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Owner of 135 Bowery angry about landmark designation (Observer).
Silver believes there will be a budget by early next week (Capital Tonight).
A deal to save free student Metrocards, but don’t rejoice just yet (2nd Avenue Sagas).
Continue reading Owner of 135 Bowery Incensed, Homeland Security on Park Row, Nolitan Revealed
 A piece by Yura Osborn
Tonight, begin your weekend by heading over to a new “pop-up” gallery called 21 Ludlow Gallery (21 Ludlow), where the group show, “Works on Paper,” will have it’s opening reception from 8-11p. This show should be refreshing because, as curator May Yeung notes, “The show presents an array of playful works varying in styles, but coherent in the overall message – art should be imaginative, fun and affordable.”
Continue reading Weekend Art Scene
The fire actually happened at the Masaryk Towers, not the Baruch Houses, as we reported earlier. A woman was being treated inside a Beth Israel ambulance, most likely from smoke inhalation.
Residents sitting on a bench outside the apartment complex said they smelled smoke at about 7am. The fire apparently started in a 7th floor unit.
Maintenance workers are now trying to pump out a whole lot of water that collected in the building’s entryway.

About half a dozen emergency vehicles have responded to a fire at the Baruch Houses on Columbia Street. More to come…
 Making good use of the new Hester Street Playground - yesterday following the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Sunny today with a high of 86. Partly cloudy tomorrow and Sunday, with high temps hovering in the mid to high 80′s. We’ll have more on the Hester Street Playground today, a project that NYC’s Park’s commissioner called a model of community engagement. Change is in the air in the Grand Street co-ops. We’ll explain that. And of course our weekend guide.
Last year, after sixty years of selling fruits and vegetables from a beyond bare bones storefront at 400 Grand Street, cranky but beloved Ruby Baumgarten decided to call it quits. Now the ground-floor tenement space is about to get a new tenant — the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy.
Continue reading Former Home of “Ruby’s Fruits” Becomes Jewish Conservancy Visitor’s Center
A large scale exhibit, featuring nine L.E.S. galleries and 60 artists, centered around themes from writer Richard Price’s gripping novel, Lush Life, begins today at the Sue Scott Gallery. Each gallery will take the title of one of the nine chapters from the book and present work, by various artists, reflecting that chapter’s theme. The summer-long show is curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
Continue reading Lush Life – An Exhibition in Nine Chapters Begins Tonight

Richard Ravitch (Friend of Shelly) and David Paterson divided on the state’s budget (NYT).
Building workers’ union endorses Carolyn Maloney (Daily News).
Political candidates discovering Chinese voters (World Journal via Voices That Must Be Heard).
Continue reading Budget Break-Up, Placard Parking Primer, Everybody’s Going to Heaven

It’s a busy day on the Lower East Side. This morning, there’s a ribbon cutting ceremony at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, where the brand new Hester Street Playground will be formally unveiled. Meanwhile, there will be a lot of activity at Cooper Union, where the Rent Guidelines Board is meeting — and activists and elected officials protesting outside. And “Lush Life,” an inventive new exhibition gets underway at the Sue Scott Gallery. Party cloudy and windy today with a high of 76.
Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side this week:
 The Dixons
THE DIXONS – Thursday, June 16 at 10pm
The Dixons are Brooklyn based, but you might have a hard time believing that, since they look and sound like they’re from 1950’s Nashville. One of the most authentic and pure honky tonk bands on the scene today, the Dixons bring the old-school love with sincere renditions of Ernest Tubb and George Jones favorites, as well as superbly penned originals. Put on your Nudie suit, head over to Rockwood, and lose yourself in the pedal steel sweetness.
FREE | Rockwood Music Hall - 196 Allen Street
Continue reading This Week’s Music Picks
The attorney representing Chinatown developer William H. Su says he will appeal a decision from the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal ordering payments to the displaced tenants of 128 Hester. As we reported yesterday, the decision requires Su to compensate nine families who were forced to move out of the crumbling tenement building, which was later demolished on orders from the Department of Buildings.
The attorney, Stuart Klein, said the findings are “totally false.” In a phone interview a short time ago, he strongly disputed the conclusion by a housing administrator that construction of an 18-story hotel next to 128 Hester and the alleged failure to maintain the building led to unsafe conditions. Su owns both properties.
Continue reading Owner of 128 Hester Will Appeal Decison Ordering Payments to Displaced Tenants
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