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April 29th, 2009

Residents Protest Chinatown Bus Chaos

A group of residents fed up with idling buses and gathering crowds of passengers outside their apartments appealed to Community Board 3 last night for relief. The residents of the apartment building at 1 Pike Street and other buildings submitted a petition to the board calling on the NYPD and the city's Department of Transportation [...]

April 29th, 2009

Followup: Opposition to New Restaurant

Last week we told you about a new restaurant planned for the corner of Essex and Canal. A Community Board 3 committee signaled its support for a liquor license for the still unnamed establishment at 1 Essex. But last night local residents appeared before the full Community Board to protest the decision. They did [...]

April 29th, 2009

Cheap Meat Goes Mainstream

Today the New York Times got around to discussing the wonders of inexpensive cuts of meat, just two weeks after The Lo-Down brought you Essex Market butcher Jeffrey Ruhalter's cheap meat primer.

Visit Jeffrey's web site here.

April 29th, 2009

Wednesday News Links

Another day… still no resolution to the MTA bailout standoff in Albany. Now no vote is expected until next week. See the story in Newsday. Meanwhile, the Daily News reports the MTA has given the union a list of 600 employees who could lose their jobs due to the agency's financial crisis.

Starting Friday, the [...]