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  • 1st and 1st East Village Radio Celebrates 5 Years of Internet Tunes

    East Village Radio has been streaming online shows for the past five years but you've probably been missing out on all their awesome jams. Our Friday night always gets warmed up with an episodes of The Let Out (run by our buds at Fader Magazine) from 6-8 p.m. and Mark Ronson's Authentic Shit keeps us going from 8-10 p.m. We often found ourselves wandering to their funny little booth 1st and 1st to say hey to the local DJs. And we subscribe to the podcasts too.

    Published by The New York Observer on September 5, 2008.

  • SoHo Artists flexing political muscle

    “We’re doing this because this is a really historic election cycle and we feel a sense of urgency,” said Ronald Feldman, a contemporary art gallery owner in SoHo and a founder of Artists for Change, the group organizing the event.

    Published by Crain's New York Business on September 5, 2008.

  • Chinatown Baby boomlet tied to luck o' Chinese

    There was a baby boom in Chinatown last year, and city health officials are pointing a finger at a Golden Pig.

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

  • 176 E. 3rd St. RENT OUT OF SHAPE

    "They offered me $120,000," said Carolyn Chamberlain, 65, a secretary who pays $400 for her two-bedroom apartment in the six-story, prewar building at 176 E. 3rd St.

    Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

  • East Village Should the Mayor Keep Control of the Public Schools?

    A group of rent-stabilized tenants are fighting to keep their East Village neighborhood affordable by turning down buyout offers of up to $125,000 apiece from a pair of real-estate barons.

    Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

  • SoHo Daily Kibble for your pets

    Daily Kibble also profiled Animal Haven in SoHo, because it's not just a boutique and training center, it also promotes pet adoptions. It's something you can feel good about supporting.

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

  • East Village Roosevelt Island 2.0! 2,491 New Apartments Can't Be Wrong

    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.

  • Tompkins Square Park Perfect 10: This week's news & to-dos

    STREET FEST The fifth annual HOWL! Festival opens in Tompkins Square Park for a week of hip-hop acts, poetry slams, face painting, silent raves and more in the East Village. (Free, 5 p.m., Seventh St. and Avenue A, www.howlfestival.com)

    Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village ANNIE'S A DEADBEAT IN A SNAP

    The 58-year-old photographer allegedly owes money for unpaid taxes, an aborted book project, and outstanding equipment rental fees. She's also at least a year overdue in paying for renovations to her Greenwich Village townhouse, according to the documents.

    Published by New York Post on August 31, 2008.

  • East Village Doc helps provide affordable health care

    But Hector and legions of other restaurant workers in the East Village are finding not just medical help, but a good dose of compassion. He is a doctor, and his name is David Ores. But to his patients, he's just Dr. Dave.

    Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 30, 2008.

  • lower East Side Bravest lied about military: FDNY

    Brian Ferrera, of Ladder 18 on the lower East Side, told his supervisors in February he was enlisting with the Marines and would need a leave of absence, Department of Investigation officials said.

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

  • Chinatown Key Deputies Oppose a 3rd Term for Bloomberg

    A group of Chinatown residents is suing the Police Department over plans to build a new command center in Lower Manhattan.

    Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

  • Lower East Side NYC group to commemorate Katrina anniversary

    A march through the streets of the Lower East Side and Chinatown will follow. The march will end with a vigil outside 1 Police Plaza.

    Published by SI Live on August 29, 2008.

  • SoHo Cheese Eaters Take Brooklyn

    Another slap in the face for Cleveland as preparations are made for the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “annex” in SoHo.

    Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

  • Chinatown NYC group to commemorate Katrina anniversary

    A march through the streets of the Lower East Side and Chinatown will follow. The march will end with a vigil outside 1 Police Plaza.

    Published by SI Live on August 29, 2008.

  • 425 Lafayette St. Girl group works in harmony for '50s revue

    Bryce Ryness, who plays the Mick Jagger-mad Woof in the show, will perform with his band on Monday at 9:30 p.m. at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St.). Tickets: $15; (212) 967-7555.

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

  • Cooper Union Multifaceted poet shares thoughts on writing, art (News and Features Section)

    After earning a masters from Cambridge and a doctorate from Columbia, Mr. Shapiro taught at his alma mater for nine years before accepting a position in the architecture department at Cooper Union. Without Columbia housing, he had to find a new home.

    Published by Riverdale Press on August 28, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village NYC window washer has fatal fall

    Police say the body of the 49-year-old Robert Domaszowec was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village. Police determined he had fallen from the 12th story.

    Published by Crain's New York Business on August 27, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village Window worker falls to death

    Police say the body of the 49-year-old contractor was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village. Police determined he had fallen from the 12th story.

    Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 27, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village Window Washer Falls to His Death in Manhattan

    A worker washing windows at an apartment building in Greenwich Village fell 12 stories to his death.

    Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

  • Chinatown Live, From New York, It's (an Animated) Chinatown!

    “The Year of the Fish” was shot in New York Chinatown and then illustrated through rotoscope animation.

    Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village Window Worker Falls 12 Floors To Death

    A window worker has died after falling out of a Manhattan building. Police said the body of the 49-year-old contractor was found Tuesday afternoon outside the building in Greenwich Village.

    Published by WNBC on August 27, 2008.

  • 155 First Avenue Tuesday, September 2

    [Housing Works Fall Previews, 202 East 77th Street, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., 212-772-8306; King of Shadows, Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, 7 p.m., 212-868-4444]

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

  • East Side Bicycle Activists Propose 'Car-Free' Prospect Park

    According to the group Transportation Alternatives, the three-week experiment to shut down certain streets on the East Side of Manhattan to cars on August weekends has been such a huge success, that Mayor Michael Bloomberg should want to ban cars from Prospect Park as part of his lasting legacy. At least that's the argument the activist group is making.

    Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 26, 2008.

  • Lower East Side For New York’s New Arrivals, the City Eventually Comes Around

    “When I first got here, I’d go out in the city with people I worked with, and I felt I was missing something,” said Ms. Kasbeer, who moved to New York from Milan in 2006. I was going to clubs in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, things I wouldn’t do now.”

    Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

  • Chinatown Chinatown's 'Glorious Flute' Facing an Unusual Primary Challenge

    For the first time in 22 years, Mr. Silver is running opposed in a primary for his district, which encompasses much of Lower Manhattan. Although leaders of large community organizations in Chinatown are pronouncing his victory a foregone conclusion, the neighborhood is becoming a political battlefield in the race.

    Published by New York Sun on August 25, 2008.

  • Lower East Side A Neglected Bronx Landmark Gets a New Life

    “This is very uncommon for the Bronx,” said Tenzing Chadotsang, of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. “This is the style that was in the Bowery in the 19th Century. Every time we show pictures of this building, people say ‘Oh, the Lower East Side,’ right away. No. It’s the Bronx.”

    Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

  • Second Avenue and East 12th Street WHAT'S UP? DOCS

    The Village East Theater at Second Avenue and East 12th Street is offering two showings a day of the documentaries "Loot," "Fuel," "Crossing Borders," "An Omar Broadway Film," "War Games," "The Choir," "No Subtitles Necessary: Laslo and Vilmos," "The Dalai Lama Film" and "Blessed is the Match."

    Published by New York Post on August 25, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village Dispatches: Blowin’ in the Forgotten Wind

    Cafe Figaro, a holdover from Greenwich Village's beatnik and folkie days, has finally closed.

    Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village The Lost Village Mystique of Le Figaro Cafe

    Read some reviews of Le Figaro Cafe from the last years of its five-decade lifespan, and it can be hard to understand how it became a famous Greenwich Village destination, or even stayed in business as long as it did. Even in the place’s heyday, customers say, the food was nothing to write home about.

    Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

  • Lower East Side Lower East Side Advocates Complain of Tenant Harassment

    A group of tenant advocates has accused a landlord that acquired 17 rent-regulated buildings on the Lower East Side last year of aggressively harassing tenants in a concerted effort to oust longtime residents from the buildings so that the units could be renovated and the rents raised.

    Published by New York Times on August 21, 2008.

  • Cooper Square Lower East Side Advocates Complain of Tenant Harassment

    Last year, the landlord group — a coalition of numerous real estate investors — bought the 17 buildings from the Extell Development Company. Since then, according to tenant advocates, at least 40 percent of the roughly 260 units in the 17 buildings have been vacated, according to the Cooper Square Committee, which has worked on the issue. That is far higher than the 5.6 percent average vacancy rate for rent-regulated apartments, according to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board.

    Published by New York Times on August 21, 2008.

  • 442 East Houston Street City Schools Dominate State's List Of Most Dangerous

    P.S. 94, 442 East Houston Street

    Published by NY1 on August 20, 2008.

  • SoHo Jonas Brothers, iPhone have SoHo neighbors rotten on Apple store

    So say residents and store owners on quiet cobblestone SoHo side streets who are sick of lines stretching around the block, renovation work done at all hours of the night and blasé store managers who scoff at their concerns.

    Published by amNY.com on August 20, 2008.

  • SoHo Apple Store's Popularity Spurs Complaints in SoHo

    The last straw, according to the SoHo Alliance — an organized group of SoHo residents and local businesses — came last Tuesday, when thousands of teenage girls poured onto the streets en route to an in-store Jonas Brothers concert.

    Published by New York Sun on August 19, 2008.

  • SoHo On a Grim Anniversary, Firefighters Are Honored

    Firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, both of whom died a year ago in a fire at the former Deutsche Bank building near ground zero, were memorialized at a SoHo firehouse.

    Published by New York Times on August 19, 2008.

  • 80 St. Mark's Place Former U.S. Attorney Makes His Playwriting Debut

    Throughout his life, Whitney North Seymour Jr. has used legal briefs, oral arguments in court and books to get his point across.

    Published by New York Times on August 19, 2008.

  • 45 Bleecker St. Events for Wednesday in New York

    Last chance to catch Jeff LaGreca and B. Allen Schulz's wacky children's musical "Gargoyle Garden."  The show shadows an awkward, lonely boy who is dumped at a boarding school by his rich, carefree parents. The musical is one of the well recieved picks at the New York International Fringe Festival. 8 p.m.; $15. 45 Bleecker St. between Bowery and Lafayette St.(212)239-6200.

    Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.

  • Greenwich Village One year later, city honors firefighters killed in Deutsche Bank blaze

    Family and friends gathered at a Greenwich Village firehouse on Monday to remember firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino. The two men died in a fire on the 14th floor of the former Deutsche Bank tower.

    Published by SI Live on August 18, 2008.

  • East Village Web pioneer's death remains a mystery

    Hundreds of friends planned to attend a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village. With Chamberlain's body in a Manhattan morgue, a rose-filled casket on a makeshift altar was to hold objects reflecting a life both thrilling and sad.

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

  • Lower East Side Plans For Queens West Megadevelopment Move Forward

    Last Wednesday the city held public hearings on three huge land-use plans, but only two of those were widely reported upon: the rezoning of the Lower East Side and the redevelopment of Willets Point. The third hearing concerned Hunters Point South (formerly known as "Queens West") and the development there of 5,000 units of housing, 60 percent of which, according to WNYC, would be set aside for residents who earn between $55,000 and $158,000 a year.

    Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.

  • East Village Downtown NYC Figure's Death A Mystery

    Friends attended a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village.

    Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.

  • SoHo Order up for Moondance diner

    A year after SoHo's Moondance diner moseyed out west, the cherished eatery of artists, writers and entertainers is still shuttered and gathering dust in Wyoming.

    Published by New York Daily News on August 16, 2008.

  • Chinatown Urban Studies | Competing: Where Everybody Knows Yao Ming

    Lately, Olympic fever has set in at a bar in Little Italy that has been a magnet for young Asians from Chinatown and points beyond.

    Published by New York Times on August 16, 2008.

  • East Village Downtown NYC figure's death a mystery

    Hundreds of friends planned to attend a memorial Saturday night at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village. With Chamberlain's body in a Manhattan morgue, a rose-filled casket on a makeshift altar was to hold objects reflecting a life both thrilling and sad.

    Published by amNY.com on August 16, 2008.

  • East Side City tabs new Buildings commissioner

    LiMandri, the city's first deputy building commissioner for the last three years, has headed the department since Patricia Lancaster was pressured out in April, following a string of deadly construction accidents and the spectacular collapse of an East Side construction crane.

    Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

  • Lower East Side East Village temple may be demolished

    The Mezritch Synagogue is the last operating "tenement synagogue," so named because of the narrow slot it occupies mid-block, still in operation on the Lower East Side.

    Published by amNY.com on August 15, 2008.

  • Chinatown Good Eating/Chinatown: Faster, Higher, Tastier

    If watching the coverage of the Olympics from Beijing leaves you craving Chinese food, authentic fare can be found at these restaurants in Chinatown.

    Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

  • East Village Old Manhattan synagogue is in danger of demolition

    The rabbi said he and his board had negotiated air rights to the East Village property with the Kushner Cos. real estate organization, which owns, develops and manages various types of properties in the Northeast.

    Published by Crain's New York Business on August 15, 2008.

  • SoHo Rock Hall in New York? It's about time

    Opening an "annex" in SoHo, for what the Hall says will be at least two years, sort of admits the Cleveland problem, even though the Hall obviously isn't going to say that's the reason for the decision.

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

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