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Non-profit groups (including many LES organizations) “hopeful but wary” of NYC’s new system of awarding contracts (NYT). Brooklyn Bridge project to begin soon (Tribeca Trib). Delancey hotel update (Bowery Boogie). Comparing the Hester Street Fair and the Brooklyn Flea (New York Magazine). The Zipper Man (NYT). Saturday night’s at Ray’s Candy Store – and Ray finally has proof of residency (Neither More Nor Less).  
 Meatball Shop owners Michael Chernow & Daniel Holzman Our series profiling the participants in next week’s Taste of the Lower East Side continues this morning with the neighborhood’s hottest restaurant of the moment — the Meatball Shop. Childhood pals Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow are living a dream. Since the day they opened three months ago on Stanton Street, the place was a hit. Yet in spite of the huge crowds and great reviews, these guys are keeping their feet firmly planted on the ground.
The countdown begins for this weekend’s debut of the Hester Street Fair. Above you see the new gate that was recently installed on Essex Street. We’ll have a lot more details as the week goes on about what to expect Saturday morning. It’ll be mostly sunny today with a high of 63. Coming up, we’ll have updates on several ongoing stories, including the Grand Street fire. Tonight, CB3 will meet to review liquor license applications (there are a few interesting/controversial proposals on the table). And our series leading up to the Taste of the LES continues with a profile of the Meatball Shop.
Along with our weekly music and art opening picks (not to mention the Big Art Group Takeover at Abrons), here are a few other activities you might want to check out on this action-packed weekend:  James Braly Writer/performer/storyteller James Braly will preview his newest work-in-progress, Asylum, tonight and tomorrow night at Dixon Place. Braly is best known for his successful one-man show, Life in a Marriage Institution, and for his ongoing hijinks at the famed story-telling joint, The Moth. Asylum is the (real-life?) story of a high school pothead who checks himself into the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. $10. 8pm.
 Photo by Jennifer Strom We have a followup on the deadly accident on Delancey Street early Monday morning. As previously reported, a pedestrian was struck by a car near the intersection of Delancey and Essex, around 4am. Because the body was not removed for several hours, the gruesome scene greeted people on their way to work and caused traffic problems near the Williamsburg Bridge. Later in the day, several elected officials issued a statement calling on the city to make safety improvements at the intersection, one of the city’s most dangerous.
 Margaret Chin, City officials and community leaders meet with fire victims in Chinatown. The human toll of this week’s destructive fire on Grand Street came into sharp focus last night. A large number of residents displaced by the blaze crowded into the basement of the Chinese Benevolent Association on Mott Street for an informational meeting with city officials and community leaders. Sitting in the front row — the family of 87-year old Sing Ho, a longtime resident of 283 Grand, who died in Sunday night’s fire, unable to escape his sixth floor apartment. Ho’s daughter, fighting back tears, demanded answers about how the fire started and why her father could not be rescued (more of what she had to say this weekend). Continue reading Residents Displaced by Fire Attend Briefing in Chinatown
Films get their very own post this weekend because there are quite a few screenings and openings worth noting:
 Berlevåg Male Choir
Our friends at Rooftop Films are teaming up with Sweden’s Music Doc festival to present a special screening of Knut Eric Jensen‘s classic documentary, Cool & Crazy, tonight at the Open Road Rooftop at 350 Grand Street (don’t worry, the event will move inside at the same location if it’s raining). It’s a portrait of the dedicated members of Norway’s Berlevag Male Choir. Continue reading Weekend Films
Here are Ashlie Cotton’s highlighted art openings for the weekend:  Hanna Liden, Blown-out candles (black), 2010. As the weather warms in New York City, what could be better than catching a couple gallery openings in this titillating neighborhood we live in? This week’s recommendations begin with the show, “As Black as Your Hat” by Swedish artist Hanna Liden, who was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (and was deemed one of the most beautiful people in 2007 by Papermag). The show opens at Half Gallery (208 Forsyth) tonight from 6-8PM.
Thanks to an infusion of federal money, residents will continue to receive housing vouchers (NYT). Questions are being raised about the method the city is using to decide which after school programs to cut (Daily News). Continue reading Housing Subsidies Safe for Now, Placard Parking Rules, Ping Pong in the Park?
Last night, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver joined other elected officials, city officials and community leaders at a meeting to assure victims of the Grand Street fire they would not be forgotten. It was a dramatic and emotional gathering at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association headquarters on Mott Street. We’ll have a report later today. Also, we’ll have an update on the traffic accident that killed a pedestrian on Delancey Street earlier this week. Plus, we’ll take a closer look at Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s plan for a food market at the Seaport. We’re in for a rainy weekend. Look for a high in the mid-50′s the next few days.
 Photo by William Alatriste/New York City Council This morning, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gathered with other elected officials and community activists in front of the old Fulton Fish Market to call for a regional food market at the Seaport. She is leading a coalition called NYERS 4 MARKETS to promote the idea. Continue reading Quinn Leads Coalition for Seaport Food Market
From Grand Street, the destruction caused by Sunday night’s fire looks bad enough. But this morning, we have new photos taken from inside 289 Grand (the building on the corner of Grand and Eldridge Streets) illustrating the full extent of the devastation to two neighboring buildings. The photos were taken by Chris Kui, executive director of Asian Americans for Equality. Yesterday afternoon, he was taken inside the heavily damaged (but salvageable) building by an official with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The city made the call earlier this week to demolish 283 and 285 Grand. The photos after the jump help explain why they made that decision so quickly.
Continue reading Dramatic New Photos Show Devastation Caused by Grand Street Fire
 Photo by Cathryn Davis Zommer At the corner of Houston & Chrystie Street — a pedestrian was apparently struck by a car making a left turn. Lower East Side resident Cathryn Davis Zommer sent us this photo a short time ago.
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