The racks are being removed for Summer Streets, and will be reinstalled.

Two weeks after members of the Cro-Mags were allegedly stabbed by the band’s former bassist, hardcore returned to Webster Hall as Give Up the Ghost performed a pair of sold-out shows.

A car flees the scene of an accident, and the driver who stayed at the scene ends up confronting a traffic agent.

After neighbors complained for weeks about the “constant roar” and “inescapable blare” of IHOP’s new ventilator unit, the restaurant on East 14th Street was issued a noise violation on Monday, the Department of Environmental Protection said.

The new community-supporter fishery is modeled on CSAs. If it succeeds, its founders hope to open a fishmonger in the neighborhood.

A roundup of today’s news, including the latest plea from the Bookshop and an update on the tenant-landlord clash on East Third Street.

Topless activist Moira Johnston

The City Council gave New York University a final green light to build four new buildings south of Washington Square Park, but opponents tossed out of City Hall today vowed to file a lawsuit against the controversial expansion plan.

Tonight, Leigh Stein reads from her new book of poetry. We spoke to the Brooklynite about bad dates in the East Village and an awkward shopping trip to the St. Mark’s Bookshop.

Eric Ho cataloged 212 vacant lots in the East Village and Lower East Side, and has founded a group dedicated to putting them to good use.

The Museum of the City of New York shares old images of the Bowery.

Ryan Figlia spends the steamiest summer days helping run the air-conditioning sales and service business his grandfather started nearly 50 years ago on Avenue A. Here’s why he and his father aren’t sweating the economy.

Time for the latest installment of What’s That You’re Playing?, where we ask a clerk at one of the neighborhood’s record stores to tell us what’s spinning. This week, Mike Cobbs of A-1 Records helps a DJ pick out tunes for a five-hour set.

A roundup of this morning’s news, including a tribute to German artist Conrad Schnitzler, restaurant openings, and a new trend: Brooklynites moving to Manhattan for lower rents.

The photography of Stephen Rex Brown.

Three reunions are planned in the park, at least according to some anarchist graffiti.

Opponents hint that tomorrow they will announce new legal tactics to stall the expansion.

NBC’s “Smash” will be filming at Cafe Orlin on St. Marks Place today.

Death & Co., the perennially packed cocktail bar on East Sixth Street, has sold its first book for what an agent in the deal confirms is over $250,000.