From The Lo-Down in-box, a story tip from Yori Yanover of the Grand Street News:
A tour bus turning at the corner of Clinton and East Broadway ran over a 50 year old Hispanic woman around noon time today, Tuesday,...
A community forum convened Sunday to discuss responses to last month's assault of a 9-year-old girl in Seward Park Library drew together local elected officials and community leaders from diverse organizations, eliciting promises to work together to fight crime and producing a pledge from a...
Last night, city officials faced pointed questions from tenants about the Fire Department's response to last Sunday night's devastating blaze on Grand Street. The residents had came to an informational meeting in Chinatown, which included briefings from several city...
From Grand Street, the destruction caused by Sunday night's fire looks bad enough. But this morning, we have new photos taken from inside 289 Grand (the building on the corner of Grand and Eldridge Streets) illustrating the full extent...
At the corner of Houston & Chrystie Street -- a pedestrian was apparently struck by a car making a left turn. Lower East Side resident Cathryn Davis Zommer sent us this photo a short time ago.
Tomorrow evening, elected officials and representatives from NYC agencies will meet with residents who were displaced by Sunday night's fire on Grand Street. It will be a chance for tenants of 283 and 285 Grand street to ask questions...
This morning, fire investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the massive fire that ripped through three Grand Street buildings Sunday night, killing an elderly man, injuring dozens and leaving more than 90 people homeless.
Their attention is...
This evening, firefighters located the body of an 87-year old man, who was trapped in the top floor of an apartment building that was destroyed in a last night's Grand Street fire. Sing Ho becomes the first fatality in...
An elderly man who was inside one of the apartment buildings that went up in flames on Grand Street last night has not been accounted for. City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who has spent most of the day on the...
We just returned from the scene of the Grand Street fire. Officials from the Fire Department and the Dept. of Housing Preservation & Development briefed City Councilmember Margaret Chin a short time ago. They have determined that two out...
