One observer quoted by the New York Times called it a "museum of madness and beauty." Over the weekend, about four dozen people came to the Bowery to say goodbye to Billy's Antiques. After 20 years, Billy Leroy's tent...
Bowery, Delancey Street and especially the Williamsburg Bridge are still a traffic mess this morning, even if most of the flooding has subsided. As we've been reporting a water line burst around 7 a.m., forcing the city to shut...
Crews from the Fire Department, Con Ed and the Office of Emergency Management are still trying to fix a water main break that occurred near Bowery and Delancey streets around 7 o'clock this morning. Officials says it will likely...
Police have arrested a suspect in a brutal sexual assault Wednesday in the subway station at Bowery and Delancey streets.
The incident happened just after 1 a.m. The woman was riding the escalator when, police say, Michael Torres, 29, grabbed...
A battle for 135 Bowery has focused new attention on the broader struggle to protect the Bowery from over-development. Yesterday, the New York Times filed a substantial piece on the subject, noting that the state is expected, in a...
At a news conference last week announcing the schedule for the inaugural Festival of Ideas, New Museum Director Lisa Phillips said, “three years ago, when we moved to the Bowery we witnessed a dramatic transformation of this neighborhood." The...
We stopped by the New Museum's latest show, "George Condo: Mental States," yesterday. The exhibit, which opens today, is the first major American survey of Condo's work, comprised of over 80 paintings and sculptures created throughout the last thirty...
From this morning's New York Post Police Blotter:
An ex-con twice held up one Chinatown bank, sources said. Enrique Cova, 43 allegedly marched into the Bank of America branch on Bayard Street near the Bowery at 12:30 p.m. on Dec....
From this morning's police blotter in the Post:
A pickpocket who was picked up in Chinatown tried to bribe her arresting officer, sources said. "I'll give you all the money in my wallet, which is over $1,000, or I ...
Brace for more bad news from the MTA - they're "re-forecasting" the agency's budget today, and the cuts are sure to be even more draconian than they feared just a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, state lawmakers meet again today...
