Lower East Side Links

By
Ed Litvak
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The plan for affordable housing at the Elizabeth Street Garden goes before the LMDC this afternoon (AMNY).

City Council members, including Margaret Chin, oppose a bill that would change New York’s landmarks law (Real Estate Weekly).

About that REBNY report claiming landmarking is bad for affordable housing — Even the researcher who prepared it says REBNY misinterpreted the data (Real Deal).

The marshal seizes Nevada Smiths (EV Grieve).

Lower East Side photographer Brian Rose remembers Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden (Brian Rose.com).

At the Coney Island Film Festival: Slipper Room owner James Habacker debuts “The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man.” It “features many of the regulars (of his) anything-goes performance space in a story of burlesque, sex, an odd green drink and possible murder.” (NYT)

Recap: Hilton Als at the New Museum (Artnet).

Kenneth Cole opens his Bowery flagship, declaring: “I love the sentiment of what this neighborhood represents.” (WWD)

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