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Straphangers gave their testimony at the MTA’s public hearing held at the Fashion Institute of Technology last night. District 1 City Councilmember Margaret Chin was there to vocalize concerns specific to the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Since subway lines...

As we've been reporting, the MTA will hold a public hearing in Manhattan tonight on its proposed service cuts. A similar event last night in Brooklyn got ugly when Police dragged several angry protesters out of the auditorium at...

Thursday night, residents in Manhattan will have a chance to speak out about the MTA's proposed service cuts. A public hearing is scheduled to take place at the Fashion Institute of Technology (7th Avenue & 27th Street), beginning at...

Here's something for all of you car-deprived New Yorkers. Hertz is taking on Zip Car in the "car sharing" business - and there's a new location on the Lower East Side. In an apparent first for a Manhattan co-op,...

Anyone concerned about the problems caused by the booming Chinatown bus business will want to check out a new report from the New York Department of City Planning.  While there are no huge revelations, the study offers a comprehensive...

Anytime a bicyclist is hurt or killed on the streets of Lower Manhattan, Bill di Paolo makes a point of getting to the scene as quickly as he possibly can. The founder and executive director of the environmental and...

There are a few more details about the accident on Delancey Street yesterday afternoon that resulted in the death of a bicyclist. A witness told NY1 the bicyclist, a woman, hit a pothole on Delancey, fell over, and was...

You may have heard the helicopter hovering over the neighborhood. Channel 7 is reporting: LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- A woman riding a bicycle was struck by a school bus and died from her injuries on the Lower...

The Department of Transportation announced last night it will not use Pier 42, near Montgomery Street, as a "staging area" for commercial buses. The news came during a briefing by Luis Sanchez, the DOT's Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner, before...

Monday night, Chinatown residents from two apartment complexes a short distance away from the Federal Courthouse where accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators will be tried, met with elected officials about their concerns. (watch video clips...