Photo: The scene on Essex Street on a recent afternoon.
In the news this past week:
–A temporary restraining order blocks Mount Sinai from continuing to phase out services at Beth Israel Hospital. [Our Town]
–“Mayor Adams… celebrated himself for brushing off an old Bloomberg-era idea to move Chinatown’s Kimlau Square from the east side of the Bowery to the west, but then neither City Hall nor the Department of Transportation would answer questions about the $56-million proposal.” [Streetsblog]
–Acts of vandalism targeting several Henry Street galleries in January are seen as part of an escalating battle in the New York art world over the Israel-Hamas war. [artnet]
–On Tuesday evening, three community groups will present their vision for building affordable housing on a NYCHA site on East 6th Street. [CB3 Agenda, Presentation]
–At Oti, Elyas Popa presents, “artsy-cheffy riffs on the food of his childhood” in Romania. In her Tables for Two” column, Helen Rosner writes, “Oti is idiosyncratic, but the quirks don’t feel art-directed or forced. This is real-deal eccentricity, a phenomenon increasingly rare (and much eulogized) in New York, and in the grime-and-glitz Lower East Side in particular, where ‘authenticity’ has become more of an aesthetic theme than an inherent state.” [The New Yorker]
–Featured in the Times’ February gallery roundup: Peggy Chiang’s show at Laura Gitlen and Robert Roest’s exhibition at Division Street’s Europa gallery. [The New York Times]
–Fourteen Days” is a collaboratively written novel by 36 authors, many of them renowned, about coping during the pandemic. It’s set in, “a crummy tenement on the Lower East Side.” [The New York Times]
–Joey Bats Cafe is now in the Essex Market. [EV Grieve]
–Scenes from the firecracker ceremony in Sara D. Roosevelt Park to usher in the Year of the Lion. [CBS New York]
