If you didn’t catch Brian Lehrer’s interviews with Rep. Carolyn Maloney and her Democratic challenger, Reshma Saujani, last week, you might want to click on the audio clip below. The candidates in the 14th Congressional District (which includes part of the LES) meet face to face for their only debate a week from today. The back-to-back interviews on WNYC last Friday will give you a pretty good idea what to expect during that midday radio-only encounter:
              
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 Photo via Chinatown Working Group web site. Several days ago we reported on the latest controversy surrounding the Chinatown Working Group (CWG), a collection of 50 community organizations developing a blueprint for the neighborhood. Several members were displeased that the NYC Economic Development Corp. would be controlling the selection of a planning consultant, who will be hired to assist the CWG. Continue reading Possible Solution to Chinatown Planning Dilemma
 A restaurant is planned for 185 Orchard, below the Thompson LES Hotel. Here’s an early look at some of the bars and restaurants going before Community Board 3′s SLA Committee in September. For the complete list, visit CB3′s web site. Continue reading CB3′s September Liquor License Applications
 From Vision Disturbance by Christina Masciotti, a current production directed by Richard Maxwell is at Abrons Arts Center. Enticing avant-garde writer/director (and recent Guggenheim Fellow) Richard Maxwell will bring cutting edge playwright Christina Masciotti‘s play, Vision Disturbance, to the Abrons Arts Center for a three week run (Weds. – Sat.) that begins tomorrow. The play is about a Greek immigrant woman who experiences an eye disorder that includes a loss of depth perception among other perplexing symptoms, while going through a divorce. Continue reading Vision Disturbance Comes to Abrons Arts Center
Clearing out our in-box after last week’s break, we noticed this item: There are still a few more days to help East Side Community High School win $500,000. You might have noticed the article in the Daily News last Thursday, which noted that East Side’s principal had been sleeping in a tent outside the school, on 12th Street, to draw attention to the “Kohl’s Cares” competition. The 20 schools across the country garnering the most votes on Facebook will win a half million dollars each. The principal, Mark Federman, says he would use the cash for many things, including: new computers, a gym, improving arts and dance programs and field trips. Right now, the school is ranked #34 on the list. You can vote until Friday by heading to the school’s web site and clicking to the Facebook link. Also check out East Side’s YouTube video:
Continue reading Slumlord Watch List, “Incumbent Protection Plan,” No Franzen Frenzy
 Image via l_c_m_tt_'s Flickr photostream.
We’re back from our end-of-summer break and ready for fall on the LES! But it’ll feel a lot like summer today. 95 degrees and sunny — cooling off into the 70′s for the Labor Day holiday. Keep those news tips coming. Email us at tips@thelodownny.com
We’ve escaped to a secret mountain location for a brief respite. The Lo-Down will be back on Tuesday.
Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side this week: NINJASONIK – Thursday, August 26 at 730pm  NinjaSonik. NinjaSonik is not your average hip hop group. First of all, they dance the line between punk and dance just as much as delivering good old fashioned rap. They’ve got thought-out, goofy lyrics ala Wutang, inventive beats overlaid with catchy melodies in the vein of Outkast, a charismatic nerdy vibe like the Beastie Boys, and a clear “if it’s not fun, we don’t want it” Brooklyn mentality. Their songs are filled with cheeky rhymes about wearing tight pants, loving art school girls, and drinking PBRs, so sure, you could call them ‘hipster’, but I think they’re better than that. The tunes are infectious, and the live shows are high energy and unpredictable. If you haven’t caught them this summer, don’t let the fall pass without taking in one of their sets. $10 – Mercury Lounge – 217 East Houston. Continue reading This Week’s Music Picks
It looks like the Girls Prep Charter School has found space for its middle school. Earlier this month, the Department of Education backed away from a plan to allow the school to expand in a building on East Houston Street. DOE Chancellor Joel Klein is out tonight with the following statement:
We’re told the school has leased private space at 51 Astor Place, overlooking Cooper Square. For more than a year, parents from P.S. 188 and P.S. 94 (co-tenants of the Houston Street building) fought the Girls prep expansion plan. The threat of a lawsuit forced the DOE and Girls Prep to find an alternative.
Our weekly look at upcoming happenings on the Lower East Side. If you have a neighborhood event you would like us to post, please email us here.
A fun way to keep up with the Fringe Fest (running in various downtown venues through Sunday, the 29th) is to follow the video posts AndrewAndrew have been doing for TimeOutNY’s blog, Upstaged. They are seeing everything and give brief, often biting, always honest video “insta-reviews” of the shows.
Continue reading Koch vs. Silver (continued), LES Nightlife “Still Gritty,” Tacos Under the Bridge
 Image via vivnsect's Flickr photostream. It’s feeling like fall. 69 degrees and rain showers today. 74 tomorrow – 83 on Thursday.
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