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 Photo by C. Merry. Mostly cloudy to start the week and 63 degrees. Continue reading Good Morning!
 
Last night, Community Board 3 and city planners took the SPURA show on the road. A fairly large group of residents from the Grand Street cooperatives attended a briefing at the Educational Alliance on a two-year-old initiative to finally redevelop an infamous 7-acre parcel near the Williamsburg Bridge. Continue reading CB3, City Discuss SPURA with Co-op Residents
Looks like another action-packed fall weekend on the Lower East Side is in store for us:
 The Pickle Guys owner Alan Kaufman, one of many participants in this Sunday's 10th Annual International Pickle Day. Photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis for The Lo-Down
Earlier this week, NY1 aired two reports raising questions about Shuang Wen, the highly regarded LES dual language school. Education reporter Lindsay Christ said the Department of Education is investigating the school’s recent decision to charge students for after-school Mandarin instruction. And she reported that the principal and members of the parent association have received threatening letters. This morning, Winston Chow, executive director of the Shuang Wen Academy Network, responded. Here is the full text of a press release we received a short time ago: Continue reading Shuang Wen Academy Network Calls NY1 Report Offensive and Misleading; Demands Apology
From International Pickle Day to the Hester Street Fair food festival — there’s plenty happening on the LES this weekend. The weather will (mostly) cooperate. 59 for a high today and rain showers, beginning mid afternoon. Tomorrow, partly cloudy, windy and a hgh of 62. Sunday, partly cloudy and 67. Continue reading Good Morning: More Bike Battles, Mars Bar as Bohemian “Standard Bearer,” Vintage Film
Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side this weekend:
 Carolina Chocolate Drops
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS – Friday, Oct. 15 at 7:30pm
No two ways about it – the Chocolate Drops are the real deal. Brought up in the south (mostly the Carolinas), this string-band trio is following in the footsteps of their mentor, none other than fiddle legend Joe Thompson. Continue reading Weekend Music Picks
We have a followup on a brutal beating that happened in the neighborhood earlier this month. As you may recall, the New York Post reported:
The bloody 46-year-old victim was hit repeatedly and then fell to the ground in front of Little Giant’s Bar on Orchard and Broome streets at 9:44 p.m. yesterday (October 1). Just before he collapsed, the wounded man was seen staggering nearby.
During last night’s Community Council meeting, 7th Precinct Commander Nancy Barry provided an update — and clarified at least one important piece of information. The assault, she said, did not happen on Orchard Street, but near the corner of Hester and Essex streets. Continue reading Police Need Information About October 1st Assault
A short time ago, elected officials, pedestrian safety advocates and community leaders crowded onto the bustling sidewalk on the Lower East Side to acknowledge a legislative achievement. Today, “Hayley and Diego’s Law,” which cracks down on careless drivers, went into effect. Continue reading Law Cracking Down on Careless Drivers Takes Effect Today
 Our friends at The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council will be hosting the second annual “Marco Polo Day” on Saturday. The occasion is a celebration of the co-existence of two communities, Chinatown & Little Italy, which was inagurated last year after the creation of the Chinatown Little Italy Historic District. This year’s festivities will include marionette puppet displays from the NYC Village Halloween Parade, Superior Concept Monsters, and musical performances by ALFIO, Chinese Fremasons, The New York Chinese Opera Society and more. Grand Street, between Mott & Mulberry Streets, we be closed off for special events, which begin at noon.
Continue reading Second Annual Marco Polo Day Returns to the L.E.S.
 First Presbyterian Church of New York City - photo by Katy Silberger via flickr Councilmember Margaret Chin honored the First Chinese Presbyterian Church yesterday, as it officially turned 100 years old, with a City Council Proclamation. Chin was at the historic Birthday Party earlier this summer (along with The New York Times, which profiled the congregarion’s oldest member here).
In her remarks during yesterday’s council meeting, Chin noted, “I remembered reading about Rev. Huie Kin, the founding pastor of the Church in 1910 and his work in Chinatown helping the Chinese immigrant workers who were strangers in a strange land with all kinds of needs. Continue reading Councilmember Margaret Chin Honors Hundred Year Old Church
Downtown club diva and actress Ann Magnuson will make her first New York theatrical appearance in nine years (she’s been in L.A.) with perfomer Adam Dugas tonight at Abrons Arts Center. Expect some theatrical fireworks in this musical mash-up performance that will be accompanied by harpists Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus. In Dueling Harps, the quartet will present “an arsenal of tunes ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime: psychedelic calls to prayer, Henry Purcell’s Baroque art songs, Kraftwerk, Buffy St. Marie, Lee Hazlewood, and Pink Floyd, as well as original songs by Magnuson and Dugas.” Oct. 14 -16 // 8p // $20 // 466 Grand Street.
We’re waking up to blue skies, but our weather will be changing for the worse in the next several hours. The forecasters say a Nor’easter is heading our way this afternoon. The rain is supposed to begin around 5pm. Look for a high of 65. Continue reading Good Morning: EMT’s Help Catch Hit-and-Run Driver, Ticketing in the Bus Lane, Talking Up Kickstarter
Hester Street Collaborative is an organization that believes in improving public spaces in our neighborhood any way it can. Yesterday leaders of the LES non-profit gathered with city officials and four talented artists to unveil “Mall-terations,” a temporary exhibition on the Allen Street pedestrian malls.
Continue reading Art Exhibition Helps Enliven Allen Street Pedestrian Malls
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