A spunky 77-year-old woman stabbed by a hulking mugger in front of her upper East Side apartment Wednesday chased her attacker as he fled with her purse, police and witnesses said.

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

A 77-year-old woman who was stabbed during a mugging on the Upper Ease Side gave her attacker chase even after he had wounded her with a pocketknife, police said.

Published by WNBC on September 4, 2008.

Today we learned of another endorsement deal with an Olympic athlete, but this time it's a fancy Upper East Side hotel that seems to be pimping out one of its guests to sell an overpriced breakfast Value Meal.

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

The fifteen-story co-op at 39 E. 79th St. (between Fifth and Madison avenues) cost $1.3 million (about $13 million today), and everyone in the building was in the Social Register at a time when most Park Avenue apartment buildings boasted 60 to 80 percent membership.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

The alleged cleaver-swinging killer who cops say butchered a psychotherapist in her Upper East Side office says he's the Messiah - but a judge wants to make sure he's not a nut.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

She had been renting the Upper East Side space for $4,614 a month. It has since been leased to another tenant. A native of Nicaragua, Jagger keeps an apartment in London.

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

The most visible case in point — if only because it’s two blocks from the mayor’s home on the Upper East Side — is Public School 6, at 45 East 81st Street, off Madison Avenue. [New York Post]

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

MS 169 at 110 E. 88th St. has an allotment of 24, although it is two blocks from the Lexington Avenue subway express stop at 86th Street.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Marc Jacobs show, Lexington Avenue Armory, 9 p.m., invite only; Ed Koch at the 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, 8 p.m., www.92y.org

Published by The New York Observer on September 2, 2008.

The most visible case in point - if only because it's two blocks from the mayor's home on the Upper East Side - is PS 6 at 45 E. 81st St. off Madison Avenue.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

But it's not clear why any teacher needs to commute by car when the No. 6 line, where the mayor himself is a frequent passenger, is only a few blocks away at Lexington Avenue and East 77th Street.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

The most visible case in point — if only because it’s two blocks from the mayor’s home on the Upper East Side — is Public School 6, at 45 East 81st Street, off Madison Avenue.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

There were several smaller claims, ranging from $2,700 to $12,000, made by residents in the upper East Side neighborhood and a $300,000 one by a nearby Duane Reade on First Ave. for damages and loss of business, officials said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 1, 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.

A triplex at 3 East 75th Street is on the market.

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

Mr. Correia is a broker for a five-bedroom carriage house with a garage at 174 East 75th Street, priced at $6.8 million. He said he considered garages priceless for overscheduled families because they offer the luxury of “spontaneity, the freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it.”

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

“Locapour” meets “lovacore” today in the Union Square Greenmarket. The first in a series of tastings will pair local wines from the Finger Lakes, the Hudson Valley and Long Island and Greenmarket dishes.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

A triplex at 3 East 75th Street is on the market.

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

Climbers: Three different men scaled the outside of the Midtown headquarters of The New York Times to call attention to various causes.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Incoming residents there -- from a mix of schools -- are the first to get comfortable at the newly renovated Upper East Side high-rise.

Published by amNY.com on August 28, 2008.

In the seven-minute video, now online at www.andreapolli.com/queensbridge, its creator Andrea Polli, an artist and professor of media studies at Hunter College, explains that she began to think about the idea when, to save $75,000, Mayor Bloomberg turned off the lights that outline the bridge at night. She wanted to find a way to restore the gleaming necklace she could see from her Long Island City apartment.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 28, 2008.

Maybe that's why it took on a life of its own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and meriting an article in Thursday's New York Times Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, posted the ad on Craigslist on Aug. 19.

Published by WNBC on August 28, 2008.

At one point, Mr. Hochfelder also lied in an official document about how many liens were on a home he has since sold, a $4 million apartment at Park Avenue and 83rd Street, Mr. Morgenthau said. About a year ago the co-op board asked him to leave, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

Published by New York Sun on August 28, 2008.

At 863 Park Ave., for example, the imposing side-street entrance across from Lenox Hill Hospital has five stairs, and there are another three stairs to reach the lobby's elevator level. Pollard & Steinam designed the building in 1907.

Published by New York Sun on August 28, 2008.

Some buildings offer ramps to solve the problem. The mixed-use Carnegie Tower at 115 E. 87th St., for example, houses the Robert F. Kennedy School on its lower floors and a large, landscaped plaza on 87th Street with a nine-step entrance. The building, erected in 1973, also offers a long ramp to the west of its raised entrance, set back behind its sidewalk landscaping.

Published by New York Sun on August 28, 2008.

Last month, Representative Charles B. Rangel hotly defended his four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem. Next week, Bianca Jagger will be fighting to keep the one she has — or had — at 530 Park Avenue.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

1116 Madison Avenue

Published by NY1 on August 28, 2008.

Two years ago, in one of the most awesomely honest interviews ever given about a very, very expensive apartment, Seema Kalia, the wife of hedge fund manager Vedula Murti, told The Observer about her new $7,127,750 triplex in the 104-year-old mansion at 3 East 75th Street.

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

...about her new $7,127,750 triplex apartment in the 104-year-old mansion at 3 East 75th Street. "You know that sometimes people buy great houses and have no taste?" Ms. Kalia said...

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

Last December, bearded designer Rogan Gregory and his partner Scott Hahn were invited to a Christmas party at the Midtown home of nonegenarian labor lawyer and free subway advocate Theodore Kheel. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, as was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. ("It was definitely a bit of an older crowd," recalled Mr. Hahn.)

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

As if New York wasn’t stimulating enough already, the city has provided a new kind of thrill right in the heart of Midtown: an esplanade carved into Broadway where people can sit and relax as cars and trucks whiz by.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

“I think it’s dangerous,” said Vicki Lee, who nonetheless sat with two friends eating lunch at a cafe table on the esplanade just south of 38th Street. Ms. Lee, a clothing designer at a Midtown fashion company, was careful to sit so that she could keep an eye on the traffic heading downtown.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

“Learning the transportation is sort of what I’m working on right now,” said Mr. Chen, who lives with two roommates on the Upper East Side. “I’m pretty good with the subways now, but at night it’s a little weird, and I don’t really know how that works.”

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

You need a road map through the menu at Parlor Steakhouse. Here it is: Order the gazpacho, ask for the filet mignon medium rare, and finish with any one of Andrea Bucheli's desserts. If you don't eat meat, order the branzino. If you don't eat meat or fish - seriously, what are you doing at a steakhouse? You can still have a glass of wine and order dessert, which is probably worth the trek uptown.

Published by New York Daily News on August 26, 2008.

While it may be becoming less expensive to rent an apartment in Manhattan, some brokers are hesitant to go as far as to label this a renters’ market. “It’s difficult to call it that,” says Sepp Seitz, a Halstead broker active in midtown west and Chelsea. “If you look at rents here, they are incredibly higher than elsewhere. There is still low inventory, and what is renting is going very quickly.”

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

Pete Peterson , the co-founder and senior chairman of the Blackstone Group, and the chairman emeritus of the massively powerful Council on Foreign Relations, has bought that organization’s apartment at the huge Imperial House co-op on East 69th Street. According to city records, he paid the council $3,040,000.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

Each of the two four-square-foot units at the 31-story, Empire Condominium at 188 East 78th Street sold for $5,000, or $1,250 per square foot.

Published by The Real Deal on August 26, 2008.

The neighborhoods that counted the most conditions last month range from leafy Bellerose, Queens, to boisterous Inwood, Manhattan. Those with the fewest included midtown and Gramercy Park in Manhattan; Crown Heights in Brooklyn; Kingsbridge and Riverdale in the Bronx and Astoria in Queens.

Published by New York Daily News on August 24, 2008.

985 Lexington Avenue

Published by NY1 on August 24, 2008.

Rents in the 11-story, pre-war building at 814 Madison Avenue ranged over the past two years from $3,100 for a one-bedroom to $30,000 for a five-bedroom unit, listings on StreetEasy showed.

Published by The Real Deal on August 22, 2008.

Around 11:15 p.m. on July 10, Mexican immigrant Marco Baeza, 28, who restores antiques by day, finished his night job painting shelves on the upper East Side.

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

“Mayor Bloomberg, if he wants to run for mayor a third time, I think it’s a great idea,” Mr. Paterson said in a question-and-answer session with reporters from his office in Midtown Manhattan. “There was a time he wanted to run for president. That wouldn’t have been a bad idea, either.”

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

THE GUGGENHEIM Museum, located at 1071 Fifth Ave. and 89th Street, presents the new exhibition “Louise Bourgeois,” on display now through Sunday, Sept. 28. This major retrospective of Ms. Bourgeois’ 70-year art career contains more than 150 of her works, including drawings, paintings, prints and large-scale installations, as well as a wide range of sculptures made out of materials like wood, bronze, latex, marble and fabric. For more information, call 212-423-3500.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 21, 2008.

In May, Johnson bought an 850-square-foot apartment at 30 East 85th Street for $1.8 million.

Published by The Real Deal on August 21, 2008.

THE 92ND Street Y Dance Center, located at 1395 Lexington Ave., hosts an Israeli dance party every Wednesday night, from 7 p.m. to 12:45 a.m.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 21, 2008.

Rustication often consists of large rectangular blocks that protrude somewhat from the building wall with grooves of varying depths. Sometimes the blocks are beveled, or have soft, pillowy curves, such as at 19 E. 72nd St., which Rosario Candela and Mott Schmidt designed in 1937, or at the former Edward J. Berwind Mansion at 2 E. 64th St., designed by Nathan Clark Mellen in 1896.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

133 East 61st Street

Published by NY1 on August 20, 2008.

Calderazzo found an apartment for roommates Nick Parisi and Greg Wagner. They had their broker's fee paid for when they moved into a converted two-bedroom in The Chesapeake, a luxury building on the Upper East Side. Their rent? $3,300 a month.

Published by amNY.com on August 20, 2008.

The Icon Group, developers of the luxury 15-story condominium tower at 985 Park Avenue, filed a $6 million lawsuit in state court last week claiming the project's general contractor was to blame for a fire and a 10-month delay.

Published by The Real Deal on August 20, 2008.

In all, the robber has struck 30 times -- seven total in Queens, 22 in Brooklyn, and one in Midtown Manhattan -- and has met success in all but two of the robberies.

Published by SI Live on August 20, 2008.