- Community activists hoping to turn 181 Stanton Street into a garden get some mainstream media attention (NYT).
- Several people are sent to the hospital after a car smashes through a storefront in Chinatown (WNBC).
- An update on the sandbox in Tompkins Square Park (EV Grieve).
- Thursday night, Two Boots celebrates 25 years on the Lower East Side with a special concert at East River Park. Proprieter Phil Hartman reminisces (This Week in NY).
- On Sunday the Lower East Side was the center of the skateboarding world (ESPN).
- Eddie Huang sounds off about Wilson Tang of the Nom Wah Tea Parlor following Wilson’s column on The Lo-Down about his white customers (Fresh Off the Boat).