Photo: Trying to beat the heat – Essex and Grand streets, September 6, 2023.
In the news this past week:
–An 88 year-old woman was killed after being hit by the driver of an Access-a-Ride van. Ngan Yung was crossing the street at Allen Street and Canal Street Friday morning when it happened. The driver was charged with “failure to yield and failure to exercise due care.” [Daily News]
–A new rule from the National Labor Relations Board could result in a new push for unionization of the Lower East Side Trader Joe’s location. [The Chief]
–A new 11-story residential building is set to go up at 125 Chrystie St., near East Houston Street. [Crain’s]
–The intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets is officially co-named by the city as Beadtie Boys Square. [Gothamist]
–Lower East Side-based performance artist Jade Kuriki-Olivo’s exhibition at the New Museum, “will certainly grab attention this fall, when she transforms the museum lobby into a 24/7 surveillance operation tracking her experience as a transgender woman.” [The New York Times]
–An exhibition “tells the story of the Lower East Side’s role in establishing New York City as a fashion capital, and the immigrant and migrant communities that worked in the garment industry, including the many Puerto Ricans who arrived in the neighborhood after World War II.” [NY1]
–Ray Zhou, part of the team behind the much-talked-about bar, Double Chicken Plese, has opened Chinato, a cocktaail bar and restaurant on the corner of Ludlow and Stanton streets. [Time Out]
