He told cops he met Pravia after the drunken student approached him in Union Square Park to buy drugs.

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

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 3, 2008.

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 3, 2008.

The unidentified suspect told cops that he choked and robbed victim Kevin Pravia, 19, after meeting him in Union Square at about 6 a.m. Sunday and accompanying him back to his home.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Thirty minutes later, Pravia was in Union Square looking to score drugs and crossed paths with the suspect, the drug dealer told cops.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

A man on his way to work heard the screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square — then went hand-to-hand with the robber, holding him for cops. “I was just in the right place at the right time,” said the worker, José Goncalves, 35, a Chelsea club manager from Bayside, Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

A man on his way to work heard the blood-curdling screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square - then went hand-to-hand with the hulking thief, holding him for cops.

Published by New York Post on August 29, 2008.

For now, Balulu goes to Union Square every Friday afternoon to hand out Chabad materials and to "bar-mitzvah" non-observant Jews. He and the boys usually set up shop beside an Amish cheese vendor at the weekly farmers' market.

Published by Village Voice on August 27, 2008.

The party was called “Pandamonium 2008” and word of it was distributed on social networking sites and Twitter. Participants who signed up for updates were told to meet at Union Square at 8:30 for a “Costumed+Roving+Street+Party+Apocalypitc+Dance+Rock+Battle.”

Published by amNY.com on August 17, 2008.

Farmers’ markets are such a treasure. I travel from Bay Ridge to the Greenmarket in Union Square and Grand Army Plaza. My councilman, Vincent Gentile, has been trying to get a Greenmarket in my neighborhood. And I think it would be wonderful to have one a walk or bicycle ride away.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

And don’t be fooled, Union Square and Brooklyn Borough Hall, both open multiple days of the week, offer bargains for families on a budget, and shoppers there hail from far beyond the neighborhood and even the borough.

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.

High gas prices could provide a competitive boost to small farmers who market their food as locally grown. Westtown, N.Y., vegetable farmer Keith Stewart doesn't use any pesticides or herbicides -- most of which are petroleum-based -- and he fertilizes his fields with manure from local farms. He sells his produce at the Union Square farmers market in New York City, a 65-mile drive.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

Five American protesters deported by China told a crowd of hundreds in Union Square yesterday that they had been "brutalized a little bit" by Chinese soldiers for their pro-Tibet demonstrations in Beijing.

Published by New York Sun on August 11, 2008.

Police said the man initially lied to transit police, telling them another man had stabbed him on the train under busy Union Square.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 10, 2008.

Police said the man initially lied to transit police, telling them another man had stabbed him on the train under busy Union Square.

Published by WNBC on August 10, 2008.

Police say he's being treated for a non-life-threatening knife wound after the attack Saturday on a train under busy Union Square. The assault was reported shortly after 2 p.m.

Published by SI Live on August 9, 2008.

Police said he's being treated for a non life-threatening knife wound after the attack Saturday on a train under busy Union Square.

Published by WNBC on August 9, 2008.

Police say he's being treated for a non-life-threatening knife wound after the attack Saturday on a train under busy Union Square.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 9, 2008.

Even if you didn't know its history or architecture, 15 Union Square West blows you away the second you walk into its model apartment.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

Mr. Dines, who for five years sold his meat at Greenmarkets in Jackson Heights in Queens; Cortelyou, Fort Greene and Greenpoint in Brooklyn; and Murray Hill, West 97th Street, Tompkins Square, TriBeCa and Union Square in Manhattan, admitted he had on occasion sold meat he had bought from others and has placed his animals in other farms or facilities to be raised.

Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

Meanwhile, Patrick Ruppe, 30, stood on a W train platform at Union Square - at the other end of the spectrum. Minutes ticked by without a train coming his way.

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

“This is ridiculous,” said Susan Choung, 34, who as part of her commute uptown from the Union Square station had planned to buy a 30-day unlimited-ride MetroCard for the month of August for $81.

Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

10:30 a.m. The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign releases annual subway report; Union Square East and East 15th Street, at entrance to Union Square subway station.

Published by The New York Observer on July 29, 2008.

Long, a grocer at the Union Square Green Market, has been described as an Army veteran and mild-mannered environmental activist. "He is a very well-meaning guy," said his boss, Morse Pitts, 56.

Published by New York Daily News on July 29, 2008.

At the Union Square station, the machines were having similar problems, but a station agent told customers that they had to pay by cash, whether at machines that accept cash or at station booths. But at the Pacific Avenue station in Brooklyn, at 7:30 p.m., the machines were working.

Published by New York Times on July 28, 2008.

Paris, Zeigfeld, Oprheum, East 85th St., 86th St. East, 84th St., Lincoln Plaza, 62nd and Broadway, Lincoln Square, Magic Johnson, 72nd St East, Cinemas 1, 2 &3rd Ave, 64th and 2nd , Imaginasian, Manhattan Twin, First and 62nd St., Angelika Film Center, Quad, IFC Center, Film Forum, Village East, Village Seven, Cinema Village, Union Square, Essex, Battery Park 11, Sunshine, 34th Street, Empire, E-Walk, Chelsea, 19th Street East, and Kips Bay.

Published by The New York Observer on July 28, 2008.

This Flatiron duplex condo, about 4,100 square feet (including the outdoor spaces), has a 25-foot-long, north-facing balcony on the second level. The outdoor space, one of two in the apartment, has a wrought iron railing, overlooks the Flatiron Building, and has open views to the east and west.

Published by New York Sun on July 24, 2008.

The developer, Tishman Realty Corporation, acquired the additional air rights for the project from neighboring Xavier High School, and Community Board 5 passed a resolution last month approving the deal, but some neighbors say they were never consulted.

Published by New York Sun on July 24, 2008.

If you liked the girl covered in tattoos strumming away on at the Union Square station stop, just say so on a new Web page. [Tracker]

Published by New York Times on July 24, 2008.

No. 4 riders say delays are worst between Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan and Union Square.

Published by New York Times on July 22, 2008.

At the Walgreens in Union Square, elderly customers have a strong preference for generics, said pharmacist Mario Alongi.

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

"I can't wait to go o the theater!" said NYU student Ryan Robichaud, 20, as he was fitted for a $200 Batman "Dark Knight" suit at New York Costumes in Union Square yesterday.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

Yogis from around the city will be leading a free 3 p.m. session of yoga in Union Square Park Thursday.

Published by WNBC on July 17, 2008.

A standard option in the "station domination" advertising package the MTA offers is the use of overhead projectors to display images on the walls of subway passageways. After a successful pilot project in the Union Square subway station, two overhead projectors are used in the passageway linking the Lexington Ave. subway lines to the shuttle at Grand Central Terminal.

Published by New York Daily News on July 14, 2008.

During a rally at Union Square yesterday, and in a letter to the MTA chairman, Dale Hemmerdinger, Mr. Thompson said he is particularly concerned with the idea of delaying a $366 million project involving smoke-removing fans for subway tunnels. He said the deferral would jeopardize rider, worker, and firefighter safety.

Published by New York Sun on July 10, 2008.

According to Kathy Dawkins, Director of Public Information at the NYC Department of Sanitation, "Public Space Recycling works in some public spaces but not universally. The two main ingredients for success are heavy foot traffic and additional local control like a BID or [a] well maintained...heavily used park such as Union Square and Battery Park."

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

The Flatiron building at 23rd Street is probably New York’s best-known triangular stricture, but the Silas C. Herring Lock and Safe Company Building, more affectionately known as the L’il Flatiron Building, is cuter.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

"It's pretty cheap," said Jalil Simpson of Harlem, who was shopping yesterday at American Eagle Outfitters in Union Square with his sister. "It's good that it's not that expensive."

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

The Union Square Partnership is one of just a handful of community groups in the nation to implement the latest technology to record such urban woes as graffiti, uneven pavements and stray voltage from lampposts.

Published by New York Post on June 30, 2008.

The guy was, frankly, styling, in his blue Ralph Lauren polo, plaid pants and black-framed glasses. The only clue that he’d be spending the next two hours on hands and knees, measuring tree pits and jotting down every dangerous crack, hole, puddle, and spot of graffiti along Union Square East was the enormous metal tape-measure strapped weapon-like to his belt.

Published by The New York Observer on June 30, 2008.

Closing 13-year-old Mayrose was hard for owner Jim Heckler. The trendy Flatiron diner was not only popular but also where he met his wife.

Published by Crain's New York Business on June 29, 2008.

A thirty-something homeless man who can be spotted in Union Square a few days of the week with a sign that reads “Why Lie? I need a beer,” said New Yorkers are still contributing money, but in smaller amounts. Like many other businesses in the city, he said he relies on visitors to compensate for a downturn in local spending.

Published by The New York Observer on June 24, 2008.

“Cigarettes are tough though,” Mr. Santo said in front of the H & M in the Flatiron. “You’ll get a dollar way before you get a cigarette these days. When you ask they’ll say anything from ‘It’s my last one,’ to ‘Sorry, I just can’t afford it.’”

Published by The New York Observer on June 24, 2008.

WEDNESDAYSWING-AND-A-FISH Blue Water Grill dishes toe-tapping jazz with a prix fixe menu as part of its new "Home by 9" series. Enjoy an intimate set by Jonah Smith while dining on lobster bisque, Chilean sea bass, warm molten chocolate cake and more. ($100, 6-8 p.m., 31 Union Square West at 16th St., www.homeby9.com)

Published by New York Daily News on June 22, 2008.

On three Saturdays in August, the city will close five miles of city streets - from Center Street to East 72nd Street - first by way of Lafayette, 4th Avenue and then Park Avenue.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 16, 2008.

Model scouts with an eye for spotting gorgeous women are out on the streets now that the weather is warm.

Published by New York Times on June 14, 2008.

There’s been a lot of hubbub surrounding plans to redesign Union Square, but not much visibility to what’s actually going to happen there. Finally, some insight. [Curbed]

Published by New York Times on June 12, 2008.