Friday at 9, New York will be starting summer with a bang as fireworks are launched from the East River between 10th and 23rd Sts. While the rest of us are watching the show, one man will be orchestrating it. Meet Robin Hall, the man behind the city-wide blast.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

Clad in black and carrying single red roses, family and friends of supermodel Ruslana Korshunova gathered Thursday at a Greenwich Village funeral home for a somber farewell.

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

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.

An informal survey found that the seals of some countries, like the Dominican Republic, have vanished altogether, even if her countrymen are here in great numbers. Honduras and Costa Rica have two surviving signs each. Cuba has three, including one in Greenwich Village, whose sorry state seems an echo of that country, rusting with a surveillance camera nearby.

Published by New York Times on July 3, 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.

MOCHA SUPREME Alison Nelson's Chocolate Bar has opened a new store (127 E. 7th St., between First Avenue and Avenue A, 212-366-1541). For the next month, coffee there is half price.

Published by New York Sun 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.

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.

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.

Still, some cannoli lovers at Veniero's, in the East Village on 11th Street said they did not appreciate the city telling them what to do.

Published by New York Post on July 1, 2008.

Captain Stefan Barr said the scallops at the Gramercy Tavern could use a little more salt. He’s been back only a few months from his second tour in Iraq. For 10 years, he was one of the few, the proud, or, as he puts it, “the best”—a Marine. Now he lives in Soho.

Published by The New York Observer 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 parade, one of dozens that take place around the world, commemorates the Stonewall riots of 1969, when patrons at a Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against a police raid.

Published by SI Live 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.

"We don't get paid a wage. It's only tips. People just don't understand that," said Alan Kelly, 33, a bartender at Bull McCabe's Irish Pub on St. Marks Place in the East Village.

Published by New York Post on June 30, 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.

Village chocoholics don't have to travel too far for their fix: former West Village choco-star The Chocolate Bar re-opens today at its new location at 127 East 7th Street, near First Avenue.

Published by The Real Deal on June 30, 2008.

The parade, one of dozens that take place around the world, commemorates the Stonewall riots of 1969, when patrons at a Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against a police raid.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 29, 2008.

Neighborhoods that produced the most noise complaints were Williamsburg and Flatbush in Brooklyn, Norwood in the Bronx and the East Village.

Published by New York Daily News on June 29, 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.

At 41 Bond St., architect Steven Harris designed for developer Adam Gordon an eight-story residential condominium building with a limestone façade, a thin glass canopy, window boxes, and shutters on the front façade.

Published by New York Sun on June 26, 2008.

The aggrieved rent-stabilized tenants of 47 East 3rd Street are not giving up their fight against landlord Alistair Economakis, whose efforts since 2003 to convert his East Village building into a grand mansion for his family continue to be stymied by nine pesky renters who won't budge.

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

Overall, Harlem remained the cheapest place to rent in June, with average prices ranging from $1,287 for non-doorman studios to $2,636 for full-service, two-bedroom apartments. (That's around $300 less than the average studio rents in Tribeca and Soho on the opposite end of the price spectrum.)

Published by UPTOWNflavor on June 26, 2008.

Nearly 30 television cameras and countless reporters have gathered to hear Michael Bloomberg launch his latest public art project, aptly named "The New York City Waterfalls," here at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

Overall, Harlem remained the cheapest place to rent in June, with average prices ranging from $1,287 for non-doorman studios to $2,636 for full-service, two-bedroom apartments. (That’s around $300 less than the average studio rents in Tribeca and Soho on the opposite end of the price spectrum.) But after declining steadily since February, Harlem doorman rents started to go up this month.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

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.

In October 2004, the Bloomberg administration announced its intention to reopen a long-closed waste transfer station in Greenwich Village, on the Hudson River near 12th Street, to handle recyclable materials from Manhattan.

Published by New York Times 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. [NYT]

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.

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.

“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.

Three minutes younger than his sister, with whom he was raised in Greenwich Village, the fair-skinned Mr. Johanssen was recently anointed a “Hot Bachelor” by People. New Yorkers who have met him say he is polite, a Mets fan, a good-looking guy who wears jeans and a T-shirt off duty and often uses words like “Dude,” “Dawg” and “Bro.”

Published by The New York Observer 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.

“I’m dying and no one will help me. I used to get about $40 or $50 per day and now I get nothing.” That’s not entirely true. A woman who works in the office tower across the street from his usual perch on Broadway and Eighth Avenue brings him an egg and cheese on a bagel and a coffee most mornings, he said, and sometimes she gives him enough to get a room in the Bowery for $18 a night.

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

That’s not entirely true. A woman who works in the office tower across the street from his usual perch on Broadway and Eighth Avenue brings him an egg and cheese on a bagel and a coffee most mornings, he said, and sometimes she gives him enough to get a room in the Bowery for $18 a night.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

SCREEN SAVINGS Tompkins Square Park kicks off its summer movie festival with "Blade Runner." Future flicks include "The Big Lebowski" and "The Graduate." Tuesdays thru Sept. 17. (Free, sunset, Seventh and 10th Sts. & Avenue A and Avenue B, www.filmsintompkins.com)

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

FOUR-LEGGED HAMS Broadway animal trainer Bill Berloni signs his new book, "Broadway Tails: Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became Showbiz Stars," at the Public Theater. The man who puts pups through their paces for hit shows like "Legally Blonde" joins Bernadette Peters and some four-legged friends. (Free, 6 p.m., 425 Lafayette St., at Fourth St., 212-539-8500)

Published by New York Daily News on June 22, 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.

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.

Ms. Zalka graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia in February, and started working as an assistant account executive for an advertising agency in SoHo in March. To ease the transition to working straight through the summer, she is planning to go to “some kind of beach” every weekend, and spent a recent Sunday at Water Taxi Beach, a tiny faux beach in Queens that is separated from the East River by a chain-link fence.

Published by New York Times 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.

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 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.