On Tuesday, we told you about Lucky Ant, a new Lower East Side start-up devoted to hyperlocal crowdfunding for small businesses. The company's current project was Grotto, the Italian restaurant on Forsyth Street. Grotto was trying to raise $7500...
Today we're excited to officially announce that The Lo-Down is starting a monthly print magazine.  Like the web site, it will be full of Lower East Side news, arts coverage, food features, information about new businesses and event listings. ...
Last week elected officials and business leaders gathered at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office to celebrate the creation of a new kind of business in New York state. Silver and State Senator Daniel Squadron pushed legislation through the Legislature...
It seemed like most of the neighborhood was gathered inside Lina Frey, the bistro on East Houston Street, last night for the LES Business Improvement District's annual meeting.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was the special guest speaker. She told...
Clerkenwell at 49 Clinton St. is undergoing a makeover and rebranding. Stefan Ching’s English gastropub relaunches on Friday, November 11 as Kupersmith, the name of the ladies’ dress shop that occupied the building in the 1940s. The restaurant will...
For residents and business owners on Clinton and Suffolk streets near Delancey, parades of small children coming and going from Love A Lot Pre-School were a regular scene of street life.
But these days, the toddler processions have ceased and the...
We're looking for a few good reporters! The Lo-Down has received some funding to pay a modest per-story stipend to a few journalists during the next few months. If you're an experienced reporter who lives on the Lower East...
Today we're excited to announce a new partnership with the ZipCard, which offers all kinds of deals and special events -- specifically for locals -- on the Lower East Side.
Deal programs are, of course, all the rage these days....
It does sound a little like the plot from HBO's "How to Make it in America," Ernest Alexander Sabine admits. He started designing and manufacturing stylish mens' messenger bags two and a half years ago, drawing rave reviews from places like Esquire and...
After seven years in business, the Grand Street News is calling it quits. The Lower East Side monthly magazine, distributed to 12,000 Lower East Side apartments, has already published its last issue. The Grand Street News was run by...
