Transportation
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Chinatown
A tree-lined median built along the Bowery from Division to Canal Street is the city's solution to calming traffic in accident-prone Chinatown.
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Transportation, Chinatown
Business & Economy
A new weekend market aims to recreate the area's bustling scene from the 1800s.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Real Estate
A Lower East Side seniors home needs a new space, and some community organizers believe the answer lies in Seward Park.
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Real Estate, East Village
Business & Economy
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Lower East Side
Guss' Pickles has been on The Lower East Side since 1920. Now the neighborhood mainstay is moving to Brooklyn.
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Business & Economy, Lower East Side
Chinatown
One year after a devastating fire destroyed a Chinatown apartment building, 11 displaced families have finally returned home.
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Chinatown
Business & Economy
State Sen. Squadron, who once owned a bar himself, has made it more difficult to get a liquor license in Harlem.
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Business & Economy, Central Harlem
Business & Economy
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East Village
Tenants at massive East Side complex forming strategy to buy back apartments amid turmoil.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Business & Economy
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East Village
A request to feed 300 marines inspired an East Village chef to ship 150 pounds of delicious pork to Afghanistan.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Transportation
Residents in Morningside Heights woke up early on Friday to dig the neighborhood out of over a foot of snow.
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Transportation, Morningside Heights
Business & Economy
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Chinatown
A proposed business improvement district would impose a yearly tax on property owners in Chinatown.
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Business & Economy, Chinatown
Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that civilian trials for alleged 9/11 terrorists in Manhattan was still possible.
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Politics, Chinatown
Business & Economy
A new partnership between upstate farmers and residents of the Lower East Side will bring fresh produce from the farm directly to the neighborhood in the form of a co-op.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Business & Economy
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Gramercy
What's better than Italian food and beer? Who knows, but soon you'll be able to get both handmade on site at a new high-end brewery and eatery in the Flatiron District backed by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich.
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Business & Economy, Gramercy, Flatiron & Union Square
Real Estate
Two downtown neighborhoods, intertwined in over a century of shared histories, have been recognized as a single, national historic district.
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Real Estate, Lower East Side
Business & Economy
A brief clash at a community meeting last week exposed a rift between Chinatown's Fujianese and Cantonese residents.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Business & Economy
A community meeting this week brought together two rival groups to debate and discuss the future of their shared downtown neighborhoods. But members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side only seemed interested in having a conversation — amongst themselves.
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Business & Economy, East Village
Real Estate
Thousands of tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village will continue to pay lower rents until at least June. The rent adjustment comes as Tishman Speyer works out a departure deal with tenants who sued the developer last year for illegally raising the rent.
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Real Estate, Gramercy, Flatiron & Union Square
Politics
The message from the residents of Chinatown and lower Manhattan is clear: move the 9/11 terror trials out of the neighborhood. But where to? DNAinfo surveyed city officials.
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Politics, Chinatown
Politics
The Chinatown Work Group's town hall meeting tonight offers a chance of reconciliation with a rival.
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Politics, East Village
Politics
Residents and business owners from Chinatown and lower Manhattan met with Commissioner Kelly on Friday to discuss security plans for the 9/11 terror trials just hours after officials in Washington began discussing options to move them out of theborough.
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Politics, SoHo, Tribeca & NoLita
Politics
The growing chorus from Manhattanites calling on the federal government to move the terror trials out of the city will finally be heard in Washington D.C.
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Politics, Chinatown
Science & Technology
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Midtown East
Hours after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, DNAinfo spoke to New Yorkers at the Apple Store in Midtown. Many loved the device, questioned the name.
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Science & Technology, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Education
After months of battling education officials, TriBeCa parents living across the street from the much sought after P.S. 234 won the right to send their kids there after a new school zoning plan was passed Wednesday night.
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Education, SoHo, Tribeca & NoLita
Politics
If Governors Island doesn't work, move the 9/11 terror trials upstate, suggested lower Manhattan officials at a packed residents meeting Tuesday night.
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Politics, Chinatown
Politics
Community Board 1 chairwoman and NBC talk show host Julie Menin has changed her mind and will not be stepping down from her post.
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Politics, Chinatown
Politics
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Chinatown
Margaret Chin sits down with DNAinfo and answers Chinatown residents' questions on issues from the terror trials to Manhattan Bridge traffic.
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Politics, Chinatown
Politics
Chinatown residents are firing back at Mayor Michael Bloomberg after he reportedly called moving the 9/11 trials to Governors Island "dumb."
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Politics, Chinatown
Arts & Entertainment
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Manhattan
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg will produce Rebuilding Ground Zero, a six-part television series set to premiere on the Science Channel in 2011, the network announced Friday.
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Arts & Entertainment, Manhattan
Politics
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he would consider a proposal to move the upcoming 9/11 terror trials from Lower Manhattan to Governors Island on Thursday, but changed his mind hours later.
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Politics, Chinatown
Only In New York
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Central Park
A new baby goat named Abe is delighting zoo goers at the Central Park Zoo.
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Only In New York, Central Park
Politics
Chinatown residents and business owners, furious with the NYPD's terror trial security plan, want Attorney General Eric Holder to move the trials to Governors Island.
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Politics, Chinatown
Politics
Parts of Chinatown and lower Manhattan will be cut into security zones with armed guards during the forthcoming terror trials, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday.
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Politics, Chinatown
Arts & Entertainment
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SoHo
Albert Capsouto was renown for his commitment to the neighborhood as a member of Community Board 1 for almost 20 years. Capsouto died on Tuesday of complications from a brain tumor. He was 53 years old.
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Arts & Entertainment, SoHo, Tribeca & NoLita
Crime
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Lower East Side
An 18-year-old high school student is recovering in hospital after he was stabbed at his Lower East Side school.
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Crime, Lower East Side
Politics
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Manhattan
A new poll published just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day has found little change in the way New Yorkers perceive race relations in recent years.
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Politics, Manhattan
Politics
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Manhattan
Two new polls show Gov. David Paterson gaining some popularity in recent months, but one of those poll has found that New York voters still want a new governor.
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Politics, Manhattan
Arts & Entertainment
The Loew's Canal Street Theater, sealed off for nearly four decades, may soon be transformed into a new performing arts center for the Chinatown community.
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Arts & Entertainment, Lower East Side
Transportation
A gritty kitty living in the East Broadway subway station is playing a game of cat and mouse with people trying to rescue it to find it a new home.
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Transportation, Lower East Side
Chinatown
Chinatown residents will get the chance to nominate spots in the neighborhood where they think more trees should be planted.
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Chinatown
Education
The city's Department of Education believes they have come up with a solution to accommodate the expansion of a charter school without displacing students in neighboring public schools.
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Education, Lower East Side
Business & Economy
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Manhattan
Two tobacco companies are suing the city over a law that will ban retailers from selling candy-flavored tobacco products, but the city is determined to snuff out such products across all five boroughs.
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Business & Economy, Manhattan
Transportation
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Lower East Side
Flowers and candles have been left at the curbside where a woman was struck and killed by a school bus last week while riding her bicycle on Delancey Street, as local residents call for better protection for riders.
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Transportation, Lower East Side
Transportation
The F train feline has apparently made its home behind a gated maintenance area at the East Broadway subway station, where straphangers who have caught a glimpse of the elusive kitty have been leaving food for it.
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Transportation, Lower East Side
Only In New York
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Manhattan
Taxidermists and out-of-town hunters continue to rage over the fact that Manhattanites can't tell the difference between a moose and a caribou. New Yorkers are fighting back. Can you tell the difference?
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Only In New York, Manhattan
Arts & Entertainment
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Lower East Side
A new reality show about singers and song writers struggling to make it in the music industry is coming to the Lower East Side.
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Arts & Entertainment, Lower East Side
Politics
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Chinatown
A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the city to consider releasing documents related to the NYPD's plans to build a high tech command center in the middle of Lower Manhattan.
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Politics, Chinatown
Business & Economy
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Lower East Side
For residents hoping that 2010 will be the year vacant lots near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, one community leader has a message: Don't hold your breath.
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Business & Economy, Lower East Side
Science & Technology
Manhattanites are purging their homes of "e-waste" this month. About 500 people braved the high winds and freezing temperatures to drop off an estimated 10 tonnes of old computer monitors, television sets, CD players and printers in Union Square on Sunday.
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Science & Technology, Gramercy, Flatiron & Union Square
