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This week’s news from some of The Lo-Down’s sponsors:
- Check out Live band Karaoke Friday October 28th at 10 p.m., at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge). Whether you’re a professional rocker or you have never sung in front of anyone in your life, Fontana’s gives you the best possible rock and roll experience.
- AAFE invites you to attend tonight’s “Local Spokes” visioning session on the future of bicycling in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. It will be held at 6 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Republic, 888 East 6th Street. More info here.
- The Lower East Side BID suggests you pay a visit to Maraya, the cigar shop and lounge at 87 Orchard. They have “Cut & Light” classes, cigar tastings, cigars & cocktail events and cigar dinners for experienced as well as occasional smokers.
- Dora, 221 East Broadway, offers pumpkin mini-breads, hot cider, the best coffee on the LES, and Perka, their new phone-based customer loyalty program!
 
Via Community Board 3, a request from Theresa Drescher, the managing director of City Santa:
We bring clothing and food to victims of domestic violence and families that are homeless at Christmas. Community Board 3 helped several years ago when we needed a space over the holidays to do our wrapping and packing of gifts for the families. We are getting ready to put our plans in motion for this Christmas and are once again in need of space. We were very fortunate last year and were given space mid November which helped greatly and allowed us to help more people. Our needs are about 1200 sq feet, heat and a bathroom. If space is not available until December 1 we would be thrilled to take it and we are always out by the end of December. We have always left every space we have been in cleaner than how we found it.
If you can help, email City Santa at: santa@citysanta.org.
 NYPD Photo via DNA Info.
The NYPD has released the name and a photo of a suspect they’re searching for in the murder of 18-year old Keith Salgado earlier this month. Salgado was shot and killed in the courtyard of the Campos Plaza public housing complex on East 12th Street October 16th. According to DNA Info, Crimestoppers has put the word out for information about the suspect’s whereabouts. Hockeem Smith, 24, is wanted for questioning about the crime, which was witnessed by dozens of people gathered for a late night game of dice. Police say Smith weighs about 140 pounds and is 5’6″ tall. If you have information, you can call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You can also submit a tip by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577.
 Photo by Cynthia Lamb. Banh mi shops have popped up like mushrooms across Manhattan over the last few years. I think it has to be a consequence of the economic downturn. How else to explain the culinary craze surrounding this once esoteric, frugal lunch item? Many who had never heard of a Vietnamese sandwich a decade ago now argue the merits of one over another. They’re cheap, light, filling, fresh and exotic – all attributes earning high marks in my book. Today it’s a banh mi connoisseur’s paradise in and around our neighborhood. Continue reading JP’s Food Adventures: The Best Banh Mi on the LES
- Protesters derail a Department of Education public meeting held at Seward Park High School (NY1, Gotham Schools).
- A review of State Liquor Authority documents shows Community Board 3 does not have all that much influence over liquor license decisions (The Local EV).
- Cooper Union rejects St. Mark’s Bookshop’s request for rent reduction (Daily News).
- Carsten Holler’s new exhibition at the New Museum: is it art or an interactive social experiment or both? (NYT)
- Rapper Soulja Boy signs autographs on the Lower East Side yesterday (Hip Hop Blog).
- Where to find Halloween costumes with “sartorial flair?” Inside the Patricia Field boutique on the Bowery, of course (NYT)
 Plant daffodil bulbs in the East River Park this Saturday. This weekend get the kids thinking ahead to spring. Help the Lower East Side Ecology Center plant daffodil bulbs to get East River Park ready for next spring. Tools and gloves will be provided, but bring a snack and water. You can register for this event here. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., in East River Park, north gate of the track (just above the 6th Street & FDR Drive entrance to the Park).
For more family friendly events, please visit our Kids Page.
 Photo by Roey Ahram. Cloudy today with a few showers and a high of 64. High temps will be dropping into the low 50′s for the remainder of the week.
 Bathers prepare to enter the Giant Psycho Tank, a sensory deprivations pool that visitors are encouraged to experience (in a bathing suit or without clothes, robes,towels and flipflops provided). The New Museum kicked off their giant Carsten Holler show, “Carsten Holler: Experience,” with quite a bang today. Members of the press were invited to shoot down a three-story slide installation, float in a sensory deprivation pool and don special head gear with goggles that turn everything upside down. It’s the first New York Survey of works by the German scientist turned interactive artist and opens to the public tomorrow. It will run through January 15th, 2012. See our photos below.
Continue reading Carsten Holler’s Experience at the New Museum
We’d like to welcome a new neighbor — “Old Hollywood,” a Brooklyn-based boutique setting up a permanent outpost at 250 Broome Street (at Orchard). They just opened this past weekend, offering a curated blend of both “old and new,” including jewelry, men’s and women’s clothing, accessories and home goods.
Owner Tiffany Porter was at the Limelight Marketplace in the Flatiron District for about a year before deciding to open the Lower East Side shop. The store is open from 12-9 p.m. Monday – Saturday and 12 – 7 p.m. on Sundays.
DEAL FOR READERS OF THE LO-DOWN: “Old Hollywood” is offering a 10% discount on all non-sale items, good for the 250 Broome St location and good for 1 week, from now until Sunday. All you have to do is say LO-DOWN NY when you check out to receive the discount.
 "mano y mano" - mural by street artist wk interact - photo © jdx We love this photo from jdx. It’s a mural by street artist wk interact – brilliantly captured above Arlene’s Grocery on Stanton between Orchard and Ludlow (behind the old Cafe Charbon).
 Sauce, 78 Rivington Street. Your Tuesday morning Lower East Side food headlines:
- Frank Prisinzano officially opens “Sauce,” the latest in his chain of Italian restaurants tonight, at 78 Rivington Street. Eater reports: “Sauce holds about 100 seats and serves rustic Italian fare like sausages, braciole, homemade pastas, meatballs, steaks fresh mozzarella and ricotta, and other red sauce Italian staples. The space also boasts an in-house butcher who will break down the meat deliveries in full view of the restaurant and will sell a variety of meat and sausages retail.”
- Steve Lewis has news about APL, a restaurant he helped design at 146 Orchard: “(It is) changing its name, game, and menu to get back to a good place.”
We’re at the New Museum, attending a preview of the new Carsten Holler exhibition opening tomorrow. You’ve probably heard about that 102 foot slide that’s part of the installation. But there all sorts of interactive elements in the show. We’ll have a full report after the preview.
 Photo by Robert K. Chin. The storefront at 116 Eldridge Street, next to Vanessa’s Dumplings, certainly doesn’t seen like the kind of business that would attract the attention of city attorneys and the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town.” But sure enough, a relatively new enterprise, “Island Smokes,” is making waves.
According to the magazine and the New York Post, the city has sent the owners a “cease-and-desist” letter, urging them to close the Lower East Side store and a flagship operation on Staten Island immediately. Continue reading City Demands Closure of Eldridge Street Shop Selling Bargain Cigarettes
- The Bowery House offers “flophouse- chic” for $67/night; “an entire Australian rugby team was… napping (there) during a recent visit (Forbes).
- Proliferating “bed bug hotels:” a street art project meant to shame landlords into doing the right (and legal) thing (Observer).
- Rocky’s Italian Restaurant in Little Italy being forced out as newcomer Balaboosta expands? (Jeremiah)
- In appreciation of Jacob Ma of World Journal, who died at the age of 88 (Our Chinatown).
- “My Mars Bar Movie” premiers Thursday (EV Grieve).
- A giant slide at the New Museum, part of the new Carsten Holler exhibition, is getting lots of media play (Huff Post).
Mostly sunny today and breezy with a high of 61. There’s a chance of rain showers tonight.
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