Photo by Pat Arnow @patarnow She writes: “The December light makes spectacular shadows from fire escapes. This is Ideal Hosiery on Grand Street, a crumbling relic of the Lower East Side.”
In the news this past week:
–Millions of dollars in city and state funding will help realize the vision of a self-filtering pool in the East River. [The New York Times]
–There’s only one licensed cannabis shop on the Lower East Side, and dozens of illegal sellers. The situation illustrates just how badly New York has handled the rollout of marijuana legalization a year after the State Legislature acted to bring, “order and justice” to the market. [The City]
–Kushner Cos. sells six East Village buildings for more than $50 million. [Crain’s]
–Police finally remove some barriers along Park Row in Chinatown, but the job isn’t done yet. [Streetsblog]
–The Clemente announces that a multi-million dollar restoration of the historic former school building housing the LES arts center will begin in March. [website]
–January agendas for Community Board 3. [CB3]
–The Tenement Museum opens an exhibition focused on the household of two Black New Yorkers. [Hyperallergic]
–Luke Fracher has “brought a sense of adventure to the resell scene on the Lower East Side, letting shoppers into his zany mind’s eye one archival piece at a time.” [Office Magazine]
