Last night, Community Board 3 signed off on the city's plan to turn Forsyth Plaza, the triangle adjacent to the Manhattan Bridge, into a public park. The proposal now goes to the Public design Commission for final approval. Click...
Newsstand operator Marilyn Louie took her battle against City Hall to Community Board 3 last night. She won the board's support in the form of a resolution urging bureaucrats to reverse a decision forcing the relocation of a newsstand...
Editor's note: Last winter, Lower East Side residents became well acquainted with the small grocery at Essex and Canal streets, thanks to the presence of a large snowman sitting outside the store. But there is, of course, a story...
In nine days, Bowery newsstand operator Marilyn Louie could be forced to move to a new location or shut down her little business, after 35 years on a Chinatown street corner. Last week, we reported that Community Board 3's...
Last night, Community Board 3's transportation committee gave Marilyn Louie some much-needed support in her ongoing and all-of-a-sudden highly publicized fight with City Hall. As you might have heard, Louie ran afoul of two NYC agencies after they required...
The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council is hosting a workshop tomorrow for property owners interested in accessing generous tax credits available for historic preservation. The organization helped lead a successful effort to get Chinatown and Little Italy listed on the...
You have, no doubt, heard by now that New York Nicks sensation Jeremy Lin has been "couch surfing" in his brother's Lower East Side apartment. We haven't found him hanging out on Ludlow Street in the past week (he's...
Thanks to Florence Eng for sending us these photos from the Lion Dance activities that took place the day before the big parade. She writes: I love the publicity (the float parade on Sunday) receives but the lion dancing...
Our friends at the Chinatown YMCA sent in a photo from their Chinese New Year celebration, held last weekend. They write: "Volunteers from the Asian Language Exchange and Social Network offered Cantonese and Mandarin lessons and visitors and Y...
We were at Gouverneur Healthcare Services yesterday, where a performance by the little ones from the Chinatown Daycare Center was a highlight of the skilled nursing facility's Chinese New Year Celebration. Seven centenarians were honored during the lively program,...
