Our friends at the Henry Street Settlement are looking forward to an interesting event taking place in their beautifully restored dining room at 265 Henry Street Friday evening. The New Amsterdam Market is holding a Winter Night Banquet, an “exploration of the region and its seasons.” It’s a multi-course dinner benefiting the market’s School of [...]
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March 9th, 2010
The other day, we reported the City Council was taking a look at whether the Hotel on Rivington’s sidewalk cafe license should be renewed. Today, they signed off on a two-year renewal, affirming a recent decision from the Department of Consumer Affairs. In 2007, the city decided to approve the original sidewalk permit, in spite [...] March 9th, 2010
 Experimental musician and composer Yoshi Fruchter will be at Dixon Place tomorrow night with his “punkassjewjazz” band, Pitom. Not only will you be able to hear their latest jazz-punk-country hybrid compositions, but you can eat some pie at the same time. The culinary stylings (i.e., pie) of food writer and band groupie, Leah Koenig will [...] March 8th, 2010
Architectural rendering; courtesy Hester Street Fair
It’s a whole new world below Delancey. Beginning in April, the Hester Street Fair, a new weekend market, is coming to a tree-lined lot next to Seward Park. There will be more than 60 vendors participating each day, including farmers, food purveyors and local artists. The market [...] March 4th, 2010
This just in from the New York Times: Il Laboratorio del Gelato, the gourmet icecream shrine on Orchard Street, is moving into a huge new space on Ludlow, just below Houston, in June. Owner Jon Snyder tells Florence Fabricant he’s leased a spot at 188 Ludlow (apparently the ground-floor commercial space in the luxury apartment [...] March 4th, 2010
The Hotel on Rivington might have to fight to keep its sidewalk cafe. Yesterday the City Council voted to review the “action of the Department of Consumer Affairs approving an unenclosed sidewalk cafe located at 107 Rivington Street.” In 2007, Community Board 3 opposed the hotel’s original application, saying Rivington is a “narrow street which [...] March 3rd, 2010
In December, we reported about tensions that seemed to be building between Community Board 3 and the State Liquor Authority. During a public meeting, CB3 District Manager Susan Stetzer had complained that it was increasingly difficult to get information from the SLA, even about routine matters. In response, SLA CEO Trina Mead took the unusual [...] March 2nd, 2010
A bill sponsored by State Senator Daniel Squadron closing a loophole in New York’s liquor licensing laws passed the Senate yesterday.The new legislation deals with the “500 foot rule,” which limits new liquor licenses when there are already three or more permits within 500 feet of one another. It also strengthens the “200 foot rule,” [...] February 23rd, 2010
 Yesterday we reported that there are still a few shares available for purchase in the Grand Street CSA. As interest has grown in the neighborhood about community supported agriculture and a potential food co-op for the Lower East Side, a plan for an additional CSA has been presented with support from Dana Weissman of the [...] February 23rd, 2010
On the heels of this past weekend’s television shoot at Katz’s, this morning there’s this from the Tenement Museum’s Facebook Page: Lower East Side Tenement Museum today we’re having a film shoot with The Travel Channel as part of their “Food Wars” program. For your money, who has better pastrami, Katz’s or Second Ave Deli? |
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