At approximately 3:40 a.m., police believe the man in his mid-20s followed the victim into a building on Amsterdam Avenue within the 24 precinct, which stretches from West 86th Street to West 110th. Inside the building, the man supposedly threw the woman to the ground and attempted to sexually assault her. He fled south on Amsterdam Avenue.

Anyone with information about the incident can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS, submit tips online at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or text tips to 274637 then enter TIP577.

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Gale Brewer

Melissa Mark-Viverito

Apple is drawing the Council’s 51 members in prom attire in a series called NYC High for the blog ANIMAL New York. So far, ANIMAL New York posted Council members in districts one through eight.

Each drawing is accompanied by a small score card that lists the neighborhoods they represent and several facts about their time on the Council.

“Politics is kind of like high school, with factions and gossip and people always trying to hold on to or increase their popularity,” Apple told ANIMAL.

Apple contributed to a similar project in which artists drew Chicago’s 50 aldermen.

Here is Apple’s drawings of West Side Council members Gale Brewer and Melissa Mark-Viverito, who represents  the Upper West Side north of 96th Street.

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The New York Institute of Technology will host a cyber security conference on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at NYIT Auditorium, 1900 Broadway. Dr. Eric Cole, author of Hackers Beware and Network Security Bible, will discuss future trends in network security, and security expert Bill Cheswick will talk about safe passwords.

“We have established this conference to collaboratively tackle the problem of cyber attacks,” said Nada Anid, dean of NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sciences.

To attend the conference, fill out an online registration form at www.nyit.edu/cybersecurity or email events@nyit.edu.

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The four candidates vying to succeed Eric Schneiderman in the State Senate will debate transportation issues Tuesday, Sept. 7.

“With a massive fare hike looming after the worst service cuts in a generation, public transit has never been a more important election year issue,” said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a New York City group that advocates for bicycling, walking and public transit.

The debate will be hosted by Transportation Alternatives and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a community-based organization that involves low-income Manhattanites in the development of environmental health and protection policies.

The debate will be co-moderated by West Side Spirit reporter Dan Rivoli and David King, assistant professor of urban studies at Columbia’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Topics of discussion will include sustainable transit funding, traffic safety, bike lanes and transportation equity.

The candidates attending include Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat, Mark Levine, Anna Lewis and Miosotis Muñoz.

The debate will be at the Armory Foundation, 216 Fort Washington Ave., at 7 p.m. Voters are invited to attend.

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When the Department of Homeless Services wanted to open a shelter in a West 107th Street building last February, the city was unaware of the landlord’s identity. The building’s owner was G M Canmar Residence Corporation. But the West Side Spirit used Department of Finance records to identify the owner as Mark Hersh, a notorious landlord who intimidated his tenants into moving.

Now, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, who represents the area with the aforementioned homeless shelter, recently authored a bill that requires corporate owners of residential buildings to provide names and addresses of its principle partners. The legislation, which passed unanimously in the Council, also bans the use of P.O. boxes or mail-handling facilities as mailing addresses.

Listing corporations as a building’s owner is common among landlords. Often, a building’s owner is listed as an address with LLC tacked on. This poses a problem to tenants in multiple-dwelling buildings who may have a problem that needs to be addressed.

“Today, the New York City Council is sending a message that landlords should not be allowed to hide behind shell companies as tenants scramble to resolve housing issues,” Mark-Viverito said. “Thanks to this legislation, tenants will have access to the names and contact information of the principal partners of these corporate entities that are increasingly the owners of our city’s residential buildings.”

The bill is on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s desk, awaiting his signature or veto.

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Scott Stringer, Manhattan’s borough president and Upper West Sider, is backing his neighborhood’s favorite son for attorney general. Stringer endorsed Eric Schneiderman Aug. 26, citing his reform credentials and fighting corruption in the State Senate.

“If I only had one reason behind my decision, it is that there is no better candidate who will restore confidence in the government more effectively, more forcefully and with greater independence than Eric Schneiderman,” Stringer said in a statement.

Former Borough President Ruth Messinger, also an Upper West Sider, and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal endorsed Schneiderman Aug. 30.

On the heels of his New York Times endorsement, Schneiderman also received the support of Citizens Union, a good government group.

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A panel of judges sided with residents of a co-op that say the Empire Hotel, a nightlife hotspot in the Upper West Side, is a noisy neighbor.

In a three-to-one decision, the co-op at 61 W. 62nd St. showed that the hotel’s rooftop bar caused “unreasonable” interference with the residents’ “right to use and enjoy their respective apartments,” according to an Aug. 24 ruling.

“The affidavits of the residents detailed the nightly assault on the quiet enjoyment of their respective apartments,” Judge James Catterson wrote in the decision.

The co-op also hired an acoustical consultant to submit an affidavit that said music played in the bar consistently exceeded the 45-decibel legal limit.

The decision reverses the state Supreme Court’s decision and sends the case back for a “provisional remedy” for the elimination of excessive noise.

“The rooftop bar was being operated in such a way it was causing a racket to the residents of the building,” said Steven Sladkus, attorney for the co-op. “I’m hoping that the trial court, in light of the Appellate Court’s decision, will do the right thing to do what it takes to curtail the nuisance as quickly as possible.”

Bruce Bronster, an attorney representing the hotel in the case, said the noise is in keeping with regulation.

“Our client has no interest in creating excessive noise in violation of the noise code,” Bronster said. “We only wish to get along with our neighbors. We don’t believe we’ve ever created noise in violation of the noise code.”

Affidavits from Jeffrey Chodorow, a restaurateur and the bar’s operator, said that the city never issued a noise violation to the rooftop bar. Music is played only in the west terrace and enclosed central area, not on the open-air terrace on the east side of the roof, which is closest to the co-op. The east side of the roof is also where smokers congregate.

Another defense was that music was not loud and residents hadn’t brought complaints about noise. Catterson wrote that the affidavits contained “inadmissible hearsay” and that absence of a violation from the city doesn’t mean there is no nuisance.

“Unfortunately,” Sladkus, the co-op’s attorney, said, “you cannot rely on state agencies to issue violations when violations are occurring.”

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