilt walkers. Curious, she called the number and was soon taking lessons in her apartment. She started taking her own stilts to parties and was soon hired to perform at a Lower East Side club.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Yesterday, Landmarks designated two new Lower East Side buildings — the Wheatsworth Bakery and the Public National Bank — as landmarks. That brings to six the total number of Lower East Side buildings that have been designated as landmarks over the past year.

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

Yesterday, Landmarks designated two new Lower East Side buildings — the Wheatsworth Bakery and the Public National Bank — as landmarks. That brings to six the total number of Lower East Side buildings that have been designated as landmarks over the past year.

Published by New York Sun 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.

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.

The former Wheatsworth Bakery, at 444 East 10th Street, is now a landmark.

Published by New York Times on September 16, 2008.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority should purchase the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges from the city for $1 each - and impose tolls, a former city official urged.

Published by New York Daily News on September 16, 2008.

A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 yesterday for alleged safety violations leading to the collapse of a crane that killed seven people on the East Side last March.

Published by New York Post on September 16, 2008.

It began in July 1950 when F.B.I. agents arrested Julius Rosenberg in the family’s Lower East Side apartment, thrusting the boys onto a global stage as bit players in their parents’ appeals, in the government’s efforts to extract their parents’ cooperation and in Soviet propaganda campaigns to cast the Rosenbergs as martyrs.

Published by New York Times on September 16, 2008.

Police are working to determine the cause of death of man whose body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side.

Published by New York Sun on September 15, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment in an apparent murder-suicide. The Sun reports that a 64-year-old man’s body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side early Sunday.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment in an apparent murder-suicide. The Sun reports that a 64-year-old man’s body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side early Sunday.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

A host at 26 Seats, a hip new eatery in the East Village, blamed their poor July inspection on renovation work.

Published by amNY.com on September 15, 2008.

Other Manhattan eateries to make the new "Dirty Dozen" list included Jimmy's Coffee Shop, the Metropolitan Grille, and 26 Seats.

Published by The New York Observer on September 15, 2008.

Yes, the Lower East Side — homeland of the pushcart peddlers or yore — was once a pickle nexus.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

In 1982, he found stability of sorts in a one-bedroom apartment in the East Village, where he has lived ever since. Unsurprisingly, though, the protagonists of all his works, which include four plays and six novels apart from the Moses books, are invariably harassed New Yorkers, fending off an all-encompassing city that constantly threatens to devour them.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

Firefighters caught on tape carrying boxes of food into Sheldon Silver's campaign office on the Lower East Side claim they were just helping the Assembly speaker and did not "prepare" or "deliver" the packages, union officials said yesterday.

Published by New York Post 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.

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.

On Withers Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the towers once loomed above the Williamsburg Bridge on the western horizon, Theresa Cianciotta, an assistant to a state assemblyman, said she never left her house now without casting a rueful glance at the skyline.

Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

Ten-year-old Evan Bongirne lives in the East Village and goes to school on the Upper West Side - but it takes him nearly two hours to get home.

Published by New York Post on September 10, 2008.

The FDNY said last night it's looking into a YouTube video that shows firefighters carrying boxes of food into Sheldon Silver's campaign office on the Lower East Side yesterday.

Published by New York Post on September 10, 2008.

2 p.m. NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative announces 30,000 signatures to petition for a new 9/11 investigation at St. Marks Church in the East Village.

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

Silver, faced with his first Democratic primary contest in more than two decades, trounced opponents Paul Newell and Luke Henry, snaring a hefty 68 percent in his Lower East Side district, with 100 percent of the vote in.

Published by New York Post on September 10, 2008.

Silver, faced with his first Democratic primary contest in over two decades, trounced opponents Paul Newell and Luke Henry, snaring a hefty 68 percent in his Lower East Side district, with 100 percent of the vote in.

Published by New York Post on September 10, 2008.

Some of Conflux’s past events include a noise parade through the Lower East Side, installations in roped-off construction zones and a 24-hour “road trip” around the city, but Christina Ray, the festival’s founder said it’s time to move on.

Published by amNY.com on September 10, 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.

A mentally ill man who stabbed his 86-year-old mother to death in her East Side apartment apologized to his brother Tuesday as a judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

Published by New York Daily News on September 9, 2008.

The “symphonic novel” chronicles the life of Billy Farrell, a Irish kid and jazz piano prodigy whose hand is mangled in Vietnam. Back in New York, he falls in love with Elsa Santiago, a Puerto Rican girl from the Lower East Side. They have a child, Vidamia. They go their separate ways. And then their lives reconnect, and criss-cross, actually. Unspeakable tragedies happen, the kinds that make readers stop and cry.

Published by New York Times on September 8, 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.

A new report speculates that Tishman Speyer's record-setting, $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2006 may be in trouble.

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

Even though Paul Newell is supposed to be a longshot, Sheldon Silver deployed seven vans, several Assembly members, and a team of volunteers to distribute campaign materials on the Lower East Side yesterday. Azi mingled.

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

Azi reports from the Lower East Side, where over the weekend Dan Squadron signs were everywhere, but not everyone was happy about it.

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

At the Grand Street and Ridge Street yesterday afternoon, Squadron, in a dress shirt, open collar and closely trimmed beard, shook hands with passers by. He had with a folding table stationed at the corner, a volunteer holding a sign, and nearly all of Grand Street dotted with his campaign's white and gold signs.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

A teller yesterday admitted helping a transit cop to twice hold up the Sovereign Bank branch she worked at on the Lower East Side.

Published by New York Post on September 6, 2008.

Calvin Gibson, 50, who was shot six times by his schizophrenic neighbor in the East Village on July 24, believes the classified site is partially responsible.

Published by New York Post on September 5, 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.

In the shadow of the old Jewish Forward building, Broadway East seeks to point the way toward the future of dining.

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

The East Village on a Friday night: Packs of feral 19-year-olds in leggings roam the streets, and every restaurant and bar is overflowing. But on a choice corner in the middle of the action, Kurve is echoingly empty. The place is conspicuous enough—it looks like a Barbie-themed Starship

Published by Village Voice on September 3, 2008.

"I'm not terribly interested in looking at Central Park or the East Side," said Ned O'Gorman, one of the four tenants who turned up their nose at the offer.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

These sorts of colorful joints cannot easily be replaced. All three Polish meat markets in the East Village have closed. Other recent exterminations of worthwhile places include Brick Oven Gallery, Pintxos, Burmese Café, Bright Food Shop, Matamoros Pueblo Grocery, Havana Chelsea Luncheonette, and a slew of other cheap, unpretentious places.

Published by Village Voice on September 3, 2008.

E. Village gentrification battle: $125K to leave is an insult

Published by UPTOWNflavor on September 2, 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.