In February, at the end of the last New York Fashion Week, an exclusive Daily News survey revealed the whitewashing of runway shows in the Bryant Park tents and adjacent New York Public Library.

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

In a statement, Albert says she's giving up on negotiating a two-year lease with Thor Equities, the developer that owns the seaside property.

Published by amNY.com on September 4, 2008.

That list also included the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and Plum Island, a federal disease research facility off Long Island, the indictment says.

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

At the time of her arrest, Siddiqui, who holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, had a list of locations that included Plum Island, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street and the Brooklyn Bridge, said investigators.

Published by amNY.com on September 3, 2008.

Prosecutors confirmed that previously reported potential targets included the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and Plum Island, the research center off Long Island where the federal government studies animal diseases.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

Cancel claimed that Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Saturday looking for drugs and that the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood, police said. After the slaying, Cancel stayed in the apartment to watch the gory horror film "Saw" before leaving before 11 a.m., police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 3, 2008.

CHELSEA (WABC) -- New York City police say they believe a college student was suffocated by a man he invited to his home. They are questioning the man and say they expect to charge him.

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

Cops were hunting Monday for friends a Pace University student called before he was found dead in his Chelsea apartment - a cord around his neck, a plastic bag shoved down his throat.

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

Detectives are interviewing a drug dealer who confessed to killing a Pace University student who was found dead in his Chelsea apartment with a cord around his neck and a plastic bag shoved down his throat, police sources said.

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

The man claimed Pravia approached him in Union Square park around 6 a.m. Sunday looking for drugs and the two went to his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood. The man, is identified as Jeromie Cancel and police say he left sometime before 11 a.m., police said.

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

The Pace University student found dead in his Chelsea apartment with an electric cord around his neck and a plastic bag in his mouth partied all night and made several after-hours calls to male friends before he died, law-enforcement sources said.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

A 22-year-old Queens man has confessed to killing a Pace University student, who was found strangled in his Chelsea apartment Sunday, police sources said today.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Police are looking for clues in the death of a Pace University honor student who was discovered dead in his Chelsea apartment, strangled with an electrical cord that was still wrapped around his neck.

Published by WNBC on September 2, 2008.

Carlos Campos, the men's wear designer known for his perfectly tailored suits, has announced that he will show his first women's wear collection on September 7 at the Altman building in Chelsea. But Mr. Campos, who was born in Honduras, doesn't plan to do it quietly: he will use only black models in his runway show.

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

A 19-year-old Pace University student who was found dead in his Chelsea apartment with a sheet over his body and an electric cord wrapped around his neck, was last seen being helped into a taxicab early Saturday morning after a party, the police said on Monday. [NYT]

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by amNY.com on September 1, 2008.

Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) 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.

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Pravia was found lying in his bed after police were called to the scene by Mr. Pravia's roommate who discovered the body Sunday night. Mr. Pravia was from Pittsfield, Mass. but was living in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was a sophomore honors student at Pace University.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 1, 2008.

It's a common sight in the club-heavy Meatpacking District, which has replaced Chelsea as the epicenter of the Manhattan party scene - and home to all the woes that follow.

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

The downtown migration of the party crowd has provided a welcome respite for its former home: West Chelsea.

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

"I need some waffle fries," said Adam Freed, a 23-year old investment banker from Chelsea, after taking his tiny swig and offering a decidedly mixed review.

Published by The New York Observer on August 30, 2008.

A man on his way to work heard the screams of a woman who had just been mugged near Union Square — then went hand-to-hand with the robber, holding him for cops. “I was just in the right place at the right time,” said the worker, José Goncalves, 35, a Chelsea club manager from Bayside, Queens. [New York Post]

Published by New York Times 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.

Fifteen-year-old weekend flea market the Antiques Garage will soon sell its last vintage Oriental rug in Chelsea.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 28, 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.

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.

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.

Zalman Silber, 41, of Monsey, allegedly told women that they would be paid about $100 to participate in an insurance survey or medical examination. He rented out a space at a Murray Hill doctor's office, at 15-17 Park Ave., between spring 2003 and January 2004, where the alleged crimes took place.

Published by New York Sun on August 26, 2008.

“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.

Silber created the New York Skyride at the Empire State Building, which simulates a bird's-eye tour of New York City. He reportedly sold it for $9 million.

Published by amNY.com 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.

Twenty top model dogs sported the latest in canine duds during the third annual New York Pet Fashion Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.

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

A government official briefed on the case told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the list of targets included the Empire State Building, New York's Grand Central Terminal and the Statue of Liberty.

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

There’s no question that eastern Chelsea’s restaurant scene has come into its own.

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.

Trendy Chelsea nightspot 1OAK axed four minority employees in one week because the owner wanted sexy "white girls" serving his celebrity clientele, a federal lawsuit claims.

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

"Are you going to put a big windmill on the top of the Empire State Building? I think that is very unlikely," he said.

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

2 p.m. The State P.S.C. holds a public hearing on costs incurred by Con Edison in the steam pipe rupture at CUNY, Room C197, 365 Fifth Ave.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

He said he wants the city to start generating its own green power by harnessing solar panels, river tides - and maybe even windmills atop the Brooklyn Bridge or the Empire State Building.

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

The Empire State Building honors Olympic nations with the colors of red, white and red for Hong Kong on the north side; red, blue and yellow for Venezuela on the west side; green, red and blue for Azerbaijan on the south side; and red, yellow and black for Belgium on the east side.Dusk to midnight, 34th St. and Fifth Ave.

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

Around 1:30 p.m., some garbage caught fire in the basement of the Bellevue Men's Shelter, at the corner of 30th Street and First Avenue, a fire department spokesman said.

Published by New York Sun on August 19, 2008.

The Empire State Building honors Olympic nations with the colors of red, white and red for Lativa on the north side; red, blue and yellow for Colombia on the west side;green, white and blue for Uzbekistan on the south side;and orange, yellow and green for Ethiopia on the east side. Dusk to midnight, 34th St. and Fifth Ave.

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

Chamberlain is believed to have died July 25, but about a week passed before his landlord found him in his apartment in Manhattan's chic Chelsea neighborhood, said John Morton, a friend who worked with Chamberlain on the Web-based TV show, which ran from 1999 until 2000.

Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.

Ken Roller, 27, of midtown, was waiting for his usual large coffee with skimmed milk when he spotted the cash sitting on a Daily News box attached to the cart.

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

...Lawyers Gus and George Coffinas, has opened his own venture – the Tzanides Law Firm at 275 Madison Ave. A former city tax commissioner, the energetic Tzanides is focusing on real estate law and...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

Empire State Building is shining with Olympic spirit -- its lighting each of its top four sides with the different colors of 66 competing countries.

Published by WNBC on August 14, 2008.