News Links Updated: February 20, 2014 Morning Reads: Mayor Touts Big Buildings, Gentrification GIFs, Bowery Diner Closing By Ed Litvak February 20, 2014 197 0 Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinReddIt Must Read ArtsThe Lo-Down - April 22, 2024The Lo-Down Culture Cast Episode 19 – Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival CrimeThe Lo-Down - April 22, 2024Man Found Dead at the Public Hotel Real Estatesponsoredpost - April 12, 2024Apartment of the Week, Sponsored by LoHo Realty Ed Litvak In an appearance before the Real Estate Board of New York, the mayor says he’s “deadly serious” about 200,000 units of affordable housing and he’s willing to approve taller, bigger buildings to make it happen (Daily News). Long Read: There are no easy answers in plotting the road ahead for affordable housing in NYC. Is the LES’s Essex Crossing a potential model? (Observer). Watch gentrification happen before your eyes (Gothamist). Friends, loved ones attend the wake for William Pena, the city bus driver who was killed last week. Pena grew up on Stanton Street (NY1). The Bowery Diner is closing; it’ll be a pop-up for awhile and then be revamped in some sort of TBA fashion (Eater). On the market for $25 million: the East 6th Street home and studio of artist Walter De Maria (EV Grieve). Have a look at architect Koray Duman’s gut-renovated LES apartment (Post). Jolie Kerr, a goddess of clean for a post-Martha Stewart era, lives in a tiny (but spotless) apartment on the Lower East Side (NYT). Performance artist Tyler Ashley will be doing a ‘“very rigorous, boot camp”-style nude performance using sculptures he created with power tools’ at Strange loop Gallery on Orchard Street (Bedford & Bowery). Tagslowereastsidenews Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinReddIt - Advertisement - Previous articleGood Morning!Next articleLatino Group Advocates For More Seats on Community Board 3 - Advertisement - Latest News ArtsThe Lo-Down - April 22, 2024The Lo-Down Culture Cast Episode 19 – Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival We spoke with Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival (LESFF), for this week's episode of... - Advertisement - Crime Man Found Dead at the Public Hotel The Lo-Down - April 22, 2024 Real Estate Apartment of the Week, Sponsored by LoHo Realty sponsoredpost - April 12, 2024 Lower East Side News Lower East Side Links The Lo-Down - April 7, 2024 Arts The Lo-Down Culture Cast Episode 18 – Hester Street Fair The Lo-Down - April 7, 2024 More Articles Like This Lower East Side Links Lower East Side News The Lo-Down - April 7, 2024 Lower East Side Links Latest News The Lo-Down - March 24, 2024 Lower East Side Links Lower East Side News The Lo-Down - March 17, 2024 Lower East Side Links Lower East Side News The Lo-Down - March 3, 2024