The president of a New Jersey company that owns the dump truck that crashed in Chinatown last week has been charged with unlicensed collection of trade waste.

Published by New York Times on July 3, 2008.

A 68-year-old woman running errands near her lower East Side apartment Wednesday was crushed by a city bus that continued on its route as the woman died in the street.

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

The woman was hit by an M22 bus at Madison and Jackson streets. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Published by WNBC on July 3, 2008.

Cops arrested four thugs suspected of shoving a cyclist to the ground and stealing his bike as he crossed the Williamsburg Bridge on June 27.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

Davis was arrested March 25 and charged with promoting prostitution and money laundering. Prosecutors said the 32-year-old ran a high-priced escort ring called "Wicked Models" out of two East Side apartments. She has pleaded not guilty.

Published by WNBC on July 2, 2008.

The police said she was hit at 1:38 p.m. in the area of Jackson and Madison Streets, in the Seventh Precinct.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

Davis was arrested March 25 and charged with promoting prostitution and money laundering. Prosecutors say the 32-year-old ran a high-priced escort ring called "Wicked Models" out of two East Side apartments. She has pleaded not guilty.

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

The former child star and daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal was charged was misdemeanor drug possession last month when cops nabbed her buying drugs from a lower East Side street dealer.

Published by New York Daily News on July 2, 2008.

Davis was arrested March 25 and charged with promoting prostitution and money laundering. Prosecutors say the 32-year-old ran a high-priced escort ring called "Wicked Models" out of two East Side apartments. She has pleaded not guilty.

Published by New York Post on July 2, 2008.

M.S. 131 in Chinatown was chosen as the launch site for the Department of Education's summer meals program on Tuesday.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 1, 2008.

De Montebello Sells East Side Co-op for $2.1 M., But Stays in Met’s Neighborhood

Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

The Brooklyn DA is seeking hate-crime charges against a Chinatown man who attacked a Falun Gong practitioner with a steering-wheel locking device.

Published by New York Post on June 30, 2008.

Two days after graduating from high school, Julie Tsang left her parent's Chinatown apartment ready to celebrate a bright future.

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

WHAT YOU CAN GET Many buildings in Manhattan are offering free rent. Other perks landlords are paying for include, from top, at 188 Ludlow on the Lower East Side, the broker’s fee, moving expenses and a year of free storage; at the Archstone Clinton in Clinton, a three-month gym membership; at Dwell in the financial district, the broker’s fee; and at 20 Exchange Place in the financial district, the broker’s fee (and forgoing the security deposit).

Published by New York Times on June 28, 2008.

The four waterfalls — one under the Brooklyn tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, one off the north shore of Governors Island, one between Pier 4 and 5 along Furman Street in Brooklyn Heights, and one off the coast of Manhattan’s Lower East Side — range in height from 90 to 120 feet and vary in width.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 27, 2008.

Here is a slide show of photographs that tell the story of the past week in New York. Subjects include the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, a fatal bus-truck accident in Chinatown, and a change in the State Senate leadership.

Published by New York Times on June 27, 2008.

The waterfalls are at Pier 35 in Manhattan, near South and Rutgers Streets north of the Manhattan Bridge.

Published by New York Times on June 26, 2008.

The other two are located in lower Manhattan at Pier 35 and on the north shore of Governors Island.

Published by amNY.com on June 26, 2008.

On the Lower East Side, home of Whole Foods and several new boutique hotels, construction is nearly complete on a new dormitory for the School of Visual Arts. The 20-story, 80,000-square-foot building is situated at Delancey and Ludlow streets on the former site of a Duane Reade. The new dormitory will house 350 students in a building that will be leased to the school for 40 years with an option to purchase at the end of the lease.

Published by New York Sun on June 26, 2008.

Brooklyn Bridge, between Piers 4 and 5 in Brooklyn, at Pier 35 off Chinatown and off the north shore of Governors Island.

Published by WNBC on June 26, 2008.

His plea deal came four weeks after 44-year-old Tatum was arrested just blocks from her lower East Side home by undercover narcotics officers who spotted her buying crack and powder cocaine from a homeless street hustler.

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

The boutique, at 121 Orchard St., is owned by Rachid Ouassil and has been around for eight years. In addition to Moroccan objects, the store also sells items and furniture from Turkey, Andalusia, Tunisia, Egypt, the Middle East and Central Asia. Among the store's most popular items are 100 percent hand-loomed silk ikat pillows -- at $95, they're far less expensive than their $400 counterparts at ABC Carpet & Home.

Published by New York Post on June 26, 2008.

The waterfalls, at Pier 35 on the east side of Manhattan, under the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO, on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront, and at Governors Island, will each be illuminated after sundown.

Published by New York Post on June 26, 2008.

The dump truck that crashed into a bus in Chinatown on Monday, killing one person and injuring four others, was not safe to drive. [NYT]

Published by New York Times on June 25, 2008.

The state launched the first probe after getting complaints from the public, and an initial investigation showed CVS and Rite Aid were the worst offenders. Among the expired products still on shelves were nasal decongestant at the CVS on Grand St. and Mighty Milk formula at the Rite Aid on Ninth Ave.

Published by New York Daily News on June 25, 2008.

The dump truck that crashed into a bus in Chinatown on Monday, killing one person and injuring four others, was not safe to drive, the authorities said.

Published by New York Times on June 25, 2008.

A teenager was fatally shot on the lower East Side during a bloody 12-hour stretch that left four other people in the city murdered, cops said Tuesday.

Published by New York Daily News on June 25, 2008.

NEW YORK - A state official says a dump truck that set off a fatal crash in Manhattan's Chinatown should not have been on the road.

Published by amNY.com on June 25, 2008.

A Brooklyn mom whose infant made her grand entrance on a F-train subway platform in Chinatown is looking for the guardian angel who helped bring Baby Soleil into the world.

Published by New York Post on June 25, 2008.

“The Showdown in Chinatown,” a charity soccer game, has picked up the French player Thierry Henry for the match. [Goal]

Published by New York Times on June 24, 2008.

This Bloomberg era will be forever known as the age of housing gluttony. How else to describe a city where those with the means to do so have no compunction about seizing an entire tenement for their personal enjoyment, as one landlord is doing on a Lower East Side block? What better word is there when a clothing designer splurges $17.5 million on a new West Side condominium, an apartment that includes a parking spot for his automobile—on the 19th floor?

Published by Village Voice on June 24, 2008.

The little bit of heaven - 6 pounds, 7 ounces and 15 inches from head to toe - was born on the East Broadway F train platform with the help of more than a dozen concerned New Yorkers.

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

Nine stores in Chinatown have been shut down for selling counterfeit merchandise, according to the New York Police Department.

Published by WNBC on June 24, 2008.

On Wednesday, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing children in New York public schools with a safe place to play, Out2Play, will open a new playground at P.S. 142 on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The playground will include a basketball court, kickball diamond, and a play structure with a handicap ramp.

Published by New York Sun on June 23, 2008.

Gentrification has put enormous pressure on low- and moderate-income lower East Side residents who don't live in subsidized housing.

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

They will roar off Governors Island in the harbor and into the East River at the Brooklyn base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 35 near the Manhattan Bridge and off the Brooklyn Promenade. The highest will stand 120 feet tall, or almost the height of the Statue of Liberty, minus its pedestal.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 21, 2008.

Earlier in the day, on the Lower East Side, a car veered onto the sidewalk - injuring six people.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 21, 2008.

Hours earlier, a 60-year-old driver smashed into a crowd of people in Chinatown when he mistook the gas pedal for the brake as he was parking his Nissan Pathfinder on Rutgers Street near Madison Street.

Published by New York Post on June 21, 2008.

And on the East Side a 60-year-old man stepped on the gas instead of the brake while exiting a parking spot and struck seven people, two of whom were in serious condition at the hospital Saturday.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 21, 2008.

There will be no wedding, no joy, because her fiancĂŠ, crane operator Donald Leo, was killed in an East Side crane collapse on May 30.

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

The accident happened near Rutgers and Madison Street at about 12:15 p.m. Friday. There are reports a car jumped the sidewalk, hitting pedestrians walking by. It is unclear why the driver in the car careened off the road.

Published by WNBC on June 20, 2008.

Earlier in the day, a 60-year-old man launched his 4,000-pound SUV over a curb and into six people on a lower East Side bench, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on June 20, 2008.

Six people have been hurt, two of them seriously, when a vehicle went onto the sidewalk in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Published by amNY.com on June 20, 2008.

Six people have been hurt, two of them seriously, when a vehicle went onto the sidewalk in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Published by SI Live on June 20, 2008.

In the Chinatown incident, the truck was nosing into a spot on Rutgers St. at about 12:15 p.m. when it sped onto the sidewalk and into a bench where four people were sitting and two were standing, witnesses said.

Published by New York Daily News on June 20, 2008.

Earlier in the day, six people were struck and injured by a car in the Lower East Side, the FDNY said.

Published by WNBC on June 20, 2008.

Six people have been hurt, two of them seriously, when a vehicle went onto the sidewalk in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Published by New York Post on June 20, 2008.

“The Lower East Side and East London are so similar it’s unbelievable,” says John Hoad, who will move from England to manage the New York store. Hoad, speaking from the London salon, said that the store’s owners looked all over Manhattan and Brooklyn — Chelsea, the Meat Packing District, the West Village and Williamsburg — for the right neighborhood before settling on the LES.

Published by amNY.com on June 20, 2008.

A middle-aged man parking his SUV on the Lower East Side this afternoon jumped a curb and slammed into six people, seriously injuring two of them, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on June 20, 2008.

The victims were apparently hit by a large vehicle outside 45 Rutgers Street just before 12:30 p.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 20, 2008.