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 On the south side of the Williamsburg Bridge along Delancey Street. The weather’s looking good today and throughout the weekend, with highs in the upper 60s and mostly sunny days.
 Kuma Inn draws raves from the owner of Ellabess. A look at some neighborhood joints making the news this week:
 Saturday is the 21st Annual Halloween Dog Parade at Tompkins Square Park. Saturday, Oct. 22 from noon until 3 p.m., spectators will gather in Tompkins Square Park to watch dogs on parade. All proceeds from the 21st annual Halloween Dog Parade will go to the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation for the upkeep of the Tompkins Square dog run, which is the city’s largest. The parade will be held inside the dog run; enter the park on 9th Street, between Avenue A and B. For more info on family friendly events, visit our kids page.
 Third Rail Projects brings its spooky take on Lewis Carroll to Grand Street for Halloween. Steampunk Haunted House returns to the neighborhood this weekend, transforming the Abrons Arts Center‘s playhouse into an immersion experience that’s part art installation, part performance, part fashion and all experiential fun. The third annual installment, which opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 31, promises “a beautiful and terrifying dreamscape of neo-Victorian elegance and phantasmagoric clockwork horrors.” Continue reading Steampunk Returns to Haunt Abrons This Weekend
 Desert Sharks, winner of our CMJ Open Call Contest 2011 - photo by thelodownny.com It was a fun night at Fontana’s on Tuesday. We kicked off the CMJ Music Festival with a Lower East Side-centric event featuring four very talented bands. Here are some shots from the evening. Continue reading Scenes From CMJ at Fontana’s
 A makeshift memorial was set up at Campos Plaza following Keith Salgado's murder. The murder of a Lower East Side teenager this past weekend has, understandably, shaken a lot of people who live in, or have ties to, the neighborhood’s public housing developments. For now, friends and family are focused on tomorrow’s funeral of 18-year old Keith Salgado. But when the mourning is over, Salgado’s killing Saturday night at the Campos Plaza complex, three blocks from his home on East 9th Street, is sure to renew an all-too-familiar debate about youth violence in this community. Continue reading Youth Violence on the LES: A View From the Front Lines
 Last year's festival overflowed; this year promises more vendors and more space, along with DJs and high-schoolers' design work. A celebration of the city’s culinary delights descends on the Lower East Side on Sunday, as New York Magazine and the Hester Street Fair team up for the second annual Grub Street Food Festival. More than 100 vendors will spread out from the fair’s normal digs to the adjoining tennis courts along Essex Street, providing much-needed elbow room for the popular event that drew 13,000 tasters and shoppers last year. The list of 75 food vendors includes neighborhood faves like An Choi, Georgia’s Eastside BBQ and Souvlaki GR, as well as popular spots across the river such as Commodore and Pies ‘n’ Thighs. Sweets from the Macaron Parlour and Big Gay Ice Cream and other dessert booths will abound. And this just in from co-founder Suchin Pak: This year’s edition of the festival will also feature a beer garden. Continue reading Grub Street Food Festival Returns to Hester Street
Look what’s popped up online — an intriguing video greeting/LES tribute from the new restaurant, “Sons of Essex,” featuring cameos from all sorts of familiar neighborhood types as well as luminaries from the entertainment and art worlds. Leading up to a targeted debut next Thursday night (October 27th), the spot at 133 Essex Street has been generating quite a bit of buzz. Celebrities such as Lizzie Olsen, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Kravitz and Penn Badgley have stopped by for pre-opening events. Continue reading “Sons of Essex” Rolls Out Video, Reveals New Menu Items
 The leaves are falling, but the new turf remains green at Corlear's Hook Park. There’s a good chance we’ll see the sun again today, after some morning showers. It will be a little warmer, with highs in the upper 60s, and quite breezy. Today, we’ll have a story about some interesting properties for sale on the Lower East Side, a report from our CMJ showcase Tuesday night, and a preview of some weekend events.
We’ve just received word that a proposal to designate the Bowery as a historic district, which preservationists see as an important tool for guiding future development, has been approved at the state level. The New York State Review Board, meeting in Buffalo today, approved a joint application from the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors to include the Bowery in the State Register of Historic Places, the first step in advancing the nomination to the National Register, reports Kerri Culhane, one of the organizers of the proposal. “I’m sort of speechless right now, because it’s taken us so long to get to this step,” said a thrilled Culhane, who got the word by phone this afternoon. Continue reading Bowery Historic Designation Advances at State Level
 Jenifer Rajkumar. Here’s a message from Jenifer Rajkumar, newly elected downtown district leader. She’s inviting girls in high school to attend a special leadership training workshop this weekend, offered by Running Start, an organization that supports women campaigning for public office. The event is this Saturday at Barnard College. If you are interested in taking part, or know a girl who might be interested, contact Jenifer at Jenifer@JeniferNYC.com or at 914-924-2537. The $100 entrance is being waived for anyone Jenifer brings to the event. You can find more information about the workshop here.
 The condo building at 78 Ridge Street (left), as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge pedestrian overpass. Photo ©www.thelodowwny.com The six-story condo building at 78 Ridge St. has developed quite the colorful history in its five short years. Built on the site of a former poultry slaughterhouse abutting the Williamsburg Bridge, the 46-unit building has cycled through a variety of real estate brokers and pricing strategies as its developer strived to sell in a crashing market, began renting some units, and reverted back to a sales strategy.
Now, 20 of the units are on the market, and they are available as a package deal at $15.5 million. Tungsten Properties broker Jimmy Mou, who took charge of the 78 Ridge account in May of this year, said the owner, Philip Chong, would be willing to sell them to a single owner for certain uses, such as short-term corporate housing. “Depending on who’s putting in the offer, and the intended use,” Mou says. “There are a lot of things involved.” Continue reading For $15.5M, You Can Buy 20 Condos at 78 Ridge St.
Just a note to our readers to clarify a story we wrote in August about two LES pizzerias that drew criticism from the city health department: Va Bene Pizza at 201 Clinton St., which was shut down after an inspection (and later reopened) is not affiliated with the pizza chain owned by Hakki Akdeniz, which was covered in the same article. Akdeniz tells us that a website showing a joint menu for Va Bene and his Famous Hakki Pizza outlet at 170 Rivington St. is incorrect.
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