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.

Organizers say that while they are excited that Columbus Circle will be the focus of so much attention, and are hopeful that the concert will attract large numbers of visitors to Lincoln Square and its businesses, the concert preparations may impact vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the lower end of the district.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 4, 2008.

Kelly Reynolds, 14, who recently underwent back surgery for her scoliosis condition, was denied her first-choice high school and sent to one far from her upper West Side home.

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

The 10027 zip code, located in West Harlem/Morningside Heights and covering a chunk of Columbia University, led all city zip codes in the number of new jobs, adding 21,987.

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

They don't need no million-dollar views of New York City's Central Park.

Published by amNY.com 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.

They don't need no million-dollar views of New York City's Central Park.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 3, 2008.

To name a few where developers have said they are trying for rezoning and other approvals before Michael Bloomberg leaves: the $15 billion West Side rail yards project; the planned redo of South Street Seaport; and a proposed development of up to 2,500 apartments at Riverside South on the Upper West Side.

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

Chambers already was imprisoned 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park during what he called rough sex.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Chambers already was imprisoned 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park during what he called rough sex.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 2, 2008.

Despite the needed renovations, this $48.9 million deal means that the sprawl will once again be the most expensive co-op in New York city, just trumping the $48 million that Jonathan Tisch is said to be paying for a spread at 2 East 67th Street. That upcoming sale would have beaten the Bommers’ $46 million price from January.

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 Public School 6, at 45 East 81st Street, off Madison Avenue.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

Chambers already was imprisoned 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park during what he called rough sex.

Published by amNY.com on September 2, 2008.

Chambers already was imprisoned 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park during what he called rough sex.

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

Spectators waved the flags of a dozen nations as they waited for the parade to move slowly down Eastern Parkway from Crown Heights to Grand Army Plaza.

Published by amNY.com 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.

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.

This year's theme, "One Caribbean, Many Cultures," may embody the richness of the Caribbean people and their history - but you need travel no farther than Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza to witness the colorful spectacle.

Published by New York Daily News on September 1, 2008.

Redesigning Grand Army Plaza, for the first time, with cars in mind.

Published by New York Times on August 30, 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.

A group called the Grand Army Plaza Coalition has begun an effort to redesign the plaza, or, they say, to design it for the first time with cars in mind.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

That record was broken this summer, when the chairman of the Loews conglomerate, Jonathan Tisch, agreed to pay $48 million for a co-op at 2 East 67th Street (though the deal hasn't closed yet). So not only will the Bommers be making a quick couple of million dollars, but they'll be reclaiming their slot atop the New York City co-op hierarchy.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

...the Loews conglomerate, Jonathan Tisch, agreed to pay $48 million for a co-op at 2 East 67th Street (though the deal hasn't closed yet). So not only will the Bommers be making...

Published by The New York Observer on August 28, 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.

Speaking of Sept. 14, that's the closing date for "Hair," which is enjoying a hit run at the Delacorte in Central Park.

Published by New York Daily News on August 28, 2008.

Virginia Pepe, the principal of Public School 163, Alfred E. Smith, on the Upper West Side, said she would send someone to learn more about the testing at a coming information session.

Published by New York Times 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.

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.

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.

“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.

On the second-to-last Sunday in August, an open house for a four-bedroom, $11,000-a-month apartment in Chelsea was canceled and two Upper West Side open houses, also for rentals, were largely empty, barring the presence of nervous brokers.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

Of the 13 co-op sales of at least $20 million each in the first half of 2008, eight were on Fifth Avenue, four on Park Avenue and one on Central Park West.

Published by The New York Observer on August 25, 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.

The city is being sued by five Harlem men who were convicted of the attack as teenagers and spent years in prison before someone else confessed to the crime.

Published by WNBC on August 23, 2008.

The city is being sued by five Harlem men who were convicted of the attack as teenagers and spent years in prison before someone else confessed to the crime.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 23, 2008.

One case: On Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, a woman left her pedigreed Maltese, Mao, in her car as she stepped away to get something to eat. When she returned, the window was smashed and the dog was gone. Rescue Ink put up fliers and checked the street’s video cameras.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 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.

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.

Mr. Brin, whose formal title is co-founder and president of technology, joked that New York’s offices started out in 2000 from the Upper West Side apartment of Tim Armstrong, now president of North American sales and commerce.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

The Pierre Hotel, on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 61st Street, recently closed for renovations, and the northernmost of its two canopied entrances is now boarded up.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

The couple waited two hours on line Wednesday at an upper West Side pantry for groceries. Natasha, who is seven-months pregnant, said between sobs, "The governor should speak to people who go through this."

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

THE CENTRAL Park Zoo, located at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, recently installed a new permanent exhibit that highlights the life and work of leafcutter ants. This unique attraction, located in the zoo’s Rain Forest section, showcases a live ant colony, which consists of workers, soldiers and a queen that is estimated to be about 10 years old.

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.

Boosting speculation about his political ambitions, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo hosted a community forum Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper West Side, accompanied by a diverse group of federal, state, and local elected officials from the area.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

A man who was publicly urinating in Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 11 should have limited his criminal activity to violating city code 16, section 118 — but he was so angered to get a summons for his illegal spraying that he started punching the cops who gave him the ticket, police said.

Published by Brooklyn Paper 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.

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.

Two thugs — one toting a nifty little sidearm — jumped a man as he was walking down Prospect Place towards Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 16.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 20, 2008.