66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe and Kent. (718) 486-5400 or www.musichall ofwilliamsburg.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 21, 2008.

328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 21, 2008.

66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe and Kent. (718) 486-5400 or www.musichall ofwilliamsburg.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

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.

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.

Andrew Berman, executive director of the historic preservation society, said that “buildings like this — at once humble and grand — really speak to the profound aspirations of the generations of immigrants who came through the Lower East Side, and the impact they had and continue to have upon our city and country.”

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

A hearing by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The hearing combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The hearing combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The lawsuit filed against AvalonBay Communities alleges that the Alexandria, Va.-based real estate firm violated the terms of the Fair Housing Act in its design and construction of the Avalon Chrystie Place. The 361-unit rental building is on the Lower East Side.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 14, 2008.

The Justice Department contends that a 361-unit building on the Lower East Side has common areas that are inaccessible to the disabled.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The 361-unit rental building is on the Lower East Side.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 2008.

A hearing by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

After the lights went out, she walked across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn with thousands of others heading home. “I never went back to work,” she said. “I sold my house and moved to Florida.”

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The drab ex-factory building on Dobbins Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is an unlikely command post for a bold, one-woman foray into urban winemaking. But that's where, in a small second-floor office with a single ivy-covered window, ex-engineer Alie Shaper is advancing on her goal of creating a full-scale urban winery in her home borough.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

Public comment also will extend to the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning and the Hunter's Point South Plan.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

And back in Brooklyn, the Tasting Room at Williamsburg's Bridge Urban Winery sells wines made from its own vineyard in Long Island, with a borough-based, small-scale winery in the works. Another urban winery, as yet unnamed, is now being fitted out in Red Hook — a project of Mark Snyder, a Park Slope-based wine distributor, and a pair of cult Napa Valley winemakers, Abe Schoener and Robert Foley.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

“She clearly seems to be into that scene right now, but we should applaud her!” said the music writer. “It speaks well of her that she’d rather hang out in Lower East Side dive bars than lunch at the Ivy.”

Published by The New York Observer on August 13, 2008.

But residents like Maria Ramos say the re-zoning plan would only benefit the wealthy and that people like herself won't be able to afford living in the Lower East Side.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 13, 2008.

To date, that agenda has focused around rezonings of areas such as Manhattan’s far West Side, Jamaica and the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront, where the city allows private landowners to develop thousands of housing units and millions of feet of office space.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

Just south of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the bustling entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, lies that rarest Manhattan commodity: vacant land.

Published by Village Voice on August 12, 2008.

Veteran vintners Greg Sandor and Paul Wegimont have opened the Bridge Urban Winery beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, determined to produce their own wines in the once-gritty neighborhood.

Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.

Allie Sharper of Greenpoint-based Brooklyn Oenology, who is already selling a fine Merlot and Chardonnay, is coming out with additional BOE brand wines and is looking to move her winemaking operation from Long Island into the city.

Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.

He pleaded guilty yesterday to drug charges and was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison, longer than he served for killing Jennifer Levin in Central Park. Chambers, 41, the so-called "preppy killer," admitted yesterday to selling cocaine to undercover officers from the East Side apartment he shared with longtime girlfriend Shawn Kovell. He also pleaded guilty to assaulting Officer Dragos Chitu, one of the cops who arrested the couple last October.

Published by amNY.com on August 11, 2008.

His endorsement of the plan, issued today, comes as the City Planning Commission gears up for a mega-hearing Wednesday, with throngs of community members expected to deliver testimony on proposed rezonings of the Lower East Side, the planned middle income-intensive Hunters Point South development near Long Island City, and the proposed redevelopment of Willets Point by Shea Stadium.

Published by The New York Observer on August 11, 2008.

Chambers, who served 15 years behind bars for the infamous 1986 "rough sex murder" of Jennifer Levin, today pleaded guilty to selling cocaine out of an East Side apartment.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

The districts Kavanagh and Connor represent overlap on the lower East Side, and the assemblyman said the two have "always been cordial." Connor backed Sylvia Friedman, the incumbent assemblywoman whom Kavanagh toppled in a 2006 primary, as did most elected Dems.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

Cadet Zachary West did indeed see trauma on his first call. A man had apparently fallen, and when West arrived on the scene on Manhattan's East Side, there was plenty of blood on the victim and the ground.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 10, 2008.

The New York State Board of Elections has ruled that Jun Policarpio, a Queens congressional candidate accused of forging petition signatures, will not be allowed on the Republican ballot.

Published by New York Sun on August 8, 2008.

In another shot, Mecca is pictured with pianist Brian Jackson and producer Ommas by the Williamsburg Bridge.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.

As the morbidly obese performance artist struggled mightily to tug his (her?) girdle over nearly nude acres of cellulite, the crowd at the newly opened Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO sat in rapt fascination on Tuesday night.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.

He is trying to replace David Yassky in District 33, which includes parts of Williamsburg, where Mr. Abraham lives, along with Greenpoint, Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights. If elected, Mr. Abraham would be the first Hasidic member of the City Council.

Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.

A.M. Richard Fine Art: 328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichard fineart.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 8, 2008.

While special interest groups in Chinatown battle internally over the plan, most East Village and Lower East Side residents look forward to the pending changes.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

Greenpoint: Dance off for Studio B

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 7, 2008.

The main organizer of the anti-rezoning protests, Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side, has pointed to Census data to argue that the area proposed for rezoning is disproportionately white and that its boundaries were drawn to exclude many Latino and Asian residents.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.

...News reported yesterday that community board members and councilmembers are hoping the city-owned lot, 390 Kent Avenue, will become parklandc;urrently a maintenance shop and parking lot sit there. The nearby Domino...

Published by Brownstoner on August 6, 2008.

Residents and environmental activists in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn have also complained that the company abandoned a deteriorating barge in Newtown Creek.

Published by New York Sun on August 5, 2008.

"I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious Christadora House. It's a hot July evening, and Rosen is holding a one-man counterprotest outside the home of one of his main detractors, a crusty squatters'-rights activist named Jerry "the Peddler" Wade.

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

The woman with a mental acuity roughly equivalent to a second-grader left her Sunnyside residence run by a Very Special Place last Tuesday to take a public bus to her Travis day program.

Published by SI Live on August 4, 2008.

That's why New Burlesque fits in very well. "Burlesque came back in the late '90s, in places like the lower East Side, Williamsburg and DUMBO," Gantner says. "The performers strip, they use pasties, but sometimes they're aerialists or clowns. I see them as a series of talent home runs."

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

The developer of a high-rise apartment house on the East Side of Manhattan where a construction crane collapsed in March, killing seven people, now faces foreclosure.

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

A bride from the Lower East Side of Manhattan drowned while honeymooning in Bermuda.

Published by WNBC on August 2, 2008.

A bride from the Lower East Side of Manhattan has drowned while honeymooning in Bermuda.

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

A bride from the Lower East Side of Manhattan has drowned while honeymooning in Bermuda.

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

I next took my nonsense to the Hamilton Fish Pool on Houston and Pitt Streets on the Lower East Side, another of the W.P.A. pools. There I met two people who shared my public pool obsession.

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

His subjects range from the Domino sugar refinery in Williamsburg, part of which was declared a landmark in 2007; the ruins of the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse, which were ravaged by arson in 2006; and the haunting remains of Dead Horse Bay, where a 17th-century Dutch mill once stood.

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

The last time Paterson sought elective office on his own, in his Harlem State Senate district, he won resoundingly. But his 80,000 votes that year — while three times more than Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver received in his Lower East Side district, about as many as Dean Skelos, the accidental Senate majority leader, received in his — constituted less than one half of 1 percent of the state’s population.

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

This latest video, at a Lower East Side park, shows 46-year-old Michael Cephus being repeatedly hit with a metal baton, as officers tried to cuff him.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 30, 2008.