It's official. Today the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate DUMBO a historic district, pending City Council approval. The area, composed of 91 industrial buildings dated mostly from 1880 to 1920, is bound by John Street to the north, York Street to the south, Main Street to the west and Bridge Street to the east. It is the city's 90th historic district. The district contains the Manhattan Bridge, and its support piers and anchorage......

MOVIE: Audrey Hepburn, a doll filled with heroin, Alan Arkin and the West Village in the 60s. What more could you ask for? Come check out Wait Until Dark tonight, but don't wait until dark to get there - the lawn fills up fast! Lawn opens at 5pm // Bryant Park // Free READING: Pamela des Barres is the Queen of the Groupies, and would likely never have referred to herself as a "band-aid". She......

BASEBALL: We're in the midst of Baseball Fever Week at The Museum of the City of New York. Their doors are open all week, whether you're a Mets or Yankees fan. Have a drink and check out their Glory Days exhibit, chronicling the good 'ol days of baseball in New York City. The glory days, FYI, were 1947-1957. 5 to 9pm // Museum of the City of New York [1220 5th Ave at 103rd......

On Thursday, a second dog was shocked downtown, the day after a Boston terrier apparently died from an electrocution on Rector Street. A dog walker who had been walking three dogs on John Street noticed the dachshund was shocked after leaning on scaffolding. The dog walker was able to revive the dog by giving it CPR, at the suggestion of someone who worked in a nearby building. We spoke to our vet, Dr. Peter Soboroff,......

March 10: The Back of the House Michael Harlan Turkell's photographs focusing on the behind-the-scenes world of restaurant kitchens will be on display through April 20th at The Fall Café. The opening night festivities, sponsored by the local Sixpoint Craft Ales, are from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. this Frida. 307 Smith Street, Brooklyn, 718-403-0230. March 11: Raw Cocktail Party at Organic Academics At first we were skeptical about the raw food thing, but then we......

Like a really bad joke, sending the writer that pretty much lives on alcohol to a cooking class seemed like a recipe for disaster. And it looked like it could only get worse when the class was shown which knives to hack a coconut open with. Luckily, we sat across a long butcher block table from Matthew Kenny, of Heirloom and formerly of Pure Food and Wine, at The Plant in DUMBO and as......

The big real estate news of the day is that the Duke Semans Mansion, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and on the market for $50 million, was sold for $40 million (a 20% savings!), and but bigger human interest angle news is that the buyer is a Russian immigrant who used to drive a cab! Tamir Sapir has the most incredible American Dream story ever - or at least this week.......

Today's the day for Beaujolais. As we learned last year, Beaujolais Nouveau is a "light bodied, fruity, easy-to-drink red wine made from the Gamay grape" and it comes out every year on the third Thursday of November -- which is today, conveniently. Many, many wine shops are offering tastings. Visit LocalWineEvents.com to find a tasting in your neck of the woods tonight, this weekend, or sometime next week. From November 17th through the 20th, you......

Police are looking for a yellow cab driver who followed his 25 year-old female passenger into her apartment and raped her on Sunday morning. The woman hailed a cab at 71st Street and Broadway, around 2:30AM after leaving pub P.D. O'Hurley's, and went downtown to her home on John Street. After paying, the cabbie apparently followed her into her apartment. The newspapers report the woman awoke to finding a man raping her, but she fell......

The Times had an article about the Corbin Building, at 11 John Street, being preserved and maybe even incorporated into the MTA's plans for a new Fulton Street Transit Center. MTA Chairman Peter S. Kalikow said, "Our new transit center and downtown's historic architecture are both important to the future success of Lower Manhattan." A new Fulton Street hub would make order of the "ganglia of subway platforms serving the A, C, J, M, Z,......