The building once home to Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction has been sold for $4 million, according to city records. The restaurant/bar/performance space known as Mo Pitkin's, which closed last year, was part of East Village entrepreneur Phil Hartman's now apparently disintegarting empire. Earlier this month, Mr. Hartman announced that he was closing his Two ...

Folk singer David Peel was leading a crowd of protesters in a singalong of his charming ditty “Die Yuppie Scum” on Friday evening, when suddenly the rebellious crooner experienced a moment of clarity. “What are we doing over here?” Mr. Peel asked. “Where are the apartments?” A few doors down, it turned out. Demonstrators had intended to gather outside an ...