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

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide.

Published by New York Post 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

Brian Ferrera, of Ladder 18 on the lower East Side, told his supervisors in February he was enlisting with the Marines and would need a leave of absence, Department of Investigation officials said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 30, 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.

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.

According to the group Transportation Alternatives, the three-week experiment to shut down certain streets on the East Side of Manhattan to cars on August weekends has been such a huge success, that Mayor Michael Bloomberg should want to ban cars from Prospect Park as part of his lasting legacy. At least that's the argument the activist group is making.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) 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.

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.

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.

“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 is very uncommon for the Bronx,” said Tenzing Chadotsang, of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. “This is the style that was in the Bowery in the 19th Century. Every time we show pictures of this building, people say ‘Oh, the Lower East Side,’ right away. No. It’s the Bronx.”

Published by New York Times on August 25, 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.

A group of tenant advocates has accused a landlord that acquired 17 rent-regulated buildings on the Lower East Side last year of aggressively harassing tenants in a concerted effort to oust longtime residents from the buildings so that the units could be renovated and the rents raised.

Published by New York Times on August 21, 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.

Last Wednesday the city held public hearings on three huge land-use plans, but only two of those were widely reported upon: the rezoning of the Lower East Side and the redevelopment of Willets Point. The third hearing concerned Hunters Point South (formerly known as "Queens West") and the development there of 5,000 units of housing, 60 percent of which, according to WNYC, would be set aside for residents who earn between $55,000 and $158,000 a year.

Published by The New York Observer 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.