Our story last month about a luxury development planned on East Houston Street touched off an interesting debate among some of our readers about affordable housing. That debate continued during Community Board 3’s full board meeting last week. As you may recall, CB3’s land use committee had voted 9-4 to approve the sale of a [...]
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February 1st, 2010
Will Johnson photo by Traven Rice This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side. If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here. What do you do? Owner and Stylist at Whistle Salon. How long have you lived on the LES? On [...] February 1st, 2010
The Chinatown Working Group wants to get the word out about tonight’s town hall meeting at P.S. 130 on Baxter Street. Everyone is welcome to attend. For the past year, the organization has been developing what they hope will be a “broadly supported community based plan” for the future of the neighborhood. By the spring, [...] February 1st, 2010
 Some gallery openings of note this past weekend: Charles Dunn’s first solo-show of paintings, “Demons” opened at Number 35 Gallery on Saturday. “In the few paintings in this exhibition, Dunn created forms that try to soar, move and dance and yet are confined within the limited size of the rectangular canvas,“states the press release. [...] February 1st, 2010
White House adviser David Axelrod says no decisions have been made about moving the 9/11 terror trial from Lower Manhattan, but added “we have to take into consideration the concerns of the local authorities.” Meanwhile the President’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, says, “we want to see this man tried and brought to justice in the [...] |
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