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Monday, March 15, 2010 | 2:44am

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SoHo & Little Italy Locals Disgusted Over Van & Apartment Illegal Goods Sales After Chinatwon Raid

SoHo Residents Blame Soft Punishments for Thriving Illegal Handbag Business

SoHo and NoLiTa residents don't think the selling of counterfeit goods has slowed down despite hundreds of arrests in the last year.

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DOT Proposes Traffic Medians on Bowery, Manhattan Bridge Ramp Work

City Proposes Tree-Lined Median on Bowery to Protect Pedestrians from Manhattan Bridge Traffic

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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Delivery Truck Demolishes Newsstand on Grand St.

Delivery Truck Demolishes Newsstand in Chinatown

An 85-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after a delivery truck backed into the newsstand where she was working — demolishing it completely.

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Two Downtown Manhattan Catholic Schools set to Close((AP Photo/Matt Moyer))

Parents Protest at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral Over Closings of Two...

Angry parents and students protested in front of St. Patrick Cathedral Sunday against plans by the archdiocese to shutter two historic Catholic schools downtown.

Chinatown Residents Return to Last Year's Fire-Ravaged Tenement

One year after a devastating fire destroyed a Chinatown apartment building, 11 displaced families have finally returned home.

NYPD Seeking Three Men in Cell Phone Store Robbery Spree Across...

The men have hit T-Mobile and AT&T stores from SoHo to Washington Heights, the NYPD said.

Chinatown Landlord Compares Proposed Tax to Gang Extortion

A proposed business improvement district would impose a yearly tax on property owners in Chinatown.

Community Board 1 Continues to Push Attorney General on Terror Trials

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that civilian trials for alleged 9/11 terrorists in Manhattan was still possible.

Chinatown And Lower East Side Officially A National Historic District(DNAinfo/Suzanne Ma)

Chinatown, Little Italy Officially a National Historic District

Two downtown neighborhoods, intertwined in over a century of shared histories, have been recognized as a single, national historic district.

In Chinatown, Fujanese Say They Are Forgotten(DNAinfo/Suzanne Ma)

In Chinatown, Fujianese-Cantonese Rift Exposed at Neighborhood Meeting

A brief clash at a community meeting last week exposed a rift between Chinatown's Fujianese and Cantonese residents.

Future of Chinatown Debated in Three Languages, But Dialogue is...

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.

Muslim Chaplain Arrested for Bringing Blades to Tombs Jail in Lower...

A Muslim chaplain for the Department of Correction who once served 14 years in prison for murder was arrested Wednesday for trying to bring box cutter blades and scissors to "the Tombs" jail downtown.

9/11 terror trials(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Downtown Leaders Want Terror Trials Moved, But Where To?

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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