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March 18th, 2010
Tenement Museum VIP's, members of Levy family, Borough President Scott Stringer at today's groundbreaking A short time ago, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum held a “groundbreaking” ceremony for its new Visitors & Education Center at 103 Orchard Street. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer was on hand for the announcement, along with [...] March 17th, 2010
Here’s an update on a story we were all over last year: the threatened closure of the Pitt Station Post Office on Clinton Street. In November, the U.S. Postal Service announced it was removing the location from a nationwide list of post offices in jeopardy due to a spiraling budget deficit. Now we hear the [...] March 15th, 2010
We’ve been keeping an eye on the demolition of the old Young Israel building on East Broadway. In January, workers were just beginning to remove the contents of the 1837-erea building. Since that time, the project has been going very slowly. Today LES resident and preservation activist Linda Jones sent along this photo, and noted [...] March 15th, 2010
We just returned from the Rutgers Houses (Madison & Rutgers), where Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Paterson, Speaker Silver and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan made a major announcement. Thanks to the federal stimulus bill, 21 New York City public housing developments are being “federalized.” In practical terms it means the New York City Housing Authority will soon [...] March 13th, 2010
A few weeks ago, we told you about the new car sharing program Connect by Hertz has established at the Seward Park Co-op on Grand Street. But it turns out that’s just one of the green initiatives the cooperative has launched in recent weeks. Preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary this year, Seward Park has [...] March 10th, 2010
Photo by A Jesse Jiryu Davis There were signs this week that the painstaking community-driven process to come up with a development plan for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area may finally be picking up speed. In a presentation before Community Board 3, city officials outlined a four month process, beginning in April, designed to [...] March 10th, 2010
Seward Park Urban Renewal Area Representatives of the Cabrini Elder Care facility on East 5th Street came to Community Board 3 with a problem Monday night. The nursing home’s lease is up in a couple of years, and so far, their search for a new building or a building site on the Lower East Side [...] 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 5th, 2010
Residents of 22 James Street with Speaker Sheldon Silver, AAFE's Chris Kui and Councilmember Margaret Chin From the ashes of a terrible tragedy, a bit of good news has emerged. It was last February 24th that an electrical fire swept through an old tenement building on James Street, near St. James Place in Chinatown. Two [...] February 24th, 2010
From the Grand Street News No one ever accused Harold “Heshy” Jacob of holding back. A dominant figure on Grand Street for more than 30 years, he has strong opinions and is not afraid to express them loud enough for everyone to hear. Calling him the “architect of the privatization of some 4700 units in [...] |
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