Chinatown, a hot spot for New York's Asian community, is going to get hotter this weekend as a big 3-on-3-basketball tournament comes to Columbus Park and parts of Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
The tourney, in its 19th year, is...
The summer heatwave was no match for hundreds of athletes from across the United States and Canada as the the 26th annual New York Mini Volleyball Tournament took place on the Lower East Side this past weekend.
Tennis courts, basketball courts...
More than three years after one of the most devastating fires in Chinatown history, tenants of 289 Grand St. celebrate a return to their homes.
Back in May, the residents - who were displaced from their homes since April of...
From The Lo-Down's inbox today: Reason magazine has published an interesting read on the demise of Chinatown bus company Fung Wah, which was shut down by federal regulators earlier this year.
In a lengthy feature story titled "Why the Government was Wrong...
Thursday's explosion, which fire marshals have attributed to incorrect use of an inordinately large amount of aerosol insecticide, has rendered 34 adults and seven children homeless.
The Red Cross, Council member Margaret Chin's office and Asian Americans for Equality, a...
Authorities at the scene of this afternoon's Pike Street explosion and fire offered a few details about the incident at a press conference a little while ago. Here are the latest facts and figures from the FDNY's Robert Boyce.
The...
A dozen people, including four firefighters, were injured in a fire and partial building collapse ignited by an explosion near the corner of Pike and Henry streets on the Lower East Side early this afternoon.
Fire, police, EMS and Department...
Last night Community Board 3 approved a resolution in support of co-naming a section of Elizabeth Street in memory of Danny Chen.
Private Chen, a Chinatown native, took his own life in Afghanistan in 2011, after weeks of racially-tinged...
This week marks the first installation of a new WalkNYC program, a comprehensive “wayfinding” sign system, to help both New Yorkers and tourists navigate through the city, as easily as possible.
The freestanding stainless steel sign on the corner of...
For the second weekend in a row, there will be no dim sum on Doyers Street.
Nom Wah Tea Parlor, one of the oldest restaurants in Chinatown, was forced to close June 12, after its sewer line was apparently cut...
