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As we reported yesterday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and the Grand Street co-ops are organizing a rally Sunday afternoon to save the Pitt Station Post Office. The Postal Service is expected to decide in the next week or two which of the 371 post offices being evaluated across the country will be closed. So the event on Sunday is very likely the last opportunity for residents to make their voices heard.
The Clinton Street post office is one of 7 locations in Manhattan on the chopping block. According to the Washington Post, it's unlikely more than about 200 offices will be on the final list. The closures are part of the Postal Service's effort to close a $7 billion budget shortfall. At most, shuttering the retail offices will save around $20 million.
Continue reading More on Sunday’s Rally to Save Clinton Street Post Office
 
Miriam Friedlander memorial at City Hall: Knickerbocker Village has some video from last night's tribute to the legendary and beloved LES councilmember. We'll have more thoughts on the memorial, and Friedlander's legacy, over the weekend.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is organizing a protest outside Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office today. They are unhappy about changes he wants to make in the proposed "Leandra's Law," the bill making it a felony to drive drunk with a child in the car. Silver wants it to be a misdemeanor unless the driver's blood alcohol
level is at least 0.18, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08.According to the Daily News, "Silver said the Assembly will address the issue, but didn't specify
how: 'As a father and a grandfather, I am deeply committed to doing
whatever it takes to protect our kids from drunk drivers.'"
Sources on Capitol Hill tell the Times, although her staff denies it, that Rep. Nydia Velazquez, is blocking a bill that would extend credit card reform to small businesses.
Jeremiah reports: David's Shoe Repair is back in business.
The Columbia Spectator observes it's a "full house at Cafe Katja."
A benefit dance party to support Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc., a resident company based in the Clemente Soto Velez Arts Center, will be held tonight at La Tea Theater (in CSV, 107 Suffolk St.) from 7p – 11p.
A prolific performance group, MDDF also works with programs that help bring dance to NYC
schools, including public students and communities underserved in the
arts, dance and aesthetic education. MDDF develops research about
arts-based learning.
$25 admission for an evening of: complimentary snacks, margaritas, raffles, live performance by Mark DeGarmo and Marie Baker-Lee, and a mass merengue lesson by impresario La Fab. Tickets will be available at the door.
Yesterday, we mentioned Sunday's College Information Fair at the Seward Park Educational Campus (11am-3pm). Now we have the spiffy flyer from Sheldon Silver's office. For more information, contact Paul Goldstein, in Silver's office, at 212-312-1420.
Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh speaks at public housing rally, as Senator Daniel Squadron and affordable housing advocates look on.
A coalition pushing New York City and state to funnel more money to its public housing developments rallied at City Hall this morning, and presented Governor Paterson with a letter asking for his "support in fully funding the State’s share of NYCHA’s operating costs in the coming year’s budget." The group (the SOUND Campaign), consisting of more than 75 elected officials and numerous community organizations, was created by State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh and Senator Daniel Squadron.
For many years, the city and state have underfunded public housing, at the same time that federal subsidies have been declining.
Continue reading Political Leaders, Residents Rally For Public Housing Funding
We just got word from the the Seward Park Housing Corporation that there will be a rally to save the Pitt Station Post office this Sunday at 12:30pm. State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney will be in attendance. It will be held outside the post office on Clinton Street (between Grand and East Broadway). The Pitt Station is on a short list of Manhattan post offices in jeopardy as the U.S. Postal Service grapples with a large budget deficit.
Continue reading Just In: Pitt Station Post Office Rally on Sunday
Video and installation artist Candice Breitz will present New York, New York,
her first-ever live performance, tonight and tomorrow night at Abrons Arts Center. The work is a Performa 09 Arts Commission piece which features two nearly-identical
casts composed of four pairs of identical twins — with each pair of
twins split into two groups of four actors each — presenting two
evenings of improvised performance. The performances will be based on
intensive "character development sessions" that Breitz will hold with
each set of twins to develop a single character that both will play,
although in separate casts and improvisations.
BPT has tickets.
Abrons Arts Center//466 Grand St.//8:30pm
 Tonight's LES Stories Series at Tenement Talks will be centered around "Apartment Tales". Professional tellers share tales; see if you
do better with a 3-minute story of your own. Performers include: Christen Clifford, Ophira Eisenberg, Joey Hood and Zoe Muntaner.
108 Orchard St. // FREE // 6:30p // Tonight's event is sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery
From State Senator Daniel Squadron's office:
New York, NY – State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, and Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) will join with city, state, and federal elected officials; public housing residents; NYCHA employees; and housing advocates today in a rally at City Hall to call on the State and City to fully fund New York City public housing. The coalition, called the Save Our Underfunded NYCHA Developments (SOUND) Housing Campaign, will release a letter to Governor Paterson calling for full funding in the 2010 budget.
Continue reading Public Housing Rally at City Hall This Morning
The Daily News reports, "spending big was no guarantee of victory in the recent City Council races." Of the top 20 spenders, 11 lost in either the Primary or the General Election. Victorious CD1 candidate Margaret Chin made the list of the top 12 spenders. Coming in at #5, she spent $265,242. Defeated incumbent Alan Gerson spent $200, 797.
Governor Paterson blocked passage in the Senate of "Leandra's Law," the proposal that would make it a felony to drive drunk with a child in the car.
Continue reading City Council’s Big Spenders, New Museum Concerns, Tour Bus Hearing
This Sunday from 11am-3pm, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senator Daniel Squadron & The City University of New York are sponsoring a CUNY College Information Fair for high school students, college students & adult learners.
Receive one-on-one counseling and information on:academic & honors programs, financial aid and scholarships, adult & continuing education, citizenship and immigration services.
Location: Seward Park Educational Campus, 350 Grand St. (Enter on Ludlow St.).
From our friends at the Abrons Arts Center:
Hundreds of Lower East Side residents, dance aficionados and others came to Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center on Sunday, November 8, to enjoy a free dance concert courtesy of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Abrons Arts Center. The concert, held to welcome and celebrate the dance company’s move to the Lower East Side, offered an afternoon of world-class dance by Taylor 2, the sister company formed in 1993 to bring the signature works of Paul Taylor — who made his stage debut at the Abrons in 1954 — to new audiences. By 1 p.m. the crowd formed a line stretching around the block. By curtain, every one of the 350 seats in the Abrons’ historic theater was filled. Nearly 100 people were turned away, a testament to the need for continued performance offerings in the neighborhood. Taylor 2 performed Company B, a lively piece set to songs by the Andrews Sisters, and Esplanade, featuring the music of Bach. “We are grateful to Paul Taylor for their generosity to the Abrons and to the Lower East Side community,” said Jay Wegman, Artistic Director of the Abrons. “We hope to welcome many of those who attended the dance concert — and those who couldn’t get a seat — to our upcoming performances at the Abrons.”
Find bargain prices at a flea boutique this Sunday!
It's sponsored by the Co-Op Village NORC/The Educational Alliance.
WHEN: Sunday, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
WHERE: East River Bldg. #4 Community Room, 477 FDR Drive
Continue reading Flea Market on Sunday
Photo by Matt Hogan (via Streetsblog)
A cement truck coming off of the Manhattan Bridge crashed into a cell phone store on Canal Street Street today, injuring eight people, and badly damaging a row of parked cars. For years,residents in Chinatown have complained about the danger to pedestrians near the bridge.
According to the Tribeca Tribune, four of those injured remain hospitalized in "serious but stable condition."
Continue reading Eight Injured When Truck Plows Into Chinatown Building
If you're looking for some fun burlesque, head over to the Bowery Poetry Club tonight for Skits 'N' Tits. The Stage Manager, Daniella, wrote to us:
Yes raunchy title, but I can assure you that it's conceived and curated by a trifecta of talented women, and it's the ONLY 2hr. comedy, burlesque and variety show on the LES for $ 5! It (starts at 10pm) and ends w/a live band @ midnight and culminates in a dance party!
The participating performers are paid generously, which is the goal, along with packing a lot of wild, subversive, and fun times into a an incredible $ 5 dollar show.
Continue reading Skits ‘N’ Tits Tonight at Bowery Poetry Club
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