With water-main repairs on Cooper Square just about done, the construction containers that were being used as canvases on East Fourth Street are not long for this world.

Plus, is the pizzeria going Lebanese?

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Neil Gaiman stopped into the St. Mark’s Bookshop for a so-called “ninja signing” yesterday, bringing a camera crew and a welcome sales boost with him.

Facebook Star, the pit-bull that was shot in the head by a police officer, is still recovering in a secret location. Meanwhile the miracle mutt’s owner, who was passed out when the shooting occurred in August, has returned to Poland, according to a friend. The Lexus Project — which advocated for Star after video of […]

Time for some more fun at the run. Here’s this week’s Dog Run Duo — Trio, actually!

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Robert Deiaco, a former chef at the Rainbow Room and Armani/Ristorante is opening East 12th Osteria with his wife.

Last week, we noted that Liberated China, the surf-and-streetwear label, would open a pop-up store between Second Avenue and Cooper Square. Well, here’s a look inside Panda Diplomacy, now doing business at 206 East Sixth Street. Customers who mention an Instagram photo or Facebook post by Panda Diplomacy or Liberated China can get 20 percent off […]

Sanna Chu Construction was recently completed near the intersection. A young woman was in serious condition after being hit by a car on Cooper Square Sunday, the fire department said. The incident happened near East Seventh Street shortly before 5 p.m. The victim, thought to be in her 20s, was taken to New York Presbyterian […]

An artist who at one point housed 100 cats has collaborated with one of them, Jupiter, by combining his organic material — fur, urine, and yes, poop — with her paints. Watch the video.

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Sasha von Oldershausen A new building is coming to the site of a long-empty lot on Avenue C, according to Department of Buildings records. A building permit filed Dec. 6 indicates that 13 Willow Avenue Realty Co. LLC will erect a six-story, 14-unit residential building at 699 East Sixth Street, where a 12-foot-by-10-foot hole, at one […]

After a week of sleeping on yoga mats, eating food cooked on hot plates and accepting pizza deliveries via floating balloons, the Cooper Union occupiers have left the eighth floor of the Foundation Building and are going global with their initiatives.

Shops on East Ninth Street are pulling an all-nighter and hoping to make back some of the thousands of dollars in business they lost in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy.

According to the online delivery service Seamless, Aaron’s Grill delivered out of 92 Third Avenue. So why is Blue 9 Burger at that address?

Rev. Billy preaching. As The Times and DNA Info reported, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, which we first told you about in March, opened on Saturday. The Local was there with cameras rolling, but before we show you our footage, here are some photos by Konstantin Sergeyev, a C-Squat resident who documented the museum’s […]

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Cooper Union students, along with members of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, held a “Free Umbrellas for Free Education” event this evening outside of the school’s Foundation Building, where anti-tuition protesters continue their occupation of the Peter Cooper Suite.