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The article discusses the history of the Market Diner located on the corner of 43rd Street and 11th Avenue in New York City. The diner closed in 2006. Possible uses for the building are mentioned. The personal experiences of people who used to eat at the diner are discussed, including Stephen May and Milton Molina.

The author discusses hiking with a family on the Upper Awosting carriage path to Castle Point in Minnewaska State Park Preserve near New Paltz, New York. Castle Point offers expansive views of the Hudson River Valley. The author's two children are aged two and six and the adults found that carrying the two year old was hard work while hiking.

Reports on the New York State Heart Gallery's exhibition of photographs of children available for adoption. Report that some of the children have had many foster homes; Report that three photographers involved in Heart Galleries across the United States have adopted children; Ability of the photographers to give the children dignity.

Reports that a body found floating in the East River is believed to be that of a 44-year-old woman who vanished in March 2003 while walking on the Upper East Side. Description of body resembling Svetlana Aronov; Where the body was found; Clues and evidence the police were investigating including an eyewitness account that Aronov and a cocker spaniel dog got inside a taxi-cab; Results of lie detector tests taken by Aronov's husband suggesting he was not involved in foul play.

A petition in New Jersey signed by more than 2,300 Democratic officials, advocates and residents has helped sway members of the State Senate Judiciary Committee to call for a vote on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. But the bill has a long way to go, and recent votes against same-sex marriage in a Maine referendum and in the New York State Senate led opponents of the New Jersey measure to say that the political tide had turned against it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At around 5:45 a.m., armed with a Mossberg 835 12-gauge shotgun painted in camouflage colors and his ''sippy cup,'' a travel mug full of coffee, John T. Rauh pulled his big red Ford F-250 out of the driveway, his Navy dog tags swinging from the rearview mirror. He had permission on Saturday to scout out a large patch of private land where he normally hunts for deer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For five days last November, the 29-year-old man was John Doe, lying in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with a bashed-in skull, a punctured lung, a broken jaw and eye socket and a crushed hand. After a brutal mugging in Queens, he had no wallet, no identification and no shoes. He had managed to tell the police his age, but no one knew he was Risto Prendzov, a man who had left Macedonia four days after winning a green card lottery in 2006, a man whose friends were searching frantically for him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Most people seem to remember the first time they walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. So why not make sure that your child's first memory of the crossing includes you -- and some ice cream, and some Brooklyn serendipity, as well? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sorbrique Grant, 22, is in her second year teaching English as a second language to 18 fourth graders at Public School 70 in the Bronx, through the Teach for America program. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Brittany Catanzaro, 19, is NY Waterway's first female ferry captain, and the youngest ever. She takes commuters from Weehawken and Hoboken, N.J., to Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lucy Rodriguez, 57, has lived in the same two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, for 32 years. The living room is painted in a fashionable gold, and the sun streams in past family pictures. She felt safe there, with at least a dozen cherub figurines watching over her. Until early Labor Day morning. Ms. Rodriguez, who has carefully kept blond hair, worked as a hairdresser until 1990, when she had a heart attack and went on disability. On Sept. 1, she was coming back from an emergency room visit after midnight when a man walked down her entryway stairs from the roof, showed her his knife, and took her purse and jewelry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

James V. Samuelson, 58, is New Jersey Transit's deputy general manager for safety and training, working from an office at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Since 1970, he has worked for railroads of New Jersey, where he lives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Terrence Walcott, 25, has worked for two years as a personal trainer at the David Barton Gym at Madison Avenue and East 85th Street. He grew up in Crown Heights and was on the track team at the University of Michigan, where he could long-jump 26 feet. Slogan on work shirt: Look Better Naked [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HONORING WILLY On Willis Avenue [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Matt Everett, 27, is the visual coordinator at the new Brooks Brothers store on Broadway and 65th Street, in charge of windows, dressing mannequins and maintaining the image of the store, where displays change at least every month. He came to New York City in July 2007 from Plano, Tex., after substituting in his mother's glass workshop in a summer camp in Pennsylvania when she was sick with complications from surgery. Work-related addiction: Custom clothes, with the employee discount. You pick everything -- the collar, the cuff, the fabric -- and they measure you perfectly. I always dress a little bit preppy to go with the theme, but I dress down to go in the windows. When I'm putting things together, I don't want to be in anything I have to worry about. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With all the talk of bulls and bears lately, what's happening to cats and dogs? At New York City's main animal shelter, monthly calls to the volunteers who can help people keep their pets through tough financial times doubled, to 225 from 115, between January and September. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A HOLIDAY PLACE To Meet and Eat [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A rare orchid the size of a Volkswagen Beetle is blooming for the second time ever at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a blessed event that has spurred envy among the handful of orchid growers who will even try to grow a plant this big. Considered the queen of orchidaceous plants, and one of the world's largest orchids, this particular Grammatophyllum speciosum is 12 feet in diameter and weighs about 200 pounds. It last bloomed in 2003 and has four huge flower spikes, at least one of which should remain in bloom for the next week or two, said David Horak, curator of the garden's orchid collection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Students at Public School 92 in the East Tremont section of the Bronx had a party last year when they were awarded an A by the Department of Education. But on Tuesday, parents picking up their students on Clinton Avenue shook their heads in shock when they learned that their school was the only one in the city to fall from an A to an F. While elementary English scores on state standardized tests rose 7 percentage points and math scores rose about 9 citywide, P.S. 92 had a 10-point drop in English and a 2-point drop in math. The progress students make year to year is the biggest factor in the department's new report card system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Along the entry path to the Tremont Community Garden, there are seven unmatched tables, each with four chairs tipped toward them to keep rain from collecting on the seats. On many summer evenings half the tables are full -- of gardeners and nongardeners and the children of both -- as the people who live in the neighboring Bronx apartments use the place as a communal living room. Its 17,500 square feet are alive with four o'clocks, magenta blooms you cannot quite set your watch by. Two cabbage white butterflies twiddle above the cucumbers, and a goldfinch perches near a hollyhock. But it is also bustling with a particular kind of people -- self-proclaimed ''diggers'' who first learned their skills in the Carolinas or Virginia or Georgia. They plant okra and collard greens, but they are open to the yams and callaloo favored by fellow gardeners with Latino and Jamaican roots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even if they had to sit through grown-up's speech after grown-up's speech, and even if they mispronounced his name a lot, the 33 fidgeting swimmers at the McBurney Y.M.C.A. on West 14th Street on Thursday were ready with questions for Michael Phelps. Stephen Hoey, 7, of Manhattan, said, ''I want to ask him if he can make more medals, really.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The view was delightfully distracting. One could imagine being on that yacht heading up the East River rather than doing push-ups against the eastern tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, where, cheek against the granite, one could see a tiny sliver of water far below. The River Cafe, on the waterfront, looked particularly welcoming viewed through bent knees in deep squat. By the end, the roar of a motorcycle on the roadway below sounded like a personal invitation to head straight to a hot shower and a cold beer. It was such scenery that inspired the Brooklyn Bridge Boot Camp, said Ariane Hundt, a personal trainer who has been leading troops across the span in sprints and stretches all summer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A dozen 9-year-old girls in jelly-bean-colored bathing suits were learning the crawl at Lake Bryn Mawr Camp one recent morning as older girls in yellow and green camp uniforms practiced soccer, fused glass in the art studio or tried out the climbing wall. Their parents, meanwhile, were bombarding the camp with calls: one wanted help arranging private guitar lessons for her daughter, another did not like the sound of her child's voice during a recent conversation, and a third needed to know -- preferably today -- which of her daughter's four varieties of vitamins had run out. All before lunch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

How is the water? It's a question Capt. John Lipscomb is asked all the time as he patrols the Hudson estuary for Riverkeeper, an environmental group that works to improve water quality. The answer, according to a report analyzing river swimmability that the group plans to release Thursday morning, is variable. When the water is good it is surprisingly good, but when it is bad, it's not safe to splash on skin. And the quality varies day by day, block by block. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than a dozen people were injured, one of them critically, in an apartment fire in Brooklyn early Tuesday in which firefighters rescued six people, and two small children were dropped to safety from a second-floor apartment, according to fire officials and witnesses. The fire, at the corner of Newkirk and Ocean Avenues in Flatbush, broke out around 2 a.m. and sent eight members of one family to the hospital. Six people remained hospitalized last night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Something about the man in the banana costume appealed to Ricardo Miranda Zuniga. Maybe it was the sign he wore that read, ''A banana from my country can travel easier than me.'' Maybe it was the fruit-wearer's free-spiritedness as he paraded in his peel through public places. Or maybe it was the Latino roots they shared. So when Mr. Zuniga, 37, a graphic artist from Brooklyn who also works with new media, was looking through the portfolios of immigrant artists who were seeking mentors, he picked Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, 30, a conceptual artist from the Bronx who has made videos of himself playing Benito Banana, a character he created to reflect on migration. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nowadays, most tales of longstanding and beloved family businesses in New York seem to end with a sniff and a final mop of the floor. But as Zabar's, the venerable West Side purveyor of New York noshes, approaches its 75th anniversary next year, it is flourishing and still very much in the family. Overseeing aisles of smoked fish, a United Nations worth of cheeses, and the iconic coffee and rugelach is the firm's president, Saul Zabar, who will celebrate the 75th anniversary of his 5th birthday next week. Mr. Zabar says that he does not remember the grand opening of the original Zabar's but does remember his own role in the early days: As a lookout posted on Broadway because of the Blue Laws, when stores were ordered to -- but did not always -- close from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Shortly after last week's unveiling of the portrait of Eloise, the endearing denizen of the Plaza Hotel, we started thinking about other children's books set in New York City, and how they caught our imaginations early on. They helped convince us, back when we were truly the center of the universe, that New York might actually share that honor. Not that we shared much back then. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The walls of the historic Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village will be preserved under a plan released by New York University on Friday, a move that Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, hailed as ''tremendous progress'' in the talks between the university and community leaders about the site. Plans had included a proposal to demolish the building. The university's earlier proposal for the site at 133-139 Macdougal Street featured a new six-story building that would be used by N.Y.U.'s School of Law and a new theater for use by both the university and the community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At the lime-green wall, soon to be whitewashed, all the elements are there for poignant remembrances: a curtain scheduled to come down, forever; a creative genius who dies young, before his dreams come to life; a show about an exotic dancer who dies young and musically and slowly; and a doorway where the fans, more devoted than most, wait longer than usual, before and after each show. Add a felt-tipped pen or two, and the tributes are spreading on the wall of the Nederlander Theater, where ''Rent,'' one of the longest-running musicals on Broadway, is approaching its final act, with the closing date set for Sept. 7. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Al Hicks was standing outside an old mine in the Adirondacks, the largest bat hibernaculum, or winter resting place, in New York State. It was broad daylight in the middle of winter, and bats flew out of the mine about one a minute. Some had fallen to the ground where they flailed around on the snow like tiny wind-broken umbrellas, using the thumbs at the top joint of their wings to gain their balance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Daniella, the 6-month-old, pink-clad baby abandoned by her parents and dropped off at a firehouse in Queens last week, took a circuitous and unusual route to safety with the help of her father's sister's companion, a livery cab driver. At first, he was seen as a hero, then a liar when it was learned he had invented a story about a stranger leaving the baby in his cab. The story, and the way it crumbled, captured the city's imagination, and some 40 people have offered to adopt Daniella. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival that was held on October 20, 2007, in Rhinebeck, New York. The festival was attended by around 12000 for shopping for fleeces, selling sheep, and to watch various amusement events. It is informed that Mac Gilliant, a judge evaluated angora goats during a goat show at the festival.

The article offers information regarding reactions of different classes of persons on sex change of a principal of a school at Career & Technical Center, Ulster County, New York. It states that the principal Gary Suraci, who has now changer her sex name to Genna Suraci, has caused a stir amongst students and staff. Whereas, some students are unaffected by the fact, some have refused to rejoin the school, as, according to them it has a negative influence.

The article reports that an elderly woman named Louise Paciarello was strangled to death in her apartment in Yonkers, New York. Paciarello's home caught fire after the incident. According to reports, a note was also found which is being linked to her death. One of the neighbors told police that she showed the note to him and said that someone is trying to get into her apartment. It states that she was living in the complex for the past 15 years.

The article reports that government officials in New Jersey and New York visited towns affected by a northeaster on the week beginning April 17, 2007 to determine if federal aid would be available to the towns. Meanwhile, Governor Richard J. Codey of New Jersey said that the state had suffered a $180 million in damage to private and public property.

The article reports on controversy surrounding the activities of New York Senator Wayne R. Bryant. It is informed that several faculty members at the Camden campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey were enquired about the senator's work record, who he is believed to have earned about $35,000 a year for four years to lecture at the law school. However, the internal records reveal that Bryant had lectured only 2 of the 20 classes that the school proposed to teach.

The article informs that Bilal Shareef, a Muslim student in Newark, New York, has sued the Newark public schools on March 7, 2007 claiming that he was unable to attend his high school graduation in June 2006 because it was held in a church. Shareef said that it was against his beliefs to set foot in any building with symbols involving God.

The article presents information on meditation classes for mothers and children conducted at the Dharmachakra Buddhist Center in New York City. The classes have been running in the five boroughs of the city to preach Buddhist practices and to train meditation . It is reported that this guided meditation has improved the parenting style of the women.

The article reports on 48-year-old James Thomas Sr., chief of the Unalachtigo band, a tribe of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Nation, who plans to open a huge casino complex 10 miles north of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. There are 60 members in the tribe who have claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in 2005 that the state has sold 3,044 acres of land without the required act of Congress, on which they have rights.

The article presents news briefs related to crimes and sentences in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Zachary Gibian was sentenced 25 years in prison by the New York Supreme Court for killing his stepfather. John Merla, the former mayor of Keyport, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court for accepting bribes during his tenure. The body of missing New York City college student Joseph Zahornacky was found in a lake in Connecticut.

The article informs that New Jersey Transit Corp. (NJTC) has planned to begin rolling out double-decker trains in December 11, 2006. The trains will not be having the dreaded middle seat of its current cars. The facility is expected to ease the commute for some of its 72,000 customers who travel to New York City on a typical weekday. According to Dan Stessel, Spokesman for NJTC, the new cars would be sent to the system's busiest rail lines with effect from December 11, 2006.

The article reports on the efforts of Laurent Robin, a professional firefighter from France, in raising funds for the medical care of a 5-year-old daughter of his friend who has rare neurological disorder, by traveling on a recumbent bicycle from firehouse to firehouse in New York City.

The article reports on the nomination of child advocate Kevin M. Ryan by governor-elect Jon S. Corzine to run the Department of Human Services in New York.

Talks about the swimming regulations at the town pool in Newark, New York.

Reports on the death of police officer Dwayne Reeves after a shooting in front of Weequahic High School in New York.

Features the free yard sale called Household Bulk Refuse Collection Day in Essex County, New York.

Reports that the Hoboken City Council failed to pass an emergency appropriation for city government financing in New York.

Presents the author's account of her experience while riding a gondola with her family in New York City's Central Park. Reasons for deciding to go for a gondola ride; Sightings during the ride.

Features the chocolate fudge served at Serendipity restaurant in New York City. Price of the chocolate fudge; Details on the taste of the menu; Availability of the product.