News Links Updated: February 20, 2014 Morning Reads: Mayor Touts Big Buildings, Gentrification GIFs, Bowery Diner Closing By Ed Litvak February 20, 2014 81 0 Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinReddIt Must Read PhotographyThe Lo-Down - March 23, 2023First Signs of Spring Come to Seward Park ArtsTraven Rice - March 20, 2023Ukrainian Creators Fair and Exhibition Comes to Essex Crossing ArtsTraven Rice - March 19, 2023Lower East Side Arts & Events Weekly Roundup 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 PhotographyThe Lo-Down - March 23, 2023First Signs of Spring Come to Seward Park A few blossoms are announcing the coming spring in Seward Park. Send us your neighborhood photos to: tips@thelodownny.com or... - Advertisement - Arts Ukrainian Creators Fair and Exhibition Comes to Essex Crossing Traven Rice - March 20, 2023 Arts Lower East Side Arts & Events Weekly Roundup Traven Rice - March 19, 2023 News Links Lower East Side Links The Lo-Down - March 19, 2023 Community Organizations Local Organizations Hold Resource Fair For Migrants The Lo-Down - March 19, 2023 More Articles Like This Lower East Side Links News Links The Lo-Down - March 19, 2023 Lower East Side Links Latest News The Lo-Down - March 5, 2023 Lower east Side Links Latest News The Lo-Down - February 26, 2023 Lower East Side Links Lower East Side News The Lo-Down - February 20, 2023
